Contract law – The South Pacific: customary and introduced law

The author examines the practical effect of the combined influence of customary and introduced common laws on the law of contract operating in the South Pacific – particularly the twelve island countries within the region with membership of the “University of the South Pacific” (USP). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

Computer simulation of liquid crystals

A review is presented of molecular and mesoscopic computer simulations of liquid crystalline systems. Molecular simulation approaches applied to such systems are described and the key findings for bulk phase behaviour are reported. Following this, recently developed lattice Boltzmann (LB) approaches to the mesoscale modelling of nemato-dynamics are reviewed. The article concludes with a discussion of possible areas for future development in this field.</p

Access to care for supported residents

The Aged Care Financing Authority (ACFA) is an independent statutory committee whose role is to provide independent, transparent advice to the Australian Government on financing and funding issues in the aged care sector. ACFA considers issues in the context of maintaining a viable, accessible and sustainable aged care industry that balances the needs of consumers, providers, the workforce, taxpayers, investors and financiers. Under its operating framework, ACFA is required to provide advice by 31 December 2015 to the Assistant Minister for Social Services on cost neutral mechanisms to ensure access to care for supported residents, including reviewing the supported resident ratio. This work entails analysing the efficiency, effectiveness, and appropriate level of: the supported resident ratio for each aged care planning region; and the 25 per cent discount applied to the maximum accommodation supplement amount where a service does not provide more than 40 per cent of its eligible care recipient days to supported residents. In order to assess these two mechanisms it is important to have a clear understanding of what is meant by ‘effective’, ‘efficient’ and ‘appropriate’. For the purposes of this paper a basic definition of each term may include: Effective: successful or capable of producing a desired or intended result Efficient: achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense Appropriate: suitable or proper in the circumstances To assist in the development of its advice to the Assistant Minister, ACFA is seeking the views of stakeholders. Background A principle underlying aged care means testing is that people who can afford to contribute to the cost of their care should do so, and those that cannot afford to pay should not be denied access to services. While aged care accommodation is considered a personal expense, in line with the above principle, the Australian Government has a safety net for those who cannot afford to pay all or part of their accommodation costs. For the purposes of this paper, supported residents are considered to be those residents who are eligible for Government support toward the cost of their accommodation. Submissions closed&nbsp; 9&nbsp;June 2015

A local lattice Boltzmann method for multiple immiscible fluids and dense suspensions of drops

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for computational fluid dynamics benefits from a simple, explicit, completely local computational algorithm making it highly efficient. We extend LBM to recover hydrodynamics of multi-component immiscible fluids, whilst retaining a completely local, explicit and simple algorithm. Hence, no computationally expensive lattice gradients, interaction potentials or curvatures, that use information from neighbouring lattice sites, need be calculated, which makes the method highly scalable and suitable for high performance parallel computing. The method is analytic and is shown to recover correct continuum hydrodynamic equations of motion and interfacial boundary conditions. This LBM may be further extended to situations containing a high number (O(100)) of individually immiscible drops. We make comparisons of the emergent non-Newtonian behaviour with a power-law fluid model. We anticipate our method will have a range applications in engineering, industrial and biological sciences

How to Recycle Special Items in Buffalo-Niagara

Alphabetized special product listing and where you can recycling it in Buffalo-Niagara

Putting Families First: How the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Children and Families, and the Child Welfare Policy Options to Address It

Abstract: Opioids and Child Welfare Across the country, placements in foster care are rising. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that 273,539 children in the U.S. entered foster care. In 34 percent of those cases, parental drug abuse was one of the factors leading to the child’s removal from their family. Additionally, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that 400,000 births nationally are affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol and illicit drugs, which represents 10 percent of all live births. As the opioid epidemic continues, increasing numbers of children are at high risk for developmental and behavioral disorders because of their prenatal substance and alcohol exposure. In addition, children who remain at home may endure the challenges and trauma resulting from impaired caregiving due to parental substance use disorders (SUDs). This article explores the intersection of the opioid epidemic and child welfare, examining current research and publicly available data to discuss policy opportunities for better serving families affected by parental SUDs, including: ensuring health and safety for infants prenatally exposed to substances; appropriate identification, diagnosis, and treatment of developmental and behavioral needs; ensuring parents have access to outpatient treatment and services that can allow families to stay together when safe and appropriate; and ensuring sufficient access to inpatient treatment options that can serve parents and children together

Mesh-free modelling of liquid crystals using modified smoothed particle hydrodynamics

We present a generalisation of the Modified Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics simulation technique capable of simulating static and dynamic liquid crystalline behaviour. This generalisation is then implemented in the context of the Qian-Sheng description of nematodynamics. To test the method, we first use it to simulate switching in both a Freedericksz setup and a chiral hybrid aligned nematic cell. In both cases, the results obtained give excellent agreement with previously published results. We then apply the technique in a 3-dimensional simulation of the switching dynamics of the post aligned bistable nematic device