‘Police Scotland mobile working project’:implementation and impact evaluation, and benefits realisation

The ‘Mobile Working Project’ is part of Police Scotland’s ‘Digitally Enabled Policing Programme’ (DEPP), which seeks to equip operational officers with a digital mobile policing solution to replace the traditional paper notebook system, to provide remote, live access to key policing information systems.The project’s aim is to increase efficiency and improve frontline service delivery, and visibility, for both officers and the communities of Scotland.To ensure a robust evidence base in respect of the realisation of benefits, Robert Gordon University (RGU) and Abertay University have been appointed to evaluate the implementation and impact of the national roll-out of digital mobile policing. This evaluation, which commenced in August 2019, will be undertaken concurrently with the phased Divisional roll-out of mobile devices across Police Scotland. The aim of the research is to assess the implementation and impact of the deployment of devices by identifying associated issues, benefits and challenges, which will inform future deployment. This will be achieved using the ‘Realistic Evaluation Approach’ that will identify (i) for whom it works; (ii) in what way, and (iii) why it works (and if not, why not?). This approach allows police officers’ attitudes, views, perceptions and experiences of working with the mobile devices and digital policing solutions to inform the implementation of mobile policing. The approach has previously been effectively used by the research team in engagement with Police Scotland in outcome evaluation research. It is proposed that these views and experiences, and perceived identified benefits, challenges and issues from their perspective, will be obtained through observation, case studies, telephone interviews and focus groups. Each has a specific advantage to informing the evaluation: i.e. focus groups enable disclosure and discussion of perspectives and experiences, whilst case studies and telephone interviews allow for the following through from training stage and issue of devices to their use in everyday policing throughout the phased roll-out.Officers invited to participate will include experienced police officers and officers in their probation, and other police personnel whose role enables them to highlight benefits and potential challenges from their perspective.Officers will be asked to give their consent to participate, and any information provided will be anonymised. Information will be processed, stored, and retained in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998; GDPR 2018); Police Scotland and Scottish Police Authority’s policies and guidelines, and RGU and Abertay University’s Ethics and Data Management Policies

'Boy racer', an ambiguous label : working towards a better understanding and a new managerial strategy

In New Zealand, so-called 'boy racers' and their associated activities have been subject to much media coverage and the focus of much discussion within public fora over recent years. Many community groups consider 'boy racers' to be a threat to cultural, economic, social and political investments , and to constitute a challenge to hegemonic conceptions of decency and respectability and the appropriate function of public spaces. The label 'boy racer' collectivises and homogenises a group of people with a broad range of characteristics , therefore it is more accurate to discuss a sub-culture that is based round cars (hence Car-Centred Sub-Culture, or CCSC) . Given negative media ' framing ' of the sub-culture and strong voices in opposition to sub­ cultural activities from within the community, this study aims to deconstruct the term 'boy racer' and to explore the sub-culture in detail, within the context of Christchurch. Further, it aims to formulate a set of policy recommendations for the Christchurch City Council that balance the interests of the CCSC and other stakeholders. A phenomenological ethnographic approach to research has been adopted to fulfil these aims. The approach includes conducting semi-structured interviews with members of the CCSC and with other stakeholders, analysing the messages that are sent by different forms of popular culture, and observing the activities of the CCSC. Empirical research supports the theory that the sub-culture has a diverse membership and a range of associated types of behaviour. Additionally, activity is variable across space and time. Individuals have differing attitudes, depending largely on where they have situated themselves socially, as to the extent to which they believe that these activities constitute an inappropriate use of public spaces. Further, television and print m_eedia tends to 'frame' the sub-culture as an anti -social group, while other forms of popular culture often reinforce those activities that are most central to the CCSC

On initialization of primitive equation models

Thesis. 1975. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology.Bibliography: leaves 66-67.by William K.-F. Grant, Jr.M.S

Contour lines of the discrete scale invariant rough surfaces

We study the fractal properties of the 2d discrete scale invariant (DSI) rough surfaces. The contour lines of these rough surfaces show clear DSI. In the appropriate limit the DSI surfaces converge to the scale invariant rough surfaces. The fractal properties of the 2d DSI rough surfaces apart from possessing the discrete scale invariance property follow the properties of the contour lines of the corresponding scale invariant rough surfaces. We check this hypothesis by calculating numerous fractal exponents of the contour lines by using numerical calculations. Apart from calculating the known scaling exponents some other new fractal exponents are also calculated.Comment: 9 Pages, 12 figure

A critical bibliography of Dr. Henry Sacheverell

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Economic Analysis of Cellulosic Feedstock for Bioenergy in the Texas Rio Grande Valley

Farm Management,

Karyology of pentaploids of Allium neapolitanum Cyr. from the Adriatic region of Croatia and its neighbouring countries

Analiziran je kariotip pentaploida Allium neapolitanum Cyr. koji potječe s jadranskog obalnog i otočnog područja Hrvatske i izvan nje. Kariotip sadrži 2n=5x=35 kromosoma i aneuploide s 2n=27, 30, 32, 34, 36, 39 i 40. Kromosomi su veličine 7-8.00 pm do 13-14.00 pm, a po obliku su metacentrični i submetacentrični s najčešće dva nukleolarna kromosoma u garnituri. U mejozi prisutni su uni-, bi-, tri- i polivalenti čije se razdvajanje ne završava uvijek sa 17 i 18 kromosoma.The species Allium neapolitanum Cyr. of the Section Mollium G. Don ex Koch is a common plant found in the Croatian Adriatic region as well as in a wider area along the coast and on the Adriatic islands /Table 1). In these localities, fifty plants from nine populations were collected and karyologically examined. The number, size and shape of mitotic chromosomes and their behaviour in meiosis were determined. Out of the polyploid series 2n=14, 21, 28 and 35 we found only the 5x level with 2n=35 and aneuploids with 2n=27, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 39 and 40 (Tables 1 and 2). The size of metaphase chromosomes ranged from 8.40 to 14.00 pm, from the shortest to the longest one (Table 3). The chromosomes were of meta- and submetacentric shape (only rarely of subacrocentric shape). Their number varied from karyotype to karyotype. Two chromosomes from group 31-34 (Table 3) showed secondary constriction next to the centromere, and they are known as nucleolar chromosomes. They have been named, according to this species, chromosomes of the »neapolitanum« type (Fig. 1, arrows) (Ved Brat 1965, cited from Kol- lmann 1973). Their number varies, and in alternative series it is smaller or greater than two. The variability of the karyotype was confirmed in meiosis. Irregular pairing of chromosomes was noted, as well as the appearance of uni-, bi-, tri- and multivalents, with a greater proportion of tri- and multivalents (Fig. 2). They separate into 17 and 18 chromosomes as well as in other ratios. Apart from uneven distribution of chromosomes, micronucleoli in the pollen grains also varied in number, indicating that some chromosomes or their fragments were not incorporated into new pollen nuclei. Despite such a course of meiosis, there was reproduction of the seed found in plants from cultivated and natural populations. The results concerning seed germination and germination of young bulbs are shown in Table 2. It follows that the species A. neapolitanum has a variable karyotype, which is manifested by a decreased or increased number of chromosomes, as compared to the most common karyotype, 2n=35 chromosomes