Unforgetting Hillsborough: researching memorialisation

This poster was presented at the 'X-Scapes: 10th Linguistic Landscapes Workshop, 02-04 May, 2018, University of Bern, Switzerland', It presented ongoing research into the memorialisation of the Hillsborough Football Tragedy (15 April, 1989) in which 96 Liverpool Football fans were unlawfully killed. It explores the notion of 'unforgetting', that is replacing a false narrative with a true account, and investighates this through and as “a nexus of trajectories shaped by the ongoing interventions of inter alia individuals, institutions, activist groups, artists, passers-by etc. producing their accounts, artefacts, transgressive emplacements and acts of unforgettting across different places, media and timescales"

Practical Ways to Support New Arrivals

The aim of this book is to provide practical advice on how best to support newly arrived bilingual pupils. As chance would have it, I began writing this introduction the day after it was announced in the Queen’s Speech to Parliament in 2004 that asylum-seekers may be subject to electronic tagging and that those who do not leave the country when their application for asylum is rejected will lose all entitlement to benefits, which may mean their children will be taken into care. It was not a good time to be a ‘new arrival’ in the UK

An approach for solving the boundary free edge difficulties in SPH modelling: application to a viscous accretion disc in close binaries

In this work, we propose a SPH interpolating Kernel reformulation suitable also to treat free edge boundaries in the computational domain. Application to both inviscid and viscous stationary low compressibility accretion disc models in Close Binaries (CB) are shown. The investigation carried out in this paper is a consequence of the fact that a low compressibility modelling is crucial to check numerical reliability. Results show that physical viscosity supports a well-bound accretion disc formation, despite the low gas compressibility, when a Gaussian-derived Kernel (from the Error Function) is assumed, in extended particle range - whose Half Width at Half Maximum (HWHM) is fixed to a constant $h$ value - without any spatial restrictions on its radial interaction (hereinafter GASPHER). At the same time, GASPHER ensures adequate particle interpolations at the boundary free edges. Both SPH and adaptive SPH (hereinafter ASPH) methods lack accuracy if there are not constraints on the boundary conditions, in particular at the edge of the particle envelope: Free Edge (FE) conditions. In SPH, an inefficient particle interpolation involves a few neighbour particles; instead, in the second case, non-physical effects involve both the boundary layer particles themselves and the radial transport. Either in a regime where FE conditions involve the computational domain, or in a viscous fluid dynamics, or both, a GASPHER scheme can be rightly adopted in such troublesome physical regimes. Despite the applied low compressibiity condition, viscous GASPHER model shows clear spiral pattern profiles demonstrating the better quality of results compared to SPH viscous ones. Moreover a successful comparison of results concerning GASPHER 1D inviscid shock tube with analytical solution is also reported.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figure

Defining a Role: The EAL Teacher in Maths

This paper was published as part of the 'Occasional Papers' series (#12) by the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) - the UK's professional association for people working with English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners in schools. The paper discusses how EAL specialists can work effectively alongside mathematics teachers in the mainstream classroom. It identifies salient features of the mathematics register, and how EAL and mathematics teachers can work together to develop a linguistically principled curriculum to support bilingual learners in the mathematics classroom

An approach to the Riemann problem in the light of a reformulation of the state equation for SPH inviscid ideal flows: a highlight on spiral hydrodynamics in accretion discs

In physically inviscid fluid dynamics, "shock capturing" methods adopt either an artificial viscosity contribution or an appropriate Riemann solver algorithm. These techniques are necessary to solve the strictly hyperbolic Euler equations if flow discontinuities (the Riemann problem) are to be solved. A necessary dissipation is normally used in such cases. An explicit artificial viscosity contribution is normally adopted to smooth out spurious heating and to treat transport phenomena. Such a treatment of inviscid flows is also widely adopted in the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) finite volume free Lagrangian scheme. In other cases, the intrinsic dissipation of Godunov-type methods is implicitly useful. Instead "shock tracking" methods normally use the Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions to solve such problems. A simple, effective solution of the Riemann problem in inviscid ideal gases is here proposed, based on an empirical reformulation of the equation of state (EoS) in the Euler equations in fluid dynamics, whose limit for a motionless gas coincides with the classical EoS of ideal gases. The application of such an effective solution to the Riemann problem excludes any dependence, in the transport phenomena, on particle smoothing resolution length $h$ in non viscous SPH flows. Results on 1D shock tube tests, as well as examples of application for 2D turbulence and 2D shear flows are here shown. As an astrophysical application, a much better identification of spiral structures in accretion discs in a close binary (CB), as a result of this reformulation is also shown here.Comment: 19 pages, 17 figure

European association of echocardiography recommandations for standardization of performance, digital staorage and reporting of echocardiographic studies

peer reviewedIn view of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) mission statement “To promote excellence in clinical diagnosis, research, technical development, and education in cardiovascular ultrasound in Europe” and the increasing demand for standardization and quality control, the EAE have established recommendations and guidelines for standardization of echocardiography performance, data acquisition (images, measurements and morphologic descriptors), digital storage and reporting of echocardiographic studies. The aim of these recommendations is to provide a European consensus document on the minimum acceptable requirements for the clinical practice of echocardiography today and thus improve the quality and consistency of echocardiographic practice in Europe

Accretion disc dynamics in extreme mass ratio compact binaries

An analysis is presented of a numerical investigation of the dynamics and geometry of accretion discs in binary systems with mass ratios q < 0.1, applicable to ultra-compact X-ray binaries, AM CVn stars and very short period cataclysmic variables. The steady-state geometry of the disc in the binary reference frame is found to be quite different from that expected at higher mass ratios. For q ~ 0.1, the disc takes on the usual elliptical shape, with the major axis aligned perpendicular to the line of centres of the two stars. However, at smaller mass ratios the elliptical gaseous orbits in the outer regions of the disc are rotated in the binary plane. The angle of rotation increases with gas temperature, but is found to vary inversely with q. At q = 0.01, the major axis of these orbits is aligned almost parallel to the line of centres of the two stars. These effects may be responsible for the similar disc structure inferred from Doppler tomography of the AM CVn star GP Com (Morales-Rueda et al. 2003), which has q = 0.02. The steady-state geometry at low mass ratios is not predicted by an inviscid, restricted three-body model of gaseous orbits; it is related to the effects of tidal-viscous truncation of the disc near the Roche lobe boundary. Since the disc geometry can be inferred observationally for some systems, it is proposed that this may offer a useful diagnostic for the determination of mass ratios in ultra-compact binaries.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures, 7 in colour. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Plain article formatting to get round arXiv problems with mn2e.st

Local simulations of the magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in neutron-star mergers

Context. Global MHD simulations show Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instabilities at the contact surface of two merging neutron stars. That region has been identified as the site of efficient amplification of magnetic fields. However, these global simulations, due to numerical limitations, were unable to determine the saturation level of the field strength, and thus the possible back-reaction of the magnetic field onto the flow. Aims. We investigate the amplification of initially weak fields in KH unstable shear flows, and the back-reaction of the field onto the flow. Methods. We use a high-resolution ideal MHD code to perform 2D and 3D local simulations of shear flows. Results. In 2D, the magnetic field is amplified in less than 0.01ms until it reaches locally equipartition with the kinetic energy. Subsequently, it saturates due to resistive instabilities that disrupt the KH vortex and decelerate the shear flow on a secular time scale. We determine scaling laws of the field amplification with the initial field strength and the grid resolution. In 3D, this hydromagnetic mechanism may be dominated by purely hydrodynamic instabilities limiting the amplification. We find maximum magnetic fields of 10^16 G locally, and r.m.s. maxima within the box of 10^15 G. However, such strong fields exist only for a short period. In the saturated state, the magnetic field is mainly oriented parallel to the shear flow for strong initial fields, while weaker initial fields tend to lead to a more balanced distribution of the field energy. In all models the flow shows small-scale features. The magnetic field is at most in equipartition with the decaying shear flow. (abridged)Comment: 26 pages, 22 figures (figure quality reduced); accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysic