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Communications planning: a review of policy and communications
This report presents a discussion of communications strategies to influence policy outcomes. It is based on a series of interviews with projects, NGOs and regional
organisations to review current activities and assess the implications for STREAM of developing a communications strategy within a livelihoods framework.
The main message of the report is that in order to fulfil its guiding principles. STREAM must acknowledge that policy change is related to governance and civil society, and requires a broad range of partnerships and a broad range of voices in the policy-making arena. (Pdf contains 49 pages)
Significance of the late Archaean granulite facies terrain boundaries, Southern West Greenland
Three distinct episodes and occurrences of granulite metamorphism in West Greenland are described: (1) the oldest fragmentary granulites occur within the 3.6-Ga Amitsoq gneisses and appear to have formed 200 Ma after the continental crust in which they lie (Spatially associated rapakivi granites have zircon cores as old as 3.8 Ga, but Rb-Sr, whole-rock Pb-Pb, and all other systems give 3.6 Ga, so these granulites apparently represent a later metamorphic event); (2) 3.0-Ga granulites of the Nordlandet Peninsula NW of Godthaab, developed immediately after crustal formation in hot, dry conditions, are carbonate-free, associated with voluminous tonalite, and formed at peak metamorphic conditions of 800 C and 7 to 8 kbar (Synmetamorphic trondhjemite abounds and the activity of H2O has been indicated by Pilar to have varied greatly); and (3) 2.8-Ga granulites south of Godthaab, lie to the south of retrogressed amphibolite terranes. Prograde amphibolite-granulite transitions are clearly preserved only locally at the southern end of this block, near Bjornesund, south of Fiskenaesset. Progressively deeper parts of the crust are exposed from south to north as a major thrust fault is approached. Characteristic big hornblende pegmatites, which outcrop close to the thrust in the east, have been formed by replacement of orthopyroxene. Comparable features were not seen in South Indian granulites. It was concluded that no one mechanism accounts for the origin of all granulites in West Greenland. Various processes have interacted in different ways, and what happened in individual areas must be worked out by considering all possible processes
Assessing and Preserving Intellectual Property in Online Collaborative Composition
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Attitudes and knowledge of forestry by high school agricultural education teachers in West Virginia
The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes and knowledge of high school agricultural education teachers in West Virginia towards forestry. A descriptive research design was used for this study. Of the 86 West Virginia high school agricultural teachers selected for this study 40 teachers responded for a response rate of 47%. Of the responding teachers 85% wanted or needed more information on forestry. Also 57% of the responding teachers had not taken any other formal forestry training besides their college course work. When respondents were asked to react to the following statement: agricultural education teachers need more training in forestry , they agreed
Harnessing Electric Fields for Microfluidics – From Lightning Sparks to Tiny Tornadoes
The dominance of surface tension and viscous effects over body forces such as inertia, gravity or centrifugal force makes fluid actuation and particle manipulation at microscale dimensions extremely difficult. We demonstrate the possibility of exploiting electric fields to drive unstable turbulent-like flows for micromixing and complex flows for efficient particle separation and concentration. In particular, the ions resulting from the breakdown of air surrounding a theoretically singular sharp electrode tip due to corona discharge is employed to accelerate the air towards the surface of a liquid in a cylindrical microchamber. Through interfacial shear, the surface liquid layer is recirculated to produce a Batchelor-type flow within the chamber that spirals suspended colloidal particles to a stagnation point at the bottom no-slip plane. We show the use of this technology for rapid and efficient separation of red blood cells from plasma for the development of miniaturised point-of-care diagnostics. Such liquid flows also become unstable at high applied voltages and frequencies leading to the generation of vortices that span a cascade of length scales, which can be exploited for micromixing
Extensional viscosity of copper nanowire suspensions in an aqueous polymer solution
Suspensions of copper nanowires are emerging as new electronic inks for
next-generation flexible electronics. Using a novel surface acoustic wave
driven extensional flow technique we are able to perform currently lacking
analysis of these suspensions and their complex buffer. We observe extensional
viscosities from 3 mPas (1 mPas shear viscosity) to 37.2
Pas via changes in the suspension concentration, thus capturing low
viscosities that have been historically very challenging to measure. These
changes equate to an increase in the relative extensional viscosity of nearly
12,200 times at a volume fraction of just 0.027. We also find that interactions
between the wires and the necessary polymer additive affect the rheology
strongly. Polymer-induced elasticity shows a reduction as the buffer relaxation
time falls from 819 to 59 s above a critical particle concentration. The
results and technique presented here should aid in the future formulation of
these promising nanowire suspensions and their efficient application as inks
and coatings.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, under review for Soft Matter RS
U-Pb zircon dating of basement inliers within the Moine Supergroup, Scottish Caledonides: implications of Archaean protolith ages.
Basement gneiss inliers within the Scottish Caledonides have been conventionally correlated with the Archaean Lewisian Gneiss Complex of the Caledonian foreland. Alternatively, the inliers could represent allochthonous terranes accreted to Laurentia before or during the Caledonian orogeny. SIMS U-Pb zircon dating indicates that the Ribigill, Borgie, Farr and Western Glenelg basement inliers are characterized by late Archaean protolith ages, and a period of isotopic disturbance in the late Palaeoproterozoic. The data are broadly consistent with correlation between the inliers and components of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex of the Caledonian foreland. The c. 2900 Ma protolith ages support correlation of the Borgie and Farr inliers with the Assynt terrane, and a younger, c. 2800 Ma age for the Ribigill inlier supports correlation with the Rhiconich terrane.None of the studied inliers shows a complete match of protolith and early metamorphic histories with any of the Lewisian basement terranes, but differences between the inliers and the foreland are no greater than those recorded within the foreland basement terranes themselves. Therefore, it remains probable that the dated inlier gneisses formed a distal part of the Laurentian margin prior to final telescoping during the Caledonian orogeny
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