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The Town Lake Report, Volumes I and II
This report makes brief references to sediment and other trends seen in Waller Creek.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Town Lakeâs importance as a natural resource is growing in tandem with Austinâs rapid population. The lake is a source of drinking water for the City, and its greenbelt and open waters are widely used for recreation and as a focal-point for public events. In 1992, under the Clean Lakes program, a comprehensive report entitled the âTown Lake Studyâ (COA 1992a; COA 1992b; COA 1992c) was prepared. It examined the condition of the lake (Volume I), water quality control alternatives (Volume II) and a feasibility study (Volume III). This report updates the diagnostic study, Volume I (COA 1992a), including the current status of water quality with data analyzed through the year 2000. It also includes a summary of measures taken to reduce pollution from urban runoff since 1990.Waller Creek Working Grou
On the Thermodynamics and Experimental Control of Twinning in Metal Nanocrystals
International audienceThis work demonstrates a new strategy for controlling the evolution of twin defects in metal nanocrystals by simply following thermodynamic principles. With Ag nanocrystals supported on amorphous SiO2 as a typical example, we establish that twin defects can be rationally generated by equilibrating nanoparticles of different sizes through heating and then cooling. We validate that Ag nanocrystals with icosahedral, decahedral, and singleâcrystal structures are favored at sizes below 7â
nm, between 7 and 11â
nm, and greater than 11â
nm, respectively. This trend is then rationalized by computational studies based on density functional theory and molecular dynamics, which show that the excess free energy for the three equilibrium structures correlate strongly with particle size. This work not only highlights the importance of thermodynamic control but also adds another synthetic method to the everâexpanding toolbox used for generating metal nanocrystals with desired properties.
Implementation of a herd management system with wireless sensor networks
This paper investigates an adaptation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to cattle monitoring applications. The proposed solution facilitates the requirement for continuously assessing the condition of individual animals, aggregating and reporting this data to the farm manager. There are several existing approaches to achieving animal monitoring, ranging from using a store and forward mechanism to employing GSM-based techniques; these approaches only provide sporadic information and introduce a considerable cost in staffing and physical hardware. The core of this study is to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks by using alternative cheap, low power consumption sensor nodes capable of providing real-time communication at a reasonable hardware cost. In this paper, both the hardware and software has been designed to provide a solution which can obtain real-time data from dairy cattle whilst conforming to the limitations associated with WSNs implementations
Affect - an ethnocentric encounter?: Exploring the 'universalist' imperative of emotional/affectual geographies
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Formazanate Complexes of Hypervalent Groupâ14 Elements as Precursors to Electronically Stabilized Radicals
The stability of molecular radicals containing mainâgroup elements usually hinges on the presence of bulky substituents that shield the reactive radical center. We describe a family of groupâ14 formazanate complexes whose chemical reduction allows access to radicals that are stabilized instead by geometric and electronâdelocalization effects, specifically by the squareâpyramidal geometry adopted by the groupâ14 atom (Si, Ge, Sn) within the framework of the heteroatomârich formazanate ligands. The reduction potentials of the Si, Ge, and Sn complexes as determined by cyclic voltammetry become more negative in that order. Examination of the solidâstate structures of these complexes suggested that their electronâaccepting ability decreases with increasing groupâ14 atom size because a larger central atom increases the nonplanarity of the ligandâbased conjugated Ïâelectron system of the complex. The experimental findings were supported by densityâfunctional calculations on the parent complexes and the corresponding radicals
How a turn to critical race theory can contribute to our understanding of 'race', racism and anti-racism in sport
As long as racism has been associated with sport there have been consistent, if not coordinated or coherent, struggles to confront its various forms. Critical race theory (CRT) is a framework established to challenge these racialized inequalities and racism in society and has some utility for anti-racism in sport. CRT's focus on social justice and transformation are two areas of convergence between critical race theorists and anti-racists. Of the many nuanced and pernicious forms of racism, one of the most obvious and commonly reported forms of racism in sport, racial abuse, has been described as a kind of dehumanizing process by Gardiner (2003), as those who are its target are simultaneously (re)constructed and objectified according to everyday myth and fantasy. However, this is one of the many forms of everyday racist experiences. Various forms of racism can be experienced in boardrooms, on television, in print, in the stands, on the sidelines and on the pitch. Many times racism is trivialized and put down as part of the game (Long et al., 2000), yet its impact is rarely the source of further exploration. This article will explore the conceptualization of 'race' and racism for a more effective anti-racism. Critical race theory will also be used to explore the ideas that underpin considerations of the severity of racist behaviour and the implications for anti-racism. © The Author(s) 2010
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