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Pastoral women’s rights and leadership forums, Tanzania: Experience, impact and lessons learned
A practical guide to the Freedom of Information Act 2000
The Constitution Unit has rewritten the Practical Guide to the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The revised edition differs considerably from the original in format and content. Foremest among the changes are the three case studies (with comments) at the end and the references to recently published, more detailed official advice. The guide is designed for practitioners who are responsible for or otherwise involved in their authority's plans to implement and operate the FoI Act. The guide serves as an introduction to implementation and operation of the FoI Act, focusing specifically on its core principles and features, how public authorities should prepare for implementation and what FoI practitioners should do when they receive requests for information
Coupled-channel calculation of bound and resonant spectra of Lambda-9Be and Lambda-13C hypernuclei
A Multi-Channel Algebraic Scattering (MCAS) approach has been used to analyze
the spectra of two hyper-nuclear systems, Lambda-9Be and Lambda-13C. The
splitting of the two odd-parity excited levels (1/2^- and 3/2^-) at 11 MeV
excitation in Lambda-13C is driven mainly by the weak Lambda-nucleus spin-orbit
force, but the splittings of the 3/2^+ and 5/2^+ levels in both Lambda-9Be and
Lambda-13C have a different origin. These cases appear to be dominated by
coupling to the collective 2+ states of the core nuclei. Using simple
phenomenological potentials as input to the MCAS method, the observed splitting
and level ordering in Lambda-9Be is reproduced with the addition of a weak
spin-spin interaction acting between the hyperon and the spin of the excited
target. With no such spin-spin interaction, the level ordering in Lambda-9Be is
inverted with respect to that currently observed. In both hyper-nuclei, our
calculations suggest that there are additional low-lying resonant states in the
Lambda-nucleus continua.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables. To be published in International
Journal of Modern Physics
The supervised hierarchical Dirichlet process
We propose the supervised hierarchical Dirichlet process (sHDP), a
nonparametric generative model for the joint distribution of a group of
observations and a response variable directly associated with that whole group.
We compare the sHDP with another leading method for regression on grouped data,
the supervised latent Dirichlet allocation (sLDA) model. We evaluate our method
on two real-world classification problems and two real-world regression
problems. Bayesian nonparametric regression models based on the Dirichlet
process, such as the Dirichlet process-generalised linear models (DP-GLM) have
previously been explored; these models allow flexibility in modelling nonlinear
relationships. However, until now, Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP)
mixtures have not seen significant use in supervised problems with grouped data
since a straightforward application of the HDP on the grouped data results in
learnt clusters that are not predictive of the responses. The sHDP solves this
problem by allowing for clusters to be learnt jointly from the group structure
and from the label assigned to each group.Comment: 14 page
Energy Conversion Alternatives Study (ECAS), Westinghouse phase 1. Volume 4: Open recuperated and bottomed gas turbine cycles
Open-cycle recuperated gas turbine plant with inlet temperatures of 1255 to 1644 K (1800 to 2500 F) and recuperators with effectiveness values of 0, 70, 80 and 90% are considered. A 1644 K (2500 F) gas turbine would have a 33.5% plant efficiency in a simple cycle, 37.6% in a recuperated cycle and 47.6% when combined with a sulfur dioxide bottomer. The distillate burning recuperated plant was calculated to produce electricity at a cost of 8.19 mills/MJ (29.5 mills/kWh). Due to their low capital cost /kW, the open cycle gas turbine plant should see duty for peaking and intermediate load duty
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