Community Health Champions in Lincolnshire Review and Scoping Exercise Report

The Lincolnshire 2012 Joint Health and Well-being Strategy identified the need to ‘develop a Community Health Champion programme for Lincolnshire building on current good practice that will enable people to volunteer to offer help and support to other members of their community in leading healthier lives’. This was intended to be one of two interlinked schemes, designed to achieve the key outcome of supporting people to lead healthier lives

The Leeds Winter Warmth Scheme 2012/13: An Evaluation Summary

Following on from last year’s successful Warm Homes Healthy People Campaign, NHS Leeds (Public Health), Leeds City Council and partners in the voluntary sector decided to launch an expanded campaign in 2012 in order to support a more varied range of services over the winter period. The overall project amounted to £527,368 which comprised £171,000 set aside by NHS Leeds together with £199,067 of funding from the Department of Health’s Warm Homes Healthy People Fund which was jointly bid for by Leeds City Council, NHS Leeds and our voluntary sector partners, £130,393 from Leeds City Council’s bid to the DECC fuel poverty fund which was used to enable the Warm Homes Service to provide larger scale capital measures such as heating and boiler replacements and other funding from partners. As with the 2011-12 Warm Homes Healthy People Fund, projects were selected that addressed those needs that were known to arise and increase within the City during winter

Stability of metal-rich very massive stars

We revisit the stability of very massive nonrotating main-sequence stars at solar metallicity, with the goal of understanding whether radial pulsations set a physical upper limit to stellar mass. Models of up to 938 solar masses are constructed with the Mesa code, and their linear stability in the fundamental mode, assumed to be the most dangerous, is analysed with a fully nonadiabatic method. Models above 100 MSun have extended tenuous atmospheres ("shelves") that affect the stability of the fundamental. Even when positive, this growth rate is small, in agreement with previous results. We argue that small growth rates lead to saturation at small amplitudes that are not dangerous to the star. A mechanism for saturation is demonstrated involving nonlinear parametric coupling to short-wavelength g modes and the damping of the latter by radiative diffusion. The shelves are subject to much more rapidly growing strange modes. This also agrees with previous results but is extended here to higher masses. The strange modes probably saturate via shocks rather than mode coupling but have very small amplitudes in the core, where almost all of the stellar mass resides. Although our stellar models are hydrostatic, the structure of their outer parts suggests that optically thick winds, driven by some combination of radiation pressure, transsonic convection, and strange modes, are more likely than pulsation in the fundamental mode to limit the main-sequence lifetime.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, 1 appendix; this version to be published in MNRA

The S&L Debacle

This speech was given by Professor White as part of the annual Financial Institutions and Regulation Symposium at the Fordham University School of La

Intermittent Presumptive Treatment for Malaria

A better understanding of the pharmacodynamics of intermittent presumptive treatment, says White, will guide more rational policymakin

Magnetically centered liquid column float Patent

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Judging Judges: Securing Judicial Independence by Use of Judicial Performance Evaluations

This Article discusses judicial performance evaluations as a check on judicial independence. It covers numerous performance evaluation options for measuring accountability, such as bar and media polls, state judicial evaluation programs, and the ABA Guidelines for judicial performance. It discusses the pros and cons of these options. It concludes that the information provided by state judicial performance evaluations offers valuable insight into judicial criticisms and can give voters appropriate criteria to consider in judicial elections