Issues and problems in Mediterranean maritime boundary delimitation : a geographical analysis.

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Hamilton's Theorem (on the compactness of pinched hypersurfaces) via mean curvature flow

We make rigorous an old idea of using mean curvature flow to prove a theorem of Richard Hamilton on the compactness of proper hypersurfaces with pinched, bounded curvature

Extinction Rebellion: The dynamics of contemporary radical British environmental activism

Environmental problems are current and pressing with actions and resolutions required now. Reducing the impact that humans have on the environment poses some of the biggest and most significant challenges facing the world today. Activism has an important role in shaping where the environmental debate is focused and is central to a vibrant democracy. This research examines the contemporary radical environmental activisms of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in London undertaking activist participatory research as a member in 2019 and 2020. It critically examines how this radical contemporary British environmental activisms is made and sustained, highlighting alliances across difference and examining those spatial dimensions of this activism that shape and make it impactful. It contextualises this local XR contemporary environmental activism within a history of radical British environmental activism to identify what is a continuity and what may be novel. It then examines the entanglement of place and activisms establishing how place shapes the activism and has framed, shifted and developed the discourse. It explores how the concept of generations can be differently understood and how an understanding and the appreciation of the generations, particularly the old and the young, explains and informs what activities and actions activists are prepared to undertake. It also identifies a significance concept of eldership in activisms. The research explores emotions, feelings and affect in activisms that appeal to grief, hope, love, pride and vulnerability. It examines how these are generated and what they do. It reviews how these activisms have sought to use framing in language and discourse and concludes that this is important to understanding these activisms and the impact they have had. The thesis introduces the concept of Patterns of Serendipity which identifies the significance of the interweaving of multiple lucky accidents that make activism impactful in a particular place at a particular time The research uses Activist Smartphone doings as a methodology to overcome and make sense of the messiness of activisms which produces unique understandings in different places and temporalities. It concludes that these XR activisms are a dynamic, reflexive, purposeful and intensive, form of contemporary radical environmentalism

Measuring Entangled Qutrits and Their Use for Quantum Bit Commitment

We produce and holographically measure entangled qudits encoded in transverse spatial modes of single photons. With the novel use of a quantum state tomography method that only requires two-state superpositions, we achieve the most complete characterisation of entangled qutrits to date. Ideally, entangled qutrits provide better security than qubits in quantum bit-commitment: we model the sensitivity of this to mixture and show experimentally and theoretically that qutrits with even a small amount of decoherence cannot offer increased security over qubits.Comment: Paper updated to match published version; 5 pages, 4 figures, images have been included at slightly lower quality for the archiv

Dirty construction workers : who you looking at buddy?

The public perception of the United Kingdom building (construction) industry and of the workers who are employed in it is often associated with negative stereotypical attitudes. Workers (and thus the industry) are characterised by images of dirt, unsafe working practices, macho and sexist behaviour and unsatisfactory workmanship standards. Such perceptions are known to have damaged the image of the construction industry and may have led to large sections of the construction workforce being stigmatised. This in turn is known to have persuaded many youngsters that a career in the construction trades (joiner, bricklayer, plumber etc) is not for them. However, very little empirical knowledge (other than a few notable studies conducted in the USA by the likes of Silver 1982, Riemer 1979, Applebaum 1981) can be found regarding the perceptions which the craft workforce have of their occupation role in society. This paper examines the perceptions which craftworkers have of their occupational role. This work is discussed within the context of a current UK Government department (Department of Environment Transport & regions) initiative known as ‘Respect for People.’ This initiative seeks to encourage the construction industry to improve the health, safety and welfare facilities on projects and thus mitigate some of the ‘dirtiness ’attached to construction work life

Remuneration Guidelines for Strength and Conditioning Coaches within Universities in the United Kingdom: International Universities Strength and Conditioning Association (IUSCA) Position Statement

The remuneration of strength and conditioning coaches corresponding to the professional services provided across the high school, collegiate and professional sector,1 has received increased attention in recent times. This appears to be a highly contentious topic regarding the governance of industry awards (National minimum wage) and remuneration