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Remote sensing impact on corridor selection and placement
Computer-aided corridor selection techniques, utilizing digitized data bases of socio-economic, census, and cadastral data, and developed for highway corridor routing are considered. Land resource data generated from various remote sensing data sources were successfully merged with the ancillary data files of a corridor selection model and prototype highway corridors were designed using the combined data set. Remote sensing derived information considered useful for highway corridor location, special considerations in geometric correction of remote sensing data to facilitate merging it with ancillary data files, and special interface requirements are briefly discussed
Yellowstone National Park mapping from ERTS-1 computer compatible tapes
There are no author-identified significant results in this report
Terrain classification maps of Yellowstone National Park
A cooperative ERTS-1 investigation involving U. S. Geological Survey, National Park Service, and Environmental Research Institure of Michigan (ERIM) personnel has as its goal the preparation of terrain classification maps for the entire Yellowstone National Park. Excellent coverage of the park was obtained on 6 August 1972 (frame 1015-17404). Preliminary terrain classification maps have been prepared at ERIM by applying multispectral pattern recognition techniques to ERTS-MSS digital taped data. The color coded terrain maps are presented and discussed. The discussion includes qualitative and quantitative accuracy estimates and discussion of processing techniques
Perspectives on financial incentives to health service providers for increasing breast feeding and smoking quit rates during pregnancy: a mixed methods study
Objective: To explore the acceptability, mechanisms and consequences of provider incentives for smoking cessation and breast feeding as part of the Benefits of Incentives for Breastfeeding and Smoking cessation in pregnancy (BIBS) study.
Design: Cross-sectional survey and qualitative interviews.
Setting: Scotland and North West England.
Participants: Early years professionals: 497 survey respondents included 156 doctors; 197 health visitors/maternity staff; 144 other health staff. Qualitative interviews or focus groups were conducted with 68 pregnant/postnatal women/family members; 32 service providers; 22 experts/decision-makers; 63 conference attendees.
Methods: Early years professionals were surveyed via email about the acceptability of payments to local health services for reaching smoking cessation in pregnancy and breastfeeding targets. Agreement was measured on a 5-point scale using multivariable ordered logit models. A framework approach was used to analyse free-text survey responses and qualitative data.
Results: Health professional net agreement for provider incentives for smoking cessation targets was 52.9% (263/497); net disagreement was 28.6% (142/497). Health visitors/maternity staff were more likely than doctors to agree: OR 2.35 (95% CI 1.51 to 3.64; p<0.001). Net agreement for provider incentives for breastfeeding targets was 44.1% (219/497) and net disagreement was 38.6% (192/497). Agreement was more likely for women (compared with men): OR 1.81 (1.09 to 3.00; p=0.023) and health visitors/maternity staff (compared with doctors): OR 2.54 (95% CI 1.65 to 3.91; p<0.001). Key emergent themes were 'moral tensions around acceptability', 'need for incentives', 'goals', 'collective or divisive action' and 'monitoring and proof'. While provider incentives can focus action and resources, tensions around the impact on relationships raised concerns. Pressure, burden of proof, gaming, box-ticking bureaucracies and health inequalities were counterbalances to potential benefits.
Conclusions: Provider incentives are favoured by non-medical staff. Solutions which increase trust and collaboration towards shared goals, without negatively impacting on relationships or increasing bureaucracy are required
Topological defect motifs in two-dimensional Coulomb clusters
The most energetically favourable arrangement of low-density electrons in an
infinite two-dimensional plane is the ordered triangular Wigner lattice.
However, in most instances of contemporary interest one deals instead with
finite clusters of strongly interacting particles localized in potential traps,
for example, in complex plasmas. In the current contribution we study
distribution of topological defects in two-dimensional Coulomb clusters with
parabolic lateral confinement. The minima hopping algorithm based on molecular
dynamics is used to efficiently locate the ground- and low-energy metastable
states, and their structure is analyzed by means of the Delaunay triangulation.
The size, structure and distribution of geometry-induced lattice imperfections
strongly depends on the system size and the energetic state. Besides isolated
disclinations and dislocations, classification of defect motifs includes defect
compounds --- grain boundaries, rosette defects, vacancies and interstitial
particles. Proliferation of defects in metastable configurations destroys the
orientational order of the Wigner lattice.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version
of an article accepted for publication in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. IOP
Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version
of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The definitive
publisher-authenticated version is available online at
10.1088/0953-8984/23/38/38530
Caring to make a difference: vulnerable women
We report findings from a mixed-methods study to compare birth outcomes and experiences between vulnerable women who had/had not received targeted support from a specialist midwifery team and/or a third-sector organisation. Sociodemographic and birth-related/outcome data from a 12-month birth cohort were used to explore differences between a) vulnerable and non-vulnerable women; and b) vulnerable women who had and those who had not received targeted support.
Seventeen women who had/had not received targeted support were interviewed. Vulnerable mothers were significantly more likely to be younger, from a minority ethnic group, access care later in pregnancy and have a baby born earlier and at a
lower birth weight. A higher percentage of women who received targeted support had a spontaneous birth, a vaginal presentation at birth and were less likely to use anaesthesia during labour when compared with unsupported vulnerable women. Targeted support was associated with reassurance, increased parental confidence and wellbeing. Key practice and policy-based implications are considered
Coexisting ordinary elasticity and superfluidity in a model of defect-free supersolid
We present the mechanics of a model of supersolid in the frame of the
Gross-Pitaevskii equation at that do not require defects nor vacancies.
A set of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations plus boundary
conditions is derived. The mechanical equilibrium is studied under external
constrains as steady rotation or external stress. Our model displays a
paradoxical behavior: the existence of a non classical rotational inertia
fraction in the limit of small rotation speed and no superflow under small (but
finite) stress nor external force. The only matter flow for finite stress is
due to plasticity.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Classical artificial two-dimensional atoms: the Thomson model
The ring configurations for classical two-dimensional atoms are calculated
within the Thomson model and compared with the results from `exact' numerical
simulations. The influence of the functional form of the confinement potential
and the repulsive interaction potential between the particles on the
configurations is investigated. We also give exact results on those eigenmodes
of the system whose frequency does not depend on the number of particles in the
system.Comment: 9 pages, RevTeX, 4 figure
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