The north east development council: its aims, resources and achievements 1961 - 1972

As indicated in the INTRODUCTION, this Thesis is concerned principally with the way in which the North EastDevelopment Council tried to adapt to changing economic conditions during the period 1961 t o 1972. The year 1972 marked the end of an era for the Council because, in the year following, arrangements were being made to re-organise the Council in order that its industrial promotion activity should apply to the whole of the Northern Region instead of just to the North East and the Council subsequently became known as the North of England Development Council. The work opens with a description of the economic circumstances which preceded the inauguration of the Council. This is followed by an assessment of the significance of the terms "region" and " industrial structure." Examination is then made both of the aims of the Council and of some of the Council ideas which lay behind the pursuit of these aims. The ideas referred to were about the creation of employment opportunities, about the problems of new skills and the retraining of labour, about the shortage of Service Industry in the North East and about the efficacy of market research as a Council activity. This last topic was thought to be especially related to industrial structure and is therefore treated in the chapter on that subject and not under "Pursuit of Aims." The low rate of growth of Northern GDP per head is next considered and comparison is made between expected and actual growth of Northern investment. The role of the Council in securing this investment is assessed and the outcome of the Council's efforts is set both against the Council's limited resources and against other difficulties which beset the Council

Mapping Kitaev's quantum double lattice models to Levin and Wen's string-net models

We exhibit a mapping identifying Kitaev's quantum double lattice models explicitly as a subclass of Levin and Wen's string net models via a completion of the local Hilbert spaces with auxiliary degrees of freedom. This identification allows to carry over to these string net models the representation-theoretic classification of the excitations in quantum double models, as well as define them in arbitrary lattices, and provides an illustration of the abstract notion of Morita equivalence. The possibility of generalising the map to broader classes of string nets is considered.Comment: 8 pages, 6 eps figures; v2: matches published versio

Metal-insulator transition in EuO

It is shown that the spectacular metal-insulator transition in Eu-rich EuO can be simulated within an extended Kondo lattice model. The different orders of magnitude of the jump in resistivity in dependence on the concentration of oxygen vacancies as well as the low-temperature resistance minimum in high-resistivity samples are reproduced quantitatively. The huge colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) is calculated and discussed

Enhancement of W+/- H-/+ Production at Hadron Colliders in the Two Higgs Doublet Model

We discuss the associated W+/- H-/+ production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The dependence of the hadronic cross section on the Higgs sector parameters is investigated in detail in the framework of the general Two Higgs Doublet Model (THDM). We study the possible enhancement of the THDM prediction for the cross section compared to the prediction of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We find regions in the THDM parameter space where the THDM prediction can exceed the one of the MSSM by two orders of magnitude. These regions of large cross section are in agreement with theoretical bounds on the model, derived from the requirement of vacuum stability and perturbative unitarity, and are not excluded by experimental constraints.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figure

Agriculture in Western Australia. 3. The economic potential of the Wongan-Ballidu Shire. Part 1

IN West Australian agriculture there is a considerable backlog of information available to farmers which is not being used in practical farming. This, of course, is true of agricultural industries anywhere in the world. This backlog results in a big difference in productivity between the best farms and the average farms in each district. This article is a simple economic study of the potential of one shire of Western Australia

The economic potential of the Wongan-Ballidu Shire. Part 2. Costs and returns

THE potential of the Wongan-Ballidu Shire to produce increased quantities of grain, wool, sheep and meat up to the year 2,000 was estimated and discussed in the first part of this article (see last issue). In this second and final part the financial returns likely to accrue to the shire and the individual farmers as a result of these increases are discussed

The 1964 Ord River cotton crop

IN November-December, 1963, the first five farmers allocated land in the Ord River Irrigation Area planted their first crop of cotton, which is expected to be the major crop grown in the area. The crop was harvested in May-June, 1964, and has since been sold

The 1965 Ord River cotton crop

THE financial results of 18 cotton growers in the Ord River Valley during the 1965 season were obtained during a survey conducted in August, 1965. All farmers who have been allocated blocks and who grew cotton in 1965 were included in the survey.