Responding to Climate Change: The Economy and Economics - Part of the Problem and Solution

The Climate Change Starter’s Guide provides an introduction and overview for education planners and practitioners on the wide range of issues relating to climate change and climate change education, including causes, impacts, mitigation and adaptation strategies, as well as some broad political and economic principles. The aim of this guide is to serve as a starting point for mainstreaming climate change education into school curricula. It has been created to enable education planners and practitioners to understand the issues at hand, to review and analyse their relevance to particular national and local contexts, and to facilitate the development of education policies, curricula, programmes and lesson plans. The guide covers four major thematic areas: 1. the science of climate change, which explains the causes and observed changes; 2. the social and human aspects of climate change including gender, health, migration, poverty and ethics; 3. policy responses to climate change including measures for mitigation and adaptation; and 4. education approaches including education for sustainable development, disaster reduction and sustainable lifestyles. A selection of key resources in the form of publication titles or websites for further reading is provided after each of the thematic sections

Contraception and screening for cervical and breast cancer in neuromuscular disease: A retrospective study of 50 patients monitored at a clinical reference centre

AbstractObjectiveTo analyse contraceptive methods and the extent of screening for breast and cervical cancer in women with neuromuscular disease, compare these results with data and guidelines for the general population and determine the environmental and attitudinal barriers encountered.Patients and methodsA retrospective, descriptive study in a population of female neuromuscular disease patients (aged 20 to 74) monitored at a clinical reference centre.ResultsComplete datasets were available for 49 patients. Seventy percent used contraception (hormonal contraception in most cases). Sixty-eight percent had undergone screening for cervical cancer at some time in the previous 3 years and 100% of the patients over 50 had undergone a mammography. Architectural accessibility and practical problems were the most common barriers to care and were more frequently encountered by wheelchair-bound, ventilated patients.ConclusionsIn general, the patients had good access to contraceptive care and cervical and breast cancer screening. However, specific measures may be useful for the most severely disabled patients

ATOMIC STRUCTURE OF AN fcc-HEXAGONAL INTERFACE

L'interface entre une matrice cubique à faces centrées et des précipités hexagonaux a été étudiée dans un superalliage par microscopie en faisceau faible et par haute résolution. L'alliage contenant une proportion importante de cobalt, la structure de la seconde phase est hexagonale ordonnée. Les précipités ont une forme de plaquettes parallèles aux plans compacts de l a matrice. L'interface est elle même située dans ces plans. Le misfit entre les 2 phases est de 2 %. 3 familles de dislocations coins de vecteurs de Burgers 1/6 sont présentes. Ce réseau est triangulaire et possède la particularité de présenter des noeuds à 6 segments de dislocations. Les clichés de microscopie à haute résolution montrent que chaque dislocation est associée à une marche haute de 2 plans atomiques 111. Un modèle géométrique simple identique à celui d'un joint de torsion a été élaboré et rend compte de la géomètrie observée.The structure of the interface between of the matrix and hexagonal precipitates in a superalloy has been studied using weak beam dark field and high resolution electron microscopy. An important percentage of cobalt is present i n the alloy leading to an ordered hexagonal structure of the precipitates. They are plate-like shaped and the interface is parallel to the compact planes of both phases. There is a 2 % misfit between matrix and precipitate. The interface is made of 3 sets of 1/6 edge dislocations. These dislocations form a triangular net with nodes common to 6 segments o f dislocations. Each dislocation is associated with a 2 atomic plane step. A simple geometric model identical to that of a twist boundary is presented

HOLZ lines splitting on SiGe/Si relaxed samples: Analytical solutions for the kinematical equation

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