3,197 research outputs found
The Alcohol Concern SMART recovery pilot project: final evaluation report
Evaluation of the Alcohol Concern/SMART Recovery (Self Mangement and Recovery Training) pilot project. The pilot project ran in England from 2008-2010 and was funded by the Department of Health
Big Jump of Record Warm Global Mean Surface Temperature in 2014ā2016 Related to Unusually Large Oceanic Heat Releases
A 0.24Ā°C jump of record warm global mean surface temperature (GMST) over the past three consecutive recordābreaking years (2014ā2016) was highly unusual and largely a consequence of an El NiƱo that released unusually large amounts of ocean heat from the subsurface layer of the northwestern tropical Pacific. This heat had built up since the 1990s mainly due to greenhouseāgas (GHG) forcing and possible remote oceanic effects. Model simulations and projections suggest that the fundamental cause, and robust predictor of large recordābreaking events of GMST in the 21st century, is GHG forcing rather than internal climate variability alone. Such events will increase in frequency, magnitude, and duration, as well as impact, in the future unless GHG forcing is reduced.Key PointsA 0.24Ā°C jump of record warm global mean surface temperature over the past three consecutive years (2014ā2016) was highly unusualIt was a result of an El NiƱo that released unusually large amounts of ocean heat previously accumulated in the western tropical PacificLarge recordābreaking events of global surface temperature are projected to increase in the future unless greenhouseāgas forcing is reducedPeer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/142431/1/grl56888_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/142431/2/grl56888-sup-0001-2017GL076500-SI.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/142431/3/grl56888.pd
Implementation of the Licensing Act 2003: a national survey
The Licensing Act 2003 came into force in November 2005 and transferred responsibility for alcohol licensing to Local Authorities. This reports the findings of a nation wide survey of 225 (63%) local authority chairs of licensing committees/senior members of licensing teams in England evaluating the short-term impact of the Act
Partnerships: survey respondents' perceptions of inter-professional collaboration to address alcohol-related harms in England
Tackling alcohol-related harms crosses agency and professional boundaries, requiring collaboration between health, criminal justice, education and social welfare institutions. It is a key component of most multicomponent programmes in the United States, Australia and Europe. Partnership working, already embedded in service delivery structures, is a core mechanism for delivery of the new UK Government Alcohol Strategy. This article reports findings from a study of alcohol partnerships across England. The findings are based on a mix of open discussion interviews with key informants and on semi-structured telephone interviews with 90 professionals with roles in local alcohol partnerships. Interviewees reported the challenges of working within a complex network of interlinked partnerships, often within hierarchies under an umbrella partnership, some of them having a formal duty of partnership. The new alcohol strategy has emerged at a time of extensive reorganisation within health, social care and criminal justice structures. Further development of a partnership model for policy implementation would benefit from consideration of the incompatibility arising from required collaboration and from tensions between institutional and professional cultures. A clearer analysis of which aspects of partnership working provide āadded valueā is needed
Identifying promising approaches and initiatives to reducing alcohol related harm
This study aimed to identify promising approaches that could be included in multi-component programmes (MCPs) to reduce alcohol related harm at local level in the UK. MCPs involve the identification of alcohol related problems at the local level and implementation of a programme of co-ordinated projects to tackle a problem. They are based on an integrative design where singular interventions run in combination with each other and/or are sequenced together over time; the identification, coordination and mobilisation of local agencies, stakeholders and community are key elements (Thom and Bayley, 2007). This study was underpinned by the recognition that the voices of practitioners are often marginalised in the debates about āwhat worksā and it set out to include their views. So whilst acknowledging the importance of the international research literature, care was taken not to privilege it over other āsofterā sources e.g. knowledge and experience of practitioners
Non-collinear coupling between magnetic adatoms in carbon nanotubes
The long range character of the exchange coupling between localized magnetic
moments indirectly mediated by the conduction electrons of metallic hosts often
plays a significant role in determining the magnetic order of low-dimensional
structures. In addition to this indirect coupling, here we show that the direct
exchange interaction that arises when the moments are not too far apart may
induce a non-collinear magnetic order that cannot be characterized by a
Heisenberg-like interaction between the magnetic moments. We argue that this
effect can be manipulated to control the magnetization alignment of magnetic
dimers adsorbed to the walls of carbon nanotubes.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PR
Mothers' voices: hearing and assessing the contributions of 'birth mothers' to the development of social work interventions and family support
This paper focuses on interviews with ābirth mothersā who experienced successive losses of their children to public care in one local area of London, England. Interviews were conducted during a project partnership between a London borough and university staff, aiming to provide a localised, pilot support initiative which responded to mothersā viewpoints. To āhearā mothersā own voices more clearly, we analysed interview transcripts using a methodology which separates out elements of how the interviewee tells her story, how she speaks about herself and about her relationships, taking into account surrounding social complexities and researchersā reactions to the story. To explain how professionals could subsequently draw upon these āmothersā voicesā for a pilot support initiative, we identify some key messages for professionals from these interviews, including: women wanting clear and honest communication between themselves and workers, and between staff; women often feeling ālet downā by professional procedures and court processes that were moving too fast for them to keep up; women wanting to be treated with more respect. Women respected some professionals but not others and this seemed to relate partly to personalities. Some mothers experienced being āleft aloneā or āabandonedā to deal with the aftermath of childrenās removal and/or adoption
Self Consistent Expansion for the Molecular Beam Epitaxy Equation
Motivated by a controversy over the correct results derived from the dynamic
renormalization group (DRG) analysis of the non linear molecular beam epitaxy
(MBE) equation, a self-consistent expansion (SCE) for the non linear MBE theory
is considered. The scaling exponents are obtained for spatially correlated
noise of the general form . I find a lower critical dimension , above, which the linear MBE solution appears. Below the
lower critical dimension a r-dependent strong-coupling solution is found. These
results help to resolve the controversy over the correct exponents that
describe non linear MBE, using a reliable method that proved itself in the past
by predicting reasonable results for the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) system,
where DRG failed to do so.Comment: 16 page
Direct Statistical Simulation of Jets and Vortices in 2D Flows
In this paper we perform Direct Statistical Simulations of a model of two-dimensional flow that exhibits a transition from jets to vortices. The model employs two-scale Kolmogorov forcing, with energy injected directly into the zonal mean of the flow. We compare these results with those from Direct Numerical Simulations. For square domains the solution takes the form of jets, but as the aspect ratio is increased a transition to isolated coherent vortices is found. We find that a truncation at second order in the equal-time but nonlocal cumulants that employs zonal averaging (zonal CE2) is capable of capturing the form of the jets for a range of Reynolds numbers as well as the transition to the vortex state, but, unsurprisingly, is unable to reproduce the correlations found for the fully nonlinear (non-zonally symmetric) vortex state. This result continues the program of promising advances in statistical theories of turbulence championed by Kraichnan
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