Visualising the South Yorkshire floods of ‘07

This paper describes initial work on developing an information system to gather, process and visualise various multimedia data sources related to the South Yorkshire (UK) floods of 2007. The work is part of the Memoir project which aims to investigate how technology can help people create and manage long-term personal memories. We are using maps to aggregate multimedia data and to stimulate remembering past events. The paper describes an initial prototype; challenges faced so far and planned future work

Corn production : a 4-H project

November, 1949."University of Missouri College of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture Cooperating"--Page [12].Title from caption

Reading between the lines: attitudinal expressions in text

This is a brief overview of the starting points a project currently proposed and under evaluation by funding agencies. We discuss some of the linguistic methodology we plan to employ to idenitify and analyze attitudinal expressions in text, and touch briefly on how to evaluate our future results

Corn production : a 4-H project

University of Missouri College of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture cooperating."December, 1943."Title from cover

Researching creatively with pupils in Assessment for Learning (AfL) classrooms on experiences of participation and consultation

This paper reports on an ESRC TLRP project, Consulting Pupils on the Assessment of their Learning (CPAL). The CPAL project provides an additional theoretical perspective to the ‘educational benefits’ perspective of engaging pupil voice in learning and teaching (Rudduck et al., 2003) through its exploration of pupil rights specifically in relation to assessment issues presently on the policy agenda in the Northern Ireland context – notably Assessment for Learning (AfL). An emergent framework for assessing pupil rights, based on Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Lundy, 2007), is being used to explore the ways in which AfL classroom practice creates the conditions for increased pupil participation and consultation. Pupil views on their AfL classroom experiences and participation are explored by means of a variety of pupil-centred, creative research methods that engage and stimulate pupils to observe, communicate and analyse their learning and assessment experiences and give meaning to them. This presentation highlights preliminary data based on a sample of 11-14 years pupils' experiences of participation and consultation in classrooms adopting AfL pedagogical principles, and identifies characteristics that support or inhibit pupil participation in their learning and the expression of their views about such matters

Hadleigh Park priority species habitat assessment

Hadleigh Park (HP) SSSI (TQ800869) was a key site for delivery of the 2012 London Olympics hosting the Olympic mountain biking course. As part of the legacy from this event an Ecological Management Plan was developed to conserve and enhance the ecological value of the site. This was to be achieved through a series of strategies: 1) To increase habitat extent and improve habitat quality through enhanced habitat management. 2) To enhance habitat connectivity across the foothills by restoring an existing 'weak-link' of arable land to permanent grassland. 3) To develop and fund a programme of ecological monitoring. In order to fulfil some of the requirements of the ecological monitoring target of the strategies, invertebrate habitat assessment surveys were established during the summer of 2015 to create a baseline for monitoring the effects of current and future habitat management on the site. This included delivering invertebrate surveys focused on habitats/assemblages that the operational use of the legacy may affect and that are associated with the SSSI designation. The focus of these surveys would be in Compartments 1, 2 and 3a (Figure 1). The aim being to obtain results on which ISIS analysis could be carried out to provide common standards monitoring invertebrate assemblage information. The results of these surveys are available in Harvey (2015). Additional surveys were carried during the summer 2015 in order to create a baseline for monitoring the habitat quality and the effects of legacy habitat management at Hadleigh Park on priority target species and groups. These comprised white-letter hairstreak butterfly (Satyrium w-album) surveys, bumblebee (Bombus spp.) surveys - with specific focus on the UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priority Species (now the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework) and Section 41 of the NERC Act Listed species, the brown-banded carder bee (Bombus humilis), the shrill carder bee (Bombus sylvarum) - and bumblebee forage availability surveys. This report represents an overview of these additional surveys. The report is divided into three sections in order to document the three separate survey methodologies

University of East London: the 2015 biodiversity update

In May 2012 the Rio+20 summit confirmed a 30% global decline in wildlife since 1970. Following on from the United Nations (UN) International Year of Biodiversity in 2010, global declines in biodiversity have never had such high profile. Rio+20 has been billed as a chance for world leaders to put global society on a sustainable path and an opportunity for the world to get serious about the need for development to be sustainable (Black 2012). For development to be truly sustainable this must include conserving, on a landscape scale, the valuable ecosystem services that biodiversity provides (TEEB 2010). Not only does this mean protecting and enhancing natural and semi-natural landscapes, but also restoring green and blue infrastructure of high biodiversity value in urban areas. As such, rather than merely targeting conservation efforts across the broader countryside, biodiversity also must be returned to our cities, towns and suburbs by breaking up expanses of hard impermeable surfaces and creating niches within which nature can take a hold

Interaction of laser generated ultrasonic waves with wedge-shaped samples

Wedge-shaped samples can be used as a model of acoustic interactions with samples ranging from ocean wedges, to angled defects such as rolling contact fatigue, to thickness measurements of samples with non-parallel faces. We present work on laser generated ultrasonic waves on metal samples; one can measure the dominant Rayleigh-wave mode, but longitudinal and shear waves are also generated. We present calculations, models, and measurements giving the dependence of the arrival times and amplitudes of these modes on the wedge apex angle and the separation of generation and detection points, and hence give a measure of the wedge characteristics