CCS Networks for the UK: Benefits, Impacts and Regulation

What benefits might be offered by developing well planned CCS networks? A review of the drivers for and barriers to the coherent development of CCS networks in the UK is used to synthesise a limited set of possible network topologies. The benefits offered by each topology for UK carbon dioxide and other atmospheric emissions are estimated. Other potential benefits are considered qualitatively, and a range of uncertainties identified. The complexity of CCS networks means that addressing these uncertainties is a challenging task, and the need for a whole systems approach is evaluated. Finally, implications for CCS regulation and policy are highlighted

Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in black mussel and goby from Black Sea, Bulgaria

Concentrations of persistent organic pollutants including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) were measured in two marine species: black mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and goby (Neogobius cephalarges). Samples were collected from Lake Varna and Varna Bay in the period of 2004 - 2005 in order to evaluate the status, spatial distribution and potential sources of pollution in these areas. The mussel, one of the most widely used bioindicators of persistent organic pollutants, has been used to monitor PCBs and DDTs contamination trends in Lake Varna and Varna Bay. Black sea gobies are non-migratory species and feed mainly with benthic organisms. Average PCB concentration in mussels were found 28.7 ng/g fat. Total PCB concentrations in goby varied in the range of 21.3 and 71.5 ng/g fat. Concentration in black mussel were found 28.7 ng/g fat for total DDTs. Average DDTs concentration in goby were measured 2116 ng/g fat. The levels of PCBs and DDTs in black mussels and goby from the Lake Varna and Varna Bay were comparable with those found in other marine ecosystems

PLASMA ERYTHROPOIETIN ACTIVITY AND INHIBITORY PROPERTIES AFTER VARIOUS ADRENERGIC INFLUENCES IN RATS

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THE INFLUENCE OF PRELIMINARY RESERPINIZATION ON THE CHANGES OF BLOOD CELLS' NUMBER AFTER APPLICATION OF ULTRASOUND IN RATS. I. Investigation on the erythrocyte number changes

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Deformations of the Boson sp(4,R)sp(4,R) Representation and its Subalgebras

The boson representation of the sp(4,R) algebra and two distinct deformations of it, are considered, as well as the compact and noncompact subalgebras of each. The initial as well as the deformed representations act in the same Fock space. One of the deformed representation is based on the standard q-deformation of the boson creation and annihilation operators. The subalgebras of sp(4,R) (compact u(2) and three representations of the noncompact u(1,1) are also deformed and are contained in this deformed algebra. They are reducible in the action spaces of sp(4,R) and decompose into irreducible representations. The other deformed representation, is realized by means of a transformation of the q-deformed bosons into q-tensors (spinor-like) with respect to the standard deformed su(2). All of its generators are deformed and have expressions in terms of tensor products of spinor-like operators. In this case, an other deformation of su(2) appears in a natural way as a subalgebra and can be interpreted as a deformation of the angular momentum algebra so(3). Its representation is reducible and decomposes into irreducible ones that yields a complete description of the same

EFFECT OF RESERPINE ON ERYTHROPOIETIN CONSUMPTION IN WHITE RATS

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THE INFLUENCE OF PRELIMINARY RESERPINIZATION ON THE CHANGES OF BLOOD CELLS' NUMBER AFTER ULTRASOUND APPLICATION IN ALBINO RATS. II. Investigation on the changes of leukocytes' number

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Growth rate effects in soft CoFe films

We report on growth rate effects in sputter-deposited CoFe films prepared using high target utilization sputtering technology (HiTUS). We find that the grain structure of these polycrystalline films is closely related to the growth rate. By changing the growth rate, samples were prepared with different grain structure, which in turn had the effect of changing the magnetic properties of the films. We demonstrate control of the coercivity, which varied by a factor of more than ten. This was achieved via grain size control in CoFe films of thickness 20 nm. Furthermore, by employing a two-step sputtering process, in which two extreme growth rates are used sequentially, we were able to tune the saturation magnetization

Bulgarian hospital reform and the new public management model. A change of role of state or a change of mind?

Nothing is simple in planning, financing, and delivering health care. Whatever changes in the system, it has both anticipated and unexpected consequences, which may be positive or negative. This makes reforming health care extremely challenging. Reforming the hospitals in Bulgaria is a difficult task, especially combined with the difficult transition process in all countries of Eastern Europe and the tendencies like growing costs of care, ageing of the population, higher levels of chronic disease and disability, increased availability of new treatments, rising public expectations, increased pressure to spend more on health care and use the available resources more efficiently. The present work uses the example of hospital change process started in newly accepted in EU European countries, particularly in Bulgaria, and proposes discussion about the potential of the New Public Management model as a mean of improvement the capacity of state to adopt the contractual approach of regulation. In conclusion, we stress that if the control by state was not the best solution, market regulation have also some limits so there could be a third way - the supervised competition a possible cure for the success of hospitals and health care reform in Bulgaria.Scripta Scientifica Medica 2013; 45(4): 20-30