Futureland Now

Futureland Now is a contemporary landscape project culminating in an exhibition and publication which builds and reflects upon an earlier exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1989. The original Futureland exhibition set out to engage with and to reflect key issues and concerns current within the contemporary Britain of the 1980s. The use of large-scale colour canvasses together with the use of texts provided a challenging and innovative new format which contributed to a re-evaluation of the aesthetics of contemporary fine art photography. The impact of this development and the accessibility of the medium ensured that the exhibition engaged a broad public audience and was influential in a broad historical context. Futureland Now provides a context in which to revisit the original exhibition and to reflect upon its legacy. The project contains key (reworked) images from the original exhibition together with relevant developmental material made by both artists in the interim period together with new works. In all cases the works can be said to explore and to reflect many of the original concerns made apparent in the original exhibition. Futureland Now is project located in the North of England but its scope and meanings lay far beyond. The landscape subjects in this work address contemporary issues of culture and society and reflect an economic context that continues to define us as a late capitalist culture in crisis. Much of the rhetoric framing the exhibition links the aesthetic imperatives of the work with earlier artists such as John Martin in their exploration of the industrial and cultural sublime. These issues are further explored in the eponymous publication, published by University of Plymouth Press

A geometric approach to scalar field theories on the supersphere

Following a strictly geometric approach we construct globally supersymmetric scalar field theories on the supersphere, defined as the quotient space $S^{2|2} = UOSp(1|2)/\mathcal{U}(1)$. We analyze the superspace geometry of the supersphere, in particular deriving the invariant vielbein and spin connection from a generalization of the left-invariant Maurer-Cartan form for Lie groups. Using this information we proceed to construct a superscalar field action on $S^{2|2}$, which can be decomposed in terms of the component fields, yielding a supersymmetric action on the ordinary two-sphere. We are able to derive Lagrange equations and Noether's theorem for the superscalar field itself.Comment: 38 pages, 1 figur

Academic Libraries and Non-Academic Departments: A Survey and Case Studies on Liaising Outside the Box

Partnering with non-academic departments allows academic libraries to create new programming ideas and reach more students. According to the results of a national survey, academic librarians at institutions of all sizes are partnering with many different types of non-academic departments. These partnerships offer efficiencies through shared cost and staffing and offer additional benefits to all groups involved. This article identifies the non-academic departments that these libraries are partnering with, highlights potential events to raise awareness of services, and describes ways in which these partnerships help engage with students

Super coset space geometry

Super coset spaces play an important role in the formulation of supersymmetric theories. The aim of this paper is to review and discuss the geometry of super coset spaces with particular focus on the way the geometrical structures of the super coset space G/H are inherited from the super Lie group G. The isometries of the super coset space are discussed and a definition of Killing supervectors - the supervectors associated with infinitesimal isometries - is given that can be easily extended to spaces other than coset spaces.Comment: 49 pages, 1 figure, AFK previously published under the name A. F. Schunc

Farms, fields and mines: an historic landscape analysis of Calstock parish

This report presents a characterisation of the ‘historic landscape’ – the present pattern of fields, roads, settlements and land-uses – in the parish of Calstock, in the Tamar Valley, Cornwall (Figure 1). The characterisation is based upon the Ordnance Survey First Edition Six Inch to One Mile maps of 1889, with additional data from earlier cartographic sources including the Tithe Map and Apportionment of 1839. The morphology of the landscape is described, along with data on when settlements are first documented, and the patterns of land-ownership and land-occupancy that they are associated with. A total of twelve historic landscape types are identified that range from ‘Late Enclosure’, that represents the enclosure of extensive former common pasture on the higher ground, through to ‘Strip-Based Fields’ that are derived from medieval open fields that were probably created by the time of the Domesday survey in 1086.Heritage Lottery Fun

The Living Past: the origins and development of the historic landscape of the Blackdown Hills - Phase 1: archive report

This report represents the archive for The Living Past: the origins and development of the historic landscape of the Blackdown Hills Project, which covered the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the borders of Devon and Somerset (Figures 1-4).It is intended to act as a record of the work carried out, rather than being a free-standing report, and as such is designed to complement the Summary Report. It contains a detailed description of the sources and methodologies used, an indepth commentary on each of the historic landscape character types, and a discussion of the other pieces of analysis carried out

PERFORMANCE RELATED TECHNIQUE FACTORS IN OLYMPIC SPRINT KAYAKING

A sprint kayaking specific deterministic model was used to identify key performance related technique factors using data from 12 international-level kayakers. There was large variability in the strength of the between-factor relationships across the group. The pull phase was split into 3 components with the 1st phase contributing the most to increases in boat velocity and the 3rd phase causing a decrease in velocity. The propulsive impulse had the largest influence on velocity, but the magnitude of the impact was moderated by blade slip. Large propulsive impulses in the 3rd phase of the pull were associated with larger decreases in velocity. The results show that the model can be used to identify key technique factors on an individual level, although the use of the model should be confirmed on additional kayakers before being used in an applied setting by practitioners

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Wainwright provided a brief outline of some of the sustained influences and concerns that have shaped the direction of his work over the past 40 years and provide a more detailed insight into recent work that focuses on environmental issues. In particular this concentrated on projects undertaken in Japan and the Far East as well as the High Arctic region. These and related concerns for the relationship of art practice to some aspects of science were explored through a conversation with Quentin Cooper

KINEMATICS OF WOMEN'S SPRINT CANOEING TECHNIQUE

Little is known about the biomechanics of sprint canoeing, especially for women's canoeing, and a quantitative kinematic description of the motion would help coaches to develop valid technique coaching models. Five highly-trained female canoeists were filmed at 150 Hz while undertaking a 50 s maximal effort on a canoe ergometer, whose trolley motions were taken to represent those of the boat. Selected boat, body and paddle kinematics were evaluated at three key stroke cyde events (Contact, Paddle Vertical, and End of Drive) and their patterns monitored across the stroke cycle. While no clear trends between the kinematics and power output emerged, a range of strategies were identified and the data represent an initial step in the construction of detailed technique models that can be used to evaluate and monitor individual athletes

Farming regions in medieval England: the archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence

© Society for Medieval Archaeology 2014. Accepted version deposited in accordance with SHERPA RoMEO guidelines. The definitive version is available at http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/0076609714Z.00000000036Regional variation in landscape character has in the past been studied by archaeologists in terms of its physical manifestations such as different settlement patterns and field systems. Local and regional distinctiveness in landscape character also results from how rural communities practised different agricultural regimes, and historians have long recognised the extent to which these varied across the country. Archaeologists, in contrast, have compared the animal bones and cereal remains from sites of different socio-economic status, but have not previously focused on the extent to which they vary across different geologies. This paper therefore presents an analysis of the animal bones of the three main domesticates (cattle, sheep/goat and pig), and the charred grains of the four main cereal crops (bread wheat, barley, oats and rye), across a series of different surface geologies within a study area extending from East Anglia down to the South-West Peninsula. It shows that, first, patterns of animal husbandry and cereal cultivation varied considerably across different surface geologies; secondly that, while farming practices do appear to have been influenced by surface geologies, they were also affected by cultural factors, particularly as human communities responded to the opportunities of a growing market economy; and thirdly that, while archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological patterns evident in the mid-11th–mid-14th centuries conform with what documentary sources tell us, the particular importance of this archaeological dataset is that it allows us to reconstruct farming regimes back into the undocumented early medieval (and indeed earlier) periods.Leverhulme Trus