Changing recycling behaviour: an evaluation of attitudes and behaviour to recycling in the Western Riverside area of London

Key to improving recycling performance in the UK is the need to more effectively engage the public and improve levels of participation. The research described in this paper combines quantitative and qualitative analysis of attitudinal and behavioural changes as part of an evaluation project to measure the impact of a multi-faceted waste awareness and education campaign in the Western Riverside Waste Authority area of central London. Analysis links attitudinal and behavioural responses to infrastructure provision and performance indicators for each area surveyed, as well as socio-demographic indicators. This paper presents the results and analysis of the attitudes, motivations and behaviours of a representative profile of households from this area of central London, in an attempt to better understand how behavioural change can be achieved and recycling targets met

Developing Integrated Waste Management Systems: Information Needs and the Role of Locally Based Data

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Design and Analysis Tools for Supersonic Inlets

Computational tools are being developed for the design and analysis of supersonic inlets. The objective is to update existing tools and provide design and low-order aerodynamic analysis capability for advanced inlet concepts. The Inlet Tools effort includes aspects of creating an electronic database of inlet design information, a document describing inlet design and analysis methods, a geometry model for describing the shape of inlets, and computer tools that implement the geometry model and methods. The geometry model has a set of basic inlet shapes that include pitot, two-dimensional, axisymmetric, and stream-traced inlet shapes. The inlet model divides the inlet flow field into parts that facilitate the design and analysis methods. The inlet geometry model constructs the inlet surfaces through the generation and transformation of planar entities based on key inlet design factors. Future efforts will focus on developing the inlet geometry model, the inlet design and analysis methods, a Fortran 95 code to implement the model and methods. Other computational platforms, such as Java, will also be explored

Thomas Slater to General Jacob Morris, October 3, 1828

Thomas Slater wrote from Lebanon, NY to Jacob Morris, addressed to Butternutts, Ostego County, NY to inform him of the death of Peter Kean, his son-in-law, the day before. Attached to this letter is another one dated May 25, 1931 it is addressed to Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt, Peter\u27s granddaughter, from J.C. Pearson. Pearson had sent her the previous letter and offered to sell it to her for $2. People Included: Peter Philip James Kean, Sarah Sabina Kean, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Palmerhttps://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1820s/1011/thumbnail.jp

EVALUATION OF THE 2006/7 AGRICULTURAL INPUT SUBSIDY PROGRAMME, MALAWI. FINAL REPORT

This report evaluates the 2006/7 Malawi Government Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme (AISP). The main objective of the evaluation is to assess the impact and implementation of the AISP in order to provide lessons for future interventions in growth and social protection. The evaluation combined qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis. Quantitative data were collected through a national survey in 2007 of 2,491 households who were previously interviewed in the 2004/05 Integrated Household Survey, a survey of retail shops selling inputs in six districts and data on stocks and sales from manufacturers, large-scale importers and dealers of fertilizers and seeds. The quantitative data was triangulated by qualitative data from focus group discussions with smallholder farmers in 12 districts, and key informant interviews with government staff, input distributors and beneficiary and non-beneficiary households. The analysis is based on descriptive statistics, econometric modelling and livelihood and rural economy modelling. An Interim Report in March 2007 provides fuller details of the implementation of the programme.Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Food Security and Poverty, Productivity Analysis,

Mapping Ice Sheet Elevation and Elevation Change Using CryoSat-2 Radar Altimetry

In this thesis I develop novel methods and datasets, based on the processing of CryoSat-2 satellite radar altimeter data, to improve the understanding of retrieving measurements of surface elevation and elevation change over the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. First, I used 6 years of CryoSat-2 altimetry to create a model of the surface height of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and ice shelves. Posted at a resolution of 1 km, 94 % of the grounded ice sheet and 98 % of the floating ice shelves are observed, and the remaining grid cells North of 88 ° S are interpolated using ordinary kriging. Taking into account slope-dependent errors and the distribution of slopes across the ice sheet, I estimated the average accuracy of the DEM to be 9.5 m - a value that is comparable to, or better than that of other models derived from satellite radar and laser altimetry. Next, I developed a new technique to retrieve estimates of the depth distribution of radar backscatter from CryoSat-2 altimeter waveforms using a backscatter model. I then applied this model to chart spatial and temporal variatibility in radar backscatter and, for the first time, explicitly estimate radar penetration depth across the interior of the Greenland Ice Sheet. I then used this information to correct for artefacts in elevation trends derived from Cryosat-2 pulse-limited altimetry resulting from an episodic melt event which reset the radar scattering horizon. Incorporating the penetration depth into the surface height retrieval, I find improved agreement when compared to independent airborne laser altimeter data recorded over the same time period. Finally, I used CryoSat-2 altimetry to estimate seasonal elevation changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet. Using regional climate model simulations of height fluctuations due to surface process alone, I demonstrate that CryoSat-2 observations track elevation changes driven by melting and snowfall accumulation in the ice sheet ablation zone. I then mapped spatial and temporal variations in seasonal elevation change, demonstrating the ability of CryoSat-2 to monitor changes in Greenland which arise due to its meteorology

Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) and suicidality

Suicide amongst young people is a major area of preventable deaths and a matter of great international concern (WHO, 2014). The multifaceted nature of suicide has given rise to an expansive field of enquiry that has sought to explore a multitude of risk factors associated with suicide. Amongst these various studies we find that Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) has been linked to suicide, parasuicide and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) . In this chapter the link between Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) and suicidality is discussed

Structure and magnetic properties of the cubic oxide fluoride BaFeO2F

Fluorination of the parent oxide, BaFeO3- δ, with polyvinylidine fluoride gives rise to a cubic compound with a = 4.0603(4) Å at 298K. 57Fe Mössbauer spectra confirmed that all the iron is present as Fe3+. Neutron diffraction data showed complete occupancy of the anion sites indicating a composition BaFeO2F, with a large displacement of the iron off-site. The magnetic ordering temperature was determined as TN = 645±5K. Neutron diffraction data at 4.2K established G-type antiferromagnetism with a magnetic moment per Fe3+ ion of 3.95μB. However, magnetisation measurements indicated the presence of a weak ferromagnetic moment which is assigned to the canting of the antiferromagnetic structure. 57Fe Mössbauer spectra in the temperature range 10 to 300K were fitted with a model of fluoride ion distribution that retains charge neutrality of the perovskite unit cel