Identifying Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure Characteristics and Incentives for EV Adoption by Yellow Cab Columbus

Course Code: ENR/AEDECON 4567This report seeks to assist SMART Columbus with its goal of increasing the use of electric vehicles (EV) among transportation service providers in Columbus by survey of Yellow Cab Columbus taxi drivers. This report suggests Yellow Cab move forward with their plans to integrate EVs into their fleet. It also suggests possible locations for EV chargers based off of opinions from drivers and analysis of trip destination frequency from a heat map provided by NREL. A cost-benefit analysis for a current, petroleum vehicle used by Yellow Cab and an EV was performed, and the cost benefits of the latter prove to be greater after three years. Overall, this report provides SMART Columbus and Yellow Cab Columbus with both recommendations for charging infrastructure and a general idea of barriers to EV adoption identified by Yellow Cab drivers.Academic Major: Environment, Economy, Development, and SustainabilityAcademic Major: Fashion and Retail Studie

‘We've come from the gutter, we're going back to the gutter': an exploratory study of healthcare conditions in Pollsmoor prison

In recent years, public discourse on South African prison healthcare has highlighted a significant gap in contemporary research. While existing literature have laid a foundational understanding, there remains a lack of empirical studies addressing the changing healthcare dynamics within these institutions. Prisons, often veiled from public scrutiny, present unique challenges in understanding the actual healthcare conditions without direct investigation. This study aims to fill this gap by focusing on healthcare at Pollsmoor Medium B, a unit of the well-known Pollsmoor Correctional Centre. It focuses on identifying the specific barriers inmates face in accessing healthcare services within this facility. Through extensive thematic analysis of qualitative data collected through interviews and document reviews, the research uncovers that the healthcare provisions at Pollsmoor Medium B are markedly substandard, failing to meet both national and international human rights norms. While it is unclear whether these conditions are uniformly prevalent across all prison units, the findings indicate systemic issues with management and healthcare service delivery. The study concludes with a strong recommendation for thorough reforms to ensure the health rights of inmates are protected and upheld

A History of the Italian and German Prisoner of War Camps in Utah and Idaho During World War II

The United States offered an idal situation for prisoner of war camps during World War II. The remoteness of the states of Utah and Idaho offered also an ideal situation to intern prisoners. The United States established 141 base camps and 313 branch camps. Out of this number, Utah and Idaho represented a total number of nine base and twenty-one branch camps. Utah and Idaho had under their supervision approximately 11,660 or 3.6% of the prisoners in the base camps. The Utah and Idaho camps were under supervision of the United states War Department. Their basic source for the administration came from the written provisions within the International Red Cross Geneva Convention of 1929

Radial Velocity Offsets Due to Mass Outflows and Extinction in Active Galactic Nuclei

We present a study of the radial velocity offsets between narrow emission lines and host galaxy lines (stellar absorption and H I 21-cm emission) in Seyfert galaxies with observed redshifts less than 0.043. We find that 35% of the Seyferts in the sample show [O III] emission lines with blueshifts with respect to their host galaxies exceeding 50 km/s, whereas only 6% show redshifts this large, in qualitative agreement with most previous studies. We also find that a greater percentage of Seyfert 1 galaxies show blueshifts than Seyfert 2 galaxies. Using HST/STIS spatially-resolved spectra of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 and the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151, we generate geometric models of their narrow-line regions (NLRs) and inner galactic disks, and show how these models can explain the blueshifted [O III] emission lines in collapsed STIS spectra of these two Seyferts. We conclude that the combination of mass outflow of ionized gas in the NLR and extinction by dust in the inner disk (primarily in the form of dust spirals) is primarily responsible for the velocity offsets in Seyfert galaxies. More exotic explanations are not needed. We discuss the implications of this result for the velocity offsets found in higher redshift AGN.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journa

Managing and measuring social impact through integrated thinking and reporting: the case of a European university

Contemporary organizations face the critical need to identify valuable accounting and reporting practices that represent and communicate their impacts on the environment and on society. However, no widely accepted scientific approach to impact measurement exists, and the relationship between organizational impacts and the resources (capitals) used throughout the value creation process is unclear. This chapter illustrates the design of an impact assessment tool in a public organization. The chapter draws upon the experience of a European university to show the potential of combining Integrated Thinking and Reporting with two widely used impact assessment tools (the Social Return on Investment and the Total Impact Measurement Model) to better understand and assess organizations’ impacts according to the different capitals exploited to create value for stakeholders

Managing and measuring social impact through integrated thinking and reporting: the case of a European university

Contemporary organizations face the critical need to identify valuable accounting and reporting practices that represent and communicate their impacts on the environment and on society. However, no widely accepted scientific approach to impact measurement exists, and the relationship between organizational impacts and the resources (capitals) used throughout the value creation process is unclear. This chapter illustrates the design of an impact assessment tool in a public organization. The chapter draws upon the experience of a European university to show the potential of combining Integrated Thinking and Reporting with two widely used impact assessment tools (the Social Return on Investment and the Total Impact Measurement Model) to better understand and assess organizations’ impacts according to the different capitals exploited to create value for stakeholders