Some recent results in aerospace vehicle trajectory optimization techniques

Algorithms and computation techniques for solving trajectory optimization problem

Holidaying with the family pet: No dogs allowed!

This paper assesses the extent to which dog owners located in Brisbane, Australia, wish to holiday with their pets, and whether there is a gap between this desire and reality. The paper also examines the extent to which this demand is being catered for by the tourism accommodation sector. The need for this study reflects the increasingly significant role dogs are playing in the lives of humans, and the scale of the dog-owning population. The results suggest that, although there is a strong desire among dog owners to take holidays with their pets, the actualisation of this desire is comparatively low. A significant obstacle to the realisation of this desire appears to be a dearth of pet-friendly accommodation. This has implications for the ability of the tourism industry to benefit from this potentially lucrative market, that is, the dog-owning population

Giant Magnetic Moments of Nitrogen Stabilized Mn Clusters and Their Relevance to Ferromagnetism in Mn Doped GaN

Using first principles calculations based on density functional theory, we show that the stability and magnetic properties of small Mn clusters can be fundamentally altered by the presence of nitrogen. Not only are their binding energies substantially enhanced, but also the coupling between the magnetic moments at Mn sites remains ferromagnetic irrespective of their size or shape. In addition, these nitrogen stabilized Mn clusters carry giant magnetic moments ranging from 4 Bohr magnetons in MnN to 22 Bohr magnetons in Mn_5N. It is suggested that the giant magnetic moments of Mn_xN clusters may play a key role in the ferromagnetism of Mn doped GaN which exhibit a wide range (10K - 940K) of Curie temperatures

Who Do We Reach? Campaign Evaluation of Find Thirty every day® Using Awareness Profiles in a Western Australian Cohort

Mass media campaigns are part of a comprehensive, population-based approach to communicate physical activity behavior change. Campaign awareness is the most frequently reported, short-term comparable measure of campaign effectiveness. Most mass media campaigns report those who were aware with those who are unaware of campaigns. Few campaigns follow awareness in the same respondent, over time, during a mass media campaign to track different patterns of awareness or awareness profiles—“never,” “early,” “late,” or “always”—that may emerge. Using awareness profiles, the authors (a) address any demographic differences between groups and (b) assess changes in physical activity. Find Thirty every day® was a populationwide mass media campaign delivered in Western Australia. The cohort comprised 405 participants, who completed periodic telephone interviews over 2 years. Almost one third (30.4%) were “never aware” of the campaign. More than one third recalled the campaign at one or more time points—“early aware.” Ten percent became aware at Time 2 and stayed aware of the campaign across the remaining time. Examining within and across the awareness profiles, only gender was significant. This article provides an approach to profiling awareness, whereby people cycle in and out and few people are “always aware” over a 2-year period. It presents possible implications and considerations for future campaign planners interested in establishing and maintaining campaign awareness with adult populations

The employee as 'Dish of the Day’:human resource management and the ethics of consumption

This article examines the ethical implications of the growing integration of consumption into the heart of the employment relationship. Human resource management (HRM) practices increasingly draw upon the values and practices of consumption, constructing employees as the ‘consumers’ of ‘cafeteria-style’ benefits and development opportunities. However, at the same time employees are expected to market themselves as items to be consumed on a corporate menu. In relation to this simultaneous position of consumer/consumed, the employee is expected to actively engage in the commodification of themselves, performing an appropriate organizational identity as a necessary part of being a successful employee. This article argues that the relationship between HRM and the simultaneously consuming/consumed employee affects the conditions of possibility for ethical relations within organizational life. It is argued that the underlying ‘ethos’ for the integration of consumption values into HRM practices encourages a self-reflecting, self-absorbed subject, drawing upon a narrow view of individualised autonomy and choice. Referring to Levinas’ perspective that the primary ethical relation is that of responsibility and openness to the Other, it is concluded that these HRM practices affect the possibility for ethical being

Educación y ambigüedades de la au tonomización: hacia una pedagogía crítica de la promoción del individuo autónomo

O presente artigo, confrontando a educação com o desiderato da autonomização, pretende analisar as ambiguidades a que esse confronto dá hoje origem e estabelecer, mediante a explicitação de uma conceção contra-hegemónica de autonomização, as bases e as coordenadas de uma pedagogia crítica da promoção do indivíduo autónomo, que seja simultaneamente humanista, emancipadora e transformadora tanto da realidade do sujeito quanto da realidade do contexto. A estrutura narrativa, em consonância com esse amplo propósito, articula as seguintes dimensões: a educação e a normatividade da autonomização; as ambiguidades da autonomização: sentidos divergentes de fazer educação para a autonomia; e, por fim, o empowerment emancipatório e transformador: vetor da educação enquanto autonomização contra-hegemónica. A conclusão aponta as linhas diretoras da construção de uma pedagogia crítica do indivíduo autónomo, assumida nas vertentes de emancipação individual e transformação social.This paper confronts education with the desideratum of autonomization and it intends to analyze the ambiguities that this confrontation leads and establishes, through the explanation of a counter-hegemonic conception of autonomization. The foundations and the coordinates of a critical pedagogy for the promotion of the autonomous individual that is humanistic, emancipator and transformative, both the reality of the subject and the reality of the context. The narrative structure, in line with that broad purpose, articulates the following dimensions: education and the normativeness of autonomization; the ambiguities of autonomization: divergent ways of making education for autonomy; the transformative and emancipatory empowerment; vector of education as counter-hegemonic autonomization. The conclusion points out the principal lines of the construction of a critical pedagogy of the autonomous individual taken in the areas of individual emancipation and social transformation.Este artículo, enfrentando la educación con el desideratumde la autonomización, pretende analizar las ambigüedades que surgen de dicha confrontación y establecer, mediante la explicitación de una concepción contrahegemónica de la autonomización, las bases y las líneas de una pedagogía crítica y al mismo tiempo humanista, emancipadora y transformadora (tanto de la realidad del sujeto como de la realidad del contexto) de la promoción del individuo autónomoLa estructura narrativa, en línea con dicho propósito, articula las siguientes dimensiones: la educación y la normatividad de la autonomización; las ambigüedades de la autonomización: diferentes sentidos de hacer educación para la autonomía y, por fin, el empoderamiento emancipador y transformador, vector de la educación como autonomización contrahegemónica. La conclusión señala las líneas maestras de la construcción de una pedagogía crítica del individuo autónomo en las vertientes de emancipación individual y transformación social.(undefined

Applied Meteorology Unit (AMU) Quarterly Report Second Quarter FY-15

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Third World gap year projects: Youth transitions and the mediation of risk

This is the post-print version of the final published article. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 Pion.In recent years in the UK there has been a great expansion in the number of young people travelling to Third World countries between school and university in order to participate as volunteers on structured gap year projects. Travel to such places is commonly perceived as ‘risky’, and takes young people outside the protective cocoon of UK health and safety legislation. One of the functions played by the providers of gap year projects is to mediate risk. On the basis of analysis of promotional literature, interviews with organisers of gap year projects, and focus groups of returned volunteers, in this paper I argue that the various strategies of risk mediation undertaken by gap year providers serve to reconcile modernising tendencies in UK society toward risk control and structure with postmodern inclinations towards individualisation and uncertainty

Beyond capitalism and liberal democracy: on the relevance of GDH Cole’s sociological critique and alternative

This article argues for a return to the social thought of the often ignored early 20th-century English thinker GDH Cole. The authors contend that Cole combined a sociological critique of capitalism and liberal democracy with a well-developed alternative in his work on guild socialism bearing particular relevance to advanced capitalist societies. Both of these, with their focus on the limitations on ‘free communal service’ in associations and the inability of capitalism to yield emancipation in either production or consumption, are relevant to social theorists looking to understand, critique and contribute to the subversion of neoliberalism. Therefore, the authors suggest that Cole’s associational sociology, and the invitation it provides to think of formations beyond capitalism and liberal democracy, is a timely and valuable resource which should be returned to