Moving Ahead: Factors contributing to successful transition of people with intellectual disabilities from congregated to community-based residential options in two regions in Ireland

This report details the findings of a research project entitled Moving Ahead. The project aimed to examine factors that contribute to the successful transfer of people with intellectual disabilities from congregated to community-based living in two regional areas in Ireland. It was undertaken by a team of researchers from Ireland and the UK, led by Dr. Christine Lineha

Mapping the National Disability Policy Landscape

This report was undertaken as part of the Moving Ahead project, a research study that aimed to examine the role of factors that contribute to the successful transfer of residents with intellectual disabilities from congregated to community-based living arrangements in two regional areas in Ireland. The study was undertaken by a team of researchers from Ireland and the UK, led by Trinity College Dublin

Living Arrangement Options for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review

This is one of a pair of reports prepared for the Moving Ahead Project. Its partner policy review, Mapping the National Intellectual Disability Landscape (Linehan et al., 2014), outlines current disability services, practices and policies in Ireland. This rapid scoping review provides a brief overview of national and international research exploring living arrangement options for people with intellectual disabilities

Characterization of Ceramic Matrix Composite Vane Subelements Subjected to Rig Testing in a Gas Turbine Environment

Vane subelements were fabricated from a silicon carbide fiber-reinforced silicon carbide matrix (SiC/SiC) composite. A cross-sectional slice of an aircraft engine metal vane was the basis of the vane subelement geometry. To fabricate the small radius of the vane's trailing edge using stiff Sylramic SiC fibers, a unique SiC fiber architecture was developed. A test configuration for the vanes in a high pressure gas turbine environment was designed and fabricated. Testing was conducted using a pressure of 6 atm and combustion flow rate of 0.5 kg/sec, and consisted of fifty hours of steady state operation followed by 102 2-minute thermal cycles. A surface temperature of 1320 C was obtained for the EBC-coated SiC/SiC vane subelement. This paper will briefly discuss the vane fabrication, test configuration, and results of the vane testing. The emphasis of the paper is on characterization of the post-test condition of the vanes

InAsSb-based nBn photodetectors:lattice mismatched growth on GaAs and low-frequency noise performance

An InAsSb nBn detector structure was grown on both GaAs and native GaSb substrates. Temperature dependent dark current, spectral response, specific detectivity (D*) and noise spectral density measurements were then carried out. Shot-noise-limited D*figures of 1.2 10 Jones × 10 and 3.0 10 Jones × 10 were calculated (based upon the sum of dark current and background photocurrent) for the sample grown on GaAs and the sample grown on GaSb, respectively, at 200 K. Noise spectral density measurements revealed knee frequencies of between 124–337 Hz and ∼8 Hz, respectively. Significantly, these devices could support focal plane arrays capable of operating under thermoelectric cooling

The Australian Space Eye: studying the history of galaxy formation with a CubeSat

The Australian Space Eye is a proposed astronomical telescope based on a 6U CubeSat platform. The Space Eye will exploit the low level of systematic errors achievable with a small space based telescope to enable high accuracy measurements of the optical extragalactic background light and low surface brightness emission around nearby galaxies. This project is also a demonstrator for several technologies with general applicability to astronomical observations from nanosatellites. Space Eye is based around a 90 mm aperture clear aperture all refractive telescope for broadband wide field imaging in the i and z bands.Comment: 19 pages, 14 figures, submitted for publication as Proc. SPIE 9904, 9904-56 (SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2016

The Permian Geology, Physiography and Landscape Evolution of Northeastern Victoria

Northeast Victorian diamictites (tillites) and interstratified traction deposits (fluvioglacials), now mapped in detail and interpreted as glacial, contain: uni- and multidirectionally striated clasts; striated clasts with environmentally diagnostic shapes (wedges and bullets); and occasionally striated fossiliferous (Siluro-Devonian faunal assemblages) and non-fossiliferous erratics. The sequences represent proximal sedimentation associated with a wasting ice-front, south of the Wangaratta area. Associated with these sediments are seven pavement surfaces, recognised as glacial (one - a miniature roche moutonnee) and indicating ice-movement from south to north. Petrographic data show derivation of non-fossiliferous erratics from local and distant source terrains south of the study area. Palaeontological data show derivation of the exotic fossiliferous erratics from beyond the present southern margin of the Australian craton. Local preservation and general distribution of glacial deposits reflects original Permian topography rather than subsequent graben tectonics. There is no geological evidence for an Ovens Graben. The present landscape reflects tilt-block tectonics similar in structural pattern to that developed across the north of the state, and is in part at least a preserved Permian feature. The radiometric age of basalt in Glenrowan Gap (on the western side of the Ovens tilt-block) demonstrates the Gap's existence before 36 Ma. Glacials suggest a relict Permian ice-spill path to the NW

Eleven New Heavily Reddened Field Wolf–Rayet Stars

We report the results of a medium-narrowband 2 μm line survey covering 5.8 deg^2 near the Galactic plane. We confirm 11 new field Wolf-Rayet stars along three lines of sight probing the inner Galaxy, demonstrating the capability to uncover distant and highly reddened populations of Galactic wind-borne emission-line stars suffering extinction as high as A_V ~ 40 and as distant as 9 kpc down to modest magnitude limits of K_s ~ 12.5. All stars are of subtype WC7-8, with median distance d = 6 kpc and median extinction A_(Ks) = 2.5. Over the fields surveyed, the density of Wolf-Rayet stars to limiting magnitude K_s ~ 12.5 was found to be 1.9 deg^(–2). We compare this to models which predict their distribution within the Galaxy and find that, even neglecting survey and subtype incompleteness, they consistently underpredict the number of newly discovered stars along the surveyed lines of sight