A Citizen\u27s Guide to Protecting East Kingston\u27s Water Resources

East Kingston is fortunate to still have much of the rural charm that makes living in New Hampshire so special. The ability to take relaxing walks through beautiful natural areas just minutes from your back door is one of the reasons residents love this town. Many of these open natural areas in town are on conservation land and one small parcel is getting extra attention by the East Kingston Conservation Commission to make it even more accessible to residents

East Kingston Buffer Outreach, CTAP Program

Rockingham Planning Commission worked with the East Kingston Conservation Commission to identify buffer areas on the Pheasant Run conservation property, install buffer boundary markers and interpretive signage for entrances, buffers and wetlands on the Pheasant Run conservation property, develop and distribute brochures about the Pheasant Run conservation property, develop an outreach program about buffers at the East Kingston library, and develop a newspaper about protecting wetlands and water resources, including water quality protection measures, buffer planting and maintenance, functions and values of buffers, and wildlife and aquatic habitat

Buffer Projects in the Town of Wakefield and City of Somersworth

Participants in the Wakefield Buffer Project include SRPC staff, members of the Acton Wakefield Watershed Alliance (AWWA), local board and commission members, and the Wakefield Town Planner, Kathy Menici. AWWA members included: Linda Schier, Carol Lafond, Marge Kimball and Adam Soukimas. Town Staff included Joe Fluet (Planning board Chair) and Nancy Spencer Smith (Conservation Commission). The goals of AWWA are to educate and inform shoreland property owners about the harmful effects of erosion and uncontrolled stormwater runoff on water quality of its lakes and ponds. AWWA focuses their on- the-ground efforts to repair, restore and preserve healthy functioning buffers and to prevent erosion problems. This project addressed these goals by developing education and outreach materials for shoreland property owners in the communities of Wakefield, NH and Acton, ME. A Buffer Evaluation Form and Fact Sheet were developed for this purpose. Because of a change in direction for the project mid-year, SRPC staff intends to continue working with this group in January to refine the Buffer Evaluation Form and Fact Sheet to ensure that if meets the needs of AWWA. A final copy of these materials will be provided to NHEP when completed

The Parametric Transition of Strange Matter Rings to a Black Hole

It is shown numerically that strange matter rings permit a continuous transition to the extreme Kerr black hole. The multipoles as defined by Geroch and Hansen are studied and suggest a universal behaviour for bodies approaching the extreme Kerr solution parametrically. The appearance of a `throat region', a distinctive feature of the extreme Kerr spacetime, is observed. With regard to stability, we verify for a large class of rings, that a particle sitting on the surface of the ring never has enough energy to escape to infinity along a geodesic.Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures, v3: minor changes so as to coincide with published versio

Emerging trends in injuries in the underground coal sector: an analysis of Queensland data from 2006-2017

This paper analyses the Queensland Mines Inspectorate’s (QMI) Lost Time Injury (LTI) historical data set for underground coalmines. LTI data is reported to the QMI by mine operators on Form 5A. Data discussed includes: injury, body location, worksite location, occurrence class, mechanism of injury, and major equipment involved. Results are presented along with a discussion of contributing factors. Currently published analysis of these injuries only includes the number of injuries of each type. This analysis expands that information to include the severity of the injury (number of days lost and/or days on alternative duties) and the average days away for each type of incident. This analysis also includes cross-references of different data types such as injury types by body location. The analysis includes severity measures for different types of injuries related to the factors collected and drills down deeper into the data than is currently available in existing reports. The value in LTI data comes from analysing the types of incidents occurring and using that information to implement controls that prevents recurrence. This information can inform the Coal Mine Worker (CMW) of additional risks they may not have been aware of, previously the mining companies where controls have failed and the inspectorate where systemic issues are arising

Parametric Transition of Stationary and Axisymmetric Bodies to Black Holes

Diese Dissertation behandelt Lösungen stationärer und axialsymmetrischer Körper und ihren parametrischen Übergang zu Schwarzen Löchern. Numerische Lösungen von Flüssigkeiten im Gleichgewicht werden unter Annahme einer “strange quark matter”-Zustandsgleichung mit sehr hoher Genauigkeit berechnet. Verschiedene Sequenzen von Konfigurationen werden für sphäroidale und toroidale Körper untersucht, um die wesentlichen Eigenschaften dieser Familie von Objekten aus “strange matter” aufzuzeigen. Konfigurationen mit maximaler Masse und maximalem Drehimpuls wurden in der Nähe von - aber nicht an - der “mass-shedding”-Grenze gefunden. Außerdem zeigen wir, dass “strange matter”-Ringe einen kontinuierlichen Übergang zur extremen Kerr-Lösung erlauben. Multipolmomente wurden untersucht und deuten auf ein universelles Verhalten von Körpern hin, die sich parametrisch der extremen Kerr-Lösung annähern. Dann zeigen wir, im Hinblick auf die Stabilität, dass ein Testteilchen, das auf der Oberfläche des Ringes liegt, niemals genug Energie besitzt, um entlang einer Geodäten ins Unendliche zu gelangen. Ausgehend vom universellen Verhalten, welches die Multipolmomente andeuten, formulieren wir eine Vermutung bezüglich der parametrischen Annäherung gleichförmig rotierender Flüssigkeiten an die extreme Kerr-Lösung. Die gesamte Vermutung wird für die Staubscheibe gezeigt und allgemeiner für den Drehimpuls aller gleichförmig rotierenden Flüssigkeiten im Gleichgewicht anhand eines “thermodynamischen Gesetzes” beschrieben. Abschließend wird das Ernst-Potential der Staubscheibe in eine Taylor-Reihe in der Umgebung der extremen Kerr-Lösung entwickelt. Diese Reihe scheint überall auf der Achse zu konvergieren, ausgehend vom Grenzfall des Schwarzen Lochs bis hin zur Newton'schen Grenze der Scheibenlösung, außerhalb einer kleinen Region in der Nähe der Scheibe. Die benutzte Methode erlaubt es sehr effizient, die Reihe in beliebiger Ordnung zu entwickeln.This thesis deals with solutions of stationary and axisymmetric relativistic bodies and their parametric transition to black holes. Highly accurate numerical solutions were produced for perfect fluids in equilibrium made of strange quark matter. Several sequences of configurations, including spheroidal bodies and rings, were produced to sketch the main features of the family of strange matter bodies. The maximal mass and maximal angular momentum configurations were found close to but not at the mass-shedding limit, contrary to what was believed. We also show numerically that strange matter rings permit a continuous transition to the extreme Kerr black hole. The multipoles as defined by Geroch and Hansen are studied and suggest a universal behaviour for bodies approaching the extreme Kerr solution parametrically. We discuss the appearence of a “throat geometry”, a distinctive feature of the extreme Kerr spacetime. Then we verify, with regard to stability, that a particle sitting on the surface of the ring never has enough energy to escape to infinity along a geodesic. From the universal behaviour suggested by the multipoles, we formulate a conjecture related to the parametrical approach of uniformly rotating fluids to the extreme Kerr black hole. The conjecture is explained for one multipole (the angular momentum) using a “law of thermodynamics” valid for all uniformly rotating bodies in equilibrium.The same conjecture is then proved in its entirety for the disk of dust. Finally, the Ernst potential on the axis of the disk of dust is expanded in a Taylor series anchored at the extreme Kerr black hole limit. This series seems to converge everywhere on the axis, from the black hole limit to the Newtonian limit of the disk solution, except for a tiny region near the disk. The method used allows us to generate the series efficiently to arbitrarily high orders

Structural and Functional Characterization of the Activator of G-protein Signaling 3 (AGS3)

AGS3 (Activator of G-protein Signaling 3) was isolated in yeast-based functional screen for receptor-independent activators of heterotrimeric G-proteins. To examine the role of AGS3 in mammalian signal processing, we defined the AGS3 sub domains involved in G-protein interaction, its selectivity for G-proteins and its influence on the activation state of G-protein. AGS3 co-immunoprecipitated with Gia3 from tissue lysates in a nucleotide dependent manner (GDP»GTPγS). The regions of AGS3 that bound Giα were localized to 4 thirty amino acid repeats (GPR - G-protein regulatory motif) in the carboxyl terminus (P463-S650), each of which were capable of binding Giα. AGS3-GPR domains selectively interacted with Giα in tissue lysates and with purified Giα/Gtα. The GPR domain of AGS3 containing four GPR motifs simultaneously bound more than one Giα. The AGS3-GPR domains competed with Gβy for binding to GtαGDP and blocked GTPγS binding to Giα. When added to reconstituted receptor/Gprotein complex, AGS3-GPR disrupted the high affinity state of the receptor. From N-terminus to C-terminus, AGS3 contains a region of seven Tetratricopeptide repeats (TPRs), a one hundred amino acid linker region and the GPR domain. Using the TPR and linker region as bait, screening a mouse II-day old embryonic library using the yeast two-hybrid method yielded the C-terminal 107 aminoacids (D330-Q436) of a serine/theronine kinase, S/TKII. A GST-S/TKII (D330-Q436) fusion protein interacted with AGS3 from rat brain lysate. Gα subunits were also detected in this complex in a nucleotide dependent manner. To uncover the role of AGS3 in the intact organism we analyzed the function and expression profile of the AGS3 homolog in Caenorhabditus elegans. The pattern of LacZ staining indicated a strictly neuronal expression pattern for AGS3-CE. The expression in sub-adults appeared more widespread compared to that in adults. Using double stranded RNA corresponding to the coding region of the predicted AGS3-CE we performed RNA interference (RNAi). Injection of double stranded RNA into sub-adult worms generated a phenotype with nearly 85% penetrance. Offspring of dsRNA injected worms arrested in an early stage of embryogenesis

The Economic Loss Doctrine & Data Breach Litigation: Applying the “Venerable Chestnut of Tort Law” in the Age of the Internet

Data controllers and processors are increasingly finding themselves the targets of hackers who steal the personal identifiable information (PII) stored in their systems and sell it on the dark web. Data subjects, whose PII is exposed in a data breach, routinely have been turning to data breach litigation as a means of compensation for the damages that they suffer. Routinely, plaintiffs have pleaded negligence causes of action against data controllers or processors. A plaintiff’s ability to overcome procedural hurdles, not the merits of their case, often dictates the success or failure of these tort claims. One prominent hurdle is the economic loss doctrine (ELD), a rule that restricts tort recovery for purely economic damages. The ELD is a ubiquitous doctrine with a variety of applications and paradigms in tort law. Data breach litigation, however, does not implicate the doctrine’s policy goals of promoting private ordering and preventing unlimited and unforeseeable liability. Instead, this Note argues that the ELD in data breach litigation should be more pliable and include a special relationship test that the plaintiffs are presumed to satisfy

Climate Change in Southern New Hampshire: Past, Present and Future

EARTH’S CLIMATE CHANGES. It always has and always will. However, an extensive and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that human activities—including the burning of fossil fuel (coal, oil, and natural gas) for energy, clearing of forested lands for agriculture, and raising livestock—are now the primary force driving change in the Earth’s climate system. This report describes how the climate of southern New Hampshire has changed over the past century and how the future climate of the region will be affected by a warmer planet due to human activities