A Detailed Projection of the Irish Economy to 1970. ESRI Memorandum Series No. 35 1966(?)

The fundamental principle of the study is that better forecasts can be made of coefficients and flows in the economic system by direct methods than by mechanical projection. By direct methods we mean the enlistment of expert and technical advice for the compilation of specific estimates. In each sector of economic activity there exist sources of information, either published in the form of trade association memoranda, consultants' reports, technical journals, etc. or unpublished, in the notes of businessmen, which remain largely untapped. These sources can provide not only estimates of particular parameters, but also the background information essential to investigate the variance of any parameter

The Scottish economy [May 1982]

The Scottish economy is taking the first tentative steps towards a recovery in industrial output. Indices of production have slowly started to edge upwards and the results of the April 1982 CBI Industrial Trends Survey show a growth in business confidence. While unemployment will continue to rise, those in work will be faced with less short-time working and increased opportunities for overtime. The prospects for significant long-term growth with a concomitant reduction in unemployment is, however, dependent on a number of factors both domestic and international

Zilker Park cultural landscape report

textZilker Park is a large municipal park in Austin, Texas, and while currently an active recreational zone for the city, the parkland is full of historic and natural resources with a period of significance dating back at least 9,000 years. The park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under two nominations from 1985 and 1997. These nominations document much of the early history of the park, including archaeological sites, historic buildings, objects, and structures. While these reports provide a descriptive history of the parkland, a further study was conducted to understand the park through its cultural and natural systems. This study, known as a cultural landscape report (CLR), examined the park through a defined set of landscape characteristics such as: topography and hydrology, circulation, land use, vegetation, buildings and structures, viewsheds, habitat, archaeological sites, and small scale features. This data was organized to match and compliment the already existing research found within the NRHP nominations, including periods and areas of significance, integrity evaluations, and property types. The CLR was also based on new archival and field research and the report culminated in a set of guiding principles and methodologies for future park management. Thus, the Zilker Park CLR is a site specific planning guide, designed to function as both a descriptive and prescriptive tool for best practices for historic landscape management and stewardship.Architectur

Review of the quarter's economic trends [October 1981]

In the second quarter of 1981 the index of industrial production for the United Kingdom was 8% below its level for the corresponding period in 1980. This notwithstanding, there do appear to be signs that the bottom of the output trough may now have been reached. This brief section will seek to understand the latest UK and world economic data to determine current economic conditions and forecasts future trends

Collision integrals and orbiting analysis for polar species using the Stockmayer potential

Polar species appear in several planetary entry problems in both the shock-heated gas and its interaction with the ablative heat shield or other active cooling systems. Typically, the contributions of polar species to plasma transport properties are evaluated using spherical phenomenological potential functions or, more recently, with ab initio computations. Limited consideration has been given to the use of nonspherical potential functions for polar species. The Stockmayer potential is a Lennard–Jones potential function modified to account for polar interactions. In this paper, the Stockmayer potential is used to compute collision integrals for NO, CN, CO, and CH. Additionally, a methodology applicable to potential functions similar in form to the Lennard–Jones potential is developed to determine scaling laws that describe the asymptotic behavior of the orbiting boundary at low energies. The use of the nonspherical Stockmayer potential function preserves agreement with the Lennard–Jones potential at moderate to high temperatures (above 5000 K) when potential parameters are selected consistently. This indicates that the polarity of species at these temperatures does not strongly impact transport properties

Population structure of Ballot's saucer scallop (Ylistrum balloti) for the east coast of Queensland

Ballot's saucer scallops (Ylistrum balloti) are harvested by the east coast otter trawl fishery and contribute a higher proportion of the overall yearly catch than the co-located mud scallop (Amusium pleuronectes). Recent estimates of Ballot's saucer scallop biomass are below the defined limit reference point (20%), and the fishery is currently closed across much of its area (limited fishing is allowed in the southern offshore management region). An underlying assumption for fishery management is that Ballot's saucer scallops along Queensland’s east coast are one population to be managed and assessed as a single biological stock. Significant aggregations of Ballot's saucer scallops have been detected in the central trawl management region despite the low biomass estimates. Trawl fishery representatives have concerns about the single stock approach. Their observations of morphometric and colour differences between Ballot's saucer scallops from the central trawl management region and the management regions to the south are suggestive of distinct populations. To determine the population structure Fisheries Queensland used High Throughput Sequencing to identify 3217-5754 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). The results indicated small (FSTs ~ 0.005), but significant (p<0.001) differences between scallops either side of 22 degrees South and was further supported by PCA, AMOVA and Admixture analyses. The study shows the existence of two populations of Ballot's saucer scallops on the east coast of Queensland

Heat transfer coefficient determination on 3D geometries from transient thermochromic liquid crystal experiments

A valuable new postprocessing technique has been developed to enable the application of transient thermochromic liquid crystal experiments where lateral conduction is significant and thus cannot be treated as one-dimensional (1D). This enables the measurement of spatially resolved heat transfer coefficient (HTC) over geometrically complex surfaces, extending the current limitations of transient thermochromic liquid crystal experiments. The postprocessing technique couples raw experimental transient thermochromic liquid crystal data and finite element analysis, in an iterative procedure, to generate the HTC distributions. In the current study, the experimental data come from a stationary experiment of an engine realistic rib turbulated cooling passage. Spatially resolved maps of HTC have been determined over the surface of the ribs. The results are compared with conventionally processed experimental data that assume 1D semi-infinite conduction and also to results from steady-state numerical simulations. Where the 1D assumption is applicable, results are less than the experimental uncertainty (<6%) at the majority of locations. Typical 1D-based methods are unable to provide reliable spatial measurements over geometrically complex ribbed surfaces, and to the authors’ best knowledge this is the first time distributions of HTC have been reported for engine representative rib geometry