ARISTOTELES: A European approach for an Earth gravity field recovery mission

Under contract of the European Space Agency a system study for a spaceborne gravity field recovery mission was performed, covering as a secondary mission objective geodetic point positioning in the cm range as well. It was demonstrated that under the given programmatic constraints including dual launch and a very tight development schedule, a six months gravity field mission in a 200 km near polar, dawn-dusk orbit is adequate to determine gravity anomalies to better than 5 mgal with a spatial resolution of 100 x 100 km half wavelength. This will enable scientists to determine improved spherical harmonic coefficients of the Earth gravity field equation to the order and degree of 180 or better

Hacking NHS Pacemakers: A Feasibility Study

Pacemakers are common types of implants, in recent years there have been growing concerns around the security within these devices. This paper was created with the assistance of the NHS staff at NGH, it attempts to answer the question of if it is feasible to hack current models of NHS pacemakers. The experiments performed were done so in the mindset of an average hacker, not a team of experts with access to the required knowledge and equipmen

La politica del locale. Valori nazionali e politica sociale in Scozia [The politics of place: national values and social policy in Scotland]

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Human rights and public education

This article attempts a contrast to the contribution by Hugh Starkey. Rather than his account of the inexorable rise of human rights discourse, and of the implementation of human rights standards, human rights are here presented as always and necessarily scandalous and highly contested. First, I explain why the UK has lagged so far behind its European neighbours in implementing citizenship education. Second, a comparison with France shows that the latest UK reforms bring us up to 1789. Third, the twentieth-century second-generation social and economic rights are still anathema in the UK. Fourth, the failure to come to terms with Empire and especially the slave trade means that the UK’s attitude to third-generation rights, especially the right of peoples to self-determination, is heavily compromised. Taking into account the points I raise, citizenship education in the UK might look very different

Food Matrix Effects of Polyphenol Bioaccessibility from Almond Skin during Simulated Human Digestion

The goal of the present study was to quantify the rate and extent of polyphenols released in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) from natural (NS) and blanched (BS) almond skins. A dynamic gastric model of digestion which provides a realistic simulation of the human stomach was used. In order to establish the effect of a food matrix on polyphenols bioaccessibility, NS and BS were either digested in water (WT) or incorporated into home-made biscuits (HB), crisp-bread (CB) and full-fat milk (FM). Phenolic acids were the most bioaccessible class (68.5% release from NS and 64.7% from BS). WT increased the release of flavan-3-ols (p < 0.05) and flavonols (p < 0.05) from NS after gastric plus duodenal digestion, whereas CB and HB were better vehicles for BS. FM lowered the % recovery of polyphenols, the free total phenols and the antioxidant status in the digestion medium, indicating that phenolic compounds could bind protein present in the food matrix. The release of bioactives from almond skins could explain the beneficial effects associated with almond consumption

The Relationship between the Child’s Concept of Reading and Reading Comprehension Performance

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between the child's concept of reading and reading comprehension performance. The subjects were forty fourth grade students from four different types of schools (parochial, private, public urban, and public suburban) in western New York. The child's concept of reading was studied during an interview procedure. The child's reading comprehension performance was measured by his/her raw score on the New York State Reading Pupil Evaluation Program (PEP) Test. After testing the null hypothesis at the .05 level of significance, it was found that there was not a statistically significant relationship between the child's concept of reading and his/her reading comprehension performance as measured by the New York State PEP Reading Test. There was, however, a statistically significant relationship found between the child's concept of reading and the type of school he/she attended at the .05 level of significance. Further research was recommended.SUNY BrockportEducation and Human DevelopmentMaster of Science in Education (MSEd)Education and Human Development Master's These

The Relationship between the Child’s Concept of Reading and Reading Comprehension Performance

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between the child\u27s concept of reading and reading comprehension performance. The subjects were forty fourth grade students from four different types of schools (parochial, private, public urban, and public suburban) in western New York. The child\u27s concept of reading was studied during an interview procedure. The child\u27s reading comprehension performance was measured by his/her raw score on the New York State Reading Pupil Evaluation Program (PEP) Test. After testing the null hypothesis at the .05 level of significance, it was found that there was not a statistically significant relationship between the child\u27s concept of reading and his/her reading comprehension performance as measured by the New York State PEP Reading Test. There was, however, a statistically significant relationship found between the child\u27s concept of reading and the type of school he/she attended at the .05 level of significance. Further research was recommended

Understanding cycle tourism experiences at the Tour Down Under

Sport tourism experiences are subjective and emotional, laden with symbolic meaning. This study explores the experiences of participants who adopted the multiple roles of both an active participant and event spectator, within the parameters of one chosen sporting event. A professional cycling race event, the Tour Down Under in South Australia was chosen for this investigation, and 20 face-to-face individual interviews were conducted with cycle tourists. The three main themes emerging from the data were the interaction of people and temporary spaces on a sport tourism ‘stage’; the co-creation of authentic personal experiences and meanings; and identity reinforcement and the development of a sense of belonging. Consequently, a model for understanding sport event tourism experiences is proposed. The findings suggest that providing tourists with authentic and memorable experiences lies at the heart of what constitutes sport tourism. Whilst the results demonstrate that cycling events provide the individual with a sense of belonging or membership to a wider social group, they also illustrate that there is a continued need for more focused and nuanced approaches towards understanding sport tourism experiences that reflect the ever-increasing diversity and complexity of the interaction between sport, events and tourism

‘Devolution and Cultural Catch-Up: Decoupling England and its Literature from English Literature’

Robert McLiam Wilson’s 1989 novel Ripley Bogle uses an unreliable narrator to expose the differences – regional, linguistic and national – between communities Bogle, the protagonist, experiences in Cambridge and Northern Ireland. Bogle is an English Literature student and then drop-out whose rejection of canonical study is the rejection of Arnoldianism and a traditionally organist and imperialist discipline that reanimates the debate about civic values and literary culture. A similar device is used in Sebastian Faulks’s 2007 novel Engleby in which Mike Engleby abandons English Literature at University only to later become a journalist probing the political landscape and personalities of the 1980s and after. Embroiled in disappearance and death, Engleby’s psychological unpredictability enables a reading of Britain’s socio-political death. These interconnected novels stand either side of Britain’s devolutionary divide and, as a pair, are suggestive of England’s need to readdress its own literary culture in the face of devolution. They are also symptomatic of a wider cultural catch-up required within England after 1999. Where the other devolved nations have sought to advance new and challenging national literary concerns and forms distinct from the pan-British literary canon of the past (and its restrictive exclusion based on class, gender and race), England has only recently come to view its literary culture as national. However, this has provided a potential filled moment of redefinition that will help free England and its authors from the pan-British sensibility of imperial dominance. This chapter argues that such redefinition, and resistance to the canon, developed immediately before and dramatically after devolution is evident in Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996) with its resistive yet civic working class community and in the representations of marginalised, disempowered sections of England’s population offered in Alan Kent’s Proper Job, Charlie Kurnow (2005), Stella Duffy’s The Room of Lost Things (2009) and Jim Crace’s All That Follows (2010). These authors seize the opportunity provided by devolution to re-examine England’s national identity and to probe its relation to political enfranchisement, civic responsibility and literary vitality as England culturally catches up with its own socio-political reality