Neighbourhood renewal: A toolkit for regeneration

A major criticism of urban regeneration policies during the 1980s and 1990s in England has been the failure to reduce the gap between the poorest neighbourhoods and the national average for the indices of long-term unemployment, crime rates, health chances and educational qualifications. The UK Government, since election in 1997, has undertaken a wide-ranging review of urban policy. New approaches and more effective use of public sector resources are being piloted in an attempt to identify the pathways to social inclusion, which seem to have been missing in previous regeneration attempts (Audit Commission, 1989; DoEE, 2000). This paper seeks to deepen our understanding of the appropriate balance between physical and social regeneration through proposing an approach that foregrounds the role of residents in neighbourhood regeneration.     

Holocene evolution of an estuary on a tectonically rising coast: the Pakarae River locality, eastern North Island, New Zealand

Estuarine and beach deposits in the vicinity of the present coastline at Pakarae River record the infilling of an estuary and subsequent development of a sequence of seven marine terraces during Holocene time.

At the maximum of the last glaciation about 18,000 years ago the shoreline at the ancestral Pakarae River was approximately 20 km east of the present shoreline. By about 9000 years BP the sea had transgressed across most of that coastal plain to lie within a few hundred metres of the base of the present coastal hills. Seventeen radiocarbon ages from estuarine deposits record the overall rise in post-glacial sea level, but in the period c. 9500-7000 yrs BP there are reversals to the overall rising trend. Between 9500 and 8500 yrs BP there appears to have been a eustatic fall in sea level of at least 4 m. This observation is supported by data from several other localities around New Zealand. Maximum transgression occurred about 6500–7000 yrs BP when the sea reached the base of hillslopes and an extensive estuary existed behind a barrier bar.

Since that time the barrier bar disappeared, probably due to stranding in an uplift event, and the coastline advanced progressively outward toward its present position. Coastal progradation (sea level regression) and subsequent erosion have occurred in association with episodic large earthquakes at about 6700, 5400, 3910, 2450, 1570, 1000 and 600 yrs BP. The present distribution of terraces has been influenced by coastal erosion, which has removed all trace of some terraces from some areas, and river erosion has modified the marine terraces near the river.     

即墨养虾场虾病暴发前期底质中叶绿素的变化

本文在测定养虾池底质中叶绿素的变化,比较了在３０℃,４０℃,５０℃,６０条件下烘干与不烘干底质样品叶绿素ａ的测定结果。表明随烘干温度上升测定结果的偏差增大,各温度梯度偏差分别为３０℃１３．２４％、４０℃３４．９３％、５０℃５７．１９％、６０℃７６．０３％。而不经烘干处理的样品结果偏差为１．２３％。运用不烘干法对５、６、７月份养虾池底质叶绿素ａ及脱镁叶绿素进行了测定。结果表明在虾暴发前虾池底质中叶绿     

A thermochemical study of monohydrocalcite

The thermodynamic properties of monohydrocalcite, CaCO₃ · H₂O, have been obtained using a well-characterized natural specimen. Equilibration of the solid with water at 25°C under 0.97 atm CO₂ led to an activity product [Ca²⁺][CO₃^2?] = 10^?7.60±0.03 and a free energy of formation ΔG_f^o = ?325,430 ± 270 calmol^?. The enthalpy of solution of monohydrocalcite in 0.1 N HCl at 25°C led to a standard enthalpy of formation ΔH_f^o = ?358,100 ± 280 cal mol^?1. Estimates of the variation of ΔG_f with temperature and pressure showed monohydrocalcite to be metastable with respect to calcite and aragonite.     

An investigation of breaker heights, shapes and pressures

The shape of breaking waves has a significant effect on wave impact pressures on vertical sea walls. In order to refine the results of previous researchers, a systematic study of breaker shapes and wave impact pressures on a vertical wall using a newly developed experimental technique, sequential flash photography, was conducted at Queen's University of Belfast. Assumptions, like the existence of a vertical flip-through jet or a parallel face impact, could not be confirmed. The maximum pressure was found to occur for plunging breakers and at Still Water Level (SWL), although high pressures can also occur for other breaker types above or below SWL.