scholarly journals The UK Schmidt telescope plate catalogue and problems associated with increasing numbers of plates and users

1982 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 229-231
Author(s):  
S.B. Tritton
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Schmidt Telescope ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Uk

The UK 1.2m Schmidt Telescope (an outstation of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh) is situated at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. The telescope has been operational since 1973 and has, to date, taken about 7000 plates. This paper discusses some of the problems associated with cataloguing these plates and keeping track of their locations.

scholarly journals Evaluating Programs to Counter Violent Extremism: The Example of Case-Managed Interventions

Proceedings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Adrian Cherney
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Linear Process ◽  
Case Note ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Client Participation ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Client Change ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
The Uk

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of programs aimed at preventing radicalization and disengaging known violent extremists. Some programs have targeted individuals through the use of case management approaches and the development of individual intervention plans (e.g., the Desistance and Disengagement Program and the Channel program in the UK; the Australian New South Wales Corrections Proactive Integrated Support Model—PRISM—and state-based division initiatives in Australia). There is a broad consensus in the literature that the evaluation of such initiatives has been neglected. However, the evaluation of case-managed interventions to counter violent extremism (CVE) is challenging. They can have small caseloads which makes it difficult to have any comparison or control group. Client participation can vary over time, with no single intervention plan being alike. This can make it hard to untangle the relative influence of different components of the intervention on indicators of radicalization and disengagement. In this presentation, results from primary research that set out to evaluate case-managed CVE interventions in Australia and develop evaluation metrics are presented. This research involves the examination of interventions implemented by New South Wales corrections and state police. The effectiveness of these interventions was assessed against a five-point metric of client change. Client change overtime was analyzed using case note information collected by the various interventions on client participation. Results show that client change is not a linear process and that the longer an individual is engaged in a case-managed intervention, the more likely they are to demonstrate change relating to disengagement. Specific case studies are used to illustrate trajectories and turning points related to radicalization and to highlight the role of case-managed interventions in facilitating disengagement. Key elements of effective interventions include the provision of ongoing informal support. Investment in capturing case note information should be a priority of intervention providers. Different challenges confronted by case-managed CVE interventions are highlighted.

Edinburgh Astronomy and Educational Teaching Packages

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-155
Author(s):  
Ann Savage ◽  
Sue Tritton ◽  
Mary Brück
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Schmidt Telescope ◽  
South Wales

AbstractFilm copies of original astronomical plates taken with the 1.2-metre UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) at Siding Spring Observatory, New South Wales have been used for several years at Edinburgh University. Two teaching packages are intended for undergraduate use; the educational packages are mainly designed as visual aids for colleges, schools and amateur groups.

The employment contract and unfair contracts legislation

Legal Studies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Douglas Brodie
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Employment Contract ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Status ◽  
Contract Of Employment ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Uk

In 2005, the Law Commissions published a report reviewing unfair contracts legislation in the UK. Where the contract of employment was concerned, the Commissions were of the view that, in short, the status quo should remain. This paper seeks to appraise that position and considers whether an opportunity to bring forward beneficial reforms has been missed. The paper takes cognisance of the legislative scheme in New South Wales, which contains extensive powers where unfair contracts are concerned. It is suggested that, in the UK, the two key issues which need to be addressed are contracting-out and terms which may be substantively unfair.

John White's Journal of a voyage to new South Wales (1790): comments on the natural history and the artistic origins of the plates

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
LOUIS J. PIGOTT
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Viewpoint ◽  
The Uk

This paper discusses three groups of eighteenth century watercolour drawings (two in Australia and one in the UK) which are related to the plates in John White's Journal of a voyage to new South Wales (1790). The 65 plates are then discussed individually giving identifications of the specimens depicted and notes on the natural history of each species from an historical viewpoint.

Another alien terrestrial planarian in the United Kingdom: Australopacifica atrata (Steel, 1897) (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Continenticola)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4604 (3) ◽  
pp. 575 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUGH D. JONES
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Chicken Liver ◽  
Copulatory Apparatus ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Dead Mouse ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
The Uk

Black terrestrial planarians, 5 mm to 3 cm long, have been found in five locations in the United Kingdom, the earliest in 2015. They are identified as Australopacifica atrata (Steel, 1897), a species originally described from New South Wales, Australia. A detailed systematic discussion of original and later descriptions, all of which are of external features only and with no morphological details, is given in support of this identification. Sectioned specimens show partly mature ovaries and ventral testes though none show any development of the copulatory apparatus. They reproduce freely by fission. They appear to be generalist scavengers, having been found feeding on a dead slow worm, a dead mouse, an earthworm and also on rotten fruit. In captivity they feed on chicken liver, squashed slugs and earthworms. It is assumed that they have been inadvertently introduced to the UK and distributed through horticultural activity. 

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