Loosewall stability in United Kingdom surface coal mines

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Stead ◽  
R. Singh
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Limit Equilibrium ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Back Analysis ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Surface Coal Mine ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The University

The stability of loosewall slopes in surface coal mines is an important factor in the successful exploitation of surface coal mine reserves. Loosewall instability must be avoided not only to ensure negligible risk to both personnel and excavation plant but also to prevent increased production costs. In 1976 the United Kingdom National Coal Board Opencast Executive initiated a programme of slope stability research projects at the Mining Engineering Department of the University of Nottingham. This paper examines the data collected on loosewall slope failures over the last 10 years. The results of a preliminary programme of back analyses of selected loosewall instabilities using limit equilibrium techniques are discussed. Key words: loosewall, coal, database, back analysis.

Disposing of John Lindley's library and herbarium: the offer to Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. LUCAS
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Final Disposal ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Royal Horticultural Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
United Kingdom Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Joseph Hooker

Shortly before he died, John Lindley decided to dispose of his herbarium and botanical library. He sold his orchid herbarium to the United Kingdom government for deposit at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and then offered his library and the remainder of his herbarium to Ferdinand Mueller in Melbourne. On his behalf, Joseph Hooker had earlier unsuccessfully offered the library and remnant herbarium to the University of Sydney, using the good offices of Sir Charles Nicholson. Although neither the University of Sydney nor Mueller was able to raise the necessary funds to purchase either collection, the correspondence allows a reconstruction of a catalogue of Lindley's library, and poses some questions about Joseph Hooker's motives in attempting to dispose of Lindley's material outside the United Kingdom. The final disposal of the herbarium to Cambridge and previous analyses of the purchase of his Library for the Royal Horticultural Society are discussed. A list of the works from Lindley's library offered for sale to Australia is appended.

Preservative or Transformative? Theorizing the U.K. Constitution Using Comparative Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 412-440
Author(s):  
Jo Eric Khushal Murkens
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Multilevel Systems ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Comparative Constitutional Law ◽  
The Stability

Abstract The complexities of the United Kingdom’s decision to withdraw from the European Union while simultaneously honoring its prior commitments to its decentralized, autonomous, and constituent regions have put constitutional questions back on the map. The dominant approach analyzes these questions premised on the “preservative” view of the constitution. This view prioritizes the stability and continuity of the institutions in Westminster (Parliament) and Whitehall (central executive). However, the preservative view of the constitution is theoretically and practically deficient as it cannot give an account of the multipolar and decentralized developments of the past twenty years. Another interpretation regards the legal and political changes to the constitution as “transformative.” This view accentuates the fragility of the U.K. constitution due to a plurality of constitutional rules and the ongoing processes of devolution of powers within multilevel systems of government. This Article discusses that evolution of the U.K. constitution through the prism of comparative constitutional law and its appropriate methodology. The preservative model of the constitution favors a universalist method, whereas the transformative model requires a contextualist method. I argue that the experience of supranational (European Union) and infranational (devolution) power sharing has fundamentally altered the United Kingdom’s central constitutional concepts. To stabilize its fragmentary forces, the United Kingdom needs to adopt concepts that reflect the state as divided, the constitution as transitional, sovereignty as an attribute of the state rather than Parliament, and democracy as conflicted. Nothing less than the future of the United Kingdom as a state is at stake.

scholarly journals Roger Mellor Makins, G. C. B., G. C. M. G., D. L., the 1st Baron Sherfield. 3 February 1904–9 November 1996

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 267-278
Author(s):  
Lord Selborne
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
British Embassy ◽  
The University

In the course of a long and highly distinguished life, Lord Sherfield served in the Foreign Office, becoming Ambassador in Washington, was Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Chancellor of the University of Reading, and held many other posts in the public and private sectors. In 1945, when Minister at the British Embassy in Washington, he took responsibility for advising on policy issues related to the nuclear weapons programme. Thereafter he was to remain an enthusiastic and most effective contributor to the advancement of science and technology.

University/Community Partnerships

2011 ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Ann Roberts ◽  
Roger Boyle
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Economically Deprived ◽  
The University ◽  
University Community

The University of Leeds is the largest campus-based university in the United Kingdom in terms of student numbers. The School of Computing has, in recent years, sought to share its academic and technical advantages with schools in economically deprived inner-city areas. This chapter describes some of the projects which have been initiated and managed by the School of Computing. We discuss how these have benefited both the schools and our participating undergraduate students. The chapter concludes with a discussion on some of the difficulties encountered and those factors that, from our experience, help to achieve success.

Teaching for the Revolution: The Long March of Media Studies

2006 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Media Education ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
The University ◽  
The Revolution

This paper constitutes a form of auto-ethnography, reflecting on my career as a teacher of media in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and in Australia in 2006. The biographical method was chosen in order to affirm the value of media education in relation to the personal experience of both the student and the teacher, and to question the authority and value of the various Media Studies curricula as they have evolved over the last 30 years within the institutions of the school and the university. This account constitutes part of a larger project on the part of the author entitled ‘Moments of Intensity’, which is concerned with issues of affect and aesthetics in the experience of teaching media and popular culture.

Optimization Study on Stability of Dragline Stripping Bench and Mining Parameters of Dragline Stripping Technology

2011 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 183-187
Author(s):  
Xiao Ren Mei
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
Limit Equilibrium ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Safe Operation ◽  
Surface Coal Mine ◽  
Optimization Study ◽  
Operation Parameters ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Safety And Stability ◽  
High Bench

Heidaigou Surface Coal Mine (HSCM) is a large surfaces coal mine that first uses the throwing blasting - dragline stripping technology. Lots of new demanding prompt solution issues appears in HSCM without any successful experience in China, such as the stability of dragline stripping bench, the design and implementation of throwing blasting parameters, and the optimization of dragline stripping technology parameters. Rigid Body Limit Equilibrium Method (RBLEM) was used to study the safety and stability of dragline solid high bench and dragline stripping loosen bench under different workface parameters and influence factors. The safe operation parameters of dragline stripping bench are proposed. The dozer lowered height of the stripping bench, the width of extended bench and dragline operation parameters are optimized using the Optimization System of Dragline Stripping Technology (OSDST). The results can provide the decision support for HSCM.

Constitutional Developments in the United Kingdom

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Williams
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Authoritative Text ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Parliamentary Sovereignty ◽  
The University

In hisIntroduction to the study of the Law of the Constitution, which appeared in its first edition in 1885, Professor A. V. Dicey of the University of Oxford emphasized in particular the doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty and the concept of the Rule of Law as guiding principles of the constitution. His exposition was clear and trenchant, inspired by the self-confidence of late Victorian Britain, and through nine editions it provided the authoritative text which to this day has influenced judges and lawyers, politicians, observers from abroad, and many others in their interpretation of the constitutional law of the United Kingdom.

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