Reframing Magna Carta – Comprehensive Planning and Pragmatic Outcomes

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Garside ◽  
Cordelia Rogerson ◽  
Gavin Moorhead ◽  
Kumiko Matsuoka ◽  
Christina Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Comprehensive Planning ◽  
Minimal Intervention ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Requirements Change ◽  
Magna Carta

AbstractIn preparation for the British Library’s exhibition to mark 800 years of Magna Carta, the Library’s copies of the charter, and three related documents, were reframed. There were several requirements: minimal intervention; allow re-treatability; fully show rectos and text; present the charters as documents rather than artworks. Comprehensive risk assessments and work plans determined appropriate working methods, display angles, mounting techniques and materials, taking into account the particular features of each charter, including seals, ribbons and seal bags. Frames from commercial manufacturers were considered, and a selection made on several criteria: security, accessibility, environment, aesthetics and versatility. This project has demonstrated how a sophisticated and comprehensive initial assessment allowed a relatively simple but demonstrably appropriate solution to be implemented, using well established and understood materials and methods. This provided secure and sympathetic frames for the six documents, catering for the specific requirements of each item, and also allowed versatility should requirements change in future. We worked closely with other stakeholders, and were able to argue for the best outcomes for the objects themselves, demonstrating that high profile objects do not necessarily require expensive, “high-tech” solutions. Thorough planning and preparation ensured the reframing was completed within time and under budget.

Assessing the Risk

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-330
Author(s):  
Nicholas Coulton
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Magna Carta ◽  
False Accusations ◽  
The Church

While the English Church shared in celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, not least its own part in gaining those rights for everyone, the Church of England was reversing the principle that people are innocent until proved guilty. Such is the pressure of today's concern about child abuse, historic and present. As evidence mounts of the injustices done by false accusations against some high-profile public figures, we are less aware of the toll on other individuals whose turmoil does not hit the headlines. Those teaching and caring are often targeted for claims, and the Church of England has been toughening its procedures.

scholarly journals Exploration to the construction pattern of Wetland Park---Taking Haizhu Wetland Park as an example

2019 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 03016
Author(s):  
Yan Lv ◽  
Shao Ping Guan
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Constructed Wetland ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Comprehensive Planning ◽  
Minimal Intervention ◽  
Construction Period ◽  
Land Usage ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Ecological Landscape ◽  
Construction Pattern

China has been increasingly attaching importance to the construction of wetland parks.But at present, the design methods adopted by most of the domestic wetland parks constructed are sameness, with a short construction period, neither taking into account of the land usage and surrounding environment of the land, nor in-depth land design and mostly the study is from the angle of comprehensive planning or focus on the design of some special projects (such as plant arrangement ). In this way, the ecological restoration of the wetland and the minimal intervention in the design of the wetland park cannot be truly realized, nor integration of regional characteristics, resulting in low ecological, landscape and economic value of the constructed wetland park. Some wetland parks have been abandoned once again due to their isolated habitat. This paper aims to probe the construction pattern of wetland park in China. Through the study on the typical cases of wetland parks at home and abroad and taking Haizhu Wetland Park as a major example to reflect on the construction and development of wetland park in China.

scholarly journals Risk Assessment or Assessment of Risk? Developing an Evidence-Based Approach for Primary Producers of Leafy Vegetables To Assess and Manage Microbial Risks

2016 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 725-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Monaghan ◽  
J. C. Augustin ◽  
J. Bassett ◽  
R. Betts ◽  
B. Pourkomailian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Process ◽  
Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Expert Group ◽  
Primary Producers ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Leafy Greens ◽  
Microbial Risks

ABSTRACT Over the last 10 years, some high-profile foodborne illness outbreaks have been linked to the consumption of leafy greens. Growers are required to complete microbiological risk assessments (RAs) for the production of leafy crops supplied either to retail or for further processing. These RAs are based primarily on qualitative judgements of hazard and risks at various stages in the production process but lack many of the steps defined for quantitative microbiological RAs by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. This article is based on the discussions of an industry expert group and proposes a grower RA approach based on a structured qualitative assessment, which requires all decisions to be based on evidence and a framework for describing the decision process that can be challenged and defended within the supply chain. In addition, this article highlights the need for evidence to be more easily available and accessible to primary producers and identifies the need to develop hygiene criteria to aid validation of proposed interventions.

scholarly journals Defining Risk and the Use of Risk Assessments by Learning Specialists within NCAA Academic Units

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Lauren Birch ◽  
Mary Anne Steinberg ◽  
Cheryl Walther ◽  
Kellie A. Catanach ◽  
Maria Herbst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Keywords Risk Assessment ◽  
Academic Units ◽  
Definition Of

The National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA (2009) defines the term “risk” as a “student-athlete’s likelihood of graduation”. The ability of athletic departments and athletic academic professionals to identify which of their student-athletes might be considered at risk is less straightforward. While many departments use their own tools to assess risk, there has been little research on the subject. This exploratory study sought to generate a collective understanding of how athletic academic units across the country define the term “at-risk” and assess which of their student-athletes are at-risk in order to begin creating a framework for use across the industry. A survey was completed by 43 member of the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals (N4A) who serve in learning specialist roles, within athletic academic units. The results showed that academic units, across NCAA institutions, do not have one clear definition of risk, but rather the definition falls into four distinct categories. The study also found that there are three initial risk assessments used most frequently to determine student-athletes’ risk upon arrival at the institution, while the continued risk assessments fall into six distinct categories of assessments. As this is an exploratory study, the researchers acknowledge that we are only scratching the surface in regards to the breadth` and depth of assessment usage to determine risk of student-athletes at NCAA institutions. Therefore, the implications for future research are discussed.     Keywords: Risk, assessment, initial assessment, continued assessment

scholarly journals Transparency of complex regulation: how should WTO trade policy reviews deal with sanitary and phytosanitary policies?

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALENTIN ZAHRNT
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Policy Review ◽  
Review Mechanism ◽  
Complex Regulation ◽  
Promising Avenue ◽  
Regulatory Challenges

AbstractSanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures that protect human, animal, and plant health can impede trade and provoke high-profile disputes. This paper argues that the WTO's Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) could play an important role in defusing the trade-disrupting potential of SPS regulation. The most promising avenue is to review in greater detail the policy-making procedures that lead to SPS measures. How transparent and independent are countries' risk assessments of health hazards? Which provisions have countries taken to account for trade effects when selecting SPS measures? Do countries give foreign interests adequate possibility to voice their concerns over proposed SPS regulation? If reviews motivate countries to improve their policy-making processes, this will contribute to making SPS regulation less trade-restrictive and more effective in protecting health. To reach this objective, special trade policy reviews dedicated exclusively to SPS regulation might be introduced as a complement to the current reviews of countries' overall trade policies. Such a move could serve as a model for establishing further issue-specific reviews that address technical barriers to trade, trade in services, and other complex regulatory challenges.

A holographic doctors’ assistant on the example of a wireless heart rate monitor

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaudia Proniewska ◽  
Damian Dołęga-Dołęgowski ◽  
Dariusz Dudek
Keyword(s):  
Patient Data ◽  
Computer Hardware ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Heart Rate Monitor ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Examination Room

Abstract Microsoft has created HoloLens glasses, a high-tech device used for holographic purposes, which is unique and superior to other available solutions. We present a new idea of a holographic assistant to doctors, using as an example a wireless patient data monitor. A dedicated application will be created to be used by doctors, allowing hands-free access to patient cards/data, reviewing of new/old examination results, and even the ability to work on real-time data. Doctors will be able to use this in the examination room, at a patient’s bedside, or in an entirely different location. Currently, analysis of patient data is done mostly by the doctor; however, huge progress in computer hardware performance and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms has allowed the development of new methods used to analyze and classify patient examination results. In the same way that doctors learn and practice how to treat patients during their studies, algorithms can learn to spot abnormalities, allowing current technology and advanced AI algorithms to be joined in one high-tech solution that should provide initial assessment of patients’ health and give treatment guidance, if necessary.

The Magna Carta

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Smith ◽  
Anna Green
Keyword(s):  
Public Involvement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
International Collaborations ◽  
Magna Carta ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This chapter explores a range of representations of Magna Carta in the public sphere, and the authors argue that the significance of the Great Charter lies less in constitutional history and more in the different political uses to which the Charter has been put over time. Plans for the 800th commemoration of the Charter in 2015, proposed by both national and local organizations, are examined through oral history interviews with some of the leading participants. These plans ranged from the ideologically conservative and international collaborations of elite national organizations to the more inclusive commemorative activities of the local community. However, the tensions within both local and national projects of commemoration, the absence of broad public involvement, and the financial recession reduced what was intended as high-profile celebration to a more muted and elitist form.

Substantial gadolinium enrichments in lake and river near metrocities in Korea

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Intae Kim ◽  
Suk Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging ◽  
Rare Earth ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
The Yellow Sea ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Resonance Imaging ◽  
Human Risk ◽  
Han River ◽  
Gd Anomaly ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mri

<p>We measured dissolved rare earth elements (REEs) in the water samples from Shihwa Lake (SL), which was assumed to be highly polluted, as well as in the downstream portion of the Han River (HR), which runs through, Seoul, Korea. Among the investigated REEs, only Gadolinium (Gd) was found to be significantly enhanced after REE concentrations were shale-normalized (SN). The calculated Gd anomaly (Gd/Gd* = 3×Gd<sub>SN</sub>/(Sm<sub>SN</sub> + 2×Tb<sub>SN</sub>)) was about 1.5±0.1 (n=16) in SL and 1.6±0.3 in HR (n=26) water relative to other types of natural water such as groundwater, seawater, and river water in uncontaminated areas (Gd/Gd*~1.2, n>400). These significant Gd anomalies seem to be due to the inputs of anthropogenic Gd (Gd<sub>anth</sub>), especially by the use of Gd-based contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests from a number of hospitals and medical institutes surrounding our study areas. The Gd<sub>anth</sub> inventory was estimated to be 190±80 g and 680±360 kg Gd in SL and the HR (watersheds in our study area), respectively. The Gd<sub>anth</sub> flux to the Yellow Sea from the HR is estimated to be 530±330 g Gd day<sup>-1</sup>. Overall, these results suggest that quantitative evaluation of man-made REEs for associated human risk assessments are needed, because considerable amounts of REEs are now used by modern high-tech industries.</p>

China’s low-cost tech will trump other concerns

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Communications Commission ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Federal Subsidies ◽  
Technology Partnerships

Subject China's international technology partnerships. Significance The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on March 26 that it is considering blocking federal subsidies for smaller telecom operators that use Chinese technology. The US government is determined to prevent Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE from developing a stronger base in the United States. This attitude, grounded in national security concerns, stands in contrast to the situation in many other markets where these companies have developed high-profile and close relationships with telecom operators and governments. Impacts Huawei and ZTE may overtake US firms in filing for patents. Telecom partnerships with developed and emerging economies are likely to increase Beijing’s influence over global internet governance. China’s low-cost high-tech equipment is likely to overcome security objections from intelligence agencies in other countries.

scholarly journals Police and Crime Commissioners

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Loveday
Keyword(s):  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Court Ruling ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
High Court ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Police Investigations ◽  
Chief Officer ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Operational Activity ◽  
New System

This article considers the progress of the new system of police governance in England and Wales. It assesses the responsibilities and powers of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and examines local initiatives undertaken by some PCCs that have proved to have national ramifications. It evaluates the accountability of PCCs between elections and highlights the limited powers of Police and Crime Panels. It considers the convention of police operational independence in light of two controversial police investigations, and the potential need for PCC oversight of future publicly high-profile investigations. It provides an initial assessment of an important and recent High Court ruling (R v Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire, 2017) which, by making the PCC responsible for all police operational activity, questions the tradition of constabulary operational independence. It is argued that enabling the PCC to bring a chief officer to account for all police operations might mean that potentially challenging and fruitless investigations can be avoided in the future.

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