Urban blue-green infrastructure and health: can the UK experience inform future developments in Qatar?

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (4) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
C. Philip Wheater
2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Gibbs

This case study provides an overview of the logistical aspects of introducing a DIY streaming service, from original idea to implementation, at Coventry University. The study includes reflection on practical problems such as the structuring of file names and complying with the terms and conditions of the ERA licence. It concludes with a short discussion of the impact of the new ERA+ licence on levels of use, together with possible future developments in streaming in the UK Higher Education sector.


Author(s):  
Chris Keenan

There is a great deal of evidence to support the view that there are a significant number of benefits to be gained when more experienced students are trained to guide and facilitate less experienced learners. Peer-led academic learning is an increasingly global phenomenon and some UK schemes have been in existence since the early 1990s. In view of this, it was timely for the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) to commission a report to explore the range and scope of UK schemes, reflect on progress so far, and identify opportunities for future developments. This opinion piece will provide a brief overview of the report findings, and will describe the development of a new world-wide network for practitioners to share their ideas/practice. The new network will also offer opportunities for collaborative research in this exciting area of student experience.  


Author(s):  
Rogers Jonathan

This chapter looks at the main provisions of the Banking Act and the 2013 Act, as well as the actions taken by the regulators under these Acts in the present time and in future developments. It discusses payments systems as an essential part of any modern financial market economy that enables the fast and efficient processing of transactions. It also describes the increase in the turnover of payment systems and digitization of the UK economy that made financial institutions and regulators recognize the central importance of payment systems in supporting a technologically enabled global economy. This chapter talks about regulators that are focused both on real time supervision and the modernization and development of the UK's payment systems. It mentions CREST as one of the eight payment systems that are currently recognised by the Treasury.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margareth Wit

Leadership is learnable. Furthermore, future developments within our organizations will be strongly influenced by our leadership effectiveness. In ten steps Margareth de Wit describes how, as a leader, you can train yourself to achieve desired transitions within your organization. Educated at INSEAD and Wharton, Margareth de Wit has a long and rich experience working at the top of international companies in the USA, India, the UK, and Africa, providing intensive leadership sessions to CEOs, commissioners, managers, and directors. Margareth de Wit has inspired hundreds of professionals within the education sector to see themselves as playing the central role in providing better education through intelligent collaboration in self-managing school teams. Her experiences show that systematic attention to leadership and group dynamics creates organizations that are both successful and future-proof. Providing striking examples from her broad practice and experience, historical comparisons, human interactions, analytical schemes, and evidence-based methods, de Wit paints a picture of the road that leads to effective leadership. While this transition is never finished, it is nevertheless one that always leads to both personal and organizational improvement.


1986 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 53-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
George F. Ray

Energy is a world issue and since future developments, particulary of oil, are of paramount importance to the UK economy, we have to take a world view. We start by discussing the prospects of the supply and price of oil; the outlook for other types of primary energy as well will be considered briefly.


2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
Sarah Gilmour

Exhibition and sales catalogues are notoriously hard to locate. This problem will be soon be alleviated in the UK by HOGARTH, a project to facilitate research access to the major collections in the history of art within the concept of the distributed national collection in the subject. A second benefit will be the creation of an electronic directory of collections of art history documentation in this country. The project is currently at halfway stage and this article outlines its background, its methodology, progress to date and future developments.


2020 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 01008
Author(s):  
Anil Yildiz ◽  
Ross A. Stirling ◽  
Stephanie Glendinning

The multi-purpose nature of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) or Green Infrastructure (GI) presents a significant opportunity to store or recover heat for low carbon urban heating/cooling systems. The capacity of such systems for energy storage is strongly dependent on the thermal and hydrological boundary conditions, estimation of their feasibility requires a deep understanding of how atmospheric conditions and the near-surface hydrological regime affect heat transfer. A large-scale, outdoor lysimeter has been set up at the (UK) National Green Infrastructure Facility in order to monitor the influence of atmospheric conditions on hydrological and thermal properties of SuDS. Volumetric water content, matric suction and temperature were monitored at various depths and locations within the sand and topsoil layer. Additionally, thermal conductivity at multiple depths, and heat flux at the surface and bottom boundary were measured. Results of the initial monitoring phase, as well as, preliminary laboratory tests are presented herein and demonstrate the complex interaction between partial saturation and heat transfer. Further work investigates the effects of rainfall and heat injection using rainfall simulation and a variable-power heating cable, respectively.


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