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A laboratory study of the hydraulic conductivity (HC) of a marine clay with monovalent, divalent and trivalent cations revealed large differences in HC. The exchangeable cations employed in this study are Na, K, NH4, Mg, Ca and Al in order of increasing valency. An interpretation of the results derived from consolidation tests suggests that HC is significantly affected by the valency and size of the adsorbed cations. An increase in the valency of the adsorbed cations leads to quicker rates of consolidation and higher HC, while, for a constant valency an increase in the hydrated radius of the adsorbed cations results in a lower rate of consolidation and HC. The reduction in HC was related to the dispersion and deflocculation of clay. Lower valency and higher hydrated radii of the exchangeable cations enable the double layer repulsive forces to predominate, thereby increase dispersion and deflocculation.
Chapter 7 discusses the various rules that govern arbitration proceedings and issues that may arise. The chapter focuses on the process of arbitration, including the preliminary hearing, obtaining evidence, and presenting both documentary evidence and witness testimony. Scheduling hearings should be done early in the process, considering the availability of arbitrators, lawyers, parties and witnesses. Virtual hearings became much more common during the global pandemic due to cost and time efficiency. However, challenges related to cybersecurity, data protection, technical knowledge, accessibility, and witness testimony must be addressed in virtual proceedings. The future of hearings may involve a combination of virtual and in-person elements, depending on the preference and circumstances of the parties.
Recent historians usually see Home Secretary Robert Peel as a committed opponent of real criminal law reforms, content to hang large numbers of people. He did indeed enter office determined to diffuse reform momentum in parliament and succeeded in doing so, but only for a time. In fact, in pursuing the two reforms that William Paley deemed crucial to relinquishing the “Bloody Code” – preventive policing and more deterrent secondary punishments – Peel behaved like someone who believed his concessions might not hold back the tide of urbane public opinion for long. This was also apparent in his alterations to sentencing practices at assizes and his increasingly careful attention to execution levels in London. Even his consolidation measures were of more genuinely humane consequence than is usually recognized. Indeed, so adaptable to urbane opinion did Peel seem to his older, more determinedly conservative colleagues that by 1830 he inspired their distrust.
This chapter applies the GVC framework in order to progress our understanding of the global TV system. Among the drivers that are changing the TV industry, three stand out: digitisation, consolidation, and vertical disintegration (also known as de-verticalisation). While the first two trends have long been identified as driving forces, the same cannot be said about the third. The phenomenon of segmentation is less known and associated with the formation of GVCs. The chapter expands on its prevalence in television and explain its role in globalising the industry. The final section provides an introductory outline of the TV GVC and its segments.
The next battleground involves the admissibility of sovereign bond claims in investment treaty arbitration, which emerges as a complicated issue particularly when a large group of bondholders bring a case as a bundle against the debtor sovereign. To attain an appropriate balance between bondholder protection and respect for orderly debt restructuring, this study has conceptualised investment arbitration proceedings as a supplemental leverage available for bondholders as a group by which a stay of arbitral proceedings is imposed and lifted amid the fair progress of sovereign debt restructuring processes.
In the 1770s, the rapid expansion of the Company’s territorial empire sparked social and political unease in Britain, fueling efforts to reform and to rein in the corporation. For many commentators, few reforms seemed more important than dissolving the Company’s independent army. For years, disagreements about the relative authority of Company and royal forces had complicated British military operations in India, and “consolidating” the two bodies into a unified British Army seemed the clear solution. This chapter explores how the Company’s white officers pushed back against this campaign, establishing a coherent political community in India and an influential lobbying group in Britain. In a flurry of petitions and pamphlets, officers maintained that “consolidation” was both unjust and imprudent: Royal officers would not know how to lead sepoys or to negotiate a war in India. When this written campaign failed to halt the planned reform, white officers across India staged a mutiny, which Company and Crown officials proved unable or unwilling to rebuff. Plans for consolidation were abandoned, while the officers’ collective influence over imperial policies was further solidified.
Soil consisting of grains, water and air is an example of a multiphase material (or mixture). The basic concepts for multiphase materials, such as volume fraction, partial quantities and interaction forces are introduced. The Darcy's equation and balance equations for mixtures are introduced.
On their basis, the consolidation theory is presented. The equations describing steady and unsteady groundwater flow are derived. Transport within groundwater by means of convection, diffusion and dispersion is explained. The main principles describing unsaturated soil are presented: capillary and osmotic suction, the function of filters is explained. The soil–water characteristic curve is also introduced. The effective stresses in unsaturated soil are discussed.
Chapter 15 summarizes the fundamentals of geohydrology. This chapter provides a brief overview of the physical properties of wet soils in Section 15.1 and discussion of processes associated with high water content in Section 15.2.
Chapter 7 concludes the book by revisiting key claims and discussing the implications of the research for broader debates in the fields of comparative politics, social movements, and democracy-promotion activities. Here we see that much of the focus of democracy promotion institutions and programs may be misplaced. Rather than focusing on existing political parties in hybrid regimes, as many democracy-promotion programs do, it is repressed societal actors that are more likely to mobilize supporters, win elections, and form the first government after an authoritarian ouster. These are the individuals and groups most in need of skills-building and governance training. Furthermore, much of the programmatic emphasis of democracy-promotion work falls on enhancing the “liberal” qualities of democracy: freedom of speech, human rights, inclusion of women and minorities, and the protection of civil liberties. However, what the cases here show is that democratic consolidation is most threatened by unmet benchmarks in economic and physical security after the fall of an authoritarian regime. When these benchmarks are not met, the support for democracy declines and a wedge is opened for the return of authoritarian actors. The chapter offers suggestions for future research based upon the findings.
Cognitive impairment is consistently reported in bipolar disorder (BD), but few studies have characterised which memory component processes are affected. Further, it is unknown whether the component processes underlying memory impairment are moderated by sex. The present study examined diagnosis and sex differences in both verbal and visual memory/learning domains in patients with BD and psychiatrically healthy controls.
Method:
Verbal and visual memory/learning were measured using the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R) and Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (BVMT-R). 114 patients with BD (n = 50 males, n = 64 females), were compared to 105 psychiatrically healthy controls (n = 42 males, n = 63 females).
Results:
Patients with BD had worse performance in verbal and visual immediate and total recall, verbal and visual delayed free recall, and verbal recognition discrimination scores, but there were no group differences in learning slopes and cumulative learning index scores. There were trends for BD females to outperform BD males in visual memory/learning free recall and cumulative learning, but these results did not survive multiple testing correction. These findings did not change in a secondary sensitivity analysis comparing only strictly euthymic BD patients to controls (n = 64).
Conclusion:
The present study found trait-like verbal and visual memory/learning impairment in BD that was attributable to deficient encoding and/or consolidation processes rather than deficits in learning. We did not find marked sex differences in either visual or verbal memory/learning measures, although some trend level effects were apparent and deserve exploration in future studies.
1. Chest X-ray anteroposterior (AP) films magnify the heart and mediastinum, and obscure the left lower zone.
2. When assessing the correct positioning of internal jugular central venous catheter placement, as a rule of thumb, the tip should lie at the level of the carina and to the right of the mediastinum.
3. When assessing the correct positioning of an endotracheal tube, the tip should lie 5–7 cm above the carina.
4. When assessing the lung fields, divide the lungs into three zones: upper, middle and lower thirds. Compare each side and check for asymmetry.
5. Consolidation refers to small airways and alveoli that are filled with material – pus, fluid, blood or cells. Consolidation is not synonymous with infection.
A perusal of the statute book might suggest that there was little change to weddings law during the 1920s and 1930s. There were, however, numerous Church of England Measures that altered the rules governing its weddings and caused them to diverge from those applicable to the newly disestablished Church in Wales. And there were even more orders validating marriages that had not taken place in accordance with the law, illustrating how often mistakes were made. There were also changes in how couples married, with the balance between Anglican and civil weddings shifting in the light of the church’s growing reluctance to conduct the remarriages of the divorced and the changing implications of marrying in a register office. While the Marriage Act 1949 finally brought all of the laws regulating marriage and weddings together into a single statute, it did very little by way of recasting the terms in which the law was stated, even less by way of removing anomalies, and absolutely nothing by way of reconsidering the way in which different types of marriages were regulated in different ways. All it achieved was to consolidate the complexity of the existing law.
This chapter aims to open the black box of co-creation, look at its constituent parts and inner mechanics, identify the drivers of and barriers to different parts of the process, and highlight the tools that may support and facilitate the co-creation of public value. Hence, to provide a baseline for subsequent analysis, it establishes an analytical framework for studying processes of co-creation. While recognizing that the dynamic processes of co-creation are often extremely complex and full of gaps, overlaps, jumps, feedback loops, and iterations, it makes sense for heuristic reasons to speak of four phases in the process of co-creating public solutions: 1) initiation; 2) design; 3) implementation; and 4) consolidation, upscaling, and diffusion. Each of these phases can be broken down into three interlacing sub-phases. This chapter carefully elaborates what goes on in the different phases and sub-phases of co-creation and identifies relevant drivers and barriers that may affect the internal dynamics of these phases and sub-phases.
To allow identification of stimuli, sensory input is initially held briefly in sensory memory. It is then held in a short-term store (STS), where it can receive the additional processing required to form a permanent memory. The existence of separate short- and long-term stores is supported by research on amnesia, demonstrating that brain damage can affect one but not the other. Forgetting in STS may be caused by decay, and by interference from other memories. STS can hold information retrieved from long-term memory when required for activities such as reading; to reflect this, it is now called working memory. Baddeley proposed that working memory has 3 components: the phonological loop, visuo-spatial sketch pad, and central executive. Consolidation theory suggests that the formation of a permanent memory requires time for the strengthening of synaptic connections; there also appears to be a consolidation process that can occur over years. We cannot attend to all the stimuli that seek entry into working memory; change blindness provides a striking example. Some theories suggest that selection occurs early in processing, others that attention can be allocated flexibly after stimuli have been identified. With practice, processing can become automatic, so that stimuli no longer require attention.
Governments have great difficulties designing politically sustainable responses to rising public debt. These difficulties are grounded in a limited understanding of the popular constraints during periods of fiscal pressure. For instance, an influential view claims that fiscal austerity does not entail significant political risk. But this research potentially underestimates the impact of austerity on votes because of strategic selection bias. This study addresses this challenge by conducting survey experiments in Spain, Portugal, Italy, the UK and Germany. In contrast to previous findings, the results show that a government's re-election chances greatly decrease if it proposes austerity measures. Voters object particularly strongly to spending cuts and, to a lesser extent, to tax increases. While voters also disapprove of fiscal deficits, they weight the costs of austerity policies more than their potential benefits for the fiscal balance. These findings are inconsistent with the policy recommendations of international financial institutions.
Several decades of basic research support the neural basis of multiple memory systems. These systems are highly relevant to all health behaviors, since behaviors are learned from experience and require some form of memory process to retain learning and affect subsequent action. Research on the neuroscience of appetitive behaviors has rigorously studied motivational processes involved in behaviors such as drug use, diet, and sex. However, very little of this otherwise stellar research has attempted to integrate its findings with multiple memory system views that acknowledge the wide range of memory effects uncovered in several highly relevant basic research areas. Further, good explanatory theories of multiple memory systems studied mostly in addiction and in animal research have not yet been integrated with the vast knowledge base from human cognitive science. Moreover, most research on the epidemiology, prevention, or treatment of problems in appetitive behavior has not taken into account these basic research findings and has instead focused on theories and methods derived primarily from survey research. Yet, basic research areas from neuroscience and cognitive science are highly relevant to all areas of study of appetitive behavior, and the prevailing focus in prevention science on concepts derived from survey research may be channeled mostly by the training of investigators and disciplinary history. This chapter provides one example of how these disparate literatures from basic research might be integrated to advance our understanding of this class of behavior and derive new possibilities for intervention. It highlights examples of key findings supporting the need for a greater translational effort but also highlights large gaps in knowledge. Future research filling these gaps and others in the void between compelling research domains could substantially change and advance the study of addictions and all appetitive or habit-forming behaviors.
This chapter addresses a second set of answers to parallel proceedings in the context of shareholders’ claims for reflective loss, the risks of double recovery, and the inconsistent decisions they lead to: a broader use of the mechanism of consolidation and mass claims in international investment arbitration. First, the mechanism of consolidation is analyzed in the context of investment arbitration by focusing on treaty practice and investment case law. This chapter explains why this mechanism can be useful to reduce instances of parallel proceedings and why it is particularly well suited in the context of such proceedings created by shareholders’ claims for reflective loss. The same analysis is undertaken with respect to the practice of mass claims in investment arbitration, and for similar reasons as with respect to consolidation, this chapter suggests a broader use of such multiparty proceedings in investment arbitration, especially with respect to shareholders’ claims for reflective loss.
Emotional experiences are often more likely than neutral experiences to be remembered, or to be retrieved richly. In this chapter, we provide an overview of how the effects of emotion arise, emphasizing the effects that operate during the initial experience of the event (encoding), the storage and stabilization of the memory trace for that experience (consolidation), and the accessing of that trace (retrieval). We discuss how these effects of emotion can explain both why emotion enhances many aspects of memory throughout the adult life span and also why there are often age-by-valence interactions in memory, with older adults remembering information more positively than younger adults.
Convergence and coordination in the C40 emerged as a function of the authority of Michael Bloomberg and New York City to establish and project onto the governance field a particular set of governance norms and a sense of collective identity. This chapter demonstrates the extent to which convergence around those norms and identity not only continued, but also rather accelerated, following the shift in C40 leadership that took place in early 2014. The analytic focus thus shifts from an emphasis on agency – who claims authority, how actors attempt to shape the substance of the governance field – to the structuring effects that governance fields exert once those ideational and identity contours are entrenched. The chapter documents the extent to which the C40 governance field, from 2014-2018, consolidated around governance norms of autonomous agency and global accountability. The theory of global urban governance fields is deployed to illuminate the manner in which these norms constitute both the parameters within which member cities have come to understand and enact their role as global climate governors, and the mechanism of recognition through which these norms are replicated and reinforced across the C40.