The Use, Testing and Performance of Vibrated Stone Columns in the United Kingdom

2009 ◽  
pp. 212-212-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
KS Watts ◽  
JA Charles
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Stone Columns ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
And Performance

The Social Relations of Business Representation and Devolved Governance in the United Kingdom

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 1853-1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Raco
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cooperative Networks ◽  
Regional Governance ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policymaking And Implementation ◽  
And Performance

The reform of regional governance in the United Kingdom has been, in part, premised on the notion that regions provide new territories of action in which cooperative networks between business communities and state agencies can be established. Promoting business interests is seen as one mechanism for enhancing the economic competitiveness and performance of ‘laggard’ regions. Yet, within this context of change, business agendas and capacities are often assumed to exist ‘out there’, as a resource waiting to be tapped by state institutions. There is little recognition that business organisations' involvement in networks of governance owes much to historical patterns and practices of business representation, to the types of activities that exist within the business sector, and to interpretations of their own role and position within wider policymaking and implementation networks. This paper, drawing on a study of business agendas in post-devolution Scotland, demonstrates that in practice business agendas are highly complex. Their formation in any particular place depends on the actions of reflexive agents, whose perspectives and capacities are shaped by the social, economic, and political contexts within which they are operating. As such, any understanding of business agendas needs to identify the social relations of business as a whole, rather than assuming away such complexities.

Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom—the End of the Beginning?

1993 ◽  
Vol 207 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
J G Collier
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Pressurized Water ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Performance ◽  
United Kingdom Government ◽  
Clean Energy Source

Nuclear power is a young technology that has developed within a political environment of ever-changing priorities. In the United Kingdom, Government-led central planning of electricity supply has given way to market forces and the future of nuclear power depends on its ability to compete in this competitive environment as well as its wider public acceptance. In only three years, the disciplines of private sector competition have transformed the economics of United Kingdom nuclear operations and the new generation of pressurized water reactor (PWR) at Sizewell is set to lead the world in safety and performance. Taken together with the growing recognition of the need to protect the local and global environment from the products of the combustion of fossil fuels, the prospects for the future of nuclear power as the major clean energy source for the twenty-first century have never been better.

Monitoring the Introduction and Performance of a Joint Replacement: The United Kingdom Metal-on-Metal Alert

2011 ◽  
Vol 93 (Suppl 3) ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Tucker ◽  
Paul Gregg ◽  
Peter Kay ◽  
Martyn Porter ◽  
Peter Howard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Joint Replacement ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Metal On Metal ◽  
And Performance

The genitourinary medicine service

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Medicine Service ◽  
Sexual Health Service ◽  
Genitourinary Medicine ◽  
And Performance

The development of the genitourinary medicine/integrated sexual health service in the United Kingdom over the last hundred years is summarized. The chapter then summarizes the aims of the service, and the administrative and clinical processes that are employed in delivering the required services, sexual health promotion activities and performance indicators.

scholarly journals A psychometric approach to supervisory competency assessment

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Vorster ◽  
G. Roodt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Competency Assessment ◽  
Single Factor ◽  
Production Engineering ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Unit Standards ◽  
And Performance ◽  
F Statistics

The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the possibility of using a psychometric approach for assessing supervisory competencies relevant to the mining and refining environment. The competency questionnaire was developed using supervisory roles and registered supervisory unit standards from the United Kingdom (UK), as no registered unit standards exist in South Africa. Twenty-four supervisors from three departments (Production, Engineering and Laboratory) were evaluated by 125 raters; besides by themselves, also by their managers, peers, customers and their sub-ordinates. Based on difference scores derived from the Importance and Performance scales, a single factor was extracted with an internal reliability of 0,965. No statistical significant differences were obtained (ANOVA’s, t-test and F-statistics) between groups based on biographical variables or between rater groups. The findings and their implications are further discussed. Opsomming Die primêre doel van die studie was om die moontlikheid vir die gebruik van ’n psigometriese benadering tot toesighouerbevoegdheidsbeoordeling, te evalueer. Die bevoegdheidsvraelys is ontwikkel deur gebruik te maak van toesighouersrolle en geregistreerde toesighouerseenheidstandaarde van die Verenigde Koningkryk, as gevolg van ‘n gebrek aan bestaande eenheidstandaarde in Suid-Afrika. Vier-en-twintig toesighouers van drie departemente (Produksie, Ingenieurswese en Laboratorium) is deur 125 beoordelaars geëvalueer; buiten deur hulself, ook deur hul bestuurders, kollegas, kliënte en hul ondergeskiktes. ’n Enkele faktor, met ’n betroubaarheid van 0,965, gebaseer op die verskiltellings van die Prestasie- en Belangrikheidskaal, is onttrek. Geen beduidende verskille (ANOVA’s, t-toetse en F-statistiek) kon tussen groepe gebaseer op biografiese veranderlikes en die onderskeie beoordelaarsgroepe gevind word nie. Hierdie bevindinge en die implikasies daarvan word verder bespreek.

Impersonation in Some African Ritual and Festival Performances

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Ukala
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
State University ◽  
Theatre Arts ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Edo State ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Few studies of African ritual and festival performance have been written from a theatrical perspective, and Sam Ukala believes that the richness of such events has yet to be fully explored by African dramatists – while most of the western paratheatrical experiments derived from them have been influenced more by anthroplogical models than aesthetic principles. In pursuit of a dramaturgical approach to the study of African rituals and festivals, he focuses on the role and nature of impersonation in these events, and examines the relationship between the forms, objectives, and contexts of the performances and the kinds of impersonation to be found in them. Distinguishing between the western actor and the African role-player, and between ‘intense impersonation’ and possession, he suggests also some generic parallels between western theatre and African performance. Sam Ukala is a Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Edo State University, Ekpoma, Nigeria. A theatre director and playwright, his published plays include The Slave Wife, The Log in Your Eye, Akpakaland, The Trails of Obiamaka Elema, Break a Boil, and Two Plays: The Placenta of Death and The Last Heroes. In 1998–99 he was resident writer and director at Horse and Bamboo Theatre in the United Kingdom, where, with Bob Frith, he wrote and directed Harvest of Ghosts, a first experiment with wordless visual theatre, an extension of his preoccupation with ‘folkism’, a dramaturgy based on folk compositional and performance aesthetics formulated in his article in NTQ47 (August 1996).

scholarly journals Corporate governance, legal investor protection, and performance in Spain and the United Kingdom

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Angel Castrillo Lara ◽  
Maria Sonia Marcos Naviera ◽  
Juan Manuel San Martín Reyna
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Investor Protection ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Internal Governance Mechanisms ◽  
And Performance

This paper studies the influence of ownership concentration, board size, and debt in firm performance of a sample of 216 companies from Spain and the United Kingdom, over a four-year period (2000-2003), with the aim of uncovering evidence on the influence of the legal environment in the design of governance mechanisms. Our findings show that the legal protection offered to investors in each country determines the use of internal governance mechanisms. The results show that ownership concentration and investor protection are substitutive mechanisms when increasing firm value, and that the latter mechanisms determine the use of the remaining governance mechanisms.

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