Charlie Hughes and Richard Spray
This paper addresses the relevance of ‘smart communities’ to corporate real estate. It defines smart communities within a context of smart growth, ethical investment, brownland…
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This paper addresses the relevance of ‘smart communities’ to corporate real estate. It defines smart communities within a context of smart growth, ethical investment, brownland regeneration and sustainability and seeks to explore the potential of such communities to leverage value for the corporation, not just in terms of land value as bottom‐line benefit but also in respect of longer‐term added shareholder value as expressed by the positioning of the corporation within its community and its political access level. Focusing on corporations with significant non‐operational land banks, it addresses the problem, the potential and the process supporting this with a current example of best practice.
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Richard C. Lumb and Paul C. Friday
Use of “less than lethal weapons” by police has generated extreme review and controversy in some highly publicized cases. Confronting hostility and aggressiveness, police officers…
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Use of “less than lethal weapons” by police has generated extreme review and controversy in some highly publicized cases. Confronting hostility and aggressiveness, police officers cannot turn away and flee from a dangerous situation, forcing them to select the best available option for controlling the individual. Among the officers’ choice of responses, oleoresin capsicum (OC) pepper spray has proven to be extremely effective. However, this is not a risk‐free weapon, and due to a number of suspect deaths following its use, it has become controversial. Investigates if OC spray reduced the frequency and level of use of force, and if its availability affected the number of suspect and officer injuries.
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Protection by flame spraying. The photo right shows variable depth, propeller drive shaft support barrels protected externally against water corrosion by flame spraying at the…
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Protection by flame spraying. The photo right shows variable depth, propeller drive shaft support barrels protected externally against water corrosion by flame spraying at the works of Deritend Electrical Services, a member of the Deritend Group, St Richard's House, Victoria Square, Droitwich, Worcestershire WR9 8DS.
Geigy Co. Ltd. Stand 75. Diversified application of benzotriazole as a corrosion inhibitor specifically for copper and its alloys is the main theme of Geigy's stand.
J.I. Case Europe Ltd's manufacturing complex at Redruth, Cornwall, is the home of this American owned company's total European manufacturing output of skid steer Uni‐loaders. It…
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J.I. Case Europe Ltd's manufacturing complex at Redruth, Cornwall, is the home of this American owned company's total European manufacturing output of skid steer Uni‐loaders. It was established on a large green field site in 1981 initially for the production of crawler tractors, previously made at the company's Leeds factory.
Akif Kaynak and Richard Foitzik
Soluble conducting alkyl polypyrrole polymers have been applied by either chemical polymerization of the 3-alkyl monomers or direct application of polymer emulsion to the surface…
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Soluble conducting alkyl polypyrrole polymers have been applied by either chemical polymerization of the 3-alkyl monomers or direct application of polymer emulsion to the surface. Solution, vapor and spray polymerization methods of coating poly(3-alkylpyrroles) to the surface of woven wool fabrics are explored. Conductive textile samples have also been prepared by applying emulsions of soluble prepolymerized 3-alkylpyrrole to the fabric surface. Direct applications of a conductive paint to the textile surface eliminate the exposure of the substrate to damaging oxidizing agents which allow the coating of more sensitive and delicate substrates. All textiles produced are tested for abrasion resistance and conductivity. For alkyl polypyrrole coated fabrics, the optimum carbon chain lengths are between n=10 and n=14, which result in optimum values of conductivity and solubility. The darkness of the tone is inversely related to the surface resistivity of the resulting conductive fabric. Therefore, deep black coatings have low resistivity whereas light gray coatings on a white fabric surface have higher surface resistivity. Longer alkyl chains result in higher surface resistivity in fabrics. The conductive coating of poly(3-decanylpyrrole) on the textile surface has a better abrasion resistance compared to that of an unsubstituted polypyrrole coating.
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A NEW high‐performance drum filling system suitable for any liquid processing activity has been developed by Richard Simon and Sons.
Last month in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, Richard Noble (the British Land Speed Record Holder) was driving Thrust 2 to break the world land speed record of 622 m.p.h. that…
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Last month in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, Richard Noble (the British Land Speed Record Holder) was driving Thrust 2 to break the world land speed record of 622 m.p.h. that was set in 1970 by an American.
The brief announcement that the Government had accepted that there should be regulations on open date marking of food, to come into effect in 1975, will come as no surprise. It is…
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The brief announcement that the Government had accepted that there should be regulations on open date marking of food, to come into effect in 1975, will come as no surprise. It is a timely reminder of what public pressure can achieve these days; how sustained advocacy and publicity by interested sectors of society—magistrates, local authorities, public health workers, consumer groups—can secure legislative changes which, in this case, run counter to trade opinions and the recommendation originally made by the Food Standards Committee that such a proposal was not practical and the existing law was an adequate protection. This was stated in the FSC Report on Food Labelling of 1964, although there was no indication of the evidence reviewed or that the subject had been considered very deeply; it was, after all, only a small fraction of the problem of food labelling control. It was also stated in this Report that in certain cases, date‐stamping of food could give to purchasers a false sense of security, “not justified by the conditions under which the food has been kept since manufacture”.