Super suburbia: developing resilience by closing resource cycles in North Belfast

Sustainability can be described as having three interlinked strands, known as the ‘trias energetica’, without which resilience is difficult to achieve. These strands are environmental, social and economic: and if taken as indicators, the suburbs of North Belfast are very poorly performing indeed. Places such as Ligoneal and Glen Cairn have poor housing stock energetically, and also little economic activity. This paper describes propositional work completed by Queens University and Belfast City Council as part of the UK’s Technology Strategy Board’s Future Cities Programme, which aimed to develop new synergies in these neighbourhoods by the insertion of closed cycle economies.

By utilising a research by design methodology, the paper develops a process-based and phased design to develop a new emergent form to these neighbourhoods, one in which new productive systems are embedded into the city, at a small-scales. These include a peak-load hydro-electric project in Ligoneal; a productive landscape in Glen Cairn and a city-wide energy refurbishment utilising neighbourhood waste streams.

These designs allow for a roadmap for development to be created that could change the modus operandi of an area over a relatively short period of time, and show that even modest investments of productive technologies at a local scale could fundamentally change the form and the economic and environmental operation of the city in the future, and create a new resilient city, one that can be less externally dependent and more socially just.

New suburbia: designing in urban resilience by closing resource cycles

By utilising a research by design methodology, the paper develops a process-based and phased design to develop a new emergent form to these neighbourhoods, one in which new productive systems are embedded into the city, at a small-scales. These include a peak-load hydro-electric project in Ligoneal; a productive landscape in Glen Cairn and a city-wide energy refurbishment utilising neighbourhood waste streams.

The three projects illustrate different ways in which place-based solutions can enact urban transformation through a process of rigorous visualisation of process, and its attendant changes in content and form of the neighbourhood, These designs, based around a process-based strategy plan, allow for a roadmap for development to be created that could change the modus operandi of an area over a relatively short period of time,. The paper demonstrates that even modest investments of productive technologies at a local scale can fundamentally change the form and the economic and environmental operation of the city in the future, and create a new resilient city, one that can have resilience built-in. This resilience allows the neighbourhood to be less externally dependent on resources, economically active and more socially just.

Summer School Band/Summer School Chorus, July 18, 1939

Concert program for Summer School Band/Summer School Chorus, July 18, 1939

Analysing the results of UK urban freight studies

The paper is based on work carried out as part of the Green Logistics project1. The paper provides a review of urban freight studies that have taken place in the UK over approximately a thirty year period from the early 1970 s to the present (this is the first attempt at such a review in the UK as far as the authors are aware). Coverage of both goods collection and delivery vehicle activity and service vehicle activity is included. This review covers the survey techniques used, as well as the survey results obtained. Comparisons are made between the results of studies from the 1970 s and those carried out in the last decade in order to gain insight to changes in urban freight transport operations. The data provided in the studies reviewed is extremely important as it provides insight into urban freight operations that is unavailable from any other data source, including national freight surveys conducted by government. However, until now, the results of these studies have not been widely disseminated or compared.

Innate immune activation through Nalp3 inflammasome sensing of asbestos and silica

The inhalation of airborne pollutants, such as asbestos or silica, is linked to inflammation of the lung, fibrosis, and lung cancer. How the presence of pathogenic dust is recognized and how chronic inflammatory diseases are triggered are poorly understood. Here, we show that asbestos and silica are sensed by the Nalp3 inflammasome, whose subsequent activation leads to interleukin-1beta secretion. Inflammasome activation is triggered by reactive oxygen species, which are generated by a NADPH oxidase upon particle phagocytosis. (NADPH is the reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate.) In a model of asbestos inhalation, Nalp3-/- mice showed diminished recruitment of inflammatory cells to the lungs, paralleled by lower cytokine production. Our findings implicate the Nalp3 inflammasome in particulate matter-related pulmonary diseases and support its role as a major proinflammatory "danger" receptor

Le Free-Holder, ou L'Anglois jaloux de sa liberté , essais politiques . Traduction de l'anglois

Titre original : The Free-Holder, or Political essays

Mélanges historiques.

Contient : Chartes de Clairmarais ; Archives du comté d'Artois ; Généalogie de la maison de Lens ; Épitaphes de Belgique, envoyées par Chifflet ; Vie de saint Poppo de Stavelot ; Histoire manuscrite des abbés d'Hénin-Liétard, par le R. P. Baudouin de Glen ; Archives de la Chambre des comptes de Lille ; Accord entre l'abbaye de Saint-Vaast d'Arras et Razon de Gand ; Hommage de Simon « de Valle » à H., chatelain de Gand ; Chartes de l'abbaye de Choques ; Lettre de P. de Gomiecourt à A. Duchesne ; Obituaire de Saint-Barthélemi de Béthune ; Archives de Terremonde ; Généalogie de la maison de Béthune ; Maison de Limbourg ; Maison de Luxembourg ; « Ex historia Luzemburgica manuscripta praesidis Bewingii » ; Extraits de divers mémoires et recueils concernant la maison de Luxembourg ; Chevaliers de la Toison d'Or des maisons de Luxembourg, Vergy, Melun ; Généalogie fabuleuse de la maison de Luxembourg ; Lettres de P. de Gomiecourt à A. Duchesne ; Lettre de Pierre-François Chifflet à A. Duchesne ; Sur les fiefs des diverses provinces de France ; Lettre de Nyau, conseiller au siège présidial de la Flèche ; Sur les villes d'Anjou ; Extraits de mémoires sur Loudun ; Mémoires sur Thouars ; Notice sur Mirebeau en Poitou ; Lettre de [Pierre] Robert, lieutenant-général de Dorat, à A. Duchesne ; Mémoire dudit Pierre Robert sur le Poitou ; Mémoire du même sur la Marche ; Notes sur le comté de Beaumont-sur-Oise ; Notes sur le Boulenois ; Notes sur le Ponthieu ; Coutumes du bailliage de Melun ; Lettres de Constantin à Duchesne ; Lettre de Fr. de Saint-Amant à Duchesne ; Notes sur la chevalerie ; Notice sur la maison de Courtenay ; Discours sur la province de Champagne ; Confirmation des libertés des foires de Champagne ; Plaque commémorative des restaurations de la cathédrale de Troyes ; Notes sur l'abbaye de Saint-Loup de Troyes ; Notes sur l'Auxerrois ; Divisions ecclésiastiques du diocèse de Langres ; Notice sur le diocèse de Toul ; Mémoires de François Ranchin sur Montpellier ; Notice sur le marquisat de Fimarcon ; Note sur le pays de Comminges ; Histoire de la ville d'Arles ; Villes et châteaux du comté de Valentinois ; Notes sur Lyon et le Lyonnais

Men's Basketball Team (1988-89)

Coach: Garney Henley Team (Alphabetically): Bruce Adams, Frank Capretta, Kevin Farrow, David Dennis, Rob Demott, Brian Hayden, Peter Kaija, Steve Kolenko, Leacoft Panton, Kevin Rome, Kevin Stevinson, Glen Tone, Moe Willoughby

Geography Football Team

The winning intramural football team from the Geography department. Pictured from left to right are: Brian Rogers, Lino Fuciarelli, Tim Slack, Les Selby, Larry Miller, Bob Lunge (captain), Ron Devereux, Bob Steele, and Gerry Gamble.

Ed Davis Award

Ed Davis, former hockey coach, with Glen Craig, recipient of the Ed Davis Award for being the team's most valuable player.

Water quality and fish populations of the Welland River, Ontario /

The water quality and fish populations of the Welland River were observed to decline with distance downstream. This coincided with increased agricultural , domestic and industrial waste loadings. The river upstream of the City of Welland received considerable loadings from agricultural sources. Centrarchids, sciaenids, ictalurids, cyprinids and esocids characterized this upper section of the river. Most of these species were tolerant of low dissolved oxygen concentrations and the high turbidity which prevailed there . The river near Port Robinson receives many industrial and domestic wastes as evidenced by the water quality data. The fish in this section were less abundant and the observed population was comprised almost solely of cyprinids. Further downstream, near Montrose, the Welland River received shock loads of chemical wastes that exceeded a specific conductance of ISiOOO ;umhos/cm. Few fish were captured at this site and those that were captured were considered to be transients. A review of the literature revealed that none of the common indices of water quality in use today could adequately predict the observed distributions. In addition to the above, the long-term trend (l3 yrs) of water quality of the lower Welland River revealed a gradual improvement. The major factor thought to be responsible for this improvement was the operation of the Welland Sewage Treatment Plant. The construction of the New Welland Ship Canal coincided with large fluctuations of the total solids and other parameters downstream. These conditions prevailed for a maximum of three years (1972- 1975)' Furthermore, spawning times and temperatures, geographic distributions, length-weight regressions and many other descriptive aspects of the ecology of some 26 species/ taxa of fish were obtained. Several of these species are rare or new to southern Ontario.

The micromorphology of Paleoseismic soft sediment deformation structures in glacial deposits from three sample sites in Scotland /

The nature of this research is to investigate paleoseismic deformation of glacial soft sediments from three sampling sites throughout the Scottish Highlands; Arrat's Mills, Meikleour and Glen Roy. The paleoseismic evidence investigated in this research will provide a basis for applying criteria to soft sediment deformation structures, and the trigger mechanisms that create these structures. Micromorphology is the tool used in this to investigate paleoseismic deformation structures in thin section. Thin section analysis, (micromorphology) of glacial sediments from the three sampling sites is used to determine microscale evidence of past earthquakes that can be correlated to modem-day events and possibly lead to a better understanding of the impact of earthquakes throughout a range of sediment types. The significance of the three sampling locations is their proximity to two major active fault zones that cross Scotland. The fault zones are the Highland Boundary Fault and the Great Glen Fault, these two major faults that parallel each other and divide the country in half Sims (1975) used a set of seven criteria that identified soft sediment deformation structures created by a magnitude six earthquake in Cahfomia. Using criteria set forth by Sims (1975), the paleoseismic evidence can be correlated to the magnitude of the deformation structures found in the glacial sediments. This research determined that the microstructures at Arrat's Mill, Meikleour and Glen Roy are consistent with a seismically induced origin. It has also been demonstrated that, even without the presence of macrostructures, the use of micromorphology techniques in detecting such activity within sediments is of immense value.