This document represents a study undertaken by MSL Engineering Limited for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to determine the effects of air gap erosion and subsequent hull inundation on a typical Jack-Up structure. A wave-in-deck loading model was developed (" The MSL Model ") and a sensitivity study was performed to assess the important factors affecting the loads generated during inundat...

Background Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia) is found in western North America, extending from the Yukon into British Columbia and Washington, and along the Rocky Mountains and eastern slopes to Colorado [1]. Jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) is a closely related species found east of the Rockies, mainly in Canada’s boreal forest from the Northwest Territories to Qu...

We wish to dedicate this Discussion Meeting Issue to our friend and mentor, the late Prof. Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham (figure 1), who is widely recognized as one of the father figures of modern inorganic chemistry and who died on 17 July 2014. It is particularly fitting since the Scientific DiscussionMeeting between the Royal Society and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldin...

We construct a family of Markov processes with continuous sample trajectories on an infinite-dimensional space, the Thoma simplex. The family depends on three continuous parameters, one of which, the Jack parameter, is similar to the beta parameter in random matrix theory. The processes arise in a scaling limit transition from certain finite Markov chains, the so called up-down chains on the Yo...

We derive a Jacobi-Trudi type formula for Jack functions of rectangular shapes. In this formula, we make use of a hyperdeterminant, which is Cayley’s simple generalization of the determinant. In addition, after developing the general theory of hyperdeterminants, we give summation formulas for Schur functions involving hyperdeterminants, and evaluate Toeplitztype hyperdeterminants by using Jack ...

While working with the urease of the jack bean, the author has had occasion to study the nature of the proteins that are present. The proteins of the jack bean have been investigated by Jones and Johns,’ who claim to have isolated an albumin and two globulins. The precipitate obtained by half saturation with ammonium sulfate, present in small amount and having the greater sulfur content, they c...