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The thermodynamic modelling of carbide, nitride and carbonitride phases has been reviewed and recommendations made. A comprehensive list of assessed phases has been made with a bibliography. Recommended, estimated values for metastable phases have been tabulated. A new method of predicting phase stability of ordered phases has been outlined. This involves the coupling of CVM (cluster variation method) and mean field approximation calculations. Application to the Nb-C system is discussed., QC 20220216

This dissertation investigates the wide-ranging implications of a simple fact: language unfolds over time. Whether as cognitive symbols in our minds, or as their physical realization in the world, if linguistic computations are not made over transient and shifting information as it occurs, they cannot be made at all. This dissertation explores the interaction between the computations, mechanisms, and representations of language acquisition and language processing—with a central theme being the unique study of the temporal restrictions inherent to information processing that I term the immediacy of linguistic computation. This program motivates the study of intermediate representations recruited during online processing and acquisition rather than simply an Input/Output mapping. While ultimately extracted from linguistic input, such intermediate representations may differ significantly from the underlying distributional signal. I demonstrate that, due to the immediacy of linguistic computation, such intermediate representations are necessary, discoverable, and offer an explanatory connection between competence (linguistic representation) and performance (psycholinguistic behavior). The dissertation is comprised of four case studies. First, I present experimental evidence from a perceptual learning paradigm that the intermediate representation of speech consists of probabilistic activation over discrete linguistic categories but includes no direct information about the original acoustic-phonetic signal. Second, I present a computational model of word learning grounded in category formation. Instead of retaining experiential statistics over words and all their potential meanings, my model constructs hypotheses for word meanings as they occur. Uses of the same word are evaluated (and revised) with respect to the learner's intermediate representation rather than to their complete distribution of experience. In the third case study, I probe predictions about the time-cour

Health and social care professionals are required to work together to deliver person-centred care. Professionals therefore find themselves making decisions within multidisciplinary teams. For educators, there has been a call to bring students from differing professions together to learn to enable more effective teamwork, interprofessional communication, and collaborative practice. This multidisciplinary working is complicated by the increasingly complex nature of ethical dilemmas that health and social care professionals face. It is therefore widely recognised that the teaching and learning of ethics within health and social care courses is valuable. In this paper, we briefly make the casein support of teaching and learning health and social care ethics through the medium of interprofessional education (IPE). The purpose of this paper is provide guidance to educators intending to design ethics-orientated IPE for health and social care students. The guidance is based on the ongoing experiences of designing and implementing ethics-orientated IPE across five departments within two universities located in the North of England over a five year period. Descriptions of the ethics-orientated IPE activities are included in the guide, along with key resources recommended.