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Jazz Combos | Spring Concert
Full text linkJustin Chesarek, Marc Miller, Justin Powell,
and Luke Weathington, Directors
Trey Wright, Jazz Combo Coordinatorhttps://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2868/thumbnail.jp
An Historical Perspective of the Growth and Development of Canada\u27s Petroleum Industry: 1946-1970
Full text linkPrior to 1947, 85% of Canada\u27s crude oil requirements were met by importing oil from foreign sources. Most of this oil came from the United States and Venezuela. The oil from the United States entered Canada by means of pipe lines to the Sarnia and Montreal areas while that shipped into the prairie provinces arrived by railroad tank car. Canada\u27s coastal refineries, in the Maritimes and in British Columbia, received their oil by way of tankers. In all, domestic oil production in Canada in 1946 amounted to only 21,000 barrels per day, while imports exceeded 200,000 barrels per day.\u27 This contributed to Canada\u27s deficit balance of trade and worked an economic hardship on a nation the size of Canada. In the search for oil in Canada, large amounts of capital had been invested with the seemingly inevitable result of an additional dry hole. Since 1860, with the exception of the Turner Valley Oil Field in Alberta, no major oil discovery had been made in Canada. By 1946, production of the Turner Oil Field had dropped from its peak of 11,000,000 barrels in 1930 to a mere 6,000,000 barrels in 1946.2 One factor contributing to the decline in production was the extreme demand placed on this field during the war years. With national orders for oil and oil products increasing every day, it was apparent that the Turner Oil Fieldsupplemented by other smaller fields in Alberta-would not be able to meet even the requirements of the western prairie provinces in the near future
Automated Photo Interpretation Research and Geo-Based Information Usage in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Full text linkMost of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\u27 (USACE) Computer Assisted Photo Interpretation Research (CAPIR) program is centered around the use of the APPS-IV analytical stereo-plotter.\u27 This computer supported photogrammetric instrument performs stereomodel set-up, threedimensional digitizing in a continuous stereo environment, data bank creation, mapping, and superposition.2 The initial Corps of Engineers demonstration of CAPIR technology, using the APPS-IV plotter, involved compilation of a digital data base (land cover fuse, topography, and structure inventory) to project economic flood damages in a reach of the Clinton River basin of Michigan. Two other demonstrations slated by the Corps involve: (1) mapping historical changes in wetlands on the Columbia River in the USACE Portland, Oregon District and (2) creating and revising digital files of the Master Plan for Ft. Lewis, Washington (Greczy, 1982, 3). A sizeable portion of the following discussion will focus on the APPS-IV system
Editor\u27s Comments Guest Editorial Applied Geography: Retrospect and Prospect
Full text linkJust as the wayward Christian often seeks atonement and salvation during troubled times of crisis, so too has geography knelt before the altar seeking to be born again. In the judgment of some, we have sinned. We have worshiped false idols and turned our backs to the desperate cries of even our own followers. Now we ourselves plead for understanding, a new perspective, and redemption. A voice calls out, warning us that there is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism. As Christians, we know we have heard Truth; as geographers, aware of the many perceptions of god held by various cultures, we wonder. Is our newly acquired faith truly going to set us free
Extracting, Evaluating, and Enhancing Metadata for Institutional Researchers in Wikidata
No full textOpen, non-proprietary persistent identifiers and their associated metadata are invaluable sources of information regarding researchers, research products, and research impact. Our project made use of ORCID iDs and Wikidata IDs (QIDs) to identify researchers at our institution who have a Wikidata profile. We searched the Wikidata database and extracted QIDs that had an ORCID iD from one of our researchers listed as an external identifier. Next, we extracted metadata from each researcher’s QID, resulting in a list of contributed properties and values. We processed these data, focusing on verifying that individuals were correctly affiliated with our institution, determining frequently occurring properties and values, and selecting properties that would be valuable to add to Wikidata entries. Our institution has a Research Information Management System that provides researchers with an institutional profile containing information about their publications, teaching, and other scholarly endeavors. We plan to create a custom property in Wikidata that will enable us to add a new external identifier to researchers’ Wikidata profiles that links back to their institutional profile. This presentation will overview our methods for extracting Wikidata metadata, the data cleaning and verification process, and the progress we have made in contributing new information to researchers’ Wikidata profiles