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HAIRSPRAY - The Broadway Musical
Get PDFDirection of a regional musical theatre production of HAIRSPRAY - The Braodway Musical by Marc Shaiman and Mark O'Donnell & Thomas Meehan. Hamilton's Fraser High School, Clarence Street Theatre, Hamilto
Professional boundaries - how close is too close?
No full textWhen is a nurse at risk of jeopardising being a ‘good nurse’ in their eagerness to be a ‘good neighbour’ or ‘good teammate’? PATRICIA McCLUNIE-TRUST uses a case study to work through some of the professional boundary issues that nurses can face
To code or not to code
Get PDFTo code or not to code
English language teachers seem unsure about the effectiveness of the feedback they offer their
students to help improve their writing. There is debate about whether to identify and correct errors,
or use a prompt and encourage the learner to reflect, which may lead to increased learning and
retention, but the research is inconclusive.
In this presentation we report our findings from a study into the effectiveness of two different types
of prompt for student self-correction in writing from English language learners with a range of
language competency levels.
First the process and reasoning will be explained. Secondly the results within each language level will
be reported, both improvement rates within one process task and over the period of the study.
Finally, a comparison of the error code effectiveness across the levels will be presented
Microstructural Characterization of Thermal Barrier Coatings Glazed by a High Power Laser
Get PDFPlasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings were laser-glazed by a high power laser in order to modify the structures. The microstructure of laser-glazed TBCs is investigated. The result indicates that a smooth and dense glazed surface with craters and a network of microcracks is obtained after laser-glazing. The laser-glazed region consists of a columnar microstructure. There are segmentation microcracks in the laser-glazed coatings, which don’t run through the coatings along thickness. Surface roughness has been reduced significantly for the laser treated ceramic coatings
Breaking Free of Queen? Roger Taylor’s Fun in Space
No full textThis chapter presents a stylistic analysis of Roger Taylor's first solo album Fun in Space. The Queen drummer recorded the album while Queen was at the peak of its commercial success in the early 1980s, and thus it raises interesting questions around stylistic originality and derivation. It is suggested that half the songs on the album relate well to the current style of Queen, while the other half present a stronger representation of the drummer's individual musical voice
Microstructural Characterization of Thermal Barrier Coatings by High Power Laser Glazing
Get PDFAbstract. Plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings were laser glazed by a high power laser in order to modify the structures. The microstructure of laser-glazed TBCs is investigated. The result indicates that a smooth and dense glazed surface with craters and a network of microcracks is obtained after laser glazing. The laser glazed region consists of a columnar microstructure. There are segmentation microcracks in the laser glazed coatings, which don’t run through the coatings along thickness. Surface roughness has been reduced significantly for the laser treated ceramic coatings
A Library for Linearizing Zinc Models
No full textZinc is a modeling language in which a conceptual model is automatically mapped into different design models using well-known solving techniques: constraint programming, mathematical methods, and local search. As a result, Zinc is solver and technique independent. Since original conceptual models may be nonlinear, mapping to linear solvers requires the models to be linearized first. In this paper, we introduce LinZinc, a new library for Zinc which includes necessary functions to linearize high-level data structures and expressions in Zinc models. The interesting point is that, thanks to the extensibility of Zinc, LinZinc is written in Zinc itself instead of being implemented in the compiler. We have used LinZinc for linearizing a set of well-known nonlinear models. The experimental results show that on the one hand, there is no significant overhead in linearizing models and, on the other hand, the linearized models are sometimes faster than the original models. Using the proposed approach, Zinc users can implement their own linearizing techniques without any need to change the language and without being anxious about the mapping overhead
Pianist/Keyboardist for SH48 National Tour 2016, Tauranga (III)
No full textThe 2016 national tour of SH48, a musical by Hamilton-based Chris Williams, used a pre-recorded soundtrack for which I played the piano and keyboard parts
Development, testing and application of DrainFlow: A fully distributed integrated surface-subsurface flow model for drainage study
No full textHydrological and hydrogeological investigation of drained land is a complex and integrated procedure. The scale of drainage studies may vary from a high-resolution small scale project through to comprehensive catchment or regional scale investigations. This wide range of scales and integrated system behaviour poses a significant challenge for the development of suitable drainage models. Toward meeting these requirements, a fully distributed coupled surface-subsurface flow model titled DrainFlow has been developed and is described. DrainFlow includes both the diffusive wave equation for surface flow components (overland flow, open drain, tile drain) and Richard's equation for saturated/unsaturated zones. To overcome the non-linearity problem created from switching between wet and dry boundaries, a smooth transitioning technique is introduced to buffer the model at tile drains and at interfaces between surface and subsurface flow boundaries. This gives a continuous transition between Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. DrainFlow is tested against five well-known integrated surface-subsurface flow benchmarks. DrainFlow as applied to some synthetic drainage study examples is quite flexible for changing all or part of the model dimensions as required by problem complexity, problem scale, and data availability. This flexibility enables DrainFlow to be modified to allow for changes in both scale and boundary conditions, as often encountered in real-world drainage studies. Compared to existing drainage models, DrainFlow has the advantage of estimating actual infiltration directly from the partial differential form of Richard's equation rather than through analytical or empirical infiltration approaches like the Green and Ampt equation