5,170 research outputs found
Indenture between George William Allen and Samuel Zimmerman
No full textIndenture of bargain and sale between George William Allen of Toronto and Samuel Zimmerman of Niagara Falls for 200 acres more or less in Lot no. 13 in the South Concession in the Township of Warwick, May 8, 1856
Kickstart VR at Warwick taster sessions
No full textAn initial report on VR-enhanced seminars with staff and students. Held over 2 days in May 2017, these workshops provided a diverse group of staff and students at the University of Warwick with a valuable opportunity to experience and think about virtual reality. The VR phenomenon is at the top of its hype cycle (again), with significant breakthroughs having been made in technology and in the design of VR content. However, not many people in higher education have experienced what can be achieved with the latest technologies and content design approaches, and yet fewer have been able to contribute to its development in the context of learning and teaching. This report makes recommendations, based on the workshops, as to how we should introduce, integrate and support virtual reality in learning, teaching and the student experience
Processes of 'positive multiculturalism' in practice : an extended case study with Warwick Arts Centre (WAC)
No full textThis thesis consists of three distinct but interconnecting case studies that took place
between 2007 and 2010 in collaboration with Warwick Arts Centre (WAC), Britain’s
second largest multi-arts venue. The study developed practice-led methods to
investigate the dynamic interactions between notions and perceptions of
‘multiculturalism’ and ‘internationalism’ in relation to WAC’s theatre and performance
programming and education activities. The first case study is a qualitative audience
reception study designed to make sense of WAC’s programme in relation to
multicultural and international issues. The second case study focuses on an
educational outreach project that placed two local schools in collaboration with a
commissioned teacher-artist and a University of Warwick academic. These
encounters inspired the final case study, which made use of WAC’s newly built
Creative Space as a site for a devising project with young people from nearby
Coventry, culminating in a performance for an invited audience.
The thesis explores the varied complexities that frame ‘multiculturalism’ by focusing
on its origins as a political concept in post-1945 Britain and its subsequent
association with contemporary contentious social, political and cultural national and
international issues. An analysis of the negative effects of ‘multiculturalism’ is
balanced by considerations of the project’s emergent concepts: ‘hospitality’ and
‘conviviality’, which articulate the possibilities of living in diversity in more ‘positive’
terms. These paradigms reverberate throughout each case study, informing their
methodologies, influencing their conceptual frameworks and placing
‘multiculturalism’ in more dynamic and relevant dimensions of pedagogical and
creative practices. Each case study considers collaboration between strangers and
investigates the potential of WAC as a hospitable and convivial environment. These
new perspectives demonstrate the optimistic possibilities of creative and humane
action for producing a ‘positive multiculturalism’
Social distinction and the written word : two provincial case studies, Warwick and Draguignan, 1780-1820
No full textThis is a comparative study of two countries, England and France, two county towns,
Warwick and Draguignan, and two families of the trading-manufacturing sort. It
argues that, during the period around 1780-1820, the acquisition of a certain form of
education, which included an emphasis on fluent reading, writing, and grammar.
preferably Latin grammar, became as important as the acquisition of capital. This
cultural capital gave its new owners a self-perceived distinction which allowed them to
consider themselves and to be considered by others as different.
Even if local, regional, and national differences are taken into account, this
comparative study shows that this new perception developed as a transnational
phenomenon, a form of culture sallS jrolltieres, even during the times of enmity and
almost uninterrupted wars between Britain and France which characterise this period.
This process had begun earlier in the eighteenth century, when the idea of a public
opinion and its premise of equal interaction amongst its proponents was 'invented'; but
it was facilitated by the French Revolution with its legacy of the notion of equality, and
therefore of the importance of communication in forging democracy. The written word
was the chosen means to achieve this.
It is argued that this distinctive culture, in the production and consumption of which
women played a considerable part, gave voice and a social and political consciousness
to those who began to see themselves as the 'middle class'
And So The Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop at the University of Warwick
No full textPulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s work has become required reading in literary criticism, and yet no syllabus appears to provision for the in-depth discussion his texts, particularly the 1985 novel, Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West, require. The ‘And So the Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop’ at the University of Warwick emerged from the idea to provide a space that facilitates such a discussion. Designed to bring academics and non-academics of all ages together in one space, the workshop quickly developed from a small, Warwick-based event into a live-streamed and recorded international conference with a significant audience based in the United States. The workshop reaffirmed the interest in the novel’s enigmatic antagonist Judge Holden and motifs such as the landscape and violence. Less traditional ideas of the judge were also discussed, such as reading the judge as fraud or as weary of chaos and perpetual violence. The workshop succeeded in creating a space to share thoughts and ideas and continue the academic discourse on the novel. Speakers included Dr Nicholas Monk and Dr David Holloway, both established McCarthy critics; Peter Josyph whose artistic engagement with McCarthy’s work and career his highly respected among critics; and Dr Dan O’Hara, expert in American Studies. Ronan Hatfull and Katja Laug represented the younger generation of McCarthy critics. Live-streaming also afforded insights into the academic discourse to the mostly non-academic online audience. The article provides a summary of the day’s events and the links to the edited recordings
The interpretive approach to religious education and the development of a community of practice
No full textThe practitioners and researchers whose work is reported in this book have come together as a community of practice around particular principles and methods of education and research. The interpretive approach to religious education and a given model of action research provided common organising principles for the design, implementation and interpretation of the community’s diverse projects but they did not provide a rigid framework. Instead individual projects and shared reflections became testing grounds for them both. This book documents a development of thinking about the interpretive approach and action research so that the version of both presented in the later chapters will be seen to differ in some respects from the models from which the Warwick community of practice set out. It is therefore appropriate to begin this book with two chapters that explain the project’s starting points, the origins and initial formulations of those models
Macroecology and meiobenthos: Reply to Warwick (2014)
No full textWarwick (2014; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 505:295-298) suggests that my claim that the biology of marine metazoan benthos may scale continuously with body mass (Bett 2013; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 487:1-6) is an overstatement. His alternative hypothesis is that there is a ‘step-change’ in allometric relationships between the meio- and macrobenthos. I continue to propose that simple null hypotheses for standing stock size spectra and species size spectra of the metazoan benthos, consistent with metabolic theory and macroecology, offer parsimonious solutions. For standing stock and species size spectra I present field data that conform to these null hypotheses. Data from other studies, such as those suggested by Warwick (2014), may be difficult to place in the macroecological context, as those studies are constructed or presented in a different manner (e.g. they lack data on the number of individuals identified). I suggest that it may be useful to consider ‘evolutionary species size spectra’ separately from ‘macroecological species size spectra’. Both are valid testable hypotheses, and are not necessarily contradictory
Triviality of the 2D stochastic Allen-Cahn equation
No full textWe consider the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation driven by mollified space-time white noise. We show that, as the mollifier is removed, the solutions converge weakly to
0, independently of the initial condition. If the intensity of the noise simultaneously converges to 0 at a sufficiently fast rate, then the solutions converge to those of the
deterministic equation. At the critical rate, the limiting solution is still deterministic, but it exhibits an additional damping term
Application and development of fieldbus : executive summary
No full textConfusion over fieldbus technology by manufacturers and customers alike is due to a number of
factors. The goal of a single global fieldbus standard, the subsequent development of European
standards, the recognition of a number of emerging de facto standards and the continued
international standardisation of fieldbus technology is still perplexing potential fieldbus users. The
initial low supply and demand for suitable devices and compatible controller interfaces, the high
cost of control systems and inertia caused by resistance to change have all contributed to the slow
adoption of fieldbus technology by industry. The variable quality of fieldbus documentation has not
assisted the acceptance of this new technology.
An overview of industrial control systems, fieldbus technology, present and future trends is given.
The quantifiable benefits of fieldbus are identified in the assessment of fieldbus applications and
guidance on the appropriate criteria for the evaluation and selection of fieldbus are presented. End
users can use this and network planning to establish the viability, suitability and benefits of various
control system architectures and configurations prior to implementation.
The enhancements to a network configuration tool are shown to aid control system programming
and the provision of comprehensive diagnostics. A guide to fieldbus documentation enables
manufacturers to produce clear, consistent fieldbus documentation. The safety-related features for
a machine safety fieldbus are also determined for an existing network technology.
Demonstrators have been produced to show the novel use of fieldbus technology in different areas.
Transitory connections are utilised to reduce complexity and increase functionality. A machine
safety fieldbus is evaluated in the first installation of a fully networked control application.
Interoperability of devices from many different manufacturers and the benefits of fieldbus are
proven.
Experience gained during the membership of the British Standards Institution AMT/7 Committee
identified the impact of standards and legislation on fieldbus implementation and highlighted the
flawed use of standards to promote fieldbus technology. The Committee prepared a Guide to the
evaluation of fieldbus specifications, a forthcoming publication by the BSI.
The Projects presented have increased and developed the appropriate use of fieldbus technology
through novel application, technical enhancement, demonstration and knowledge dissemination
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