407 research outputs found
Dod Proctor (1892-1972)
No full textOn the occasion of a touring exhibition of Proctor's paintings that visited Liverpool, Penzance and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, during 1990, the author describes Dod Proctor's training, her marriage to Ernest Proctor and the reception of her exhibitions. She gives details of all Proctor's exhibitions and follows her tours abroad after Ernest's death
Mary Proctor: An astronomical popularizer in the shadows
No full textThe popularizer of astronomy Mary Proctor was well known in her days but has been little remembered since. A prominent lecturer and author, Proctor was trained in the craft of science writing by her father, Richard Proctor. She ‘held the very first place in the profession as a woman’ and promoted the role of women in science throughout her career. Her life illuminates many themes. Mary Proctor spanned the period between entrepreneurial science popularizers and professional science communicators. I suggest that one of her most important legacies is as an early pioneer of the practices of science journalism in the early twentieth century when the relations between science and society were in flux. Yet her legacy has been largely overlooked. A study of Proctor's life reveals multiple interests, diverse opportunities and the way that people are differently remembered
Henry Hugh Proctor: the Atlanta years, 1894-1920, 1992
No full textThis study is an historical examination of the contributions made by Dr. Henry H. Proctor, the first African American pastor of the First Congregational Church in Atlanta, Georgia from 1894 to 1920. The study emphasizes Dr. Proctor's multifaceted career as pastor of First Congregational Church, as community developer, church administrator, church builder, army chaplain, civil rights activist, educator, and author of religious publications. Preliminary chapters examine Proctor's early life and development in the backwoods of Tennessee, his early education, and his conversion to the ministry. Separate chapters are devoted to his contributions, within a hostile southern society, as an instrument cultivating harmony between the races in Atlanta. Attention is given to his role as a model for Black leadership for his church and its surrounding community. The focus, however, is on his major achievements as a missionary to the South, community builder in Atlanta, and church administrator. His flexibility on racial and educational issues; impressive oratory; energetic advocacy of civil rights; discreet negotiations demeanor; and charismatic appeals to African Americans and whites; his sensitivities to the social, spiritual, and cultural needs of African Americans In Atlanta won him a considerable following within the city of Atlanta and the world as well. His successes are analyzed in relation to his impact on the Atlanta community and African Americans throughout the nation. The effects of his growing power within the Congregational Church bring to light some interesting parallels between his mission to the South and his missionary work throughout the nation. This study suggests that Proctor played a central role in sustaining the efforts of the institutional church in Atlanta. His church became the cornerstone of social and spiritual development for African Americans in Atlanta. His legacy spanned some twenty-five years and embraced a philosophy that was geared to solving the great racial problems in the South
The satanic panic surrounding Proctor and Gamble
No full textThe 1980s were a time of changes and this change was not always welcome. Fear mongering seems to be how large groups of susceptible people were coxed into thinking certain things like illustrations, sayings and logos are signs of the devils works. This is exactly what happened to Proctor and Gamble, or P&G. Satanic Panics were rampant in America with the story of Satanic cults and devil worship spreading across the country. [Introduction]. Poster presented in History 1160, University of Prince Edward Island, Fall 2018.Poster presented in History 1160, University of Prince Edward Island, Fall 201
Making mentoring matter: the 'proctor process' of faculty mentoring in higher education
No full textOver the past few years, there have been a number of student protests at major institutions rallying for inclusion and equity. A primary demand is increasing faculty diversity. According to the 2012 National Science Foundation Survey of Earned Doctorates, Blacks comprised fewer doctorate recipients than Whites, Asians, and Hispanics. African Americans pursuing doctoral education have various sociological and institutional challenges. In light of the challenges facing African Americans, mentoring has been seen as a critical part of doctoral education for any student. This dissertation project explored a historical mentoring model of African American doctoral students using the late Rev. Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor as the unit of analysis. Dr. Proctor (1921 – 1997) was a theologian and educator who was brought to Rutgers University in 1969 to assist in the advancement of diversity and social justice issues and to increase the number of students of color in graduate programs. During his tenure, he has been noted for producing the most African American doctorates in the history of Rutgers. Using a hybrid approach combining oral history and narrative inquiry, this dissertation addresses the following research questions: 1. Was there an identifiable “Proctor process” of African American doctoral student mentorship? If so, what practices did it entail? 2. How might the Proctor process serve as a model for mentorship of African American doctoral students today? Primary and secondary sources were used in conjunction with an oral history of six graduate students mentored by Proctor at Rutgers between 1969 and 1984. These interviews were transcribed and analyzed to highlight emerging themes. An exploration of the influence of religion and theology on mentoring for social change was incorporated as well. The data led to the development of the Proctor Model of Mentoring, and challenges the literature to consider effective faculty mentoring, intentional mentoring models for graduate students of color, and unique approaches to penetrating the doctoral pipeline in higher education.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Atiya S. Strother
Compactness of Scrap Tyre Rubber Aggregates in Standard Proctor Test
No full textAbstractScrap tyre derived aggregates (TDA) have been used in civil engineering since 1990-ties, mainly in the USA. The material may be used in various forms and sizes – from powder, through granulates, tyre shreds, chips. The TDA applications include: lightweight fills in embankments over soft soils, lightweight backfills behind retaining walls, insulation and drainage layers etc. In most of the works the material needs to be compacted to decrease the void ratio of the aggregate and reduce future settlement. This paper presents a study on compactness of four different fractions of scrap tyre rubber (A: 0.1 – 1mm, B: 0.5 – 2mm, C: 2 – 5mm and D: 10 – 40mm) in the standard Proctor test. The results in the form of dependency of dry and bulk density on water content are compared also with adequate results obtained for a clean uniform medium sand. It turns out that the optimum moisture content can be clearly estimated only in the case of the finest fraction (sample A) and it is equal to about 40%. The variability of dry density is however small – it changes from 0.54 to 0.61g/cm3. Coarser TDAs behave more like self-draining materials – they retain much less water and the maximum moisture content equals to about 18%, 23% and 38% in case of tyre chips (D), 2 – 5mm grains (C) and 0.5 – 2mm grains (B) respectively. The dry densities for samples B, C and D possible to be obtained with standard Proctor energy have been estimated as: 0.61, 0.60 and 0.59g/cm3 respectively
Perceptions, 1985
No full text43 pages. Editor: Robby J. Spriggs. Managing Editor: Brenda C. Proctor. Cover: Amber West.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/perceptions/1003/thumbnail.jp
Differences in Radiative Forcing, Not Sensitivity, Explain Differences in Summertime Land Temperature Variance Change Between CMIP5 and CMIP6
No full text© The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Chan, D., Rigden, A., Proctor, J., Chan, P. W., & Huybers, P. Differences in radiative forcing, not sensitivity, explain differences in summertime land temperature variance change between CMIP5 and CMIP6. Earth’s Future, 10(2), (2022): e2021EF002402, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002402.How summertime temperature variability will change with warming has important implications for climate adaptation and mitigation. CMIP5 simulations indicate a compound risk of extreme hot temperatures in western Europe from both warming and increasing temperature variance. CMIP6 simulations, however, indicate only a moderate increase in temperature variance that does not covary with warming. To explore this intergenerational discrepancy in CMIP results, we decompose changes in monthly temperature variance into those arising from changes in sensitivity to forcing and changes in forcing variance. Across models, sensitivity increases with local warming in both CMIP5 and CMIP6 at an average rate of 5.7 ([3.7, 7.9]; 95% c.i.) × 10−3°C per W m−2 per °C warming. We use a simple model of moist surface energetics to explain increased sensitivity as a consequence of greater atmospheric demand (∼70%) and drier soil (∼40%) that is partially offset by the Planck feedback (∼−10%). Conversely, forcing variance is stable in CMIP5 but decreases with warming in CMIP6 at an average rate of −21 ([−28, −15]; 95% c.i.) W2 m−4 per °C warming. We examine scaling relationships with mean cloud fraction and find that mean forcing variance decreases with decreasing cloud fraction at twice the rate in CMIP6 than CMIP5. The stability of CMIP6 temperature variance is, thus, a consequence of offsetting changes in sensitivity and forcing variance. Further work to determine which models and generations of CMIP simulations better represent changes in cloud radiative forcing is important for assessing risks associated with increased temperature variance.This study was supported by the Harvard Global Institute and NSF (Award 1903657). D. Chan was also supported by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Weston Howland Jr. Postdoctoral Fellowship
Mixed Integer Programming Approach on Examination Proctor Assignment Problem
No full textAbstractThis study targets an examination proctor assignment problem where faculties and academic staffs are assigned to examinations as proctors in the regular examination period at our university. In previous work, the author formulated fundamental mathematical model for the assignment task in a mixed integer programming form and developed a prototype system based on spreadsheet software to derive an optimal assignment. In this study, the proposed mathematical model is extended and revised to deal with the conditions in the assignment task. Some solutions are discussed to improve practicality for system users
Bibliographical essays,
No full textMemorial volume, containing all of Proctor's bibliographical essays and papers, with a memoir prefixed. Edited by A. W. Pollard."Two hundred copies printed. no. 158 [signed] A. W. P."Robert Proctor [memoir]--Report of Proctor memorial fund.--Accipies woodcut.--On two plates in Sotheby's 'Principia typographica.'--Marcus Reinhard and Johann Grüninger.--Incunabula at Grenoble.--The 'Gutenberg' Bible.--A short view of Berthelet's editions of the statues of Henry VIII.--On two Lyonnese editions of the 'Ars moriendi'.--Ulrich von Ellenbog and the press of S. Ulrich at Augsburg.--The French royal Greek types and the Eton Chrysostom.--The early printers of Köln.--Tracts on early printing: I. List of the founts of type and woodcut devices used by the printers of the southern Netherlands in the fifteenth century. II. A note on Eberhard Frommolt of Basel, printer. III. Additions to Campbell's 'Annales de la typographie neérlandaise au 15e siècle.--Table of supplements to Campbell.--Author-register.--Index.Mode of access: Internet
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