608 research outputs found
Did the Glorious Revolution Contribute to the Transport Revolution? Evidence from Investment in Roads and Rivers
No full textTransport infrastructure investment increased substantially in Britain between the seventeenth and eighteenth century. This paper argues that the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 contributed to transportation investment by reducing uncertainty about the security of improvement rights. It shows that road and river investment was low in the 1600s when several undertakers had their rights violated by major political changes or decrees from the King. It also shows that investment permanently increased after the Glorious Revolution when there was a lower likelihood that undertakers had their rights voided by acts. Together the evidence suggests that the political and institutional changes following Glorious Revolution made rights to improve infrastructure more secure and that promoters and investors responded to greater security by proposing and financing more projects.Property rights; Investment under uncertainty; Glorious Revolution; Transport Revolution
The early impact of Brighton and Hove's school admission reforms
No full textWe analyse the initial impact of a major school admission reform in Brighton and Hove. The new system incorporated a lottery for oversubscribed places and new catchment areas. We examine the post-reform changes in school composition. We locate the major winners and losers in terms of the quality of school attended. We match similar cities and conduct a difference-in-difference analysis of the policy change. We see no significant change in student sorting: if anything, the point estimates suggest a rise in socio-economic segregation. We do see a significant weakening of the dependence of school attended on student’s prior attainment.school lottery, segregation, school admissions reforms
Bogart, Jennie C. (Death, 1907-07-01)
No full textAddress: 1025 Clark St.Age at death: 6918/Pg 74/1907/F W W/City/Dr. D.E. Weaver/Wm. H. Dunkman & Son/Spring Grove Cem.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'BOEL-BOIS'
Spining, Clara Montfort (Death, 1904-02-15)
No full textAddress: 3553 Bogart AvenueAge at death: 38438/Pg.25/1904/F W S/City/Dr. R. C. Jones/Charles M. Epply/Spring Grove Cem.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'SPANCE-STAHEL'
Bogart, William H. (Birth, 1890-08-23)
No full textAddress: 126 Harrison Ave.5231/Pg. 127/1890/W M/Amer./Amer./Dr. C. C. AginOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'BOEL-BOIS'
Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830
No full textAdaptable property-rights institutions, we argue, foster economic development. The British example illustrates this point. Around 1700, Parliament established a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to take advantage of economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In this essay, historical evidence, archival data, and statistical analysis demonstrate that Parliament increased the number of acts reorganizing property rights in response to increases in the public's demand for such acts. This evidence corroborates a cornerstone of our hypothesis.
An Investigation of the Structure, Pinning and Magnetoresistance of Domain Walls in Ni81Fe19 Planar Nanowires
No full textThe research and development of Ni81Fe19 thin films and planar nanowire structures has attracted considerable interest in recent years; in terms of improving the fundamental understanding of the basic physical processes and also for the development of potential applications. Example applications include sensors and the data storage devices. The optimisation of such devices requires detailed knowledge of the thickness dependence and microstructural influences on the magnetic and magnetoresistance properties, along with a thorough understanding of the effect of geometrical confinement on domain wall (DW) structure and pinning behaviour in nanowire structures.
The out-of-plane structural properties of thermally evaporated Ni81Fe19 thin films on pre-oxidised silicon substrates have been investigated using x-ray scattering techniques and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). These techniques have been used to provide information on the out-of-plane lattice parameter, the presence and degree of texture and also to quantify the width of the SiO2/Ni81Fe19 interface. Magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) magnetometry, differential phase contrast TEM imaging, micromagnetic simulations and anisotropic magnetoresistance measurements (AMR) have been used to make a detailed study of the thickness dependence of the magnetic behaviour of both thin films and nanowire structures.
The resistivity of thin films produced in this study is found to exhibit a higher value and lower mean free path than has previously been reported in the literature, which is attributed to the presence of a microstructure characterised by a small crystallite grain structure. The AMR is strongly thickness dependent for t < 10 nm, and tends toward zero for t < 7 nm. It is suggested that this is due to strain at the SiO2/Ni81Fe19 interface, which changes the magnetostriction and is related to the AMR by spin-orbit effects.
The structure and pinning behaviour of DWs has been systematically investigated as a function of nanowire width, thickness and notch geometry. Although the wall structure is sensitive to the nanowire cross-sectional area, the DW depinning behaviour is relatively insensitive to notch geometry and instead is highly sensitive to wall type and chirality. A detailed model has been developed to make predictions for the AMR of individual DWs in nanowires. The model incorporates experimentally derived thickness dependent resistivity parameters and detailed DW spin structures from micromagnetic simulations. The magnitude of DW resistance is sensitive to wire width and the AMR ratio, and is found to be extremely sensitive to the magnitude of the magnetoresistance
1953 Kalamazoo College Football Team
No full text1 B&W photoFront row (left to right): G. Wright, P. Lenox, W. Shell, W. Dugan, F. Rossio, B. Dent, J. Compton, A.T.K. McCullough.
Second row (left to right): P. Coash, E. Pollard, Bob Copeland, L. Sherman, Herb Lipschitz, Vern Mario, C. Morello, B. Miyagawa, Co-Captain Arleigh Dodson, Jack Doyle, L. Patterson, Manager J. Fowler.
Third row (left to right): Head Coach Rolla Anderson, D. Scott, C. Adams, Jack Bowen, T. Gilman, Bill Howlett, T. Conlin, B. Francisco, R. Schutter, Assistant Coach J. Bogart.
Fourth row (left to right): B. Bates, Co-Captain Roy Stricker, D. Senese, D. Stiles, J. Sweet, L. Greene, C. Brown, V. Landeryou
Riverside Methodist Church
No full textThe first spadesful of earth for the new Riverside Methodist Church, at 326 North Riverside Drive, was turned by, left to right, Reverend G. Alfred Brown, district superintendent; Reverend Allen A. Peacock, pastor; C. Ray Stokes, chairman of stewards; and W. H. Bogart, building committee member. Published in the morning edition, June 9, 1951.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/12886/thumbnail.jp
The American railway : its construction, development, management, and appliances /
No full textIncludes index.Introduction / by Thomas M. Cooley -- The building of a railway / by Thomas Curtis Clarke -- Feats of railway engineering / by John Bogart -- American locomotives and cars / by M.N. Forney -- Railway management / by E.P. Alexander -- Safety in railroad travel / by H.G. Prout -- Railway passenger travel / by Horace Porter -- The freight-car service / by Theodore Voorhees -- How to feed a railway / by Benjamin Norton -- The railway mail service / by Thomas L. James -- The railway in its business relations / by Arthur T. Hadley -- The prevention of railway strikes / by Charles Francis Adams -- The every-day life of railroad men / by B.B. Adams, Jr. -- Statistical railway studies / by Fletcher W. Hewes.Pres. Photocopy.Mode of access: Internet
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