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Oral history interview with David J. Wheeler
No full textTranscript, 27 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95492Wheeler, who was a research student at the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge from 1948-51, begins with a discussion of the EDSAC project during his tenure. He compares the research orientation and the programming methods at Cambridge with those at the Institute for Advanced Study. He points out that, while the Cambridge group was motivated to process many smaller projects from the larger university community, the Institute was involved with a smaller number of larger projects. Wheeler mentions some of the projects that were run on the EDSAC, the user-oriented programming methods that developed at the laboratory, and the influence of the EDSAC model on the ILLIAC, the ORDVAC, and the IBM 701. He also discusses the weekly meetings held in conjunction with the National Physical Laboratory, the University of Birmingham, and the Telecommunications Research Establishment. These were attended by visitors from other British institutions as well as from the continent and the United States. Wheeler notes visits by Douglas Hartree (of Cavendish Laboratory), Nelson Blackman (of ONR), Peter Naur, Aad van Wijngarden, Arthur van der Poel, Friedrich L. Bauer, and Louis Couffignal. In the final part of the interview Wheeler discusses his visit to Illinois where he worked on the ILLIAC and taught from September 1951 to September 1953.Wheeler, David J., 1927-. (1987). Oral history interview with David J. Wheeler. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107711
[Letter to Jack Ruby from Margie Wheeler]
No full textPhotocopy of a letter addressed to Jack Ruby. Margie Wheeler, the letter's author, thanks Jack Ruby for his actions and says that a statue of him should be put in Dealey Square
John Wheeler Tufts Collection
No full textJohn Wheeler Tufts was a music educator, organist, conductor, musician, composer, and author who notably wrote several instructional books on music education in public schools. The John Wheeler Tufts Collection covers the period from 1813 to 1987 with most of the collection falling between 1835 to 1908. The collection is comprised of letters, writings, scores, manuscripts and books of JW Tufts. It also includes letters from many of the Tufts family and photographs of Tufts, residences, and family
Transportation system plan : Wheeler County, Oregon
No full text244 pp. Includes maps and figures. Published June 2001. Received from ODOT January 2, 2007.The Wheeler County Transportation System Plan (TSP) guides the management of existing transportation facilities and the design and implementation of future facilities for the next 20 years. This TSP constitutes
the transportation element of the County’s comprehensive plan and satisfies the requirements of the Oregon Transportation Planning Rule (TPR) established by the Department of Land Conservation and Development. It identifies and prioritizes transportation projects for inclusion in the Oregon Department of Transportation’s
(ODOT’s) Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). Although individual TSPs were not prepared for the cities of Fossil, Mitchell, and Spray in conjunction with
this County TSP, relevant issues and concerns raised by representatives of each city are addressed throughout
this document. [From the Plan]This project was funded by a grant from the Transportation and Growth Management (TGM)
Program, a joint program of the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Department of
Land Conservation and Development. TGM grants rely on federal Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act and the Oregon Lottery funds
Romblonella Wheeler 1935
No full textRomblonella Wheeler, 1935 Type species: Romblonella grandinodis Wheeler, 1935 (junior synonym of Myrmica opaca F. Smith, 1861), by original designation.Published as part of David Emmanuel M. General, 2016, Romblonella longinoi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a new species and first record of the genus from Sabah, Malaysia, with a key to the species of Romblonella Wheeler, 1935, pp. 112-119 in Halteres 7 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5531
Karen Wheeler Oral History
No full textMs. Wheeler begins her oral history by describing the high schools she attended, their socio-economic and cultural characteristics, and her extracurricular activities. She tells the story of how she decided to attend Denison. Ms. Wheeler discusses her expectations of coming to Denison, and expresses surprise at some of the racial challenges in the fall of her freshman year. She talks about her time at Denison being in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Bakke case, concerning affirmative action in higher education admissions, and Ms. Wheeler speaks highly of Denison President Good’s support for an inclusive admissions approach. She discusses some of the implications of the shift in power nationally from Democrats to Republicans. She recalls being somewhat surprised at the amount of wealth on campus, as indicated by the kinds of cars some students drove. Ms. Wheeler describes the numerous organizations and activities she was involved in at Denison. She contrasts her own comfort at being in an environment like Denison with the experience of some other African American students who decided to leave the university. Ms. Wheeler describes the different nature of black student protest in the early ‘80’s versus the late 60’s and early ‘70’s. She speculates that her generation was able to take a less confrontational approach because they had a generally supportive administration in Dr. Good. Ms. Wheeler goes on to credit Dr. Good for his leadership in the South African student exchange program. She describes the power of the Black community at Denison as being significant, building on the efforts and legacy of earlier Denison students. Ms. Wheeler discusses the strengths and weaknesses of bringing the BSU and DISA (Denison International Students Association? under the rubric of the Multiculturalism Office. She observes that since the ‘80’s, Denison shifted it’s student recruitment strategy, resulting in a different demographic profile of many Denison students, which may have had implications for some of the subsequent racial incidents or intergroup conflicts. Ms. Wheeler talks of the BSU as a safe place, a home, and a hub of social and community activities, and elaborates on the BSU’s concerns with recruitment and retention of African American faculty. She characterizes the BSU’s ideology in the early ‘80’s as liberal, in the sense of using conventional methods to bring about social change. Ms. Wheeler shares her opinions on some of the writings in The Vanguard and Black Rage. She recounts author Tony Cade Bambara’s visit to Denison and the influence she had on Ms. Wheeler to this day as an educator. Ms. Wheeler talks of being a student who wondered whether there was disparate treatment of black and white students by the administration in certain matters. She credits black student efforts of the early ‘80’s with helping prod the university to improve with respect to minority faculty recruitment and retention, as well as staff in student life and admissions. And Ms. Wheeler discusses dangers of an attitude shift in the university environment, away from direct negative responses or incidents, and toward an attitude that things are now equal and that there is no further need for redress
William A. Wheeler Correspondence
No full textEntries include a typed letter from the Maine State Library introducing Wheeler to the Maine Author Collection, a typed letter from Wheeler on personal stationery presenting his books Ma Sez and Brunswick Yesterdays, and a typed letter from the Maine State Library on receipt of these books for the Maine Author Collection with notice that his historical book about the Maine Central Railroad was already in the lending collection and a typed note concerning an article (missing from this file) appearing in the Portland Evening Express
Frank E. Wheeler silent film music score fonds (1888-1928)
No full textThe fonds consists of musical scores, music related advertisements, and the envelopes originally storing the scores. Most of the scores originate from either New York or England. The records were kept by Frank Wheeler in England, then moved with him to Canada in Vancouver, then Nelson. Sandra Martin, Frank's granddaughter was given the scores and had them for years before donating them to the Selkirk Regional Archives in 2020. There are 10 boxes of musical scores comprising 194 files containing 225 individual scores.Francis (Frank) Wheeler was born March 24th, 1887, in Brackley, Buckinghamshire, England. When he was a young man, he decided to move to Canada to earn his fortune before marrying his fiancee, May Twist, a teacher in England. As a musician in Vancouver, BC, he searched for work and after finding other musicians to play alongside, he formed a small orchestra which played for silent movie theatres on Granville Street. Five years later he could afford to pay for May's boat to Vancouver, where they were married. Frank and May had three children, Frances, Ed and Dorothy. After years in Vancouver with his family, Frank proposed a trip around British Columbia to develop his photography career. The family left for Banff and any other spots that offered good photograph material. When they arrived in Nelson, BC, Frank loved the area, so they stayed. He taught piano lessons there to supplement his income as a meter reader, which he served as in the streets of Nelson for 25 years. They lived on Falls Street which displayed Cottonwood Falls in their backyard. He also became the organist at Nelson's Anglican Church. In 1958, Frank passed away due to bronchitis, in Nelson at the age of 71
Alton Chapman Wheeler Correspondence
No full textEntries include the brief biographical information of a founder of the Paris Trust Company and a lawyer, his typed biography, and typed transcription on receipt of a reprinted article written by Wheeler Plural-Name Bank Accounts with notice from the Maine State Library that it would be kept in the Maine Author Collection
Informal regulation of industrial pollution in developing countries : evidence from Indonesia
No full textThe authors test a model of supply-demand relations in an implicit market for environmental services when formal regulation is absent. They use plant-level data from Indonesia for 1989-90, before the advent of nationwide environmental regulation. Treating pollution as a derived demand for environmental services, their model relates emissions of biological oxygen demand to the price (expected cost) of pollution; to prices of other inputs (labor,energy, materials); and to enterprise characteristics that may affect pollution demand, including scale, vintage ownership, and efficiency. The price of pollution is determined by the intersection of plant-level demand and a local environmental supply function, enforced by community pressure or informal regulation. Environmental supply is affected by community income, education, the size of the exposed population, the local economic importance of the plant, and its visibility as a polluter. Their results are strongly consistent with the existence of an informal"pollution equilibrium."Pollution intensity declines with increase in plant size, efficiency, and local materials prices. Older plants and publicly owned facilities are more pollution intensive; multinational ownership has no independent effect. The results also suggest that the price of pollution is higher when plants are particularly visible and is far lower in poorer, less-educated communities. Thus the intensity of pollution is far higher in such communities. While it would be premature to generalize from these results, they suggest that the model of optimal pollution control in environmental economics is more relevant for developing countries than many have believed. Community-factory interactions seem to reflect environmental supply-demand considerations even when formal regulation does not exist. In addition, the apparent power of informal regulation implies that cost-effective formal systems should be designed to complement, not supplant, community control. In particular: 1) Local communities should not be forced to rely so heavily on visibility when judging environmental performance. Formal regulation should include publication of audited emissions reports from factories; 2) Environmental injustice may be real and important. Many poor, uneducated communities may need extra support from national regulators.; and 3) However, appropriate regulation should strike the right balance between equity and efficiency. Uniform national standards go too far because they eliminate all the natural and legitimate regional diversity that is also reflected in informal arrangements.Public Health Promotion,Environmental Economics&Policies,Water and Industry,Sanitation and Sewerage,Water Conservation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Water and Industry,TF030632-DANISH CTF - FY05 (DAC PART COUNTRIES GNP PER CAPITA BELOW USD 2,500/AL,Sanitation and Sewerage,Urban Services to the Poor
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