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Downes, I G, VX64357
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/382507Surname: DOWNES. Given Name(s) or Initials: I G. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX64357. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 31808.213776
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Prentice G. Downes (1909-1959)
No full textPrentice G. Downes was one of the most singular men to travel in the North in the last years before the 1939-45 War. An able man in the wilderness and a gifted cartographer, ethnologist, and naturalist, he is best remembered as the author of Sleeping Island: The Story of One Man\u27s Travels in the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North, a classic of northern canoe travel. ... In a letter to George Douglas in 1943, Downes remarked that his having read Napolean Comeau\u27s Life and Sport on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence "had a great deal to do with my ever going north, as I was so interested that I set off for the North Shore to find the old gentleman." Comeau had died, but thus in 1935 Downes commenced his northern travels. In 1936 he took passage aboard R.M.S. Nascopie from Montreal to Churchill, during which trip he made copious notes on climate, geography, wildlife, Ungava Eskimo vocabulary, and northern society. From Churchill he flew to Pelican Narrows and with an Indian companion canoed to Reindeer Lake and back again. In 1937 the New England Museum of Natural History sponsored a solo trip by Downes to study the Eskimos of Boothia Peninsula, before which he made his way to Brochet at the north end of Reindeer Lake and investigated the histories, languages, and ways of the Crees and the Chipewyans. This fascination with northern Indians, and above all with the significance of dreams in their cultures, was central to Downes\u27s travels. The Crees named him "The-man-who-talks-about-dreams." Two of Downes\u27s unpublished writings are a Cree-Chipewyan dictionary and a volume titled "The Spirit World of the Northern Cree: Contributions to Cree Ethnology." The first of Downes\u27s major canoe trips came in 1938, when he paddled alone from Waterways to Fitzgerald, after which he moved on the Great Slave, the Mackenzie, and Great Bear. ... The Sleeping Island trip of 1939 - from Brochet to Nueltin Lake - was followed by another, less triumphant, venture into that region in 1940. Despondent as he was at his failure to reach Kasba Lake by way of the Little Partridge River, Downes could still confide in his journal: "Three important routes and one previously unknown river have been worked out. Kasmere Lake is now plotted, both north and east arm. Actually, far more was accomplished than a successful trip through to Kasba would have afforded." Much of the North was as yet imperfectly mapped then, of course, and one of Downes\u27s primary achievements was his meticulous mapping of every obscure route he followed. ..
Alternative: Continuing the Epilog to Orion
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Alternative: The Epilog to Orion
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HENRY MARGER, No. 5633, real name THOMAS G. DOWNES.
No full textESCAPED CONVICT
ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY, Joliet, November 8, 1899,
HENRY MARGER, No. 5633, real name THOMAS G. DOWNES.
Escaped this morning at four o'clock. Age 22. 5 ft. 9, weight 150 lbs., dark complexion,
dark brown hair, blue eyes, heavy eyebrows, plain round scar on left forearm, plain scar front of
right forearm at center, left thumb amputated, plain scar outer left leg above knee, a smooth-faced
clean-cut fellow, Plumber by trade, sentenced from Chicago in August, 1897, for Burglary. Father is
David H. Downes, 7312 Monroe Avenue, Chicago, works in Illinois Central Car Shops
Overall buckling of lightweight stiffened panels using an adapted orthotropic plate method
No full textThe ultimate longitudinal bending strength of thin plated steel structures such as box girder bridges and ship hulls can be determined using an incremental–iterative procedure known as the Smith progressive collapse method. The Smith method first calculates the response of stiffened panel sub-structures in the girder and then integrates over the cross section of interest to calculate a moment–curvature response curve. A suitable technique to determine the strength behaviour of stiffened panels within the Smith method is therefore of critical importance. A fundamental assumption of the established progressive collapse method is that the buckling and collapse behaviour of the compressed panels within the girder occurs between adjacent transverse frames. However, interframe buckling may not always be the dominant collapse mode, especially for lightweight stiffened panels such as are found in naval ships and aluminium high speed craft. In these cases overall failure modes, where the buckling mode extends over several frame spaces, may dominate the buckling and collapse response. To account for this possibility, an adaptation to large deflection orthotropic plate theory is presented. The adapted orthotropic method is able to calculate panel stress–strain response curves accounting for both interframe and overall collapse. The method is validated with equivalent nonlinear finite element analyses for a range of regular stiffened panel geometries. It is shown how the adapted orthotropic method is implemented into an extended progressive collapse method, which enhances the capability for determining the ultimate strength of a lightweight stiffened box girder
Guaranteeing inclusive education under international human rights law: A proposal for the use of structural indicators addressing issues of equality, non-discrimination and wellbeing
No full textPrentice G. Downes\u27s Eastern Arctic Journal, 1936
No full textThis is the first of a chronological series of northern journals by a man who later did mapping that was put to use by the Dominion government and who was to write one of this century\u27s most perceptive books about the subarctic north and wilderness canoe travel. The journal provides a detailed account of P.G. Downes\u27s experiences during R.M.S. Nascopie\u27s 1936 passage from Montréal to Churchill.Key words: Nascopie, Eastern Arctic, Eskimos, William Gibson, David A. Nichols, Nicholas Polunin, geology, ChurchillMots clés: Nascopie, est de l\u27Arctique, Esquimaux, William Gibson, David A. Nichols, Nicholas Polunin, geology, Churchil
The origins of a Global Political Economy of Education
No full textThis Chapters outlines the development of a Global Political Economy of Education from the recognition political economies in the early 19th Century and the formation of The Political Economy Club by John Mill. It examines the development of the political economy as it begins to impact on education from 1850 onward and enters the debate on the purpose of education as it was supported by the political economy
A receptor and G-protein-regulated polyphosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C from turkey erythrocytes. II. P2Y-purinergic receptor and G-protein-mediated regulation of the purified enzyme reconstituted with turkey erythrocyte ghosts.
No full textThe preceding paper describes purification and properties of a 150-kDa polyphosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C from a cytosolic fraction of turkey erythrocytes (Morris, A. J., Waldo, G. L., Downes, C. P., and Harden, T. K. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 13501-13507). Turkey erythrocytes express a P2Y-purinergic receptor that employs an unidentified G-protein to activate phospholipase C (Boyer, J. L., Downes, C. P., and Harden, T. K. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 884-890; Cooper, C. L., Morris, A. J., and Harden, T. K. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 264, 6202-6206). This paper describes receptor and G-protein regulation of the purified turkey erythrocyte phospholipase C after reconstitution of the enzyme using [3H]inositol pre-labeled turkey erythrocyte ghosts as acceptor membranes. These membranes contain polyphosphoinositides labeled to high specific radioactivity and display reduced responsiveness of their endogenous phospholipase C to P2Y-purinergic receptor agonists and guanine nucleotides. Reconstitution of purified enzyme had no effect on basal inositol phosphate production, but markedly increased P2Y-purinergic receptor agonist and guanine nucleotide-dependent accumulation of inositol phosphates. Reconstitution of 5 ng of purified phospholipase C with 10 micrograms of acceptor membrane protein produced half-maximal effects, and maximal activity was observed with reconstitution of 100 ng of purified enzyme. Agonist and guanine nucleotide-regulated phospholipase C activity measured using a reconstitution assay co-purified with phospholipase C activity detected using exogenously provided phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate during purification of the 150-kDa protein. Only the maximal rate of inositol phosphate formation attained upon activation was increased in the presence of the purified phospholipase C. K0.5 values for adenosine 5'-O-(2-thiodiphosphate), guanosine 5'-3-O-(thio)triphosphate, and A1F4- activation of the purified enzyme were the same as for the endogenous phospholipase C activity of the acceptor membranes
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