500 research outputs found
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
No full textPoet, author, and activist, Minnie Bruce Pratt delivers the first Rose Gladney Lecture "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?" in her hometown of Centreville, Alabama.
This inaugural Rose Gladney Lecture was originally presented at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa on March 18, 2004. Dr. Gladney is a former University of Alabama associate professor of American Studies who has devoted herself to issues of social justice and change. The Rose Gladney Lecture is hosted by the University of Alabama's American Studies Department. For more information contact Dr. Lynne Adrian.
Also on Southern Spaces, Pratt reads her poem "No Place.
Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle discusses the conflict between Stillwater and Cushing County over the formation of Shaffer County, a tract of land that would include Cushing-Drumright oil field. Dan Adrian Purvis examines census data and election results of the attempt to discover the impact success would have had on the counties of Oklahoma
What! Drawing? : Robert Adrian X, Mark Andrews, Therese Bolliger, Bruce Dunnet
No full textDefining drawing as making marks, the author explores the idea of drawing in relation to the four artists' work. Artists' statements. Biographical notes
The geochemistry of soluble salts in the Wright and Taylor Valleys, South Victoria Land, Antarctica
No full textSamples of salt deposits, snow, meltwater and soils were collected in the Wright and Taylor Valleys, South Victoria Land, during the summer field season of 1973-74. The primary aim of the work carried out was to demonstrate the application of chemical techniques to geological problems in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
Salt samples identified by X-ray diffraction patterns were halite, thenardite and mirabilite. Snow, ice and groundwater samples were analysed for Na⁺, Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, K⁺. Cl⁻ and SO₄²⁻. The results show that atmospheric transport from the sea is probably the most important source of supply of salts to the Dry Valley system, with saline groundwater flows as important means of transport of salts to the Dry Valley lakes
The effect of print size on reading rate for adults and children
No full textPrint size is one of the numerous factors affecting reading rate. The purpose of this study was to investigate the print sizes which give maximum reading rates for adults and children. Using a forced scrolling technique to move the reading material and a constant field size of 15 characters, a print size of 0.5 logMAR (N8 at 320 mm) produced maximum reading rate for children in Year 3 at school and for adults. These findings suggest that provided visual acuity is normal, there is no reason for Year 3 children to need larger print than that normally read by adults
Particle image velocimetry studies of bubble growth and detachment by high speed photography
No full textAn understanding of bubble flows is important in the design of process equipment, particularly in the chemical and power industries. In vapour-liquid processes the mass and heat transfer between the phases is dominated by the liquid-vapour interface and is determined by the number, size and shape of the bubbles. For bubble flows these characteristics are often controlled by the generation mechanisms and, since bubble flows are often generated at an orifice, it is important to determine the controlling parameters which dictate how bubbles grow and detach. For bubbles growing at orifices the liquid displacement is an important feature and affects the pressure distribution acting on the bubble and the heat and mass transfer that may occur at the bubble interface. Therefore, in this study, the characteristics of the liquid velocity field are studied experimentally using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) during growth, detachment and translation of a bubble being generated at an orifice supplied with a constant mass flow rate of air. The process is transient and occurs over a period of approximately 50 msecs. In order to map the transient flow field a combination of high speed cine and cross correlation PIV image processing has been used to determine the liquid velocity vector field during the bubble growth process. The paper contains details of the PIV technique and presents several of the velocity vector maps calculated
Repayment Burdens with US College Loans
No full textThere is a significant and on-going unease with, and debate concerning, the state of US college loans. One of the most important questions relates to so-called “repayment burdens”, the financial difficulties associated with repayments. This paper examines the issue from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, the major goal being to understand the interaction between loan design and occupational choices. We find compelling original evidence that the design of US loans imposes severe expected hardships for many borrowers, especially those with very high debts, such as lawyers. The case for policy reform towards graduates’ capacity to repay seems incontestable.
Field training of certificated aircraft mechanics
No full textAs the airline industry moves into the twenty-first century, aircraft maintenance must continue to provide safe and cost-effective aircraft. Airframe and Powerplant mechanics are certified by the FAA to repair all types of aircraft— from those with canvas-covered wooden wings to advanced hydraulics, avionics and the latest reinforced plastic composites/ This study examined the major, national, and regional airline industry's attitudes on key training issues. Established major and national airline training programs as well as evolving regional airline maintenance training programs were reviewed. Maintenance trainers and planners at each category of airline received similar surveys. Comments were encouraged and collected. Issues raised by the respondents included Instructor Accountability; Cost versus Benefit; Mechanic Motivation/Work Ethic; Transferring from Older to YoungerMechanics; and Dissemination of the Latest Manufacturer Information and Airworthiness Regulations. This is the third study on airframe and powerplant mechanic training since 1970
What hoave they done to Lolita?: the transposition of irony from Nabokov's novel to Stanley Kubrick's and Adrian Lyne's film versions
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura CorrespondenteEsta dissertação analisa como a ironia, uma característica tão forte no romance Lolita de Nabokov, é transposta para suas duas versões cinematográficas. Após enfrentar problemas com a censura da época, Stanley Kubrick entregou o seu Lolita cômico em 1962. Devido à difícil abordagem de abuso sexual infantil, Adrian Lyne também sofreu para encontrar um distribuidor para a sua versão de 1997. Seu filme é um drama com muito pouca ironia. Comparando como o narrador nada confiável do romance, Humbert Humbert, aparece em cada um dos dois filmes através da narração em off, este estudo chega à conclusão qu
Constellations of alternative education tutor essences: A phenomenological poetic inquiry
No full textEvery year, approximately 3500 students are alienated from conventional secondary schools in New Zealand. The students, of whom the majority are M!ori and Pasifika, are directed to continue their learning with alternative education providers, under the guidance of tutors rather than trained teachers. As a trained teacher who has spent the past 13 years working with tutors in New Zealand’s largest provider of alternative education, I have been inspired by tutors’ unique ways of being-in-education that artfully reengaged many of these vulnerable young people into learning. Yet, tutors’ voices are largely absent from education literature. Thus, I sought to understand and make visible the contribution of tutors and their pedagogies to the field of education. Drawing on phenomenological theory, I sought to find and represent the essences of the lived experiences of alternative education tutors using a poetic inquiry approach, which privileged the poetic in the everyday language of tutors. The phenomenological poetic methodology I utilised throughout this study gracefully and playfully engaged my research participants. The methodology demonstrated the powerful way poetic inquiry can honour a marginalised workforce, in a provocative and transforming manner. During this research I also experienced re/finding myself as a poet. Thus, the form of this thesis reflects my journey, in which prosaic ways-of-being disintegrates - opening up a clearing space for poetic dwelling. Based on in depth interviews, field work, and a performative workshop with eight tutor participants, I created more than 200 poems that represent who tutors are in-the-world of education and of life. I then drew from these poetic findings to create 21 constellations of tutor essences, entitled: call, love, joy, empathy, grace, mana, watching-over, commitment, past experience, criticality, wh!nau, guidance, poiesis, talanoa, holism, thoughtful pedagogy, inspirational pedagogy, epiphany, movement, transformation, and mystery. The constellations navigated my return to the ancient tutors we once knew, albeit refreshed for a new age. I discovered that the tutor is other than the teacher, emerging as an holistic educator in response to a dehumanising neoliberal education agenda. And so, I conclude that tutor pedagogies offer a conceptual foundation which future training and development of tutors can build, and from which conventional school can learn inclusive ways of working with all students
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