12 research outputs found
Impact of environmental pollution on health: A sociological study in Tuticorin industrial town, TN, India
No full textThe paper highlights impact of environmental pollution on Health. The present study has been taken up in Tuticorin industrial town area. Major industries numbering 12 established in the district. They are engaged in the production of cotton, staple yarn, caustic soda, PVC Resin, fertilizers, soda ash, carbon-di-oxide gas in liquid etc., The important major industries are sterlite, SPIC, Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals, Dharangadhra chemicals work, Madura coats, Kilburn chemicals industries. The public sector undertakings are the Thermal power unit (620mm), Heavy water plant, and port trust. The district contributes 70% of the total salt production of Tamil Nadu and meets 30% of salt requirement of our country. Aside from deficiencies in the life support system, men is subjected to a variety of environmental Hazards. Some of these are natural, but increasingly environmental hazards result from mans activities and numbers. Some times manmade hazards are direct in their impact on other man. But they may be indirect in their influence, acting through other biological systems or overburdening the capacity of natural systems for renewal, dispersion, or assimilation. The following factors can be used in categorizing environmental hazards. (1) Biological (2) chemical (3) Physical (4) Psychological and (5) Sociological. Hence more than 12 major industries have established in and around Tuticorin. This becomes one of the source of air pollution, water pollution, Noice pollution, in this area. Air pollution may be broadly defined as the presence of one or more contaminants like dust, smoke, must and odour. The atmosphere which are injurious to human beings, plants and animals which unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. Air pollution seriously damages human beings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Department of Sociology, DDE, Annamalai University. Annamalai Nagar, Tamilnadu, India*Corresponding Author , Email: [email protected] This Article As: K. Maharajan, Kirubakaran Samual. 2010. Impact of environmental pollution on health: A sociological study in Tuticorin industrial town, TN, India. J. Ecobiotechnol. 2(2): 51-5
History of the rise and fall of the slave power in America /
No full textOn spine: Rise and fall of the slave power in America.Vol. 3 edited, after the death of the author, by Samual Hunt.Vol. 1: 3d edition.Title on spine: Rise and fall of the slave power in America.Mode of access: Internet
[Photograph 2012.201.B1227.0155]
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Edwin Samual, lecturer, author and world-wide traveler as well as a member of the British House of Lords, will speak at a community assembly Sunday, April 17, at Val Gene's, Shepherd Mall.
Study of a Contemporary Effort to Build a Prototype College in Suburbia
No full textThis case study covers the first stages of a contemporary effort by a group of citizens to plan and thereby satisfy certain educational needs of those outlying communities of Chicago collectively known as south suburbia . The college is intended to serve not only the local locale but also to serve as a prototype for similar institutions in other sub-metropolitan areas. The study was undertaken with the expectation that a detailed, analytic attempt at an examination of a particular attempt to meet needs for higher education would illuminate a number of conditions affecting the establishment and operation of higher institutions of learning.
The time period covered is approximately 6 years, from the first tentative discussions to the end of 1964.
(From the introduction.)
The plans, decisions, and events which took place during the first stages of founding a new college in a Chicago suburb were detailed. The investigator expected that accounting for all the initial founding operations in a single case study would reveal specific patterns of interaction. These could then be used for identifying most of the factors ultimately crucial to the success or failure of establishing a new college. Implications were that the scope of the activity was extensive enough in its involvement of persons, groups, agencies, plans, and projections, and different resources over a sufficiently long period of time (6 years) to have encompassed most of the major decisions and problems which inevitably would be encountered in other attempts which might be undertaken. (ERIC Clearinghouse abstract)
This research was also presented in a 1965 Ed.D. dissertation, University of Chicago by the author, A College in Park Forest: A Study of the First Stages of a Contemporary Effort to Build a College in Suburbia , (UC thesis number T-11805) available in the Governors State University Archives.([email protected]) and through Proquest Digital Dissertations reprint service
A critical account of Samuel Beckett's Nouvelles
No full textThis is a critical account of three nouvelles or short stories by Samual Beckett entitled "L'Expulse", "Le Calmant" and "La Fin". The text discussed is the 1958 French version rather than the English translation "Stories" bearing the titles "The Expelled", "The Calmative" and "The End". The author does not summarise or paraphrase the stories but instead gives a critical account in which the more important aspects of the individual nouvelles are discussed in their order of appearance. The most frequently recurring topics are: the range of subject-matter; the incidence of satire; the attitude of story-telling; and the control of sympathy. Unlike former criticism, this essay is based on a conviction that the Nouvelles, though difficult, are ordered and intelligible. A coherent interpretation of "Le Calmant" is advanced which greatly simplifies the discussion of the Nouvelles as a whole
The wicked Wang-Pah meets a dragon: a Chinese fantasy in three acts
No full textThis play tells the tale of true love between a maiden, Mo Lan and the ward of a Viceroy, Wu Sun. Wu Sun is stolen from his royal home by a demon. The Moon Goddess, Chang-Ngo, intervenes and returns Wu Sun to his ancestral home, where he lives in the guise of a wandering minstrel. Unbeknownst to the Viceroy, the demon has substituted Wu Sun with his own progeny, the wicked Wang-Pah. The author, Floralyn Cadwell was the head of the English Department at McKinley High School. Includes illustrations and music
Little family papers, MSS.0863
No full textAbstract: A collection of papers of a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, family, including some correspondence, financial papers, clippings, and sketches.Scope and Content Note: A collection of papers of a Tuscaloosa family, including some correspondence, financial papers, clippings, and sketches.Biographical/Historical Note: Little, John, Sr.John Little Sr. was a native of Corry Hill, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He was born around 1800 and died in Tuscaloosa in 1869. Around 1835, he married Barbara Kerr, daughter of George and Margaret Pool Kerr, of Dumfrieshire, Scotland, both teachers in Tuscaloosa. They couple had three sons: (1) George; (2) John Jr.; and James. Little Sr. was a silversmith and a teacher, his school being near the site of the old State Capital. He was the son of Andrew Little of Scotland. He had a brother, William Little. Little, GeorgeGeorge Little was a teacher and geologist, born February 11, 1838, in Tuscaloosa, son of John Sr. and Barbara Kerr Little. John Little Sr. was a native of Corry Hill, Dumfries, Scotland; a resident of Tuscaloosa from 1835-86; druggist there for a few years; teacher in Charleston; manager of the iron works at Beatty's Ford, N.C.; and connected with a number of other business activities. He was the grandson of William and Janet Little of Dumfrieshire, Scotland, and of George and Margaret Pool Kerr.Dr. Little received his early education from his mother and his cousin, Miss Mary Irving, and George Bell, a graduate of Edinburgh University, Scotland. He attended the University of Alabama from 1851 to 1855 and graduated with an AB degree. During 1857-58, he attended the University of Berlin and in 1858-59 studied at the University of Gottingen from which he received his Ph.D. degree (his thesis for the degree was "Selenium and the Seleniurets."). In 1906, the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Alabama. He served in the following positions: teacher, Tuscaloosa, 1855-65; professor of natural sciences from perhaps 1860 through 1867 at Oakland College, Mississippi; professor of mineralogy and geology and agriculture, University of Georgia 1876-78; State Geologist, Mississippi, 1870-74; State Geologist, Georgia, 1874-81; geologist expert, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1889-1892; geological expert Tuscaloosa, 1892-1912; and Secretary Tuscaloosa Board of Trade 1909-1912.While a student at the University of Alabama, he held the rank of sergeant in the cadet corps. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he resigned as Professor of Chemistry at Oakland College in Mississippi, and entered the Confederate Army with the rank of Orderly Sergeant in Lumsden's Battery. During the conflict, he rose to the rank of LT Colonel. He was a Democrat and Presbyterian. He was a trustee, Pontotoc, Mississippi, Presbyterian Collegiate Institute; fellow, American Association of the Advancement of Science; and co-author of History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. which was published in 1905. He wrote the portion from November 4, 1861 to October 15, 1863. He also wrote Memoirs, a history of Tuscaloosa. He had several articles published in Philadelphia Academy of Science.He married Caroline Pattillo, daughter of Rev. Daniel Gillespie and Mary Ann Pattillo Doak of Columbia, Tennessee, on May 13, 1869, at Sardis, Mississippi. They had six children: (1) Mary; (2) Daniel Doak; (3) George Kerr; (4) James Waddell; (5) John Goulding; and (6) Margaret Carolyn.Little, John, Jr.Dr. John Little Jr. was a physician, banker, businessman, born June 19, 1841, the son of Barbara Kerr Little and John Little Sr. He died February 1, 1919, in that place. He was the brother of James and George Little. He was educated in the schools of Tuscaloosa by his mother and his brother George. The years of 1856-59 were spent at The University of Alabama. He graduated with and AB Degree from Oakland College, Mississippi, in 1860, where he served as the Principal of the Preparatory department from his graduation until his entry in the Confederate Army in 1861. He returned to Tuscaloosa and enlisted as a private in Lumsden's Battery, Alabama Light Artillery, 1861-1865. After civil war he worked as an accountant for William Kerr. He graduated from Tulane University in 1869. He then was on the physicians' staff at Bryce Hospital and served as treasurer. He entered general practice in 1875 and managed the drug store until 1881. He was also cashier of the First National Bank of Tuscaloosa. He became vice president in 1910, and held that position until his death in 1919. He was a Democrat and staunch Presbyterian. On November 14, 1872, he married Amanda Harris, daughter of Richard Norfleet Harris and Amanda M. Banks Harris. They had three sons: (1) John III; (2) Richard Harris; and (3) Robert Irving.Little, JamesJames Little was son of Barbara Kerr Little and John Little Sr. He was born around 1847 and died in 1892. He had taken over the management of the Little Drug Store in 1881. He was killed when his buggy overturned while he was delivering a prescription to a customer in 1892. No record of family - descendants.Little, John IIIJohn Little III was a Presbyterian Minister, born April 29, 1874, at Tuscaloosa, son of Dr. John Little Jr. and Amanda Harris Little. His elementary preparation was by Prof. W. H. Verner. In 1893, he was graduated from the University of Alabama with a BA degree. In 1899, he received training in the theological seminary at Louisville, Kentucky. He was ordained to the ministry by the Presbytery of Louisville, Kentucky. Rev. Little was founder and superintendent of the Presbyterian Colored Missions of Louisville. The institution opened February 1, 1899, giving religious instruction and industrial training under the supervision of white teachers. He married Eleanor Tarrant who died September 2, 1917. Then he married Bertha Hill Tarrant August 16, 1919, daughter of Samual A. and Eliza (Selleck) Tarrant of Macon, Mississippi. They had two children: Elizabeth Tarrant and John Tarrant. Little, RichardRichard Little was son of Amanda Little and Dr. John Little Jr. Resident of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and publisher of the Times-Gazette, forerunner of the Tuscaloosa News. He sued his brothers Irving and John III after their father's death.Little, R. IrvingIrving Little was son of Amanda Little and Dr. John Little Jr., born approximately 1882. He was educated at the University of Alabama and served as Department Head, Romance Language Department, The University of Alabama. He was active in Sigma Alpha Epsilon even after his graduation. For a while he taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Irving Little wrote History of the University Club: Building and Site (Tuscaloosa, 1950). He was unmarried and was an active member of the Presbyterian Church
Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60
No full textItinerant lecturers declaiming upon free trade, Chartism, temperance, or anti-slavery could be heard in market places and halls across the country during the years 1837-60. The power of the spoken word was such that all major pressure groups employed lecturers and sent them on extensive tours. Print historians tend to overplay the importance of newspapers and tracts in disseminating political ideas and forming public opinion. This thesis demonstrates the importance of older, traditional forms of communication. Inert printed pages were no match for charismatic oratory. Combining personal magnetism, drama and immediacy, the itinerant lecturer was the most effective medium through which to reach those with limited access to books, newspapers or national political culture. Orators crucially united their dispersed audiences in national struggles for reform, fomenting discussion and coalescing political opinion, while railways, the telegraph and expanding press reportage allowed speakers and their arguments to circulate rapidly.
Understanding of political oratory and public meetings has been skewed by over-emphasis upon the hustings and high-profile politicians. This has generated two misconceptions: that political meetings were generally rowdy and that a golden age of political oratory was secured only through Gladstone’s legendary stumping tours. However, this thesis argues that, far from being disorderly, public meetings were carefully regulated and controlled offering disenfranchised males a genuine democratic space for political discussion. Its detailed research into Yorkshire and the North East, demonstrates both the growth of popular political speechmaking and the emergence of a class of professional lecturers. It identifies a paradigm shift from classical oratory to more populist styles of speaking, as more humble speakers took to the platform; and it argues that through the growth of popular political oratory the platform had been rehabilitated by the 1860s and the lecture format commercialize
Simulations of a self propelled autonomous underwater vehicle
No full textThe missions being proposed for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), by both marine scientists and industry, are becoming increasingly complex and challenging. In order to meet these demands the next generation of AUVs will need to be faster, operate for longer and be more manoeuvrable than existing vehicles. It is therefore vital that the hydrodynamic forces and moments acting on a self propelled manoeuvring AUV can be predicted accurately at the initial design stage. The flow around a typical AUV is both turbulent and three dimensional with significant interactions between the hull, propeller and control surfaces. An unsteady computational fluid dynamics analysis based on the Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) equations is too expensive for AUV design. In order to capture the action of the propeller at an acceptable computational cost, a novel method of coupling a commercial RANS solver with a body force propeller model based on blade element momentum theory has been developed. This discretises the propeller plane into a series of radial and circumferential sectors. The local axial and tangential inflow conditions at each sector of the propeller plane can then be considered. This allows analysis of non-uniform propeller inflow conditions due to the interaction of hull, propeller and control surfaces. During a manoeuvre the hull boundary layer may separate due to the adverse pressure gradient, resulting in free vortex sheets which roll up to form a pair of body vortices. An adaptive mesh strategy is required to ensure a suitable mesh structure and density to capture these flow features. Modifications to a vortex capture algorithm (VORTFIND) are proposed, optimising it as a tool for identifying the path of vortex structures. This enables it to be used as part of an iterative meshing strategy, capturing vortical flow features more accurately and consequently their influence on the pressure loading experienced by the hull. To demonstrate the pertinence of the numerical methods developed in this work a series of case studies has been analysed. These include: determining the hydrodynamic derivatives of an AUV, propeller-rudder interaction studies, steady state manoeuvring performance of the self propelled KVLCC2, and in-service straight line performance prediction of Autosub 3. These highlight the roles of the numerical methodologies in the design process for future AUVs. The techniques developed in this work enable the designer to accurately predict the hydrodynamic loading acting on a self propelled manoeuvring AU
