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Sovereignty, intervention, and social order in revolutionary times
No full textThis article has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to peer review and/or editorial input by Cambridge University Press, in Review of International Studies / Volume 39 / Issue 05 / December 2013, pp 1149 - 1167 Copyright © British International Studies Association 2013 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S026021051300025
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No full textCrime, Genes, Neuroscience and Cyberspace
No full textThis book applies Owen’s unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behaviour, with an emphasis on cybercrime. Moving beyond challenges which confront contemporary criminological theorizing such as: the stagnation of critical criminology, the relativistic nihilism of the ‘cultural turn’, posthumanism, and virtual criminology, the author codifies and ‘applies’ the latest version of the framework to the study of crime, both in and out of cyberspace.
Drawing upon evolutionary psychology, behavioural genetics and the philosophy of Heidegger, he introduces new terms such as ‘Neuro-Agency’ and notions of Embodied Cognition into criminological theorizing. Adopting a soft compatibilist approach to free-will, and Realist ontology, Owen’s meta-theoretical focus provides a new direction for criminological theorizing, in particular in the direction of the conceptualization and prediction of cyber violence. Exciting and timely, this book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of criminology, law, sociology, social policy, psychology, philosophy, policing and forensic investigation
Less of Me
No full textThe author warns that micromanagement of projects can provoke defensive attitudes among employees, and inhibits their professional development. Nevertheless, project managers should still demand some accountability from their subordinates. The article draws upon his own experiences as a NASA project manager and under NASA project managers for these lessons
Considered policy or haphazard evolution? No. 617 Squadron RAF 1943 - 45
No full textFollowing their breaching of German dams in May 1943, No. 617 Squadron, Royal Air Force, was maintained as a specialist precision bombing unit. For the remainder of the Second World War the Squadron carried out precision attacks using new and unconventional weapons, culminating with Barnes Wallis’s deep penetration bombs, TALLBOY and GRAND SLAM.
This thesis will show that the numerous accounts of the Squadron’s history have failed to take account of many factors that determined its role. By concentrating on the operational record and weapons, both popular historians and scholars have given a distorted and interpretatively incomplete description of the Squadron’s development. This in turn has led to an incomplete perception of the Squadron’s Development and a misconception of its full contribution to the bomber offensive. This thesis identifies policy and decision making bodies and examines their role in selecting weapons and targets for the Squadron. It explores the issues which determined the role played by the Squadron: changes in Air Staff policy for Bomber Command, choice of targets, the development and production of weapons, and tactical requirements. Comparison is made between the planners’ original intentions and the final operational record. Many of the Squadron’s operations emerged from an inability to follow through from initial planning. Such failure resulted from factors that included unrealistic expectations of weapon performance, delays in the development of new weapons, and political intervention. Alternative targets were selected not only to take advantage of the Squadron’s existing capabilities but also to address specific issues that were often imposed on the planners by outside agencies which would have otherwise diverted Bomber Command from the main offensive. In other instances the Squadron was used to supplement existing operations carried out by main force. The gestation time for new weapons was such that when a weapon emerged its originally intended targets were no often longer relevant. Accordingly, new targets had to be found. The Squadron’s role in the development and assessment of weapons, equipment and new techniques for the Command is revealed to be greater than previously recognised. This new approach to the Squadron’s wartime role examines the policy and planning backstory to the Squadron’s operations. It reveals a hitherto unrecognised complexity in the evolution of the Squadron’s role, and demonstrates how haphazard delays and setbacks were transformed into new policy to meet ever changing requirements
The influence of ice jams on ice-induced vibrations of multi-legged sub-structures
No full textThe world is transforming its energy production towards more sustainable sources of energy. In Europe, there is currently 25 GW of installed offshore wind power capacity. This is expected to grow with 29 GW over the next five years. Offshore wind farms can be expensive and challenging to build, design and maintain. Understanding the offshore environment will ensure that the to be produced offshore wind turbines are of sufficient quality while reducing costs. Monopiles are currently the most common sub-structure, but jacket sub-structures are becoming more relevant due to increasing water depth or changing soil conditions. Structures in icy waters, such as the Baltic Sea, may be subjected to ice induced vibrations while they encounter sea ice. These vibrations have to be considered in vertically-sided offshore structures' design and are the most critical load case when ice is concerned. Multi-legged sub-structures, such as jackets, can have a problem that does not exist for monopiles, namely ice jamming, where ice fills the space between the legs of a multi-legged sub-structure. The legs and the jammed ice may then act as a single structural unit. Which leads to the main research question: how does an ice jam influence ice-induced vibrations of a multi-legged sub-structure? First, a literature study of ice jams and multi-legged sub-structures was performed. This study concluded that different ice jamming situations are possible and have occurred with multi-legged structures, which not all have survived. The ratio between leg spacing and diameter plays a vital role in the ice action on multi-legged structures. Furthermore, the combination of ice-induced vibrations and ice jamming had not been studied yet. Secondly, a model is made based on a phenomenological ice crushing model using COMSOL Multiphysics and MATLAB to simulate the structural response. The sub-structure is based on the jacket design for the NREL 5-MW reference turbine. Different situations from the literature study are used to make several design scenarios for which the structural response is calculated. In total, there are five situations: a base case, an angled base case, an internal jam, a frontal jam and an angled frontal ice jam. The base case does not have an ice jam, and the angled frontal jam has an increased thickness of the jam to twice the incoming ice. For the other jams, the thickness is equal to the incoming ice. The different scenarios are simulated for a range of ice drift velocities to capture the different ice-induced vibration regimes and see how the structural response changes due to the presence of an ice jam. First, a baseline was established of the jacket's structural response for the base case. Afterwards, the three different ice jams were simulated. Results show that the base case is excited in all three ice-induced vibration regimes. At lower ice drift speeds, intermittent crushing is observed. Then at around 0.05 ms-1, it transitions into the frequency lock-in regime. Here the structure is excited at its second natural frequency. For higher ice drift velocities (>0.2 ms-1), continuous brittle crushing is seen. For the angled base case, the transition between intermittent crushing and frequency lock-in happens at around 0.1 ms-1, and it stays longer in the frequency lock-in regime. The internal stresses around the contact area between ice and leg for the internal and frontal jam did significantly exceed the ice strength. Thus these jams would have failed on crushing at the contact area. The stresses inside the angled frontal jam exceed the ice strength but by a small margin. With all the assumptions made taken into account, the jam might hold. The structural response shows an increase in period for intermittent crushing and a lower amplitude in structural displacement than the base case. The main conclusion is that an ice jam that would significantly impact the ice-induced vibrations cannot be sustained. The internal stresses exceed the ice strength which would cause the jam to fail. The ice jam that can be sustained acts as additional stiffness for the system and decreases the structure's displacement amplitude for the intermittent crushing regime. In the frequency lock-in regime the structure's displacement frequency increases a bit. But the amplitude is similar in all scenarios because the maximum velocity of the structure will roughly be the same as the incoming ice floe because that is what excites the structure, and this doesn't change.Offshore and Dredging Engineerin
Property and valuation methods in new media: an examination of existing theories and practices and their applicability to new media ventures
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.New media has become a major part of our daily routine and influences both our social interactions and the ways in which we conduct business. Not only does it provide new business tools to existing business models, it has also created a platform from which new forms of commerce and exchange can emerge. These novel enterprises are largely unrestrained by the capital and regulatory requirements of traditional forms of business and have other peculiar characteristics that may challenge our current views on ‘property’ and ‘ownership’. The potential of new media to compete with, and potentially displace, players in the ‘real economy’ requires a further examination of the valuation methods currently applied to business ventures, in particular those in which intellectual property and intangible assets are a major component. It is beyond the scope of this dissertation to propose alternative methods of valuing intellectual property in the new media environment. It does, however, aim to consider various theories on property and traditional valuation methods in light of this new phenomena
UA12/2/1 College Heights Herald - Homecoming
No full textWKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue includes articles: Winnecke, Joycelyn. Life Love: Hugh Poland’s Tie to Western Strong Owen, Karen. World War II Left Western with Few Men Shirley, Margaret. Kings and Queens: Administrators among Talisman Royalty Beshear, Tom. Student Government Grew as University Expanded Galloway, Amy. Cherryton: Miniature City on Hillside a Result of 1920 Oil Boom Judd, Alan & David Whitaker. The E.A. Diddle Tape Some Wonderful Tapes – E.A. Diddle, Robert Cochran Mason, Cecelia. Basketball Palace Now Serves as Helm Library Beaty, Lisa. Snell Hall Gift to School Fish, Tim. Campus Divided Over Vietnam Issues Bilbrey, Greg. School Has Answered to 6 Names in Its Past Jones, Linda. Hilltop Bridge Has Seen Violence in Two Centuries – Old Fort Bridge Overdue Book Celebrates Homecoming Bailey, Cindi. Severe Drought Led to Building – Cedar House City Named After Hobby – Bowling Green Publications Named in ‘20s – College Heights Herald, Talisma
Me and My Girl (program)
No full textPerformed October 23, 25-26, 1996.
Cast:Bill: Tim PellSally: Angela ShollLady Jaquie: Eve ClevengerGerald: Henry McDanielDuchess: Rochelle RoseSir John: Marcus NeelyParchester: Brad DunnLady Battersby: Charissa WaltersLord Battersby: Ben JonesHethersett: Randall ParksSir Jasper: Pete VannFootman: Jon StoltenbergEnsemble: Marie Allison, Eric Barnes, Aaron Bayles, Melia Byrd, Melody Colyer, Rachel Connors, Allen Cox, Dawn Crabtree, Kelley Curtis, Summer Daniel, Jaime Evans, Sherrill Ganus, Stefanie Glenn, Tracy Hall, Becky Henson, Shannan Hibbard, Ashley Hickerson, Brandon High, Heather Holder, Dena Jones, Alissa Lingua, Angie Lingua, Carla McCarty, Jason Middlekauff, Marisa Moore, Jamie Murphy, Carrie Owen, Bonnie Partain, Eli Perkins, Leah Romine, Elizabeth Root, Elizabeth Sewell, Emilie Shepherd, Katharine Snell, Mayumi Terada, and Doug Waddillhttps://scholarworks.harding.edu/theatre-history/1177/thumbnail.jp
Making Canons and Finding Flowers - A Study of Selected New Zealand Poetry Anthologies
No full textThis thesis analyses the poetry contained in anthologies published between the 1940s and 1980s in New Zealand and that of some later anthologies that retrospectively covered the same period. I wanted to find out what subject matter preoccupied poets during these times, to monitor changes in the content of that poetry and to observe what techniques were used and the evolution of styles. Complimentary to the study of the poetry is an evaluation of the intentions of the editors of the anthologies and how much their selections were directed by their tastes and knowledge to form a kind of 'construct', or representation of the publishing of poetry.
From my reading, I conjectured that the literary canon with regard to poetry was formed in New Zealand by the mid-1970s, on the strength of publications from Penguin and Oxford University Press. The 1945 and 1960 anthologies by Allen Curnow were extremely influential - particularly the second of these two - and the editors of future anthologies from the larger publishers diverged comparatively little from his choices. Curnow's anthologies are the subject of Chapter One, and in Chapter Two, I look at Vincent O'Sullivan's series of three anthologies for Oxford (1970, 1976 and 1987), which confirmed and expanded that canon.
However, from the mid-1960s, and especially in the early 1970s, new trends emerged in New Zealand writing, linked to a consciousness of post-modernist literary theory. Some of the new trends, together with material that supplemented existing perspectives on poetry, are discussed in Chapter Three. The greater degree of acknowledgement of writing by women poets - which began in the late 1960s in smaller literary journals - reached a point where the first anthology of women's poetry, Private Gardens, could be published in 1977. The first major anthology to be edited by a woman appeared five years later. The gradualness of these changes is stressed, however, with regard to women's poetry included in the larger anthologies themselves.
A new bias emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s in favour of work from the University presses. Nevertheless, anthologies that presented some alternative point of view on our literary history proliferated at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Taken together, the anthologies Big Smoke and Real Fire form a more holistic picture of what went on in the 1960s and 1970s and are discussed in Chapter Four of this thesis. Concluding remarks focus on the prejudices that appear to have guided the publishing of poetry in New Zealand anthologies, the influence of major poets, and the possibilities for further study of this body of literature
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