8,227 research outputs found
Mini Cooper 1961-2000
No full textFrom its launch on 20 September 1961 the Mini Cooper caused a sensation. The world’s first sports saloon, the diminutive Cooper combined the glamour and racing heritage of 1959 and 1960 Formula 1 champions the Cooper Car Company with the outstanding handling and downright practicability of the Austin Mini Seven and Morris Mini Minor. Alec Issigonis’s little people’s car had been launched by the manufacturer, the British Motor Corporation (BMC), two years earlier. A winner almost from the word go, the Mini Cooper not only ruled the racetracks and rally stages of the early and mid-1960s but proved to be a practical and fun sporting family saloon car. After over 100,000 examples were sold between 1961 and 1971, the Mini Cooper is still a practical sporting saloon in the guise of the BMW-owned MINI Cooper sixty years after the introduction of the original model.This remarkable product of the United Kingdom merits a fresh examination as it nears its sixtieth birthday. Based upon over fifty face-to-face interviews carried out by the author over more than a decade, this book quotes the Mini Cooper’s designers, developers, and professional race and rally drivers plus a host of contemporary owners. Here then in the words of its originators, is the story of the Mini Cooper
The contribution of the Joseph case to the development of procedural fairness in the Republic of South Africa
No full textMini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2015.This mini-dissertation deals with the contribution of Joseph and others v City of Johannesburg and others 2010 (4) SA 55 (CC), hereafter referred to as Joseph, to the development of procedural fairness in the Republic of South Africa.
Section 33 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, provides for fair administrative action and has also been given content and meaning by the promulgation of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act 3 of 2000, hereafter referred to as PAJA. Section 3(1) of PAJA requires procedural fairness whenever administrative action materially and adversely affects a right or legitimate expectation of any person.
In this dissertation I explore what is meant by procedural fairness. I do so by explaining the importance of procedural fairness in the South African legal system and its application. I examine the Joseph case by focusing mainly on the facts, court decision and also on the reasoning behind the decision. I examine the content of procedural fairness and its application as the main rules that were raised in Joseph and investigate how they have developed procedural fairness. I also examine the right of individuals to be given adequate notice and to be afforded the opportunity to make representations with respect to decisions that materially and adversely affect their rights. I further deal with the sections of the Electricity By-law which were declared unconstitutional and whether the Debt and Credit Control By-laws can be read consistently with PAJA. I analyse the duty imposed on the Municipality by the decision of the court and examine the success of Joseph s case and other relevant cases in the further development of procedural fairness in South African administrative law. I conclude by summarising on the new jurisprudence that the court has established. Finally, I consider the future of procedural fairness after Joseph.Public LawLLMUnrestricte
sj-docx-1-wmr-10.1177_0734242X231204814 – Supplemental material for A critical review of municipal solid waste hydraulic conductivity: A mini review
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-wmr-10.1177_0734242X231204814 for A critical review of municipal solid waste hydraulic conductivity: A mini review by Sajjad Karimi, Christopher A. Bareither and Joseph Scalia in Waste Management & Research</p
Parametric investigation\of mini-tab for load alleviation
No full textThis thesis investigates a novel load alleviation technique known as mini-tabs, small devices placed on the upper surface of wings to reduce lift. Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations were conducted to analyze the impact of geometrical properties on mini-tab performance in reducing the load on a wing.The initial simulations focused on a single mini-tab, varying parameters such as height, aspect ratio, chordwise, and spanwise positions. Results indicate that increasing height or aspect ratio leads to decreased lift due to flow deceleration at the leading edge and expansion of the separated flow region downstream of the mini-tab. This will also increase the pressure drag. Increasing the height or aspect ratio also accelerates the flow at the lower surface, further reducing the lift generated by the wing.Placing mini-tabs closer to the wingtip exhibits similar effects on lift reduction as increasing the height of the mini-tabs. This is because the relative height of the mini-tab with the local chord length increases when the mini-tab is positioned closer to the wingtip. A maximum lift reduction is also achieved when the mini-tab is placed at a 60% chordwise position.Subsequent simulations explored the performance of multiple mini-tabs, revealing that orienting them orthogonal to the wind direction may not be optimal due to gap formation between the mini-tabs that energizes the wake downstream of the mini-tabs and reduces the reduction in lift. Conversely, aligning the mini-tabs with the leading edge has a higher efficiency in the reduction of the lift.Overall, the findings suggest that mini-tabs offer a viable method for reducing wing forces and for load alleviationAerospace Engineerin
Sister Mary Joseph's Nodule at a University Teaching Hospital in Northwestern Tanzania: A Retrospective Review of 34 cases.
No full textSister Mary Joseph's nodule is a metastatic tumor deposit in the umbilicus and often represents advanced intra-abdominal malignancy with dismal prognosis. There is a paucity of published data on this subject in our setting. This study was conducted to describe the clinicopathological presentation and treatment outcome of this condition in our environment and highlight challenges associated with the care of these patients, and to proffer solutions for improved outcome. This was a retrospective study of histologically confirmed cases of Sister Mary Joseph's nodule seen at Bugando Medical Centre between March 2003 and February 2013. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics. A total of 34 patients were enrolled in the study. Males outnumbered females by a ratio of 1.4:1. The vast majority of patients (70.6%) presented with large umbilical nodule > 2 cm in size. The stomach (41.1%) was the most common location of the primary tumor. Adenocarcinoma (88.2%) was the most frequent histopathological type. Most of the primary tumors (52.9%) were poorly differentiated. As the disease was advanced and metastatic in all patients, only palliative therapy was offered. Out of 34 patients, 11 patients died in the hospital giving a mortality rate of 32.4%. Patients were followed up for 24 months. At the end of the follow-up period, 14(60.9%) patients were lost to follow-up and the remaining 9 (39.1%) patients died. Patients survived for a median period of 28 weeks (range, 2 to 64 weeks). The nodule recurred in 6 (26.1%) patients after complete excision. Sister Mary Joseph's nodule of the umbilicus is not rare in our environment and often represents manifestation of a variety of advanced intra-abdominal malignancies. The majority of the patients present at a late stage and many with distant metastases. The patient's survival is very short leading to a poor outcome. Early detection of primary cancer at an early stage may improve the prognosis
Mini-Trials in Alberta
No full textThe Alberta Court of Queen\u27s Bench has been offering the mini-trial, a specialized dispute resolution process, to litigants and the bar for the last four years. The impetus for this move was the length and time often involved in litigation. The attraction of the mini-trial is that it is a method of expediting dispute resolution and that the costs associated with it are considerably less than those for a regular trial.
The author outlines the history of the mini-trial, explaining how it developed in the U.S. as a private dispute resolution mechanism. The Alberta mini-trial is essentially an expanded pre-trial procedure, and is offered by the Court at no cost to participants. There is no rigid, formal procedure to the Alberta mini-trial, and its great strength is in fact flexibility and informality. The only requirement the Court has is that the actual parties must be present for the arguments and at the end of the mini-trial, when the judge gives his or her opinion.
The author outlines the key elements of the mini-trial, as they have evolved to date, including the role of the judge and the nature of the actual process.
The mini-trial has been enormously successful at encouraging settlements, which have followed or resulted from the mini-trial in over 90 percent of cases. Additionally, both counsel and clients appear to be quite pleased with the process. Despite this success, however, it should be noted that the mini-trial may not be appropriate in all cases. The author describes the types of cases to which the mini-trial both is and is not well-suited. He offers a case study, of a mini-trial over which he presided. This mini-trial was successful and led to a settlement. In closing, the author provides information to interested counsel and parties as to how and when they can access the mini-trial. The article closes with a recommendation that mini-trials always be considered as an option in lawsuits
Supplemental material for The Psychometrics of the Mini-K: Evidence From Two College Samples
No full textSupplemental material, for The Psychometrics of the Mini-K: Evidence From Two College Samples by George B. Richardson, Ching-Chen Chen, Chia-Liang Dai, Michael D. Brubaker, and Joseph L. Nedelec in Evolutionary Psychology</p
Novel Simulator for Wireline Mini-Fracture Testing
No full textWireline Mini-Fracture testing jobs consist of a short duration, small volume fracturing operation inside an open-hole borehole, where a certain amount of fluid is injected into the formation at constant rate using a Wireline Modular conveyed tool as a source of hydraulic power to pressurize the wellbore. The tool is configured with an inflatable straddle packer and an internal pump, which inflate/deflates the packers and supplies pressure to the formation until a hydraulic fracture is induced. This procedure is used to determine in–situ formation breakdown and closure pressure also known as minimum horizontal closure pressure. This provides vital information regarding hydraulic fracture design, water and gas injection management, fault re-activation, wellbore stability, sand production, rock mechanical properties, casing string design, cap and base rock integrity and gas storage design. Geomechanical and operational parameters such as, elastic properties, poro-elasticity, rock strength, formation pore pressure, far field horizontal stress, permeability/porosity distributions, borehole fluid properties among others, influences the performance of the Mini-Frac Jobs. In many cases poor understanding of the reservoir response to the fracture process, caused that the hydraulic fracture did not propagate deep into the formation. In other cases the pressure applied to the formation might be insufficient to break down the formation, leading to unsatisfactory application of the Mini-Fracture technique in the process. The objective of this thesis is to develop a Mini-Facture application simulator that uses the geomechanical and operational parameters that control the performance of a Mini-Fracture job and estimate the possibility of the occurrence of a tensile failure in the formation. The simulator is then validated by comparing its output with the results of stress test done in the field. With this simulator petrotechnical professionals and field engineers will have a platform that simulates the pressure responses and fracture initialization during Mini-Frac treatments, incorporating all the variables affecting a Wireline Mini-Fracture job, helping the design engineer to make key decisions about the ultimate or required fracture plan. Furthermore the simulator will reduce the uncertainties that limit the reliability of the Wireline Mini-Fracture treatment by allowing the selection of appropriate tool configuration based on the job objectives and the geological environmental conditions. Finally this project demonstrates that combining the appropriate constitutive relations that reflect the coupling among the tool operational performance with wellbore flow, reservoir and geomechanics modelling a Mini-Fracture simulator can be developed.Petroleum EngineeringGeoscience & EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Twirre: Architecture for autonomous mini-UAVs using interchangeable commodity components
No full textTwirre is a new architecture for mini-UAV platforms designed for autonomous flight in both GPS-enabled and GPS-deprived applications. The architecture consists of low-cost hardware and software components. High-level control software enables autonomous operation. Exchanging or upgrading hardware components is straightforward and the architecture is an excellent starting point for building low-cost autonomous mini-UAVs for a variety of applications. Experiments with an implementation of the architecture are in development, and preliminary results demonstrate accurate indoor navigation
Mini-India
No full textChapter 4 highlights how, as a consequence of migration and place-making processes, the discourses of locality, nation, and community came to be equated with the term ‘Mini-India’. Here, three intersecting meanings of the notion of Mini-India are discussed: The first section describes how the term ‘Mini-India’ is appropriated by the state to encompass diverse ethnic and religious identifications under the nationalist slogan ‘unity in diversity’ and to declare the pluralist Andaman society as a secular example of communal harmony. The second part considers Mini-India as a subaltern consciousness, which the author calls the ‘island mentality’. From this perspective, Mini-India refers to a localized sense of belonging that can also be termed a ‘rural cosmopolitanism’. Thirdly, it is argued that the notion of Mini-India must, at the same time, be regarded as an arena of politics in which ethnic communities compete with each other for funds and recognition by the state.</p
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