64 research outputs found
William Henry Collison
No full textThe chapter, "William Henry Collison" was written by Gail Edwards (Douglas College Faculty). This new volume of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire Biographique du Canada (DCB / DBC) presents well-written, carefully documented and meticulously edited biographies of Canadians from all walks of life. Its literary and scholarly standards make it, like its predecessors, the definitive biographical reference for its period of history. The 619 biographies by 446 authors present a panoramic view of the origins of modern Canada, its political landscapes, economic changes, educational institutions, cultural developments, and athletic achievements. The volume’s coverage is inclusive, ranging from murderers to artists, from business magnates to religious leaders, from Canada’s First Peoples to new immigrants. There are labour leaders, farmers, feminists, and naturalists as well as all the prominent leaders in all aspects of Canadian life.
The dominant theme of this volume is the emergence of a country engrossed by material gains and aware of broadening horizons. Sir Clifford Sifton, federal minister of the interior, Sir Lomer Gouin, premier of Quebec, and Sir Robert Bond, premier of Newfoundland, symbolize this age of development. The lives of Sir Adam Beck, father of Ontario Hydro, Gordon Morton McGregor, founder of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, and Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, illustrate how new technologies harnessed natural energy sources and created new ways to communicate. Such innovations drove the transformation of Canada in the early years of the twentieth century.
An expanding nation required thousands of new people to answer the demands of the agricultural enterprises in the west, the manufacturing industries of central Canada, and the fishing and lumbering businesses of British Columbia and the Atlantic region. Many newcomers were drawn from eastern Europe and Asia as well as the British Isles and western Europe, traditionally the homelands of new Canadians. The Doukhobor leader Peter Vasil’evich Verigin, the housemaid Angelina Napolitano, the Chinese teacher and merchant Yip Sang, and the Orthodox clergyman Nestor Dmytriw all took their places in the increasingly complex ethnic mosaic.
Social and economic changes inspired demands for other types of change. The movement of women into the professions is exemplified by the life of Clara Brett Martin, the first woman called to the bar in Canada. Jeanne Lajoie, an embattled Franco-Ontarian teacher, joins writers Sara Jeannette Duncan, Félicité Angers (known as Laure Conan), Joséphine Marchand (Dandurand) and Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall in the cast of women prominent in this volume. Among those representing arts and sports are the painter James Wilson Morrice and the brilliant goalkeeper Georges Vézina.
Without question Volume XV of the DCB/DBC will take its place as one of the finest to appear in this distinguished ongoing series of Canadian lives. --From publisher description.book chapterPublished
Author Scott O'Dell speaking to young patrons in the Boys and Girls Room.
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Author Scott O'Dell speaking to young patrons in the Boys and Girls Room.
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Quantifying performance of ultrasonic immersion inspection using phased arrays for curvilinear disc forgings
No full textUse of full-matrix capture (FMC), combined with the total focusing method (TFM), has been shown to provide improvements to flaw sensitivity within components of irregular geometry. Ultrasonic immersion inspection of aerospace discs requires strict specifications to ensure full coverage – one of which is that all surfaces should be machined flat. The ability to detect defects through curved surfaces, with an equivalent sensitivity to that obtained through flat surfaces could bring many advantages. In this work, the relationship between surface curvature and sensitivity to standard defects was quantified for various front wall radii. Phased array FMC immersion inspection of curved components was simulated using finite element modelling, then visualized using surface-compensated focusing techniques. This includes the use of BRAIN software developed at the University of Bristol for production of TFM images. Modelling results were compared to experimental data from a series of test blocks with a range of curvatures, containing standard defects. The sensitivity to defects is evaluated by comparing the performance to conventional methods. Results are used to highlight the benefits and limitations of these methods relating to the application area of aerospace engine disc forgings
THE VARIABLE TEMPERATURE PRESSURE BROADENING OF IN COLLISION WITH HYDROGEN
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Physics, The Ohio State UniversityPressure broadening cross sections for the rotational transitions of hydrogen sulfide () in collison with hydrogen () have been measured between 12 and 500 K. Measurements below 40 K were made using the collisional cooling technique, while measurements at higher temperatures were made in an equilibrium cell. Comparisons of these data with earlier measurements of the transition will be made as well as comparisons to measured cross sections of hydrogen sulfide in collision with helium (He). The data analysis techniques and experimental apparatus are described
The South African military aerospace industry: An overview of the special defence account more commmonly known as 'The South African Arms Deal'
No full textMagister Legum - LLMThe paper focuses specifically on the South African Military Aerospace Industry as most of the weapons procured under the arms deal were military aircraft. Taking into account the numerous social needs of South Africa, the purpose of this paper is to inter alia try to establish the rationale behind the South African government's decision to to purchase an array of military weapons from foreign suppliers at an initial cost of almost thirty billion rand. In order to gain a better undrstanding of the topic, the author gives a brief overview and history of the South African Aerospace industry.Furthermore, an examination of the politics of the transition from apartheid to democracy and how this affected the aeropace industry is given.South Afric
The South African military aerospace industry: An overview of the special defence account more commmonly known as 'The South African Arms Deal'
No full textMagister Legum - LLMThe paper focuses specifically on the South African Military Aerospace Industry as most of the weapons procured under the arms deal were military aircraft. Taking into account the numerous social needs of South Africa, the purpose of this paper is to inter alia try to establish the rationale behind the South African government's decision to to purchase an array of military weapons from foreign suppliers at an initial cost of almost thirty billion rand. In order to gain a better undrstanding of the topic, the author gives a brief overview and history of the South African Aerospace industry.Furthermore, an examination of the politics of the transition from apartheid to democracy and how this affected the aeropace industry is given.South Afric
Badfellas : an ethnography of crime, tradition and changing masculinities in a northern city
No full textSelf Deploying Sensor Swarm: Aansturing UAVs, communicatie, afstandsmeting & collision avoidance
No full textIn dit verslag behandelen we de aansturing van UAVs, afstandsbepaling tussen UAVs, communicatie tussen UAVs en collision avoidance voor een Self Deploying Sensor Swarm (SDSS). Het doel van de opdracht is om een demonstratie te maken van een SDSS waarmee bewezen kan worden dat het concept haalbaar is en dat hierin tevens ook het ‘follow-the-data’ concept kan worden toegepast. Voor de aansturing van UAVs hebben we het mogelijk gemaakt om meerdere UAVs onafhankelijk vanaf het basisstation te besturen. Dit hebben we geïmplementeerd door de UAVs te laten verbinden met één wifi-router. Vervolgens kan elke UAV opstijgen, landen, vliegen en hoveren. Voor de veiligheid is het mogelijk om de UAVs met één druk op de knop onmiddellijk te laten stoppen. Voor de afstandsbepaling hebben we een methode om in alle richtingen de afstand te meten. Hiervoor gebruiken we ZigBee en daarvan lezen we de signaalsterkte. Hierbij zit ook een vorm van identificatie, zodat duidelijk is tussen welke UAVs de afstand is gemeten. Verder hebben we een afstandstabel, mocht een meting misgaan versturen we de vorige waarde. Voor de communicatie hebben we de mogelijkheid dat berichten kunnen ‘hoppen’ tussen de UAVs, indien het basisstation buiten bereik is. Hierdoor krijg je een soort ketting. Verder zorgt een routingbuffer ervoor dat berichten niet dubbel worden verstuurd. Als laatste hebben we nog de collison avoidance. Hiermee wordt voorkomen dat de UAVs tegen elkaar botsen. Hiervoor gebruiken we de afstandsbepaling en wordt gekeken wanneer deze kleiner is dan een bepaalde waarde.Electronics Research LaboratoryMicroelectronics & Computer EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
National models for CPD: The challenges of C21st knowledge management
No full textTeacher quality is the most critical factor in improving educational outcomes (McKinsey, 2007). This paper proposes analytical frameworks for national models for continuing professional development (CPD). It examines the unacknowledged problem of the quality and extent of the evidence base underpinning teachers’ CPD. In the 21C through the use of ICTs the research and evidence base underpinning educational practice surely could be made accessible to all teachers and all providers of initial teacher training and CPD. The evidence base available internationally appears to be patchy. Yet this is taken for granted in the literature, and is rarely if ever acknowledged in the discourse about school and system improvement. This lack of research based professional knowledge, is a particular problem for subject specialist issues and is further compounded by the fact that research published in journals is not generally designed around questions teachers want answered. In short, the knowledge that is produced and the management of it within the education sector is lacking systemic organisation and dissemination. The paper outlines opportunities which exist for low cost interlinked national and international e-infrastructures to be developed to support knowledge sharing, but such collaboration may pose an insurmountable challenge for national and international agencies
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