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ASME R/C Baja Car
No full textHow does one build a car? Do they start with the tires and build inward or do they develop separate aspects at the same time? This remote-controlled car was designed and built with the intention of competing in the annual Baja Competition. There are three competitions: sprinting, slalom, and an obstacle course. The suspension system of this car must be designed to support the car for both the physical build and the competitiveness. It must do this without interfering with the drive train and steering mechanism designed by Doug Erickson. The suspension system employs suspension arms attached to the chassis plate through several connecting pieces. The body, suspension arms, and attachment pieces are made of Aluminum 6061-T6. They were machined by Torrie Large using mills, drills, taps, saws, and an automatic mill. All pieces were specifically designed to withstand a drop from a certain height and hit the wall at a specific speed. Engineering equations were applied for maximum efficiency. Through testing, the suspension system proved its ability to perform its functions while supporting the interior aspects of the car (drivetrain and steering features) while not interfering with those parts at the same time. The car has succeeded in competing and finishing the events of the Baja Competition
Protagonists of company reorganisation: A history of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) and the role of large secured creditors
No full textIn 1933 Canada enacted the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act with little consultation. Parliament described the CCAA as federal ‘bankruptcy and insolvency law’ but the Act provoked constitutional controversy because it could compulsorily bind secured claims, which fell under provincial jurisdiction. Even after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the CCAA, the intended beneficiaries of the Act preferred not to use it. In the 1950s the Act fell out of use, and by the 1970s commentators considered it a ‘dead letter.’ But during the 1980s and 1990s recessions, courts ‘revived’ the CCAA through progressive interpretations of its few ‘enabling’ provisions. This helped justify debtor-in-possession reorganisation as a policy objective of Canadian bankruptcy and insolvency law. This thesis attempts to understand why this occurred.
This study provides a theorised interpretation of CCAA history. I rely on concepts such as path dependence, interest groups and institutions to shed light on periods of stability and change in CCAA law over time. I bolster this with a socio-legal analysis that takes account of gradual changes in practice that often preceded and gave shape to formal reforms.
This thesis shows that large secured creditors have been major drivers and beneficiaries of CCAA law. The Act originally extended provincial receivership reorganisations into federal law. In the 1980s-1990s courts facilitated ongoing access to the CCAA by recasting it as a debtor-remedy. In both instances the solvency of large secureds (financial institutions) highlighted the necessity of restructuring corporate borrowers, and prevailing social, economic, and political factors influenced the substance and mechanisms of legal changes. Despite its public stature as a ‘debtor-remedy,’ CCAA law continues to advance the interests of large secured creditors
Petrology and oxygen-isotope geochemistry of the Yamba Lake kimberlite rocks, N.W.T.
No full text The Torrie, Sputnik, and Eddie kimberlite rocks, located near Yamba Lake, central Slave province, N.W.T., are volcaniclastic, macrocrystic, heterolithic, olivine-rich tuff, and olivine-rich tuff breccia. Torrie and Sputnik kimberlite rocks contain pyroxene and garnet xenocrysts and megacrysts with major-element compositions consistent with derivation mostly from disaggregated garnet lherzolite, with subordinate contributions from eclogite, spinel lherzolite, garnet harzburgite, and websterite. The presence of primary groundmass phlogopite and compositionally evolved spinel, and the absence of mantle xenocrysts, xenoliths, and megacrystic ilmenite distinguish the Eddie kimberlite pipe from the other two kimberlite pipes. Large variations in δ18O of garnet and clinopyroxene in xenocrysts and xenoliths (+3.98 to +6.36), nonequilibrium intermineral isotopic fractionation, and major-element heterogeneity are interpreted as resulting from infiltration of fluids or melts produced by dehydration or melting of subducted oceanic crust into overlying peridotite. Although the timing is unconstrained for the xenocysts, the xenolith must have experienced this metasomatic interaction shortly before entrainment in the kimberlite. Variable δ18O values for magnesian ilmenite are also interpreted to result indirectly from such metasomatic activity in the mantle as well. The Torrie and Sputnik kimberlite rocks have low concentrations of diamond indicator minerals consistent with their low-diamond grades. These kimberlite rocks did not sample a significant amount of garnet harzburgite, the rock type commonly associated with high-diamond grades in other kimberlite rocks. Furthermore, metasomatism just prior to kimberlite eruption may have caused the resorption of any diamond present. </jats:p
First-order nematic-smectic phase transition for hard spherocylinders in the limit of infinite aspect ratio
No full textWe report Monte Carlo simulations of the nematic-smectic phase transition for a system of hard spherocylinders with infinite length-to-diameter ratio. A finite-size scaling analysis suggests that this system undergoes a first-order phase transition. When combined with other simulations of the phase behavior of spherocylinders, these results suggest that the nematic-smectic phase transition is first-order for all aspect ratios. This appears to rule out the possibility of a tricritical point predicted by several density-functional theories.PT: J; CR: BLADON P, 1996, J PHYS-CONDENS MAT, V8, P9445 BOLHUIS P, 1997, J CHEM PHYS, V106, P666 DOGIC Z, 1997, PHYS REV LETT, V78, P2417 FRENKEL D, 1988, J PHYS CHEM-US, V92, P3280 FRENKEL D, 1988, NATURE, V332, P882 HOSINO M, 1979, J PHYS SOC JPN, V46, P1709 MCGROTHER SC, 1996, J CHEM PHYS, V104, P6755 ONSAGER L, 1949, ANN NY ACAD SCI, V51, P627 PONIEWIERSKI A, 1990, PHYS REV A, V41, P6871 PONIEWIERSKI A, 1991, PHYS REV A, V43, P6837 PONIEWIERSKI A, 1992, PHYS REV A, V45, P5605 SOMOZA AM, 1990, PHYS REV A, V41, P965 TENWOLDE PR, 1996, J CHEM PHYS, V104, P9932 TKACHENKO AV, 1996, PHYS REV LETT, V77, P4218 TORRIE GM, 1974, CHEM PHYS LETT, V28, P578 VANDERSCHOOT P, 1996, J PHYS II, V6, P1557 VEERMAN JAC, 1990, PHYS REV A, V41, P3237; NR: 17; TC: 15; J9: PHYS REV E; PG: 4; GA: YM237Source type: Electronic(1
Guide to PH033 Leona Washington Collection
No full textAn active member and unofficial historian of the African American community in El Paso, Leona Washington began collecting the photographs and documents that comprise the Leona Washington Photograph Collection over fifty years ago. This collection contains more than 800 photographic images documenting the lives of African Americans in El Paso over more than 100 years. Formats range from snapshots to large studio portraits. Included are images of important members of the Black community such as Dr. Lawrence Nixon, as well as institutions and organizations like the Douglass School and McCall Center
HEDGING CARCASS BEEF TO REDUCE THE SHORT-TERM PRICE RISK OF MEAT PACKERS
No full textHedging in the live cattle futures market has largely been viewed as a method of reducing producer's price over a rather lengthy production period (three to six months). Meat packers and processors also face price risk. However, packers' and processors' price risk lies on the upside (i.e., risk is due to price increases) and is also relatively short-term (usually a few days). The possibility of reducing packers' and processors' price risk through long-hedging on the live cattle contract for a short period of time (one week) was investigated. The results suggest some potential benefits to meat packers form following a routine hedging strategy.Livestock Production/Industries, Marketing,
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A Historical Account of the Orderly Payment of Debts Act Reference: Limiting Provincial Efforts to Protect Insolvent Debtors
No full textThis paper analyzes the history of the Alberta Orderly Payment of Debts Act and the constitutional controversy that followed. The legislation sought to protect debtors by imposing restrictions on creditors. In 1960, the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re Validity of Orderly Payment of Debts Act, 1959 (Alberta) ruled that the legislation was ultra vires on the basis that it interfered with the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power. The Orderly Payment of Debts Act reference is the capstone in a trilogy of cases in which provincial legislation was invalidated for encroaching upon the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power. The reference case represents a high-water mark for the expansion of the federal bankruptcy power and a curtailment of provincial authority to assist insolvent debtors. The paper argues that the OPDA reference is a landmark case in that it continued a trend of limiting provincial efforts to assist insolvent debtors by giving a broad reading of the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power.
Cet article analyse l’historique de la Alberta Orderly Payment of Debts Act (Loi albertaine sur le paiement ordonné des dettes) et la controverse constitutionnelle qui s’en est suivie. Cette loi visait à protéger les débiteurs en imposant des restrictions aux créanciers. En 1960, la Cour suprême du Canada, dans l’affaire Reference re Validity of Orderly Payment of Debts Act, 1959 (Alberta), a jugé que la loi était ultra vires au motif qu’elle interférait avec le pouvoir fédéral en matière de faillite et d’insolvabilité. La référence à l’Orderly Payment of Debts Act est la pierre angulaire d’une trilogie d’affaires dans lesquelles la législation provinciale a été invalidée pour avoir empiété sur le pouvoir fédéral en matière de faillite et d’insolvabilité. L’affaire représente un point culminant pour l’expansion du pouvoir fédéral en matière de faillite et une réduction de l’autorité provinciale pour aider les débiteurs insolvables. L’article soutient que l’arrêt OPDA est un arrêt de principe dans la mesure où il a poursuivi la tendance à limiter les efforts des provinces pour aider les débiteurs insolvables en donnant une interprétation large du pouvoir fédéral en matière de faillite et d’insolvabilité
A Historical Account of the Orderly Payment of Debts Act Reference: Limiting Provincial Efforts to Protect Insolvent Debtors
No full textThis paper analyzes the history of the Alberta Orderly Payment of Debts Act and the constitutional controversy that followed. The legislation sought to protect debtors by imposing restrictions on creditors. In 1960, the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re Validity of Orderly Payment of Debts Act, 1959 (Alberta) ruled that the legislation was ultra vires on the basis that it interfered with the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power. The Orderly Payment of Debts Act reference is the capstone in a trilogy of cases in which provincial legislation was invalidated for encroaching upon the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power. The reference case represents a high-water mark for the expansion of the federal bankruptcy power and a curtailment of provincial authority to assist insolvent debtors. The paper argues that the OPDA reference is a landmark case in that it continued a trend of limiting provincial efforts to assist insolvent debtors by giving a broad reading of the federal bankruptcy and insolvency power.
Cet article analyse l’historique de la Alberta Orderly Payment of Debts Act (Loi albertaine sur le paiement ordonné des dettes) et la controverse constitutionnelle qui s’en est suivie. Cette loi visait à protéger les débiteurs en imposant des restrictions aux créanciers. En 1960, la Cour suprême du Canada, dans l’affaire Reference re Validity of Orderly Payment of Debts Act, 1959 (Alberta), a jugé que la loi était ultra vires au motif qu’elle interférait avec le pouvoir fédéral en matière de faillite et d’insolvabilité. La référence à l’Orderly Payment of Debts Act est la pierre angulaire d’une trilogie d’affaires dans lesquelles la législation provinciale a été invalidée pour avoir empiété sur le pouvoir fédéral en matière de faillite et d’insolvabilité. L’affaire représente un point culminant pour l’expansion du pouvoir fédéral en matière de faillite et une réduction de l’autorité provinciale pour aider les débiteurs insolvables. L’article soutient que l’arrêt OPDA est un arrêt de principe dans la mesure où il a poursuivi la tendance à limiter les efforts des provinces pour aider les débiteurs insolvables en donnant une interprétation large du pouvoir fédéral en matière de faillite et d’insolvabilité
A case study for NoC based homogeneous MPSoC architectures
No full textThe many-core design paradigm requires flexible and modular hardware and software components to provide the required scalability to next-generation on-chip multiprocessor architectures. A multidisciplinary approach is necessary to consider all the interactions between the different components of the design. In this paper, a complete design methodology that tackles at once the aspects of system level modeling, hardware architecture, and programming model has been successfully used for the implementation of a multiprocessor network-on-chip (NoC)-based system, the NoCRay graphic accelerator. The design, based on 16 processors, after prototyping with field-programmable gate array (FPGA), has been laid out in 90-nm technology. Post-layout results show very low power, area, as well as 500 MHz of clock frequency. Results show that an array of small and simple processors outperform a single high-end general purpose processo
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