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Conversations: Candace Barrington Interviews Patience Agbabi, author of Telling Tales
No full textCandace Barrington interviews Patience Agbabi about her relationship to Geoffrey Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales
Nurses' knowledge and practice in the care of patients with delirium in the intensive care unit: a service evaluation project proposal
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An analysis of the challenges faced by youth in accessing the Zimbabwe youth empowerment fund: the case of Mutare district
No full textThe research aimed at analysing the challenges faced by youth in accessing the youth fund using Mutare District as the case study. The researcher went further to illustrate various legal frameworks that the government has established in a bid to deal with the economic, social and political problems facing youth in Zimbabwe. The researcher has focused on the duty of the government in ensuring the fulfillment of the needs of the youth in Zimbabwe. The study looked at the importance of youth empowerment in the form of youth fund whereby the government of Zimbabwe has launched various Youth Fund schemes aimed at curbing unemployment in the country. This study had focused on the Kurera/Ukondla Youth Fund which was launched by the government to enable youth to start their own businesses so that they can support themselves. The researcher also looked at the causes and effects of unemployment and other countries that have been involved in the empowerment programmes. The study findings have shown that the challenges faced by youth in acquiring funds are mainly caused by the funding institutions themselves for example the politicization and corruption on the distribution of these funds has been a major challenge faced by Youth in Mutare District. The researcher has recommended on what the government should do in order to solve the problems that the youth are facing in accessing funds thereby ensuring a successful youth empowerment in the country
Recollections of past days: the autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer
No full textEdited by Sandra Ailey Petree.Includes bibliographical references and index.For visitors to the Martin's Cove historic site in Wyoming, Patience Loader has become an icon of the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies. Her record of those events is important, but there is much else of interest in her autobiography. In fact, it is a bit unusual that someone such as her would have left such an engaging record of her life."Reccolections of past days": England, 1827-December 1855 -- On the John J. Boyd, December 1855-February 1856 -- America, February-July 1856 -- Starting Westward, July 3-July 28, 1856 -- On the Plains, July 28-November 30, 1856 -- In the Valley, November 30, 1856-December 1858 -- Camp Floyd, December 1858-July 27, 1861 -- On the Trail to Washington, July 27-November 1861 -- Washington, November 1861-April 1866 -- Back to Utah, April 18-July 21, 1866 -- Back in the Valley, July 21, 1866-1872 -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: James and Amy Britnell Loader Family -- Appendix 2: John and Patience Loader Rozsa Family -- Appendix 3: The Latter-day Saints Millennial Star on Handcart Emigration, December 22, 1855 -- Appendix 4: The Mormon on Handcart Emigration, December 1, 1855 -- Appendix 5: Patience Loader to John Jaques and his reply, The Latter-day Saints Millennial Star, June 14, 1856 -- Appendix 6: Marshall Loader to Amy Britnell Loader, August 6, 1857 -- Appendix 7: Patience Loader Rozsa Archer to Tamar Loader Ricks, November 17, 1914
Wyatt’s ‘Patience’ Poems
No full textFour poems starting with the word 'patience' are usually thought of as Wyatt's: 'Patience, though I have not', 'Patience for my device', Patience, for I have wrong', and 'Patience of all my smart'. Of these the first two are the most interesting and important. Study of these poems in the Devonshire MS shows how, presumably, they were originally conceived as a pair by the author. The connection was lost when Wyatt revised the two poems so as to make them independent units, as they are in the MS with the highest authority (Egerton). The versions in the so-called Blage MS appear to reflect a transitional stage between Devonshire and Egerton, while variants unique to the Arundel MS are later and without any authority
Spectroscopy
No full textThroughout the day, we apply experimental methods to estimate time, mass, volume, distance, velocity, and temperature—how much to eat (mass), what clothes to wear (temperature), how long will it take to get somewhere (distance, velocity, and time). Preparing a meal requires some precision with respect to these factors, and the kitchen was the first laboratory for chemists and engineers. We continue to share many concepts related to instrumentation and experimental design. This book presents the basic principles of measurement particular to chemical engineering. Redacting this manuscript has been a collaborative effort; its original inspiration was J.P. Holman’s textbook entitled “Experimental Methods for Engineers.” In this 2nd edition, we revise the text entirely, correct typos (and other errors), and add a chapter on mass and distance and spectroscopy. Each chapter begins with a historical perspective to recognize the work of early pioneers but also to stimulate the imagination of the students. For example, 10 000 years ago, man created plaster from limestone. Plaster requires temperatures nearing 900°C, which is 150°C higher than an open pit fire. It requires 1000 kg of wood (chopped by stone axes), 500 kg of limestone, a pit 2 m in diameter and 0.7 m deep, rocks to insulate, and two days to burn. Modern manufacturing errors are costly and a nuisance; in prehistoric times, errors would have been considerably more than just an inconvenience.
In Chapter 1, we list the seven steps of the scientific method and review the rules of nomenclature—units of physical quantities, abbreviations, conversion between SI and British Units, writing convention. Chapter 2 introduces significant figures and what we mean by accuracy, precision, and error analysis. In this second edition, we report an explicit equation to calculate how many experiments are necessary to achieve a specified confidence interval. Chapter 3 reviews data analysis including hypothesis testing, data smoothing, and statistical tests. We summarize design of experiments, and we include more detail in this edition to describe factorial designs, outlining them and other complementary designs with detailed examples. Chapter 4 is new and introduces stress, strain, and electrical properties that relate to manufacturing sensors for mass and force. We apply these concepts in Chapters 5 and 6 that deal with pressure and temperature measurements. In each of these chapters, we first review basic concepts, including thermodynamics. Then we describe the sensors that rely on mechanical and electrical properties.
Chapters 7 and 8 continue with chemical engineering fundamentals of fluid flow and physicochemical properties. The former begins with Bernoulli’s equation and Reynolds number, then lists common flow meters. The three physicochemical properties that Chapter 8 presents include viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusion. It demonstrates how these properties are related and introduces non-dimensional numbers. Examples throughout the book help the students grasp the mechanics of solving problems but also to underline pitfalls in solving them. Measuring gas and liquid concentration by chromatography and mass spectrometry is the subject of Chapter 9. In this edition, we dedicate more scope to troubleshooting the chromatographic instruments. Spectroscopic instruments we detail in Chapter 11. This summary includes sections written by eminent chemists. We have selected the most powerful techniques used to characterize the physicochemical properties of solids and include infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, UV/Vis, X-ray absorption, and refractometry Whereas Chapter 11 probes the nature of the solids phases, composition and morphology, Chapter 10 concentrates on powder properties—particle shape, size distribution, density, and surface area. The first edition of this book was a collaborative effort in which Melina Hamdine early on drafted several chapters in French, including Physicochemical Properties, Analysis of Powders and Solids, and Design of Experiments. Prof. Bala Srinivasan contributed to Chapter 3 on experimental design. Katia Senécal was “instrumental” in gathering the essential elements for the chapters, including Measurement Analysis, Pressure, Temperature, and Flow Rate. Prof. Bruno Detuncq collaborated in the revision of these chapters. Danielle Béland led the redaction of the chapter on chromatography to determine concentration, with some assistance from Cristian Neagoe. He also wrote the section concerning spectroscopy. Amina Benamer contributed extensively to this project, including preparing solutions to the problems after each chapter, writing sections related to refractometry and X-ray, and translating. Second-year students from the Department also participated by proposing original problems that were added at the end of each chapter (together with the name of the author of the problem). I would particularly like to recognize Paul Patience for his tremendous contribution throughout the creative process of preparing this manuscript. The depth of his reflection has been appreciated tremendously (LATEX). He also co-authored the section on pyrometry. Christian Patience prepared many of the drawings and Nicolas Patience helped with translating from French to English, as did Nadine Aboussouan.
This second edition is no less a collaborative effort. Ariane Bérard expanded Chapter 3 with examples of experimental designs. Prof. J. Gostick contributed the chapter on Mass and Force instrumentation. Stefano Lucini wrote the section on troubleshooting GC and HPLC instruments, while F. Galli contributed to the section on mass spectrometry with Patrice Perreault, who was devout at identifying errors and proposing additional problems. Marco Rigamonti and He Li wrote sections of Chapter 10. Collaborators on Chapter 11 included Daria C. Boffito, Cristian Neagoe, Giuseppina Cerrato, Claudio Boffito, Gian Luca Chiarello, Claudia L. Bianchi, Marco G. Rigamonti, and Amina Benamer. This chapter is a tremendous contribution to the book because it details simply which instruments measure which physicochemical property and then describes how they work
Evening the odds: Employment support, mental health and BME communities
No full textThe Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has recently published a briefing paper on employment support for people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities who have mental health problems. The author of the paper, Patience Seebohm, summarises some key issues from the paper here.</jats:p
Commentary: On Patience in Leadership
No full textPatience, Approachability, Tolerance, Independence, Empathy, Nurturing Nature, Confidence, and Endurance represent the fundamental characteristics demarcating genuine leadership and principled decision-making. Author Ritch K. Eich provides illustrations of both past and present leaders in fields spanning from sports to civil rights — whose own brand of leadership incorporated one or multiples of these tenets in their respective careers
The Meaning of Patience in the Koran (Charles Sandres Peirce Semiotic Analysis)
No full textPatience is one of the noble morals that every Muslim must have. So far, patience is often said to be an attitude of restraint from all the trials that God has given him. However, in the Qur'an, patience has a broad meaning. This research aims to find signs of the word patience found in several verses in the Qur'an using a semiotic approach. The author himself uses Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic theory, namely trichotomy (representation, object and interpretant) to reveal the meaning of patience in the Qur'an which is used as a sign. The research method used is qualitative content analysis, namely research that aims to identify the message of a media as the object of research. The results of this research show that patience is not only interpreted as an attitude to refrain from every trial, but also means patience in enduring suffering, patience with someone's unjust actions, patience with people who deny as experienced by the Prophet Ulul Azmi, patience so as not to be sad and anxious, patiently refrain from something that is hated, patiently advise each other over all obstacles, and patiently advise each other in goodness. According to the author, this research still needs to be developed in order to expand the study of the Qur'an, especially regarding the meaning of patience in other verses in the Qur'an
The Warren Buffett Methodology: Are Patience and Fortitude Determinants of Success?
No full textThe growing field of behavioral finance evaluates the behavior of financial decision makers, within both the stock market and the corporate settings. This author, after researching the investment methodology of Warren Buffett believes that patience and fortitude are necessary behavioral components of a successful investment strategy. To test this hypothesis, this author has evaluated mutual fund data from Morningstar Principia Mutual Funds to determine if greater patience, as measured by lower fund turnover, and greater fortitude, as measured by a lower number of funds in the portfolio and a higher standard deviation, lead to higher returns
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