547 research outputs found
Applying the Stanford search fund concept in Prince Edward Island
No full textSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent a key driver of economic prosperity in Prince
Edward Island. Local SME owners also represent an aging demographic group, and the need to facilitate the successful transition to a new generation of SME owners is recognized as a major local
economic development issue. The Stanford search fund concept was developed in the mid 1980s as
an investment process designed to increase the odds of younger entrepreneurs to find and present an
investment-ready SME succession transaction to a pool of potential investors. This study explores
whether the Stanford search fund concept may be applied in Prince Edward Island as a means to
facilitate local SME succession transactions. This study employed a modified policy Delphi
technique whereby local SME owner/investors were presented a detailed synopsis of the Stanford
process, and were then interviewed to solicit their opinion as to the process’ local applicability. The results of this study suggest that it may be both desirable and feasible to apply a modified version of the Stanford search fund concept in Prince Edward Island as a means to facilitate SME succession
transactions. This study also presents a set of expert panel opinion evidence with which to further explore local application of the Stanford search fund concept
A study of the relationships between teacher leadership and school culture in secondary schools within the Eastern School District on Prince Edward Island
No full textThis study examined the relationship between teacher leadership and school culture at the secondary level and explored other areas of interest that included how teacher leadership was affected by such variables as gender, a teacher's level of education, and teaching experience. This was a quantitative study that used a purposeful sample of 146 of the 212 high school teachers from the Eastern School District on Prince Edward Island. The return rate was 68.9%.The leadership behaviors and characteristics of each teacher was determined through self-assessment ratings using The Leadership Profile (TLP) developed by Sashkin and Rosenbach (1995). This survey evaluated fifteen leadership measures which included the overall leadership potential of the teacher and four leadership scales: transformational leadership behaviors, transformational leadership characteristics, total transformational leadership, and transactional leadership. These scales were further subdivided into ten sub-scales. The teachers' perception of school culture was determined using the School Culture Assessment Questionnaire (SCAQ developed by Sashkin (2001 a). This survey evaluated the norms, beliefs and values of the school as perceived by each teacher. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-02, page: 0389.Advisers: G. Hopkirk; X. Liu
'Living lightly on the Earth': Building an ark for Prince Edward Island, 1974–76 by Steven Mannell (review)
No full textLiving Lightly on the Earth is a shining example of publicly engaged scholarship in the environmental humanities. Steven Mannell, an architect and director of Dalhousie University’s College of Sustainability, is not a historian but, rather, a public scholar, and, like the college, this book is an accomplishment in interdisciplinary public teaching and research. Mannell curated an exhibit at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown in the months prior to the book’s publication. The book’s “project team” lists three members, including Mannell as author and exhibit curator, Lukas Bergmark as assistant curator, and Megan Peck as research and curatorial assistant. Full credit is also given to the two original architects, two curators at the Confederation Centre, one additional writer (historian Daniel A. Barber wrote a short introduction), and four other collaborators. The ratio of authors to words published is thus substantially higher than most of the books reviewed in this journal, but the result is a richly illustrated, well-researched, and deeply personal account of this unique moment in architectural and environmental history
A Short Rather Poetic Book Review of _Passage to Poros: In the Sanctuary of the Sea God_ by Edward Tick
No full textA Short Rather Poetic Book Review of _Passage to Poros: In the Sanctuary of the Sea God_ by Edward Tick.
Dr. Edward Tick is author of nine books. Most recently, his poetry from Crete, The Bull Awakening, was published by Kanabos as Ο ΤΑΥΡΟΣ ΕΓΕΙΡΕΤΑΙ and a bilingual edition, Γλυείς Αέρηδες, Sweet Breezes: Poems from Poros, is forthcoming
The authoring of optical videodiscs with digital data
No full textThesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-55).The optical videodisc is a publishing medium that permanently stores large amounts of visual and aural data. The technology needed to support videodiscs is understood and available. Digital augmentation of the optical videodisc can exploit this technology for data publishing. Not only can this data be used in raw form, it can also reference the video that it augments. Publishing requires an author to create the publishable material, and this thesis addresses the problem of authoring digitally augmented videodiscs.by Steven Edward Yelick.M.S.V.S
First report of Myxobolus neurofontinalis (Bivalvulida: Myxobolidae) infecting anadromous Brook Trout from Prince Edward Island, Canada
No full textObjective
During routine histological examination of tissues from mortality events of anadromous Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis from Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, myxospores consistent with Myxobolus were observed infecting the central nervous system. The objective of this study was to identify the species of Myxobolus infecting the nervous system of anadromous Brook Trout from PEI, Canada.
Methods
Myxospore morphology, small subunit (SSU) ribosomal DNA (rDNA) sequence data, and histology were used to identify myxospores isolated from infected Brook Trout.
Result
Myxospore measurements from the PEI samples matched those reported in the description of Myxobolus neurofontinalis from North Carolina. A 1057-bp fragment of the SSU rDNA from myxospores collected from Brook Trout in PEI was identical to an isolate of M. neurofontinalis (MN191598) collected previously from the type locality, New River basin, North Carolina. Histological sections confirmed infections were intercellular in the central nervous system. Minimal host response was observed, with only sparse mononuclear inflammatory infiltrates present at the periphery of and within dispersed myxospores, suggesting that infections are not pathogenic to Brook Trout.
Conclusion
Myxospores were identified as M. neurofontinalis, which was previously described from the central nervous system of Brook Trout from the New River basin, North Carolina, USA. This constitutes the first time M. neurofontinalis has been documented outside of the New River basin in North Carolina
Communication : use multimedia in grant applications
No full textThe format of grant applications should be updated to incorporate multimedia video. This would help researchers to convey complex topics to grant-review panels.\ud
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If time-poor research panels cannot quickly grasp the scientific ideas presented in a paper application, other factors, such as author affiliations and track records, may disproportionately influence project rankings..
An Impulse Generator Simulation Circuit
No full textThis thesis describes the creation of a simulation circuit to match the output of a Marx type Impulse Generator. The goal was to estimate the stray capacitance and insert that capacitance into the simulation circuit to effectively produce an output similar to that of the generator. An actual three-stage impulse generator was used as the base. Several different levels of impulse voltage were tested, and the output waveforms were captured. Research was conducted to formulate the stray capacitance and identify the locations of these capacitances in the generator itself. The simulation circuit was then subjected to several iterations, adjusting the capacitance values to attain an output as close as possible to that of the actual generator. Conclusions of the research indicate that an effective simulation circuit can be created to give an output that is close to, but not exactly that of, the actual generator. In the research, several areas of error were identified in the actual generator that were not present in the simulation circuit. These areas are discussed in the thesis
Psychology Of Learning And Behavior
No full textNow in its Fifth Edition, Psychology of Learning and Behavior is one of the most highly regarded texts in its field. Barry Schwartz, Steven Robbins, and new co-author Edward Wasserman offer students an engaging introduction to the basic principles of Pavlovian conditioning, operant conditioning, and comparative cognition. The text\u27s critical approach exposes students to the unresolved problems and controversies surrounding behavior theory and encourages them to interpret the material and make connections between theories and real-life situations. With several hundred new references, a new emphasis on comparative cognition, and expanded treatment of neuroscience and the neural basis of learning, the Fifth Edition sets the standard in its coverage of contemporary theory and research
Using mechanical turk to obtain and analyze English acceptability judgments
No full textThe prevalent method in theoretical syntax and semantics research involves obtaining a judgment of the acceptability of a sentence/meaning pair, typically by just the author of the paper, sometimes with feedback from colleagues. The weakness of the traditional non-quantitative single-sentence/single-participant methodology, along with the existence of cognitive and social biases, has the unwanted effect that claims in the syntax and semantics literature cannot be trusted. Even if most of the judgments in an arbitrary syntax/semantics paper can be substantiated with rigorous quantitative experiments, the existence of a small set of judgments that do not conform to the authors’ intuitions can have a large effect on the potential theories. Whereas it is clearly desirable to quantitatively evaluate all syntactic and semantic hypotheses, it has been time-consuming in the past to find a large pool of naïve experimental participants for behavioral experiments. The advent of Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk now makes this process very simple. Mechanical Turk is a marketplace interface that can be used for collecting behavioral data over the internet quickly and inexpensively. The cost of using an interface like Mechanical Turk is minimal, and the time that it takes for the results to be returned is very short. Many linguistic surveys can be completed within a day, at a cost of less than $50. In this paper, we provide detailed instructions for how to use our freely available software in order to (a) post-linguistic acceptability surveys to Mechanical Turk; and (b) extract and analyze the resulting data
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