268 research outputs found
UA19/16/3 Student Athlete Biographical File - Soccer
No full textStudent athlete biographical sheets for soccer players 1994: Alois, Bunjira Barbato, Andrea Bertotti, Robert Cecil, William Gill, Michael Guerrera, Alejandro Hickey, Joseph Hunt, Leon Karken, Allan Lykos, Alex McGraw, David Murphy, Thomas Olson, Ryan Robinson, Stephen Robson, Mark Rodosky, Ryan Smith, Jason Sparks, Gregory Tellier, Andrew Theuerkauf, Corey Webb, Michael Zutterman, Christophe
Steering Through Turbulence: The Shadow Federal Budget for 2008
No full textNear-term turbulence should not distract Ottawa budget-makers from critical long-term tasks. This 2008 shadow federal budget will move Canada a key step forward by providing improved incentives and rewards for Canadians' work and saving, and a more congenial environment for investment and innovation.fiscal policy, Canadian government budget
What is the Ideal Monetary Policy Regime? Improving the Bank of Canada's Inflation-targeting Program
No full textThe recent financial crisis has emphasized the role of sound monetary policy for ensuring Canada’s future prosperity. Although much is right with the Bank of Canada’s inflation-targeting regime, improvements such as price-level targeting and closer attention to potential financial instability should be considered in the lead-up to the renewal of the program in 2011.monetary policy, central bank policy, inflation-targeting program
Substituting for families? Schools and social reproduction in AIDS-affected Lesotho
No full textThis is the post-print version of the final published article that is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 Editorial Board of Antipode.Families, the state and employers all have a broad if differentiated interest in securing the daily and generational reproduction of society. Whereas in Western countries, the past two decades have witnessed a progressive displacement of responsibility for social reproduction from the state to families, in southern Africa, day-to-day social reproduction has always remained overwhelmingly the preserve of families. Today, however, the AIDS pandemic is radically transforming family life for many children, and prompting concerns (arguably a moral panic) about the potential breakdown of social reproduction. Even in Africa, schools have long supplemented families in delivering generational reproduction, albeit geared around the transfer of “factual” knowledge and with a narrow focus on preparing new generations of workers. In light of the AIDS pandemic, a number of commentators have suggested ways in which schools could further substitute for the diminishing capacities of families. Based on interviews with decision-makers and analysis of policy documents, I explore a number of interventions being enacted in Lesotho's schools. I argue that such initiatives remain small in scale and often justified in relation to retaining children in school. In practice both government and employers remain more interested in the generational reproduction of workers than in daily reproduction. If the welfare needs of AIDS-affected children are to be met through schooling, there is a need for the education sector's role to be understood in relation to an ethics of care, rather than the functionalist production of a future workforce.RGS-IBG Small Research Gran
Sampling hurdles : “Borderline Illegitimate” to legitimate data.
No full textIn this paper the author discusses how sampling access and recruitment problems encountered in an in-depth interview study heightened her sensitivity to “borderline illegitimate” data. The term illegitimate data usually refers to the data collected during a covert study, whereas “legitimate” data are collected during an overt study. Hence, data collected during any nonconsented period(s) of an overt study lie on the borderline of illegitimacy and legitimacy, and constitute what the author calls borderline illegitimate data. Such data need legitimization before use. The borderline illegitimate data were collected during the pre- and postinterview stages of her study as they explained how medical and ethnic cultures and sensitivity to racism as a topic combined to create sample recruitment difficulties of the study. The author later legitimized them by sharing them with the participants, guaranteeing anonymity, and asking their permission to use them
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
Efficacy of arsenic exposure reduction via drinking water treatment systems
No full textArsenic, a known human carcinogen, exceeds the maximum contaminant level in New Jersey private wells at a higher percentage than any other contaminant with a primary drinking water standard. New Jersey’s drinking water standard for arsenic at 5 µg/L is currently the most protective in the world. Water treatment systems can remove arsenic from drinking water, either from the entire home (point-of-entry) or just at a single tap (point-of-use) for drinking and cooking. The goal of this research was to compare human exposure to arsenic between point-of-entry and point-of-use water treatment, by biomonitoring, to determine which level of treatment most effectively reduced arsenic exposure and dose from water at home to acceptable risk levels. The study recruited 53 subjects in 22 households obtaining arsenic water treatment, and five control subjects with little or no measurable arsenic in their water supply. The mean arsenic concentration in untreated water was 44 µg/L. Biomonitoring started before initiation of water treatment and continued for up to three years with samples analyzed at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute. The study determined that: 1) dietary arsenic can be a major confounder in arsenic biomonitoring studies; 2) arsenic speciation techniques are extremely valuable for arsenic biomonitoring studies; 3) sampling protocols and reference values for arsenic in urine and blood should be recommended; 4) arsenic water treatment systems are effective in reducing arsenic exposure from well water; 5) there is a measurable arsenic body burden after chronic exposure to arsenic in drinking water; 6) there is a two-compartment clearance of arsenic from urine, after cessation of ingesting the arsenic contaminated water; and 7) after nine months of water treatment, the adjusted mean inorganic-related arsenic concentrations in urine were significantly lower in the point-of-entry treatment group with a mean ± standard error of 2.7 ± 0.6 µg/g creatinine than in the point-of-use treatment group at 6.1 ± 0.7 µg/g creatinine. In conclusion, point-of-entry treatment of arsenic-contaminated well water should be recommended in preference to point-of-use.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Steven E. Spay
Quantifying Equity with Messrs. Markov, Lorenz and Gini: A Case Study of Dunster, British Columbia
No full textTechniques for quantifying equity, which are discussed in the companion articles
by the authors, "Quantifying Equity with Messrs. Markov, Lorenz and Gini:
Retaining and distributing benefits in natural resource-dependent communities",
and "Social network analysis, Markov Chains and input-output models:
Combining tools to map and measure the circulation of currency in small
economies", in this issue of JRCD, are applied by the primary author in a case
study of Dunster, British Columbia, a small rural community heavily dependent on
forestry revenue. The community has forestry tenure rights over a small area in the
Robson Valley area of British Columbia, but as of 2011 had not yet begun logging.
The application of the techniques highlight the challenges faced by small
communities with limited industrial capacity in attempts to capture benefits from
the extraction of natural resources. By establishing a "pre-logging" standard, the
community can measure progress towards distributing the benefits of natural
resource extraction equitably within the community.
Keywords: equity, community forest, management, resources, benefit
Spinosad: efficacy and persistence against container inhabiting mosquitoes
No full textSmall scale field trials were conducted in an urban, suburban and rural area of New Jersey using simulated larval habitats to determine efficacy and persistence of an extended release granular formulation of spinosad. The work was done under sunlit and shaded conditions. Determining mortality of invasive container-inhabiting mosquitoes of public health importance was a primary goal of this study. Plastic containers commonly found in a household setting were treated with the larvicide spinosad at the low, middle and maximum label rates (5.6, 11.2, 22.4 kg-1 ha respectively) and compared to an untreated control. Persistence of insecticidal activity measured in weeks throughout the mosquito season was evaluated with respect to relative sunlight exposure, water temperature, water pH and accumulation of organic debris. A laboratory study was performed using Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae), in the absence of spinosad treatment, to investigate potential for container induced effects on immature development. Spinosad extended release granules at all application rates tested were an effective larval control agent against all common pest species of container-inhabiting mosquitoes in the 3 study areas tested. Larval mortality was >95% in treated containers and persisted at or beyond labeled periods for all treatments. Increasing application rate (total a.i. per unit area) was positively correlated with persistence of insecticidal activity. Mean larval habitat water temperature did not differ significantly with respect to light conditions over the course of the season. Dominant cover vegetation available, exposure to direct sunlight and larval habitat water pH are factors to be considered on a site specific basis with respect to spinosad application rates. Under standard laboratory conditions, the simulated artificial container habitat effects on larval development (days to pupation) did not differ significantly from an untreated control. The extended release spinosad formulation used warrants consideration as a rotational public health pesticide in artificial container habitats to augment integrated mosquito management programs in New Jersey.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Scott C. Cran
the churches of lalibela: erosion and encrustation as transformative musical processes
No full textThis thesis outlines a new compositional grammar for my recent compositional practice as demonstrated by the collection of original musical work supplied in the accompanying folio of compositions, itself collectively titled the churches of lalibela. The grammar here outlined and explored presents developments in compositional procedure resulting from re-considering acts of musical transformation in terms of erosion and encrustation. Within the terminologies of this thesis, erosion and encrustation are understood as classes of compositional action (applied to musical materials) defined by operations of erasure/removal and addition/accrual respectively. Using examples from the visual arts as a mechanism for discussion, the thesis develops a wider conceptual understanding of these terms, allowing them to be considered no
longer as opposites but as intertwined mechanisms mutually achieving a state of material distortion. A compositional scenario is thus derived in which the sonic surface of a given instance of a composition can be understood as being comprised of the debris resulting from such processes. To develop an understanding of this scenario, the thesis further explores ideas concerning ambiguity of material definition and the role such ambiguity can play in relation to material comparison within the experience of a musical discourse. As such, the grammar here derived can be said to exposit a preoccupation with comparison of material debris of different classes and/or degrees of distortion within the listening experience. The thesis also explores the nature and function of material consistency with regard to definition, illustrating the difference between two terms with a notion of consistency achieved through inconsistency
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