632 research outputs found
Management Recommendations for the Improvement and Maintenance of Cross Country Ski Trails in Paulson Country
No full textPaulson Country is a Forest Recreation Area in the West Kootenay Region. The area offers 31 km of cross-country ski trails, and attracts visitors from Castlegar, Rossland, Trail, Grand Forks, and Nelson. Fifty-six winter recreation questionnaires were administered in Paulson Country from December, 1983 through March, 1984. The purpose of the questionnaire was to identify the skier population, determine the present trail conditions, and to identify future management considerations. The trails are generally in good condition, but maintenance and expansion is needed in certain areas throughout the trail network. Interested groups such as the Nordic Club are doing some of the maintenance and grooming along the trails, but budget and time restrictions have limited their work. Recommendations for trail expansion and maintenance are outlined in this report as well as management recommendations for agencies and organizations involved with activities in Paulson Country.Student paper submitted for Wildland Recreation 270.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 23)
Lost conversations: finding new ways for black and white Australians to lead together
No full textIt\u27s time for a game-changer in how black and white Australians relate.
The difficulties we have in coming together—to talk, to work, to lead change—are core to our challenge to reconcile, as a country. But if we want to shift the status quo, if we want to lead change on entrenched Indigenous disadvantage, we don\u27t need another program, initiative or money to try and \u27fix\u27 the problem. We need to start having a different conversation.
The result of two years experience working together as part of a Social Leadership Australia initiative, Lost Conversations brings together the diverse perspectives and personal stories of five Aboriginal and four non-Indigenous authors, all with first-hand knowledge of what happens when black and white Australians come together to try and work on change.
Lost Conversations asks the questions and starts the conversations that we daren\u27t have in Australia ... until now:
What is \u27black\u27 power?
What is \u27white\u27 power?
What qualifies someone to lead in this cross-cultural space?
Why is this so hard to talk about?
Can we start to name these things and try to shift the status quo?
Can we change?
Should we?
 
The open provenance model: an overview
No full textProvenance is well understood in the context of art or digital libaries, where it respectively refers to the documented history of an art object, or the documentation of processes in a digital object's life cycle. Interest for provenance in the "e-science community'" [12] is also growing, since provenance is perceived as a crucial component of workflow systems that can help scientists ensure reproducibility of their scientific analyses and processes
The Fictions of Satire
No full textOriginally published in 1967. In this study of the English Augustan satirists, and the Roman and subsequent authors who were their models, Professor Paulson shows how rhetoric relates to imitation, persuasion to presentation, and the imitation of the satirist to the imitation of the satiric object. He illustrates the tendency of the satirist to invade his own fiction and imitate not the prime object of his satire but the satiric persona, which consequently takes on a life of its own. By analyzing the satiric fictions of the precursors of the Augustans, the author reveals the elements they bequeathed to those who rode the high crest of the satiric wave in England, before the art of satire became submerged in the deepening trough of sentimental romanticism.Paulson shows the Tories Dryden, Pope, and Swift and the Whigs Addison and Steele to be the heirs of a long line of satirists ancient and modern, from Horace, Juvenal, Lucian, Apuleius, and Petronius to Rabelais, Cervantes and the English Elizabethan and Civil War poets. Taking Swift as his main example, Paulson examines the dualism of satire in its most interesting and ambiguous modes, and as the embodiment of rhetorical devices that are as complex mimetically as they are rhetorically
Painting by Don Paulson, "Construction of the Columbia Tower," ca. 1985
No full textA Seattle-born author, artist, and chronicler of local drag culture, Don Paulson's (1933-2012) work has been exhibited throughout the Northwest and he is represented in many private and public collections. During the 1960s, Paulson was a member and principle organizer of Seattle's chapter of the Lux Sit and Dance lightshow group and was involved with the Northwest Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). This painting depicts the 1985 construction of the Columbia Center, also known as the Columbia Tower, which is located between Fourth and Fifth Avenues and Columbia and Cherry Streets. Paulson juxtaposes the visual signs of man's determination against the quiet dignity of butterflies seemingly ignorant of human development.1 Painting; Materials: acrylic; Dimensions: 75 in.H x 46 in.
H.L.A. Hart’s "The concept of law" and the moderate indeterminacy thesis reconsidered
No full textIn this article the author, in the context of the fiftieth anniversary of H.L.A. Hart’s “The Concept of Law”, reconsiders the moderate indeterminacy of law thesis, which derives from the open texture of language. For that purpose, he intends: first, to analyze Hart’s moderate indeterminacy thesis, i.e. determinacy in “easy cases” and indeterminacy in “hard cases”, which resembles Aristotle’s "doctrine of the mean"; second, to criticize his moderate indeterminacy thesis as failing to embody the virtues of a center in between the vices of the extremes, by insisting that the exercise of discretion required constitutes an “interstitial” legislation; and, third, to reorganize an argument for a truly “mean” position, which requires a form of weak interpretative discretion, instead of a strong legislative discretion
The fate of the cyanide ion in the aquatic environment
No full textThe fate of the cyanide ion in aqueous environments is an area of concern as exampled by an accident on the Danube River in 2000. A mining company accident in Romania spilled thousands of cubic meters of waste slurry that included cyanide and unspecified heavy metals into the Sasar River in Romania, which eventually flowed into the Danube River in Hungary. Thousands of fish died in the incident and agriculture was damaged. The population that depended on the rivers for their livelihood was devastated. There was no investigation into the fate of the spill, and eventually life forms near the origination of the spill began to re-emerge. This thesis investigates hydrolysis and volatilization as possible fates of the cyanide ion in the aqueous environment. Ion selective electrodes were used to analyze the disappearance of cyanide and the appearance of ammonia (the end product of hydrolysis). If these could be measured simultaneously the rate of the hydrolysis of cyanide in a neutral aqueous environment could be determined.The hydrolytic pathway for the cyanide ion has been investigated for the reaction catalyzed with cyanidase, and enzyme found in some bacteria and fungi. The products of the enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis are formate and carbon dioxide or formate and ammonia, depending on the organism. A two-step reaction has been proposed for cyanide hydrolysis without a catalyst in which formamide is an intermediate. The limiting step in this reaction is the initial hydrolysis of cyanide to formamide and investigations into the appearance of ammonia were used as a surrogate to the formation of this intermediate.Hydrogen cyanide gas is extremely volatile and will escape into the environment at room temperature. The experiments conducted for this thesis showed a consistent loss of cyanide during a timed reaction from an aqueous solution without a corresponding increase in an equivalent amount of ammonia. From additional experiments on the effects of temperature, ultraviolet radiation and aeration, it was concluded that volatilization was the most probable fate of cyanide in these investigations. Confirmation of volatilization was achieved by infrared spectrometry of the vapor phase above aqueous potassium cyanide solutions.M.S.Includes bibiographical references (p. 72-75)
Department of Radiology Residents (1987-1988)
No full textResidents group photograph, Department of Radiology, 1987-1988. Front Row Left to Right: Margaret F. Ensign; Paula K. Rand. Middle Row Left to Right: James Arata; Wayne L. Davis; Stephen M. Shultz; Arthur S. Watanabe. Back Row Left to Right: Paul D. Traughber; Edward s. Rollins; Alan E. Hillard; Patrick B. Brown; Erik K. Paulson; Kent B. Remley
A New Science Of Happiness: The Paradox Of Pleasure
No full textThe pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the founding document of our nation as a fundamental and inalienable right. Yet nowhere is the method of this pursuit clearly defined. What, exactly, does it mean to be happy, and how can such happiness be sustained over the long term? Can happiness be accurately gauged or measured? How does the paradoxical relationship between happiness and pleasure shape our quest to lead the good life? And what does modern science have to tell us about this universal yet elusive pursuit? Steve Paulson, executive producer and host of To the Best of Our Knowledge, moderated a discussion that included attorney and author Kim Azzarelli, historian Darrin McMahon, and social psychologist Barry Schwartz, who joined forces to share their research and insight on happiness, pleasure, and the coveted good life
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