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The religion of Abraham Lincoln; correspondence between General Charles H.T. Collis and Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. With appendix, containing interesting anecdotes by Major-General Daniel E. Sickles and Hon. Oliver S. Munsell.
No full textThis pamphlet contains a compilation of correspondence between the author, General Charles H.T. Collis and Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. General Collis states in the introduction that he feels the correspondence provides evidence to back up his estimation of Abraham Lincoln\u27s religious views. The letters span from February 12-24, 1893. The two men pose questions to each other and share quotes and situational anecdotes that make their respective arguments. The appendix provides a letter from D. E. Sickles, dated, September 29, 1900 that accompanies a copy of an interview Mr. Sickles conducted with President Lincoln the Sunday after the Battle of Gettysburg. The appendix also contains a letter written by Oliver S. Munsell in which the letter describes a personal anecdote in relation to Munsell\u27s views on Lincoln\u27s religious views.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-pamphlets/1959/thumbnail.jp
Supplemental Material – Remote consultations in primary care across low-, middle- and high-income countries: Implications for policy and care delivery
No full textSupplemental Material for Remote consultations in primary care across low-, middle- and high-income countries: Implications for policy and care delivery by Siân Williams, Amanda Barnard, Phil Collis, Jaime Correia de Sousa, Suraj Ghimire, Monsur Habib, Tessa Jelen, Frank Kanniess, Vince Mak, Sonia Martins, Ema Paulino, Hilary Pinnock, Miguel Roman, Hanna Sandelowsky, Ioanna Tsiligianni, Laurine van der Steen and Fabio Weber Donatelli in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.</p
My first strike - 1909
No full textThe Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies was gathered together by John Burnett, David Vincent and David Mayall whilst compiling their three volumes annotated bibliography, "The Autobiography of the Working Class" (Harvester Press, 1984-1989). This book includes descriptions of unpublished autobiographies and indicates their locations. Excerpts from some of the autobiographies have been published in "Destiny obscure: autobiographies of childhood, education, and family from the1820s to the 1920s", edited by John Burnett (Routledge 1994 and A. Lane, 1982). The authors "sought to identify not only the large numbers of printed works scattered in various local history libraries and record offices, but also extant private memoirs, many of which remain hidden in family attics, known only to the author and a handful of relatives" (Introduction to vol.1, p. xxix). The criteria for inclusion were: the writers were working class for at least part of their lives; they wrote in English; and they lived for some time in England, Scotland or Wales between 1790 and 1945. John Burnett was professor of social history at Brunel University from 1972 to 1990.Alice M. Collis's (born 1894) description of a print workers strike in 1909. Collis briefly discusses her trade union activities as a member of the National Federation of Women Workers
(Mis)Use of Personal Technology by Employees in Financial Services Organisations
No full textThis work presents a single methodology design across three different groups to chart the challenges and potential of digital investigation and to offer an original contribution to researchers seeking purposive samples specific to topical research questions. Open-source online intelligence theorised from an attacker's perspective is underpinned by a novel cyber-orientated framework of routine activity theory (RAT) (Cohen and Felson, 1979) to highlight digital footprint as a vector for targeted social engineering. Seventy-six (N=76) demographically diverse financial services employees from occupations throughout the sector provide empirical data via a mixed methods online survey. Cyber-specific RAT evaluates the ‘average user’ (with no specialist training) as a potential contributor to human assisted cybercrime threatening corporate networks through use of personal technologies and internet-based activities. Robust discussion debates routine digital activity using smartphones, tablets, and consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices as an unmitigated factor for workplace risk. Personal internet use, devices accessing corporate networks, self-promotion on social media, physical and virtual IoT, executive personnel practicing ‘unsafe’ behaviours and assumed device security as licence for unrestricted online activity are key findings of this study which offers original contributions to critical assessment of insider threat. Despite employee (mis)use of personal technology as a potential vector financial organisations are seemingly unprepared for small-scale and dynamic risk. Results recommend bespoke training at all levels to associate personal use and online behaviour with known cyber risks and capacity for loss or harm. Cyber-RAT as a framework to identify suitable targets and potential for guardianship will contribute value added and assist in a more holistic response to cybercrime where the human element complements technological solutions as a positive enhancement to enterprise security
Post-colonial Antarctica
No full textThis chapter explores how postcolonial perspectives have informed and contributed to ‘critical Antarctic studies’.\ud
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Shortly after Dodds published an essay in Polar Record entitled ‘Post- colonial Antarctica: an emerging engagement’, leading postcolonial theorists posited the ‘The end of post- colonial theory?’ in the journal PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association). Lambasting postcolonial theory as irrelevant, parochial and Anglo-centric, 1 their piece captured a powerful current of discontent. But for Robert Young, a leading theorist of post- colonialism and author of field- setting introductions to postcolonial theory and practice, such an obituary seemed out of place and time..
Making connections: Creative industries networks in outer-suburban locations
No full textThe role of networks and their contribution to sustaining and developing creative industries is well documented. This article argues that although networks operate across geographical boundaries, particularly through the use of communication technologies, the majority of studies have focused on the ways in which networks operate in (a) specific inner-urban metropolitan regions or (b) specific industries. Such studies are informed by the geographical mindset of creative city proponents in which inner-urban precincts are seen as the prime location for creative industries activity, business development and opportunity. But what of those creative industries situated beyond the inner city? Evidence in Australia suggests there is increasing creative industries activity beyond the inner city, in outer-suburban and ex-urban areas. This article identifies characteristics of creative industries networks in outer-suburban locations in Melbourne and Brisbane drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork. It argues that supporting and sustaining creative industries networks in these locations may require different strategies than those applied to inner-city networks. © 2010 Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc
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Book review: Flexible Learning in a Digital World: Experiences and Expectations: Betty Collis and Jef Moonen; Kogan Page, London, 2001, 232 pp, ISBN 0–7494–3371-X, £19.99 (paperback)
No full textThe title of this book resembles the title of ‘Tele-learning in a Digital World’ by Betty Collis, published in 1996. The earlier book was focused on distance learning, but this one explores how learning can be made more flexible for campus-based students as well as those who are studying at a distance. Flexible Learning in a Digital World is more compact, offering a structured means to understanding flexible learning, along with sets of guidelines that can help in its adoption within an institution. It has a story to tell about institutional change and the main lessons learnt from experiences at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, where both Collis and her co-author Jef Moonen have been working for many years. Indeed, the authors draw on 30 years of experience in the deployment and evaluation of educational technology at their institution, and link to this evidence from broader research literature, which enables them to give a well contextualised account of the changes brought about by Web-based learning over the past decade
Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
No full textIncludes bibliography.White South African author Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) are well-known and celebrated literary figures in their own right, but are seldom read side by side. Furthermore, these authors and their works are traditionally placed on different spectrums of feminist literary genealogies despite writing during a similar time-frame and sharing converging feminist agendas. This thesis analyses The Story of an African Farm (1883), Schreiner’s first completed novel, alongside Hopkins’ first full-length novel, the romance Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (1900). Individually, these novels and their authors do radical work in liberating their female characters from the patriarchal and racial oppression prevalent in each context. This thesis argues that reading the two in tandem offers unique insight into a specifically transnational and transracial feminist consciousness emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century. Identifying multiple links between the novels’ feminist concerns and their intersecting negotiations with race and empire, this comparative literary study establishes temporal, spatial and conceptual links between the two works, arguing that these links transcend both the space and race of their novels’ local contexts in order to suggest a definitive transnational and transracial feminist awareness. Such a reading moreover disrupts traditional genealogies of western feminism, urging scholars to look beyond the narrow scope of feminist “waves” and schools in order to detect nuances, convergences and relationships between texts which such genealogies disregard
Measurement of the Reynolds Stresses in a Circular Pipe as a Means of Testing a DISA Constant-Temperature Hot-Wire Anemometer
No full textMeasurements of the turbulent stresses in fully-developed pipe flow have been made as an overall test of the DISA constant-temperature hot-wire anemometer. The measurements were made with single slanting wires and a normal wire. The shearing stress was measured at two Reynolds numbers and compared with values computed from the pressure drop down the pipe: an accuracy of 10% or better was achieved. The computed longitudinal and transverse normal stresses were in good agreement with the measurements of Laufer. It was confirmed that the heat loss from the wire varied linearly with U^0.45 (Collis' law) rather than U^0.50 (King's law)
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