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Bassin Alexandra, Vieux-Port de Montréal
No full textArchitectes concepteurs du plan directeur d'aménagement du Vieux-Port de Montréal: Cardinal, Hardy et associés en collaboration avec Peter Rose; Date de dépôt du plan directeur d’aménagement du Vieux-Port de Montréal: 15 octobre 1990; Date d'inauguration du « Nouveau Vieux-Port de Montréal » à l’occasion du 350e anniversaire de Montréal et du 125e anniversaire de la Confédération: 1992; Photographie: Carlos Pineda, 1993Limitant le bassin, au second plan: Face est du quai Alexandra; À l'arrière plan: Tours du centre-ville de Montréal; Du centre vers la droite: Tours jumelles de la basilique Notre-Dame encadrant la tour Est du complexe Desjardins, tour étagée de l'édifice Aldred et nouveau palais de justic
The Alexandra Timber Tramway Museum Logging Equipment
No full textThe Alexandra Timber Tramway holds a number of significant pieces of machinery relating to the early timber and hydro industry in Victoria.The Alexandra Timber Tramway holds a number of significant pieces of machinery relating to the early timber industry in Victoria. As well as trains the local mills used rail tractors to haul timber and the museum holds one of only four Day’s rail tractors still surviving, and the only one in operational condition. This was made in South Melbourne and purchased by Ruoak Timbers in 1940 to work in the Royston Valley. The crawler, or caterpillar tractor, introduced in 1904 revolutionised the logging industry and the museum holds a 1944 Cleveland Tractor Company (Cletrac) tractor used in William Cook’s timber mill. In addition there is a Harman steam logging winch manufactured by Alfred Harman & Sons at their Port Melbourne engineering works. Also a logging winch, and Ruston Proctor “bottleneck-jackass” boiler, used by Ruoak Timbers and constructed in Brunswick by the Steel Company of Australia. There is also a 1907 portable steam engine of a type used in many small bush mills and a 1911 steam boiler, with Tangye vertical pump, used for dairy and food processing by J. Bartram & Sons. Lastly there is a Ruston 300KVA Generator Set used to pump water from the Eildon hydro-electric power station from 1960 to 2006.This collection contains significant trains used in Australia's primary industry sector over the course of the early twentieth century.A selection of material is available on line. Further material is held at the Museum
Author, Philosopher Alexandra Stoddard to Speak March 2 at Williams Library
No full textOXFORD, Miss. – Contemporary philosopher, author, interior designer and speaker Alexandra Stoddard gives an inspirational lecture and reading March 2 at the University of Mississippi
Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
No full textCurrently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed to the comparative study of sustainability of different groups of farms identified in the study area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and weakness on these production systems, we stepped to the planning of a production unit of bovine meat, which obeys simultaneously to economic and environmental objectives, using Multicriteria Decision. We finished the work with the sustainability evaluation between groups of farms identified previously and the planned farms (second evaluation cycle), based, again, in the MESMIS methodology, to confirm (or not) the greatest sustainability of the last ones. Analyses of the results allow us to confirm the greatest relative sustainability of the planned farm, for the diverse traced scenarios.Decision taking, planning, sustainability, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,
Alexandra Brickworks Brick
No full textEstablished in 1899, Alexandra Brickworks was the first brickyard in Singapore to produce bricks using modern machinery on a large scale. Owned by the trading group, Borneo Company Ltd, the bricks were made by the best-known methods at the time the clay were treated and moulded into shape with machinery powered by steam. These bricks were used to construct numerous iconic public buildings including the former National Library at Stamford Road, Tiong Bahru SIT flats and Gillman Barracks.Located at the junction of Alexandra Road and Pasir Panjang Road (double check), Alexandra Brickworks produced bricks using clay and other raw materials from its five-acre reserves of hilly land adjacent to the brickyard and a clay mine at Sungei Perpat in Johor. With a production volume of fifty million bricks a year, Alexandra Brickworks produced a range of bricks including pressed bricks, pressed wire cut bricks, hollow bricks, facing bricks, paving bricks, paving tiles, fire bricks, fire blocks and fire clay. A scientific test conducted by an independent laboratory in England showed that bricks from Alexandra Brickworks had a crushing strength higher than cement bricks.Nonetheless, the growth of Alexandra Brickworks and other brickyards was severely halted after World War 2 in the 1950s as low-cost housing schemes started a big demand for the cheaper, concrete alternatives. Cement bricks cost 25 cents each whereas clay bricks were more expensive at 35 cents apiece. Furthermore, concrete blocks could be prefabricated and bought in various sizes. This saved construction companies time and labour for transporting the bricks. The crisis was further exacerbated by competition from cheaper clay bricks produced in Southern Johor brickyards and a decline in public works project in the 1950s. According to Mr EM Telford, general manager of Alexandra Brickworks, several policies implemented in the 1950s discouraged the building of new houses. Firstly, high assessment rates were imposed in landed properties. Secondly, a 13.5 million. A year later, Alexandra Brickworks ceased production. The former Brickworks constituency and ABC Brickworks wet market and hawker centre were named in commemoration of the brick kilns along Alexandra Road. Accession number: 2019-0039</div
Exhibiting Fashion Symposium: Dr. Alexandra Palmer “Fashion Exhibitions: The Good, the Bad, and the Pointless”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Exhibiting Fashion, its twenty-first academic symposium on Friday, March 8, 2019. This symposium explored the history of fashion curating, the different ways fashion is displayed in museum settings, and how national and regional identities influence fashion exhibitions. The symposium was organized in conjunction with Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT, which commemorated the rich history of the museum, the site of more than 200 exhibitions since the 1970s.Dr. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Christian Dior, and she is the author of the book Christian Dior: History and Modernity, 1947–1957
Qualita di vita dell'assistito portatore di Port con diagnosi di malattia oncologica
No full textProblema: Molto spesso i pazienti portatori di Port-a-Cath (catetere venoso centrale
totalmente impiantabile) riscontrano diversi disagi di varia natura:
Dolore durante il posizionamento e la rimozione del catetere e dell’ago;
Possibilità di stravaso da dislocazione dell’ago dal reservoir o di ostruzione del
catetere;
Difficoltà nelle attività di vita quotidiana, nelle attività professionali o sociali e
di relazione;
Disagi a livello psicologico.
Obiettivo: Il presente elaborato vuole indagare, partendo dall’analisi di letteratura sulla
qualità di vita dell’assistito portatore di Port-a-Cath con diagnosi di malattia oncologica,
quali sono le caratteristiche della qualità di vita di un gruppo di utenti seguiti presso
l’U.O. di Oncologia Medica dell’Azienda ULSS17. Viene, inoltre, confrontato il grado
di soddisfazione ed accettazione dei soggetti eletti nel campione di indagine con
l’impianto del catetere venoso centrale a lungo termine rispetto ai dati forniti dalla
letteratura scientifica.
Materiali e Metodi: Ai 60 pazienti portatori di Port selezionati sono state
somministrate le domande del questionario QASICC (Questionario di accettazione e
soddisfazione dei pazienti con l’impianto del catetere venoso centrale) in maniera
anonima. Sono stati inclusi nello studio tutti i pazienti portatori di Port con una diagnosi
di patologia oncologica indipendente dal sesso, età o tipo di terapia medica in atto.
Risultati: Dall’indagine risulta che il 78,33% del campione si dimostra soddisfatto del
dispositivo, in linea con i risultati ottenuti da alcuni studi pubblicati, e non riporta
disturbi di tipo psicologico e fisico, quali sensazioni di dolore, bruciore, strappo,
angoscia, preoccupazione, disagi nelle attività di vita di tutti i giorni, dal lavoro, alla
casa, al tempo libero. In generale i pazienti consigliano il Port per la sua capacità di
assicurare una certa comodità e per essere discreto a livello emotivo e funzionale.
Questo studio consegna all’equipe dell’U.O. di Oncologia Medica setting dell’indagine
i risultati sul grado di soddisfazione dei propri assistiti nella gestione del Port e diversi
spunti interessanti per valutare la possibilità di applicare dei miglioramenti
nell’assistenza al paziente.ope
Bassin Alexandra, Vieux-Port de Montréal
No full textArchitectes concepteurs du plan directeur d'aménagement du Vieux-Port de Montréal: Cardinal, Hardy et associés en collaboration avec Peter Rose; Date de dépôt du plan directeur d’aménagement du Vieux-Port de Montréal: 15 octobre 1990; Date d'inauguration du « Nouveau Vieux-Port de Montréal » à l’occasion du 350e anniversaire de Montréal et du 125e anniversaire de la Confédération: 1992; Photographie: Carlos Pineda, 2001À quai: Navire porte-conteneur
Reescrita de si pelo outro: identidade portuguesa e paródia em Deus-dará, de Alexandra Lucas Coelho / Rewriting oneself through the other: Portuguese identity and parody in Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho
No full textResumo: O artigo aponta o modo como o romance Deus-dará de Alexandra Lucas Coelho, escritora portuguesa contemporânea, pode ser compreendido como um exercício de renegociação da identidade portuguesa em relação a questões referentes à colonização no Brasil. Mais do que isso, problematiza-se como, por meio da estratégia da paródia no texto ficcional, a autora consegue expressar uma necessidade e possibilidade de se redefinir pelo outro em um movimento contrário ao do discurso colonial – o que também ocorre em suas entrevistas e em suas narrativas de viagens, tais como em Vai, Brasil e Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso. Palavras-chave: identidade portuguesa; paródia; pós-modernismo; escrita portuguesa contemporânea; Alexandra Lucas Coelho. Abstract: The article observes how the novel Deus-dará, by Alexandra Lucas Coelho, a Portuguese contemporary writer consists in an exercise of renegotiation for the Portuguese identity in relation to issues that refer to the colonization process in Brazil. Moreover, this text seeks to show how parody as a fictional literary strategy helps the author in expressing a necessity and a possibility of redefining oneself through the other, in a direction that goes in the opposite way of the colonial speech. This necessity and this possibility also appear in the author’s interviews and travel books, such as Vai, Brasil and Cinco Voltas na Bahia e um beijo para Caetano Veloso, which will also be mentioned in this article.Keywords: Portuguese identity; parody; post-modernism; Portuguese contemporary writing; Alexandra Lucas Coelho
Author Rights Workshop
No full textLearning material associated with Alexandra Kohn's presentation as a part of the ABC Copyright 2020 Fall Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Alberta Copyright Office
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