2,119 research outputs found
Life in harmony with animals and nature: Contemporary cultural myths
No full textItem consists of a digitized copy of an audio recording of a Vancouver Institute lecture given by Rod Preece on October 30, 1999. Original audio recording available in the University Archives (UBC AT 2346).Other UBCUnreviewedOthe
Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb
No full textRespect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets, thinkers, philosophers, scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our compassion towards Earth's other beasts.Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb compiles the most significant statements of sensibility to animals in the history of thought. From the myths of the ancient world to the Middle Ages to Darwin and beyond, Preece captures the most telling and fascinating accounts of humankind's relationship to the wild world, placing them in historical context. Jung called it an unconscious identity with animals, while Wordsworth saw it as the primal sympathy which having been must ever be. Linking the diverse chords of human experience that are touched by the animal world, Preece shows that despite a historical thread of cruelty, there still remains in all humanity a constant underlying concern for other beings as an integral part of the moral community. With musings and meditations from Lao Tse to Mohammed, from Plato to Jane Goodall, from classical religion to parliamentary proceedings, Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb is an original, superbly researched history that deepens our understanding of all living beings
Bringing the Collective Together: Nonhuman Animals, Humans and Practice at the University
No full textWebcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College, as part of the thematic series "The Ethics of Life, Use, and Care." Featuring Rod Preece, Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University; Jodey Castricano, Critical Studies, UBC-O; Moderator: David Fraser, Zoologist, Animal Welfare Program, this lecture focuses on questions of ethics that interrogate habits of thought in the humanities and sciences in a 35-minute presentation by Rod Preece, political philosopher and well-respected Canadian scholar of animal rights.Graduate and Postdoctoral StudiesOther UBCUnreviewedFacult
Isla King and Ralph Preece
No full textIsla King, secretary of the Rod and Gun Club, gives a check for $50 to Ralph Preece, county chairman, for the heart fund
Rod and Gun Club Officers
No full textOld and new officers of the Rod and Gun Club. Duane "Dewey" Paulson, Lyman Merkley, Ila King, "Av" Alvin Kay, Bernell Haws, Ralph Preece, Dale Jensen, Carl Searle, Tex Sweatfield
Men at Rod and Gun Club
No full textGuests attending the Rod and Gun Club Meet were left to right: Jack Turner, Ralph A. Preece, State Representative; Bud Sullivan, executive secretary of the Utah Wildlife Federation; Ken Hisatake; and Bud Phelps, director of Utah Fish and Game Dept
Rod and Gun Club Officers
No full textOld and new officers of Vernal Rod and Gun Club in a dinner/board meeting. Left to right around the table are: Duane Paulson, Lyman Merkley, Isla King, Alvin Kay, Burnell Haws, Ralph Preece, Dale Jensen, Carl Searle and Tex Sweatfield
A rod-linear cascade model for emulating rotor-stator interaction noise in turbofans: A numerical study
No full textThis manuscript presents a rod-linear cascade model for emulating rotor-stator interaction noise. The model is intended as a test platform for studying noise mitigation techniques for a turbofan fan stage, while it also extends the classical rod-airfoil configuration by considering a row of blades based on realistic geometrical details. The rod-linear cascade model consists of a rod positioned upstream of a 7-blade linear cascade, such that the rod wake impinges onto the central blade. The rod is scaled to obtain a fundamental shedding frequency equal to the first blade passing frequency of the NASA-Glenn Source Diagnostics Test (SDT)fan stage at approach condition. The cascade blade profile is also based on the OGV of the SDT sampled at 90% of the radial span. Subsequently, numerical simulations are performed using lattice-Boltzmann Method on a computational setup comprised of a contraction and a test section enclosing the rod-linear cascade model. The integral length scales of the rod wake and the mean loading of the central blade have been found to be in good agreement with the trends observed in the SDT fan stage. The primary noise sources are localized at the central blade leading edge, although noise propagation to the far-field is influenced by additional diffraction by the other blades. Furthermore, the acoustic-blade row interaction causes intense pressure fluctuation within the inter-blade channels, including in those that are not directly affected by the rod wake.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Wind Energ
Rod Korns
No full textPhoto showing J. Roderic ("Rod") Korns, a historian of western trails and author of "West from Fort Bridger
Understanding migratory flow caused by helicoid wire spacers in rod bundles: An experimental and theoretical study
No full textThe core of a Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR) consists of cylindrical fuel rods that are wrapped by a helicoidally-wound wire spacer to enhance mixing and to prevent damage by fretting. It is known that the liquid metal close to the rod is forced to follow the wires, and that liquid metal further away from the rod crosses the wires (called: migratory flow). This work aims at gaining more insight into the physics behind migratory flow and to provide a model for its bending angle. To this purpose, the flow field in a 7-rods, wire-wrapped, hexagonal bundle with water is studied within the Reynolds number range of 4990–16330 by using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). Refraction of the light is minimized by using Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP), which is a refractive index-matching (RIM) material. These measurements confirm that liquid near the rod follows the helicoid path and bends cross-wise with respect to the wire further away from the rod. A theoretical model for the bending angle of the flow is derived from the Euler equations and shows that the bending is primarily caused by the pressure gradient field induced by the wire. The model shows a very good correspondence with the experimentally obtained PIV data. These findings improve our understanding of the physics at play in rod bundle flows with wrapped wires and can be of assistance in developing practical correlations for frictional pressure losses and heat transfer in such bundles.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.RST/Reactor Physics and Nuclear MaterialsRST/Radiation, Science and Technolog
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