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Interview with Kent E. Robson, Utah Humanities Board, 1975-1981, for Utah Humanities Fiftieth Anniversary oral history project, 22 April 2024.
No full textRobson studied at Utah State University, University of Utah and at Stanford, where he earned his PhD in philosophy. Robson served in the Army in Germany, and went to Poland for a year on a Fulbright Scholarship. He was a Utah State University philosophy and history professor, establishing a program for students and others to visit Russia. He was asked to join the board of Utah Endowment for the Humanities (1975-1981) in the very early days of the organization. He talks about different individuals he worked with in the organization and programs he was involved in, including the Road\u27s Scholar Program for which he was a speaker. He talks about the goal of the very beginning of UEH to bring the humanities to all areas and communities of Utah. Robson also served on the board for the National Endowment for the Humanities. On both the UEH and NEH boards, Robson worked on ethics.Marantz Professional Digital Recorder: Model PMD660; Shure Omnidirectional Lavalier Microphone: Model Microflex MX18
Off the Mark: Canada's 2008 Fiscal Accountability Ranking (also available in French)
No full textEvery year, legislators in Canada vote for budgets that set out targets for the coming fiscal year. But every year, governments tend to spend more than they promise at budget time. The result: accountability between legislators and voters breaks down. Canadians should demand better.fiscal policy, public accounts, Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments fiscal accountability rankings
Старообрядцы спасовцы : пути народного богословия и формы самосохранения традиционных обществ в России XX столетия
No full textAgeeva E. A., Robson Roy R., Smiljanskaja E. B. Старообрядцы спасовцы : пути народного богословия и формы самосохранения традиционных обществ в России XX столетия. In: Revue des études slaves, tome 69, fascicule 1-2, 1997. Vieux-croyants et sectes russes du XVIIe siècle à nos jours, sous la direction de Michel Niqueux. pp. 101-117
Fluid-model analysis of electron swarms in a space-varying field: nonlocality and resonance phenomena
No full textThe physically based, benchmarked fluid model developed by Robson et al. [R. E. Robson, R. D. White and Z. Lj. Petrovic Rev. Mod. Phys. 77 1303 (2005)] and extended to analyze electron swarms in a spatially homogeneous electric field under conditions corresponding to the Franck-Hertz experiment [P. Nicoletopoulos and R. E. Robson Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 124502 (2008)] is generalized to investigate the nonlocal response and resonance phenomena associated with electrons subject to an externally prescribed, spatially varying electrostatic field. Analytic expressions are first derived for the mean velocity, energy, and heat flux of electrons in a harmonically varying field, and expressions are then given for fields with more general spatial dependences. Numerical examples are given for both benchmark model cross sections and a real gas
Simulating the X-ray emission of hot gas in groups and clusters
No full textAs some of the largest gravitationally bound objects in the Universe, galaxy groups
and clusters provide a unique laboratory for testing models of cosmology and galaxy
evolution. While many of the basic properties of halos are determined by the
dissipationless dark matter component, the baryonic components that govern the
appearance of the visible matter such as the galaxies and the virialised hot gas, are
less well understood. As such the co-evolution of galaxies, gas, and black holes within
groups and clusters can help us examine galaxy evolution. By leveraging the benefits
of simulations we can closely investigate this evolution and the effects of feedback.
SIMBA is a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation run using the GIZMO code, that
utilises a novel approach to black hole growth and feedback. Deviations of the X-ray scaling relations within SIMBA from self-similarity give us insight into how the
implemented feedback affects halo evolution. It is then possible to determine more
specifically where feedback is altering halos through their X-ray profiles. Through
this work into the global X-ray properties of halos within SIMBA I have established
a baseline from which to start investigating the evolution of individual halos. Tracing
halos back through time allows us to pinpoint the moments, and events, which lead to
significant changes both in global X-ray properties, and the finer details of the X-ray
profiles. While the initial work was done using X-rays generated through PYGAD,
further work was achieved through the combination of pyXSIM, SOXS telescope
simulator, and XSPEC, to generate mock observations and allow for the more direct
comparison of simulations to observations. This ability to accurately create mock
observations from past telescopes such as Chandra aptly leads to the application of
these tools towards simulating observations for future X-ray telescope projects such as
Athena. As such we move from using these tools to validate the simulation, to using
the simulations to make predictions
Feasibility study of geospatial mapping of chronic disease risk to inform public health commissioning
No full textThis final article is available for use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 2.0 Licence; see http://bmjopen.bmj.co
Time and Money: The Challenge of Demographic Change and Government Finances in Canada
No full textAs a result of demographic change, Canadian governments face a net liability of $1.4 trillion for healthcare, education, seniors' and children's programs. Meeting this challenge will require fiscal discipline, partial prefunding and growth-friendly policies.fiscal policy, demographics
New time-of-flight technique for measuring drift velocity in Semiconductors
No full textA microwave time-of-flight method for measuring the v/E characteristic of semiconductors is described. Results taken on a sample of gallium arsenide, using this technique, are shown to be in good agreement with those obtained from the same sample by the more conventional time-of-flight method
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