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Rainbird, V W, WX10756
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/412204Surname: RAINBIRD. Given Name(s) or Initials: V W. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: WX10756. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 35367.228729
Item: [2016.0049.44467] "Rainbird, V W, WX10756
The excavation of an Iron Age site at Nansledan, Newquay, Cornwall
No full textAn archaeological excavation by AC archaeology on land at Nansledan, Newquay, revealed an Earlier Iron Age circular enclosure 17m in diameter with causeways in the east and west. There was no evidence for its use and a ritual function is proposed. After a hiatus, in the Later Iron Age the enclosure became the focus of activity comprising a gully and post-built structure around a hollow containing pits and a hearth which contained sherds of imported Roman amphora. To the south of the enclosure and contemporary with the activity within it was a ring gully enclosing a stony spread. Elsewhere postholes indicated the position of a possible rectangular structure and a four-post structure. The finds and environmental remains indicate that the activity was probably domestic in character, although the structures are unusual and consideration of a special purpose for the Later Iron Age activity is entertained. A sequence of boundary ditches forming fields spanned the period of the Iron Age activity
Edutainment Content for Mobile Devices in Kenya
Full text linkThe subject of this thesis was initially researched by the developer of the Rainbird Tales concept during the year 2012 in Finland. Later during the year the concept was presented to the author who was in the process of searching for a subject for his thesis. The co-operation between the developer and author began almost immediately.
The purpose of the concept was to be able to provide schools, teachers, clubs and parents an affordable and digitized tool to deliver valuable life lessons to children between the ages of 4 to 10 by utilizing interactive storytelling and multimedia edutainment content. The product would also support internationalization by providing children with educational and entertaining stories from around the globe regardless of their physical location. During the initial research period it was discovered that the idea could not be started successfully in Finland due to the lack of proper infrastructure in the creative industries, more accurately the lack of integration between creative content production, technology and businesslike thinking.
Kenya was then chosen as the target market for the product due to the developer’s pre-existing networks and experience of the Kenyan ICT and creative content production markets.
The thesis research began with idea generation in the fall of 2012. As a result, an open ended questionnaire was designed and sent to a small number of carefully selected professionals operating within the Kenyan ICT markets. It was soon discovered that sending the questionnaire by e-mail would not provide sufficient information for the research. This problem was solved by personal interviews of the professionals in Kenya by the concept developer. This was made possible by another cultural project called amka Kenya which was run by the concept developer. The project took place in Nairobi from October 2012 to April 2013 and was partly financed by the Finnish Foreign Ministry.
The research provided useful information and confirmation that demand for the Rainbird Tales concept exists in Kenya
Resourcing Early Learners : New Networks, New Actors
No full textThe landscape of early childhood education and care is changing. Governments world-wide are assuming increasing authority in relation to child-rearing in the years before school entry, beyond the traditional role in assisting parents to do the best they can by their children. As part of a social agenda aimed at forming citizens well prepared to play an active part in a globalised knowledge economy, the idea of ‘early learning’ expresses the necessity of engaging caregivers right from the start of children’s lives. Nichols, Rowsell, Rainbird, and Nixon investigate this trend over three years, in two countries, and three contrasting regions, by setting themselves the task of tracing every service and agent offering resources under the banner of early learning. Far from a dry catalogue, the study involves in-depth ethnographic research in fascinating spaces such as a church-run centre for African refugee women and children, a state-of-the-art community library and an Australian country town. Included is an unprecedented inventory of an entire suburban mall. Richly visually documented, the study employs emerging methods such as Google-mapping to trace the travels of actual parents as they search for particular resources. Each chapter features a context investigated in this large, international study: the library, the mall, the clinic, and the church. The author team unravels new spaces and new networks at work in early childhood literacy and development
Validation and Simulation of Ares I Scale Model Acoustic Test - 3 - Modeling and Evaluating the Effect of Rainbird Water Deluge Inclusion
Full text linkThe Ares I Scale Model Acoustics Test (ASMAT) is a series of live-fire tests of scaled rocket motors meant to simulate the conditions of the Ares I launch configuration. These tests have provided a well documented set of high fidelity measurements useful for validation including data taken over a range of test conditions and containing phenomena like Ignition Over-Pressure and water suppression of acoustics. Building on dry simulations of the ASMAT tests with the vehicle at 5 ft. elevation (100 ft. real vehicle elevation), wet simulations of the ASMAT test setup have been performed using the Loci/CHEM computational fluid dynamics software to explore the effect of rainbird water suppression inclusion on the launch platform deck. Two-phase water simulation has been performed using an energy and mass coupled lagrangian particle system module where liquid phase emissions are segregated into clouds of virtual particles and gas phase mass transfer is accomplished through simple Weber number controlled breakup and boiling models. Comparisons have been performed to the dry 5 ft. elevation cases, using configurations with and without launch mounts. These cases have been used to explore the interaction between rainbird spray patterns and launch mount geometry and evaluate the acoustic sound pressure level knockdown achieved through above-deck rainbird deluge inclusion. This comparison has been anchored with validation from live-fire test data which showed a reduction in rainbird effectiveness with the presence of a launch mount
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