15 research outputs found
the beat report piece on the pop rock band Headstart!, featuring Mainers Kevin
No full textthe beat report piece on the pop rock band Headstart!, featuring Mainers Kevin Kennie, Ben Flood, Nate Warren, Adam Parvanta and Ian Blanchard. Headstart! play the Big Easy, in Portland, Jan. 21
the beat report piece reviewing Sincerely Yours, the new CD by rock band Hea
No full textthe beat report piece reviewing Sincerely Yours, the new CD by rock band Headstart! Band members Kevin Kennie, Ben Flood, Nate Warren, Adam Parvanta and Ian Blanchard play CD-release shows March 24-26 in Orono and Portland. With additional reviews of Releasing Anger, by hip hop artist Anger; and a new EP by Supersoul Charger
the beat report piece with a review of It Takes One to Know One, the new alb
No full textthe beat report piece with a review of It Takes One to Know One, the new album by songwriter Kevin Ouellette. Oullette last year released Average Potential under the name Subject Bias. Ouellette\u27s new release features other local musicians including Liz Parmalee, Frank Hopkins, and Kevin Kennie. Subject Bias play the Free Street Taverna in Portland, on April 9
Complex Gameplans and Contested Results: Urban Life, Youth Welfare, Nation Building, and Moving Sport Beyond the Ring in Late Colonial Lagos, 1930-60
No full textRemote sensing in civil engineering.
No full textA book written for practising engineers, civil engineers, geologists and surveyors. After an introduction examines; photographic systems, scanning systems, digital processing, applications in civil engineering, topographic mapping, regional planning, site investigations, highway engineering, environmental engineering and water resource engineering. The 11 chapters are separately abstracted in Geographical Abstracts G.-after Author
Occurance of Gel Formations: A Preliminary Study
No full textResearch poster detailing study of samples from several sites at Reykjadalur and Geysir in Iceland
UNJUK KERJA PERALATAN PENYULINGAN AIR LAUT DENGAN PENAMBAHAN BATU KERIKIL PADA BASIN BERBAHAN BETON
No full textClean water is very important in human life. Clean water is a basic need that cannot be separated from the development of human life. In their daily life, humans are very dependent on clean water, its use in the long term makes clean water very difficult to obtain. The scarcity of clean water that is used by the people on a daily basis is also influenced by the factor of contamination of clean water by factory wastes. Clean water is currently something that is difficult for humans to obtain, this makes clean water production very expensive.
This research was conducted to produce clean water using a distillation process. Seawater distillation is a process of purifying seawater from its existing content, namely salt. This process is a separation method by heating seawater to produce water vapor, which is then condensed to produce clean water. The seawater distillation process is a physical separation process between water and salt content by evaporating seawater, which then undergoes a condensation process. The process that will be used in this study is the process of adding gravel as an absorber to the production of clean water in the distillation apparatus to be studied.
Based on the results of the analysis and discussion, it was found that with the addition of gravel the solar radiation would increase and the production of water condensation would also increase.
Keywords : Distillation, Absorber, Concrete, Gravel. Air bersih merupakan hal yang sangat penting dalam kehidupan manusia. Air bersih merupakan suatu kebutuhan pokok yang tidak dapat dipisahkan dengan perkembangan hidup manusia. Dalam kesehariannya manusia sangat bergantung pada air bersih, penggunaannya dalam jangka waktu panjang membuat air bersih menjadi sangat sulit untuk didapatkan. Kelangkaan air bersih yang digunakan oleh masyarakat sehari-hari dipengaruhi juga karena faktor terkontaminasinya air bersih oleh limbah- limbah pabrik. Air bersih saat ini merupakan sesuatu yang sulit diperoleh oleh manusia, hal tersebut membuat produksi air bersih menjadi sangat mahal.
Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menghasilkan air bersih dengan menggunakan proses destilasi. Destilasi air laut merupakan suatu proses pemurnian air laut dari kandungan yang ada yaitu garam. Proses tersebut merupakan metode pemisahan dengan cara memanaskan air laut untuk menghasilkan uap air, yang selanjutnya dikondensasi untuk menghasilkan air bersih. Proses destilasi air laut adalah proses pemisahan fisis antara air dengan kandungan garam yaitu dengan menguapkan air laut, yang kemudian uap tersebut akan mengalami proses kondensasi. Proses yang akan digunakan dalam penelitian ini merupakan proses penambahan batu kerikil sebagai absorber terhadap produksi air bersih pada alat destilasi yang akan diteliti.
Berdasarkan hasil analisa dan pembahasan, didapat bahwa dengan adanya penambahan batu kerikil radiasi matahari lebih meningkat dan produksi kondensasi air juga akan meningkat.
Kata Kunci : Destilasi, Absorber, Beton, Batu Kerikil
Appointing Pro Vice Chancellors in Pre-1992 Universities: Different Process, Same Results? Conference Presentation
No full textThis paper will report on preliminary findings from an ongoing empirical doctoral study examining the implications of recent change to the way Pro Vice Chancellors (PVCs) are appointed. As key members of the university top team, PVCs perform a distinctive and vital role as facilitators of the Vice Chancellor’s vision and as catalysts for action (Smith, Adams & Mount 2007). Attracting the best people to these jobs is fundamental to an institution’s effectiveness. Nevertheless, the recruitment and selection of top team members remains a relatively under-researched and under-theorised area of enquiry (Kennie & Woodfield 2008) that warrants further investigation, not least because of an enduring public perception of “leadership deficit” in HE (Watson 2008).
Earlier research by the author has established that many pre-1992 universities are moving away from the traditional internal, fixed-term secondment model of PVC appointment to one of external advertisement, often utilising the services of recruitment consultants (Shepherd 2011 unpublished). This paper presents findings from a census of PVCs in pre-1992 universities designed to examine the impact of this changed practice on the profile of current post holders. Are they now a more diverse group than hitherto in terms of gender, ethnicity and professional background?
Emanating from a practitioner perspective, this study reflects my belief that the role of HE researchers is to undertake work that has ‘real world,’ as well as theoretical, significance. Accordingly, the paper will discuss the practical and policy implications of these findings for the career progression and ambitions of aspiring PVCs and, more broadly, for leadership capacity building in the sector. At a theoretical level, it will consider whether recent developments in PVC appointments can be seen as evidence of managerialism, taken to mean a set of beliefs as well as management practice (Pollitt 1990). Participant feedback will be invited on the significance of findings to date and their role in shaping the future direction of the research.
Kennie, T. and Woodfield, S. (2008). The Composition, Challenges and Changes in the Top Team Structures of UK Higher Education Institutions. London: Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
Pollitt, C. (1990). Managerialism and the Public Services: The Anglo-American Experience. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Shepherd, S. (2011 unpublished). Change and Continuity in the Appointment of Second Tier University Managers. Canterbury: University of Kent.
Smith, D., Adams, J. and Mount, D. (2007). UK Universities and Executive Officers: the Changing Role of Pro-Vice-Chancellors. London: Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
Watson, D. (2008). Hunting the Headhunters. Engage, 10-11
Investigations into un-mitigated troposphere and multipath effects on kinematic GPS for 3-dimensional monitoring of high rise buiding movements
No full textMonitoring is a process of observing any changes on a monitored subject. Deformation monitoring is a process which consists of four stages: specification, design, implementation and analysis [Kennie et al., 1990], with the structure being monitored on a daily, hourly or continuous basis for any changes in position, size and shape. With the Global Positioning System (GPS), a 24-hour all weather monitoring system can be established. However, for kinematic GPS, un-mitigated troposphere and multipath remain as the main source of errors in the position residuals. These were investigated in detail using data from field trials conducted by the author which suite their particular purposes. The investigations were made using static and moving stations, and included stations at the same altitude, and stations with a high difference in altitude, and baseline lengths of less than ten kilometres. Using Adaptive Filtering (AF) technique, common signals in two time series can be extracted. By performing AF and interchanging position residuals time series as reference and desired (Forward and Backward) using consecutive days of data will show the multipath and this can be confirmed with a third day of data. While same day AF can be used to separate un-mitigated troposphere and movements from receiver noise. The position residuals considered in this thesis were processed with Leica Ski-Pro Version 3.0 software. These were validated and through comparisons made using a kinematic GPS processing software named KINPOS, developed by previous researchers at the IESSG, University of Nottingham and the use of Virtual Reference Station (VRS) data were also investigated by comparing with actual data. Through the field trials carried out on Snowdon, University campus, Humber Bridge and Forth Road Bridge, the novelty of this thesis is that it demonstrates that by better understanding the trends in unmitigated troposphere and multipath, the use of kinematic GPS for monitoring tall structures can be improved, making the results more suitable for engineers and building owners or managers to better assess building performance during extreme motions caused by traffic, earthquakes, strong winds, and other climatic conditions
