640 research outputs found
Bill Nicholls
No full textDelissaville Mission. The man in the centre with the white shirt on is the one and only Bill Harney - author and expert on Indigenous history. Photo shows buildings with several people standing around, child on right obviously scared of soldier with gas mask and rifle. Delisaville.Foley, Mike
Far aloft our eagles soar; loud our battle thunders roar [first line]
No full textstrophicpiano and voiceJohns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
012, Item 103Words by James Linen, Esq. Music Composed by P.R. Nicholls
Far aloft our eagles soar; loud our battle thunders roar [first line]
No full textstrophicpiano and voiceJohns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
012, Item 103Words by James Linen, Esq. Music Composed by P.R. Nicholls
Nicholls, Margaret Gates, 1868-1941 (SC 2511)
No full textFinding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2511. Notes of an address to teachers, remarking on the poor conditions in school buildings. The author is unknown; the notes were found in an envelope addressed to Margaret Nicholls, Calhoun, Kentucky
CITY OF LAUGHTER / CITY OF TEARS / SONG / [WITH TONIC SOL-FA SETTING] WORDS BY / WORTON DAVID / MUSIC BY / HORATIO NICHOLLS
No full textBox no. 6Horatio Nicholls: City of Laughter, City of Tears; Lawrence Wright Music Co.; music printItem type: book | Content type: music | Writing material: black ink | Counting of pages: page numbersVocal-instrumental score; vocal part | staff notation; tonic sol-fa notation | voice; piano"City of laughter with lights aglow, You live for pleasure alone [...]
Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey
No full textOBJECTIVE: To determine cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents, based on body mass index at age 18 years.DESIGN: International survey of six large nationally representative cross sectional studies on growth. SETTING: Brazil, Great Britain, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States. SUBJECTS: 97 876 males and 94 851 females from birth to 25 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Body mass index (BMI, weight/height(2)). RESULTS: The World Health Organization defines grade 2 thinness in adults as BMI <17. This same cut off, applied to the six datasets at age 18 years, gave mean BMI close to a z score of -2 and 80% of the median. Thus it matches existing criteria for wasting in children based on weight for height. For each dataset, centile curves were drawn to pass through the cut off of BMI 17 at 18 years. The resulting curves were averaged to provide age and sex specific cut-off points from 2-18 years. Similar cut offs were derived based on BMI 16 and 18.5 at 18 years, together providing definitions of thinness grades 1, 2, and 3 in children and adolescents consistent with the WHO adult definitions. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed cut-off points should help to provide internationally comparable prevalence rates of thinness in children and adolescent
Commuter Airlines:Their Changing Role
No full textIn - Commuter Airlines: Their Changing Role – an essay by J. A. F. Nicholls, Transportation Coordinator, Department of Marketing and Environment, College of Business Administration, Florida International University, Nicholls initially observes: “The great majority of airline passenger miles flown in the United States are between large conurbations. People living in metropolitan areas may be quite unaware of commuter airlines and their role in our transportation system. These airlines are, however, communications lifelines for dwellers in small - and not so small - towns and rural areas. More germanely, commuter airlines have also developed a pivotal role vis-a-vis the major carriers in this country. The author discusses the antecedents of the commuter Airlines, their current role, and future prospects.”
Huh; conurbations? Definition: [n.] a large urban area created when neighboring towns spread into and merge with each other
In providing a brief history on the subject of commuter airlines, Nicholls states: “…there had been a sort of commuter airline as far back as 1926 when, for example, the Florida Airways Corporation provided flights between Jacksonville and Atlanta, Colonial Air Lines between New York and Boston, and Ford Air Transport from Detroit to Cleveland.”
“The passage of the Civil Aeronautics Act in 1938 was pivotal in encouraging and developing a passenger orientation by the airlines…” Nicholls informs you.
Nicholls provides for the importance of this act by saying: “The CAA was empowered to act “in the public interest and in accordance with the public convenience and necessity.” Only the CAA itself could determine what constituted the “public convenience and necessity.” Nobody, however, could provide air transportation for public purposes without a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, dispensed by the CAA.”
The author wants you to know that this all happens in the age of airline regulation; that is to say, pre de-regulation i.e. 1978. Airlines could not and did not act on their own behalf; their actions were governed by the regulating agency, that being the Civil Aeronautics Board [CAB], who administered the conditions set forth by the CAA.
“In 1944 the CAB introduced a new category of service called feeder airlines to provide local service-short-haul, low density-for smaller communities. These carriers soon became known as air taxis since they operated as common carriers, without a regular schedule,” says Nicholls in describing the evolution of the service. In 1969 the CAB officially designated these small air carriers as commuter airlines. They were, and are subject to passenger limits and freight/weight restrictions.
Nicholls continues by defining how air carriers are labeled and categorized post 1978; in the age of de-regulation
Development and Validation of the Compliant and Principled Sportspersonship Scale
No full textPurpose:
A new measure of sportspersonship, which differentiates between compliance and principled approaches, was developed and initially validated in 3 studies.
Method:
Study 1 developed items, assessed content validity, and proposed a model. Study 2 tested the factorial validity of the model on an independent sample. Study 3 further tested the factorial validity on another independent sample as well as the construct validity.
Results:
In Study 1, a 71-item questionnaire was developed. Exploratory factor analysis reduced the questionnaire to a 6-factor, 33-item scale explaining 47.70% of the variance. Study 2 tested this revised questionnaire in a series of confirmatory factor analyses, presenting a 24-item and 5-factor model with acceptable fit, χ2(242) = 455.9, comparative fit index = .93, Tucker-Lewis Index = .92, standardized root mean square residual = .05, root mean square error of approximation = .04. Study 3 provided some evidence to support the construct validity of the 24-item scale using theoretically associated measures.
Conclusions:
This series of studies provided some initial validity evidences of the Compliant and Principled Sportspersonship Scale
Addressing the challenges of climate change risks and adaptation in coastal areas: A review
No full textClimate change is and will continue altering the world's coasts, which are the most densely populated and economically active areas on earth and home for highly valuable ecosystems. While there is considerable relevant research, in the authors' experience this problem remains challenging for coastal engineering. This paper reviews important challenges in this respect and identifies three key actions to address them: (a) refocusing traditional practice towards more climate-aware approaches; (b) developing more comprehensive risk frameworks that include the multi-dimensionality and non-stationarity of their components and consideration of uncertainty; and (c) building bridges between risk assessment and adaptation theory and practice. We conclude that the way forward includes numerous activities including increased observations; the attribution of coastal impacts to their drivers; enhanced climate projections and their integration into impact models; more impact assessments at the local scale; dynamic projections of spatially-distributed exposure and vulnerability; and the exploration of inherently adaptive options. Given the complexity of the possible solutions, more practical guidance is required.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.Coastal Engineerin
Oral History Interview with Carrie Nicholls Pugh Ingram
No full textA recorded interview with Carrie Pugh Ingram and Sidney Pugh Ingram, in English. A document which lists the topics and their time stamps is also included in English.Memories of Terrebonne is an Oral History Project conducted and produced by the Terrebonne Parish Police Jury and Cote Blanche Productions. The interviews were conducted over the span of two years, 1983-1984, and cover subjects such as the folklore and cultural traditions of the Parish as remembered by its long-time residents
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