558 research outputs found
Economic evaluation of a stratified transport method for Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) juveniles
No full textThe objective of this study was to evaluate a convenient, low-cost modification to conventional transfer methods for Atlantic halibut juveniles. A series of wire mesh cages were stacked within transport tanks creating a stratified transport system (STS), increasing the surface area for settlement and facilitating a more homogeneous distribution of halibut throughout the tank compared with the conventional insulated box (Unstructured, UTS). A stochastic cost-benefit analysis determined investment into a STS to be cost-effective, generating a mean benefit-cost ratio of 1.31 (95% CI, 0.68–2.00) after 2 years and a mean 5-year net present value of 85,176(9546,906–$125,630). The implementation of a STS was found to be technically feasible and economically efficient method to improve Atlantic halibut transport.Peter J. Sykes, Carol A. McClure, Debbie J. Martin-Robichaud, Charles G. Caraguel, K. Larry Hammel
Claud Sykes
No full textClaud SykesProfessional actor, co-founder of the English Players, writer, and MI5 agent. Born in Ipswich, England, in 1912 Sykes married Annie "˜Daisy' Race (1885-1969), his co-star in Octavia Kenmore's and Leigh Lovel's London company. Sykes acted in two dozen productions of Ibsen between 1908 and 1914 before he and his wife relocated to Switzerland in 1915, ostensibly for Sykes's health. He and JJ first encountered one another in early 1917, and by the end of the year, Sykes was overseeing typescript production on the early episodes of Ulysses. With a mix of professional and amateur actors, JJ and Sykes formed the English Players, whose first performance was The Importance of Being Earnest in April 1918. Through late 1919, the Players produced nineteen plays in Zurich and toured Switzerland. Sykes returned to England in 1920. In 1927 Sykes read proofs and provided suggestions for the German translation of Ulysses, published that year. In the 1920s, he wrote adventure fiction in the mold of John Buchan before, in the 1930s, establishing himself as a translator and author of First World War aviation writing, often under the pseudonym "˜Vigilant'. His translation work from German proved an effective cover for counter-intelligence work and, by the mid-1930s, he was reporting to his MI5 handler using the code name 'M/S'. In 1939, he worked briefly as a double agent, feeding disinformation to a Gestapo agent in Berlin. His interests in the theatre continued: he produced plays for the Letchworth Citizens' Company in the 1920s and published the Rutland-theory inspired Alias William Shakespeare? (1947). He died in Malta in 1963. William Brockman and Ronan Crowley</p
Emma Symes and Sean McKinty, 1994
No full textPhotographed at work designing the sets for the play "The Shaughraun" to be performed at the George Fairfax Studio, Victorian Arts Centre in July. Left, Sean McKinty and right, Emma Sykes, Performing Arts Students
An Alternative Approach to the Mean
No full textThis article, created by Alan W. Sykes of Swansea University College, describes an alternate calculation of expected value, which illustrates continuous random variables. The author uses charts, graphs and text to help illustrate these mathematical concepts. The author provides external references for those interested in further study of this subject
Mapping the ground: A critical and creative exploration of the diary of Ada Sykes, 1912--1915.
No full textThis thesis provides a critical and creative exploration of the diary of a woman who pioneered in the upper Fraser River valley of northern British Columbia from 1912 to 1925. Ada Adelia Sykes left a diary in which she kept a record of daily activities throughout a three-year period. My work examines her diary in the context of women's life-writing. First, I discuss various theories of life-writing, arguing that women's life-writing makes important contributions to the understanding of past, present, and self. Next, I analyze the diary in its historical context. Finally, I present original poems, based on the diary entries, as well as on the life of my grandmother, Alice Jane Beaven, a contemporary of Ada Sykes. This thesis demonstrates a trend in which researchers imbricate their own stories in those of their subjects: in telling the stories of Ada Adelia Sykes and Alice Jane Beaven, I tell part of my own story.The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b124798
Colonel William Henry Sykes: His contribution to statistical accounting
No full textIn "Genealogies of Calculation", Miller and Napier (1993) engaged with the alternative boundaries of calculation beyond traditional accounting histories. This was justified because not all forms of calculation are to be found in accounting. The removal of this accounting limitation encouraged investigation into other calculative technologies in order to widen the accounting history agenda. This challenge is now taken up through the genealogical examination of the mutation of political arithmetic into statistics and then as accounting statistics as employed by the British military and its relationship with the British brewing industry. In particular, the focus is on the work of Colonel William Henry Sykes, a seminal member of the early Victorian Statistical Movement with his statistical accounting analysis of the British and French Armies of 1864 and later employment of this technique in the financial management of the Bass Rifle Volunteers. © 2010 The Author(s)
MARINE INFANTRY COMPANY LETHALITY: AN ANALYSIS OF FORCE DESIGN 2030 PROPOSALS
No full textThe composition of the Marine infantry company is changing to meet new threats. How will these evolutions affect the lethality, survivability, and employment of the future force? This research uses agent-based combat modeling techniques to provide insights for future live-force experimentation and wargaming. The author uses modeling software to simulate different infantry company configurations based upon Force Design 2030 proposals. The modeled scenario envisions a future Marine infantry company defending the flank of an expeditionary advanced base against a peer adversary conducting an amphibious assault. This research examines the size of the company engagement area and the implications of new and emerging technologies, such as loitering precision munitions, on the lethality and survivability of the infantry company. The author identifies the most effective tactics, techniques, and procedures discovered in the model. Based on 44,500 simulated battles, this research finds that in a conventional company-sized engagement, the force that finds and delivers sufficient loitering munitions to the other side first most often generates victory. This phenomenon can be understood in the context of a company’s “throw weight,” or the number of munitions it can use per salvo to engage enemy forces. The investigation also concludes that the future battlefield will be highly lethal, with all sides expected to experience significant attrition, even in victory.Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.Captain, United States Marine Corp
Novel immune-modulator identified by a rapid, functional screen of the parapoxvirus ovis (<it>Orf virus</it>) genome
No full textAbstract Background The success of new sequencing technologies and informatic methods for identifying genes has made establishing gene product function a critical rate limiting step in progressing the molecular sciences. We present a method to functionally mine genomes for useful activities in vivo, using an unusual property of a member of the poxvirus family to demonstrate this screening approach. Results The genome of Parapoxvirus ovis (Orf virus) was sequenced, annotated, and then used to PCR-amplify its open-reading-frames. Employing a cloning-independent protocol, a viral expression-library was rapidly built and arrayed into sub-library pools. These were directly delivered into mice as expressible cassettes and assayed for an immune-modulating activity associated with parapoxvirus infection. The product of the B2L gene, a homolog of vaccinia F13L, was identified as the factor eliciting immune cell accumulation at sites of skin inoculation. Administration of purified B2 protein also elicited immune cell accumulation activity, and additionally was found to serve as an adjuvant for antigen-specific responses. Co-delivery of the B2L gene with an influenza gene-vaccine significantly improved protection in mice. Furthermore, delivery of the B2L expression construct, without antigen, non-specifically reduced tumor growth in murine models of cancer. Conclusion A streamlined, functional approach to genome-wide screening of a biological activity in vivo is presented. Its application to screening in mice for an immune activity elicited by the pathogen genome of Parapoxvirus ovis yielded a novel immunomodulator. In this inverted discovery method, it was possible to identify the adjuvant responsible for a function of interest prior to a mechanistic study of the adjuvant. The non-specific immune activity of this modulator, B2, is similar to that associated with administration of inactivated particles to a host or to a live viral infection. Administration of B2 may provide the opportunity to significantly impact host immunity while being itself only weakly recognized. The functional genomics method used to pinpoint B2 within an ORFeome may be more broadly applicable to screening for other biological activities in an animal.</p
The Collegiate Crisis: History, Politics, and Education Policy - Charles J. Sykes, The Hollow Men: Politics and Corruption in Higher Education (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1990. Pp. xii, 356. $19.95).
No full textThe American academy is in dire straits asserts journalist Charles J. Sykes in The Hollow Men. A largely unheralded “revolution from above,” the author claims, “has robbed higher education of much of its traditional content, while distorting its values and its basic principles” (309). To understand the contemporary academic scene, he continues, is to understand the radicalization of the academy by the left, which had resulted in the intrusion of politics into both scholarship and the classroom, assaults on those who do not accept the “politically correct” line, and a fragmented, incoherent curriculum that trivializes the historic meaning of the liberal arts. While the current “crisis of values” (309) is often traced to the 1960s student movement, Mr. Sykes argues that the roots of the problem also go back to the post–World War II period and perhaps even to the late nineteenth century, when the agreement over “ends” (71) disappeared and “higher education's immune system” was “destroyed” (72).</jats:p
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