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Implementation strategies for a heritage trail linking the Great Southern shires in Western Australia
No full textThis project set out to use existing background research and facilitate development of heritage trails linking the Western Australian Shires of Woodanilling, Katanning, Kent, Broomehill, Gnowangerup, Tambellup and Cranbrook in the south-west region known as the Central Great Southern. There is a strong interest by Shire Councils and individuals in the Central Great Southern region to fully develop the tourism potential of the area based on their past colonial heritage. The primary aim was to outline a series of drive trails connecting the participating shires that could encourage self-drive tourists to visit the region. Rather than developing a tourism concept focusing on the region as a destination, the drive trails were designed as transit routes across the Central Great Southern, connecting established popular tourism destinations in neighbouring areas, such as Perth, Albany and Esperance
Postcard, Rod Picott and Amanda Shires at Studio@620, St. Petersburg, Florida
No full textA promotional postcard for a live performance by singer-songwriter Rod Picott and fiddler/singer-songwriter Amanda Shires at Studio@620. Touring in support of their debut duo release Sew Your Heart with Wires, the event promised an evening of original acoustic music.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/bdj_studioat620_postcards/1039/thumbnail.jp
3D URANS analysis of a vertical axis wind turbine in skewed flows
No full textThe paper demonstrates the potential of an unsteady RANS 3D approach to predict the effects of skewed winds on the performance of an H-type vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT). The approach is validated through a comparison between numerical and experimental results for a full-scale Darrieus turbine, demonstrating an improved prediction ability of 3D CFD with respect to both 2D CFD and semi-empirical models based on the double multiple stream tubes method. A 3D URANS approach is then adopted to investigate the power increase observed for a straight-bladed small-scale turbine in a wind tunnel when the rotational axis is inclined from 0° to 15° from the vertical. The main advantage of this approach is a more realistic description of complex three-dimensional flow characteristics, such as dynamic stall, and the opportunity to derive local blade flow conditions on any blade portion during upwind and downwind paths. Consequently, in addition to deriving the turbine overall performance in terms of power coefficient, a better insight into the temporal and spatial evolution of the physical mechanisms is obtained. Our principal finding is that the power gain in skewed flows is obtained during the downwind phase of the revolution as the end part of the blade is less disturbed by the wake generated during the upwind phase
Development and evaluation of an aerodynamic model for a novel vertical axis wind turbine concept
No full textThere has been a resurgence of interest in the development of vertical axis wind turbines which have several inherent attributes that offer some advantages for offshore operations, particularly their scalability and low over-turning moments with better accessibility to drivetrain components. This paper describes an aerodynamic performance model for vertical axis wind turbines specifically developed for the design of a novel offshore V-shaped rotor with multiple aerodynamic surfaces. The model is based on the Double-Multiple Streamtube method and includes a number of developments for alternative complex rotor shapes. The paper compares predicted results with measured field data for five different turbines with both curved and straight blades and rated powers in the range 100-500 kW. Based on these comparisons, the paper proposes modifications to the Gormont dynamic stall model that gives improved predictions of rotor power for the turbines considered
Expert teaching: what matters to expert teachers? A cultural-historical perspective on relational expertise
No full textTeacher expertise is commonly regarded as fast and fluent pedagogical decision-making. Research in this area has predominantly applied models of expertise based on the notions of deliberate practice or a novice to expert continuum to the practice of teachers. Expert teachers’ perceptions of what matters to them in their own practice has been under-researched. Drawing on cultural-historical theory, this study considers teachers’ own understandings of expert teaching, and how their motives relate to their teaching actions. The study focuses on 9 expert secondary school teachers in one secondary school in England to discern how they work with pupils and the curriculum. The analysis explores the different elements of the teachers’ activities, identified as: (i) the kinds of teaching actions used in their work; (ii) the relational space between the pupil and the subject-matter of the curriculum and (iii) the concepts that mediated expert teachers’ practice.
The Vygotskyian perspective taken by this study entailed an inquiry into the teachers’ intentional actions in everyday teaching. School-based fieldwork was bookended before and after by interviews with each teacher, exploring their beliefs on expert teaching and what matters to them about their own teaching. In between these interviews each teacher was observed in 3 lessons and undertook up to 5 structured reflections. The data were analysed deploying concepts from cultural-historical theory, particularly two sets of concepts within the approach. One was an adaptation of the analytical model developed by Edwards (2010) in her work on the relational expertise of multi-agency professionals. The other was from the research of Hedegaard (2005) into development and learning: the ‘double move’ (between situated activity and subject matter).
The findings indicate that teachers work relationally with pupils and the subject-matter of the curriculum. Two key aspects of expertise surfaced: subject agency, where the teachers aim to develop pupil agency in relation with the subject-matter of the curriculum, and future agency where the teachers intend that the subject they teach will shape their pupils in terms of the way they interpret the world. Both were enacted through a teaching process in the form of teacher talk: metacommentary. The concept of teacher expertise as relational has implications for the professional learning of teachers, in terms of ‘know-why’: how to develop professional judgement through an emphasis on higher order knowledge made explicit to the pupils
Steve Shires, 1970-1971 Delta Chi Member
No full textSteve Shires was a student at Jacksonville State University. In 1970-1971 he was a member of Delta Chi.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/39329/thumbnail.jp
@Archer Spring/Summer 2014 Vol.2 No.10
No full textArcher Library Student Paper Award Winner, 2014 - Michael Shires;
Suggestion Box - Michael Shires;
Pop-Up Librarians - Gillian Nowlan;
Win a Kindle Fire this Fall! - James Holobetz;
Lectures at the Library - Michael Shires;
Information Matters - Crista Bradley;
Shhhhh! We're Studying - Mark Vacjner;Facultyye
Our green and pleasant Shires are a true Manufacturing heartland
No full textTowards the end April I wrote about the ‘rough beast’whose hour had come, or in other words Covid-19; a beast that has continued to make its devastating impact on our lives, communities and economy
Supply Responses for Potatoes in Five New South Wales Shires
No full textPotatoes are grown in a number of different regions of New South Wales. This study examines the supply responses of producers in five major potato growing shires. Three models of price response are examined. The most successful of these, the general Nerlove adaptive expectations model, is extended to test, first, how important the number of growers is in determining the acreage planted in each of the shires and, second, whether growers tend to expand or contract acreage in response to good yields in the immediate past.Demand and Price Analysis,
Supply Responses for Potatoes in Five New South Wales Shires
No full textPotatoes are grown in a number of different regions of New South Wales. This study examines the supply responses of producers in five major potato growing shires. Three models of price response are examined. The most successful of these, the general Nerlove adaptive expectations model, is extended to test, first, how important the number of growers is in determining the acreage planted in each of the shires and, second, whether growers tend to expand or contract acreage in response to good yields in the immediate past
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