304 research outputs found
The Soldier's Marching Song
No full text(Color) Printed in blue, this postcard depicts two flags (Great Britain and the Royal Standard) and a crown with the words "Keep the Flag Flying." As per the title, the text can be sung to the tune of "Ring the Bell, Watchman" and the lyrics are written by Ralph W. Phipps specifically as a war song. This card is uninscribed and unposted
Bedaux Expedition Memoirs:
No full textIn 1934, French-born American millionaire Charles Bedaux embarked upon an expedition to cross 2,300 kilometers of unmapped northern BC territory east of the Rocky Mountains, using the then newly designed Citroën halftrack vehicles, initiating one of the most extravagantly equipped overland parties ever seen in British Columbia – including a fleet of automobiles, 130 packhorses, 53 Canadian cowboys, 400 pounds of books, more than 20 tons of supplies, 2 professional surveyors, a geologist, and a film crew led by Oscar-winning Hollywood cinematographer Floyd Crosby.
A hand-written memoir and typed notes have survived from the expedition that was created by A.H. Phipps, one of the surveying crew members who recorded his observations about the terrain, surveying activities, and ultimately the causes for the expedition’s failure. The memoirs document evidence of the regional participation of the team, from the involvement of individual cowboys from the Peace River country, to interactions with pioneer families from the Peace River region, and interactions with First Nations individuals from Northern British Columbia that the Bedaux party encountered on its route. Additionally, Phipps provides personal remarks about members of the Bedaux party.Archival Accession Number: 2004.
Hauntings – A nodalist study
No full textSince Deleuze and Guattari first described the concept of the rhizome as a model of cultural transmission in A Thousand Plateaus (1980), a new way of processing information in the Arts and Social Sciences has emerged – ‘Nodalism’. Philip Gochenour has convincingly argued that units of culture can now be thought of as ‘nodes’ existing in a nonhierarchical, web-like network. Information transfer between nodes in the network is horizontal, omni-directional and not necessarily teleological, a way of viewing the world which has been paralleled and actualized in the last twenty years by the emergence, growth and ubiquity of the internet and the World Wide Web.
The author – a developing audiovisual artist – here offers four videomusic pieces and one virtual sound-synthesis tool. At first glance, the pieces may appear to have little in common. However, the commentary will attempt to show that they are subtly linked together, immersed in a cocoon of rhizomatic, pluralistic, thread-like connections.
The strongest ‘thread’ holding them together appears to be the trope of being ‘haunted’ in some way – either by influence, genre, or overarching concept. However, this thesis will attempt to show how a detailed consideration of each piece results in a highly complex final picture in which the pieces can be thought of as individual cultural nodes suspended in a dense rhizomatic mass of lateral cultural threads. For the sake of completion, however, the project has received the name Hauntings in reference to one of the strongest shared tropes running throughout all five works
Trial and Condemnation of Charles E. Butt, for the willful murder of sweetheart
No full textCharles E. Butt kills his fiance, Amelia Phipps, who won\u27t wed him.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/2152/thumbnail.jp
On (not) being the master’s tools: five years of ‘Changing University Cultures’
No full text\ua9 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.This paper reflects on the first five years of the Changing University Cultures (CHUCL) collective, which conducted equality and diversity projects in four English universities between 2015 and 2020. We explore how CHUCL has been used in the service of institutional polishing (Ahmed, S. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 143) and airbrushing (Phipps, A. 2020b. “Reckoning Up: Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Neoliberal University.” Gender & Education 32 (2), 230–233), how our reports have become non-performatives (Ahmed, S. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 90), and how our findings have been weaponised in the service of institutional interests. We are two of three white middle-class women who constitute the CHUCL collective; we situate this retrospective within critical reflections on our positionality and an abolitionist theorisation of the institution. We conclude that we have often been the master’s tools, and while we join the work of imagining alternatives, we must build capacity for survival within the master’s house
Loss H.M.S. Captain
No full textSong concerning the sinking of the H.M.S. Captain off Cape Finisterre, Spain on 6-7 September 1870, knocked over by the wind; this capsize killed Cowper Phipps Coles, the ships designerhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1485/thumbnail.jp
ADVANCED VIBRATION PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR CONDITION MONITORING AND QUALITY CONTROL IN I.C. ENGINES AND HARVESTING MACHINES
No full textThe topic of this thesis is the development and the implementation of
advanced vibration processing techniques for machine condition
monitoring and diagnostics with two fields of applications: the quality
control of I.C. engines by means of cold tests, and the monitoring and
control of harvesting processes.
The cold test, i.e. the final test after the assembly line and before
shipping the engine to the customer, consists of the final quality control
of the engine in a non-combustion state. Techniques for engine condition
monitoring based on the analysis of vibration signals are widely used.
However, these techniques are often applied to engine tests in firing
conditions. This thesis addresses the use of several signal processing
tools as a means for the monitoring and the diagnosis of assembly
faults through the cold test technology. Firstly, an approach based on
the use of Symmetrized Dot Patterns for the visual characterization of
vibration signatures is proposed in order to obtain reliable thresholds
for the pass/fail decision after the cold test. Secondly, the fault
identification is discussed on the basis of the cyclostationary modelling
of the signals. The first-order cyclostationarity is exploited through the
analysis of the Time Synchronous Average (TSA). Subsequently, secondorder
cyclostationarity is analysed by means of the Wigner-Ville
Distribution (WVD), Wigner-Ville Spectrum (WVS) and Mean
Instantaneous Power (MIP). Moreover, Continuous Wavelet Transform
(CWT) is presented and compared with the WVD and WVS. The choice
of different wavelet functions and some methods for the CWT map
optimization (i.e. purification method and the average across the scale
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method (TDAS)) are also considered. Moreover, the capabilities of the
Instantaneous Angular Speed (IAS) in detecting assembly faults have
been tested.
It is worth noting that the cyclostationary and time-frequency technique
capabilities have been verified for both simulated and real signals.
The experimental results indicate that the image correlation of
Symmetrised Dot Patterns is a good solution that can be used in the
cold test technology in order to increase its efficiency and fault detection
capability. Moreover, it will be proved that the first order
cyclostationary analysis is able to identify the presence of assembly
faults but it is not appropriate to localise the faults. The second order
analysis overcomes this problem indicating the angular position of the
mechanical part affected by the fault. This is achieved by means of a
correlation between the results obtained from the cyclostationarity
analysis and the angular position of the mechanical events. Concerning
the time-frequency analysis, the WVS as well as the CWT, using both
Morlet mother wavelet and TDAS method can be considered good tools
to characterise the transients due to the fault events in the timefrequency
domain. Thanks to this research study it is possible to
understand which of the above-mentioned techniques is effective for an
easy and fast quality control and for the diagnosis of the considered
assembly faults. Moreover, the limits and drawbacks of both monitoring
and diagnostic procedures are shown.
The originality of the first part of the research mainly concerns the use
of vibration measurements for the quality control of engines at the end
of the assembly line while the greater part of methods used for cold test
applications focuses on pressure and torque measurements.
The second part of this thesis concerns the analysis of relationships
between the harvesting process parameters relative to a nonconventional
harvesting machine and its vibration response.
Common and uncommon features extracted from a segmentation
analysis have been correlated with the harvesting process efficiency in
order to define the optimal monitoring feature subset. Moreover, the
Discrete Wavelet Transform method is performed in order to find the
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frequency range mostly characterised by impulsive components. In
addition, some outlines obtained through the vibro-acoustic analysis
performed in the angular domain are also given.
Two different indoor and outdoor test rigs have been built to test the
machine under different setting conditions in order to evaluate their
influence over the vibration response of the threshing unit. The test
results are used to identify how the vibration generation is linked to the
crop distribution during the threshing process.
Good correlations have been obtained by analysing the concave middle
radial signal and by calculating the relationships that exist between
some time domain features and the efficiency parameters. These
features can be assumed as good indexes in explaining the crop
distribution between the rotor and the concave and, consequently, the
efficiency of the process. Moreover, it will be shown that the vibroacoustic
features selected are well-connected to the different sources of
the concave excitation.
The main original contribution of this second part concerns the use of
the vibration signal as an effective way to monitor the harvesting
process. It can also be considered as a proper quality control indicator
for the user during field operations
Treatment factors associated with outcomes in children less than 3 years of age with CNS tumours
No full textMary, Mary, quite contrary
No full textPurposeThis paper aims to depict the pivotal roles played by Mary Parker Follett and Mary Barnett Gilson, as they uniquely contributed to early management thought, theory, and practice through “spirituality” despite the chauvinism of their day.Design/methodology/approachSynthesizing articles from history journals, writings about the figures of interest, annals, published works by the figures themselves, and other resources; this paper illustrates how the input of Follett and Gilson made distinctive and valuable contributions to the management field.FindingsThis research concludes that Follett and Gilson, although from the mid‐nineteenth to mid‐twentieth century, when men were dominant in any arena relating to management, were responsive to their “spiritual” insight despite its contrariness to the credence of their day. Consequently, they initiated an understanding that significantly impacted management theory and practice. Their perceptive revelations also led to changing mindsets and actions that influenced the wellbeing of organizations, as well as their employees.Originality/valueDuring this era, although not widely publicized, the “weaker” sex did make its mark. This is the first paper to examine, from a “spiritual” viewpoint, the contributions of these members of the “weaker” sex to management history.</jats:sec
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