195 research outputs found
Engineering excellence at Rolls-Royce; a taste of English culture
No full textRolls-Royce is one of the most well-known brands in the world and synonymous with the highest engineering quality. Amongst Aerospace Engineers, Rolls-Royce is directly associated with the Trent turbofan aircraft engines. The engines power the world’s newest passenger aircraft, including the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the large Airbus A380. A Rolls-Royce powered aircraft takes o! or lands every 2.5 seconds.Aerospace Engineerin
Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Howard Thurman, and Josiah Royce
No full textMartin Luther Kings primary emphasis was upon beloved community, a phrase he borrowed from Royce, but an idea that he shared with St. Augustine. Theories of the state tend to focus upon division, in which one stratum dominates another or others. Kings context is the US in the segregated Southa region whose internal divisions sharply instantiate the idea of the state as an unequal hierarchy of dominance. Kings appeal was less to end black subjugation than to end subjugation as such. Hence King was called by some a dreamer, given his background commitment to equality and community, ideals taking marginal precedence over his foreground commitment to liberty and autonomy. This article explores the notion of beloved community broadly and then specifically in Martin Luther King along with related notions in Howard Thurman (1900-1981) and in Josiah Royce (1855-1916). KEYWORDS: Martin Luther King, Howard Thurman, Josiah Royce, Beloved Community, Equality, Desegregation, African American Studies, Arts and Humanities, Christianity, Philosophy, Religio
AAC Royce field pea
No full textAAC Royce is a semi-leafless, green cotyledon field pea (Pisum sativum L.) cultivar developed at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lacombe Research Centre, Lacombe, Alberta, Canada. It has maturity of 105 days, thousand seed weight of 254 g, and a medium lodging resistance. AAC Royce is resistant to powdery mildew (caused by Erysiphe pisi Syd.), and moderately susceptible to mycosphaerella blight (caused by Mycosphaerella pinodes) and fusarium wilt (caused by Fusarium oxysporum). AAC Royce is adapted to all field growing regions in western Canada.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Working memory training increases general learning abilities in CD-1 outbred mice:
No full textGeneral intelligence is a cognitive trait that is purported to influence most domain-specific learning abilities in humans. Like humans, CD-1 outbred mice express individual differences in their "general" cognitive abilities, such that performance across diverse batteries of learning tasks tend to be positively correlated, and this general learning factor accounts for 32-48% of the variance of individual animals performance in cognitive test batteries. It has been demonstrated that in both humans and mice, the efficacy of working memory capacity correlates highly with measures of general cognitive ability. In three experiments, here we demonstrate that in genetically heterogeneous mice, repetitive working memory training promotes an increase in selective attention and has a commensurately positive effect on the animals' aggregate performance on a battery of five learning tasks. The enhancement of general cognitive performance by working memory exercise was attenuated if the selective attention demands of that exercise were reduced. Finally, because much of the human research conducted on working memory training is done in pre-pubescent children, we trained a group of mice beginning in pre-pubescence and found no difference between that group and one trained at our typical young-adult age. In total, these results provide initial evidence that the efficacy of working memory capacity and selective attention are causally related to an animal’s general cognitive performance, and suggest behavioral strategies to promote those abilities.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-65)by Kenneth Royce Ligh
The Mineral Susceptibility Database
No full textThe Mineral Susceptibility Database (MSD) consolidates current relevant research from various fields (including museums, earth science, chemistry, and material science) into one freely accessible location. Its aim is to be a comprehensive reference for museum professionals—and a starting point for further research—when assessing the conditions required by their mineral collections and objects.
The data were collected from January 2019 to May 2021 by reviewing various journal articles and publications for relevant data, which was then synthesised and inserted into the correct fields of the Database. The Database was created and designed in Microsoft Excel. This was exported into a PDF to ensure reliability (by avoiding any 3rd party tampering) and format preservation, and to allow for broader access (as most web browser are capable of reading PDFs).
While the data presented in the MSD is replicated in good faith from trusted sources, it is recommended for one to return to the original source document and confirm parameters with the corresponding author
Infinity and the Self: Royce on Dedekind
No full textInternational audienceIn Die Zahlen (1888), Dedekind defines an infinite set as a set that is isomorphic with one of its proper parts. In The World and the Individual (1900), the American philosopher Josiah Royce relates Dedekind’s notion to Fichte’s and Hegel’s concept of Self defined as an entity that reflects itself into itself. The first aim of this article is to explain Royce’s analysis and to put it in its proper context, that of a critique of Bradley’s mystical idealism. The second aim is to urge a shift in focus in Dedekind’s scholarship: instead of addressing the question of the relationship between mathematics and philosophy in Dedekind’s work through the supposed intentions of its author, it is more fruitful to analyze the reception that philosophers have made of his texts
Faulkner Center Royce and Pam Money Video Tribute
No full textThis video was featured at the Faulkner Center for Marriage and Family’s fall event, September 19th at 6:30 p.m. in ACU’s Hunter Welcome Center, featuring speaker Tish Harrison Warren.
Tish Harrison Warren is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
The Journey of Rolls-Royce towards Self-Directed Teams: An analysis of the Team Champion Model
No full textRolls-Royce has embarked on a journey towards Self-directed work teams. A salient feature of being self directed is giving employees the autonomy, the power to self manage, self regulate and self organize. Management have to equip the teams with the right training and development to gain all the knowledge and skills to be self-directed. A part of this has to do with transferring knowledge and skills from the functional domains to the teams. Rolls-Royce has developed a model, called the Team Champion (TC) Model that will enable and facilitate the transfer of knowledge from the functional experts to the team. This project focuses on the application of the TC model. The scope of this project is to uncover three objectives: to assess how well the TC model has been communicated and understood down the multiple layers of the organization, and the extent to which employee and managerial perceptions overlap; to assess the barriers TC model face and will face in the future and to asses the future vision of the model. A qualitative study approach is adopted where an in-depth interview with thirteen informants uncovered some of the research objectives of this study. Due to the lack of literature on transfer of knowledge from support group to teams in the teamworking domain, the author ventured into areas of knowledge transfer, team building, team development and the cultural aspect (dealing with changes in the attitudes and behaviours of employees) of teamworking. The interview findings were carefully coded and presented in themes, which were later analysed with reference to the literature review. A conclusion chapter follows which leads into a section incorporating limitations of the study
The Journey of Rolls-Royce towards Self-Directed Teams: An analysis of the Team Champion Model
No full textRolls-Royce has embarked on a journey towards Self-directed work teams. A salient feature of being self directed is giving employees the autonomy, the power to self manage, self regulate and self organize. Management have to equip the teams with the right training and development to gain all the knowledge and skills to be self-directed. A part of this has to do with transferring knowledge and skills from the functional domains to the teams. Rolls-Royce has developed a model, called the Team Champion (TC) Model that will enable and facilitate the transfer of knowledge from the functional experts to the team. This project focuses on the application of the TC model. The scope of this project is to uncover three objectives: to assess how well the TC model has been communicated and understood down the multiple layers of the organization, and the extent to which employee and managerial perceptions overlap; to assess the barriers TC model face and will face in the future and to asses the future vision of the model. A qualitative study approach is adopted where an in-depth interview with thirteen informants uncovered some of the research objectives of this study. Due to the lack of literature on transfer of knowledge from support group to teams in the teamworking domain, the author ventured into areas of knowledge transfer, team building, team development and the cultural aspect (dealing with changes in the attitudes and behaviours of employees) of teamworking. The interview findings were carefully coded and presented in themes, which were later analysed with reference to the literature review. A conclusion chapter follows which leads into a section incorporating limitations of the study
The measurement of near wall flows using pneumatic wedge probes.
No full textThe three hole, wedge-type pneumatic pressure probe represents a robust
traverse probe design which is widely used for total and static pressure and yaw angle
measurements in turbomachinery. However, unsteady flows are incorrectly averaged due
to pneumatic meaning errors in the pressure pipes. Wedge probes also fail to measure the
correct static pressure when operating in close proximity to a wall through which the
probe is inserted. Thirdly, the aerodynamic calibration obtained for a wedge-type probe
in a closed wind tunnel differs appreciably from that obtained in an open jet. If not
corrected, these errors will corrupt any calculation of turbomachinery blade row
performance.
In this investigation, the second and third effects described above have been
addressed. A factorial experiment was completed in which the influence of seven
variables on the wall proximity effect was quantified. Flow visualisation studies were
performed to understand the responsible flow mechanisms. Two regions of re-circulating
flow were identified in the probe wake, the structure of which depended on the probe
immersion. Similar re-circulatory flows were resolved from three-dimensional
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations of the flow over a wedge probe. A link
between the probe wake re-circulations and flow over the wedge faces was established.
Based on this understanding of the flow structures, a model was developed from which
the wall proximity effect could be predicted for a given set of conditions.
Wedge probe calibrations were completed in a closed wind tunnel and in two
open jets. Discrepancies in the static pressure coefficient and yaw angle sensitivity results
were found. These were partially explained in terms of modifications to the probe wake
structure which occurred when the probes were calibrated in the open jet facilities.
Procedures for correcting the wall proximity effect and for avoiding the facility
dependence of wedge probe calibrations were developed from this understanding of the
flow mechanisms involved.
Based on the findings of this investigation, a novel wedge probe was designed to
minimise the wall proximity effect. This probe demonstrated a reduction in the wall
proximity effect, from 20% dynamic head with current designs, to 3% dynamic head at
flows typical of high speed turbomachinery
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