6,303 research outputs found
Les régions problèmes de l'Europe, Alan B. Mountjoy, G. R. P. Lawrence, Hugh Clout, Ian B. Thompson, Kenneth Warren
No full textBeaujeu-Garnier Jacqueline. Les régions problèmes de l'Europe, Alan B. Mountjoy, G. R. P. Lawrence, Hugh Clout, Ian B. Thompson, Kenneth Warren. In: Annales de Géographie, t. 83, n°458, 1974. pp. 465-466
10233: Ian Challender
No full textIan Challender is the friend of Ian St Anderson's second wife's late husband.
Not much is known about him. A book of Notes of Military Mining was copied from the original loaned by the Army Historical section. Ian Challender was given it by the author/compiler.</p
The effects of disturbance on the microbial mediation of sediment stability
No full textIn coastal areas, biofilms are often subject to disturbance by hydrodynamic forcing, bioturbation and human activities. These factors affect the influences biofilms have on the sediment. To reveal these effects, we studied laboratory-incubated and field-collected biotic sediments reworked by disturbances, and examined their stabilities and three-dimensional microstructures using laboratory annular flume tests and a wet-staining X-ray microcomputed tomography method. We find that, when subject to disturbance, biofilms do not always establish mat-like matrices that firmly armor the seabed and bio-stabilize sediments, but instead, have a range of effects on sediment stability, including both bio-stabilization and destabilization. Disturbance considerably alters microbial influences on sediment stability, but is not the only control. Given equal disturbance, whether or not sediments are bio-stabilized largely depends on the state of bio-sediment formation. At a relatively well-developed state, an organic-rich, adhesive polymer network tightly interconnects large amounts of sediment particles into aggregates, forms complex internal structures, and enhances sediment stability. By contrast, some bio-sediment formations only ever reach a less well-developed state, where scattered organic patches bind relatively few particles into aggregates and reduce sediment stability. Microbial growth likely has two opposing effects on sediment stability, by enhancing either weight/friction or lift/drag on aggregated particles. The former has the positive effect of enhancing sediment stability, whereas the latter can result in greater flow resistance and so have the opposite effect. A conceptual framework is put forward to characterize the different states of bio-sediment formation and their distinct effects on sediment stability.</p
The integral cohomology rings of some p-groups
No full textWe determine the integral cohomology rings of an infinite family of p-groups, for odd primes p, with cyclic derived subgroups. Our method involves embedding the groups in a compact Lie group of dimension one, and was suggested independently by P. H. Kropholler and J. Huebschmann. This construction has also been used by the author to calculate the mod-p cohomology of the same groups and by B. Moselle to obtain partial results concerning the mod-p cohomology of the extra special p-group
Producing the NAPLAN machine: A schizoanalytic cartography
No full textEverything revolves around desiring-machines and the production of desire… Schizoanalysis merely asks what are the machinic, social and technical indices on a socius that open to desiring-machines (Deleuze & Guattari, 1983, pp. 380-381). Achievement tests like NAPLAN are fairly recent, yet common, education policy initiatives in much of the Western world. They intersect with, use and change pre-existing logics of education, teaching and learning. There has been much written about the form and function of these tests, the ‘stakes’ involved and the effects of their practice. This paper adopts a different “angle of vision” to ask what ‘opens’ education to these regimes of testing(Roy, 2008)? This paper builds on previous analyses of NAPLAN as a modulating machine, or a machine characterised by the increased intensity of connections and couplings. One affect can be “an existential disquiet” as “disciplinary subjects attempt to force coherence onto a disintegrating narrative of self”(Thompson & Cook, 2012, p. 576). Desire operates at all levels of the education assemblage, however our argument is that achievement testing manifests desire as ‘lack’; seen in the desire for improved results, the desire for increased control, the desire for freedom, the desire for acceptance to name a few. For Deleuze and Guattari desire is irreducible to lack, instead desire is productive. As a productive assemblage, education machines operationalise and produce through desire; “Desire is a machine, and the object of the desire is another machine connected to it”(Deleuze & Guattari, 1983, p. 26). This intersection is complexified by the strata at which they occur, the molar and molecular connections and flows they make possible. Our argument is that when attention is paid to the macro and micro connections, the machines built and disassembled as a result of high-stakes testing, a map is constructed that outlines possibilities, desires and blockages within the education assemblage. This schizoanalytic cartography suggests a new analysis of these ‘axioms’ of testing and accountability. It follows the flows and disruptions made possible as different or altered connections are made and as new machines are brought online. Thinking of education machinically requires recognising that “every machine functions as a break in the flow in relation to the machine to which it is connected, but at the same time is also a flow itself, or the production of flow, in relation to the machine connected to it”(Deleuze & Guattari, 1983, p. 37). Through its potential to map desire, desire-production and the production of desire within those assemblages that have come to dominate our understanding of what is possible, Deleuze and Guattari’s method of schizoanalysis provides a provocative lens for grappling with the question of what one can do, and what lines of flight are possible
Spinning in the NAPLAN ether: 'Postscript on the control societies' and the seduction of education in Australia
No full textThis paper applies concepts Deleuze developed in his ‘Postscript on the Societies of Control’, especially those relating to modulatory power, dividuation and control, to aspects of Australian schooling to explore how this transition is manifesting itself. Two modulatory machines of assessment, NAPLAN and My Schools, are examined as a means to better understand how the disciplinary institution is changing as a result of modulation. This transition from discipline to modulation is visible in the declining importance of the disciplinary teacher/student relationship as a measure of the success of the educative process. The transition occurs through seduction because that which purports to measure classroom quality is in fact a serpent of modulation that produces simulacra of the disciplinary classroom. The effect is to sever what happens in the disciplinary space from its representations in a luminiferous ether that overlays the classroom
2021 Oregon seismic hazard database: purpose and methods
No full textReport. 2021 Oregon seismic hazard database : purpose and methods -- Plate 1. Perceived shaking and damage potential, probabilistic earthquake model -- Plate 2. Perceived shaking and damage potential, Cascadia subduction earthquake model -- Plate 3. Probability of damaging shaking.by Ian P. Madin, Jon J. Francyzk, John M. Bauer, and Carlie J.M. Azzopardi.Title from PDF cover (viewed on June 24, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-47).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Cold war theology: a controversial religious image of King James VI & I in England and on the Continent in 1603
No full textA former student of James Cameron’s, Ian Hazlett contributes a paper very much in the spirit of his teacher. It considers the afterlife of the King’s (or Negative) Confession, commissioned by James VI of Scotland in 1581 as a clear statement of his Calvinist credentials. By the time he gained the crown of England in 1603 however, his evolving religious views meant it had become a document he sought to distance himself from. Both Protestant and Catholic propagandists and publishers, keen to give a particular picture of the theological sympathies of the new English king, subsequently produced a surprisingly varied selection of versions of the Confession. These sources and what they can tell us about the theology and politics of the day are considered here for the first time in a scholarly study.Publisher PD
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