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Education and Training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A Partially Annotated Bibliography
No full textThis bibliography on “Education and Training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines” has been specifically prepared for the UWI School of Continuing Studies’ St. Vincent and the Grenadines Conference. It covers all aspects of education and training in St. Vincent and the Grenadines including: Academic achievement,economics of education, educational infrastructure, literacy and mathematics education
Norman Vincent Peale portrait
No full textPortrait of author and minister Norman Vincent Peale, ca. 1984. Peale was born on May 31, 1898, in Bowersville, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and became one of the most influential ministers of the twentieth century, known for his dynamic and energetic sermons. He preached an optimistic message that many Americans accepted during such trying events as the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Movement. His sermons were broadcast on the radio and shown on television all across the United States. Peale also published forty-six books, his most popular being "The Power of Positive Thinking.
François Vincent
No full textGrandbois introduces Vincent's paintings and prints from 1992 to 1998, analysing the artist's main source of inspiration - the body - while describing his use of the three studios he frequents. Includes a text by Vincent on humour in art. Texts in English, French and Japanese. Biographical notes on artist and author
Development and applications of dispersion controlled high nonlinearity microstructured fibres
No full textIn this thesis I investigate aspects of dispersion controlled high nonlinearity all silica holey fibre, including design, fabrication, sample applications, and modelling.Microstructured fibre fabrication allows for great flexibility in core and cladding structure designs, with the large available refractive index contrast between glass and air. This allows the control of waveguide dispersion across a wide wavelength range, which can be used to offset the material dispersion of the core glass. Therefore, this technology provides improved overall dispersion control via fibre design. This often requires a complex arrangement of air holes in the structure.The full fabrication procedures for small-core holey fibres are presented. In particular, the fabrication of fibres with a graded-hole-size structure is reported. A structural accuracy of ±6% is achieved and improvements are proposed for future work.A systematic study of the Supercontinuum Generation phenomenon is presented in this thesis. By using fibres with different dispersion profiles, pumping at 1.06 μm, the nonlinear effects such as Self-Phase-Modulation, Four-Wave-Mixing and Self-Soliton-Frequency-Shift, which dominate the spectral broadening in fibres with one or two zero-dispersion wavelengths are identified accordingly.The latest work has been focussed on controlled structural variation of holey fibres along their length to obtain fibre with a longitudinal variation of dispersion and nonlinearity. I fabricated a dispersion-decreasing holey fibre and performed the first demonstration of soliton compression in a holey fibre. A compression factor of 2 has been achieved with pJ pulses at 1.06 μm. Further numerical modelling has been carried out from a holey fibre design contour map, to optimize holey fibre tapers for soliton compression at 1.55 μm. A compression factor of 6 is possible in a 15-m holey fibre taper with a loss of 0.1 dB/m
Kara Gust interviews author Jeff Vande Zande
No full textAuthor Jeff Vande Zande talks about teaching and writing, poems vs. short stories, developing characters in his stories based on his personal experience, and his current projects. Vande Zande is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Kara Gust for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series
The changing role of the university : national aspects : speech [delivered at] Mount Saint Vincent University
No full textSpeech Mount Saint Vincent University by M.O. Morgan, The Changing Role of the University, National AspectsTitle from captio
sj-docx-1-jtr-10.1177_00472875221127684 – Supplemental material for Extending the Conceptualization of Destination Brand Experiences
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jtr-10.1177_00472875221127684 for Extending the Conceptualization of Destination Brand Experiences by Cecilia Ngwira, Vincent Wing Sun Tung and Serene Wai Tsz Tse in Journal of Travel Research</p
Interview of author Rick Riordan
No full textRick Riordan, author of the "Tres Navarre" series of detective novels, talks about his teaching and writing careers, his life in San Antonio, and the need to write authentically about real places, people, language, culture, and history. He discusses his characters and the situations in which he places them, his own limits in writing about social injustice from which he has not suffered, but being familiar with life in San Antonio and the multicultural environment in the community. Riordan is also known for writing the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series. Riordan is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas
Interview of author Walter Satterthwait
No full textWalter Satterthwait, author of a series of contemporary crime novels, talks about his protagonists Joshua Croft and Rita Mondragon, and his novels set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Satterthwait describes how he came to writing crime stories and why he chose to use a Latina as a main character. He describes his exposure to different cultures, his childhood of frequent moves, how he came to writing, and how he developed his characters. Satterthwait is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
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