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Selling fashion: realizing the research potential of the House of Fraser archive, University of Glasgow Archive Services
No full textThe House of Fraser archive is a rich resource for the study of the development of fashion retailing in Britain since the mid-nineteenth century. It is, however, underexploited by textile, fashion and retail historians. During the summer of 2009, the University of Glasgow archive services will complete an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project which seeks to improve the accessibility of the Archive. Adopting a progressive approach to archival description, the project is developing an innovative online catalogue, providing fuller access to information about the Archive and the resources contained within it
Piloting the PREVIEW-ED Tool in Fraser Health Authority
No full textIn 2016, Fraser Health (FH) partnered with the Langara School of Nursing and senior nurse consultant, Marilyn El Bestawiand to pilot the PREVIEW-ED© tool.
Two (2) term 8 Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students facilitated implementation of the tool with Fraser Health’s first cohort of 176 residents across 4 Fraser Health Care Homes.
Students worked with Care Aides who completed the PREVIEW-ED© tool to prevent transfers to the Emergency Department for: pneumonia, congestive heart failure, urinary tract infections and dehydration.
A noted 71% reduction in Emergency Departments (ED) transfers for tool sensitive conditions.
This is now a best practice for Fraser Health Residential Care Homes
Candidate Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects Detected by the New Horizons Subaru TNO Survey
No full textFraser, Wesley C. et al.-- Full list of authors: Fraser, Wesley C.; Porter, Simon B.; Peltier, Lowell; Kavelaars, JJ; Verbiscer, Anne J.; Buie, Marc W.; Stern, S. Alan; Spencer, John R.; Benecchi, Susan D.; Terai, Tsuyoshi; Ito, Takashi; Yoshida, Fumi; Gerdes, David W.; Napier, Kevin J.; Lin, Hsing Wen; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Smotherman, Hayden; Fabbro, Sebastien; Singer, Kelsi N.; Alexander, Amanda M.; Arimatsu, Ko; Banks, Maria E.; Bray, Veronica J.; Ramy El-Maarry, Mohamed; Ferrell, Chelsea L.; Fuse, Tetsuharu; Glass, Florian; Holt, Timothy R.; Hong, Peng; Ishimaru, Ryo; Johnson, Perianne E.; Lauer, Tod R.; Leiva, Rodrigo; S. Lykawka, Patryk; Marschall, Raphael; Núñez, Jorge I.; Postman, Marc; Quirico, Eric; Rhoden, Alyssa R.; Simpson, Anna M.; Schenk, Paul; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Steffl, Andrew J.; Throop, HenryWe report the detection of 239 trans-Neptunian objects discovered through the ongoing New Horizons survey for distant minor bodies being performed with the Hyper Suprime-Cam mosaic imager on the Subaru Telescope. These objects were discovered in images acquired with either the r2 or the recently commissioned EB-gri filter using shift and stack routines. Due to the extremely high stellar density of the search region downstream of the spacecraft, new machine learning techniques had to be developed to manage the extremely high false-positive rate of bogus candidates produced from the shift and stack routines. We report discoveries as faint as r2 ∼ 26.5. We highlight an overabundance of objects found at heliocentric distances R ≳ 70 au compared to expectations from modeling of the known outer solar system. If confirmed, these objects betray the presence of a heretofore-unrecognized abundance of distant objects that can help explain a number of other observations that otherwise remain at odds with the known Kuiper Belt, including detections of serendipitous stellar occultations, and recent results from the Student Dust Counter on board the New Horizons spacecraft. © 2024. The Author(s).The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very
significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of
Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian
community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to
conduct observations from this mountain.
This research is based on data collected at the 8.2 m Subaru
Telescope (https://subarutelescope.org/en/) using its prime
focus camera (the Hyper Suprime-Cam), operated by the National
Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The Subaru Telescope
provided the main source of data for this work. We would like
to thank the director, Subaru staff, and the TAC for working with
us to accommodate our complex scheduling requirements.
This research is based on observations from programs GS2019B-FT-102, GN-2020A-DD-103, and GS-2020A-DD-103
obtained at the international Gemini Observatory, a program of
NSFʼs NOIRLab, which is managed by the Association of
Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a
cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation
on behalf of the Gemini Observatory partnership: the National
Science Foundation (United States), National Research Council
(Canada), Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
(Chile), Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación
(Argentina), Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e
Comunicações (Brazil), and Korea Astronomy and Space
Science Institute (Republic of Korea).
This work was supported by a NASA Keck PI Data Award,
administered by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. Data
presented herein were obtained at the Subaru Telescope from
telescope time allocated to the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration through the agency's scientific partnership with
the California Institute of Technology and the University of
California. This research used the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
facilities operated by the National Research Council of Canada
with the support of the Canadian Space Agency. This work also
made use of the Gemini Observatory Archive, NASAʼs
Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services, and the JPL
Horizons web interface (https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi).
New Horizons scientists Stern, Benecchi, Buie, Fraser,
Lauer, Kavelaars, Peltier, Porter, and Verbiscer thank NASA’s
New Horizons Mission (NASW-02008) for funding.
This work made use of the Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1)
and the PS1 public science archive, which have been made
possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy,
the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the
Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max
Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max
Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Johns
Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of
Edinburgh, the Queen’s University Belfast, the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres
Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the
National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope
Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the
Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission
Directorate, the National Science Foundation grant No. AST1238877, the University of Maryland, Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
This paper makes use of LSST Science Pipelines software
developed by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. We thank the
Rubin Observatory for making their code available as free
software at https://pipelines.lsst.io.
We also thank the former and current directors of the Subaru
Telescope, Michitoshi Yoshida and Satoshi Miyazaki, for
opening the Subaru Telescope to collaborate with the New
Horizons mission.
Finally, W.C.F. would like to thank B.C.P. and D.R. for their
insightful comments.
Software: parallel (O. Tange 2011), numpy (C. R. Harris
et al. 2020), matplotlib (J. D. Hunter 2007), TRailed Imaging in
Python, (W. Fraser et al. 2016), astropy (Astropy Collaboration
et al. 2013, 2018), SExtractor (E. Bertin & S. Arnouts 1996).Peer reviewe
The doctor's casebook - a process of discovery
No full textBackground and aims: a bound manuscript describing the medical cases seen by a mid-eighteenth century Scottish doctor was discovered in the possession of the first author's family. The identity of the doctor is not revealed in the book. The aims were to identify the doctor and understand the significance of this book in the context of Scottish medical history of that period.Methods: the process of investigation involved transcribing the book in order to undertake detailed study of the text, with particular focus on style of writing, location, and the names of patients and doctors mentioned. This information was then used in searches of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London and the Department of Special Libraries and Archives of the University of Aberdeen as well as searches of the internet.Results: the author was discovered to be a doctor working in Aberdeenshire in the middle of the eighteenth century. His style of writing suggests an educational purpose, with a particular interest in midwifery, and evidence of teaching midwifery techniques to students. He associated with other prominent local doctors of the time and was aware of the current thinking being put forward by his contemporaries. He had a particular association with Dr John Gregory, with whom he not only worked, but whose extended family he also treated.Conclusions: the author of this casebook was identified as Dr David Skene, and this adds to our knowledge of this important figure of the Scottish Enlightenment who had a particular interest in midwifery and campaigned for the proper instruction of midwive
Beyond Lesson Studies and Design Experiments: Using theoretical tools in practice and finding out how they work
No full textThis paper aims to illustrate how fruitful insights into the link between school teaching practice and student learning outcomes can be theoretically grounded by the variation theory from the field of phenomenography; and from this framework demonstrate how a 'pedagogy of awareness' can be implemented in the classroom. In this study, five teachers and 162 students at Primary Four level of school education in Hong Kong participated and the practice of the 'learning study' was adopted. By comparing the results of pre- and posttests, a significant gain was observed in the students learning outcomes.
Symplectaneidae Fraser 1941
No full textFamily Symplectaneidae Fraser, 1941b Myriothelidae Hincks, 1868: 75. Candelabridae Stechow, 1921a: 248. Symplectaneidae Fraser, 1941b: 78. Current status. Invalid. Remarks. Fraser (1941b) founded Symplectaneidae for Symplectanea bracteata, a presumed new genus and species of hydroid described by him from Stephens Passage, Alaska. Symplectanea Fraser, 1941b was referred to the synonymy of Monocoryne Broch, 1910 by Rees (1957b), a genus included by him in Myriothelidae Hincks, 1868. Symplectaneidae thereupon became a junior synonym of Myriothelidae. Although the family name Myriothelidae predates Candelabridae Stechow, 1921a, the latter name has come into prevailing usage for the taxon because its type genus, Candelabrum de Blainville, 1830, predates its subjective synonym, Myriothela M. Sars, 1850, type genus of Myriothelidae. In the interests of nomenclatural stability, Schuchert (2006) urged adoption of Candelabridae over its senior synonym Myriothelidae, a nomenclatural act permissible under Art. 40.2 of the ICZN provided certain circumstances are met. Under Recommendation 40A of the Code, the currently accepted name, with its author and date, may be cited as Candelabridae Stechow, 1921a (1868), indicating precedence over Myriothelidae Hincks, 1868 and subsequently published synonyms. In turn, Symplectaneidae is a junior synonym of both Candelabridae and Myriothelidae. When elevated to the rank of family, the subfamily name Monocoryninae Rees, 1956 is also a junior synonym of Candelabridae.Published as part of Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C., 2018, Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 4487 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/145616
Aglaophenia raridentata Fraser 1944
No full textAglaophenia raridentata Fraser, 1944a Aglaophenia apocarpa Αllman, 1877: 41, pl. 24, figs. 5–9. Aglaophenia elegans Nutting, 1900: 94, pl. 19, figs. 3, 4 [invalid junior primary homonym of Aglaophenia elegans Lamouroux, 1816]. Aglaophenia raridentata Fraser, 1944a: 387, pl. 83, figs. 376a, b [replacement name for Aglaophenia elegans Nutting, 1900, not Aglaophenia elegans Lamouroux, 1816]. Syntypes. USNM 18645: USA, Florida, Straits of Florida, Florida Keys, 8 miles (13 km) off American Shoal Light, State University of Iowa Bahamas Expedition of 1893, Sta. 62, 128– 146 m, 29 June 1893; two slides. USNM 69685: USA, Florida, Straits of Florida, Florida Keys, 8 miles (13 km) off American Shoal Light, State University of Iowa Bahamas Expedition of 1893, Sta. 62, 128– 146 m, 29 June 1893; ethanol. Type locality. USA, Florida: off Sand Key, 70–80 fm (128–146 m) (Nutting 1900). Current status. Invalid. Remarks. The binomen Aglaophenia raridentata was proposed by Fraser (1944a) as a new replacement name for Aglaophenia elegans Nutting, 1900 (not Aglaophenia elegans Lamouroux, 1816). The two therefore have the same type locality and the same name-bearing type material (ICZN Arts. 67.8, 72.7). A degree of uncertainty exists about specimens that qualify as name-bearing types of new species described by Nutting (1900), including Aglaophenia elegans. A procedure was established by him whereby “…three series of slides [were prepared] from the same type specimen… These series were then distributed to the United States National Museum, the Museum of the State University of Iowa, and the private collection of the author” (Nutting 1900: 58). In Nutting’s monograph, catalogue numbers were provided for slides at the “ USNM ” (NMNH) and at the university museum at Iowa (designated as “ Type slides”), but not for the “ type specimen” from which the slides were made, nor for slides in the Nutting Collection. Unless other evidence is found, the original “ type specimen” cannot clearly be identified as such. The NMNH online database lists as types only those specimens on numbered slides. In his account of Aglaophenia elegans, Nutting (1900) explicitly assigned type status to material on slides at the NMNH (USNM 18645), at the Museum of the State University of Iowa (No. 15354), and in his personal collection (unnumbered). The latter two collections are likely to have been sent to the NMNH in a transfer of collections from Iowa after Nutting’s death (Calder 2004: 23). It is unclear whether those slides were combined to form part of the syntype material listed above. Meanwhile, material of the species in ethanol at the NMNH (USNM 69685) is part of the same collection as the syntype slides, but it is not classified in the online database as part of the type series. It is regarded here as part of the syntype series. Aglaophenia elegans and its objective synonym A. raridentata are subjective junior synonyms of A. apocarpa Allman, 1877, a hydroid described from the same area (Sand Key) in the Straits of Florida (Bedot 1921; Bogle 1975; Cairns et al. 2002). As for the binomen A. apocarpa, confusion persists over whether it or A. lophocarpa Allman, 1877 has precedence when the two are considered synonyms. As First Reviser (ICZN Art. 24.2), Bedot (1921) assigned precedence to the name A. apocarpa (see Calder 1997: 54).Published as part of Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C., 2018, Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions, pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 4487 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4487.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/145616
Scotland’s international competitiveness within Western Europe
No full textThe paper measures regional competitiveness of Scotland in comparison to ten EU regions and small countries using the International Benchmarking Index Family (‘IB Index Family’) developed by BAK Basel Economics.1 The IB Index Family contains an index with three dimensions of competitiveness: Performance, Attractiveness and Structural Potential. The Performance Index measures recent economic success; the Attractiveness Index measures how well a region is an attractive location to companies and highly-qualified individuals; and the Structural Potential Index estimates future potential economic growth based on current economic structure. The application of the IB Index Family provides a first-step into a more in-depth benchmarking of the competitiveness of a region, which is necessary when working towards detailed policy conclusions. The paper explains these measurement tools and applies them in a short benchmarking analysis of Scotland and ten EU regions and small nations (e.g. Ireland, Norway, Western Sweden etc.)
Cenozoic drainage history of southern British Columbia
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Ineffective regulations
No full textThis is an editorial condemning the Continuous Journey Law (a federal measure) as ineffective and counterproductive while claiming the Natal Act as superior. It also discusses the author--s belief that South Asian immigrants, while undesirable, are preferable to Japanese, and condemns the act as wholly ineffective in keeping Japanese immigrants out of British Columbia. Nichol complains that the current legislation is not in British Columbia--s best interests. The article also briefly discusses a famine in India and the relative prosperity of the North American continent.--Research project undertaken by the University of the Fraser Valley South Asian Studies Institute, formerly the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies in 201
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