163 research outputs found
Telegram re: Pan Am flight to Philippines
No full textTelegram from Proctor B. Wesson to Amon Carter about the first passenger flight to the Philippines with Pan Am Airways
Kennel show trophies
No full textAdmiring trophies for coming kennel show, are, left to right, Mrs. Paul Sanborn, Mrs. Clyde Hill, Mrs. Proctor B. Wesson and Mrs. Herman Cox.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1940s/4288/thumbnail.jp
Compactness of Scrap Tyre Rubber Aggregates in Standard Proctor Test
No full textAbstractScrap tyre derived aggregates (TDA) have been used in civil engineering since 1990-ties, mainly in the USA. The material may be used in various forms and sizes – from powder, through granulates, tyre shreds, chips. The TDA applications include: lightweight fills in embankments over soft soils, lightweight backfills behind retaining walls, insulation and drainage layers etc. In most of the works the material needs to be compacted to decrease the void ratio of the aggregate and reduce future settlement. This paper presents a study on compactness of four different fractions of scrap tyre rubber (A: 0.1 – 1mm, B: 0.5 – 2mm, C: 2 – 5mm and D: 10 – 40mm) in the standard Proctor test. The results in the form of dependency of dry and bulk density on water content are compared also with adequate results obtained for a clean uniform medium sand. It turns out that the optimum moisture content can be clearly estimated only in the case of the finest fraction (sample A) and it is equal to about 40%. The variability of dry density is however small – it changes from 0.54 to 0.61g/cm3. Coarser TDAs behave more like self-draining materials – they retain much less water and the maximum moisture content equals to about 18%, 23% and 38% in case of tyre chips (D), 2 – 5mm grains (C) and 0.5 – 2mm grains (B) respectively. The dry densities for samples B, C and D possible to be obtained with standard Proctor energy have been estimated as: 0.61, 0.60 and 0.59g/cm3 respectively
Bibliographical essays,
No full textMemorial volume, containing all of Proctor's bibliographical essays and papers, with a memoir prefixed. Edited by A. W. Pollard."Two hundred copies printed. no. 158 [signed] A. W. P."Robert Proctor [memoir]--Report of Proctor memorial fund.--Accipies woodcut.--On two plates in Sotheby's 'Principia typographica.'--Marcus Reinhard and Johann Grüninger.--Incunabula at Grenoble.--The 'Gutenberg' Bible.--A short view of Berthelet's editions of the statues of Henry VIII.--On two Lyonnese editions of the 'Ars moriendi'.--Ulrich von Ellenbog and the press of S. Ulrich at Augsburg.--The French royal Greek types and the Eton Chrysostom.--The early printers of Köln.--Tracts on early printing: I. List of the founts of type and woodcut devices used by the printers of the southern Netherlands in the fifteenth century. II. A note on Eberhard Frommolt of Basel, printer. III. Additions to Campbell's 'Annales de la typographie neérlandaise au 15e siècle.--Table of supplements to Campbell.--Author-register.--Index.Mode of access: Internet
Statistical method for determining No Effect Concentration (NEC)
No full textProgress Code: completedStatement: Statistical study only on existing datasets.<b>Purpose</b><br/>Showcase a new statistical method for determining no effect concentrations (NEC).This data record has been compiled for a statistical methods study, conducted by Abigael Proctor as part of her PhD research in 2018. The data in this record have been used to showcase a new statistical method for determining no effect concentration (NEC). The study uses the data in this record to compare NEC and LCx estimates for copper in four Antarctic marine invertebrate species. The data associated with this record are a subset of four existing larger datasets: <br/>1. amphipod: AAS_2933_Orchomenella_pinguides_Sensitivity_metals_Davis_2010-11<br/>2. copepod: AAS_4100_Toxicity_Copepods<br/>3. gastropod: AAS_2933_MetaToxicityMarine_JuvenileGastropods_Kingston2007<br/>4. ostracod: AAS_2933_MetalToxicityMarine_BrownOstracods_Kingston2007<br/><br/>Subset details are described in the excel file provided
1st Ralph Proctor Lecture of ISSMGE. Railroad performance with special reference to ballast and substructure characteristics.
No full textBallasted rail tracks are widely used throughout the world because they are economical, readily drained, and have sufficient load bearing capacity. Despite these advantages, geotechnical concerns such as ballast degradation, fouling (e.g. coal and subgrade soil), poor drainage of soft subgrade, pumping of clayey subgrade, differential track settlement and track misalignment due to excessive lateral movements exacerbate the cost of track maintenance. Globally, billions of dollars are spent annually on the construction and maintenance of rail tracks. Existing industry design standards are often unable to address these problems because they ignore true cyclic loading patterns, track vibrations, and the onset of plasticity and degradation of track materials. The mechanisms of ballast breakage and deformation, understanding the interface behaviour using geosynthetics, the need for effective track confinement using geocells, time-dependent drainage and filtration properties of track materials require further research to improve existing design guidelines. In view of this, large scale laboratory tests have been carried out using state-of-the-art facilities designed and built at the University of Wollongong and in other proactive rail institutes worldwide in Europe, America, Japan and China. Based on these tests, various factors governing the stress-strain behaviour of ballast, the strength and degradation of ballast, the ability of various geosynthetics and synthetic energy absorbing mats to minimise ballast breakage and track settlement, the effectiveness of subballast as a granular filter and its stabilisation with geocell have been analysed. In Australia, field studies on instrumented tracks at Bulli (near Wollongong), Singleton and Sandgate (near Newcastle), have been carried out to assess the performance of railroad embankments stabilised with geosynthetic grids, rubber mats, and prefabricated vertical drains. This inaugural Ralph Proctor Lecture focuses on the current state of research encompassing deformation and degradation assessment of railroads and the benefits of geo-inclusions, highlighting examples of innovations from theory to practice, predominantly based on the own experience of the Author
The mask of the poet : irony and ethos in selected poems by Daniel Defoe
No full textAlthough Defoe wrote more poetry than Milton did, critical attention to his verse has been slight. Twentieth-century scholars have largely limited attention to verse satires of William III's reign. This dissertation explores verse not previously explicated to help determine Defoe's status as a poet. The Introduction surveys the field of previous scholarship in historical, biographical, and rhetorical aspects of Defoe's poetry. Chapter 1 finds the early Meditations establishing verse forms and dominant themes that will characterize Defoe’s later poetry. Chapter 2 analyzes The Character of the Late Dr, Samuel Annes- Zeyt a man whom Defoe depicts as the model Christian minister. The poem forbids vain grief, extols virtue, and affirms the blessings of Heaven for sincere Christians. Chapter 3 examines The Mock Mourners. A Satyr by Way of Elegy on King Wiltiam. The poem combines elegy for sincere mourners, panegyric for William's virtues, and satiric attack for those who rejoiced at the monarch's death. Chapter 4 concerns Defoe's Elegy on the Author-a mock elegy considering implications of the seven years' silence imposed on his satiric pen by magistrates who condemned the author to Newgate and the pillory. Chapter 5, Reformation of Manners, exposes unjust magistrates, decadent clergy, and profligate members of the nobility, Defoe uses both persuasive and punitive satire in hopes of shaming or challenging his readers into mending their ways. Chapter 6 demonstrates the author's involvement with contemporary historical events. Defoe's four poems celebrating the Duke of Marlborough's victories against the French during 1704-06 praise the hero's military prowess and express hope for equal success in subduing warring political parties at home. Chapter 7 examines Defoe's greatest personal crisis. A Hymn to the Pillory, the author's finest creation in the Pindaric mode, views the ironic inversion of justice that punishes the innocent while failing to deter criminals. Chapter 8 studies Defoe's ironic Hymn to the Mob, The poet traces famous mob scenes recorded in the Bible as analogies for violent Jacobite rabble actions of 1710 and 1715. The motif of madness and the necessity of rational legal restraint characterize the poem. A product of his merchant-class, Presbyterian background, Defoe's poetry shows him both conforming to and emerging beyond the ethos of his peers. His verse features forms, genres, and devices popular in his day, but his astute powers of observation, his facility with a wide variety of rhetorical techniques, and his religiously oriented ironic world view mark Defoe's poetry as uniquely his own.English, Department o
How can positive psychology influence public policy and practice
No full textThe chapter "How can positive psychology influence public policy and practice" was written by the listed authors including Roger Tweed (Douglas College Faculty). Positive psychologists who decline to involve themselves in government policy issues may be similar to medical doctors who refuse to work in hospitals or clinics. Both the positive psychologist and the doctor may greatly reduce their positive effect if they avoid involvement in these institutions that widely impact the population. This chapter explains what positive psychologists bring to policy discussions: An emphasis on measurable well-being, a desire to do more than just ameliorate pathology, and a broad knowledge of psychological findings. The chapter provides examples of policy relevant findings related to: (a) measurement of well-being, (b) identification of groups with particular needs, and (c) exploration of paths to the good life. The chapter also gives warnings about ways to fail in policy engagement, such as limiting efforts to legislative lobbying, ignoring lessons from policy-engaged academics, failing to consider costs, seeking to change fundamental belief systems of opponents, ignoring unintended consequences, expressing hubris, providing imbalanced emphasis on particular types of well-being, and failing to test policies incrementally. The chapter closes by proposing a strategy for policy engagement that not only promotes, but also embodies positive psychology. --From publisher description.positive psychologypublic policyinterventionsocial issuessocial actionsocial polic
The social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach: a paramount concept for research in library and information science (LIS)
No full textThis paper analyses the social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach to be used by theorists and practitioners of library and information science (LIS). This concept emerged as part of the theoretical framework employed by the author in his doctoral thesis (Muela-Meza, 2010): An Application of Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers: Perceptions from the People of the Broomhall Neighbourhood of Sheffield, UK. This concept is complemented from philosophy (Marx and Engels, [1848] 1976a), and the natural sciences (Hauser, 2006; Sagan and Druyan, 1992), and it served the author to understand better the bigger dimensions of the underlying issues behind social classes and human conflicts. It also served to understand better the contradictions between people (e.g. LIS users with contradictory and mutually exclusive information needs to be provided by libraries and other institutions of information recorded in documents), and how these intensify when these are interrelated with the social class they belong to (Muela-Meza, 2007). This paper also criticises some competing views whose proponents by pretending fallaciously and deceitfully to deny the presence of social class divides in society, such as those rhetorical ploys of post-modernism that propose capitalist-class-driven ideologues of “community cohesion” based on “social capital” (Putnam, 1999). It shows evidence of how those followers (e.g. Pateman, 2006; Contreras Contreras, 2004; Bryson, Usherwood and Proctor, 2003) of capitalist-class ideologues, by doing so they aligned their discourse to that of dominance hierarchies and hegemony against working class people, in LIS and other sciences, and the humanities. It also criticises the postmodern pseudoscience because it pretends to undermine the logical rationality fundamental in LIS and all other sciences. It recommends that LIS theorists and practitioners employ the social class struggles concept as configured here in order to understand better contradictions, conflicts, and struggles within LIS theory and practice, and also to search for broader epistemological aims such as justice and wisdom (Fleissner and Hofkirchner, 1998), concealed by the capitalist or bourgeois and middle classes for their benefit against working class
Numerical simulations of rotating axisymmetric sunspots
No full textA numerical model of axisymmetric convection in the presence of a vertical magnetic flux bundle and rotation about the axis is presented. The model contains a compressible plasma described by the non-linear MHD equations, with density and temperature gradients simulating the upper layer of the Sun's convection zone. The solutions exhibit a central magnetic flux tube in a cylindrical numerical domain, with convection cells forming collar flows around the tube. When the numerical domain is rotated with a constant angular velocity, the plasma forms a Rankine vortex, with the plasma rotating as a rigid body where the magnetic field is strong, as in the flux tube, while experiencing sheared azimuthal flow in the surrounding convection cells, forming a free vortex. As a result, the azimuthal velocity component has its maximum value close to the outer edge of the flux tube. The azimuthal flow inside the magnetic flux tube and the vortex flow is prograde relative to the rotating cylindrical reference frame. A retrograde flow appears at the outer wall. The most significant convection cell outside the flux tube is the location for the maximum value of the azimuthal magnetic field component. The azimuthal flow and magnetic structure are not generated spontaneously, but decay exponentially in the absence of any imposed rotation of the cylindrical domain
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