504 research outputs found
Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories
No full textDescription:. Mabie, Hamilton Wright and Daniel Edwin Wheeler, eds. Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories. New York: The University Society, 1909. Note: Volume III from the twelve-volume set, Young Folks Treasury in Twelve Volumes.
Project Identifier: faulkner_library_031; faulkner_library_032
Rowan Oak Accession Number:2021.001.0195
Condition: The hardback volume is in fair/fragile condition. There is wear to the binding and separation in the gutters of the book.
1962 Location: Rowan Oak Library Room
Current Location: Rowan Oak Library Room
Annotations/Inscriptions: There are no inscriptions or annotations present in the volume.
Notes: The remaining volumes in this series are not present in the current library and were not noted in Joseph Blotner’s William Faulkner’s Library: A Catalogue (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1964).https://egrove.olemiss.edu/faulkner_library_books/1017/thumbnail.jp
Earnings inequality and central-city development
No full textThis paper was presented at the conference "Unequal incomes, unequal outcomes? Economic inequality and measures of well-being" as part of session 4, "Economic inequality and local public services." The conference was held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on May 7, 1999. The author considers not only the competition between cities, but also the competition between cities and the surrounding areas - the suburbs. He notes that rising income inequality tends to lead to greater income disparity between the suburbs and the central cities because the rich are more likely to move to the suburbs. In addition, business suburbanization has occurred because modern transportation and communication technologies have reduced the costs of moving people, goods, and messages over considerable distances. Moreover, some central business districts have become so large as to exhaust the advantages of locating there. However, the author suggests that the movement of businesses away from central cities began to change around 1996. Tighter labor markets have induced U.S. businesses to locate in central cities for the same reason that these businesses have been going to Mexico and East Asia - namely, the availability of relatively low-wage workers. The author also cites the dramatic fall in central-city crime rates in the 1990s and new legislation allowing cities to limit "brownfields liability" - the liability of businesses for environmental damage that occurred before their occupation of a site - as developments that have made it easier for businesses to return to the central cities.Income distribution ; Income ; Urban economics
Transgressing the moral economy: Wheelerism and management of the nationalised coal industry in Scotland
No full textThis article illuminates the links between managerial style and political economy in post-1945 Britain, and explores the origins of the 1984–1985 miners' strike, by examining in longer historical context the abrasive attitudes and policies of Albert Wheeler, Scottish Area Director of the National Coal Board (NCB). Wheeler built on an earlier emphasis on production and economic criteria, and his micro-management reflected pre-existing centralising tendencies in the industries. But he was innovative in one crucial aspect, transgressing the moral economy of the Scottish coalfield, which emphasised the value of economic security and changes by joint industrial agreement
Desarrollo de Mantenimiento Preventivo y Correctivo para Equipos Utilizados en las Técnicas NDT & DT en Materiales de la Empresa INSPEQ Ingeniería LTDA
No full textEl autor es Edwin Fabian Ebrat Sánchez y el trabajo se titula “Desarrollo de mantenimiento preventivo y correctivo para equipos utilizados en las técnicas NDT & DT en materiales de la empresa INSPEQ Ingenieria LTDA”. El objetivo general del trabajo es ejecutar un plan de mantenimiento preventivo y correctivo para máquinas y equipos utilizados para la inspección de materiales por medio de ensayos destructivos y no destructivos (NDT & DT) en la empresa INSPEQ Ingenieria LTDA, una empresa especializada en servicios de inspección y control de calidad en diversos sectores industriales. El trabajo se divide en cinco capítulos: reseña de la empresa, marco de referencia, plan de trabajo, conclusiones y recomendaciones. El autor describe
la misión, visión, justificación, problemática, alcance y objetivos del proyecto, así como los conceptos generales de mantenimiento preventivo, correctivo, predictivo, gestión de activos, limpieza electrónica y las normas y códigos aplicables a los ensayos NDT & DT. El autor presenta el cronograma de actividades, los indicadores de desempeño, los formatos de reporte y los
resultados obtenidos en el plan de mantenimiento, evidenciando el cumplimiento de los objetivos y el buen estado de los equipos. El autor concluye que el plan de mantenimiento es efectivo para prevenir y corregir fallos, asegurar el funcionamiento óptimo y prolongar la vida útil de los equipos, así como para facilitar la toma de decisiones informadas sobre su reparación,
mantenimiento o reemplazo. El autor recomienda la ejecución de planes de mantenimiento más rigurosos y la actualización de la hoja de vida de los equipos, así como la adquisición de equipos adicionales para mejorar la productividad y la cobertura de la empresa.The author is Edwin Fabian Ebrat Sánchez and the work is titled “Development of preventive and corrective maintenance for equipment used in NDT & DT techniques in materials of the company INSPEQ Ingenieria LTDA”. The general objective of the work is to execute a preventive and corrective maintenance plan for machines and equipment used for material inspection through destructive and non-destructive testing (NDT & DT) at INSPEQ Ingenieria LTDA, a company specialized in inspection and quality control services in various industrial sectors. The work is divided into five chapters: company review, reference framework, work plan, conclusions, and recommendations. The author describes the mission, vision, justification, problems, scope, and objectives of the project, as well as the general concepts of preventive, corrective, predictive maintenance, asset management, electronic cleaning, and the standards and codes applicable to NDT & DT tests. The author presents the schedule of activities, performance indicators, report formats, and results obtained in the maintenance plan, demonstrating the fulfillment of the objectives and the good condition of the equipment. The author concludes that the maintenance plan is effective in preventing and correcting faults, ensuring optimal operation, and prolonging the useful life of the equipment, as well as facilitating informed decision-making about its repair, maintenance, or replacement. The author recommends the execution of more rigorous maintenance plans and the updating of the equipment’s life cycle, as well as the acquisition of additional equipment to improve the company’s productivity and coverage.Ingeniero en Mecatrónicahttps://www.ustabuca.edu.co/Pregrad
‘The Churchillian Paradigm and the “Other British Isles”: An Examination of Second World War Remembrance in Man, Orkney, and Jersey’
No full textThis dissertation studies Second World War ‘sites of memory’ in the islands of Jersey, Orkney and the Isle of Man, to determine if each island celebrates the war’s events as Britain does, or if they have charted their own mnemonic course. It builds on the work of Angus Calder, Malcolm Smith, and Mark Connelly, who have explored how popular conception of the Second World War in Britain has been structured around a certain set of commemorative motifs, most of which centre on Winston Churchill and the events of 1940. The British war narrative is now commonly referred to as the ‘Churchillian paradigm’ or ‘finest-hour myth’, and continues to be the driving force in commemoration and memorialization on the British mainland. The three islands in this study are culturally and historically distinct from Britain, and each has strong notions of its own ‘island identity’. Each also possesses a tangential and divisive domestic experience of war, one which is often minimized in the iconography of the Churchillian paradigm. Jersey was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945, Orkney was home to several thousand Italian POWs who built important infrastructure in the island, and the Isle of Man was home to 14,000 German, Finnish, Japanese, and Italian internees in what one critic has called ‘a bespattered page’ in the nation’s history. By examining ‘sites of memory’— museums, heritage sites, commemorations, celebrations, philately, and use of public space—this dissertation shows that each island simultaneously accepts and rejects elements of the finest-hour myth in their collective memory. Each island displays its unique (though often quite negative) heritage in order to differentiate itself from Britain, while at the same time allowing them, at certain events, to participate in celebration of Britain’s ‘greatest victory’. In this way, islands’ use ‘Britishness’ pragmatically, by basking in traditionally ‘British’ commemorative tropes, while at the same time deepening their own cultural and historical sovereignty
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Meditations on the abyss: American security, the global “war on terror,” and the rise of ISIS
No full textAmerican foreign policy has lacked a coherent strategic framework since the Cold War ended. This lack of vision is confirmed by the regional chaos that continues to plague the Middle East fifteen years after a bid to assert American hegemony in the Middle East failed in Iraq. This study contests reductionist interpretations of global insecurity in favor of what can best be understood as an ideological framework for understanding modern insecurity. It thus provides an immanent critique of American security thinking while offering suggestions for a soluble link between the theory and practice of modern security in an age mired by geostrategic challenges to state and regional powers and fractured international institutions and alliances. A critical historical and political approach is taken to determine the preconditions for today’s security failures. Unencumbered by cold war constraints from the Soviet Union, the US took on numerous unilateral and multilateral interventions throughout the world in the nineties and, in so doing, not only created new enemies but also set the preconditions for how America would respond when transnational terrorism touched her shores on 9/11. Operating under what I term “reified realism,” whereby power is exercised in the breach, American security practices have tended to be counterproductive: producing further insecurity through the original act of securitization—or what I deem an “in/security matrix.” This dynamic relationship becomes apparent from the standpoint of the “war on terror” presidents’ practices. Be it the unilateral preemption of Bush’s neo-conservatives or the multilateral engagement of Obama’s neo-liberals, these foreign policy models are ultimately distinguished by the means they employ to arrive at shared ends. In each instance, however, a similar phenomenon drives American security practices in this epoch of terror. “Post strategic warfare,” as I determine it, whereby ethically spurious isolated tactics replace and masquerade as strategy to fight a transnational enemy, has intensified attempts to quell security failures. Short-term exigency, which is often readily associated with security, is challenged not only in terms of ethics but also in terms of strategic utility and long-term stability—the cornerstone of the realist enterprise since its inception. Recovering realism from its usurpation will, as I argue, go a long way in reorienting American security practices today while also anticipating future ones as well. Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Edwin Daniel Jaco
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