Colin Duquemin fonds, 1935, 1968-2001, n.d.

Colin Duquemin was born in 1932 in Guernsey, British Channel Islands, and came to Canada as a young adult. He attended McMaster University (B.A.), the University of Toronto (B.Ed.), the State University of New York at Buffalo (M.A.) and the University of London, London, England (M.Sc.). He began his career as a tea taster and tea buyer in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), but later became a teacher. He spent most of his teaching career as a manager of the St. Johns Outdoor Studies Centre, north of Fonthill, Ontario, developing environmentally related programmes for elementary and secondary school students. He was also active in many local organizations, serving as Associate Director of the St. Catharines Grape and Wine Festival Board, Chairman of the St. Catharines Historical Museum Board, President of the Niagara Military Institute and President of the Canadian Canal Society. In addition to the numerous curriculum materials he authored, Colin wrote the Driver’s Guide Series, highlighting the many points of interest in the Niagara region, including the Welland Canal, battlefields of the War of 1812, and the Niagara Parkway. He also wrote A Guide to the Grand River Canal (1980) with Daniel Glenney, The Fur Trade in Rupert’s Land: Opening up the Canadian Northwest (1992), Stick to the Guns! A short history of the 10th field battery, Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery (1996), Niagara Rebels: the Niagara Frontier Incidents in the Upper Canada Rebellion, 1837-1838 ( 2001), and edited and contributed to A Lodge of Friendship: the History of Niagara Lodge, No. 2, A.F. & A.M, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, 1792-1992 (1991). He died in December 2012.Fonds consists of research material acquired and produced by Colin Duquemin. Topics covered vary and include the early history of Upper Canada, the War of 1812, the Rebellion of 1837, the Fenian raids, St. Johns, Ontario, and Freemasonry

Professionalization of public health and training of sanitarians in Peru: 1935-1968

Este artículo presenta información bibliográfica y testimonial sobre la historia de la profesionalización de la salud pública y la capacitación de sanitaristas en el Perú durante el período 1935-1968, con el fin de sustentar la validez de los comentarios que se hacen sobre las razones internas y externas de los logros y limitaciones de ambos procesos durante, y al final de este período. Con este fin, el artículo se organiza en seis ítems: Antecedentes en la región de las américas y en el Perú; profesionalización de la salud pública en el Perú (1935-1968); capacitación en salud pública y la cooperación externa en el Perú (1935-1968); programas de capacitación del personal sanitario en el Perú (1961-1963); la Escuela de Salud Pública del Perú (1964-1968); y, comentarios sobre la situación del sanitarista en la década del sesenta.This article presents bibliographic and testimonials information about the history of the professionalization of public health, and the professional development of the sanitarians in Peru during the period between 1935 and 1968, in order to provide legitimacy to the comments that were made about the internal and external reasons of achievements and limitations of both process during, and at the end of this period. For this purpose, the article is organized into six sections: Background information of the region of the Americas and Peru; the professionalization of public health in Peru (1935-1968); Public health professional development and the foreign cooperation in Peru (1935-1968); the training programs for sanitarians in Peru (1961-1963); the School of Public Health of Peru (1964-1968); and, comments about the situation of the sanitarians in the sixties decade

Studia Litteraria

Juhász Géza (1894-1968), 3-6. Baranyi Imre (1935-1968), 7-10. Balogh István, Debreceniség, Egy irodalmi fogalom története és társadalmi háttere, 11-54. Kovács József László, Egy magyar humanista író portréjának kialakulása, Írások Lackner Kristófról 1631-1944, 55-74. Juhász Géza - J. Gulyás Margit, Csokonai latin zsengéi, 75-92. Boros Dezső, adalékok Csokonai csurgói tanárságához, 93-108. Baffy Dezső, Montesquieu hatása a fiatal Kemény gondolkodására, 109-120. Baranyi Imre, A fiatal Madách Pesten, 121-136

"Designing with Light": Carlotta Corpron and the New Bauhaus

A major figure to emerge in the history of American photography is Carlotta Corpron (1901-1987), who taught art at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas from 1935-1968. The rediscovery of her abstract images created during the 1940s reflects the growing recognition of the experimental photography at the New Bauhaus in Chicago from 1937-1946. Corpron's abstract photographs were stimulated by her interaction with Lazlo Moholy-Nagy and Gyorgy Kepes. Corpron was an innovator in the development of abstract photography in the United States. This thesis connects her work to that of Moholy-Nagy and Gyorgy Kepes as well as other major figures in American photography of the twentieth century

autoAx: An Automatic Design Space Exploration and Circuit Building Methodology utilizing Libraries of Approximate Components

Approximate computing is an emerging paradigm for developing highly energy-efficient computing systems such as various accelerators. In the literature, many libraries of elementary approximate circuits have already been proposed to simplify the design process of approximate accelerators. Because these libraries contain from tens to thousands of approximate implementations for a single arithmetic operation it is intractable to find an optimal combination of approximate circuits in the library even for an application consisting of a few operations. An open problem is "how to effectively combine circuits from these libraries to construct complex approximate accelerators". This paper proposes a novel methodology for searching, selecting and combining the most suitable approximate circuits from a set of available libraries to generate an approximate accelerator for a given application. To enable fast design space generation and exploration, the methodology utilizes machine learning techniques to create computational models estimating the overall quality of processing and hardware cost without performing full synthesis at the accelerator level. Using the methodology, we construct hundreds of approximate accelerators (for a Sobel edge detector) showing different but relevant tradeoffs between the quality of processing and hardware cost and identify a corresponding Pareto-frontier. Furthermore, when searching for approximate implementations of a generic Gaussian filter consisting of 17 arithmetic operations, the proposed approach allows us to identify approximately $10^3$ highly important implementations from $10^{23}$ possible solutions in a few hours, while the exhaustive search would take four months on a high-end processor.Comment: Accepted for publication at the Design Automation Conference 2019 (DAC'19), Las Vegas, Nevada, US

After three centuries and a half, what have we learned?

Includes bibliographical references (p. 26-34)

Do short birth intervals have long-term implications for parental health? Results from analyses of complete cohort Norwegian register data.

BACKGROUND: Short and very long interbirth intervals are associated with worse perinatal, infant and immediate maternal outcomes. Accumulated physiological, mental, social and economic stresses arising from raising children close in age may also mean that interbirth intervals have longer term implications for the health of mothers and fathers, but few previous studies have investigated this. METHODS: Discrete-time hazards models were estimated to analyse associations between interbirth intervals and mortality risks for the period 1980-2008 in complete cohorts of Norwegian men and women born during 1935-1968 who had had two to four children. Associations between interbirth intervals and use of medication during 2004-2008 were also analysed using ordinary least-squares regression. Covariates included age, year, education, age at first birth, parity and change in coparent since the previous birth. RESULTS: Mothers and fathers of two to three children with intervals between singleton births of less than 18 months, and mothers of twins, had raised mortality risks in midlife and early old age relative to parents with interbirth intervals of 30-41 months. For parents with three or four children, longer average interbirth intervals were associated with lower mortality. Short intervals between first and second births were also positively associated with medication use. Very long intervals were not associated with raised mortality or medication use when change of coparent since the previous birth was controlled. CONCLUSIONS: Closely spaced and multiple births may have adverse long-term implications for parental health. Delayed entry to parenthood and increased use of fertility treatments mean that both are increasing, making this a public health issue which needs further investigation