Bridging the Gap: Canadian Engineer Operations at Canal du Nord–Bourlon Wood, 1918

During the last hundred days of the Great War, the Allied armies swept eastward past the Hindenburg Line with hammer-blow offensive warfare. Performing their work under intense machine gun and shell fire, engineers erected bridges and constructed roads, allowing infantry and artillery units to pursue the retreating enemy. These combat engineers played a vital role in battle tactics and logistical services of open warfare. Their versatile formations contributed to the Canadian Corps’ rapid victories, which included the successful Canal du Nord crossing leading to the capture of Bourlon Wood in September 1918

Att skapa lust och intresse till barns språkutveckling­ en kvalitativ studie av språkstimulerande metoder och materiel i en montessoriklass.

Syfte Vi vill ta del av hur språket kan stimuleras och få en inblick i vilka metoder och materiel som används för språkutveckling inom montessoripedagogiken. Vi vill också ta del av pedagogens roll inom montessoripedagogiken. Kan vi se något samband mellan teori och praktik. Metod Vi har genomfört en kvalitativ studie genom observationer av materiel och metoder för språkstimulering inom montessoripedagogik samt pedagogens roll i verksamheten. Vi har genomfört intervjuer med tre pedagoger. Observation som metod valdes ut på grund av att vi fick tillfälle att se hur verksamheten är upplagd och då få en större förståelse för den, vi fick även möjlighet till en närmare iakttagelse av materielen. Genom intervjuerna avsågs bl.a. att få ta del av pedagogernas uppfattningar om språkstimulerande materiel, om det finns några utmärkande metoder inom montessoripedagogiken samt deras roll som pedagog. Resultat Genom vår studie på den valda montessoriskolan har vi kommit fram till att pedagogens roll är en betydande faktor inom montessoripedagogiken. Pedagogen ses som en handledare vars uppgift är att lära barnen lära. Montessoripedagogiken har mycket språkmateriel som är konkret och speciellt utformat men är idag moderniserat, däremot används generella språkstimulerande metoder. Montessoris syn på barns utveckling och lärande utgår från barnets intresse och mognad, varav en av anledningarna till att montessoriverksamheten arbetar åldersintegrerat. Betydelse för läraryrket Pedagogen som en handledare och förhållningssätt gentemot barnen, samt betydelsen av olika materiel och metoder för språkstimulering

A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers: Supplementary Materiel

This paper contains additional details about the model in our paper “A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers” (Diermeier, Keane and Merlo (2004)), as well as the computational methods we use to solve and estimate the model, and the construction of the data set.Political careers, politicians, elections, term limits

Optimization models of the supply of power structures’ organizational units with centralized procurement

Management of the state power structures’ organizational units for materiel and technical support requires the use of effective tools for supporting decisions, due to the complexity, interdependence, and dynamism of supply in the market economy. The corporate nature of power structures is of particular interest to centralized procurement management, as it provides significant advantages through coordination, eliminating duplication, and economy of scale. This article presents optimization models of the supply of state power structures’ organizational units with centralized procurement, for different levels of simulated materiel and technical support processes. The models allow us to find the most profitable options for state power structures’ organizational supply units in a centre-oriented logistics system in conditions of the changing needs, volume of allocated funds, and logistics costs that accompany the process of supply, by maximizing the provision level of organizational units with necessary material and technical resources for the entire planning period of supply by minimizing the total logistical costs, taking into account the diverse nature and the different priorities of organizational units and material and technical resources

Making the Department of National Defence Work in the 1970s: The Deputy Minister and the CDS Remember

In the aftermath of unification, the Canadian Forces were struggling to deal with the changes that overtook them, not least the Trudeau government’s relative indifference to the military, the impact of bilingualism, and massive reorganization. General Jacques Dextraze, who became chief of the defence staff in 1972, and Sylvain Cloutier, the deputy minister in the Department of National Defence from 1971 to 1975, played key roles in managing the changes. Interviews conducted by J.L. Granatstein in 1988 indicate where they agreed—and disagreed—and tell us much about the characters of these two key figures

LAI Working With the US Army for Enterprise Transformation

Overview • Eric Rebentisch: LAI/Army ESAT overview (Army Materiel Enterprise, System of Systems Engineering), reflections on the ESAT process • Nancy Moulton: Army Materiel Enterprise (ME) reflections on the experience, on-going efforts and progress • Jerry Coover: Implementation efforts and change dynamics, other enterprise perspectives • Panel discussion and Q&

How Do We Get Rid of These Things? Dismantling Excess Weapons While Protecting the Environment

The startling successes of contemporary international arms control negotiations call to mind the old aphorism that one should be careful about what one wishes for, because the wish just might come true. Today, disarmament diplomacy has wrought unprecedented triumphs across a wide range of global bargaining issues, producing a series of watershed treaties that offer spectacular new advantages for the security of the United States and for the prospect of enduring world peace. At the same time, however, these unanticipated negotiation breakthroughs have themselves generated unforeseen implementation problems, spawning a host of novel difficulties for which the traditional tools and methods of arms control are ill-prepared or inappropriate. This Article examines one such difficulty: the potential legal and political conflict posed when a dramatic and crucial new arms control agreement, the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), confronts the equally fundamental and pressing dictates of national environmental protection policy. In short, the CWC will mandate the peaceful dismantling of massive national arsenals of now obsolete, but still exceptionally lethal chemical weapons (CW) agents, armaments, and facilities-and the destruction must be accomplished relatively promptly, reliably, and under the supervision of international inspectors. In the United States, however, long-standing environmental legislation, starting with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and continuing through a sequence of resource-specific antipollution enactments, mandates punctilious adherence to procedural safeguards (such as the preparation of disclosive Environmental Impact Statements) and compliance with stringent national and local substantive standards on emissions, hazardous wastes, community participation, and safety