467 research outputs found
Operation “Canada”: 5th Canadian Armoured Division’s Attack on Delfzijl, 23 April to 2 May 1945
Operation “Canada” was the last action fought 5th Canadian Armoured Division in the Second World War. The battle to open the northern Dutch port of Delfzijl lasted ten days, and cost the Division a total of 62 dead and 180 wounded. Yet it has largely been forgotten. The capture of Delfzijl is interesting enough to be worth studying in its own right. As one of the last Canadian actions in the war, it reveals the level of proficiency achieved by Canadian soldiers by that time. The reduction of the pocket was carried out with a high degree of efficiency, and saw excellent cooperation between all combat arms. It is also a useful reminder that for many Canadians the costly fighting did not end in North-West Europe until the very last days of the war
Mobilising Canada: The National Resources Mobilization Act, the Department of National Defence, and Compulsory Military Service in Canada, 1940-1945
Compulsory military service took on the most organized, long-term form it has ever had in Canada during the Second World War. But few historians look beyond the politics of conscription to study the creation, administration or impact of a training system that affected more than 150,000 people. Faced with the Mackenzie King government's policy of conscripting manpower only for home defence, and their own need for overseas volunteers, Army leaders used conscripts raised under the National Resources Mobilization Act to meet both purposes. This paper explores the Army's role in creating and administering the compulsory military training system during the war, the pressures put on conscripts to volunteer for overseas service, and the increased resistance to volunteering that resulted by 1944. The consequences of the Army's management of conscription came very much to shape the political events that took place in 1944, and cannot be fully understood outside that context.C'est pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale que la conscription obligatoire prend la forme la plus organisée et la plus longue que le Canada ait connue. Cependant, la plupart des historiens sont restés cantonnés dans l'étude des politiques relatives à la conscription et peu d'entre eux se sont intéressés à la création, à l'administration et à l'impact du programme d'entraînement qui a touché plus de 150 000 personnes. Liés par la politique du gouvernement de Mackenzie King, qui ne permettait la conscription que pour la défense du territoire canadien, et poussés par leurs propres besoins de volontaires pour le service outre-mer, les commandants de l'armée durent donc utiliser à ces deux fins les conscrits de la Loi sur la mobilisation des ressources nationales. Le présent article étudie le rôle que l'armée a joué dans la formation et la gestion du programme d'entraînement militaire obligatoire pendant la guerre, les pressions exercées sur les conscrits afin qu'ils se portent volontaires pour le service outre-mer et l'opposition accrue au volontariat qui en résulta en 1944. La façon dont l'armée administra la conscription eut des conséquences certaines sur le déroulement des événements politiques de 1944, qui ne peuvent être complètement compris hors de ce contexte
State Regulation of Franchising: The Washington Experience Revisited
Thirty-six years ago, and one year after Washington became the second state in the nation to enact a statute regulating franchise relationships, Professor Donald S. Chisum wrote the seminal article on franchising in Washington, State Regulation of Franchising: The Washington Experience. Professor Chisum\u27s article has been one of the few reference sources for Washington franchise law, and it has been the primary source relied on by courts addressing claims under Washington\u27s Franchise Investment Protection Act (FIPA). Since Professor Chisum originally published his article, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has promulgated and amended regulations governing the sale of franchises nationally, and two different groups have drafted uniform franchise acts. In Washington, the legislature significantly amended FIPA in 1991, and courts have addressed some of the unresolved issues under the statute. This Article assesses the changed state of franchise law in Washington. Part II considers the economic impact of franchising and the need for a review of franchising in Washington. Part III reviews the historical foundation for Washington\u27s current franchise laws, the context in which they were created, and the changes to franchise law that drive our modem understanding of FIPA today. Part IV addresses the current regulatory scheme in Washington, including practical considerations such as franchise registration, disclosure, and state enforcement powers. Finally, Part V addresses civil liability for violations of FIPA\u27s registration, disclosure, and relationship provisions
The universality of iterated hashing over variable-length strings
Iterated hash functions process strings recursively, one character at a time.
At each iteration, they compute a new hash value from the preceding hash value
and the next character. We prove that iterated hashing can be pairwise
independent, but never 3-wise independent. We show that it can be almost
universal over strings much longer than the number of hash values; we bound the
maximal string length given the collision probability
Structured condition numbers for invariant subspaces
Invariant subspaces of structured matrices are sometimes better conditioned with respect to structured perturbations than with respect to general perturbations. Sometimes they are not. This paper proposes an appropriate condition number c(S), for invariant subspaces subject to structured perturbations. Several examples compare c(S) with the unstructured condition number. The examples include block cyclic, Hamiltonian, and orthogonal matrices. This approach extends naturally to structured generalized eigenvalue problems such as palindromic matrix pencils
General Strategies for Isolating the Genes Encoding Type I Collagen and for Characterizing Mutations Which Produce Osteogenesis Imperfecta a
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73326/1/j.1749-6632.1988.tb55325.x.pd
Osteogenesis Imperfecta: The Molecular Basis of Clinical Heterogeneity a
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73685/1/j.1749-6632.1988.tb55324.x.pd
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