The regency and administration of James Douglas, fourth earl of Morton

Morton, the obvious successor to Mar in November, 1572, effectively commenced his regency in June, 1573, by which date all opposition had been pacified or overcome. His overthrow in March, 1578 was, at least partly, the result of his own maladroit tactics. Although he was subsequently reinstated, he never recovered his former dominance - hence, so it would appear, a stratagem such as the proscription of the Hamiltons. He was disastrously indecisive in 1580, thus permitting the Lennox-Arran faction to attain an overwhelming supremacy against which he and his supporters found it impossible to offer a serious challenge. His reorganisation of the Kirk's finances and accompanying reforms provoked some criticism, albeit not on a considerable scale until 1578. While he did not halt dilapidation, there is no evidence of excessive plundering of ecclesiastical wealth, and questions of patrimony seem to have been overshadowed by those of polity. Here, an ill-defined policy led to growing hostility particularly towards episcopacy. This was largely a consequence of Morton's equivocal treatment of the second Book of Discipline. Nonetheless, it seems conceivable that both sides, aware of the consequences, exercised some measure of restraint. The kernel of his foreign policy was the English alliance. He failed to secure a permanent league with England primarily because Elizabeth saw no necessity, even in 1580, for such a commitment. His border administration was notable competent while he remained regent but latterly, with his own decline, the frontier was governed less satisfactorily. His other domestic achievements were limited and there is a controversial taint of corruption

Comparison of operating expenses and capital expenditures of two different types of boiler rooms covering extensions expected during the next twenty years

This thesis applies to a central power station located in a rapidly growing manufacturing city with a present population of 40,000. The station is connected by high voltage transmission lines with six hydro and steam generating stations located in other cities. These transmission lines are mainly for emergency purposes so that this report considers that the station here studied will carry its full load. The boiler room is the only part of the station considered in this thesis as a previous study showed that there was ample space in the engine room for turbo-generator for years to come --Introduction, page 1

The Nub of an Automorphism of a Totally Disconnected, Locally Compact Group

To any automorphism, $\alpha$, of a totally disconnected, locally compact group, $G$, there is associated a compact, $\alpha$-stable subgroup of $G$, here called the \emph{nub} of $\alpha$, on which the action of $\alpha$ is topologically transitive. Topologically transitive actions of automorphisms of compact groups have been studied extensively in topological dynamics and results obtained transfer, via the nub, to the study of automorphisms of general locally compact groups. A new proof that the contraction group of $\alpha$ is dense in the nub is given, but it is seen that the two-sided contraction group need not be dense. It is also shown that each pair $(G,\alpha)$, with $G$ compact and $\alpha$ topologically transitive, is an inverse limit of pairs that have `finite depth' and that analogues of the Schreier Refinement and Jordan-H\"older Theorems hold for pairs with finite depth

Historic New Lanark: The Dale and Owen Industrial Community since 1785 (2nd ed)

New Lanark, the former cotton spinning village, is known as the pioneer of technological and social change in the Industrial Revolution. This new edition traces the community's history from its conception as a centre of mass production in 1785 to its present day standing as a World Heritage Site and beyond. Contains a detailed account of restoration as a living community, major tourist attraction and inception as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Using Branch-and-Price to Find High Quality Solutions Quickly

We develop an exact solution approach for integer programs that produces high- quality solutions quickly by solving well-chosen restrictions of the problem. Column generation is used both for generating these problem restrictions and for producing bounds on the value of an optimal solution to the problem. Obtaining primal solutions by solving problem restrictions also provides an easy way to search for improved solutions in the neighborhood of the current best solution. The overall approach is parallelized and computational experiments demonstrate its efficacy. An application to inventory routing is presented

The Four-Day School Week: Impact on Student Academic Performance

Although the four-day school week originated in 1936, it was not widely implemented until 1973 when there was a need to conserve energy and reduce operating costs. This study investigated how achievement tests scores of schools with a four-day school week compared with schools with a traditional five-day school week. The study focused on student performance in Colorado where 62 school districts operated a four-day school week. The results of the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) were utilized to examine student performance in reading, writing, and mathematics in grades 3 through 10. While the mean test scores for five-day week schools exceeded those of four-day week schools in 11 of the 12 test comparisons, the differences were slight, with only one area revealing a statistically significant difference. This study concludes that decisions to change to the four-day week should be for reasons other than student academic performance