“Treasures” from the Canadian War Museum’s Backlog

In the 1970s Canadian War Museum curatorial staff decided they needed to bolster the scope of the museum’s national military collection. Consequently, they placed ads in Legion magazine and enclosed flyers in veterans’ pension cheques inviting veterans to send in military or military related items they had in their possession that they thought would be of interest to the museum. The response was overwhelming. In the end, a grand total of 24,400 objects poured in; many more than was anticipated and much too large a number for the museum’s small staff to properly register and catalogue. The only option was to carry out a basic inventory and then pack the objects away in boxes (which occupied a total of 197 pallets) pending the day when sufficient resources would become available to process them adequately, so that they would become properly identified and usable museum artifacts

The Modernization of a Trigonometric Coordinate List (a dynamic web-based approach)

This report provides a description of the design and implementation of a dynamic, web-based Trigonometric Coordinate List (Trig List) for the University Engineer’s Office, The Ohio State University. Traditionally, a Trig List publishes pertinent monument data, such as Northings, Eastings, elevations and corresponding datums, along with text based point recovery information. This modernized Trig List, aside from publishing the traditional monument data, will also provide non-traditional data and detailed station recovery notes. Non-traditional data items include intervisibility between points and GPS availability if known. Station Recovery Notes will include site sketches, vicinity maps, and annotated digital photographs. Textural data input into the system and all data retrieval from the system will be accomplished through a web browser, versus the traditional database approach. This approach was selected due to its widespread availability and the small learning curve required of its users. By providing a user-friendly and well-known interface, it is anticipated that the Modernized Trig List will be utilized frequently, thus solidifying its own longevity. Through use, and subsequent refinement, the web-based system is proving to be an excellent platform for data distribution and maintenance. One positive unpredicted side effect is the ability to utilize the system as a management and planning tool for the maintenance and future densification of the Campus Control Network

Correlations between the mechanical loss and atomic structure of amorphous TiO2-doped Ta2O5 coatings

<p>Highly reflective dielectric mirror coatings are critical components in a range of precision optics applications including frequency combs, optical atomic clocks, precision interferometry and ring laser gyroscopes. A key limitation to the performance in these applications is thermal noise, arising from the mechanical loss of the coatings. The origins of the mechanical loss from these coatings is not well understood.</p> <p>Recent work suggests that the mechanical loss of amorphous Ta2O5 coatings can drop by as much as 40% when it is doped with TiO2. We use a combination of electron diffraction data and atomic modelling using molecular dynamics to probe the atomic structure of these coatings, and examine the correlations between changes in the atomic structure and changes in the mechanical loss of these coatings. Our results show the first correlation between changes in the mechanical loss and experimentally measured changes in the atomic structure resulting from variations in the level of TiO2 doping in TiO2-doped Ta2O5 coatings, in that increased homogeneity at the nearest-neighbour level appears to correlate with reduced mechanical loss. It is demonstrated that subtle but measurable changes in the nearest-neighbour homogeneity in an amorphous material can correlate with significant changes in macroscopic properties.</p&gt

The use of standard electrode potentials to predict the taste of solid metals

Not all metals taste equally metallic when placed in the mouth. While much work has been done to examine the metallic taste sensations arising from metal ions in solutions, there is comparatively less known about the taste of solid metals. In this study seven metals in the form of spoons were used to compare the perception of taste arising from solid utensils placed inside the mouth. 32 participants tasted seven spoons of identical dimensions plated with each of the following metals: gold, silver, zinc, copper, tin, chrome and stainless steel. More negative standard electrode potentials were found to be good predictors of solid metals that had tastes scoring highest for the taste descriptors strong, bitter, and metallic. Thus, it was found that both gold and chrome (having the most positive standard electrode potentials) were considered the least metallic, least bitter and least strong tasting of the spoons. Zinc and copper (having the most negative standard electrode potentials) were the strongest, most metallic, most bitter, and least sweet tasting of the spoons. We conclude that gold and chrome have tastes that are less strong than metals with lower standard electrode potential

Enterprise and entrepreneurship in English higher education: 2010 and beyond

Objectives This article reports the results of a complete survey of enterprise education in all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England, undertaken in 2010 by the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE) on behalf of the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE). The survey builds on prior work undertaken by the NCGE in England in 2006 and in 2007 (NCGE, 2007; Hannon, 2007). Approach The survey aimed to establish a complete picture of curricular and extra-curricular Enterprise & Enterpreneurship education. The survey uses a similar structure to the previous survey, enabling comparison to be made with enterprise provision over the 2006-2010 period, as well as with the 2008 European survey of entrepreneurship in HE (NIRAS, 2009). Results The results provide a stocktake of enterprise education provision in participating HEIs and highlight the connections in institutional strategies between enterprise education, incubation/new venture support, graduate employability, innovation and academic enterprise. It reveals ‘hotspots’ and gaps in enterprise provision and offers ‘benchmarks’ for the sector. Implications The article offers a summary of the implications for the future development and sustainability of enterprise education in HE, in relation to policy, funding and other changes in the sector. It also considers these issues in relation to recommendations from professional educators and Government policy for future development of enterprise in HE and comments on the policy impact of this work. Value The timing of the survey, in May-July 2010, was important as it reflected the end of a period of over ten years of sustained investment in enterprise in Higher Education by the previous Labour Government in the UK, through a range of funding initiatives. As major public expenditure reductions in support for HE and enterprise activity followed, this represented the ‘high water mark’ of publicly funded enterprise activity in the HE sector, and raised the question of how enterprise education and support activities would become sustainable for the future. The report analyses existing provision, assesses its development over the 2006-2010 period, and provides conclusions and recommendations covering future policy, development, resourcing, and sustainability of enterprise and entrepreneurship provision in Higher Education

Municipal budgets and budget accounting

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Kansas, Economics, 1926

The correlation between college students\u27 familiarity with potentially offensive popular music and self-reported tolerance of obscene language and sexual behavior

This study\u27s purpose was to examine the correlations among popular music preference, sexual behavior tolerance, and potentially obscene language usage. Subjects (N = 81) were college freshmen over the age of 18 who graduated from high school in 2001. They were drawn from one section each of a Music Appreciation course (non-music majors) and an Introduction to Music Study course (music majors). The top 20 songs from the October 27, 2001 Billboard Magazine\u27s Top 100 charts were analyzed for occurrences of potentially offensive words and whole lines of lyrics containing sexual references. Subjects responded to a 4-part questionnaire. In part one, the subjects indicated the frequency with which they used 8 potentially offensive words drawn from the analyzed songs. Part two contained 12 questions for which subjects indicated their tolerance of specific sexual situations. In part three, subjects indicated their familiarity with the 20 analyzed song titles by marking a 6-point Likert scale. Part four asked the subject demographic information. Results indicated that non-music majors were more familiar with the selected songs than music majors and that majorities of both groups fell into the high usage category concerning word usage scores. Both groups also seemed highly tolerant of sexual behavior. Raw data analysis revealed no significant correlation between word usage and song familiarity for both groups and no significant correlation for music majors\u27 familiarity scores and their situational scores. A significant positive correlation was found between song familiarity and situational scores for non-music majors and between word usage and situational scores for both groups