The small business assistance dilemma: is the disparity between the offerings of support agencies and the needs of business irreconcilable?

There is a wide range of service providers who have varying motives for supplying assistance to small businesses in Australia. Despite the sizeable numbers of both suppliers and consumers of assistance it is believed that the marketplace for small business assistance operates inefficiently. This inefficiency is described as a disparity or misfit between the learning opportunities offered by service providers to small business and the learning needs of small business owner / operators. This paper provides an analysis of the learning activity that currently exists in the small enterprise sector. The role of communication in bringing supply and demand closer together is discussed and a proposition is developed to alleviate the learning disparity via a more proactive approach to communication by service providers. Two small enterprise projects are used to test the proposition. The findings provide guidance for the more effective functioning of organisations that serve and support small businesses

Water quality and recreational use of public waterways. ESRI Research Bulletin 2017/06

Approximately half of the adult population participate in some form of water-based activity every year, across activities such as angling, boating, swimming, and water sports. Prior research from 2003 suggests that water-based tourism accounted for 22 per cent of the domestic tourism market and generated 45 per cent of domestic tourism revenue, all of which is underpinned by Ireland’s marine and freshwater resources. The Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent State of the Environment report notes that while the quality of Ireland’s surface waters is among the best in Europe improvements are still needed and insufficient progress is being made. Over the past six years there was no improvement in quality of river, transitional and coastal waters, while lake water quality has got slightly worse. This research examines how recreational activity is impacted by changes in water quality

第一次資料・第二次資料の翻訳 : 忠実な訳とこなれた訳

Reevaluating Translation as a Driving Force of Scholarship (翻訳の再評価：学問を深める原動力), 国際日本文化研究センター, 2016年2月27日-28

Mourning and Violence in the Land of Peace : Reflections on Yasukuni

日本の文化と社会の潮流Understanding Contemporary Japan, インドネシア大学, 2010年10月5日-7

Small D.C. bipolar electromagnetic design: optimization and analysis

The design of electromagnets is an iterative process in which the designer arrives at a solution to his design problem through repeated design trials. This procedure can be time consuming, and the resultant configuration may or may not be the best one for the constraints imposed on it. In addition, the designer must have a reasonable knowledge of magnetics to carry out these design steps. This paper presents the basic equations necessary for designing and analyzing a horseshoe-shaped D.C. electromagnet. With this base, two methods are developed to optimize a design for maximum holding force, subject to prespecified constraints. The first method is a graphical approach. The advantage of this method is that it presents, in a simple manner, the effects of changes in the design constraints on the final solution. The disadvantage is that the user must thoroughly understand the design equations to use it. The second method is part of a complete computer program package, written in Basic for an Apple 11+ computer. This package can be used by a designer with little or no knowledge of magnetics, the equation system, or the program. It not only designs the maximum holding force electromagnet for the constraints imposed, but also analyzes existing designs for many of the characteristics and sensitivities needed to insure a good production coil. The graphics capabilities of the Apple microcomputer are used extensively for maximum clarity. Holding force experiments are also presented, which are used to confirm the predicted results from the computer simulations. Good correlation is demonstrated for the configuration tested. Partial data is also presented for determining the B-H curves of various densities of sintered 50/50 nickel iron material. The combination of the program and paper is a useful tool for an engineer faced with an electromagnet design problem. It should result in a significant reduction in the time required to arrive at an acceptable solution

The construction and evaluation of a survey group test in elementary sight-singing

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University, 1949. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive