River and Suspended Sediment Discharge into Byam Channel, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada

During 1974, a stream from a small drainage basin (117 km²) on the east coast of Melville Island discharged approximately 1.63 × 10,000,000 cubic m water containing 7.08 × 10,000,000 kg suspended sediment. Because nearby basins show hydrological similarity, these data can be extrapolated to provide an indication of the total suspended sediment discharge into the adjacent channels. The results suggest that much of this sediment is not deposited in the channels; rather it is incorporated into the active delta fronts or possibly transported out of Byam Channel above a pycnocline. The values agree well with a hydrological study on nearby Bathurst Island where predicted discharge values for both runoff and suspended sediment are within an order of magnitude of those measured. Recent attention has focussed on the Mecham River which flows into Bridport Inlet, the site of a proposed LNG terminal which is to be situated on an active delta front. Values extrapolated from this study indicate that design criteria must consider typical runoffs of 1.2 × 100,000,000 m³ with peak mean daily discharges in excess of 9.0 × 1,000,000 m³/day and suspended sediment loads of 5.0 × 100,000,000 kg/year

Funerary rites afforded to children in earlier Bronze Age Britain: case studies from Scotland, Yorkshire and Wessex

This thesis discusses the evidence for funerary practices afforded to children in the Earlier Bronze Age in Britain (circa 2500BC to 1400BC) focusing on three key case study areas: Scotland, Yorkshire and Wessex. A long -view of the Earlier Bronze Age has been adopted to enable broad patterns to be determined and discussed. The wider aim is to offer a fuller understanding of the perception and importance of children within Earlier Bronze Age society.Following the theoretical and methodological framework adopted throughout the study the evidence for the mortuary treatment of children and the grave furnishings provided for them is discussed with particular reference to how children's graves compare to those of adults in the same chronological period. To accompany this study, a comprehensive catalogue of previously recorded children's burials both by inhumation and after cremation has been compiled by the writer for the three case study areas. This includes data both from antiquarian sources and from modern excavation reports detailing aspects of grave location, positioning of the body and associated material culture in the form of grave goods. The corpus is then reviewed and discussed for each of the case study areas. The aim of each study is to analyse the significance of aspects of funerary practice and the role of grave goods in association with children of fifteen years of age or younger within regional burial traditions. This study indicates that children are under -represented in the burial record and suggests that formal burial was not open to all immature individuals. In each of the case study areas funerary rites afforded to children are generally consistent with those of adults but this study demonstrates that the inclusion of certain objects found in adult graves (such as bronze knife- daggers) were not considered appropriate for inclusion in the grave of a child. A number of exceptional and highly- furnished graves are present which indicate that it was possible for children to be perceived as significant members of Earlier Bronze Age society during life and in the Otherworld

Would ‘growing our own’ practice nurses solve the workforce crisis?

General practice is not just facing a severe shortfall in doctors, it could also see nurse numbers plummet in the coming years. Robin Lewis and Shona Kelly argue that it's now more important than ever to take positive action to train a new generation of practice nurse

Redundancy and blocking in the spatial domain: A connectionist model.

How can the observations of spatial blocking (Rodrigo, Chamizo, McLaren
 & Mackintosh, 1997) and cue redundancy (OKeefe and Conway, 1978) be
 reconciled within the framework provided by an error-correcting,
 connectionist account of spatial navigation? I show that an implementation
 of McLarens (1995) better beta model can serve this purpose, and examine
 some of the implications for spatial learning and memory

Holocene Emergence of the South and East Coasts of Melville Island, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada

Twenty-five radiocarbon dates from the coast of Melville Island show that there has been up to 100 m of Holocene emergence. This evidence of post-glacial rebound suggests there was significant late-Wisconsin glacier cover on or near the island. The Winter Harbour moraine on the south coast is thought to mark the maximum northward advance of the Laurentide ice. However, emergence for this area appears to be essentially complete, whereas the northeast coast is still recovering at a rate of approximately 0.35 cm/yr. Ice cover in the region to the northeast must, therefore, have been thicker and/or lasted longer than in the peripheral areas of the Laurentide ice, lending support to the concept of an Innuitian Ice Sheet, rather than local ice masses over the central Queen Elizabeth Islands. Unfortunately, there is an absence of fresh glacial landforms and stratigraphy that can be attributed to the Innuitian Ice Sheet. We suggest that this ice sheet may have had a thermal regime below the pressure melting point, thus depriving the ice of much of its erosive and depositional capabilities, but with a sufficient mass to account for the observed pattern of emergence

Legal Education at Calgary: Blending Progress and Tradition

The gestation period of the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary was a long one. After a short lived attempt to operate the Calgary College of Law in 1912-14, the southern Alberta city had to await the founding of the University of Calgary in 1966 before the setting up of a law school would emerge again as a serious possibility.\u27 In 1969, after positive recommendations from both the Law Society of Alberta and the Calgary Bar Association that a law school be established at the new university, the latter under the leadership of President Fred Carruthers formed a sub-committee of its Academic Policy Committee to consider the feasibility of setting up a second faculty of law in the province. The sub-committee was chaired by Professor Eugene Dais, then of the Department of Political Science

The Tribulations of Antoine Ratte: A Case Study of the Environmental Regulation of the Canadian Lumbering Industry in the Nineteenth Century

This article examines the impact of industrial and commercial development of the Canadian environment during the Nineteenth century. Particular reference is made to the effect of sawdust on the country's waterways and fisheries. The article makes the point that the development of adequate legislative and administrative mechanisms, to deal with the problem, had to await the emergence of a consensus amongst the politicians, civil servants, the courts, and the general public that a problem existed.Dans cette étude, on examinera l'impact qui sefit sentir sur le dévelopment industriel et commercial de l'environnement canadien durant le dixneuvème siécle. En particulier, on étudiera l'effet du brin de scie sur les cours d'eaux et la pêche. Cette étude démontrera également le retard du development de mecanismes législatifs et administratifs portant à résoudre ce problme, ce retard étant cause d'une manque de consensus auprès des politiciens, des fonctionnaires, des Cours, et du public en génégral qu'un tel problème existait