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Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 (Book Review) by Richard Holt
Review of Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 by Richard Holt
Review of Untold: Northeastern Ontario’s Military Past. Volume One, 1662 - World War I and Untold: Northeastern Ontario’s Military Past. Volume Two, World War II - Peacekeeping by Dieter K. Buse and Graeme S. Mount
Review of Untold: Northeastern Ontario’s Military Past. Volume One, 1662 - World War I and Untold: Northeastern Ontario’s Military Past. Volume Two, World War II - Peacekeeping by Dieter K. Buse and Graeme S. Moun
Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 (Book Review) by Richard Holt
Review of Filling the Ranks: Manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 by Richard Holt
Ethnic elites, propaganda, recruiting and intelligence in German-Canadian Ontario, 1914-1918
This case study provides the basis for a potential linking of the work of Marxist
intelligence historians and the disciples of the insecurity state thesis. The rise of
“Reasoning otherwise” as described by Ian McKay, refers to the erosion of the liberal
order on the part of Canadian socialists in the early part of the twentieth century. This
process was speeded up in direct response to the wartime economy which through state
intervention also saw the undermining of the liberal principles of free market economics
and manpower management. The rise of the insecurity state was part of the state’s move
away from the foundational liberal order. Ultimately the insecurity state’s existence
depended upon the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada and directly related to the
evolution in reasoning otherwise. It was in the heavily populated and ethnically diverse
urban centres where state fears about the growth of unions and the spread of communist
revolutionary ideas, as well as other causes of civil unrest, originated. It was these areas
that warranted, in the eyes of the Department of Militia and Defence, the deployment of
intelligence officers, watchers, and infiltrators. In parts of Canada where industrialization
had not produced the same social tensions, there was less need to develop a new level of
security. Berlin, Ontario, within Military District 1, a centre of German settlement for the
previous century, was not a large industrial centre and therefore, had not evolved to the
same level of class or ethnic diversity and segregation. Here the insecurity state had yet to
develop as a mechanism of social control in response to industrial urbanization, and the
war as it had in Toronto or Military District 2 more generally. The small scale of Berlin,
with community organizations, well established local leaders and emphasis on municipal
power as a means of negotiating the individual and the collective, proved a sufficiently
coherent basis for intelligence gathering. Here, there was no the need to take the drastic
wartime measures in the name of security required in Toronto and Winnipeg and
Montreal
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Determination of the Quadrupole Coupling Constant in the N^{14} Atomic Ground State
The zero-field hyperfine frequencies in the ground state of atomic N14 have been measured in a hydrogen maser with sufficient accuracy to resolve the quadrupole coupling constant B. The result is B=+1.32±0.20 Hz.Molecular and Cellular Biolog
The journey effect: how travel affects the experiences of mental health in-patient service-users and their families
The qualitative study presented in this paper explored the perspectives of service-users, family members and staff about the impact of travel issues on the lives of mental health in-patients and carers. This topic was chosen because it was prioritised by members of Xplore, a service-user and carer research group, and has received little research attention. Travel problems were a significant issue for many service-users and carers, bound-up with mental health issues and the recovery experience. Travel facilitation through the funding of taxis and the provision of guides was appreciated. A few service-users and carers positively valued distancing from their previous home environment. The meaning of travel issues could only be understood in the context of individuals’ wider lives and relationships. The significance of the findings is discussed in relation to the social model of disability
On the non-abelian Brumer-Stark conjecture and the equivariant Iwasawa main conjecture
We show that for an odd prime p, the p-primary parts of refinements of the
(imprimitive) non-abelian Brumer and Brumer-Stark conjectures are implied by
the equivariant Iwasawa main conjecture (EIMC) for totally real fields.
Crucially, this result does not depend on the vanishing of the relevant Iwasawa
mu-invariant. In combination with the authors' previous work on the EIMC, this
leads to unconditional proofs of the non-abelian Brumer and Brumer-Stark
conjectures in many new cases.Comment: 33 pages; to appear in Mathematische Zeitschrift; v3 many minor
updates including new title; v2 some cohomological arguments simplified; v1
is a revised version of the second half of arXiv:1408.4934v
Improving Requirements-Test Alignment by Prescribing Practices that Mitigate Communication Gaps
The communication of requirements within software development is vital for project success. Requirements engineering and testing are two processes that when aligned can enable the discovery of issues and misunderstandings earlier, rather than later, and avoid costly and time-consuming rework and delays. There are a number of practices that support requirements-test alignment. However, each organisation and project is different and there is no one-fits-all set of practices. The software process improvement method called Gap Finder is designed to increase requirements-test alignment. The method contains two parts: an assessment part and a prescriptive part. It detects potential communication gaps between people and between artefacts (the assessment part), and identifies practices for mitigating these gaps (the prescriptive part). This paper presents the design and formative evaluation of the prescriptive part; an evaluation of the assessment part was published previously. The Gap Finder method was constructed using a design science research approach and is built on the Theory of Distances for Software Engineering, which in turn is grounded in empirical evidence from five case companies. The formative evaluation was performed through a case study in which Gap Finder was applied to an on-going development project. A qualitative and mixed-method approach was taken in the evaluation, including ethnographically-informed observations. The results show that Gap Finder can detect relevant communication gaps and seven of the nine prescribed practices were deemed practically relevant for mitigating these gaps. The project team found the method to be useful and supported joint reflection and improvement of their requirements communication. Our findings demonstrate that an empirically-based theory can be used to improve software development practices and provide a foundation for further research on factors that affect requirements communicatio
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