Building Futures: Career and Community Development in Small New Brunswick Towns

Communities in New Brunswick are facing the reality of shrinking populations and outward migration. As post-industrial economies develop in Canada, a clear shift in geography is taking place: young people are leaving small communities in New Brunswick to live in larger urban centres. This study of two secondary schools explores the possibilities for career development and community sustainability in this environment. The two communities examined in the study differ in their geography. Bathurst is in the economically depressed north of New Brunswick, while Sackville is in the expanding southern region near Moncton. Sackville also has a clear connection to knowledge work, as it is a university town. This study examines how youth in New Brunswick navigate their career development with respect to their family and community and asks whether knowledge/creative work can help to sustain small Maritime communities. The findings, based on interviews with teachers and focus groups with students, indicate that young people have a clear desire to stay in the province; however, students and teachers also realize that the possibilities for career development in their respective communities are limited and the reality of outward migration looms in the future for many young people.Les collectivités du Nouveau Brunswick sont confrontées à la réalité du déclin démographique et de l’exode des jeunes. Au fur et à mesure que les économies postindustrielles se développent ailleurs au Canada, un changement clair se fait sentir du point de vue géographique : les jeunes quittent les petites collectivités néo brunswickoises pour s’installer dans les grands centres urbains. La présente étude de deux écoles secondaires explore les possibilités de développement de carrière et la viabilité de la collectivité dans un tel contexte. Les deux collectivités examinées dans cette étude n’ont pas la même géographie. Bathurst se trouve dans une région économiquement défavorisée au nord du Nouveau Brunswick, tandis que Sackville se situe dans une région en pleine expansion dans le sud de la province, à proximité de Moncton. Sackville a aussi un lien clair avec le travail intellectuel, comme c’est une ville universitaire. La présente étude porte sur la façon dont les jeunes Néo Brunswickois orientent le développement de leur carrière en tenant compte de facteurs familiaux et communautaires et se penche sur la question de savoir si le travail intellectuel ou créatif peut contribuer à soutenir les petites collectivités des Maritimes. D’après les entretiens menés auprès du personnel enseignant et des groupes de discussion formés d’élèves, les résultats indiquent que les jeunes veulent clairement rester dans la province; or, les élèves et le personnel enseignant se rendent également compte que les possibilités de développement de carrière dans leurs collectivités respectives sont limitées et que l’exode est une réalité envisagée par de nombreux jeunes

The Very High Energy source catalog at the ASI Science Data Center

The increasing number of Very High Energy (VHE) sources discovered by the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes made particularly relevant the creation of a dedicated source catalogs as well as the cross-correlation of VHE and lower energy bands data in a multi-wavelength framework. The "TeGeV Catalog" hosted at the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC) is a catalog of VHE sources detected by ground-based Cherenkov detectors. The TeGeVcat collects all the relevant information publicly available about the observed GeV/TeV sources. The catalog contains also information about public light curves while the available spectral data are included in the ASDC SED Builder tool directly accessible from the TeGeV catalog web page. In this contribution we will report a comprehensive description of the catalog and the related tools.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures - Proceeding of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conferenc

Evaluation of silicone based products used in the past as today for the consolidation of Venetian monumental stone surfaces

The commercial consolidating siloxane compounds EAS 40, Rhodorsil Consolidante RC90 and RC80, and the silicone water repellent agents Rhodorsil H224 and Hydrophase were carefully applied to stone specimens and tested to ascertain their chemical nature and their stability under oxidative stress and degradative environments. The resins were applied to laboratory samples (Carrara marble and Vicenza white limestone specimens) and subjected to controlled natural weathering and artificial ageing. The film morphology and the penetration depth was observed and measured by SEM-EDS determinations, while the stability of the resins was monitored by FTIR, SEM-EDX, colorimetric measurements and sponge tests. The results were compared with those obtained from a spread sampling of Venetian surfaces treated in the second half of the XX c. with Sogesil XR893 and X54-802, silicone resins which are no longer on the market. The overall results prompted a number of considerations on the effects of the resins applied to stone materials and offered the authors the opportunity to make a practical contribution to current practices in the consolidation of stone materials

Development of accounting in Europe in the era of scientific management: The Italian engineering conglomerate, Ansaldo, 1918-1940

Utilizing archival materials, this paper examines the case of the Genoa-based firm, Ansaldo, which, by the early decades of the 20th century, had emerged as a major force in the inter-related fields of engineering, shipbuilding, and metal and steel manufacture in italy. following financial problems immediately after World War i and during the 1920s, the company was subsequently taken under the umbrella of the italian state\u27s financial holding unit, the institute for industrial reconstruction (iri), in the 1930s. utilizing lewin\u27s theory of change as a framework for investigating change in management accounting, the paper examines the internal and external factors influencing the development of cost/management accounting at the company. these are also examined against the background of the development of scientific management, both in italy and elsewhere

Origin of Roman worked stones from St. Saturno christian Basilica (south Sardinia, Italy)

The work aims to define the origin of the architectural stone elements worked by Romans and reused in the St. Saturno Basilica, between the late Antiquity and Romanesque periods. Thus, different rocks (marbles, various facies of limestones, volcanic rocks) used to construct the ancient building were sampled and analysed. All the different kinds of stones were sampled from the Basilica, taking precise reference to the various construction phases and structural changes of the monument occurred in the centuries. The sedimentary and volcanic lithologies belong to the local outcrops of Cagliari Miocenic geological formation (e.g. limestone) and to other volcanic outcrops of south Sardinia, respectively. By means of a multi-method archaeometric study (mineralogical-petrographic observations on thin sections and O-18 vs C-13 stable isotope ratio analysis), the provenance of classical marbles used for manufacturing Roman architectural elements (column shafts, bases, capitals, slabs, etc.) were defined, which are thought to come from extra-regional sources. The results show that the marbles come mainly from Apuan Alps (Italy) and subordinately from Greek quarrying areas

Pottery production at the mesolithic site of Kabbashi Haitah (central Sudan) : an integrated morphological, petrographic and mineralogical analysis

This paper presents the results of an interdisciplinary archeometric study on Early Mesolithic pottery from the prehistoric site of Kabbashi Haitah, located 35 km north of Khartoum (central Sudan), along the Nile Valley. A large set of potsherds, selected after a preliminary macroscopic analysis of 1075 fragments representing the various vessels (mainly plain and globular in shape, with various rim diameter), macrofabrics and decoration types (either with or without incised or stamped decorations, i.e. incisedwavy line and rocker stamp) was analysed to define the type of the raw materials used and their manufacturing technology. The mineralogical and petrographic features, determined by optical microscopy and X-ray powder diffraction, indicate that the pottery was produced using an illitic clay tempered with quartz and/or K-feldspar derived from granite/syenite grinding, and fired in the temperature range between 750 and 900 degrees C

Making big data work: smart, sustainable, and safe cities

The goal of the present thematic series is to showcase some of the most relevant contributions submitted to the ‘Telecom Italia Big Data Challenge 2014’ and to provide a discussion venue about recent advances in the appplication of mobile phone and social media data to the study of individual and collective behaviors. Particular attention is devoted to data-driven studies aimed at understanding city dynamics. These studies include: modeling individual and collective traffic patterns and automatically identifying areas with traffic congestion, creating high-resolution population estimates for Milan inhabitants, clustering urban dynamics of migrants and visitors traveling to a city for business or tourism, and investigating the relationship between urban communication and urban happiness