How to write a children’s classic: the Gruffalo formula

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Afflicted or not, James Joyce probed the politics of syphilis

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Shock absorber Patent

Design and development of double acting shock absorber for spacecraft docking operation

Shock absorber operates over wide range

Piston-type hydraulic shock absorber, with a metered damping system, operates over a wide range of kinetic energy loading rates. It is used for absorbing shock and vibration on mounted machinery and heavy earth-moving equipment

Collaborative Leadership Learning; Developing Facilitation Skills for Collaborative Learning in Leadership Learning Groups.

many organisations working for example, with less hierarchical structures, with cross- organisational partners, or in professional environments. Leadership at all levels must be supported by leaders in top executive positions who develop their own capabilities both as leaders and in their role of leading the learning of leadership throughout their organisations. Their ideas of their role in leading learning will be shaped by their own leadership development experiences. Collaborative learning for leadership may be a model of learning that reflects the new leadership required; it may enable leaders to develop their own leadership capability in such a way that they feel enabled to work with others on their leadership development

Payload accommodations. Avionics payload support architecture

Concepts for vehicle and payload avionics architectures for future NASA programs, including the Assured Shuttle Access program, Space Station Freedom (SSF), Shuttle-C, Advanced Manned Launch System (AMLS), and the Lunar/Mars programs are discussed. Emphasis is on the potential available to increase payload services which will be required in the future, while decreasing the operational cost/complexity by utilizing state of the art advanced avionics systems and a distributed processing architecture. Also addressed are the trade studies required to determine the optimal degree of vehicle (NASA) to payload (customer) separation and the ramifications of these decisions

TOWARDS MORE POWERFUL CONCEPTUAL SCHEMA LANGUAGES

One of the phases of information systems design methodologies is that of conceptual schema design. This phase involves identifying relevant objects, their properties and propositions involving these objects. These are described in a conceptual schema using a conceptual schema language. Conceptual schema languages which permit a graphical form are becoming more widely accepted under the motivation of being able to see the data structures that exist. However the semantics are somewhat limited with, for example, few integrity constraints being represented. In this paper we show how conceptual schema languages with a graphical form can be extended to permit a wider class of semantics to be represented

Women Writing Decadence: Eleven Illustrations

A set of eleven illustrations to accompany academic articles about women and decadence at the fin de siècle for Volupté, the online journal of the British Association of Decadence Studies

What Baudelaire Means to Me

I first encountered Baudelaire as an A-level student. Sadly, the teaching of French at my school focussed more on language than literature. Compounded with the strangely affectless quality about the texts my teachers chose for us to read in class, it is a wonder I have much interest in French literature at all. At school, we drudged stolidly through passages of L’Étranger and Thérèse Desqueroux with little sense of excitement. That only came later at university, when a supplementary class on Flaubert’s ‘Un Coeur Simple’ opened doors for me