The use of interactive graphics in programs for the computer aided design of electric networks

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STEM@1000mph: developing open educational resources in a live engineering project

Higher education institutions are recognising the clear benefits of open educational resources, and academics are engaging with the development of these resources. This paper presents a case study of OERs being developed using the live, current BloodhoundSSC world land speed record project as a basis. The paper outlines the rationale for the BloodhoundSSC project and its focus on educational engagement across the age spectrum. The work undertaken to develop a web-based repository along with activities to stimulate academic and student engagement are described. The paper explores how academics have engaged with developing OERs based on this openly available content, the issues encountered and ways in which these issues can be mitigated

Rendering Visible: Animals, Empathy, and Visual Truths in The Ghosts in Our Machine and Beyond

The cultural politics of visibility are complex and contradictory when it comes to nonhuman animals. To help interrogate and unpack the challenges, this paper concentrates on documentary film, and particularly Canadian filmmaker Liz Marshall’s The Ghosts in our Machine (2013).Ghosts follows the aesthetic politics of the film’s primary human subject, photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, as she conducts a campaign of guerrilla espionage and compiles a vast photographic record of the largely invisible suffering inflicted on a wide range of animals. As a result, the film develops through an interwoven helix of two visual media: filmmaking and photography. The meaning of sight is a visual trope in the film that not only serves to confront the viewer with McArthur and Marshall’s visual record of animal cruelty, but also as a lens that encourages viewers to recognize interspecies (in)visibilities beyond the screen and the necro-economic foundation of contemporary capitalism. I use this film as a window into the cultural politics of sight, and as a way to illuminate the challenges and possibilities of fostering interspecies empathy

A Test of Momentum Trading Strategies in Foreign Exchange Markets: Evidence from the G7

In this trading strategy study, we ask three questions. First, does momentum exist in foreign exchange markets? Second, what is the impact of transactions costs on excess returns? And, third, can a consolidated trading signal garner excess returns and, if so, what is the source of such returns? Using total return momentum strategies in the foreign exchange markets of the G7 for the period 1980 through 2004, the answers from this study are as follows: we find evidence of momentum; however, such momentum appears transitory, particularly for longer look back periods. As expected, transaction costs have a material negative impact on excess returns. Finally, a consolidated signal garners excess returns; however, a bootstrap simulation finds the source of these returns is a function of autocorrelation.Foreign exchange, momentum, trading rules

‘Humming-tops’ and ‘Steampunk synergies’: Dickens’s Journalism and Non-Fiction since the turn of the Twenty-First Century

This article opens a special edition of the journal 'Nineteenth-Century Prose' dedicated to the non-fiction of Charles Dickens, in particular his work as a writer for magazines and periodicals, and as an editor, responsable for the 'humming-top' of a weekly magazine, for over twenty years (1850-70). It offers a review of the field, outlining a critical history of Dickens's journalism since the late 1990s, explaining, analysing and critiquing its shape and contours. It concludes with a review of the digital manifestations of interest in this side of Dickens's output, which seek to establish 'steampunk synergies' between the technological revolutions of the mid-Victorian era and those of our own. The Bibliography serves as a finding list for future researchers in this area

[Review] Dominic O’Key. Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals. Bloomsbury Pub., 2022. 202 pp.

[Review] Dominic O’Key. Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals. Bloomsbury Pub., 2022. 202 pp

Students Watching Stars Evolve

We describe a study of period changes in 59 RR Lyrae stars, using times of maximum brightness from the GEOS database. The work was carried out by outstanding senior high school students in the University of Toronto Mentorship Program. This paper is written in such a way that high school or undergraduate physics and astronomy students could use it as a guide and template for carrying out original research, by studying period changes in these and other types of variable stars