Spreadsheet activities for a data management unit : a teacher's resource using Microsoft Excel

Statistics are all around us. Statistical reports from areas like business, weather, politics, and sports are encountered daily by students and adults. Yet, the study of statistics as a branch of mathematics has primarily been an optional course offering in the high school curriculum of Newfoundland. However, through the efforts of the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation (APEF), the study of statistics will now have a compulsory place in each level of the regional high school mathematics curriculum. This curriculum also calls for the integration of appropriate technologies like computer software to explore the relevant objectives. -- The aim of this project is to offer teachers a resource that supports the instruction of statistics through the integration of technology. This project is designed to explore various curriculum topics in statistics using the computer software package Microsoft Excel. The high school curriculum objectives for the Data Management unit as outlined in Course I, Level Y, Teacher's Pilot Draft Guidelines of the Atlantic Canada Mathematics Curriculum (1997) provides the framework for the activities. -- The project consists of a series of activities that use Microsoft Excel as a tool to help students investigate several concepts in statistics. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has long supported involving students in constructing and applying mathematical ideas, using a variety of instructional formats like small cooperative groups and individual explorations, and using computers as tools for learning and doing mathematics (NCTM, 1989, p. vi). This project integrates these ideas into an organized collection of activities

Alien Registration- Forsythe, Percey H. (Fairfield, Somerset County)

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Modelling Enterprise for a Disability Charity

Work can allow people to express themselves and develop skills and abilities, create social bonds, and receive appreciation both symbolic and economic but what if you cannot access employment? How can the principles of enterprise be applied to create opportunities for greater self-development and social inclusion for people with a spectrum of impairments that currently utilise day services? This research focuses on defining a model of enterprise for the Percy Hedley Foundation. Using a mixed-method approach, case study and co-creative design-led innovation practice, the research reviews sector exemplars and produced propositional materials for critique and debate. Through synthesis and evaluation the research presents a model of enterprise that explores the flexibility of the concept ‘meaningful employment’. The research aims to contribute to understanding about how disability support organisations can shift from a model of social care to a model of endeavour in order to increase social impact on investment. The paper suggests organisational conditions to enable people with a range of impairments to meaningfully engage in enterprise activity and be enterprising

Analysis and modeling of capacitive coupling along metal interconnect lines

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 87).by Andrew K. Percey.M.Eng

Depósito elevado de agua en Baydon Wiltshire - Gran Bretaña

The elevated water tank in Baydon, built to supply, among other edifices, a service station located on the M 4 highway, is 18 m high and holds 50,000 liters. It is made up by a central column of in situ concrete, triangular prefabricated beams —which support the tank— and prefabricated aggregate panels for the outside. The choice of neutral colors for the building materials contributed to the preservation of the appearance of the countryside.El depósito elevado de agua de Baydon construido para abastecer, entre otras edificaciones, una estación de servicio situada en la autopista M 4, tiene 18 m de altura y 50.000 litros de capacidad. Está formado por una columna central de hormigón in situ, unas vigas prefabricadas triangulares —que soportan el depósito de agua propiamente dicho— y unos paneles prefabricados de árido visto para la parte exterior. La elección de colores neutros, para los materiales de construcción, contribuyó a no deteriorar el paisaje

A Networks-Science Investigation into the Epic Poems of Ossian

In 1760 James Macpherson published the first volume of a series of epic poems which he claimed to have translated into English from ancient Scottish-Gaelic sources. The poems, which purported to have been composed by a third-century bard named Ossian, quickly achieved wide international acclaim. They invited comparisons with major works of the epic tradition, including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and effected a profound influence on the emergent Romantic period in literature and the arts. However, the work also provoked one of the most famous literary controversies of all time, colouring the reception of the poetry to this day. The authenticity of the poems was questioned by some scholars, while others protested that they misappropriated material from Irish mythological sources. Recent years have seen a growing critical interest in Ossian, initiated by revisionist and counter-revisionist scholarship and by the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the first collected edition of the poems in 1765. Here we investigate Ossian from a networks-science point of view. We compare the connectivity structures underlying the societies described in the Ossianic narratives with those of ancient Greek and Irish sources. Despite attempts, from the outset, to position Ossian alongside the Homeric epics and to distance it from Irish sources, our results indicate significant network-structural differences between Macpherson's text and those of Homer. They also show a strong similarity between Ossianic networks and those of the narratives known as Acallam na Sen\'orach (Colloquy of the Ancients) from the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.Comment: Accepted for publication in Advances in Complex system