Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War (Book Reivew) by Patrick Dennis

Review of Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War by Patrick Dennis

Crossing the Canal: Combined Arms Operations at the Canal Du Nord, Sept–Oct 1918

The crossing of the Canal du Nord stands as one of the most impressive Canadian tactical operations of the First World War. Incorporating a risky battle plan, emphasizing combined arms operations and utilizing the recently re-organized Canadian Engineers, the battle stands as benchmark for the evolution of 20th century combat. Although sustaining high casualties, the Canadian Corps overcame one of the strongest German defensive positions along the Westner Front in an operation that foreshadowed the mobile, combined arms doctrine of the Second World War

Review of A Weary Road: Shell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 by Mark Osborne Humphries

Review of A Weary Road: Shell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 by Mark Osborne Humphries

A Nash-Moser theorem for singular evolution equations. Application to the Serre and Green-Naghdi equations

We study the well-posedness of the initial value problem for a wide class of singular evolution equations. We prove a general well-posedness theorem under three assumptions easy to check: the first controls the singular part of the equation, the second the behavior of the nonlinearities, and the third one assumes that an energy estimate can be found for the linearized system. We allow losses of derivatives in this energy estimate and therefore construct a solution by a Nash-Moser iterative scheme. As an application to this general theorem, we prove the well-posedness of the Serre and Green-Naghdi equation and discuss the problem of their validity as asymptotic models for the water-waves equations

Review of The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War by Tim Cook

Review of The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War by Tim Cook

Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War (Book Reivew) by Patrick Dennis

Review of Reluctant Warriors: Canadian Conscripts and the Great War by Patrick Dennis

Review of Monty and the Canadian Army by John A. English

Review of Monty and the Canadian Army by John A. English

Review of A Weary Road: Shell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 by Mark Osborne Humphries

Review of A Weary Road: Shell Shock in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 by Mark Osborne Humphries

Episodic adaptations and trade-offs: Examples from the Victorian Construction Industry

A central facet of resilience engineering involves adaptation which involves making temporal adjustments by responding, monitoring, anticipation and learning from disturbances continuous stressors. This ability to adapt is inherent in the actions which manifest as behaviors in individuals and teams. In the main, the response is generally in response is to regular and irregular threats such that work continues to operate as normal. Invariably, these adaptations also require trade-offs and sacrifices being made at a number of levels. However, there is little published research that seeks to explain how such adaptations actually occur in construction works. It has been suggested that resilience manifests as episodic adaptations which comprise of ‘cluster of potentially dispersed activities,’ and which can be observed as ‘pockets of order’ and analyzed through the response-execution-leverage (REL) model. It is our contention that these adaptations can be understood in normal construction work by observing how workers react to respond threats. This paper, based on an analysis of observations as part of a broader PhD research project examining resilience engineering in the Victorian construction industry, explores three episodes of such adaptations and analyses them using the REL model