This paper explores character educations policy documents from two Ontario school boards as well as several published articles that report on results from research related to implementation of character education programs in Ontario and the United States. This paper examines the connection between school board documents of two school boards with the Ontario Ministry of Education character education initiative that was put in place during the 2008-09 school year. It also includes interviews with three principals at one school-board as to how they approached implementation of character education and its relationship to the goal of the school and provincial policy directives.

This paper explores character educations policy documents from two Ontario school boards as well as several published articles that report on results from research related to implementation of character education programs in Ontario and the United States. This paper examines the connection between school board documents of two school boards with the Ontario Ministry of Education character education initiative that was put in place during the 2008-09 school year. It also includes interviews with three principals at one school-board as to how they approached implementation of character education and its relationship to the goal of the school and provincial policy directives.

Ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) have been investigated as the basis for a new type of liquid crystal display because of their fast switching times. Commercial FLC materials are mixtures consisting of a small amount of chiral dopant in an achiral liquid crystal host with an isotropic-nematic-smectic A-smectic C (INAC) phase sequence, which is required to achieve proper alignment between glass slides with rubbed polyimide alignment layers. However, the layer contraction occurring at the SmA-SmC phase transition on cooling from isotropic liquid is a severe problem that leads to a buckling of the smectic layers and results in zigzag defects that drastically degrade the optical quality of FLC films. To solve this problem, we are focusing on a new class of liquid crystal molecules with minimal or no smectic layer shrinkage at the SmA-SmC transition which is referred to as ‘de Vries-like.’ Previous work in the Lemieux group has shown that combining structural elements promoting SmA and SmC phases in a single molecule increases de Vries-like behavior. Giesselmann et. al. suggest that a correlation exists between the temperature range of the SmA phase and de Vries-like behavior. In the study described herein, two homologous series of molecules with 2-phenylpyrimidine cores with siloxane-terminated side-chain (SmC promoting element) and a chloro-terminated side-chain (SmA promoting element)are synthesized and characterized by polarized optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and small-angle X-ray diffraction (SAXS). The reduction factor R for series 1.13 from 0.36 to 0.46 and for series 1.14 from 0.47 to 0.54. Results show that, although there is some correlation between % layer contraction and SmA temperature range, it can be explained primarily by differences in tilt angle θ. When θ is taken into account in the R values, there is no correlation. Another aspect of the study described herein, two siloxane-terminated 2-phenylpyrimidine chiral dopants are synthesized and characterized by polarized optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and small-angle X-ray diffraction (SAXS). / Thesis (Master, Chemistry) -- Queen's University, 2009-11-30 13:42:44.584

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Thesis (M.Sc.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Computing Science, 1971.

Inaug.-diss.--Rostock. / Lebenslauf. "Literatur": p. [3]-4.

Thesis (doctoral)--Erlangen, 1800. / Includes bibliographical references (prelim. p. [9-12]).