This thesis concerns the visual representation of the Maori in illustrations featured in the School Journal, Bulletins, Maori Language Readers, and Remedial Readers published by the New Zealand Department of Education from 1907-96. The main focus is to examine how the prehistory of Aotearoa has been presented to the public. For this reason School Journals were chosen as they have been a resource available to all school children for almost a century, and reflect changing theories incorporated into illustrations which can be just as significant, or even more powerful, than text in transmitting information (and sometimes culture-bound values) to the public about past Maori lifeways. I examined specific areas such as the representation Maori physiognomy, representation of gender and ethnicity, material culture, and activities in illustrations and photographs to create an overview of how the Maori have been depicted and question how closely these representations adhere to reality.

This study examines the educational and interpersonal benefits of dialogue journal writing within the Cambodian context. The research plan involved, first, a thorough survey of the literature on journal writing, which then provided the theoretical framework for the construction of hypotheses. These hypotheses asserted that dialogue journal writing brings about educational as well as interpersonal benefits. In educational terms, this task enables learners to attain proficiency in speaking, reading and writing, gain functional competence, and develop critical thinking skills. In interpersonal terms, dialogue journal writing helps in the development of the relationship between the teacher and the learner and offers a source of cultural information. The next stage involved assigning and collecting the journals and then analysing them to check for the presence of particular features which were asserted to bring about the benefits as stated in the hypotheses. The writer conducted her research with a class of Cambodian students at Phnom Penh University. Within the journals of the eighteen learners, most of these features were discovered, thus supporting the hypotheses that journal writing offers particular educational and interpersonal benefits. Where the features were absent or variant, explanations for this based on the culture of the learners, the conditions of the country during the period of the study, and the culture of the teacher were offered. Finally, the writing in the dialogue journals of the subjects provided strong evidence that dialogue journal writing offers learners a scope for genuine studentteacher communication and for personal communication and mutual understanding between each individual student and teacher.

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A novel tilting pad journal bearing model including pivot flexibility as well as temporal fluid inertia effects on the thin film fluid flow aims to accurately predict the bearing forced performance. The predictive model also accounts for the thermal energy transport effects in a TPJB. A Fortran program with an Excel GUI models TPJBs and delivers predictions of the bearing static and dynamic forced performance. The calculation algorithm uses a Newton-Raphson procedure for successful iterations on the equilibrium pad radial and transverse displacements and journal center displacements, even for bearings pads with very soft pivots. The predictive model accounts for the effect of film temperature on the operating bearing and pad clearances by calculating the thermal expansion of the journal and pad surfaces. The pad inlet thermal mixing coefficient (lambda) influences moderately the predicted fluid film temperature field. Pad pivot flexibility decreases significantly and dominates the bearing stiffness and damping coefficients when the pivot stiffness is lower than 10% of the fluid film stiffness coefficients (with rigid pivots). Pivot flexibility has a more pronounced effect on reducing the bearing damping coefficients than the stiffness coefficients. Pad pivot flexibility may still affect the bearing behavior at a light load condition for a bearing with a large pad preload. Pad pivot flexibility, as well as the fluid inertia and the pads’ mass and mass moment of inertia, could influence the bearing impedance coefficients, in particular at high whirl frequencies. The stiffness and damping coefficients of a TPJB increase with a reduction in the operating bearing and pad clearances. The work delivers a predictive tool benchmarked against a number of experimental results for test bearings available in the recent literature. The static and dynamic forced performance characteristics of actual TPJBs can not be accurately predicted unless their pad flexibility and pivot flexibility, fluid film temperature, pad inlet thermal mixing coefficient, operating bearing and pad clearances, among others are well known in advance. However, the extensive archival literature showcasing test procedures and experimental results for TPJBs does not report the above parameters. Thus, reasonable assumptions on the magnitude of certain elusive parameters for use in the predictive TPJB model are necessary.

An impact factor(IF) has been used extensively as a measure of the importance and impact of journals recently. The IF provided by the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is calculated based on the most recent three years period. For example, the IF of 2003 for a journal is calculated; the number articles published in 2001 to 2002 cited in tracked journals during 2003 divided by the number of articles published in 2001 to 2002. In this work, we examine the different patterns of IF of journals in different fields as well as within the same field. We also provide a method of clustering journals according to the characteristics of the corresponding IF within the same field. Based on the experiences from analyzing the IF, we propose modified IFs from statistics point of view as possible new measures for the characteristics of different journals.

This study evaluated the cognitive process of students participating in a 20-hour service-learning experience while enrolled in a collegiate Social Problems course. This study examined student attitudes about social problems and their ability to affect change and examined relationships between demographic variables, student attitudes, and their stages of cognitive process. The population was all students who were enrolled in a Social Problems course during the Fall 2005 semester. Of the 77 students enrolled in the course, 48 completed both the pre-test and post-test questionnaire and 64 completed the service-learning journals and papers. The researcher used a mixed method research design. The quantitative study used a pre-test and post-test questionnaire to evaluate changes in attitude towards service learning. The qualitative study evaluated journal entries and papers using the Constant Comparative Method of Qualitative Analysis to assess stages of cognitive development. The major findings of the study were: 1) Students progressed through six stages of cognitive development - Shock, Guilt, Normalization, Cultural Sensitivity, Engagement, and Empowerment, however no student experienced all stages; 2) Three new stages were discovered - Guilt, Cultural Sensitivity, and Empowerment; 3) All students who had not volunteered before experienced Shock; 4) Shock occurred for some students who had previously volunteered; 5) Students experiencing Guilt were primarily White and from families with parental incomes greater than $75,000 a year; 7) A majority of students experienced Empowerment; 8) Most students volunteering more than 10 hours a month experienced Empowerment; 9) All People of Color experienced Empowerment; 10) Results from pre-test and post-test questionnaires did not indicate a significant change in attitudes towards service-learning as a result of participating in the service-learning experience. Educators should: 1) Be prepared to assist students as they experience multiple stages of the cognitive process during their service-learning experiences; 2) Give instruction in reflective journaling, provide students with guided journal questions, and monitor stages of the cognitive process; 3) Incorporate service-learning into curriculum to enhance cognitive learning and empower students; 4) Replicate with a more diverse population and larger sample size.

This thesis as for object the diary literary genre. It is divided into two distinct parts: the first relates to textual criticism, and the second to the creation of a short diary novel. / The critical text's problematic is based-on the elaboration of indices of fictionality within an excerpt from the non-fictional diary of Henriette Dessaulles (Journal), where the author narrates her convalescence journey at Orchard Beach. Based on theoretical grounds generated by narratology and the pragmatics of speech acts, this research focuses on the function of two narrative strategies, elaborated by the diarist. These consist in the textual inscription of the addressee, as well as in the construction of the narrative voice. / As far as the creative text is concerned, it utilizes many generic features of the personal diary, amongst which can be found a relatively bare and unrestrained literary style; the rule of periodicity is also observed. Moreover, the aspects tackled in the text are typical to the tenor of teenager's personal diary: the search of one's identity, relationships with significant ones, sexual desire, friendships, loneliness and death. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

(English) Antoine Marie Garin (1810-1889) was a French Marist priest in charge of a mission station among the Maori people in Mangakahia (Northland) from 1843 to 1847. His personal diary, his ‘Notes de mission’ for the 1844-6 period, is a testimony to his years spent with the Maori and gives a day-to-day account of his evangelisation work. The individual reactions of the people he relates to, especially the Maori people, are reproduced with great care. The value of the document stems mainly from the careful record of the words and thoughts of the persons who Garin meets or the persons he lives with during his work. The quotations, often written in the original language, show the author’s desire to keep and reproduce the point of view of the Other. The sacred task of Garin was to convert the Maori people to Catholic Christianity, but his attitude towards evangelisation was relatively open for a nineteenth-century religious man. Although Garin did not exploit these ‘Notes’ for any published work about his mission, they were the documentary basis for a lecture he gave in 1876 in Nelson about the events of the Hone Heke war which Garin observed in 1845-6. Antoine Garin’s diary is also very interesting for its picture of the mission life of a French Catholic priest living in a Maori world shortly after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, at a time when some Maori people were beginning to realise what the Treaty actually meant in their lives. The missionary work of these early French pioneers in the Maori mission is barely known. Finally, the ‘Notes de mission’ are an incredible testimony to Maori life and thought–processes at a time when Maori people were facing a flow of new ideas, new ways of living and new behaviours brought by the Europeans. This document, far from reproducing a culture from the outside, is an attempt to understand in depth and express the thinking of the Other. It will be analysed in the context of a modern post-colonial reading. A careful reading shows that cultural contact between European and Indigenous people was not a one-way process, but involved a two-way relationship in which the two sides of the contact were each involved in transformation and re-interpretation. This thesis presents a transcription of the ‘Notes de mission’ from the original manuscript for the years 1844 to 1846, along with explanatory notes on the text and its variations. Analytical chapters aim to place the document in the context of Garin’s life, the Catholic mission in New Zealand, the Maori reaction to Christianity in the nineteenth century, the events of 1845-6 and the methodology of writing a private journal. / (French) Antoine Marie Garin (1810-1889) était un prêtre missionnaire mariste chargé de la mission maorie de Mangakahia (Northland) de 1843 à 1847. Son journal personnel, intitulé « Notes de mission », pour la période 1844-6, est le témoin de ces années passées parmi les Maoris et retrace au jour le jour son travail d’évangélisation. Les réactions individuelles de ses interlocuteurs, surtout des personnes maories, y sont notées avec soin. L’intérêt du document réside principalement dans l’enregistrement minutieux des paroles des individus que Garin rencontre ou avec lesquelles il vit. Les citations, souvent faites dans la langue d’origine de l’interlocuteur, reflètent la volonté de l’auteur de conserver et de reproduire le point de vue de l’Autre. La mission sacrée de Garin était la conversion des Maoris, mais son attitude vis-à-vis de l’évangélisation était relativement ouverte pour un homme de religion du dix-neuvième siècle. Alors que Garin n’a pas utilisé ces Notes pour la publication d’un ouvrage sur son travail de mission, elles ont servi de source documentaire à une conférence qu’il a donné en 1876 à Nelson sur les événements de la guerre de Hone Heke et Kawiti dont Garin fut en partie le témoin. Le journal de Garin est intéressant aussi pour le rapport de la vie de mission d’un prêtre catholique français immergé dans le monde maori, peu après le Traité de Waitangi de 1840 et lors de la première prise de conscience, par une partie de la population maorie, de ses conséquences. Le travail missionnaire de ces pionniers de la mission maorie est peu ou mal connu. Enfin, ces Notes sont un témoignage exemplaire de la vie et de la pensée maories à une période où elle était confrontée à un afflux d’idées, de manières et d’attitudes nouvelles apportées par la présence européenne. Ce document, loin de dépeindre une autre culture de l’extérieur, est une tentative de comprendre en profondeur et d’exprimer la pensée de l’Autre. Il sera interprété dans le contexte d’une lecture post-colonialiste moderne. Une lecture attentive révèle que le contact entre Européen et peuple indigène n’est nullement un processus à sens unique, mais qu’il implique une relation à double sens, dans lequel les deux côtés des contacts sont eux-mêmes invariablement transformés. Cette thèse présente une transcription du texte manuscrit des « Notes de mission » pour les années 1844 à 1846, accompagnée de notes explicatives sur le texte et ses variations. Des chapitres analytiques visent à replacer le document dans le contexte de la vie de Garin, la mission catholique en Nouvelle-Zélande, la réaction maorie au christianisme au dix-neuvième siècle, les évènements de 1845-6 et la méthodologie d’écriture d’un journal personnel.

Academic libraries acquire access to many journal titles through “Big Deal” bundles. As serials prices continue to rise at unsustainable rates it will become increasingly necessary to consider breaking-up these packages and just subscribing to the most important titles individually. Recently, it appeared that the University Library, University of Saskatchewan would likely no longer be able to afford the American Chemical Society (ACS) bundle of 40+ titles, and tough decisions would need to be made. Usage data on each title were readily available – but is that enough evidence? Working under the common assumption that the primary users of this package are the Chemistry Department researchers, a citation analysis was conducted on what ACS journals these users recently published in and cited in their articles. In an effort to engage chemistry researchers and offer them a voice in the process, a survey of their opinions on each ACS title was also conducted. It was hoped that combining data from these three discrete sources: usage statistics, citation analyses, and user feedback, would enable us to arrive at the most conscientious, evidence-based decisions possible. This study took the novel approach of applying a citation analysis technique to usage data and survey responses. Although unconventional, this unique methodology proved useful in this situation. This presentation will describe the steps taken and discuss the benefits and challenges of this method so that librarians may consider whether this approach could be adapted to their own collections analysis needs. / Slides from presentation at the Centre for Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (C-EBLIP) Fall Symposium, October 15, 2014

Conference proceedings are an important venue for publishing original research and often final research in computer science. They represent a large body of the literature in this field, and are generally considered as important, if not more, as journal articles. However, the quality or impact of conference proceedings has been controversial. This research tries to compare the impact of conference proceedings with that of journal articles, studying publications of Canadian computer scientists. Specifically, the following questions will be addressed: what is the percentage of conference proceedings in the computer science literature? What are the trends of publishing in this field? And more important, are there differences between proceedings and journal articles in terms of their structure and impact? Methods: 30 faculty members in the computer science departments, schools, or equivalent from 15 Canadian research universities were randomly selected. Scopus database was searched to identify publications by each of the 30 faculty. The structure of the two types of publications (conference proceedings and journal articles) and their impact were studied. Implications: The research findings will provide a better understanding of scholarly communication in computer science field. The results will: enable research evaluators to make informed decision when assessing the publications of computer scientists; h elp computer scientists to decide where to publish their research in order to achieve greater impact, and to select what document types to read from an increasing number of papers; help computer science librarians in collection development and in information literacy program delivery. / A presentation at C-EBLIP Fall Symposium, October 15, 2014, University of Saskatchewan.