The Manning Canyon Shale on the eastern slope of Lake Mountain in Utah County, Utah contains an Early Pennsylvanian flora within its upper shales. Many of these fossils appear to be new species. A microscopic study of the tissue remains can be of value in the further classification of these fossils. Selected fossils were macerated in hydrofluoric acid, and the residues were examined microscopically for tissue remains. Objects identified as fossil tissue remains were found in twenty five of the forty-eight specimens examined. Fibers, fiber tracheids, tracheids, and spores were isolated from fossils identified as Calamites. The spores were possibly recent fungus spores from the laboratory. Most of the fossils identified as Cordaites had little or no remaining organic material, but one fiber and a peel showing the outlines of cells which were presumed to be epidermal cells were found. A fiber and a fiber tracheid were isolated from a Lepidostrobus. A spore was found in the maceration residue of a fossil identified as Lepidodendron but was too decomposed to be classified as to the type of spore. Many of the fossils collected from the Manning Canyon Shale appear to be portions of stems, roots, or rachises of undetermined affinities. These were lumped together for this study under the classification of "stems." Xylem elements, cuticles, sclereids, and an

In the near future hydropower will be used to regulate intermittent energy sources, shallow water ways can then occur in close proximity to the power plants, where the bottom often consists of stones in a similar length scale as the water depth. The idea of this project, which has been initiated by Vattenfall R\&D, is to compare experimental measurements in a laboratory environment with numerical simulations with CFD, this to find a way to represent roughness structures where there is low relative submergence. For the measurements in the lab, gravel were attached to the bottom of a flume and the water depth were measured for different flow rates and a CFD model were calibrated against the measurement data. A conversion of the Manning coefficient, originating from experimental measurements to equivalent Sand-grain size used in the CFD to model the roughness has been proposed and has shown good predictions of the maximum water depth. To capture the entire flow field, it is not enough to just model the friction from the roughness, it needs to be resolved and it may be necessary to consider the influence by form drag.

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Approved for public release; distribution in unlimited. / The Littoral Combat Ship's (LCS) minimally manned core crew goal is 15 to 50 manpower requirements and the threshold, for both core and mission-package crews, is 75 to 110. This dramatically smaller crew size will require more than current technologies and past lessons learned from reduced manning initiatives. Its feasibility depends upon changes in policy and operations, leveraging of future technologies and increased Workload Transfer from sea to shore along with an increased acceptance of risk. A manpower requirements analysis yielded a large baseline (200) requirement to support a notional LCS configuration. Combining the common systems from the General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin designs with other assumed equipments (i.e. the combined diesel and gas turbine (CODAG) engineering plant) produce the notional LCS configuration used as the manpower requirements basis. The baseline requirement was reduced through the compounded effect of manpower savings from Smart Ship and OME and suggested paradigm shifts. A Battle Bill was then created to support the notional LCS during Conditions of Readiness I and III. An efficient force deployment regime was adopted to reduce the overall LCS class manpower requirement. The efficiency gained enables the LCS force to "flex" and satisfy deployment requirements with 25% to 30% fewer manpower requirements over the "one-forone" crewing concept. costs $60K. / Lieutenant, United States Navy

ABSTRACT The aim of industrial production changed from mass production at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, production flexibility determines manufacturing companies' course of action. In this sense, Volvo Group Trucks Operations is interested in meeting customer demand in their assembly lines by adjusting manpower. Thus, this investigation attempts to analyze the effect of manning on the main final assembly line for thirteen-liter heavy-duty diesel engines at Volvo Group Trucks Operations in Skövde by means of discrete-event simulation. This project presents a simulation model that simulates the assembly line. With the purpose of building the model data were required. One the one hand, qualitative data were collected to improve the knowledge in the fields related to the project topic, as well as to solve the lack of information in certain points of the project. On the other hand, simulation model programming requires quantitative data. Once the model was completed, simulation results were obtained through simulation-based optimization. This optimization process tested 50,000 different workforce scenarios to find the most efficient solutions for three different sequences. Among all results, the most interesting one for Volvo is the one which render 80% of today’s throughput with the minimum number of workers. Consequently, as a case study, a bottleneck analysis and worker performance analysis was performed for this scenario. Finally, a flexible and fully functional model that delivers the desired results was developed. These results provide a comparison among different manning scenarios considering throughput as main measurement of the main final assembly line performance. After analyzing the results, system output behavior was revealed. This behavior allows predicting optimal system output for a given number of operators.

abstract: Given the profound influence that schools have on students’ genders and the existing scholarly research in the field of education studies which draws clear implications between practices of schooling and sanctioning and promoting particular gender subjectivities, often in alignment with traditional norms, I conduct a critical ethnography to examine the practices of gender in one eighth grade English language arts (ELA) classroom at an arts-missioned charter school. I do this to explore how ELA instruction at an arts charter school may provide opportunities for students to do gender differently. To guide this dissertation theoretically, I rely on the process philosophy of Erin Manning (2016, 2013, 2007) to examine the processual interactions among of student movement, choreography, materiality, research-creation, language, and art. Thus, methods for this study include field notes, student assignments, interviews and focus groups, student created art, maps, and architectural plans. In the analysis, I attempt to allow the data to live on their own, and I hope to give them voice to speak to the reader in a way that they spoke to me. Some of them speak through ethnodrama; some of them speak through autoethnography, visual art and cartography, and yet others through various transcriptions. Through these modes of analysis, I am thinking-doing-writing. The analysis also includes my thinking with fields – the fields of gender studies, qualitative inquiry, educational research, English education, and critical theory. In an attempt to take to the fields, I weave all of these through each other, through Manning and other theorists and through my ongoing perceptions of event-happenings and what it means to do qualitative research in education. Accordingly, this dissertation engages with the various fields to reconsider how school practices might conceive the ways in which they produce gender, and how students perceive gender within the school space. In this way, the dissertation provides ways of thinking that may unearth what was previously cast aside or uncover possibilities for what was previously unthought. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2019

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / In this study, we examine the involvement of Churches and Government in New South Wales Aboriginal Reserves and Stations during the twentieth century (1900-1975). Two non-denominational Missions, the United Aborigines’ Mission (UAM) also called the Australian Aborigines’ Mission (AAM) and the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) were particularly active and they both started their work in New South Wales before extending it into other Australian States. Their action in New South Wales was distinctive because it mostly involved women and the missionaries were sent to live with Aboriginal communities. Therefore, unlike the ‘strictly authoritarian’ approach adopted in Northern Territory or Western Australia, missionaries in NSW lived by themselves among people who had settled in Reserves and maintained as much as possible a sense of community. The establishment of Aboriginal Schools gave Missions the opportunity to strengthen their influence among the communities. Elementary education was at the core of the intervention of the Government and the Missions. While the Missions’ involvement was accepted and even encouraged by the State Government at first, as soon as its agency, the Aborigines’ Protection Board was given the legislative power to control Aboriginal people, the Missions were induced to confine themselves to the religious sphere. The study demonstrates that while the White institutions sought to extend their authority over Aboriginal people, the latter were asserting their agency. Thus, some communities appear to have embraced evangelical forms of Christianity when the control of the administration was reaching its peak. As government managers were sent in Aboriginal reserves, in the 1930s, exclusive Native Church Conventions gained momentum. In 1940, the new agency of the Government, the Aborigines’ Welfare Board, aimed at implementing a new policy: the assimilation of Aboriginal people. From that time, the Government became reluctant about the involvement of the Missions and encouraged town local denominational churches to open their congregations to accept Aborigines. This attempt failed as neither the Black nor the White congregations were disposed to integrate. Thus the study highlights how the relations between the Church and the Government ebbed and flowed as both institutions wanted to assert their control over New South Wales Aboriginal communities. The research also demonstrates how Aboriginal people were able to resist within the constraints, revealing a constant negotiation - overt but also concealed - between these three groups. The translation into French of an Australian history book about the relations between Aboriginal people and Europeans is closely related to the historical research. Indeed, the Manning Valley was one of the places where the Missions and later on the Native Churches were particularly influential. Therefore some people like Ella Simon and Bert Marr are present in both works - the thesis and the history book. It seems appropriate to end the thesis with the translation of an interview given by Ella Simon. As always she talks proudly of her Aboriginal culture and at times continues without addressing the interviewer’s question. Thus when the interviewer asked if she is telling a ‘true story and not a legend’, her only answer is: ‘it’s about Forster.' The translation will hopefully offer a more informed view of Australian history and more specifically Aboriginal-European relations to a francophone readership. Although aware that ‘rewriting is a manipulation undertaken in the service of power’, we would like to think that ‘in its positive aspect’, rewriting or translating ‘can help in the evolution of a literature and a society.’

Issued also as a Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. / "Notes and references" at end of each chapter.

Thesis (Ph.D. in Religious Studies)--S.M.U. / Title from PDF title page (viewed July 12, 2007). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4067. Adviser: William J. Abraham. Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-11-01T21:58:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CamilaFariasVitorino_DISSERT.pdf: 3139331 bytes, checksum: 6243889fc2732b28569d94a68c92cb15 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-11-08T23:08:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 CamilaFariasVitorino_DISSERT.pdf: 3139331 bytes, checksum: 6243889fc2732b28569d94a68c92cb15 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-08T23:08:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CamilaFariasVitorino_DISSERT.pdf: 3139331 bytes, checksum: 6243889fc2732b28569d94a68c92cb15 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-29 / A vegeta??o macr?fita possui um papel importante na manuten??o e equil?brio dos ambientes aqu?ticos em rios e lagos nas regi?es tropicais. Em cursos d??gua de pequeno porte, essas plantas proporcionam benef?cios ecol?gicos, pois atuam na sedimenta??o e reten??o de nutrientes, propiciando melhoria nas propriedades f?sico-qu?micas da ?gua. A presen?a de macr?fitas na calha fluvial alteram o comportamento da velocidade e aumentam a resist?ncia ao fluxo, com redu??o da velocidade na se??o e aumento da profundidade. Em geral, o retardamento do escoamento est? associado a fen?menos indesej?veis, tais como inunda??o de ?reas ocupadas. O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar o comportamento da resist?ncia ao fluxo provocado pela presen?a de vegeta??o macr?fita r?gida emersa da esp?cie Aninga (Montrichardia linifera) num trecho do rio Pitimbu situado na regi?o metropolitana de Natal. Para isso foram realizadas duas campanhas hidrom?tricas, realizadas em 12/04/2017 e 15/09/2017. A metodologia empregada consistiu na medi??o de vari?veis hidr?ulicas e levantamento in situ das caracter?sticas da vegeta??o no trecho e analise da intera??o fluxo-vegeta??o. A analise da vegeta??o envolveu a delimita??o de quatro quadrantes (4 m2) definidos aleatoriamente na ?rea de estudo. Nesses quadrantes foram levantadas as caracter?sticas morfol?gicas das plantas e a distribui??o espacial. A medi??o das vari?veis hidr?ulicas foi feita com a discretiza??o das se??es transversais em verticais, onde foram medidas as velocidades medias pontuais. A vaz?o e o numero de Manning obtidos nas campanhas 1 e 2 foram 0,2467 m?/s e 0,069 m-1/3s; 0,2076 m?/s e 0,078 m-1/3s respectivamente. A densidade da distrbui?ao espacial da vegeta??o era 8,12 plantas/m2. O comportamento da velocidade na se??o S1 demonstrou alta variabilidade espacial, com alguns valores acima da m?dia. Esse comportamento estava associado a presen?a de vegeta??o. Foram registradas velocidades negativas em algumas regi?es a jusante das plantas, indicando a gera??o de esteiras e fluxo reverso nestes locais. O padr?o de distribui??o espacial da vegeta??o era agregado em algumas regi?es da comunidade de plantas. A intera??o fluxo-vegeta??o foi analisada a partir de uma sequ?ncia de registros fotogr?ficos. Foi poss?vel identificar o comportamento dos fluxos atrav?s das plantas: regi?es de descolamento da camada limite, regi?es de esteira e de forma??o de v?rtices. / Macrophyte vegetation plays an important role to keep balanced aquatic environments in rivers and lakes in tropical regions. In small water courses, these plants provide ecological benefits since they act on sedimentation and nutrients retention, leading to an improvement in the water physicochemical properties. The presence of macrophytes in the river channel changes the velocity behaviour and increases the resistance to flow, causing reduction in speed and increase of depth in the section. Generally, flow retardation is associated to unwanted events, such as flooding of occupied areas. The aim of this study was to investigate the hydraulic resistance behaviour to flow caused by the presence of rigid and emersed macrophyte vegetation of the species Aninga (Montrichardia linifera) in a section into Pitimbu River located in the metropolitan region in Natal. Two hydrometric campaigns were carried out on 04/24/2017 and 09/15/2017. The methodology used included measurement of hydraulic variables, in situ survey of vegetation characteristics and analysis of the flow-vegetation interaction. Vegetation analysis involved the delimitation of three quadrants (4 m2) defined in the study area. In these quadrants, the morphological characteristics of the plants and the spatial distribution were raised. The hydraulic variables were measured with the discretization of the cross sections in verticals, where the average speeds were measured. Manning flow and number obtained in campaigns 1 and 2 were 0.2467 m?/s and 0.069 m-1/3s; 0.2076 m?/s and 0.078 m-1/3s s respectively. The density of the spatial distribution of vegetation was 8.12 plants / m2. The velocity behavior in section S1 showed high spatial variability, with some values above average. This behavior was associated with the presence of vegetation. Negative velocities were recorded in some regions downstream of the plants, indicating the generation of mats and reverse flow at these sites. The pattern of spatial distribution of vegetation was aggregated in some regions of the plant community. The flow-vegetation interaction was analyzed from a sequence of photographic records. It was possible to identify the behavior of the flows through the plants: regions of boundary layer detachment, belt regions and vortex formation.