Integration of Ecological and Engineering Aspects in Planning Large Scale Tidal Power Development in the Bay of Fundy, Canada

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 281-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald C Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Power Development ◽  
Tidal Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The Many ◽  
University Scientists

Large-scale tidal power development in the Bay of Fundy has been given serious consideration for over 60 years. There has been a long history of productive interaction between environmental scientists and engineers durinn the many feasibility studies undertaken. Up until recently, tidal power proposals were dropped on economic grounds. However, large-scale development in the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy now appears to be economically viable and a pre-commitment design program is highly likely in the near future. A large number of basic scientific research studies have been and are being conducted by government and university scientists. Likely environmental impacts have been examined by scientists and engineers together in a preliminary fashion on several occasions. A full environmental assessment will be conducted before a final decision is made and the results will definately influence the outcome.

scholarly journals “Too Tedious to Mention”: Pondering the Border, Black Atlantic, and Public Schooling in Colonial Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Zellars
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School Violence ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Public Schooling ◽  
Black Migration ◽  
British Atlantic ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Atlantic World ◽  
The Many

An advertisement for a “Negro man and boy” and “a variety of other articles too tedious to mention” for disposal” inspired this author to examine the “truly impossible, futile position for most black parents” in eighteenth and nineteenth century Canada. This article first examines how slaves were sold in a similar manner on both sides of the border by addressing the “many meanings of the border” to those involved with black migration in Canada. It then then examines a history of public schooling violence and legal case studies to evaluate the realities of those who faced “de facto practices of racial discrimination” when seeking an emancipated education for black families. By centering the realities evident in advertisements for slaves and public-school violence, I consider how Canadians were involved in the British Atlantic world slave trade and contributed to “an ongoing global project of subjugation and dispersal of African and African-descended peoples” by focusing on how racial public-school segregation responded to large-scale arrivals of black free and enslaved peoples in the late eighteenth and early to mid nineteenth centuries.

scholarly journals Evaluating the efficiency of large scale transit infrastructure planning in Toronto Ontario: issues of governance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Enzo Testaguzza
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Transit ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Infrastructure Planning ◽  
Original Plan ◽  
Infrastructure Provision ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

This report analyzes the governance of large scale public transit infrastructure planning in the GTA. To accomplish this goal a comparative case study was carried out of the two most recent large scale public transit infrastructure provision plans in Toronto, the Network 2011 plan, and following iterations; and the Transit City aspects of the Big Move plan and subsequent iterations. Each case study consists of (1) a review of the history of each plan and (2) a review of the efficiency of the many iterations of the original plan within each case study. Through analysis of this data several characteristics of governance were associated with movement towards better and worse iterations from an efficiency perspective. These characteristics were used to inform recommendations regarding the future of transportation governance in the GTA.

scholarly journals Why Explore Stranded Encyclopedias?

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-34
Author(s):  
Linn Holmberg
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Complete Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geographical Expansion ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Many ◽  
Analytical Tools

AbstractInfluential publications have long occupied central positions in histories of literature, philosophy, and science. The history of encyclopedias is no exception. With the ongoing digitization and increasing accessibility of historically important reference works, this trend is in fact still being reinforced. In this chapter, however, Linn Holmberg argues that by shifting our attention from successful publications to projects that somehow “failed,” we can deepen our understanding of modern encyclopedic practice—its development, challenges, motivations, and geographical expansion. Here, the concepts of stranded and strandedness can function as simple yet powerful analytical tools to compare cases where intellectual ambitions and practical outcomes have parted ways, and to explore the complex relationships between the finished and the unfinished, the printed and the non-printed, the complete and the uncomplete, the updated and the outdated, as well as the successfully and unsuccessfully disseminated. After all, all human undertakings run the risk of being stranded—of not reaching a desired destination, or of not being fulfilled as planned. Studying stranded encyclopedias means taking seriously the many obstacles facing those who pursue complete knowledge, and uncovering what it takes for large-scale enterprises to be realized and made public in various historical contexts.

scholarly journals A review of the fishes and fisheries of Minas Basin and Minas Passage, Nova Scotia, and their potential risk from tidal power development

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Michael J. Dadswell ◽  
Roger A. Rulifson
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Cold Water ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Taxonomic Diversity ◽  
Seasonal Occurrence ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
Species Status ◽  
Power Development ◽  
Tidal Power ◽  
Potential Impact

A total of 85 species of fish are known or suspected from Minas Basin and Minas Passage, Nova Scotia, Canada. This systematic review details their seasonal occurrence, habitat, abundance, migratory behavior, fisheries and potential impact from tidal power development. The fish assemblage is a mixture of species common to the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia as well as numerous warm- and cold-water visitors seldom found elsewhere in Canada. Minas Basin fisheries exploit some species especially those that migrate through the Basin during summer. Fishes were captured or observed using angling, seines, benthic long lines, drift and fixed gill nets, intertidal fish weirs, bottom trawls and sightings while on vessels. Fishes are categorized with respect to their taxonomic diversity, seasonal occurrence, status, fisheries and the potential impact from tidal lagoons and propeller turbines resulting from development of tidal power in Minas Basin and Minas Passage. Keywords: Bay of Fundy, habitat, species status, propeller turbines, taxonomic relationship, tidal lagoons.

scholarly journals Serbian musicological society at the beginning of its second decade (2006-2017)

New Sound ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 285-299
Author(s):  
Ana Kotevska
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Stage Music ◽  
The Many ◽  
Opera Houses ◽  
Musical Heritage

The purpose of the text is to present, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Serbian Musicological Society (SMS), the circumstances of its founding on 5 July 2006 and offer a panoramic survey of its accomplishments in research and publishing so far, which re-examine our stance toward our musical heritage and/or illuminate previously neglected chapters from the history of music in Serbia. The many and diverse contributions of the Serbian Musicological Society to the achievements of Serbian musicology, in general, are reflected in its conception and organization of scholarly meetings, publication of essay collections, scores, and sound recordings, organization of concerts, as well as initiation of large-scale projects in the reconstruction of individual anthological works of stage music, independently and in collaboration with related institutions and opera houses.

Normal Modes of the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine

1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Mode Shape ◽  
Numerical Scheme ◽  
Gulf Of Maine ◽  
Normal Modes ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
Power Development ◽  
Tidal Power ◽  
Tidal Period ◽  
Damping Rate ◽  
Resonant Period

Platzman's (1972) numerical scheme has been used to study the inviscid normal modes of the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine for a variety of boundary conditions. The results support the contention that the resonant period associated with the lowest mode is greater than the M2 tidal period. Calculation of a damping rate from the inviscid solution gives a dissipative Q of 3.3 for the system, though this is probably an underestimate. Changes of period and normal mode shape due to changes in geometry at the head of the Bay of Fundy are investigated and some rather uncertain implications for tidal power development are discussed.

scholarly journals Evaluating the efficiency of large scale transit infrastructure planning in Toronto Ontario: issues of governance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Enzo Testaguzza
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Transit ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Infrastructure Planning ◽  
Original Plan ◽  
Infrastructure Provision ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

This report analyzes the governance of large scale public transit infrastructure planning in the GTA. To accomplish this goal a comparative case study was carried out of the two most recent large scale public transit infrastructure provision plans in Toronto, the Network 2011 plan, and following iterations; and the Transit City aspects of the Big Move plan and subsequent iterations. Each case study consists of (1) a review of the history of each plan and (2) a review of the efficiency of the many iterations of the original plan within each case study. Through analysis of this data several characteristics of governance were associated with movement towards better and worse iterations from an efficiency perspective. These characteristics were used to inform recommendations regarding the future of transportation governance in the GTA.

A 200-Year History of the Study of Childhood Language Disorders of Unknown Origin: Changes in Terminology

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence B. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Language Disorders ◽  
Unknown Origin ◽  
Developmental Language Disorder ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Purpose The current “specific language impairment” and “developmental language disorder” discussion might lead to important changes in how we refer to children with language disorders of unknown origin. The field has seen other changes in terminology. This article reviews many of these changes. Method A literature review of previous clinical labels was conducted, and possible reasons for the changes in labels were identified. Results References to children with significant yet unexplained deficits in language ability have been part of the scientific literature since, at least, the early 1800s. Terms have changed from those with a neurological emphasis to those that do not imply a cause for the language disorder. Diagnostic criteria have become more explicit but have become, at certain points, too narrow to represent the wider range of children with language disorders of unknown origin. Conclusions The field was not well served by the many changes in terminology that have transpired in the past. A new label at this point must be accompanied by strong efforts to recruit its adoption by clinical speech-language pathologists and the general public.

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