Notes on educational aspects of the technical training given in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, with particular reference to the training given for the trades of flight mechanic and fitter two (engine)

It is the endeavour of the writer to give: <div>(i) A factual report upon the chief aspects of (a) the trade training given in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the period September 1939 to August 1945 and (b) the system of assessing standards attained by the individuals concerned.</div><div>(ii) A detailed investigation into certain aspects of the training and examining of personnel in two particular trades, viz., flight mechanic and fitter two (engine), selected as typical of the more important Air Force trades, and illustrative of (1) above; and an endeavour to ascertain the success achieved in these trades by various types of recruits.</div><div>(iii) A preliminary consideration of the extent to which Air Force trade training has contributed (if at all) to the qualification of personnel for civilian employment after demobilisation.</div>

Notes on educational aspects of the technical training given in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, with particular reference to the training given for the trades of flight mechanic and fitter two (engine)

It is the endeavour of the writer to give: <div>(i) A factual report upon the chief aspects of (a) the trade training given in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the period September 1939 to August 1945 and (b) the system of assessing standards attained by the individuals concerned.</div><div>(ii) A detailed investigation into certain aspects of the training and examining of personnel in two particular trades, viz., flight mechanic and fitter two (engine), selected as typical of the more important Air Force trades, and illustrative of (1) above; and an endeavour to ascertain the success achieved in these trades by various types of recruits.</div><div>(iii) A preliminary consideration of the extent to which Air Force trade training has contributed (if at all) to the qualification of personnel for civilian employment after demobilisation.</div>

Situating the videogame maker’s agency through craft

It is now widely accepted that videogames are a cultural form, and that they generate cultural meaning through the possibilities and constraints through which they shape players’ experiences and choices. However, the cultural processes through which videogames are themselves produced remain understudied and too-straightforwardly imagined. The videogame maker does not simply conceive of a videogame idea and then execute it. Instead, the videogame is produced through processes of negotiation and iteration between videogame maker, software and hardware environments and the broader expectations of the field. In this sense, videogame production can be fruitfully understood through the lens of craft. I argue that in order to politicise agency in digital play, as is this special issue’s goal, videogame research must also consider the agency of the videogame maker, and the iterative, embodied, and social processes through which videogames are produced. This article draws from interviews with videogame makers and existing research on craft production to provide a preliminary consideration of how the agency of the videogame maker as a cultural producer can be accounted for.

„We will go through this TOGETHER!“ Bemerkungen zu Vulnerabilität und zum kompulsiven Resilienzvarieté in politischen COVID-19-Krankheitsnarrativen

<p>In a first, tentative and explorative review, the paper discusses issues of resilience performance in socially addressed illness narratives in the context of political communication and self-representation. Using the examples of U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and their Covid-19 disorders, the paper explores forms of media self-representation as resilient politicians. In a critical reading, the gender-coded displays of vulnerability and masculine resilience are related to the performance of the supposedly normal. Taking Judith Butler as a reference point, the illness narratives of strength are interpreted as a defense against and fear of weakness and threat. In the conclusion, the initial observations are related to questions of new forms of authoritarianism, so-called soft authoritarianism. The article is intended as a sketch and as a preliminary consideration for a future systematic study of vulnerability, gender, and political communication. </p>

The regulation of multilateral development banks: is it needed? A preliminary analysis

Purpose A difference is noted by comparing the net loans to the non-financial sector in the two sets of institutions. The post-global financial crisis (GFC), literature agrees on a reduced lending pace by financial institutions (FIs) as a result of stricter capital regulations. At the same time, an increasing volume of outstanding loans, directed even to advanced countries, characterize the balance sheet of several multilateral development banks (MDBs). Design/methodology/approach This paper observes how a different degree of banking regulation might have shaped the economic response to the GFC by FIs and MDBs. Findings The authors indicate that MDBs’ financing, with a coherent objective of countercyclical support to the economies hit by the GFC, seems to have filled a market gap caused by the FIs’ pro-cyclical lending reduction. Originality/value While a controversial issue is whether Basel standards should be imposed on MDBs, a harmonization amongst MDBs of their transparency and reporting standards might be beneficial: some preliminary consideration has been portrayed.

VERB MORPHOLOGY IN THE MONUMENT OF MARI WRITING “THE BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE...” (1839 / 1841)

The article deals with the verbal morphology in the monument of Mari writing “The Beginnings of Christian doctrine...” (published in Kazan in 1841). Among the earliest publications in the Mari language, this is one of the most voluminous texts, including Concise Sacred History and Catechism. The dialectal basis of the considered text is a Meadow dialect, at the same time the verbal morphology (mainly in the plural forms) differs significantly from the literary norm of the contemporary Mari (Meadow-Eastern) language. As a result of comparison with dialectological data, the correspondence of the verbal morphology in the monument to the conjugation in the western subdialects (Volga, Yoshkar-Ola) of the Meadow dialect is revealed. (These dialects turned out to be peripheral during the formation of the literary Meadow-Eastern Mari language in the 20th century. The verbal morphology of the literary language is based on the Morki-Sernur subdialect of the Meadow dialect and the Eastern dialect of the Mari language.) At the same time, the specific verb forms of Western subdialects of the Meadow dialect revealed in the monument and described in the article largely correlate with the conjugation in Western Mari dialects (Hill and North-Western), including the literary norm of the Hill Mari language. In general, the analysis of the verbal forms (with preliminary consideration of phonetic and vocabulary data) allows us to define the “The Beginnings of Christian Doctrine…” (1839 / 1841) as a most important early written monument of the Volga subdialect of the Meadow dialect and a valuable source on the historical dialectology of the Mari language. Keywords: Finno-Ugric languages, Mari language, Vol

FIRST REVIEW BY THE DISSOVER OF THE RESEARCH AIRPORTS MVL: DEFECTS OF SCIENTIFIC CERTIFICATION

The article presents studies of the management of airports of local airlines in the Far Eastern region, admitted at the stage of the first preliminary consideration by the dissertation council of the Maritime University, violations of the requirements of documents regulating state scientific certification in the Russian Federation.

The Translation of Life: Thinking of Painting in Indian Buddhist Literature

What are paintings? Is there a distinctive mode of experience paintings enable? What is the value of such experience? This essay explores such questions, confining attention for the most part to a few distinctive moments in Indian Buddhist texts. In particular, I focus on invocations of painting in figures of speech, particularly when paintings are invoked to make sense of events or experiences of particular importance. The aim is not to be exhaustive, but to suggest a meta-poetic orientation: On the basis of moments where authors think with figurations of painting, I want to suggest that in Buddhist texts one begins to find a growing regard for the possibilities of re-ordering and transvaluing sense experience. After suggesting the possibility of this on the basis of a preliminary consideration of some figures of speech invoking painting, this essay turns to the reconstruction of what I call aesthetic stances to make sense of the idea of new possibilities in sense experience. I derive the concept of “aesthetic stances” on the basis of a close reading of a pivotal moment in one Buddhist narrative, the defeat of Māra in The Legend of Aśoka.

Development of an IoT System for the Generation of a Database of Residential Water End-Use Consumption Time Series

Disaggregation techniques are useful to separate data aggregated into single end-use categories, and they are becoming of great interest in the water sector due to the technological innovation in metering systems that has made water consumption data available. However, in order to apply disaggregation methods, high-resolution data at the end-use level are needed. To face this problem, the paper presents an Internet of Things water end-use monitoring system that is able to read real-time end-use consumption in a residential apartment equipped as a pilot site. Moreover, the paper describes preliminary consideration of the dataset and the potentiality of end-use consumption measures to apply disaggregation techniques and profile users’ behaviors.