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"What's Lost Already" is a collection of lyric and narrative poems and two stark one-act plays concerned with love, loss and a sense of home. The manuscript explores relationships between lovers and families, suggesting that one's sense of self is tied to a sense of home and that the frequently linked losses of love and home inevitably change the self. This work investigates the interstices; the poems and plays are often set in in-between spaces (cars and half-built houses). From a narrative perspective, the manuscript begins with the end and traces back through to the beginning. Taken together, the poems and plays ultimately affirm the value of individual identity.
The cost effectiveness of photovoltaic (PV) solar systems is improved when they are integrated in the building envelope because a separate support and framing structure is not required. This thesis studies the performance of a façade section with PV modules forming the exterior façade layer and air being drawn into the façade behind the panels with the aid of a fan. The overall energy efficiency of the system may further be improved by passing outdoor air behind them to cool them and using this heated air in the building HVAC system. An added benefit of cooling the PV module with outside air is improvement of electrical conversion efficiency. A two-dimensional network model with control volume finite difference method (CVFDM) is developed. Two-dimensional nodal equations are developed for PV module, air and back panel control volum...
The Sentimentalist works to combine several interconnecting stories in order to explore the processes of death and dying, of guilt, and of the trauma of War. A central character, Caroline Emerson, is developed through whom---over the course of a summer spent at the family's summer house---the remembered histories of her family, and most importantly her father, are told. The contrast between the oral story-telling method in which these histories are eventually received collides with Caroline's desire to record and understand her family through her photojournalism project: a more objective, and exclusive lens. It is made apparent to Caroline that her father's story is much more complex and many-layered than she originally supposed. The majority of the novel is set in the family's summer-house situated in a town which was, in the early ...
The key development was the replacement of the metaphor of the poem as imitation, a 'mirror of nature,' by that of the poem as heterocosm, 'a second nature,' created by the poet---M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp Occupying the space between prose and poetry, The Legend of Baraffo fuses magically real elements, often associated with Post-Colonial prose fiction, with Imagist techniques associated with Modernist poetry. The plot centres on the relationship between an orphaned boy, Mazzu, who the Mayor adopts, and a prisoner, Nikita Babello, who is held in a cell in the basement of the Mayor's home. Through evening conversations, the two form a friendship that disrupts and redirects each of their lives. In the chapter 'Myth and Archetype', Wimsatt and Brooks show a relationship between language, mythology and emotional charge: But as l...
What if red ran out? is concerned with meaning formation in language and through association; with the possible role of poetry vis à vis political ideology; and with love, which, like poetry, is a reckless clamour in what Camus calls the "unreasonable silence of the world" ( The Myth of Sisyphus ). This collection of poems indirectly addresses, or rather inhabits, formal restrictions and liberties, as well as those of the elegiac mode. Eros and Thanatos are inevitably present, but they are here within a contemporary and occasionally humorous cultural context. What if red ran out? questions absence, implying that it is not an absolute state but that the evocation of absence alters memory; it expands and iconises it into a collage. Lyric-narrative poetry particularly relies on associative metaphor, attempting to circumvent the inherent...
"Half Life," a novel in progress, includes three main settings and storylines: a fictional family's experience in Ukraine at the time of the Chernobyl disaster; Ontario's Ottawa Valley and the author's family from 1976 to 1989; and the life of Gilbert Labine, a prospector and mining executive in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century. "Half Life" posits uranium as the nexus between these apparently discrete fields: Labine discovered the mineral on Canadian soil in 1929 and built a refinery at Port Hope that continues to have political, environmental and health consequences. Canadian uranium went into the first atom bombs and, along with the domestic nuclear industry that grew, in part, out of Labine's discovery, remains one of the country's major exports. Radioactive waste from Port Hope, the nearby Chalk River facility ...
A Derivative of Light is a prose-fiction account of Cold War Canada chronicled through the narrative of the Jacobs family, living in Malton, Ontario during the production of the CF-105 AVRO Arrow interceptor plane. The pivotal events in this family's life unfold in juxtaposition with broader international and national crises: the launch of Sputnik from the Baikanor Cosmodrome in Russia on October 4 th 1957, heralding the beginning of The Missile Age; and the cancellation of the CF-105 project on February 20 th , 1959 by Prime Minister Diefenbaker, subsequently unemploying Peter, the patriarch of the Jacobs family, along with 20,000 other skilled labourers. On October 4 th 1957, the day of both Sputnik's launch and the CF-105s roll-out, Lucy Jacobs appears mysteriously in a field during a thunderstorm. A priest finds her pregnant, unco...
With deeper and faster VLSI technologies, on-chip inductance has gained significance in the design of high-speed interconnects. This work reviews the importance of on-chip inductance, its useful effects and the associated negative drawbacks. It also gives an overview of the existing RC/RLC interconnect delay models and repeater insertion methodologies. The rapid growth in the VLSI technology has led to continuos reduction in the feature size of the VLSI devices and thus to higher levels of integration. The increased speed of on-chip circuitry has caused the time required for a signal to travel through the long onchip interconnects to become a significant portion of the total delay in a processing unit. Repeaters are now widely used to enhance the performance of these interconnects in CMOS SoC. For RC-modeled interconnects, parallel re...
