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Sex Education: Perceptions And Experiences Of Window Of Hope Tutors In Ghanaian Colleges Of Education.
No full textThe social structure of the Ghanaian society has changed over the century due to the influence of western education and religion. Puberty rites, once avenues for sex education has found no locus in these new religions and western style education. Instead school based sex education programs are now avenues for educating the youth about sexuality in the face of the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, teenage and unwanted pregnancies, sexual abuse and the violent abhorrence of homosexuality in Ghana.
The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences and perceptions of Ghanaian college sex education tutors regarding the subject, their experiences growing up and of teaching sex education and what inform their pedagogies, challenges and what they deem must be done to maximise the benefits of sex education.
This is a qualitative study involving interviews with five purposively sampled tutors and employing Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
The "Lottery" of Justice: Exploring Some of the Consequences of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
No full textThe Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act came into force in April 2013 and heralded fundamental changes to the legal aid system in England and Wales. This paper is a first pass analysis of interview data from a study focusing on the impact of the changes on those delivering, and those needing advice and representation, in the field of family law
The use of evaluative abstract nouns in political and media discourse on the European Union: a Corpus linguistic study
Get PDFEvaluative language may be defined as the linguistic means by which a speaker or writer expresses an attitude towards a particular proposition or entity. ‘Signaling nouns’ are abstract nouns, like fact, idea, and result, where specific meaning in a text depends on the context they are used in. Some such nouns also carry inherently evaluative weight; to characterize a situation as a crisis rather than, say, a concern is to make an evaluative judgment.
The potential for nouns to carry evaluative meaning has been noted in studies of evaluation and the evaluative force of some signaling nouns has been noted in studies seeking to define this potential sub-class of nouns, but no comprehensive study has yet been undertaken of what may be termed ‘Evaluative Signaling Nouns.’ Given that, in the field of Automated Sentiment Analysis, it has also been suggested that that nouns are particularly significant in the expression of sentiment in political discourse, this represents a significant gap in current literature which my study seeks to address.
Contested British membership of the EU offers an ideal and timely context in which to base this study. Furthermore, given that ideological bias in media representations has been considered significant in influencing public acceptance of EU membership, a comparative study of Evaluative Signaling Nouns used in the European Parliament, by the British Government and in British Newspapers will be undertaken
Testing for Multivariate Normality in Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data: A Robust Statistical Approach for Clustering Evaluation and the Generation of Synthetic Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data Sets
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Testing for Multivariate Normality in Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data: A Robust Statistical Approach for Clustering Evaluation and the Generation of Synthetic Mass Spectrometry Imaging Data Sets
A Dexter, AM Race, IB Styles, J Bunch
Analytical Chemistry 88 (22), 10893-10899 (2016
Performance of the Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network (BiSON)
Get PDFThe Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network (BiSON) has been operating with a full complement of six stations since 1992. Almost 25 years later, we look back on the network history. The meta-data from the sites have been analysed to assess performance in terms of site insolation, with a brief look at the challenges that have been encountered over the years. We discuss how to access the ever-growing dataset produced by the network, and finally look to the future of the network and the potential impact of 25 years of technology miniaturisation
Altered thalamocortical and intra-thalamic functional connectivity during light sleep compared to wake
No full textData Access Statement for EPSRC funded study. The data are stored in the University of Birmingham Research Data Archive. Due to ethical constraints, supporting data cannot be made openly available
New temperature controller for Hannibal in Las Campanas in 2015 April
No full textA new temperature controller for Hannibal was installed. The mount RA motor was replaced. Some general maintenance was done on the weather sensors
Keepers of the Gate : Access to the Solicitors' Profession in the 21st Century
No full textAn initial analysis of research undertaken on the people and institutions who provide access to the solicitors' profession. The findings are based on a series of in-depth interviews with Graduate Recruitment professionals and partners in a range of law firms, exploring the competencies and attributes assessed in the application process
BiSON - Sounds of the Sun
No full textThe Sun rings like a bell. The central frequency of the sound is far below human hearing, just 0.003 Hz. The sounds you hear as part of this work have been increased in speed by 100,000 times bringing the sound up to 300 Hz and into the range of our hearing. Of course, it is impossible to directly hear the sounds through the vacuum of space. Instead, the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) at the University of Birmingham, UK, captures the data by making very precise measurements of how the oscillations cause tiny changes in the colour of the light emitted from the Sun. Measuring the oscillations allows exciting discoveries to be made about the internal structure of the Sun using a technique known as helioseismology, in the same way a geophysicist studies the Earth using seismic methods.
bison_solarsounds.flac - This file is produced from 20 years of raw solar data, captured from the beginning of 1995 to the end of 2014. Playing at 2.5 kHz produces a 100,000 times speed up and places the central oscillation frequency at 300 Hz, with a resulting audio file of just over 1 hour and 22 minutes.
bison_solarsounds_filtered.flac - This file is the same as the previous one, but it has been filtered to contain only the solar oscillation band, i.e., 2 mHz -- 5 mHz filtered with a 48 dB per octave roll-off band-pass (200 Hz -- 500 Hz after speed-up)
Business and financial cycles in the Eurozone: synchronization or decoupling
No full textThis paper proposes a novel approach, based on probit framework, towards measuring business cycle synchronization for 9 eurozone economies. We find strong cross-country synchronization in both business cycles and financial cycles. Moreover, financial synchronization dominates business cycle synchronization in the eurozone, especially after the introduction of the single currency. For some peripheral country pairs, we even find some evidence of "de-coupling" business cycles relative to the core countries but the majority of marginal business cycle effects do not change much over time. The former observation supports the often heard plea for more Europe-wide macro-prudential regulation whereas the latter observation gives ammunition to those economists that always stressed that the euro zone architecture is unfinished business and that the conditions for an optimum currency area are not fulfilled.
JEL Classification: C25, E32, F4
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