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Metaphysical spookiness?:the collective responsibility of company directors
No full textAccording to both corporate governance codes and company law the directors of a company have a collective responsibility. This article explores collective, or collegiate, decision-making and, perhaps more importantly, collective responsibility. The collective responsibility of directors is currently operationalized only by converting it into an individual responsibility and liability. The purpose of this article is to reveal how a more openly collective approach to board responsibilities and board liabilities could be useful and practical despite the fact that its theoretical basis may require some metaphysical spookiness
Two-scale convergence forlocally periodic microstructures and homogenization of plywood structures
No full textThe introduced notion of locally periodic two-scale convergence allows one to average a wider range of microstructures, compared to the periodic one. The compactness theorem for locally periodic two-scale convergence and the characterization of the limit for a sequence bounded in H1(O) are proven. The underlying analysis comprises the approximation of functions, with the periodicity with respect to the fast variable being dependent on the slow variable, by locally periodic functions, periodic in subdomains smaller than the considered domain but larger than the size of microscopic structures. The developed theory is applied to derive macroscopic equations for a linear elasticity problem defined in domains with plywood structures
Four Minutes of Midday
No full textThe first output from research into small region in southern Italy (Molise) and the notion of witness, memory and timelessness. A Hi-Definition Video installation that exploits the super-real photographic quality of the form. The work is shown on an LCD panel inset into a wall as though it is a scene through a window. The scene of rooftops and a church in the foreground appears to be still, but slight movements of distant cars, people and birds reveal that time is passing. Church bells may be heard at first in the distance and then nearer until the bells in the middle of the scene swing and peal. The work explores the slowly changing pace of life and the title refers to the time base and the pejorative term given to the ‘lazy’ south of Italy. The work’s motifs are Time, Memory and Identity. Each of the works in the exhibition addressed Time in one aspect or another, each suggesting routes travelling backwards through time and the possibility of a return, to re-view and re-experience in order to make meaning afresh. “Filmed in the town of Venafro, in Molise, Quattro Minuti di Mezzogiorno (2010, employs a fixed camera position which at first frustrates before revealing the very immediacy of its story. At the announcement of midday, the many church bells of Venafro compete in succession for almost 240 seconds and we realise that we can no longer trust technologies as there is in fact, no single moment of midday.” D MacKenna. This output led directly to further studies in 2012 and will culminate in 2013 with further research supported by an RSE Caledonian European Fellowship Sep- December 2013
DESIGN IN ACTION. (Research that builds a model for knowledge exchange between industry and academia, using design as a strategy for business growth in Scotland. Disseminated through: Follett G. Marra M. Leading innovation through design. Presentation & Proceedings of the Design Management Institute, DMI 2012, International Research Conference, Boston USA. 8/08/12 - 9/08/12)
No full textFollett and Marra propose a model for improving knowledge exchange in order to meet the complex demands of industrial R & D in Scotland. As the UK government and public policy bodies seek routes back to economic growth, the domestic higher education sector has been identified as a source for innovation. The Scottish economy’s particular weaknesses in industrial R&D mean that resultant knowledge exchange is critical. The proposed model to meet these complex demands is based upon the funded AHRC Knowledge Exchange Hub, Design in Action, led by Follett at the University of Dundee
Work, belonging and new professionalism:the case of learning technology & educational development staff in UK HE
No full textAdaptive capacity in a Chilean context:a questionable model for Latin America
No full textClimate change impacts are already being keenly observed in the Andes, with significant implications for water use due to alterations in both volumes and seasonality from changes in snow and ice. Concurrently, the style of water governance in Chile has long been held up by international institutions such as the World Bank as a potential model for other Latin American countries seeking to reform their own water governance frameworks. In light of both these issues, a closer inspection of the Chilean water governance context in relation to its adaptive capacity to climate change is warranted. To this end, a governance-related adaptive capacity assessment was applied to a Chilean river basin, the Aconcagua in Region V that focussed on both short and long term resilience, as well as proactive and reactive capacity. Results show that for the Aconcagua Region, the Chilean water governance regime demonstrates significant challenges in adapting to increasingly recurrent and intense periods of drought. Reactive coping techniques for climate variability can be quickly mobilised through the networks that exist. However, longer term preparations and transformative approaches for meeting the mounting challenges of climate change are blocked by lack of trust and cooperation, lack of agency at regional operational levels and lack of accessible and appropriate information on water resources
Collective teacher efficacy, pupil attainment and socio-economic status in primary school
No full textCollective teacher efficacy (CTE) refers to the collective perception in a school that teachers make an educational difference to their pupils over and above the impact of their social circumstances. This study explored the relationships between CTE, socio-economic status (SES) and pupil attainment levels in reading, writing and mathematics (at the whole primary school level). Sixty-six teachers in 15 out of 19 schools in a small Local Authority participated. Significant positive relationships were found between SES and attainment in reading and mathematics (but not writing). However, significant positive relationships were also found between CTE and attainment in reading and writing (but not mathematics). Neither SES nor CTE independently accounted for a statistically significant proportion of the total variance in attainment. However, CTE appeared to have a much stronger independent impact than SES in writing (and also a modest independent impact in reading). One school with an atypical pattern of high CTE and high attainment despite low SES was studied in depth. Here, school climate or ethos, high quality in-service training and a focus upon pedagogy were perceived as the most potent factors in raising attainment. When these factors serve to heighten CTE, the impact of SES on pupil attainment may be reduced, and this may be easier in some subjects than others
Continuing non-compliance with the Aarhus Convention
No full textBrief note on review of non-compliance report by Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Conventio
Properties of thin-film silicon solar cells at very high irradiance
No full textThe focussed beam of a low-power helium–neon laser is used to study accelerated light-induced degradation (Staebler–Wronski effect) and high steady-state photocarrier generation rates in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells, at up to 13 MW m- 2 irradiance. Even at these high power densities, COMSOL® simulations indicate that heat diffusion into the substrate, aided by spreading conduction via the Ag back-contact, restricts the temperature rise to less than 14 °C. Short-circuit current may be measured directly, and the I–V characteristic estimated by taking into account shunting by the inactive part of the cell. The improved resistance to degradation of microcrystalline silicon cells is shown to persist to high irradiance. Computer simulations of an amorphous silicon solar cell are presented that are consistent with measured un-degraded and degraded properties, and offer insight into prevailing defect creation processes and carrier recombination mechanisms
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