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A Crux in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
No full textChantler, A. (2006). A Crux in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier. Ford Maddox Society Newsletter, 12, 10.On Dowell's statement that ‘Florence made the girl go to bed at ten, unreasonable though that seemed to Nancy’
The experiences of a therapeutic relationship between dietitians and patients in UK eating disorder treatment: A qualitative study
Get PDF© 2024 The Author(s). European Eating Disorders Review published by Eating Disorders Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Objective: Dietitians have a central role in eating disorder (ED) treatment, however few studies exist investigating therapeutic aspects of dietetic care and factors influencing the dietitian‐patient relationship. To address the gap, this study aimed to use a qualitative description approach to explore the experiences of delivering and receiving dietetic care in ED treatment in the UK. Method: Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 6 specialist ED dietitians and focus groups with 11 recovered ED patients. Interviews were transcribed and inductive thematic analysis was performed to identify key themes describing the data. Results: Six key themes were generated: (1) Building trust, (2) Appropriate timing, (3) Adapting, (4) Dietitians as experts, (5) Boundaries, and (6) Difficult relationships. Participants highlighted the importance of building trust and considering nutritional risk and readiness in treatment approach. Patients expressed a desire for dietitians to have experience in EDs, facilitating understanding of their illness. However, dietitians identified the nature of EDs making their role challenging at times. Discussion: This study described various factors affecting dietetic care in EDs and provided a valuable insight into patients' perceptions of treatment. The findings support advancements in ED dietitians' knowledge and understanding, helping to enhance quality of care
Multiphysics and Multiscale Building Physics: Proceedings of the 9th International Building Physics Conference (IBPC 2024) Volume 3: Building Systems and HVAC Technologies
Get PDFThis version of the contribution has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8313-7_1. Use of this Accepted Version is subject to the publisher’s Accepted Manuscript terms of use https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms.Much effort is focused on improving space heating system efficiency through improving technologies such as boilers and heat pumps, improving building energy losses through, for example, improved insulation and reducing wasted heating through improved building controls. The importance of the hydronic circuit in affecting the amount of wasted energy is often overlooked, in part due to the conscious and unconscious application of quasi-steady assumptions to energy analyses of buildings. Occupant behaviour, equipment use and solar irradiance are three examples which cause the demand on the heating system to be significantly unsteady despite stable room temperature requirements and relatively high building fabric thermal masses. This paper presents results from a single room validated unsteady space heating energy model used to explore the effects of demand side unsteadiness on energy consumption for heating system with on-off and more complex proportional-integral type controls. Demand side unsteadiness is shown to have a significant influence on the heating energy consumed, typically increasing it compared to a steady equivalent. With on-off thermostat control, the behaviour is highly non-linear, depending significantly on the timing of demand perturbances relative to 'on' events. The heating energy used exceeded the minimum required to maintain 20°C in cold and mild heating conditions by 1-14% and 14-75% respectively. With more complex proportional-integral based controllers, the excessive energy used exceeded the minimum required by 4-12% and 9-44% in cold and mild conditions respectively. High frequency demand side perturbations are effectively filtered out by the space's thermal mass. Lower frequency perturbations such as those arising from solar cycles are filtered out by the heating system control response. However, there remains frequencies of perturbance which are similar to the hydronic system response timescales which are not well managed, leading to the excess energy provision.Endo Enterprises (UK) Ltd; Sustainable Futures Scholarship; Cheshire and Warrington 4.0 project through LJM
How can we do this? An investigation of power constraints and other barriers to career development practitioners’ innovation in higher education
Get PDFThis article investigates the factors influencing career development practitioners’ decisions in relation to innovation in a Higher Education context. Drawing on a dissertation research project, it presents an early substantive grounded theory of practitioners ‘Constructing Empowerment’ to overcome power constraints and other barriers to innovation. The article provides an argument that the sector is at a ‘critical juncture’ in which radical ideas can rapidly be implemented, and that a decision-making model to discern good, from bad or ambiguous ideas may be beneficial for maintaining quality standards and healthy professional boundaries.Unfunde
Meaningful automated feedback on Objected-Oriented program development tasks in Java
Get PDF"© 2024 Copyright held by the author(s). This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in UKICER '24: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/10.1145/3689535.3689555Automation has been used to assess student programming tasks for over 60 years. As well as assessing work, it can also be used in the provision of feedback, commonly though the utilisation of unit tests or evaluation of program output. This typically requires a structure to be provided, for example provision of a method stub or programming to an interface. This scaffolded approach is required in statically typed, object-oriented languages such as Java, as if tests rely on non-existent code, compilation will fail. Previous studies identified that for many tools, feedback is limited to a comparison of the student’s solution with a reference, the results of unit tests, or how actual output compares with that which is expected. This paper discusses a tool that provides automated textual feedback on programming tasks. This tool, the “Java Object-Oriented Feedback Tool” (JOOFT), allows the instructor to write unit tests for as yet unwritten code, with their own feedback, almost as easily as writing a standard unit test. JOOFT also provides additional, customisable, feedback for student errors that might occur in the process of writing code, such as specifying an incorrect parameter type for a method. A randomised trial of the tool was carried out with novice student programmers (n=109), who completed a lab task on the design of a class, 52 of them having assistance from the tool. Whilst students provided positive feedback on tool usage, performance in a later assessment of class creation, suggests student outcomes are not affected.Unfunde
The Affective Audio Dataset (AAD) for Non-musical, Non-vocalized, Audio Emotion Research
Get PDF© 2024 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.The Affective Audio Dataset (AAD) is a new and novel dataset of non-musical, non-anthropomorphic sounds intended for use in affective research. Sounds are annotated for their affective qualities by sets of human participants. The dataset was created in response to a lack of suitable datasets within the domain of audio emotion recognition. A total of 780 sounds are selected from the BBC Sounds Library. Participants are recruited online and asked to rate a subset of sounds based on how they make them feel. Each sound is rated for arousal and valence. It was found that while evenly distributed, there was bias towards the low-valence, high-arousal quadrant, and displayed a greater range of ratings in comparison to others. The AAD is compared with existing datasets to check its consistency and validity, with differences in data collection methods and intended use-cases highlighted. Using a subset of the data, the online ratings were validated against an in-person data collection experiment with findings strongly correlating. The AAD is used to train a basic affect-prediction model and results are discussed. Uses of this dataset include, human-emotion research, cultural studies, other affect-based research, and industry use such as audio post-production, gaming, and user-interface design.UnfundedAAM added 13/08/2024
Learning beyond dialogue
Get PDF© The Author(s) 2024.Imagine an academic teacher explaining the meaning of a concept to a group of research students who are expected to make sense of it, and variously employ to it as lenses to better understand the findings of their empirical project. Each of them learns something, but the exact ‘meaning’ of what they learned does not fully overlap neither with what others have learned nor with the content communicated by the teacher: after all the teacher only explained the main notion, but left the task of conceptualizing their data to the students. Assuming our teacher is receptive to other ideas their understanding of the notion in question may be enriched by the interpretations emerging from the students’ conceptualizations. Inasmuch, as we may be tempted to normalize such a learning and perceive it as just what ‘real learning should be about’, we must admit that such a procedure is not free from a strong assumption: communicated and received contents do not overlap and are not being intended to do so. Those conversational exchanges are productive in a sense that they have a capacity to transform the learner (and potentially teacher as well) rather than just render them anodyne conduits to a learned content. This dialogic premise behind the dominant body of scholarly work on management learning deserves a closer scrutiny, which will be undertaken in this short article. The point is not to query whether non-dialogic learning is feasible – we know that it is – but rather to consider whether through (by and large) shunning the instances of non-dialogic learning, as well as often overlooking the research contexts in which dialogic inquiry is not expedient we may inadvertently favour certain societal and organizational discourses at the expense of others, and whether there are lessons about (management) learning which we may fail to learn as a result.UnfundedAAM removed and archived 29/01/2025. VoR uploaded 29/01/20
Microaggressions and Impoliteness at the Crossroads: EU academics in the UK facing hostility in the Brexit age
Get PDFThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in [Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict]. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00113.guaThe Brexit process created a loss of rights and heightened hostility towards EU migrants within the UK, even among groups previously shielded from such animosity, notably EU academics. This paper is based on 24 clear instances of microaggressions, and two bordering hate speech involving EU academics in England and synthetises the psychology/philosophy literature on microaggressions with linguistic frameworks of “rapport management” and “impoliteness triggers” leading to a novel understanding of the phenomenon. Microaggressions are defined as a specific type of impoliteness “of the mild kind”, characterised by repetition at the individual and/or the collective level, which produces feelings of annoyance, irritation and shock. This study shows that Brexit-microaggressions usually involve social identity face and the breach of equity/association sociality rights. They mostly take the shape of formulae echoing slogans entrenched in the discourses of Brexit and arise out of a mismatch between pro-Brexit comments uttered in the presence of an EU migrant.UnfundedThere was a delay in sourcing the AAM and adding it to the metadataAAM added 09/09/2024
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