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From Breaking ‘Iron Rice Bowls’ to Reestablishing ‘Lifetime Appointments’: Reflections on the Paradox of Faculty Recruitment Reforms in Chinese Research-intensive Universities
No full textIntra-operative interventions for preventing surgical site infection:An overview of Cochrane reviews
No full textThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Overview). The objectives are as follows: To present an overview of the effectiveness and safety of interventions delivered during the intra-operative period aimed at preventing surgical site infections in all populations under going surgery in operating theatre settings.</p
Enhancing the performance outcomes of firm servitization efforts:key capabilities and network resources
No full textETEAM Project: An overview of the project background and methodology
No full textGeneric exposure tools are currently widely used for chemical safety assessments under REACH. The risk assessment under REACH follows a tiered approach in which the first tier should provide a conservative (i.e., protective) system that can discriminate between substances in scenarios of some concern and those which are considered safe. Several screening models such as ECETOC TRA, MEASE, EMKG-EXPO-TOOL, Stoffenmanager® and RISKOFDERM are recommended by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA, 2012) for estimating occupational exposure. Although these screening tools claim to have a broad range of applicability, none of the models has been extensively validated during its development. The German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, (BAuA) therefore initiated and sponsored a comprehensive model evaluation in the frame of the ETEAM project.. Carried out by the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM Edinburgh) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine (ITEM Hannover) the ETEAM project was intended to compare and contrast the different models in terms of their conceptual and external validation, scope of application, functionality and user-friendliness. An international Advisory Board provided objective scientific advice to the project and made available workplace exposure data for use in the external validation process. The results of the ETEAM project will assist industry and registrants to choose the most appropriate model for a given exposure situation. In addition, its results will help authorities to assess whether or not an exposure scenario presented by a registrant is sound and to estimate how conservative the exposure estimates are. Finally the results are intended to identify areas of concern where model developers are encouraged to review and, when appropriate, revise and improve the models. This paper outlines the background and methodological approach and describes briefly the organisational setup of the ETEAM project.<br/
Expressive and innovative, Beethoven's settings of folksongs
No full textThe article highlights the importance of Beethoven's 179 folksong settings. The numbering system used for them in the current Beethoven thematic catalogue is highly confusing, whereas the author's own system has previously been praised as 'very well argued and comprehensible'. The settings, which were almost all commissioned by George Thomson, show remarkable originality and inventiveness, in many ways just as much as the composer's major works. Beethoven's use of motivic development, and his striving for continuity between stanzas, are particularly noteworthy, and are illustrated in the article
Defining Fabric Drape
No full textThis research aims to obtain more insight in the perception of fabric drape and how fabric drape can be categorized With the current 3D virtual technologies to simulate garments the fashion and clothing industry can speed up work processes, improve accuracy and reduce material consumption in fit, design and sales. Although the interest in 3D technology is increasing, the implementation on a large scale emerges only slowly. At the threshold between physical and virtual fitting the fashion industry faces new challenges and demands requiring responses out of rule. The measurement of fabric drape started in the first half of the previous century, after the introduction of 3D garment simulation fabric drape gained interest from more researchers to obtain information for the virtual drape. Intensive research has been undertaken to define ‘fabric hand’, however, research is limited for the definition of fabric drape. Better understanding of how fabrics drape and how they can be selected based on their drape might contribute to the understanding of the virtually assessed material and accelerate the selection process of virtually, as well as digitally presented fabrics. For this research the drape coefficient of 13 fabrics, selected based on their drape, was measured with the Cusick drape tester. Images and videos of the fabrics draped on pedestals were presented to an expert textile panel who were asked to define the fabric drape. From these definitions categories, as well as identifying key-words, were derived. During a group session the expert panel evaluated the drape categories and identifying key-words. In the next phase an expert user panel, familiar with the assessment of fabrics in a virtual environment, assessed the appropriateness of the categories and identifying key-words which were presented along with the fabric drape images and videos. Moreover, both panels judged the stiffness and amount of drape, next to that they indicated similar draping fabrics. The relation between the subjective assessment of drape and the drape coefficient was investigated. The agreement of the user panel with the drape categories defined and evaluated by the textile panel was high. Further, the agreement of the majority of the user panel with the identifying key-words was above 78%. A strong relation was found between the measured drape coefficient and the subjectively assessed stiffness and amount of drape. Additionally, the analysis of the fabrics combined by the panels based on drape similarity, as well as the analysis of the drape coefficients, confirms with previous research, that significantly different fabrics can have a similar drape. Fabrics can be divided in drape categories based on the way they drape, and the identifying key-words are useful to distinguish between significantly different fabrics with similar fabric drape. Moreover, the categories are related to the drape coefficient
An approach to controlled islanding based on PMU measurements
No full textIn this paper an Intentional Controlled Islanding (ICI) scheme is investigated as a last resort corrective action, to prevent an imminent blackout. The proposed methodology for ICI is based on simulated real-time measurements from Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) which are used for online identification of power system dynamic behavior. The methodology aims to split the system into two islands based on information from online identification of power system dynamic behavior. An islanding index is also proposed to determine the optimum islanding solution for the specific contingency. The methodology is applied on the IEEE68 Bus test system
Pedagogical Methodology to Design a Biomanufacturing Laboratory for Large Groups of Engineering Students
No full textThis paper proposes a methodology to design teaching activities based on good principles for educational practice by McMahon and and varying learning styles. It hypothesises that this will lead to ‘deeper’ student learning and improved student satisfaction. The methodology is then presented in a case study to design a biomanufacturing unit laboratory which teaches 148 postgraduate and forth year MEng students. Measures of the effectiveness of ‘deep’ learning is measured by quantifying effective learning outcomes through exam results and student engagement. It also meausres student satisfaction using an online questionnaire similar to questions asked in the UK National Student Survey (NSS)