2,428 research outputs found
Facing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University
No full textThis paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice
Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional and National Open-Access Self-Archiving Mandates
No full textNo research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles made “Open Access,” (OA) by self-archiving them on the web are cited twice as much, but only 15% of articles are being spontaneously self-archived. The only institutions approaching 100% self-archiving are those that mandate it. Surveys show that 95% of authors will comply with a self-archiving mandate; the actual expe-rience of institutions with mandates has confirmed this. What institutions and funders need to mandate is that (1) immediately upon acceptance for publication, (2) the author’s final draft must be (3) deposited into the Institutional Repository. Only the depositing needs to be mandated; set-ting access privileges to the full-text as either OA or Restricted Access (RA) can be left up to the author. For articles published in the 93% of journals that have already endorsed self-archiving, access can be set as OA immediately; for the remaining 7%, authors can email the eprint in re-sponse to individual email requests automatically forwarded by the Repository
Aloe zebrina Baker
No full textAloe zebrina Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 264 (1878). Type: Angola, Loanda District, Barra do Bengo, Quicuxe towards Cacuaco, July 1854, F. Welaeitsch 3721 (LISU, lecto.; BM!, G!, K!, isolecto.) A. bamangaeatensis Schönland in Rec. Albany Mus. 1: 122 (1904). Type: Botswana, Palapye Road, March 1904, S. Schönland 1656 (GRAA 7223) (GRA, holo.; PRE, iso.!) A. baumii Engl. & Gilg in O.Warburg (ed.), Kunene-Sambesi Expedition: 191 (1903). Type: Angola, Chirumbu, 14 October 1899, H. Baum 275 (B, holo.; E, iso.) A. constricta Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 168 (1881). Type: Mozambique, near Sena, 8 April 1860, J. Kirk 34 (K, holo.!) A. lugardiana Baker in Bull. Misc. Inform., Keae 1901: 135 (1901). Type: Botswana, Botletle River, near Sibetuane’s Drift, 30 June 1897, E.J. Lugard 2 (K, holo.!) A. platyphylla Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 264 (1878). Type: Angola, Pungo Andongo, 1879, F. Welaeitsch 3722 (K, lecto.; BM, G, LISU, isolecto.) Diagnostic characters: This aloe sometimes occurs as solitary plants, but usually forms dense groups. Leaves are sometimes more distinctly spotted on the lower surface than the upper surface (Figure 8). Inflorescences are 1.0–1.6(–2.0) m high and branched from above the middle. Flowers are 30–35 mm long and dull red, with a dull whitish border on the outer perianth segments. Distribution: Angola (Bengo, Cuando-Cubango, Cuanza Sul, Cunene, Huambo, Huíla, Malange, Moxico), Botswana, western Mozambique, Malawi, northern Namibia, South Africa (North-West), Zambia, Zimbabwe. Habitat: Variety of veld types and soil, mostly grassland and thickets on dry hills. Also abundant in open Colophospermum mopane woodland.Published as part of Smith, Gideon F., Figueiredo, Estrela, Klopper, Ronell R. & Crouch, Neil R., 2012, Summer-flowering species of maculate Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae) in the Aloe zebrina-complex from South Africa: reinstatement of four names, and description of A. braamvanwykii Gideon F. Sm. & Figueiredo, pp. 155-166 in Bradleya 30 on pages 161-162, DOI: 10.25223/brad.n30.2012.a19, http://zenodo.org/record/786825
Hearing Faces and Seeing Voices: The Integration and Interaction of Face and Voice Processing
No full textCognitive understanding of voice recognition has borrowed much from the area of face processing, both in terms of the theoretical framework within which results are interpreted, and the methodology used to assess performance. A considerable body of research now exists to suggest that voice recognition may proceed in parallel with face recognition, and that the two pathways may combine to inform person recognition. However, rather than being independent or equivalent, these parallel pathways appear to interact to reveal interesting interference effects. The present paper reviews a series of studies that focus on a considerable and growing literature. The vulnerability of voice processing will be explored relative to face processing, and the interaction of these two pathways will be examined with reference to broader theoretical frameworks for person recognition
Discussion of Neil Altman's paper, ‘psychoanalysis and war’
No full textThis paper consists of a discussion of Neil Altman's ‘Psychoanalysis and war’, which was conducted online through PsyBC in the fall of 2006. Discussants were a group of psychoanalytically oriented thinkers chosen by the author and Nancy Hollander, the author of the other paper included in the discussion. The paper represents the full discussion with only minor edits to correct typographical errors and improve clarity
Dissimilarity is used as evidence of category membership in multidimensional perceptual categorization: a test of the similarity-dissimilarity generalized context model
No full textIn exemplar models of categorization, the similarity between an exemplar and category members constitutes evidence that the exemplar belongs to the category. We test the possibility that the dissimilarity to members of competing categories also contributes to this evidence. Data were collected from two 2-dimensional perceptual categorization experiments, one with lines varying in orientation and length and the other with coloured patches varying in saturation and brightness. Model fits of the similarity-dissimilarity generalized context model were used to compare a model where only similarity was used with a model where both similarity and dissimilarity were used. For the majority of participants the similarity-dissimilarity model provided both a significantly better fit and better generalization, suggesting that people do also use dissimilarity as evidence
The measurement of vibrational power transmission using laser technology
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Effects of Individual and Pair Housing of Calves on Short-Term Health and Behaviour on a UK Commercial Dairy Farm
No full textSocial pair housing of calves has previously demonstrated positive impacts for calves, so this study aimed to compare the health and behaviour of calves kept in individual compared to pair housing on a single commercial UK dairy farm. A total of 457 Holstein and Jersey heifer calves were recruited and systematically allocated to individual and pair housing. Weekly visits were conducted up to 8 weeks of age, with weight and presence of clinical disease measured using both a standardized scoring system and thoracic ultrasonography. A subset of calves (n = 90) had accelerometers attached to monitor activity, with CCTV placed above a further 16 pens to allow behavioural assessments to be made via continuous focal sampling at 1 and 5 weeks of age. During the study, there was a mortality rate of 2.8%, and an average daily liveweight gain (ADLG) of 0.72 kg/day, with no significant effect of housing group (p = 0.76). However, individually housed calves had increased odds of developing disease (OR = 1.88, p = 0.014). Accelerometer data showed that housing group had no effect on lying times, with a mean of 18 h 11 min per day (SD 39 min) spent lying down. The motion index was significantly higher in pair-housed calves (F1,83 = 440.3, p < 0.01), potentially due to more social play behaviour. The total time engaged in non-nutritive oral behaviours (NNOBs) was not impacted by housing group (p = 0.72). Pair-housed calves split their time conducting NNOBs equally between inanimate objects and on their pen mates’ body. Individually housed calves spent significantly more time with their head out of the front of the pen (p = 0.006), and also engaged in more self-grooming than pair-housed calves (p = 0.017), possibly due to a lack of socialization. The overall findings of this study indicate that within a UK commercial dairy management system, pair-housed calves were healthier and more active than individually housed calves, while housing group did not influence ADLG or the occurrence of NNOBs
Millisecond accuracy video display using OpenGL under Linux
No full textTo measure people’s reaction times to the nearest millisecond, it is necessary to know exactly when
a stimulus is displayed. This article describes how to display stimuli with millisecond accuracy on a
normal CRT monitor, using a PC running Linux. A simple C program is presented to illustrate how this
may be done within X Windows using the OpenGL rendering system. A test of this system is reported
that demonstrates that stimuli may be consistently displayed with millisecond accuracy. An algorithm
is presented that allows the exact time of stimulus presentation to be deduced, even if there are relatively
large errors in measuring the display time
La causa de la democracia post-soviética. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos. Num. 85 (2013) mayo-agosto
No full textNeil Buckley realizó estudios de letras rusas y francesas en el University College de la Universidad de Oxford. Trabaja desde 1991 en el Financial Times, en donde se ha hecho cargo de muy diversas secciones y tareas, entre ellas la de titular de la oficina de Moscú, y en la actualidad es el editor para asuntos de Europa oriental. Tomado del Financial Times del 19 de agosto de 2011
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