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Data and software for article: Taylor-West, J. J., Balmforth, N. J., and Hogg, A. J. (2023) Lava delta formation: Mathematical modelling and laboratory experiments
No full textExperimental and numerical data and scripts required to reproduce the results of Taylor-West, Balmforth, & Hogg 2023 "Lava delta formation: Mathematical modelling and laboratory experiments". Submitted to JGR: Earth Surfaces
Data and software for article: Taylor-West, J. J., Balmforth, N. J., and Hogg, A. J. (2024) Lava delta formation: Mathematical modelling and laboratory experiments
No full textExperimental and numerical data and scripts required to reproduce the results of Taylor-West, Balmforth, & Hogg 2024 "Lava delta formation: Mathematical modelling and laboratory experiments". Accepted to JGR: Earth Surfaces. doi:10.1029/2023JF00750
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
A shocking display of synchrony
No full textThis article explores the Kuramoto model describing the synchronization of a population of coupled oscillators. Two versions of this model are considered: a discrete version suitable for a population with a finite number of oscillators, and a continuum model found in the limit of an infinite population. When the strength of the coupling between the oscillators exceeds a threshold, the oscillators partially synchronize. We explore the transition in the continuum model, which takes the form of a bifurcation of a discrete mode from a continuous spectrum. We use numerical methods and perturbation theory to study the patterns of synchronization that form beyond transition, and compare with the synchronization predicted by the discrete model. There are similarities with instabilities in ideal plasmas and inviscid fluids, but these are superficial
Why Privacy Matters: An Interview with Neil Richards
No full textProfessor Daniel J. Solove discusses the book \u27Why Privacy Matters\u27 and the future of privacy with the author, Professor Neil Richards
Tidal Conversion by Supercritical Topography
No full textCalculations are presented of the rate of energy conversion of the barotropic tide into internal gravity waves above topography on the ocean floor. The ocean is treated as infinitely deep, and the topography consists of periodic obstructions; a Green function method is used to construct the scattered wavefield. The calculations extend the previous results of Balmforth et al. for subcritical topography (wherein waves propagate along rays whose slopes exceed that of the topography everywhere), by allowing the obstacles to be arbitrarily steep or supercritical (so waves propagate at shallower angles than the topographic slopes and are scattered both up and down). A complicated pattern is found for the dependence of energy conversion on , the ratio of maximum topographic slope to wave slope, and the ratio of obstacle amplitude and separation. This results from a sequence of constructive and destructive interferences between scattered waves that has implications for computing tidal conversion rates for the global ocean.National Science Foundation (Award 0645529)United States. Office of Naval Research (Grant N00014-0501-0575
Interview with AntipodeFoundation.org: “Much More Than You Think: The Spatialities of Italian Autonomy” – Interview with Neil Gray, author of “Beyond the Right to the City: Territorial Autogestion and the Take over the City Movement in 1970s Italy”
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Jere Nash Interview with Neil McMillen (Part 2 of 2)
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with University of Southern Mississippi history professor Neil R. McMillen in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics discussed include Aaron Henry; race relations after the civil rights movement; and William Winter
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
A hierarchy of coupled maps
No full textA large number of logistic maps are coupled together as a mathematical metaphor for complex natural systems with hierarchical organization. The elementary maps are first collected into globally coupled lattices. These lattices are then coupled together in a hierarchical way to form a system with many degrees of freedom. We summarize the behavior of the individual blocks, and then explore the dynamics of the hierarchy. We offer some ideas that guide our understanding of this type of system
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