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Young people's geographies
No full textThe new key stage 3 Programme of Study (PoS) is intended to introduce greater flexibility and allow the development of a local curriculum within a national framework. Roger Firth and Mary Biddulph suggest ways in which young people's lived geographies can help teachers to do this
Young people's geographies
No full textThe new key stage 3 Programme of Study (PoS) is intended to introduce greater flexibility and allow the development of a local curriculum within a national framework. Roger Firth and Mary Biddulph suggest ways in which young people's lived geographies can help teachers to do this
The Effect of Instruction on Students' Generation of Diagrams
No full textAlthough the use of diagrams is advocated in mathematics, support for this instructional practice appears to be intuitive rather than evidentiary. A case study was used to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction in diagram generation with Year 5 students. The results suggest that although instruction can have a positive effect on students’ diagram generation, the success of the program is dependent on the teachers’ understanding of the role of diagram generation in problem solving and how diagram generation can be facilitated
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Differences in yield physiology in wheat cultivars grown under frost-prone field conditions in Southern Australia
No full textAgronomy Australia Proceedings - Crop physiologyLow temperatures during the flowering period of cereals can lead to floret sterility and subsequent yield reduction. In this study we aimed to understand the physiological bases of yield determination among wheat genotypes grown under frost conditions in southern Australia. One experiment was carried out at Mintaro in South Australia in 2016. Treatments consisted of five wheat cultivars and a synthetic-derived wheat line sown at two different times of sowing (TOS) under field conditions. Yield and yield components were analysed at maturity. To analyse in more detail changes in grain number m-2 in response to frost, we mapped the distribution of grains within the spike. The trial experienced early frosts that mostly affected TOS 1, as a result the grain yield of TOS 2 was 3-fold higher than TOS 1. Sterility varied depending on TOS, cultivars and their interactions. For example, the later maturing variety ‘Yitpi’, which in part avoided the early frost, had the lowest level of sterility in contrast to the earlier maturing varieties such as ‘Scout’, ‘Wyalkatchem’ and ‘Mace’ which showed up to 100% sterility in TOS 1. In addition, we showed a clear trend to increase the number of spikelets exhibiting a significant difference in fertility between TOS. Therefore, optimising flowering time to minimise frost exposure is amongst the most important strategies to minimise frost damage while managing heat and drought stress.Ariel Ferrante, Michael Zerner, Brenton Leske, Ben Biddulph and Timothy Marc
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