353 research outputs found
Research Identities: Reflections of a Contract Researcher
No full textThis paper examines the institutional identity formation of contract research staff in the context of the Taylorisation of research knowledges. The author has been a contract researcher for many years, after initially training and practising as a Probation Officer. She makes links between her social work training, and her current practice as a qualitative researcher. Drawing on her experience of working on a variety of different projects, at a number of different institutions, and providing illustrative examples from projects in sociology, social policy, health, and education, she reflects on the implications of the current social organization of academic research both for professional research practice and for researcher identity. There is a paradox in the way that contract research staff accrue a wealth of experience of how research is organised and conducted in different contexts, a repertoire of skills, and a vast volume of various kinds of \'data\', whilst remaining vulnerable and marginalized figures within the academy, with few opportunities for professional development and advancement. She outlines a number of strategies she has employed in the preservation of the \'research self\', and concludes by suggesting that the academy has much to learn about the effective management of \'waste\', as embodied by researchers\' selves and their data, consequent upon the Taylorisation of research work.Taylorisation; Academic Work; Identities; Qualitative Research; In-Depth Interviews; Reflective Practice
Sensitivity to fine-grained and coarse visual information: The effect of blurring on anticipation skill
No full textCopyright @ 2009 Edizione l PozziWe examined skilled tennis players’ ability to perceive fine and coarse information by assessing their ability to predict serve direction under three levels of visual blur. A temporal occlusion design was used in which skilled players viewed serves struck by two players that were occluded at one of four points relative to ball-racquet impact (-320ms, -160ms, 0ms, +160ms) and shown with one of three levels of blur (no blur, 20% blur, 40% blur). Using a within-task criterion to establish good and poor anticipators, the results revealed a significant interaction between anticipation skill and level of blur. Anticipation skill was significantly disrupted in the ‘20% blur’ condition; however, judgment accuracy of both groups then improved in the ‘40% blur’ condition while confidence in judgments declined. We conclude that there is evidence for processing of coarse configural information but that anticipation skill in this task was primarily driven by perception of fine-grained information.This research was supported by a University of Hong Kong Seed Funding for Basic Research grant awarded to the second author
Biological and Fisheries Data on Tilefish, Lopholatilus Chamaeleonticeps (Goode and Bean)
No full textThis report describes the tilefish, or Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps. Nomenclature, taxonomy, morphology, distribution, bionomics, life history, population, exploitation, protection and management of the species are all discussed.Technical Series Report No. 5Purpose: To discuss the tilefish
A descriptive study of the direct relationship between service provided by homeless shelters and client compliance with programs, 1995
No full textThe purpose of this study was to examine the direct relationship between services provided by homeless shelters and client compliance with programs. The sample for this study consisted of 85 respondents who receive services for the Atlanta Children's Shelter. A questionnaire was self administered in a one shot episode. The results of the questionnaire were analyzed by frequency distribution, means, and standard deviations. Role theory was explored in an effort to understand client compliance towards programs within homeless shelters. The major findings in this study concluded that there is a strong relationship between client compliance with programs and whether they receive needed services
The antenna model of actin-cable length control.
No full text<p>(A) Smy1 proteins (red) are delivered to the formin (green) at the barbed end of the actin cable by myosin motors (yellow). Smy1 inhibits the polymerization activity of formins upon binding. The directed transport of Smy1 by myosin motors towards the formins leads to a length dependent average assembly rate <i>k</i><sub><i>on</i></sub>(<i>l</i>) = <i>wl</i>; the longer the cables, the larger the number of Smy1 proteins delivered, and consequently, smaller the average assembly rate. (B) A schematic showing all possible transitions between different chemical states in the antenna model. An uninhibited formin assembles cables at a constant rate <i>r</i>. Smy1+myosin complexes bind to formin at a rate <i>k</i><sub><i>on</i></sub>(<i>l</i>) = <i>wl</i> where, <i>l</i> is the length of the cable. Smy1 proteins detach from the formin with a rate <i>k</i><sub><i>off</i></sub>. Regardless of the state of the formin, i.e. whether it has Smy1 bound or not, the filament is disassembled by removal of subunits at a rate <i>d</i>.</p
Global Resource Distribution: Allocation of Actin Building Blocks by Profilin
No full textHow cells regulate the distribution of a limited pool of actin between two competing structures has long been a mystery. Complementary studies from Suarez et al. (2015) and Rotty et al. (2015) now show that profilin controls the partitioning of actin monomers between competing actin networks assembled by Arp2/3 complex and formins or Ena/VASP
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