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Life is too short to be serious all the time: Donald Duck presents unconventional motivations for publishing in academia
No full textIn this food for thought article, we introduce the ‘Donald Duck Phenomenon’ to consider ten unconventional reasons for publishing in academia. These include (i) symbolic immortality, (ii) personal satisfaction, (iii) a sense of pride, (iv) serious leisure, (v) cause credibility, (vi) altruism, (vii) collaboration with a friend or family member, (viii) collaboration with a hero, (ix) conflict or revenge, and (x) for amusement. The article was inspired by the lead author’s social media search for a co-author with the surname ‘Duck’. Through LinkedIn, the lead author, Associate Professor William E. Donald, who is based in the UK and specialises in Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, found a collaborator, Dr Nicholas Duck, based in Australia and specialises in Organisational Psychology. While the collaboration may appear somewhat ‘quackers’, per one of Donald Duck’s famous phrases, “Life is too short to be serious all the time, so if you can’t laugh at yourself then call me… I’ll laugh at you, for you”. We hope that this article offers some interesting insights, particularly for academics at the start of their scholarly journey, and acts as a way to stimulate conversation around unconventional reasons for publishing in academia
Poems on several occasions: By Stephen Duck.
No full textxl,334,[2]p. ; 4⁰.Includes: 'An account of the author' and a subscription list.The final leaf contains an ode "written since the preceding pages were printed off".Augustan Reprint Society: preliminary leaves and The Thresher's Labour by Stephen Duck only, xxii-xl, 27 p.Reproduction of original from the British Library.English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT90234.Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group)
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Rural life in English poetry of the mid-eighteenth century
No full textThis thesis examines several mid-eighteenth century poems, assessing their portrayal of rural life, its literary and historical significance, and the aesthetic and ideological issues it presents. An introductory essay on developments in rural poetry sets the scene for two extended essays. The first essay is a comparative reading of the subject of rural labour in three poems: James Thomson’s The Seasons (1726-44), Stephen Duck’s The Thresher’s Labour (1730, 1736) and Mary Collier’s The Woman’s Labour (1739). The viewpoints of a professional poet (Thomson), a farm labourer (Duck), and a working woman (Collier) are compared in relation to kinds of work all three address as well as to individual labouring subjects. The responses of the three poets to such related issues as folk traditions, forms of charity and other ‘compensations’, are also compared. Some surprising similarities as well as instructive differences are located; and an interesting picture of idealistic and realistic, male-oriented and female-oriented attitudes to labour and labour-related themes emerges
The author explains how he builds duck blinds on the Mousam River. Photos and d
No full textThe author explains how he builds duck blinds on the Mousam River. Photos and diagrams show technique
Essay about Great Duck Island. The author speculates about the lives of previous
No full textEssay about Great Duck Island. The author speculates about the lives of previous residents, including the psychiatrist George Cloutier, discusses the bird population of the island, and reflects on her own process of imagining and interpreting the island
Detection of Duck Hepatitis Virus Serotype1 By Biosensor Based on Imaging Ellipsometry
No full textA novel method for the detection of duck hepatitis virus serotype1 (DHV1) using a biosensor based on imaging ellipsometry (IE) is developed. Polyclonal antibodies against DHV1 were immobilized on silicon wafers through protein A and used to capture virus particles in sample. Signals on silicon surface were acquired directly in grayscale format on an imaging ellipsometry image. This study demonstrated that the assay is rapid and accurate for detection of duck hepatitis virus. Compared with traditional methods, this technique not only has high sensitivity as low as 8 x 10(-9.5) LD(50)/ml, but can also simultaneously perform multiple serotype identification of DHV1, DHV1-g and DHV1-s. These results suggest that this biosensor might be a practicable diagnostic tool for duck hepatitis virus detection. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Bio-Duck Activity in the Perth Canyon. An Automatic Detection Algorithm.
No full textRecently analysed data from Curtin University has revealed a significant amount of “bio-duck” activity in the Perth Canyon during December 2002. The name “bio-duck” originates from sonar operators on board the old Oberon class submarines who thought that the sound resembled that of a duck. Surprisingly this is not the case for the Curtin data. The difference however may be due to onboard audio processing prior to the operators hearing the sound that was absent in the Curtin data. It should also be noted that for both data sets the origin of the sound is unknown.
For the recent data there exists two distinct types of call. One long period (T~3.1 sec) and one short period (T~1.6 sec) covering the frequency range 60 Hz < f < 1000 Hz. This could have major implications on the operations of some of the sonar on-board the Collins class submarines. Consequently an algorithm was written to automatically detect the presence of bio-duck. In order to eliminate the effect of amplitude variations between data files a signal-time ratio method was used for a third octave band centred around 125 Hz. The reliability of this algorithm was estimated by comparing it’s output with that of the manual analysis of 2240 data files (23 days). It was found to have a 93% success rate in detecting the bio-duck. This will allow quick analyse of large amounts of data to investigate annual variations and also give a method for automatic detection on board the submarines. The results will be discussed
Investigating monitoring options for harbour seals in Special Areas of Conservation in Scotland
No full textManaging a wild population effectively requires knowledge of the abundance and behaviour of the species. Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) are usually counted when they come ashore at haul-out sites, and so it is important to understand how the number of seals counted at this time relates to total population size. Satellite telemetry studies confirmed that harbour seals on the west coast of Scotland showed a degree of site fidelity and coastal foraging. Most trips taken by tagged animals involved travelling only 10-30 km from haul-outs and lasted less than a day (mean 21.07 hours, SE = 0.54), although some seals travelled over 100 km. Eighteen percent of the time these tagged seals spent hauled out was in the Special Area of Conservation where they were caught.
Individual seals can be recognised from their unique pelage patterns using computer-assisted photo-identification. Capture histories for adult harbour seals at a site in north-west Scotland indicated that the number of seals using the study area between April and October was 3.4 times higher than the number counted during an aerial survey made during the August moult. In the UK, aerial surveys of harbour seals are usually conducted during the first three weeks of August, when seals are moulting. These counts have a coefficient of variation of around 15%. Land-based counts made at study sites on the north-west coast of Scotland indicated that the number of seals hauled out was most consistent during the moult, but highest counts were from the pupping period. Analysis of moult counts indicated that starting surveys one week earlier (on 7th August) and surveying 1½ hours earlier in the tidal cycle would reduce the count variation. There was spatial, seasonal, diurnal and sex-related variation in the proportion of time harbour seals hauled out. Thus the relationship between counts and total population size is likely to vary spatially and temporally. This variation should be included in the estimates of the CV of correction factors.
A 5% annual change in harbour seal population size was predicted to take around 14 years to detect based on annual surveys and a CV = 0.15. This detection period increases when monitoring methods with lower precision are used, or surveys are made less frequently. Trends in seal abundance at pairs of haul-out sites were not synchronous and so it is unlikely that counts from small land-based protected areas, such as Special Areas of Conservation, can be used to monitor overall population status
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No full textduck1 nMr. Cormack told Mr M'Gregor, in 1827, that if Cull could catch the author of that book within reach of his long duck-gun, he would be as dead as any of the Red Indians that Cull had often shot.PRINTED ITEM DNE-citG. M. Story NOV 1974JH NOV 1974Used IUsed IUsed
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