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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
Fig. 103. Prionocyclus quadratus Cobban, 1953. Holotype, USNM 108332 in A Revision Of The Turonian Members Of The Ammonite Subfamily Collignoniceratinae From The United States Western Interior And Gulf Coast
No full textFig. 103. Prionocyclus quadratus Cobban, 1953. Holotype, USNM 108332, Sage Breaks Member of the Carlile Shale, sec. 63, T 9S, R 61E, Carter County, Montana. Figures are ×1.Published as part of KENNEDY, W. JAMES, COBBAN, WILLIAM A. & LANDMAN, NEIL H., 2001, A Revision Of The Turonian Members Of The Ammonite Subfamily Collignoniceratinae From The United States Western Interior And Gulf Coast, pp. 1-148 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (267) on page 122, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2001)2672.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/538214
Fig. 103. Prionocyclus quadratus Cobban, 1953. Holotype, USNM 108332 in A Revision Of The Turonian Members Of The Ammonite Subfamily Collignoniceratinae From The United States Western Interior And Gulf Coast
No full textFig. 103. Prionocyclus quadratus Cobban, 1953. Holotype, USNM 108332, Sage Breaks Member of the Carlile Shale, sec. 63, T 9S, R 61E, Carter County, Montana. Figures are ×1.Published as part of KENNEDY, W. JAMES, COBBAN, WILLIAM A. & LANDMAN, NEIL H., 2001, A Revision Of The Turonian Members Of The Ammonite Subfamily Collignoniceratinae From The United States Western Interior And Gulf Coast, pp. 1-148 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (267) on page 122, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2001)2672.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/538214
Fig. 106. Prionocyclus quadratus Cobban, 1953. Paratype, USNM 108333a in A Revision Of The Turonian Members Of The Ammonite Subfamily Collignoniceratinae From The United States Western Interior And Gulf Coast
No full textFig. 106. Prionocyclus quadratus Cobban, 1953. Paratype, USNM 108333a, Sage Breaks Member of the Carlile Shale, sec. 63, T. 9S, R. 61E, Carter County, Montana. Figures are ×1.Published as part of KENNEDY, W. JAMES, COBBAN, WILLIAM A. & LANDMAN, NEIL H., 2001, A Revision Of The Turonian Members Of The Ammonite Subfamily Collignoniceratinae From The United States Western Interior And Gulf Coast, pp. 1-148 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (267) on page 125, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2001)2672.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/538214
Fig. 105. Prionocyclus quadratus Cobban, 1953. Paratype, USNM 108333b in A Revision Of The Turonian Members Of The Ammonite Subfamily Collignoniceratinae From The United States Western Interior And Gulf Coast
No full textFig. 105. Prionocyclus quadratus Cobban, 1953. Paratype, USNM 108333b, Sage Breaks Member of the Carlile Shale, sec. 63, T 9S, R 61E, Carter County, Montana. Figures are ×1.Published as part of KENNEDY, W. JAMES, COBBAN, WILLIAM A. & LANDMAN, NEIL H., 2001, A Revision Of The Turonian Members Of The Ammonite Subfamily Collignoniceratinae From The United States Western Interior And Gulf Coast, pp. 1-148 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (267) on page 124, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2001)2672.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/538214
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
Hematodinium infection seasonality in the Firth of Clyde (Scotland) nephrops norvegicus population: a re-evaluation
No full textHematodinium infections in Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus from the Clyde Sea area (CSA) population, Scotland, UK, have previously been undetected in summer. This study aimed to establish if the CSA is actually devoid of infected N. norvegicus in this season. Two PCR assays, an ELISA and 2 tests that detect only patent infection (pleopod and body colour methods) were applied in a 21 mo study. Patent infection was seasonal, appearing predominantly in spring, while subpatent infection diagnosed by ELISA and PCR was highly prevalent in all seasons. Generalised linear modelling supported this assertion, as sampling in September and February significantly increased the probability of finding infected N. norvegicus (p < 0.01); infections were predominantly subpatent and patent respectively, at these times. Therefore, Hematodinium seasonality in N. norvegicus populations is likely to have been an artefact of insensitive diagnostic tests. Light Hematodinium infections were found using PCR assays when patent infections were at their most prevalent and intense, suggesting that infection develops at different rates in different N. norvegicus individuals and that only a portion of the total number of infected N. norvegicus die within a single year. These new data were added to a long-term data series for the CSA (1990 to 2008), which showed that after an initial 5 yr epidemic period, prevalence stabilised at 20 to 25%. Comparisons with ‘susceptible-infected-recovered/removed’ (SIR) models suggest that this high prevalence is maintained through high birth rates of susceptible host N. norvegicus
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
Development of new methodology for the synthesis of fluorine-containing compounds
No full textA set of mild conditions for the pentafluorophenylation of carbonyl compounds employing
copper-bisphosphine catalysis have been developed. The optimised conditions allow access
to a wide range of pentafluorophenyl benzyl alcohols in high yields. The reaction of aliphatic
aldehydes and particularly electrophilic ketones to give products in moderate yields is also
disclosed. An investigation into the reactivity of β-fluoroalkyl-α ,β -unsaturated carbonyl compounds was
conducted. Asymmetric copper hydride reduction of β -fluoroalkyl-α , β-unsaturated ketones
was found to preferentially give the allylic alcohol product resulting from 1,2 attack in up to
62% ee. Reaction of β-fluoroalkyl-α , β-unsaturated esters under similar conditions gave the
product of conjugate reduction in higher enantiomeric excess; up to 99% was observed.
Rhodium-catalysed arylation of β -fluoroalkyl-α , β-unsaturated ketones was also found to give
the product of direct carbonyl attack. Conditions for the racemic reaction are described along
with those for the enantioselective reaction of methyl ketones in up to 74% ee. Ruthenium
catalysed arylation of β-fluoroalkyl-α ,β -unsaturated aldehydes employing Me-Bipam as
ligand gave the desired secondary allylic alcohols in good yields and good to excellent
enantiomeric excesses (14 examples, 76-87% ee)
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