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Productivity in Higher Education/ Kevin Stange, Kevin Strange, Caroline M. Hoxby.
No full textIn English.How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are "multiproduct" firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.Hoxby, Caroline M. / Stange, Kevin -- Staiger, Douglas -- Hoxby, Caroline M. -- Minaya, Veronica / Scott-Clayton, Judith -- Riehl, Evan / Saavedra, Juan E. / Urquiola, Miguel -- Altonji, Joseph G. / Zimmerman, Seth D. -- Courant, Paul N. / Turner, Sarah -- Vlieger, Pieter De / Jacob, Brian / Stange, Kevin -- Deming, David J. / Lovenheim, Michael / Patterson, Richard -- Carrell, Scott E. / Kurlaender, Michal -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / 1. What Health Care Teaches Us about Measuring Productivity in Higher Education / 2. The Productivity of US Postsecondary Institutions / 3. Labor Market Outcomes and Postsecondary Accountability: Are Imperfect Metrics Better Than None? / 4. Learning and Earning: An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions / 5. The Costs of and Net Returns to College Major / 6. Faculty Deployment in Research Universities / 7. Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education / 8. The Competitive Effects of Online Education / 9. Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road to Four- Year College Success / Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index1 online resource (392 p.)
FIGURE 2. Wynnella subalpina a in Morphology and phylogenic position of Wynnella subalpina sp. nov. (Helvellaceae) from western China
No full textFIGURE 2. Wynnella subalpina a. Typical mature specimens (a. HKAS 78940!, b. HKAS 45750!, HKAS 87730!); d. Receptacle surface of pileus; e-f Asci and paraphyses (HKAS 45750!); g-i Asci (HKAS 45750!); j = Ascospores. ─ Scale bars: a–c = 1 cm; c-i = 40 μm; i = 20 μm.Published as part of Zhao, Qi, Brooks, Siraprapa, Zhao, Yong-Chan, Yang, Zhu L. & Hyde, Kevin D., 2016, Morphology and phylogenic position of Wynnella subalpina sp. nov. (Helvellaceae) from western China, pp. 41-48 in Phytotaxa 270 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.270.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/478434
Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-309).This is the first comprehensive investigation of music for, or including, the classical guitar by South African composers. The focus of this research has been, firstly, to uncover as much of the repertoire as possible, and, secondly, to collate, study, catalogue and report on the information. A brief historical survey of the guitar in South Africa provides the context within which this study was conducted. The primary sources of quantitative data collection were through the archival catalogues of the South African Music Rights Organisation and through personal contact with guitarists, composers and guitar teachers. Other sources consulted were publishers, broadcasting corporations, recording companies, libraries and the internet. The body of the dissertation comprises biographical sketches, background notes, analyses and technical notes on 17 selected solo and chamber works dating from 1947 to 2007 by some of South Africa's most prominent composers and guitaristcomposers. The repertoire ranges in style from the traditional and ethnically inspired to the experimental and abstract. As this is an empirical survey, each selected entry includes details on instrumentation, duration, level of difficulty, number of pages, scordatura, commissions or requests, sources or publishers, premières and recordings. A biography of each composer is provided as well as background notes which offer an overview of the selected work. The notes discuss historical, cultural, musical and extra-musical influences, and frequently include references to interview material. The commentaries on the selected works, with musical examples, include an analytical component describing structure, form, stylistic and compositional elements, while the technical observations include performance suggestions and a grading for each work
Continuous metadata flows for distributed multimedia
No full textThe practical use of temporal multimedia has increased markedly in recent years as enabling technologies for the distribution and streaming of media have become available. As a part of this trend, hypermedia systems and models have adapted accordingly to incorporate such distributed multimedia for presentation. Structured interpretation of information has long been a fundamental feature of both open hypermedia systems and knowledge systems. Metadata, in its many forms, has become the cornerstone for providing this structured knowledge above and beyond basic data and information. This thesis presents the rationale and requirements for continuous metadata, which supports the metadata accompanying distributed multimedia throughout the lifecycle of streamed media, from generation, through distribution, to presentation. Throughout this process it is the temporal and continuous nature of the metadata which is paramount. A conceptual framework for continuous metadata is proposed to encapsulate these principles and ideas. Continuous metadata and the associated framework enable the development, in particular, of real-time, collaborative, semantically enriched distributed multimedia applications. Experience building one such system using continuous metadata is evaluated within the framework. An ontology is developed for the system to enable the collation, distribution, and presentation of structure aiding navigation of multimedia, and it is shown how continuous metadata utilising the ontology can be distributed using multicas
sj-docx-1-cjk-10.1177_20543581231160511 – Supplemental material for Determining the Longitudinal Serologic Response to COVID-19 Vaccination in the Chronic Kidney Disease Population: A Clinical Research Protocol
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-cjk-10.1177_20543581231160511 for Determining the Longitudinal Serologic Response to COVID-19 Vaccination in the Chronic Kidney Disease Population: A Clinical Research Protocol by Kevin Yau, Omosomi Enilama, Adeera Levin, Marc G. Romney, Joel Singer, Peter Blake, Jeffrey Perl, Jerome A. Leis, Robert Kozak, Hubert Tsui, Shelly Bolotin, Vanessa Tran, Christopher T. Chan, Paul Tam, Miten Dhruve, Christopher Kandel, Jose Estrada-Codecido, Tyler Brown, Aswani Siwakoti, Kento T. Abe, Queenie Hu, Karen Colwill, Anne-Claude Gingras, Matthew J. Oliver and Michelle A. Hladunewich in Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease</p
Caribbean museums and national identity / edited by Alissandra Cummins, Kevin Farmer, and Roslyn Russell.
No full textHaitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in his discussion on how the current global Westernized hegemony treats specific historical events, events chosen for their relevance to the text of Western dominance, has addressed absences (or silences as 'inherent in the creation of sources, the first moment of historical production' (Trouillot, 1995, p. 51). People and places that are designated 'Third World' often find their history has (or has been)
'disappeared'. He references complex historiographical occurrences of this process of historical production, whereby black and poor societies were not just physically ostracized, but in a sense mentally too as they basically
'disappeared' from the historical text. He states: 'History reveals itself only through the production of specific narratives. What matters most are the process and conditions of such narratives .
... Only through that overlap can we
discover the differential exercise of power that makes some narratives possible and silences others.Common GroundTable of content–Acknowledgements ix–Foreword ix –List of Illustrations xiv–
Introduction 1 –Chapter 1: Natural History = National History: Early Origins and
Organizing Principles of Museums in the English-speaking
Caribbean , Alissandra Cummins 11 –
Chapter 2: Haiti, Museums and Public Collections: Their History and Development after 1804
, Marie-Lucie Vendryes 47 –
Chapter 3: The History and Evolution of Cuban Museums
José Linares 57 – Chapter 4: The Natural History Collections of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mike G. Rutherford 69 – Chapter 5: The National Gallery of Jamaica: A Critical History ,Veerle Poupeye 83 –Chapter 6: The Creation of the National Museum of Bermuda,
1974-2011,Edward Cecil Harris 109 –,Chapter 7: Recapturing History: Suriname Museum in Fort Zeelandia.,Hilde Neus 123 – Chapter 8: Museography and Places of Remembrance of Slavery in Martinique or the Gaps in a Memory Difficult to Express , Christine Chivallon137
– Chapter 9: New Perspectives in Heritage Presentations in Suriname and Curaçao: From Dutch Colonial Museums to Diversifying Representations of Enslavement
, Valika Smeulders 153 – Chapter 10: New Museums on the Block Creation of Identity in the Post-Independence Caribbean, Kevin Farmer 160 – Chapter 11: Framing Identity, Encouraging Diversity: Recent Museum Developments in Barbados, Roslyn Russell –Chapter 12: The Memorial Museum of the Dominican Resistance:Its Composition and Role in Society,
Luisa De Peña Diaz 195 –Chapter 13: Children Get Your Culture: Museums, Individualism, and Nationalism in Jamaica,Rebecca Tortello 205. – Chapter 14: Outreach or Out of Reach? Seeking New Audiences: The Turks and Caicos National Museum Children's Club,Nigel Sadler 221 –Chapter 15: Museums and the Challenge for Heritage Organizations in Saint Lucia,Winston F. Phulgence 233 –Chapter 16: Destroying while Preserving Junkanoo: The Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas,Krista Thompson 241 –Author Biographies 245 –
Index 255
A set of software tools to build an author assessment package on Moodle: Implementing the AEEA proposal
No full textA set of new types of assessment is required for
learning management systems (LMSs), and there is a need for
a way to assess lifelong adaptive competencies. Proposed
solutions to these problems need to preserve the
interoperability, reusability, efficiency and abstract modeling
already present in LMSs. This paper introduces a set of
software tools for an author assessment package on the LMS
Moodle being developed as part of adaptive e-learning engine
architecture (AEEA). The principal features of this set are: 1)
The set avoid editing items for a 360-degree feedback
evaluation, 2) Whole items and tests are linked to levels of
competencies acquisition, 3) The competency-based eassessment
data model are based on e-learning specification
and complemented with XML data on the appraised
competencies, 4) Items and tests are storage in repositories,
and 5) The tools are integrated within Moodle to facilitate the
design of an assessment plan.Florián G, Beatriz E-84371c44-6a8c-4bd9-b54b-50fc5d883944-600Baldiris, Silvia Margarita-d9551129-6f42-41aa-867f-ee5f4634b3f3-600Fabregat, Ramón-6248a392-bfb2-4771-90ec-4bf955386683-600De La Hoz Manotas, Alexis Kevin-8c2e7635-6db0-49a2-bb3b-b7131e3bad0f-60
Correction to: The possibilities and practicalities of professional learning in support of Indigenous student experiences in schooling: A systematic review
No full textCorrection to: The Australian Educational Researcher https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-019-00313-7
In the original publication of the article, the author group was incorrectly published without the co-authors. The correct author group is “Greg Vass, Kevin Lowe, Cathie Burgess, Neil Harrison, Nikki Moodie”.No Full Tex
Polyhedral Embeddings of Triangular Regular Maps of Genus g, 2 ⩽ g ⩽ 14, and Neighborly Spatial Polyhedra
No full textThis article provides a survey of polyhedral embeddings of triangular regular maps of genus g, 2⩽g⩽14, and of neighborly spatial polyhedra. An old conjecture of Grünbaum from 1967, although disproved in 2000, lies behind this investigation. We discuss all duals of these polyhedra as well, whereby we accept, e.g., the Szilassi torus with its non-convex faces to be a dual of the Möbius torus. A numerical optimization approach by the second author for finding such embeddings was first applied to finding (unsuccessfully) a dual polyhedron of one of the 59 closed oriented surfaces with the complete graph of 12 vertices as their edge graph. The same method has been successfully applied for finding polyhedral embeddings of triangular regular maps of genus g, 2⩽g⩽14. The effectiveness of the new method has led to ten additional new polyhedral embeddings of triangular regular maps and their duals. There do exist symmetrical polyhedral embeddings of all triangular regular maps with genus g, 2⩽g⩽14, except in a single undecided case of genus 13. Among these results, there are three new Leonardo polyhedra, each with 156 vertices, 546 edges, and 364 triangular faces, based on the Hurwitz triplet of genus 14 with Conder notation R14.1, R14.2, and R14.3
Local government chief executives’ everyday hauntings : towards a theory of organizational ghosts
No full textThis paper develops a theory of organizational ghosts, a concept that describes the haunted and burdensome aspects of organizational life and in particular of leadership action. The concept of organizational ghosts is not offered as yet another metaphor, a lens through which to analyse particular organizations. Rather, I offer my discussion of ghosts as a theoretical concept that explains how inheritances of the past haunt the relations and struggles of the present. I tell a ghostly tale of the everyday leadership and learning practices of UK local government chief executives, and provide an exploration of organizational ghosts as a contribution to the growing interest in the action in the shadows, atmospheres, margins and boundaries of organizations. Drawing upon an ethnographic study of UK local councils, and embracing the multiplicity and heterogeneity of organizational ghosts, the paper considers the theoretical, political and ethical stakes involved in taking ghosts seriously. Its contribution is to show how ghosts are insinuated in organizations and to highlight leaders as figures who are both willing agents and uneasy hosts of hauntings, and to point to the mediating role of leaders in handling confrontations between the past, the present and the future.Peer reviewe
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