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Gordon A. Marshall
No full textCouple of tin sheds.
Cook house at West Point (Point Charles) Coastal Artillery Battery.Marshall, G. A.Date:194
Development of a new Balanced Evaluation Framework for Service Improvement
Get PDFThe drive to improve services and products and to achieve “improvement” in organisations that deliver them is relentless and permeates all walks-of-life. Since the mid-1990s, both in the United States of America (USA) and in the United Kingdom (UK), there has been increasing interest in service improvement within the healthcare sector. Following its introduction, the iterative components of improvement theory (Deming, 1994) have been adapted for use in healthcare. Early improvement frameworks, for example, European Foundation Quality Management (EFQM, 1999) and Process Redesign (Hammer and Champey, 1993), developed from manufacturing which focused upon mechanistic processes more suited to industrial settings. The adaptation of such frameworks lacked evaluation because they excluded the humanistic aspect of change. This highlights the deficiency of “fit-for-purpose” evaluation frameworks that may not fully recognise the human elements of improvement. This research is an attempt to address these deficiencies through the inclusion of a more human relations oriented core component to the practice of service evaluation
Bayliss, Alex, Marshall, Peter D, Meadows, John, Bronk Ramsey, Chris, Cook Gordon, and van der Plicht, Johannes
No full textThe recording and analysis of a burnt mound and adjacent palaeochannel deposits on the floodplain of the River Soar in Leicestershire revealed that the burnt mound was in use, possibly for a number of different purposes, at the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. An extensive radiocarbon dating programme indicated that the site was revisited. Human remains from the palaeochannel comprised the remains of three individuals, two of whom pre-dated the burnt mound by several centuries while the partial remains of a third, dating from the Late Bronze Age, provided evidence that this individual had met a violent death. These finds, along with animal bones dating to the Iron Age, and the remains of a bridge from the early medieval period, suggest that people were drawn to this location over a long period of time
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The campaign for democratic socialism 1960-1964.
No full textPhDIn early 1960 it seemed likely that the official Labour
Party defence policy would be defeated by a unilateralist
resolution at the Scarborough Conference. In response to
this possibility the Campaign for Democratic Socialism,
or CDS, was established.
The CDS projected the image of a grass-roots movement
inspired by Gaitskell's "fight and fight again" speech.
But it was run by a Campaign Committee which included
leading members of the Party like Tony Crosland, Roy
Jenkins and Patrick Gordon Walker, as well as less well
known members like Bill Rodgers, Dick Taverne, Philip
Williams, Brian Walden, Denis Howell and David Marquand.
This highly talented group launched an elaborate and
successful lobbying, publicity and briefing operation
which was influential in overturning the unilateralist
vote at the Blackpool Conference of 1961. After Blackpool
the Campaign helped many of its leading members find
seats in the House of Commons while continuing to put the
"revisionist" case through its newspaper Campaign.
The importance of the CDS in the history of the Labour
Party is, primarily, as the first internal pressure group
organised by the right of the Party. It was also the
first internal Party group to use such sophisticated
lobbying techniques. Moreover, the subsequent careers of
the leading members of the Campaign influenced the
development of the Labour Party. The CDS was an important
formative political action for many of them. Finally many
of the CDS supporters set-up or joined the SDP when it
was launched
Adeonellopsis gemina Liow & Gordon 2020, n. sp.
No full textAdeonellopsis gemina n. sp. (Figs 3 F–G, 13, 14, 17A; Tables 1, 2) Adeonellopsis coscinophora var. mucronata: Livingstone 1929: p. 91. Non Eschara mucronata MacGillivray, 1889.? Adeonellopsis yarraensis: Powell 1967: p. 337, text-fig. 88. Non Microporella yarraensis Waters, 1881. Adeonellopsis yarraensis: Gordon 1984: p. 73, pl. 24G; Adeonellopsis pentapora: Gordon et al. 2009: p. 290. Non Adeonellopsis pentapora Canu & Bassler, 1929. Etymology. Latin gemina, noun, female twin, alluding to the mostly paired suboral avicularia. Material examined. Holotype: NIWA 146095, NIWA Stn D 114, 44.2000° S, 173.3000° E, SE of Banks Peninsula, South Island, 84 m. Paratype: NIWA 146073, same data as for holotype. Other : NIWA 31485, Stn KAH0705/47; NIWA 74840, Stn TAN1108/122; NIWA 146074, Stn B175; NIWA 146075, Stn B488; NIWA 146076, Stn B567; NIWA 146077, Stn C706; NIWA 146078, Stn D131; NIWA 146079, Stn D132; NIWA 146080, Stn D133; NIWA 146081, Stn D144; NIWA 146082, Stn D173; NIWA 146083, Stn D200; NIWA 146084, Stn E817; NIWA 146085, Stn F94; NIWA 146086, Stn I85; NIWA 146088, Stn O840; NIWA 146089, Stn W74; NIWA 146090, Stn TAN1108/5; NIWA 146091, Stn TQI1201/25; NIWA 146096, Stn KAH1206/4. Also NIWA 146150, Pleistocene, Tainui Shellbed, Castlecliff, Whanganui, New Zealand. Diagnosis. Branches flattened, in several planes, mostly 2 mm wide. Autozooids averaging 443 μm long, 241 μm wide. Autozooidal spiramen mostly with 4 pores. Suboral avicularia frequently paired, small, directed distad or obliquely so; 1–2 additional such avicularia elsewhere on zooid when ephebic. Marginal avicularia vicarious, sub-vicarious and interzooidal. All avicularia with closed (non-channelled) rostral tip. Putative gonozooids with broader orifices and 7–8 spiraminal pores. Description. Colony erect, bifurcating, intricate, attaining 6–7 cm height and breadth; branches bilamellar, flattened, more or less in same plane or at different angles. Branch widths varying with age of colony from 1.5 to 2.6 mm, mostly 2 mm. Autozooids arranged in quincunx; 8–10 longitudinal series across width of branch (Fig. 13A). Neanic autozooids variably subhexagonal or diamond-shaped (rhombic), or even almost elongate-rectangular, their boundaries becoming irregular and crinkly in older (ephebic) parts of colony. Interzooidal boundaries indicated by thin lines of calcification in interzooidal furrows, which are bordered by 14–19 areolar pores (mostly 15–16) in a series around the entire zooidal margin; no additional areolar pores closer to orifice but one may substitute for an avicularium. Average zooid length and width 443 μm and 241 μm, respectively. Autozooidal peristomial orifice transversely D-shaped, becoming sunken and transversely oval as zooids age, the distal peristomial rim sometimes slightly elevated and cowled. Denticulation (Fig. 14F, G) of inner peristomial margin well developed, sparse or absent. Interior view of orifice shows a pair of blunt condyles, one in each proximolateral corner. Multiporous spiramen (Fig. 14C, G) in frontal depression, central in zooid or in distal half; mean length 96 μm, mean width 71 μm; spiraminal pores 2–6, mostly 4, varying a little in size and shape, each with 4–7 spokes of variable length, mostly short and not often touching. Spiramen becoming deeply sunken into a common furrow that includes the orifice and an avicularium as the frontal shield thickens (Fig. 14E). Adventitious avicularia (Figs 13B, F; 14A, B, E) varying in size, position and orientation but all having same form, i.e. triangular rostrum with closed acute tip and smooth raised (gymnocystal) margins, common rostral-opesial foramen, semicircular opesial margin, smooth narrowly crescentic cryptocyst and no pivot bar; angles at rostralopesial transition constitute pivots. Suboral avicularia small, frequently paired, generally off-centre if single and an adjacent areola pore (source of avicularium) in place of second suboral avicularium; rostrum elevated obliquely frontalwards, generally directed a little obliquely outwards, sometimes pointing distally, distomedially if paired. Individual suboral avicularian cystids often sequentially budding additional avicularian cystids frontally to keep pace with secondary calcification. Ephebic zooids tend to have only one suboral avicularium, often displaced to a median position. A small adventitious avicularium commonly forming in a mid-proximal position as zooids age, directed obliquely distolaterally, transversely or proximolaterally; a similar avicularium less commonly distal to zooidal orifice, directed transversely or proximolaterally. Marginal avicularia (Fig. 13 B–E) vicarious, subvicarious and interzooidal, fairly frequent, like adventitious zooidal avicularia but rostrum more elongate; vicarious and subvicarious avicularian cystids sometimes bearing a small adventitious avicularium. Putative gonozooids (Figs 13F; 17A) a little larger than autozooids, with larger spiramina having 7–8 pores, in one instance arranged in a circle. Ancestrula and early astogeny not seen. Remarks. Following Powell (1967), Adeonellopsis gemina n. sp. has generally been known in New Zealand as Adeonellopsis yarraensis (Waters, 1881), an early Miocene species from southwestern Victoria. Adeonellopsis yarraensis is lensoidal in cross section, however, not bilamellar, has only six series of autozooids across the branch width and the spiramen is at some distance proximal of the orifice, such that it becomes sunken separately in highly ephebic zooids, not in a common furrow with the orifice and a suboral avicularium. Harmer (1957) included several Recent species under the umbrella of A. yarraensis, including Adeonellopsis pentapora Canu & Bassler, 1929, first described from the Philippines and Japan (see also Gordon 1993), and Gordon et al. (2009) used the combination A. pentapora for the New Zealand species. Hirose (2016) has thoroughly redescribed A. pentapora, however, and, although the two species are very similar, they differ in consistent small respects, e.g. A. pentapora typically has more spiraminal pores, a relatively large boss or tubercle near each lateral zooidal angle, an extra frontally adventitious avicularium, no marginal vicarious or subvicarious avicularia and no gonozooids or putative gonozooids. Adeonellopsis gemina n. sp. also occurs as fossil fragments (Fig. 14D) in the Castlecliffian (Pleistocene) Tainui Shellbed exposed near Castlecliff, Whanganui. Colony and zooidal characters (Fig. 14E, G) are the same as the Recent material, spiramina are identical and the inner rim of the peristomial orifice (Fig. 14G) also has denticulation in some zooids. Distribution. Norfolk Island (Australian EEZ): Norfolk Island shelf, 290 m. New Zealand: Three Kings Islands, Greater Cook Strait, Kaikoura, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury shelf, Otago shelf, Fiordland (Doubtful Sound), Puysegur Bank, Snares Islands shelf; 32– 604 m. Also Pleistocene, Whanganui, New Zealand.Published as part of Liow, Lee Hsiang & Gordon, Dennis P., 2020, New species of Adeonellopsis (Bryozoa: Adeonidae) from southern Zealandia and the western Tasman Sea, pp. 301-331 in Zootaxa 4895 (3) on pages 319-322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/432665
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