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Setting the interdisciplinary scene
No full textInterdisciplinarity, working across specialities, is something that has been
shaping higher education increasingly since the 1990s. It is a mode of
working that cuts across the usual habits of a single discipline, focusing on
solving a particular problem or situation by drawing on a range of expertise.
There are times when grand claims are made for interdisciplinary work,
and times when it is seen as a buzzword that needs to be put somewhere
because it sounds good in grant applications.
Interdisciplinary research is difficult partly because it goes against the
grain of specialization, and going into details deeply is inevitable when
one is doing research. Interdisciplinary education is even harder because
there is often less consensus about what understanding we are trying to
impart: subject specialists are themselves often not sure how to agree
on these and have to collaborate to find their way to an appropriate
understanding in each new collaboration. In this overview, Davies argues
that one consequence of this is to emphasize the open-endedness of
collaborative research, and that students can be a part of it – indeed they
make a vital contribution to judgements about what kinds of knowledge
and collaborations are of value
The context of the Connected Curriculum
No full textThis opening chapter sets a broad perspective on some of the issues facing
higher education in general: what kinds of pedagogical problems are we
trying to solve, and why? After introducing the key UCL strategy of the
Connected Curriculum and research-based education, it touches on a
number of overarching themes about learning. These include the ways
that educators construct environments for students to learn in, how their
engagement is critical (and can be squandered) and the way that in recent
years, higher education has rethought the curriculum in an attempt to
move its focus from the teacher to the learner. As soon as we start to think
along these lines, other questions emerge that might loosely be called
‘identity-related’ as we realize that one way or another, we are shaping
our graduates’ whole perspectives in far more ways than might initially
have been expected. The chapter gives an overview of some of the key
approaches that characterize modern university education, and sets the
scene for the chapters that follow. In particular, it seeks to show how we
have reached a point where research-based education is not just plausible
and achievable, but in fact desirable, as a way of bringing a set of strands
together that have hitherto rarely been coherently woven
Draft toxicological profile for JP-5, JP-8, and jet A fuels
No full textA Toxicological Profile for JP-5 and JP-8 was released in 1998. This present edition supersedes any previously released draft or final profile.Chemical manager(s)/author(s): John Risher, Obaid Faroon, ATSDR, Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences, Atlanta, GA; Fernando Llados, Lisa Ingerman, Mario Citra, SRC, Inc., North Syracuse, NY
Contextualising and connecting learning
No full textIn this case study, two academics from The Bartlett, UCL’s global faculty
of the built environment, think through how two modules can bring
together research and teaching in interdisciplinary education. They use
‘real life’ as a resource to bring together a whole range of knowledge and
activities by having students explore cities and organizational networks.
Assessment is particularly tricky in such courses, as is also argued by
Jessop and Hughes in Chapter 5; interdisciplinary learning is messy and
complicated, as Davies outlines in Chapter 8; and global perspectives
must be embedded for such courses to be meaningful, as Kraska, Bourn
and Blum highlight in Chapter 6. The authors turn these challenges into
a chance for students to learn not just dry, isolated and theoretical ideas,
but rather to engage publicly, for instance through blogs. There are many
benefits to such education: the students see the city and organizational
networks around them in a new light, and tackle realistic skills such as
working in groups along the way
Host-parasite population genetics: a cross-sectional comparison of Bulinus globosus and Schistosoma haematobium
No full textDavies CM, Webster JP, Krüger O, Munatsi A, Ndamba J, Woolhouse MEJ. Host-parasite population genetics: a cross-sectional comparison of Bulinus globosus and Schistosoma haematobium. Parasitology. 1999;119:295-302
Shock tube study of JP-10 ignition delay time
No full textJP-10 (exo-tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene, C10H16) ignition delay times were measured in a preheated shock tube. The vapor pressures of the JP-10 were measured directly by using a high-precision vacuum gauge, to remedy the difficulty in determining the gaseous concentrations of heavy hydrocarbon fuel arising from the adsorption on the wall in shock tube experiments. The whole variation of pressure and emission of the OH or CH radicals were observed in the ignition process by a pressure transducer and a photomultiplier with a monochromator. The emission of the OH or CH radicals was used to identify the time to ignition. Experiments were performed over the pressure range of 151-556 kPa, temperature range of 1000-2100 K, fuel concentrations of 0.1%-0.55% mole fraction, and stoichiometric ratios of 0.25, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0. The experimental results show that for the lower and higher temperature ranges, there are different dependency relationships of the ignition time on the temperature and the concentrations of JP-10 and oxygen
Isolation and characterization of cDNA clones to mouse macrophage and human endothelial cell tissue transglutaminases
No full textPopulation genetics of snails and schistosomes in the Zimbabwean highveld
No full textDavies CM, Webster JP, Munatsi A, et al. Population genetics of snails and schistosomes in the Zimbabwean highveld. Presented at the 3rd Workshop on medical and veterinary malacology in Africa
Dynamics of Network Formation Processes in the Co-Author Model
No full textThis article studies the dynamics in the formation processes of a mutual consent network in game theory setting: the Co-Author Model. In this article, a limited observation is applied and analytical results are derived. Then, 2 parameters are varied: the number of individuals in the network and the initial probability of the links in the network in its initial state. A simulation result shows a finding that is consistent with an analytical result for a state of equilibrium while it also shows different possible equilibria.Dynamics, Network, Game Theory, Model,Simulation, Equilibrium, Complexity
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