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Supplemental_material – Supplemental material for A Method for Collecting Atmospheric Microbial Samples From Set Altitudes for Use With Next-Generation Sequencing Techniques to Characterize Communities
No full textSupplemental material, Supplemental_material for A Method for Collecting Atmospheric Microbial Samples From Set Altitudes for Use With Next-Generation Sequencing Techniques to Characterize Communities by Allison M Spring, Kathryn M Docherty, Kenneth D Domingue, Thomas V Kerber, Margaret M Mooney and Kristina M Lemmer in Air, Soil and Water Research</p
Transport in a sustainable urban future
No full textTransport is acknowledged as a vital ingredient of any credible strategy for the sustainable city because of the key role it plays in promoting economic development, quality of life and wellbeing. Yet managing urban transport effectively, given its complex and intersecting economic, environmental and social impacts, is also precisely the kind of ‘wicked problem’ that policy makers consistently find hard to resolve (Docherty and Shaw, 2011a; Conklin, 2006; Rittel and Webber, 1973). Many of the reasons for this are longstanding and emanate in particular from the dominance of the private car in meeting the demand for mobility, which has built up over many decades in the developed world, but which is now being reproduced at a much higher pace in the fast growing cities of the Pacific Rim and elsewhere (Newman and Kenworthy, 1999; Lyons and Loo, 2008). Although it has undoubtedly transformed our patterns of travel and consumption, concerns over the limitations and externalities of private car transport – primarily traffic congestion, environmental degradation and social exclusion – have for many years stimulated various initiatives designed to mitigate these externalities (Feitelson and Verhoef, 2001; Knowles et al, 2008). The conflict between the car, long promoted by neoliberal voices as a potent weapon of the free market and individual liberty, and competing visions of a more ‘public’ transport system based on collective modes such as the bus and train, and active travel by walking and cycling, has been played out over many years. Nowhere has this conflict been more intense than in cities, as it is here that the problems such as congestion, poor local air quality and mobility deprivation are often at their most intense (Cahill, 2010; Docherty et al, 2008)
Student-led appraisal of marks
No full textStudent progression through an academic year is often full of questions regarding the relative level of achievement in continuous appraisal compared with end-of-year exams. In-course assessment marks are distributed to students during the year but many students do not know how their performance in the in-course assessment affects the score required to pass the year.In line with future curriculum developments that will allow students to include or exclude in-course assessment marks in their final examination score, we have developed an innovative new system to enable students to not only view their continuous assessment marks for the entire year on the web, but also to see how these marks contribute to their final exam grades. This will indicate how many marks must be potentially attained in their final exam to pass. Areas of weakness are clearly visible and the effect these weaknesses have on the overall outcome will be shown.The student-led appraisal of marks (SLAM) system is currently being used for the 2nd year Medical Neuroscience course. Students can view their marks for timed essays, spot tests, tutorial attendance and practical assessments on-line. Using an active server page interface to a relational database backend running on Internet Information Services, students log in to the system using their email address and candidate number. In-course assessment marks are added to the database as they are released, allowing a cumulative total of marks to be viewed throughout the year. By the time the students are revising for their end-of-year exams their grade record for the whole year is available on-line.The weightings of these in-course assessment marks are taken into account when the system calculates what percentage the student must score in their final exam to attain a pass, merit or distinction. Assessment titles are displayed along with the maximum mark attainable as well as the marks that the student has obtained for each one. When these marks are passed through the calculation algorithm the percentages that must be achieved in the final exam are shown for the different grade levels. Individual assessment marks may be de-selected, meaning that they are not included in the grade calculations. The effect of including each unit in the final assessment can be seen.Over 900 'hits' on the system have been made by 2nd year medical students (350 students), indicating multiple repeat visitors. Although this system is currently running on an informative basis at the moment, it is hoped that in the future, students will actively use this system to determine which in-course assessment marks to include or exclude before final examinations are taken and to register these preferences on-line
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
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