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Jamie Callan, 26th Annual Literary Festival
No full textJamie Callan is author of three novels for young adults. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Erotica 2002, The Missouri Review, Story Buzz Magazine, American Letters and Commentary, OntheBus, The Baffler, and Turnstile. She has received grants and fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Djerassi Foundation. She\u27s won the first prize in the Writers Digest Competition for literary fiction twice, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and a Goldwyn Award for Screenwriting. Callan teaches fiction at Yale University, NYU, and Wesleyan Universty. She is also a Master Teaching Artist with the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and was recently rated No.81 in Best American Erotica\u27s Readers Choice Top 100 erotica writers from the last 10 years
Creating author-level statistics dashboards in the EPrints repository at QUT
No full textThis presentation shows how QUT’s institutional repository (QUT ePrints) delivers value to authors by collating their their publications on a ‘Browse by person’ view and by linking this view to a statistics dashboard which aggregates and graphs the citation and download data. The author can also export their download and citation data in CSV format for further analysis or to create visualisations for a subset of their works. QUT ePrints provides a range of other usage and attention metrics which can help the author craft a narrative about their research impact. \ud
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Providing the type of usage data authors want encourages them to engage with the repository and provide full-text versions which can be made accessible
Callan Method in Teaching Spoken English
No full textBakalaura darbā tiek analizētas angļu valodas mācīšanas metodes, trīs no tām tiek salīdzinātas ar Callan metodi, kura tikusi aprakstīta padziļināti. Darbā tiek aplūkota skolotāja nozīme nodarbības procesā, kā arī runas būtiskums saziņā un valodas mācībā.
Bakalaura darba praktiskā daļa sniedz informāciju par divām izvēlēto privātās valodu skolas ValoduVēstniecība skolotāju vadītām angļu valodas nodarbībām, analīzi par iepriekšizveidotu un aizpildītu kontroles sarakstu, kā arī apkopotas skolotāju domas no iegūtās, skolotāju aizpildītas anketas.
Bakalaura darba mērķis ir pierādīt, ka Callan metode ir veiksmīgs veids kā apgūt valodu no runas aspekta, tomēr tas ir izdarāms, ja skolotājs strikti seko norādēm un metodes pamatlikumiem.
Izmantotā metode ir teorētisko un empīrisko avotu analīze. Pētījuma un praktiskās daļas rezultātā, bakalaura darba autors ir veicis secinājumus, kuri tiek sniegti darba beigās.
Atslēgvārdi: Angļu valodas mācīšanas metodes, skolotājs/a, Callan metode, runāšana, klase.The Bachelor Paper analyses English Language Teaching methods and three of them have been compared with the Callan Method, which has been described more thoroughly. The paper also deals with the importance of the teachers’ role during the lesson, as well as the significance of speech in communication and the acquisition of a language.
The practical part of the bachelor’s paper provides information about two chosen teachers from a private language school ValoduVēstniecība teachers’ led lessons, analysis of the check-list information, as well as, teachers’ thoughts from the received questionnaire.
The goal of the bachelor paper is to prove that the Callan Method is a successful way how to acquire an oral foreign language, if the teacher is strictly following the rules of the Callan Method.
The method used in the bachelor’s paper is the analysis of the theory and the empirical part. After the analysis of the theory and the empirical part the author has made conclusions that are provided at the end of the bachelor’s paper.
Key words: English Teaching Methods, teacher, the Callan Method, speaking, classroom.
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Rural life in English poetry of the mid-eighteenth century
No full textThis thesis examines several mid-eighteenth century poems, assessing their portrayal of rural life, its literary and historical significance, and the aesthetic and ideological issues it presents. An introductory essay on developments in rural poetry sets the scene for two extended essays. The first essay is a comparative reading of the subject of rural labour in three poems: James Thomson’s The Seasons (1726-44), Stephen Duck’s The Thresher’s Labour (1730, 1736) and Mary Collier’s The Woman’s Labour (1739). The viewpoints of a professional poet (Thomson), a farm labourer (Duck), and a working woman (Collier) are compared in relation to kinds of work all three address as well as to individual labouring subjects. The responses of the three poets to such related issues as folk traditions, forms of charity and other ‘compensations’, are also compared. Some surprising similarities as well as instructive differences are located; and an interesting picture of idealistic and realistic, male-oriented and female-oriented attitudes to labour and labour-related themes emerges
Strategies for gaining and maintaining academic support for the institutional open access repository
No full textThe impact of research can be measured by use or citation count. The more widely available that research outputs are; the more likely they are to be used, and the higher the impact. Making the author-manuscript version of research outputs freely available via the institutional repository greatly increases the availability of research outputs and can increase the impact.
QUT ePrints, the open access institutional repository of research outputs at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, was established in 2003 and is managed by the QUT Library. The repository now contains over 39,000 records. More than 21,000 of these records have full-text copies attached as result of continuous effort to maintain momentum and encourage academic engagement. The full-text deposit rate has continued to increase over time and, in 2012 (August, at the time of writing), 88% of the records for works published in 2012 provide access to a full-text copy.
Achieving success has required a long term approach to collaboration, open access advocacy, repository promotion, support for the deposit process, and ongoing system development. This paper discusses the various approaches adopted by QUT Library, in collaboration with other areas of the University, to achieve success.
Approaches include mainstreaming the repository via having it report to the University Research and Innovation Committee; regular provision of deposit rate data to faculties; championing key academic supporters; and holding promotional competitions and events such as during Open Access Week.
Support and training is provided via regular deposit workshops with academics and faculty research support groups and via the provision of online self-help information. Recent system developments have included the integration of citation data (from Scopus and Web of Science) and the development of a statistical reporting system which incentivise engagement
Investigating monitoring options for harbour seals in Special Areas of Conservation in Scotland
No full textManaging a wild population effectively requires knowledge of the abundance and behaviour of the species. Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) are usually counted when they come ashore at haul-out sites, and so it is important to understand how the number of seals counted at this time relates to total population size. Satellite telemetry studies confirmed that harbour seals on the west coast of Scotland showed a degree of site fidelity and coastal foraging. Most trips taken by tagged animals involved travelling only 10-30 km from haul-outs and lasted less than a day (mean 21.07 hours, SE = 0.54), although some seals travelled over 100 km. Eighteen percent of the time these tagged seals spent hauled out was in the Special Area of Conservation where they were caught.
Individual seals can be recognised from their unique pelage patterns using computer-assisted photo-identification. Capture histories for adult harbour seals at a site in north-west Scotland indicated that the number of seals using the study area between April and October was 3.4 times higher than the number counted during an aerial survey made during the August moult. In the UK, aerial surveys of harbour seals are usually conducted during the first three weeks of August, when seals are moulting. These counts have a coefficient of variation of around 15%. Land-based counts made at study sites on the north-west coast of Scotland indicated that the number of seals hauled out was most consistent during the moult, but highest counts were from the pupping period. Analysis of moult counts indicated that starting surveys one week earlier (on 7th August) and surveying 1½ hours earlier in the tidal cycle would reduce the count variation. There was spatial, seasonal, diurnal and sex-related variation in the proportion of time harbour seals hauled out. Thus the relationship between counts and total population size is likely to vary spatially and temporally. This variation should be included in the estimates of the CV of correction factors.
A 5% annual change in harbour seal population size was predicted to take around 14 years to detect based on annual surveys and a CV = 0.15. This detection period increases when monitoring methods with lower precision are used, or surveys are made less frequently. Trends in seal abundance at pairs of haul-out sites were not synchronous and so it is unlikely that counts from small land-based protected areas, such as Special Areas of Conservation, can be used to monitor overall population status
Pup mortality in a rapidly declining harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) population
No full textThis research was funded by the Scottish Government (www.scotland.gov.uk), Scottish Natural Heritage (www.snh.gov.uk) and the Natural Environment Research Council (www.nerc.ac.uk). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.The harbour seal population in Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, has reduced by 65% between 2001 and 2010. The cause(s) of this decline are unknown but must affect the demographic parameters of the population. Here, satellite telemetry data were used to test the hypothesis that increased pup mortality could be a primary driver of the decline in Orkney. Pup mortality and tag failure parameters were estimated from the duration of operation of atellite tags deployed on harbour seal pups from the Orkney population (n = 4) and from another population on the west coast of Scotland (n = 24) where abundance was stable. Survival probabilities from both populations were best represented by a common gamma distribution and were not different from one another, suggesting that increased pup mortality is unlikely to be the primary agent in the Orkney population decline. The estimated probability of surviving to 6 months was 0.390 (95% CI 0.297 – 0.648) and tag failure was represented by a Gaussian distribution, with estimated mean 270 (95% CI = 198 – 288) and s.d. 21 (95% CI = 1 – 66) days. These results suggest that adult survival is the most likely proximate cause of the decline. They also demonstrate a novel technique for attaining age-specific mortality rates from telemetry data.Peer reviewe
The Rubakov–Callan scattering on the supergravity monopole
No full textAbstractWe study small perturbations around the supersymmetric CVMN monopole solution of the gauged supergravity in D=4. We find that the perturbation spectrum contains an infinite tower of Coulomb-type bound states both in the bosonic and fermionic parts of the supergravity multiplet. Due to supersymmetry, the eigenvalues are the same for the two bosonic parity sectors, as well as for the fermionic sector. We also find that the fermion scattering on the monopole is accompanied by isospin flip. This is analogous to the Rubakov–Callan effect of monopole catalysis of proton decay and suggests that there could be a similar effect of catalysis for decay of fermionic systems in supergravity
Feeding Time
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's difficult to tell who's enjoying the feast the most as Nanette Barnett and her son, Callan, 4, feed bread to geese and ducks at the University of Oklahoma Brandt Park Duck Pond.
Charting Progress 2. Chapter 3. Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seas:Seals
No full text3.5.1 Key pointsi. IntroductionTwo species of seal live and breed in the UK.About 36% of the world’s population of greyseals reside in the UK; almost 90% of these arein Scotland. About 4% of the world’s populationor 30% of the European subspecies of harbour(also known as common) seal are found in theUK with 80% of these in Scotland. Althoughboth species can be seen all round the UKcoast, they are considerably more abundant insome areas than others. Changes in local sealpopulation size and distribution may be relatedto changes in the marine environment. Underthe Conservation of Seals Act 1970, the NaturalEnvironment Research Council has a statutoryobligation to provide the UK Governmentwith ‘…scientific advice on matters relatedto the management of seal populations’. Amajor component of this advice is up-to-dateinformation on the size and distribution of UKseal populations. Both grey and harbour sealswere given protection under the Conservationof Seals Act 1970 and under the EU HabitatsDirective. In Scotland, the Conservation of SealsAct has been replaced by the Marine (Scotland)Act 2010, which has extended seal protectionmeasures.Five species of Arctic seal occasionally visit theUK coast.ii. How has the assessment beenundertaken?UK seal populations are monitored by differentorganisations using a variety of techniques. Greyseal populations are assessed through estimationof pup production at traditional breedingcolonies. Pup production is monitored annuallyat colonies that contribute an estimated 85% ofpups born in the UK. Most colonies are surveyedusing aerial photography, others through groundcounting. The great majority of colonies in Walesand south-west England are not included as theyare extremely difficult to survey and cannot besurveyed frequently because grey seals breed incaves or on beaches at the foot of remote cliffs.Harbour seal populations are also monitoredmostly by aerial survey, although at a differenttime of their annual cycle since they do notaggregate when breeding. In south-east Englandand parts of Scotland they are monitoredannually. In the remainder of Scotland they aremonitored at about four to five year intervals. InNorthern Ireland, counts are monthly. Grey sealpup production has been monitored since theearly 1960s; harbour seals have been monitoredsince the late 1980s. Both grey and harbourseals are probably more numerous now thanin the historical past, when they were locallyhunted and/or harvested.iii. Current and likely future status of sealpopulationsIn the UK, grey seals are considerably morenumerous than harbour seals. After decadesof increase, total grey seal pup productionappears to be levelling off in the UK and is nowincreasing at only a small number of colonies.Harbour seal numbers have declined dramaticallyin Shetland, Orkney and the east coast ofScotland since 2001, by over 50%. There hasbeen a smaller decline in the Outer Hebrides butnumbers on the west coast of Scotland haveremained relatively stable. The causes of thesedeclines are not yet known. Two outbreaksof phocine distemper virus (PDV) affected theharbour seal population in eastern England with50% dying in 1988 and 22% dying in 2002.In marked contrast to European harbour sealpopulations which showed an immediate andrapid recovery, recovery in the eastern England508 Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seaspopulation after the 1988 outbreak was delayedfor three years and has yet to begin followingthe 2002 outbreak. PDV outbreaks are likelyto recur in the future but it is not possible topredict the proportion of the population thatmight be affected, which populations are mostvulnerable (besides eastern England) or preciselywhen outbreaks will occur.iv. What is driving change?The previous increase in grey seal pupproduction is at least in part due to the increasedavailability of breeding sites following theabandonment of human settlements on remoteislands, including the automation of lighthouses.The current reduction in the rate of increaseis thought to be due to density dependentfactors affecting the population as a whole. It isnot yet clear whether factors affecting survivalare more important than factors affectingfecundity. Causes of the declines in harbour sealpopulations in north and east Scotland remainunclear. Contributing factors could be eithernatural or anthropogenic or both and include:competition with grey seals, predation by killerwhales, unregulated shooting and declines inimportant prey species (e.g. sandeels).It is difficult to predict future trends in UKseal populations with certainty. Grey seal pupproduction appears to be stabilising, so thegrey seal population is likely to stabilise overthe next decade or so. It is far harder to predictwhat harbour seal populations in north and eastScotland will do, given recent declines and thelack of any obvious cause(s). In east England,PDV outbreaks are likely to recur in the future.The observed recent declines in north and eastScotland populations are not related to theoutbreak of PDV in 2002 as none of the harbourseals sampled in areas of decline had beenexposed to PDV.v. What are the uncertainties?While there are uncertainties in estimatingthe size of the total grey seal population fromthe annual estimates of pup production, theprocedures used to estimate pup productionare considered to be robust. Through the1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, seal researchwas focussed heavily on grey seals, withharbour seals only coming to attention in1988, after the first PDV outbreak. With therecently documented declines, harbour sealsare becoming increasingly important. Most ofthe pressure assessment is based on expertjudgement but it is difficult to assess the effectsof different pressures on seal populations. Thisapplies to both species.vi. Forward lookThe Scottish Government and Scottish NaturalHeritage have funded a number of projectsinvestigating the declines in harbour seals innorth and east Scotland. Increasing renewableenergy production may impact marine mammalpopulations, requiring additional information incertain areas. Harbour seal monitoring frequencyin Scotland is infrequent compared with greyseal monitoring
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