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RoMEO Studies 6: Rights metadata for open-archiving
No full textThis is the final study in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving) which investigated the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues relating to academic author self-archiving of research papers. It reports the results of a survey of 542 academic authors showing the level of protection required for their open-access research papers. It then describes the selection of an appropriate means of expressing those rights through metadata and the resulting choice of Creative Commons licences. Finally it outlines proposals for communicating rights metadata via the Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
Steve Stockman, Workshop
No full textSteve Stockman is the author of Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2. He is also a pop culture critic and weekly radio host on BBC Radio Ulster. Stockman is the Presbyterian Chaplain of Queens University in Belfast, Ireland
RoMEO Studies 5: IPR issues for OAI Data and Service Providers
No full textThis paper is the fifth in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It reports the results of two surveys of OAI Data Providers (DPs) and Service Providers (SPs) with regards to the rights issues they face. It finds that very few DPs have rights agreements with depositing authors and that there is no standard approach to the creation of rights metadata. The paper considers the rights protection afforded individual and collections of metadata records under UK Law and contrasts this with DP and SP’s views on the rights status of metadata and how they wish to protect it. The majority of DP and SPs believe that a standard way of describing both the rights status of documents and of metadata would be usefu
Steve Stockman, Keynote Session 1
No full textKeynote speaker Steve Stockman is the author of Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2. He is also a pop culture critic and weekly radio host on BBC Radio Ulster. Stockman is the Presbyterian Chaplain of Queens University in Belfast, Ireland
Steve Almond, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textSteve Almond is the author of two story collections, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction book Candyfreak. His new book is a collection of essays, (Not That You Asked). He lives outside Boston with his wife, two children, and mounting debt. His online home is www.stevenalmond.com
1999-2000 Steve Yarbrough
No full textSteve Yarbrough is the author of eleven books, most recently the novel The Unmade World, published in January 2018. His other books are the nonfiction title Bookmarked: Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show, the novels The Realm of Last Chances, Safe from the Neighbors, The End of California, Prisoners of War, Visible Spirits and The Oxygen Man, and the short story collections Veneer, Mississippi History and Family Men. His work has been published in several foreign languages, including Dutch, Japanese and Polish, and it has also appeared in Ireland, Canada, and the U.K. and is scheduled to appear in Italian translation. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Award and the Robert Penn Warren Award. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The Unmade World won the 2019 Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. The son of Mississippi Delta cotton farmers, Steve is currently a professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. He has two daughters—Lena Yarbrough and Antonina Parris—and is married to the Polish writer Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough. They divide their time between Boston and Krakow. Steve is an aficionado of jazz and bluegrass music, which he plays on guitar, mandolin and banjo, often after midnight. (text from https://www.steveyarbrough.net/about; photo credit: Antonina Yarbrough)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1020/thumbnail.jp
Understanding the components of specific weight in barley grains: opportunities for improving grain quality and processing efficiency.
No full textSpring barley is the primary cereal crop grown in Scotland, 35% of the crop is used
for malting and 55% for animal feed. There is a clear distinction between barley
destined for malting or feed, this is a result of the higher quality grain demanded for
malting and consequently a premium is paid for this. For example, in the UK during
September 2018 malting barley reached prices of £46/t more than that of feed barley.
Quality requirements for malting barley include: germination rate, per cent admixture,
nitrogen levels, cultivar, moisture content, uniformity, skinning level,
disease/weathering damage and specific weight (SW). Therefore different agronomic
approaches are taken when a grower is striving for either malting or feed barley. The
majority of these malting barley quality requirements are well understood, SW is well
established however its impact on malting outputs or efficiency are not well
understood. Specific weight is one of the longest standing measures of grain quality
for cereals and oilseeds, it is a measure of the weight of grain per unit volume and is
reported in kilograms per hectolitre (kg hl-1
). An increased SW is thought to be
beneficial for malt output. The aim of this thesis is to enhance the understanding of
SW as a measure of grain quality, and to establish what aspects of barley grain
determine this measure. Following establishing these grain traits, the aim is then to
relate these to the malting process and outputs, to understand how SW influences
malting. Firstly, SW has been demonstrated to have two components: grain density
and packing efficiency. This is a key part of the thesis, because both components can
change independently. Different grain parameters influence each of the components,
therefore both need to be considered together when investigating SW differences or
similarities between samples. The packing efficiency and grain density of nine spring
barley cultivars was investigated, this demonstrated that grain density contributed
48.5% to the variation in SW and packing efficiency 36.5% to the variation in SW. It was hypothesised that the packing efficiency of grains was primarily influenced by
grain morphometrics, and grain density influenced by composition. Investigating how
composition changes with grain density was investigated by first stratifying grains by
density, resulting in groups of grains with different densities. Compositional analyses
were then carried out on these groups which showed that grain nitrogen level and the
proportional volume of starch B-type granules contributed 47% to the observed
variation in grain density. Specific weight is also known to be affected by growing
conditions, with year to year variation observed. Such year-on-year variations might
be a result of changing climatic conditions between years, therefore the effect of a
moderate, but prolonged water stress was investigated under glasshouse conditions.
Plant development was altered by the stress, but SW was maintained through
compensatory mechanisms. To investigate how changes in SW affect malt quality
parameters, SW was manipulated through selection for different grain size and
weights. Specific weight was shown to be strongly correlated with the predicted spirit
yield and hot water extract of the malt. These are two fundamental measures of malt
quality. Grain density also correlated with these two measures, but packing efficiency
of the grains did not. This indicates that it is grain density rather than the packing
efficiency of the grain that is the beneficial component of SW for malting. Therefore if
breeding of elite malting cultivars is continued to enhance malt quality through
increasing SW, this should be done so through increasing the grain density
component rather than packing efficiency
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
No full textThis article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both partie
Steve Reich : a bio-bibliography
No full textIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, Steve Reich was considered a fringe experimentalist. His work consisted largely of repeating, slowly changing patterns unlike either the serialism or the aleatory that predominated at that time. Today, however, Reich is one of the most prominent and celebrated contemporary composers, one about whom the scholarly and popular literature offers an assortment of critical, historical, and analytical perspectives. Author D.J. Hoek's bio-bibliography serves as an essential guide to this literature, comprehensively surveying Reich's life and work. Included are details of all of Reich's compositions: dates, instrumentation, premiere performances, and publishers; a discography listing all commercial recordings of the composer's oeuvre; and an annotated bibliography of publications in English, French, German, and Italian. The Reich scholar or aficionado could not find a more thorough encapsulation of his brilliant career
Jere Nash Interview with Steve Patterson (Part 2 of 3)
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with Steve Patterson in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Steve Patterson is a former state Democratic Party chairman, Mississippi State Auditor, and unsuccesful candidate for Congress in 1988. Topics covered include Patterson\u27s unsuccesful race for the Senate in the Democratic primary of 1987; Mike Espy; Jesse Jackson; role of southern Democratic Party chairs in the national party; Johnnie Walls; allegation of Bill Allain\u27s homosexuality; Patterson\u27s race for State Auditor; Kirk Fordice; William Winter\u27s 1979 campaign for governor; John Arthur Eaves; Cliff Finch; and the Winter administration
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