312 research outputs found
The Labour Exchanges System in the Tembo
No full textThe author describes and analyzes the labor exchange system of the Tembo, an agricultural people in eastern Zaire. The system consists of three basic rules: (1) one-day work should be exchanged with one-day work, and a monetary system is of no effect in the labor exchange system, (2) labor is exchanged between the same sex, and (3) labor is exchanged by a dynamic contract between two individuals. But these three rules alone are practically impossible, unless every member in the society has equal capacity of labor. The Tembo, therefore, have three modified systems of labor exchange to resolve some incongruity between the principles of labor exchange and inequality existing in the society:(1) "lukoo" system of offering labor as a gift; (2) "kwanza" system of paying back a feast instead of labor; (3) a system which works beyond the limitation of sex enabling deficient families to participate the labor exchange group. These three subsystems make the labor exchange system prevalent in the Tembo society
Understanding Plain English summaries. A comparison of two approaches to improve the quality of Plain English summaries in research reports
No full textPlain English summary There is a need for the authors of research reports to be able to communicate their work clearly and effectively to readers who are not familiar with the research area. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), along with a number of other funding bodies and journals, require researchers to write short lay summaries, often termed plain English summaries (PESs), to make research accessible to the general public. Because many researchers write using technical, specialised language, particularly in scientific reports, writing PESs can be challenging. In this study we looked at how to improve the quality of PESs. We took PESs which had been submitted to the NIHR Journals Library and asked authors to rewrite them using new guidance. We also asked an independent medical writer to edit the summaries. We measured the quality of these three versions (original summary, rewritten summary and edited summary) in two ways. First, we asked a group of people who were not specialists in the subject area to read and rate how easy the summaries were to understand. Secondly, we used a well-known measure called the Flesch reading ease score to assess how easy the PESs were to read. We found that there was no difference in how easy people found the summaries to understand across the three versions. However, the PESs that were rewritten by the authors and that were edited by the independent medical writer were both easier to read than the originals. This shows that PESs can be improved and for organisations who feel that employing an independent writer to edit summaries, providing clear, practical guidance to authors may be a cost-effective alternative. Abstract Background Plain English summaries (PES) or lay summaries are often included as part of research reports and journal articles. These summaries are vital to ensure that research findings are accessible and available to non-specialist audiences, for example patients and members of the public. Writing a PES requires the adoption of a different style than is generally used in a traditional scientific report, and researchers can find this challenging. This study explored two possible ways to improve the quality of PESs in the NIHR Journals Library: 1) Providing enhanced guidance to authors and asking them to rewrite the PES and 2) Employing an independent medical writer to edit the PES. Methods We compared the three versions of the PES (original, author rewritten and independent writer edited) to assess 1) how easy they were to understand and 2) how easy they were to read. In order to establish how easy PESs were to understand, a group of 60 public reviewers read a set of summaries and rated them on a four point scale from “Did not understand” to “Understood all”. The Flesch reading ease score was used to measure how easy the summaries were to read. Results Results indicated no significant difference across the three versions of the PES in terms of ease of understanding. However, both the author rewritten and independent writer edited versions were significantly easier to read than the original. There was no significant difference in ease of reading between these two versions. Conclusion These findings suggest that employing independent medical writers to edit PESs and providing clear, practical guidance to authors are two ways in which the readability of PESs could be improved. Results have implications for journal editors and publishers seeking to enhance accessibility and availability of research findings
Beyond the Maypole - ACE225.7
No full textThe Old Profanity showboat at Bristol. The Oyster Band with Too Late Now. John Jones and Ian Telfer talking about their mixture of folk and rock music, and considering themselves "British" rather than "English". They want to open up both the rock and folk worlds. The Band with This Year, Next Year. Tembo says that he’s worried about losing the folk tradition. Jones says they want to continue to draw on their folk roots. The Band performing New York Girls. Tembo on guitar. Credits (performance continues)
Beyond the Maypole
No full textStonehenge. Biggie Tembo playing bush piano. Scenes of "traditional" England. Tembo’s VO talking about playing traditional Zimbabwean music in England, but not finding much traditional English music. Salisbury Cathedral. The Barely Works playing at a music event there. Stonehenge. Tembo talking to Mat Fox about how to discover traditional English music. Identifiable music culture in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, but English music is caught up in Victorian ideas of village hall dancing, Morris dancing, etc. The Barely Works playing Byker Hill. Bleddington, Cotswolds. The South Downs Morris team performing. Tembo talking to Phil Everitt, about the way Morris dancing and similar activities have been packaged for the tourist industry, and that many young people therefore don’t take it seriously. The Morris team performing; Discussion continues over. Northumberland countryside. Kathryn Tickell (on fiddle), Will Taylor, Will Atkinson, and Alistair Anderson playing. Tembo talks to Anderson and the others about old music being handed down to new generations, and how this can change it. The Kathryn Tickell band with Tickell playing Northumberland pipes. Anderson at Folkworks, with a class of young people. Anderson with Tembo and the others. Tickell talks about growing up with the music and learning from people like Taylor. The Kathryn Tickell band (Tickell on fiddle).END OF PART ONEBilly Bragg singing Trust. Bragg VO. Bragg talking to Tembo about political music, with which he feels he’s been categorised. He talks also about the mixed background of British music, and multiculturalism. Bragg and Tembo playing and singing There is Power in a Union. The Robb Johnson Band playing in Southall, London, This is the UK Talking. Johnson talking to Tembo about being part of the British ballad tradition, but with his music also coming from the rhythms he hears around him, reggae, bangra, etc. The Band continues to play. Johnson and Roger Watson talking to Tembo about political songs, which don’t fit popular formulae. Watson talks about his own work with Southern Arts which tries to ensure that older folk music is known about, and also enables people to create new and relevant folk music today. The Band performing. Heather Joyce performing. Joyce tells Tembo about the influences in her music, which came more from a good musical education than from hearing folk music. She describes the story of Lady Jay’s Grave, near Hand Tor, on Dartmoor. She’s interested in keeping history alive through music, and worries that English traditional music is stagnating. Joyce singing her song about Kitty Jaye; views of Dartmoor and the grave intercut.The Old Profanity showboat at Bristol. The Oyster Band with Too Late Now. John Jones and Ian Telfer talking about their mixture of folk and rock music, and considering themselves "British" rather than "English". They want to open up both the rock and folk worlds. The Band with This Year, Next Year. Tembo says that he’s worried about losing the folk tradition. Jones says they want to continue to draw on their folk roots. The Band performing New York Girls. Tembo on guitar. Credits (performance continues)
The nature of us: unlocking human potential
No full text© 2017 Dr. Gary John William VealeA transdisciplinary investigation into the human relationship with nature, to better unlock human potential in an era of creative transformation and disruptive innovation. Research contributes new knowledge to aid research and real world problem solving, responding to eight identified knowledge gaps. It explores the realities of everyday nature (real and represented), the relevance of nature to large enterprises (Nature@Work), the realities of corporate nature responses and constructs a multi-level benefits framework for nature connectivity. A new sensemaking framework (the Tembo device) is developed and applied, purposed to help academic and non-academic audiences better understand the human relationship with nature, and contribute to real world problem solving. Work includes discussion regarding the concept of nature attunement and issue of nature washing, and proposes the adoption of a program logic approach to aid the development, implementation and evaluation of nature-related interventions
Timing and PT evolution of Whiteschist Metamorphism in the Lufilian Arc-Zambesi Belt orogen (Zambia): Implications to the Assembly of Gondwana
No full textGod Is Dead and the Death of the Author : Theorizing Divine Absence in Supernatural Season Five
No full textEvaluation of glycern, a by-product from the biofuel, Industry as a feed additive for free range Chickens
No full textThe overall objective of this study were to evaluate glycerin, a by-product from the biofuel industry, as a feed additive for free range chickens, whereas the specific objectives were to determine the growth rates and the feed intake of free range chickens from the use of glycerin as a feed additive. Free range chickens are indigenous chicken breeds living in close contact with human communities. These chickens are often kept by rural small holder farmers and their presence yields a number of advantages for rural households. In the recent years, small holder farmers have been in an economic fight over maize which is used for the production of millions of gallons of biodiesel. Glycerin is less toxic when used in poultry and pig rations. The LD50 for toxicity in rats is 12, 600 mg/Kg and 8, 700 mg/Kg for mice. The use of glycerin as a feed additive for free range chicken rations would help large scale farmers take up the production of free range chickens rather than leaving it in the hands of small holder poultry farmers, who lack adequate resources to produce on a large scale. This study was done in an attempt to increase the performance of free range chicken in terms of growth rates using glycerin, a by-product from the biofuel industry as a feed additive. The other reason for the study was to encourage large scale farmers to take up the challenge of raising free range chickens for the benefit of fighting bacterial resistance to antibiotics in humans
- …
