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Do dolphins benefit from nonlinear mathematics when processing their sonar returns?
No full textAn interview with author Tim Leighton about the paper
Opportunities for linking young surveyors across professional surveying member organisations and FIG
No full textTim Di Muzio on 'Sabotage'
No full textIn a series of essays published in 2013 and 2014 on capitaspower.com, political economist Tim Di Muzio explored the concept of ‘sabotage’ as it applies to capitalist power. I recently rediscovered these essays and was so impressed by them that I have reposted them here as a single piece.
About the author: Tim Di Muzio is a researcher at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of numerous books, including Debt as power, Carbon capitalism, and The 1% and the Rest of us
1996-1997 Tim Gautreaux
No full textTim Gautreaux is the author of three novels and two earlier short story collections. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and GQ. After teaching for thirty years at Southeastern Louisiana University, he now lives, with his wife, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Photo credit: Randy Bergeron)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1023/thumbnail.jp
Understanding Ethnic Differences in Student Success at Universities in New Zealand Using Linked Administrative Data
No full textUsing administrative data provided by a New Zealand university, Cao and Maloney (2018) examined the academic differences in first-year course completion and GPA achievement between the main ethnic minority groups (Māori, Pasifika and Asian) and European. The authors found that roughly a quarter of the Māori/Pasifika-European gaps in academic outcomes could be explained by observable factors that included personal characteristics, high school backgrounds and university enrolment patterns. The current thesis extends Cao and Maloney (2018) in two ways. First, it uses more data on personal, family and school backgrounds that stored in a large database, the IDI, which is maintained and operated by Statistics New Zealand. Second, this is national-level analysis on a broader range of university outcomes including participation, first- and second-year course completions, and, finally, qualification completion.
The original study sample in this thesis is comprised of approximately 180,000 individuals who turned 15 years old in the years 2010 to 2012 and were enrolled in a school in New Zealand. These students are split into three age-15 cohorts. Second-year course analysis is restricted to the 2010 and 2011 cohorts, while degree completion analysis is further limited to the 2010 cohort. Based on ethnicity prioritisation, the population is ethnically broken down into 57.1% European, 21% Māori, 10.3% Asian, 9.1% Pasifika, 1.8% MELAA and 0.8% from other ethnicities. Probit with Maximum Likelihood, Fractional Probit and decomposition techniques are used to answer the research questions. Other personal characteristics, school characteristics, parent-related factors and university factors are included in our analysis.
The regression results show clear patterns that are relatively in line with the literature. First, there are some sizeable overall differences between the ethnic minority and the European students. The most academically disadvantaged groups are Māori and Pasifika, who, when compared to European, are much less likely to undertake bachelor studies at university, complete their courses in the first and second years, or complete a degree qualification. Asian are initially more likely to participate in university relative to European, but to have lower levels of performance in the later stages of university studies. Our decomposition results indicate that giving Māori and Pasifika the same characterises as European could close most of these ethnic gaps in university participation, no more than half of the gaps in course completions and about one quarter of the gaps in degree completion
First person - Tim Petzold
Get PDFFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Tim Petzold is first author on ‘ Connexin 41.8 governs timely haematopoietic stem and progenitor cell specification’, published in BiO. Tim conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Julien Bertrand's lab at the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Holger Gerhardt at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, investigating developmental biology – previously his focus was on how blood stem cells develop and now it has shifted to how the vascular system develops
Tim Seibles, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. In 2013 he received both the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Misericordia University for his literary accomplishments. His latest collection, One Turn Around the Sun, has just been released. Tim is the current Poet Laureate of Virginia and is a Professor of English at Old Dominion University where he teaches literature as well as classes in the MFA in writing program
Tim Seibles, 39th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTim Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. In 2013 he received both the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Misericordia University for his literary accomplishments. His latest collection, One Turn Around the Sun, has just been released. Tim is the current Poet Laureate of Virginia and is a Professor of English at Old Dominion University where he teaches literature as well as classes in the MFA in writing program
Global Media Ideas - Infinite Pathways to Creative Succes - Tim Chang - Part One.mp4
No full textDuring the X Media Lab: Global Media Ideas summit in June 2011 media and technology writer Brad Howarth conducted interviews with industry experts for Creativeinnovation. This video is part one of Brad Howarth's interview with Tim Chang about his role as Partner at Norwest Venture Partners (Palo Alto). Tim focuses on investments in mobile, gaming, digital media, and also leads Norwest Venture Partners's investment practice in China and Asia-Pacific. Tim shares tips on how to get an introduction to a Venture Capital; the elements of a good pitch and follow-up. And what he looks at when considering a deal - The 3Ts: Team, Traction, Tier 1 co-investors
Kaurna Stone Artefacts: Some Methods of Analysis (Book review)
No full textKaurna Stone Artefacts is not intended as an academic study of variation across flaked stone artefacts, instead it focuses on local identification and seeks to assist ‘anyone who has an interest in understanding and recording stone artefacts commonly found within the Kaurna’s traditional lands’ (p.1). Here flaked stone artefacts are frequently made or reduced from quartz, quartzite and silcrete, with the often-misidentified bipolar reduction technique. Examples of these Kaurna Country stone materials are used to outline a simple and widely applicable guide for flaked stone artefact identification, across 45, A5 pages – a concise and portable handbook suited to the field, illustrated by Corey Turner (Kaurna Yerta).No Full Tex
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