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Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation R Code
No full textThis is the first release of the R code for the Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation short course.
Jack Williams and Nichola Naylor contributed equally to the project and are joint first authors
Higher education outcomes, graduate employment and university performance indicators
No full textOfficial employment-related Performance Indicators in UK Higher Education are based on the population of students responding to the First Destination Supplement (FDS). This generates potentially biased performance indicators as this population of students is not necessarily representative of the full population of leavers from each institution. University leavers not obtaining qualifications and those not responding to the FDS are not included within the official analysis. We compare an employment-related performance indicator based on those students responding to the FDS with alternative approaches which address the potential non-random nature of this sub-group of university leavers
Perspectives on Critical Design: a Conversation with Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor
No full textThis paper features an edited conversation with designers Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor. It explores their thinking in relation to critical design.
In the preface to 'Form Follows Idea' (Ball & Naylor, 2005) Jeremy Myerson describes Ball and Naylor as being regarded among Britain’s most thoughtful furniture designers.
In 1985 Ball formed a design partnership with Maxine Naylor a reputable experimental designer maker. Together they began to challenge the boarders between art, craft and design. They have exhibited work internationally and held teaching positions in colleges in the UK and USA. Over the course of a decade from 1985 Ball taught on Furniture, Jewellery and Industrial design at the Royal College of Art where Naylor taught on Furniture Design, directing the course between 1995 and 1998. Today Ralph Ball is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London and Maxine Naylor is Professor of Design and Director of the Design Research Institute University of Brighton.
Through practice and academic tenure they have developed a distinctive approach to practice based research and refined their critical perspectives. They describe themselves as critical designers and use design as a critical, visual discourse to communicate ideas about design culture and society today. Taking experimentation as a research method they subject their ideas to a critical process of refutation. They question the work through a scholarly approach that challenges protocols of design to enhance the design profession.
In this conversation the designer’s concepts of ‘open-process’ and ‘design poetics’ are discussed. They describe their role acting as critics of design from within design practice. They outline their thoughts on the increasingly un-ideological culture of industrial design. They describe how through playful experiment they question the value of repetition in design and mass production of products. They do this by taking modernist axioms to extremes and ‘embedding narrative’ into objects as commentary on the state of contemporary design.
Supplementing the conversation the author offers his reflections. Primarily this exposes a form of critical design that differs significantly from popular and often technologically orientated notions of critical design
Pseudobatos Last, Séret & Naylor, 2016, gen. nov.
No full textGenus Pseudobatos gen. nov. Type species. Rhinobatus glaucostigma Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (original designation). Description. Nostril longer than internasal distance; posterior aperture narrow, very elongate, slightly oblique to anterior aperture. Anterior nasal flaps bilobed, not fused to form a nasal curtain, short based (less than half nostril length, insert on snout beside nostril margin, and well anterior and well lateral to innermost corner of posterior aperture (insertions of flaps very widely separated, by much more than internasal distance); anterior aperture medium sized, elongate oval, medial edge formed by long lobe-like extension of anterior nasal flap; posterior lobe of anterior nasal flap very short-based and narrow with an oblique, almost straight margin; lateral and posterior margins of anterior aperture bordered by very broad posterolateral nasal flap, extending posteromedially as free flap but tip barely reaching beyond middle of posterior aperture of nostril; posterior nasal flap well developed, slightly broader than posterolateral nasal flap, base about half or less of nostril length and well short of innermost corner of nostril. Lower jaw often convex near symphysis; skin margin forming upper lip slightly concave; upper and lower lateral grooves at its angle; oral groove moderate, extending from beside jaws around chin. Species. P. glaucostigmus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1883), P. horkelii (Müller & Henle, 1841), P. lentiginosus (Garman, 1880), P. leucorhynchus (Günther, 1867), P. percellens (Walbaum, 1792), P. planiceps (Garman, 1880), P. prahli (Acero & Franke, 1995), P. productus (Ayres, 1854).Published as part of Last, Peter R., Séret, Bernard & Naylor, Gavin J. P., 2016, A new species of guitarfish, Rhinobatos borneensis sp. nov. with a redefinition of the family-level classification in the order Rhinopristiformes (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea), pp. 451-475 in Zootaxa 4117 (4) on page 470, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/27165
Megatrygon Last, Naylor & Manjaji-Matsumoto, 2016, gen. nov.
No full textGenus Megatrygon gen. nov. Type species Trygon microps Annandale, 1908:393; newly proposed, monotypic. Definition. Very large dasyatid (adults to 220 cm DW) characterised by the following: very robust, broad rhombic disc with pectoral-fin apex angular; snout broadly angular (~3 times combined orbit and spiracle length); eye very small and sunken; nasal curtain skirt shaped; mouth narrow, with 5 oral papillae; tail short (length subequal to DW), very broad-based and depressed anteriorly, very strongly tapered at caudal sting then becoming filamentous; pelvic fins large, protruding greatly beyond disc; dorsal fold forming a low ridge; ventral fold low with a very short base; caudal sting posterior on tail (distance from pectoral-fin insertion to caudal-sting base more than 3 times interspiracular width); skin densely covered with minute stellate denticles but denticle band absent; no median rows of thorns and scapular thorns absent; tail base and sides covered with thorny denticles; dorsal colour plain; ventral surface white, disc margin dark; tail plain, black distally; marine, Indo– West Pacific. Etymology. Combination of the Greek mégas (great, large, mighty) and Greek trygon (stingray) with reference to the massive bulk of this gigantic stingray. Species. M. microps (Annandale, 1908). Remarks. Newly erected, monotypic genus and formerly assigned to Dasyatis. The placement of Megatrygon microps in the family Dasyatidae is provisional as molecular data (see also Naylor et al., in press) suggest that it, along with the ‘amphi-American Himantura ’, are more closely related to the freshwater Neotropical stingrays (Potamotrygonidae) of South America. Further investigations are needed to determine the position of this species in the order Myliobatiformes, but it may belong in its own family.Published as part of Last, Peter R., Naylor, Gavin J. P. & Manjaji-Matsumoto, B. Mabel, 2016, A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights, pp. 345-368 in Zootaxa 4139 (3) on page 356, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/26276
Linda Naylor, Student 1
No full textLinda Naylor was a female student at Jacksonville State College (now Jacksonville State University) in the mid 1960s. She was a senior 1965-1966 and graduated in 1966.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/15200/thumbnail.jp
Foreign direct investment and wage bargaining
No full textWe derive the sub-game perfect Nash equilibria for the foreign direct investment (FDI) game played between two unionized firms. We show that FDI is less likely, ceteris paribus, the greater is union bargaining power and the more substitutable are the firms' products in the potential host country. We also examine the conditions under which the FDI game between firms will possess the characteristics of a Prisoners' Dilemma.Foreign direct investment, oligopoly, wage bargaining,
Three new stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Indo – West Pacific
No full textLast, Peter R., White, William T., Naylor, Gavin (2016): Three new stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Indo – West Pacific. Zootaxa 4147 (4): 377-402, DOI: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4147.4.
H. R. Moorhead Jr., W. L. Naylor, Donaldson M. Brown, K. C. Heald, Joseph M. Progue, and F. J. Adams
No full textThree directors and other officials of Gulf Oil Corporation, left to right, H. R. Moorhead Jr., W. L. Naylor, Donaldson M. Brown, K. C. Heald, Joseph M. Progue, and F. J. Adams.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/15230/thumbnail.jp
Acroteriobatus omanensis (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae), a new guitarfish from the Gulf of Oman
No full textLast, Peter R., Henderson, Aaron C., Naylor, Gavin J. P. (2016): Acroteriobatus omanensis (Batoidea: Rhinobatidae), a new guitarfish from the Gulf of Oman. Zootaxa 4144 (2): 276-286, DOI: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4144.2.
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