158 research outputs found
The Power of Imagination---From Stagecoach to Bullet Trains
No full textThe author invites the reader to consider the power of imagination. In the way that imagination led transportation from the stagecoach to the bullet train, so also imagination can lead to postive adaptations and changes in theological feild education
Mathematical problem solving in a grade 2 classroom: a report of an internship
No full textThis report describes the internship undertaken by the author, a high school mathematics teacher, in a Grade 2 class at Bishop Feild Elementary School in 1998. Much of this report is anecdotal in nature and details the investigations and explorations of the students as they engaged in mathematical problem solving. The children's mathematical learning through games, children's literature and manipulatives is considered in terms of the reforms proposed by the NCTM Standards documents (especially NCTM 1989). Connections between primary and high school problem solving strategies are made, with some suggestions for improvement at the high school level.Bibliography: pages 52-57
Do recruiters prefer applicants with similar skills? Evidence from a randomized natural experiment
No full textIn this paper we examine the potential existence of a similar-to-me effect in terms of skills
between recruiters and applicants. Using evidence from entry exams to the Spanish Judiciary,
where applicants are randomly assigned across evaluation committees, we find that committee
members tend to be more demanding at those stages where they are more knowledgeable. As
a result, applicants who excel in the same dimensions as recruiters are more likely to be hire
Charged Silicon Nitride Films: Field-Effect Passivation of Silicon Solar Cells and a Novel Characterization Method through Lifetime Measurements
No full textabstract: Silicon (Si) solar cells are the dominant technology used in the Photovoltaics industry. Field-effect passivation by means of electrostatic charges stored in an overlying insulator on a silicon solar cell has been proven to be a significantly efficient way to reduce effective surface recombination velocity and increase minority carrier lifetime. Silicon nitride (SiNx) films have been extensively used as passivation layers. The capability to store charges makes SiNx a promising material for excellent feild effect passivation. In this work, symmetrical Si/SiO2/SiNx stacks are developed to study the effect of charges in SiNx films. SiO2 films work as barrier layers. Corona charging technique showed the ability to inject charges into the SiNx films in a short time. Minority carrier lifetimes of the Czochralski (CZ) Si wafers increased significantly after either positive or negative charging. A fast and contactless method to characterize the charged overlying insulators on Si wafer through lifetime measurements is proposed and studied in this work, to overcome the drawbacks of capacitance-voltage (CV) measurements such as time consuming, induction of contanmination and hysteresis effect, etc. Analytical simulations showed behaviors of inverse lifetime (Auger corrected) vs. minority carrier density curves depend on insulator charge densities (Nf). From the curve behavior, the Si surface condition and region of Nf can be estimated. When the silicon surface is at high strong inversion or high accumulation, insulator charge density (Nf) or surface recombination velocity parameters (Sn0 and Sp0) can be determined from the slope of inverse lifetime curves, if the other variable is known. If Sn0 and Sp0 are unknown, Nf values of different samples can be compared as long as all have similar Sn0 and Sp0 values. Using the saturation current density (J0) and intercept fit extracted from the lifetime measurement, the bulk lifetime can be calculated. Therefore, this method is feasible and promising for charged insulator characterization.Dissertation/ThesisM.S. Electrical Engineering 201
Exploring The Cognitive black Box Of Resume Screeners: Relationship Between Resume Content, Attributional Confidence, And Intent To Interview
No full textThe goal of a resume is to persuade resume screeners to offer an interview to the resume’s author (Thoms, McMasters, Roberts, & Dombkowski, 1999). Studies demonstrate resume screeners spend only 10-60 seconds reviewing resumes before reaching conclusions on whom to invite for interviews (Barnum, 1987; Weinstein, 1993). During the resume review process, resume screeners make inferences about candidates’ abilities based on resume information (Brown & Campion, 1994; Cole, Feild, Giles, & Harris, 2009). However, little explanation is provided for how information within the resume relates to the screeners\u27 decisions for which candidates will receive interview offers. Further, few studies to date explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying screeners’ inferences. This study explored resume screeners’ decisions utilizing the framework of Uncertainty Reduction Theory (Berger & Calabrese, 1975), and identified attributional confidence, a common operationalization for uncertainty reduction, as a cognitive mechanism through which resume content influences a screener\u27s intention to interview, demonstrating that resume screeners are motivated to reduce uncertainty and seek information in their efforts to reduce it
Beyond Sorted: Developing Critical Adult Financial Education
No full textThis research sought to reimagine financial education from a critical theory perspective. This study proposes how a community of learners operating a critical pedagogy could be used to deliver adult financial education, and to provide a curriculum for use by such a community of learners. To achieve that aim, the objectives of this research were to complete an investigation into financial education discourses within New Zealand, to identify elements that compose financial education within each of these discourses and to combine those elements to create a comprehensive curriculum that when combined with the pedagogical approach form a critical adult financial education programme.
These objectives were achieved by conducting an investigation into the financial literacy and capability discourses in New Zealand to determine how these may be synthesised into an inclusive discourse. Four major discourses were identified following the collection and sorting of a wide selection of stakeholders within the financial education domain. The groupings were labelled governmental, community, commercial and academic to determine where there were overlaps and voids in the themes contained within these discourses. The key themes were then incorporated into the learning areas of a new curriculum matrix that became the research platform for this study.
The curriculum matrix included key competencies drawn both from the financial education discourses and from critical pedagogy influenced strongly by the theories and practises of Paulo Freire and Eduard Lindeman. The financial competencies identified were: financial decision making, financial goal setting, personal financial management and financial communication. The competencies evolving from the pedagogy were: critical thinking, self-reflection and agency. Also included were broad learning areas that would help identify topics for inquiry. These were: financial language, financial calculations, financial administration, financial products, financial services, consumerism and citizenship, seeking advice or remedy, and financial identity. The learning areas also included ‘institutions’ and ‘structures’ that support the neoliberal ideology dominant in New Zealand and much of the rest of the western world at this time in history. The inclusion of these indicated that a critical adult financial education must intend to identify and challenge injustices in local and global political and economic spheres to aim for emancipation from such injustices. The final element in the matrix was a selection of general and educational values used to support the effective operation of the community of learners. These values were suggestions only and the research platform recognised that each community of learners would create their own set of values to reflect the community’s ethos. Rather than include specific learning intentions or achievement criteria in the matrix, it was intended that the communities of learners would determine their own intentions and criteria. The curriculum matrix and pedagogical approach were presented as a programme for critical adult financial education.
In order to evaluate the programme, a qualitative Delphi inquiry was conducted over two rounds. The first round asked for two sets of feedback from experts within education and financial education domains. The first was to comment on the matrix and identify what they perceived as its strengths and weaknesses. The second question asked for feedback on the feasibility of the community of learners approach, operating a critical pedagogy, and applied to financial education. The results from the first round were synthesised, summarised and presented back to the participants via the web-based research platform, and further questions about specific issues common to many of the responses were posed in order to seek clarification of areas of high interest. The data from the Delphi provided varying responses and levels of support or critique for the programme. Respondents asked many questions, often seeking context for the programme or querying the choices of language use in the matrix or the overall operation of the community of learners.
No concrete conclusions about the potential effectiveness of a critical adult financial education delivered via the proposed programme were obtained from the Delphi inquiry. Instead, the results showed that further clarification and contextualisation of the programme was sought by the majority of respondents. Respondents sought the inclusion of achievement criteria within the matrix even though this was antithetical to the intentions of the design. Regarding the community of learners approach, the respondents were sceptical about whether an effective learning dynamic could be created considering the usually personal nature of financial learning. The purpose of adult education and adult financial education was examined as a part of the inquiry, which revealed that expectations of financial education are often so deeply entrenched in mainstream discourses that the notion of a critical approach is rejected even in theory. Overall the data showed that this programme, or possibly any critically located financial education programme, would be unlikely to find widespread support from those operating in mainstream financial education
Wanderlust
No full textFor solo or duo of instruments and self made feild recording.commissioned by Sylvia HinzYou create a special file with your own audio recording for the peice Download the Decibel ScorePlayer and the 'ScoreCreator' app. The ScorePlayer is an iPad appliccation, the ScoreCreator is a desktop application you use to add the audio to the work. Open the Score Creator application, Add the text information as outlined in the image on the right.PROGRAM NOTEThis work is named after a book of the same name by American author Rebecca Solnit published in 2000. The book is in someways a requiem to walking, where the erasure of the journey is seem as the result of the “anxiety to produce” that characterises contemporary life. This piece deliberately meanders; the electronics part is created by the performer to personalise each ‘journey’ of the piece.InstructionsThe score is proportional – the pitch being read on the vertical axis. A reference line is provided so the performer may reference a central pitch. Only glissandi should be used, except in the pizzicato sections. Shading indicates dynamic. The loudest dynamic is medium soft, the lowest is extremely soft. Width indicates complexity of sound.The score should be read in the Decibel ScorePlayer application on an iPad, or as a video score, available on the composers’ website.The electronics part is embedded in the score file, and can be sent out from the ipad through the headphone jack to a single speaker near the performer. Each performer is encouraged to make their own electronics part for their own performance – a recording of walking to or from the venue. Download the image file for the solo version here, and the duo version here, and add it in the 'Image File' field by browsing for it on your hardrive. Similarly, add the audio recording which must be exactly the same number of seconds you have put in 'Duration' (as per the image, 360 seconds - though you can make it as slow (long) or fast (short) as you like). When you have done this, click the Create! button and a "Wanderlust.dsz" file will be created. You then put this file into the Decibel ScorePlayer app, byt sending it to your iPad using air drop. You will have your own personalised piece.PERFORMANCESPremiered BY Sylvia Hinz 24 November, 2018 at Kunstbunker, Berlin, Germany.Duo version performed 4th August 2019 by Clocked Out at Harrigans Lane Collective, NSW, Australia</div
Fevrī Ahmed Efendi’nin Ahlāk-I Süleymānī adlı eseri vr. 2a-vr.38b (İnceleme-metin-dizin)
No full textBu tez, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesinin Ayasofya koleksiyonunda 2823 numarada kaytıtlı bulunan Fevrī Ahmed Efendi’nin Ahlāk-ı Süleymānī eseri üzerinde yapılan bir dil çalışmasıdır. Fevrī’nin manzum eserleri yanında da mensur eserleri de vardır. Mensur eserlerinden biri de Ahlak-ı Süleymānī’dir. Kanūnī Sultan Süleyman’ın ahlakını konu edinen bu eser seçici bir üslupla yazılmıştır. Eserde Kanūnī’nin şiirleri açıklanarak onun görüşleri anlatılmıştır. Adı geçen eserin Süleymaniye Kütüphanesinde iki, İstanbul Üniversitesi kütüphanesinde bir, Edirne Selimiye Kütüphanesinde bir ve Berlin Eyalet Kütüphanesinde bir nüshası bulunur. Çalışmamız; inceleme, metin, edisyon kritik ve dizin olmak üzere dört bölümden oluşmaktadır.İnceleme bölümünde eserin yazarı, eser ve eserin nüshaları hakkında bilgi verilmiştir. Metinin imla ve dil özellikleri incelenmiştir.Metin bölümünde, metnin transkripsiyonu yapılmıştır. Ayet, dua ve Arapça şiirler ve ibareler Arap harfleriyle gösterilmiştir. Esas alınan Ayasofya nüshasının transkripsiyonu yapıldıktan sonra, söz konusu eserin diğer nüshalarıyla ( İstanbul Üniversitesi, Esad Efendi ve Berlin Eyalet Kütüphanesi nüshası) karşılaştırılarak eserin edisyon kritiği yapılmıştır.Bu aşamalardan sonra dizine geçilmiştir. Ana dili Türkçe olmayan bir şairin edebî kişiliği hakkında fikir sahibi olmamızı sağlayacak olan bu tez, Osmanlı Türkçesi açısından önemli bir dil çalışmasıdır. Fevrî, Ahlak-ı Süleymânî, Osmanlı Türkçesi.This thesis is a language work about the Fevri Ahmed Efendi’s Ahlak-ı Süleymani work which is present in the Süleymaniye Library under the Ayasofya collection number 2823. Fevri beside his in verse works has also prosaically works. Ahlak-ı Süleymānī is one of his prosaically works. This work has as subject the ethics of Kanūnī Sultan Süleyman and is written in a selective stylistic. Fevri has explained Kanuni’s worldview doing the explanation of his poetry. This work of Fevri can be found in Süleymaniye Library (two copies), İstanbul University Library (one copy), Edirne Selimiye Library (one copy) and Berlin State Library (one copy). Our work consists of four parts: examination, text, edition critic and concordance. In the examination part has been given information about the author, work and works copies. The text has been examined orthographically and acordin to the language features. In the text part has been madethe transcription. Verses (Kur’an), prayers and Arabic poems and phrases has been shown in Arabic letters. The copy of Ayasofya which has been chosen as base has been transcript after that the edition critic has been made comparing the base with the other copies (İstanbul Üniversitesi, Esad Efendiand Berlin statelibrary copies) In the concordance part has been given the meanings of the word and word groups of the transcript text. During the concordance the meaning of the word inside the text has been chosen as base. This theses wich will give us a clue about the literary personality of a poet whose native language wasn’t Turkish is of a very high importance due to Ottoman Turkish research feild. Key Words: Fevri, Ahlak-ı Süleymani, Ottoman Turkish
"Disney is the Tiffany’s and I am the Woolworth's of the business": A critical re-analysis of the business philosophies, production values and studio practices of animator-producer Paul Houlton Terry
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Animator-producer Paul Houlton Terry has been portrayed as having little passion for the animation he produced and being more concerned with making a profit than producing entertaining cartoons with high production values. The purpose of the dissertation is to re-evaluate Terry‘s legacy to animated cartooning by analyzing his business philosophies, production values, and studio practices.
Application of four psychodynamic factors to the early life and career of Terry, 1887-1929, found that his economic decision making was characterized by: an external locus of control, risk-averse financial behaviour, extreme saving behaviour through precaution, and shrewd money management practices. Based on Terry‘s historical responses to twelve major economic, technological, or institutional forces of change for the period 1929-1955, the psychodynamic factors were found to provide accurate explanations for his studio practices and production decisions.
There was no evidence to support the conclusion that three early career disappointments undermined Terry‘s intrinsic motivation to create animated cartoons. Rather, Terry‘s lack of risk taking, external locus of control, tight studio production schedule, desire to compete with neighbour studio Fleischer, difficulty in separating financial rewards from creative processes in animation, and practice of undertaking surveillance measures on staff may have undermined his and his studio‘s creativity. Archival research found Terry to possess strong passions for and to have made significant creative contributions to the field of animation.
Biographical research found that Terry retained a stable nucleus of highly talented artists who dedicated a significant portion of their working careers to the studio. An analysis of the cel aesthetics of a random sample of animated cartoons produced during the years 1930-1955 found that Terry created animated cartoons with above average cel aesthetics when compared to the other studios thereby supporting an inference that Terry was motivated to producing quality crafted animation. Further research is suggested into the role psychodynamic factors and economic decision-making play in the film production process and a clarification of Terry‘s legacy to the field of animated cartoons
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