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BUSINESS TRAVEL DIARIES OF A. L. RAE
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/68884Comprises three business travel diaries 1925; 1926; 1933-1934; describing shipboard life as well as the social situation, scenery and culture of America, India, Burma, Malaya, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines.104518
Acquisition: [2012.0016] "BUSINESS TRAVEL DIARIES OF A. L. RAE
Australian premiere of Donaxis Quartet by Charles Bodman Rae
No full textElder Conservatorium of Music 2004 Elder Hall Concert Series Extent: 20 minutes Instruments: Piano, Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon Charles Bodman Rae, piano with members of the Stellar Collective, Renae Stavely, oboe, Geoffrey Bourgault de Coudray, clarinet, Leah Stevenson, bassoon ABC Live Broadcast. ABC Classic F
Funding of research in higher education: a panoptic view of the RAE
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The thesis investigates the effects that the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has
on the Higher Education sector. The alternative view presented by the thesis is that
more knowledge can be created by concentrating on the different constituents of the
RAE and their specific interactions with particular areas of the Higher Education
sector. The RAE constituents are interpreted as drivers that influence and impact, in
dissimilar fashions, on different activities of Higher Education Institutions (HEI). This
micro analysis of the RAE enables the investigation to isolate the single effects of the
RAE drivers therefore creating a bottom-up analysis of the overall impact of the RAE.
The analysis of the impact that the drivers have on HEIs’ activities focuses on the
perception that individuals within the system have of the consequences of the RAE.
The focus on perceptions derives from personal observation of the lack of consensus
on the consequences that different drivers have on different areas. The use of
perceptions as the mean to assess the impact of the RAE enables the investigation to
create a picture of the consequences of the RAE that addresses behavioural change.
A multi-dimensional crystal view approach is used to accommodate both the micro
analysis and the perception assessment. The multi-dimensional crystal view, a
research contribution in its own right, is based on the principle that a micro analysis of
a complex system can be achieved by decomposing the system into a number of
dimensions. Insight is draw when the interactions between some of the dimensions are
investigated. In the specific case of the RAE the dimension are: the RAE drivers,
HEIs’ activities and points of observation (dimension that captures perceptions).
Knowledge and insight can be acquired when the interactions between the dimensions
are aggregated at successive higher levels. The supporting tool for the multidimensional
crystal view approach is a matrix that facilitates the analytical process.
The aggregation of the dimensions comes from combining textual statements from the
points of observation (perceptions) on the effects that the drivers of the RAE have on
the activities of HEIs. The highest level is a textual statement that synthesises all
lower level statements
No.473 Shirley Rae Olson Christensen Burggraaf
No full textTranscript (23 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Shirley Rae Olson Christensen Burggraaf on September 30, 2009Burggraaf (b. 1926) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Utah and worked locally until marrying. She and he husband moved to Schenectady, New York, for his employment and they had one child. She contracted polio around 1950, while in her early twenties. She was treated at a Schenectady hospital in an isolation ward for two or three weeks before being transferred by train to Salt Lake City, where she was cared for by family members. She discusses her treatment and therapy, along with her recovery, limitations, and post-polio syndrome. Shirley stayed in Salt Lake City and subsequently gave birth to two additional children. Part of the Polio Project. Interviewer: Becky Lloy
Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research through Author/Institution Self-Archiving: Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Online Access
No full textAll refereed journals will soon be available online; most of them already are. This means that anyone will be able to access them from any networked desk-top. The literature will all be interconnected by citation, author, and keyword/subject links, allowing for unheard-of power and ease of access and navigability. Successive drafts of pre-refereeing preprints will be linked to the official refereed draft, as well as to any subsequent corrections, revisions, updates, comments, responses, and underlying empirical databases, all enhancing the self-correctiveness, interactivity and productivity of scholarly and scientific research and communication in remarkable new ways. New scientometric indicators of digital impact are also emerging <http://opcit.eprints.org> to chart the online course of knowledge. But there is still one last frontier to cross before science reaches the optimal and the inevitable: Just as there is no longer any need for research or researchers to be constrained by the access-blocking restrictions of paper distribution, there is no longer any need to be constrained by the impact-blocking financial fire-walls of Subscription/Site-License/Pay-Per-View (S/L/P) tolls for this give-away literature. Its author/researchers have always donated their research reports for free (and its referee/researchers have refereed for free), with the sole goal of maximizing their impact on subsequent research (by accessing the eyes and minds of fellow-researchers, present and future) and hence on society. Generic (OAi-compliant) software is now available free so that institutions can immediately create Eprint Archives in which their authors can self-archive all their refereed papers for free for all forever <http://www.eprints.org/>. These interoperable Open Archives <http://www.openarchives.org> will then be harvested into global, jointly searchable "virtual archives" (e.g., <http://arc.cs.odu.edu/>). "Scholarly Skywriting" in this PostGutenberg Galaxy will be dramatically (and measurably) more interactive and productive, spawning its own new digital metrics of productivity and impact, allowing for an online "embryology of knowledge.
Allocative Efficiency and an Incentive Scheme for Research
No full textIn this paper we examine whether an incentive scheme for improving research can have adverse effect on research itself. This work is mainly motivated by the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in UK. In a game theoretic framework we show that a scheme like RAE/REF can actually result in deterioration of the over-all research in a country though it may create a few isolated centres of excellence. The central assumption behind this result is that high ability researchers produce positive externalities to their colleagues. We assume these externalities have declining marginal benefit as the number of high ability researchers in a department increases. Because of this declining marginal benefit an incentive scheme like the RAE or REF may lead to over concentration of the high ability researchers in a few departments.RAE, REF, coalitions, strong nash equilibrium
Radiations from RaD and RaE
No full textThe electron and gamma-spectra from RaD and RaE have been thoroughly investigated. The gamma-radiation from RaD was studied with both krypton and argon proportional counters with brass and aluminum cathodes. The L alpha, L beta, and L gamma radiations of Bi were observed and identified with a critical absorber. The intensity ratios of L alpha:L beta:L gamma are 1:1:0.2. The previously reported 7.8-kev (10 percent) line was not found but could be strongly excited by copper backing. The weak 23-kev line (10^-3 per disintegration in our measurements) could be contributed from the piling effect of the detecting system.
The conversion electrons of RaD were investigated in a solenoid magnetic spectrometer to obtain the L and (M+N) conversion coefficients. The results are: NeL / N beta =64 percent, NeM+N / N beta =21 percent, NeL+M+N / N beta =(85±5) percent.
The conversion electrons of RaD were again investigated with a 180° beta-spectrometer with a resolution of 0.8 percent and a counter window of ~6 µg/cm2. The LI, LII, and LIII conversion lines of the 46.5-kev gamma-ray were resolved. The ratio of LI:LII:LIII:MI-III:MIV-V:NI-V:NVI-VIII+0 are 1:0.075:0.007: 0.25:0.006:0.07:0.007. From the ratios of the L-subshell conversion electrons, the 46.5-kev transition is interpreted as an M1 type.
The upper limit of the intensity of the reported lines at 42 kev, at 37 kev, and at 31 kev must be less than 0.5 percent per disintegration if the same conversion coefficient is assumed.
The unconverted 46.5-kev gamma-radiation is 0.07±0.02 per disintegration. Thus the excited state of 46.5 kev in RaE can account for (92±5) percent of the disintegrations.
Neither internal conversion electrons nor nuclear gamma-radiations are found in RaE. A faint x-ray (~80 kev) of the order of 10-4 per disintegration due to the ionization effect was observed in RaE.
A brief discussion of the decay scheme of RaD and the possible spin assignments of various levels is included
Entrepreneurial learning: new perspectives in research, education and practice
No full textThis book explores the development of the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial learning by bringing together contributions from an international team of researchers, who offer new understanding of its emerging development and its potential scope for the future. Using the three domains of theory, education, and learning-in-practice, this book offers differing and complementary perspectives on entrepreneurial learning: \ud
•Conceptual work which reviews and summarises prior work in the field and advances theoretical understanding of entrepreneurial learning research, enabling a review of the development of research in this area over time. \ud
•Applied work around entrepreneurship education which develops understanding of teaching and learning practices in educational and institutional contexts. \ud
•Exploration of learning in ‘real’ business contexts, including new venture creation, family business and small business development, and ‘intrapreneurial’ learning in larger organisations. \ud
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Using global perspectives, originating from the different cultural contexts of the USA, UK, Nordic and Chinese perspectives, the chapters converge to address issues, questions and opportunities for the future development of entrepreneurial learning. This book will be of interest to educators and researchers in the areas of entrepreneurship, enterprise education and entrepreneurial development, as well as policy makers and business advice and support agencies
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