972 research outputs found

    Facing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University

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    This paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice

    Federal compensation to Idaho for public domain federal lands, 1988-99

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    Bulletin no. 832 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 2001-09-01. Author(s): Guaderrama, Marisa C.; Meyer, Neil L

    Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional and National Open-Access Self-Archiving Mandates

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    No research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles made “Open Access,” (OA) by self-archiving them on the web are cited twice as much, but only 15% of articles are being spontaneously self-archived. The only institutions approaching 100% self-archiving are those that mandate it. Surveys show that 95% of authors will comply with a self-archiving mandate; the actual expe-rience of institutions with mandates has confirmed this. What institutions and funders need to mandate is that (1) immediately upon acceptance for publication, (2) the author’s final draft must be (3) deposited into the Institutional Repository. Only the depositing needs to be mandated; set-ting access privileges to the full-text as either OA or Restricted Access (RA) can be left up to the author. For articles published in the 93% of journals that have already endorsed self-archiving, access can be set as OA immediately; for the remaining 7%, authors can email the eprint in re-sponse to individual email requests automatically forwarded by the Repository

    Dissimilarity is used as evidence of category membership in multidimensional perceptual categorization: a test of the similarity-dissimilarity generalized context model

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    In exemplar models of categorization, the similarity between an exemplar and category members constitutes evidence that the exemplar belongs to the category. We test the possibility that the dissimilarity to members of competing categories also contributes to this evidence. Data were collected from two 2-dimensional perceptual categorization experiments, one with lines varying in orientation and length and the other with coloured patches varying in saturation and brightness. Model fits of the similarity-dissimilarity generalized context model were used to compare a model where only similarity was used with a model where both similarity and dissimilarity were used. For the majority of participants the similarity-dissimilarity model provided both a significantly better fit and better generalization, suggesting that people do also use dissimilarity as evidence

    The role of the wheat industry in Idaho's economy

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    Bulletin no. 768 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 1994-10-01. Author(s): Robinson, M. Henry; Foltz, John C.; Meyer, Neil L.; Wolf, Scott A.; Smathers, Robert L

    The role of the dairy industry in Idaho's economy

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    Bulletin no. 754 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Agriculture Experiment Station, 1994-02-01. Author(s): Robinson, M. Henry; Foltz, John C.; Meyer, Neil L.; Wolf, Scott A.; Smathers, Robert L

    The role of potatoes in Idaho's economy

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    Bulletin no. 756 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Agriculture Experiment Station, 1993-11-01. Author(s): Robinson, M. Henry; Guenthner, Joseph F.; Meyer, Neil L.; Foltz, John C.; Smathers, Robert L

    Mission: Vol. 5, No. 9

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    Mission: Vol. 5, No. 9. The articles in this issue include: Some Thoughts on Theology and Mission by Victor L. Hunter, Elton Trueblood\u27s Concept of the Church by Lewis R. Rambo, Fellowship and Freedom by Robert L. Duncan, Our Trust in Scripture by Gene Shelburne, and Unconverted?, Verse by W. Neil Gallagher

    Millisecond accuracy video display using OpenGL under Linux

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    To measure people’s reaction times to the nearest millisecond, it is necessary to know exactly when a stimulus is displayed. This article describes how to display stimuli with millisecond accuracy on a normal CRT monitor, using a PC running Linux. A simple C program is presented to illustrate how this may be done within X Windows using the OpenGL rendering system. A test of this system is reported that demonstrates that stimuli may be consistently displayed with millisecond accuracy. An algorithm is presented that allows the exact time of stimulus presentation to be deduced, even if there are relatively large errors in measuring the display time

    Hearing Faces and Seeing Voices: The Integration and Interaction of Face and Voice Processing

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    Cognitive understanding of voice recognition has borrowed much from the area of face processing, both in terms of the theoretical framework within which results are interpreted, and the methodology used to assess performance. A considerable body of research now exists to suggest that voice recognition may proceed in parallel with face recognition, and that the two pathways may combine to inform person recognition. However, rather than being independent or equivalent, these parallel pathways appear to interact to reveal interesting interference effects. The present paper reviews a series of studies that focus on a considerable and growing literature. The vulnerability of voice processing will be explored relative to face processing, and the interaction of these two pathways will be examined with reference to broader theoretical frameworks for person recognition
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