197 research outputs found
Research data management education for future curators
No full textScience has progressed by “standing on the shoulders of giants” and for centuries research and knowledge have been shared through the publication and dissemination of books, papers and scholarly communications. Moving forward, much of our understanding builds on (large scale) datasets, which have been collected or generated as part of the scientific process of discovery. How will this be made available for future generations? How will we ensure that, once collected or generated, others can stand on the shoulders of the data we produce?Educating students about the challenges and opportunities of data management is a key part of the solution and helps the researchers of the future to start to think about the problems early on in their careers. We have compiled a set of case studies to show the similarities and differences in data between disciplines, and produced a booklet for students containing the case studies and an introduction to the data lifecycle and other data management practices. This has already been used at the University of Southampton within the Faculty of Engineering and is now being adopted centrally for use in other faculties. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the case studies and the guide, and reflect on the reception the guide has had to date
The Warwick Hip Trauma Evaluation – an abridged protocol for the WHiTE Study : a multiple embedded randomised controlled trial cohort study
No full textFractures of the proximal femur are one of the greatest challenges facing the medical community, constituting a heavy socioeconomic burden worldwide. The National Hip Fracture Audit currently provides a framework for service evaluation. This evaluation is based upon the assessment of process rather than assessment of patient-centred outcome and therefore it fails to provide meaningful data regarding the clinical effectiveness of treatments. This study aims to capture data from the cohort of patients who present with a fracture of the proximal femur at a single United Kingdom Major Trauma Centre. Patient-centred outcomes will be recorded and provide a baseline cohort within which to test the clinical effectiveness of experimental interventions
<i>k</i>(<i>n</i>)-Torsion-Free <i>H</i>-Spaces and <i>P</i>(<i>n</i>)-Cohomology
No full textAbstractThe H-space that represents Brown–Peterson cohomology BPk(–) was split by the second author into indecomposable factors, which all have torsion-free homotopy and homology. Here, we do the same for the related spectrum P(n), by constructing idempotent operations in P(n)–cohomology P(n)k(–) in the style of Boardman–Johnson–Wilson; this relies heavily on the Ravenel–Wilson determination of the relevant Hopf ring. The resulting (i – 1)-connected H-spaces Yi have free connective Morava K-homology k(n)*(Yi), and may be built from the spaces in the Ω-spectrum for k(n) using only vn-torsion invariants.We also extend Quillen's theorem on complex cobordism to show that for any space X, the P(n)*-module P(n)*(X) is generated by elements of P(n)i(X) for i ≥ 0. This result is essential for the work of Ravenel–Wilson–Yagita, which in many cases allows one to compute BP–cohomology from Morava K-theory.</jats:p
Emerging infectious diseases in free-ranging wildlife-Australian zoo based wildlife hospitals contribute to national surveillance
No full textEmerging infectious diseases are increasingly originating from wildlife. Many of these diseases have significant impacts on human health, domestic animal health, and biodiversity. Surveillance is the key to early detection of emerging diseases. A zoo based wildlife disease surveillance program developed in Australia incorporates disease information from free-ranging wildlife into the existing national wildlife health information system. This program uses a collaborative approach and provides a strong model for a disease surveillance program for free-ranging wildlife that enhances the national capacity for early detection of emerging diseases.Keren Cox-Witton, Andrea Reiss, Rupert Woods, Victoria Grillo, Rupert T. Baker, David J. Blyde, Wayne Boardman, Stephen Cutter, Claude Lacasse, Helen McCracken, Michael Pyne, Ian Smith, Simone Vitali, Larry Vogelnest, Dion Wedd, Martin Phillips, Chris Bunn, Lyndel Pos
Comparing cone beam laminographic system trajectories for composite NDT
No full textWe compare the quality of reconstruction obtainable using various laminographic system trajectories that have been described in the literature, with reference to detecting defects in composite materials in engineering. We start by describing a laminar phantom representing a simplified model of composite panel, which models certain defects that may arise in such materials, such as voids, resin rich areas, and delamination, and additionally features both blind and through holes along multiple axes. We simulate ideal cone-beam projections of this phantom with the different laminographic trajectories, appling both Simultaneous Iterative Reconstruction Technique (SIRT) and Conjugate Gradient Least Squares (CGLS) reconstruction algorithms. We compare the quality of the reconstructions with a view towards optimising the scan parameters for defect detectability in composite NDT applications
Correction: SMAD6 variants in craniosynostosis: genotype and phenotype evaluation (Genetics in Medicine, (2020), 10.1038/s41436-020-0817-2)
No full textThe version of the Article previously published did not acknowledge Freya Boardman-Pretty17,18 and the Genomics England Research Consortium in the author list. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
Into the Abject: Fracture Zones in Francophone African Literature
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation.SEptember 2018. Major: French. Advisors: Judith Preckshot, Eileen Sivert. 1 computer file (PDF); iii, 288 pages.In my dissertation I examine what I call “fracture zones” between France and Africa through literary analysis of novels by authors from across francophone Africa: Abdourahman Waberi, Aminata Sow Fall, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ken Bugul, Léonora Miano and Nina Bouraoui. Fracture zones are interstitial spaces where two elements come into violent contact but in which one element, the author and gatekeeper of this violent space, has all the power. One manifestation of a fracture zone is the Mediterranean Sea which, at Europe’s behest, has become a space that is fluid and passible only to one side. To the other side, it has become a deadly space that swallows up African lives. A fracture zone serves as a sort of protective belt around the global Northern Subject. It is a Butlerian constitutive border, an abject and unlivable space that guarantees the Subject’s privileged identity. This dissertation descends into the abject to explore fracture zones and the process of “abjectification” that Francophone Africans are made to undergo to protect and justify French subjectivity. Chapter one, Zones of (Im)mobility and Fracture in Abdourahman Waberi’s Transit and Aminata Sow Fall’s Douceurs du bercail, paints a dynamic picture of fracture zones as physical spaces of contact that sharply divide a powerful France from relatively powerless African countries. I demonstrate that power-infused binary oppositions do not dissolve in an interstitial space of fluid exchange and negotiation; instead they are reinforced as the global North reifies its borders, making them increasingly impenetrable to those hailing from the global South. Chapter two, Fractured Inner Worlds: Neocolonial and Gendered Alienation in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Aventure ambigüe (1961) and Ken Bugul’s Le Baobab fou (1983), explores France’s historical fracturing of African subjectivity that began with its progressive invasion of the continent. I reveal that fracture zones are not confined to the physical world but produce distorting effects that infect and deform the psyches of the colonized, causing internal fissuring and even internalized abjectification. Chapter three, Infection, Gendered Fracture and Afropessimism in Léonora Miano’s L’Interieur de la nuit, analyzes a fictional central African country in the grips of civil war, exposing how existential destabilization and erasure manifest on a societal level and considering the lasting transgenerational trauma of France’s invasion and colonization of African nations. My concluding chapter, Devoured by Fracture: Nina Bouraoui’s Garçon Manqué, returns to look at the effects of fracturing on both sides of the Mediterranean. I demonstrate that fractures are deforming and even altogether destroying the future not only of the (formerly) colonized, but that of Subject/author-of-fracture as well.Jones-Boardman, Sarah. (2018). Into the Abject: Fracture Zones in Francophone African Literature. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/201694
Theory of spectral sequences. I
No full textThis is the first part of a paper on spectral sequences in an abelian category scr K. Here the author recalls Massey's definition of an exact couple, introduces a large variety of limit objects of such an exact couple by forming all different kinds of inverse limits varprojlim, resp. direct limits varinjlim, as well as the first derived limits, e.g., varinjlim{}^1. Then he introduces various kinds of convergences of a spectral sequence such as weak convergence, convergence, strong convergence and finally Boardman convergence. These types of convergence are associated with special exact sequences involving limit objects. In particular the author claims to extend a criterion of Boardman convergence to the case of abelian categories. In the final sections he deals with applications of his concepts to coherent (co)homology
Book Review: Southern African Landscapes and Environmental Change
No full textBook Title: Southern African Landscapes and Environmental ChangeBook Author: Peter J. Holmes & John Boardman (Eds.)2018, Routledge, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK; and 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA. 327 pages, hardcover and eBook. ISNB: 978-1-138-68895-7 (hardcover), 978-1-315-53797-0 (eBook). Price £115 (hardcover), from £20 (eBook
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