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Life is too short to be serious all the time: Donald Duck presents unconventional motivations for publishing in academia
Get PDFIn this food for thought article, we introduce the ‘Donald Duck Phenomenon’ to consider ten unconventional reasons for publishing in academia. These include (i) symbolic immortality, (ii) personal satisfaction, (iii) a sense of pride, (iv) serious leisure, (v) cause credibility, (vi) altruism, (vii) collaboration with a friend or family member, (viii) collaboration with a hero, (ix) conflict or revenge, and (x) for amusement. The article was inspired by the lead author’s social media search for a co-author with the surname ‘Duck’. Through LinkedIn, the lead author, Associate Professor William E. Donald, who is based in the UK and specialises in Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, found a collaborator, Dr Nicholas Duck, based in Australia and specialises in Organisational Psychology. While the collaboration may appear somewhat ‘quackers’, per one of Donald Duck’s famous phrases, “Life is too short to be serious all the time, so if you can’t laugh at yourself then call me… I’ll laugh at you, for you”. We hope that this article offers some interesting insights, particularly for academics at the start of their scholarly journey, and acts as a way to stimulate conversation around unconventional reasons for publishing in academia
Kenneth Slater Collection
No full textA conductor and cornetist, Kenneth Slater (1917-2005) was involved with numerous bands throughout his career. He performed with the "The President's Own" United States Marine Band and the United States Army Field Band, where he was the cornet soloist for nearly a decade. Later he became the director of the Almas Temple Band (Washington, DC) and Hagerstown Municipal Band (Maryland). In addition, Slater was also a charter member of the Shrine Bandmasters, a Past President of the Pennsylvania Bandmasters Association, and an active member of the American Bandmasters Association. The collection consists of correspondence, administrative records, programs and tour itineraries, military documents, books, newsletters, articles, newspaper clippings, scores: published and manuscript, photographs, regalia, and other memorabilia related to Slater's career; the ensembles with which he was involved; and the colleagues with whom he had close relationships including Merle Evans, Joseph Losh, Leonard Smith, and his father, George H. Slater
Local forcing mechanisms challenge parameterizations of ocean thermal forcing for Greenland tidewater glaciers
No full textCTD data, condensed model output and statistics, as well as input and restart files for MITgcm simulations used in:
Hager, Alexander O., Sutherland, David A., Slater, Donald A., Local forcing mechanisms challenge parameterizations of ocean thermal forcing for Greenland tidewater glaciers, submitted to the Cryosphere on 4/13/23
An electronic energy band calculation of cubic boron nitride via the augmented-plane-wave method
No full textThe non-relativistic augmented-plane-wave method of J.C. Slater for calculating electronic energy bands in solids is extended from the case of an element in a close-packed structure with one atom per unit cell to that of a compound in the zinc blende structure with two atoms per unit cell. Computer programs have been written in Fortran (IV) to calculate the energy eigenvalues for any point in the first Brillouin zone when the irreducible matrix representations are given. The augmented-plane-wave method has been used to calculate the five lowest energy bands for boron nitride in the zinc blende structure at 20 symmetry points in the first Brillouin zone. By symmetry, these points give a mesh of 256 points in the first Brillouin zone
Donald Elder papers
No full textDonald Elder (1913-1965) was an editor with Doubleday, Doran and Co., which published the English translation of José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi's The Itching Parrot in Katherine Anne Porter's name. He was also the author of Ring Lardner, A Biography. The collection consists of correspondence between him and Porter. Important subjects include writers and writing and Porter's personal interests and opinions, as well as The Itching Parrot and Ship of Fools
"Letter with No Address" - Poem by Donald Hall
No full textDonald Hall reads his poem "Letter with No Address," an epistolary poem written for his late wife, the poet Jane Kenyon. Hall is a former U.S. Poet Laureate and the author of 16 books of poetry, as well as fiction.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85036/1/letterwithnoaddress_donalhall.mp
Demon rum: a bibliography of publications about liquor and New Jersey, 1779-1932 : mostly controversial publications relating to the liquor problem temperance addresses, tracts, reports, liquor laws, etc.
No full textby Donald Arleigh SinclairIncludes bibliographical references (p. [2]) and inde
Surfactant Concentration and Type Affects the Removal of Escherichia coli from Pig Skin During a Simulated Handwash
No full textThe effect of surfactant type and concentration on a bland soap formulations ability to remove bacteria from hands remains largely unstudied. Several combinations of surfactants and water were combined to test bacterial removal efficacy using a handwashing device (two pieces of pig skin and a mechanical motor) to simulate a handwash. A nalidixic acid resistant, non-pathogenic strain of Escherichia coli (ATCC 11229) was used. Two anionic surfactants, sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium stearoyl lactylate, and two nonionic surfactants, poloxamer 407 and sorbitan monostearate, each in concentrations of 2%, 5%, and 10% were studied. A slight positive (r2=0.17) but significant (p=0.03) correlation was observed between hydrophile-lipophile balance value and mean log reduction. No correlation was observed between pH of the treatment solution and the mean log reduction (r2=0.05, p=0.25). A 10% sodium lauryl sulfate mixture showed the highest log reduction (x̄= 1.1 log cfu reduction, SD=0.54), and was the only treatment significantly different from washing with water (p=0.0005). There was a correlation between increasing surfactant concentrations above the critical micelle concentration, and mean microbial reduction (r2=0.62, p=0.001).Peer reviewe
Hand book on the Social Service Exchange
No full textPreface signed: Donald O. Cowgill.Municipal University of Wichita faculty author
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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