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Q&A: Peter Kimani, author of Dance of the Jakaranda, talks with Maëline Le Lay
No full textAfrica in Words. https://africainwords.com/2019/05/23/qa-peter-kimani-author-of-dance-of-the-jakaranda-talks-with-maeline-le-lay
University of Maryland basketball player Steve Sheppard shoots a lay-up against Duke University, circa 1974-1975
No full textUniversity of Maryland basketball player Steve Sheppard shoots a lay-up against Duke University, circa 1974-1975
Doctoral Journeys: Steve
No full textIn this episode, Steve discusses the contrasts and connections between undergraduate/Masters level study and the doctorate. He shares some thoughts on making this transition and offers advice for overcoming some of the difficulties involved. He talks about what doing a PhD is really like day to day, considering the activities involved and what he finds most interesting and challenging. Steve also highlights the importance of communicating your research effectively, both to others within the research community and to the lay person.
Steve Francis goes for a layup, University of Maryland men's basketball, circa 1998-1999
No full textUniversity of Maryland men's basketball player Steve Francis drives for a lay-up, circa 1998-1999
Lay Down Your Arms
No full textDie Waffen nieder! (1889), translated into English in 1892 as Lay Down Your Arms, was an international bestseller. Its Austrian author Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) chose the medium of fiction in order to reach as broad an audience as possible with her pacifist ideals. Challenging the narrow nationalisms of nineteenth-century Europe, Suttner believed that disputes between nations should be settled by means of arbitration rather than armed conflict. She devoted her life to campaigning for the cause of peace, and in 1905 became the first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Suttner’s influential novel yields insights into the early development of calls for a united Europe and an end to the arms race.
This English translation of the novel was carried out as a ‘labour of love’ by the eminent Victorian surgeon and medical scholar Timothy Holmes (1825-1907), the editor of Gray’s Anatomy, for whom this was an unusual foray into the world of fiction. Holmes was Vice-Chairman of the London-based International Arbitration and Peace Association and a contemporary of Suttner. His translation helped to spread Suttner’s views across the Anglophone world, and contributed to the growth of the peace movement in the period before the First World War
Which model of successful ageing should be used? Baseline findings from a British longitudinal survey of ageing
No full textBackground: there is increasing interest in how to age ‘successfully’ and in reaching consensus over its definition. Objective: to assess different models of successful ageing, using a British longitudinal survey of ageing in 2000–1. Setting: community settings in Britain. Methods: five models of successful ageing were tested on a British cross-sectional population survey of 999 people aged 65+. The models were biomedical, broader biomedical, social, psychological and lay based. Results: the lay model emerged as the strongest. Respondents who were classified as successfully aged with this model, compared with those not successfully aged, had over five times the odds of rating their quality of life (QoL) as good rather than not good [odds ratio (OR) = 5.493, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) = 2.655–11.364]. Conclusion: the lay-based, more multidimensional, model of successful ageing predicted perceived QoL more powerfully than unidimensional models and should be used to evaluate the outcomes of health promotion in older populations
The Recruitment and Role of Lay Members
No full text The use of lay members on research ethics committees has for some time been felt to be an example of good practice in ethical review processes. In this paper, written by a lay member, the author considers what the recruitment process for lay members might be and argues how this process should largely be shaped by what role the lay member is recruited to undertake. In considering the advantages and disadvantages of lay members, the author shows that defining the role of a lay member is not straightforward but is necessary to the good working of a research ethics committee. </jats:p
A training needs assessment for the United Way of Dunn County Wisconsin
No full textPlan BThis study attempted to assess the training needs of those nonprofit agencies receiving funding from the United Way of Dunn County. Interview questions were developed and administered to the agency directors face-to-face. A questionnaire was distributed to agency support staff and volunteers. Questions were designed to determine those common performance problems crossing agency lines that can be addressed by training. Not all performance problems can be addressed by training. In some cases, non-training interventions are necessary. By identifying performance problems that can be improved by training, the assessment will allow the agencies to focus on the real training needs within their organizations
Tailoring open government data portals for lay citizens: A gamification theory approach
No full textGovernment policies focused on Open Government Data (OGD) often aim to stimulate the provision of public, interoperable data towards any user, including lay citizens, through online portals. However, these OGD portals are mostly developed for expert users. This hinders the realization of critical values such as transparency, empowerment, and equality of access. Following a Design Science Research approach, this study aims to examine how gamification can help tailor OGD portals for lay citizens. As a pre-condition to this goal, we identify requirements toward OGD portals through twenty interviews with experts and lay citizens. Compared to expert users, lay citizens expect an OGD portal with a more playful interface, vulgarized content, customized visualizations, and transparency-related datasets in a human-readable format. Second, we develop our research artifact, the OGD portal prototype, implementing fifteen design propositions using gamification theory to address lay citizens’ requirements. Third, the evaluation with ten lay citizens reveals the perceived usefulness of the design propositions. Badges were evaluated as most useful to highlight portal relevance. This study contributes to OGD theory development by identifying lay citizens' requirements towards OGD use. Furthermore, this study is the first to reveal the usefulness of implementing notions from gamification theory into OGD portal design. Finally, practitioners can use our findings to make OGD portals more inclusive and thus contribute to attaining key OGD policy objectives.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Information and Communication Technolog
Climate change 2024: The need for more inclusion, fairness, and leadership
No full textIn this piece, Dr Steve Westlake and Dr Caroline Verfuerth lay out three climate policy recommendations for the government to consider in order to meet the UK’s net zero targets
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