The ethical implications of generative Artificial Intelligence on students, academic staff and researchers in Higher Education.

This chapter discusses the ethical implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence on students, academic staff and researchers. Despite the attractive allure of generative AI there remains an undercurrent of ethical issues. If not addressed, these threaten to undermine the use and credibility of the eventual output, the person using the material and any particular purpose to which the material has been used. Whilst problems have been identified through the use of these tools, these have not specifically been viewed through the lens of three key groups within Higher Education - Academic Staff, Students and Researchers. The identification of these issues will provide a starting point for many institutions who are developing guidance and policies in their own contexts

Integration of capacitive deionization and forward osmosis for high water recovery and ultrapure water production: concept, modelling and performance analysis

Forward Osmosis (FO), a membrane desalination technology and Capacitive Deionization (CDI), an electrically operated desalination technology, are numerically integrated utilizing four different configurations for the high-water recovery rate and ultrapure water production from brackish water resource. To minimize the wastewater rejection, the CDI desorption stream is continuously fed to the FO unit, efficiently recovering the remaining freshwater. To produce ultrapure water, freshwater stream obtained from FO is provided to the CDI cell, which adsorbs the remaining dissolved solute particles. These two configurations serve the purpose of both industrial as well as domestic water supply requirements. Continuing this concept, the formation of the other two configurations allows us to obtain fresh water and ultrapure water simultaneously and up to a 90% freshwater recovery rate for the areas with inadequate supply. The performance parameters to assess the integration are the Water Recovery Rate (WRR) and Specific Energy Consumption (SEC). The first configuration (CDI-FO), proposed for a high freshwater recovery rate, resulted in 79.33% WRR with an SEC of 0.689kWh/m3. While, for the second configuration (FO-CDI), 34.25% water was recovered as 2.87 ppm ultrapure water along with 34.25% freshwater. The third proposed configuration (CDI-FO-CDI) had a WRR of 79.33%, 14.67% of which was recovered as ultrapure water of concentration 2.86 ppm. The fourth configuration (CDI-FO-FO) developed for high water recovery, removed the maximum of water from the feed stream with a WRR of 91.33% and remained energy-efficient, consuming an SEC of 0.908kWh/m3.<br/

Community Sentence Treatment Requirement Cambridgeshire Report July 2020 – December 2023

This report presents analysis from the Community Sentence Treatment Requirement Cambridgeshire Evaluation, completed by the Institute for Public Safety, Crime and Justice. Data were provided from Cambridgeshire relating to the period of July 2020 to July 2023, with data being provided for 427 cases. It must be noted that the files submitted include live cases and as such would not yet have progressed beyond initial assessment

Engaging students with political history:Citizenship in the (very) long eighteenth century

For a long time, political history dominated the teaching of history in British universities. Certainly until the social history revolution of the 1960s, the type of history that was taught was predominantly political, and was of very particular types. Whig histories focused on English constitutional development, concentrating on the improvement of institutions and lauding the efforts of privileged actors who contributed to this design; and even critiques of this approach tended to be establishmentarian and elitist in their outlook. Following the rise of social and then cultural history, political history became more marginal in the profession, and indeed has often been the type of history that progressive histories have defined themselves against. This chapter will reflect on how best to approach this now less familiar form of history with undergraduates, who often have negative preconceptions about studying it. It will suggest that teaching eighteenth-century politics in terms of ‘citizenship’ can make it relevant to today’s students, and will think about some pedagogical strategies that can help to make the experience of learning about it more meaningful and engaging

Influence of the different nanostructures of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene/carbon nanotubes nanocomposites on laser cutting properties: Machining and chemical aspects

Reported on in depth for the first time herein is the influence of the diverse nanostructures of acrylonitrilebutadiene styrene (ABS)/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) on its chemical, physical and electricalproperties after laser cutting. Injection moulding was used to fabricate the nanocomposite samples in variousstructures with a thickness of 3 mm by adjusting temperature and pressure. The samples’ nanostructures wereevaluated prior to cutting with a CO2 laser. Design of experiments (DoE) by a full-factorial method used threelevels laser power 45, 55 and 65 W) and the cutting velocity at three levels (4, 8 and 12 mm/s) as independentvariables. The findings from this work are significant and support new theories. It was revealed different surfacedamage modes such as shrink holes, cracks, decomposed smithereens and sink marks. These were affected by thelaser energy density criterion which means that the ratio of power to cutting velocity was the governing factor,whilst the effect of primary nanostructures was negligible. Unlike surface damage, the width of heat affectedzone (HAZ) was found to depend on the thermal conductivity, which directly relates to the samples’ nanostructure.Minimum HAZ was obtained at 0.45 mm for the sample with maximum thermal conductivity equal to0.23 W/mK. Analysis of the post-laser cut surface and HAZ indicated that the MWCNTs were well dispersed withhigher orientation and degrees of distribution. This, naturally, allows the inference that application of low laserenergy density accounted for and governed oxidation of these regions. The results show that the nanotexture ofthe post-laser cut surface is completely changed in comparison with the as-moulded surface, leading to the lowestreduction in surface electrical resistivity to 3.2 kΩ for the sample produced at a temperature of 220 ◦C and aholding pressure of 70 bar

Dataset of experimental work and numerical modeling of laser micro-drilling of Hastelloy X

The response surface methodology was employed to conduct experiments (DOE), utilizing Minitab 2019 software for assistance. Each input parameter, such as laser power (P), duty cycle % (D), focal plane position (FPP), and laser frequency (f), was set at three levels, resulting in a total of 26 experiments. The study focused on analyzing responses such as inlet diameter, outlet diameter, hole taper angle, and inlet circularity. The summarized outcomes are available in the initial sheet titled "1 - Main Experimental Results." A thorough comparison between simulated and experimental results is presented in the second sheet titled "2 - Predicted & Measured Results." The third sheet, named "3 - Statistical & Simulation," contains information on simulation and statistical errors

Effects of a Maintenance period on Ambulatory Blood Pressure and Morning Blood Pressure Surge in Young Normotensives post Isometric Training

Isometric resistance training (IRT) has emerged as an efficacious therapeutic intervention to reduce ambulatory blood pressure (BP), and BP diurnal variability. However, once the required decreases in BP have been achieved the efficacy of implementing a reduced maintenance dose are not understood. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a maintenance period (8-week) following the cessation of the prescribed IRT (8-week) in young normotensives. Twenty-five recreationally active, not resistance trained, normotensive (mean ± SD: 120±7/69±5mmHg) were randomly assigned to a training-maintenance (TG-MT; n=13; age 21±2 years) or a non-training control (CON; n=12; age 22±4 years) group. Ambulatory BP, morning BP surge (MBPS) and average real variability (ARV) were measured prior to, after 8 weeks of bilateral leg IRT (4x2-minute contractions at 20% MVC with 2-minute rest periods, 3 days/week) and following an 8-week (once per week) maintenance period. On completion of the maintenance period the significant reductions seen following the IRT were maintained within the TG-MT group in 24-h ambulatory SBP (6±4mmHg, P<0.001), daytime (5±5mmHg, P=0.002), MBPS (7±10mmHg, P=0.019) and 24-h SBP ARV (2.03±1.44mmHg, P=0.001), daytime SBP ARV (2.04±1.78mmHg, P=0.003). These results show that reductions in ambulatory BP (24-h SBP and daytime SBP), in addition to BP diurnal variations (MBPS, 24-h SBP ARV and daytime SBP AVR) are maintained following an 8-week maintenance dose and add further weight to the growing body of evidence promoting IRT as an effective therapeutic exercise intervention to reduce BP

Reward Management:Alternatives, Consequences and Contexts

Covering theory and practice, Reward Management is an ideal textbook for postgraduate HR students, particularly those taking the CIPD Advanced level module in Strategic Reward Management Now in its fifth edition, Reward Management covers everything postgraduate HR students need to know about the topic to excel in their studies and start their careers as people professionals. It covers reward management systems, frameworks and strategies through to pay setting, pensions, benefits and non-financial reward. There is also coverage of the legal and employment relations context of reward management as well as discussion of international reward management. This new edition now includes brand new content on deferred reward, executive reward, the impact of social transformation and the wider economy on reward as well as changes to reward post the Covid-19 pandemic. The content has been fully updated throughout and now includes new discussion of sustainability and equality, diversity and inclusion and how they apply to reward management. This book is supported by examples, case studies and a range of pedagogical features such as learning objectives, self-test assessment exercises, key learning points and explore further boxes. Online resources include a lecturer manual and PowerPoint slides for every chapter. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessar

Eye-tracking data of X and Y coordinates, Width and Height of the speech to text system .

Eye-tracking data of X and Y coordinates, Width and Height of the speech-to-text system . Using the list of words and sentences from the Generic Message List for AAC users with AL

Parapsychology and Cyberpsychology

Parapsychology’s relationship with cyberpsychology is currently seldom explored. The Internet has served as a powerful vehicle for parapsychological research design and execution (e.g., surveys, dissemination of research findings on web sites and social media), notwithstanding the pitfalls of online polarisation, censorship, and the continuing pseudoscience demarcation problem. Cyberpsychology provides a range of theoretical frameworks in helping to examine the mechanisms behind such interactions (e.g., networked publics—i.e., communities that are shaped or reconfigured by networked technologies). Parapsychology in turn has a track record of engaging with novel technologies in past and present research (e.g., lab-based studies and technology brought in to explore altered-states of consciousness), and in examining how technology can mediate anomalous experiences such as in survival themed spontaneous case research. Utilising Kirwan’s three main aspects of cyberpsychology (i.e., how we interact with others; how we use technology to fit our requirements; how our behaviours are affected by technological developments) this paper examines how the application of existing theoretical frameworks which serve cyberpsychologists are arguably of equal and ever-increasing importance to parapsychologists in understanding how their work is disseminated and discussed. Future online technologies may also present opportunities to explore shared interests, including exploration of self through both real and imagined environments, transpersonal or anomalous experiences, and how rapidly evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies may mediate changes in perceptions of post-mortem survival through digitisation of death and the afterlife and perceived continuing bonds with the deceased (e.g., AI, virtual realities, etc.)