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Digital Preservation, Archival Science and Methodological Foundations for Digital Libraries
Digital libraries, whether commercial, public or personal, lie at the heart of the information society. Yet, research into their longâterm viability and the meaningful accessibility of their contents remains in its infancy. In general, as we have pointed out elsewhere, âafter more
than twenty years of research in digital curation and preservation the actual theories, methods and technologies that can either foster or ensure digital longevity remain
startlingly limited.â Research led by DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) and the Digital
Preservation Cluster of DELOS has allowed us to refine the key research challenges â theoretical, methodological and technological â that need attention by researchers in digital libraries during the coming five to ten years, if we are to ensure that the materials held in our emerging digital libraries are to remain sustainable, authentic, accessible and understandable over time. Building on this work and taking the theoretical framework of archival science as bedrock, this paper investigates digital preservation and its foundational role if digital libraries are to have longâterm viability at the centre of the
global information society.
Developing the developers â supporting development of online conference presentations
Delivering online tuition has become standard practice in most universities with many students receiving part of their tuition online. However, so far there appears to be a resistance to utilising online delivery for staff and academic development.
An online academic development conference was delivered to 150 teaching staff delegates over the course of a week. The conference structure was to have a keynote presentation and eleven shorter discussion presentations, each with their own dedicated asynchronous discussion forum.
Conference presenters were each asked to produce a video presentation of up to 7 minutes and run an associated online forum.
This paper reports on the experience of the presenters in producing their video presentations and running the forums. It will highlight the valuable development opportunity for presenters as well as summarising their experiences.
Finally it will outline the lessons we have learnt and propose some recommendations for others considering running online staff development conferences
Pervasive Displays Research: What's Next?
Reports on the 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays that took place from June 6-8 in Munich, Germany
A SURVEY ON MOTIVATIONAL ORIENTATION IN LEARNING EFL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION POST GRADUATE STUDENTS OF JENDERAL SOEDIRMAN UNIVERSITY
This study investigated instrumental and integrative motivations (motivational orientation) of a group of EFL students, namely post graduate students of Public
Administration in Jenderal Soedirman University. Students learned English intensively
because they were projected to apply for scholarships in Burapha University in Thailand that
had an MOU with Jenderal Soedirman University. Students were going to undertake a
sandwiches program in Burapha University, Thailand. A motivation questionnaire was
developed and distributed to 12 students consisting of 5 male and 7 females. After that, they
were interviewed. It was expected that the students joined in this project would have a high
motivation to learn English for a selection process. However, an instrumental motivation was
found to be the main reason for the students to learn English. The motivational orientation
functioned as a motivation initiator that subsequently enhanced the motivational drive in
learning the target languag
Creating value-based competition in health care
On April 14â15, 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Detroit Regional Chamber co-sponsored the second annual forum on health care. This year's program focused on how the health care system could be improved in terms of cost, quality, and accessibility.Medical care, Cost of
Driving Innovation During Times of Growth
As the official coverage provider, the Cornell HR Review covered the keynote and panel discussions at the Human Capital Associationâs (HCA) 9th Annual Symposium. The HCA is a student run organization within Cornellâs Johnson School and School of Industrial and Labor Relations, which strives to drive the future of the HR profession through educational and professional development opportunities across the Cornell community. The symposium provides a forum for students, faculty and corporate executives to explore the various dimensions of human capital issues prevalent in global business. This yearâs symposium topic focused on driving innovation proactively through human resources and across organizations as we recover from the economic crisis of the past several years
Actionable Supply Chain Management Insights for 2016 and Beyond
The summit World Class Supply Chain 2016: Critical to Prosperity , contributed to addressing a need that the Supply Chain Management (SCM) fieldâs current discourse has deemed as critical: that need is for more academia-Ââindustry collaboration to develop the fieldâs body of actionable knowledge. Held on May 4th, 2016 in Milton, Ontario, the summit addressed that need in a way that proved to be both effective and distinctive in the Canadian SCM environment. The summit, convened in partnership between Wilfrid Laurier Universityâs Lazaridis School of Business & Economics and CN Rail, focused on building actionable SCM knowledge to address three core questions: What are the most significant SCM issues to be confronted now and beyond 2016? What SCM practices are imperative now and beyond 2016? What are optimal ways of ensuring that (a) issues of interest to SCM practitioners inform the scholarly activities of research and teaching and (b) the knowledge generated from those scholarly activities reciprocally guide SCM practice?
These are important questions for supply chain professionals in their efforts to make sense of todayâs business environment that is appropriately viewed as volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. The structure of the deliberations to address these questions comprised two keynote presentations and three panel discussions, all of which were designed to leverage the collective wisdom that comes from genuine peer-Ââto-Ââpeer dialogue between the SCM practitioners and SCM scholars.
Specifically, the structure aimed for a balanced blend of industry and academic input and for coverage of the SCM issues of greatest interest to attendees (as determined through a pre-Ââsummit survey of attendees). The structure produced impressively wide-Ââranging deliberations on the aforementioned questions. The essence of the resulting findings from the summit can be distilled into three messages: Given todayâs globally significant trends such as changes in population demographics, four highly impactful levers that SCM executives must expertly handle to attain excellence are: collaboration; information; technology; and talent Government policy, especially for infrastructure, is a significant determinant of SCM excellence There is tremendous potential for mutually beneficial industry-academia knowledge co-creation/sharing aimed at research and student training
This white paper reports on those findings as well as on the summitâs success in realizing its vision of fostering mutually beneficial industry-academia dialogue. The paper also documents what emerged as matters that are inadequately understood and should therefore be targeted in the ongoing quest for deeper understanding of actionable SCM insights. Deliberations throughout the day on May 4th, 2016 and the encouraging results from the pre-Ââsummit and post-Ââsummit surveys have provided much inspiration to enthusiastically undertake that quest. The undertaking will be through initiatives that include future research projects as well as next yearâs summitâWorld Class Supply Chain 2017
Plasma sprayed titanium coatings with/without a shroud
Abstract:
Titanium coatings were deposited by plasma spraying with and without a shroud. The titanium coatings were then assessed by scanning electron microscopy. A comparison in microstructure between titanium coatings with and
without the shroud was carried out. The results showed that the shroud played an important role in protecting the titanium particles from oxidation. The presence of
the shroud led to a reduction in coating porosity. The reduction in air entrainment with t he shroud resulted in better heating of the particles, and an enhanced
microstructure with lower porosity in the shrouded titanium coatings were observed compared to the air plasma sprayed counterpart
Research topics from the program - Unanswered questions: Gaps in research on reference effectiveness
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