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    Ecodriving and Carbon Footprinting: Understanding How Public Education Can Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Use

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    Ecodriving is a collection of changes to driving behavior and vehicle maintenance designed to impact fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in existing vehicles. Because of its promise to improve fuel economy within the existing fleet, ecodriving has gained increased attention in North America. One strategy to improve ecodriving is through public education with information on how to ecodrive. This report provides a review and study of ecodriving from several angles. The report offers a literature review of previous work and programs in ecodriving across the world. In addition, researchers completed interviews with experts in the field of public relations and public message campaigns to ascertain best practices for public campaigns. Further, the study also completed a set of focus groups evaluating consumer response to a series of websites that displayed ecodriving information. Finally, researchers conducted a set of surveys, including a controlled stated-response study conducted with approximately 100 University of California, Berkeley faculty, staff, and students, assessing the effectiveness of static ecodriving web-based information as well as an intercept clipboard survey in the San Francisco Bay Area. The stated-response study consisted of a comparison of the experimental and control groups. It found that exposure to ecodriving information influenced people’s driving behavior and some maintenance practices. The experimental group’s distributional shift was statistically significant, particularly for key practices including: lower highway cruising speed, driving behavior adjustment, and proper tire inflation. Within the experimental group (N = 51), fewer respondents significantly changed their maintenance practices (16%) than the majority that altered some driving practices (71%). This suggests intentionally altering driving behavior is easier than planning better maintenance practices. While it was evident that not everyone modifies their behavior as a result of reviewing the ecodriving website, even small shifts in behavior due to inexpensive information dissemination could be deemed cost effective in reducing fuel consumption and emissions

    Surrey Wildlife Trust - Audience Development

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    Your Own Internet Listserver

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    Technical Update

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    Trends in ICT access and use

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    Citation matters: two essays on the student journey of citation and how Google Scholar and the principle of least effort can affect academic writing

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    The paper consists of two short essays on citation matters. The aim is to get the academy thinking about citing and referencing from a student point of view. The first essay (on the student journey of citation) is an attempt of a framework for the academic writer, from the time they are an undergraduate student to an academic researcher. The worldview of citing and referencing is argued to develop in accordance to academic level. The second essay is on academic writing and the principle of least effort. With a few searches on Google Scholar, cyberplagiarism and the pilfering of citation context was demonstrated. With emphasis on patchwriting, the temptation of the academic writer to corner cut is not argued as being exclusive to students but more apparent by students. Technology is also argued to create a conflict for the academic writer showing a path where they can reduce effort

    A sustainable model for ICT capacity building in developing countries

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    System administrators are often asked to apply their professional expertise in unusual situations, or under tight resource constraints. What happens, though, when the “situation” is a foreign country with only basic technical infrastructure, and the task is to bauild systems which are able to survive and grow in these over-constrained environments? In this paper we report on our experiences in two very different countries – Cuba and Ethiopia – where we ran a number of ICT projects. In those projects we assisted local universities to upgrade their ICT infrastructure and services. This included skills and process building for local system administrators. Based on our experiences we formulate a model for sustainable ICT capacity building. We hope this model will be useful for other organizations doing similar projects

    The Official Student Newspaper of UAS

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    UAS Answers: Everybody's got one... -- Campus Safety & Security (Clery Act) and Annual Fire Safety Reports -- The Cure for the Scholar with Wanderlust -- Holding onto Hope: A Review of The Oh Hellos -- Thanks for all the MSG -- Suddenly College: Stakeout in the Stacks -- October Snapshots -- Literary Traditions: The Four-Fold Exegesis -- Battling the Seasonal Blues -- Write, Write, Baby -- A Challenger Approaches -- Campus Calenda

    The Official Student Newspaper of UAS

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    Letter from the Editor / Whalesong Staff -- UAS in Brief / Health Corner -- ROBOCOPP: Safety First -- Woosh K's Poetry Slam -- Sea Turtle Conservation -- Allegiant: Gadzooks -- Tidal Echoes / Recipe: Cowboy Grub -- Recipe: Omurice / Spring is Here -- Suddenly, College -- Calendar and Comics

    Community learning learner survey report

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