THE IMPACT OF SEED-GRANT FUNDING ON EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH AWARDS

The Grant-in-Aid Program is a State sponsored seed grant program whereby the State of Minnesota provides the University of Minnesota approximately $2 million annually to fund new faculty research. Recently, the Graduate School engaged in an internal review of the Grant-in-Aid program. The purpose of the review was to determine how effective their seed grant program was in enabling University faculty to obtain additional grant funding from agencies outside the University. The following study discusses this review in some detail. An econometric analysis of survey data indicates that the seed-grant program is highly effective in enabling faculty to gain additional research funding. Further it was found that the ability of a faculty member to obtain additional extramural funding is dependent upon the discipline in which the research is being conducted.research productivity, seed grant, grant funding, Public Economics, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

Poly Pelletizer: Recycled Pet Pellets From Water Bottles

Plastic water bottles comprise a large amount of waste worldwide. The goal of the Poly Pelletizer project is to create a system that will turn water bottles into polyethylene terephthalate (PET) pellets compatible with extruders to produce 3-D printer lament, along with other recycling applications.The system promotes a sustainable solution to plastic pollution by giving manufactures, particularly in developing nations, the means to produce their own bulk materials using waste plastic. Shrinking industrial recycling processes to a workbench scale gives individuals the ability to convert excess bottles into seemingly limitless products. The system works by using a dual heating and pressure system to both evenly mix and melt the plastic before pushing the resin through a die. The Poly Pelletizer successfully created pellets using various mixtures of virgin PET and shredded water bottles

The role of leading twist operators in the Regge and Lorentzian OPE limits

We study two kinematical limits, the Regge limit and the Lorentzian OPE limit, of the four-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet in Super Yang-Mills at weak coupling. We explain how both kinematical limits are controlled by the leading twist operators. We use the known expression of the four-point function up to three loops, to extract the pomeron residue at next-to-leading order. Using this data and the known form of pomeron spin up to next-to-leading order, we predict the behaviour of the four-point function in the Regge limit at higher loops. Specifically, we determine the leading log behaviour at any loop order and the next-to-leading log at four loops. Finally, we check the consistency of our results with conformal Regge theory. This leads us to predict the behaviour around $J=1$ of the OPE coefficient of the spin $J$ leading twist operator in the OPE of two chiral primary operators.Comment: 22+14 page

Language, ideologies, and the 'Scottish voice'

International audienceIn this Occasional Paper, I would like to emphasise one way in which language ideological issues permeate literary discourse in Scotland. Focusing on issues related to Scots, I will analyse two (in my view complementary) introductions to anthologies of texts in Scots published over the past twenty years, and show how they participate in a wider ideological debate on language and society in Scotland

Language History as Charter Myth? Scots and the (Re)invention of Scotland.

International audienceThis article analyses the charter myth of the Scots language revitalisation movement

"Aviáu enveja de transmetre tres causas" : transmission familiale de l'occitan et idéologies de militants en Provence

International audienceÉtude de discours de transmission familiale d'une langue minoritaire, l'occitan, parmi des militants occitanistes en Provence

De l'hygiène verbale dans le sud de la France ou Occitanie

International audienceCet article explore les débats idéologiques qui ont lieu entre promoteurs de la langue régionale en Provence

Programmes et manuels d'histoire-géographie : formation citoyenne à la pluralité européenne ou reproduction des idéologies dominantes ?

Cet article analyse le traitement de la diversité linguistique dans plusieurs manuels scolaires français destinés à des élèves de 4e

Mythologie(s) occitane(s) et figures de l'autorité : le rôle du linguiste dans l'imaginaire de l'aménagement linguistique.

This contribution explores, within a critical narrative analysis framework, the changing role and in fact the gradual erasure of the linguist and the sociolinguist as a figure or character in the Occitan activist discourse. It seeks to draw parallels between this phenomenon and the concomitant development of the presence of the medical profession within that discourse, and to establish connections with a new interest for language transmission in the home. Parallel developments can be observed in Wales and other territories where a minority language is spoken, and beyond the erasure of the linguist as a figure, it questions the role of the individual and the collective in language revitalisation.Aquesta contribucion examina lo cambiament dau ròtle dau lingüista au dintre dau moviment militant occitanista, cambiament parallèle a çò que si pòt observar alhors en Euròpa, au País de Galas per exemple. S'agís de mostrar que l'escafament de la figura dau lingüista o sociolingüista au dintre dau discors militant occitanista accompanha lo desvolopament de la transmission familiala coma tematica militanta, que a son torn fai emergar la figura dau metge coma figura centrala de la legitimacion dau discors militant. L'escafament de la figura dau lingüista pausa tanben la question de la relacion entre l'individuau e lo colectiu au dintre d'una entrepresa de revitalizacion lingüistica