Becoming a teacher educator : guidelines for induction : 2nd edition

The first edition of these guidelines was published in 2007. Since that date it has been used to support the induction of new teacher educators in the UK and beyond. The guidelines and the research which underpinned them also won the Sage BERA Practitioner Research Prize in 2009. But change in the higher education sector and in the field of teacher education mean that the time is now right for a second edition. This new edition has been revised in four main ways. Firstly, a considerable body of published international research focused on teacher educators has been produced since 2007 and the revised guidelines are informed by this work. Secondly, the new guidelines include the ‘voices’ of new teacher educators themselves gathered during our regular workshops for new teacher educators and our research projects. Thirdly, the revised edition aims to be more inclusive of all teacher educators, including those in further education. In terms of this latter group, it is informed by the limited literature available and our own research into the experiences of those teaching higher education programmes in further education colleges. Finally, the new guidelines seek to respond in a measured way to changing policy and contextual frameworks. These include the continued intensification and increasing fragmentation of academic work and identity in the higher education sector; and the wider questioning of the contribution of higher education to professional education for teachers

The prompt gamma-ray emission of novae

Classical novae are potential gamma-ray emitters, because of the disintegration of some radioactive nuclei synthesized during the explosion. Some short-lived isotopes (such as 13N and 18F), as well as the medium-lived 22Na, decay emitting positrons, which annihilate with electrons and thus are responsible for the prompt emission of gamma-rays from novae. This emission consists of a 511 keV line plus a continuum between 20 and 511 keV, and is released before the maximum in visual luminosity, i.e., before the discovery of the nova. The main characteristics of this prompt emission, together with the related uncertainties (both of nuclear and hydrodynamical origin, with a particular emphasis on the influence of the envelope properties) and prospects for detectability are analyzed in this paper.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures (6 PS files), to appear in New Astronomy Reviews (Proceedings of the Ringberg Workshop "Astronomy with Radioactivities III"

A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for Switzerland

This paper presents a DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) model of the Swiss economy used since 2007 in the monetary policy decision process at the Swiss National Bank. In addition to forecasting the likely course of main macro variables under various scenarios for the Swiss economy, the model DSGE-CH serves as a laboratory for studying business cycles and examining the effects of actual and hypothetical monetary policies. The microfounded model DSGE-CH represents Switzerland as a small open economy with optimizing economic agents facing several real and nominal rigidities and exogenous foreign and domestic shocks. The comparison of the model's implications with the real world indicates that DSGE-CH performs well along standard dimensions. It captures the overall stochastic structure of the Swiss economy as represented by the moments of its key macroeconomic variables, furthermore, it has appropriate dynamic properties, as judged by its impulse response functions. Finally, it quite accurately replicates the historical path of major Swiss variables.DSGE, forecasting, small open economy, Switzerland

Alien Registration- Culleton, Jean (Newport, Penobscot County)

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Defining physiological differences between gilts divergently selected for residual feed intake

Residual feed intake (RFI) is a unique measure of feed efficiency (FE) and an alternative to traditional measures of gain:feed or feed conversion ratio. Residual feed intake is defined as the difference between the actual feed intake of a pig and its expected feed intake based on a given amount of growth and backfat. Therefore, selecting pigs for a low RFI (LRFI), results in a more feed efficient animal for a given rate of growth. Using lines of Yorkshire pigs divergently selected for RFI provides a unique research model to study the genetic and physiological factors defining FE differences in pigs and other livestock. Therefore, the objective of this dissertation was to partially explain the physiological differences defining FE gains seen in pigs divergently selected for RFI. More specifically, our objectives were to determine the extent to which apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of nutrients and energy, and their utilization and retention explain FE differences (Chapter 2). Additionally, we aimed to determine the extent to which whole body composition and tissue accretion rates explain differences in efficiency between pigs divergently selected for low or high RFI (Chapter 3). In both research Chapters, LRFI and high RFI (HRFI) gilts were selected from the 7th generation of the Iowa State University RFI selection project. All gilts were matched by age and live weight for both the Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 objectives (62±3 kg BW and 60±7 kg, respectively). The gilts used in the digestibility study were randomly assigned to metabolism crates, while the gilts in the body composition study were group-housed in pens equipped with FIRE feeders. All gilts had free access to water and a standard diet based on corn and soybean meal, with the feed in the digestibility study containing an exogenous digestibility marker. In the Chapter 2 digestibility study, total urine and feces were collected for 72 h and nutrient and energy digestibility and P and N balance were then measured and calculated to determine differences between the RFI lines. In Chapter 3, whole body compositions of both an initial (ISG) and a final (FSG) slaughter group was analyzed. Backfat ultrasound scans and initial body weights from the ISG and FSG, together with the ISG fat, protein, and ash whole body compositions were used in a regression analysis to estimate the initial body composition of the FSG gilts. Results from Chapter 2 showed that the digestibility coefficients for DM (87.3 vs. 85.9%), N (88.3 vs. 86.1%), and GE (86.9 vs. 85.4%) were higher (P ≤ 0.003) in the LRFI versus HRFI gilts, respectively. The DE (16.59 vs. 16.32 MJ/kg DM) and ME (15.98 vs. 15.72 MJ/kg DM) values were also significantly greater (P = 0.0006) in the LRFI gilts. When adjusting for ADFI, P digestibility did not differ between the lines. However, the LRFI gilts tended to have improved N retention compared to HRFI gilts (P = 0.08; 36.9 vs. 32.1 g/d). Chapter 3 body composition indicated that the LRFI gilts in the FSG tended to have decreased total visceral weight (6.22 vs. 6.49 kg, P = 0.09) compared to the HRFI gilts. Both ISG and FSG LRFI gilts had decreased whole body fat percentage (P ≤ 0.02) and GE of the body (cal/g, P ≤ 0.0006) compared to the HRFI gilts. The FSG LRFI gilts also had an increase in whole body protein (%, P = 0.07) compared to their HRFI counterparts. LRFI gilts tended to have an increase in protein (P = 0.09) and water (P = 0.06) accretion, g/d, with a significant increase in ash accretion (g/d, P = 0.04) compared to their HRFI counterparts. Interestingly, we reported no differences in fat accretion between lines. In conclusion, the higher energy and nutrient digestibility, utilization, and retention may partially explain the superior FE, while the data indicating differences in body composition and tissue accretion rates may partially explain the genetic variation seen in pigs selected for LRFI

Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm: An International History of Private Limited Companies

We use the history of private limited liability companies (PLLCs) to challenge two pervasive assumptions in the literature: (1) Anglo-American legal institutions were better for economic development than continental Europe’s civil-law institutions; and (2) the corporation was the superior form of business organization. Data on the number and types of firms organized in France, Germany, the UK, and the US show that that the PLLC became the form of choice for small- and medium-size enterprises wherever and whenever it was introduced. The PLLC’s key advantage was its flexible internal governance rules that allowed its users to limit the threat of untimely dissolution inherent in partnerships without taking on the full danger of minority oppression that the corporation entailed. The PLLC was first successfully introduced in Germany, a code country, in 1892. Great Britain, a common-law country followed in 1907, and France, a code country, in 1925. The laggard was the US, a common-law country whose courts had effectively killed earlier attempts to enact the form.limited company, partnership, corporation, legal regime, common law, civil law

Putting the Corporation in its Place

This article challenges the idea that the corporation is a globally superior form of business organization and that the Anglo-American common-law is more conducive to economic development than the code-based legal systems characteristic of continental Europe. Although the corporation had important advantages over the main alternative form of organization (partnerships), it also had disadvantages that limited its appeal to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). As a result, when businesses were provided with an intermediate choice, the private limited liability company (PLLC) that combined the advantages of legal personhood and joint stock with a flexible internal organizational structure, most chose not to organize as corporations. This article tracks the changes that occurred in the menu of business organizational forms in two common-law countries (the UK and the US) and two countries governed by legal codes (France and Germany) and presents data showing the rapidity with which firms in each country responded to enabling legislation for PLLCs. We show that the PLLC was introduced first and most easily in a code country (Germany) and last and with the most difficulty in a common-law country (the US). Late introduction was associated with prolonged use of the partnership form, suggesting that the disadvantages of corporations did indeed weigh heavily on SMEs.

Jean Nickelman: Marian Library Oral Histories

Kayla Harris interviewed Jean Nickelman on September 18, 2018 about her experience as a volunteer for the Marian Library. In this interview Ms. Nickelman discusses how she began as a volunteer, some of the memorable projects she has worked on and hopes for the Marian Library in the future.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ul_oral_histories/1001/thumbnail.jp