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Academic use of digital resources: Disciplinary differences and the issue of progression revisited
This paper examines the use of digital resources by academic staff in a single UK University and its influence on academic practice over a two to three year period. The paper describes two linked studies that address several of the themes regarding the impact of electronic resources identified in this special edition. In particular it provides findings that contribute to our understanding of changing roles and practices in academic teaching (Oliver this edition). The themes explored in this paper include the way disciplinary differences affect the use of digital resources, and how academic progression is understood by academic staff in different disciplines and its role in informing staff choices in deploying digital resources for student use. The paper also addresses the issue of changing academic practice and the adoption life cycle in relation to use of digital resources.
Keywords: Digital resources, Disciplinary differences, Teaching and learning, Distributed learning environments
NCACE Publication: Case Study S.H.E.D.
Dr Jones was invited to write a case study on S.H.E.D for the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE). NCACE is an initiative led by TCCE and funded by Research England. We facilitate and support capacity for Knowledge Exchange between Higher Education and the arts and cultural sector across the UK, with a particular focus on evidencing and showcasing the social, cultural, environmental, as well as economic, impacts of such activities.The case study on S.H.E.D focus' on the methodology for S.H.E.D designed by Dr Jones, in order to develop a public art space that is co-designed with communities to generate creative and place-based projects that directly attend to H.Es civic
responsibility. In turn, this approach has driven societal change through its creative enterprise and led to the generation of place-based knowledge production through cultural exchange
The on-farm impact of alternative grazing management options to improve sustainability in western Chinese grasslands
Chinese grasslands are suffering considerable pressures from human and livestock populations. It has been estimated that 90% of Chinese grasslands are suffering from light to heavy levels of degradation. Allied to this is the low household income of herders and farmers dependant upon livestock products for their livelihood. Although a range of reasons have been proposed for the high levels of grassland degradation, principal among these are the high stocking rates adopted by farmers. This not only results in high utilisation rates of the pasture biomass, leading to bare areas and soil erosion, but individual animal productivity rates also decline. This paper presents the results of a modelling study of a grassland system in Gansu Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China. This shows that reducing stocking rates leads to not only an increase in livestock productivity, but whole-farm returns are also increased. From a sustainability perspective, the greater pasture biomass remaining on the grassland also reduces the incidence of soil erosion in the areas.sustainable grazing, bioeconomic model, China, Farm Management, Livestock Production/Industries, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Parody in Trademark Law: Dumb Starbucks Makes Trademark Law Look Dumb, 14 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 143 (2015)
Comedian Nathan Fielder opened a coffee shop which looked like a Starbucks, but he put the word “dumb” in front of the Starbucks name. Fielder justified his behavior based on the argument that he had created a parody of Starbucks. This article explores when a parody of a trademark may be entitled to protection under the First Amendment. If so, what are the limits of this protection, especially when a trademark holder argues that the parody is diluting his or her trademark by either blurring or tarnishment? The article analyzes federal statutes and judicial decisions. It concludes with recommendations to improve U.S. trademark law
Do Our Graduates Know What companies Are Seeking In An Employee, and, Perhaps More Importantly, Do We?
University marketing faculty teach and embrace a concept referred to as the Marketing Concept, which places an emphasis on customer needs as a central focus in managing the marketing effort. Understanding customer needs through marketing research is thus essential to the process. If college marketing programs are to prepare students for their customers, the companies that hiring these students, the question then follows: do college marketing faculty and college marketing graduates know what qualities employers are seeking? This exploratory study reports the results of a survey of employers who were attending a Career Fair at a Southeastern US state university which addresses this question
Engineering geology of British rocks and soils : Lias Group
The report begins with an introduction and a detailed modern assessment of the geology of the
Lias Group in terms of both stratigraphy and lithology. The modern lithostratigraphy is placed in
the context of the old, and sometimes more familiar, usage. The next two chapters deal with the
mineralogy of a suite of samples collected for the project, and an assessment of the nature and
influence of weathering based on a detailed analysis of the Lias dataset held in the BGS National
Geotechnical Properties Database. The following chapters cover geohazards associated with the
Lias Group, and a brief overview of the wide variety of industrial applications for which the Lias
is well known. The geotechnical database forms the basis of the penultimate chapter,
geotechnical properties. The contents of the database are analysed, interpreted, presented in
graphical form, and discussed in terms of statistical variation and in the light of likely
engineering behaviour. The engineering geology of the Lias Group is discussed in the final
chapter, borrowing from the preceding chapters. A comprehensive cited reference list and a
bibliography are provided. In addition to the large number of technical data provided to BGS, a
small data set has been generated by BGS laboratories, particularly in areas where the main
database was deficient, and also in connection with associated BGS studies of the swelling and
shrinkage properties of the Lias Group.
The individual items of data making up the database are not attributed. However, the
contribution of a wide range of consultancies, contractors, authorities, and individuals is
acknowledged. It is hoped that this report will provide a source of useful information to a wide
range of engineers, planners, scientists, and other interested parties concerned with Lias Group
materials.
It should be noted that whilst quantitative technical data are included in this report, these should
not be used as a substitute for proper site investigation
Stationary components of HeI in strong magnetic fields - a tool to identify magnetic DB white dwarfs
In only three of the 61 known magnetic white dwarfs helium has been
identified unambiguously while about 20% of all non-magnetic stars of this
class are known to contain HeI or HeII. Until recently, data for HeI data were
available only for magnetic fields below 20MG. This changed with the
publication of extensive data by the group in Heidelberg. The corresponding
calculations have now been completed for the energetically lowest five states
of singlet and triplet symmetry for the subspaces with |m| <= 3; selected
calculations have been performed for even higher excitations. In strongly
magnetized white dwarfs only line components are visible whose wavelengths vary
slowly with respect to the magnetic field, particularly stationary components
which have a wavelength minimum or maximum in the range of the magnetic fields
strengths on the stellar surface. In view of the many ongoing surveys finding
white dwarfs we want to provide the astronomical community with a tool to
identify helium in white dwarfs for fields up to 5.3GG. To this end we present
all calculated helium line components whose wavelengths in the UV, optical, and
near IR vary slowly enough with respect to the field strength to produce
visible absorption features. We also list all stationary line components in
this spectral range. Finally, we find series of minima and maxima which occur
as a result of series of extremal transitions to increasingly higher
excitations. We estimated the limits for 8 series which can possibly give rise
to additional absorption in white dwarf spectra; one strong absorption feature
in GD229 which is yet unexplained by stationary components is very close to two
estimated series limits.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication by Astronomy and
Astrophysic
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