Assessing self-responsibility in employability competencies development among Australian engineering students: introductory report

Self-responsibility study initially outlined the importance of ‘self-directed Adult learning’ either as the method or the outcome of education. Attention was given to the different interest of individual’s in accepting responsibility for their professional development. In this regard, several sources reveal the need for learners to take their own responsibility for developing employability competencies development. However, the concern must be expressed at the incompleteness of research into the personal responsibility for competency development

Solar plasma experiment

Solar plasma experiment by Mariner IV space prob

Dynamic allometry in coastal overwash morphology

Allometry refers to a physical principle in which geometric (and/or metabolic) characteristics of an object or organism are correlated to its size. Allometric scaling relationships typically manifest as power laws. In geomorphic contexts, scaling relationships are a quantitative signature of organization, structure, or regularity in a landscape, even if the mechanistic processes responsible for creating such a pattern are unclear. Despite the ubiquity and variety of scaling relationships in physical landscapes, the emergence and development of these relationships tend to be difficult to observe - either because the spatial and/or temporal scales over which they evolve are so great or because the conditions that drive them are so dangerous (e.g. an extreme hazard event). Here, we use a physical experiment to examine dynamic allometry in overwash morphology along a model coastal barrier. We document the emergence of a canonical scaling law for length versus area in overwash deposits (washover). Comparing the experimental features, formed during a single forcing event, to 5 decades of change in real washover morphology from the Ria Formosa barrier system, in southern Portugal, we find differences between patterns of morphometric change at the event scale versus longer timescales. Our results may help inform and test process-based coastal morphodynamic models, which typically use statistical distributions and scaling laws to underpin empirical or semi-empirical parameters at fundamental levels of model architecture. More broadly, this work dovetails with theory for landscape evolution more commonly associated with fluvial and alluvial terrain, offering new evidence from a coastal setting that a landscape may reflect characteristics associated with an equilibrium or steady-state condition even when features within that landscape do not.Funding Agency NERC Natural Environment Research Council NE/N015665/2 Leverhulme Trust RPG-2018-282info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

SWINE PRODUCTION NETWORKS IN MINNESOTA: RESOURCES FOR DECISION MAKING

Swine production networks are becoming a significant part of the Minnesota swine industry, with at least 30 production networks in operation as of late 1995. There are probably at least 450 producers involved, representing at least nine percent of the state s sow inventory. Not counted in these numbers are a few other networks involved only in data-sharing or marketing as well as a large number of farmer-to-farmer custom/contract arrangements. We interviewed 20 producers involved in networks. None of the networks we surveyed had been in operation very long, with most in business no more than a year or two. It is too early to predict what their long-term success will be. Most of the respondents seemed pleased with the arrangements so far. An example financial analysis of a 1,400 sow network is presented in the paper. Pig pricing formulas and custom rates are discussed for sharing risks among the farrower, nursery and finisher members of the network. The staff paper is 34 pages plus a 26 page annotated reading list of other publications on networking and segregated early weaning.Livestock Production/Industries,

Struktur Klausa Bahasa Maanyan Dalam Pangunraun Taliwakas Paadu (the Structure of the Maanyan Clause in Pangunraun Taliwakas Paadu)

Struktur Klausa Bahasa Maanyan dalam Pangunraun Taliwakas Paadu. Penelitian ini bertujuanmemerikan secara lengkap struktur klausa bahasa Maanyan dalam Pangunraun Taliwakas Paadu(nasihat pernikahan), yaitu struktur kalimat dasar, struktur klausa relatif atau klausa perwatasan,dan struktur klausa pemerlengkapan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metodedeskriptif. Deskripsi penelitian semata-mata hanya berdasarkan fakta yang nyata atau fenomenayang secara empiris hidup pada penuturnya, sehingga yang dihasilkan atau dicatat berupa pemerianbahasa.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian struktur bahasa Maanyan dalam Pangunraun Taliwakas Paadu(nasihat pernikahan) terdapat struktur klausa sebagai berikut: (1) Klausa relatif/perwatasan, terdiriatas pewatas frasa nomina objek, pewatas frasa nomina subjek sama, (2) Klausa pemerlengkapan,terdiri atas klausa pemerlengkap frasa verba berfungsi sebagai pelengkap, klausa pemerlengkap frasaverba berfungsi sebagai keterangan, dan klausa pemerlengkap frasa nomina subjek, (3)Struktur kalimatdasar, yang terdiri atas frasa nomina + frasa nomina, frasa nomina + frasa verba, dan frasa nomina +frasa numeralia.Kata

An east-west asymmetry in the solar wind velocity

East-west asymmetry in solar wind velocit

Do good things come to those who wait?: The role of delayed gratification and individual differences in consumer purchasing decisions

A common dilemma that occurs in life involves choosing between rewards available in the present and greater rewards that require willingness to wait or work (Funder & Block 1989). Delayed gratification is a learned behavior where the individual sets aside feelings of satisfaction or gratification until a pre-determined time (Hodges 2001). The current study investigates the relationship between the personality trait of self-monitoring (high vs. low), and one’s ability to delay gratification. Previous research has found a relationship between impulse buying and self-monitoring, where high self-monitors are more likely to engage in impulse buying behaviors and the opposite for low self-monitors (Lazarus & DeBono 2009). In the current study, participants will receive four pairs of consumer product advertisements, two of which manipulate delay of gratification. One product will show immediate gratification with a smaller reward, while the other product will show delayed gratification with a larger reward. Based off previous findings, the current hypothesis is that high self-monitors and high impulse buyers are likely to prefer immediately gratifying products. Additionally, it is hypothesized that low self-monitors and low impulse buyers are likely to prefer products that delay gratification

Cosmic ray modulation and turbulent interaction regions near 11 AU

When Voyager 2 was near 11 AU, the counting rate of nuclei approx 75 MeV/nucleon decreased during the interval from July, 1982 to November, 1982, and it increased thereafter until August, 1983. A decrease in cosmic ray flux was generally associated with the passage of an interaction region in which the magnetic field strength B was higher than that predicted by the spiral field model, B sub p. Several large enhancements in B/B sup p were associated with merged interaction regions which probably resulted from the interaction of two or more distinct flows. During the passage of interaction regions the cosmic ray intensity decreased at a rate proportional to (B/B sup p -1), and during the passage of rarefaction regions (where B/B sup p 1) the cosmic ray intensity increased at a constant rate. The general form of the cosmic ray intensity profile during this approx 13 month minicycle can be described by integrating these relations using the observed B(t). Latitudinal variations of the interaction regions and of the short-term cosmic ray variations were identified