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Remote fieldwork: using portable wireless networks and backhaul links to participate remotely in fieldwork
Fieldwork is an important means of contextualising knowledge and developing subject-specific and generic transferable skills. However, field locations are not always accessible. To address this problem we present a remote fieldwork approach that makes use of a portable wireless network and other mobile technologies to support fieldwork at a distance. As well as improving access to fieldwork, this approach can also be used to provide communication tools to fieldworkers, enabling them to share their findings and talk to their colleagues while in the field. This paper presents the portable communications toolkit we have developed and reports on three recent trials
MISSPECIFICATION IN SIMULTANEOUS SYSTEMS: AN ALTERNATIVE TEST AND ITS APPLICATION TO A MODEL OF THE SHRIMP MARKET
Concern over the effects of public policies based on misspecified econometric models motivates interest in a procedure to test, diagnose, and improve the specification of models that have been estimated with three-stage least squares. A test of system-wide specification based on Hausman's specification test is employed in a test of the a priori restrictions placed on the parameters of a structural model of the U.S. shrimp market. The null hypothesis of proper specification is rejected. After diagnosis via a comparison of unrestricted and restricted reduced forms and respecification, the null hypothesis cannot be rejected.Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,
Hemispheric specialization in selective attention and short-term memory: a fine-coarse model of left- and right-ear disadvantages.
Serial short-term memory is impaired by irrelevant sound, particularly when the sound changes acoustically. This acoustic effect is larger when the sound is presented to the left compared to the right ear (a left-ear disadvantage). Serial memory appears relatively insensitive to distraction from the semantic properties of a background sound. In contrast, short-term free recall of semantic-category exemplars is impaired by the semantic properties of background speech and is relatively insensitive to the sound’s acoustic properties. This semantic effect is larger when the sound is presented to the right compared to the left ear (a right-ear disadvantage). In this paper, we outline a speculative neurocognitive fine-coarse model of these hemispheric differences in relation to short-term memory and selective attention, and explicate empirical directions in which this model can be critically evaluated
Thyroid hormones correlate with field metabolic rate in ponies, Equus ferus caballus
Acknowledgments The authors thank Jürgen Dörl for technical help and for taking care of the animals and Peter Thompson for technical assistance with the doubly labelled water analysis. Funding The study was supported by a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG;GE 704/13-1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Higher education in further education: Capturing and promoting HEness
This article discusses the implications of continuing to support the delivery of higher education (HE) in further education (FE) settings. Although a critical mass of students studying HE in Further Education Colleges (FECs) is significant in sustaining the viability of the provision, we argue that the qualitative dimensions to 'capturing HEness' are in need of further critical scrutiny. This is undertaken by highlighting the importance of institutional and individual autonomy in maintaining an HE culture, with specific reference to the curriculum, pedagogy, and research. Throughout, some key similarities and differences between HE and FE organisational practices and cultures are identified, and the various pressures which are simultaneously pulling the two apart, and together, are analysed. The article concludes by arguing that there are some grounds for cautious optimism but we must be mindful that both FE and HE need to retain practices and a culture, without which the essence of HEness could be compromised in both settings. © 2012 Copyright Further Education Research Association
Not if – but how – to defund the police: Response to our critics
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McElhone, M., Kemp, T., Lamble, S. and Moore, J.M., 2023. Defund–not defend–the police: A response to Fleetwood and Lea. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.1250
Biologists meet statisticians: A workshop for young scientists to foster interdisciplinary team work
Life science and statistics have necessarily become essential partners. The
need to plan complex, structured experiments, involving elaborated designs, and
the need to analyse datasets in the era of systems biology and high throughput
technologies has to build upon professional statistical expertise. On the other
hand, conducting such analyses and also developing improved or new methods,
also for novel kinds of data, has to build upon solid biological understanding
and practise. However, the meeting of scientists of both fields is often
hampered by a variety of communicative hurdles - which are based on
field-specific working languages and cultural differences.
As a step towards a better mutual understanding, we developed a workshop
concept bringing together young experimental biologists and statisticians, to
work as pairs and learn to value each others competences and practise
interdisciplinary communication in a casual atmosphere. The first
implementation of our concept was a cooperation of the German Region of the
International Biometrical Society and the Leibnitz Institute DSMZ-German
Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (short: DSMZ), Braunschweig,
Germany. We collected feedback in form of three questionnaires, oral comments,
and gathered experiences for the improvement of this concept. The long-term
challenge for both disciplines is the establishment of systematic schedules and
strategic partnerships which use the proposed workshop concept to foster mutual
understanding, to seed the necessary interdisciplinary cooperation network, and
to start training the indispensable communication skills at the earliest
possible phase of education
Omaha Trade Area Study No. 03: License Plate Survey of Eight Major Shopping Points
This study represents the second in a series of license plate surveys to aid in a delimitation of Omaha\u27s retail trade area. 1 The method utilized was a tabulation of license plate numbers at the major shopping points in Omaha, namely, the parking lots of Brandeis downtown, Crossroads and Westroads. Discussion is limited to two of the three large centers because this is the initial year for the opening of Westroads. Other shopping centers surveyed were Southroads, Skag-Way, GEM, Gulf Mart, and the Center
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