5,112 research outputs found
About Detecting CP-Violating Processes in J/\psi\to \KzKzb Decay
Questions about detecting CP-violating decay process of are discussed. Possible background and material
regeneration effect are analyzed. The discussion can be directly extended to
other vector quarkonium decays, like , and .Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, Late
Sneutrino Production at e+e- Linear Colliders: Addendum to Slepton Production
Complementing the preceding study of charged scalar leptons, the sector of
the neutral scalar leptons, sneutrinos, is investigated in a high-precision
analysis for future e+e- linear colliders. The theoretical predictions for the
cross-sections are calculated at the thresholds for non-zero widths and in the
continuum including higher-order corrections at the one-loop level. Methods for
measuring the sneutrino masses and the electron-sneutrino-gaugino Yukawa
couplings are presented, addressing theoretical problems specific for the
sneutrino channels.Comment: 21 pp, Addendum to Eur.Phys.J. C34 (2004) 487-512 [hep-ph/0310182],
Version to appear in Eur.Phys.J.
Employability and higher education: contextualising female students' workplace experiences to enhance understanding of employability development
Current political and economic discourses position employability as a responsibility of higher education, which deploys mechanisms such as supervised work experience (SWE) to embed employability skills development into the undergraduate curriculum. However, workplaces are socially constructed complex arenas of embodied knowledge that are gendered. Understanding the usefulness of SWE therefore requires consideration of the contextualised experiences of it, within these complex environments. This study considers higher education's use of SWE as a mechanism of employability skills development through exploration of female students' experiences of accounting SWE, and its subsequent shaping of their views of employment. Findings suggest that women experience numerous, indirect gender-based inequalities within their accounting SWE about which higher education is silent, perpetuating the framing of employability as a set of individual skills and abilities. This may limit the potential of SWE to provide equality of employability development. The study concludes by briefly considering how insights provided by this research could better inform higher education's engagement with SWE within the employability discourse, and contribute to equality of employability development opportunity
From social rights to the market: neo-liberalism and the knowledge economy
Public higher education has a long history, with its growth associated with mass higher education and the extension of a social right to education from secondary schooling to university education. Following the rise in student numbers since the 1970s, the aspiration to higher education has been universalized, although opportunities remain structured by social background. This paper looks at changing policies for higher education in the UK and the emergence of a neoliberal knowledge regime. This subordinates higher education to the market and shifts the burden of paying for degree courses onto students. It seeks to stratify institutions and extend the role of for-profit providers. From a role in the amelioration of social inequality, universities are now asked to participate actively in the widening inequalities associated with a neoliberal global market order
Theory and practice in Finnish teacher education : a rhetorical analysis of changing values from the 1960s to the present day
Our aim in this article is to examine the relationship between theory and practice in Finnish teacher education from the 1960s to the present. We identify four different periods to represent this relationship based on our analysis of national committee and evaluation reports. Theory and practice gradually converged, culminating in a research-based agenda that reflects the current situation. This relationship between theory and practice also reflects the ideal teacher of different times and what a teacher's working orientation should be. We use rhetorical analysis and the concept of a 'philosophical pair' introduced by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca to interpret this development.Peer reviewe
The limits of social class in explaining ethnic gaps in educational attainment
This paper reports an analysis of the educational attainment and progress between age 11 and age 14 of over 14,500 students from the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE). The mean attainment gap in national tests at age 14 between White British and several ethnic minority groups were large, more than three times the size of the gender gap, but at the same time only about one-third of the size of the social class gap. Socio-economic variables could account for the attainment gaps for Black African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi students, but not for Black Caribbean students. Further controls for parental and student attitudes, expectations and behaviours indicated minority ethnic groups were on average more advantaged on these measures than White British students, but this was not reflected proportionately in their levels of attainment. Black Caribbean students were distinctive as the only group making less progress than White British students between age 11 and 14 and this could not be accounted for by any of the measured contextual variables. Possible explanations for the White British-Black Caribbean gap are considered
Employment mobility in high-technology agglomerations: the cases of Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire
This paper examines labour market behaviour of the highly skilled in high-tech local economies, taking the UK examples of Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire as case studies. It reports on data from a survey of members of three scientific institutes to compare rates of employee mobility in the two locations and considers the likely explanations and implications of those patterns
Charged particle jet measurements with the ALICE experiment in proton-proton collisions at the LHC
We present preliminary results of measurements of charged particle jet
properties in proton-proton collisions at = 7 TeV using the ALICE
detector. Jets are reconstructed using and SISCone jet
finding algorithms with resolution parameter in the range of transverse
momentum from 20 to 100 GeV/ in the midrapidity region
(\mid\eta\mid\textless 0.5). The uncorrected charged jet spectra obtained
using the three different jet finders show good agreement. The data are
compared to predictions from PYTHIA-Perugia0, PYTHIA-Perugia2011, and PHOJET.
The mean charged particle multiplicity in leading jets increases with
increasing jet and is consistent with model predictions. The radial
distributions of transverse momentum about the jet direction and the
distributions of the average radius containing 80% of the total jet
found in the jet cone ( in this analysis), indicate that high jets are more collimated than low jets.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, Conference Proceedings submitted for the 28th
Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Puerto Rico, April 7-14, 201
Teachers as leaders in a knowledge society: encouraging signs of a new professionalism
[Abstract]: Challenges confronting schools worldwide are greater than ever,and, likewise, many teachers possess capabilities, talents, and formal credentials more sophisticated than ever. However, the responsibility and authority accorded
to teachers have not grown significantly, nor has the image of teaching as a profession advanced significantly. The question becomes, what are the implications for the image and status of the teaching profession as the concept of knowledge society takes a firm hold in the industrialized world? This article addresses the philosophical underpinnings of teacher leadership manifested in case studies where schools sought to achieve the generation of new knowledge as part of a process of whole-school revitalization. Specifically, this article reports on Australian research that has illuminated the work of teacher leaders engaged in the IDEAS project, a joint school revitalization initiative of the University
of Southern Queensland and the Queensland Department of Education and the Arts
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