Laboratory Development of a Passive Proportional Sampler for Overland FlowStudies in Agricultural Fields

peer-reviewedWater-quality in many rivers remains poor and needs to be improved. Diffuse pollution continues to cause difficulties. Some instruments are available which can monitor pollution of rivers from land. They allow measurement and sampling of overland flow (OLF), but they do not offer the precision required (proportional sampling and samples 0.1% of OLF). A laboratory unit was constructed to mimic instrument performance in the field. This was used to test three sampler designs. A V-notch weir was used in the first sampler and a Sutro weir in the second and third as this unit possessed a proportional discharge to head ratio, which the Vnotch weir did not have. Other parameters investigated included ground slope, sampler slope, pipe size and port location. The remaining issues of nozzle size (0.7, 1.0 and 2.0 mm), the number of 1.0 mm nozzles and the effect of aspiration were investigated. The arrangement with the Sutro weir and three 1.0 mm nozzles in series gave proportional discharge and the target low sampling rate of 0.1%. This will allow the calculation of sediment and chemical losses for the monitored area and will put the loss in context with other losses in a catchment

Technologies of Empire: Writing, Imagination, and the Making of Imperial Networks, 1750–1820

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The Digital Eighteenth Century

The Digital Eighteenth Century is an ongoing collaboration between the English Department, William Hannon Library, and students at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). Its goal is to use digital tools and platforms to help students of the eighteenth century immerse themselves in the literature and culture of the period. British Literature 1660-1800: The Digital Eighteenth Century not only offeres an advanced introduction to the literature of the Enlightenment and Romanticism (1750-1830), but also introduces students to the range of projects, methods, and debates within Digital Humanities (DH). We will explore how DH might transform literary scholarship in the long eighteenth century. Will it allow scholars to discover new aspects of the literature they are studying? Can new digital tools work in tandem with qualitative analysis and close reading? Using a variety of digital tools (which will include the textual analysis program Voyant and the online database ECCO), we will explore the research and pedagogical opportunities offered by DH. While our course will explore the potential gains—scholarly, interpretive, and pedagogical—of using these digital tools, we will also discuss some theoretical and practical questions of researching, analyzing, and teaching literature using these technologies. For more information, see the course materials designed by Dermot Ryan and Melanie Hubbard. Literary movements and historical events told through timelines and maps: 18th Century Poetry Anna Barbauld Arthur Young’s Travels Through France The Crown & Anchor Society John Wesley: Methodism The Romantic Period Thomas Paine: Rights of Manhttps://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ds-collection/1005/thumbnail.jp

Digital Humanities as Community Engagement: The Digital Watts Project

The Digital Watts Project was a graduate-level English class taught in summer of 2016 that focused on the 1965 Watts “Uprising” or “Riots.” The class worked with the Southern California Library (SCL) to make available, through a digital public humanities project, primary sources intended to expand the narrative around the events of 1965, and to situate them in a broader context of the history of race and racism in Los Angeles. Exploring the ways in which our background in the humanities could positively enrich our work with the SCL, Melanie Hubbard, a Digital Scholarship Librarian at Loyola Marymount University, and Dermot Ryan, an Associate Professor of English, designed a class that drew on literary texts, history, and information science, as well as including a number of speakers with disciplinary expertise and firsthand experience to inform the generation of metadata for this project

Use of electronic medical records and biomarkers to manage risk and resource efficiencies

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The IPCRG's teach the teacher programme: an educational initiative to promote improved management of difficult to manage asthma

The IPCRG is a network of organisations committed to improving primary care assessment and treatment of chronic respiratory disease. We developed an evidence-based resource, SIMPLES (Ryan D, et al. Prim Care Respir J 2013;22:365-73) to aid structured asthma review for difficult to manage asthma. An educational initiative was introduced to disseminate research findings from U-BIOPRED and promote improved primary care management. We aimed to support participants from seven European countries to design and plan local programmes of education:teaching clinical colleagues key messages about difficult to manage asthma, encouraging local adaptation of existing IPCRG resources. These took place in autumn 2015 involving over 230 health professionals - including early career and GPs with a special interest in asthma/COPD, specialist nurses and others. We proposed an evaluation framework(Guskey,T.Teachers&Teaching 2002;8:3, 381-391) which includes - i) participant reaction, ii) learning, iii) organisational changes, iv) use of new knowledge and v) impact on practice and service users. Programmes were well received by participants. There were many challenges encountered: in assessing local learning needs, setting up education programmes and supporting clinical practice change. The impact on participants' clinical practice and service users is more challenging to demonstrate and will require more time to evaluate. We reflect on the challenge of meaningful evaluation of practice change. These insights are important in thinking about the design, implementation and evaluation of clinical educational programmes globally.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio