106 research outputs found
Enhancing Professional Development and Supporting Students on Work-Placement by Peer-Peer Learning Using an Online Reflective Blog Assessment
Work placement aims to enhance professional development and allow students to apply knowledge and skills from their programme of study. Students can struggle with both conceptualising work in terms of academic knowledge and the reverse process of transforming tacit knowledge from the workplace into a form they can verbalise. Additionally, they are isolated from their peer support group. To address these issues, we have implemented a blog assessment in Dublin Institute of Technology to actively encourage reflection and also foster peer-to-peer learning through providing an opportunity to share experiences of the diverse range of activities during work placement. A pilot was implemented for Pharmacy Technician students using the institute’s virtual learning environment. As a result of this pilot and subsequent modifications made in the following years, we identified key requirements and resources to prepare, support and engage students in all aspects of the work placement assessment. Examples that we discuss include an assessment rubric, instructional videos and reflective writing resources, a pre-placement reflective writing workshop, feedback mechanisms, and assessment strategies that actively promoted student interaction with their peers. Evaluation results including the main benefits, recommendations, limitations and suggested improvements are also included. It has also been demonstrated that this assessment is transferable to a different programme of study as it was extended to the placement module for BSc (Nutraceuticals). Further work will include additional measures to guide students to focus on critical points during reflection, and will include an increased emphasis on graduate attributes
Non perturbative study of QCD on a 2+2 anisotropic lattice
We present preliminary results for a non perturbative determination of the
parameters in the action required to restore Lorentz invariance in long
distance correlators, using the static interquark potential. Comparison with
analytical results is made and further applications are discussed.Comment: 3 pages, Lattice2003 (improvement
Bottomonium spectrum at finite temperature
We investigate the modification of S and P wave states in the bottomonium
spectrum above and below the deconfinement crossover temperature through their
spectral functions obtained from the maximum entropy method. Anisotropic
ensembles with Wilson clover fermions with tadpole-improvement are
used while the bottom quark is treated with an improved non-relativistic
action. We observe significant modifications of the P wave ground
state directly above the crossover temperature, , while the S wave
ground state remains relatively unchanged up to temperatures of
almost . This evidence supports earlier conclusions from our FASTSUM
collaboration of the immediate dissociation of the P wave states above
and the survival of the S wave ground states up to .Comment: presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
(Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013, Mainz, German
The bottomonium spectrum at finite temperature from lattice QCD
We present results on the bottomonium spectrum at temperatures above and
below the deconfinement crossover temperature, , from dynamical lattice
QCD simulations. The heavy quark is treated with a non-relativistic effective
field theory on the lattice and serves as a probe of the hot medium. Ensembles
with a finer spatial lattice spacing and a greater range of temperatures below
than those previously employed by this collaboration are used. In
addition, there are flavours of Wilson clover quark in the sea with
MeV and we perform a more careful tuning of the bottom quark
mass in this work. We calculate the spectral functions of S and P wave
bottomonium states using the maximum entropy method and confirm earlier
findings on the survival of the ground state S wave states up to at least
and the immediate dissociation of the P wave states above .Comment: 17 pages, 11 figure
A perturbative determination of the parameters of an anisotropic quark action
The parameters of a 3+1 anisotropic quark action with Symanzik-improved glue
are determined at 1-loop in perturbation theory.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures. Talk presented at Lattice2004(improved),
Fermilab, June 21-26, 200
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Excited and exotic bottomonium spectroscopy from lattice QCD
Abstract: We explore the spectrum of excited and exotic bottomonia using lattice QCD. Highly excited states are identified with masses up to 11,000 MeV, many of which can be grouped into supermultiplets matching those of the quark model while exotic spin-parity-charge-conjugation quantum numbers JPC = 0+−, 1−+, 2+− that cannot be formed from q¯q alone are also identified. Single-meson operator constructions are used that have good JPC in the continuum, these are found to overlap well onto heavy quark states up to J ≤ 4. A continuum JPC is assigned to each level, based on the distribution amongst lattice irreps and dominant operator overlaps. States with a dominant gluonic component are identified and form a hybrid supermultiplet with JPC = (0, 1, 2)−+, 1−−, approximately 1500 MeV above the ground-state ηb, similar to previous computations with light, strange and charm quark systems
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Excited and exotic bottomonium spectroscopy from lattice QCD
Abstract: We explore the spectrum of excited and exotic bottomonia using lattice QCD. Highly excited states are identified with masses up to 11,000 MeV, many of which can be grouped into supermultiplets matching those of the quark model while exotic spin-parity-charge-conjugation quantum numbers JPC = 0+−, 1−+, 2+− that cannot be formed from q¯q alone are also identified. Single-meson operator constructions are used that have good JPC in the continuum, these are found to overlap well onto heavy quark states up to J ≤ 4. A continuum JPC is assigned to each level, based on the distribution amongst lattice irreps and dominant operator overlaps. States with a dominant gluonic component are identified and form a hybrid supermultiplet with JPC = (0, 1, 2)−+, 1−−, approximately 1500 MeV above the ground-state ηb, similar to previous computations with light, strange and charm quark systems
Static-light matrix elements on a dynamical anisotropic lattice
The static-light matrix element needed to determine is studied on an
anisotropic lattice with . The improvement in precision due to stout
links and all-to-all propagators is investigated.Comment: Lattice2004(heavy), Fermilab, June 21-26, 2004. 3 page
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