The CINAGE Project

CINAGE was a Grundtvig multilateral project - interlinked activities resulting in the production of a learning package aimed at empowering older people towards achieving active ageing. Phase one of the CINAGE Project was a structured critical literature review into active ageing and learning, followed by focus groups in partner countries viewing a range of European films, and commenting upon the films’ approaches to the six competencies identified by the European Commission as essential to active ageing. The third phase piloted a course with a group of senior volunteers exploring their approach to active ageing, their responses to the films selected by the focus groups and, finally, practical filmmaking. They attended screenwriting, directing and editing workshops, and wrote and produced their own scripts which were based on autobiographical stories and strategies for coping with ageing. The paper focuses on the third phase of the project and the Symposium that followed, highlighting the way senior volunteers engaged with the learning of filmmaking techniques and production, whilst also discussing a major theme that emerged out of the third phase - the benefits of inter-generational collaboration, teaching and learning. There will also be a screening of some of the films made by the volunteers

Zeros of Fekete polynomials

The authors study the distribution of zeros of the Fekete polynomial f_p(t) (defined for p prime) as p -> infinity. They show that asymptotically a constant fraction of the zeros lie on the unit circle, and they investigate the constant of proportionality.Comment: Abstract added in migratio

Low temperature hopping magnetotransport in paramagnetic single crystals of cobalt doped ZnO

Long needle-shaped single crystals of Zn1-xCoxO were grown at low temperatures using a molten salt solvent technique, up to x=0.10. The conduction process at low temperatures is determined to be by Mott variable range hopping. Both pristine and cobalt doped crystals clearly exhibit a crossover from negative to positive magnetoresistance as the temperature is decreased. The positive magnetoresistance of the Zn1-xCoxO single crystals increases with increased Co concentration and reaches up to 20% at low temperatures (2.5 K) and high fields (>1 T). SQUID magnetometry confirms that the Zn1-xCoxO crystals are predominantly paramagnetic in nature and the magnetic response is independent of Co concentration. The results indicate that cobalt doping of single crystalline ZnO introduces localized electronic states and isolated Co2+ ions into the host matrix, but that the magnetotransport and magnetic properties are decoupled.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Physical Review