Renewing Film’s Public Emphasis

A review of Patricia White Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (Duke University Press, 2015)

‘Plumb line scribe’: using multimedia to preserve traditional craft skills

The skills required in craft practice involve a high degree of tacit knowledge which is frequently difficult for the craft expert to articulate. N. Wood, a multimedia designer, has undertaken extensive research over the last ten years seeking to understand the knowledge of skilled craftsmen and find methods of capturing and passing it on. She has developed an elicitation strategy that employs an expert learner to uncover the skilled knowledge of master craftsmen, and a transmission strategy based on the concept of bridges to assist the design of learning resources for novices. U. H. Lassen has used the techniques developed by Wood to record and transmit the skilled knowledge needed to make timber-framed buildings, knowledge that today is in danger of being lost. The focus of the study has been the procedure for scribing timbers, which is a central part of the building process. The aim of the research was to investigate the possibility of combining the two roles defined in Wood’s research as an expert learner and designer. Being a skilled carpenter, Lassen has acted as an expert learner, learning the skills of scribing through a combination of researching existing documentation, working with master craftsmen and his own experimentation. At the same time, he developed and tested a multimedia learning resource to provide ‘bridges’ for new learners to this knowledge. The outcome of the application of Wood’s elicitation and transmission strategy to plumb line scribing is a demonstration of the transferability of Wood’s methods within this new context. This is important because it reveals the potential for other craft practitioners to apply Wood’s methods to their own learning and teaching, and produce learning resources to provide bridges to their craft knowledge and preserve their unique skills

Socio-economic Analysis of Centralised Biogas Plants

The development of biogas technology in Denmark has been widely encouraged by the government over the last 15 years. The overall reasons for the government concern has been the increasing awareness that centralised biogas plants make a significant contribution to solve a range of problems in the fields of energy, agriculture and environment. This has been documented through related monitoring and R & D activities. To achieve a satisfactory evaluation of centralised biogas plants, a thorough socio – economic analysis is required. Such investigation has been accomplished, and the results are presented in this summary

Constancy of distributions: asymptotic efficiency of certain nonparametric tests of constancy

In this paper we study stochastic processes which enable monitoring thepossible changes of probability distributions over time. Theseso-called monitoring processes are bivariate functions of time andposition at the measurement scale, and in particular be used to testthe null hypothesis of no change: one may then form Kolmogorov--Smirnovor other type of tests as functionals of the processes. In Hjort andKoning (2001) Cram??r-type deviation results were obtained under theconstancy null hypothesis for [bootstrapped versions of] such``derived'' test statistics. Here the behaviour of derived test statistics is investigated underalternatives in the vicinity of the constancy hypothesis. Whencombined with Cram??r-type deviation results, the results in thispaper enable the computation of efficiencies of the correspondingtests. The discussion of some examples of yield guidelines for thechoice of the test statistic, and hence for the underlying monitoringprocess.Asymptotic efficiency;Constancy of distributions;Empirical distribution functions;Kernel density estimator