Assessing the Potential for, and needs of, Cross-Sectoral, Local Collaborative Access Schemes in the Yorkshire and Humber Region

This report was written between November 2005 to March 2006 thanks to direct funding from YMLAC under the guidance of Jane Walton and Liz Roberts at YMLAC. It aims to identify and assess the potential for and needs of cross-sectoral library partnerships in the Yorkshire and Humber region which aim to increase and broaden access to knowledge. It aims to do this against the background of the current roll out of Inspire (www.inspire.gov.uk) across the region and country as a whole. The report consists of a background view of the literature available on this topic; recommended guidelines for any potential new groups and the support that could be offered to these by the regional Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, YMLAC; an outline of the current situation in our region showing the potential for new groups and finally a brief bullet point summary of recommendations made

Think play is for nurseries, not universities? Think again.

You might consider university students too old to play games in lectures, but it lets them experiment and deepen knowledge

Giving Permission to Play in Higher Education

Playing in public, including within education, is a political act, one that is loaded with potential disapproval by others, and hence becomes difficult for potential players to do. Even so, play has many potential benefits within Higher Education. This paper describes some of the benefits to play and describes the social difficulty of playing through the lens of Goffman’s frames. It goes onto describe some ways in which playful learning can be introduced to increase the social acceptability and impact of play within Higher Education. These are steps towards constructing a playful frame in which students and staff can view Higher Education. No absolute guidelines could be produced, as both play and acceptability of it are socially constructed and are so completely contextual, but an overall approach is suggest to increase the understanding, acceptability, and effectiveness of play

Current stage of the ATCA follow-up for SPLASH

Four ground-state OH transitions were detected in emission, absorption and maser emission in the Southern Parkes Large-Area Survey in Hydroxyl (SPLASH). We re-observed these OH masers with the Australia Telescope Compact Array to obtain positions with high accuracy (~1 arcsec). According to the positions, we categorised these OH masers into different classes, i.e. star formation, evolved stars, supernova remnants and unknown origin. We found one interesting OH maser source (G336.644-0.695) in the pilot region, which has been studied in detail in Qiao et al. (2016a). In this paper, we present the current stage of the ATCA follow-up for SPLASH and discuss the potential future researches derived from the ATCA data.Comment: 2 pages, conference, IAU symposium 33

They all have them - why not use them? Introducing mobile learning at the University of Huddersfield Library

Practically all our students seem to have mobile phones, constantly switched on, continually on their person – whatever warning signs we put up in our libraries! This article describes the work carried out recently at the University of Huddersfield library in introducucing mobile phones to enhance learning opportunities

Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change Panel

8 graduate student/recent graduate presentations on varying topics of agriculture, food security and climate change. Moderated by Dr. Andrew Walsh. Reporting of panel done by current GHS students of the 2021 class. Abstracts can be found under Africa-Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts . Presenters as follows: Daniel Amoak, Coping Strategies of Agrarian Households Eunice Annan-Aggrey, The Conundrum of Vanishing \u27Gold\u27 in the African Savannah Evans Batung, Credit Access and Perceived Climate Change Resilience of Smallholder Farmers in semi-arid Northern Ghana Chengyu (Jennifer) Guo et al., Production of Flavoured Fiti Probiotic Yoghurt for the London Community Daniel Kpienbaareh et al., Estimating Yield of Household Groundnut Fields in Rural Smallholder Farming Systems: Implication for Household Food Security Kamaldeen Mohammed, Intra-household Decision Making Arrangements and Food Security in semi-arid Ghana Russel Sun, Anusheh Hasan, Cara Boyd, Priscilla Matthews, Pigeon Pea Cultivation in Ugand

The creation and validation of a youth fundamental hitting scale: The assessment of youth baseball and softball hitting fundamentals and the perceived psychological barriers to hitting a pitched ball

The primary purpose of the thesis was to create a hitting scale for youth players that assess the fundamentals of a baseball swing. Secondly, the purpose of this thesis was to determine the interactions between the changes in anxiety, perceived competence and fear variables have with actual hitting competence over a four week sport specific training program