Minding our ps and qs: Issues of property, provenance, quantity and quality in institutional repositories

The development of institutional repositories has opened the path to the mass availability of peer-reviewed scholarly information and the extension of information democracy to the academic domain. A secondary space of free-to-all documents has begun to parallel the hitherto-closed world of journal publishing and many publishers have consented to the inclusion of copyrighted documents in digital repositories, although frequently specifying that a version other than the formally-published one be used. This paper will conceptually examine the complex interplay of rights, permissions and versions between publishers and repositories, focussing on the New Zealand situation and the challenges faced by university repositories in recruiting high-quality peer-reviewed documents for the open access domain. A brief statistical snapshot of the appearance of material from significant publishers in repositories will be used to gauge the progress that has been made towards broadening information availability. The paper will also look at the importance of harvesting and dissemination, in particular the role of Google Scholar in bringing research information within reach of ordinary internet users. The importance of accuracy, authority, provenance and transparency in the presentation of research-based information and the important role that librarians can and should play in optimising the open research discovery experience will be emphasised

Issues in equivalence: Information literacy and the distance student

Information Literacy is a recognised lifelong learning skill, and an expected graduate attribute. With the growth in distance provision of tertiary education it is important to acknowledge the barriers faced by distance students and the difficulties libraries face in delivering equivalent learning opportunities to students who are physically isolated from their institution. This paper outlines the importance of information literacy, the major barriers faced by distance students and makes suggestions as to how institutions and their libraries can better meet their learning needs

"A most exquisite fellow" — William White and an Atlantic world perspective on the seventeenth-century chymical furnace

The seventeenth-century technologist and colonist William White (ca. 1600–73) has been cited as an alchemical tutor to Gabriel Plattes and George Starkey, and hailed as an early modern “wizard of industrial efficiency.” This study — the first that focuses on White individually — pays particular attention to White’s extraordinary reputation for furnace design and manufacture. By examining the sources of knowledge and social connections that enabled White to acquire and disseminate his knowledge of metallurgy, the authors develop a genealogy of fornacic design that extends from the continent to the Atlantic world and back again, connecting White to better known figures such as Cornelis Drebbel and Robert Boyle. By foregrounding, through White, the technology of early modern alchemy, the authors also hope to emphasise the importance of practical craft in the development of the chemical arts

IS 2010 and ABET Accreditation: An Analysis of ABET-Accredited Information Systems Programs

Many strong forces are converging on information systems academic departments. Among these forces are quality considerations, accreditation, curriculum models, declining/steady student enrollments, and keeping current with respect to emerging technologies and trends. ABET, formerly the Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology, is at present the only accrediting agency for Information Systems programs. This paper examines the influence of the release of the “IS 2010 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems” on ABET accredited Information Systems programs. It begins with an historical overview of past information systems curriculum development efforts, and then follows with an overview of accreditation, both in higher education in general and of information systems programs in particular. The results of a survey of all ABET accredited Information Systems programs are then reported. The survey focused on two distinct yet interrelated issues that emerged with the release of IS 2010: (1) How does the absence of AITP input into the initial formulation of IS 2010 coupled with the lack of programming as a requirement in IS 2010 affect the attitude of ABET accredited Information Systems programs regarding seeking re-accreditation?; and (2) Does AIS discontinuing their financial support for ABET affect the attitude of ABET accredited Information Systems programs regarding seeking re-accreditation? The paper concludes with an overview of the effect of the release of IS 2010 on reaccreditation decisions of ABET accredited information systems programs

Modernity's children : generational change, identity and global citizenship in Japan

This thesis attempts to identify and document a generational movement in the conception and creation of Japanese collective identity - to understand its precedents and consequences. From an examination of how Japan's early 20th century agricultural majority saw themselves in the world around them throughout Japan's period of industrialisation, to understanding the social landscape and identities of some of Japan's contemporary youth, the thesis charts a generational movement away from the influence of the State and nation-builders, and towards a more self-determined collective imagination which puts the individual in charge of the creation of Japaneseness. In contrast to their elders, young people create a multi-cultural and inclusive Japanese identity which incorporates local and global diversity and establishes them as equal stakeaolders in a world of many like-others. Through life stories, interviews, case studies and community ethnography, the thesis attempts to understand how this generational movement has occurred because of the chtnges that modernity has wrought on the local arenas of Japanese life-reorganising Emily and community systems and memberships, and altering the perception and cefinition of what it means to be socially and imaginatively "mobile". It is these local- , evel changes-rather than any `top-down' `globalising' or `westernising' forces-that have most changed the' concurrent creation of Japanese collective identity. For the younger generations of Japan and of other industrialised societies too, the previous genefations' attempts to come- to terms with these changes have left them with a comparative freedom to re-conceive the borders and boundaries of collective identity, and to incorporate their experience of local diversity into a template of diversity acknowledging cultural and national identity. The thesis concludes; however, that these new identities are not so much original as they are displays of a more well-adjusted adaptation to a modernity which continues to affect us all, ordering our most intimate experiences and perceptions and setting them into expressions of collective memberships and solidarities

Разделение полезных частот между различными датчиками каналов полиграфа

Publikacja recenzowana / Peer-reviewed publicationPurpose: to help other polygraph researchers better understand the distribution of energy across different frequencies in the standard six polygraph channels in common use. The channels shown will be pneumo, electrodermal (Axciton), cardio cuff pressure, movement sensor, and infrared plethesmo (Axciton). In all cases we use a zero phase high pass filter with a fourth order roll off . Unless otherwise noted, all frequency traces are kept with a constant gain to show their relative energy or strength content

Martian dust threshold measurements: Simulations under heated surface conditions

Diurnal changes in solar radiation on Mars set up a cycle of cooling and heating of the planetary boundary layer, this effect strongly influences the wind field. The stratification of the air layer is stable in early morning since the ground is cooler than the air above it. When the ground is heated and becomes warmer than the air its heat is transferred to the air above it. The heated parcels of air near the surface will, in effect, increase the near surface wind speed or increase the aeolian surface stress the wind has upon the surface when compared to an unheated or cooled surface. This means that for the same wind speed at a fixed height above the surface, ground-level shear stress will be greater for the heated surface than an unheated surface. Thus, it is possible to obtain saltation threshold conditions at lower mean wind speeds when the surface is heated. Even though the mean wind speed is less when the surface is heated, the surface shear stress required to initiate particle movement remains the same in both cases. To investigate this phenomenon, low-density surface dust aeolian threshold measurements have been made in the MARSWIT wind tunnel located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. The first series of tests examined threshold values of the 100 micron sand material. At 13 mb surface pressure the unheated surface had a threshold friction speed of 2.93 m/s (and approximately corresponded to a velocity of 41.4 m/s at a height of 1 meter) while the heated surface equivalent bulk Richardson number of -0.02, yielded a threshold friction speed of 2.67 m/s (and approximately corresponded to a velocity of 38.0 m/s at a height of 1 meter). This change represents an 8.8 percent decrease in threshold conditions for the heated case. The values of velocities are well within the threshold range as observed by Arvidson et al., 1983. As the surface was heated the threshold decreased. At a value of bulk Richardson number equal to -0.02 the threshold friction speed and threshold wind speed appears to level-off to a constant value. This trend also was observed in the MARSWIT experiments involving the 11 micron sized-silt material

Up from the Ashes: The TippingPoint Technology Case

In the legend of the Phoenix bird, the bird dies on a fiery pyre, but arises from the ashes. This is a case that parallels that legend. It\u27s a case showing a technology company that almost died, but came back stronger. As NetPliance, it developed and marketed a thin client, bare-bones Internet Appliance in the Business to Consumer B2C area. As the reorganized TippingPoint Technologies, it has become a leader in the intrusion prevention system area, using hardware and networking technologies in the Business to Business environment. Instead of just detecting viruses, spam, spyware and other negative attacks that have already passed through the firewall, their product detects and proactively stops the intrusion as they enter the network

Reciprocating Compressors

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