Improving Learning in College: Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum (update Feb 2009) (2008)
Ivanic, R, Edwards, R, Barton, D, Martin-Jones, M, Fowler, Z, Hughes, B, ...
What's the problem with literacy at college? How might everyday literacy be harnessed for educational ends? Based on the first major study of literacy practices in colleges in the UK, this book...
Hafen, GM, Hurst, C, Yearwood, J, Smith, J, Dzalilov, Z, Robinson, PJ
Abstract Background Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disorder in the Caucasian population. Scoring systems for assessment of Cystic fibrosis disease severity have been used for almost...
Preliminary Exploratory Study of Different Phase II Collimators (2008)
Lari, L, Assmann, R, Bertarelli, A, Bracco, C, Brügger, M, Cerutti, F, ...
The LHC collimation system is installed and commissioned in different phases, following the natural evolution of the LHC performance. To improve cleaning efficiency towards the end of the low beta...
Lari, L, Assmann, R, Bracco, C, Brügger, M, Cerutti, F, Doyle, E, ...
The LHC beams are designed to have high stability and to be stored for many hours. The nominal beam intensity lifetime is expected to be of the order of 20h. The Phase II collimation system has to be...
Averages of b-hadron and c-hadron Properties at the End of 2007 (2008)
Barberio, E., Bernhard, R., Blyth, S., Buchmueller, O., Cavoto, G., Chang, P., ...
This article reports world averages for measurements of b-hadron and c-hadron properties obtained by the Heavy Flavor Averaging Group (HFAG) using the results available at the end of 2007. For the...
Harnessing everyday literacies for student learning at college - TLRP Research Briefing 50 (2008)
Ivanic, R, Edwards, R, Barton, D, Fowler, Z, Satchwell, C, Mannion, G, ...
Literacy is a significant factor affecting retention, progression and achievement in colleges. This briefing reports on a three-year project entitled Literacies for Learning in Further Education,...
New particle formation in the front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains (2008)
Boy, M., Karl, T., Turnipseed, A., Mauldin, R. L., Kosciuch, E., Greenberg, J., ...
New particle formation is of interest because of its influence on the properties of aerosol population, and due to the possible contribution of newly formed particles to cloud condensation nuclei....
Wolfe, G. M., Thornton, J. A., Faye Mcneill, V., Jaffe, D. A., Reidmiller, D., Chand, D., ...
We present month-long observations of speciated acyl peroxy nitrates (APNs), including PAN, PPN, MPAN, APAN, and the sum of PiBN and PnBN, measured at the Mount Bachelor Observatory (MBO) as part of...
New particle formation in the front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains (2008)
Boy, M., Karl, T., Turnipseed, A., Mauldin, R. L., Kosciuch, E., Greenberg, J., ...
New particle formation is of interest because of its influence on the properties of aerosol population, and due to the possible contribution of newly formed particles to cloud condensation nuclei....
Wolfe, G. M., Thornton, J. A., Faye Mcneill, V., Jaffe, D. A., Reidmiller, D., Chand, D., ...
We present month-long observations of speciated acyl peroxy nitrates (APNs), including PAN, PPN, MPAN, APAN, and the sum of PiBN and PnBN, measured at the Mount Bachelor Observatory (MBO) as part of...
New particle formation in the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains (2008)
Boy, M., Karl, T., Turnipseed, A., Mauldin, R. L., Kosciuch, E., Greenberg, J., ...
New particle formation is of interest because of its influence on the properties of aerosol population, and due to the possible contribution of newly formed particles to cloud condensation nuclei....
Wolfe, G. M., Thornton, J. A., Mcneill, V. F., Jaffe, D. A., Reidmiller, D., Chand, D., ...
We present month-long observations of speciated acyl peroxy nitrates (APNs), including PAN, PPN, MPAN, APAN, and the sum of PiBN and PnBN, measured at the Mount Bachelor Observatory (MBO) as part of...
New particle formation in the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains (2008)
Boy, M., Karl, T., Turnipseed, A., Mauldin, R. L., Kosciuch, E., Greenberg, J., ...
New particle formation is of interest because of its influence on the properties of aerosol population, and due to the possible contribution of newly formed particles to cloud condensation nuclei....
Wolfe, G. M., Thornton, J. A., Mcneill, V. F., Jaffe, D. A., Reidmiller, D., Chand, D., ...
We present month-long observations of speciated acyl peroxy nitrates (APNs), including PAN, PPN, MPAN, APAN, and the sum of PiBN and PnBN, measured at the Mount Bachelor Observatory (MBO) as part of...
Knowledge and Data Management in Grids: Notes on the State of the Art (2008)
Arenas, A E, Bilas, A, Luna, J, Marazakis, M, Comito, C, Talia, D, ...
Knowledge and data management is a key topic in Grid computing. Today and in the near future, data, information, and knowledge are critical elements in the application of Grids in several sectors of...
Possibilities for pedagogy in further education: harnessing the abundance of literacy (2007)
Ivanic, R, Edwards, R, Satchwell, C, Smith, J
This paper provides an overview of the project and of its preliminary insights. It focuses on the role of communicative practices in vocational education courses, and the way in which these can be...
UOSTEST : AN UNIMPORTANT TEST THESIS FOR TESTING ENCRYPTED PDFS IN GOOGLE (2007)
ABSTRACT TEST THESIS FOR HARTLEY LIBRARY Doctor of Something UOSTEST : AN IMPORTANT TEST THESIS FOR ENCRYPTED PDFS IN GOOGLE By John Smith & Joe Bloggs It is interesting to read pdfs from google....
CMS physics technical design report, volume II: Physics performance (2007)
Bayatian, G. L., Chatrchyan, S., Hmayakyan, G., Sirunyan, A. M., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., ...
CMS is a general purpose experiment, designed to study the physics of pp collisions at 14 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC). It currently involves more than 2000 physicists from more than 150...
Utrecht University Repository: the evolution of the Igitur archive – a case-study (2007)
Franken, S., Savenije, B., Smith, J.
Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of the institutional repository of Utrecht University, the Igitur Archive. The Utrecht repository is unique for several reasons: it...
Researching literacy for learning in the vocational curriculum, chapter 7, pp 79-89 (2007)
Carmichael, J, Edwards, R, Miller, K, Smith, J, Osborne, M, Houston, M, ...
This chapter starts by mapping out the theoretical and methodological terrain of the literacies for Learning in Further Education project, and giving two extended examples of the sort of data...
Louis, W., Davies, S., Smith, J., Terry, D.
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior (I. Ajzen, 1985, 1991) and referent group (student) norms and identification (D. J. Terry & M. A. Hogg, 1996), the authors longitudinally predicted healthy eating...
Thompson, A., Prescott, M., Chelebi, N., Smith, J., Brown, T., Schmidt, G.
The synthesis and characterization of isotopomer tandem nucleic acid mass tag–peptide nucleic acid (TNT–PNA) conjugates is described along with their use as electrospray ionisation-cleavable...
Vulnerability of macroalgae of the Great Barrier Reef to climate change (2007)
Diaz-Pulido, G., McCook, L. J., Larkum, A. W. D., Lotze, H. K., Raven, J. A., Schaffelke, B., ...
A critique of the impact of policy and funding (2006)
Conole, G., Smith, J., White, S.
Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research provides a synthesis of research, giving readers a grounding in contemporary e-learning scholarship whilst identifying the debates that make it such a...
George, S., Primrose, J., Talbot, R., Smith, J., Mullee, M., Bailey, D., ...
To investigate the relationship between survival in colorectal cancer patients and the number of lymph nodes examined by a pathologist, previously attributed to stage migration, we used data from a...
Literacies for Learning in FE in the UK: a symposium. (2006)
Brzeski, A, Carmichael, J, Edwards, R, Fowler, Z, Miller, K, ...
The symposium examines some of the challenges and findings from the first eighteen months of the project. The first paper explores some of the findings regarding the literacy practices required of...
Disease and disadvantage in the United States and in England (2006)
Banks, J., Marmot, M., Oldfield, Z., Smith, J.
Context: The United States spends considerably more money on health care than the United Kingdom, but whether that translates to better health outcomes is unknown. Objective: To assess the relative...
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run (2006)
Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R, Agresti, J, Ajith, P, Allen, B, ...
We report on a search for gravitational-wave bursts in data from the three LIGO interferometric detectors during their third science run. The search targets sub-second bursts in the frequency range...
Higgs boson production from black holes at the CERN LHC (2006)
If the fundamental Planck scale is near a TeV, then TeV scale black holes should be produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC where \sqrt{s} = 14 TeV. As the temperature of the black holes can...
Tehei, M., Smith, J., Monk, C., Ollivier, J., Oettl, M., Kurkal, V., ...
The internal dynamics of native and immobilized Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) have been examined using incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering. These results reveal no difference...
This paper introduces the Literacies for Learning in Further Education project and its preliminary findings, particularly the value of the concept of 'resonance' for informing the conceptualization...
The Astra Gemini project - A dual-beam petawatt Ti : Sapphire laser system (2006)
Hooker, CJ, Collier, JL, Chekhlov, O, Clarke, R, Divall, E, Ertel, K, ...
The current Astra laser facility is capable of Terawatt operation at 10Hz into one experimental area, and simultaneous 12 TW operation at 1 Hz into a second area. Both of these operational modes...
What do we know about men's help-seeking and health service use? (2006)
Smith, J., Braunack-Mayer, Annette, Wittert, Gary Allen
The document attached has been archived with permission from the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia. An external link to the publisher’s copy is included.
What do we know about men's help-seeking and health service use? (2006)
Smith, J., Braunack-Mayer, Annette, Wittert, Gary Allen
The document attached has been archived with permission from the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia. An external link to the publisher’s copy is included.
Pretending to be more defensive than you are: Public and private responses to group criticism (2006)
Hornsey, M., Frederiks, E., Smith, J.
Previous research on group criticism has focused on what people think and feel after criticism. But what people think and feel is only half the story; it is equally important to look at what people...
Pasmore, K., Ruddock, E., Smith, J.
The aim of the present study is to extend research on the rejection-identification model, by testing whether the mechanisms of the model hold when membership in the devalued group is not highly...
Vast research on the social identity approach to attitude-behaviour relations, has operationalised group norms as a mixture of both descriptive (i.e., what people actually do), and injunctive aspects...
Hornsey, M. J., Blackwood, L., Louis, W. R., Fielding, K. S., Mavor, K., Morton, T., ...
Research has shown limited support for the notion that perceived effectiveness of collective action is a predictor of intentions to engage in collective action. One reason may be that effectiveness...
Tehei, M., Smith, J., Monk, C., Ollivier, J., Oettl, M., Kurkal, V., ...
The internal dynamics of native and immobilized Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) have been examined using incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering. These results reveal no difference...
Why do people engage in collective action? Revisiting the role of perceived effectiveness (2006)
Hornsey, MJ, Blackwood, L, Louis, W, Fielding, K, Mavor, K, Morton, T, ...
Research has shown limited support for the notion that perceived effectiveness of collective action is a predictor of intentions to engage in collective action. One reason may be that effectiveness...
Setting up chronic disease programs: Perspectives from Aboriginal Australia (2006)
Hoy, WE, Kondalsamy-Chennakesavan, S, Smith, J, Sharma, S, Davey, R, Gokel, G
Objective: To share some perspectives on setting up programs to improve management of hypertension, renal disease, and diabetes in high-risk populations, derived from experience in remote Australian...
Prow, T., Grebe, R., Merges, C., Smith, J., McLeod, D., Leary, J., ...
Purpose: A novel system, based on biosensor DNA tethered to a nanoparticle, was developed for the treatment of retinopathy of prematurity. Methods: The construction of a five-layered nanoparticle was...
Test beam studies at SLAC end station A for international linear collider (2006)
Angal-Kalinin, D, Beard, C, Densham, C, Fernandez-Hernando, JL, Ellwood, G, Greenhalgh, J, ...
The SLAC Linac can deliver to End Station A (ESA) a high-energy test beam with similar beam parameters as for the International Linear Collider (ILC) for bunch charge, bunch length and bunch energy...
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational-wave bursts in data from the three LIGO interferometric detectors during their third science run. The search targets sub-second bursts in the frequency range...
Textually-mediated Teaching, Learning and Lives (2005)
Ivanic, R, Mannion, G, Smith, J, Fowler, Z
The paper draws on the New Literacy Studies view of literacy as a social practice to examine the dynamics of literacy practices in people's lives and on FE college courses. It shows the complexity of...
Improving pupil group work in classrooms (2005)
Hargreaves, L, Blatchford, P, Galton, M, Kutnick, P, Baines, E, Berdondini, L, ...
There is a wide gap between the potential of group work and its limited use in schools. Groups in classrooms are often formed without a strategic view of their purpose, and teachers and pupils have...
Blatchford, P, Galton, M, Kutnick, P, Baines, E, Berdondini, L, Chowne, A, ...
There is a wide gap between the potential of group work and its limited use in schools. Groups in classrooms are often formed without a strategic view of their purpose, and teachers and pupils have...
Montagnese, S., Gordon, H.M., Jackson, C., Smith, J., Tognella, P., Jethwa, N., ...
Smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM) are the conjugate movements used to track the smooth trajectory of small dots. Jerky or ‘saccadic’ ocular pursuit has been reported in patients with cirrhosis,...
Further Education and the literacy debate - A Scottish perspective (2005)
This paper outlines policy issues regarding literacy in Scottish educational policy for Further Educaiton and lifelong learning. It focuses particularly on the social practices discourse of literacy...
I never thought of playing with my website as connected to literacy (2005)
This is a newspaper article written for colleagues at Perth College. It focuses on the variety of literacy practices students engage in at home. It describes a questionnaire designed by a member of...
Enhanced He-alpha emission from "smoked" Ti targets irradiated with 400nm, 45 fs laser pulses (2005)
Khattak, F.Y., Clarke, R.J., Divall, E.J., Edwards, M., Foster, P.S., Hooker, C.J., ...
We present a study of He-like 1s(2)-1s2p line emission from solid and low-density Ti targets under similar or equal to 45 fs laser pulse irradiation with a frequency doubled Ti: Sapphire laser. By...
Mobilising everyday literacy practices within the curricula (2005)
New Literacy Studies is the theoretical basis for this research, providing a social view of literacy. Recent work in New Literacy Studies has extended further the notion of literacy and demonstrated...
Cleary, P, Crossan, B, Gallacher, J, Mayes, N, Smith, J, Watson, D
The theme of this year’s conference What a Difference a Pedagogy Makes: Researching Lifelong Learning and Teaching reflects not just work which has been undertaken within the Centre, but the...
This paper provides the theoretical and methodological background to the Literacies for Learning in Further Education project, and case studies showing similarities and differences between two...
Woods, Mike, Angal-Kalinin, Deepa, Arnold, Ray, Bailey, D, Barlow, Roger J, Beard, Carl D, ...
The SLAC Linac can deliver damped bunches with ILC parameters for bunch charge and bunch length to End Station A. A 10Hz beam at 28.5 GeV energy can be delivered there, parasitic with PEP-II...
Yu, S., Alici, G., Shirinzadeh, B., Smith, J.
Piezoelectric actuators (PEA) are the fundamental elements for high-precision high-speed positioning/tracking task in many nanotechnology applications. However, the intrinsic hysteresis observed in...
A New Methodology for Deformable Object Simulation (2005)
Zhong, Y., Shirinzadeh, B., Alici, G., Smith, J.
This paper presents a new methodology for the deformation of soft objects by drawing an analogy between heat conduction and elastic deformation. The potential energy stored in an elastic body as a...
Second report on chicken genes and chromosomes 2005 (2005)
Schmid, M., Nanda, I., Hoehn, H., Schartl, M., Haaf, T., Buerstedde, J.M., ...
Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe (2005)
Schröter, D., Cramer, W., Leemans, R., Prentice, I.C., Araujo, M.B., Arnell, N.W., ...
Global change will alter the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. To investigate ecosystem service supply during the 21st century, we used a range of ecosystem models and...