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Planning and Producing Videos: A Two-Part Workshop on Writing Scripts & Making Videos @Your Library
Get PDFWith the advent of YouTube and new digital editing software, it has become easier for libraries to experiment with instruction videos. However, creating the right script to get your message across can be a challenge. This two-part interactive workshop aims to share our video production experience with you. In the first session, the presenters will help you write a script and guide you through the production planning process. In the second session, one script will be videotaped, edited and will be ready to share with students. By the time the workshop is over, each person will have a script that she or he can take back to their campus for actual production.
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FutureGen Project Report
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Harbour porpoise distribution can vary at small spatiotemporal scales in energetic habitats
Get PDFThe authors acknowledge support received from the Scottish Funding Council, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Scottish Power Renewables and E.ON under the Hebridean Marine Energy Futures (HMEF) programme (Grant reference number 1R042 (HFU) SPIRIT , Project Ref. HR10012), a research initiative led by the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and Aquamarine Power. Scarba C-POD data were collected under the UK Natural Environment Research Council (DEFRA/NERC) grant NE/J004367/1 (RESPONSE).Marine habitat heterogeneity underpins species distribution and can be generated through interactions between physical and biological drivers at multiple spatiotemporal scales. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is used worldwide to study potential impacts of marine industrial activities on cetaceans, but understanding of animalsā site use at small spatiotemporal scales (<1 km, <1 day) remains limited. Small-scale variability in vocalising harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) distribution within two Scottish marine renewable energy development (MRED) sites was investigated by deploying dense arrays of C-POD passive acoustic detectors at a wave energy test site (the European Marine Energy Centre [Billia Croo, Orkney]) and by a minor tidal-stream site (Scarba [Inner Hebrides]). Respective arrays consisted of 7 & 11 moorings containing two C-PODs each and were deployed for up to 55 days. Minimum inter-mooring distances varied between ~300ā600 m. All C-POD data were analysed at a temporal resolution of whole minutes, with each minute classified as 1 or 0 on the basis of presence/absence of porpoise click trains (Porpoise-Positive Minutes/PPMs). Porpoise detection rates were analysed using Generalised Additive Models (GAMs) with Generalised Estimation Equations (GEEs). Although there were many porpoise detections (wave test site: N = 3,432; tidal-stream site: N = 17,366), daily detection rates varied significantly within both arrays. Within the wave site array (<1 km diameter), average daily detection rates varied from 4.3ā14.8 PPMs/day. Within the tidal-stream array (<2 km diameter), average daily detection rates varied from 10.3ā49.7 PPMs/day. GAM-GEE model results for individual moorings within both arrays indicated linkages between porpoise presence and small-scale heterogeneity among different environmental covariates (e.g. tidal phase, time of day). Porpoise detection rates varied considerably but with coherent patterns between moorings only several hundred metres apart and within hours. These patterns presumably have ecological relevance. These results indicate that, in energetically active and heterogeneous areas, porpoises can display significant spatiotemporal variability in site use at scales of hundreds of metres and hours. Such variability will not be identified when using solitary moored PAM detectors (a common practice for site-based cetacean monitoring), but may be highly relevant for site-based impact assessments of MRED and other coastal developments. PAM arrays encompassing several detectors spread across a site therefore appear to be a more appropriate tool to study site-specific cetacean use of spatiotemporally heterogeneous habitat and assess the potential impacts of coastal and nearshore developments at small scales.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
Relative importance of informational items in Participant Information Leaflets for trials : a Q-Methodology approach
Get PDFAcknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the stakeholders who participated in the study for their time. Funding: This work was supported by personal fellowship award (to KG) from the Medical Research Council Strategic Skills Methodology Fellowship (MRC MR/ L01193X/1). KI and SC were supported by awards from the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme (HTA ref 14/192/71, HTA ref 11/58/15). The Health Services Research Unit is supported by a core grant from the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Reducing research waste by promoting informed responses to invitations to participate in clinical trials
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'Hitting the spot': Developing individuals with lived-experience of health and social care as facilitators to deliver a course to enhance public involvement in research - a Welsh perspective
Get PDFHealth and Care Research Wales has a strategic aim to ensure public involvement and engagement is central to what we do and visible in all elements of it. As part of the ongoing development of the Health and Care Research Wales Training Programme a project was initiated to develop members of the public as facilitators to deliver a public involvement in research course. The project was undertaken in collaboration with Macmillan Cancer Support and was advertised via the Involving People Network in Wales. Three trainee facilitators were recruited, from 14 people that applied, to deliver a public involvement in research training course, the Building Research Partnerships course, as it was known then, originally developed for and by Macmillan Cancer Support. As members of the Involving People Network, the trainees were given training, mentorship, financial and administrative support to develop their role as facilitators over a two year period. This has been reciprocated with incredible commitment, ongoing course delivery in Wales, excellent course evaluations, course review and involvement in future planning. Through this project several benefits were realised, including developing the course content and its delivery and building the skills and confidence of the individual facilitators themselves. Additionally, and importantly, the project team found that patients and members of the public who are given appropriate training and support can greatly enhance a research training programme and act as highly effective ambassadors to further the cause of public involvement in research
Langley's CSI evolutionary model: Phase O
Get PDFA testbed for the development of Controls Structures Interaction (CSI) technology to improve space science platform pointing is described. The evolutionary nature of the testbed will permit the study of global line-of-sight pointing in phases 0 and 1, whereas, multipayload pointing systems will be studied beginning with phase 2. The design, capabilities, and typical dynamic behavior of the phase 0 version of the CSI evolutionary model (CEM) is documented for investigator both internal and external to NASA. The model description includes line-of-sight pointing measurement, testbed structure, actuators, sensors, and real time computers, as well as finite element and state space models of major components
Assessment of risks to public water supply from low flows and harmful water quality in a changing climate
Get PDFWater resources planning and management by water utilities have traditionally been based on consideration of water availability. However, the reliability of public water supplies can also be influenced by the quality of water bodies. In this study, we proposed a framework that integrates the analysis of risks of inadequate water quality and risks of insufficient water availability. We have developed a coupled modeling system that combines hydrological modeling of river water quantity and quality, rules for water withdrawals from rivers into storage reservoirs, and dynamical simulation of harmful algal blooms in storage reservoirs. We use this framework to assess the impact of climate change, demand growth, and landāuse change on the reliability of public water supplies. The proposed method is tested on the River Thames catchment in the south of England. The results show that alongside the wellāknown risks of rising water demand in the south of England and uncertain impacts of climate change, diffuse pollution from agriculture and effluent from upstream waste water treatment works potentially represent a threat to the reliability of public water supplies in London. We quantify the steps that could be taken to ameliorate these threats, though even a vigorous pollutionāprevention strategy would not be sufficient to offset the projected effects of climate change on water quality and the reliability of public water supplies. The proposed method can help water utilities to recognize their system vulnerability and evaluate the potential solutions to achieve more reliable water supplies. supplie
Letter from the Co-editors
Get PDF2 pagesIn case you missed it, last fall, The American Sociologist published a double issue on the Pacific
Sociological Association (PSA). Rare is the opportunity for such open reflection by an organization.
Spanning two dozen articles and more than 200 pages, esteemed members, past and
present, cast light on where the Association has been and where it is headed. It is good stuffā
sociologists reflecting on structures they have created to engage and understand structures in
which we are all embedded. And, as you might imagine, a major leitmotif in this effort is
change, both inside and outside the organization. We recommend that you check out the issue,
if havenāt already. For our purposes, though, we adopt and extend the theme of changeārecent
and forthcomingāwith Sociological Perspectives. Some of it good. Some of it sad. And, some
to be determined
Mimesis stories: composing new nature music for the shakuhachi
Get PDFNature is a widespread theme in much new music for the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). This article explores the significance of such music within the contemporary shakuhachi scene, as the instrument travels internationally and so becomes rooted in landscapes outside Japan, taking on the voices of new creatures and natural phenomena. The article tells the stories of five compositions and one arrangement by non-Japanese composers, first to credit composersā varied and personal responses to this common concern and, second, to discern broad, culturally syncretic traditions of nature mimesis and other, more abstract, ideas about the naturalness of sounds and creative processes (which I call musical naturalism). Setting these personal stories and longer histories side by side reveals that composition creates composers (as much as the other way around). Thus it hints at much broader terrain: the refashioning of human nature at the confluence between cosmopolitan cultural circulations and contemporary encounters with the more-than-human world
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