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Evaluating the impact of the rural dimension of specialism
(The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust / University of Hertfordshire, 2011)
The rural dimension is intended to offer the opportunity to schools to enhance and extend the curriculum. Its focus is the understanding of environmental issues and the countryside, and it is seen as relevant to all schools, ...
A set of high quality colour images with Spanish norms for seven relevant psycholinguistic variables: The Nombela naming test
(2011)
This paper presents a new corpus of 140 high quality colour images belonging to 14 subcategories and covering a range of naming difficulty. One hundred and six Spanish speakers named the items and provided data for several ...
Marking complex assignments using peer assessment with an electronic voting system and an automated feedback tool
(2011)
The work described in this paper relates to the development and use of a range of initiatives in order to mark complex masters' level assignments related to the development of computer web applications. In the past such ...
Improving quality of life for older people in the community : findings from a local Partnerships for Older People Project innovation and evaluation
(2011)
Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPP) was a national initiative in England aimed at improving health, well-being and quality of life (QoL) for older people by developing local services. This development paper reports ...
Introducing and Using Electronic Voting Systems in a Large Scale Project With Undergraduate Students : Reflecting on the Challenges and Successes
(Academic Conferences Ltd., 2011)
Electronic Voting Systems (EVS) have become a popular medium for encouraging student engagement in class-based activities and for managing swift feedback in formative and summative assessments. Since their early days of ...
Sub-millimeter detected z 2 radio-quiet QSOs : Accurate redshifts, black hole masses, and inflow/outflow velocities
(2011)
Context : We present near-IR spectroscopy of a sample of luminous (M B - 27.5; Lbol > 1014 L· ), sub-millimeter-detected, dusty (Md ∼ 109 M · ), radio-quiet quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) at z ∼ 2. Aims : A primary aim is ...
Operational, regional-scale, chemical weather forecasting models in Europe
(2011)
Numerical models that combine weather forecasting and atmospheric chemistry are here referred to as chemical weather forecasting models. Eighteen operational chemical weather forecasting models on regional and continental ...
Compiler Support for Measurement-based Timing Analysis
(2011)
Measurement-based timing analysis (MBTA) techniques have been developed as a complimentary to static WCET analysis, in order to exploit worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis at early stages of system development. The ...
The eclipse of the uncertainty concept in mainstream economics
(2011)
This paper examines the decline in use of the Knight-Keynes uncertainty concept in mainstream economics. Using electronic archives, it shows that the frequency of its appearance in leading journals of economics has fallen ...