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Teaching Teamwork In Australian University Business Disciplines: Evidence From A Systematic Literature Review, Linda Riebe, Antonia Girardi, Craig Whitsed

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Australian employers continue to indicate that the development of teamwork skills in graduates is as important as mastering technical skills required for a particular career. In Australia, the reporting on the teaching of teamwork skills has emanated across a range of disciplines including health and engineering, with less of a focus on business related disciplines. Although Australian university business schools appear to value the importance and relevance of developing teamwork skills, implementation of the teaching, learning, and assessment of teamwork skills remains somewhat of a pedagogical conundrum. This paper presents evidence from a systematic literature review as to the salient …

Broadband Router Security: History, Challenges And Future Implications, Patryk Szewczyk, Rose Macdonald

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Consumer grade broadband routers are integral to accessing the Internet and are primarily responsible for the reliable routing of data between networks. Despite the importance of broadband routers, security has never been at the forefront of their evolution. Consumers are often in possession of broadband routers that are rich in consumer-orientated features yet riddled with vulnerabilities that make the routers susceptible to exploitation. This amalgamation of theoretical research examines consumer grade broadband routers from the perspective of how they evolved, what makes them vulnerable, how they are targeted, and the challenges concerning the application of security. The research further explores …

The Effect Of Industry Co-Location On Analysts’ Information Acquisition Costs, Jared Jennings, Joshua A. Lee, Dawn Matsumoto

Faculty Publications

We examine how the co-location of firms in the same industry affects analysts’ cost of gathering and processing information. We find that when the firms in an analyst’s portfolio are located farther away from other firms in the same industry, the analyst’s portfolio size is smaller and average forecast accuracy is lower. We further find that the additional costs that analysts incur to follow distant firms are amplified when earnings are more difficult to forecast. Lastly, we provide some evidence that managers are more knowledgeable about other firms in the same geographic area. Specifically, managers are more likely to reference …

Validation Of The Oecd Reproduction Test Guideline With The New Zealand Mudsnail Potamopyrgus Antipodarum Using Trenbolone And Prochloraz, C Geiß, K Ruppert, C Askem, C Barroso, D Faber, V Ducrot, H Holbech, Th Hutchinson, P Kajankari, Kl Kinnberg, L Lagadic, P Matthiessen, S Morris, M Neiman, O-P Penttinen, P Sanchez-Marin, M Teigeler, L Weltje, J Oehlmann

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides several standard test methods for the environmental hazard assessment of chemicals, mainly based on primary producers, arthropods, and fish. In April 2016, two new test guidelines with two mollusc species representing different reproductive strategies were approved by OECD member countries. One test guideline describes a 28-day reproduction test with the parthenogenetic New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum. The main endpoint of the test is reproduction, reflected by the embryo number in the brood pouch per female. The development of a new OECD test guideline involves several phases including inter-laboratory validation studies to …

The Challenges And Opportunities Of Addressing Particle Size Effects In Sediment Source Fingerprinting: A Review, J. Patrick Laceby, Olivier Evrard, Hugh G. Smith, Will H. Blake, Jon M. Olley, Jean P.G. Minella, Philip N. Owens

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Developing And Evaluating ‘Plymtour’ A New Mobile Online Educational Resource For Students On Plymouth’S People And Places, Mark Holton, Nichola Harmer, Rebecca Vickerstaff

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The aim of the project was to develop and evaluate a new mobile digital resource for place-based learning in Geography and wider disciplines. The objectives were: • To work with ASTI to develop ‘PlymTour’, a digital walking tour of central Plymouth accessed through the Mobile with Plymouth University (MwPU) app and hosting multi-media resources on a dedicated Plymouth University Digital Learning Environment (DLE) page. • To research how Geography students engage with PlymTour in order to evaluate its use as a pedagogic tool for deepening knowledge of the socio-economic geographies of Plymouth and supporting learning in existing modules. • To …

North Atlantic Rhodolith Beds, Jazmin J. Hernandez-Kantun, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Jacques Grall, Walter Adey, Fabio Rindi, Christine A. Maggs, Ignacio Bárbara, Viviana Peña

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Aggregations of living unattached corallines, previously often referred to as nodules, were given the name rhodoliths by Bosselini and Ginsburg ( 1971 ). Adey and MacIntyre ( 1973 ) provided an early discussion of their genesis and distribution. Such aggregations have long been known as maerl in the North East Atlantic, a Breton term for unattached thalli that lack a shell or pebble core (Irvine and Chamberlain 1994 ). Here, we provide an overview of rhodolith/maerl occurrence in the colder/temperate waters of the North Atlantic and summarize the distribution, species composition, biodiversity and ecological importance of these habitats.

Academic Capitalism In Architecture Schools: A Feminist Critique Of Employability, 24/7 Work And Entrepreneurship, I Troiani

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This chapter examines the current situation that many universities worldwide are facing due to globalisation, which is of transitioning from institutions for education (Foucault’s ‘premodern or medieval university’) toentrepreneurial businesses (the ‘modern university’). The modern university is governed by a neoliberal system of production and consumption of students, staff, knowledge and research for the purpose of improving nation economies. Looking particularly at schools of architecture, it discusses employability, 24-hour work and entrepreneurship in relation to marketisation and economisation. It tracks the inequalities that arise from the neoliberalisation of public universities on teaching content, an administrative-directed work, workloads, wellbeing and gender. …

Psychogeography – Providing A Lens On Corporate Culture And Its Potential Impact On Career Success: A Novel And Efficient Approach, Dorothy Wardale, Linley Lord

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Psychogeography refers to the loose interface between psychology and geography. Specifically it examines how we impact on the environment and the environment impacts on us. As a process it involves intimately observing the environment and seeing what may have been previously unobserved. Participants then construct meaning from these observations. This paper describes how we used a time-limited psychogeography approach followed immediately by a focus group as research method. The aim was to determine if examining participants’ work environment would potentially enable them to identify enablers and barriers to career success. The findings from these two short interventions are compared to …

Workplace Violence Against Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study Of Ghanaian Nurses, Isaac Mensah Boafo, Peter Hancock

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The aim of this study was to document the incidence, sources, and effects of workplace physical violence against Ghanaian nurses. Self-report questionnaires were completed by 592 nurses employed in public general hospitals in Ghana. Participants were selected using a combination of purposive and random sampling techniques. Nine percent of the participants experienced physical violence in the 12 months preceding the study. The majority of perpetrators were relatives of patients. Chi-square tests suggested significant relationships between type of hospital and workplace physical violence, and between intention to quit the nursing profession and workplace physical violence. Workplace violence had several negative effects …

Multi-Proxy Record Of Orbital-Scale Changes In Climate And Sedimentation During The Weissert Event In The Valanginian Bersek Marl Formation (Gerecse Mts., Hungary), Dávid Bajnai, József Pálfy, Mathieu Martinez, Gregory D. Price, Anita Nyerges, István Főzy

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

European National Government Approaches To Older People's Transport System Needs, Rebecca Johnson, Jon Shaw, Jörn Berding, Matthias Gather, Markus Rebstock

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Environmental Impact Assessments Of The Xiaolangdi Reservoir On The Most Hyperconcentrated Laden River, Yellow River, China, Dongxian Kong, Chiyuan Miao, Jingwen Wu, Alistair G.L. Borthwick, Qingyun Duan, Xiaoming Zhang

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Tectonic And Lithological Controls On Fluvial Landscape Development In Central-Eastern Portugal: Insights From Long Profile Tributary Stream Analyses, Aa Martins, João Cabral, Pedro P. Cunha, Martin Stokes, José Borges, Bento Caldeira, Ac Martins

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Editorial Introduction: Fourth Planetary Dunes Workshop Special Issue, Matthew Chojnacki, Matt W. Telfer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Wastewater Effluent Derived Ligands On Copper And Zinc Complexation, C. Constantino, S. D.W. Comber, M. D. Scrimshaw

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Diversity And Carbon Storage Across The Tropical Forest Biome, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Joey Talbot, Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips, Lan Qie, Serge K. Begne, Jerôme Chave, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Wannes Hubau, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Lera Miles, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Bonaventure Sonké, Terry Sunderland, Steege H Ter, Lee J.T. White, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Shin Ichiro Aiba, Almeida Ec De, Oliveira Ea De, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Esteban Álvarez Dávila, Ana Andrade, Luiz E.O.C. Aragão, Peter Ashton, Gerardo A. Aymard, Timothy R. Baker, Michael Balinga, Lindsay F. Banin, Christopher Baraloto, Jean Francois Bastin, Nicholas Berry, Jan Bogaert, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Roel Brienen, José Luís C. Camargo, Carlos Cerón, Victor Chama Moscoso, Eric Chezeaux, Connie J. Clark, Álvaro Cogollo Pacheco, James A. Comiskey, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Eurídice N.Honorio Coronado, Greta Dargie, Stuart J. Davies, Canniere C De, Marie Noel Djuikouo, Jean Louis Doucet, Terry L. Erwin, Javier Silva Espejo, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, Rafael Herrera, Martin Gilpin, Emanuel Gloor, Jefferson S. Hall, David J. Harris, Terese B. Hart, Kuswata Kartawinata, Lip Khoon Kho, Kanehiro Kitayama, Sgw Laurance, Wf Laurance, Miguel E. Leal, Thomas Lovejoy, Jon C. Lovett, Faustin Mpanya Lukasu, Jean Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Leandro Maracahipes, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Andrew R. Marshall, Paulo S. Morandi, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Jaques Mukinzi, Reuben Nilus, Percy Núñez Vargas, Nadir C.Pallqui Camacho, Guido Pardo, Marielos Peña-Claros, N/A Pétrone

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

A Tale Of Two Gyres: Contrasting Distributions Of Dissolved Cobalt And Iron In The Atlantic Ocean During An Atlantic Meridional Transect (Amt-19), Rachel U. Shelley, Neil J. Wyatt, Glenn A. Tarran, Andrew P. Rees, Paul J. Worsfold, Maeve C. Lohan

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Cobalt (Co) and iron (Fe) are essential for phytoplankton nutrition, and as such constitute a vital link in the marine biological carbon pump. Atmospheric deposition is an important, and in some places the dominant, source of trace elements (TEs) to the global ocean. Dissolved cobalt (dCo) and iron (dFe) were determined along an Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT-19; Oct/Nov 2009) between 50°N and 40°S in the upper 150 m in order to investigate the behaviour and distribution of these two essential, bioactive TEs. During AMT-19, large differences in the distributions of dCo and dFe were observed. In the North Atlantic gyre …

Numerical Modeling Of Tidal Notch Sequences On Rocky Coasts Of The Mediterranean Basin, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, M. Kázmér, K. Reicherter

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

AbstractTidal notches have had the potential to form at sea level from ~6.5 kyr B.P. in the Mediterranean Basin and preserve a symmetrical shape comparable to a quadric polynomial. Continuous erosion, predominantly by biological agents, affects a limestone cliff face from low‐ to high‐tide level at <1 mm/yr. Statically determined, the roots of a quadric polynomial are defined by the tidal range representing the limits of effective erosion. However, gradual variations of eustatic sea level rise (slow) and coseismic uplift/subsidence (fast) in tectonically active regions contribute to vertical shifts in the erosional base at coastlines. As a consequence, the cliff morphology gets modified through time resulting in widening, deepening, and separation of notches and possible overprinting of older features. In order to investigate successive modifications of coastal cliff morphology, we developed a numerical model that considers the erosion rate, the erosion zone relative to sea level, the regional sea level curve, and tectonic motion. The results show how slow and rapid sea level changes bias the modern cliff face and highlight that the present‐day notch sequence from top descending to sea level is not inevitably of decreasing age. Furthermore, the initiation of notch formation is not necessarily linked to the date of a certain seismic event. Especially in extensional tectonic settings where coseismic uplift is low and coastal morphological marks are not as distinct, knowledge about coastal evolution is beneficial for paleoseismological research.

Semi-Quantitative Reconstruction Of Early To Late Holocene Spring And Summer Sea Ice Conditions In The Northern Barents Sea, Sarah M.P. Berben, Katrine Husum, Alba Navarro-Rodriguez, Simon T. Belt, Steffen Aagaard-Sørensen

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Identification Of C 25 Highly Branched Isoprenoid (Hbi) Alkenes In Diatoms Of The Genus Rhizosolenia In Polar And Sub-Polar Marine Phytoplankton., Simon T. Belt, Thomas A. Brown, Lukas Smik, Agnieszka Tatarek, Józef Wiktor, Gabriele Stowasser, Philipp Assmy, Claire S. Allen, Katrine Husum

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Market Dimensions Of Industrial Juice Production, Anushree Priyadarshini

Articles

The juice sector is currently demonstrating positive and dynamic growth mainly due to a change in lifestyle, the tendency of consumers to prefer healthy products, and an increase in purchasing power. Fruit juices form part of what are termed the “new age beverages.” In sync with growing consumer inclination toward healthier choices, manufacturers are moving over to healthier ingredients in their juices. Numerous new and innovative products are being launched globally by manufacturers to stimulate sales through innovations in flavor blends, calorie and sweetness levels, and functional benefits, very much shaped by the major lifestyle trends. This chapter aims to …

River Terraces And Alluvial Fans: The Case For An Integrated Quaternary Fluvial Archive, A. E. Mather, M. Stokes, E. Whitfield

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Antarctic Sea Ice Region As A Source Of Biogenic Organic Nitrogen In Aerosols, M Dall’Osto, Jurgita Ovadnevaite, Marco Paglione, David C.S. Beddows, Darius Ceburnis, Charlotte Cree, Pau Cortés, Marina Zamanillo, Sdena O. Nunes, Gonzalo L. Pérez, Eva Ortega-Retuerta, Mikhail Emelianov, Dolors Vaqué, Cèlia Marrasé, Marta Estrada, M. Montserrat Sala, Montserrat Vidal, Mark F. Fitzsimons, Rachael Beale, Ruth Airs, Matteo Rinaldi, Stefano Decesari, Facchini M Cristina, Roy M. Harrison, C O’Dowd, Rafel Simó

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Picture Books As Mentor Texts For 10th Grade Struggling Writers, David Willett Premont, Terrell A. Young, Brad Wilcox, Deborah Dean, Timothy G. Morrison

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to determine if picture books in high school classrooms could enhance word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. Previous research has not fully considered employing picture books as mentor texts in high schools. Twelve participants from two low-performing 10th grade English classes were identified as low-, medium-, or high-performing students. Using action research, students were taught from an inquiry-based approach as the teacher read aloud picture books and asked students what they noticed. Students referred to the picture books as they were challenged to improve their narrative writing. Findings demonstrated that picture books helped secondary …

Resource Pack On Active Learning, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice

Other resources

The massification of higher education is now a global phenomenon Huge changes in the teaching and learning milieu within colleges. The forces of massification have brought multiple challenges with regard to pedagogy. What kind of pedagogy to employ? The role of the lecturer is to empower learning and it is challenging and complex. There is a need to employ a pedagogy which requires students to do things, to access information, to solve problems, to reflect on what they are doing and make connections to real world problems.

Educational research has revealed a number of important lessons for educators:

Importance of …

Polyphenolic Content And Antioxidant Capacity Of White, Green, Black, And Herbal Teas: A Kinetic Study, Emer Shannon, Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Nissreen Abu-Ghannam

Articles

Camellia sinensis teas, and tisanes derived from herbs or fruit, are rich in polyphenolic, antioxidant compounds. This study compared the total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), DPPH radical scavenging capacity, and caffeine content of teas (black, green, white, chamomile, and mixed berry/hibiscus) over a range of infusion times (0.5–10 mins) at 90°C. Green, followed by black tea, respectively, had the greatest TPC (557.58 and 499.19µg GAE/g), TFC (367.84 and 325.18µg QE/g), FRAP (887.38 and 209.38µg TE/g), and DPPH radical scavenging capacity (1233.03 and 866.39µg AAE/g). Caffeine content per cup (200mL) in black, green, …

Assessing The Usefulness Of Different Feature Sets For Predicting The Comprehension Difficulty Of Text, Brian Mac Namee, John D. Kelleher, Noel Fitzpatrick

Conference papers

Within English second language acquisition there is an enthusiasm for using authentic text as learning materials in classroom and online settings. This enthusiasm, however, is tempered by the difficulty in finding authentic texts at suitable levels of comprehension difficulty for specific groups of learners. An automated way to rate the comprehension difficulty of a text would make finding suitable texts a much more manageable task. While readability metrics have been in use for over 50 years now they only capture a small amount of what constitutes comprehension difficulty. In this paper we examine other features of texts that are related …

Analysing The Behaviour Of Online Investors In Times Of Geopolitical Distress: A Case Study On War Stocks, James Usher, Pierpaolo Dondio

Conference papers

In this paper we analyse how the behavior of an online financial community in time of geopolitical crises. In particular, we studied the behaviour, composition and communication patterns of online investors before and after a military geopolitical event. We selected a set of 23 key-events belonging to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the Arab Spring and the first period of the Ukraine crisis. We restricted our study to a set of eight so called military stocks, which are US-manufacturing companies active in the defence sector. We studied the resilience of the community to information shocks by comparing the community …

On The Hindered Settling Of Sand-Mud Suspensions, J Spearman, Aj Manning

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.