An investigation has been undertaken at St Andrew’s church, Walpole St Andrew, Norfolk, to establish the underlying causes of the observed stone decay to the upper parts of the six stone piers. The stone decay was first recorded in the early 1930s. The salt-contaminated masonry within the church has been shown to undergo severe salt decay during the summer, with little damage occurring over the winter months. The south aisle piers have been shown to decay 2.5 times faster than the north aisle piers. Although crystallization–hydration cycles have been identified, the rate of decay is at its greatest when the cycling is relatively infrequent. This was not the expected trend. Furthermore, it has been shown that during extended periods where the ambient relative humidity is less than 75%, the rate of decay reaches a maximum. It is the length of this ‘drying’ period that apparently has the greatest influence on the rate of decay and could explain the significant difference in the rate of decay between the south and north aisle piers. The results have serious implications for passive conservation, where it is often recommended to lower the ambient relative humidity to well below the equilibrium relative humidity of the salt contaminant, to avoid crystallization–hydration cycles. Since, at the time of building, the church was situated on the coast, it is possible that the sodium chloride contamination occurred during the building process (1440–1520), particularly since the area was prone to sea-flooding at this time. Alternatively, the salt could have been applied as a treatment during the general restoration of 1897. Whatever the source of the salt, it seems likely that the ambient environment was changed by the insertion of a sealed floor in 1897, which could account for the onset of the salt decay. 相似文献
This article follows an earlier publication highlighting the changing role of special educational needs co‐ordinators (SENCos) in England. SENCos are now required to manage change strategically and deliver inclusive school cultures. School‐based action research undertaken by a teacher studying for the postgraduate National Award for SEN Co‐ordination (NASENCO) is featured in the article; a strategic review of resource allocation increased the availability and quality of interventions for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The commentary which frames the study acknowledges that many SENCos are not yet members of a senior school management team (SMT) despite their mandated strategic whole‐school remit. Featuring the process through which one SENCo has strived to enhance SEND provision and develop context‐specific key performance indicators brings official guidance on the SENCo's role in strategic change management into sharp focus, raising questions that should concern both SMTs and non‐SMT SENCos. 相似文献
Purpose: To describe the results of showing farmer learning videos through different types of volunteers.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Semi-structured interviews with volunteers from different occupational groups in Bangladesh, and a phone survey with 227 respondents.
Findings: Each occupational group acted differently. Shop keepers, tillage service providers, agricultural input and machine dealers reached fairly small audiences. Tea stall owners had large, male audiences. Non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations, reached more women. The cable TV (dish-line) operators showed the videos on local TV, but some were reluctant to do so again. The Union Information Service Centres showed the videos and reached women viewers. Half of the official government extension agents surveyed also showed the videos publically.
Practical Implication: This video featured maize, wheat and rice seeding machinery. Because the machinery is complex and requires hands-on training, this first video aimed to expose tillage and sowing service providers and farmers to the machinery, without trying to teach them how to use it. But some farmers were so interested that they watched the video many times to learn more about the equipment. Before farmers and service providers decide to buy machinery for direct seeding, they still want to see and learn from demonstration plantings, to examine first-hand how the crop behaves when planted with the new equipment.
Originality/Value: Video can be an effective way of sharing high-quality information with a large audience, if properly distributed. 相似文献
Previous papers on grey literature by the authors have described (1) the need for formal metadata to allow machine understanding
and therefore scalable operations; (2) the enhancement of repositories of grey (and other) e-publications by linking with
CRIS (Current Research Information Systems); (3) the use of the research process to collect metadata incrementally reducing
the threshold barrier for end-users and improving quality in an ambient GRIDs environment. This paper takes the development
one step further and proposes “intelligent” grey objects. The hypothesis is in 2 parts: (1) that the use of passive catalogs
of metadata does not scale (a) in a highly distributed environment with millions of nodes and (b) with vastly increased volumes
of R&D output grey publications with associated metadata; (2) that a new paradigm is required that (a) integrates grey with
white literature and other R&D outputs such as software, data, products and patents (b) in a self-managing, self-optimizing
way and that this paradigm manages automatically curation, provenance digital rights, trust, security and privacy. Concerning
(1) existing repositories provide catalogs; harvesting takes increasing time ensuring non-currency. The end-user expends much
manual effort/intelligence to utilize the results. The elapsed time of (1) the network (2) the centralized (or centrally controlled
distributed) catalog server searches (3) end-user intervention becomes unacceptable. Concerning (2) there is no paradigm currently
known to the authors that satisfies the requirement. Our proposal is outlined below. Hyperactive combines both hyperlinking
and active properties of a (grey) object. Hyperlinking implies multimedia components linked to form the object and also external
links to other resources. The term active implies that objects do not lie passively in a repository to be retrieved by end-users.
They “get a life” and the object moves through the network knowing where it is going. A hyperactive grey object is wrapped
by its (incrementally recorded) formal metadata and an associated (software) agent. It moves through process steps such as
initial concept, authoring, reviewing and depositing in a repository. The workflow is based on the rules and information in
the corporate data repository with which the agent interacts. Once the object is deposited, the agent associated with it actively
pushes the object to the end-users (or systems) whose metadata indicate interest or an obligation in a workflowed process.
The agents check the object and user (or system) metadata for rights, privacy, security parameters, and for any charges and
assure compatibility. Alternatively the object can be found passively by end-user or system agents. The object can also associate
itself with other objects forming relationships utilising metadata or content. Declared relationships include references and
citations; workflowed relationships include versions and also links to corporate information and research datasets and software;
inferenced relationships are discovered relationships such as between documents by different authors developed from an earlier
idea of a third author. Components of this paradigm have been implemented to some extent. The challenge is implementing—respecting
part two of the hypothesis—the integration architecture. This surely is harnessing the power of grey.
This article reports on research conducted as part of the Primary Science Processes and Concept Exploration (space) Project. The background to, and orientation of, space is briefly described. Classroom‐based research into children's thinking about evaporation is reported. This work was conducted in close collaboration with teachers of the 5‐11 years age range with the intention of establishing the viability of the techniques for eliciting ideas and managing subsequent interventions within classrooms. Children's thinking in relation to three main evaporation phenomena are discussed. Ideas about evaporation were categorized by reference to notions of conservation, change of location and change of form of the water. 相似文献
Different methods of ball carrying can be used when a player runs with the ball in rugby union. We examined how three methods of ball carrying influenced sprinting speed: using both hands, under the left arm and under the right arm. These methods were compared with running without the ball. Our aim was to determine which method of ball carrying optimizes sprinting speed. Altogether, 48 rugby union players (age 21 +/- 2 years, height 1.83 +/- 0.1 m, body mass 85.3 +/- 12 kg, body fat 14 +/- 5%; mean +/- s) were recruited. The players performed twelve 30-m sprints in total (each player performed three trials under each of three methods of carrying the ball and sprinting without the ball). The design of the study was a form of Latin rectangle, balanced across the trial order for each of the methods and for pairwise combinations of the methods in blocks of four per trial. Each sprint consisted of a 10-m rolling start, followed by a 20-m timed section using electronic timing gates. Compared with sprinting 20 m without the ball (2.58 +/- 0.16 s), using both hands (2.62 +/- 0.16 s) led to a significantly slower time (P < 0.05). Sprinting 20 m with the ball under the left arm (2.61 +/- 0.15 s) or under the right arm (2.60 +/- 0.17 s) was significantly quicker than when using 'both hands' (P < 0.05), and both these methods were significantly slower than when running without the ball (P < 0.05). Accordingly, running with the ball in both hands led to the greatest decrement in sprinting performance, although carrying the ball under one arm also reduced the players' sprinting ability. Our results indicate that to gain a speed advantage players should carry the ball under one arm. 相似文献