TERUG IN DE TIJD: Project X, hoe kon het in 2012 zo misgaan in Haren?

Water immobilization is a cool thing! The simplest way to accomplish it is by freezing. But can you think of how water might be immobilized (so to speak) at temperatures above freezing, say at 50°F (10°C)? Think Jell-O and a new process that mimics caviar and you have two methods that nearly stop water in its tracks.

Or, did you ever see a dog with a marrowbone in his mouth,—the beast of all other, says Plato, lib. 2, de Republica, the most philosophical? If you have seen him, you might have remarked with what devotion and circumspectness he wards and watcheth it: with what care he keeps it: how fervently he holds it: how prudently he gobbets it: with what affection he breaks it: and with what diligence he sucks it. To what end all this? What moveth him to take all these pains? What are the hopes of his labour? What doth he expect to reap thereby? Nothing but a little marrow

Un exemple courant de transport en commun gratuit est le transport scolaire, où les enfants se rendant à l'école n'ont pas besoin de payer. À la rentrée 2012 en France, 28 conseils départementaux finançaient à 100 % la gratuité des transports scolaires, tandis que sept autres prenaient à leur charge entre 95 et 99 % des coûts. Tous les autres participaient à hauteur de 50 à 94 %[17].

Je voudrais pour terminer évoquer une situation que j’ai eue à traiter. Il s’agissait d’une res-sortissante syrienne d’Alep qui s’est présentée à mon bureau en juin 2012, parce qu’elle avait eu un visa touristique qui arrivait à expiration. Elle avait deux enfants scolarisés dans un établissement privé des Yvelines. Elle demandait comment elle pouvait rester sur le territoire français de façon régulière car elle craignait de tomber en situation irrégulière. Elle s’est pré-sentée au guichet du service des étrangers de Versailles où on lui a dit de retourner en Syrie. Elle s’est rendue dans ma permanence. J’ai appris à ce moment-là par le secrétaire général de la Préfecture de Versailles qu’il existait une possibilité de délivrer une autorisation provisoire de séjour à cette ressortissante, comme si elle avait invoqué le droit d’asile. Dans une organi-sation comme la Préfecture, lorsqu’il y a une situation humanitaire urgente, on s’adresse au guichet et l’on n’a absolument pas de recours à un supérieur ou à un cadre dans l’immédiat. C’est une lacune de ce genre qu’il faut dénoncer.

POCSO) Act, 2012

L’analyse englobe 17 études apportant des données sur 18 374 enfants handicapés vivant dans des pays à haut revenu, dont la France : http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2012/child_disabilities_violence_20120712/fr/

Wiki Use that Increases Communication and Collaboration Motivation

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The digital humanities as a humanitiesproject

General News Photography (Medium)First Place: “British Prime Minister David Cameron talks to ZU students and Dr. Sulaiman Al Jasim, left.” by Maha Jasim, Zajel, Zayed University

Online Sports Reporting (Medium)First Place: “Abu Dhabi women take third in soccer tourney” by Dana Al Mutawa, Zajel, Zayed Uniersity

Online Feature Reporting (Medium)First Place: “Sheena Kay: the face behind the voice revealed” by Dhabya Rashed Al Mehairi, Zajel, Zayed UniversitySecond Place: “Health students launch food safety campaign at ZU” by Ayesha Almazroui, Zajel, Zayed UniversityThird Place: “Tackling cultural norms crucial for UAE young women to gain independence” by Ayesha Almazroui, Zajel, Zayed University

Best Independent Online Student Publication (Medium)First Place: Zajel, Zayed University

I want toconsider the mechanics of one of the processes of authentication, before turning to theobstacles that digital medieval projects face in bridging the divide that can separate cred-ible scholarship and the new technologies used to facilitate its creation. Consider thehybrid edition ofCædmon’s Hymn, edited by D.P. O’Donnell and published as a bookwith an accompanying CD in 2005.15Several years after publication, O’Donnell noted ofhis own edition that, despite the inclusion of substantial textual variants made possible bythe mixed digital⁄physical publication, he has ‘yet to see a citation that does not use aform found in the print edition’ (O’Donnell, 114). There are three important points tobe made here. One, in 7 years since publication, CDs have largely become obsolete, andthe future of optical media more generally is questionable. Two, textual variants are notfrequently cited – only very particular types of scholarship are concerned with exploringand discussing textual variants, whether as philological evidence or as literary texts ontheir own right. Scholars regularly discuss Langland’sPiers Plowman, a poem about whichcritics tend to be keenly aware of the state of the text in competing critical editions,without tracking back to the constituent readings made available through the editorialapparatus. Three, O’Donnell’s comments point to a practical difficulty, though one heattempted to resolve by encouraging citation of numbered paragraphs rather than print-bound page numbers: it is difficult to cite things in the hybrid digital⁄analog world thatdominates the present moment.

The digital social networks that have quickly become ubiquitous have made visiblemany of the patterns underlying existing academic personal and professional relationships,and the ways in which reputation and reliability circulate in these structures. Social andintellectual networks have long constituted the professional contexts of scholars, but digi-tal networks representing some subset of those contexts have exposed more of what takesplace at the margins of those networks.

The venerableLISTSERV email lists such as mediev-l (founded in 1992) and other medieval-focusedlistservs are early instances of the digital democratization of scholarship, conducted as anasynchronous and geographically dispersed conversation.

From July 2008 to April 2012, Googleoffered a service called Google Knol, where a ‘knol’ is a basic ‘unit of knowledge’ asopposed, presumably, to a unit of information.4Users wrote ‘knols’ predicated upon theirown interests and expertise.

firstwant to consider the ways in which our increased online presence has exposed manyof the existing networks that ground the sources of academic and intellectual authority(reputation, credibility, reliability).

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Of course, they will most likely all be co-authored pieces, but the significant point is that the REF rules, except in special cases, impose no penalty on genuinely co-authored work; they explicitly state that it is welcomed. In most cases, there is no disadvantage in submitting a co-authored item to the exercise (although there is some complication when co-authors submit in the same return); it is not as if it counts as half an output or less.

If done in good faith, four like-minded authors in the arts who agreed on a project of work could co-author four papers together and have the REF return of each sorted. If they are from different institutions, this would certainly be a more efficient way of meeting the framework's requirements. It might be viewed as a cynical exercise, but perhaps viewing it that way would be a sign that we haven't yet changed our mindset. If genuinely collaborative work became the norm, it wouldn't be viewed with suspicion.

If a major idea or approach came from another person, why not list that person as co-author and let them be equally generous in their turn where it applies?

he case for more collaborative work can be made. Indeed, most of us do it already, to some degree. We tend to discuss our ideas with colleagues and seek trusted opinions. We present talks at conferences and seminars, and use the feedback to develop ideas before publication. We solicit comments on drafts. Colleagues share a research environment that, if it is effective, contributes to the quality of all output. Yet when the work appears, the standard model is still sole ownership. A colleague could have given a lot of input, discussing ideas or providing comments on early drafts, yet their accepted reward is only to appear in the list of acknowledgements. This seems a paltry return on what can be a considerable amount of effort, an effort that is obviously a degree of collaboration. Perhaps one tries to mitigate the paltry reward by extracting a reciprocal amount of uncredited assistance in return.

Typically, authors can write something better together than they could have produced alone.

Combination acts

12 different PhDs on a faculty of 21

In the parlance of interdisciplinary advocates, universities are organized around disciplines; problems are not.

pressing intellectual problems by their nature will cross existing disciplinary boundaries

To be an iSchool is to place greater emphasis on broader human activities over these concerns with the specific agency or organizational form wherein the information practices occur.

concern that technology was just being treated as a tool for demonstrating academic relevance rather than as a genuine basis for disciplinary identity

More importantly, by placing emphasis on human activities mediated by information and technology, this articulation shifts the field's focus from agencies of collection such as libraries or archives, which more typically are invoked when describing subject coverage in schools of library and information science, to the contexts in which people, information and technology interact

the term information was taken to represent either a greater emphasis on people (in the case of computer science) or on technology (in the case of librarianship)

I argue that iSchools are distinctive from other LIS programs less for their subject emphasis or methodological approaches than for their orientation to the study of information beyond agencies, their commitment to multidisciplinary work, and a formal emphasis on research productivity.