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Government responses to HCP 399-I, session 2003-04 (ISBN 0215018559)
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Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : 9780215020192
Government responses to HCP 399-I, session 2003-04 (ISBN 0215018559)
Author : Michael A. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317249534
The movement toward greater openness represents a change of philosophy, ethos, and government and a set of interrelated and complex changes that transform markets altering the modes of production and consumption, ushering in a new era based on the values of openness: an ethic of sharing and peer-to-peer collaboration enabled through new architectures of participation. These changes indicate a broader shift from the underlying industrial mode of production—a “productionist” metaphysics—to a postindustrial mode of consumption as use, reuse, and modification where new logics of social media structure different patterns of cultural consumption and symbolic analysis becomes a habitual and daily creative activity. The economics of openness constructs a new language of “presuming” and “produsage” in order to capture the open participation, collective co-creativity, communal evaluation, and commons-based production of social and public goods. Information is the vital element in the “new” politics and economy that links space, knowledge, and capital in networked practices and freedom is the essential ingredient in this equation if these network practices are to develop or transform themselves into 'knowledge cultures'. The Virtues of Openness investigates the social processes and policies that foster openness as an overriding educational value evidenced in the growth of open source, open access, and open education and their convergences that characterize global knowledge communities. The book argues that openness seems also to suggest political transparency and the norms of open inquiry, indeed, even democracy itself as both the basis of the logic of inquiry and the dissemination of its results. The Virtues of Openness examines the complex history of the concept of the open society before beginning a systematic investigation of openness in relation to the book, the “open text” and the written word. These changes are discussed in relation to the development of new open spaces of scholarship with their impact upon open journal systems, open peer review, open science, and the open global digital economy.
Author : Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Lynn Hagger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317038584
How can medical law and ethics take forward the issue of children's empowerment and protection? What are the key factors in considering the balance between protecting the welfare of the young and allowing them rights to autonomy? The Child as Vulnerable Patient investigates the role that a human rights approach can play in establishing the parameters of autonomy and discusses the opportunities presented in the Human Rights Act, the European Convention on the Rights of the Child and new policy initiatives in the NHS. A valuable addition to existing literature in this area, this volume will be of interest to lawyers, health professionals and students of medical law.
Author : Information Today, Incorporated
Publisher : Information Today
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781573872164
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780215020024
The focus of this inquiry, by the Science and Technology Committee, was the support by the UK Government for the Beagle 2 project developed as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express mission. The Committee found the Government showed enthusiasm for this project, but was unable to provide a guaranteed financial backing for the development of a lander, resulting in a failure to secure sufficient sponsorship income, which was subsequently seen to have a detrimental impact on the project's success. The Committee feels, that Government needs to put in place a system that can deal with major financial commitments at short notice. In hindsight, the development of the lander and orbiter separately is seen as wrong, impeding the flexible co-ordination of the mission, leading to tensions between the Beagle 2 consortium, ESA and other contractors. Further, there was a lack of co-ordinated oversight between these three groups, and therefore a failure to identify important weaknesses in the mission. Despite the failure of Beagle, the Committee does see some positive potential for future projects, both in scientific and educational benefits, but that the costs of such projects would benefit from greater participation by other organizations.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780215560889
This report indicates that the oversight of research integrity in the UK is unsatisfactory. The Science and Technology Committee concludes that in order to allow others to repeat and build on experiments, researchers should aim for the gold standard of making their data fully disclosed and made publicly available. The report examines the current peer-review system as used in scientific publications and the related issues of research impact, data management, publication ethics and research integrity. The UK does not seem to have an oversight body for research integrity covering advice and assurance functions across all disciplines and the Committee recommends the creation of an external regulator. It also says all UK research institutions should have a specific member of staff leading on research integrity. The report highlights concerns about the use of journal Impact Factor as a proxy measure for the quality of research or of individual articles. Innovative ways to improve current pre-publication peer-review practices are highlighted in the report, including the use of pre-print servers, open peer review, increased transparency and online repository-style journals. The growth of post-publication peer review and commentary also represents an enormous opportunity for experimentation with new media and social networking tools, which the Committee encourages. There should also be greater recognition of the work-sometimes considered to be a burden-carried out by reviewers, by both publishers and employers. In order to do this, publishers need to have in place systems for recording and acknowledging the contribution of those involved in peer review.
Author : Richard Eke
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2009-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 0826499813
An important textbook that promotes thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform an understanding of childhood development.
Author : U K Stationery Office
Publisher : Stationery Office Annual Catal
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2009-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780115010507
No public library discount on this title.
Author : C. Wills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137498498
Control of the air is the foundation for all conventional military operations against an adversary with an air defence capability. In future warfare, will it be possible for Unmanned Combat Air Systems to undertake the tasks and accept most of the risks that, until now, have been the lot of military aviators?