PEOPLE-PLANT COUNCIL RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHIES AVAILABLE

Wpa-comppile Research Bibliographies

Different readers read differently. This simple insight is the basis for all the work in distributive evaluation, a model that rejects “true score” and accepts individual variation in scores, rates, or other values placed on the same text. However, as this bibliography of research shows, writing faculty and WPAs who have researched and implemented distributive evaluation systems have moved in m...

Exploring Bibliographies for Research-related Tasks

Bibliographies are fundamental tools for research communities. Besides the obvious uses as connection to previous research, citations are also widely used for evaluation purposes: the productivity of researchers, departments and universities is increasingly measured by counting their citations. Unfortunately, citations counters are just rough indicators: a deeper knowledge of individual citatio...

Medical Research Council

What is it famous for? While being the main UK government's agency for funding biomedical research, it is probably best known for having nurtured British molecular biology in Cambridge in the golden decade of the 1950s — whence came the double helix model of DNA (James Watson and Francis Crick), the first amino-acid sequence of a protein (insulin, Fred Sanger), and the first three-dimensional p...

Medical Research Council

' Modern diagnosis and treatment make an increasing demand for methods by which the functional efficiency of organs or systems of the body may be objectively and quantitatively determined. It is important alike for the physician and for the surgeon to be able to assess the degree of impairment with which he has to deal. It may also be necessary to have means of measuring a disability for such p...

Council on Undergraduate Research