A large and increasing proportion of teaching in UK universities is being fulfilled by staff on casual, rather than permanent, contracts. This paper examines how the casual affected student satisfaction 2014–15. We find that an increased leads to lower satisfaction, even when controlling for respondent's subject, university faculty. suggests a trade-off between casualisation which could have im...

Households in the UK discard much food. A reduction in such waste to mitigate environmental impact is part of UK government policy. This study investigated whether household food waste is linked to a lifestyle reliant on convenience food in younger consumers. A survey of 928 UK residents aged 18-40 years and responsible for the household food shopping (male n = 278; female n = 650) completed an...

Following TER nets, an approach to the modelling of time in high-level Petri nets, we propose a model of time within (attributed) graph transformation systems where logical clocks are represented as distinguished node attributes. Corresponding axioms for the time model in TER nets are generalised to graph transformation systems and semantic variations are discussed. They are summarised by a gen...

In this paper we look at what may be learned from a comparative study examining non-technical users with a background in social science browsing and querying metadata. Four query tasks were carried out with a natural language interface and with an interface that uses a web paradigm with hyperlinks. While it can be difficult to attribute differences in performance to specific design features, a ...

A survey of sexually transmitted diseases was attempted in Swaziland. Time and the terms of reference limited its scope, but much interesting information was gathered. Neither the prevalence nor the relative frequency of the different diseases in the community could be ascertained, but there was evidence to support the local impression that the sexually transmitted diseases present an increasin...

280 Indian Dermatology Online Journal | Volume 8 | Issue 4 | July‐August 2017 a traditional burkha‐clad woman who used to tie wet hair. Moreover, her head was mostly covered and hence protected from sunlight, which in general acts as a natural germicidal agent. All these taken together predisposed the index case to fungal infection and its persistence. It is significant to note that our patient...

The metric determines the casual structure of spacetime, but in quantum gravity it is also a dynamical field which must be quantized using this causal structure. A radical resolution of this paradox is proposed: remove the concept of space-like separation entirely. This can be done by describing all fields in terms on p-jets, living on the observer’s trajectory; all points on the trajectory hav...

General:  Address people with consideration Everyone!– even when frustrated  Always know the attire for the meeting/interview you will be attending. Even if you are just dropping something off to an office please wear appropriate attire. This does not mean a suit but it does mean business casual attire.  Shake hands firmly  If wearing a nametag place it on the right (when you extend to shak...

As access to hypermedia documents becomes generally available, it becomes increasingly important to understand how casual users search for information. We have studied search patterns used in a small hypermedia museum exhibit. Our goal has been to identify preferred search strategies that can be supported for effective information retrieval from web-based information systems. Our data indicates...

We seek to give everyday technical teams the capability to build robust natural language interfaces to their databases, for subsequent use by casual users. We present an approach to the problem which integrates and streamlines earlier work based on light annotation and authoring tools. We model queries in a higher-order version of Codd’s tuple calculus and we use synchronous grammars extended w...