The third edition of this popular book has been extensively revised to reflect the changes that have affected student research in higher education in recent years. The ability to carry out research ...successfully has come to be seen as a 'key transferable skill' required of all higher education students - and The Management of a Student Research Project addresses directly the skill element of this. Furthermore the research process, at all levels, is far more systematized than in the past. The single largest change since the second edition came out in 1996 has been the impact of the World Wide Web on student research. The third edition has been thoroughly rewritten and developed in response to this. In particular, Chapter 4, 'Literature Searching', has been structured around a sample online search. Throughout, the comments and thoughts of readers of previous editions have been taken into account in framing this third edition. Its aims remain the same - to provide a clear, comprehensive and useful guide to students undertaking research projects in order to improve their chances of a successful outcome.
John A Sharp is Professor of Management in the Canterbury Business School, University of Kent. He has taught in a variety of areas and has long been associated with doctoral student training. John Peters is Editorial Director of an academic publishing firm, and a visiting fellow at the Universities of North London and Bradford. Keith Howard was Chairman of Doctoral Programmes at the University of Bradford Management Centre and currently holds several company directorships.
Contents: Part A Preparation: Research and the research student; Selecting and justifying a research project; Planning the research project; Literature searching. Part B Data Analysis and Gathering: Analysing the data; Gathering the data. Part C Producing the Research Results: Executing the research; Presentation of the research findings. Appendices: An example of topic analysis; A select bibliography on student research; Books and articles cited in the main text. Index.
This article reflects on the contemporary phenomenon of ‘world music’, exploring how the commodified genre has developed and been marketed since the 1980s, and the implications that the genre has ...both for academic studies of music and culture and for the continuing sustainability of local music and cultural diversity. The article starts with a discussion of the bifurcation of world music between the commercial (a mix of relatively popular commodified forms that are often hybrid collaborations) and ethnographically rooted music (often archive or field recordings of ‘authentic’ traditions), and the challenges faced by the latter in a market dominated by the former. It utilizes critiques by Outhwaite, Said, Moretti, Adorno and others of Eurocentricism, orientalism and popular culture to position comments by, and products produced for, the world music community. Commentary is informed from a variety of sources - from musicians and producers, published texts, and from an Internet blog that began in response to my initial discussion of this topic in my 2008 inaugural professorial lecture at the University of London. Commentary builds a perspective on world music as particular mixes of the familiar and exotic/ Other that are typically experienced - using concepts elaborated by Guillermo Gómez‐Pena and Anahid Kassabian - as ‘lite difference’ through ‘audio tourism’. A chronological perspective that begins with the promotion of gramophones in the early twentieth century is offered to show how world music has developed. And Korea provides a case study of the effort one country’s music industry is making to enter the commodified world music arena, noting how Korean funding agencies increasingly move from support of the iconoclastic traditional music (kugak) to contemporary genres such as the western‐meets‐eastern kugak fusion. The article ends by asking what the future might hold, and whether, as the recorded music industry declines, local music can continue to be championed. KCI Citation Count: 0
Korean popular music has in the last decade become a significant model for youth culture throughout Asia. Yet, although the Korean music industry is both vibrant and massive, this is the first ...book-length work devoted to the subject to appear in English.
The world of kugak, Korean traditional music, has today assumed a timeless quality. It is an important part of Korea's national identity, sponsored by the state both to key institutions and through ...the elevation of iconic genres to Important Intangible Cultural Property status. This paper uses the lens of new institutionalism to explore the construction of kugak and its not-for-profit status within a formal institution, the National Gugak Centre. By distinguishing the modes of exchange of Korean musical practice past and present, and through a comparison with arts organizations elsewhere, the paper questions whether kugak can survive without state support and whether it can be introduced into the marketplace.
Remotely sensed multispectral thermal infrared (8–13 μm) images are increasingly being used to map variations in surface silicate mineralogy. These studies utilize the shift to longer wavelengths in ...the main spectral feature in minerals in this wavelength region (reststrahlen band) as the mineralogy changes from felsic to mafic. An approach is described for determining the amount of this shift and then using the shift with a reference curve, derived from laboratory data, to remotely determine the weight percent SiO
2 of the surface. The approach has broad applicability to many study areas and can also be fine-tuned to give greater accuracy in a particular study area if field samples are available. The approach was assessed using airborne multispectral thermal infrared images from the Hiller Mountains, Nevada, USA and the Tres Virgenes-La Reforma, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Results indicate the general approach slightly overestimates the weight percent SiO
2 of low silica rocks (e.g. basalt) and underestimates the weight percent SiO
2 of high silica rocks (e.g. granite). Fine tuning the general approach with measurements from field samples provided good results for both areas with errors in the recovered weight percent SiO
2 of a few percent. The map units identified by these techniques and traditional mapping at the Hiller Mountains demonstrate the continuity of the crystalline rocks from the Hiller Mountains southward to the White Hills supporting the idea that these ranges represent an essentially continuous footwall block below a regional detachment. Results from the Baja California data verify the most recent volcanism to be basaltic–andesite.
Chartwell Dutiro, an mbira player since childhood and former member of Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, arrived in Britain in 1994 and has lived there ever since. He works primarily with ...Zimbabwean and British musicians, and, while allying himself and his music to his Shona ancestors, his music represents both tradition and its transformation. This volume is a collaborative venture between musicians and academics, which builds an account of the mbira, the most important of Zimbabwe's traditional instruments. It celebrates Dutiro's musicianship, exploring his musical development and the collaborations he has been involved with, while at the same time discovering his personal, political and religious perspectives.
Abstract Recent findings indicate that seasonal influenza vaccination or infection of healthy humans may contribute to heterosubtypic immunity against new influenza A subtypes, such as H5N1. Here, we ...investigated whether seasonal influenza vaccination in a mouse model could induce any immunity against the H5N1 subtype. It could be demonstrated that, largely due to the H1N1 component strain A/NewCaledonia/20/99, parenteral immunization of mice with a trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine elicited heterosubtype H5-reactive antibodies able to confer partial protection against H5N1 influenza virus infection. Furthermore, the trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine was found to be compatible with a whole virus H5N1 vaccine in a heterologous prime-boost immunization regimen, achieving superior efficacy compared to a single immunization with an equivalent low-dose of the H5N1 vaccine.
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