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Open University
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About: Open University is a education organization based out in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 11702 authors who have published 35020 publications receiving 1110835 citations. The organization is also known as: Open University, The & Open University.
Topics: Context (language use), Population, Higher education, Educational technology, Distance education
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Open University1, University of Colorado Boulder2, Vanderbilt University3, University of St Andrews4, University of Warwick5, University of Provence6, Queen's University7, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network8, University of Geneva9, University of Leicester10, University of Kent11, Keele University12
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present near-UV transmission spectroscopy of the highly irradiated transiting exoplanet WASP-12b, obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Abstract: We present near-UV transmission spectroscopy of the highly irradiated transiting exoplanet WASP-12b, obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. The spectra cover three distinct wavelength ranges: NUVA (2539-2580 angstrom), NUVB (2655-2696 angstrom), and NUVC (2770-2811 angstrom). Three independent methods all reveal enhanced transit depths attributable to absorption by resonance lines of metals in the exosphere of WASP-12b. Light curves of total counts in the NUVA and NUVC wavelength ranges show a detection at a 2.5 sigma level. We detect extra absorption in the Mg II lambda lambda 2800 resonance line cores at the 2.8 sigma level. The NUVA, NUVB, and NUVC light curves imply effective radii of 2.69 +/- 0.24 R-J, 2.18 +/- 0.18 R-J, and 2.66 +/- 0.22 R-J respectively, suggesting the planet is surrounded by an absorbing cloud which overfills the Roche lobe. We detect enhanced transit depths at the wavelengths of resonance lines of neutral sodium, tin, and manganese, and at singly ionized ytterbium, scandium, manganese, aluminum, vanadium, and magnesium. We also find the statistically expected number of anomalous transit depths at wavelengths not associated with any known resonance line. Our data are limited by photon noise, but taken as a whole the results are strong evidence for an extended absorbing exosphere surrounding the planet. The NUVA data exhibit an early ingress, contrary to model expectations; we speculate this could be due to the presence of a disk of previously stripped material.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate options, stimuli and difficulties to improve water-efficient practices by using knowledge exchange between farmers and resource managers to identify scope for improvements and to share greater responsibility across the entire water supply chain.
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29 Apr 2012TL;DR: This paper develops Campbell and Oblinger's five-step model of learning analytics and draws on broader educational theory to articulate an incrementally more developed, explicit and theoretically-grounded Learning Analytics Cycle.
Abstract: This paper develops Campbell and Oblinger's [4] five-step model of learning analytics (Capture, Report, Predict, Act, Refine) and other theorisations of the field, and draws on broader educational theory (including Kolb and Schon) to articulate an incrementally more developed, explicit and theoretically-grounded Learning Analytics Cycle.This cycle conceptualises successful learning analytics work as four linked steps: learners (1) generating data (2) that is used to produce metrics, analytics or visualisations (3). The key step is 'closing the loop' by feeding back this product to learners through one or more interventions (4).This paper seeks to begin to place learning analytics practice on a base of established learning theory, and draws several implications from this theory for the improvement of learning analytics projects. These include speeding up or shortening the cycle so feedback happens more quickly, and widening the audience for feedback (in particular, considering learners and teachers as audiences for analytics) so that it can have a larger impact.
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TL;DR: The first several hundred million years of Earth's history was studied in this article, where the Moon-forming impact left Earth enveloped in a hot silicate atmosphere that cooled and condensed over ∼1,000 yrs.
Abstract: We address the first several hundred million years of Earth’s history. The Moon-forming impact left Earth enveloped in a hot silicate atmosphere that cooled and condensed over ∼1,000 yrs. As it cooled the Earth degassed its volatiles into the atmosphere. It took another ∼2 Myrs for the magma ocean to freeze at the surface. The cooling rate was determined by atmospheric thermal blanketing. Tidal heating by the new Moon was a major energy source to the magma ocean. After the mantle solidified geothermal heat became climatologically insignificant, which allowed the steam atmosphere to condense, and left behind a ∼100 bar, ∼500 K CO2 atmosphere. Thereafter cooling was governed by how quickly CO2 was removed from the atmosphere. If subduction were efficient this could have taken as little as 10 million years. In this case the faint young Sun suggests that a lifeless Earth should have been cold and its oceans white with ice. But if carbonate subduction were inefficient the CO2 would have mostly stayed in the atmosphere, which would have kept the surface near ∼500 K for many tens of millions of years. Hydrous minerals are harder to subduct than carbonates and there is a good chance that the Hadean mantle was dry. Hadean heat flow was locally high enough to ensure that any ice cover would have been thin ( 4 Ga detrital zircons. If carbonates in oceanic crust subducted as quickly as they formed, Earth could have been habitable as early as 10–20 Myrs after the Moon-forming impact.
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TL;DR: The authors examined expertise differences in perceiving and interpreting complex, dynamic visual stimuli on a performance and on a process level, including perceptual and conceptual strategies, and found that experts compared to novices attend more to relevant aspects of the stimulus, use more heterogeneous task approaches, and use knowledge-based shortcuts.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Simon Baron-Cohen | 172 | 773 | 118071 |
Rob Ivison | 166 | 1161 | 102314 |
David W. Johnson | 160 | 2714 | 140778 |
David Scott | 124 | 1561 | 82554 |
R. Santonico | 120 | 777 | 67421 |
Eva K. Grebel | 118 | 863 | 83915 |
Chris J. Hawkesworth | 112 | 360 | 38666 |
Johannes Brug | 109 | 620 | 44832 |
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen | 107 | 647 | 49080 |
M. Santosh | 103 | 1344 | 49846 |
Andrew J. King | 102 | 882 | 46038 |
Wim H. M. Saris | 99 | 506 | 34967 |
Peter Nijkamp | 97 | 2407 | 50826 |
John Dixon | 96 | 543 | 36929 |
Timothy Clark | 95 | 1137 | 53665 |