Mark Saunders

Methoden en technieken voor onderzoek is een uitgebreide handleiding voor het opzetten, uitvoeren en uitwerken van kwalitatief en kwantitatief onderzoek. De student wordt stap voor stap door het onderzoeksproces geleid. Vele uitgewerkte voorbeelden en praktijkcases brengen het uitvoeren van onderzoek tot leven. Elk hoofdstuk wordt afgesloten met vragen waarmee de student zijn kennis van de stof kan testen. Deze vijfde editie bevat nieuwe cases en voorbeelden, biedt meer informatie over op internet gebaseerde onderzoeks-technieken en consultancyprojecten. Daarnaast is het boek nu praktischer geworden, met een duidelijke indeling in 4 stappen en beknopter met 12 in plaats van 14 hoofdstukken. (Bron: www.pearsoneducation.nl)

Data and knowledge mobilisation are significant challenges in ecology and resource management, with the journey from data collection through to management action often left incomplete due to difficulties sharing information across diverse and dispersed communities. This disconnect between science and management must be resolved if we are to successfully tackle the increasing impact of human activity on our ecosystems. Across their North Atlantic range, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) populations are in steep decline in many areas and urgent actions are required to curb this decline. Being commercially important this species has been subject to intense research, but management action often suffers from both a lack of access to this knowledge resource and support for its integration into effective management strategies. To respond to this challenge, the science and management communities must place higher priority on mobilising existing and emerging knowledge sources to inform current and future resource use and mitigation strategies. This approach requires a more complete picture of the current salmon ecology data and knowledge landscape, new mechanisms to enable data mobilisation and re-use, and new research to describe and parameterise the responses of wild populations to habitat changes. Here we present a unique interface for registering and linking data resources relevant to the Atlantic salmon life cycle that can address the data mobilisation aspect of these challenges. The Salmon Ecosystem Data Hub is a salmon-specific metadata catalogue, natively interoperable with many existing data portals, which creates a low resistance pathway to maximise visibility of data relevant to Atlantic salmon. This includes the capacity to annotate datasets with life-stage domains and variable classes, thereby permitting dispersed data to be formally contextualised and integrated to support hypotheses specific to scenario-based modelling and decision-making. The alignment and mobilisation of data within the Salmon Ecosystem Data Hub will help advance the development of appropriate environmentally driven forecast models and an ecosystem-based management approach for Atlantic salmon that optimises future management strategies.

The potential of using EM wave technology within the microwave region (300MHz-300GHz) to detect defects in sheet metals, such as those used in vehicle platforms, is investigated. The proposed EM wave NDT system will be integrated into a wide variety of structural elements (e.g. automotive and construction) and will provide continuous real-time structural health monitoring of the materials. The system will be able to provide information related to the presence, type and location of damage or defects. Two sensors are studied for defect detection and monitoring, a rectangular patch structure and an interdigitated electrode structure. Initial experimental results demonstrate that the presence of defects such as cracks near the surface of the sensor elicit a change in sensor response. Detailed experimental set-up and preliminary measurement results are presented.

Methoden en technieken voor onderzoek is een uitgebreide handleiding voor het opzetten, uitvoeren en uitwerken van kwalitatief en kwantitatief onderzoek. De student wordt stap voor stap door het onderzoeksproces geleid. Vele uitgewerkte voorbeelden en praktijkcases brengen het uitvoeren van onderzoek tot leven. Elk hoofdstuk wordt afgesloten met vragen waarmee de student zijn kennis van de stof kan testen. Deze vijfde editie bevat nieuwe cases en voorbeelden, biedt meer informatie over op internet gebaseerde onderzoeks-technieken en consultancyprojecten. Daarnaast is het boek nu praktischer geworden, met een duidelijke indeling in 4 stappen en beknopter met 12 in plaats van 14 hoofdstukken. (Bron: www.pearsoneducation.nl)

Mark Saunders argues that in a post-Brexit Britain, the UK economy should be safeguarded by providing sufficient protection of innovation

Design: Phase III, randomised controlled, two arm, open label, multicentre, non-inferiority. Objectives: Assessment of the efficacy of 12 weeks versus 24 weeks of treatment and associated toxicity. Economic analysis of the cost effectiveness of the 2 arms. Comparison of 2 randomisation methodologies. Endpoints: Primary Endpoint: • Disease free survival Secondary Endpoints: • Overall survival • Cost-effectiveness • Toxicity • Quality of Life Study population: 6087 patients with fully resected high-risk stage II or fully resected stage III colorectal cancer.

Physics of Space Plasmas: An Introduction. By George K. Parks. Addison-Wesley:1991. Pp.560. á£40.45, $48.50.