The New Empire of Capital: The Pedagogy of the Streets

In every generation, some event serves to remind us that the exercise of power is always in part a function of control over geography.     

Student & tutor consensus: a partnership in assessment for learning

The mistakes made when attempting tasks often prove to be some of the most invaluable learning experiences. Despite this, outcome and results driven assessment formats largely penalise student performance errors or reward students who succeed by chance. The consequences of this paradigm are visible effects on student relationships with assessment. The student–tutor consensus approach to assessment was introduced to capture student learning achieved ‘from’ assessment to complement the measurement of performance outcomes. This approach parallels student and tutor judgement in a grade negotiation, affording the student an opportunity to share with their assessor what they have learned from the assessment activity. This student self-awareness was then considered alongside the conventional outcome-based score awarded by the tutor to generate a final grade for the assessed activity. Our study evaluated the perceptions of 90 undergraduate students enrolled in the bachelor of paramedic studies, who participated in this novel assessment approach as part of a final-year capstone topic. The results comprehensively indicated value for all aspects of the assessment approach, as well as a recognition that the skills will be useful in their future professional roles.     

Robust estimator design with an emphasis balance between performance and robustness

From a number of ML estimators (typically unbiased) of practical interest which include the variance for a Gaussian distribution, the standard deviation for a Laplace distribution, the variance for a Rayleigh distribution and a “spread parameter” for a Cauchy distribution, we design robust estimators according to an emphasis balance between normalized performance and normalized robustness. We measure performance with inverted MSE and robustness with a differential geometric approach.     

姜黄素类铂（Ⅱ）配合物的合成及其光学性质

以乙醇为溶剂,用自制的姜黄素衍生物（L1~L2）和碘亚铂酸钾为原料,合成得到了两种姜黄素类铂（Ⅱ）配合物（A和B）,通过IR1、HNMR、MS和元素分析对目标化合物进行了结构表征。并对它们的紫外可见电子光谱、单、双光子荧光光谱和双光子吸收截面进行了初步地研究。