Pulse

The Welsh Composites Consortium would like to invite you to our Prestige lecture on ‘Mechanical Behaviour of FeCo Metal Matrix Composites Designed for “More Electric Engine” Applications’ by Prof. Martin Bache on the 26/06/08 (16.00h) at Swansea University. The talk will be followed by a tour of the Materials Engineering Department at Swansea University and a buffet and networking session. Please find attached more information. Registration is free and if you would like to attend, please let me know.  

Dr. Anke Skrobek

Project Manager

Welsh Composites Consortium 

School of Engineering

Swansea University

Singleton Park

Swansea SA2 8PP

Mobile: +44 7934 509414

Fax: +44 1792 602613

The Journal Citation Reports database has been updated with data for 2007, giving access to the most recent set of Impact Factors for academic journals. The Science and Social Sciences editions are both available. JCR is part of the Web of Knowledge suite of databases.

Engineering hydrology / E.M.Wilson

Environment in your pocket 2007 : key facts and figures on the environment of the United Kingdom / Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, edited by Adrian Redfern, Neil Maycock and David Lee

From counterculture to cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism / Fred Turner.

Introduction to continuum mechanics / Morton E. Gurtin

Mathematical introduction to fluid mechanics / Alexandre J. Chorin, Jerrold E. Marsden

Introduction to genetic analysis / Anthony J.F. Griffiths

Genes IX / Benjamin Lewin

Molecular genetics of bacteria  [book and electronic resource] / Jeremy W. Dale, Simon F. Park

Engineering vibration / Daniel J. Inman

Future of the Internet : and how to stop it / by Jonathan Zittrain

Introduction to materials management / J.R. Tony Arnold, Stephen N. Chapman, Lloyd M. Clive

The following information has been emailed to all students:

For attention of all final year undergraduate students.
Library and Information Services would like to take this opportunity to inform final year undergraduates about the termination of their computing accounts.

Your computing accounts will be set to expire on the 1^st of September 2008 - you are advised to use the time before this date to backup any files stored on your P: drive that you wish to keep. Options for doing this include backing up your files to CD or USB Flash Drive; these can be purchased from the Issue Desk in the Library and Information Centre. You can also access your P: drive over the Internet at:
https://netstorage2.singleton.swan.ac.uk/NetStorage/

For further advice on doing this, please contact the Student IT Support Desk on Level 3 of the Library and Information Centre.

PLEASE NOTE: Your computing account expiring will also mean that your email account will expire. You are again advised to use the time before the expiry date to arrange a new email address (i.e. a Hotmail or similar type of address) and to advise your email contacts of your new address if appropriate.

If you wish your account to be available over a longer period and have a genuine reason for such a request, please ask your tutor/supervisor to email itsupport@swansea.ac.uk if you wish us to consider such a request.

Students intending to re-enrol at Swansea University for postgraduate courses or similar should note that your existing computing and email accounts will become available to you automatically again once you have re-enrolled – you do not need to request this.

If you have any queries about this, or would like further advice, please visit the Student IT Support Desk on Level 3 of the Library and Information Centre, or email itsupport@swansea.ac.uk

“The results of the second phase of the Academic Misconduct Benchmarking Research Project (AMBeR) show that while HEIs vary in their application of plagiarism policies, there are clusters of consensus within groups of universities.

The details highlighted by the research will be used by higher education institutions to review and develop their individual plagiarism policies in the future.  Institutions are also encouraged to use the project’s results to examine their existing procedures and engender a  complete and transparent picture of activity within the sector.

The research, the first of its kind in the UK, was conducted by the Academy JISC Academic Integrity Service (AJAIS), and  aims to benchmark current policy and practice in UK higher education with regard to the methods used to manage student plagiarism.”

Press release on the Higher Education Academy web site with links to full report & executive summary.

A new IBSS blog was launched in early June 2008 and is available at http://ibssblog.wordpress.com . The purpose of the blog is to provide a place where social scientists can examine topical issues and explore how material available on IBSS can deepen understanding of these issues. The blog also aims to highlight some of IBSS’s hidden treasures, thus showing users how to get more out of using the database.

The blog currently includes posts on the economic crisis, on food, sex and gender, and the IBSS thesaurus. (Link to press release.)

Hydraulics in civil and environmental engineering/A.J. Chadwick

Fiber-optic communication systems/G.P. Agrawal

Cryptography and network security:  priniciples and practice/W. Stallings

Fundamentals of reservoir engineering/L.P. Dake

MATLAB 6 for engineers/A. Biran

 Biology of fishes/Q. Bone

Global city:  New York, London, Tokyo/ S. Sassen

Mass spectrometry:  principles and applications/E. de Hoffmann

electronic resource

Hazards Series Archive:  symposia I - XIX/

London Institution of Chemical Engineers 2008

The Cysgliad 3 package (including a Welsh spell checker, grammar checker, dictionary and thesaurus) is now available on all PCs configured by LIS.   It is also on student PCs on the network.  To install it on your PC:

1.  
   • Close all Microsoft Office Applications, including Word.
   • Open the folder “Novell Delivered Applications”.
   • Click on “Microsoft Office 2003 Suite”.
   • Click on the Cysgliad icon.
   • Click on “Yes” when asked if you wish to install Cysgliad
   • When you next open Word the Cysgliad icons should be on the toolbar.

Cysgliad is easy to use, but a brief introduction to it will be given in PC Room 3 at 12 on Tuesday 17 June in the Library and Information Centre if there is demand. Please let me know by Tuesday 10 June if you wish to come to this.   If this date is inconvenient but you would like an introduction to the use of Cysgliad, please contact me.   

This information does not apply to staff with PCs provided or configured by the Administrative Computing Unit, School of Health Science or other self-supported Schools and departments.)  

The Library will be closing early at 8pm on Wednesday 11 June. 

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.