Monitors of Malaysian election report widespread media bias
November 6, 2013
This post was contributed by Tessa Houghton and L:indsay Brooke During the 2013 Malaysian election campaign and in the days immediately afterwards, a team of communications experts at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) kept a close eye on the performance of the country’s press. Their aim was to encourage fair coverage of this …
Computer Science at the University of Nottingham is Influential
November 4, 2013
The Journal of the Opertaional Research Society (JORS) is one of the most respected journals in Operational Research. They editors recently picked the ten most inflential articles, as a reprsentative sample of the quality of the articles that they publish. In their remarks they say: “Tom Archibald and Jonathan Crook, the Editors of the Journal …
What is the Semantic Web?
October 30, 2013
In this What is? series, we invite experienced researchers to write about their area of research, but in more general terms than they might normally do. This article, entitled What is the Semantic Web?, is written by Muhammad Abba Lawan If you would like to contribute, then please let me know (Graham.Kendall@nottingham.edu.my) and we can discuss …
UNMC Pubication Record – 25 Oct 2013
October 25, 2013
In a previous post, we suggested that you should check your pubications, as some might be misclassified. Hopefuly you have done this. … and it’s been a while since we looked at how we are doing with UNMC publications in 2013. In fact the last time was 23 July (previous to that it was 03 …
Green Technologies for Asia Pacific Economies
October 23, 2013
Special Issue for Springer journal – Clean Technology & Environmental Policy Green Technologies for Asia Pacific Economies Professor Ir Dr Dominic C. Y. Foo and DDr Lam Hon Loong of the UNMC Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies (CEGT) have recently edited a special issue for the journal of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (CTEP, …
Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?
October 21, 2013
Very interesting article in Sciencemag.org, that talks about spoof articles that had been submitted to Open Access articles. I was particularly interested in this as I had recently heard about an article that had been submitted to an Open Access journal. It was accepted within a week and when the authors asked for the reviewer’s …
How to publish your research (Videos)
October 17, 2013
At one of the leading Evolutionary Computation conferences earlier this year, there was a session on how to get your research published. Below is a link to the various videos that resulted from that session (the sound quality could do with being improved, but the messages are important).
What is Tropospheric Ozone Enhancement?
October 16, 2013
In this What is? series, we invite experienced researchers to write about their area of research, but in more general terms than they might normally do. This article, entitled What is Tropospheric Ozone Enhancement?, is written by Muhammad Yaasiin Oozeer If you would like to contribute, then please let me know (Graham.Kendall@nottingham.edu.my) and we can discuss …
How international are our publications?
October 10, 2013
I saw an interesting article (International research coauthorship – trends and implications) recently from blog.universitiesuk.co.uk, which discusses how collabotaion with international partners has changed over the past few years. I thought it might be interesting to see how we do, and compare ourselves against another well known institution in the UK. It shoud be noted …
CEPB Blogs
October 7, 2013
This post was contributed by Asgar Ali. The following blogs might be of interest to those working in Food Security or Post Harvest Technology: http://www.ng.hu/Tudomany/2012/12/elelmiszerbevonatok_uj_korszaka http://earthsky.org/feeding-the-future/asgar-ali-edible-coatings-keep-fruits-and-vegetables-fresh-2 http://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/blog/index.php/2012/03/grow-not-waste-not/#more-785 http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?sec=education&file=/2012/1/29/education/10538865 http://www.farminguk.com/News/Making-sure-the-food-we-grow-is-good-enough-to-eat_22647.html
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