Periodic Table of Videos (Carbon – 6 – C)
May 28, 2014
In this series, we are presenting videos from the Periodic Table of Videos (Web Site / YouTube) project. This project shows a short video about each of the chemical elements. The video below looks at Carbon, which has an atomic number of 6 and the symbol C. Previous blog entries on this topic can be …
International Standard Serial Number: Explained
May 27, 2014
We we do our MyRA return we insist that you supply the ISSN (and DOI) for any publications that you enter into your e-staff profile. But what is an ISSN, and why do we need it? In the same way that an ISBN uniquely identifies a book, an ISSN uniquely identifies a periodical publication. This …
Nafis Alam: Professor of the Month
May 26, 2014
“Nafis Alam is the founding director of Centre for Islamic Business and Finance Research (CIBFR). His scholarly research has featured in leading journals such as the Journal of Asset Management, the Journal of Banking Regulation, the Review of Islamic Economics and the Journal of Financial Services Marketing …“, so starts the article that recently appeared …
Deep Sky Videos (M31 – Andromeda Galaxy)
May 23, 2014
In this series, we are presenting videos from the Deep Sky Videos (Web Site / YouTube) project. The video below looks at the the M31 – Andromeda Galaxy. Previous blog entries on this topic can be seen seen here (this is a link to entries tagged with Deep Sky Videos).
Longitude Prize 2014
May 22, 2014
The (from their web site) “Longitude Prize 2014 is a challenge with a £10 million prize fund to help solve one of the greatest issues of our time. It is being run and developed by Nesta, with the Technology Strategy Board as launch funding partner.” The longitude prize is so named as there was an …
Sunway Construction Career Talk
May 21, 2014
This post was contributed by Derek Wong Wai Hoe Sunway Managerial Advancement for Recruited Talents (SMART) Programme. University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, 12 March 2014 — Six members of staff from the highly reputable Sunway Construction visited the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus to introduce the next generation of civil engineers to their SMART career …
A (possible) easy way to write for TheConversation
May 20, 2014
In previous posts we have mentioned articles that UNMC academics have written for TheConversation. One of our latest articles is an Explainer article. These are short articles that explain some topic for the interested reader. We were thinking some of our “What is …” articles might be suitable for TheConversation. That is not to say …
Professor Dominic Foo is a Thomson Reuters Highly-Cited Author
May 19, 2014
Professor Ir Dr Dominic C. Y. Foo was announced by Thomson Reuters as the Highly-Cited Author for his paper entitled “State-of-the-art Review of Pinch Analysis Techniques for Water Network Synthesis”. The paper has a total citation of 117 based on 10 years record in Web of Science, i.e. between 1 January 2003 to 31 October …
TheConversation: The maths behind your examination timetable
May 16, 2014
As UNMC, along with many other universities, enters its examination period, we suspect that students have more to worry about than how the examination timetable is created. But, in case you do care, a recent piece in TheConversation explains some of the difficulties, and why it is impossible to create a timetable that everybody is …
First year UNMC student (Yen Yi Loo) publishes monsoon study
May 15, 2014
“A first year Environmental Science student at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) has had a literature review of the Southeast Asian monsoon published in the academic journal Geoscience Frontiers. Her research concluded that future climate warming could lead to a 15 day delay in the monsoon onset in Southeast Asia by the start …
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