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Man 1: Good morning. Welcome to Campus Sports Centre. How can I help you?

Woman: Good morning. I am a new student in Educational Studies. I'd like to enquire some information about membership.

Man 1: OK. You should go to the reception on the second floor on the right of stairs.

Woman: Thanks a lot.

Man 2: Good morning. Welcome to Campus Sports Centre. How can I help you?

Woman: I'd like to register a membership card.

Man 2: Fine. Are you a new student?

Woman: Yes. I am an overseas student from Mexico.

Man 2: Welcome to Bath University.

Woman: Thank you.

Man 2: Well, for registering a new member we need you supply some documents.

Woman: What kind of documents?

Man 2: One passport photo and Student Card and...

Woman: Oh, I haven't got my Student Card.

Man 2: Oh, I am so sorry that I cannot help you apply for a new membership of Sports Centre now, because we need your card number.

Woman: Could you tell me the register time of Campus Sports Centre?

Man 2: The time is from 10 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon on Monday to Thursday and open until 4 o'clock on Friday to Sunday.

Woman: Fine. I will come back tomorrow afternoon. But could you introduce some information to me now?

Man 2: Of course.

Man 2: We have got a lot of sports training courses.

Woman: Yes. I am interested in some courses suit for girls.

Man 2: Fine. We offer tennis course from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Woman: Do you have a referee?

Man 2: Of course if you need.

Woman: Fine.

Man 2: And the course place is arranged at... let me check... at Court 3.

Woman: Right.

Man 2: Do you like to do yoga?

Woman: Yes. I like it very much. Do you have yoga course?

Man 2: Yes. We have employed a new yoga coach from India.

Woman: Really?

Man 2: Yes.

Woman: Female or male?

Man 2: A young lady.

Woman: Great. What's the course time?

Man 2: The yoga course is from 3 o'clock to 5 o'clock on Wednesday and Friday afternoons.

Woman: And the place? Indoor or outdoor?

Man 2: We arrange all yoga courses indoor. This season is in Room 201.

Woman: Good.

Man 2: And we open a new course this season for female members.

Woman: What kind of new course?

Man 2: Dancing course.

Woman: That's so great.

Man 2: The course time is from 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock in the evening on Fridays and Saturdays.

Woman: Weekends, that's so great. The same place with yoga course?

Man 2: No. It is in Room 303 on floor 3.

Woman: How about other courses? Such as swimming?

Man 2: I am so sorry we do not have swimming pool so you cannot find swimming course in our sports centre.

Woman: That's OK.

Man 2: Another popular course in the centre on Mondays and Thursdays is kickboxing.

Woman: What time is it? Still in afternoons?

Man 2: Yes. From 2 o'clock to 4 o'clock.

Woman: The same two hours?

Man 2: Right. And the place of kickboxing course is in Hall 2 on the second floor beside the reception.

Woman: Fine. I see.

Man 2: That's the main course information. If you'd like to know about other courses, please look at our booklet and get a course timetable when you register a membership.

Woman: OK. Oh, do I have to attend an assessment?

Man 2: Yes. We supply all new members an assessment when they register.

Woman: OK.

Man 2: Anything else?

Woman: How much is the fee?

Man 2: The annual fee is 35 pounds, but we have a discount for new members who are going to register in this week.

Woman: Really?

Man 2: Yes. If you register this week the fee you need to pay is only 20 pounds. But today is Thursday. You know my mean...

Woman: Yes. I will come back tomorrow.

Man 2: Great. See you tomorrow.

Woman: See you and thank you very much.

Man 2: You are welcome.

Welcome to the Western Bank Library which is the main library of the University of Sheffield. I am Chris Lee, a library staff. I'd like to give you an introduction of the library. The Western Bank Library aims to provide access to the information resources required by members of the University for research, learning and teaching. There is a wealth of materials to support learning and research at the University; over 1,300,000 printed volumes and an extensive range of high quality electronic resources. Many resources are accessible from off-campus via the Internet. All members of the University may borrow books from the University's Library. In order to borrow books, periodicals and non-book items you must possess a current University Library UCard. The UCard is also your Library borrower card. You will get the UCard from your department and then you should visit our website first to click 'Start' to register your account and get your password. Once you have borrowed items you are solely responsible for their security and well-being until they have been removed from your account.

About the number of borrowing, we offer ten books for first and second year undergraduates; fifteen books for junior and senior undergraduates and twenty-five books for postgraduates. All books, unless requested by someone else, can be borrowed for the following periods: part-time & distance learning taught-course students can keep books for two weeks; and registered students and university staff can get four weeks. Your self-service receipt or the date label in the books will tell you the date when you should return the books. Please check this carefully as the items may have been requested by someone else, and have a shorter loan period. Some important reference books with red colour labels cannot be taken away from the library. If you want to read them, please go to the Closed Reserved Room on the second floor of the library. If you want to keep books for longer you can extend the loan by renewing. There are two ways to renew: you can bring your UCard to library counter or phone to the Renewals Hotline, the number is 0114 222 7201.

If a book is requested by someone else you may keep it until the due date, but you won't be able to renew it. However, if another copy of the book is returned by another person sooner, this may mean you can renew your book. It is essential you check your account regularly to ensure no-one has reserved the items you have on loan. You can also use Reservation System Service to reserve the book if you cannot renew it. I do really hope you can have a habit of checking your library account every day to view and renew your loans and see details of any charges. Please note if you have overdue books on your account you must go to library counter to pay the fine otherwise you will be blocked from borrowing any further items. Fines start from 2 pounds to more than 50 pounds depending on different faculty and items.

The Library provides a range of photocopying services and a printing service. Usually, the photocopy charge of black and white A4 sheet is 5 pounds; Colour A4 sheet is 50 pounds. You can deposit some money into your UCard because we do not accept any coins. The Western Bank Library opens at 9 o'clock in the morning and closes at 9 o'clock in the evening on Monday to Friday; at weekend the library opens until 6 o'clock in the evening. I'd like to remind you no snacks and noise in the library. The last but not the least if you change your address, please informs us. The Library will not be responsible if important mail goes astray resulting in payable fines. Well, any questions?

Welcome to our technology lecture. I am Professor John Stewart. Last week we talked about astronomy. Today, I'd like to introduce you a lecture on finger print identification. Identifying finger prints has been a vital tool in the crime fighter's arsenal for more than a hundred years. According to the record an Argentine police officer was the first one to use the method of criminal identification in 1892. He proved that a woman was guilty of murder because a bloody finger print at the crime scene had to be hers. Nowadays, finger print forensics are about to take a huge leap forward from physical to chemical. Scientists have unveiled a new technique that can extract a lot of information.

So the physical print itself is identification, but there's a lot of information that's contained in those finger prints. Then, what are the main functions of finger print identification technology? Scientists have summarised its four functions: the first one is to create image, which one is an important beginning; and then the second one is to get characteristics; and the next is to keep information and the last one is to contrast data. Meanwhile, some experts have pointed out that finger prints are actually a transfer from our fingers onto an object to chemicals. Those chemicals could be things that we've handled already recently, or they could be secretions: oil and sweet from our bodies.

We can use a technique named mass-spectrometry to identify all those substances even they are in tiny amounts. Graham Cooks from Purdue University in the United States has explained how the technique works in his paper. As he points out, experts can get the information in a very, very simple and straightforward way using a new type of mass-spectrometry. His experiment is to make a fine mist of a solvent like water and to provide an electrical charge to those little droplets that constitute the mist and to direct that at the object, for example, a finger print, and then spray that in a very fine fashion with high precision, as these droplets arrive, they create a thin film, liquid obviously, on top of that surface. The chemicals in the finger print dissolve in that liquid, another drop arrives, splashes against the film, creates smaller droplets and those smaller droplets are sucked up into an instrument, the mass-spectrometer, then dried off and they're identified. The whole process of recording the mass-spectra of a single spot on a finger print takes a fraction, a few tenths of a second.

So the last step in the experiment then is to create an image of the finger print that is not to keep the spatial information but to represent only one of the chemicals. Experts could build up different layers of colours for different chemicals. And so in the mass-spectrum, it doesn't matter if experts don't have to say in advance what molecule they're looking for, they can just screen through all of this data and find out what drugs, virtually any type of organic or even biological molecule can be seen. Maybe someone will ask if this equipment can be taken to a crime scene or can only be used it in a lab. The answer is yes. We can take the equipment to a crime scene. Actually, scientists have built as series of small mass-spectrometers, the smallest of which is merely a four kilograms instrument so that's hand portable, you can walk around with it and you could take it to a crime scene and do the experiment that we've been talking about.

Among this chemical information of the finger prints that our scientists have collected we can find more information about the people themselves. Many scientists including Graham Cooks are more interested in this new research field: some scientists have begun to do research on whether the distribution of the compounds are the result of people's metabolism; as we all know, more and more people are worried about their metabolism which is very important for people's daily life; some others focus on the topic about whether we can find out people's age and their sex, if we can, that will be a great contribution to medicine, law or other fields; the third one is that some experts even study on where the things in fact are going wrong in terms of people's own biology. That of course will be a huge project, but it is necessary to life. I really hope that if you're interested in this topic you could join in our research group.

Of course that's a research area that we don't have all the answers here. But we certainly have a mountain of data coming in, which should enable us to address these questions.

OK, if you want to know more information about finger print identification you can read our journal online or attend a lecture on next Friday at The University of Bath or visit our website, the address is... (fade)