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Successful University Collaboration In The Areas Of Industrial Engineering And Innovation, Sascha Götte, Iris Reychav

Polytechnic Institute Summit

Short Abstract:

The cooperation consists of joint intensive weeks offering complementary competencies to students from both institutions. The presented activities encourage students to consider master programs from the other partner institution, initiate jointly conducted research activities with industry partners from Israel and Switzerland and entrepreneurial activities of both university staff and students.

Full Abstract:

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Ariel University are both international oriented and agile institutions offering bachelor and master programs in Industrial Engineering with strong focus on innovation. The idea of the cooperation is to establish a bilateral student exchange offering complementary competencies to …

Board Summary Report June 2017, Regenstrief Center For Healthcare Engineering

RCHE Reports

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Board Summary Report June 2017, Regenstrief Center For Healthcare Engineering

RCHE Reports

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Memory And Identity-Focused Narratives In Tănase's 'Lived Book', Nicoleta D. Ifrim

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Memory and identity-focused narratives in Tănase's 'lived book'" Nicoleta Ifrim analyses România mea (My Romania), Virgil Tănase's first book published after the fall of Ceausescu's regime, a collection of interviews in which personal history is fictionalized according to the narrative rules of a "spoken book." The text is representative for the Eastern intellectual travelling to the West, carrying out his own personal post-totalitarian traumas now mirrored in a self-oriented narrative.

Understanding And Motivating Generation Z Students, Daniel Guberman, Eria Layow

IMPACT Presentations

Presented at Lilly conference "Designing Effective Teaching" in Bethesda, MD. Assesses characteristics associated with Gen Z students and connects them with concepts from Cognitive theory.

And They Were There-Reports Of Meetings, Ramue K. Kubilius, Sever Bordeianu

Against the Grain

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Spatial Information Literacy For Digital Humanities: The Case Study Of Leveraging Geospatial Information For African American History Education., Nicole Kong, Cornelius Bynum, Chrystal Johnson, Jennifer Sdunzik, Xiaoyue Qin

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The rise of “digital humanities” and the “spatial turn” in the humanities has generated many new insights in the study of culture, history, literature, and arts. Within this research trend, the library's geospatial service can play an active role by introducing spatial information literacy and technology. In this article, we use the information literacy framework to explore the library's role in supporting digital humanities by introducing a successful collaboration involving a librarian and history and education researchers in hosting a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-funded summer institute for school teachers. Our results suggest that the framework has opened a …

Profiles Encouraged-Profiles For 5 People, One Company And Two Libraries

Against the Grain

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Future Through The Past-Qep Impact On The Environment And Student Learning: Primary Project Activities & Assessments, Donald Beagle

Against the Grain

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Questions And Answers-Copyright Column, Laura N. Gassaway

Against the Grain

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Book Reviews-Monographic Musings, Regina Gong

Against the Grain

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From The Reference Desk-Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

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New Metrics For A New Strategy, Roger Schonfeld

Against the Grain

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Op Ed-Opinions And Editorials-Imhbco-Another Predatory Journal Sting: Why This One Is Different And Matters More, Rick Anderson

Against the Grain

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Collection Management Matters-And Then Came The Flood!, Glenda Alvin

Against the Grain

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Don's Conference Notes-At The Helm: Leading Transformation-The 2017 Acrl Conference, Donald T. Hawkins

Against the Grain

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Back Talk-The 19th Fiesole Retreat (Or, Eating My Way Through Chocolate Shops), Ann Okerson

Against the Grain

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Straight Talk-The 12th Annual Er&L Conference, Dan Tonkery

Against the Grain

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Optimizing Library Services- Academic Libraries' Mobile Initiatives, Barbara Blummer, Jeffrey Kenton, Elizabeth Leber, Lindsay Johnston

Against the Grain

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Wryly Noted-Books About Books, John D. Riley

Against the Grain

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The Fake News Phenomenon-An Opportunity For The Library Community To Make A Splash?, Donald A. Barclay

Against the Grain

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Urhobo Folklore And Udje Aesthetics In Tanure Ojaide's In The House Of Words And Songs Of Myself, Mathias I. Orhero

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Urhobo Folklore and Udje Aesthetics in Ojaide's In the House of Words and Songs of Myself" Mathias Orhero argues that Ojaide's poetry incorporates Urhobo folkloric contents and Udje style. Using African New Criticism as its theoretical anchor, this paper reveals that Ojaide amply deploys Urhobo folkloric contents and Udje aesthetics in both the form and contents of his poetry and thus, he continues as a modern Urhobo Udje maestro of the hybrid tradition. This paper also brings Ojaide's recent collections to critical lenses, especially as masterpieces of his Urhobo folkloric and Udje adaptations. Orhero concludes by …

Being Earnest With Collections-Building A Successful Marketing Program At The University Of Alabama, Michael A. Arthur

Against the Grain

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The Insufficiency Of Facts, T. Scott Plutchak

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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A Comparative History Of Resurrection Plants, John Charles Ryan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "A Comparative Literary History of Resurrection Plants" John Charles Ryan assembles a comparative history of resurrection plants through textual analysis of early botanical commentaries, herbal references, prose, poetry, and other sources. Resurrection plants include a diverse range of botanical species, typically of arid regions, that appear to come back to life after complete desiccation. Historical and contemporary observers—from sixteenth-century herbalist John Gerard to contemporary Australian poet John Kinsella—have expressed an abiding fascination for resurrection plants' capacity to survive harsh environmental conditions. The plants court their own deaths by paring down—then restoring—physiological processes in relation to shifting ecological …

The Indian Empire And Its Colonial Practices In South Asia, Yubraj Aryal

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The India, Empire and its Colonial Practices in South Asia" Yubraj Aryal claims that Bharatiya discourse supports colonization in South Asia. This discourse justifies oppression of institutions, practices, of the non-Bharatiya colonized. The article examines Indian Empire's colonialism toward the weaker, smaller nations along its border and the Bharatiya ideology at the heart of the repressive empire, which is taken to represent the South Asian subcontinent. The article looks at the way in which Bharatiya is perhaps a more oppressive ideology than Orientalism and gives a glimpse into how society, culture, history, and textuality work around power …

Adoption, Cynical Detachment, And New Age Beliefs In Juno And Kung Fu Panda, Fu-Jen Chen

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Adoption, Cynical Detachment, and New Age Beliefs in Juno and Kung Fu Panda" Fu-Jen Chen situates his study within today's prevailing climate of global consumption to argue that the 2007 film Juno—featuring an unconventional portrayal of the adoption triad and a cynical detachment from public values—not only trivializes and depoliticizes the practice of adoption but also serves as an ideological supplement to today's global capitalism. Furthermore, Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2 (2008; 2011) provide two ideological messages of contemporary New Age spirituality—"the belief in nothing" in part I, and "the attitude of inner peace" …

The Representation Of Instinctive Homosexuality And Immoral Narcissism In Gide’S The Immoralist (1902) And Mann’S Death In Venice (1912), Louise Willis

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "The Representation of Instinctive Homosexuality and Immoral Narcissism in Gide’s The Immoralist (1902) and Mann’s Death in Venice (1912)" Louise Willis examines two early literary representations of homosexuality in André Gide's The Immoralist (1902) and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice (1912). She reads them with fin-de-siècle sexological theory, mainly Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). Willis argues that the texts reflect the reconception of homosexuality as a latent instinct with pathological expression, rather than a sinful act of free will. The article explains that visual imagery conveys homoerotic desire, by incorporating Nietzsche's concept of …

Second Reaction: “But That’S Not A Happy Ending!”: Regret As A Pathway To Empathy, Julie Rust

First Opinions, Second Reactions

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