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Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.

"Beowulf: The Monsters And The Critics" Seventy-Five Years Later, Michael D.C. Drout

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Scholar Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 42. A discussion of the continuing influence of Tolkien’s famed Beowulf essay on its seventy-fifth anniversary. Shows how the essay both opened up and limited later Beowulf scholarship, and draws some interesting parallels with the current state of Tolkien scholarship. Along the way, questions the wisdom of believing everything an author says about his own work, and asserts the value of familiarity with critical history.

Is A "Christian" Mystery Story Possible? Charles Williams's War In Heaven As A Generic Case Study, Sørina Higgins

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines War in Heaven’s radical upsetting of the detective novel norms promised in its first few paragraphs and shows how Williams uses and subverts these conventions and leads us to contemplate, instead of a mystery and its solution, an insoluble Mystery with a capital M.

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Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

No abstract provided.

Self-Reported Aircraft Noise Complaints And Socioeconomic Demographics In The Greater Philadelphia Region: A Survey Of Complaint Data From 1997 To 2009, Jonathan D. Collette

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Aircraft noise complaints are a data set that airport operators can easily collect, review, and analyze. Although this complaint data maynot be indicative of total community annoyance, it still may provide insight into local concerns and perception regarding aircraft noiseimpacts. As has been observed in other research, perception plays a large part in noise annoyance, including areas where the acousticalnoise levels are below the 65 db DNL threshold used by the FAA to determine land use compatibility. Noise complaint data collectedfrom the Philadelphia, PA region during the period from 1997 to 2009 was compared to five indicators (per-capita income, medianhousehold …

Risk Perception Analysis Of A Small Aircraft Transportation System, David S. Ferrel, Thomas Carney, Scott R. Winter

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

This study examines the impact and relationship between demographic factors and risk perceptions toward Small AircraftTransportation Systems (SATS). The study included 178 participants who responded to an electronic survey administered to PurdueUniversity faculty members and to selected leaders within the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics department. Participants were surveyed asto their demographic identities including gender, age, academic position, and aviation familiarity, as well as their perceptions of physical,financial, and status risk from a SATS program. Results of this study showed that certain demographic factors are significant predictors ofcertain SATS travel risk perceptions. Participants’ intentions to travel via SATS also are identified to …

Assessing Programmatic Design And Quality For A Professional High- Technology Graduate Education Program: A Conceptual Framework, Mitchell L. Springer, Erin E. Bowen

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

The historical documentation of the development of aviation technology graduate education provides a contextual basis to understandthe present need for online post-baccalaureate professional education. Within a case design structure, this article employs the actionresearch framework to assess program design and quality for a newly developed distance-based graduate professional program. Thecontinuous improvement basis deployed herein provides opportunity for immediate program assessment and ongoing qualityimprovement. The key outcome of this applied case example can be adapted to any professional graduate program as a solution for themaintenance of overall programmatic responsiveness and resulting quality.

A Method Of Analysis Integrating Hcr And Eta Modeling For Determining Risks Associated With Inadequate Flight Separation Events, Ruishan Sun, Yunfei Chen, Xinyi Liu, Tianchi Peng, Lu Liu

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

This paper proposes an event tree to analyze the risk of inadequate flight separation based on the HCR model. We explore how theconsequences of such an event depend on factors such as abilities and mental states of pilots and air traffic controllers, and the efficiencyof human-machine interaction. We also discuss possible practical measures to control risks in an effort to improve civil aviation safety.

The Black Experience In Business Aviation: An Exploratory Case Study, Tara L. Harl Dr., Phil Roberts

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Despite a rich heritage of interest in aviation as a career choice, Blacks have been underrepresented across all three areas of aviation inthe United States: airline/air transport, military, and general/business aviation. The lack of interest in aviation careers by Blacks has notbeen the issue; societal obstacles, historical ignorance of the Black aviation experience, and an industry that traditionally closed mostdoors to professional aviation careers for minorities have been the culprits. Business and corporate aviation (corporate flight departments/service providers) in particular has experienced low entrance and retention numbers for Black professionals, a reflection of the widercivilian aviation industry. An exploratory single …

Elementary Teachers’ Views About Teaching Design, Engineering, And Technology, Ming-Chien Hsu, Senay Purzer, Monica E. Cardella

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

While there is a growing interest in infusing engineering into elementary classrooms, very little is known about how well positionedelementary teachers are to teach engineering. This study examined elementary teachers’ perceptions of and familiarity with design,engineering, and technology (DET). We collected data from 192 elementary teachers using the DET teacher survey. While theseelementary teachers thought teaching DET was important (Mean 5 3.46; SD 5 0.43), they were relatively unfamiliar with DET (Mean 52.01; SD 5 0.65). Years of teaching experience did not affect teachers’ familiarity with teaching DET and their perceptions of how important DET was. Moderately experienced teachers showed …

Service-Learning As A Professional Development Tool, Lillian Wichinsky, Carolyn Turturro

Administrative Issues Journal

The authors examined students’ attitudes towards grant writing and program evaluation when service learning was integrated into the assignment. Over a two-year period, 71 graduate students participated in an online survey responding to both qualitative and quantitative items. Students overwhelmingly reported that they learned more through the servicelearning experience than they would have doing the assignment as an academic exercise. It is recommended that all disciplines seek out service-learning opportunities to promote professional development.

High School Students Embedded In Adult Community College Classes, Karen P. Saenz, George W. Moore

Administrative Issues Journal

Early college high schools were established as an initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the goal for students of earning college credit and an associate degree while in high school. Many of these high school students attend college classes with adults, ages 18 and older, in the same class. Instructors are challenged to address these students’ diverse needs and diverse ways of learning. Young teenagers typically are told exactly what to learn and how it is to be learned; the adult learner, however, is much more independent and he or she learns and thinks differently based on …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2011-10-14, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.

To The Point: How Management Faculty Use Powerpoint Slides And Quizzes, Stan Williamson, Kenneth E. Clow, Robert E. Stevens

Administrative Issues Journal

This exploratory study examines U.S. management faculty usage of two types of supplements: PowerPoint (PPT) slides and quizzes. Results suggest the majority (67%) of experienced management faculty frequently employ PowerPoint in their classes. However, they do not see PPT basic slides provided by the publisher as very central to getting their message across. In using PPT they tend to personalize publisher slides to cover issues discussed in class and to embellish slides with visuals and videos for interest. Primarily they encourage their students to use PowerPoint slides provided on the instructor’s website to review lectures and chapter material to prepare …

Creating Opportunities: Gerontological Service Learning In A Community Practice Project, Cindy Brown, Rosalie Otters, Carolyn Turturro

Administrative Issues Journal

Ten graduate gerontology students volunteered for a service learning project, My Life: Connect with Me, which was developed, supervised and evaluated by a graduate social work intern in a community practice internship. The social work intern trained volunteers in interviewing skills at a continuing care retirement community. Student volunteers’ self-reported confidence in interviewing older adults was measured by a questionnaire created by the social work intern, using Likert scaling and short qualitative responses, as well as journaling. All student volunteers reported increases from pre to posttest, and the social work intern successfully completed all community internship competencies (Council on Social …

Testing The Efficacy Of Self-Affirmation In Improving Student Performance In A Business Law Course, Lynn M. Murray, Christine E. Fogliasso

Administrative Issues Journal

The authors explore the effects of a self-affirmation exercise on upper level college students in a business law class. Students from three business law sections were randomly assigned into one of two groups: one group was to write about a personally important value before exams and the other group was to write about a value not important to them but important to others. A third group emerged as some students chose to ignore the assignment. Contrary to expectations, students writing about others’ values performed better on most exams than did those who did not complete the exercise. It may be …

Marketing Internships: The Role Of Introspection In Students’ Satisfaction Reports, Flor Ornelas, Fernando Jiménez

Administrative Issues Journal

Despite the learning advantages of internship opportunities, many former interns bitterly complain about the dull tasks they had to perform during the internship. We argue that students’ satisfaction ratings with an internship are influenced by the current descriptive approach of final reports. When students list the tasks that they performed (i.e., what did you do?), they only engage in concrete thinking, missing the big picture. We contend that when an introspection approach is used (i.e., why did you do it?), students engage in abstract thinking, realizing the implications of the tasks they performed and hence, rating the internship experience more …

Complexity, Knowledge And Structure: A Systemic Understanding Of Organizational Learning, Justin D. Walton

Administrative Issues Journal

Organizations are among the most socially complex institutions within modern culture. As corporations face the challenges of technological change and globalization, it becomes essential that they find new ways and forms of fostering knowledge sharing and creativity. Challenging the age-old belief that employees should “dominated and directed,” complexity theory challenges the classic machine metaphor of organizational structure with a view that conceptualizes them as nonlinear systems that fluctuate between conditions of stability and chaos. This model offers new and exciting opportunities for exploring the dynamics of organizational learning. Toward this end, this paper examines the systemic features of organizations with …

Creating Opportunities With Mentoring Relationships, Carrie J. Boden Mcgill

Administrative Issues Journal

Navigating the cultural environment of academia can be a difficult task, particularly for first-generation college students and those who belong to groups typically marginalized in doctoral programs. This study examines two cases of first-generation, African American female graduate students to determine which traits preclude success in doctoral programs and how mentoring relationships influence completion. The women in this study come from similar backgrounds, but they adopted very different strategies for coping with adversity. It is possible that the presence or absence of positive mentoring relationships in their lives influenced the strategies that the women chose. This article seeks to strengthen …

Workload And The Changing Health Care Environment, Denisse Neill

Administrative Issues Journal

Changes in the health care environment have impacted nursing workload, quality of care, and patient safety. Nurses perceive that the quality of their work has diminished. Traditional nursing workload measures do not guarantee efficiency and do not adequately capture the complexity of nursing workload. Studies have identified tasks associated with nursing work but not the perception of the nurse about the mental work required to meet the demands. Human factors research examines cognitive and perceptual abilities needed to perform tasks in a reasonable time without error. Researchers using a human factors framework have focused on mental processing to understand why …

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (10/14/2011), University Of Rhode Island

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (Student Newspaper Archives)

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island school newspaper.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Wade, Katherine. WKU’s Full-time Dietician Quits; Job Already Filled – Melanie Powell
• Wood, Shane. Kentucky Barbecue – Wes Berry
• Harrison, Taylor. Medical Center to Host 10K on WKU Campus
• Kriz, Lindsay. WKU Grad Opens Dream Clothing Store – Karrie Cash
• Blanford, Sidney. F is for Forensics
• Bratcher, Nick. Resident Assistant’s Retract Threatened Bathroom Ban – Pearce-Ford Tower
• Koch, Cameron. Revolution’s Battle of the Bands Back for Second Year
• Duvall, Tessa. WKU Names Alumnus, Young Alumnus of the Year – Brent Ditto, Linda Miller
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Blood …

Flyer News, Vol. 59, No. 10 (Oct. 14, 2011), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Minutes, College Of Arts & Sciences Academic Programs Committee Meeting, October 14, 2011, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts And Sciences

Academic Programs Committee Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the October 14, 2011, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Arts & Sciences's Academic Programs Committee.

College Radio As A Mechanism For Participatory Learning: Exploring The Scope For Online Radio Based Learning Among Undergraduates, Naveen Mishra, Bahaeldin Ibrahim

Higher Learning Research Communications

This paper explores the prospects of online college radio at Sur College of Applied Sciences, its need among students and the possible scope of its contributions to student learning, engagement and community service. It explores the method of developing a holistic mechanism to capture the possibilities of maximizing learning experience by employing college radio as an educational tool to understand the micro-dynamics and localized necessities that deem it necessary or unnecessary. Through this, it attempts to locate an appropriate mechanism, and targeted use of the college radio in contributing to the learning outcomes and educational experience of the students. The …

The Murray State News, October 14, 2011, The Murray State News

Murray State University Collection

No abstract provided.

Irrelevant Features Of A Stimulus Can Either Facilitate Or Disrupt Performance In A Working Memory Task: The Role Of Fluid Intelligence, Bernardo Perfetti, Marcello Tesse, Sara Varanese, Aristide Saggino, Marco Onofrj

Publications and Research

It has been shown that fluid intelligence (gf) is fundamental to overcome interference due to information of a previously encoded item along a task-relevant domain. However, the biasing effect of task-irrelevant dimensions is still unclear as well as its relation with gf. The present study aimed at clarifying these issues. Gf was assessed in 60 healthy subjects. In a different session, the same subjects performed two versions (letter-detection and spatial) of a three-back working memory task with a set of physically identical stimuli (letters) presented at different locations on the screen. In the letter-detection task, volunteers were asked to match …

Minutes Of Graduate College Curriculum Committee, October 14, 2011, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College Curriculum Committee.

Minutes - Graduate Curriculum Committee

Minutes of the committee that oversees the development of the curriculum of the University of Northern Iowa Graduate College.

Chimes: October 14, 2011, Calvin College

Chimes

Youth Lagoon plays a synth set by Michelle Ratering

Occupy Together descends upon Grand Rapids by Libby Stille

Steve Jobs had eye for greatness by Jon Hielkema

Three women awarded Nobel Peace Prize by Josh Delacy

Bjork's latest album innovative, interactive by Samatha Wade

Women's golf qualifies for tourney by Mark Zylstra

Cooperative Patent Prosecution: Viewing Patents Through A Pragmatic Lens, Kristen Osenga

St. John's Law Review

(Excerpt)

This Article constructs a linguistics-based framework to consider claim construction and demonstrates that the often-told story that claim construction is broken is, in fact, wrong. Rather, it is the underlying conversations that comprise the patent acquisition process that are to blame. In Part I of this Article, I use linguistics to describe the characteristics of everyday conversation, as well as how it is interpreted. In Part II, I explain what patent conversations look like and how they are similar to and different from everyday conversation. In Part III, I apply the theories of interpreting everyday conversation to patent conversation. …