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Strategic Invisible Waves: A Review on Electronic Warfare
Full text linkFrom the last decade emerged many non-state players using low-tech and cost effective missiles, drones, and loitering munitions that dynamically changed warfare. Existing high-tech air defense systems are becoming less effective and costly in dealing with these kinds of threats. Similarly, new autonomous Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarming Technology (LOCUST) and target saturation concepts are making modern air defenses themselves more vulnerable to attack, as some recent conflicts have shown. At the same time, in some instances states claimed that these kinds of attacks have been successfully neutralized with the combination of conventional air defense and electromagnetic (EM) waves. The use of electromagnetic spectrum for defensive purposes is known as Electronic Warfare (EW). EW helps in protecting the host and in denying opportunity to adversaries through monitoring, controlling and manipulating the electromagnetic spectrum. Since the introduction of wireless communication, EW has become inseparable from the armed forces, and day-by-day its use is increasing through machine automation. In future wars, these invisible EM waves will play a key role in defeating adversaries for those who use EW effectively. In this article, the concepts of EW, major countries\u27 capacities, and the future demand for EW has been reviewed
Developing Evaluable Principles for Community-University Partnerships
Full text linkAs post-secondary institutions across the globe have identified community engagement as a central component of their visions and missions, the interest in measurement and evaluation at the institutional level has increased over the past few decades. Yet the complex, distributed, dynamic and ever-changing nature of community-university engagement poses a number of evaluation challenges. The purpose of this paper is to explore a possible evaluation match called Principles-Focused Evaluation (Patton, 2018) that uses principles as the core evaluand as opposed to specific projects, programs, or initiatives as the focus of evaluation. Principles, when clearly and meaningfully articulated, welcome complexity and provide direction to guide action and behaviour towards desired results within a variety of contexts, without prescribing specific activities or models for what should be done and how. The focus of the article is to articulate a set of effectiveness principles for community-university partnerships that reflect both university and community interests, which is the first step in a principles-focused formative evaluation process. Next steps for a principles-focused evaluation are outlined in order to determine to what extent the process of engaging in community-university partnerships in a principled way is contributing towards the desired results of community-university engagement at the institutional level
Library and Dunlap Mathis - exterior
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Innovative Expansion of a University and Art Museum Partnership
Full text linkMany universities have partnerships with community organizations. However, the focus of traditional partnerships can be limited in scope. A partnership between a university and an art museum that traditionally focused on art and humanity classes was expanded and enhanced when faculty from two different departments not usually involved with the museum created novel projects. The projects were not paternalistic/theory-testing partnerships. Rather, one had characteristics of a professional/expertise partnership and the other was an empowerment/capacity-building partnership. These projects were designed to integrate foundational learning for students into solutions to real-life problems meaningful to students, the art museum, and the community in which the university and art museum were located. Universities may be well served to examine their current partnerships for innovative ways to benefit both institutions
The Role of Atrocity Actors in Transitional Justice Processes in Sierra Leone
Full text linkThe article observes the role of atrocity actors and mainly the victim, perpetrator, and bystander in the transitional Justice Processes in the country of Sierra Leone. The article examines such mechanisms as truth commissions, trials, and cultural practice. It seeks to identify if and how did the transitional justice mechanisms help the atrocity actors in the case of Sierra Leone. Nonetheless, before approaching the transitional justice processes in the presented case study, the research shortly defines the atrocity actors: victim, perpetrator, bystander. Moreover, the paper goes beyond simply observing the transitional Justice Processes in the chosen case studies. Therefore, in also analyses the population’s response and engagement with the presented mechanisms
Vickie Speaks with Tiffany
No full textInteractions and interviews between older adult mentor and University of North Georgia student. Mentor shares lived experiences, talks about living through difficult times, and provides lessons for future generations.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/gen2gen/1041/thumbnail.jp
Transformation Toward Cultural Competence: Occupational Therapy Students’ International Immersive Experiences
Full text linkInternational immersion learning experiences can be impactful, even transformational, if properly implemented to include opportunities for critical reflection. Research suggests that programs that thoroughly integrate continuous reflection promote development of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for growth in cultural competence. Critical reflection allows for examination of complex social issues and challenges students to think beyond their own social realities. This project focused on the development of cultural competence in preprofessional undergraduate occupational therapy students through participation in an immersive learning program in Guatemala. Specifically, a mixed-methods approach, including a quantitative measurement tool and qualitative analysis of student reflections during the immersive program, was utilized to measure the development of cultural competence. Results of pre- and postexperience cultural competence development as measured by the Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professionals–Student Version (IAPCC-SV) are reported. Qualitative analysis of reflection sessions audio-recorded over the 2-week immersion program period revealed student descriptions of dissonance, transformative learning, and the shaping of social action as it pertains to their future practice as occupational therapists. Furthermore, reflections emphasized the importance of building relationships, both within the learning group and with members of the local target community, to support student development through this transformative learning process
Building Sustainable Communities Through Engaged Learning: A University-Community Partnership for Sustained Change in a Central Pennsylvania Coal Town
Full text linkUniversity-community partnerships have become more collaborative, decentered, and mutually beneficial in step with changing conceptualizations of knowledge production. However, the implementation of partnerships and projects remains challenging. Models for collaboration are needed in the rural context and for smaller liberal arts universities. This article uses the partnership between Bucknell University and the City of Shamokin to argue for the utility of the sustainable communities framework for conceiving and implementing service-learning. The City of Shamokin previously hosted a prosperous and vibrant downtown district, but the closing of anthracite coal mines and factories has left Shamokin in a decades-long state of economic and population decline. Today, Shamokin faces many challenges brought by this decline: a large elder population, high rates of home and business vacancy, legacies of environmental degradation, and high rates of poverty. In 2014, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development declared Shamokin an Act 47 Distressed City, rendering the city bankrupt. In this complex landscape, Bucknell University and its Coal Region Field Station are partnering with and across various local entities, including the city, the Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area, Northumberland County Planning Department, and the newly formed sustainable development group Anthracite Region for Progress. The sustainable communities framework emphasizes four pillars—economic, social, cultural, and environmental—that serve as a guide for facilitating these ongoing collaborations. These partnerships form the basis of collaborative initiatives developed through community-engaged classroom projects and faculty-led research projects that seek to contribute to partners’ visions for a sustainable community
Westside Harvest Poster
No full textThe definition of a farmers market is “a food market at which local farmers sell fruit and vegetables and often meat, cheese, and bakery products directly to consumers.” Within this definition there is both simplicity and connection. In deciding to create branding for my market, Atlanta Farmers Market, simplicity and relational connection were the values I wanted my designs to communicate. I have grown up with an appreciation for the hardworking vendors at farmers markets and the community a market has the ability to create. Maybe it’s just the romanticism of the mundane in films, or maybe it’s a reality of the flourishing environment created when people come together to share their passions with each other. Either way, my affinity with this environment has combined with my desire to create things that look beautiful together. This is why I chose to create branding for both the market as a whole and individual vendors of honey, flowers, and bread. I wanted all of the logos, business cards, posters, pictures to speak to their own vendor’s talents and individuality, and work well together to make a successful group under the market’s umbrella.
Throughout most of my work I am interested in the human experience, specifically in relation to the impact we have on each other, and how we move through change and dealing with our past. I have used Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop in combination with photography to create my work, and I have an appreciation for both the practical side of graphic design, like branding, logos, etc. and the artistic side of graphic design like collage.
My concept for this body of work was to create simple and straightforward design that still had an artistic quality to it; I wanted the work to still communicate artistic effort behind it even if it was simple. I chose my color palette to be warm and inviting while also playing on colors that could be pulled from nature. These qualities both serve to emphasize the handgrown and handmade aspects of the products being sold in the market, and to create a simple path to connection with the company and vendors, therefore building trust. One of the most admirable parts of a farmers market is that you as the customer get to meet and interact with the person or people who have made or grown this product, are passionate about it, and are open with how they got here. This level of understanding people and why they are doing what they are doing is something that is easily accessible in the farmers market environment. The ease of getting to know someone is what I wanted my designs to communicate and make a way to happen.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1020/thumbnail.jp
[3] Home Is Where The Art Is
No full textThe home is a sacred place, where we feel most comfortable. It’s where we perform our daily rituals, from the mundane tasks to the more complex routines. These moments are times when we pause and reflect. They are the quiet moments that have a surprising ability to ground us. My work compliments these instants. The pieces welcome relaxation and escape. They invite blissful memories of exploring nature with boundless imagination. My pieces bridge the gap of nostalgic memories to the present need for comfort in our own homes.
My decorative functional ware is inspired by nature and science. For most of our time on Earth, humans have been surrounded by wilderness, with shelters made from rocks and trees. The idea that humans are more comfortable with biological elements around us—rather than clean, geometric environments—is known as Biophilia. This concept is the basis for biophilic design. Instead of rejecting nature as if we have no place in it, we should embrace the natural world by modeling our everyday spaces after it.
Like the nature that informs it, my work embodies a balance of precision and fluidity. My process is a symbiosis of planning and coincidence, and I allow new features to come together throughout the process. I strive for my work to embody the simplicity of nature with precision and craftsmanship. I want my work to invoke comfort while being integrated as a regular part of each day. I make functional ware with the hope that my pieces will find homes and form connections with those who use them. When not in use, these items are also meant to decorate a space, because I believe home is where the art is.
Keneddi Horn
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