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Needs Assessment – National Repository for NSF AGEP Deliverables
Get PDFThis white paper proposes the establishment of a National Repository for NSF Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Deliverables to address the critical need for preserving and sharing a wide array of materials generated from the AGEP program. Recognizing the challenges of ephemeral storage solutions and the absence of a unified collection mechanism, the paper underscores the repository\u27s role in promoting justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) research. It emphasizes the importance of accommodating diverse data types, enhancing discoverability, and ensuring long-term access to educational materials, policy documents, and research outcomes. Through a comprehensive approach, the proposed repository aims to foster collaboration, innovation, and sustained impact in the JEDI research domain
The Making of Chinese Meixue
Get PDFIn “The Making of Chinese Meixue,” Li and Wang discuss the Chinese translation of the term “aesthetics.” It had been believed that it was the German missionary Ernst Faber who first coined the Chinese term “meixue,” which is refuted in this paper. The view that the term “shenmeixue” in Japan was derived from Wilhelm Lobscheid’s English and Chinese Dictionary also lacks factual basis. It is true that the term “meixue” was introduced to China from the West via Japan, but it was then a term that had not yet developed within a specific discourse, which would have never been achieved without Wang Guowei’s unique insights. Wang Guowei’s important contribution to modern Chinese aesthetics lies in his integration of Western-derived aesthetic terms into the construction of Chinese aesthetic discourse, establishing a new paradigm of cross-cultural aesthetics for Chinese meixue
Sepsis Treatment: Reinforced Sequential Decision-Making for Saving Lives
Get PDFSepsis, a life-threatening condition triggered by the body\u27s exaggerated response to infection, demands urgent intervention to prevent severe complications. Existing machine learning methods for managing sepsis struggle in offline scenarios, exhibiting suboptimal performance with survival rates below 50%. Our project introduces the PosNegDM: Reinforcement Learning with Positive and Negative Demonstrations for Sequential Decision-Making framework utilizing an innovative transformer-based model and a feedback reinforcer to replicate expert actions while considering individual patient characteristics. A mortality classifier with 96.7% accuracy guides treatment decisions towards positive outcomes. The PosNegDM framework significantly improves patient survival, saving 97.39% of patients and outperforming established machine learning algorithms (Decision Transformer and Behavioral Cloning) with survival rates of 33.4% and 43.5%, respectively. Additionally, ablation studies underscore the critical role of the transformer-based decision maker and the integration of a mortality classifier in enhancing overall survival rates. Our proposed approach presents a promising avenue for enhancing sepsis treatment outcomes, contributing to improved patient care and reduced healthcare costs
Teaching Mathematics with Democracy in Mind
No full textWith democracy in mind, promoting students’ cognitive, personal, and social development can inform and shape the mathematics curriculum and classroom practice with the goal of their becoming more capable, self-reflective, and socially aware human beings. Toward that realization, their mathematics experience could include: heuristics, as it provides a natural language for problem solving; habits of mind, so students can think and act with a more developed “reflective intelligence”; and multiple-centers investigations, where collaborations based on shared mathematical interest can be pursued. In this way, their education would be “a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating process” that supports the development of democratic society
Shifting approaches, innovative methods: collection histories as a tool to move beyond William Fagg’s ‘Lower Niger Bronze Industry Mystery’
Get PDFAt the end of 2019, the British Museum launched a new research project focusing on copper alloy objects associated with the Lower Niger Bronze Industry. The aim was to increase knowledge of these objects through a combination of provenance and collection history research and scientific analysis. This paper will outline the earlier art historical-focused approach to the Lower Niger Bronzes corpus and will then describe the new research and its methodology. Initial findings will be presented through a case study of objects from the Forcados River in the Niger Delta region of present-day Nigeria. In doing so, we aim to explore some of the outcomes and challenges experienced in implementing the aforementioned shift in approach and methodology.
Fin 2019, le British Museum lançait un nouveau projet de recherche axé sur les objets en alliage de cuivre associés à l’industrie du bronze du Niger inférieur (‘Lower Niger Bronze Industry’). L’objectif était d’augmenter notre connaissance de ces objets grâce à une combinaison de recherches sur la provenance, l’histoire des collections et des analyses scientifiques. Cet article décrit l’approche traditionnelle de l’industrie du bronze du Niger inférieur, centrée sur l’histoire de l’art, avant de décrire la nouvelle recherche et sa méthodologie. Les premiers résultats y sont présentés à travers une étude de cas portant sur des objets provenant de la rivière Forcados, dans la région du delta du Niger, dans l’actuel Nigeria. Ce faisant, nous examinons certains résultats et défis rencontrés dans la mise en oeuvre du changement d’approche et de méthodologie
From the Outside, Looking In: Reflections on the Complex Infrastructures of African Art History
Get PDFThis essay engages with the five articles featured in this issue from the perspective of a non-specialist. Each contribution considers challenges facing scholars of African arts when confronted with incomplete and not always reliable historical evidence. The author contends that given the escalating demands for the repatriation of African objects, all art historians— not only art historians focused on African arts—should better understand the important strategies proposed by contributors to this issue. These interventions encourage the development of a more critical audience for African arts and also model ethical research, a slow critical archival practice, and sustainable provenance and digital history projects for a new generation of art historians and museum professionals to consider.
À travers une relecture des cinq articles présentés dans ce volume, cet essai, écrit par une non-spécialiste, réfléchit sur les difficultés que rencontrent les spécialistes de l’art africain lorsqu’ils sont confrontés à des preuves historiques incomplètes et peu fiables, que ce soit sur le terrain ou dans les archives des musées. L’auteur y démontre que, compte tenu de toutes les demandes de rapatriement d’objets africains, les historiens de l’art bénéficieraient de se familiariser avec les stratégies proposées par les auteurs de ces articles, qui non seulement favorisent le développement d’une réception de l’art africain plus critique, mais modèlent aussi, pour une nouvelle génération d’historiens de l’art et de professionnels des musées, une recherche éthique, un examen lent et critique des archives, ainsi que des projets de provenance et d’histoire numérique pérennes, applicables à tous les domaines de l’histoire de l’art et de l’architecture
Factors Supporting Academic Engagement Among Cambodian American High School Youth
Get PDFThis exploratory study examined the relationship between Cambodian American
students’ (N = 77) attitudes and beliefs regarding school climate and school
engagement. We examined engagement through two primary constructs:
academic intrinsic motivation and future educational expectations. Four specific
correlates of engagement were examined to understand the quality of Cambodian
American students’ school engagement: sense of racial fairness; feelings of
teacher support; perceptions of self-competence; and perceptions of positive
classroom environment. Perceptions of self competence were positively
associated with higher educational expectations. Our regression models found
that students’ sense of positive classroom environment in addition to teacher
support was important for motivation. Motivation and future academic
expectations were also associated with students’ perceptions of their own
academic self-competence. Implications for research and practice are discussed
Raising sustainability standards in leisure industry
Get PDFRaising sustainability standards in leisure industry
Nowadays, it became clear that the option for sustainable development (SD) is not a discretionary choice, but an imperative for all of humanity. The SDG propose a common framework of peace and prosperity for people and the planet. The exponential growth of tourism, its multiple and transformative impacts on economies and the environment, place this industry at the epicentre of concerns about SD.
Based on the European DIRECTIVE (UE) 2022/2464, which complies European companies to produce a sustainability file integrated in the annual management report, this paper highlights social, cultural, environmental and governance indicators vis-a-vis with financial results. Linking the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) metrics for leisure facilities with the Tourism’ SDG and GSTC indicators, a framework based on the Pression-State-Response (PSR) model is presented. The objective is to help companies to select the best indicators to monitor their activity more efficiently. Additionally, the model presented provides information about: (i) the actions that pressure the environment, the cultural heritage and the local community; (ii) how it affects the resources involved; (iii) which responses companies, and society as a whole, can give to these changes to re(establish) the equilibrium.
By providing information related to sustainable weaknesses and strenghts that may affect the companies’ profit, managers will be able to report, not only the norms and indicators that will be considered mandatory by 2028, but also those that are better aligned with the strategy and objectives of the entity and which serve, simultaneous, as a policy instrument for the sustainable development.
Keywords: Sustainability, leisure facilities, Tourism Sustainable Development Goals, Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) indicators, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Pression-State-Response (PSR) mode
Alexander Ramsey and the Ojibwe
Get PDFAlexander Ramsey had a long political career within state and national branches of the United States government. A lesser-known part of his actions in government were his interactions with the Ojibwe Native Americans. His personal actions led to the creation of multiple Ojibwe reservations, but in different Ojibwe bands, they chose to resist. Never in the same way and always at a disadvantage. The hope is to demonstrate how an individual may lead to U.S. policies involving Native Americans and how Native Americans were not passive in these decisions and found multiple routes in dealing with the United States government