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Trends. Warranted Dogmatism against the Closed Mind: Preliminary Look at the Intelligence Agency\u27s (CIA) Groat Case
No full textIn this article, the author analyzes the arrest of former CIA employee, Douglas F. Groat
Learning styles: Individualizing computer‐based learning environments
No full textIn spite of its importance, learning style is a factor that has been largely ignored in the design of educational software. Two issues concerning a specific set of learning styles, described by Honey and Mumford (1986), are considered here. The first relates to measurement and validity. This is discussed in the context of a longitudinal study to test the predictive validity of the questionnaire items against various measures of academic performance, such as course choice and level of attainment in different subjects. The second issue looks at how the learning styles can be used in computer‐based learning environments. A re‐examination of the four learning styles (Activist, Pragmatist, Reflector and Theorist) suggests that they can usefully be characterized using two orthogonal dimensions. Using a limited number of pedagogical building blocks, this characterization has allowed the development of a teaching strategy suitable for each of the learning styles. Further work is discussed, which will use a multi‐strategy basic algebra tutor to assess the effect of matching teaching strategy to learning style
Almanac
No full text"ALMANAC is an artists’ book in which alternative or marginalized knowledge is compiled into a functional resource. While a traditional almanac typically spans an annual cycle for the seasons ahead, the collected works and contained knowledge in this book eschew linear concepts of time in favour of alternate understandings of order within a shared context." -- Publisher's website
Guidelines for greenways: Determining the distance to, features of, and human needs met by destinations on multi -use corridors.
No full textGreenways, also known as bicycle paths, exist and are being added to in the tens of thousands of miles in the United States. While some offer positive environments enjoyed by many users, others are designed to highway-like standards and lack qualities that foster human well-being. On a well-designed greenway, individuals can feel encouraged to recreate, thus following the recommendations of health experts. In natural settings, people can restore directed attention, thus minimizing the effects of directed attention fatigue. At locations of social interaction, individuals can build social capital, thus increasing quality of life. Previous research has revealed users' dissatisfaction with greenways that displayed a sameness of the path for too long. This research suggested that destinations some distance apart offer variety and a sense of arrival and reward. The research sought to determine the particular features and qualities of destinations on a greenway. The research framework utilizes the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being model developed by Maslow-Barrett and the features, activities, and meanings of Canter's place model. This multiple case research studies six attractive greenways in the U.S. that were selected for their perceived quality through a survey sent to 90 greenway experts. The exemplars studied include: 2 rural paths (Stowe Recreation Path, Vermont and the Vail I-70 Trail, Colorado), 2 urban paths (Denver South Platte River Greenway and the Chicago Lakefront Trail), and 2 rail-trails (Minuteman Trail near Boston and the West Orange Trail near Orlando). The study employs a mapping and survey exercise of habitual users, and in situ physical measurements, observations, surveys, and photographs. The results indicate that the most frequently used destinations are characterized by a convergence of multiple physical features, a variety of activities for all ages, and a broad range of meanings. In a typical walk, bicycle, jog, or in-line skate trip, a person prefers to experience 3 to 4 destinations. The range for distances between destinations (mean of 4 miles) depends on variables such as sport, incline, and crowds. This research concludes with a set of 23 design guidelines for greenway development with implications for sidewalks, parks, and streets.PhDArchitectureCommunication and the ArtsSocial SciencesUrban planningUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/130022/2/3042121.pd
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Drilling performance improvement : Brett and Millheim model adaptations for interaction effects and multiple learners
No full texttextThis work reviews concepts in drilling-based learning curves and proposes modifications to the Brett and Millheim learning curve model to enable its use for multiple learners and to characterize interaction effects between learners. Enabling the model’s use for multiple learning scenarios at once improves modeling efficiency. Interaction effects are present when learners improve from their own experience and the experience of those in close proximity to them. Quantifying interaction effects leads to a more complete understanding of performance improvement and enables more effective forecasting of drilling resources and expenditure requirements.Energy and Earth Resource
The subject of architecture.
No full textArchitecture is intended for certain subjects, i.e., for clients, the public, etc. These subjects are at least partially imagined and, therefore, constructed. In the twentieth century, some of these constructions involve a split subject, one divided into one or several binary structures. An examination of the differences between the intentions towards this split subject in certain texts written in the first and second halves of the century indicates a shift from an early interest in overcoming the split to a later one of acceptance. The method employed in this study is based on a critical framework derived from recent psychoanalytic theory, specifically the work of Jacques Lacan. Lacan's theory of the split subject is based on two ideas (the mirror and the objet a (a substitute object)) that suggest two kinds of architectures: (a) architecture as a mirror that reflects the split condition and (b) architecture as an objet a that substitutes a unified object for the split condition. This framework is used to examine the major texts of practicing architects in the twentieth century with the objective of uncovering the concepts of and intentions toward the subject. These texts include Le Corbusier's Towards a New Architecture, Moisei Ginzburg's Style and Epoch, Aldo Rossi's The Architecture of the City, and Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. An examination of the subjects of these texts reveals differences in intentions between the authors of the early and late periods and, therefore, suggests an historical shift in relation to the subject of architecture. In Le Corbusier's work, the split is characterized as between two historical periods and the desired condition is their synthesis. In historical terms, his work attempts to overcome the rupture and alienation of the Industrial Revolution and the machines and mass-produced objects that it spawned. In contrast to Le Corbusier's subject, Ginzburg's is a fully contemporary subject who is collectivized by the machine and the Russian Revolution, two factors that combine to bring the North and the South, i.e., the intellectual and emotional, together in a new epoch. Unlike these early twentieth-century author-architects, Rossi shifts the dialectical framework to include the collective subject. Both subjects and objects in Rossi's work are generated through erasure, a technique in which something essential--type and the collective--is sought by means of the erasure of "deformations", i.e., the inessential contingencies of local historical and cultural transformations. Venturi and Scott Brown present two subjects, one the accommodating subject of Complexity and Contradiction and the other the subject that reflects the split of the "decorated shed" in Learning from Las Vegas. In the first, the promise of overcoming the split is made. In the second, however, it is not. Le Corbusier and Ginzburg, therefore, share synthetic intentions towards the split condition of the subject. In contrast, Rossi and Venturi/Scott Brown propose more problematic, less utopian, and more complex models of the split or splits without offering models of closure. The differences between these author-architects describe an historical shift in relation to the split subject of architecture.Doctor of Architecture (DArch)ArchitectureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/104732/1/9610062.pdfDescription of 9610062.pdf : Restricted to UM users only
Quantz and Frederick the Great: Masters and Monarchs of the Flute
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to investigate the significant contributions that Quantz made as a flutist, composer, and pedagogue to the music world and in particular, to research the impact that Quantz had in the development of Frederick the Great as a virtuoso musician. The hope is to also illustrate the resulting significance of Frederick the Great as an important composer and flutist. This thesis is also intended to establish a case for the enduring significance of Frederick the Great and Quantz as significant flutists and composers and to encourage the acceptance of their compositions in the generally performed canon of flute literature
Bepaling van de vrije energie met behulp van computer simulaties
No full textIn deze notitie zal ingegaan worden op de bepaling van de vrije energie en hiermee samenhangende grootheden met behulp van computer simulaties. Een gedeelte van deze notitie bestaat uit een overzicht van de methodes voor de bepaling van de vrije energie: groat canonieke Monte Carlo methode, thermodynamische integratie, de test particle methode en de Kirkwood's coupling parameter methode. Voor het systeem van een polymeer in een oplosmiddel van monomeren zijn in principe thermodynamische integratie en Kirkwood's coupling parameter methode toepasbaar. Uit een vergelijking tussen deze methodes is gebleken dat de laatste methode beter geschikt is voor dit probleem. Deze methode is voor dit systeem nader uitgewerkt.Applied SciencesScheikundige Technologi
Labanoro lobio Prahos grašiai Lietuvos muziejų rinkiniuose
No full textIn this article, the author discusses the hoard of Prague groats of Wenzel IV and the early Lithuanian coins, found in Labanoras (Švenčioniai district). The hoard consists of 5 Prague groats of Charles I, 393 Prague groats of Wenzel IV and I forgery of Prague groat of Wenzel IV. Currently, 2 groats of Charles I, 141 groat of Wenzel IV and the forged groat are in the National museum of Lithuania, 2 groats of Charles I, 180 groats of Wenzel IV – in the Nalšia museum (Švenčionys) and 1 groat of Charles I and 72 groats of Wenzel IV – in the museum of Utena.The Prague groats of Charles I are classified according to the typology of V. Pinta. Only latest varieties, dated 1370–1378, are found in this hoard. The Prague groats of Wenzel IV are classified according to the system of S. Veselý. Thus, the system of three ordinations is used. I ordination is dated 1378–1386 and in the Labanoras’ hoard consists of 5 coins; II ordination is dated 1405–1407 and consists of 27 coins; III ordination is dated 1407–1419 and consists of 61 coin. The mintage of the coins from III ordination could probably been continued by Hussits in 1419–1430. The author states that the process of “seigern” – thesauration of heavier coins and putting into circulation lighter ones – did exist. This process in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania could begin about 1405–1407, but ended about 1407–1419. This could be proved by the presence of forgery with a weight of 3.18 g, i.e. imitating heavy coin.The hoard is dated of 7-ies of the XV century according to the presence of deniers of Vytautas and Kazimieras. The author doubts if this hoard was hidden in the 3-ies of the XV century, when the situation the Grand Duchy was in the state of civil war – in that time the deniers of Kazimieras did not exist.Finally, the author discusses the circulation of the Prague groats in the teritory of Lithuania. He finds that the Prague groats of 1405–1407 and 1407–1419 emissions were wide spread throughout the Lithuania. Groats of earlier emissions did not spread wide due to their good quality
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