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Book Review: Algorithms of Armageddon: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Future Wars
No full textAuthors: George Galdorisi and Sam J. Tangredi
Reviewed by Kevin M. Boyce, retired aviation command and control officer US Marine Corps, Futures Lab director, Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College
Authors George Galdorisi and Sam J. Tangredi explore the risks and implications of AI on national security in Algorithms of Armageddon: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Future Wars. With Russia and China pursuing weaponized AI systems, America must master the algorithms of war to remain dominant.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1097/thumbnail.jp
Kevin M. O\u27Connell
No full textKevin M. O’Connell is the Director of the Office of Space Commerce at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Within this position, Mr. O’Connell leads an office with responsibility as a space industry advocate within the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. Mr. O’Connell brings over 35 years of experience in the U.S. government, in research organizations, and as an entrepreneur and business leader to this position.
Mr. O’Connell has researched and written extensively on the policy, security, and global market issues related to commercialization of remote sensing. Aside from numerous articles and op-eds, he was co-author of Commercial Observation Satellites: at the Leading Edge of Global Transparency (2000). He served as the Executive Secretary and Staff Director of the NIMA Commission (1999-2000). He was a member, and later Chair, of NOAA’s federal advisory committee on remote sensing from 2002-2016.
Previously, Mr. O’Connell served as the CEO of Innovative Analytics and Training, a Washington, D.C. professional services firm focused on analysis and decision support for U.S. government and commercial clients. Among other issues, the firm focused on market trends and anticipatory/futures analysis for high-technology industries such as cyber, cloud computing, and geospatial technologies. During this time, he also served as a senior consultant to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and as an independent advisor to the Director, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
Mr. O’Connell’s background also includes extensive experience in national security and intelligence matters, including assignments in the Department of Defense, Department of State, National Security Council, and the Office of the Vice President. He spent a decade conducting and managing research in these areas at the RAND Corporation, including as the first director of RAND’s Intelligence Policy Center.
Finally, Mr. O’Connell has taught a long-running course on comparative intelligence in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Security Studies Program.https://commons.erau.edu/stm-images/1119/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Kevin Cherry – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Kevin Cherry, Assistant Professor of Political Science,discusses his new book, Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics, published recently by Cambridge University Press. In this book, he compares the views of Plato and Aristotle about the practice, study and the purpose of politics
Productivity in Higher Education/ Kevin Stange, Kevin Strange, Caroline M. Hoxby.
No full textIn English.How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are "multiproduct" firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.Hoxby, Caroline M. / Stange, Kevin -- Staiger, Douglas -- Hoxby, Caroline M. -- Minaya, Veronica / Scott-Clayton, Judith -- Riehl, Evan / Saavedra, Juan E. / Urquiola, Miguel -- Altonji, Joseph G. / Zimmerman, Seth D. -- Courant, Paul N. / Turner, Sarah -- Vlieger, Pieter De / Jacob, Brian / Stange, Kevin -- Deming, David J. / Lovenheim, Michael / Patterson, Richard -- Carrell, Scott E. / Kurlaender, Michal -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / 1. What Health Care Teaches Us about Measuring Productivity in Higher Education / 2. The Productivity of US Postsecondary Institutions / 3. Labor Market Outcomes and Postsecondary Accountability: Are Imperfect Metrics Better Than None? / 4. Learning and Earning: An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions / 5. The Costs of and Net Returns to College Major / 6. Faculty Deployment in Research Universities / 7. Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education / 8. The Competitive Effects of Online Education / 9. Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road to Four- Year College Success / Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index1 online resource (392 p.)
Supplementary_Materials - Collagen VII Expression is Required in Both Keratinocytes and Fibroblasts for Anchoring Fibril Formation in Bilayer Engineered Skin Substitutes
No full textSupplementary_Materials for Collagen VII Expression is Required in Both Keratinocytes and Fibroblasts for Anchoring Fibril Formation in Bilayer Engineered Skin Substitutes by Dorothy M. Supp, Jennifer M. Hahn, Kelly A. Combs, Kevin L. McFarland, Ann Schwentker, Raymond E. Boissy, Steven T. Boyce, Heather M. Powell and Anne W. Lucky in Cell Transplantation</p
Healing the Rift of Race and Faith in Johnston County, North Carolina
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HEALING THE RIFT OF RACE AND FAITH IN JOHNSTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
William Kristen King, DMin
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2019
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Kevin M. Jones
Chapter 1 grasps the overarching issues surrounding the goal of reconciling faith and race in Johnston County, North Carolina. This chapter lays out the goals and other vital aspects to the project itself, such as research methodology.
Chapter 2 lays the biblical foundations for the basic premise of racial reconciliation. The chapter supplies the biblical motivation and ethos behind why this project in necessary. It looks primarily at the words of Jesus in John 17, Peter in Acts 10, Paul in Colossians 3 and the saints around the thrown of God in Revelation 7.
Chapter 3 covers the historical and social implications that surround the issue of race in the United States, the Southern Baptist Convention, and ultimately in Johnston County, North Carolina. It paints a detailed picture of the struggle that has long existed between African Americans and White Americans
Resilience Theory and Christian Formation: A Mixed Methods Study
No full textThis study explored the unexamined relationship between resilience and Christian formation in first-year college students. The study took place at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky. A convergent design was used to quantify the variables of spiritual maturity and resilience using pre-existing assessments. Themes from Scripture, precedent literature on resilience, and Christian formation were used to design semi-structured interview questions wherein students were able to articulate and help further understand their lived experiences.
A review of precedent literature presented scriptural foundations of Christian formation and biblical-theological resources that postulated a biblical framework for defining resilience. The Transformational Discipleship Assessment (TDA) was presented as a tool that provides an analysis of discipleship attributes, measurement of spiritual maturation, and suggests areas for needed growth. The precedent literature revealed that a comprehensive psychological definition of resilience theory is absent. Nevertheless, the Inventory of College Students Resilience (ICSR) was proposed as a valid and reliable assessment to measure and enhance personality traits associated with resilience in college students. The final section described points of interaction between higher education, resilience, and Christian formation to address the spiritual and psychological struggles that college students face.
The research design consisted of a three-strand approach using quantitative, qualitative, and convergent data analysis. The quantitative strand addressed first-year students’ personal assessment of spiritual maturity attributes and factors of resilience through an instrument that combined the TDA and ICSR. A descriptive analysis was performed and statistical significance was found between the variables of the TDA and ICSR. First-year students at Boyce College exhibited consistent scores in both fields.
Seven key themes emerged from the semi-structured interviews during the qualitative strand that were analogous to the proposed biblical framework of resilience—God purposefully assigns and allows adverse events to produce the character in believers that he desires. The testing and refining process is often arduous, yet it is temporary. Believers engage in the process of resilience by maintaining a joyful attitude, trusting, and hoping in God’s future promises despite trials (Rom 5:1–5). The results of such perseverance are more refined and mature believers who are capable of bearing a heavier load than before their encounter with adversity.
The convergent strand examined the extent that the qualitative results confirmed the quantitative outcomes. Inconsistencies were identified within the convergent strand that revealed challenges and provided recommendations for the flourishing of spiritual maturation and resilience characteristics. The findings yielded that converging qualitative and quantitative data were able to help further understand the relationship between Christian formation and resilience theory in first-year students at Boyce College.
KEYWORDS: Adaptation, adversity, biblical resilience, biblical foundations of resilience, Christian formation, college student development, confessional Christian colleges and universities, discipleship, endurance, first-year student, grit, hardship, higher education, Inventory of College Students Resilience, mentor, perseverance, reciprocating social relationships, relational community, resilience, spiritual formation, spiritual growth, spiritual maturity, spiritual maturity assessment, steadfastness, TDA, Transformational Discipleship Assessment, undergraduate developmen
A Guide to Kevin Poelking's By the Hands That Reach Us
No full textThis thesis is written to accompany the full score of Kevin Poelking's By the Hands That Reach Us for wind symphony. The first chapter includes studies and expert opinions that attempt to define quality music. It begins with a brief synopsis of the recent (post World War II) increase of wind band repertoire and the difficulties that conductors encounter as a result. Quotations from conductors and composers throughout history are included in an attempt to shed light on the topic. The second chapter is a detailed biography of composer Kevin Poelking. It discusses personal, professional, and musical experiences that have shaped his compositional voice. There are also specific music examples given with explanations as to how they affected Poelking in his development as a composer. The final chapter is a detailed summary of Poelking's compositional process when writing By the Hands That Reach Us. The chapter includes original sketches, score excerpts, and specific compositional techniques that were used throughout the work
Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm
No full textThe relations among early cumulative medical risk, cumulative environmental risk, attentional control, and brain activation were assessed in 15 – 16-year-old adolescents who were born preterm. Functional magnetic resonance imaging found frontal, temporal, and parietal cortex activation during an attention task with greater activation of the left superior-temporal and left supramarginal gyri associated with better performance. Individual differences in early cumulative risk are related to patterns of brain activation such that medical risk is related to left parietal cortex activation and environmental risk is related to temporal lobe activation. The findings suggest that early risk is related to less mature patterns of brain activation, including reduced efficiency of processing and responding to stimuli.This is the accepted version of the following article: Carmody, D. P., Bendersky, M., Dunn, S. M., DeMarco, J. K., Hegyi, T., Hiatt, M. and Lewis, M. (2006), Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm. Child Development, 77: 384–394, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00877.x/abstract.Peer reviewe
Making tax sense: the case for a progressive consumed-income tax/ M. Kevin McGee.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.The problem -- The impossibility of a coherent traditional income tax -- The logic of consumption-timed taxes -- The vat, flat, and all that -- Savings & borrowing under a consumed-income tax -- The tax treatment of owner occupied housing -- Transition issues -- The tax treatment of small businesses -- Inheritances, bequests, and the estate tax -- Insurance -- The corporate income tax -- Tax expenditures -- The Trump tax cut -- Summary: the needed tax changes -- Is reform attainable? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- About the author.1 online resource (vii, 165 pages
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