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Rich Dad Poor Dad: An Entrepreneurial Approach to the Teaching of Business French
No full textUS higher education has focused on the development of new cadres of employees to the near exclusion of entrepreneurship as a career path. In this article, the authors describe an entrepreneurial approach to the teaching of Business French. The senior author served as the course instructor while the junior author was a student who completed the course. To provide an entry into the world of global entrepreneurship, the senior author selected the French translation of Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad. In parallel with the reading of Rich Dad, students completed a series of entrepreneurial course activities. Selected activities are described from the perspectives of both authors. The article ends with students’ feelings about (1) entrepreneurship, (2) future career plans, (3) the theme of the course, and (4) the use of Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad
Holocene sulphur-rich palaeochannel sediments: diagenetic conditions, magnetic properties and archaeological implications
No full textExtensive aggregate extraction in the middle Trent valley, England, has revealed a sequence of Holocene palaeochannels associated with nationally important, and predominantly organic, archaeological remains. This paper reports observations of hyper-acidity (below pH 2), high natural magnetism and metallic sphaerules (framboids) in Holocene palaeochannel sediments at two sites in the middle Trent valley. These properties are associated with high natural remanent magnetism which has allowed the successful palaeomagnetic dating of palaeochannel fills at one of these sites (Hemington). These sediment properties are the result of the formation of ferromagnetic iron sulphides, including griegite, under conditions of high sulphur availability (from groundwater) in the presence of metallic ions and organic matter under low redox conditions, with later oxidation producing the extreme natural acidity through oxidation of disulphide (pyrite). These findings explain why, under certain groundwater conditions, alluvial palaeochannel sediments can carry post-depositional remanent magnetisation and be suitable for palaeomagnetic dating. The low pH may also be beneficial in the initial stage of wood preservation and if the sediments remain waterlogged, but probably not retard decomposition after drainage and acidification, a process that is increasingly being recognised as a threat to archaeological sites in wetland environment
Evaluating the use of a Teacher’s Diary to illuminate the moral dimensions of a teacher educator’s everyday work.
No full textThis paper aims to evaluate my early attempts at using my Teacher’s Diary as a method (Aleskewski 2006, Holly & Altrichter 2011, Bold 2012) to gain a deeper insight into the moral dimensions of my day to day practice as a teacher educator in the tertiary sector in the UK. I chose this method of data collection firstly for its potential to be authentic, trustworthy and systematic due the very nature of the researcher as participant (Ellis 2004, 2009; Piper & Simons 2011) and secondly as a genuine method to interpret my everyday actions as moral ones. This evaluation aims to highlight the extent to which I was able to reach these aims as a novice auto-ethnographical researcher. Much of the literature reflecting upon the use of diaries and narratives in research is able to demonstrate the rich data that can emerge from the text that is then analysed and interpreted by both researcher and reader (Ellis 2004; Anderson 2006; Sparkes 2007; Kenton 2011; Bold 2012). This rich data is often put forward as best placed to help readers connect with the author and understand their experiences of their cultural context more fully. The first aim of this paper is to share my experiences of using this method of data collection by highlighting the contradictions and challenges and sometimes ‘messy’ nature of maintaining diaries (Holly & Altrichter 2011) within education research contexts as both the teacher-participant and researcher. The second aim of the paper is to reflect upon the usefulness of the dairy as a way of ‘seeing’ practice. The third aim is to briefly draw upon literature from the work of Pring (2001), Goodlad et al (1990) and Mahony (2009) and Fallona (2000) Noddings (2010) who suggest that teaching is a moral endeavour and that teacher’s morals can be visible in their practice and to analyse examples of the diary entries that show moral dimensions. The paper will add to the work of Webb & Blond (1995) and Husu & Tirri (2003) who also explore the extent to which a Teacher’s Diary can, in a practical way, show the moral aspects that arise, and the decisions taken, on a day to day basis by one teacher educator. The paper begins to highlight the extent to which morals can be taught or caught in this context, namely teacher education (Mahoney 2009), and makes the point as Kiss and Euban (2010) do, that developing the virtues of intellect either through explicit curriculum, pedagogical choices or institutional values, cannot be separated from developing virtues of character
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β-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei and matter flow in the r-process
No full textAbstractThe β-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei with 20≤Z≤50 are systematically investigated using the newly developed fully self-consistent proton–neutron quasiparticle random phase approximation (QRPA), based on the spherical relativistic Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov (RHFB) framework. Available data are reproduced by including an isospin-dependent proton–neutron pairing interaction in the isoscalar channel of the RHFB+QRPA model. With the calculated β-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei a remarkable speeding up of r-matter flow is predicted. This leads to enhanced r-process abundances of elements with A≳140, an important result for the understanding of the origin of heavy elements in the universe
High-K isomers in neutron-rich zirconium isotopes
No full textThe neutron-rich zirconium isotopes are a key testing ground for nuclear models due to their sensitivity to shape changes, and because they cross the r-process path of explosive nucleosynthesis. Furthermore, recent experimental data have revealed a high-spin isomer in Zr-108. Here we report the results of configuration-constrained potential-energy-surface calculations of ground states and high-K states in (104) Zr-110, restricted to quadrupole and hexadecapole shapes. These calculations enable the existing isomer data to be understood, and predictions are made for Zr-110.Physics, NuclearSCI(E)0ARTICLE2null8
What Determines Overseas R&D Activities? The Case of Japanese Multinational Firms
No full textThis paper explores what factors determine the nature, extent, and location of Japanese multinationals' R&D activities abroad. Taking advantage of a rich micro-level dataset from the survey on Japanese overseas subsidiaries, the study distinguishes between two types of overseas R&D: innovative and adaptive. We find several differences between the determinants of overseas innovative and adaptive R&D. These differences confirm the view that overseas innovative R&D aims at the exploitation of foreign advanced knowledge, whereas overseas adaptive R&D is mostly influenced by the market size of the host country. Our results provide a convincing and comprehensive explanation of the geographical distribution of overseas R&D by Japanese MNEs.
Rich, Sturmian, and trapezoidal words
No full textIn this paper we explore various interconnections between rich words, Sturmian words, and trapezoidal words. Rich words, first introduced by the second and third authors together with J. Justin and S. Widmer, constitute a new class of finite and infinite words characterized by having the maximal number of palindromic factors. Every finite Sturmian word is rich, but not conversely. Trapezoidal words were first introduced by the first author in studying the behavior of the subword complexity of finite Sturmian words. Unfortunately this property does not characterize finite Sturmian words. In this note we show that the only trapezoidal palindromes are Sturmian. More generally we show that Sturmian palindromes can be characterized either in terms of their subword complexity (the trapezoidal property) or in terms of their palindromic complexity. We also obtain a similar characterization of rich palindromes in terms of a relation between palindromic complexity and subword complexity
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No full text“I don’t watch TV to like learn anything”: The leisure use of TV and the Internet Title R&D Report 27/2001 “I don’t watch TV to like learn anything”: The leisure use of TV and the Interne
Board Members Tour the New School of Dentistry Building
No full textCollege of Medical Evangelists' Board of Trustees members look over the facilities of the new $1,000,000 CME School of Dentistry on the Loma Linda campus. Meeting at the last major session of the year, board members toured the building. From left; R.R. Fighur, president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist; C.L. Torrey, treasurer of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; M. Webster Prince, DDS, dean of the CME School of Dentistry; and Walter R. Beach, secretary of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The new building was scheduled for dedication September 18.20.5 c 25 c
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