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Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee, and Cold War Civil Defense
No full textCivil defense in the Cold War encompassed the development of government policies and procedures to evacuate, shelter, and decentralizing American populations and industries in the event of a nuclear war. This project employs a body of primary documents to examine the unacknowledged role of Milwaukee's last Socialist mayor as a trailblazer in the design and implementation of civil defense policy during his tenure from 1948 until 1960. Under the leadership of the Zeidler Administration the city of Milwaukee was an exemplary national model for civil defense planning. Yet despite superior planning, implementation of civil defense in Milwaukee, like elsewhere, suffered both from apathy and the practical impossibility of preparing for nuclear disaster. This research contributes to our understanding of local defense and offers insight into the contemporary politics of municipal government in the metropolitan area of Milwaukee
Fa’a(-)vae Model of Restoration: Comparative Perspectives on Peace Making in Sāmoan Socio-legislative Structures and Communities
No full textThe role of justice is integral to the maintenance and moral condition of a society. In Sāmoa, the role of Fa’asāmoa and indigenous epistemologies in shaping village and national justice systems is of paramount importance to maintaining cultural identity and holistic peace- through the employment of customary practices like fa’ate’a ma le nu’u and ifoga. European contact that led to the adoption of Christianity in the whole of Sāmoa, which modified the structure of justice and customary practices. Additionally, the role of village and national authority in the broader systems of justice in Sāmoa are reflective of social norms and their respective evolutions. The translation of ifoga and fa’ate’a ma le nu’u into contemporary socio-legislative structures exemplifies the pragmatism of these peace-building mechanisms in social restoration. The relational factors and systems that contribute to peace-building mechanisms are foundational to social restoration
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Pedagogical methodologies in teaching critical thinking skills to basic police recruits at Madison Area Technical College
No full textPlan BPolice officers working in the year 2000 have a much different job than those working a few short years ago. In the 1960s, despite the threat of faster response times and more officers on the street, crime rates continued to rise. To address this, police agencies developed community relations units to improve their image (Gaines, 1991). The focus of the police, as "crook catchers" and responding when called, was gradually transferred into preventing crime. This was the beginning of Community Policing. Community Policing requires officers to be pro-active in their function, rather than the time honored re-active. To be successful, officers must be able to solve problems using higher level thinking than was traditionally required. This higher level of problem solving necessitates that officers possess critical thinking ability. The research hypotheses of this study was that a majority of the instructional methodology used during the Madison Area Technical College Law Enforcement Basic Recruit Academy does not encourage critical thinking and problem solving skills in its graduates. The subjects for this study were adults accepted into the 69th Basic Police Recruit Academy of the Madison Area Technical College (MATC). The instrument chosen to test the level of critical thinking skills for this study was the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST). The instrument, as a pre-test, was presented to the subjects during their first week of training. A consent form along with a short demographic questionnaire accompanied the instrument. A post-test was presented to the subjects during their last week of training. Accompanying the post-test was a short questionnaire asking the respondents to identify the methods of instruction used during the training period and to estimate the percentage of time each of the methods were used. A similar survey was sent to instructors who presented material during the training, asking that they identify topics covered, time allowed for each topic, and methodologies used. The lecture method of teaching was by far the most often used methodology during the 69th Class of MATC’s Basic Recruit Academy. To learn critical thinking skills, trainees are best taught using interactive methodologies. Pre and post-test data collected indicated that the graduates of the 69th Class of MATC’s Basic Recruit Academy did not gain in the area of critical thinking skills
The role of crowding in parallel search
No full textCrowding is the deleterious effect of nearby objects on object recognition in the peripheral (Pelli, 2008). In three visual search experiments the contribution of visual crowding to reaction time performance in an efficient search task was evaluated by varying the factors known to affect the strength of crowding: spacing between objects and similarity. Traditionally, pop-out search is believed to isolate the first stage of visual processing and has been characterized as producing shallow search slopes (<10 ms/item), which are independent of set size. Recent results from our lab suggest discrimination pop-out search has a logarithmic relationship between reaction time and set size, which is modulated by the lure-target similarity (Buetti et al., in press). These results have been interpreted as resulting from the first stage of visual processing that is exhaustive, unlimited-in-capacity and resolution limited. Items sufficiently dissimilar to the target are rejected by stage-one processing, and items sufficiently similar to the target are inspected with focused attention. Here we ask if the limitation in resolution in stage-one processing is a result of crowding and evaluate the contribution of crowding to our previous logarithmic search slope findings. In three experiments reaction time performance was compared on two possible display types which differed in the spatial arrangements. The results from three experiments converge on the same pattern of results: reaction times increased logarithmically with set size and were modulated by lure-target similarity for both display types.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Anna Madison, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-29 at 14:52.The student, Anna Madison, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-29 at 14:56.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-29 at 15:16.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9590 on 2016-07-07 at 13:51:14Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T20:35:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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An interference-adjusted power learning curve for tasks with cognitive and motor elements
No full textFunding Information: The first author thanks the Finnish Work Environment Fund (No. 200224) for supporting this research. The second author sincerely thanks Prof. Charles D. Bailey of James Madison University for making his data available. Without it, this study would not have been possible. He also conveys his thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of the Canada-Insight Grant Program (No. 435-2020-0628) for supporting this research. Funding Information: The first author thanks the Finnish Work Environment Fund (No. 200224 ) for supporting this research. The second author sincerely thanks Prof. Charles D. Bailey of James Madison University for making his data available. Without it, this study would not have been possible. He also conveys his thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of the Canada-Insight Grant Program (No. 435-2020-0628 ) for supporting this research. Publisher Copyright: © 2021Production and operations management (POM) uses learning curve (LC) models to determine the length of training sessions for new workers and predicting future task performance. Empirically validated LC parameters provide managers with quantitative information on the effects of the presumed factors behind the learning process. Previous studies considered LC to compose of cognitive and motor curves. Another widely acknowledged but only recently parameterized phenomenon in the POM field is interference, which assumes some loss of information or experience could occur over a learning session. This paper takes a logical step in this line of research by developing an interference-adjusted power LC model, a composite of cognitive and motor elements. This paper accounts for the decay of cognitive and motor memory traces from repetitions to measure the residual (interference-adjusted) experience and capture these phenomena. Three variants of the model are developed that assume power and exponential decay functions and an approximate version of the exponential one. Assembly data representing various forms of an individual learning profile have been used to test the fits of the developed models. In addition to those models, four potential models from the literature were selected for comparison purposes. The results show that the approximate model fits very well exponential learning profile. The findings highlight the confluence of the three phenomena in learning, component (cognitive/motor) learning, interference, and plateauing. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )Peer reviewe
Investigating the contribution of parallel processing to visual search performance according to the Target Contrast Signal Theory
No full textVisually searching around our environment is a common behavior that underlies many tasks we do each day, such as searching the roadway while driving. But the attention demands of such a task can vary depending on the roadway condition: it can be very easy on rural roads, when there are fewer objects and cars, or it can be very difficult when driving in a city where there are many other vehicles. This ubiquitous search behavior is studied in the lab through the visual search paradigm. Contrary to the traditional notion of a pre-attentive stage that is based on saliency or target activation maps, Target Contrast Signal Theory (TCST) proposes that parallel processing in early vision involves evidence accumulation about how likely a given location is to contain the target in effort to reject items from further processing. The experiments presented and proposed in this thesis further our knowledge and understanding about this early parallel processing in visual search and allows us to extend previous findings of parallel processing to new tasks and applications. Chapter 1 serves as a general introduction into visual search and provides a discussion of TCST. Chapter 2 investigates the role of color affordance in visual search by equating stimuli color and luminance. Chapter 3 explores the relationship between this visual search efficiency and working memory, using TCST as the theoretical model to separate parallel processing from serial processing. Chapter 4 investigates the flexibility of early parallel processing, comparing a target discrimination task and a detection task, highlighting the variability between the two tasks, and interrogating how search is terminated with parallel processing.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Anna Madison, accepted the attached license on 2020-05-07 at 09:09.The student, Anna Madison, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-05-07 at 11:31.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-05-07 at 14:56.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15267 on 2020-08-25 at 17:43:52Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-27T00:51:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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ACTION SPECTROSCOPY AND DISSOCIATION ENERGY OF AMMONIA TRIMER
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706; School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TS, U.K.; Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706We have investigated the energy dependence for the vibrational predissociation of ammonia trimer, , using infrared-action spectroscopy. The action spectra come from detecting specific rovibrational states of the monomer fragment via (2+1) resonance enhanced multiphoton excitation (REMPI) while scanning the IR excitation laser over the NH stretch transitions of the trimer as well as the dimer. The relative intensities of the dimer and trimer features in the action spectra depend on the amount of energy available for breaking the hydrogen bonds in the clusters. For example, the action spectra of ammonia fragments with large amounts of internal energy (v=3) show almost no trimer contribution since there is not enough energy available to break two bonds in the cyclic trimer. The action spectra for fragments with low internal energies (v=1), on the other hand, exhibit a substantial trimer component as more energy remains available to dissociate the cluster. Using the threshold at which the trimer feature becomes apparent in our spectra as an upper limit (), we determine the dissociation energy of ammonia trimer to be in the range between 1700-1800 cm. This range agrees well with theoretical predictions
Leon Crawford, Oral History Moment
No full textThis is an audio recording of an Oral History Moment with Leon Crawford. An Oral History Moment is a small segment of clips from an oral history interview presented by a narrator. The interview was conducted March 8, 2016. The interviewer is Madison Garcia. The script author is Nick Sprenger, and the narrator is Allan Folsom.
In this interview, Leon Crawford discusses his service in the Navy during World War II and his participation in the Invasion of Guam as a Seabee. He also discusses his work to help rebuild the island.
Leon Crawford was born in Mansfield, Louisiana where his family worked as farmers. Crawford became interested in joining the military and fighting in World War II after seeing wounded veterans return home. He tried to join the Air Force at age 17 but his mother refused to sign his enlistment papers. In 1944 Crawford joined the Navy because the enlistment papers only required the signature of one parent, and he knew that his father would sign. Crawford attended basic training at Camp Wallace in Texas.
Following basic training, Crawford was shipped to Pearl Harbor, the Marshall Islands, and finally the Mariana Islands. Crawford and the Navy Seabee Battalion worked as ammunition support for the 3rd Division of the Marines during the Invasion of Guam in April of 1944. After Guam was capturedd by Allied forces, the Seabee battalion that Crawford was in helped rebuild the island. Crawford worked as a machine operator in Company D where they cleaned up the mountainside and built an air field, ammunition dump, and mess hall and began construction on runways. Crawford recalls meeting General Chester W. Nimitz during his time overseas.
Following the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, Crawford waited six months for a transport boat to take him home. When the transport arrived in March 1946, it made stops at Kwajalein and Wake Island to pick up additional service members waiting to return to the United States. The ship was supposed to take them to California but they changed course to Seattle and hit a typhoon. Being on the ship during the typhoon was the only time Crawford was afraid during his time of service. However, the ship arrived at port safely.
Following his service, Crawford attended school at the Industrial Training Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He was hired by Southeastern Advertising and Sales Systems and was eventually promoted to Southern Regional Manager. He began working in the food industry, from which he eventually retired.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-oral-history-all/1114/thumbnail.jp
Leon Crawford, Oral History Moment Script
No full textThis is a script of an Oral History Moment with Leon Crawford. An Oral History Moment is a small segment of clips from an oral history interview presented by a narrator. The interview was conducted March 8, 2016. The interviewer is Madison Garcia. The script author is Nick Sprenger, and the narrator is Allan Folsom.
In this interview, Leon Crawford discusses his service in the Navy during World War II and his participation in the Invasion of Guam as a Seabee. He also discusses his work to help rebuild the island.
Leon Crawford was born in Mansfield, Louisiana where his family worked as farmers. Crawford became interested in joining the military and fighting in World War II after seeing wounded veterans return home. He tried to join the Air Force at age 17 but his mother refused to sign his enlistment papers. In 1944 Crawford joined the Navy because the enlistment papers only required the signature of one parent, and he knew that his father would sign. Crawford attended basic training at Camp Wallace in Texas.
Following basic training, Crawford was shipped to Pearl Harbor, the Marshall Islands, and finally the Mariana Islands. Crawford and the Navy Seabee Battalion worked as ammunition support for the 3rd Division of the Marines during the Invasion of Guam in April of 1944. After Guam was capturedd by Allied forces, the Seabee battalion that Crawford was in helped rebuild the island. Crawford worked as a machine operator in Company D where they cleaned up the mountainside and built an air field, ammunition dump, and mess hall and began construction on runways. Crawford recalls meeting General Chester W. Nimitz during his time overseas.
Following the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, Crawford waited six months for a transport boat to take him home. When the transport arrived in March 1946, it made stops at Kwajalein and Wake Island to pick up additional service members waiting to return to the United States. The ship was supposed to take them to California but they changed course to Seattle and hit a typhoon. Being on the ship during the typhoon was the only time Crawford was afraid during his time of service. However, the ship arrived at port safely.
Following his service, Crawford attended school at the Industrial Training Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He was hired by Southeastern Advertising and Sales Systems and was eventually promoted to Southern Regional Manager. He began working in the food industry, from which he eventually retired.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-oral-history-all/1115/thumbnail.jp
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