635 research outputs found
Interview with Randy Stoecker, author, Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement
No full textIt’s common for colleges in the U.S. to have service learning programs of one kind or another. These are sometimes criticized as being liberal or even radical endeavors — especially if “social justice” language is employed. But what if these are, in fact, conservative programs at their heart, ones that, in the context of the corporatized university, are furthering the neoliberal project and inhibiting the development of better social welfare policies? Listen to our interview with Randy Stoecker as he discusses his book, Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement (Temple University Press, 2016), for a first-hand critique as well as some thoughts on how we might all better serve our students — and the communities they would engage with
Development and evaluation of semi-automatic controlled atmosphere storage facility for calamansi (Citrofortunella microcarpa)
No full textThe designed semi-automatic controlled atmosphere storage facility for calamansi (Citrofortunella microcarpa) was developed with the application of vapor compression refrigeration engineering principles and arduino system to lengthen the fruit shelf-life for commercialization and processing purposes. The prototype's overall dimension is 210 cm in length, 120 cm in width, and 120 cm in height, and has a storage volume of 0.512 m3. It has a storage capacity of about 90-120 kilograms. The main components of the facility are the compressor, condenser, capillary tube, and evaporator as the main components. The arduino system includes temperature and RH, O2, CO2, N2 sensors, a humidifier, arduino uno board, relay switch, a power supply, a DC-AC converter, a GSM module, a network simcard, jumper wires, and LCD monitor.
The facility has an operating temperature of 8°C-10°C, and can control the concentration of gasses to 7-12% O2, 1-6% CO2, and 80-90% N2, the optimum storage condition for calamansi thus, reducing respiration rate and fruits deterioration. Moreover, the system can send an SMS to the operator when gas concentration, RH, and temperature are below the optimum level and can automatically turn on and off the humidifier and compressor. The developed storage facility is 23.38% higher weight retained of not rotted calamansi compared to conventional storage under ambient conditions
Reflections 1979
No full textThe 1979 issue of Reflections is edited by Randy Waters with Michele Barale and Joyce Compton Brown serving as faculty advisers. Cover art and photography is by Les Brown. Author biographies are included on a contributors page at the conclusion of the issue. Award winners of the student literary context include: Randy Waters, Debbie Drayer, and Susan Sheilds.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/reflections/1005/thumbnail.jp
Global Survey of the Experience and Education of Aviation Maintenance Instructors
No full textThesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Master of Education degree in the College of Education and Human Service Professions, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2011Committee names: Randy Hyman (Chair), Cindy Ryan, Diane J. Rauschenfels. This item has been modified from the original to redact the signatures present.Limited research exists regarding the education, experience, and professional opinions of aviation maintenance instructors. The author surveyed a global sample to identify trends in responses related to regulatory agency, type of business, segment of industry, and kind of training. A web-based instrument collected anonymous data for comparative analyses. The responses of researched categories showed patterns of interest for industry regulators, executives, decision-makers, and educators.University of Minnesota, Duluth. College of Education and Human Service ProfessionsLarson, Douglas A. (2011). Global Survey of the Experience and Education of Aviation Maintenance Instructors. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/187477
Reconsidering Randy Shilts: examining the reportage of America's AIDS chronicler
No full text2013 Fall.Includes bibliographical references.The role of openly-gay reporter and author Randy Shilts (1951-1994) is examined related to his use of journalistic practices and places him on a continuum of traditional reporting roles as considered in the context of twentieth century philosophers Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. Reporter functions demonstrated by Shilts are examined, including those dictated by expectations of either strong journalistic influence over society and media consumers, or those more aligned with democratic practices where education and participation emphasize strong roles for society and media consumers. Using a biographical approach including 17 primary source interviews of former colleagues, critics, sources and family/friends, the examination of Shilts work as both a reporter and noted author is presented as being heavily influenced by his forthcoming attitudes about disclosure of his sexual orientation from the start of his career and his desire to explain or unpack aspects of gay culture, and ultimately the AIDS crisis, to heterosexual audiences. Careful examination of the posthumous critique of Shilts' work - including his construction of Patient Zero - is undertaken. The study concludes that Shilts fully engaged a Lippmann-esque approach embodied in an authoritarian role for journalism that sought to change the world in which it was offered, and did so perhaps most influentially during the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in America
Sleep as an Occupation: Perceptions and Assessment Behaviors of Practicing Occupational Therapists
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
People spend a considerable portion of time engaged in a bioneurological state termed sleep. Sleep loss impacts physiological, cognitive, and mood functioning. This study examined whether occupational therapists view sleep as an occupation and the extent to which they assess sleep precursors and sleep dysfunction.
Primary Author and Speaker: Randy P. McCombie
Additional Authors and Speakers: Ralyn Wolfe</jats:p
A conversation with Randy Olson
No full textRandy Olson was a professor of marine biology at the University of New Hampshire. Despite his Harvard Ph.D., four years of post-doctoral research in Australia and Florida, and years of diving around the world from the Great Barrier Reef to Antarctica, he tossed it all in, resigned from his tenured professorship and moved to Hollywood to explore film as a medium for communicating science. His films include Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus and Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy. Today he is an independent filmmaker and author of the book Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style. Olson visited NCTC to screen his film Sizzle and to teach in the NCTC Course "Resource Management Implications of Global Climate Change." Olson discusses with Mark Madison the role of communication in climate change and the ways we can all better communicate science to the broader public.Interview with Randy Olson
July 20, 2011
Mr. Madison: Today is July 20th, 2011 and my name is Mark Madison at the National Conservation Training Center and I’m here with Randy Olson who is a scientist turned film-maker. Randy got a Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a tenured professor in marine biology. Then several years ago he decided to become a full-time film-maker. He has made two films: Flock of Dodos: The Evolution - Intelligent Design Circus came out around 2006 and his more recent film is Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy. He’s also the author of a book called Don’t be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance In An Age of Style. He’s out here at NCTC to screen his film and help us teach a class. So Randy, welcome!
Mr. Olson: Great to be here.
Mr. Madison: It’s great to have you here. And the first question I have is Sizzle, it’s called A Global Warming Comedy. What type of film does a Global Warming comedy look like?
Mr. Olson: In this particular case, it’s kind of crazy and unorthodox. This movie is actually somewhat original in that it’s a hybrid of three different genres. It is a mockumentary, a documentary, and has reality elements to it.
Mr. Madison: And like I said, we’re going to be screening it this evening. It’s actually a very entertaining film, but also has a serious message about the need to communicate the dire effects of global warming. How did you try to get that message across?
Mr. Olson: Well, the “message” really -- I don’t even know if it’s so much of a message as it is more painting a picture. I think my feeling was that Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth was a valiant effort, but I don’t think it really painted an accurate picture because what they tried to do with that movie was they got to the end of it and said now that we’re all in agreement, that we accept that climate change is happening, global warming’s happening, let’s all get to work. And the fact was, we weren’t all in agreement in 2006 and probably even less in agreement today about whether climate change is happening, manmade climate change, and so as a result my movie doesn’t paint such a clear picture. It really ends up as a big mess by the end of it. It’s a lot of fun and I finish it with some voice over in which I kind of ask, what’s the deal? Why is it that the science community seems to be in agreement about this situation with the climate and yet our country is unable to provide any leadership around the world on the issue and that’s kind of how I end it.
I end it with just saying what’s the deal, and in fact I put this wonderful quote at the very end of it all from Kevin Conrad, the delegate from New Guinea at the 2007 or so Bali conference in which he said to the U.S. delegation, you know, if you guys want to lead that’s great, but if you’re not going to lead, please get out of the way and the place erupted in applause and I think that’s the world’s feeling towards the U.S. is we look to you for leadership but on this issue if you don’t have any ability to lead then all you’re doing is fowling things up for the rest of us that have kind of got it figured out and I think that is the situation today and that was not the picture that was painted by An Inconvenient Truth unfortunately.
Mr. Madison: Your other film was called a Flock of Dodos and it investigated the evolution intelligent design debate. Tell us a little about that film.
Mr. Olson: That one was started by my mother. I grew up in Kansas. My mother still lives there and starting about 2003 or so she began sending me all these newspaper articles from the Kansas City Star about this huge debate that emerged in Kansas over the teaching of evolution and what had happened was that a group of creationist basically had high-jacked the school board in the State of Kansas. They had secured six out of the 10 positions on the state school board and started to work trying to change the curriculum there and put in questions about evolution and then put in the idea of teaching intelligent design as a sort of equal and opposite idea comparable to evolution and it was a mess and for two years. I kind of ignored all those articles she was sending me and that just goes to show you, you should always listen to your mother because finally in 2005 I read an article in The New Yorker about this whole controversy and instantly realized, oh my goodness, this is a really good story, quickly grabbed a film crew and went back to Kansas and shot the initial footage that turned into this movie, Flock of Dodos.
Mr. Madison: Randy, we talked earlier how you’re an interesting and maybe unique hybrid of a professor turned film-maker …
Mr. Olson: Strange.
Mr. Madison: I know. But how does that effect how you communicate your message? How is it different today?
Mr. Olson: I think perhaps what is most valuable and what I have to offer is the voice of a scientist still now in the thick of the broad communication world and one of the realizations that I try and convey in my book is that in 1994 I moved to Hollywood and I think partly was thinking that at age 38 I was going to reprogram my brain and get rid of the science part of me and become a broad film-maker and what I finally realized 15 years later is that once you’ve gone down this developmental path by getting programmed as a scientist, you’re stuck with that voice for the rest of time and you can try and take all the acting classes you want, but it’s as distinctive as your fingerprint. It is there for the rest of time. There are stories that I tell in the book about being at cocktails parties in Hollywood and just saying one sentence and I mean everybody turned and looked at me like what’s wrong with you? You’re a scientist and all my film school classmates eventually came -- there’s one story I tell about they refer to me as “the Randy” of the group which means that being a scientist I have this commitment to the truth and that sometimes when people are talking great big stories and all full of excitement of cackomany ideas, I’m the guy that says wait a second, you know, if I look at the facts, what they tell me is that everything you’re saying isn’t going to come true, and then everybody looks at me and says thanks a lot, you know, way to rain on our parade with the facts as if we’re interested in that. And that’s what you’re stuck with as a scientist, particularly academic scientists. As I put it in Dodos, the blind obsession with the truth and that can cause all kinds of problems at times.
Mr. Madison: And yet there’s, obviously from the title of your book, some things you’ve been trying to modify. What do you mean by don’t be such a scientist?
Mr. Olson: What that refers to is the handicaps that happen when you are overly cerebral and nobody told me about this in 1994 when I moved to Los Angeles, and if you look at the book, the first paragraph of the book is pure profanity from my acting teacher -- the first night in this acting class that I entered into and she picked me out of this group of students and recognized me as an academic and then just laid into me and just basically said I know your type. You think a lot and you don’t act so much and people don’t want to see that. People go to the theatre and they watch actors, hoping that they will act and not stand there and think and she was absolutely right and it took me two years of this class to really appreciate what she was saying. I do and that’s what you do as an academic. You’re taught that before you act, think. Don’t do something until you have thought this through thoroughly.
Well, that seems like a good philosophy for the world but you begin to realize that there’s a trade off which is you lose the ability to be spontaneous and to capture that kind of spontaneous energy that turns out to be extremely powerful when it comes to communication and this is what’s behind reality shows is that they are unscripted and they have this element of spontaneity that the public today, more than ever before, just savors that spontaneous energy and academics tend to be weak on that part of communication.
Mr. Madison: That’s great. Well, we’ve been speaking with Randy Olson who is a scientist, author, and film-maker all wrapped up in one. His films once again are a Flock of Dodos: The Evolution - Intelligent Design Circus and his more recent film is called Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy, and his book is called Don’t be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in An Age of Style.
Randy, if people wanted to find out more about your film, is there a website that they could go to?
Mr. Olson: Yeah, there’s my main website, randyolsonproduction.com that has all the links and the background to everything.
Mr. Madison: Is that where all the PSA’s are too?
Mr. Olson: Yeah, you can link to them through there. Actually most of that work is on the website of shiftingbaselines.org. That’s where I’ve done all the ocean work and there’s a button on there for the film library that has probably 25 short films that I’ve done that are all mostly humorous and a lot of fun.
Mr. Madison: Yeah, in addition to Randy���s feature films, he’s got a number of hilarious PSA���s dealing with all sorts of marine creatures from barnacles to lobsters. I strongly recommend going to it. Randy, thank you so much for doing this podcast and thank all of you for listening to it.
Mr. Olson: Thank you
Effect of l-NAME on pressure-flow relationships in isolated rabbit lungs: role of red blood cells
No full text Pages H1941–H1948: Randy S. Sprague, Alan H. Stephenson, Reed A. Dimmit, Neal A. Weintraub, Carrie A. Branch, Lorraine McMurdo, and Andrew J. Lonigro. “Effect of l-NAME on pressure-flow relationships in isolated rabbit lungs: role of red blood cells.” Page H1941: the author name of Neal A. Weintraub should read as Neal L. Weintraub. </jats:p
Make change work: staying nimble, relevant, and engaged in a world of constant change
No full textRemain competitive, inspire innovation, and ensure success Constantly adapting, improving, and changing is more important than ever for companies to remain competitive in today's marketplace. Make Change Work presents real solutions to thriving in a world of constant change. This book educates managers and leaders on how to lead change, with strategies for creating urgency, building support, and ensuring successful change. Get the guidance you need to be bold in the face of change, and learn how to make your company faster, better, cheaper, and friendlier-by simply listening to your customers Advises leaders on how to design and implement a strategy that allows you to successfully lead change and deliver meaningful business results Author Randy Pennington is a 20-year business performance veteran, author, and expert in helping organizations build a culture focused on results Learn how to establish a clear and purposeful goal, inspire a culture relentlessly focused on customers, and create an environment where your talented team wants to Make Change Work
Uncle Tom\u27s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe had a life-long hobby of painti
No full textUncle Tom\u27s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe had a life-long hobby of painting, but only one of her works recalls her time in Maine, an oil painting titled Casco Bay. The seascape is one she would have passed on the road between Brunswick and Orr\u27s Island. With details on the painting and Stowe\u27s time in Maine
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