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Materials for: Assessing Epistemic Beliefs Regarding the Co-construction of Knowledge: Implications for Team Science.
No full textScientific collaboration is necessary as research grows increasingly more complex. Research focusing on the Science of Team Science (SciTS) seeks to better understand and facilitate collaborative research in science. The current work provides new empirical understandings on epistemic beliefs about group knowledge or how a group collectively comes to know something through the development of the Epistemic Beliefs about the Co-Construction of Knowledge (EB-CCK) inventory. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, the present study established an 18-item inventory composed of two factors: one capturing a more collaborative mindset and one capturing a more individual mindset about the co-construction of knowledge. These materials are not to be redistributed or repurposed without permission from the corresponding author (Erica Kessler: [email protected])
Het daklozenpaleis van Kessler
No full textIn de Haagse krachtwijk Transvaal wordt binnenkort het nieuwe gebouw van de Kessler Stichting voor de opvang van dak- en thuislozen geopend. Een rijk gedetailleerd en gekleurd gebouw van de hand van Jos van Eldonk van het architectenbureau Soeters van Eldonk. Een gebouw dat rijkdom uitstraalt maar keurig binnen het budget is gerealiseerd.UrbanismArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Milton Kessler
No full textMedium: Etching and engraving.Print Image Size: 9 3/4 x 8 inches.Print Edition: no edition (with 2 artist's proofs).Alternate Medium: Etching and aquatint with drypoint.Ink(s): black.Support: wove paper.A profile portrait of the poet Milton Kessler facing right. An alternate depiction of the author was done as a woodcut [CMA 2001.034.030]
District heating: the Prince Edward Island experience
No full textCover title.; Date indicated by co-author and P.E.I. Energy Corporation which lists publications after 1998 on website.; Credits: cover - P. John Burden, ; photographs - John Sylvester ; diagrams - Ken Shelton ; design - Landis Design ; text - Copthorne MacDonald and Deirdre Kessler, p. 21.Source type: Electronic(1
Gary Kessler
No full textGary C. Kessler, Ph.D., CCE, CISSP, is a Professor of Cybersecurity and chair of the Security Studies & International Affairs Dept. at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Gary\u27s research interests include digital forensics, cybersecurity, and cyberdefense, with a particular interest in aviation and maritime cyber issues. Gary is also president and janitor of Gary Kessler Associates, a training and consulting company specializing in computer and network security and digital forensics; Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia; and a member of the North Florida and Hawaii Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces. Gary is the author of two professional texts and over 70 papers and articles, and a frequent speaker at regional, national, and international conferences. He is also an editor, and past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law. Gary is a Master SCUBA Diver Trainer and U.S. Coast Guard licensed captain. More information about Gary can be found at his Web site, http://www.garykessler.net.https://commons.erau.edu/ntas-bios/1093/thumbnail.jp
Materials for: Individual Differences in Revising (and Maintaining) Accurate and Inaccurate Beliefs About Childhood Vaccines
No full textIncluded are materials used in the study "Individual Differences in Revising (and Maintaining) Accurate and Inaccurate Beliefs About Childhood Vaccines" (Kessler, Braasch, & Kardash, submitted). Included is 1) the refutational text read by participants and 2) the 13-item Chilhdood Vaccination Belief Inventory (CVBI) used to measure vaccination beleifs. These materials are not to be redistributed or repurposed without permission from the author (Erica Kessler: [email protected])
In the President's secret service: behind the scenes with agents in the line of fire and the presidents they protect
No full textNever before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. secret service. After conducting exlusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former secret service agents, bestselling author and award winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time
Mapping the structure and development of Science using co-citation analysis
No full textCo-citation analysis is a unique method used for studying the cognitive structure of science andassessing the research productivity. It is a research tool for examining the intellectual development and structure of the scientific discipline. This paper illustrates principles, techniques and applications of co-citation analysis. It also introduces the newly emerging co-citation analysis softwares,especially SciVal Spotlight and CiteSpace. Co-citation analysis is based on grouping together the papers that are frequently cited in pairs. Combined with single-link clustering and multidimensional scaling techniques, co-citation analysis can literally map the structure of specialized research areas as well as science as a whole
Continuous and Discrete Algorithms for Modelling the Kessler Syndrome
No full textThis thesis contains the development of continuous Kepler orbit- and a discrete numerical integration-based collision detection algorithms in a system of LEO satellites, which in combination with collision algorithm form a simplified space debris evolution model. This model is then used to study the Kessler syndrome. The continuous and discrete algorithms get their names from the solutions of the Two Body Problem (TBP) and the methods for collision detection that they are based on; the analytical and continuous time solution of TBP resulting in the Kepler orbits and the numerical, discrete time Velocity Verlet integration of the TBP. The collision model consists of an algorithm for fragmentation collisions largely based on the NASA Standard Breakup Model and a method for elastic, random scattering collisions. Comparison between the continuous and discrete algorithms shows that on average both predict the same time to the first collision in a system of homogeneously distributed satellites. The algorithms differ in their efficiency depending on the number and the radius of the satellites in and the geometry of the system. For relatively small satellite numbers in large systems, the continuous algorithm is computationally more efficient. However, as more satellites or fragments result from previous collision, the continuous algorithm is outperformed by the discrete algorithm. Consequentially, its time complexity appears to be O(N2). Armed with this knowledge, the continuous algorithm is used to show that an initially small system of satellites is able to evolve into a large population of debris particles within several decades. Similarly, the discrete algorithm is used to show that an ordered collection of satellites in an homogeneously distributed system of debris-like particles exhibits the effect that a collision early on in the simulation can cause a cascade of collisions at a later stage. Hence Both the discrete and continuous algorithms predict a Kessler Syndrome and mimic predictions made by more advanced models from leading space agencies like NASA’s LEGEND, ESA’s DELTA and JAXA’s LEODEEM [Lio+13].Future research could focus on including atmospheric drag and gravitational perturbations to the continuous algorithm, thereby lengthening the time frame during which it can realistically simulate a system of satellites in LEO. To achieve this, it is suggested that one execute the calculations inherent to the algorithm in parallel on a GPU, as these are independent of each other. Applied Mathematics | Applied Physic
Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend\u3c/i\u3e By Donna}. Kessler
No full textThe basis for this book is a good idea: to discover the factors that have made Sacagawea a legend and then examine the ways in which the legend has evolved. Indeed, the author has done an excellent job in tracing Sacagawea\u27s changing image, but a series of missteps detract from her laudable intent. The book suffers from repetitiveness, questionable literary devices, and lengthy accounts of the obvious. Squeezing out the superfluous would have yielded a sturdier essay of appropriate proportions.
Sacagawea may be the best known member of the Corps of Discovery after Lewis and Clark. Although she served in a valuable capacity on the trip, she was no match for several expert hunters, boat handlers, and crafters in the party. That fact has not kept numerous writers and artists from using her as a device to develop their own agendas and elevate her beyond her actual importance. Kessler attempts to explain why the woman has come to assume such a high position relativ~ to her deeds.
In her best work Kessler demonstrates that Sacagawea has been interpreted as both ignoble savage and Indian princess. Relegating her to little more than the interpreter\u27s wife, expedition diarists placed her largely in the former role, according to Kessler. Nonetheless, their ambiguous assessments left room for later writers to view Sacagawea differently. That came when biographers such as Eva Emory Dye and Grace Raymond Hebard promoted her to expedition guide and Indian princess, the latter based on her brother\u27s rank as a Shoshone chief. From that point, Kessler finds later works no more than theme and variation on the existing positions. In reviewing all these works the author fails to mention, however, that most of the writing is wretched history. The books may have established Sacagawea\u27s legend but their overall inadequacies should have been acknowledged.
Kessler devotes excessive time and space to stating well-known facts about Native American stereotypes. Much of this unnecessary general history seems quite distant from Sacagawea. The author too frequently uses rhetorical questions instead of stating her own opinions which seem to be lurking behind them. She is much too repetitive: first comes a chapter preview, then the text itself, followed by a summary, and finally a review of the points at the beginning of the next chapter. The author has a habit of telling us chapter- by-chapter what she is going to prove and finally boasts of methodologies she has employed without explaining what they are, for example psychological myth criticisms.
I liked her central point and thought she made it well. A firmer editorial hand with a bold blue pencil would have helped the book considerably
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