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Practical Hypermedia and Hypertext [Book Chapter]
P. C. Patrikis, J. H. Murray, David F. Bantz PhD, R. L. Jones, and J. S. Noblitt
Chapter from Multimedia and Language Learning. Technology in Higher Education : Current Reflections. Fourth in a Series, eds. Peter Patrikis and others.
About this book:
The five essays in this volume represent the contributions of one group of leaders in the application of computers to the teaching and learning of foreign languages and illustrate present and future uses of technology in assisting language learning. Various pedagogical problems and approaches are considered in the papers.
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The German-Jewish legacy in America, 1938-1988 : from Bildung to the Bill of Rights
Abraham J. Peck PhD
The essays in this volume were written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the fateful pogrom in early November 1938 which was a watershed in the treatment of Jews in Germany and signaled the end to more than a century of specific Jewish culture there.
Historian George Mosse in the opening essay characterizes this spirit as represented by Bildung, a post-emancipation notion that included character formation, moral education, the primacy of culture, the acquisition of aesthetic taste, and the belief in the potential of humanity. Bildung became to large portions of German Jewry an important, if not central, expression of their Jewishness. It is this legacy that this volume explores and seeks to understand. Among the questions contributors examine are the meaning of this legacy in our time, what has happened to it in its American context, whether it has found a home in the United States or whether it remains in exile, and which elements of the legacy are worth preserving for the next generation.
Two groups address this range of questions. The first is made up of Jews born in Germany but who reached their professional maturity in the United States. The second is made up primarily of American-born individuals whose Jewish parents had either fled Nazi Germany or who, as German Jews, survived the Holocaust.
The Germany Jewish Legacy in America commemorates the end of one of the greatest communities in Jewish history and explores those elements of its greatness which may still be relevant in insuring a vibrant and productive Jewish community in a free and democratic American society.
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Hazardous Waste Identification and Classification Manual : The identification of hazardous wastes under RCRA and the classification of hazardous waste under HMTA
Travis Wagner PhD
The stringent framework established under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was designed to protect human health and the environment from the effects of improper management of hazardous waste. The classification procedure of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) was created to ensure its proper handling throughout its transportation.
The Hazardous Waste and Identification Classification Manual is now the most comprehensive guide to identifying and classifying hazardous waste material in accordance with the stringent provisions of the RCRA and the HMTA.
Included in the wealth of in-depth information in plain English that will help readers understand this lengthy and complex regulatory system.
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Predictors of Success among Older Workers in New Jobs. Final Report
E Michael Brady PhD
To examine older workers' general values toward work and their specific motivations when seeking a new job, a sample of 198 people aged 50 or older who had recently begun a new job were interviewed by telephone. A follow-up interview was conducted 4 months later (n=182). Regarding general work values, respondents ranked "feeling a sense of accomplishment" as their highest priority. Factor analysis of 16 work value items yielded 5 factors: material benefits, mental stimulation, job compatibility, flexibility, and social environment. The most important motivational value during pursuit of the new job was the desire to feel useful. Factor analysis of motivational items yielded two factors: material benefits/security and personal development/social. The follow-up interview revealed 75 percent of respondents were still at the same job. Being able to use previously developed skills, seeing the impact of one's work on the final product, having the freedom to decide what to do on the job, and not being too closely supervised all related to job persistence and work satisfaction among older workers. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed gender was the important predictor of persistence on the job, with women persisting more than men; worker independence was the most important predictor of job satisfaction and ability to use previously developed skills and abilities on the new job was the most important predictor of "fit" between job sought and job located. A major recommendation resulting from this research is for hirers to pay attention to the intrinsic (non-material) benefits of work as well as to the extrinsic (material) gains. Older workers are seeking a challenge and a sense of accomplishment. (Appendixes include 29 references, older worker referral materials, and interview schedules and instruments.) (YLB)
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Reviews of Instructional Software in Scholarly Journals : A Selected Bibliography
David F. Bantz PhD, P. Wykes, and N. Millichap
This bibliography lists reviews of more than 100 instructional software packages, which are arranged alphabetically by discipline. Information provided for each entry includes the topical emphasis, type of software (i.e., simulation, tutorial, analysis tool, test generator, database, writing tool, drill, plotting tool, videodisc), the journal citation of the review, the name and institutional affiliation of the author of the review, the length of the review, and the copyright-holding agency. Subject areas represented by the reviews include biology, chemistry, economics, education, engineering, English composition and literature, geology, history, foreign languages, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, and psychology.
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Predictors of Success among Older Workers in New Jobs. Final Report
E Michael Brady PhD
To examine older workers' general values toward work and their specific motivations when seeking a new job, a sample of 198 people aged 50 or older who had recently begun a new job were interviewed by telephone. A follow-up interview was conducted 4 months later (n=182). Regarding general work values, respondents ranked "feeling a sense of accomplishment" as their highest priority. Factor analysis of 16 work value items yielded 5 factors: material benefits, mental stimulation, job compatibility, flexibility, and social environment. The most important motivational value during pursuit of the new job was the desire to feel useful. Factor analysis of motivational items yielded two factors: material benefits/security and personal development/social. The follow-up interview revealed 75 percent of respondents were still at the same job. Being able to use previously developed skills, seeing the impact of one's work on the final product, having the freedom to decide what to do on the job, and not being too closely supervised all related to job persistence and work satisfaction among older workers. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed gender was the important predictor of persistence on the job, with women persisting more than men; worker independence was the most important predictor of job satisfaction and ability to use previously developed skills and abilities on the new job was the most important predictor of "fit" between job sought and job located. A major recommendation resulting from this research is for hirers to pay attention to the intrinsic (non-material) benefits of work as well as to the extrinsic (material) gains. Older workers are seeking a challenge and a sense of accomplishment. (Appendixes include 29 references, older worker referral materials, and interview schedules and instruments.) (YLB)
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The AIDS Epidemic: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Infectious Body [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from The Meaning of AIDS: Implications for Medical Science, Clinical Practices, and Public Health Policy, edited by Eric T. Juengst and Barbara A. Koenig.
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The editors of this remarkable volume have collected 18 essays by humanists about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS seems to seek out as its victims the weakest and already victimized, writes Albert R. Jonsen, describing the inhumanity of this disease. Jonsen states that scientists have already fashioned a language for describing the disease in objective, clinical terms. What is needed now is a language to describe the human experience and instruct us on how to live humanely while AIDS is among us. To help construct this language, this collection examines AIDS from the perspective of the humanities: History can recall past experience for our instruction, Philosophy can define terms such as welfare, freedom, health, and disease, that guide our discourse, and Literature can reveal the images that shape the social reality of AIDS.
Editors Eric T. Juengst and Barbara Koenig begin this study by delineating six interpretations of AIDS. Their aim is to demonstrate the many ways in which AIDS is viewed by society. The book is then divided into three parts. Part One examines how our current knowledge of AIDS was generated and how this knowledge is interpreted. Part Two explores the meaning of AIDS for health professionals and the ethical issues it can raise. Part Three examines public policy and AIDS. The contributors clarify and correct definitions, recall analogous incidents in our history and draw values and principles out of the obscurity of emotions and into the light of reason. divided into three parts. Part One examines the current knowledge of AIDS and how this knowledge is interpreted. Part Two explores the meaning and perceptions of AIDS in the medical community. Part Three examines public policy and AIDS. The contributors clarify and correct definitions, recall analogous incidents in our history and draw values and principles out of the obscurity of emotion and into the light of reason.
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The Look in Sartre and Adrienne Rich [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy, edited by Jeffner Allen and Iris Marion Young.
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Marking a radical shift in the traditional philosophical separation between muse (female) and thinker (male), The Thinking Muse revises the scope and methods of philosophical reflection. These engaging essays by American feminists bring together feminist philosophy, existential phenomenology, and recent currents in French poststructuralist thought.
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Queen City Refuge : an Oral History of Cincinnati's Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
Abraham J. Peck PhD and Uri D. Herscher
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The Teenage World: Adolescent Self-Image in Ten Countries
Daniel Offer, Eric Ostrov, Kenneth I. Howard, and Robert Atkinson
A Cross-National Study of Adolescent Self-Image Adolescence is not, as has been previously assumed, a developmental stage that was defined after the industrial revolution.
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Renaming the Sins: A Homiletic Topos of Linguistic Instability in the Canterbury Tales
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature.
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Retirement: The challenge of change
E Michael Brady PhD
Intended for persons in their 50s and 60s who are seriously thinking about retirement and younger people who want to learn about aging and retirement, this book was developed as a companion piece to the training program offered to business and nonprofit organizations by the University of Southern Maine retirement planning team. Most of the contributors to the book live in Maine and the settings and examples used reflect this location, although the research cited is national or international in scope. The following 13 chapters are included in the document: "Faces of Retirement" (Brady); "The Aging Body" (Friedman); "Financial Planning for Retirement" (Jagolinzer); "Changing Relationships in Retirement" (Davis, Martay); "Where to Live in Retirement" (Murray); "Exercise, Health, and Fitness" (Jordan); "The Use of Leisure Time" (Brady); "Community Resources" (Spear, Wolfberg); "Transferring Skills to New Work and Volunteer Options" (Viehmann); "Health Insurance in Later Life" (Turyn, Comerford); "Legal Concerns in Retirement" (Valcourt); "Find Some Happiness Today" (Langlois); and "A Voice from Retirement" (Sandmel). (CML)
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Feelings and perceptions of graduate students about their undergraduate nursing education
Laurie Caton-Lemos MS, FNP-C
University of Southern Maine Master's thesis.
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The Waste Land: A Poem of Memory and Desire
Nancy Gish PhD
Since its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's epic poem The Waste land has come to be considered the preeminent work of the modern period in English literature. In this enlightening guide to Eliot's masterpiece, Nancy K. Gish examines the history of its composition and, through careful analysis, reveals a poem that is both deeply personal in tone and universal in impact.
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Safe, Specific Testing and Rehabilitative Exercise for the Muscles of The Lumbar Spine
A Jones, M Pollock, James Graves PhD, M Fulton, W Jones, M MacMillan, D Baldwin, and J Cirulli
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What Socrates Began: An Examination of Intellect Vol. 1
University of Southern Maine
Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Symposium 1988
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What Socrates Began: An Examination of Intellect Vol. 2
University of Southern Maine
Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Symposium 1988
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Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, Transient Electric Birefringence, and Characterization of Particle Size Distributions in Colloidal Suspensions
Renliang Xu, James R. Ford PhD, and Benjamin Chu
Chapter 8 from Particle Size Distribution; edited by Theodore Provder.
Chapter abstract:
By using a combination of static and dynamic laser light scattering (LLS) and transient electric birefringence (TEB) we have been able to determine structural characteristics and size distributions of polydisperse disk-shaped particles (bentonite) in suspensions. In the limit of low concentration and scattering angle we obtained the weight-average molecular weight Mw, the z-average radius of gyration 1/2 and the second virial coefficient A2 from static light scattering measurements; at higher scattering angles we were able to estimate an average particle thickness. Photon correlation function measurements of both the polarized and the depolarized components of scattered light give us the average diffusion coefficients DT (translational) and DR (rotational) which can in turn be converted to average particle dimensions. Detailed analysis of characteristic linewidth distributions yield particle size distributions consistent with direct observations using electron microscopy. The TEB experiment provides us with the average optical polarizability difference Δα°, the ratio of permanent dipolar moment to electric polarizability difference, and the average rotational diffusion coefficient DR (TEB). Profile analysis of the decay curve yields a distribution of particle sizes consistent with the results from LLS.
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Medieval Courtesy Literature and Dramatic Mirrors of Female Conduct
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in The Ideology of Conduct.
As many historians have pointed out, the late Middle Ages was an era obsessed with codified and externalized behaviors. For aristocrats, such codes promised to maintain social identities at a time of blurring boundaries between upper and "middle" classes. However, the wealthy bourgeoisie and other upwardly mobile groups subverted the boundaries as they increasingly adopted aristocratic codes to define their new sense of worth and place in medieval society. Although the flourishing of courtesy literature during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was connected to both these impulses, I will be concerned here primarily with conduct books addressed to non-aristocratic women and their influence on the French and English cycle plays.
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Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth
Dale W. Jorgenson, Frank M. Gollop, and Barbara M. Fraumeni
Although the level of U.S. per capita output was higher than that of any other industrialized country at the end of World War II, output has increased by more than four times and per capita output has more than doubled. Empirical evidence has shifted the terms of professional debates over the importance of investment and productivity as sources of postwar growth. This volume traces this outstanding growth performance to investments in tangible assets and human capital. The distinctive feature of investment as a source of economic growth is that returns can be internalized by the investor. The most straightforward application of this idea is to investments that create property rights. These include rights to transfer the resulting assets and benefit from the incomes that are generated. This volume broadens the meaning of capital formation to include the investments in education and training. The contributions of these investments to economic growth can be identified from their impacts on labor incomes. After the slowdown in U.S. economic growth that began in 1973 it became apparent that economic research had failed to produce a satisfactory basis for policies to generate growth. This volume provides the starting point for development of a new consensus based on the policies that stimulate and reward investments in tangible assets and human capital. These policies will focus on returns that can be internalized by investors, ending the fruitless search for "spill overs" that can generate growth without providing incentives for capital formation.