Buses and Boards: Making the right choice

From motherboard to backplane to blade based computer systems, the choices are numerous. This paper will cover the markets and trends within those markets that influence decisions made by board suppliers. Discussion will focus on the various form factors, the development and evolution of industry standards, and the consortia that support and develop these standards, including VITA, PICMG, and others. This paper will conclude with suggestions for choosing the right form factor for your application

Feast of Nations Dinner

Goals of Feast of Nations Dinner: Educate students about international cuisines. Broaden the palates of WMU student to include flavor profiles that are authentic to the cuisine of the region. Utilize fresh vegetables and other fresh, authentic and natural ingredients in the preparation of the dinner, such that the overall quality is that of fine dining. Serve a memorable meal students will enjoy as part of their total experience as part of the WMU community. Enhance the culinary skills of Dining Services. Gain confidence and excitement about preparing international cuisines such that international dishes are successfully added the dining menus. Promote diversity and international competency in support of the mission and goals of our great university. Have fun, share good food, and promote and celebrate Dining\u27s connection to our students

Book Review: Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945

Author: Bastiaan Willems Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Gipper, US Air Force, faculty development scholar, Air University Through an analysis of the German Wehrmacht\u27s barbarization toward the end of World War II, Violence in Defeat provides a useful and cautionary case study on military effectiveness, distinction, and necessity. Reviewer Daniel Gipper highlights the book\u27s particular contributions to the literature, particularly the examination of German violence against German citizens, which Gipper notes is a widely overlooked event. Gipper also notes the book\u27s value for reexamining long-standing assumptions about unit cohesion.https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters_bookshelf/1037/thumbnail.jp

On the role of translation in the stabilization of national scientific cultures

Translation is usually understood primarily as a mediating movement between different cultural and linguistic spheres. Recent translation studies, on the other hand, have often emphasised that translations not only facilitate the crossing of national borders, but also contribute significantly to the establishment of the very borders they subsequently overcome. The same phenomenon can be observed in the emerging sciences. This seems all the more remarkable given that in view of the decidedly universalist self-conception of the sciences, one would hardly expect translations to have their role in the stabilisation of national scholarly spheres. The present article aims to show how translation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was not only a precondition for the emergence of science as a transnational project, but also contributed significantly to the development of national scientific communities and cultures

Home Ownership in City Core Neighborhoods

This analysis employs a traditional methodology to reproduce American Community Survey (ACS) data as those data would be if neighborhoods within the city of Kalamazoo were recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau. By aggregating publicly available ACS information from recognized census geographies, rates of home ownership and home values within three city neighborhoods are estimated. Home ownership rates by race are approximated. Rates of homeownership in the Eastside neighborhood are similar to those across Kalamazoo County and the state of Michigan. While all three neighborhoods have lower average values of owned homes relative to their county and state neighbors, home values in the Edison neighborhood are higher on average than those in the other analyzed neighborhoods. Although home ownership rates and home values show signs of being lower in the Northside neighborhood relative to the other analyzed neighborhoods, these differences could not be confirmed statistically