All about Ecuador

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Madison Perla describes her observations during her study abroad program at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador

Measuring Employee Perceptions of Organizational Tolerance for Failure

The empirical concept of Organizational Tolerance for Organizational Failure was examined. First, a clear definition of the concept was established and, second, the concept\u27s dimensionality was explored. Based on data collected from 140 participants, four main scale components were identified: Organizational Values and Beliefs, Organizational and Supervisor Support and Motivation, Compensation and Reward Systems, and Recognition. Even though the final scale developed represented a good research base, further development is needed to improve some of the subscale\u27s internal consistencies

An isoperimetric inequality for the Wiener sausage

Let $(\xi(s))_{s\geq 0}$ be a standard Brownian motion in $d\geq 1$ dimensions and let $(D_s)_{s \geq 0}$ be a collection of open sets in $\R^d$. For each $s$, let $B_s$ be a ball centered at 0 with \vol(B_s) = \vol(D_s). We show that \E[\vol(\cup_{s \leq t}(\xi(s) + D_s))] \geq \E[\vol(\cup_{s \leq t}(\xi(s) + B_s))], for all $t$. In particular, this implies that the expected volume of the Wiener sausage increases when a drift is added to the Brownian motion

Mixing times and moving targets

We consider irreducible Markov chains on a finite state space. We show that the mixing time of any such chain is equivalent to the maximum, over initial states $x$ and moving large sets $(A_s)_s$, of the hitting time of $(A_s)_s$ starting from $x$. We prove that in the case of the $d$-dimensional torus the maximum hitting time of moving targets is equal to the maximum hitting time of stationary targets. Nevertheless, we construct a transitive graph where these two quantities are not equal, resolving an open question of Aldous and Fill on a "cat and mouse" game

Introduction: migrating heritage - experiences of cultural networks and cultural dialogue in Europe

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