Raelene Shippee-Rice, Associate Professor of Nursing travels to Bulgaria

Professor Shippee-Rice returned to Bulgaria after working for six months on a Fulbright grant, to conduct a seminar series on hospice care for nurses, physicians and social workers

Blessed Are The Peacemakers : Faith-Based Approaches To Dispute Resolution

This article explores and compares the faith-based dispute resolution philosophies and techniques of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and examines their interaction with the secular legal system

Quantitative investigation of inlet vortex flow field

March 1984Includes bibliographical references (leaf 126)A quantitative investigation of the flow field of an inlet in cross-wind has been carried out for various operating conditions, including flow regimes representative of aircraft engine inlets at take-off. The measurements were made to show the influence of two non-dimensional parameters, height of the inlet above the ground to the inlet diameter ratio (H/D), and velocity ratio (Ui/Ue), on the vortex strength (i.e., circulation) and the position of the vortex inside the inlet. In general, as H/D is decreased and/or Ui/Ue is increased, the vortex strengthens. In addition, at an operating condition where a strong inlet vortex was present, the circulation of both the inlet and trailing vortices was determined. These were found to be essentially equal in magnitude but opposite in sign, verifying a previous hypothesis concerning the vortical structure of the flow. Qualitative flow visualization has been done to examine two aspects of the inlet/trailing vortex flow field. One is the nature of the transition between regimes in which an inlet vortex is present and those in which no inlet vortex exists. The other deals with the extent of the separated region on the inlet body. The results of this study were used to support a conceptual model of the formation of an inlet/trailing vortex system for an inlet in a cross-wind.Air Force Office of Scientific Research Contract no. F49620-82-K-000

Uncovering Shakespeare\u27s Sisters in Special Collections and College Archives, Musselman Library

Foreword by Professor Suzanne J. Flynn I have taught the first-year seminar, Shakespeare’s Sisters, several times, and over the years I have brought the seminar’s students to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. There, the wonderful librarians have treated the students to a special exhibit of early women’s manuscripts and first editions, beginning with letters written by Elizabeth I and proceeding through important works by seventeen and eighteenth-century women authors such as Aemelia Lanyer, Anne Finch, Aphra Behn, and Mary Wollstonecraft. This year I worked with Carolyn Sautter, the Director of Special Collections and College Archives, to give my 2018 seminar students the opportunity to produce a sequel to the Folger exhibit of early modern women writers. Special Collections houses an impressive array of first editions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many of them acquired from Thomas Y. Cooper, the former editor of the Hanover Evening Sun newspaper, who donated over 1600 items to Musselman Library in 1965. Working with Kerri Odess-Harnish, we chose first editions of eight significant works of literature written by American and British women from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. The students worked in pairs, researching a single book and producing a report that outlines important biographical facts about the author, the book’s publication and reception history, and finally the significance of the book in the years since its publication. We hope that our project will draw attention to the wealth of literary treasures housed in Special Collections at Musselman Library, but especially to these works by eight of “Shakespeare’s Sisters.

Evaluation of Potential Protective Factors Against Metabolic Syndrome in Bottlenose Dolphins: Feeding and Activity Patterns of Dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida

Free-ranging bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) living in Sarasota Bay, Florida appear to have a lower risk of developing insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome compared to a group of dolphins managed under human care. Similar to humans, differences in diet and activity cycles between these groups may explain why Sarasota dolphins have lower insulin, glucose, and lipids. To identify potential protective factors against metabolic syndrome, existing and new data were incorporated to describe feeding and activity patterns of the Sarasota Bay wild dolphin community. Sarasota dolphins eat a wide variety of live fish and spend 10–20% of daylight hours foraging and feeding. Feeding occurs throughout the day, with the dolphins eating small proportions of their total daily intake in brief bouts. The natural pattern of wild dolphins is to feed as necessary and possible at any time of the day or night. Wild dolphins rarely eat dead fish or consume large amounts of prey in concentrated time periods. Wild dolphins are active throughout the day and night; they may engage in bouts of each key activity category at any time during daytime. Dive patterns of radio-tagged dolphins varied only slightly with time of day. Travel rates may be slightly lower at night, suggesting a diurnal rhythm, albeit not one involving complete, extended rest. In comparison, the managed dolphins are older; often fed a smaller variety of frozen-thawed fish types; fed fish species not in their natural diet; feedings and engaged activities are often during the day; and they are fed larger but fewer meals. In summary, potential protective factors against metabolic syndrome in dolphins may include young age, activity, and small meals fed throughout the day and night, and specific fish nutrients. These protective factors against insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are similar to those reported in humans. Further studies may benefit humans and dolphins

mLearning in the organizational innovation process

Mobile devices have connected seven billion users across the world (Sanou, 2015) reaching areas that go beyond the electrical grid (Nique and Smertnik, 2015). The ubiquity of mobile devices has created an advantage for organizations to leverage hardware compatible with reaching their target audiences. A strategic response is necessary to address the complexity of employing mobile technology for mobile learning (mLearning) in order to reach it’s full potential as a new learning medium (Peters, 2009). The purpose of this research study was to explore the process by which an organization adopted and engaged in an mLearning initiative. Built on Rogers (2003) diffusion of innovation research, the case study reports on the contextual factors within the organization and department that informed the mLearning adoption process. The researcher gathered observational data over one-year through active participant- observation within an organization’s technology solutions department. Serving as an instructional designer and gathering data as an academic researcher in the same setting allowed the researcher to gain an intimate view of the adoption process. To collect meaningful data the author used Activity Theory as a critical analysis lens and employed a research framework based on the stages of organizational adoption to understand the data in a longitudinal manner. The findings of this study suggest that the initial adoption of mLearning in the organization studied did not reach sustainable implementation because 1) no clear champion for mLearning existed and; 2) an untested mLearning product was heavily relied upon even though it was being developed in parallel to the mLearning implementation efforts. Interest in mLearning at the organization continued, outside departments desired an mLearning learning management system (LMS) to deliver content as soon as possible. Yet the organization simply was not prepared to accommodate due to delays in the mLearning product development. Keywords: Diffusion of Innovation, Technology Adoption, Activity Theory, Mobile Learnin

Cinema and the Portable Spectacle

This paper explores the relationship between the cinema and the political concept of the spectacle. The spectacle characterizes a society of passivity, social and psychological alienation, reality's absorption into representation, and capitalist acceleration. In the spectacle's early development, the cinema, in its mainstreams, was the art form most commensurate to the spectacle's ends. Moviegoers gather to submit to moving images that in some ways portray a world more convincing than lived reality itself. But as the spectacle has evolved to fit into our pockets, as media has become more immersive, interactive, and socially isolating, how has its relationship to cinema changed? As the project guided by the myth of "total cinema" is taken up by video games and virtual reality experiences, how do spectators relate differently to cinematic images? This paper argues that today the cinema today is a place to slow down, not to speed up; it can facilitate a shared artistic experience distinct from the individuated ones of streaming television and social media. Perhaps it can even be a space where spectators antagonize the unconscious qualities of their spectatorship.Purchase College SUNYCinema and Television StudiesBachelor of ArtsZarzosa Parcero, Agusti

Some Natural Waters of Central New York

The little stream from which the City of Oneida, New York, receives its water supply, and also the reservoir, are located in the midst of the Salina shales. In some places these shales contain notable quantities of gypsum, many times quite large masses of selenite