Getting every kid outdoors: Notes from the field

The evolution of programs to encourage grade-schoolers to get out into parks

Homer, Lady Day and Elvis: The Postmodern Poetics of the Centers

One of the most common reactions people have when they visit the William Paterson University Writing Center is to comment upon the décor. Who puts up all these weird postcards? Why are characters from The Simpsons all over the place? What is up with all the gorillas? Who takes care of the plants? And who, pray tell, is obsessed with Elvis? He seems to be everywhere around here, along with Groucho Marx, John Lennon, Charlie Parker, Billy Holiday, and Bob Marley.University Writing Cente

Rationalism and Empiricism in Modern Medicine

The roots of rationalism and empiricism in the Hippocratic tradition are explored. The triumph of the rationalists in the founding of modern medicine is emphasized. The development of clinical epidemiology and the evidence-based medicine over the last 30 years is described. The tension illuminates fundamental clinical and policy questions that doctors, the health care system, and the legal system confront today

General aviation's meteorological requirements

Communication of weather theory and information about weather service products to pilots in an accurate and comprehensible manner is essential to flying safety in general. Probably no one needs weather knowledge more than the people who fly through it. The specific subject of this overview is General Aviation's Meteorological Requirements

Level raising and completed cohomology

We describe an application of Poincar\'e duality for completed homology spaces (as defined by Emerton) to level raising for p-adic modular forms. This allows us to give a new description of the image of Chenevier's p-adic Jacquet-Langlands map between an eigencurve for a definite quaternion algebra and an eigencurve for GL(2). The points on the eigencurve at which we "raise the level" are (non-smooth) points of intersection between an "old" and a "new" component.Comment: 7 pages. Some small changes and reference update