Bernhard Heck and Hungary

A personal welcome greetings of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and the Earth Sciences Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) in a commemorative publication book compiled on the occasion of the retirement of Professor Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Heck

Robert O\u27Neil Bristow Papers - Accession 3

Robert O’Neil Bristow (1926-2018) was an accomplished writer, author, and professor of journalism at Winthrop College from 1962-1987. The Robert O. Bristow Papers consist of drafts, revisions, galley proofs, notices of publication, book reviews, promotional literature and photographs, mainly related to the sale, publication, promotion and review of four Bristow novels: Time for Glory was published in 1968, Night Season in 1970, A Faraway Drummer in 1972 and Laughter in Darkness was originally called Rebel in Darkness. The papers cover the period from 1961-1974 with all of the material pertaining to the four published novels extending from 1967 to 1974.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2616/thumbnail.jp

Unto Edification: A Quarter Century of The Christian Librarian

This editor sincerely wishes it were possible to honor today the invitation extended in the first issue of The Christian Librarian: If you would like to receive this newsletter regularly, send $.50. lt was worth every penny of it, and we trust that those early editors would be able to say the same of The Christian. Librarian as it appears today at current prices

Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impacts of Immigration

The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on wages and employment of native-born workers. While we have shown that the labour market impacts in terms of wages and employment are rather small, the sample of studies available to generate comparable effect sizes was severely limited by the heterogeneity in study approaches. In the present paper, we take an encompassing approach and consider a broad range of labour market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published between 1982 and 2007 for a total of 1,572 effect sizes. We trichotomise the various labour market outcomes as benefiting, harming or not affecting the native born, and use an ordered probit model to assess the relationship between this observed impact and key study characteristics such as type of country, methodology, period of investigation and type of migrant.immigration, labour market, factor substitution, comparative research, meta-analysis

Teaching effective communication through e-Learning

To meet the needs of a globalized world, a university curriculum needs to address theoretical and practical skills which emphasise versatility, adaptability and flexibility for a more creative workforce, adaptive in knowledge and well-equipped with a range of skills to actively contribute to the new economy. These skills include people management, problem analysis, communication skills, as well as technical skills for presentation, aspects of delivery and modes of enquiry. The greatest challenge faced by SIM University (UniSIM), Singapore’s only university for working adults, is how to respond innovatively to the demand for new and dynamic skills competencies,lifelong learning and e-technologies. In recognition of this demand, UniSIM employs an eclectic pedagogical approach in delivering its courses such as the university core module entitled Effective Communication which uses the “blended learning” model, defined as "the effective combination of different modes of delivery, models of teaching and styles of learning" (Procter, 2003). This paper examines the development process of this course and its blended learning approach which combines modern technology using interactive learning on e-platforms such as Blackboard with traditional methods using textbooks, face-to-face lectures and tutorials to enable working adults to optimize their learning experience at the tertiary level

Ontology Winnowing: A Case Study on the AKT Reference Ontology

Many ontologies are built for the main purpose of representing a domain, rather than to meet the requirements of a specific application. When applications and services are deployed over an ontology, it is sometimes the case that only few parts of the ontology are queried and used. Identifying which parts of an ontology are being used could useful for realising the necessary fragments of the ontology to run the applications. Such information could be used to winnow an ontology, i.e., simplifying or shrinking the ontology to smaller, more fit for purpose sizes. This paper presents a study on the use of the AKT Reference Ontology by a number of applications and services, and investigate the possibility of using this information to winnow that ontology