First Year Experience: Writing Matters

Cover and table of contents from the class journal, Writing Matters, produced for the fall 2011 class with instructors Dr. Katherine Schmidt and Dr. Karen Sullivan-Vance. Student submissions were bound together for the Symposium. Assignment: to craft content that matters and to prepare a product that is ready for publication and a public reading. Write to the most important person in your life: describe why they have made such an impact on your life and how you imagine their influence will affect your future; or choose a life-changing event and write to your future self: describe the event, explain why the event has been significant to you, and project how you think the experience should/will influence you in the future

Circular 101

This study was made possible by the financial support of the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation

Umoja 101

The Student group Umoja hosted an event allowing students to learn more about the organization and its resources through networking with current members.Student Activities Offic

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Understanding the Doctrine of Patentable Subject Matter

The doctrine of patentable subject matter precludes basic inventions such as abstract ideas and laws of nature from patent protection. However, current economic thinking of the patent systemstresses the necessity of rewarding pioneering inventors in the cumulative innovation process. In a two-stage innovation modelwhere the first stage invention (basic invention) has no stand-alone value and the pioneer can also participate in the second stage, I show that patent protection to the basic invention may increase rather than hamper the second stage performance. Rejecting patents on the basic invention can promote technology progress when the pioneer has high capacity, but the follower has low capacity to engage in the second stage innovation

Localised Laryngeal Amyloidosis Endoscopic Excision -A Case Report

Abstract:We report a case of primary laryngeal amyloidosis in a 35 year old adult patient who presented with hoarseness of voice for 6 months duration with no other symptoms. Patient was treated successfully with endoscopic excision using a microdebrider with a laryngeal blade and review of literature.Keywords: laryngeal amyloid .  Endoscopy . Debrider

Exploring concepts of health with male prisoners in three category-C English prisons

Lay understandings of health and illness have a well established track record and a plethora of research now exists which has examined these issues. However, there is a dearth of research which has examined the perspectives of those who are imprisoned. This paper attempts to address this research gap. The paper is timely given that calls have been made to examine lay perspectives in different geographical locations and a need to re-examine health promotion approaches in prison settings. Qualitative data from thirty-six male sentenced prisoners from three prisons in England were collected. The data was analysed in accordance with Attride-Stirling's (2001) thematic network approach. Although the men's perceptions of health were broadly similar to the general population, some interesting findings emerged which were directly related to prison life and its associated structures. These included access to the outdoors and time out of their prison cell, as well as maintaining relationships with family members through visits. The paper proposes that prisoners' lay views should be given higher priority given that prison health has traditionally been associated with medical treatment and the bio-medical paradigm more generally. It also suggests that in order to fulfil the World Health Organization's (WHO) vision of viewing prisons as health promoting settings, lay views should be recognised to shape future health promotion policy and practice