Editor\u27s Note

Excerpt When I first learned that my institution, Nova Southeastern University (NSU), was acquiring Experiential Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE), I was immediately struck by two seemingly disparate emotions: elation and apprehension. On one hand, I was grateful for the opportunity to join the journal as Managing Editor, especially since I revel in overseeing a prospective author’s writing process. It is such an amazing experience assisting authors with their ideas and watching as an initial node of thought materializes on the page, enduring and withstanding countless drafting, revising, and editing suggestions, before finally arriving at its final form. Indeed, this was an exciting time for those of us involved in the journal’s transition from Southern Utah University (SUU) to NSU. Beyond the excitement many of us felt, I personally could not evade my sense of apprehension. As someone familiar with ELTHE’s catalogue and the important voices that have graced the pages of this journal, my concern regarded how we would rise to the occasion and sustain the incredible foundation laid by the editors, reviewers, and authors that came before us. After all, the journal’s inaugural Editor, Kurt Harris, did not shy away from setting a grand objective for the journal in his “A Note from the Editor,” writing that: “[the goal of ELTHE] is to build an internationally recognized and oft-cited journal” that is “dedicated to the promotion of experiential learning and teaching specifically in higher education.” (“A Note,” 2017). With Harris’ mandate in mind, Dr. Kevin Dvorak—the journal’s incoming Editor-in-Chief—and I immediately got to work laying out a plan for how we would push ELTHE into the future

The State of Black America

Editor\u27s note: Howard University was the setting on January 14 for the release of the National Urban League\u27s annual status report on the condition of Black Americans and other disadvantaged minorities in the United States Coming barely a week before a new chief executive moved into the White House, the report paints a gloomy picture of 1980 and forecasts the same for 1981 At the January 14 press conference, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr .. president of the National Urban League, while seeing no oroqress in 1980 and predicting conditions to be even worse in 1981, called on the incoming Administration to act with sincerity. The State of Black America By Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. We don\u27t intend to let the Administration, the Congress, or the private sector off the hook. We insist that the assumption of power demands the assumption of responsibility. And the prime responsibility must be to improve the conditions of America\u27s disadvantaged millions. I hope (the President) understands that racial disadvantage and renewed racism are among the most serious of those problems Excerpts from Jordan\u27s statement at the press conference appea+G323r in the following pages, along with eight summaries of key papers in the 322-page State of Black America repor

Real-time refocusing using an FPGA-based standard plenoptic camera

Plenoptic cameras are receiving increased attention in scientific and commercial applications because they capture the entire structure of light in a scene, enabling optical transforms (such as focusing) to be applied computationally after the fact, rather than once and for all at the time a picture is taken. In many settings, real-time inter active performance is also desired, which in turn requires significant computational power due to the large amount of data required to represent a plenoptic image. Although GPUs have been shown to provide acceptable performance for real-time plenoptic rendering, their cost and power requirements make them prohibitive for embedded uses (such as in-camera). On the other hand, the computation to accomplish plenoptic rendering is well structured, suggesting the use of specialized hardware. Accordingly, this paper presents an array of switch-driven finite impulse response filters, implemented with FPGA to accomplish high-throughput spatial-domain rendering. The proposed architecture provides a power-efficient rendering hardware design suitable for full-video applications as required in broadcasting or cinematography. A benchmark assessment of the proposed hardware implementation shows that real-time performance can readily be achieved, with a one order of magnitude performance improvement over a GPU implementation and three orders ofmagnitude performance improvement over a general-purpose CPU implementation

Barnes Hospital Bulletin

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The Transition to...Open Access

This report describes and draws conclusions from the transition of the Association for Learning Technology’s journal Research in Learning Technology from toll-access to Open Access, and from being published by one of the "big five" commercial publishers to being published by a specialist Open Access publisher. The focus of the report is on what happened in the run-up to and after the transition, rather than on the process of deciding to switch between publishing models, which is covered in in ALT's 2011 report "Journal tendering for societies: a brief guide" - http://repository.alt.ac.uk/887/

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The Daily Texan

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