Antarktida (Antarctica)

Forthcoming monography on Antarctica in Czech. Alert. Book Preview

Koinonia

The Purpose of Higher Education President\u27s Corner The Editor\u27s Disk CoCCA: Volunteer Service...Required? & Hot Ideas New Professionals Retreat, ACSD Archives Announcement Book Preview: What on Earth Are We Doing? ACSD Northwest Regional Activity Career Development: Much More Than Placementhttps://pillars.taylor.edu/acsd_koinonia/1025/thumbnail.jp

Work discussion. Some historical and theoretical observations.

Book Preview. Work Discussion brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external. Such a model depends on the development of hard-won capacities, and the descriptions offered here, both by students and by experienced staff, fully demonstrate the immense relevance of the approach, both to training and to a wide variety of work situations. The book outlines the process of the method itself, followed by descriptions of a range of settings, both in Britain and abroad, in which that method has been successfully applied. The contributors draw on experiences across age, culture, and race in, for example, schools, hospitals, residential homes, in a prison, and in a refugee community. The final chapter explores the implications of work discussion for research and policy-making more generally. Many of the situations narrated here are extreme, whether in terms of disturbance or of vulnerability, but they offer moving insights into how effective the method can be and how truly impressive a developmental model it provides

Library Focus (Fall 2008)

The Fall 2008 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring new Dean of Libraries, Carole Kiehl; Head of Bibliographic Services Ann Branton’s election as Vice President of the Mississippi Library Assoication; new furniture at the Gunter Library; the University Libraries’ Speaker series; the Children’s Book Preview; the 42nd Annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival. The issue also features new such electronic resources such as podcasts, a new Digital Collections interface, and a new web site for Special Collections.https://aquila.usm.edu/libraryfocus/1018/thumbnail.jp

Library Focus (Fall 2010)

The Fall 2010 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring a new search engine for patrons; the Gulf Coast Library\u27s membership with the The Foundation Center; a series of Science Café meetings; a donation from the Nippon Foundation; new additions to Cook and Gulf Coast Libraries; the 2010 Fall Book Preview; the Katrina Research Center\u27s Fashion Show; and summer activities in the Curriculum Materials Center. It also showcases exhibits featuring: the history of football at Southern Miss, Taiwan, and the works of Margaret and H.A. Rey.https://aquila.usm.edu/libraryfocus/1020/thumbnail.jp

Library Focus (Spring 2009)

The Spring 2009 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring a talk by author Louise Borden; Judy Blume’s Southern Miss Medallion award; a special celebration in honor of the late Coleen Salley; USM librarians elected to national and state positions; new resources in University Libraries; a film showing for Women’s History Month; a Gunter Library display celebrating Dr. Gordon Gunter; the Fall Book Preview. This issue features exhibits showcasing the Freedom Summer of 1964 and a Special Collections exhibit called Long Ago and Far Away. Library Focus was the 2008 recipient of the Mississippi Library Association’s Public Relations Award for Best Newsletter.https://aquila.usm.edu/libraryfocus/1033/thumbnail.jp

Library Focus (Fall 2009)

The Fall 2009 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the Mississippi Library Association Conference hosted at USM; the Fall Children’s Book Preview; a collection of memorabilia from the Gulf Park College for Women; a conference about the cultural and material history of fairy tales; the Curriculum Material Center’s Summer Reading Program; the Scholastic Book Fair; changes to the Digital Collections web site; an Institute of Museums and Library Services grant awarded to the University Libraries; the de Grummond collection’s acquisition of the Children’s Literature Association Award archives; new resources in Cook Library; and the Katrina Research Center.https://aquila.usm.edu/libraryfocus/1019/thumbnail.jp

Enabling Flexibility in Process-Aware Information Systems: Challenges, Methods, Technologies

In today’s dynamic business world, the success of a company increasingly depends on its ability to react to changes in its environment in a quick and flexible way. Companies have therefore identified process agility as a competitive advantage to address business trends like increasing product and service variability or faster time to market, and to ensure business IT alignment. Along this trend, a new generation of information systems has emerged—so-called process-aware information systems (PAIS), like workflow management systems, case handling tools, and service orchestration engines. With this book, Reichert and Weber address these flexibility needs and provide an overview of PAIS with a strong focus on methods and technologies fostering flexibility for all phases of the process lifecycle (i.e., modeling, configuration, execution and evolution). Their presentation is divided into six parts. Part I starts with an introduction of fundamental PAIS concepts and establishes the context of process flexibility in the light of practical scenarios. Part II focuses on flexibility support for pre-specified processes, the currently predominant paradigm in the field of business process management (BPM). Part III details flexibility support for loosely specified processes, which only partially specify the process model at build-time, while decisions regarding the exact specification of certain model parts are deferred to the run-time. Part IV deals with user- and data-driven processes, which aim at a tight integration of processes and data, and hence enable an increased flexibility compared to traditional PAIS. Part V introduces existing technologies and systems for the realization of a flexible PAIS. Finally, Part VI summarizes the main ideas of this book and gives an outlook on advanced flexibility issues. The attached pdf file gives a preview on Chapter 3 of the book which explains the book's overall structure

Easter Celebration

Easter is the most important solemnity (just before Christmas) of the Church. It is the first of the five cardinal feasts of the Catholic liturgical year. Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ laid down by the Bible, the third day after his passion. The solemnity begins on Easter Sunday, which for Catholics mark the end of fasting of Lent, and lasts for eight days (Easter week, or week or radiant, or week of eight Sundays). Many customs dating back to ancient times designed to accommodate the return of spring attached themselves to Easter. The egg is the symbol of germination occurs in early spring. Similarly, the hare is an ancient symbol which has always represented fertility. The custom of the Easter egg was found among Coptic Christians from the late fifth century, it is perhaps in memory of ardent eggs (ova ignita) with which the martyrs were tortured or red egg laid by an imperial hen the day of the birth of Alexander Severus in 208 BC. The tradition of offering eggs in spring dates back to antiquity: the Persians, the Egyptians offered, as a lucky, decorated hen eggs as renewal sign. The rabbit once symbolizing fertility and renewal (like spring), it was in Upper Germany where was born the tradition (Osterhase) before it spreads in the Germanic countries. Subsequently, this tradition is exported to the United States by German immigrants in the eighteenth century. CONTENTS: Easter - Date history - Religious celebrations - - Catholic Church - - Orthodox and Eastern Churches - - Evangelical Church - Popular festivals and traditions - Easter eggs - Easter eggs - - Symbolic - - History - - - The red eggs - - - Painted eggs, pissanka and precious eggs - - - Chocolate eggs - - Games and traditions - - - Egg hunting - - - Egg rolling - - - Egg battles - Ash Wednesday - Paschal Triduum - Easter Water - - Picking the Easter Water - - Properties of Easter Water - - - Physical properties - - - Spiritual or magical properties - - Washing in Water Easter - Paschal candle - - Rite of fire at Easter - - Using the paschal candle - Easter Monday - - Liturgical and religious significance - - Folk customs for Easter Monday - Easter Bunny - - Origin - - Alternatives - Osterbrunnen Easter food - Pastiera - - Origins - - - Mythical origin - - - Other origins - - Tradition - - Feature