Bioinvasions: Breaching Natural Barriers

This Washington Sea Grant print publication, now posted on the web, is a good introduction to the history and science of bioinvasions. Provides definitions of native and non-native organisms, identifies introduced species, the pathways and characteristics of bioinvasions, and the habitat alterations that facilitate them. Case studies include the zebra mussel and green crab. Offers suggestions for how individuals can help and describes policy responses to aquatic introductions. Downloadable as a PDF file. Educational levels: Middle school, High school

Communicating You Are Worth It in a Noisy Marketplace

This paper provides guidance and specific examples of common elements needed for communicating the value proposition of liberal arts colleges to prospective students and families. In an environment where the worth of a college degree is questioned daily by the public and the mainstream media, this paper demonstrates how strategies that are distinctive, rooted in research and complementary to the institutional brand are imperative for communicating the worth of an institution. The paper suggests tactics to develop the key partnerships needed and provides metrics for how leaders can assess their value proposition initiatives

Communications

Various communications concerning previous topics covered in Performance Practice Revie

Communications

Various letters to the editor editorials combatting and defending previous articles and claims published in PPR

Communications

The communications sector of an economy comprises a range of technologies, physical media, and institutions/rules that facilitate the storage of information through means other than a society\u27s oral tradition and the transmission of that information over distances beyond the normal reach of human conversation. This chapter provides data on the historical evolution of a disparate range of industries and institutions contributing to the movement and storage of information in the United States over the past two centuries. These include the U.S. Postal Service, the newspaper industry, book publishing, the telegraph, wired and cellular telephone service, radio and television, and the Internet

Sub 1GHz M2M communications standardization: The advancement in white space utilization for enhancing the energy efficiency

Energy efficiency of machine to machine (M2M) communications terminals is one of the major design goals of M2M networks, resulting from anticipated over 50 billion M2M communications devices to be deployed into the networks by 2020 [1]. The stakeholders in the M2M communications have observed that it will be environmental and economic catastrophic to deploy M2M communications devices without solving the energy inefficiencies associated with wireless devices that are expected to be used for M2M communications. In view of the aforementioned energy challenge, sub 1GHz spectra have provided enormous opportunities that can be energy efficient, cost effective and coverage efficiency which can be utilized for M2M communications. This work will evaluate the energy efficiency benefits of optimized Sub 1GHz spectra for M2M communications

Gettysburg: Our College\u27s Magazine Spring 2016

From the President Janet Morgan Riggs \u2777 Table of Contents Scholarships Ensure Students a Broader, Global View (Craig Disher ’66) Jack Ryan: Vice Provost and Dean of Arts & Humanities Professor Jack Ryan From Father to Son to Sunderman (Frank Arbogast ’16) The 411: Suzanne Hermann Williams ’62 (Suzanne Hermann Williams ’62) Paying it Forward (Jack Duffy ’79) Making it Work: Public Archaeology (Paige Phillips ’12) The Writer\u27s Prompt was a Class Reunion Gettysburgreat: The Campaign for Our College Funds Sought for Music Tours (Joe ’75 and Susan Biernat ’77) Move-In Day is Memorable Shawna Sherrell Conversations Olympic-Sized Dreams (Andre Hinds ’16) The Mysteries of Golemo Gradište at Konjuh (Prof. Carolyn Snively, Katherine Haas ’10) The End of Fire Blight (Prof. Nikki Shariat, Jacob Marogi ’19, Dorothy Vosik ’19) Carina Sitkus The Bitters Biz (Ethan Hall ’11, Eric Kozlik ’11, Russell Garing ’11, Carolyn Margaret Murphy ’12) Carina Sitkus What Students Do: Engaging the Campus in Matters of Race (Ashley Fernandez ’16, Janet Morgan Riggs ’77, Troy Datcher ’90, Jeanne Arnold) What Makes Gettysburg Great: Broadcasting Public History (Jill Ogline Titus, Ian Isherwood ’00, Noah Wolfinger \u2719) Work that Makes a Difference: Inspiring Great Teaching (Anthony Angelini ’06) Save the Dates Class Notes Personal Lessons (Ian Isherwood \u2700) Plan Today to Impact Students Tomorrow (Betsy Haave Dougherty ’68)https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gburgmag/1007/thumbnail.jp

Dispersants and Risk Communication

Risk communications is a research area of the social sciences which is closely associated with human dimensions and external communications. External communications, traditionally in the purview of public affairs, may have multiple purposes including influencing public beliefs, opinions, and judgments about the incident. There are many approaches toward risk communications. Some of them focus on improving the way external communications about risks are conducted, e.g., developing better messages, and some focus on the content of risk communications, that is, sharing technical information to support the assessment of the potential for risks