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Digital Image Access & Retrieval
The 33th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 1996, addressed the theme of "Digital Image Access & Retrieval." The papers from this conference cover a wide range of topics concerning digital imaging technology for visual resource collections. Papers covered three general areas: (1) systems, planning, and implementation; (2) automatic and semi-automatic indexing; and (3) preservation with the bulk of the conference focusing on indexing and retrieval.published or submitted for publicatio
Does the Sport Industry Change the Game for Job Satisfaction?: A Case of Triple-A Ticket Office Employees
Business success continues to be influenced by employee job satisfaction because satisfied employees are more likely to produce quality work, stay motivated, and continue with the organization for a longer period of time. The research into job satisfaction has only gone as far as the business industry but has not yet reached the sport industry. Using the sport of baseball, interviews with ten Triple-A, International League ticket office employees uncovered there are many commonalities between the sport and business industries in terms of factors that influence job satisfaction. Therefore, sport organizations can likely utilize existing research in this area to increase employee job satisfaction
Using GLOBE Data to Analyze Land Cover
The purpose of the resource is to develop hypotheses about which environmental factors are most important to plants. Educational levels: Middle school, High school
B Physics and CP Violation
These lectures provide a basic overview of topics related to the study of CP
Violation in B decays. In the first lecture, I review the basics of discrete
symmetries in field theories, the quantum mechanics of neutral but
flavor-non-trivial mesons, and the classification of three types of CP
violation. The actual second lecture which I gave will be separately published
as it is my Dirac award lecture and is focussed on the separate topic of strong
CP Violation. In Lecture 2 here, I cover the Standard Model predictions for
neutral B decays, and in particular discuss some channels of interest for CP
Violation studies. Lecture 3 reviews the various tools and techniques used to
deal with the hadronic physics effects. In Lecture 4, I briefly review the
present and planned experiments that can study B decays. I cannot teach all the
details of this subject in this short course, so my approach is instead to try
to give students a grasp of the relevant concepts and an overview of the
available tools. The level of these lectures is introductory. I will provide
some references to more detailed treatments and current literature, but this is
not a review article so I do not attempt to give complete references to all
related literature. By now there are some excellent textbooks that cover this
subject in great detail. I refer students to these for more details and for
more complete references to the original literature.Comment: Lectures given at Particle Physics School, ICTP, Trieste, July 200
Touchstone Stars: Highlights from the Cool Stars 18 Splinter Session
We present a summary of the splinter session on "touchstone stars" -- stars
with directly measured parameters -- that was organized as part of the Cool
Stars 18 conference. We discuss several methods to precisely determine cool
star properties such as masses and radii from eclipsing binaries, and radii and
effective temperatures from interferometry. We highlight recent results in
identifying and measuring parameters for touchstone stars, and ongoing efforts
to use touchstone stars to determine parameters for other stars. We conclude by
comparing the results of touchstone stars with cool star models, noting some
unusual patterns in the differences.Comment: Proceedings of the 18th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar
Systems, and the Sun, Eds G. van Belle & H. Harri
Stratification Economics and Identity Economics
Stratification economics represents an important new approach devoted to explaining economic inequality in terms of how social groups are separated or stratified along economic lines. This paper combines stratification economics with identity economics to address complications that the phenomenon of intersectionality – people having multiple social group identities – creates for stratification economics. It distinguishes two types of social identities recognized by social psychologists, categorical and relational social identities, and uses this distinction to explain how individuals’ personal identities, understood as ordered sets of social identities, can be seen to be both socially and self-constructed. Individuals order and rank their categorical social identities according to weights they assign to them in interactive social settings in which their role-based relational social identities combine different categorical social identities. Recent research in social psychology in the stigma identity threat literature is then reviewed to distinguish two different ways in which individuals respond to others’ stigmatization of their social groups in interactive settings. The paper argues that individuals respond to stigma by assigning weights to their categorical social group identities in ways that reflect both functional power relationships and stigmatization in a way that on balance tend to reinforce social stratification
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