Status of Wildlife Conservation Education in Selected Two-year Colleges

Vocational-Technical and Career Educatio

Auditory inspection time and intelligence

This thesis studied the association between auditory inspection time (AIT) and psychometric measures of verbal and non-verbal cognitive abilities. I review attempts to search for basic information processing components that predict intelligence (Chapter 1), attempts to relate auditory processing speed to intelligence (Chapter 2), and attempts to relate acuity of sensory discrimination to intelligence (Chapter 3). These reviews establish certain essential requirements for a plan of research on auditory inspection time. Chapter 4 described the development of a modified AIT test. In a study of 120 undergraduates, the modified AIT test showed improved subject performance characteristics over previous AIT tasks, and AIT thresholds had low to moderate correlations with visual IT thresholds and with verbal and non-verbal cognitive ability scores. Chapter 5 described two studies. Study 1 included 84 undergraduates and showed that the AIT test had a very high split-half reliability and that about two-thirds of subjects who could perform the AIT task had response performance curves which fitted a cumulative normal ogive. The association between AIT and verbal ability appeared stronger than the AIT-non-verbal ability association in 34 of the subjects; this was also found in Study 2 which tested 119 11-year-olds. Unspeeded pitch discrimination showed a small but significant association with verbal ability in children but not in undergraduates. Results from neither study supported the suggestion that pitch discrimination was the basis for the AIT-cognitive ability association. Chapters 6 and 7 examined the associations among AIT, unspeeded pitch discrimination and an auditory backward masking recognition task which was dubbed the 'Raz' task. It was found that all three tasks were reliable, prone to practice effects and showed high intercorrelations. The AIT and Raz tasks appeared to share common variance not related to pitch discrimination. In a confirmatory factor analysis of over 100 13-year-olds latent variables from the three auditory tests representing auditory processing speed and pitch discrimination both had significant associations with a factor common to verbal and non-verbal intelligence, though speed was the more important factor. Chapter 8 reported the results of a longitudinal study of AIT and cognitive ability in over 100 children from age 11 to age 13. Using structural modelling techniques to create competing causal models and then testing these for goodness-of-fit to the data, some support was found for the suggestion that auditory processing abilities at age 11 might have a causal influence on later verbal and non-verbal abilities rather than the converse. Chapter 9 provided a thematic resume of the studies conducted in the thesis. It was concluded that the corrected AIT-cognitive ability association was in the region of -0.5, and that some progress had been made in explaining this association. In addition, a strong plea was made for AIT and visual IT to be integrated with other models of auditory and visual information processing which exist. Suggestions were made for future research on auditory and visual processing and intelligence

Images on the Move

In contemporary society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small and portable screens. Accordingly, the discourses of spreadability and circulation have come to supersede the focus on production, indexicality, and manipulability, which had dominated early conceptions of digital photography and film. However, the mobility of images is neither technologically nor conceptually limited to the realm of the digital. The edited volume re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move - ranging from wired photography to postcards to streaming media

Images on the Move: Materiality - Networks - Formats

In contemporary society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small and portable screens. Accordingly, the discourses of spreadability and circulation have come to supersede the focus on production, indexicality, and manipulability, which had dominated early conceptions of digital photography and film. However, the mobility of images is neither technologically nor conceptually limited to the realm of the digital. The edited volume re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move - ranging from wired photography to postcards to streaming media

Guides of the Atlas: An Ethnography of Publicness, Transnational Cooperation and Mountain Tourism in Morocco

How do digital media technologies shape or restructure social practice? And which transitions and demarcations of different forms of publicness arise in this context? The author examines this question in his ethnography of everyday life in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. In order to approach the ongoing, historically situated social transformations of the region, he analyses a variety of media practices concerning the organizational work and transnational cooperation that take place there - in particular at the intersection of mountain tourism, NGO work, and local self-government

Mind, body, and the philosophical theology of Donald M. MacKay

In this thesis, we are seeking to examine a relatively narrow aspect of the work of Donald M. MacKay. In particular, we are seeking to examine his work in relation to a very specific problem as it presents itself to a relatively specific group of people. The problem we will seek MacKay's help in working through is what has come to be known by contemporary Anglo/American philosophers as 'the mind/body problem'. The group of people we will be attempting to help deal with this problem is the contemporary evangelical Christian Church.What we are dealing with is essentially a contemporary problem as it relates to a contemporary system of belief. Though in this sense, this thesis is decidedly not historical, it must be acknowledged that the historical roots of both the system of belief it sets out to preserve and the problem it sets out to work through run very deeply. In fact, even before God's people were called 'the Christian Church', there was a mind/body problem—and ever since the Church took up the task of explaining her beliefs, something like the mind/body problem has been an issue.After introducing the mind/body problem as it relates to the contemporary evangelical Christian Church in chapter 1 and the career of Donald MacKay as it relates to the mind/body problem in chapter 2, we proceeded to explain MacKay's metaphysical anthropology.The key to understanding MacKay's metaphysical anthropology is his understanding of logical complementarity. Accordingly, we devoted chapter 3 to the task of expositing his work in that area before proceeding, in chapter 4, to explain in more detail how this understanding related to the mind/body problem. We saw in chapter 4 that MacKay's understanding of logical complementarity allowed him to say that human beings are multi-faceted creatures—creatures that may be meaningfully described in many different kinds of ways. Most significantly, MacKay argued that although mental descriptions and physical descriptions necessitate radically different standpoints, they do not necessitate substantially different subjects.In saying that mental descriptions and physical descriptions can apply to human beings with equal validity, however, he raised the following objections from other evangelicals: 1) If physical descriptions really apply to me in the same way that mental descriptions do, and the subjects ofphysical descriptions must always obey the mechanical laws of cause and effect, how can /be said to befree? And 2) If mental descriptions and physical descriptions really apply to the same 'me', how can I reasonably hope for mental life after my body dies?Since MacKay dealt with this first objection rather extensively and consistently throughout his academic life, Chapter 5 was devoted to explaining and evaluating his response.With regard to the second objection, however, MacKay seems to have altered his position somewhat in the final years of his career. Since this alteration in his position may have been at least partly due to the complexity ofrelated theological issues, we spent the first half of chapter 6 explaining these complex issues by investigating the related controversies in biblical, philosophical, and systematic Mind, Body, and the Philosophical Theology of Donald M. MacKay theology during MacKay's lifetime. In the second half of chapter 6, we explained the shift in MacKay's position relative to this second objection as it relates to these theological controversies

Images on the Move

In contemporary society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small and portable screens. Accordingly, the discourses of spreadability and circulation have come to supersede the focus on production, indexicality, and manipulability, which had dominated early conceptions of digital photography and film. However, the mobility of images is neither technologically nor conceptually limited to the realm of the digital. The edited volume re-examines the historical, aesthetical, and theoretical relevance of image mobility. The contributors provide a materialist account of images on the move - ranging from wired photography to postcards to streaming media