Hiding in Plain Sight: Higher Education Pink and Blue Collar Staff Experiences as Returning Adult Learners, Workers, and Family Members

This study focuses upon a sometimes invisible subset of adult learners: higher education staff members. The participant interviews are part of a pilot study intended to create increased understanding of how these unique adult learners experience their environments. This paper focuses upon one central work/school theme, ‘knowing your place’

Report from the Public Health Information Group’s meeting. National Central Library of Rome 14th EAHIL Conference. 11-13 June 2014, Rome

The Public Health Information Group met on the first official day of the conference with the meeting led by the cochairsTomas Allen (WHO, Switzerland) and Sue Thomas (Health Promotion Library Wales) with seventeenparticipants. The countries represented at the meeting were the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Denmark, Italy,Norway, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. There was a strong representation fromdifferent organisations with different perspectives on public health

Report from Public Health Information Group’s Meeting in EAHIL 2015 Edinburgh Workshop

The Public Health Information Group gathered on Thursday 11th in the Main Library. The meeting was led by Co-Chairs Tomas Allen (WHO, Switzerland) and Sue Thomas (Wales, UK). We had 19 participants and the countries represented were Czech Republic, Finland, The Netherlands, Dutch Caribbean, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda and United Kingdom

The Challenges Associated with Change in 4-H/Youth Development

This article discusses a study documenting the beliefs about proactive change among volunteers and Extension staff who develop policy for local Indiana 4-H Programs. Data analysis indicated that volunteers believe in the core values of the 4-H Program; recommend that the 4-H Program should reach more and different youth; and believe that the program\u27s rural image inhibits progress in these areas. Staff interactions with volunteers, lack of parental involvement, policy-making group organization and structure, and youth representation were cited as barriers to a more open, inclusive organization. The article makes recommendations based on the study\u27s findings and suggests topics for further research

Ab initio molecular dynamics calculations of ion hydration free energies

We apply ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) methods in conjunction with the thermodynamic integration or "lambda-path" technique to compute the intrinsic hydration free energies of Li+, Cl-, and Ag+ ions. Using the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof functional, adapting methods developed for classical force field applications, and with consistent assumptions about surface potential (phi) contributions, we obtain absolute AIMD hydration free energies (Delta G(hyd)) within a few kcal/mol, or better than 4%, of Tissandier 's [J. Phys. Chem. A 102, 7787 (1998)] experimental values augmented with the SPC/E water model phi predictions. The sums of Li+/Cl- and Ag+/Cl- AIMD Delta G(hyd), which are not affected by surface potentials, are within 2.6% and 1.2 % of experimental values, respectively. We also report the free energy changes associated with the transition metal ion redox reaction Ag++Ni+-> Ag+Ni2+ in water. The predictions for this reaction suggest that existing estimates of Delta G(hyd) for unstable radiolysis intermediates such as Ni+ may need to be extensively revised.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures. This version is essentially the one published in J. Chem. Phy