Virtual Research Environments for Environmental and Earth Sciences: Approaches and Experiences

Virtual Research Environments (VREs) are playing an increasingly important role in data centric sciences. Also, the concept is known as Science Gateways in North America where generally the functionality is portal plus workflow deployment and Virtual Laboratories in Australia where the end-user can compose a complete system from the user interface to use of e-Infrastructures by a 'pick and mix' process from the offered assets. The key aspect is to provide an environment wherein the end-user - researcher, policymaker, commercial enterprise or citizen scientist - has available with an integrating interface all the assets needed to achieve their objectives. These aspects are explored through different approaches related to ENVRI

Beverage management: A curriculum needs assessment for undergraduate hospitality education

This study assessed the need for beverage management curricula and the competencies entry level beverage managers must possess. Data were generated by two survey instruments: (1) a personal interview, and (2) a mail survey. The interview utilized a snowball sample of 35 hospitality educators and industry experts. The sample selection for the mail survey included 244 domestic hotel properties and 366 domestic restaurant properties. Study results indicate a need for a beverage management major. Competencies identified as important (training, communication, cost control, and leadership skills), along with other responses, will form the basis of beverage management curriculum at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and possibly at other four year universities

Alan Sillitoe e l’Universo Capovolto della Letteratura Trash

Working-class fiction emerged in Britain as a discourse of subcultural diversity targeting the bourgeois dominant culture and its expressive forms. Even in the post-war years, when working-class cultural production fed a short-term curiosity for slum life, proletarian novelists were never bestowed the literary dignity that was granted instead to mainstream writers. They continued to speak from the cultural margins of British society until their voice merged with those of other ill-treated and unempowered social minorities, becoming part of a broader indistinct subcultural otherness. The loss of cultural identity and the popularity enjoyed by more daring and subversive literary forms pushed the working-class writer further away from the ivory tower of English Literature.This essay discusses the case of Alan Sillitoe to show how he lampooned highbrow literature in the novel Life Goes On (1985). Drawing upon Mikail Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque, the essay hopes to demonstrate how Sillitoe turned the literary hierarchy upside-down, giving legitimation to a motley-crew of grotesque storytellers living in a nether world of consummate liars and squalid drug-traffickers. Sillitoe’s profanation of literature has serious overtones that ultimately challenge those criteria of the literary establishment that mark the divide between high and low art.Nel Regno Unito la narrativa proletaria si pose sin dal principio come sottocultura in antagonismo con le forme espressive dell’egemonia letteraria. Nonostante la transitoria popolarità riscossa dalla slum fiction nel secondo dopoguerra, lo scrittore working class non godette mai dello stesso status concesso ai narratori che furono ritenuti capaci di onorare i criteri del canone. La loro marginalità finì col confondersi con quella di altre minoranze. La forte identità culturale, un tempo da essi vantata, fu progressivamente erosa dall’emergere di nuove e più audaci forme letterarie che spinsero lo scrittore proletario sempre più lontano dalla torre d’avorio della letteratura di alto profilo.Questo saggio propone una lettura Bachtiniana di Life Goes On, un romanzo picaresco pubblicato da Alan Sillitoe nel 1985, al fine di mostrare come l’universo carnevalesco dell’opera, in cui trovano spazio un manipolo di grotteschi scrittori trash, rappresenti, attraverso la profanazione del decoro letterario, una fugace sospensione della parola conforme, la liberazione dal limite, dal criterio selettivo che stabilisce la linea di confine tra l’arte canonica e quella che se ne discosta

More than a Feeling: A Study on Conditions that Promote Historical Empathy in Middle and Secondary Social Studies Classes with The Elizabeth Jennings Project

Historical empathy (HE) is refers to deep inquiry in which academic and emotional responses to historical content are shaped through source analysis of the actions, motives, perspectives, and beliefs of people in the past. There are limited studies about whether students demonstrate HE through analysis of underrepresented historical figures. Additionally, studies are limited on how students’ social identities influence demonstration of HE. Consequently, there is a gap in the literature with regard to whether source analysis of underrepresented historical figures, as well as students’ social identities, impact demonstration of HE and critical race consciousness (CRC). Elizabeth Jennings is an example of an underrepresented historical figure. She was an African American teacher who was forcibly ejected from a streetcar due to her race in 1854. Jennings sued the streetcar company and won. Although Jennings set an important precedent for African Americans to use the legal system to challenge antebellum segregation ordinances, she remains a relatively obscure historical figure. The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not an instructional unit about Elizabeth Jennings called “The Elizabeth Jennings Project” (EJP) promotes conditions conducive for student demonstration of HE and/or CRC. A case study of one middle and two high school classes was conducted at one private, non-secular school in an urban area of the Northeast. Instructional methods that best promoted HE included in-class discussion and debate. Students provided insights about their social identities during focus group sessions with regard to how the EJP fostered HE and CRC

Alan Sillitoe and the Topsy Turvy Universe of Trash Literature

Working-class fiction emerged in Britain as a discourse of subcultural diversity targeting the bourgeois dominant culture and its expressive forms. Even in the post-war years, when working-class cultural production fed a short-term curiosity for slum life, proletarian novelists were never bestowed the literary dignity that was granted instead to mainstream writers. They continued to speak from the cultural margins of British society until their voice merged with those of other ill-treated and unempowered social minorities, becoming part of a broader indistinct subcultural otherness. The loss of cultural identity and the popularity enjoyed by more daring and subversive literary forms pushed the working-class writer further away from the ivory tower of English Literature. This essay discusses the case of Alan Sillitoe to show how he lampooned highbrow literature in the novel Life Goes On (1985). Drawing upon Mikail Bakhtin’s notion of the carnivalesque, the essay hopes to demonstrate how Sillitoe turned the literary hierarchy upside-down, giving legitimation to a motley-crew of grotesque storytellers living in a nether world of consummate liars and squalid drug-traffickers. Sillitoe’s profanation of literature has serious overtones that ultimately challenge those criteria of the literary establishment that mark the divide between high and low art

Advanced technology in the risk stratification-based strategy: The way forward to keep going

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