The Organization of a functional library for the Mound City, Kansas, high school

The nature of the educative process widespread throughout the United States, with its emphasis upon textbooks and uniform learning, has tended to make the school library appear as an extra rather than an essential. Consequently, money has been spent on the library only when left over from other departments. Many teachers encouraged the pupil to use the library solely for leisure reading or for some other information if, or sometimes after, lessons were done. Administration in many schools have not been educational leaders. They have stood by and have been unaffected by controversies over teaching methods and materials to be used. Many of our schools have not been able, due to inadequate funds or shortsighted administrators and teachers, to maintain suitable physical facilities for their school libraries. As a result of these unfortunate circumstances, many, no doubt, being unpreventable, we have today in the majority of our school libraries a dire need to added space, more and better books, visual materials, and trained full-time and part-time librarians. Mound City High School is no exception to the rule, being the product of a district heavily taxed to maintain the minimum requirements for public schools. It is in need of a program which will start the school library upward, making it an adequate service institution and thereby improving the standards of the whole school system. With this in mind the writer will attempt, in this problem, to set forth basic recommendations fundamental to the organization of a functional library

The Organization of a functional library for the Mound City, Kansas, high school

The nature of the educative process widespread throughout the United States, with its emphasis upon textbooks and uniform learning, has tended to make the school library appear as an extra rather than an essential. Consequently, money has been spent on the library only with left over from other departments. Many teachers encouraged the pupil to use the library solely for leisure reading or for some other information if, or sometimes after, lessons were done. Administration in many schools have not been educational leaders. They have stood by and have been unaffected by controversies over teaching methods and materials to be used. Many of our schools have not been able, due to inadequate funds or shortsighted administrators and teachers, to maintain suitable physical facilities for their school libraries. As a result of these unfortunate circumstances, many, no doubt, being unpreventable, we have today in the majority of our school libraries a dire need to added space, more and better books, visual materials, and trained full-time and part-time librarians. Mound City High School is not exception to the rule, being the product of a district heavily taxed to maintain the minimum requirements for public schools. It is in need of a program which will start the school library upward, making it an adequate service institution and thereby improving the standards of the whole school system. With this in mind the writer will attempt, in this problem, to set forth basic recommendations fundamental to the organization of a functional library

Radiating dipoles in photonic crystals

The radiation dynamics of a dipole antenna embedded in a Photonic Crystal are modeled by an initially excited harmonic oscillator coupled to a non--Markovian bath of harmonic oscillators representing the colored electromagnetic vacuum within the crystal. Realistic coupling constants based on the natural modes of the Photonic Crystal, i.e., Bloch waves and their associated dispersion relation, are derived. For simple model systems, well-known results such as decay times and emission spectra are reproduced. This approach enables direct incorporation of realistic band structure computations into studies of radiative emission from atoms and molecules within photonic crystals. We therefore provide a predictive and interpretative tool for experiments in both the microwave and optical regimes.Comment: Phys. Rev. E, accepte

Resonance fluorescence in a band gap material: Direct numerical simulation of non-Markovian evolution

A numerical method of calculating the non-Markovian evolution of a driven atom radiating into a structured continuum is developed. The formal solution for the atomic reduced density matrix is written as a Markovian algorithm by introducing a set of additional, virtual density matrices which follow, to the level of approximation of the algorithm, all the possible trajectories of the photons in the electromagnetic field. The technique is perturbative in the sense that more virtual density matrices are required as the product of the effective memory time and the effective coupling strength become larger. The number of density matrices required is given by $3^{M}$ where $M$ is the number of timesteps per memory time. The technique is applied to the problem of a driven two-level atom radiating close to a photonic band gap and the steady-state correlation function of the atom is calculated.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure

Agreed definitions and a shared vision for new standards in stroke recovery research: The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable taskforce.

The first Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable established a game changing set of new standards for stroke recovery research. Common language and definitions were required to develop an agreed framework spanning the four working groups: translation of basic science, biomarkers of stroke recovery, measurement in clinical trials and intervention development and reporting. This paper outlines the working definitions established by our group and an agreed vision for accelerating progress in stroke recovery research