An investigation into technology and motivational influences on creativity and product output in apparel design students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the application of a social psychological theoretical framework to the study of creativity in apparel design, with a focus on technological engagement and motivational factors. A sample of 32 apparel design students from two major southeastern universities were selected to complete a self-report instruments regarding motivation and technological engagement. Students completed the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (ATTA) as well as a design brief. Design illustrations were evaluated by a panel of expert judges in the field of apparel design using a consensual assessment technique (CAT). Results indicate levels of technology and internet usage and enjoyment do not relate to product output. Additionally, non-significant results indicate that previously theorized relationships between motivation and product output specific to apparel designers do not support earlier studies of literary and visual artists. Internet and technology engagement is largely based in information collection and redistribution as opposed to idea creation. This theory may explain the limited effect of internet and technology engagement on product output. While motivations across visual arts fields are key components of product output, apparel design is independent of visual arts due to its largely commercial-based enterprise. Our results support this idea and also highlight the need to create an apparel design specific theory of creativity

China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities

The global economic crisis has made clear China's importance and expanding role on the world stage. China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities, explains actions both China and the United States can take that will not only maximize the opportunities for China's constructive integration into the international community but also help form a domestic consensus that will provide a stable foundation for such policies. This book is unique in that it analyzes the authoritative data on China's economy, foreign and domestic policy, and national security. China is confronting domestic challenges that are in many ways side effects of its economic successes, while simultaneously trying to take advantage of the foreign policy benefits of those same successes. * The book from The China Balance Sheet Project, a joint, multiyear project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Peterson Institute, discusses China's military modernization, China's increasing soft power influence in Asia and around the world, China's policy toward Taiwan, domestic political development, Beijing's political relations with China's provincial and municipal authorities, corruption and social unrest, rebalancing China's economic growth, the exchange rate controversy, energy and the environment, industrial policy, trade disputes, and investment issues. The paperback book features a new introduction that addresses events since fall of 2008 and provides context for the book in light of those events.

Robust CNOT gates from almost any interaction

There are many cases where the interaction between two qubits is not precisely known, but single qubit operations are available. In this paper we show how, regardless of an incomplete knowledge of the strength or form of the interaction between two qubits, it is often possible to construct a CNOT gate which has arbitrarily high fidelity. In particular, we show that oscillations in the strength of the exchange interaction in solid state Si and Ge structures are correctable.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure

Flood flows; a comparison of various methods of analysis as applied to rivers of the southeastern United States

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China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities

China has emerged as an economic powerhouse (projected to have the largest economy in the world in a little over a decade) and is taking an ever-increasing role on the world stage. China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities will help the United States and the rest of the world better comprehend the facts and dynamics underpinning China's rise--an understanding that becomes more and more important with each passing day. Additionally, the authors suggest actions both China and the United States can take that will not only maximize the opportunities for China's constructive integration into the international community but also help form a domestic consensus that will provide a stable foundation for such policies. Filled with facts for policymakers, this much anticipated book's narrative-driven, accessible style will appeal to the general reader. This book is unique in that it analyzes the authoritative data on China's economy, foreign and domestic policy, and national security. * The expert judgments in this book paint a picture of a China confronting domestic challenges that are in many ways side effects of its economic successes, while simultaneously trying to take advantage of the foreign policy benefits of those same successes. China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities from The China Balance Sheet Project, a joint, multiyear project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Peterson Institute, discusses China's military modernization, China's increasing soft power influence in Asia and around the world, China's policy toward Taiwan, domestic political development, Beijing's political relations with China's provincial and municipal authorities, corruption and social unrest, rebalancing China's economic growth, the exchange rate controversy, energy and the environment, industrial policy, trade disputes, and investment issues.

The effect of potassium fertility levels on the uptake and utilization of potassium, calcium, and magnesium by corn inbreds and hybrids

The purpose of this investigation was to determine some of the effects different rates of potassium fertilization have on the uptake and utilization of potassium, calcium, and magnesium by com inbreds and hybrids. The relationships between the uptake of these chemical elements and yield, lodging, premature senscence, and stalk strength were also studied

Missouri super duty refractories and their probable application for blast furnace linings

The use of Missouri Super Duty Refractories in steel plant service is not new, although their use in blast furnace service has been limited chiefly to stove installations. They have, however, been used in a sufficient number of places where severe operating conditions exist, so that they are a definitely known quantity and they have consistently shown much longer service under conditions of high temperatures and contact with slag and molten iron. One outstanding comparison of the service which these brick give over ordinary first quality brick is the bottom of a malleable iron furnace. Not first quality refractory has successfully been used for this service, and until A.P. Green Fire Brick Company pioneered this service for their super duty brick ti was necessary for the malleable operator to use a sand bottom and rebuild the bottom at the end of each week. No first quality refractories had lasted over thirty to thirty-five heats under these conditions, but super duty brick consistently give from one hundred to one hundred and fifty heats, making it much more economical to use these brick for this service. It must be remembered that in malleable bottoms the brick are subjected to the direct erosion of molten metal and slag at 3000°F which is extremely severe service --Introduction, page 1

An Analysis of Preschool Enrollment and Student Progress Measures among Primary and Elementary Students.

The purpose of this study was to determine if a difference in Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) scores exists between students who attended Tennessee\u27s Voluntary Preschool for All program, Head Start, private preschool, or daycare and those who did not attend any type of preschool program for students in grades kindergarten through fifth. The sample consisted of students who attended kindergarten through fifth grade during the 2009-2010 school year in one east Tennessee school system. Data gathered were from Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) scores obtained during the 2009-2010 school year and a survey. A two-way analysis of variance was used to identify any relationship between variables. The investigation of the comparison between the type of preschool attended or no preschool and DIBELS scores will provide information to parents considering enrolling a child in one of the many state funded preschools, daycare, or preparing their child at home. The data will also assist with the implementation of new preschool programs and the improvement of existing programs within the public school setting. Results of this study will be of immediate interest to preschool programs in the surveyed school system. Other school systems interested in the efficacy of preschool education for increasing student achievement will benefit from the information as well. Statistical analyses were conducted for DIBELS scores in Letter Naming Fluency (LNF), Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF), and Nonsense Word Fluency for kindergarten students. Statistical analyses were conducted for DIBELS scores in Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF), Nonsense Word Fluency, Oral Reading Fluency (ORF), and Retell Fluency (RF) for first grade students. Statistical analyses were conducted for DIBELS scores Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) and Retelling Fluency (RF) for grades 3, 4, and 5. The results of this study did not support a significant difference among DIBELS scores and the type of preschool experience and gender for students enrolled in Hamblen County schools. The results did support a significant main effect for type of preschool for students enrolled in Hamblen County schools. Students who attended private preschool scored better than students who attended the state program, Head Start, daycare, or did not attend a preschool

Difference in pyrometric cone equivalent between raw and calcined clay

In a recent survey of the refractories field with particular respect to the Pyrometric Cone Equivalent of different clays it was suggested that a difference in the P. C. E. value of clays might be found due to different stages of heat treatment that these clays had previously undergone. At present there is considerable apparent lack of information regarding this problem. It is evidenced largely in the samples of clay sent into commercial testing and research laboratories by manufacturers who are attempting to develop definite properties from a given clay or clay body. There is a large difference in the type of samples sent into these laboratories...It was with the hope of finding more information regarding this subject that the following efforts were prompted --page 3

Estimating conservable water in the Kalmath irrigation project

Presented during the USCID water management conference held on October 13-16, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The theme of the conference was "Water rights and related water supply issues."Includes bibliographical references.In 2001, irrigation water was withheld from the majority of farms in the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Klamath Project to provide in-stream flows for fish species listed as "endangered" or "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The subsequent controversy and pleas for emergency action highlighted a wide gulf in the technical understanding of the actual hydrologic and hydraulic processes that occur in the Klamath Basin. A multi-year hydrologic assessment was performed to determine the precise destination, volume, and timing of surface and subsurface water flows throughout the Klamath Project. Confidence intervals were assigned to each water origin or destination component based on a systematic field examination of the physical processes used to measure or estimate various hydrologic values. The primary conclusion of the investigation was that significant amounts of irrigation water cannot be made available to the Klamath River by traditional water conservation activities. The irrigation community in the Klamath Project faces critical future challenges, which the existing internal processes and physical infrastructure are incapable of dealing with successfully. This will require significant irrigation modernization to improve the precise control and monitoring of flows at different levels of the system, especially on a real-time basis, and thus provide excellent water delivery service to individual irrigation districts and water users.Proceedings sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Central Utah Project Completion Act Office and the U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage