1,219 research outputs found
Information literacy and liberal education : form and substance
Teaching information literacy: substance and process This presentation explores the concept of information literacy within the broader context of higher education. It argues that, certain assertions in the library literature notwithstanding, the concepts associated with information literacy are not new, but rather very closely resemble the qualities traditionally considered to characterize a well-educated person. The presentation also considers the extent to which the higher education system does indeed foster the attributes commonly associated with information literacy. The term information literacy has achieved the immediacy it currently enjoys within the library community with the advent of the so-called "information age" The information age is commonly touted in the literature, both popular and professional, as constituting nothing short of a revolution. Academic librarians and other educators have of course felt called upon to make their teaching reflect both the growing proliferation of information formats and the major transformations affecting the process of information seeking. Faced with so much novelty and uncertainty, it is no surprise that many have felt that these changes call for a revolution in teaching. It is within this context that the concept of information literacy has flourished. It is argued in this presentation, however, that by treating information literacy as an essentially new specialty that owes much of its importance to the plethora of electronic information, we risk obscuring some of the most fundamental and enduring educational values we should be imparting to our students. Much of the literature on information literacy assumes - rather than argues - that recent changes in the way we approach education are indications of progress. Indeed, much of the self-narrative that institutions produce (in bulletins, mission statements, web sites, etc.) endorses an approach to education that will result in lifelong learners who are critical consumers of information. After critically examining the degree to which such statements of educational approach reflect reality, this presentation concludes by considering the effects of certain changes in the culture of higher education. It considers particularly the transformation - at least in North America - of the traditional model of higher education as a public good to a market-driven business model. It poses the question of whether a change of this significance might in fact detract from, rather than promote, the development of information literate students
Fluidic-thermochromic display device
Fluidic decoder and display device has low-power requirements for temperature control of thermochromic materials. An electro-to-fluid converter translates incoming electrical signals into pneumatics signal of sufficient power to operate the fluidic logic elements
Fluidic-thermochromic display device Patent
Fluidic-thermochromic display devic
Capturing Confidence
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69268/1/cbgraf_1271888397_CarlyGrafstein_Thesis.pd
Thermochromic display materials for use under wide variations in ambient illumination levels Final report
Inorganic thermochromatic material synthesis and utilization in display device
Beam alignment techniques based on the current multiplication effect in photoconductors First phase technical summary report
Current multiplication effects in cadmium sulfide photoconductive cell
Partial identification for discrete data with nonignorable missing outcomes
Nonignorable missing outcomes are common in real world datasets and often
require strong parametric assumptions to achieve identification. These
assumptions can be implausible or untestable, and so we may forgo them in
favour of partially identified models that narrow the set of a priori possible
values to an identification region. Here we propose a new nonparametric Bayes
method that allows for the incorporation of multiple clinically relevant
restrictions of the parameter space simultaneously. We focus on two common
restrictions, instrumental variables and the direction of missing data bias,
and investigate how these restrictions narrow the identification region for
parameters of interest. Additionally, we propose a rejection sampling algorithm
that allows us to quantify the evidence for these assumptions in the data. We
compare our method to a standard Heckman selection model in both simulation
studies and in an applied problem examining the effectiveness of cash-transfers
for people experiencing homelessness.Comment: 43 pages, 4 figures, 4 table
- …