Trajectories for the 1976-1980 grand tour opportunities. Volume 1 - Graphic and summary trajectory data

Trajectories for 1976 to 1980 Grand Tour

Germany's Drive to the West (Drang Nach Westen)

Originally published in 1950. Hans Gatzke analyzes Germany's ambitions to expand westward during World War I. Germany's wartime plans for expansion to the west had important repercussions at home and abroad. Gatzke proceeds chronologically, starting with the German political parties' outlining of their war aims. Gatzke claims that a combination of interests, including those of industrialists, pan-Germans, the parties of the Right, and the Supreme Command was responsible for the stubborn propagation of Germany's large war aims, which condemned the German people to remain at war until the bitter end. Each of these forces had its own particular reasons for wanting to hold out for far-reaching territorial gains, yet one aim that most of them had in common was ensuring, through a successful peace settlement, the continuation of the existing order, to their own advantage and to the political and economic detriment of the majority of the German people

Political Psychology: The Effect of Presidential Candidate Traits on Voters’ Opinions

The 2016 election continues to be one of the most tumultuous, interesting, and unique political campaigns ever and has brought previous research about the impact candidates’ character traits have on vote choice into question. Research has been done that examines what socioeconomic and cultural circumstances cause voters to use either candidate traits, policy issues, or ideology as voting cues, but there has not been much analysis on what specific candidate traits voters respond most positively to. According to previous research, voters place a higher value on candidate traits having to do with competence than they do on traits that have to do with a candidates’ warmth and personability. In light of the 2016 presidential election, some competency-related character traits may not be as valued in political candidates as they were thought to be, as American culture and society continues to change. In relation to this, the following study will analyze competency-related character traits in presidential candidates and examine which specific trait; morality, perceived leadership ability, or knowledgeability, potential voters respond most positively to when evaluating presidential candidates. After doing a secondary data analysis using the NES 2012 data set, results indicate that voters overwhelmingly respond more positively to presidential candidates who they perceive as having strong leadership ability

AUTOMATICALLY RE-ENABLING EYE GAZE SHARE

In a remote collaboration session in which participants are not in the same room, participants may wear three dimensional (3D) headsets and share their eye gazes with other participants. Participants may briefly mute audio and stop sharing their eye gaze. Currently, when a participant wants to unmute audio and resume sharing their eye gaze, the participant must select two separate buttons – one to unmute audio and one to reshare their eye gaze. Techniques described herein provide for automatically re-enabling eye gaze sharing when unmuting the audio if eye gaze share had previously been selected

An Exploration of Female Adult Adoptees' Experiences: Their Self-Concepts of Parenthood

Parenthood is generally marked as a joyous event, though some research indicates that the birth of a child can possibly involve a difficult and complicated adjustment period for new parents (Ceballo, Lansford, Abbey, & Stewart, 2004). Questions regarding heritage and biological ties typically occur after developmental milestones, for example, births, marriages, and deaths, for adult adoptees. Horowitz (2011) offered that in order to understand the uniqueness of adoptees’ experiences and the specific needs they may have during childhood, it is vital to study the entire adoptee trajectory into adulthood, in order for adoptive parents and society to prepare successfully and launch adoptees into adulthood. This study explored how adult adoptees view parenthood through the lens of their own upbringing in Canada. There are gaps of information in the literature on how adoptees undertake parenting and how they approach becoming parents. In addition, how adoptees recognize themselves in their own children whether their children are adopted or not and how adoptees bond with their children. This study is an effort to address this gap offering recommendations for future research. Using an attachment theory framework while employing a mixed methods approach through an exploratory-sequential design, highlighted results include: adult adoptees struggle with identity issues and their adoption experiences do impacted the way they become parents and how they view themselves as parents

Are We As Rational As We Think? Bringing Rationality Versus Equality Preferences into the Classroom

The Ultimatum Game examines the relationship between profit maximization and fairness in our decision making process. The setup: two players, a proposer and a responder divide an amount of money between them. The predicted outcome is a result where the proposer offers $1 to the responder and keeps the rest with the responder accepting the offer. The game introduces that monetary gain may not be the only force behind people’s decision making process while introducing the ideas of fairness and equality. The game results seem to disprove the theory that people behave rationally, or economically speaking in their own self-interest

Adult Post-Cardiac Surgery Deep Sternal Wound Infections

ABSTRACT Purpose and rationale: Deep Sternal Wound Infections (DSWI) are associated with morbidity rates and mortality rates as high as 10% -15% as well as significantly increased hospital costs. The purpose of this project is to decrease current rates of DSWIs in adults undergoing cardiac surgery at a large medical institution. Synthesis of evidence: The literature shows a strong relationship between elevated HbA1C and DSWI. All articles reviewed for this proposal which implement a sternal vest intervention support its use to prevent DSWI. Practice change and implementation strategies: The strategy used to implement these evidence-based practice interventions includes four steps. These steps include creating awareness and interest, building knowledge and commitment, promoting action and adoption, and pursuing integration and sustained use. The Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-based Practice Model is implemented to guide this project proposal. Evaluation: Data on DSWI rates among cardiac surgical patients will continue to be monitored and provide data to compare to pre-implementation. Process screening indicators, evaluation surveys, and real-time feedback will be analyzed to measure success. Conclusions and implications for practice: Implementing an evidence-based intervention to address DSWI is proposed. Checking a patient’s HbA1C prior to surgery and referring them to endocrinology or their primary care provider for education if their HbA1C is above 8.0% is already a part of a different department project; for this reason, it was not further pursued. This DNP project’s focus is to implement a sternal support vest worn by high-risk patients as early as post-op day 0 (once in the ICU and stabilized) for at least six weeks postoperatively to protect and promote sternal healing, thus preventing an infection. This vest intervention will help to reduce DSWI rates within the department

Comparing Features of Three-Dimensional Object Models Using Registration Based on Surface Curvature Signatures

This dissertation presents a technique for comparing local shape properties for similar three-dimensional objects represented by meshes. Our novel shape representation, the curvature map, describes shape as a function of surface curvature in the region around a point. A multi-pass approach is applied to the curvature map to detect features at different scales. The feature detection step does not require user input or parameter tuning. We use features ordered by strength, the similarity of pairs of features, and pruning based on geometric consistency to efficiently determine key corresponding locations on the objects. For genus zero objects, the corresponding locations are used to generate a consistent spherical parameterization that defines the point-to-point correspondence used for the final shape comparison

Geometry acquisition and grid generation: Recent experiences with complex aircraft configurations

Important issues involved in working with complex geometries are discussed. Approaches taken to address complex geometry issues in the McDonnell Aircraft Computational Grid System and related geometry processing tools are discussed. The efficiency of acquiring a suitable geometry definition, the need to manipulate the geometry, and the time and skill level required to generate the grid while preserving geometric fidelity are discussed