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    Community engagement at Roger Williams University: community service - service learning - civic engagement

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    Service to the local community has become a part of the college tradition as more campuses incorporate service into their curricular and co-curricular cultures. Roger Williams University parallels this trend. Service has evolved from “a nice thing to do” to an important element in our academic and co-curricular culture. We have outgrown the blanket term “service” and can place campus-wide service activities in three distinct categories: community service, service learning, and civic engagement. While based on the common goal of promoting active citizenship, each category contains distinct experiences with distinct learning outcomes

    The effect of education on adult mortality and disability: a global perspective

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    Contemporary research primarily in the West offers a strong case for the relationship between formal education and adult health; more education, measured either by level completed or years of schooling, is associated, often in a stepwise fashion, with lower levels of mortality, morbidity and disability. In this study, we attempt to provide a global assessment of that relationship as it pertains to adult disability, using sample data from 70 countries that participated in the World Health Survey. In each of five regions and some of the largest countries outside the West we find that an increase in formal education is associated with lower levels of disability in both younger and older adults. Using the regional education-based differentials and several estimates of growth in education levels, we project levels of disability to 2050 to estimate the health and human capital benefits obtained from investments in education. We find that considering education in the population projection consistently shows lower prevalence of disability in the future, and that scenarios with better education attainment lead to lower prevalence. It is apparent that the educational dividend identified in our projection scenario should be an important policy goal, which, if anything, should be more speedily advanced in those countries and regions that have the greatest need.

    On the performance of SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO in 3GPP LTE downlink

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