Centrality of hospitality and tourism education : the case of Strathclyde business school

Hospitality and tourism management education thrives at the University of Strathclyde. As Susan Hart, Kevin O’Gorman and Matthew Alexander explain, following the recent reorganisation, integrating the degree into the Strathclyde Business School has strengthened the university’s presentation of the subject’s distinctiveness. This is how future leaders of the industry will be developed

Continuity Planning at Institutions of Higher Education

While emergency planning and disaster recovery are generally well established within institutions of higher education, there is an increasing focus on business and academic continuity. How will we continue or quickly resume the institution\u27s mission of teaching and research following a disruptive event? The presentation will first introduce continuity planning and outline how it complements the institution\u27s existing emergency and disaster recovery plans. Why implement continuity planning? What are the benefits and advantages of such an undertaking? The value and tangible benefits of effective continuity planning will be emphasized. Some participants will likely have already recognized the need for continuity planning, but are struggling to gain the traction necessary to initiate a continuity planning effort at their institution. The presentation will provide guidance on selling continuity planning to not only senior executives, but also to operational managers. While every institution of higher education is unique, there are common challenges that many institutions are likely to face as they address continuity planning. Participants will be given flexible strategies for overcoming these obstacles within their own institution’s political climate and culture. The continuity planning effort at Tufts University, a project funded by the Department of Education Emergency Management in Higher Education grant program, will also be covered. “Tufts Ready|continuity” is centered around an online continuity planning tool, Kuali Ready, that is tailored for institutions of higher education

RC Baja Engineering Report

The ASME RC Baja is a competition that tests engineering students’ ability design, build, and test an RC car. The vehicle then competes against other engineering student’s RC cars. The objective is to manufacture the most efficient and cost-effective RC Baja car. During the first quarter of senior project, the student’ engineering skill was applied to designing an RC car that will be able to compete in a competition at the end of spring quarter. The student was tasked with using all the information from the classes the student had taken previously at Central Washington University and design and build an RC car to the best of the student’s ability. During the winter quarter the student was put to the test to manufacture the car that was designed in the previous quarter by using the 3D printers that prints in PLA plastic and using the CNC plasma cutter to cut out the aluminum sheet for the chassis plate. For this quarter the student will be doing all the testing to the car that were chosen back in fall quarter. The student has completed all the tasks that were given and will be able to compete in the ASME RC Baja competition. The student completed three tests: suspension deflection, impact, and top speed. The first test the suspension deflected 12.5% less than the predicted 2 inches during the 1.5-foot drop test. The top speed achieved was 20 MPH and the deflection on impact was 10% more than predicted

GROUND FIRES: Essays on Land and Scouting

Ground Fires is a collection of creative nonfiction probing the social and environmental complexities that marked the narrator’s long membership in the Boy Scouts of America. I grew up a Scout, part of a quirky, adventurous troop in a New England college town. After earning Eagle and graduating high school, I moved west, working for seven summers and a few more seasons at Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico. I led backpacking trips through the mountains and high desert, teaching teenagers about land I knew and loved, land that was changing fast. From bears to wildfire to challenging politics, these stories seek the colorful people and places behind a uniquely American institution, in hopes that Scouting might serve as a bright force in shaping the future of our diverse and wild country

The Effects of Aerosol Drug Delivery on Airway Resistance through Heat-Moisutre Exchangers

Introduction: The use of heat moisture exchangers (HMEs) is becoming more popular with many institutions delivering aerosolized medications between the HME and the endotracheal tube of patients being mechanically ventilated. When HMEs become saturated resistance can increase which can cause changes that can lead to patient-ventilator dysnchrony, development of intrinsic PEEP, and weaning difficulty. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of aerosol drug delivery on resistance through heat-moisture exchangers. Method: An in-vitro model to simulate exhaled heat and humidity from a patient’s lungs was developed by connecting the test lung to a cascade humidifier that was placed between the endotracheal tube and the test lung. Temperature (37 ºC) and relative humidity (100%) were held constant through all test runs. Ventilator settings used for the study were as follows: Tidal volume 500 mL, frequency 15/min, PEF 60 L/min, PEEP 5 cmH2O, bias flow 2 L/min and I:E ratio 1:3.The pressurized metered-dose inhaler (pMDI; ProAir HFA) with a minispacer (Thayer Medical), hand-held nebulizer (HHN; Salter Labs) and placebo (No aerosol generator or medication) were compared. Albuterol sulfate (2.5 mg/3 ml) was administered through continuous HHN and six puffs of albuterol were given from a pMDI equaling one treatment. Neither medication nor aerosol device was used with the placebo group in order to determine the effect of HME on airway resistance during mechanical ventilation. Six aerosolized treatments were given to simulate a patient receiving albuterol every four hours over a twenty-four hour period. While five minutes was allowed between treatments, airway resistance was measured via the ventilator before and after the administration of the placebo, pMDI and HHN, which equaled five-minute intervals. Data Analysis: Descriptive statistics, dependent t-tests, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), repeated measures ANOVA and post-hoc multiple comparisons were utilized for the data analysis of this study, using SPSS version 16.0. A p-value\u3c0.05 was considered significant. Results: There is a linear time effect with means of airway resistance increasing overtime not only with the placebo but also with the pMDI and nebulizer. At the end of all treatments, the means of resistance with the placebo, pMDI and nebulizer were 9.31 cmH2O/L/sec, 9.37 cmH2O/L/sec and 11.20 cmH2O/L/sec, respectively. While no significant difference was found between the placebo and the pMDI (p=0.452), the nebulizer significantly increased airway resistance when compared to placebo (p=0.004) and the pMDI (p=0.02). Conclusion: Airway resistance increases with use of the placebo, pMDI, and JN groups. Aerosol generators showed a greater increase in resistance when compared to placebo with the greater increase in resistance by HHN

Unpacking the Upper Echelon’s Cognitive Black Box: A Qualitative Study of Selective Attention and Decision Making in Senior Executives

In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, senior executives face a myriad of difficult decisions. These decisions are often accompanied by a barrage of stimuli, which can complicate decision-making processes. To traverse these challenges, those in the upper echelons of leadership must manage their selective attention well, make clear sense of unfolding events, and act upon them in ways that maximize organization outcomes. However, there is a gap in research around how the upper echelons of leadership manage their selective attention in high-stimuli decision scenarios. This qualitative grounded theory research addresses this gap by studying the cognitive processes used by senior military executives to manage their limited attentional resources in such environments. Data was collected via semi-structured interviews of a purposive and snowball sampled group of 18 recently retired senior military officers who held key strategic positions during their time in service. Interviews were transcribed, coded using open and axial techniques, and analyzed to develop a grounded theory of how the upper echelons of leadership navigate information-saturated, high-stimuli environments and manage their limited attentional resources when making high-consequence decisions. Findings show that executives rely heavily on the team of people around them while taking steps to create mental space, and then doing the best they can to gather and prioritize information, given time constraints. This model suggests the top management teams play a central role in helping senior executives manage their limited attention, which can shape how senior executives are chosen and developed

Entrepreneurial profile of the UK in the light of the global entrepreneurship and development index

In this research summary, we provide a novel look into the entrepreneurial profile of the UK in an international context. We use a new method – the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index GEDI [1] – to identify the entrepreneurial strengths and weaknesses of the UK economy, as well as to identify potential bottlenecks that hold back the performance of the UK relative to other advanced economies. We begin by providing an overview of the main findings