Electronic Resources and Academic Libraries, 1980-2000: A Historical Perspective

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Strategy Synthesis for Autonomous Agents Using PRISM

We present probabilistic models for autonomous agent search and retrieve missions derived from Simulink models for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and show how probabilistic model checking and the probabilistic model checker PRISM can be used for optimal controller generation. We introduce a sequence of scenarios relevant to UAVs and other autonomous agents such as underwater and ground vehicles. For each scenario we demonstrate how it can be modelled using the PRISM language, give model checking statistics and present the synthesised optimal controllers. We conclude with a discussion of the limitations when using probabilistic model checking and PRISM in this context and what steps can be taken to overcome them. In addition, we consider how the controllers can be returned to the UAV and adapted for use on larger search areas

From Program to Punch List: Planning a New Academic Library Building

The original David L. Rice Library was the second structure built on the University of Southern Indiana (USI) campus. Opening in 1971 at a cost of $2,500,000 for a student body of 2,624, the three-story facility was built to house 150,000 volumes and to provide reading and study areas on the two upper floors. The lower level initially accommodated general purpose classrooms and faculty offices. The library building was long overdue for expansion or replacement by the mid-1990s, and by the time the new library building opened in the fall of 2006, the student population had grown to 10,021 students

Co-educational adult homemaking in Wisconsin city vocational schools

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Leadership Curriculum for the High School Student

The need for a high school leadership curriculum for a small rural school district was studied. The review of literature showed that students should be provided the opportunity to learn leadership skills that focus on the individual, family, school and community. By working with peers and adults, leadership students will have the opportunity to work in real-life situations which address service-learning, character education, and school-to-work in aligmnent with the national and state standards

Rape and the Exception in Turkish and International Law

This Comment suggests, first, that Turkey\u27s new (2004) rape law is indebted to recent trends in international sexual legislation, and second, that both Turkish and international rape law are in turn the product of a century of European exceptionalism. The 2004 Turkish criminal code is a text that has redefined the Turkish state\u27s approach to issues ranging from torture to corruption to immigrant smuggling to rape and adultery. Fundamentally a domestic document, it is aimed at rearticulating and liberalizing the state-citizen relationship in Turkey. At the same time, it is emphatically an international text-a spectacle geared toward moving Turkey one step closer to European Union membership. As such, Turkey\u27s criminal code is arguably political-representative of a twenty-first century collapse of law into ideology and a twenty-first century variation on the primacy of the sovereign decision in jurisprudence-even as it is couched in the apparent triumph of neutral, objective European liberalism. In other words, the 2004 criminal code is simultaneously an example of the exceptionalism first theorized by writers such as Carl Schmitt. This Comment begins with a brief history of the state of exception in Europe. It then links international rape law to these theories of exceptionalism. It turns to rape law in Turkey and the ways in which this law is indebted to both international law and the European history of exceptionalism, and it concludes by asking whether Turkey\u27s aspirations to join the European Union are worth situating the nation\u27s rape legislation within this problematic history of authoritarianism in Europe