Human Capital - Driving Forse of Intelectual Capital in Creating Future

In time characterized by complex and uncertain business environment and working conditions; where small, medium but even large (and up till yesterday) successful companies are failing on daily basis, it is important to have economy models which will ensure reestablishment of value system of industrial era, models which will give expected, positive, results. In general, this is not the case since there is no compatibility of models with requirements of information era. So, those negative results together with market positions taken by those who understand changes better, emphasises need for understanding and implementing change management in companies. When trying to overcome mentioned obstacles in coping with changes and demolished value system, key success variable was detected – human capital as the best source of creative energy. In this study, human capital, as in many studies before, is recognised as driving force of intellectual capital and as well as synergy effect of conatival, motivational, cognitional, social, moral and communicational dimension.economy of knowledge, intellectual capital, human capital, future

A Border Community\u27s Unfulfilled Appeals: The Rise and Fall of the 1840\u27s Anti-Abolitionist Movement in Cincinnati

This essay explores the nature of the anti-abolition sentiment in Cincinnati, Ohio, through an analysis of a short lived anti-abolition organization and newspaper. The two institutions developed in response to the race riot of 1841 and attempted to address the social and economic concerns of certain Cincinnati citizens

A Fellowship in Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008 (Book Review)

Book review by Julie Mujic. Francis, Marlene Crandell. A Fellowship in Learning: Kalamazoo College, 1833-2008. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Kalamazoo College, 2008

Ours is the Harder Lot: Student Patriotism at the University of Michigan during the Civil War

Historians have considered some aspects of the impact of the war on higher education, but their work usually focuses on student experiences as soldiers or includes brief analyses of the war period in a larger institutional analysis. Their research does reinforce the unique nature, however, of circumstances at the University of Michigan, where the war period saw increases in enrollment and the expansion of curriculum

Lincoln\u27s Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis Over Slavery (Book Review)

Book review by Julie Mujic. Schneider, Thomas E. Lincoln’s Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. ISBN 978082621606

Experimental investigation on water injected twin screw compressor for fuel cell humidification

A water injection in Twin Screw compressors was examined in order to develop effective humidification and cooling schemes for fuel cell stacks as well as cooling for compressors. The temperature and the relative humidity of the air at suction and exhaust of the compressor were monitored under constant pressure and water injection rate and at variable compressor’s operating speeds. The experimental results showed that the relative humidity of the outlet air was increased by the water injection. The injection tends to have more effect on humidity at low operating speeds/ mass flow rates. Further humidification can be achieved at higher speeds as higher evaporation rate becomes available. It was also found that the rate of power produced by the fuel cell stack was higher than the rate used to run the compressor for the same amount of air supplied. The efficiency of the Balance-Of-Plant (BOP) was therefore higher when more air is delivered to the stack. However, this increase in the air supply needs additional subsystems for further humidification/ cooling of the BOP system

Evelyn Aschenbrenner. A History of Wayne State University in Photographs (Book Review)

Wayne State University (WSU) alumna and freelance writer Evelyn Aschenbrenner compiled this book to fulfill her own curiosity about the evolution of Wayne State University\u27s campus in Detroit, Michigan. Book review by Julie A. Mujic: Aschenbrenner, Evelyn. A History of Wayne State University in Photographs. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. ISBN 978081433282

Cohen: Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War (Book Review)

Book review by Julie Mujic. Cohen, Michael David. Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN: 978081393317

Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader

Book review by Julie Mujic. Soodalter, Ron. Hanging Captain Gordon: the life and trial of an American slave trader. New York: Atria Books, 2006. ISBN 978074326727

INFECTIOUS DISEASES ARE SLEEPING MONSTERS: Conventional and culturally adapted new metaphors in a corpus of abstracts on immunology

In this paper we examine the role played by metaphor in a corpus of sixty abstracts on immunology from Scientific American. We focus on the distinction between conventional metaphors and culturally adapted new metaphors and discuss the role played by metaphor choice in the communicative purposes of the abstracts and their register features. We argue that one of the main strategies used to attract the reader‘s attention is the combination of highly conventionalized metaphors, which occur more frequently in the corpus, together with what we call “culturally adapted new metaphors”, which display different degrees of creativity and are less frequent in the corpus. Conventional metaphors typically reinforce the world view shared by the scientific community and introduce basic ideas on the subject of immunology. Culturally adapted new metaphors include a cline from slightly new perspectives of conventional models, to highly creative uses of metaphor. Culturally adapted new metaphors appeal primarily to a general readership and not to the scientific community, as they tap human emotions and mythic constructions. These play a crucial role in the abstracts, as they contribute to persuasive and didactic communicative functions in the text