Indiana Nonprofits: Scope and Community Dimensions

This report presents new data on the size, composition, and distribution of paid employment over the 1995-2011 time period in Indiana's private nonprofit organizations in a broad range of industries traditionally dominated by for-profit industries. Nonprofit organizations make significant contributions to the quality of life for the residents of Indiana and are a major force in the state's economy. This is particularly the case for the industries where nonprofits play a major role, such as health care, social assistance, education, arts, culture and recreation, and membership associations. However, very little is known about the large number of nonprofits that are scattered across virtually all other industries in Indiana where for-profit establishments dominate. This report provides an overview of nonprofit employment in all the other "minor" nonprofit industries

Evaluating Library Instruction at 2-Year and 4-Year Institutions

Research Study Checklist to accompany the Association of College and Research Libraries Project Outcome webinar Evaluating Library Instruction at 2-Year and 4-Year Institutions . This webinar outlined how to use Project Outcome as a catalyst for research. Librarians from Seminole State College of Florida and University of Central Florida discussed using the Project Outcome for Academic Libraries toolkit to investigate the similarities and differences in the perceived student satisfaction/value of library instruction at a two-year and a four-year institution

Evaluating Library Instruction at 2-Year and 4-Year Institutions: Findings and Data Analysis

Presentation slides from Association of College & Research Libraries Project Outcome webinar on April 25, 2023. Join us as we share our experience using Project Outcome for analysis of our cross-institutional research project. We\u27ll discuss our process, methodology, and the findings from this research. Using our experience as a case study, we hope to generate ideas for others interested in exploring Project Outcome for other research projects. This may include identifying opportunities, planning and implementation considerations, and analyzing results

Spenser’s Method of Grace in the Legends of Holiness, Temperance, and Chastity

The knights Redcrosse, Guyon, and Scudamour from The Faerie Queene are tasked with quests that curiously do not depend on wit or strength. Rather, the quests depend on each knight’s virtue and his acceptance of grace, the supreme virtue for Spenser. Through the wanderings of each knight, Spenser shows that there is a method of grace fashioned specifically for each knight’s quest both physical and spiritual that always requires the knights to reject false images of grace in exchange for God’s true grace. Grace will not abandon Gloriana’s knights, but as Guyon and Scudamour’s stubborn rejection of this virtue teaches, when grace is rejected, divine harmony, the loving cooperation between God and humanity that Redcrosse glimpses at the end of his quest, will be broken and replaced with fear and all the vices that follow it. Keyword 1: The Faerie Queene -- Keyword 2: Arthurian Literature -- Keyword 3: Theology -- Keyword 4: Edmund Spenser -- Keyword 5: Grace -- Keyword 6: Renaissance LiteratureChapter I: INTRODUCTION 1 -- Spenser’s World: The Faerie Queene’s Historical Context 2 -- Chapter 2: WHEN A CLOWNISH YOUNG MAN SLAYS A DRAGON 13 -- Redcrosse Receives His Calling 13 -- Discovering Truth 16 -- Discovering Faith 22 -- Discovering Grace 29 -- Paradise Regained 36 -- Chapter 3: WHEN A CAUTIOUS KNIGHT SAVES A GARDEN 41 -- Guyon Receives His Call 42 -- Discovering Forgiveness 47 -- Discovering Humility 53 -- Discovering Grace 63 -- Guyon in the Bower of Bliss 69 -- Chapter 4: WHEN CUPID’S MAN COURTS VENUS’ DAUGHTER 73 -- Scudamour’s Calling 74 -- Discovering Chastity: Love as Friendship 79 -- Discovering Chastity: Love as Service 84 -- Discovering Grace 86 -- Scudamour and Amoret 88 -- Chapter 5: SPENSER’S METHOD OF GRACE: THE CONCLUSION 93 -- Works Cited 97.Kinney, Jane M.Hyer, Maren CleggOglesby, CatherineM.A.Englis

Correlation between Acoustic Emission and Mechanoluminescence of Rock Cores under Quasistatic Compression

When a rigid solid undergoes mechanical deformation, locally accumulated strain energy can be released through multiple avenues including acoustic emission (AE) and light emission known as mechanoluminescence (ML). In AE, events within a stressed rock such as defect movement, grain boundary shifting, and crack propagation create pressure waves which can be detected at the rock surface. While AE is used extensively for rock evaluation in geophysics, civil engineering, and mining, ML by comparison has received little attention from the geoscience community. ML from stressed and fracturing rock has been observed in mines, earthquakes, and the laboratory, but the underlying mechanism behind ML is poorly understood. Possible candidates include defect movement, creation of charged surfaces during fracturing of piezoelectric grains, and triboluminescence. Observing whether a correlation exists between ML and AE will help determine the source of ML. An apparatus for AE and ML detection of rock cores under quasistatic compression was designed and constructed. Using photomultiplier tubes and piezoelectric transducers, AE and ML events were spatially and temporally observed and correlated. AE and ML in Berea sandstone were measured, and, unexpectedly, the ML events were found to occur approximately 40 ?s after the AE events