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A Media Librarian's Education: An Assessment of the Availability and Need for Specific Training in Media Librarianship Issues and Practice
This article articulates the findings of two research studies. The first,
a national survey, explores the educational background and current
job responsibilities of media librarians. The second, a web analysis,
assesses media-related curriculum components of accredited library
and information science programs. Conclusions support anecdotal
evidence that media librarians receive the majority of their education
regarding media-related issues on the job.published or submitted for publicatio
The Effect of Concept Mapping on Baccalaureate Nursing Students\u27 Knowledge Acquisition
This dissertation is a series of three papers on the effect of concept mapping on baccalaureate nursing students’ knowledge acquisition. The first paper is an integrative review of the literature on the use of concept mapping in nursing education. The review evidences that concept mapping has been effective in nursing education for increasing students’ critical thinking. However, it shows that no studies addressing the level of nursing knowledge gained using concept mapping were identified, indicating a need for research in the area of the use of concept mapping for nursing knowledge acquisition. The second paper is a feasibility study of the methodological approaches proposed for a research study on the effect of concept mapping on nursing knowledge acquisition of nursing students. It affirms that the proposed methods of teaching concept mapping and scoring concept maps using the Concept Map Structural Scoring Method are feasible and appropriate for such a research study. The third paper is a report of the research study undertaken on the effect of concept mapping on baccalaureate nursing students’ knowledge acquisition. This study reveals that utilizing concept mapping along with lecture appears to help improve baccalaureate students ‘nursing knowledge acquisition, although further research is needed
Behind the Scenes but Not Behind the Times: Technical Services Support for New Service Model Initiatives
This poster looks at the merging of libraries, services and collections through New Service Model initiatives at a large university. It specifically examines the role Technical Services plays in the planning and execution of these initiatives, and best practices developed from prior examples.Ope
Bell inequality with an arbitrary number of settings and its applications
Based on a geometrical argument introduced by Zukowski, a new multisetting
Bell inequality is derived, for the scenario in which many parties make
measurements on two-level systems. This generalizes and unifies some previous
results. Moreover, a necessary and sufficient condition for the violation of
this inequality is presented. It turns out that the class of non-separable
states which do not admit local realistic description is extended when compared
to the two-setting inequalities. However, supporting the conjecture of Peres,
quantum states with positive partial transposes with respect to all subsystems
do not violate the inequality. Additionally, we follow a general link between
Bell inequalities and communication complexity problems, and present a quantum
protocol linked with the inequality, which outperforms the best classical
protocol.Comment: 8 pages, To appear in Phys. Rev.
Rotational invariance as an additional constraint on local realism
Rotational invariance of physical laws is a generally accepted principle. We
show that it leads to an additional external constraint on local realistic
models of physical phenomena involving measurements of multiparticle spin 1/2
correlations. This new constraint rules out such models even in some situations
in which standard Bell inequalities allow for explicit construction of such
models. The whole analysis is performed without any additional assumptions on
the form of local realistic models.Comment: 4 page
Nonclassicality of pure two-qutrit entangled states
We report an exhaustive numerical analysis of violations of local realism by
two qutrits in all possible pure entangled states. In Bell type experiments we
allow any pairs of local unitary U(3) transformations to define the measurement
bases. Surprisingly, Schmidt rank-2 states, resembling pairs of maximally
entangled qubits, lead to the most noise-robust violations of local realism.
The phenomenon seems to be even more pronounced for four and five dimensional
systems, for which we tested a few interesting examples.Comment: 6 pages, journal versio
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