The Middle Income Squeeze

Middle income families have begun to complain that they can no longer afford to send their children to private colleges and universities. They attribute this to inadequate financial aid policies, which effectively limit expensive educations to two groups of students: those from upper income families who can readily afford the rising costs, and those from lower income families who qualify for need-based grants -and scholarships. This paper will attempt to determine whether complaints about a middle income squeeze are justified

Program Environmental Assurance: Shuttle Environmental Assurance and the Future

Material availability continues to be impacted by domestic and international environmental health and safety (EH&S) regulations, industrial pollution prevention goals and related vendor economics. SEA is an integrated team that works to identify, communicate and address safety and environmentally driven materials obsolescence issues and pollution prevention opportunities

Awareness Level of Environmental Aesthetics on KNUST Campus, Kumasi, Ghana: A Descriptive Account

An interest in the aesthetics of the environment is part of a broader response to environmental problems, and creating public awareness is a pragmatic positive action towards environmental issues. The purpose of this paper is to find the level of awareness and perception of the beauty of the natural as well as the built environments of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) campus, Kumasi, Ghana, aimed at promoting environmental protection. The study provides a descriptive account of the awareness of environmental aesthetics through the employment of a quantitative methodology. A questionnaire was designed and distributed to students and staff as the sole data collection instrument and analysed to identify whether or not people were aware of the aesthetic aspects of the environment and whether or not this awareness could impact positively on the protection of the environment. A significant gap in the literature regarding the awareness of the nature of environmental aesthetics was identified. The criticality that such conscious awareness of the beauty of the environment is asserted, with a view towards illuminating various aesthetic elements in various environmental goods and working towards improved aesthetic natural and built environments. Keywords: awareness, environmental aesthetics, built environment, natural environmen

Does science need computer science?

IBM Hursley Talks Series 3An afternoon of talks, to be held on Wednesday March 10 from 2:30pm in Bldg 35 Lecture Room A, arranged by the School of Chemistry in conjunction with IBM Hursley and the Combechem e-Science Project.The talks are aimed at science students (undergraduate and post-graduate) from across the faculty. This is the third series of talks we have organized, but the first time we have put them together in an afternoon. The talks are general in nature and knowledge of computer science is certainly not necessary. After the talks there will be an opportunity for a discussion with the lecturers from IBM.Does Science Need Computer Science?Chair and Moderator - Jeremy Frey, School of Chemistry.- 14:00 "Computer games for fun and profit" (*) - Andrew Reynolds - 14:45 "Anyone for tennis? The science behind WIBMledon" (*) - Matt Roberts - 15:30 Tea (Chemistry Foyer, Bldg 29 opposite bldg 35) - 15:45 "Disk Drive physics from grandmothers to gigabytes" (*) - Steve Legg - 16:35 "What could happen to your data?" (*) - Nick Jones - 17:20 Panel Session, comprising the four IBM speakers and May Glover-Gunn (IBM) - 18:00 Receptio

How it's done: search tools and techniques for major bibliographic databases

This article explains how to write an effective search plan using simple steps. The article takes you through the tools and techniques that are widely used in major bibliographic databases such as MEDLINE and CINAHL to conduct searches. These include Boolean logic, truncation and wildcards, in-field searching, proximity operators, limits and subject thesauri. Each process is illustrated with an example to help you apply them to your own searches. The process of using these tools and techniques to either narrow (find fewer results) or broaden (find more results) is described and summarised in an easy-to-use table. Abstract published with permission

Where to now? Searching beyond Medline

This article looks at the tools available to you to extend your search beyond the major bibliographic sources. The article identifies the type of literature you can find and which tools are suitable to use to find them. It aims to help you to broaden the scope of your search to find more relevant material. There is a warning about predatory journals and the need to take a critical approach to material that has not been peer-reviewed. Abstract published with permission