Mr. Sam Jones, Mr. Bruce Washington, Mr. Herman Johnson, Mr. Rick Morgan

This was a group interview of four members of the Black American Movement (B.A.M.) of Armstrong State College expressing their views on the movement in Savannah.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/happiness-lane/1014/thumbnail.jp

The Holy State, the Second Book, Chapter 1, The Good Advocate

The following is an excerpt from The Holy State and the Profane State written by Thomas Fuller in 1642. It seemed to us a thoroughly charming piece of work and amazingly pertinent to modern practice. It is herewith offered for your pleasure and instruction

Multi-site Action Research

Classical action research within single organizations has become a well established and differentiated approach since its inception more than six decades ago. Although new larger scale varieties of action research are beginning to develop, there is still a clear need to expand the scope of action research practice (Greenwood, 2002). Building on previous work, this paper develops multi-site action research (MAR) as a conceptually distinct variant of action research implementation with promising potential to fill the gap between the classical and coalition type varieties of action research. MAR is defined as involving the concurrent implementation of multiple distinct single-site action research processes, with a similar focus, and some level of coordination across sites. From a review of three relevant multi-site initiatives, a conceptual framework for the potential benefits of MAR is derived, and a model of the MAR implementation process is presented and discussed

The Kumon Approach to Learning Mathematics: An Educator\u27s Perspective

Largely unnoticed amid the cry for better mathematics teaching, Kumon is quietly helping a million mathematics students (from infants to adults; 75% are elementary children). Though conservative in diction and device (including 5000+ worksheets to be solved in standard times), it is surprisingly student-centered in practice. The author\u27s investigation during the past year reflects his background in both education and computer science. The paper considers the demands, theories, methods and record of Kumon mathematics from the standpoint of educational theory, cognitive science, and language processing. It considers syntactic and semantic learning of mathematics, arguing that their proper relative positioning helps lead the student to higher-order thinking. Future research issues are suggested. The Kumon Machine is briefly introduced; it incorporates the Kuman method into silicon paper -- a notebook sized pen-based computer

Energy-related Feature Abstraction for Handwritten Digit Recognition

Most handwritten character recognizers use either graphical (static) or first-order dynamic data. Our research speculates that the mental signal to write a digit might be partially encoded as an energy profile. We used artificial neural networks (ANN) to analyze energy-related features (first and second time derivatives) of handwritten digits of 20 subjects and later 40 subjects. An experimenal environment was developed on a NeXTstation with a real-time link to a pen-based GO computer. Although such an experiment cannot confirm an energy profile encoded in the writer, it did indicate the usefulness of energy-related features by recognizing 94.5% of the 600 test patterns after 29,000 random presentations of 800 training digits. This three-layer ANN had 54 input units (representing 29 trinary features), 4 hidden units (0, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 25 hidden units were tested), and 14 output units. Another ANN recognized 91.7% of the test digits after only 6,000 training presentations. Later testing with 40 subjects (including very erratic writing) resulted in 91% recognition. This same feature abstraction was tested in a Supervised Competitive learning (SCL) implementation which was free to create as many or few digit prototypes as was needed to recognize characters. Using the former data set (20 subjects), it created from 19 to 34 prototypes (depending on control parameters) and achieved 94.8% recognition

The role of nutritional supplements in prevention, control and treatment of ocular degeneration

The purpose of this project was to review the effects of dietary supplements on degenerative ocular tissue changes. Early evidence established roles of dietary essential vitamins and minerals based on of gross deficiency symptoms which respond to supplementation. Ocular tissue changes resulting from specific vitamin or mineral deficiencies are numerous and include corneal neovascularization, opacification and ulceration, secretory cell production, blepharitis, papilledema, retinal edema, cataracts and night blindness. Recent research suggests uncontrolled oxidation reactions initiated by free radical formation may produce significant tissue damage including macular degeneration and cataract formation. The antioxidant activities of vitamins C and E, and the mineral zinc demonstrate interesting potential as dietary supplements for prevention and possible treatment of these conditions. In addition, b-carotene, taurine, glutathione, superoxide dismutase and a lesser known class of compounds known as flavinoids also show antioxidant activity and potential for dietary supplementation. Continued investigation is needed to prove the efficacy of each

The Opinion - Vol. 07, No. 03

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Osteopathic academic heritage of OSU-COM

BACKGROUND: In 1892, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still founded the field of Osteopathic Medicine by publishing The Philosophy and Mechanical Principles of Osteopathy when his philosophy of holistic medicine and tenets of osteopathic medicine became practice. Today in 2020 osteopathic physicians find their profession threatened by single accreditation and a decrease in the number of physicians incorporating Osteopathic Principles and Practices (OPP) in their patient care, despite rising numbers of osteopathic graduates. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the osteopathic ancestry of instructors and graduates at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OSU-COM) in order to unite past, current, and future graduates with their academic heritage in an effort to preserve a portion of the practice of osteopathic medicine.METHODS: Direct survey of current OSU-COM Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) faculty and their mentors was used to obtain the majority of data. Data was gathered in person, over the phone, and by email. Additional gratitude is provided to Dr. Amelia McConaghy for supplying information on the earlier generations of osteopaths. Once the information was collected, it was consolidated and simplified into a diagram styled after genealogical trees to visually demonstrate the generational connections.RESULTS: It was demonstrated that current OSU-COM students and graduates since 1993 are directly linked to the personal instruction of A.T. Still by as few as 5 generations of mentors. The OSU-COM lineage also includes other notable osteopaths such as Dr. Fred Mitchell Sr., who developed the muscle energy technique, and Dr. William Sutherland, who first conceptualized the primary respiratory mechanism.CONCLUSIONS: It is noteworthy that OSU-COM graduates can trace their techniques back to the physicians who developed those methods as manual skills that were passed from person to person. It is our hope that the information gathered and consolidated in this study will inspire current and future graduates to both incorporate OPP in their practices and pass along the knowledge acquired at OSU-COM to the next generation of osteopathic physicians. Though this study provides a significant analysis of academic mentorship and heritage, further studies and investigation should be conducted so as not to lose the value and roots of academic ancestry at Oklahoma State University

The Opinion - Vol. 07, No. 02

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