What Would be Some Ways to Promote a Learning Culture and Drive Employee Engagement in Continuous Learning?

[Excerpt] To prepare for the fourth industrial revolution, many companies have noticed the importance of building a learning culture to promote continuous learning in the workplace. Our findings indicate several factors that make for more effective educational initiatives in the workplace. First, linking learning to formal performance reviews contributes to a culture of learning. Second, maximizing the availability and incentives of participating in informal learning opportunities foster a learning culture. Furthermore, the most effective learning programs are those that are ad hoc

A Platform for Proactive, Risk-Based Slope Asset Management, Phase II

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Community College Programs: How Have the AFA Nationals Affected This Population?

The attached position paper was presented at the 75th annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association. It was presented to surface issues relating to differences in perceptions regarding national forensics competition. The panel at which this paper was given attracted a very small number of audience members and reactors. Consequently, the ideas in the paper have not received much attention. For the purpose of the philosophical concerns topic area relating to organizational hierarchies of Individual Events associations, this paper is offered to examine issues relating to various organizational groups within the forensics community. Although it specifically addresses national competition, the substance of the paper definitely relates to differences between forensics organizations

Position Paper on Double Entries

I\u27m not bugged by the name writing and nonverbal symbols used in forensics. What does concern me, however, and what will be the premise and position of this paper, is the increasing number of double entries within conflict patterns that exists in forensics competition. While the idea of contestants trying and gaining experience in many events is admirable, I believe the double entry movement is potentially harmful and damaging to the quality of forensics competition and the abilities of most contestants. In this position paper I will briefly explain double entries, describe problems that may be caused by double entries and then generate some general suggestions to the concern. In an educational setting such as forensics, it is essential to occasionally limit experience for the sake of quality

The Physician in the 21st Century

From Hippocrates to Osler, the sacrosanct physician-patient relationship has been paramount. Hippocrates is best remembered for the Oath that bears his name(1), often recited at medical school graduations, which places the patient first and foremost in the physician encounter. More than two thousand years later, William Osler, the renowned professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Oxford, wrote that the premier quality of a good physician is “aequanimitas”, meaning calmness and patience(2). The foundational idea of the personal, caring relationship between physicians and patients has clearly withstood the test of time. Perhaps it can serve as a guidepost for the enormous changes coming in medical care in the 21st century. Indeed, across the ages of advances in scientific discovery, the special nature of the physician-patient relationship, exemplified by compassion, has been the mainstay of medicine.[...

Stratigraphy of the Inyan Kara Formation (Lower Cretaceous) in the vicinity of the Nesson Anticline, northwestern North Dakota

The Lower Cretaceous Inyan Kara Formation, at the base of the Dakota Group, consists of sandstone, siltstone, shale, and coal. The stratigraphy of the Inyan Kara and facies relationships within the formation and with the underlying Swift and overlying Skull Creek Formations in the vicinity of the Nesson Anticline, northwestern North Dakota, were evaluated using 11 cross-sections, 163 borehole geophysical logs, and 1 well core. The Inyan Kara can be differentiated on well logs into three members. The basal member, A , consists of sandstone, siltstone, shale, and coal. It is about 200 feet (60 m) to 400 feet (122 m) thick in the study area. The member is characterized by abrupt facies changes of sandstone units. Log patterns in A suggest that the lower portion of the member was deposited in a dominantly deltaic environment whereas the upper portion of A was deposited in a dominantly fluvial environment. The member is approximately equivalent to the Lakota Formation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The middle member, B , consists of sandstone, siltstone, and shale. It is about 20 feet (6 m) to 150 feet (46 m) thick in the study area. The member is characterized by gradual facies changes. Log patterns suggest that member B was deposited in a marginal-marine environment. The member is approximately equivalent to the Fall River Formation in Black Hills. The upper member, C , consists of interbedded siltstone and shale. It is about 15 feet (4.5m) to 40 feet (12 m) thick in the study area. The member is characterized by a lack of facies changes. The extent, continuity, and lithologies in C suggest that the member was deposited in a shallow marine environment. The member is approximately equivalent to the lower portion of the Skull Creek Formation the Black Hills. Facies relationships suggest that the upper portion of the Swift Formation and the lower portion of member A represent a regressional sequence in the study area whereas the upper portion of member A , members B and C , and the Skull Creek Formation represent a transgressional sequence in the study area. Thickness trends of members A , B , and C suggest that the Williston Basin and the Little Knife Anticline were active structures during the deposition of the Inyan Kara, that the direction of regression was from east to west, and that the direction of transgression was from west to east in the study area. Evidence for an unconformity between the Swift and Inyan Kara Formations, as proposed by previous workers, in the study area is possibly ambiguous and inconclusive. Additional evidence suggests that both conformable and unconformable contacts exist between the Swift and the Inyan Kara

Methodology to evaluate rock slope stability under seismic conditions at Solà de Santa Coloma, Andorra

An analytical methodology is presented to evaluate rock slope stability under seismic conditions by considering the geomechanical and topographic properties of a slope. The objective is to locate potential rockfall source areas and evaluate their susceptibility in terms of probability of failure. For this purpose, the slope face of a study area is discretized into cells having homogenous aspect, slope angle, rock properties and joint set orientations. A pseudostatic limit equilibrium analysis is performed for each cell, whereby the destabilizing effect of an earthquake is represented by a horizontal force. The value of this force is calculated by linear interpolation between the peak horizontal ground acceleration PGA at the base and the top of the slope. The ground acceleration at the top of the slope is increased by 50% to account for topographic amplification. The uncertainty associated with the joint dip is taken into account using the Monte Carlo method. The proposed methodology was applied to a study site with moderate seismicity in Solà de Santa Coloma, located in the Principality of Andorra. The results of the analysis are consistent with the spatial distribution of historical rockfalls that have occurred since 1997. Moreover, the results indicate that for the studied area, 1) the most important factor controlling the rockfall susceptibility of the slope is water pressure in joints and 2) earthquake shaking with PGA of ≤0.16 g will cause a significant increase in rockfall activity only if water levels in joints are greater than 50% of the joint height