LM lookangle program

Program computes the spacecraft look angles and the slant range, which define a spherical coordinate system located in the spacecraft body. The program is designed to reduce data from the Lunar Module Missions and to output desired information

Embedded librarianship and problem-based learning in undergraduate mathematics courses

A pedagogical approach of problem-based learning with embedded librarianship in several undergraduate mathematics courses is implemented in this educational research. The students are assigned to work on several projects on various applications of mathematical topics in daily life and submit written reports. An embedded librarian collaborates together with the instructor and the students to improve the students' information literacy. Initial reaction and anecdotal evidence show that the students' information literacy and academic performance have improved throughout the semesters.Comment: 4 pages, 2 tables, International Congress of Women Mathematicians Presentation Book, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, pp. 117-120, 201

Goatboy Soaps: From Itch to Concept to Execution

Lisa and Rick Agee of New Milford, Connecticut, are in their second full year of trying to turn their lifelong dream of being financially independent from corporate life into a reality.They are placing their bets on their product line of goat’s milk based soap products (www.Goatboy.us). Goat’s milk is said to have important skin benefits for the user over commercially made bar soap products such as Dove, Ivory, Dial, Olay, Zest and Irish Spring

Person to Person in China

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Cody Agee describes his observations during his study abroad program at Peking University in Beijing, China

A Glottometric Subgrouping of the Early Germanic Languages

Historical Glottometry, introduced by Alexandre François (2014), is a wave-based quantitative approach to language subgrouping that is used to calculate the overall strength of a linguistic subgroup using metrics that capture the contributions of linguistic innovations of various scopes to language diversification, in consideration of the reality of their distributions. It primarily achieves this by acknowledging the contribution of areal diffusion to language diversification, which has traditionally been overlooked in cladistic (tree-based) models. In this thesis, the development of the Germanic language family, from the breakup of Proto-Germanic to the latest period of the early attested daughter languages (namely Gothic, Old English, Old Norse and Old High German), is accounted for using Historical Glottometry. It is shown that this approach succeeds in accounting for several smaller, nontraditional subgroups of Germanic by accommodating the linguistic evidence unproblematically where a cladistic approach would fail

Telegram to Sonora Dodd from Larry Agee, June 11, 1962

Letter to Sonora Dodd from Larry Agee, Editorial Department, The Enquirer.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/fathers-day-correspondence/1167/thumbnail.jp

Crossing the bridge: A descriptive pilot study of sensory tricks and related variables to musician’s dystonia onset

Silencing music across the globe, musician’s dystonia, a neurological condition with an unknown etiological basis, has played an integral role in terminating professional musician’s careers. While limited research has been conducted into internal/external factors which may potentially influence musician’s focal dystonia onset, this pilot study sought to identify specific instrumentalists’ behaviors and traits which may exhibit a potential relationship with disease onset and, consequently, the ability to utilize sensory tricks. This specifically included examination of practice approach, auditory/kinesthetic feedback, years played, personality, and approach to practice among the musicians being studied. To assess these characteristics within the dystonic musician population and to determine how this data related to healthy/undiagnosed music students of James Madison University (JMU), a survey instrument created based upon application of the Social Cognitive Theory was distributed. Resulting data analysis indicated fatigue based practice techniques were commonly used among both dystonic musicians and symptomatic JMU students and that maladaptive auditory/kinesthetic feedback mechanisms were positively correlated with negative symptoms. Findings further helped identify which sensory tricks were most commonly employed by dystonic musicians, exposing that instrumental genre may be influential in determining which types are typically chosen to ameliorate negative symptoms. In addition, results which revealed that half of JMU’s music student population currently exhibit dystonic symptoms and unknowingly use sensory tricks generates implications for future research in regards to what preventative changes could be implemented within the educational program. Therefore, the objective of this thesis was to gain not only a comprehensive understanding of potential factors related to musician’s dystonia, but to both expand on previous literature and potentially impact future health outcomes of musicians

Other People\u27s Lives

Other People\u27s Lives is a collection of stories about people who love each other going through changes in life, and about how they react to these changes and each other. The changes are geographical, relational and spiritual. The settings are important in that they create mood. I\u27ve been affected by watching people go through certain stages of life, and I\u27ve attempted to show what I\u27ve learned about crossing those thresholds in these stories

A Conversation with Jane Smiley

JANE SMILEY: LOCATION AND A GEOGRAPHER OF LOVE In her essay on place, Eudora Welty points out that Henry James once said there isn\u27t any difference between \u27the English novel\u27 and \u27the American novel,\u27 since there are only two kinds of novels at all: the good and the bad. Then Welty responds to him stating that for good novels fiction is all bound up in the local. The internal reason for that is surely that feelings are bound up in place .... The truth is, fiction depends for its life on place. Location is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of \u27What happened? Who\u27s here? Whose coming?\u27-and that is the heart\u27s field. ! In fact, the novelist shares the real estate agent\u27s mantra: location, location, location. Novelist Jane Smiley writes with great authority of people whose lives are so profoundly connected to place that they must ultimately yield to their heart\u27s purposes. Thus place is an agency of personal revelation. As the author of A Thousand Acres, in fact, Smiley has been credited with laying the major foundation piece for the Renaissance, the flowering, in the literature of the North American heartland that has occurred over the past fifteen years. Jane Smiley is the author of over ten major works of fiction, including her celebrated first novel Barn Blind, The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, A Thousand Acres, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, Moo, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton, and Horse Heaven. She has also written essays for magazines such as Vogue, The New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper\u27s, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Times travel section, US News, Victoria, Mirabella, Allure, The Nation, and many others. She has written on politics, farming, horse training, child-rearing, literature, impulse buying, Barbie, marriage, Monica Lewinsky, and even the trials and tribulations of getting dressed. She is a Vassar graduate and holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She taught at Iowa State University from 1981 until 1996 and now lives in California with her three children, three dogs, and at least sixteen horses. Parents and children are often at the heart of Smiley\u27s writing. Very few writers are her equal in capturing the day-to-day truths of family life. And no one writes family tension as well-whether that life is in the uncompromising rooms of the horse ranch in Barn Blind; in the trackless reaches of medieval Greenland; on the thousand acres of Larry Cook\u27s place in Zebulon country in A Thousand Acres; in the Kansas-Missouri backwoods borderland traveled by the adventurous Liddie Newton; or among the stars and stumblebums who populate the racetracks of Horse Heaven. The word that comes to mind in describing Jane Smiley\u27s work is a good Renaissance word: chicanery. It\u27s the chicanery of an aging father trying to outwit his fate in A Thousand Acres, the chicanery of a university professor trying to hide his strange and wonderful hog-breeding experiment in Moo, the plotting of a widow to avenge her murdered husband in Liddie Newton, and the schemes of racetrack people to make one big killing on a horse. Jane Smiley\u27s novels are the work of a true scandal-monger, reminiscent of Charles Dickens. They\u27re tapestries of planners and schemers, the doers and the done-to, the winners and the if-onlies, the dreamers and the damned, the why\u27s and the why-not\u27s