Ethics and education: taking globalization seriously

Central ethical concepts in education should be interpreted in a  global frame, beyond the conceptual confines of the nation state. My underlying claim is that globalisation’s effects and significance are profound, but that while new global practices, norms and structures are increasingly evident, developing our key ethical concepts and assumptions accordingly is limited by the narrow and outdated moral universe of the nation state. The intertwined demands of justice and democracy in education now require conceptual adjustment to meet a different world. First, the features and significance of globalisation are considered, with particular reference to globalisation in education, as well as political globalisation as indicative of the now outdated model of the Westphalian state. Secondly, a revised conception of justice based on recognition of global association is sketched and illustrated by the case of the global campaign for Education for All. Thirdly, possibilities for globally democratic decision-making after the monopoly of the nation state are outlined, advancing the discussion towards some concluding observations about the implications of the argument for the education of global citizens

Upper Kalamazoo watershed land cover inventory

Approximately 1000 square miles of the eastern portion of the watershed were inventoried based on remote sensing imagery. The classification scheme, imagery and interpretation procedures, and a cost analysis are discussed. The distributions of land cover within the area are tabulated

Michigan resource inventories: Characteristics and costs of selected projects using high altitude color infrared imagery. Remote Sensing Project

The procedures and costs associated with mapping land cover/use and forest resources from high altitude color infrared (CIR) imagery are documented through an evaluation of several inventory efforts. CIR photos (1:36,000) were used to classify the forests of Mason County, Michigan into six species groups, three stocking levels, and three maturity classes at a cost of $4.58/sq. km. The forest data allow the pinpointing of marketable concentrations of selected timber types, and facilitate the establishment of new forest management cooperatives. Land cover/use maps and area tabulations were prepared from small scale CIR photography at a cost of$4.28/sq. km. and $3.03/sq. km. to support regional planning programs of two Michigan agencies. procedures were also developed to facilitate analysis of this data with other natural resource information. Eleven thematic maps were generated from Windsor Township, Michigan at a cost of$1,500 by integrating grid-geocoded land cover/use, soils, topographic, and well log data using an analytical computer program

Guide to aerial imagery of Michigan

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Guest Editorial: Functional neurosurgery (part 2)

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Surgical management of movement disorders

Movement disorders are usually treated by neurologists, and appropriately so. The first-line management of all conditions that are grouped together as movement disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, essential tremor) is with medication and, in some, with rehabilitative strategies, such as occupational therapy, physiotherapy and even psychotherapy. In general, if these strategies fail or have undesirable consequences, surgery would become an option. Intramuscular injection of botulinum toxin is also very useful in the focal dystonias, such as writer’s cramp, and in the occupation-specific dystonias, such as musician’s dystonia or hairdresser’s dystonia. The limiting factor is the total safe dosage allowed. One cannot inject every muscle involved in all four limbs in a patient with generalised dystonia. This has led to surgery being offered as therapy in certain cases where there have previously not been any alternatives. Surgery does not offer curative procedures for movement disorders, but long-term control with medication is possible, often with significant reduction or complete cessation of symptoms

An evolutionary algorithm approach to simultaneous multi-mission radar waveform design

It would be beneficial with today’s cluttered electromagnetic spectrum to be able to perform multiple radar missions simultaneously from a single platform. The design of a waveform for this application would greatly benefit the radar community. Radar systems are used to perform many missions, some of which include the detection and tracking of airborne and ground moving targets as well as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging. There are many systems that can operate in multiple modes to perform these missions, although there is no one radar that can simultaneously perform multiple missions using the same waveform [1]. Each mission can be mathematically reduced to an objective or set of objectives that can be used to evaluate their success. These objectives are functions of numerous radar and spatial parameters such as pulse repetition frequency (prf), center frequency, bandwidth, antenna beamwidth, and azimuth look angle, among others. In this thesis, an evolutionary multi-objective optimization technique known as the Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm 2 (SPEA2), developed by Zitzler and Thiele [2], was applied to the simultaneous multi-mission radar waveform design problem. Several of the radar parameters mentioned above were varied to produce diverse waveforms that were manipulated using SPEA2. Due to computational constraints, the problem was approached by using two different scaled down real world scenarios to evaluate the performance of the evolutionary waveform design on a multi-objective moving target indication (MTI) mission and a multi-objective SAR mission, respectively. Multiple experiments showed that SPEA2 can select a set of Pareto optimal waveforms that accomplish these multi-objective missions effectively according to the objective functions that were developed for these missions. Finally, a procedure is outlined to combine these multi-objective MTI and SAR missions into one scaled experiment in which a distributed computing environment could be used to provide more computational resources

Guest Editorial: Functional neurosurgery

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