Free and open source software in computing education

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) exemplifies the merit and successes of open content, understood broadly as creative work that explicitly allows sharing and further changes by anyone, whether an individual or organization. Although the benefits of improving computing education with open source practices are largely acknowledged, transforming teaching to create effective learning environments has many challenges. The panelists will bring different perspectives on teaching strategies and curricular content they have used in their classrooms. These perspectives will exemplify key issues with FOSS-based education and FOSS-based IT systems. The developer and user communities established around FOSS-based IT systems are of particular interest to the IT discipline because of its focus on user centeredness and advocacy for advancing professional practices in authentic environments

A life in balance: Sattvic food and the art of living foundation

Many modern forms of yoga can be located in the holistic milieu. Discourses of health and wellbeing for mind, body and soul are central in the holistic milieu. Ideas about food and diet are frequently significant aspects of this therapeutic discourse. This paper focuses on ideas about food and diet in the Art of Living Foundation (AOL), a modern transnational yoga movement. AOL legitimises its beliefs about food through an appeal to concepts found in traditional texts on yoga and ayurveda. �� In particular, the concept of sattva, which can be translated as balance or harmony���both significant tropes in the holistic milieu���is central to discourses about food choices in AOL and other writers in the holistic milieu

Breakout Session 1 & Vignettes

Stephen Jacobs, M.D., FAAP: ADHD: The DSM Reaches 5 While Dennis the Menace Turns 63 Speaker Bio: Dr. Stephen Jacobs completed his medical degree and Pediatric Residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark Campus. He has since worked at the Central Maine Medical Center specializing in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine for 28 years. Four time winner of the Teacher of the Year Award by the Central Maine Medical Center Family Practice Residency, PCOM is honored to have Dr. Jacobs present ADHD: The DSM Reaches 5 While Dennis the Menace Turns 63

Beta cloth durability assessment for Space Station Freedom (SSF) Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) blanket covers

MLI blankets for the Space Station Freedom (SSF) must comply with general program requirements and recommendations for long life and durability in the low-Earth orbit (LEO) environment. Atomic oxygen and solar ultraviolet/vacuum ultraviolet are the most important factors in the SSF natural environment which affect materials life. Two types of Beta cloth (Teflon coated woven glass fabric), which had been proposed as MLI blanket covers, were tested for long-term durability in the LEO environment. General resistance to atomic oxygen attack and permeation were evaluated in the high velocity atomic oxygen beam system at Los Alamos National Laboratories. Long-term exposure to the LEO environment was simulated in the laboratory using a radio frequency oxygen plasma asher. The plasma asher treated Beta cloth specimens were tested for thermo-optical properties and mechanical durability. Space exposure data from the Long Duration Exposure Facility and the Intelsat Solar Array Coupon were also used in the durability assessment. Beta cloth fabricated to Rockwell specification MBO 135-027 (Chemglas 250) was shown to have acceptable durability for general use as an MLI blanket cover material in the LEO environment while Sheldahl G414500 should be used only in locations which are protected from direct Ram atomic oxygen

Neochonetes Granulifer, An Explosive Opportunist from the Stull Shale (Upper Pennsylvanian) in Southwestern Iowa

The brachiopod Neochonetes granulifer (Owen) is inferred to be an “opportunistic species of the Stull Shale Member, Kanwaka Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian) in southwestern Iowa. The opportunism of this species is restricted to Horizon B of the Stull, but this restriction is evidently masked by the abnormally high number of N.granulifer in Horizons C and D, its shells inferred to have been reworked from B. The presence of this species as an opportunist is characteristic of the high physiological stress on the community of Horizon B as evidenced by the low brachiopod (and overall) diversity. Neochonetes granulifer satisfies most of Levinton\u27 s (1970) criteria for recognition of explosive opportunists, primarily by its sudden population explosion in a narrow stratigraphic range, its dominance of the fauna by 95%, the poor sorting of its shell size fractions, and its presence in a relatively young, low diversity-community

New Approaches for Seventh-day Adventist Evangelism in Swaziland

Problem The Seventh-day Adventist church in Swaziland experienced slow growth from the time of its inception. Starting from 1920, when the first Adventist missionary arrived in Swaziland, to 1994 membership was 2075. This means that the Adventist church in Swaziland was the slowest growing church in the former Southern Union and among the Christian churches in Swaziland. Method This dissertation analyzes: Swazi traditional history, Swazi traditional religious beliefs, the introduction of Christianity in Swaziland, how the SDA church was planted in Swaziland, and the evangelistic methods utilized by the Adventist church and other Christian churches. This approach helped in the development of suggested new approaches for Adventist evangelism in Swaziland. Results The results of the study indicated that the Adventist church did not take culture and contextualization into consideration in their attempt to evangelize the Swazi. These results call for a contextual, culture sensitive approach to reach the Swazi with the gospel as preached by the Adventists. Conclusion This study concludes that effective evangelization of the Swazi by the Adventists must be anchored in the Bible and a contextual, culture sensitive approach, without watering down the message of the gospel

Investigation of the activity and selectivity of the MoO3/AI2O3 catalyst and the structural investigation using in-situ raman

Bibliography: leaves 89-94.Metathesis is a very versatile reaction, which allows the conversion of Simple, relatively inexpensive olefins into specialty, high-purity olefins which are useful intermediates in the fragrance, agricultural and many other specialty chemical industries. Supported molybdenum on alumina is an active heterogeneous catalyst for the metathesis of olefins. Its activity, as a function of time, passes a maximum. It is known that the activity of molybdenum-based catalyst increases up to monolayer capacity. Catalysts with various Mo-Ioadings were prepared by controlled adsorption method using ammonium heptamolybdate as a precursor. A catalyst using a new slurry impregnation method was also prepared for comparative reasons. Before the metathesis process, the molybdenum catalysts are activated at 550°C under N2 in a fixed bed reactor. The loading of the prepared catalysts was below and above monolayer capacity. It was observed that up to a loading 0.3 g Mo03 per g Ab03 the initial conversion increases more than proportional to the Mo03- loading. The catalysts with a Mo03-loading higher than 0.3 g Mo03 per gram AIz03 show initially a lower activity, ie. The activity per molybdenum atom in the catalyst decreases. With increasing time-on-stream the activity of the catalysts declines. The decline is much stronger over the catalysts with a rligher initial activity

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Computers and Typography edited by Rosemary Sassoon, Oxford, Intellect, 1993. ISBN: 1–871516–23–4