VCU Peer Mentoring Program: 2017-18 Guide for Participants

The Peer Mentoring Program Guide for Participants provides information for both university faculty mentees and their faculty mentors to help establish and develop a productive mentoring relationship. This Guide is the handbook for the Virginia Commonwealth University Peer Mentoring Program, which seeks to support early career faculty members, enabling them to succeed and thrive in the academy as both scholars and educators. The VCU Peer Mentoring program is part of the VCU Office of Faculty Affairs

2017-18 Guide for Participants: Virginia Commonwealth University Peer Mentoring Program

The Peer Mentoring Program Guide for Participants provides information for both university faculty mentees and their faculty mentors to help establish and develop a productive mentoring relationship. This Guide is the handbook for the Virginia Commonwealth University Peer Mentoring Program, which seeks to support early career faculty members, enabling them to succeed and thrive in the academy as both scholars and educators. The VCU Peer Mentoring program is part of the VCU Office of Faculty Affairs

COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

This millennium, confronted with a globalization of means leading as fast as possible at certain pursued aims, highlights the importance of competitiveness from the perspective of the continuous fight against limitation of resources. In this context," the machine of life evolution and economy" has got an engine named competitiveness. "The rules of circulation" should focus on all livings to whom, from the perspective of survival and natural, human and social life accomplishment, the well- known concept of health may be attached. At the same time, competitiveness through environment health should try to reach the convergent performances which means that any form of superior knowledge and experience should always take into consideration environment health.competitiveness, environmental health, living entity

Solutions for decision support in university management

The paper proposes an overview of decision support systems in order to define the role of a system to assist decision in university management. The authors present new technologies and the basic concepts of multidimensional data analysis using models of business processes within the universities. Based on information provided by scientific literature and on the authors’ experience, the study aims to define selection criteria in choosing a development environment for designing a support system dedicated to university management. The contributions consist in designing a data warehouse model and models of OLAP analysis to assist decision in university management.university management, decision support, multidimensional analysis, data warehouse, OLAP

XML Technologies in Computer Assisted Learning and Testing Systems

The learning and assessment activities have undergone major changes due to the development of modern technologies. The computer-assisted learning and testing has proven a number of advantages in the development of modern educational system. The paper suggests a solution for the computer-assisted testing, which uses XML technologies, a solution that could make the basis for developing a learning computer-assisted system.Comment: 6 pages, exposed on 5th International Conference "Actualities and Perspectives on Hardware and Software" - APHS2009, Timisoara, Romani

Forensic Signatures for Production Conditions of Bacillus thuringiensis (str. HD1) Spore Cultures

Chemical signatures that can indicate growth medium recipes or other key aspects of the production conditions are an important goal for forensic and biodefense agencies. In this study, Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) profiles were analyzed from Bacillus thuringiensis spores grown five different published medium recipes. B. thuringiensis was chosen due to its biochemical, structural, and genetic similarity to B. anthracis, a Biosafety Level III select agent and the organisms used in the Amerithrax attacks in 2001. The relative abundance of 13 different fatty acid biomarkers, spanning four structure classes, was compared across all spore samples. Differences in the types and relative abundance of specific fatty acids was observed across each medium formulation, particularly within branched-odd and anteiso structure classes (e.g.15:0 iso, 17:0 iso, 15:0 anteiso). Spore cultures also varied in the proportion of unsaturated and saturated fatty acid biomarkers. When examining specific FAME biomarkers, CAD medium showed an average abundance of 30% for 15:0 iso, whereas LD 97 and Sch media showed average abundances of 23% and 27% respectively, and G-medium and G+Peptone exhibited average abundances of 22.5% and 23% respectively for the same fatty acid. Examination of the 17:0 iso fatty acid showed higher average abundances of 12% in CAD and 13.5% in G+Peptone, while showing lower average abundances of 10%, 8.5%, and 6% in LD, G-Medium, and Sch media respectively. Further differences in fatty acid content were also noted across the sporulation media, whereby CAD, G-Medium, and G+Peptone media exhibited an average abundance of 11.8%, 11.5%, and 11% respectively for 15:0 anteiso meanwhile lower abundances of the same fatty acid were noted in LD (8.5%) and Sch (9%) media. The results indicate that determining FAME profiles can be used to discriminate between a Bacillus thuringiensis species grown in different mediums, and that the amino acid content of each medium affects the FAME profile of the species in question.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/uresposters/1233/thumbnail.jp

Forces That Are Shaping Strategic Decisions

The growth of world trade and the emergence of globalization moved towards flexible economic systems and created unimaginable changes a century ago from the point of view of the interaction of societies as a whole, not only in terms of exchange of information but also at the level of interaction between organizations. Based on the latest theoretical and practical considerations, we could say that is necessary to evaluate continuously not only the results obtained from the analyzes of the quantitative and qualitative data, but also the tools used in the field of strategic management, in order to have a clear applicability, beyond the „laboratory thinking”. The purpose of such a scientific approach is to analyze the existence of relationships of correspondence, conditioning and correlation between the results of these types of research

PRINCIPLE OF YIN-YANG COMPLEMENTARITY IN AEROSPACE SCIENCES

This paper is a transdisciplinary field that combines, harmoniously, the principle of complementarity introduced by the great physicist Niels Bohr in quantum mechanics and the ancient Chinese philosophy, whose essence is "Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate". The allegations are supported by religious, quantum and geometry arguments. Defined concepts of di-mension, coordinate system and specific concepts as: perpendicular in geometry, orthogonal in mathematical analysis, correct in law and ortho in religion. It is shown, further, classification for principle of complementarity, by the two manifestations, harmonic and non-harmonic. As applications, we use the known areas of fluid mechanics, hydro and aerodynamics. Based on the concepts of source, vortex and parallel motion through dyadic and triadic combinations, arriving, finally at a scientific explanation of the philosophical concept of Yin and Yang, underlying Chinese philosophy