The Economic Impact of the University of Virginia: How a Major Research University Affects the Local and State Economies

The University of Virginia, by providing world-class educational opportunities to citizens of the state, has played an important role in the lives of Virginians since its founding in 1819. The University enhances economic opportunity and provides a steady stream of citizens prepared to assume positions of leadership in business and in public service. In carrying out its core missions of education, research, and service, U.Va. has a vital impact on its community, on its region, and on the entire state. A complete picture of the economic impact of the University requires both a close-up lens, for the impact on the local community, and a wide-angle lens, for the impact on the state as a whole. Earlier studies of this sort have concentrated mostly on the local effects of university spending. This study extends the earlier work by adding to the traditional local economic impact analysis an overview of how a large public research university can contribute to the economy of an entire state. In making our case we review the literature on the economic rationale for state support of a major research university with a large component of students from other states and from other nations.Virginia university education research

A Descriptive Phenomenological Study of College Student Belonging Experiences with Peers in the First Semester

This study investigated how first-year college students described belonging experiences with college peers in the first semester, specifically conceptualizing these relationships as bidirectional, where college students both receive and provide support to one another in a mutual way. A descriptive phenomenological research design was employed to identify invariant structures of this phenomenon utilizing data collected from semi-structured interviews with 10 first-time, full-time undergraduate college students in their first semester enrolled at a private, religiously affiliated, four-year university in the midwestern United States. This study found that the invariant structures of belonging in college peer relationships in the first semester were representative of qualities of authenticity and genuineness, volitional friends or friends by choice, trust and comfort, and unconditional and unqualified emotional support among college peers. These findings suggest that these interpersonal relationship qualities, in addition to the setting qualities emphasized in past research, are important for influencing belonging need fulfillment among college students early in collegiate life. Additionally, these findings indicate that college peer relationships and sense of belonging, particularly in the first semester, are more complex and multifaceted than how college peer support has been conceptualized and investigated in the belonging literature

Alien Registration- Knapp, John J. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Computer graphic representation of mandibular movements in three dimensions: the method

A mathematical simulation of the Denar D4A articulator and a simulated complement of graphically represented teeth were programmed in a Prime 4000 minicomputer. The computer program could be manipulated to quantitatively evaluate the theoretical effects of changes in articulator and control factors on the anatomy of selected teeth or tooth groups. The effects of these changes could be assessed graphically and numerically and data could be manipulated statistically.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72497/1/j.1365-2842.1983.tb00124.x.pd

The separation and microdetermination of cobalt in high purity nickel

It has been found that many substances in an extremely pure form or containing certain trace impurities exhibit many unique physical and chemical properties. Investigators studying these properties have encountered many difficulties, especially in preparing the extremely pure substance and/or in accurately determining the quantity of impurities present. These problems arise chiefly from the very similar chemical properties of the constituents being separated and the possibility of contamination during the necessary processing of the substance for purification or analysis. Trace analysis, therefore, has become very important in recent years. Where previously analyses based upon parts per hundred were adequate, now the analyst is being required to determine parts per million and in some cases parts per billion of minor constituents. These analyses have been made possible only by the development of specific methods, which either extend the reliable lower limits of standard analytical procedures or apply new principles or reagents. The United States Bureau of Mines has recently been interested in the production of extremely high purity nickel. They found the standard analytical procedures for the quantitative determination of residual cobalt, necessary to establish the purity of nickel produced, inadequate. The results obtained for a given sample by application or different methods of analysis and by different analysts, both staff and independent, varied widely. Because of this, it was decided to initiate an investigation on the analysis of trace amounts of cobalt in high purity nickel, which would give reproducible results. The purpose of this investigation was to develop a method employing ion exchange techniques for the quantitative separation and concentration of residual amounts of cobalt contained in high purity nickel; so standard analytical procedures could be reliably applied for the quantitative determination of cobalt --Introduction, pages 1-2

Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys

The paper describes the focus, scope and the rationale of PhytoKeys, a newly established, peer-reviewed, open-access journal in plant systematics. PhytoKeys is launched to respond to four main challenges of our time: (1) Appearance of electronic publications as amendments or even alternatives to paper publications; (2) Open Access (OA) as a new publishing model; (3) Linkage of electronic registers, indices and aggregators that summarize information on biological species through taxonomic names or their persistent identifiers (Globally Unique Identifiers or GUIDs; currently Life Science Identifiers or LSIDs); (4) Web 2.0 technologies that permit the semantic markup of, and semantic enhancements to, published biological texts. The journal will pursue cutting-edge technologies in publication and dissemination of biodiversity information while strictly following the requirements of the current International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN)