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Scholarly Conversations, Intellectual Virtues, And Virtue Information Literacy, Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article develops a concept of Virtue Information Literacy (VIL) modeled on the philosophical subfields of virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. VIL is an ethical, character-based approach analyzing information literacy through intellectual virtues and vices in order to cultivate such virtues with the goal of living a more flourishing life. The article explains the foundation of VIL in virtue ethics and virtue epistemology; analyzes recent work making similar connections between information literacy, virtue epistemology, and intellectual virtues and vices; and finally with the aid of Richard Rorty’s pragmatism and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics analyzes some intellectual virtues especially useful for …

Umaine Office For Diversity And Inclusion Black History Month Year-Round: Next Steps Email, University Of Maine Office For Diversity And Inclusion

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Email from the UMaine Office for Diversity and Inclusion with various details of the Office's work and events related to Black History Month.

Are There Partisan Rebels Anymore? Whither Alex P. Keaton, Paul A. Djupe

Faculty Publications

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Open-Field Scale-Model Experiments Of Fire Whirls Over L-Shaped Line Fires, Yuto Iga, Kazunori Kuwana, Kozo Sekimoto, Yuji Nakamura

Progress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal

This paper presents the results of open-field scale-model experiments of fire-whirl formation over line fires. L-shaped line fires were burned in crosswinds, and the processes of fire-whirl formation were observed. The flame height was measured using an image-processing technique, while two-dimensional velocity components were measured at two different locations using ultrasonic anemometers. Two tests were selected for comparison: test A, in which intense fire whirls repeatedly formed, and test B, in which no whirls were observed. In test A, the wind flow was bent by the fire plume, creating swirling flows near the burning area, thereby forming fire whirls. On …

Effect Of Reduced Plume Entrainment On The Burning Rate Of Porous Fuel Beds, Sara Mcallister

Progress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal

Large outdoor fires often exhibit unexpected fire behavior, particularly compared with much smaller fires. Understanding the difference between large- and small-scale fires is of importance for both fire behavior predictions and safety. Large fires are often characterized by very tall plumes that can extend to the stratosphere. Particularly as the actively burning area increases, plumes in large-scale fires likely entrain relatively little and may act in a similar fashion to a chimney. To explore the possible changes in burning rate due to the chimney effect, experiments were conducted with wood cribs burned with a chimney of variable height. The burning …

Scale Model Test To Estimate Thermal Damage By Fire In Aircraft Cargo, Jian Gao, Tsuneyoshi Matsuoka, Yuji Nakamura

Progress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires fire detectors to alarm within one minute of the start of a fire in cargo compartments of airplanes. To determine whether such alarm timing works, investigations of the thermal damage to ceilings and other structures during the early stage of a fire were accomplished to demonstrate compliance with these FAA regulations. The objective was to test the feasibility of predicting convective heat transfer in early stage of a cargo compartment fire by conducting reduced scale (lab scale) experiments. First, the scaling laws was derived and validated. Then, full-scale and half-scale experiments were performed with …

Labor Market Monopsony And Wage Inequality: Evidence From Online Labor Market Vacancies, Samuel I. Thorpe

Undergraduate Economic Review

This paper estimates the effects of employer labor market power on wage inequality in the United States. I find that inequality as measured by interdecile range is 23.7% higher in perfectly monopsonistic labor markets than in perfectly competitive markets, even when controlling for commuting zone and occupation fixed effects. I also decompose these results into 50/10 and 90/50 ratios, finding much larger impacts on inequality among low earners. These results suggest that monopsony power has significant and policy-relevant impacts on wage inequality, and particularly harms the lowest earning subsets of the labor force.

Welcome To The New Dignity, Donna M. Hughes

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

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Implementation And Use Of Virtual Reference Services In Academic Libraries During And Post Covid-19 Pandemic: A Necessity For Developing Countries, Muhammad Kabir Abubakar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Virtual reference services (VRS) is increasingly being implemented and used to muster increase real time interaction between library users and the libraries. While the implementation and the use of the VRS in academic libraries is growing rapidly in today’s world, particularly in the developed countries, in the developing countries, the development has recorded a medium of success. This study presents an extensive synthesis of literature on VRS from different electronic databases, including EbscoHost, Elsevier, Emerald, Google Scholar, JSTOR, Science Direct and Taylor & Francis Online. Consequently, four commonly used VRS communication technologies that can help ease the impact of COVID-19 …

Cross-Country Differences In Stay-At-Home Behaviors During Peaks In The Covid-19 Pandemic In China And The United States: The Roles Of Health Beliefs And Behavioral Intention, Wei Hong, Ru-De Liu, Yi Ding, Jacquenline Hwang, Jia Wang, Yi Yang

Covid-19 Digital Research

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapidly escalated to a global pandemic. To control the rate of transmission, governments advocated that the public practice social distancing, which included staying at home. However, compliance with stay-at-home orders has varied between countries such as China and the United States, and little is known about the mechanisms underlying the national differences. Based on the health belief model, the theory of reasoned action, and the technology acceptance model, health beliefs and behavioral intention are suggested as possible explanations. A total of 498 Chinese and 292 American college students were recruited to complete an online …

St. Benedict Parish For The Deaf Church Bulletin, February 21, 2021

Saint Benedict Parish for the Deaf Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in San Francisco, CA

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St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, February 21, 2021

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

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Bibliometric Analysis Of Articles On Accounting And Covid-19 During The Pandemic, Irman Firmansyah, Aam Slamet Rusydiana

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to investigate articles with the theme of accounting and covid-19 published during the pandemic and indexed by Dimension (https://dimension.ai) with a focus on an analysis of journals, articles, and keywords. The articles analyzed were as many as 150 documents using bibliometric analysis with the help of R Biblioshiny software. The results showed that from several journals that published articles on the theme of accounting and covid-19, the themes discussed were not only focused on accounting but themes extended to other themes such as environment, science, energy, and health. The journal that publishes this theme the most frequently …

Indonesian Journal Of Applied Linguistics: A Bibliometric Portrait Of Ten Publication Years, Abdul Syahid

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Bibliometric portraits of a single journal appear to be rarely taken in the field of applied linguistics. Viewed from the angles of publication, citation, and indexation, one of the journals worth a bibliometric portrait is the Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Casting local and regional concerns on the global applied linguistics, the journal has ranked among the big five Open Access Journals in the Asiatic region since its foundation in 2011. Capturing a corpus of 426 documents by 824 authors from 144 organizations through two free bibliometric tools, i.e. Publish or Perish and VOSviewer, this study portrays the journal …

St. Augustine Parish Sunday Bulletin, February 21, 2021

Saint Augustine Parish Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Cleveland, OH

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Peer Research Mentors At Gettysburg College, Meggan D. Smith, Mallory R. Jallas, Clinton K. Baugess, Janelle Wertzberger

All Musselman Library Staff Works

Musselman Library at Gettysburg College developed a Peer Research Mentor (PRM) program to expand the library’s formal research and instruction program. Designed and coordinated by a group of research and instruction librarians, the PRM program is built around a cohort of eight undergraduate students from a variety of class years and disciplines. Each PRM has a librarian supervisor. The PRMs participate in intensive training, provide reference service alongside professional librarians at the Research Help Desk, and develop outreach projects to better connect student patrons with library collections and services. [excerpt]

Hall Of Fame Palliative Care Curriculum At Cedarville's School Of Nursing, Mark D. Weinstein

News Releases

Cedarville University’s school of nursing is one of five nursing schools in the state of Ohio to win the 2019-2020 Hall of Fame award for its End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) curriculum.

St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin, February 21, 2021

Saint Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

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Rod Library Organization Chart, Spring 2021, 21 February, Rod Library. University Of Northern Iowa.

Library Documents & Reports (entire collection)

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Extinguishment Of Diffusion Flames Formed Over A Porous Plate Burner Using Rubber Balloons Filled With Inert Gases, Hiroyuki Torikai, Shinya Kudo

Progress in Scale Modeling, an International Journal

We have proposed an inert gas, rubber-balloon extinguishing method which might increase the effectiveness of extinguishing flames and decreasing the amounts of agents needed for fire suppression. Hence, extinguishing experiments have been performed to further clarify possible extinguishing characteristics, mechanisms and scaling effects of this method. Carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon and helium gases were used as the extinguishing agents. Methane-air and propane-air diffusion flames were formed on two different diameter, round porous plate burner and used as the targets for extinguishment. The extinguishing probabilities were measured, and the extinguishing processes were observed with a high-speed camera. As a result, an …

Ecological Restoration And Countmeasures Against Desertification Crisis In Aral Sea Region., Mingzhu He, Xin Gao, Zhenyong Zhao, Haotian Yang, Lei Huang, Xinrong Li, Jiaqiang Lei

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Land degradation and desertification are the serious ecological problems and challenges to achieve global sustainable development goals. The Chinese government proposes to integrate the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt with the environmental improvement of the Central Asia, to build an intimate community of shared destiny between China and the Central Asia countries, and to promote the green and sustainable development of the Silk Road Economic Belt. However, the ecological crisis in the Aral Sea causes a significant shrinking in water body, loss of biodiversity, salinization, desertification, and salt dust storm, which have become major environmental problems encountered in …

Spatial Pattern And Response Of Landslide And Debris Flow Risks In China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Qiang Zou, Xiaojun Guo, Yu Luo, Yuanjun Jiang, Peng Cui, Lijun Su, Guoqiang Ou, Huali Pan, Weiming Liu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Landslides and debris flows caused significant threat to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. This study introduced the spatial pattern of the relevant mountainous hazards and assessed the hazards risks, predicted the development trends, and proposed the relevant countermeasures as well. 584 landslides, 116 collapses, and 1669 mudslides in total were identified, which mainly distributed in the mountainous areas in the northern part of the corridor. The hazards were divided into five grades: extremely high, high, medium, low, and extremely low and the northern area is highly dangerous. The vulnerability assessment was carried out with traffic, economy, and population as indicators, and …

Risk Assessment And Response Strategies For Extreme Climate Events In Key Nodes Of The Belt And Road, Yong Ge, Qiangzi Li, Feng Ling, Yuan Zhang, Yonghui Yao, Qingsheng Liu, Wen Dong, Hua Wu, Yi Li, Zhoupeng Ren

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

In the context of global climate change, heat waves, extreme precipitation, extreme droughts and storm surges have increased in most areas of the Belt and Road, which seriously threatens the personal and property safety of countries along the Belt and Road. This study focuses on dealing with the issues associated with the risk identification and assessment of extreme climate events in the “Belt and Road” region, including the coarse or single assessment scale and weak response strategies. It develops a multi-scale extreme climate risk assessment framework, and completes the risk assessment of four representative extreme climate events including heat waves, …

Origin, Practice, And Evolution Of Innovation Culture—Case Study Of Chinese Academy Of Sciences, Jun Zhao, Yang Yang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

This study introduces the origin, connotation, function, and significance of innovation culture, identifies four basic elements of innovative culture, including value concept, thinking mode, behavior standard, and institutional system. On this basis, this study systematically reviews the four innovative cultural developments of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Meanwhile, this study points out that the spirits of saving, serving, and strengthening the country through science are the value concepts of CAS. Striving to be the practitioner and inheritor into the spirit of “two bombs and one satellite” is the thinking modes of CAS. Innovating technology, cultivating talents, serving the country, and …

Regionalization Of Ecological Risk Of China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor Transportation And Pipeline Construction And Policy Suggestions, Suocheng Dong, Yijia Li, Fujia Li, Jingwen Li, Yu Li, Zehong Li, Hao Cheng, Guoyu Li, Shengyu Li

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The cross-border railways and oil and gas pipelines along the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor are key hubs and channels supporting the regional cooperation and development. It is very important to complete scientific regionalization of ecological risk of China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor and put forward suggestions to guarantee smooth construction and safe cross-border traffic project. By establishing ecological risk evaluation model, we quantitatively analyzed the ecological risk of China-MongoliaRussia Economic Corridor, and regionalized high, middle, and low risk. We put forward the ecological risk prevention and control countermeasures for China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor. It shows that the ecological risk areas are distributed along the …

Improve The Weak Links In Science And Technology For Disaster Prevention And Reduction Along Silk Road

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

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Designing A Comprehensive Information System For Safeguarding The Cultural Heritage: Need For Adopting Architectural Models And Quality Standards, Gireesh Kumar T. K. Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In every sphere of activity, knowledge or information is the major constituent that determines the quality and relevance of actions. Social, cultural, technological and economic progress is based on what we have achieved till now. Heritage items contain knowledge embedded in them on the technology already developed and the discoveries made in different disciplines during the past which gives perspectives of culture and civilization and forms the major base for further progress. So conservation of heritage, especially knowledge heritage, is essential for future generations for sustainable development. In India, even though regional level conservation efforts are occurring, no comprehensive information …

Permafrost Engineering Problem Along China-Russia Crude Oil Pipeline And Mitigative Measure, Guoyu Li, Yapeng Cao, Wei Ma, Xiaoying Jin, Pengchao Chen, Qihao Yu, Zhongqiong Zhang, Yanhu Mu, Huijun Jin

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

China-Russia Crude Oil Pipeline (CRCOP), one of the four key national energy strategic channels, plays an important role in ensuring national energy security, diversifying oil supplies and transportation patterns, promoting the China-Mongolia-Russian economic corridor, and deepening Sino-Russian strategic cooperation. Aiming at permafrost engineering problems along the CRCOP, the principles of thaw control are put forward. This study develops a set of innovative techniques for mitigating and controlling the thaw of permafrost foundation soils of the pipeline, which provides an important guarantee for the green construction and safe operation of the CRCOP and can protect the permafrost environment along the pipeline …

Ecologic Problems And Hazards Risks: Challenges And Countermeasure For Promoting Green Belt And Road, Jiaqiang Lei, Yong Ge, Xin Gao, Youlin Yang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The Belt and Road region crosses different geographic areas and ecological zones. Ecologic problems and hazards risks are complicated in these zones and they threat seriously the green development and economic corridors security along the Belt and Road region. Based on multiple data sources platform installation and experiment-demonstration researches and observations, the regional ecologic-environmental regulations of the Belt and Road region are well and scientifically recognized, key areas/zones and the ecologic-environmental security and risk response programmes of major projects are systematically integrated. The findings of the key advanced research project on the environment change and construction of the Green Silk …

The Public Libraries Perspective In Pakistan: A Study On Empirical Problems, Mohammad Hussain, Dr. Haroon Idress

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: This study examined the problems faced by the public of Pakistan. It also analyzed the demographic information of the libraries and further reviewed the designation, qualifications, and professional experience of the heads/in-charge of public libraries.

Research Methodology: The census-based survey was conducted, and data was collected from the 119 public libraries through the structured questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (version-23) and both descriptive and inferential stats were applied to analyze the data and interpret the results.

Key Findings: The heads of 91 libraries were LIS professionals, while 28 libraries were run by …