There is limited aggregated data showing the amount and levels of preparedness training for active shooter situations in public, academic, and K-12 libraries in California and across the United States. The purpose of this research is to assess the sta . . .

Accompanied by increasing demands on school administrator preparation and rapid development of computer technology, educational statistics courses are exposed to unprecedented pressures for changing both curriculum content and computing platforms. In . . .

Although the issues of diversity and representation are often discussed within academic librarianship in Canada and the United States, the field has made little headway in being inclusive of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who work . . .

In the English-speaking world, the study of Chinese philosophy has been focused mainly on pre-Qin philosophy and Song-Ming neo-Confucianism. In comparison, contemporary Chinese philosophy, as an initial attempt to communicate with . . .

This paper aims at showing the significance in Roman Ingarden’s thinking of two often overlooked ontological concepts: Gestalt quality and harmonious unity. Ingarden understands Gestalt a derived quality that spr . . .

This paper offers a comparative study of two fundamental Confucian concepts, namely, “harmony” (he) and “coherence” (li). After presenting and interpreting the two characters – with reference to both classical thought and Neo-Confu . . .

This paper argues that the Chinese concept of harmony is exemplified in the historical process that resulted in the Chinese people and the geographic entity of China itself. The concept of harmony overcomes the dualism between identity an . . .

In this paper, I argue that the different understandings of “harmony”, which are rooted in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, can be recapitulated in the name of “dialectic harmony” and “ambiguous harmony” regarding the re . . .

Recent years have shown a rise of English-language scholarship exploring the relation between the Chinese concept of harmony and the Western concept of justice. This paper reconstructs the influential contemporary . . .

The concept of harmony does not play a very important role in contemporary analytic philosophy. In this paper, I argue that this peripheral status of the concept of harmony in analytic philosophy is not warranted. In fact, harmony might b . . .

The paper begins with the assumption that in order to explain the efficacy of harmony as an organizing force in human and natural affairs we must pay attention to the dynamic features characteristic of the growth and maintenanc . . .

Harmony is a central notion in Asian culture. It appears as a symbol on the Korean national flag; it is one of the names that the Japanese people used to call their nation; it is a justificatory principle in Chinese politics a . . .

This paper tries to explore Nāgārjuna’s śūnyatāand its implication towards vipaśyanāmeditation or insight perception. Allthe mundane objects of this world are full of suffering. Nāgārjuna was the systematic propounder of Mā . . .

The small, remote country of Bhutan is the only democratic, mixed market country in the world that is rooted constitutionally and culturally in Buddhist principles. As such, it provides an authentic basis for theoretical and empirical com . . .

The formation of ideas is a universal characteristic of humankind. However, the nature of ideation and the ensuing convictions is fraught with ontological and ethical implications. This article seeks to explore the issues . . .

The term ‘indigenous’, since late 20thcentury, is being extensively used to denote people and literatures, in addition to its previous function of classifying flora and fauna. These people, under international and national legislations are referred as . . .

Neurophysiologist Benjamin Libet’s EEG experiments tracking the temporal occurrence of brain events leading to an endogenous voluntary action significantly demonstrated that the subject becomes conscious of her intention to act later . . .

Like all other beings in the World, human being has been (and will be) essentially a part of nature. The relationship between Man and Nature, therefore, has been the subject of contemplation for mankind since the pre- . . .

Given the fact that democracy has come to be accepted as a framework for good governance in most parts of the world and given the fact that most states in Africa are multi-ethnic in nature, which presupposes some contestations in . . .

In this study, H. Walberg's theory of educational productivity was used to guide a confirmatory examination of the relationship between student career aspiration and factors of educational productivity, using data from the National Education Longitudi . . .

An empirical approach is adopted in this article to explore a possible model for the prediction of students’ science achievement in China and the United States. The construction of the model was based on the ninth-grade data base from Phase 11 of the . . .

Parental influence has been identified as an important factor affecting student achievement, but the variables addressed by various parent-school partnership programs vary, and lack literature support. This deficiency was ameliorated in this study thr . . .

The article presents an examination into the hagiographic depictions of the life of the 4th-century Christian desert father Paisios, also known as Bishoy. Discussion is given focusing on the saint's typological role and description as a didaskalos and . . .

The themes in the early monastic sayings and stories, some of them discussed here, are not neatly numbered and segregated as a linear presentation necessarily makes them; they’re much more like marrow and bone, bone and sinew, sinew and muscle, muscle . . .

A literary criticism for the book "Cold War Letters" by Thomas Merton is presented. Topics discussed include political action informed by principles of religious and philosophical wisdom; separate religion and politics rested on a thoroughly religious . . .

Abba Agathon (4th–5th c.) does not have even a cameo role in Hugh G. Evelyn White’s monumental and magisterial study of the early Christian monks of Egypt,2 William Harmless’s Desert Christians,3 or Adalbert de Vogüé’s Histoire littéraire du movemen . . .

Something like 90% of classical Greek and Roman literature is lost to us. This realization becomes acute, even heartbreaking, when we think of how very little of the little we have is by women. An exception that proves the rule is Plutarch’s “Sayings . . .

The article offers information on the metaphor and exegesis in the sayings of Amma Syncletica of Egypt. Topics discussed include dismissal of metaphor above uses metaphor; Jewish and Christian exegetes a good living, including Jesus and Paul in Bible; . . .

A camel, a horse, a troupe of pigs rising from the waters of the Nile; an ostrich with its young; genuflecting crocodiles; souls flying up to heaven, a malevolent giant stopping some of them; a female monk who has transgressed; a dummy dressed up like . . .

The article discusses the practice of transformational reading among monks. It mentions books including "S. J.: Tattoos on the Heart" by Gregory Boyle, and "Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship" by Kathleen Norris which look into the lif . . .

When I first proposed to Father Terrence Kardong a new translation, with commentary, of the sayings attributed to Arsenius of Seeds in the Greek Alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum (et Matrum), he was enthusiastic, but then drily added that he was not s . . .

The article offers the information on the sayings of the of Antony the Great who was the was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. Topics discussed including Antony's spiritual world or psychological world; work and pray, pr . . .

Compared with other eminences of early Christian monasticism in Egypt—Antony the Great, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, Macarius of Alexandria, Poemen, Moses the Black, and others—Pshoi of Scetis is relatively unknown, at least in the West. 4 In Coptic . . .

With the four poems discussed in this essay, Rowan Williams brings us deep into a land of both likeness and unlikeness. These thoroughly incamational poems are not besotted with the baby Jesus, but rather turn our attention to ourselves as incarnated . . .

The article discusses the life of the eighth-century holy person Apa Matthew the Poor. Topics include the monastery named after Saint Pachomius probably founded by Apa Matthew, the work of biographer Serapion on the life of Apa Matthew and Matthew's v . . .

Denise Levertov gathered the poems in The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes from seven different volumes that, she saijs in the foreword, "trace my own slow movement from agnosticism to Christian faith, a movement incorporati . . .

WHILE INCARCERATED BY the British in the 1920s, Mohandas Gandhi wrote his Autobiography. Having lived, though at a distance, the horrors of World War I, Gandhi seemed to foresee the even worse terrors of World War II and weave those twin self-inflicte . . .

A couple of years ago I was teaching what we used to call catechism but now term an inquirers’ class for newcomers to the parish who want to be baptized, confirmed, or received. During the discussion, a young woman—a lesbian—told us that the frst time . . .

Monks have been in the Wadi al-Natrun (ancient Scetis) in Egypt for almost 1700 years.1 Most studies of early monasticism focus on its history,2 but here I wish to examine its spirituality by looking in particular at the spirituality of early monastic . . .

In recent years scholars have added many up-to-date windows to the ancient monastic dwelling of the holy man in late antiquity. With these constructions they have brought new light to the way we see the holy man: as patron,2 thaumaturge,3 mediator and . . .

Blame it on Walt Disney. Our cartoons have sentimentalized and therefore falsified-the animal kingdom. Think of Bambi and Thumper. Even more, think of all the cute little talking animals that serve as comic relief in recent Disney films, tossing off . . .

Sometime in the sixth century, according to Palestinian monastic tradition, “a certain woman, poor in appearance,” arrived late one evening after vespers at the Monastery of Saint George of Choziba outside Jericho (a monastery that still exists)1and a . . .

Journeying to the interior is both physical fact and spiritual reality in early Christian monasticism, especially in Egypt, where the physical interior is clearly marked and life-threatening. The attacks of the demons in the Life ofAntony demonstrate . . .

Extreme episodic events have the capacity to transport large amounts of terrestrial material to the coastal ocean. While estuaries and deltas are typically thought to trap most of this material, some escapes these coastal features and is transported t . . .

The cory catfishes (Callichthyidae) are small, South American armored catfishes with a series of dermal scutes that run the length of the fish from posterior to the parieto-supraoccipital down to the caudal peduncle. In this study, we explore the anat . . .

In a recent issue of The American Benedictine Review, David N. Bell offered a searching critique of early Christian monasticism and found it severely deficient in a number of ways. He points out that the monks of the fourth and fifth century were not . . .

In January and February of 1996 I had the great good fortune of joining the team of American archeologists, faculty, and students who went to Wadi Natrun, Egypt; we were there to excavate the Monastery of Saint John the Little and study firsthandCopti . . .

This article analyzes contemporary American evangelical children’s fiction with respect to the portrayal of Jews and Judaism. Some of the themes that appear in these novels for children include Jewish religiosity, anti-Semitism, Christian proselytizin . . .

Background The current study examined the independent and interactive effects of HIV and marijuana (MJ) use on brain structure and cognitive function among a sample of HIV-positive (HIV + ) and HIV-negative (HIV-) individuals. Methods Participants (HI . . .

In eukaryotic cells, microtubules are 24-nm-diameter tubular structures composed of a class of conserved proteins called tubulin. They are involved in numerous cell functions including ciliary motility, nerve cell elongation, pigment migration, centro . . .

Scott Kurnit, founder of the Mining Company and president of its current incarnation, About.com, Inc., was the morning keynote speaker. About.com [http://www.about.com] has 700 different communities on its Web site and Kurnit claims it's the fifth lar . . .

The current situation in medicine has been described as a crisis of credibility, as the profit motive of industry has taken control of clinical trials and the dissemination of data. Pharmaceutical companies maintain a stranglehold over the content if . . .

This paper describes a method for estimating larval supply of a temperate reef fish, the kelp bass Paralabrax clathratus, that is simple, inexpensive, requires relatively low effort, and integrates larval supply over time, Using this method, we sample . . .

We report on observations of 11 transit events of the transiting extrasolar planet XO-1b by the SuperWASP North observatory. From our data, obtained during 2004 May-September, we find that the XO-1b orbital period is 3.941634 +/- 0.000137 days, the pl . . .

The study extends previous work by Gross and Sheth (1989), providing evidence of continued U.S. advertiser emphasis on timeoriented advertising appeals. Additionally, the specific character of time-oriented appeals has changed consistent with recent s . . .

It is found that the sharp resistivity peak observed near the Curie temperature TC in the manganites R1-xAxMnO3 is closely correlated to the residual resistivity ρ0 of the sample, suggesting that nonmagnetic randomness plays an important role in deter . . .

Since the final approval of the criteria for ABET accreditation of Information Systems (IS) programs in December 2001, only seven institutions have been awarded specialized accreditation for their undergraduate IS degrees. To date only, only one under . . .

Principal components analysis (PCA) and independent component analysis (ICA) are used to identify global patterns in solar and space data. PCA seeks orthogonal modes of the two-point correlation matrix constructed from a data set. It permits the ident . . .

The kagome spin-12 systems have attracted intensive attention in recent years as the primary candidate for hosting different gapped spin liquids (SLs). To uncover the nature of the novel quantum phase transition between the SL states, we study a minim . . .

A variety of joint action studies show that people tend to fall into synchronous behavior with others participating in the same task, and that such synchronization is beneficial, leading to greater rapport, satisfaction, and performance. It has been n . . .

The SuperWASP-I (Wide Angle Search for Planets-I) instrument observed 6.7 million stars between 8 and 15 mag from La Palma during the 2004 May-September season. Our transithunting algorithm selected 11 626 objects from the 184 442 stars within the RA . . .

Let X 1, ···, Xn be i.i.d. random variables defined in ℝ d having common continuous density f(x), and let Rij be the rank of Xj in the ordered list of distances from X¡. Both the mutual neighbor probabilities p 1(r, s) = P(R 12 = r, R 21 = s) and the . . .

Both pharmacological intervention (i.e., thiazolidinediones [TZDs]) and lifestyle modification (i.e., exercise training) are clinically effective treatments for improving whole-body insulin sensitivity. However, the mechanism(s) by which these therapi . . .

I've just come back from attending both the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual conference in San Antonio and the American Libraries Association (ALA) Annual conference in San Francisco. I'm sure I've gone to every SLA conference for the last 1 . . .

Context. Based on the viscous disk theory, a number of recent studies have suggested there is large-scale meridional circulation in protoplanetary disks. Such a flow could account for the presence of crystalline silicates, including calcium- and alumi . . .

We have discovered an extremely red object, LSF 1, located 7" southwest (P.A. 217 degrees) of the bright spectroscopic binary system HD 155826. Originally reported by IRAS as one source detected at 12-60 ?m, and found as a single 6-25 ?m source of sim . . .

Despite the wide reach of medical licensing in health care production through its impact on the nature and cost of care, it has been all but ignored in debates over health care reform. This paper pulls together statements made by economists whose expe . . .

The SuperWASP cameras are wide-field imaging systems at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, and at the Sutherland Station of the South African Astronomical Observatory. Each instrument has a fie . . .

A new method is devised for calculating the Igusa local zeta function Z_f of a polynomial f(x_1,,,,,x_n) over a p-adic field. This involves a new kind of generating function G_f that is the projective limit of a family of generating functions, and con . . .

Under high pressure, triply bonded molecular nitrogen dissociates into singly bonded polymeric nitrogen, a potential high-energy-density material. The discovery of stable high-pressure forms of polymeric nitrogen is of great interest. We report the st . . .

A commentary discusses negotiations between the Purdue University faculty and Elsevier Science Inc. over the cost of Elsevier journals. The average cost for a science and technology periodical has increased 50% since 1992. The larger the price increas . . .

In Arabidopsis thaliana ,cis-regulatory sequences of the floral homeotic gene AGAMOUS ( AG ) are located in the second intron. This 3-kb intron contains binding sites for two direct activators of AG , LEAFY (LFY) and WUSCHEL (WUS), along with other pu . . .

Fall 2002, the latest revision of the Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems was adopted. Included in the new curriculum model was an updated list of desired exit characteristics for information system . . .

Sexual minority adolescents (SMA) consistently report health disparities compared to their heterosexual counterparts, yet the underlying mechanisms of these negative health outcomes remain unclear. The predominant explanatory model is the minority str . . .

Creating an optimal travel plan is not an easy task, particularly for people with mobility disabilities, for whom even simple trips, such as eating out in a restaurant, can be extremely difficult. Many of their travel plans need to be made days or eve . . .

Surface water mapping is essential for studying global environmental changes in the quantity and quality of water bodies. This study explores the applicability of machine learning algorithm Support Vector Machine (SVM) in detecting open water surface . . .

With rapid development of electronic publishing technologies, e-books, especially EPUB, are being published at the same level of paper books publication volume. But still e-books with accessibility features are rare in the Korea market due to the prod . . .

The 67th annual California Geographical Society Conference was held in San Luis Obispo from April 26th through the 28th, with more than 340 geographers from the academic, government, private, and nonprofit sectors making the trek to the wonderful cent . . .

An audio-haptic drawing application prototype has been developed in a project and iteratively been tested by five pupils who are 8-13 years. The application has been used by pupils, assistants and teachers to access graphics and create graphics that a . . .

In the year 2000 I wondered about that famous German name when I attended the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) meeting at Humboldt State University. It was so conspicuous throughout the region. Could I have missed knowing about a visit . . .

As we age, many of an individual's abilities (e.g. cognition, perception, mobility) begin to change in ways which can result in functional limitations. Although capabilities vary across the population, change also varies within the lifespan of individ . . .

People with profound Intellectual Disability (ID) have difficulties expressing their needs due to their limited communication skills. These skills are usually limited to gestures and vocalizations many of which so idiosyncratic that can only be interp . . .

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the Act) is Congress' most recent attempt to simplify our tax system. Even if the Act's catch phrase promise to "file a return on a postcard" is more hyperbole than reality, it is a rallying cry for an equally important aspe . . .

This pilot project utilized a mixed-methodology approach to investigating assistive technology (AT) with students enrolled in a college program for students with intellectual disabilities. Its purpose was the provision of AT-based software, training, . . .

The combination of a touch sensitive mat and a projector allow a dynamic keyboard to be projected around a user's fist for text entry. RingBoard is a soft keyboard approach using standard off the shelf components that allows people with motor impairme . . .