scholarly journals Service Learning: A Valuable Experience

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
William E. Fowler ◽  
O. Scott Stovall ◽  
John D. Neill
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Present Form ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Air Force Base ◽  
Do So

In this paper, we describe how our department recently incorporated a major service learning component into the curriculum. Specifically, we employed participation in the IRSs Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program as an effective means of experiential and service learning for the past two years for Masters of Accountancy students. We designed a course devoted entirely to serving in a VITA program operated on a local Air Force base. Our experience confirms that service learning can be a powerful tool in teaching. It has enhanced our students academic and professional development. It has given significance to our mission and it has strengthened community relationships. However, recent developments have made it difficult for us to maintain this service learning project in its present form. It appears that we, like many other programs, must consider again how to implement service learning as part of our curriculum, but we will do so now with a greater appreciation and enthusiasm for its unique contributions to learning.

scholarly journals Recent Developments in Corporate Taxation

1987 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Donald H. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Petroleum Industry ◽  
Corporate Taxation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments

A large number of amendments to the Income Tax Act (Canada) have been made or proposed during the past year, many of which affect how corporations will conduct acquisitions and mergers in the future. The paper reviews certain of those amendments which will affect corporations engaged in the petroleum industry.

The 2006 higher education pay dispute: the reality of partnership rhetoric?

Legal Studies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-510
Author(s):  
Tonia Novitz ◽  
Charlotte Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Do So

The rhetoric of partnership appears to have played a central justificatory role in policy change and law reform during the past decade, especially in the field of industrial relations. We investigate in this paper its implications for higher education. We do so in the context of the 2006 pay dispute with reference both to recent developments in the higher education sector and to the legal framework within which the dispute was conducted. We argue that despite the government’s suggestion that this was only a dispute between universities as employers and their employees, its particular version of partnership shaped the contours of the dispute and determined its outcome.

Nonlinear system simulation

SIMULATION ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard E. Howard
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Phase Plane ◽  
Analog Computer ◽  
The Past ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Global Topology ◽  
General Phase ◽  
Air Force Base ◽  
The University ◽  
Computer Facility

The ideas presented in this paper have evolved gradually over the past 10 to 15 years. Their genesis may be ob served in the three reports in the bibliography, covering work the author contributed to and directed. The approach has been used in many practical problems, including the simulation of guided missile systems at the large analog computer facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The ideas have further evolved during the teaching of courses in numerical analysis at the University of Miami, a two week session at the EAI Princeton Computation Center in 1964, and extensive use of the Milgo Computa tion Center in Miami. The paper itself was prepared specifically for the meet ing at which it was presented. It was couched in general phase-space terminology, but the examples were all two dimensional. The reviewer kindly suggested that either the discussion be directed toward the phase plane, or higher dimensional examples be included. Following his sug gestion, higher dimensional examples have been solved which will be presented as a sequel, to avoid making this paper too long. In addition, one of the author's graduate students, Mr. Alex Koler, has been producing some inter esting results on the global topology of the phase plane of quadratic systems, which will be presented separately. The field appears fruitful for further investigations.

The Use of Wind Tunnel, Field, and Computational Studies to Determine Building Wake Effects on the Hill Air Force Base Runway

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan M. Arnim ◽  
Trent L. Wall ◽  
Jeff Waterhouse
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Flow Direction ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Present Solution ◽  
Wake Effects ◽  
Air Force Base ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Hill Air Force Base

A combined wind tunnel, field measurement, and numerical simulation strategy was used to obtain estimates of the effects of canyon wind flow over proposed building arrays on the Hill Air Force Base (HAFB) runway. As part of this effort, simplified building configurations in the wind tunnel were utilized to optimize computation parameters, as well as gain insights regarding the gross features associated with the proposed building configurations. The field data were used to provide realistic inflow conditions to the numerical simulations. The simulations were then utilized to predict flow fields over the HAFB runway for a number of proposed building configurations. Results from the study, indicated that building configurations primarily oriented transverse to the flow direction showed a persistence of momentum deficit and increased turbulence at large downstream distances. The present solution strategy is shown to constitute a cost effective means of addressing complex applied wind engineering problems with the capability of overcoming Reynolds number and geometric similarity problems.

scholarly journals Prevention of Transfusion-Associated Graft-Versus-Host Disease With Blood Product Irradiation: The Past, Present, and Future

2018 ◽  
Vol 142 (5) ◽  
pp. 662-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burak Bahar ◽  
Christopher A. Tormey
Keyword(s):  
Graft Versus Host Disease ◽  
Blood Product ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Radioactive Materials ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Host Disease ◽  
Graft Versus Host ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Very High

Transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease (TA-GVHD) is a disease with a very high mortality rate. In this report, we discuss TA-GVHD from a historical perspective, highlight the pathogenesis of TA-GVHD, and emphasize the importance of blood product irradiation, which is a very effective means to prevent this disease. We summarize the current recommendations in different patient populations from different countries and review recent developments, such as alternatives for the use of radioactive materials. We also speculate on future directions.

Imagining Mary Magdalene

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Jodie Eichler-Levine
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
Do So

In this article I analyze how Americans draw upon the authority of both ancient, so-called “hidden” texts and the authority of scholarly discourse, even overtly fictional scholarly discourse, in their imaginings of the “re-discovered” figure of Mary Magdalene. Reading recent treatments of Mary Magdalene provides me with an entrance onto three topics: how Americans see and use the past, how Americans understand knowledge itself, and how Americans construct “religion” and “spirituality.” I do so through close studies of contemporary websites of communities that focus on Mary Magdalene, as well as examinations of relevant books, historical novels, reader reviews, and comic books. Focusing on Mary Magdalene alongside tropes of wisdom also uncovers the gendered dynamics at play in constructions of antiquity, knowledge, and religious accessibility.

Wilfred Ethier. Modern International Economics. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. 1983. xviii + 588 pp.

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-83
Author(s):  
Nadeem A. Burney
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
New York ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
International Economics ◽  
International Monetary System ◽  
International Markets ◽  
The Past ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
Recent Developments

Its been long recognized that various economies of the world are interlinked through international trade. The experience of the past several years, however, has demonstrated that this economic interdependence is far greater than was previously realized. In this context, the importance of international economic theory as an area distinct from general economics hardly needs any mentioning. What gives international economic theory this distinction is international markets for some goods and effects of national sovereignty on the character of economic activity. Wilfred Ethier's book, which incorporates recent developments in the field, is an excellent addition to textbooks on international economics for one- or twosemester undergraduate courses. The book mostly covers standard topics. A distinguishing feature of this book is its detailed analysis of the flexible exchange rates and a discussion of the various approaches used for their determination. Within each chapter, the author has extensively used facts, figures and major events to clarify the concepts in the light of the theoretical framework. The book also discusses, in a fair amount of detail, the existing international monetary system and the role of various international organizations.

Pakistan’s Development: Successes, Failures, and Future Tasks (Presidential Remarks)

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (4I) ◽  
pp. 321-331
Author(s):  
Sarfraz Khan Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Golden Jubilee ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Do So

It is an honour for me as President of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists to welcome you to the 13th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Society. I consider it a great privilege to do so as this Meeting coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the state of Pakistan, a state which emerged on the map of the postwar world as a result of the Muslim freedom movement in the Indian Subcontinent. Fifty years to the date, we have been jubilant about it, and both as citizens of Pakistan and professionals in the social sciences we have also been thoughtful about it. We are trying to see what development has meant in Pakistan in the past half century. As there are so many dimensions that the subject has now come to have since its rather simplistic beginnings, we thought the Golden Jubilee of Pakistan to be an appropriate occasion for such stock-taking.

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