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This article explores the connection between critical reading and Jurgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action. It proposes that Habermas’s criteria used for evaluating validity claims in communicative action can be applied in reading texts critically. Analyses of different types of texts are presented to show how critical reading is done in a Habermasian way. This article ends with a discussion of the application of Habermas’s theory in addressing educational issues

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This presentation will discuss the life-long efforts of artist-activist Dr. Margaret Burroughs to counter brutal and dehumanizing images of African Americans through anti-racist art and community activism on Chicago’s South Side, including her home in the Bronzeville neighborhood. Her legacy offers particular lessons at a time in which the South Side of Chicago is currently viewed as the most murder-prone location in the country, a far cry from the promised land of the Great Migration of Burroughs’ generation

Rural hospitals have been closing their doors at record rates. This fact is distressing because small town hospitals serve 51 million Americans. Often small hospitals are the only major point of care and triage for communities they serve. When rural hospitals close, they force emergency patients to be served at larger hospitals that are located at a much greater distance. This paper focuses on the redesign, through Collective SystemDesign (CSD), of the Operating Room scheduling system in rural hospitals to increase efficiency and to reduce rework in patient care

Nutrient loss from soil, especially phosphorous (P) from farmlands to natural water bodies via surface runoff or infiltration, have caused significant eutrophication problems. This is because dissolved orthophosphates are usually the limiting nutrient for algal blooms. Currently, available techniques to control eutrophication are surprisingly scarce. Calcium sulfate or gypsum is a common soil amendment and has a strong complexation to orthophosphates. The results showed that calcium sulfate reduced the amount of water extractable P (WEP) through soil incubation tests, suggesting less P loss from farmlands. A greater decrease in WEP occurred with a greater dosage of calcium sulfate. Compared to conventional coarse calcium sulfate, nano calcium sulfate further reduced WEP by providing a much greater specific surface area, higher solubility, better contact with the fertilizer and the soil particles, and superior dispersibility. The enhancement of the nano calcium sulfate for WEP reduction is more apparent for a pellet- than a powdered- fertilizer. At the dosage of Ca/P weight ratio of 2.8, the WEP decreased by 31. ±. 5% with the nano calcium sulfate compared to 20. ±. 5% decrease with the coarse calcium sulfate when the pellet fertilizer was used. Computation of the chemical equilibrium speciation shows that calcium hydroxyapatite has the lowest solubility. However, other mineral phases such as hydroxydicalcium phosphate, dicalcium phosphate dihydrate, octacalcium phosphate, and tricalcium phosphate might form preceding to calcium hydroxyapatite. Since calcium sulfate is the major product of the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) process, this study demonstrates a potential beneficial reuse and reduction of the solid FGD waste

Cody Fuelling is in his third year at IPFW, with majors in history and secondary education, furthermore pursuing an Honors Certificate and Certificate in International Studies. Presently employed by the Honors Center, Cody also works as an Assistant Book Review Editor for Enterprise and Society, a business history journal published by Cambridge University Press. He also sits as a student representative on the COAS Student Affairs Committee

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Long-wavelength ultraviolet radiation (UVA) can damage cells through photo-oxidative stress, leading to harmful photosensitized proteins and pigments in cyanobacteria. To mitigate damage, some cyanobacteria secrete the UVA-absorbing pigment scytonemin into their extracellular sheath. Comparative genomic analyses suggest scytonemin biosynthesis is regulated by the two-component regulatory system (TCRS) proteins encoded by Npun_F1277 and Npun_F1278 in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133. To understand the dynamics of these genes, their expression was measured following exposure to UVA, UVB, high visible (VIS) irradiance, and oxidative stress for 20, 40, and 60 min. Overall, both genes had statistically similar patterns of expression for all four conditions and were generally up-regulated, except for those exposed to UVB by 60 min and for the cells under oxidative stress. The greatest UVA response was an up-regulation by 20 min, while the response to UVB was the most dramatic and persisted through 40 min. High VIS irradiance resulted in a modest up-regulation, while oxidative stress caused a slight down-regulation. Both genes were also found to occur on the same transcript. These results demonstrate that these genes are positively responding to several light-associated conditions, which suggests that this TCRS may regulate more than just scytonemin biosynthesis under UVA stress

Adolfo Coronado, assistant professor of information systems, received a technical assistance agreement grant from McCoy Bolt Works, Inc. This project will help McCoy Bolt in improving their relationship with customers by redesigning the current business processes of extracting, transforming and loading data from their electronic data interchange (EDI) for decision making. Because the agreement has an experiential learning component, a student will be allowed to assist on the project as well.http://opus.ipfw.edu/grants/1000/thumbnail.jp

The death of Joe “Sudharman” Fenton sparked competing narratives leaving some members of the family wondering who Joe Fenton was, the man who died as Sudharman. During the night of July 4, 2010, Sudharman was murdered as he slept in his yoga studio in Union County, Pennsylvania. This piece examines his death in order to examine how communication was used to describe Joe Fenton. We used autoethnographic and ethnographic methods to collect the media coverage of his death, the funeral remembrances, and the blog posts, as well as completed two in-depth interviews with family members in order to find out who Joe Fenton was. We analyzed how others described Fenton through the frames of dark and bright communication behaviors. Our analysis determined that Fenton was seen in a spiritual/religious light, as he was described as god-like, a shining beacon and memorable. Dark communication described Fenton as being manipulative, deceitful, and, at times, emotionally abusive

The world of work is a political arena. Managers, employees and organizational groups vie for power and influence within organizations in both formal and informal settings for personal and organizational benefit (Ferris et al., 1989; Drory and Vigoda-Gadot, 2010; Vigoda-Gadot and Drory, 2006). A significant body of work has looked into how to understand how organizational politics processes take place and how they impact organizations. While we have learned much about how organizational politics unfold in organizations, to date little attention has been given to the impact of changing technologies on the organizational political process, with the exception of work on influence tactics in virtual teams (Elron and Vigoda-Gadot, 2006; Steizel and Rimbau-Gilabert, 2013). Technology has transformed not just how people engage in job behaviors, but also how individuals communicate and connect. One particularly important communication technology is social media

There has long been a need for a simulation environment rich enough to support the development of an AI system sufficiently knowledgeable about physical causality to pass certain tests of Psychometric Artificial Intelligence (PAI) and Psychometric Artificial General Intelligence (PAGI). In this article, we present a simulation environment, PAGI World, which is: cross-platform (as it can be run on all major operating systems); open-source (and thus completely free of charge to use); able to work with AI systems written in almost any programming language; as agnostic as possible regarding which AI approach is used; and easy to set up and get started with. It is our hope that PAGI World will give rise to AI systems that develop truly rich knowledge and representation about how to interact with the world, and will allow AI researchers to test their already-developed systems without the additional overhead of developing a simulation environment of their own. After clarifying both PAI and PAGI, we summarize arguments that there is great need for a simulation environment like PAGI World. We present multiple examples of already-available PAI and PAGI tasks in PAGI World, covering a wide range of research areas of interest to the general-purpose AI community

We examined how person memories are influenced by ethnic group membership and strength of ethnic identity. As expected, participants remembered more positive and less negative traits about an ethnic ingroup member compared to an ethnic outgroup member, and this relationship was moderated by strength of ethnic identity

Participants who work with adolescents and adults that have had little to no formal Orff experience will find this session stimulating: an Orff-based process for creating appropriate songs and theme based sessions for those music therapists intrigued with the Orff process or instruments — even if their clinical work is hampered by limited availability of musical instruments. Participants will enjoy a discovery learning process that can be effectively adapted to music therapy work

This chapter presents the concepts of green supply chain network, green supply chain management, and green logistics . Increasing environmental concerns requires companies to become more responsive to products that either has been returned or that are at the end of their useful lives. Organization’s responsiveness and their reactions toward life cycles of products are critical to achieve sustained success once fluctuations are recurrent and the business environments are turbulent. Life cycles are getting shorter, and effective managing can save large amounts of cash as many materials can be extracted, reused, and redistributed. Alongside this context, this chapter focuses on a general overview toward closed-loop supply chains and offers a generalized optimization model . In addition, incentive approaches for an optimal recovery plan in a closed-loop supply chain are discussed in this chapter

Melissa Norton is an IPFW Senior pursing a B.A. in History and Women’s Studies. She transferred to IPFW in the summer of 2014 from Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri. She received the Linda C. Fox Scholarship as well as Withers Scholarship for the 2015-2016 academic year to assist in her studies. She is also the student representative for the 2015-2016 COAS Student Affairs Committee. She is a co-author of an encyclopedia article on women’s lives in Mexico with Dr. Richard Weiner

A 35-day feeding trial was conducted to evaluate growth, bacterial populations of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) and immune responses of Litopenaeus vannamei fed diets containing the commercial prebiotic Previda. Diets were formulated to contain Previda at 0, 0.2, 0.5, 1.0 or 1.6 g kg 1 by weight. At the end of the study, differences in weight gain and survival among treatments were not significant (P u3e 0.05), but denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis revealed that the microbial communities in the GIT changed significantly with the inclusion of dietary Previda at different levels. Previda was therefore able to selectively modify the microbial communities in the shrimp’s GIT. Although individual bacterial species were not identified, enteric populations in shrimp fed the prebiotic at similar levels of inclusion were genetically similar. In addition, shrimp fed Previda at 1.6 g kg 1 responded significantly (P u3c 0.05) better immunologically with respect to hemocyte phagocytic capacity, haemolymph protein, hyaline cell counts and haemolymph glucose compared with shrimp fed the basal diet. Although shrimp were not exposed to virulent pathogens in this study, the observed upregulation of some of immune responses upon prebiotic supplementation indicates that an improved outcome of such challenges may be anticipated in Previda-fed shrimp under commercial conditions

This report describes the development of a script programmed in the Python language designed to simulate radioactive decay using Monte Carlo methods. This is to conduct analysis on the equilibrium behavior of a specific radioactive decay chain, replacing the traditional method of deriving a mathematical representation via differential equations. The resulting script produces a stacked histogram illustrating the decay of Actinium-225 over time and more closely models the potential for irregularities in the natural phenomenon. The script has potential applications in nuclear imaging and medical physics

Career Development: A Human Resource Development Perspective offers a strategic framework that demonstrates the role of career development within the human resource function. It goes beyond conventional interventions and includes key topics such as diversity, work–life balance, and ethics. Historically, the career development literature has been viewed either from the perspective of the individual (how to build a career) or from an economic perspective (how an organization benefits from developing employees). In this book, McDonald and Hite bring together the strengths of both traditions, offering an integrated framework for career development. The theoretical foundation expands on the counseling literature by incorporating the literature from human resource development and related fields. The application section reflects on the wide range of ages and working options that characterize the current and future workplace. The final section of the book addresses career development issues such as managing a diverse, global workforce; ethics; and work–life balance. This book will help prepare human resource development students, scholars, and practitioners to develop and maintain successful career development programs, and to foster more innovative research that advances the discourse

Libraries are at the front and center of efforts to save and digitize local history collections. Working with community organizations to tap existing but not well understood collections can open doors to a wealth of undiscovered materials. Using the Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana (GSNIM) archival collection as an example, we will discuss the challenges inherent in these collaborative efforts and strategies to employ when reaching out to new community partners. The GSNIM collection digitization project was funded via a LSTA grant and the collaboration of GSNIM, Mishawaka-Penn Harris Public Library (MPHPL), IPFW Helmke Library and various community volunteers. The collection can be found at: http://cmdm16066.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16066coll2

The macro-epibiotic communities of sea turtles have been subject to growing interest in recent years, yet their micro-epibiotic counterparts are almost entirely unknown. Here, we provide the first evidence that diatoms are epibionts for all seven extant species of sea turtle. Using Scanning Electron Microscopy, we inspected superficial carapace or skin samples from a single representative of each turtlespecies. We distinguished 18 diatom taxa from these seven individuals, with each sea turtle species hosting at least two diatom taxa. We recommend that future research is undertaken to confirm whether diatom communities vary between sea turtle species and whether these diatom taxa are facultative or obligate commensals