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Bangura, Mohamed. "Sociology of Fourah Bay College Library as Critical Cultural-Social Space in Freetown, Sierra Leone." British Journal of Library and Information Management 3, no. 1 (November 9, 2023): 35–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/bjlim-5l6otjae.

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The thought and modes of sociological study of Fourah Bay College library emanate predominantly from the sociology of communications and organisation, according to which a library is a social mechanism. The functional social function of this is to probe and form selections from the stream of engraved communications to systematise and stock the preferred publications and to form the streamed stock of publication accessible to a social public and to determine the social and cultural domination of the touch between the library and the students’ social community. The accomplishment of students in the future is lodged upon the social pillar established during years utilised at Fourah Bay College. Fourah Bay College library plays a critical functional social function in carving the future of students by nurturing them for intellectual engagement beyond the college. The college library as a fundamental presence of the college curriculum has considerable potential to carve students through contingent privileges for autonomous learning. The research will seek to find out the strategies that Fourah Bay College library exploits to advance students’ relational abilities in the onset of Information and Communication Technology. It will also examine the functional social function of Fourah Bay College library in broadening relational abilities progress amongst students to bolster authoritative social behaviour or intellectual self-determination. The research will explore the extent to which Fourah Bay College library can utilise technology to enhance interpersonal communication, thus enhancing social inclusion. The researcher will utilise a phenomenological prototype to point out the challenges and conveniences or opportunities facing Fourah Bay College library in traditional metropolitan Freetown to provide competent library services to students so that they can be appropriately processed for the electric technology motivated life predicated on such abilities like information social scholarship.
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Harrison, Ewan, and Iain Jackson. "African Agency and Colonial Committees at Fourah Bay College." Docomomo Journal, no. 69 (December 15, 2023): 14–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.69.02.

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Fourah Bay College was the first Western-style university to be established along the West African coast in 1827. Primarily used to train missionaries and traders operating in British West Africa, it remained one of the premier educational establishments, overlooking the docks of Cline Town in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Following the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts and civil unrest in the aftermath of World War II, British colonial policy began to fund a series of secondary and tertiary education institutions. Modeled on the new University of the West Indies, these new universities adopted the residential college dorm typology coupled with the latest modernist architecture designed to enhance climatic comfort.A new campus was proposed for Fourah Bay, and in contrast to earlier precedents, the architectural approach was to be more humble and less monumental. Following a masterplan by London-based architects Norman and Dawbarn, the much smaller and relatively unknown British practice of Frank Rutter was appointed to design most of the campus buildings. The centerpiece is a large concrete tower named after John F. Kennedy, symbolic of the shifting political posturing for control and influence. Following Independence in 1961 and with increasing technical aid offered to neighboring Ghana and Nigeria from Socialist Eastern European powers, Fourah Bay College demonstrated how these political attempts for influence were directly played out through these newly formed institutions. Fourah Bay College also reveals the African agency in appointing architects and who was able to control the procurement processes and design teams. Rutter was dismissed as ‘college architect’ by a small contingent of newly qualified Sierra Leonean architects eager to ensure local appointments and architectural expressions were given opportunity. The campus, with its impressive architectural structures and innovative solutions, mirrors the political flux and shifting global power structures of the late 1950s and early 1960s, along with the local agency of Freetown architects and their quest to shape the future.
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Nwaubani, Ebere. "Kenneth Onwuka Dike, Trade and Politics, and the Restoration of the African in History." History in Africa 27 (January 2000): 229–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172115.

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The removal from history follows logically from the loss of power which colonialism represented. The power to act independently is the guarantee to participate actively and consciously in history. To be colonized is to be removed from history except in the most passive sense.Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1917-1983) is a definite turning point in African historical scholarship. West Africa (28 September 1957) appropriately called him “The Pioneer Historian.” Robert July credits Dike with being “responsible for many of the advances in historical scholarship that marked the two decades following the conclusion of the Second World War.”Dike was born in Awka, Nigeria, on 17 December 1917. In 1933 he entered Dennis Memorial Grammar School (DMGS), Onitsha, Nigeria. After three years at DMGS, Dike spent another two years at Achimota College in the Gold Coast. From Achimota he moved on to Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone. At the time, Fourah Bay was affiliated to, and awarding the degrees of, Durham University. This meant that through Fourah Bay, Dike took the B.A. (in English, Geography, and Latin) of Durham University. In 1943, he went home to Nigeria, but not to stay for long. In November 1944 he left, on a British Council scholarship, for the M.A. degree in History at University of Aberdeen. In June 1947 he graduated, taking a first-class honors (the best of his year) at Aberdeen. Four months later, Dike registered for his Ph.D. at King's College, University of London. Under the supervision of Vincent Harlow and Gerald S. Graham, he did a dissertation entitled “Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1879.” He earned his Ph.D. degree on 28 July 1950. With it he became the first African to “pass through professional training” in Western historical scholarship.
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Turay, Dr Momodu. "A Study of The Lexical and Morpho-Syntactic Errors of Fourah Bay College Students." IJOHMN (International Journal online of Humanities) 5, no. 6 (December 10, 2019): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijohmn.v5i6.153.

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This study investigates the lexical and grammatical errors in the English usage of some Fourah Bay College students at the University of Sierra Leone. Selinker’s Inter-language Theory (1972) and Corder’s Error Analysis Approach (1981) were used as a theoretical framework in examining the learners’ errors. Data were collected by giving the learners a written composition to work on. From the subjects’ essays, lexical and grammatical errors were extracted and categorized. The lexical errors were categorized into first language transfer and learning induced. The grammatical errors were divided into first language transfer, over-generalisation of target language rules, ignorance of target language rules, false concepts hypothesised and universal hierarchy of difficulty. Recommendations were also offered in order to minimize the learners’ errors.
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Bangura, Mohamed. "Sociological Upshot of Social Communications on the Academic Performance of Sociology Students at University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College." European Journal of Contemporary Education and E-Learning 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2024): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.59324/ejceel.2024.2(1).01.

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The nucleus of the sociological research was to dictate the ramifications of the utilization of social communications sites on the academic performance of sociology students at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. Social communications is a renowned mode for communication amongst university sociology students in Sierra Leone. Nonetheless, extreme social communications utilization, markup inquiries about whether academic performance is affected. This sociological research explores this inquiry by directing a sociological research on Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, sociology students, in evaluates to social communications handling and their academic performance. The sociological research also explored which social web is the most renowned amongst Sierra Leone university sociology students, why sociology students visit their social communications sites and if there exist considerable upgrade in the sociology student academic performance. Survey was utilized as a mechanism for information crowding. The sociological research welcomed 30 feedbacks and expressive social statistics involving commonality trials that is dissipate threads were utilized to explore the social network between the midpoint digit of hours students consumed of social communications a week and the merits they obtain from utilizing social communications sites. The social communications sites expressly Google +, Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype and X former Twitter grab the focus of sociology students for sociological research and affecting certainly their academic Grade points. The disclosures of the sociological research can be utilized to initiate the appropriate social schemes for upgrading the academic performance of sociology students in this fashion that a steadiness in the inactivity, particulars social reciprocity and academic performance can be preserved.
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Stanley, Brian. "Andrew Finlay Walls (1928–2021)." International Bulletin of Mission Research 45, no. 4 (August 31, 2021): 319–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23969393211043591.

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Andrew Walls, a pioneering historian of Christian missions, was the architect of the study of World Christianity. Trained as a patristic scholar, he went to Sierra Leone in 1957 to teach at Fourah Bay College. There and at the University of Nsukka in Nigeria (1962–66) he became a student of the growing churches of Africa. At the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh (1966–97), he became a scholar of renown, establishing the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, and supervising students who became leaders in church and academy. His legacy is preserved in institutions across the globe, a host of articles, and his former students.
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Bangura, Mohamed. "Social Work Education: Reevaluating Undergraduate Quality Assurance in the Social Work Unit, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone." British Journal of Teacher Education and Pedagogy 2, no. 1 (January 15, 2023): 01–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/bjtep.2023.2.1.1.

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This paper explores the policy and quality assurance discourse in social work undergraduate academic education ensuing at the Social Work Unit at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, following the recent reengineering approach due to the Covid-19 pandemic and technological polarisation. Regrettably, final year social work university pre-service social work student’s practicum or internship evaluation could not be finalised. The practicum or internship is a critical component in social work education as it engenders professional transformation, thought and development. Unlike other academic modules, which could be downright via online and distance education, the practicum or internship, being a practical undertaking in a classroom atmosphere, accorded unique challenges. The research question that the paper addresses is: How would certification of social work students be finalised when this time-tested evaluation had not been done? The paper employs content and discourse analysis to unwrap the philosophical and professional discourses being promoted by faculty in order to appreciate how they are likely to regulate succeeding management of social work education. The discourse is that the emerging ‘current normal’ should not trade-off the quality assurance structures that evolved consequently.
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Stewart, Thomas J., and Donna L. Richter. "Perceived Barriers to HIV Prevention among University Students in Sierra Leone, West Africa." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 15, no. 3 (October 1994): 253–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/jqp2-v6ha-eqk5-8ewp.

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This article presents the results of a small pilot study of students at Fourah Bay College in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, West Africa, to provide baseline data to the National AIDS Programme in planning educational interventions aimed at preventing the spread of HIV. Results of the survey indicate that barriers to HIV prevention in Sierra Leone include persistence of belief in the idea that AIDS is not real but is a conspiracy to prevent Africans from having sex or having children, an ambivalence among women students regarding sexuality issues, a lack of familiarity with the parameters of the epidemic in Africa, and a belief that condom use behavior is not amenable to change. Implications of these findings are discussed. Further research is needed to include the portion of the population that is not literate.
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Spencer, Julius S. "Storytelling Theatre in Sierra Leone: the Example of Lele Gbomba." New Theatre Quarterly 6, no. 24 (November 1990): 349–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00004917.

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Ever since Aristotle compared the advantages of the epic and dramatic modes, their varying qualities have been a topic of critical debate – though in western theatre the solo storyteller has long since ceased to serve as performer as well as author of his works. Not so in many African nations – including Sierra Leone, where the itinerant storytelling-Performer Lele Gbomba, who sadly died in September 1989, after this article was written, was in some ways typical of his fellow-Craftsmen, in others markedly his own man. Here, Julius Spencer, lecturer in drama at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone, describes and discusses Lele Gbomba's distinctive style. Julius Spencer gained his doctorate from the University of Ibadan, and has been active for many years as a playwright and director in Sierra Leone and Nigeria. He is presently researching the traditional theatre forms of Sierra Leone.
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Arsan, Andrew Kerim. "Roots and Routes: The Paths of Lebanese Migration to French West Africa." Chronos 22 (April 7, 2019): 107–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31377/chr.v22i0.451.

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We have no way of knowing when the first migrant from present-day Lebanon arrived in West Africa. Some amongst the Lebanese of Dakar still clung in the 1960s to tales ofa man, known only by his first name — 'Isa — who had landed in Senegal a century earlier (Cruise O'Brien 1975: 98). Others told ofa group of young men — Maronite Christians from the craggy escarpments of Mount Lebanon — who had found their way to West Africa some time between 1876 and 1880 (Winder 1962:30()). The Lebanese journalist 'Abdallah Hushaimah, travelling through the region in the 1930s, met in Nigeria one Elias al-Khuri, who claimed to have arrived in the colony in 1890 (Hushaimah 1931:332). The Dutch scholar Laurens van der Laan, combing in the late 1960s through old newspapers in the reading rooms of Fourah Bay College in Freetown, found the first mention of the Lebanese in the Creole press of Sierra Leone in 1895 (van der Laan 1975: l).
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Yilla, Mabinty L. "A future for the past An adaptive reuse of the Old Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone /." 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1163268921&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 1, 2006) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Hata, Hiroaki. Includes bibliographical references.
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Books on the topic "Fourah Bay College"

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A concise history of Fourah Bay College: The origins, challenges and development of West Africa's first university college, 1827-2003. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Anthony Karim Kamara (Sr), 2011.

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From Clinetown to Mount Aureol : Fourah Bay College : 1827 to present: A historical account of the establishment, evolution, development and multiple challenges of Fourah Bay College in West Africa. Freetown: Anthony Karim Kamara Sr., 2015.

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Hinton, Samuel S. University Student Protests and Political Change in Sierra Leone (Studies in African Education, 4). Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

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Jr, Paracka Daniel J. Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.

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J, Paracka Jr Daniel. Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Jr, Paracka Daniel J. Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.

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Jr, Paracka Daniel J. Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.

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Jr, Paracka Daniel J. Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.

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Jr, Paracka Daniel J. Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004.

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The Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone (African Studies (Routledge (Firm)).). Routledge, 2003.

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Edwards, George C. "How the Electoral College Works." In Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America, 12–37. Yale University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300243888.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses how the electoral college works. It shows that the popular election every fourth November is only the first step in a complex procedure that should culminate in the formal declaration of a winner two months later. In fact, under the Constitution, the November election is not for the presidential candidates themselves but for the electors who subsequently choose a president. All that the Constitution says of this stage of the election process is that “each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the state may be entitled in Congress.” The chapter thus discusses the roles and functions of the electors and Congress, as well as extreme cases such as when disputed votes occur or when a presidential candidate or president-elect dies.
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Garber, Michael G. "“The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” and the Power of a Subculture." In My Melancholy Baby, 148–54. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0008.

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This is the fifth of six chapters tracing how songs are performed both as waltzes and duple-meter tunes, via the collective innovation of the performance tradition. This chapter focuses on “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” (1911), still prominent in the Sigma Chi fraternity repertoire. Members Byron D. Stokes (lyricist) and Dudleigh Vernor (composer) wrote it at a Michigan college. Small-town publisher, brother Richard Vernor, issued it for twenty-five years. The melody was in four-four meter; the lyric uses the dream of an ideal woman as a symbol of the mysticism of the fraternity initiation. From 1922, it was recorded, often as a waltz. Emerging from the increasingly influential college culture, it became a mass market hit in 1927, in time to be labeled a torch song and become a crooners staple for over thirty years. It foreshadowed later lyrics about dreaming, including waltz themes of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
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Pinheiro, Luiz, and Ricardo Matheus. "Designing Business Analytics Projects (BAP)." In Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics, 71–94. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9016-4.ch004.

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Private and public organizations have been using data for decision-making. However, these organizations have been struggling in putting into practice the design data analytics projects. In this sense, this chapter aims to present a proposal of a designing business analytics projects with a practical five steps dashboarding cycle. The first step, Business Questions, deals with the scope of a data analytics project creating problem-based questions. The second step, Data Sources, details which are the data sources to be collected. The third step, Extraction, Transform, and Loading (ETL), sets up data source routines of what, where, and when to collect data. The fourth step, Data Warehouse, creates a data repository where data is stored and treated after ETL process. The fifth step, Data Visualization, designs a web dashboard with interactive features such as tables and graphs. This chapter ends with three practical examples in both public and private organizations.
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"An Academic Solution." In Global Demand for Borderless Online Degrees, 216–39. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8912-9.ch009.

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Teaching, like golf, requires a bag of clubs. There are the drivers to deliver information, strengthen thinking, and build student skills. The putter and the wedge serve to motive students and keep them engaged. This chapter, written for teachers, gives practical examples of how to mix and match the face-to-face, blended, and fusion classrooms to improve learning outcomes. The development of the online pedagogy began while managing the first distance-learning program at a U.S. community college. The research continued for a decade more while beginning online learning at university in the South Pacific that delivered training to 10 developing nations. That research was followed by a four-year pilot study that created fusion classes to improve the performance of doctoral candidates enrolled in an online doctoral program.
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Ahmed, Khaled, Aboul Ella Hassanien, and Ehab Ezzat. "An Efficient Approach for Community Detection in Complex Social Networks Based on Elephant Swarm Optimization Algorithm." In Handbook of Research on Machine Learning Innovations and Trends, 1062–75. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2229-4.ch047.

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Complex social networks analysis is an important research trend, which basically based on community detection. Community detection is the process of dividing the complex social network into a dynamic number of clusters based on their edges connectivity. This paper presents an efficient Elephant Swarm Optimization Algorithm for community detection problem (EESO) as an optimization approach. EESO can define dynamically the number of communities within complex social network. Experimental results are proved that EESO can handle the community detection problem and define the structure of complex networks with high accuracy and quality measures of NMI and modularity over four popular benchmarks such as Zachary Karate Club, Bottlenose Dolphin, American college football and Facebook. EESO presents high promised results against eight community detection algorithms such as discrete krill herd algorithm, discrete Bat algorithm, artificial fish swarm algorithm, fast greedy, label propagation, walktrap, Multilevel and InfoMap.
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Darwall-Smith, Robin. "The Problem of Georgian Oxford." In History of Universities: Volume XXXV / 1, 14–36. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192867445.003.0002.

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Abstract Georgian Oxford is generally dismissed as an undistinguished a time of decline and intellectual inactivity. This chapter sets out some of the issues covered in this book as part of a reappraisal of this period, in particular to ask whether one is necessarily asking the right questions of the Georgian university. A portrait of the structure of the Georgian university is given, and then four themes, religion, politics, education, and statutes, examined, to reveal a university which could and did show signs of intellectual life. The role of Georgian Oxford as an Anglican seminary is reconsidered, with fresh evidence suggesting that more Oxford alumni took holy orders than has been thought; there is fresh discussion of education and study, and of the issues relating to the difficulty of accommodating medieval statutes to the eighteenth century, and some of the problems faced by such Colleges as All Souls and Magdalen relating to controversial reinterpretations of them by their Visitors. The chapter ends by comparing Oxford with universities elsewhere in Britain and the rest of Europe, and discussing what challenges were faced elsewhere, be it how much autonomy different universities were permitted, or their comparative reputations, good or bad.
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Nelson, Scott Reynolds, and Carol Sheriff. "“ C Air, Anxiety, & Tryals” Life in the Wartime Union." In A People at War, 231–59. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195146547.003.0011.

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Abstract When Joseph Gillit Wheat enlisted for three years as a bugler in the Fourth Illinois Cavalry in August 1861, he left behind relatively few responsibilities. Just two days shy of his twenty-first birthday, Wheat had neither a wife nor children to support. Both of his parents were alive, his two sisters were married, and his younger brother, just twelve, lived with his parents. While Joseph studied medicine, his parents grew crops—corn, hay, and onions—and raised bees. Although they had known poverty in the 1850s, by the time of the war, the Wheats lived in enough comfort to send their older children, including their two daughters, to college. Wheat’s parents supported his decision to enlist, but they worried about his safety; they knew that being a regimental musician did not insulate Private Wheat from the war’s dangers. Their concerns proved well founded, for he contracted such a bad case of “swamp fever” (typhoid) that he was discharged from the army in April 1862. But he remained devoted to the Union cause, reenlisted, this time in the 104th Illinois Infantry, and soon ended up in a Confederate prison camp, where he came close to starving before being assigned to duty as a nurse, which entitled him to slightly better rations. Before the war was over, he would do another stint as a prisoner of war. His experiences did not dampen his enthusiasm for the Union cause; he railed against Copperheads who agitated for a peace settlement and declared in June 1863 that he would sign up for another five years if that was what it took to bring the seceding states back into the Union. He did, in fact, stay until the bitter end, mustering out on June 6, 1865.
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Lawlor, Timothy E., and David J. Hajher. "The Mammals." In Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortés II. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195133462.003.0018.

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In The Log of the Sea of Cortez, that memorable treatise of science, adventure, and philosophy, John Steinbeck (1951) made bare mention of mammals. Of course, the main purpose of that effort was to chronicle a trip to the Gulf of California to collect invertebrates in the company of Steinbeck’s friend and scientist, Ed Ricketts. The party visited four islands—Tiburón, Coronados, San José, and Espíritu Santo. At anchor off Isla Tiburόn, Steinbeck reported a swarm of bats that approached their boat. One bat was collected but, to the best of our knowledge, it was never identified or preserved. Aside from some descriptions of taxa (e.g., Butt 1932), relatively little was known at the time about mammals from islands in the Sea of Cortés. There is now a reasonably rich history of systematic and biogeographic studies of mammals in and adjacent to the Sea of Cortés (for general reviews, see Orr 1960; Huey 1964; Lawlor 1983; and Hafner and Riddle 1997). Here we summarize much of that information and explore biogeographic patterns that emerge from it, add important recent records of bats, and evaluate new evidence about the origins of insular faunas and the ecological processes and human impacts that affect colonization and persistence of mammals on gulf islands. The terrestrial mammalian fauna of islands in the Sea of Cortés (including islands off the Pacific coast of Baja California) comprises 45 species, of which 18 currently are recognized as endemics (but see below), representing 5 orders, 9 families, and 14 genera (app. 12.1). Collectively they share relationships with mainland representatives on both sides of the gulf and are divisible into 28 clades of species or species groups (app. 12.2). Rodents are disproportionately represented, constituting a total of 35 species and 76 of 97 total insular occurrences, and they are the only nonvolant mammals to become established on distant oceanic islands. In addition, except for the few species of lagomorphs, which occur only on landbridge islands, a greater proportion of mainland species of rodents occurs on islands than is the case for other groups of mammals.
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Haber, Aleksandar, Francesco Pecora, Mobin Uddin Chowdhury, and Melvin Summerville. "Identification of Temperature Dynamics Using Subspace and Machine Learning Techniques." In ASME 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dscc2019-9007.

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Abstract Identification, estimation, and control of temperature dynamics are ubiquitous and challenging control engineering problems. The main challenges originate from the fact that the temperature dynamics is usually infinite dimensional, nonlinear, and coupled with other physical processes. Furthermore, the dominant system time constants are often long, and due to various time constraints that limit the measurement time, we are only able to collect a relatively small number of input-output data samples. Motivated by these challenges, in this paper we present experimental results of identifying the temperature dynamics using subspace and machine learning techniques. We have developed an experimental setup consisting of an aluminum bar whose temperature is controlled by four heat actuators and sensed by seven thermocouples. We address noise reduction, experiment design, model structure selection, and overfitting problems. Our experimental results show that the temperature dynamics of the experimental setup can be relatively accurately represented by low-order models.
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Pidcoe, P. E., B. L. Zuber, and T. McMahon. "Tracking Strategy in Normal Subjects with Computer Generated Scotoma." In Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/navs.1992.sua3.

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Visual tracking experiments were conducted on five visually unimpaired subjects. During each of four 1 hour sessions, each subject was asked to track a computer generated target using their eyes only. The stimulus target occupied 0.2° of visual angle and moved horizontally through a range of ± 5°, in periodic sinusoidal and non-periodic patterns. Head stabilization was achieved with a head-rest and bite-bar. Horizontal eye movements were computer sampled at 500 samples/sec from the output of a limbus tracker, and vertical eye movements were sampled from the output of a video based pupil tracker (ISCAN). The first session was used to collect baseline tracking data from each subject. In each of the last three sessions, a software control algorithm allowed horizontal eye position to be utilized as a feedback signal, thus simulating experimenter designed central scotomas. These scotomas had the properties shown in the figure below, and were defined to have horizontal widths of ± 1°, ±2° and ±3° degrees. The vertical eye position data was used in conjunction with know cross-talk characteristics to identify and remove trials in which vertical eye position deviations corrupted the horizontal eye position measure.
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Wang, Yanli, Zhili Feng, Fei Ren, Yong Chae Lim, Jian Chen, and Maan Jawad. "Steel-Concrete Composite Vessel for Stationary High-Pressure Hydrogen Storage." In ASME 2016 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2016-63371.

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A novel Steel Concrete Composite Vessel (SCCV) was designed and engineered for stationary high-pressure gaseous hydrogen storage applications. SCCV comprises four major innovations: (1) flexible modular design for storage stations for scalability to meet different storage pressure and capacity needs, flexibility for cost optimization, and system reliability and safety, (2) composite storage vessel design and construction with an inner steel vessel encased in a pre-stressed and reinforced outer concrete shellshell, (3) layered steel vessel wall and vent holes to address the hydrogen embrittlement (HE) problem by design, and (4) integrated sensor system to monitor the structural integrity and operation status of the storage system. Together, these innovations form an integrated approach to make the SCCV cost competitive and inherently safe for stationary high-pressure hydrogen storage services. A demonstration SCCV has been designed and fabricated to demonstrate its technical feasibility. Capable of storing approximately 89 kg of gaseous hydrogen at 6250 psi (430 bar), the demonstration vessel was designed to include all major features of SCCV design and fabricated with today’s manufacturing technologies and code/standard requirements. Two crucial tests have been performed on this demonstration vessel. A hydro-test was successfully carried out to 8950 psi per ASME VIII-2 requirements. The cyclic hydrogen pressure test between 2000 psi and 6000 psi is currently being performed to validate its use for high-pressure hydrogen storage. Multiple sensors, such as pressure sensors and strain gages, were incorporated in the demonstration SCCV to collect information to validate the design and operation of SCCV. Key design parameters and test data on its performance are summarized in this paper.
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Reports on the topic "Fourah Bay College"

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Buss, Doris, Blair Rutherford, Ekpedeme Edem, Sarah George, Cynthia Kumah, Michael Racioppo, Sarah Kinyanjui, and Aisha Ibrahim. Attending (to) class : An intersectional study of COVID-19 adaptation in Canada, Kenya and Sierra Leone Universities : Report on the Carleton University research. Carleton University Department of Law and Legal Studies, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/j.envsci.2021.09.30.

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This pilot study examines how intersecting differences – in gender, socio-economic status, rural/urban residences, and disability - shaped students’ experience of the shift to distance university education resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns in 2020-2021. Focused on three universities - Carleton University, (Ottawa, Canada), University of Nairobi, (Kenya, Mombasa campus), and University of Sierra Leone (Fourah Bay College, Freetown) - research teams based at each institution conducted surveys, interviews and focus groups with students to explore differences in students’ experience of remote learning.
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Bunkley, Kellyanne, Jaycob Applegate, and Jenjira Yahirun. Adult Children’s Four-year College Completion by Parent’s Race, Ethnicity, and Educational Attainment. National Center for Family and Marriage Research, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.25035/ncfmr/fp-23-12.

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Burri, Margaret, Joshua Everett, Heidi Herr, and Jessica Keyes. Library Impact Practice Brief: Freshman Fellows: Implementing and Assessing a First-Year Primary-Source Research Program. Association of Research Libraries, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29242/brief.jhu2021.

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This practice brief describes the assessment project undertaken by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University as part of the library’s participation in ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative to address the question “(How) do the library’s special collections specifically support and promote teaching, learning, and research?” The research team investigated how the Freshman Fellows experience impacted the fellows’ studies and co-curricular activities at the university. Freshmen Fellows, established in 2016, is a signature opportunity to expose students to primary-source collections early in their college career by pairing four fellows with four curators on individual research projects. The program graduated its first cohort of fellows in spring 2020. The brief includes a semi-structured interview guide, program guidelines, and a primary research rubric.
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O’Brien, Tom, Deanna Matsumoto, Diana Sanchez, Caitlin Mace, Elizabeth Warren, Eleni Hala, and Tyler Reeb. Southern California Regional Workforce Development Needs Assessment for the Transportation and Supply Chain Industry Sectors. Mineta Transportation Institute, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2020.1921.

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COVID-19 brought the public’s attention to the critical value of transportation and supply chain workers as lifelines to access food and other supplies. This report examines essential job skills required of the middle-skill workforce (workers with more than a high school degree, but less than a four-year college degree). Many of these middle-skill transportation and supply chain jobs are what the Federal Reserve Bank defines as “opportunity occupations” -- jobs that pay above median wages and can be accessible to those without a four-year college degree. This report lays out the complex landscape of selected technological disruptions of the supply chain to understand the new workforce needs of these middle-skill workers, followed by competencies identified by industry. With workplace social distancing policies, logistics organizations now rely heavily on data management and analysis for their operations. All rungs of employees, including warehouse workers and truck drivers, require digital skills to use mobile devices, sensors, and dashboards, among other applications. Workforce training requires a focus on data, problem solving, connectivity, and collaboration. Industry partners identified key workforce competencies required in digital literacy, data management, front/back office jobs, and in operations and maintenance. Education and training providers identified strategies to effectively develop workforce development programs. This report concludes with an exploration of the role of Institutes of Higher Education in delivering effective workforce education and training programs that reimagine how to frame programs to be customizable, easily accessible, and relevant.
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Balza, Lenin, Camilo De Los Rios, and Nathaly M. Rivera. Digging Deep: Resource Exploitation and Higher Education. Inter-American Development Bank, October 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004495.

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Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s commodities boom. We find mineral extraction increases a person's likelihood of enrolling in postsecondary technical education while reducing the likelihood of completing a four-year professional degree program. Importantly, effects are heterogeneous across economic backgrounds. The impact on college dropouts is primarily present among students that graduated from public high schools, which generally cater to low-income groups. Our findings show that natural resources may affect human capital accumulation differently across income groups in resource-rich economies.
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Zeng, Jing, Qing Liu, Zhengfang Lei, Zhe Sun, and Yang Wang. Evaluation of Integrated Neuromuscular Training on the Recovery of Joint Injury: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2021.12.0136.

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Review question / Objective: This study will provide new evidence for the effect of integrated neuromuscular training on the recovery of joint injury. Information sources: According to the PICOS principle, the third and fourth authors of this paper searched PsycINFO, Science direct, PubMed, Eric, Willey, China Knowledge Network (CNKI) Academic Journal Online Publishing General Library and China Knowledge Network (CNKI) excellent doctoral thesis full-text database by computer to collect relevant research on the impact of INT on joint injury repair. The time limit of injury retrieval is from the establishment of the database to December 2021.
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McKinnon, Mark B., and Daniel Madrzykowski. Four Firefighters Burned in Residential House Fire - Georgia. UL's Fire Safety Research Institute, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54206/102376/gekk4148.

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On September 3, 2018, two career Fire Lieutenants and two career Firefighters suffered burn injuries as a result of a residential structure fire. On September 10, 2018, personnel representing several other fire departments in the area, including a member of the Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI) Advisory Board visited the fire scene to document the incident and collect material samples from the structure. The narrative and analysis presented in this report rely on the photographs and evidence collected on September 10, 2018, dispatch transcript [5] and videos recorded at the time of the incident, and interviews conducted by a local investigator between September 3, 2018 and September 7, 2018 with fire service personnel involved in the incident and the resident of the structure [6]. The LaGrange Fire Department invited FSRI to study this incident as part of FSRI’s Near-Miss Project which is supported by a DHS/FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Grant. The goal of this project is to enhance the safety and situational awareness of the fire service by applying fire dynamics research results to near-miss or line of duty injury fire incidents. By identifying factors that contributed to the incident, perhaps future incidents may be prevented. FSRI’s analysis of this incident will apply research results and utilize fire research tools, such as computer fire models, to examine key fire phenomena and tactical outcomes. This report will explain the incident, what occurred, why it occurred, and what can be done differently in the future to result in a more favorable outcome
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Durik, Amanda, Steven McGee, Linda Huber, and Jennifer Duck. The Cat is Alive and Well: Curiosity Motivates Exploration for High Interest Learners. The Learning Partnership, April 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.51420/conf.2015.1.

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Two studies were conducted to examine how individual interest predicts interactions with domain content and subsequent free-choice exploration. Particular focus was on learners’ acquisition of knowledge and identification of content that triggered curiosity. College student participants reported their individual interest, learned about a topic in ecology (Study 1, N = 85) and astronomy (Study 2, N = 184), responded to prompts for memory of the learning content and curiosity questions, and then had the opportunity to explore additional content related to the topic. In both studies individual interest interacted with whether students’ curiosity was triggered by particular content. In academic domains, individual interest in conjunction with curiosity may be the best predictor of continued behavioral exploration. The results are discussed in the context of the four-phase model of interest development.
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Guilfoyle, Michael, Amanda Anderson, Samuel Jackson, Jacob Jung, Theodore Zenzal, Burton Suedel, and Jeffrey Corbino. Coastal breeding bird phenology on the dredged-material islands of the Baptiste Collette Bayou, US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, Louisiana. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), May 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/48473.

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Coastal bird populations in North America have experienced significant population declines over the past four decades, and many species have become dependent upon human-made islands and other sediment-based habitats created through dredged material deposition. We monitored the breeding phenology of coastal bird populations utilizing dredged-material islands and open depositional areas in the Baptiste Collette Bayou in coastal Louisiana. Monitoring began in early May, prior to when most coastal species begin nesting, and continued through late August, when most breeding activity has ceased. Semimonthly surveys included area searches by foot and boat. Two deposition areas and one island supported large numbers of foraging, roosting, or breeding birds; surveys on these areas included using spotting scopes to identify species and count nests or young. Six islands and two open deposition areas were monitored. We also collected high-definition and lidar imagery using an uncrewed aerial system (UAS) in June, during peak nesting season. We recorded 77,474 cumulative detections of 68 species. Virtually all colonial nesting birds (terns and skimmers) nested on Gunn Island in 2021. We discuss these results in the context of dredged-material deposition by the US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, and offer recommendations for management of these areas.
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Carpenter, Grace. Shenandoah National Park: Acoustic monitoring report, 2016?2017. National Park Service, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2300465.

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This report presents acoustical data gathered by the Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division (NSNSD) at Shenandoah National Park (SHEN) in August?September of 2016 and January?March of 2017. Data were collected at four sites (Figure 1) to provide park managers with information about the acoustical environment, sources of noise , and the existing ambient sound levels within the park. In these deployments, sound pressure level (SPL) was measured continuously every second by a calibrated sound level meter. Other equipment included an anemometer to collect wind speed and a digital audio recorder collecting continuous recordings to document sound sources. In this document, ?sound pressure level? refers to broadband (12.5 Hz?20 kHz), A-weighted, 1-second time averaged sound level (LAeq, 1s), and hereafter referred to as ?sound level.? Sound levels are measured on a logarithmic scale relative to the reference sound pressure for atmospheric sources, 20 ?Pa. The logarithmic scale is a useful way to express the wide range of sound pressures perceived by the human ear. Sound levels are reported in decibels (dB). A-weighting is applied to sound levels to account for the response of the human ear (Harris, 1998). To approximate human hearing sensitivity, A-weighting discounts sounds below 1 kHz and above 6 kHz.
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