Multitasking in an OCLC environment: the University of Louisville experience

OCLC Micro ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-33
Author(s):  
Pamela Burton ◽  
Jan Mayo
Keyword(s):  
University Of Louisville ◽  
The University

Assessing the Composition Program on Our Own Terms

2011 ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Sonya Borton ◽  
Alanna Frost ◽  
Kate Warrington
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Composition ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Large Scale Assessment ◽  
University Of Louisville ◽  
Spellings Commission ◽  
The University ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

As Jacqueline Jones Royster articulated at the 2006 Conference on College Composition and Communication, English departments are already assessing themselves and should resist suggestions by the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education that a standardized method of assessing students and programs in higher education is needed. In the fall of 2006, the University of Louisville was due to be reviewed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The First-Year Composition program chose to conduct an internal assessment in the fall of 2004. This chapter details the Composition program assessment conducted at the University of Louisville and includes a comprehensive analysis of its rationale, theoretical foundations, methodologies, and results. This chapter also articulates the difficulties of such a large-scale assessment as well as the uniquely local challenges faced during the process.

An Example of Defining Patient Compliance

2010 ◽  
pp. 197-217
Author(s):  
Christiana Petrou
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Patient Compliance ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Interval Estimation ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Louisville ◽  
Confidence Interval Estimation ◽  
School Of Dentistry ◽  
The University

This case examines the issue of compliance by patients at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry (ULSD). The focus is defining compliance and constructing a measurement scale. Confidence interval estimation and bootstrapping were explored to assist with the allocation of patients to compliance levels. Patients who were within the 95% confidence interval of the median for visit intervals at least 80% of the time were defined as fully compliant, with decreasing levels of compliance as the percentage decreases. Research on compliance has developed over the past few years, but a lot of work still needs to be done. A new measure of compliance could assist in understanding the patients’ needs and concerns other than the obvious financial, fear and psychological reasons as well as shedding some light on the way dentists operate and how that affects compliance. A new way of defining and measuring compliance is proposed in this research study.

Violence Onstage and Off: Drama and Society in Recent American Plays

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Vandenbroucke
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Theatre Arts ◽  
Cultural Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
University Of Louisville ◽  
Tectonic Theater Project ◽  
Dead Man ◽  
The University ◽  
Artistic Director

Direct and bloody violence has a long history on stage. In recent years, a different mode of violence can be distinguished in the work of prominent American playwrights – less direct than indirect, more covert than overt, and likely to affect a group rather than individuals. In this article Russell Vandenbroucke applies concepts from Norwegian sociologist and Peace Studies scholar Johan Galtung to examine structural and cultural violence in Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) and traces similar representations of violence in Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror, Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Lynn Nottage's Ruined, Ayad Aktar's Disgraced, The Laramie Project by Moisés Kauffman and the Tectonic Theater Project, and Tim Robbins's adaptation of Dead Man Walking by Sr Helen Prejean. These writers have in common the status of traditional outsiders – black, female, gay, Muslim – and this informs their engagement in the social and political vitality of the stage. The shift in focus of these plays from direct violence echoes observations in Steven Pinker's recent The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Russell Vandenbroucke is Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Louisville and Director of its Peace, Justice, and Conflict Transformation programme. He previously served as Artistic Director of Chicago's Northlight Theatre. His publications include Truths the Hand Can Touch: the Theatre of Athol Fugard and numerous articles on South African theatre.

scholarly journals Anne Marie Treisman. 27 February 1935—9 February 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 407-430
Author(s):  
Daniel Kahneman ◽  
Deborah Treisman
Keyword(s):  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
White House ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
University Of Louisville ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Attention And Perception ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The psychologist Anne Treisman dedicated her career to the study of attention and perception, a central concern of cognitive science. While still a graduate student, she modified and reformulated the leading theory of auditory attention. Her discoveries and insights into the role of visual attention in the perception of objects, to which she devoted her subsequent decades of research, have had a lasting influence, not only in experimental psychology but also in vision research, neuroscience and artificial intelligence. In a period of rising interest in the brain, her foundational theories inspired thousands of experiments in her own field and others, and the originality and precision of her experimental design confirmed the continued relevance of behavioural research to the scientific enterprise. Treisman's accomplishments were recognized by the National Academy of Sciences in the USA in 1994 and by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. In 1996, she became the first psychologist to win the Golden Brain Award. She received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology in 2009, and was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony in 2013.

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