A Comparison of College Background, Pipeline Assignment, and Performance in Aviation Training for Black Student Naval Flight Officers and White Student Naval Flight Officers.

At the turn of the century, the University of Louisville’s Malcolm X Debate Program, a mostly Black student group, founded a small grassroots movement in competitive college debate. Louisville battled a resistant majority white academic community for years. During their winning 2003–2004 season, the team transformed into what became commonly referred to as the Louisville Project. The development of an acclaimed Louisville Method of Debate would have significant reverberations through both the college and high school debate communities more than fifteen years later. By not avoiding but rather pointing to Blackness, Louisville’s argumentative and performative attacks on traditional debate practice force the community to turn its analytical tools on the racialization of debate itself. White discomfort in policy debate, in reaction to Louisville’s strategy and performance, has run the gamut of denial, anger, frustration, sympathy, engagement, and rejection. Troubling the assumption of neutrality, Louisville’s performance and argumentation highlight the hypocrisy of traditional debate performance, its relationship to anti-Blackness, and the normative performance of whiteness as the marker of achievement. The Louisville team delves into the neoliberal ordering of American democracy, making visible the hypocrisy of white liberalism and its attendant antagonism—subtle and overt—toward Blackness.

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INFORMATICS TOOLS USING ESTIMATION DURING PILOT TRAINING

Aviation ◽

10.3846/16487788.2007.9635974 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 29-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jan Gruszecki ◽

Zbigniew Zajdel ◽

Pawel Rzucidło

Keyword(s):

Computer Applications ◽

Civil Aviation ◽

Pilot Training ◽

Training Device ◽

Training Centre ◽

Flight Simulators ◽

Aviation Training ◽

Growth Development ◽

And Performance ◽

Informatics Tools

The human interest in flight simulators and tools that facilitate the effective formation of piloting skills has more than half a century of tradition. Marked growth development of these tools happened after the implementation of digital techniques into the structure of simulators and after the obtainment of independent computer applications the enabling the operator's predispositions and performance level to be controlled and estimated. The questions that are posed in this area of such specific tools have been very often oriented towards the possibility and reasonableness of replacing real training flights with a simulation technique. Working on the problem of improving the level of safety in civil aviation, the authors conducted tests to determine the possibility of formalizing the principles of admittance for computers tools that are identified as OTD (Other Training Device) followed from JAR –STD 3A.005 (f) regulations. One of the aims of the experiments was to confirm the usefulness of the statistical methods that had been used to identify the pilot's skill level estimated for short series of flights. RUT Aviation Training Centre students, whose individual predispositions as operators and performance levels had been estimated using the WOMBAT – CS TOOL, took part in experiments based on elements of flight normalized in JAR – FCL 1.210. In this paper, the authors present and discuss the assumptions, accomplishments, and results of that experiment.

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Understanding Disciplinary Disproportionality: Stereotypes Shape Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs About Black Boys’ Behavior

Urban Education ◽

10.1177/0042085915623337 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 54 (4) ◽

pp. 471-498 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Claire E. Kunesh ◽

Amity Noltemeyer

Keyword(s):

Black Male ◽

Black Student ◽

White Student ◽

Male Students ◽

Black Boys ◽

Black Male Students ◽

Teachers Beliefs ◽

The Future

The disproportionate discipline of Black male students is a pervasive problem in U.S. schools. To examine the role of stereotypes in disciplinary disproportionality, pre-service teachers were randomly assigned to read a vignette about a defiant student. Those who read a vignette about a Black student believed that the student was more likely to misbehave in the future, compared with those who read a vignette about a White student. These findings suggest that some teachers attribute the misbehavior of Black male students to more stable causes, which may lead them to alter their behavior toward these students.

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Transmission Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Analysis with the Siemens ELMISKOP 101

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100095509 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 30 ◽

pp. 450-451

Author(s):

H. M. Thieringer

Keyword(s):

Objective Lens ◽

Transmission Microscopy ◽

Image Recording ◽

Mode Of Operation ◽

Scanning Transmission ◽

Electron Microscopes ◽

And Performance ◽

Convergent Beam ◽

Ray Path ◽

Beam Diffraction

It has repeatedly been show that with conventional electron microscopes very fine electron probes can be produced, therefore allowing various micro-techniques such as micro recording, X-ray microanalysis and convergent beam diffraction. In this paper the function and performance of an SIEMENS ELMISKOP 101 used as a scanning transmission microscope (STEM) is described. This mode of operation has some advantages over the conventional transmission microscopy (CTEM) especially for the observation of thick specimen, in spite of somewhat longer image recording times.Fig.1 shows schematically the ray path and the additional electronics of an ELMISKOP 101 working as a STEM. With a point-cathode, and using condensor I and the objective lens as a demagnifying system, an electron probe with a half-width ob about 25 Å and a typical current of 5.10-11 amp at 100 kV can be obtained in the back focal plane of the objective lens.

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Angular Resolved Electron Spectroscopy with Parallel Recording

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100135459 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 370-371

Author(s):

Huang Min ◽

P.S. Flora ◽

C.J. Harland ◽

J.A. Venables

Keyword(s):

Electron Spectroscopy ◽

Low Voltage ◽

Solid Angle ◽

Detection System ◽

Voltage Electron ◽

Cylindrical Mirror ◽

Inner Radius ◽

Channel Plate ◽

And Performance ◽

Type Detector

A cylindrical mirror analyser (CMA) has been built with a parallel recording detection system. It is being used for angular resolved electron spectroscopy (ARES) within a SEM. The CMA has been optimised for imaging applications; the inner cylinder contains a magnetically focused and scanned, 30kV, SEM electron-optical column. The CMA has a large inner radius (50.8mm) and a large collection solid angle (Ω > 1sterad). An energy resolution (ΔE/E) of 1-2% has been achieved. The design and performance of the combination SEM/CMA instrument has been described previously and the CMA and detector system has been used for low voltage electron spectroscopy. Here we discuss the use of the CMA for ARES and present some preliminary results.The CMA has been designed for an axis-to-ring focus and uses an annular type detector. This detector consists of a channel-plate/YAG/mirror assembly which is optically coupled to either a photomultiplier for spectroscopy or a TV camera for parallel detection.

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