Francelina A. Neto
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Advances in space sensor technology have radically transformed the capabilities of our cartographic institutions. Space sensors are imaging the Earth's surface with higher resolution year after year. Algorithms for sensor modeling are becoming more accurate. Some researchers even claim that the use of space images instead of traditional aerial photographs reduces the costs of map production on some scales. Additionally, imagery from space has major advantages for the cartography of large countries, the creation of general map products and the automation of cartographic production. Recent evaluations of space photogrammetric techniques indicate the revolution in cartography is just beginning.
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Barbara E. Bromley
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
This article explores issues of public reactions often encountered by persons with disabilities. A recent trip to Disneyland provides an opportunity to experience as well as reflect on interactions between those with and without disabilities.
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Edward A. Merritt
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Assessment centers are one of the fastest growing selection methods used in
industry today. However, they are underutilized in hospitality and academe.
(Lowry, 1994). The hospitality industry can use assessment ceners to enhance
both employee selection and professional development. Hospitality educators
can use assessment centers as a development tool in producing graduates who
meet the needs of organizations, and also in evaluating administrative and teamwork
skills.
In this study, the assessment center process used in the graduate hospitality
program at Cornell University is described. It was found that leadership skill
best predicted total income upon graduation.
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| Melinda R. Pierson California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| Barbara C. Glaeser California State University, Fullerton |
This study compared groups of adolescents on the self-concept aspect of academic importance. Participants consisted of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders placed in general education classes or special day classes and designated by their teachers as either high- or low-achieving. Student self-reports, teacher reports, and school records were examined using a between groups MANOVA design. The results showed that the high-achieving adolescents placed in general education had the highest score on academic importance. The students in special day class settings designated as high-achieving had the lowest scores. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed.
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| G. Sidney Silliman California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
The Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, its member agencies, and the Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator have implemented a range of programs to recover the grizzly bear population in the lower-48 states since the bear was listed in 1975 as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The recovery targets set by the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan for the Yellowstone population have been met. The long-term survival of the grizzly bear in the conterminous states, however, is still threatened because the grizzly bear is restricted to only five isolated areas of its ancestral range. As an alternative to current policy, the grizzly bear should be returned to the remaining wild habitat in the Rocky Mountains in the North Cascades.
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| Da'an Pan California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
As an intermediate art Chinese calligraphy bridges the visual and verbal arts; its role goes beyond language learning to provide a key to understanding Chinese art as a holistic art. Furthermore, Chinese calligraphy can be used as a model to illustrate the concept of beauty peculiar to Chinese culture and even the entire system of Chinese aesthetics. Chinese calligraphy can be taught most effectively as an intersemiotic and ideogramic art and is best appreciated in a holistic context. Chinese calligraphy education in a cross-cultural context enables students to develop a genuine appreciation of the Chinese aesthetic tradition. It further helps students enhance their aesthetic judgment and sensibilities across cultures and disciplines toward a global vision of beauty. Many students have come to appreciate the beauty and value of this art not merely for art's sake but for their own personal cultivation and fulfuillment.
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Karen S. Langlois
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
This study examines the influence of three of the country's largest non-profit philanthropies - the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the James S. and James L. Knight Foundation, in collaboration with the educational agendas of the American Council on Education (ACE), the Wharton School of Business, the Institute for Research on Higher Education (IRHE), and the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC) - on the efforts of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CPP) and the California State University system (CSU) to implement instructional technology and outcomes assessment during the five year period 1995 - 2000.
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| Paul W. Hyland University of Western Sydney, Macarthur |
| Terrence R. Sloan University of Western Sydney, Macarthur |
| John Karayan California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
The importance of innovation to the survival of organizations in a turbulent environment has led to greater emphasis on improving the innovation process. The opporunity to do so is enhanced where learning is captured and applied to existing processes. This article presents an analysis of levers (enabling mechanisms) used to foster learning behaviors, and identifies variations between levers used by different occupational clusters. Under study are aspects of occupational culture, and problems associated with examining organizational learning from a single perspective. Although the potential for transferring learning experiences is increased by considering the multiple perspectives of the various communities of practice within organizations, this also triggers a number of potential barriers for the transfer of learning.
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| Anwar Y. Salimi California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| Juhi Dudeja California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
There has been a significant drop in accounting enrollments nationwide in the past few years. It has become important to understand the factors that influence student's choice of accounting as a major and their choice of college and university. This study attempts to determine the factors that led accounting students to choose accounting as their major. The study shows that the majority of accounting department students are transfer students. Most students chose to major in accounting at Community College or after they started at a 4 year university. Very few students chose their major while in high school. A significant finding was that the most important influences in choosing an accounting major were taking an accounting class or an accounting professor. Students ranked interest in the subject and earnings potential as important factors in choosing to major in accounting. Most of the students surveyed decided in Community College. Important influences were parents and friends.
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| John B. Wyatt III California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| LeRoy H. Graw California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
This article defines E-Commerce and E-Procurement/Purchasing as well as some related terms, provides statistics on their use, explains key roadblocks to implementation of E-Procurement/Purchasing systems, and provides recommendations for the Procurement/Purchasing Manager who wishes to initiate E-Procurement.
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| Evelyn M. Gutierrez California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| Thomas H. Patten, Jr. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
A very recent set of U.S. Supreme Court rulings has once again upended the already elusive understanding of the word "diability" when applied to employees in the workplace or applicants seeking employment. With over thirty years of shifting Federal and state legislation, our understanding of what the "disability concept" means remains clouded. To further cloud the definition, California law and Federal law currently appear to reflect different concepts of public policy on employers (among others) that have important and different implication. Unsettled by shifting court decisions, disabled individuals remain perplexed about public policy regarding the "disabled" and their ability to access employment opportunities and successfully compete in the workplace.
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| Rita Gevorgyan State Engineering University of Armenia |
| Richard Hulme California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
Developing countries emerging from command economies usually require dramatic, qualitative changes in commercial and industrial systems. This article presents one promising approach for doing so: the application of pattern recognition methods for improvement of flexible manufacturing systems' management in the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia.
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| Rosalie Giacchino-Baker California State University, San Bernardino |
| Frederick J. Baker California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
In the process of acquiring language young people learn about their culture. Through listening and later imitating speech, they learn not only the words to label the world around them, but also the concepts and values to make sense of it. Stories of all kinds keep them spellbound. Proverbs echo in their ears. If they belong to a literate society, they listen and speak for years before internalizing the written word. If they belong to a completely or predominately oral society, their dependence on oral tradition is even more dramatic. Most adult members of any society remember what told to them as children, especiallly if the format was entertaining and only incidentally informative.
All societies are organized around structures that are known by their members. Status sometimes determines the extent to which these structures are formally known, but individuals learn to find their place within the family as well as religious, political and social hierarchies. They learn to accept or reject the roles of leaders and followers.
The inculcation of these cultural values is obviously accomplished through every means at a society's disposal. This article will present examples of oral tradition, which contain cultural values for parental, religious and secular authority. The genres of folk tales and proverbs will be examined from a sociological rather than a literary perspective; cultural values not literary style will be the focus of attention.
A cross-cultural approach will be used since it provides a way to describe cultural values in both an Asian and a western country. Since Thailand and Mexico are both of great interest to the writers, (the authors have lived and worked in Thailand and Mexico over six years and speak both languages), examples of their oral traditions will be examined. Given the scope of this topic, selections of stories and sayings are in no way intended to be exhaustive. Hopefully, they will be typical without being stereotypic.
Before beginning to discuss Thailand and Mexico, we will briefly discuss the importance of oral tradition and the place of folk tales and proverbs within this tradition. Since the development of these genres is very dependent on cultural factors, the complex background of each of these countries will then be briefly acknowledged, in turn, before examining selections of their collected works. Finally, an attempt will be made to compare and contrast in summary form the unique and evolving legacies of these two countries.
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Frank Glaser
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
The linear ordering theorem for weighted means of functions relative to weight functions (Glaser, 2001) has several interesting implications similar to those of the one dimensional Cashwell - Everett mean (Cashwell - Everett, 1969). As an immediate consequence of the linear ordering theorem, we develop in this article the n- dimenstional deviation theorem and a theorem dealing with inequalities related to the magnitudes of the defining functions of the n-dimensional means. [corrected version 1/2003]
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