Class Action: Homeless in high school, Jessica Boyle fought to make Colby a place where students from all backgrounds can thrive

Once a homeless teen, Jessica Boyle ’12 worked to make Colby a place where students like her can thrive.

December 2002: Services Inside the Library Continue to Grow

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February 2012, Volume 8, Number 1

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February 2003: Of Eunuchs, Formalized Curiosity and Libraries

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April 2007: Stress Awareness Month

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Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian Novels as an Early Paradigm of Racial Toleration

The Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (ERB) provide an early paradigm of racial toleration by displacing the heterogeneous race conflicts of the U. S. to an interplanetary location. There, the protagonist John Carter, representing Burroughs himself, introduces a level of racial acceptance and integration almost unheard of on the Earth of that era (the early twentieth century).

Redefining the Academic Library Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services

Academic libraries are faced with a daunting series of challenges brought on by the digital revolution. In an era when millions of books, articles, images, and videos available instantaneously via the web, libraries across all institutional types are experiencing declining demand for their traditional services, built around the storage and dissemination of physical resources. At the same time, new demand for digital information services and collaborative learning spaces promise new areas of opportunity and engagement with patrons. A rapid and orderly transition to “the library of the future” requires difficult trade-offs, however, as no institution can afford to continue expanding both its commitment to comprehensive, local print collections as well as new investments in staff, technology, and renovations. This report illustrates how progressive academic libraries are evolving in response to these challenges, providing case studies and best practices in managing library space, staff, and resources.

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APOSTILA DO DEPARTAMENTO DE ENGENHARIA CIVIL DA UFSCar – volume 3

A educação como experiência no contexto do Movimento Sem Terra: uma investigação centrada na singularidade das práticas pedagógicas

O presente estudo tem como tema A Educação como experiência no contexto do Movimento Sem terra: uma investigação centrada na singularidade das práticas pedagógicas. A pesquisa de abordagem do tipo etnográfico teve como foco central a prática pedagógica realizada no contexto da escola de um movimento social e insere-se na linha de pesquisa de Inovação Pedagógica. Localizada no interior do estado do Ceará, em Itarema, na comunidade Lagoa do Mineiro, a escola pesquisada é fruto de uma conquista social, possui como referência um caráter humano, uma preocupação com o desenvolvimento de um ser social. A escola visa formar jovens críticos e que continuem com a luta da comunidade, valorizando a cultura local. A escola diferencia-se das escolas convencionais, rompendo com a ideologia dominante, com o ensino padrão, de reproduzir conteúdos, em sua organização pedagógica a escola acredita que o aluno precisa ter contato constante com a cultura e que o aprendizado pode acontecer em momentos diversos, por isso seus professores possuem uma prática pedagógica que ultrapassa a sala de aula. O Projeto Político Pedagógico fundamenta-se em suas tradições e práticas culturais e suas normas de conduta são os valores do seu povo, do homem que precisa da terra para viver. Durante a observação participante, constatamos que o papel da escola vai muito além da sala de aula. A escola do Movimento configura-se em uma ruptura de paradigma, suas características são contrárias ao cenário atual, modelo fabril, sendo um lugar que constrói a consciência crítica dos sujeitos envolvidos no processo de ensino-aprendizagem.

Utilização de matérias primas vegetais para aplicabilidade como inibidores de corrosão

In the search for products that act as corrosion inhibitors and do not cause environmental, impact the use of plant extracts as corrosion inhibitors is becoming a promising alternative. In this work the efficiency of polar extracts (ethanol extracts) obtained from the plants Anacardium occidentale Linn (AO) and Phyllantus amarus Schum. & Thonn (PA) as corrosion inhibitors were evaluated in different concentrations. For that AO and PA extracts were solubilized in the microemulsion systems (SME) containing saponified coconut oil as surfactant (SME -OCS and SME-OCS-1) in saline (NaCl 3,5 %) solution, which was also used as electrolyte. Both SME-OCS and SME-OCS-1 were characterized by surface tension and viscosity methods showing a Newtonian fluid behavior. The SME-OCS and SME-OCS-1 systems satisfactorily solubilized the polar extracts AO and PA with measurements carried out by ultraviolet spectroscopy. The measurements of corrosion inhibition efficiencies were performed by the electrochemical linear polarization resistance (LPR) technique as well as weight loss, on the surface of AISI 1020 carbon steel. The maximum corrosion inhibition efficiencies were determined by extrapolation of Tafel plots, showing the following values: 95,6 % for the system SME-OCS-AO, 98,9 % for the system SME-OCS-AO-1 and 93,4 % for the system SME-OCS-PA

Nitretação em plasma com gaiola catódica: caracterização e avaliação do desempenho da camada nitretada em facas de corte

Nowadays, in the plastic industry are used mills that accomplish the recycling of residues generated in the production of its components. These mills contain cut sheets that suffer accelerated wear, once they are submitted constantly to the tribologic efforts, decreasing its useful life. To reduce this problem, it s used noble steels or takes place superficial treatments. The ionic nitriding process presents some limitations related to the uniformity of the layer in pieces with complex geometry, committing its application in pieces as knives, head offices, engagements, etc. However, the new technique of nitriding in cathodic cage eliminates some problems, as the restrictions rings, inherent to the conventional ionic nitriding. In present work, was studied the use viabilization of steels less noble, as SAE 1020, SAE 4320 and SAE 4340, nitreded by two different techniques, to substitute the AISI 01 steels, usually used in the cut knifes fabrication, seeking to reduce the costs and at the sane time to increase the useful life of these knifes. The steel most viable was the SAE 4340, nitrided in cathodic cage, because it presented uniformity in thickness and in the hardness of the layer, besides of increased 58% in the average its useful life