90/10 Principle. [Finance, Education, Sport, Gaming] (1) 10 per cent of investors make 90 per cent of the money and why 90 per cent of investors make only 10 per cent. Balancing act; people: Late edition. (2000, ). The Age, p. 11. (2) "students at risk"—these are the students who... Continue reading

John DiGilio presented “In the Balance: Tools to Increase Your Personal & Professional Productivity.” John introduced the topic of balancing one’s work and personal lives in an ever-increasingly stressful time. John recommended a number of websites to help one achieve a better life-work balance: Goals www.LifeTick.com www.43Things.com www.SolidGoals.net www.Mindbloom.com www.TaskRabbit.com... Continue reading

From the advice of Female Science Professor [FSP] (pseudonym / nom de plume) comes mentoring advice! Bite-size morsels of advice appeals to mentoring by forcing one to prioritize: If I could tell you only one thing about each topic, what is that one most important thing? FSP notes the perils... Continue reading

Vaillancourt, Allison M. (2012) How to Be a Better Mentee. Chronicle of Higher Education. On Hiring. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/onhiring/how-to-be-a-better-mentee/31973?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en Vaillancourt recently posted, “Breaking Up is Hard to Do,” describing a mentor-mentee relationship that went sour. This recent post reflects on that experience and provides general guidance recommending following tips: Have... Continue reading

Celebrating another year of the Faculty Mentoring Program, Dr. Linda Lamwers, Provost, presents Certificates of Appreciation to the Mentors and Mentees who participated. Continue reading

Tenure and Promotion Binder Workshop, Thursday, May 10, 2012, 12:30-4:00, Philips Lower Level Conference Room The Promotion and Tenure Workshop Committee (PTW) invites you to the PTW binder workshop on May 10, 2012 in the Philips Lower Level Conference Room from 12:30-4:00. The workshop is designed to assist faculty with... Continue reading

Pedagogy for Engagement Committee Announces Summer Series 2012: High Impact Learning: Meaningful Strategies for Meaningful Learning Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:30 to 2:30 pm Phillips Autograph Library and Lower Level Conference Room Come learn from experts and colleagues about “high impact learning.” In the morning session, Diana Laufenberg (2007 Arizona... Continue reading

Brian Taylor wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education (3/18/2012) about mentoring tips for first timers. The article was actually from the 'by line' of a Female Science Professor. Pre-tenure faculty appreciate the assistance from colleagues even if their instutitions do not have a strong mentoring program which assigns mentors.... Continue reading

Edited from Reynolds, Gretchen (1/16/2012), Can Exercise Make Kids Smarter? New York Times Researchers hoping to learn about fitness announced an experiment published last month. Researchers recruited schoolchildren, ages 9 and 10, who lived near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois and asked them to run on a... Continue reading

USA Weekend on December 9, 2011 posted a brief comment by Jeff Wuorio on How to Find the Perfect Mentor. Searching for the suitable mentor is important. Best place to start is recommended to begin with a self-assessment to determine strengths and weaknesses and identify specific areas you would like... Continue reading

[Computers] (Saltzer and Schroeder) Following are principles for secure systems in computer security: Simplicity - the accuracy of security measures, incorporated in hardware, software, and access can be more readily checked if those measures are simple and small. Fail Safe - accesses should require explicit authorization Complete Mediation - checking... Continue reading

Please mark your calendars for the following Mentoring Steering Committee meetings. All meetings will be held in Room 409 of the FH Green Library. Monday, 10/24 at 1:00 Monday 11/7 at 1:00 Tuesday 12/6 at 2:00 Please send any comments, suggestions or questions to Stephen Marvin, FMP Coordinator smarvin@wcupa.edu /... Continue reading

Please attend either session for Mentors or Mentees to be held on October 17 at 8am or October 18 at Noon in room 409 of the FH Green Library. The orientation is designed to benefit those who would like to be or would like to have a Mentor for the... Continue reading

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/bclt_CPP.pdf The Copyright Principles Project (CPP) was formed in 2007 out of a collective sense copyright law can be improved and should be refined in light of dramatic technological advances. Twenty people joined the CPP have various kinds of expertise and experience with copyright law and policy. They are: Pamela... Continue reading

[Mathematics, Psychology] (1) [mathematics] Every doctrine, either true or false, excludes other possibilities when, in fact, the determination of whether a doctrine is true or false is not yet able to be determined. The excluded third represents other possibilities. If a given interval contains an unlimited sequence of numbers, we... Continue reading

Equator Principles (EPs), is a voluntary standard for managing social and environmental risk in project financing. The principles were formally adopted under new Governance Rules from 1 July 2010, the result of several years’ intensive work by the Equator Principles Financial Institutions (EPFIs). The Governance Rules forming the basis of... Continue reading

Remember what Goldilocks said after testing the extremes of hot and cold, tall and short, soft and hard? She said: "This is just right". How did she earn the right to say that? She tried different things that made sense to her. Whether it was right or "wrong" does it... Continue reading

Concerns where p=2 (linear operator) and m≡1 (no weight). Given there exists δ=δ(h)>0 such that if λ1<λ<λ1+δ, then any solution u of (1.1) (with p=2 and m≡1) satisfies u<0 in Ω Clement, P. and Peletier, L. (1979) An antimaximum principle for second-order elliptic operators. J. Differential Equations 34, 218–229. Continue reading

(1) originally introduced during the early years of twentieth century and popularly known as Gibbs-Donnan equation or Donnan membrane principle, can be judiciously exploited to formulate the preparation of a new class of hybrid sorbents. (2) arise from the inability of ions to diffuse out from one phase into the... Continue reading

Transparency Principle calls for clearer and easily accessible disclosures to consumers about data collection and use practices associated with online behavioral advertising. It will result in new, enhanced notice on the page where data is collected through links embedded in or around advertisements, or on the Web page itself. Continue reading

Consumer Control Principle provides consumers with an expanded ability to choose whether data is collected and used for online behavioral advertising purposes. This choice will be available through a link from the notice provided on the Web page where data is collected. Continue reading

Principles of the ethic of privacy include: not stealing data; understanding that context matters; giving credit to others such as in bibliographical references; and not using as a weapon against the person the information shared. Attributed to Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? and Public Parts: How Sharing... Continue reading

You can uncover and report on facts as long as it does not misappropriate or fail to acknowledge the source. Hot news is generally - works containing facts of a time sensitive nature, - are not "free-riding" on the work reported by another, and - if actions put the original... Continue reading

September 2011, Issue 8 Greetings! Welcome in the new academic year with Athena’s Academic Alert, a key information resource for collection development. The fall issue announces five leading multi-volume reference products, including the new edition of Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. This classic work was described by American Reference Books... Continue reading

Minutes Present at Meeting Janet Lacey, Hyoejin Yoon, Stephen Marvin, Heather Wholey, Margarete Landwehr, Nadine Bean, Julian Onderdonk, Tom Haughey, Lisa Lucas Lisa will issue a new Doodle Poll in order to provide members who cannot attend meeting Monday’s at noon an opportunity to attend meetings. All should respond indicating... Continue reading