Mount Holyoke College

About: Mount Holyoke College is a education organization based out in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Branching fraction & Population. The organization has 1640 authors who have published 3154 publications receiving 96186 citations. The organization is also known as: MHC & Mt Holyoke College.

Talking About Race, Learning About Racism : The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom

Abstract: The inclusion of race-related content in college courses often generates emotional responses in students that range from guilt and shame to anger and despair. The discomfort associated with these emotions can lead students to resist the learning process. Based on her experience teaching a course on the psychology of racism and an application of racial identity development theory, Beverly Daniel Tatum identifies three major sources of student resistance to talking about race and learning about racism, as well as some strategies for overcoming this resistance.

The discrimination of visual number.

Abstract: Suppose that there are two collections or groups of objects-coins, trees, beans, or aircraft-and we do not know how many objects there are. Suppose further that for some reason we cannot count the number of objects in either group. Still, some property of each group makes it possible for a person to say that one of these groups is greater-than, lessthan, or equal-to the other group. It is this property of a collection of objects that we define as numerousness.l We might say that numerousness is that property of a group of objects which we can discriminate, without counting, under instruction to judge how many objects the group contains. We shall wish to modify this definition later as a result of the experiments reported in this paper, but it is adequate for the present discussion of the problem. The judgment of 'numerousness' may be made in several different ways: (a) it may be comparative-more numerous or less numerous, larger or smaller, etc.; (b) or it may be 'absolute.' There is one special form that the absolute judgment of numerousness can take. It is called the direct reporting of number. In this method of reporting, a numeral is assigned to represent how many things there are in any given collection of objects. After a brief look-so brief that counting is impossible-we say 10, 23, or 250 to indicate that we estimate that the group contained 10, 23, or 250 members.

The BABAR detector

Abstract: BABAR, the detector for the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric e+e- B Factory operating at the upsilon 4S resonance, was designed to allow comprehensive studies of CP-violation in B-meson decays. Charged particle tracks are measured in a multi-layer silicon vertex tracker surrounded by a cylindrical wire drift chamber. Electromagentic showers from electrons and photons are detected in an array of CsI crystals located just inside the solenoidal coil of a superconducting magnet. Muons and neutral hadrons are identified by arrays of resistive plate chambers inserted into gaps in the steel flux return of the magnet. Charged hadrons are identified by dE/dx measurements in the tracking detectors and in a ring-imaging Cherenkov detector surrounding the drift chamber. The trigger, data acquisition and data-monitoring systems, VME- and network-based, are controlled by custom-designed online software. Details of the layout and performance of the detector components and their associated electronics and software are presented.

The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global

Abstract: The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. By Virginia Held. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 220p. $45. In her latest book, Virginia Held elaborates on themes from previously published articles to explicate and defend the ethics of care. For those unfamiliar with this well-developed tendency of feminist thought, she reviews its evolution from the 1980s writings of Sara Ruddick, Carol Gilligan, and Nel Noddings to the more recent work of theorists including, among many others, Eva Kittay, Annette Baier, Joan Tronto, and Selma Sevenhuijsen. Held also underlines the differences between the ethics of care and dominant moral and political perspectives, including Kantian universalism, utilitarianism, liberal contract theory, and virtue theory. She proposes that care is, compared with justice, the more basic value, on the grounds that society can exist without the latter but not without the former. She recommends that men and women participate equally in care activities; that care infuse citizen as well as familial relations; and that society beat back the imperializing thrust of the market ethos and the conflict-mongering thrust of the militarized state to improve the well-being of children, the elderly, the sick and disabled, the community, culture, the environment, and deprived regions of the world.