Saint Anselm College

About: Saint Anselm College is a education organization based out in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Nurse education. The organization has 255 authors who have published 522 publications receiving 7222 citations.

King Alfred: A Translation Environment for Learners of Anglo-Saxon English

Abstract: King Alfred is the name of both an innovative textbook and a computational environment deployed in parallel in an undergraduate course on Anglo-Saxon literature. This paper details the ways in which it brings dynamically-generated resources to the aid of the language student. We store the feature-rich grammar of Anglo-Saxon in a bi-level glossary, provide an annotation context for use during the translation task, and are currently working toward the implementation of automatic evaluation of student-generated translations.

Low Temperature Chemical Vapor Deposition of Titanium Nitride Thin Films With Hydrazine and Tetrakis-(dimethylamide)Titanium

Abstract: Hydrazine and tetrakis-(dimethylamido)titanium have been used as precursors for the low temperature chemical vapor deposition of TiN thin films between 50°C and 200°C at growth rates between 5 to 35 nm/min. At hydrazine to TDMAT ratios of 50:1 and 100:1 the resulting films show an increase in the Ti:N ratio with increasing deposition temperature. They contain 2% carbon, and varying amounts of oxygen up to 36% as a result of diffusion after air exposure. The low temperature growth is improved when hydrazine-ammonia mixtures containing as little as 1.9% hydrazine are used. Their Ti:N ratio is almost 1:1 and they contain no carbon or oxygen according to RBS. The TiN films grown from pure hydrazine or the hydrazine-ammonia mixture have some crystallinity according to x-ray diffraction and their resistivity is on the order of 104µω cm. The low temperature growth is attributed to the weak N–N bond in hydrazine and its strong reducing ability. In these films, the Ti:N ratio is approximately 1:1.

Hell Despite Vagueness: A Response to Sider

Abstract: Ted Sider argues that a binary afterlife is inconsistent with a proportionally just God because no just criterion for placing persons in such an afterlife exists I provide a possible account whereby God can remain proportionally just and allow a binary afterlife On my account, there is some maximum amount of people God can allow into Heaven without sacrificing some greater good God gives to all people at least their due but chooses to allow some who do not deserve Heaven to enter out of grace Although this model implies a precise cutoff between those who enter Heaven and those who do not, I have argued that there is a precise point where God best serves justice and some greater good Although God’s actions may appear arbitrary and ‘whimsically generous,’ it is merely because we are ignorant of the precise cutoff point that best serves his purposes

Using Cluster Analysis to Discover and Characterize Covert Strategies

Abstract: The present article focuses on a particularly useful application of cluster analysis: examining practice effects in psychological experiments, particularly with respect to individual differences in performance over sessions. The factor (e.g., practice) whose effect we wish to assess or to cancel is a secondary variable. Our aim is to determine whether the data that have been collected in an experiment are truly homogeneous with respect to a secondary variable and, if not, to obtain subsets of homogeneous data as suggested by cluster analysis. The homogeneous subsets can then be used to characterize the modes of performance. The effects of a secondary variable, such as performance improvements over sessions, typically have been assessed by an analysis of variance (ANOVA). ANOVA answers such questions as \"Are session-to-session variations in the dependent variable (typically accuracy or reaction time) due to chance, or is there some variation that can be attributed to performance changes between sessions?\" However, there are two problems with ANOVA:

Bell’s Theory of Beables and the Concept of ‘Universe’

Abstract: From its earliest days nearly a century ago, quantum mechanics has proven itself to be a tremendously accurate yet intellectually unsatisfying theory to many. Not the least of its problems is that it is a theory about the results of measurements. As John Bell once said in introducing the concept of ‘beables’, it should be possible to say what is rather than merely what is observed. In this essay I consider the question of whether a universe can be a (nonlocal) beable and what that implies about the fundamental nature of that universe. I conclude that a universe that is a beable within the framework of some theory, cannot also be fundamental.