Axiological Values in L. Borodin’s Story “the Visit”

University, the academic environment of axiological values

The study makes a presentation of universities functions, developed and customized for actual needs of the third millennium, of Information Age. The universities are schools of education, also schools of research. But the primary reason for their existence is not to be found either in the mere knowledge conveyed to the students or in the mere opportunities for research afforded to the members o...

The KTH Visit in Semi-Markov Processes

Telling the values story at Catholic Health East.

T heologian John Shea, STD, writing several years ago about CHA's Mission-Centered Leadership Competency Model, said that in health ministry the first step from faith to practicality—that is, concrete action on behalf of mission—is values. "Faith convictions and narratives are expressed in the full-blown religious language of the Catholic tradition, for example, God, Christ, sin, redemption, ch...

Transformations of L-values

In our recent work with M. Rogers on resolving some Boyd’s conjectures on two-variate Mahler measures, a new analytical machinery was introduced to write the values L(E, 2) of L-series of elliptic curves as periods in the sense of Kontsevich and Zagier. Here we outline, in slightly more general settings, the novelty of our method with Rogers, and provide a simple illustrative example. Throughou...

The Power of Personalization: Making a Museum Visit More Memorable with a Personalized Story

Abstract: Research has shown that wrapping a visit to a museum around a story makes that visit more memorable. Blessing and Skowronek (2013) embedded activities for children at the Glazer Children’s Museum in a story that motivated each activity. We hypothesize that personalizing the story more, by including the child’s first name and other particular information provided by the child, will mak...