It will come as no surprise that learning is said to be accomplished most effectively when it is "goal orientated, contextual, interesting, challenging, and interactive" (Quinn 2005a). The assessment of learning is inextricably linked to learning (Hargreaves 1997) and if education is to be successful it is crucial that the perspectives of learner, knowledge, assessment and community are aligned...

This edition of “Ask the Author” features a discussion with Andrew Martin, who is a professor of law and chair of the political science department at Washington University in St. Louis. Andrew has done some very influential work on the Supreme Court, including co-authoring a paper on ideological drift of Supreme Court Justices, see [1] here, that will appear in issue four of the Northwestern Un...

We show that in SU(3)C ⊗ SU(3)L ⊗ U(1)N (3-3-1) models embedded with a singlet scalar playing the role of the axion, after imposing scale invariance, dynamical symmetry breaking of Peccei-Quinn symmetry occurs through the one-loop effective potential for the singlet field. We, then, analyze the structure of spontaneous symmetry breaking by studying the new scalar potential for the model, and ve...

Elizabeth D. Hay has been selected as the 1988 recipient of the highest award of The American Society for Cell Biology-the E. B. Wilson Medal. She received the award and delivered an address on her work at the joint meeting of the ASCB with the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in February 1989. Betty Hay is a colorful, individualistic woman who has contributed to contempo...

Positive organizational scholarship (POS) is a humanistic approach to the study of organizations, emphasizing the importance of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and meaning at work (Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn, 2003 ). Relational coordination theory contributes to POS by o" ering a theory of coordination that makes visible the relational process underlying the technical process, arguing that coord...

We consider the problem of learning a Bayesian network structure given n examples and the prior probability based on maximizing the posterior probability. We propose an algorithm that runs in O(n log n) time and that addresses continuous variables and discrete variables without assuming any class of distribution. We prove that the decision is strongly consistent, i.e., correct with probability ...

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We construct hadronic axion models in the framework of the anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking scenario. If the Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking is related to the supersymmetry breaking, mass spectrum of the minimal anomaly-mediated scenario is modified, which may solve the negative slepton mass problem in the minimal anomaly-mediated model. We find several classes of phenomenologically viabl...

Unambiguous determination of genetic relationships is important to understand mating patterns and population structures. For example, thorough social studies of lekking or cooperatively breeding species require that parentage and other close genetic relationships be determined. Similarly, although extrapair copulations (EPC) have been documented in several bird species (e.g. Birkhead 1987, West...