This paper showed the results of a qualitative investigation that looked into intracultural communication between Brazilian teachers and students of English, and intercultural communication between American teachers and Brazilian students of English. The aims were to identify and describe contextualization cues used by both Brazilian and American speakers of English, and to connect these cues w...

Being healthy is important for living well and achieving longevity. In the business realm, furthermore, employers want healthy employees, as these workers tend to be more productive, have fewer rates of absenteeism, and use less of their health insurance resources. This article provides an overview of corporate “wellness” efforts in the American workplace and the concomitant challenges which em...

The author shares her personal journey of meeting, pushing through, and overcoming boundaries in many guises: as an outdoors wilderness enthusiast, engineer, a park administrator, and, now, photographer mixed-media artist. She asks: "I wonder if we can blur protected areas re-imagine parks PAs? Can PAs be vague enough to ignite creativity imagination? How might these re-imagined achieve protect...

We present an algorithm for converting an indoor spherical panorama into a photograph with a simulated overhead view. The resulting image will have an extremely wide field of view covering 4π steradians of the spherical panorama. Our method provides the photographer the ability to shoot at the ground level and later post-process the pictures to get a fake bird’s eye view of the scene. We argue ...

The following is the transcript of one of the best press conferences I've ever heard or read about. My preconceived notions about what such a gathering would be like were very strong as I entered the gorgeous Eversbn Museum in Syracuse. I was taken aback by not only the opulence with which food and cocktails were served, but the scene of the reception before the actual conference. It struck me ...

Dr. Pedro Antonio Noguera is a professor of education at Harvard University. He is also past-president of the Berkeley School Board. Originally presented to the Latino Think Tank on Violence Prevention, Charles R. Drew University, Medical School in 1991, this analysis (© 1996) is published here by In Motion Magazine as a series of hyper-linked articles which can be downloaded in segments. All s...