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The authors explored undergraduate business students' feelings and thoughts about themselves, other students, and their professors when mobile devices are used in the lecture hall for nonacademic purposes. Specifically, they investigated mobile device use during class time, and whether students support it, are indifferent toward it, or consider it to be an intrusion. Using the critical incident technique, the authors thematically categorized students' thoughts and feelings regarding mobile device usage in the classroom for nonacademic purposes. The results uncovered unique perspectives presented by the students that carry implications for students, professors and administrators.

Presents a study which investigated giant magnetoimpedance effect in soft and ultrasoft magnetic fibers. Sample preparation; GMI effects in Permalloy fibers; Conclusions.

Studies the magnetic properties of sub-20 micrometer metallic fibers formed by continuous melt extraction. Development of the melt-extraction technique; Mechanical properties of the fibers; Hysteresis loop of the fibers.

Studies by means of the giant magnetoimpedance (GMI)m, the effects of the high frequency behavior of soft magnetic wires. What was shown by a impedance spectra of the wires measured using a network analyzer; Information on the fabrication of ultrathin ferromagnetic wires; Effect of GMI on permalloy wire at low to moderate frequencies.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's personal reflections from an early childhood forests program in Poland, where she developed her personal autonomy, self-esteem and empathy for non-human and human beings.

Using a critical discourse approach (Fairclough, 2003; Foucault, 1972; Luke, 1997, 2002; Rabinow, 1984; van Dijk, 1993; van Leeuwen, 2008) this paper examines the text and embedded meaning conveyed in Jean Jacque Rousseau's novella Émile. This treatise written in the 18th century includes Rousseau's conceptualization of best practices and a set of educational guidelines detailing habits to avoid and the necessary combination of "natural" and "progressive" approaches recommended to raise children as moral citizens. In our analysis we discuss the ways Rousseau uses binary descriptions of girls-boys, mothers-fathers, and learners-tutors separately and in opposition. We go on to situate his novella as an early example of expert advice on parenting, where Rousseau positions himself as an educational expert by simultaneously defining the maternal role in early education and the role of education in society. We contend that Rousseau's works are founded on particular beliefs about the source of knowledge and construction of meaning that continues to constrain the formation of authentic partnerships among and between parents and early childhood educators. We argue that this discourse--and, importantly, the values, beliefs, and attitudes it conveys-- lingers in Canadian early childhood education learning communities and that the vestiges of these early ideas truncate and unnaturally shape our ideas of parenting, teaching, and learning by socially positioning families and teachers in ways that make it difficult to engage in co-construction of curriculum. We suggest that by better understanding and deconstructing this discourse we can move our thinking forward and authentically engage in coinquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amorphous metallic Fe/sub 78/Si/sub 9/B/sub 13/ fibers, 50 /spl mu/m in diameter, produced by the melt extraction method, have been studied in the as-quenched state and after furnace annealing at 455/spl deg/C and 480/spl deg/C for times between 0.5 min and 50 min. Measurements of the M-H loops and field dependence of Young's modulus have shown that they behave in a way very like that of amorphous wires. The minimum coercivity of 3 A/m is greater than that found in wires, and the minimum Young's modulus (/spl sim/0.45 times the saturation value) is greater. It is suggested that the core-shell domain model applies in the as-quenched state and that stress relief followed by surface crystallization dominate the anisotropy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We have investigated the giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) effect in fibers of different soft magnetic materials and in Permalloy wires. The fibers have been tested in the radio frequency (rf) range, by measuring the voltage drops in different parts of the circuit. The wires have been tested in the ultra high frequency (uhf) range, by measuring the transmission coefficient s/sub 21/ of coaxial lines having as central conductor a HyMu80 wire. The two methods provided quite similar results showing a strong GMI effect for very different magnetic samples. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]