Explore the vast range of titles available.

The ability to self-direct a research program determines graduate degree completion. Yet, research on incompletion of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate programs assumes students’ present level of self-direction adequate and neglects to recognize a lack of self-directed learning (SDL) as key. This essay explores SDL for STEM, presenting the work of theoretical nuclear physicist David J. Rowe as a key example of applying a process of SDL in practice. Rowe focused on this challenge of physics graduate education by promoting SDL through the type of research flow that has been found to bring the greatest satisfaction to researchers regarding their insights. Strategies he explored involved his space, time, open mindedness and theoretical contributions with students and in collaboration with colleagues. A self-directed learner himself, Rowe developed methods of mentoring for encouraging physics graduate students to recognize symmetry as valuable in identifying solutions to problems quickly—helping students take the lead in finding insightful resolutions to complex, multidimensional, mathematical physics uncertainties. These strategies for supporting SDL in this context are examined here, with the use of narrative research to interpret the texts and conversations exchanged with the author. The process of SDL developed by Rowe is presented with recommendations on how Rowe’s methods may be modeled to improve self-direction in STEM graduate education more widely.

i Making Culture provides an in-depth discussion of Australia's relationship between the building of national cultural identity - or 'nationing' - and the country's cultural production and consumption. With the 1994 national cultural policy Creative Nation as a starting point for many of the essays included in this collection, the book investigates transformations within Australia's various cultural fields, exploring the implications of nationing and the gradual movement away from it. Underlying these analyses are the key questions and contradictions confronting any modern nation-state that seeks to develop and defend a national culture while embracing the transnational and the global. Including topics such as publishing, sport, music, tourism, art, Indigeneity, television, heritage and the influence of digital technology and output, Making Culture is an essential volume for students and scholars within Australian and Cultural Studies.

La fragmentación de la audiencia junto con otros factores ha provocado que las cifras de audiencia disminuyan en la mayoría de las cadenas de televisión. En un nuevo contexto en el que hay que reconsiderar lo que es una buena cuota de audiencia, el contenido deportivo destaca como el último antídoto contra la fragmentación de la audiencia. Metodología: En este artículo se examina el papel del contenido deportivo en la televisión española identificando los programas de televisión más vistos cada año desde 1989 hasta 2016 y se analiza más a fondo a través de entrevistas con ocho profesionales de agencias de medios, cadenas de televisión, propietarios de derechos deportivos y patrocinadores. Resultados y conclusiones: Los resultados reflejan que los canales de televisión han capitalizado sistemáticamente el contenido deportivo premium (fundamentalmente el fútbol) para compensar los efectos de la fragmentación de la audiencia y que, ante la incertidumbre sobre los modelos comerciales de televisión, seguirán haciéndolo en un futuro próximo

A poem is presented.

\"It is a small dam, it doesn't take much rain fall to actually fill it,\" he said. \"So it's a combination of completing construction and the recent rainfall.\" \"Unless we get very long extended dry-periods, water restrictions would be fairly unlikely, but like anything you can't predict the future in terms of rainfall,\" he said.

\"She wasn't allowed to talk back and she wasn't allowed to leave,\" [Olivia Choe] said, alleging that [BASTON] threatened the woman with a knife, gripped her tightly by the neck and banged her head on a car, the Miami-Herald reported. Baston's defence lawyer, David Rowe, described his client as a peaceful businessman who ran a legitimate escort service in Australia. \"Mr Baston was promoting an alternative lifestyle (for men) to ease the pressure of modern society,\" Rowe said.

\"She wasn't allowed to talk back and she wasn't allowed to leave,\" [Olivia Choe] said, alleging that [Baston] threatened the woman with a knife, gripped her tightly by the neck and banged her head on a car, the Miami-Herald reported.

\"But the legitimate sport, media and gambling industries have worked closely together to encourage many more people to gamble on small and large outcomes of sport contests, and so inevitably increase the rewards available from match-fixing and match-manipulation,\" he said in a statement on Wednesday. \"(These revelations) should spark a renewed investigation into the formal links between sport and gambling.\" Prof [David Rowe] said high profile sports with lots of \"mini-outcomes\" during matches were the most vulnerable.

Damion Baston, the powerfully-built Jamaican known as \"Daddy\", \"Drac\" or simply just \"D\", considered himself a lover of women, not a hater.