Minneapolis Community and Technical College

This book provides an accurate and comprehensive exposition of Dewey’s central terms, “experience” and “nature.

Artifacts, including ceramics, ground stone, and soil samples, as well as dental calculus, recovered from sites in the eastern North American central Plains were submitted to multiple laboratories for analysis of microbotanical remains. Direct accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) dates of 361–197 cal BC provide evidence for the earliest use of maize (Zea maysssp.mays) in this region. Squash (Cucurbitasp.), wild rice (cf.Zizaniaspp.), and palm (Arecaceae sp.) microremains were also found. This research adds to the growing evidence of the importance of microbotanical analysis in documenting plant use and in the identification of early maize. The combined data on early maize from the eastern Plains adds to our understanding of the timing and dispersal of this crop out of the American Southwest. Alternative explanations for the adoption and early use of maize by eastern central Plains communities include its value as a secondary resource, as an addition to an existing farming strategy, or as a component of Middle Woodland rituals.

Recent progress in logic programming, particularly answer set programming, has enabled us to teach it to undergraduate and high school students. We developed an online answer set programming environment with simple interface and self contained file system. It is expected to make the teaching of answer set programming more effective and help us to reach more students.

This chapter explores ways that the civic and workforce missions of community colleges might be better integrated in practice, using Minneapolis Community and Technical College as an example.

Abstract This chapter explores the Education for Global Learning (EGL) consortiums efforts to assess intercultural competence as an outcome of study abroad. The chapter concludes with lessons learned and next steps in EGL's international education journey.

With the increase over the past two decades in interest in critical thinking instruction, reliable and valid means for measuring critical thinking are necessary. The Minnesota Test of Critical Thinking was developed to measure critical thinking as defined by the American Philosophical Association in 1990. The present purpose was to explore the structure and reliability of the intervention and its instantiation of the critical thinking framework. Analyses of responses from 151 adult participants gave estimates of reliability varying from .29 to .78. A factor analysis of the test scores supported critical thinking conceptualized as a single, latent trait. With further refinement, the invention should become a valuable measure of general critical thinking skills of upper-division secondary and postsecondary students.

The intestinal permeability of carbamazepine, an antiepileptic drug, was examined as a function of intestinal site (duodenojejunum vs colon). A "through-and-through" in situ intestinal perfusion technique was adopted using the rabbit as an animal model. Coperfusion of the 10,11-epoxide and the 10,11-transdihydrodiol metabolites along with carbamazepine allowed for an examination of the effect of lipophilicity on intestinal permeability when molecular weight differences are negligible. Our results showed that carbamazepine is absorbed from rabbit duodenojejunum as well as the colon, which may explain the prolonged absorption behavior observed in humans. Also, the absorptive clearance of compounds having similar molecular weights is dependent not only on the lipophilicity but also on the extent of solvent drag during the course of the perfusion.