December 3, 2018. One
of our graduates, Nelson
Mejia, attended the National
Reintegration Center for
OFWs-Integrated Seafarers
of the Philippines (NRCO-ISP)
Business Plan Competition.
The nationwide competition
was open to active seafarers
preferably those who were
planning to retire from sea
life and interested to venture
into entrepreneurship; and
inactive seafarers who have
been in the Philippines for
not more than five years and
interested to venture into
entrepreneurship.
The Business Plan Competition
of NRCO in partnership
with the Integrated Seafarers
of the Philippines was
launched in 2015 and aims
to encourage more seafarers
and their families to start
into social entrepreneurship and at the same time support
the growth of jobs in their
hometowns.by the Institute of Adult Learning
December 12,
2018. One of
our graduates,
Sivarajasingam
Mahendran,
has just been recognized by
the Institute of Adult Learning,
which is slated to be an
autonomous institute of the
Singapore University of Social
Sciences in April 2019, as an
Associate Adult Educator
under its Adult Education professionalization
(AEP) program
for CET in Singapore.
In the month of November
2017, AIU and Realmind
SA, consultancy of human resources
dedicated to research
in human behavior and productivity,
based in Ecuador,
signed a strategic alliance
agreement by which AIU
provides its endorsement to
the TNO Evaluator Certification
(Observational Numerical
Board), tool to evaluate the
profile of people in rapid and
highly accurate way, presented
at the Congress NEXUS
EQ, organized by Six Seconds,
USA, held at Harvard University,
Medicine School,
in June of 2013.
December, 2018. This
graduate student completed
the majority of the requirements
to obtain honors,
which included a 4.0 GPA,
published works, recommendation
from his advisors,
patent a product, etc.
Congratulations!
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William A. Rorech III
Could wind energy power
stations technology transition
define the future of
renewable energy?
Renewable energy, especially
solar and wind power,
are quickly becoming the
dominant central focus of new
electricity generation investment.
A prediction states that
$10.2 trillion will be spent
on new power generation
worldwide through year 2040,
72 percent mostly invested in
new wind and solar plants.
The challenge is that the
growing reliance on wind and
solar energy can cause electrical
grids to become unstable
due to change in weather which
affect wind speed and permanent
sunny exposure.
As these intermittent sources
of power grow in importance a back-up network of fossil-fuel
generators primarily designed to
meet demand peaks will be the
traditional way to maintain their
stability. However, as energy
markets accelerate along the
transition from conventional to
sustainable energy generation,
there will be a growing problem
that the industry must address
to scientific researches in this
field concerning control and
structural efficiency including
market completion and
availability.
The paper will present the
transition to wind energy
including the science and
technology of this renewable
energy. A case study will be
presented about its efficient
use in Lebanon and impact
cost concerning material use
and logistics to be applied. The
paper also will address to the
control techniques implemented
on the wind mill that ensure
operation at maximum yield
point and this will be tabulated
in a case study of how control
operation will affect the output
power efficiency. Furthermore,
structural force analysis
on turbine will be presented
including simulation analysis.
Finally, we will conclude about
if Wind energy will possibly
lead the market to define the
future of renewable efficient
and stable energy.
How has the learning process
based in Andragogy impacted
your life professionally and
personally?
The experiential learning
module was exciting. It
inspired me to appreciate my
educational journey. It was
indeed a process and planning
expedition. It enabled me
to look at where I was some
years back in my educational
journey, where I am now,
and where I desire to go; and
above everything else, to
explore the means on how to
carry on with my perceived
journey. AIU provided this by
allowing me to come up with
a curriculum that would enhance
my educational dream.
This is wholesome.
What made you decide
to enroll with us?
The decision to enroll in this
university was informed by
its flexible programs and the
fact that the course I wanted
to undertake (Educational
Administration and Management)
was available.
Is it easy for you to do your
program by yourself?
It was not easy at all for a
starter. With my first assignment,
I was almost discouraged.
Thanks to the intervention
of Dr. Jack (My Instructor)
who explained clearly what
needed to be done in each
assignment, especially approaching
each subject matter
from local, national and
international perspective and
more importantly the integration
of the acquired knowledge
into day to day activities.
The Staff at AIU were very
supportive. The practicum
aspect of the entire program
was very enriching.
How is your AIU Degree
helping you in your career?
I am able to carry out my
duties with high degree of
confidence and professionalism.
Additionally, I am able
to inspire my students and
colleagues to be self driven in
carrying out their duties with
enthusiasm and interest.
Have you been able to help
your community?
Absolutely! My community
has benefited so much from
the knowledge gained from
my study in AIU. I have been
able to organize staff development
programs in leadership
and job motivation. I have also
been able to empower people
by imparting the necessary
skills to enable them to be
productive members of the society.
The Life skills program
that I initiated at our university
has been greatly enhanced,
thanks to the knowledge
gained from AIU. Specifically,
management and leadership
skills, group dynamic skills,
communication skills, counseling
skills, project management
skills, critical thinking, personnel
management, creativity
and innovation are some of the
skills that are having a great
impact on my engagement with
the community.
How has the knowledge that
you have gained at AIU helped
you at your job?
When enrolled for this
course, I was the Deputy Principal
Academics (DPA) at the
Marist International University
College, Nairobi, Kenya.
All along as I carried out my
studies, I found the knowledge
very relevant to the tasks
I was assigned to carry out.
Interestingly, as I came to the
tails end of my program of studies
at AIU in the field of Educational
Administration and Management,
I was appointed the
Principal of the University, the
position that I am occupying at
the moment. It was providential
that I had undertaken this
specific area of specialization in
my career. I feel more confident
in what I do and the leadership
position that I hold is greatly
impacted by this.
The Charles Howard Park
that I initiated in the University
has greatly benefited from
the skills I acquired at AIU.
I have organized a Cultural
Week and two Workshops; one
on Leadership and another on
Psycho-Spirituality, Job Satisfaction
and Productivity for
the staff and students.
The sciences are classified
from different aspects and
one of them is to consider the
method that they have for the
demonstration of their Laws,
Theories, Principles and Axioms.
One of the classifications
considers them as hard and
soft sciences; in this case Physics
is one of the hard sciences.
In the twentieth century an extraordinary advance in
Physics was made in the development
of Newton's Physics
to Quantum Physics.
From researchers in Quantum
Physics we have Niels
Bohr.
The model of the planetary
atom and the introduction
of Planck's quantum of action
allowed him to explain the stability of the atom, its
absorption and emission
properties.
In his studies of the atom
and quantum mechanics,
he developed the Principle
of Correspondence and the
Complementarity Principle.
For his work he is considered
as one of the parents of
the atomic bomb.
We also have Werner Karl
Heisenberg.
Heisenberg contributed to
this breakthrough with the
Uncertainty Principle.
According to Heisenberg
in his Uncertainty Principle
it is not possible to know the
position and momentum of
a particle when the mass is
constant. He assumes that it
wouldn't be possible to make
perfect observations or measurements;
basic statement of
quantum mechanics.
Therefore we speak of the
disappearance of certainty in
Physics.
Albert Einstein was also
involved in this field, and in
some respects he disagreed
with Niels Bohr regarding the
Principle of Complementarity.
Conferences in Denmark
where Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein
and other scientists in
the field of Physics met were
famous.
As for what concerns us
in this article, Bohr, for the
development of the Principle
of Complementarity followed
Heisenberg's knowledge
regarding the Uncertainty Principle.
The Principle of Complementarity
says that:
"You can’t determine two
complementary properties
simultaneously so that a
quantum object can only be
perceived in one way; as a
wave or as a corpuscle".
The quantum object is a
measurable quantity only
by probability distribution
because it has different values,
it is not like the Newtonian
physics that is deterministic
and always the magnitude will
have the same value.
After knowing that quantum
physics is of non-deterministic
magnitudes what this
Physics has to do with what
human being is and even
more so with the Principle of
Complementarity of Bohr? Let's see what the human
being is? We know that the
human being is a bio-psychosocial
entity.
We have a definition that
develops the concept of
human being in its relationship
with the new science, a
concept so named in terms
of the advances of Physics in
particular.
“In reality, the human being
is a whole” physical-chemicalbiological-
psychologicalsocial-
cultural-ethical-moralspiritual,
“which has its own,
independent and free existence.
(Martínez Miguélez,
1999, p. 87).
According to Martínez
Miguélez each structure is dynamic
and composed of other
superstructures or subsystems
whose relationship is a very
high level of complexity.
Therefore the human being
can perfectly apply the
Principle of Complementarity
of Bohr.
Each of the subsystems that
make up the human being
behaves like the magnitude of
quantum physics: it is not the
same for each action.
The human being in all its
subsystems has for each action
a response given the freedom
as a subsystem that has.
All its subsystems are integrated
and behave in this way
now and different in another
time. The human being is:
unique and unrepeatable
because each of us gives
a response according to what
we integrate into our system
of high complexity.
Therefore we can infer that
our actions are influenced
by many structures around us and the virtual world in
which we live.
What happens to us when
we notice changes in energy,
discomfort that apparently
has no reason to be? All our
complexity is being affected
by the entry of an element
that we can’t integrate and we
have to make an extra effort
to find welfare. Each one of us
will choose different answers
according to the formation
and context that make up our
complexity.
We can decide what we
want to integrate now, what
answer we want to offer later.
As human beings who have
freedom, that freedom impels
us to question ourselves in
each action: what will it bring
us as a human being?
The theory of the dissipative
structures by Ilya Prigogine, it
says that for a space, which he
calls bifurcation, the changes
that alter the system enter and
that the system will always
seek its equilibrium.
In the case of the Principle of
Complementarity we are talking
about the different responses
that the system can give.
Continuing with the Principle
of complementarity we
are unique and unrepeatable
because no person
receives and integrates to its
complexity as a system the
same elements and processes
them in his or her organism
and mind in the same way: it
will depend on what each day,
each minute goes on being
physical, chemical, social, psychological,
cultural, spiritual
and ethical.
Depends on what each day,
each minute, each second
enters our extraordinary
system, such as the search
of intentional knowledge or
study or empirical learning so
that the complexity that we
are gives us better answers
and those better answers are
our well-being what we also
call happiness.
Therefore no person can be
equal to you because none will
respond with your superstructure
in the same way; according
to Bohr in the Principle
of Complementarity: in some
cases we speak about corpuscle
and in the other about
wave.
You are unique and
unrepeatable!!!
Work with your freedom to
develop each element of your
extraordinary system and that
will make you happy in what
you are: unique and
unrepeatable!!!
BIBLIOGRAPHY. Martínez Miguélez, M. (1999). La nueva
ciencia / su desafío, lógica y método. México: Trillas. | Prigogine,
I. (2009). ¿Tan solo una ilusión?. Barcelona: Tusquest
Editores. | Sánchez Ron, J. (2001). Historia de la Física cuántica.
Barcelona: Editorial Crítica. | Schaposnik, A. (2014). Qué es la
Física Cuántica. Argentina: Paidós.
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I’m seeing my dad cut into the neck
of a dead elk for the first time. Like
me, my dad, Mike Hegyi, has never
hunted before. He’s a software engineer.
But now he’s wearing blue latex
gloves, covered in blood, as he peels
skin and fur off the animal. “It’s a lot
like getting ready for smoking ribs,” he
says. We’re in the middle of a three-day
hunting workshop in central Idaho. It’s
organized by a sportsmen’s group called
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.
A recent survey from the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service found that only
4 percent of Americans hunt, and that
number has been dropping for decades.
So Backcountry Hunters and Anglers is
hosting workshops like this across the
mountainous West in the hopes that
more young adults will begin tracking,
hunting and frying up wild game.
On Day 1, we spend hours inside a
cold yurt watching hunting videos,
learning rules and regulations and
how to track elk. On Day 2, we’re on
our hands and knees trying to butcher
one. The carcass is sprawled out on a
blue tarp in a parking lot.
My dad keeps his eyes trained on the
job at hand, but all I can do is stare at
the dead elk’s limp head lying next to
my foot. There’s a rank smell wafting up
from its neck. “It’s probably food that’s
still sitting in there, partly decomposing,”
says Eric Crawford, an instructor...
South Sudanese surgeon Dr. Evan
Atar Adaha, 52, recalls that when
he announced his decision to embark
on humanitarian aid work in 1997 amid
the civil war in Sudan, his friends told
him, “You will die if you go there. It is
too dangerous.” He went anyway —and
is still there.
Last month, Atar received the U.N.
Refugee Agency’s Nansen Refugee
Award, in recognition of his more than
20 years of providing medical care for
displaced people and refugees amid the
ongoing conflict in Sudan and South
Sudan.
Today, Atar heads the only functioning
surgical facility in South Sudan’s
Upper Nile State, serving a population
of more than 200,000, including
approximately 144,000 refugees.
Always on call, working 12-hour shifts
seven days a week, he himself does
about 12 surgeries a week and oversees
the 120-bed and two-theater facility,
which also includes a neonatal section
and tuberculosis ward. All told, he and
the staff perform about 58 surgeries
per week and also see and treat patients
from four refugee camps.
Originally from Torit in South Sudan,
Atar had studied medicine in Khartoum
and practiced in Egypt before
volunteering to do humanitarian medical
work in Kurmuk, Sudan, during the
civil war in 1997. In 2011, intense ...
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Two dimensions is just a point. We
may remember the coordinate
plane from math class with the x and
y-axes. Then there’s the third dimension,
depth (the z-axis). Another way to
look at it is latitude, longitude, and altitude,
which can locate any object on
Earth. These are followed by the fourth
dimension, space-time. Everything has
to occur somewhere and at a certain
time. After that, things get weird.
Superstring theory, one of the leading
theories today to explain the nature
of our universe, contends that there
are 10 dimensions. That’s nine of space
and one of time. Throughout the 20th
century, physicists erected a standard
model of physics. It explains pretty
well how subatomic particles behave,
along with the forces of the universe,
such as electromagnetism, the stronger
and weaker nuclear forces, and gravity.
But that last one standard physics
can’t account for.
Even so, this model has allowed us
the startling ability to peer back to the
moments just after the Big Bang took
place. Before that, scientists believe
that everything was condensed into
a single point of infinite density and
temperature, known as the singularity,
which exploded, forming everything
in the observable universe
today. But the problem is, we can’t
peer back beyond that point. That’s
where string theory comes in. The innovations
it provides can account for
gravity and help explain what existed
before the Big Bang. ...
Samaira Mehta is a 10-year-old girl
growing up in Silicon Valley who
has quietly attracted an almost cultlike
following because of her work as
a programmer. She’s the founder and
CEO of a company called CoderBunnyz
that’s earned national media recognition
and landed her speaker roles
at nearly a dozen Valley conferences
(and counting).
It all started when she was just
8 and created a board game called
CoderBunnyz to help teach other kids
how to code. She’d been coding since
she was 6. After creating the board
game, Mehta won the $2,500 secondplace
prize from Think Tank Learning’s
Pitchfest in 2016. This caught
the notice of some marketeers for
Cartoon Network who were looking to
profile inspiring young girls as real life
“Powerpuff Girls.” She was featured in
one of their videos, and things took off
from there.
Mehta was featured on some newscasts
and started selling her game on
Amazon. “We’ve sold 1,000 boxes, so
over $35,000, and it’s only been on
the market for one year,” the exuberant
and adorable Mehta told Business
Insider. It wasn’t just happenstance
promotion. When she launched the
board game, she also came up with a...
Humans have a complicated
relationship with walking. This
wasn’t always so. British paleoanthropologist
Mary Leakey identified marks
of bipedalism dating back 3.7 million
years in Tanzania —it’s an old endeavor
indeed. The story of our uprightness
was, for most of history, one of
survival and thriving. Today the tale of
our peculiar relationship to gravity is
being written much differently.
Bipedalism conferred onto us two
distinct advantages. First, it helped us
gaze longer into the landscape than
quadrupeds, who must rely on mountaintops
and trees to acquire such spatial
information. This helped us quickly
identify prey and predator, both of our
species and others. Our reaction time
increased.
Secondly, and more importantly for
this story, the ability to walk turned
us into efficient communicators. As a
social animal the extra distance offered
by bipedalism let us signal across large
expanses. Creative means of communication
developed. Walking and
creativity developed together.
Was walking considered a creative
endeavor, however? Utilitarian,
definitely. Every facet of our existence
relied on an ability to travel long
distances (as well as, in the early days
of agriculture, walk around tending to
crops). Today nomadism is romanticized,
but for millions of years it was
necessary for survival. The more sedentary
the world has become, the more...
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UC San Francisco researchers, in
collaboration with the unique
Brazilian Biobank for Aging Studies
(BBAS) at the University of São Paulo,
have shown that the earliest stages of
the brain degeneration associated with
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are linked to
neuropsychiatric symptoms including
anxiety, depression, loss of appetite,
and sleep disturbances.
The findings –published in their
final version Oct. 15, 2018, in the print
edition of the Journal of Alzheimer’s
Disease following preliminary online
publication in September– could lead
to earlier diagnosis of AD and prove a
valuable biomarker in the development
of therapies to slow the course of the
disease, the authors say, but may also
have broader implications for understanding
the biological basis of psychiatric
symptoms in older adults.
Though commonly associated with
memory loss and dementia, Alzheimer’s
disease is actually a progressive
neurodegenerative condition that can
be detected in a brain autopsy decades
before these classic cognitive symptoms
occur. A “Holy Grail” of Alzheimer's
research is to develop treatments
that could be given in the disease’s ...
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The reusing and upcycling trend
continues to gain steam in
countries all over the globe. Now,
there is a shopping mall that is full of
secondhand stores only. ReTuna, a
two-story complex in Eskilstuna, Sweden,
is located about 70 miles west of
Stockholm and offers a wide selection
of shops with upcycled, reused and
recycled goods. Sales at the mall have
quadrupled in its first three years.
ReTuna has been around since 2015,
and it was designed to tackle Sweden’s
problem of rising consumption.
It is the first mall in the world that
focuses on sustainable shopping, and
the company wants to make it easier
for people to find valuable, pre-loved
goods by putting secondhand stores
under one roof instead of consumers
having to search for thrift stores
throughout the city.
“I think it’s fun to find something
that people have used, and we can use
further,” said Cato Limas, a ReTuna
customer. “If you look at the things
they’re selling here, they’re almost
new. So actually, why bother buying
new stuff?” During their first visit to
the secondhand mall, Limas and his
girlfriend spent about $7 and came
away with a bag full of toys and keepsakes
for their newborn baby.
Nearly every item on sale is from
public donations, which are dropped
off at the mall’s drive-thru depot. ...
For more than 50 years, members
of the Kiowa Gourd Clan have
performed their annual Gourd Dance
in a public park in southwestern
Oklahoma (USA), but a new bridge
over the park forced them to come up
with a new site. With help from a local
contractor, Kiowa tribe members
built a new location for the sacred
practice: a park with a dance arena –
on tribal land.
With cries mimicking the red wolf,
red and blue blankets draped across
their shoulders and beaded moccasins
on their feet, a procession of men raise
their gourds to the sky in solidarity.
When summer rolls around each
year, the Kiowa Gourd Clan, a warrior
society belonging to the Kiowa Tribe
of Oklahoma, honors the red wolf with
song and dance.
According to their forefathers,
the red wolf gifted the tribe with a
traditional dance known as the Gourd
Dance.
But for some years, the group has
been searching for a permanent place
to carry on the sacred practice, says
Phil R. Dupoint, vice president of the
Kiowa Gourd Clan. Laws in the late
1800s ended many sacred practices
among Native American tribes, and
some of the land once used for the
traditional gatherings was confiscated
by local authorities.
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A young Siberian tigress is laid out,
awaiting an autopsy. Its emaciated
body was found under a car, missing a
forepaw. Undoubtedly, it had chewed
off its own foot after being caught in
a poacher’s trap. Unable to hunt, it
would have slowly starved to death. For
Antonio, seeing such a majestic animal
reduced to this was heartbreaking.
Siberian tigers have been hunted
almost to extinction, with barely 360
left in the wild. Despite being classified
as endangered for the past few decades,
their numbers continue to decline, as
they are hunted by poachers and their
homes are lost to deforestation. Human
disregard continues to decimate tiger populations, leaving their fate hanging
in the balance.
Antonio Olmos is a photojournalist
who has covered issues concerning
human rights, the environment and
conflict. He has worked extensively
in the Americas, the Middle East and
Africa for newspapers and magazines
as well as leading NGOs including
the World Wildlife Fund. Antonio
is represented by the Eyevine Photo
Agency and is a regular contributor to
the Guardian and the Observer. Visit:
www.antoniofernandezphoto.com
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The AIU Distance Learning Bachelor
of Science in Monitoring
and Evaluation program will be a
custom-made program, designed just
for you by you and your academic
advisor. This flexibility to meet
student needs is seldom found in
other distance learning programs.
Our online program does not require
all students to take the same subjects/
courses, use the same books, or
learning materials. Instead, the online
Bachelor’s program curriculum is
designed individually by the student
and academic advisor. It specifically
addresses individual strengths and
weaknesses with respect to market
opportunities in the student’s
major and intended field of work.
Understanding that industry and
geographic factors should influence
the content of the curriculum instead
of a standardized one-fits-all design
is the hallmark of AIU’s unique
approach to adult education. This
philosophy address the dynamic and
constantly changing environment
of working professionals by helping
adult students in reaching their
professional and personal goals
within the scope of the degree program.
Atlantic International University is accredited by the Accreditation Service for International
Schools, Colleges and Universities (ASIC). ASIC Accreditation is an internationally
renowned quality standard for colleges and universities. Visit ASIC’s Directory of Accredited
Colleges and Universities. ASIC is a member of CHEA International Quality Group
(CIQG) in the USA, an approved accreditation body by the Ministerial Department of the Home Office
in the UK, and is listed in the International Directory of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation
(CHEA). The University is based in the United States and was established by corporate charter in 1998.
In some cases, accredited colleges
may not accept for transfer courses and degrees
completed at unaccredited colleges, and some
employers may require an accredited degree as
a basis for eligibility for employment. Potential
students should consider how the above may affect
their interests, AIU respects the unique rules and
regulations of each country and does not seek to
influence the respective authorities. In the event
that a prospective student wishes to carry out any
government review or process in regards to his
university degree, we recommend that the requirements
of such are explored in detail with the relevant
authorities by the prospective student as the
university does not intervene in such processes.
AIU students can be found in over 180 countries,
they actively participate and volunteer
in their communities as part of their academic
program and have allocated thousands of service
hours to diverse causes and initiatives. AIU
programs follow the standards commonly used by
colleges and universities in the United States with
regards to the following: academic program
structure, degree issued, transcript, and
other graduation documents.
AIU graduation documents can include
an apostille and authentication from the
US Department of State to facilitate their
use internationally.
The School of Business and Economics
allows aspiring and practicing
professionals, managers, and entrepreneurs
in the private and public sectors
to complete a self paced distance
learning degree program of the highest
academic standard.
The ultimate goal is to empower
learners and help them take advantage
of the enormous array of resources
from the world environment in order
to eliminate the current continuum of
poverty and limitations.
Degree programs are designed for
those students whose professional experience has been in business,
marketing, administration, economics,
finance and management.
The School of Social and Human Studies
is focused on to the development of
studies which instill a core commitment
to building a society based on social and
economic justice and enhancing opportunities
for human well being.
The founding principles lie on the
basic right of education as outlined
in the Declaration of Human Rights.
We instill in our students a sense of
confidence and self reliance in their
ability to access the vast opportunities
available through information channels,
the world wide web, private, public,
nonprofit, and nongovernmental organizations in an ever expanding
global community.
Degree programs are aimed towards
those whose professional life has been
related to social and human behavior,
with the arts, or with cultural studies.
The School of Science and Engineering
seeks to provide dynamic, integrated,
and challenging degree programs
designed for those whose experience
is in industrial research, scientific production,
engineering and the general
sciences. Our system for research and
education will keep us apace with the
twenty-first century reach scientific
advance in an environmentally and
ecologically responsible manner to allow
for the sustainability of the human
population. We will foster among our
students a demand for ethical behavior,
an appreciation for diversity, an understanding
of scientific investigation,
With access to a global catalog created and maintained collectively by more than
9,000 participating institutions, AIU students have secured excellent research
tools for their study programs.
