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A printed copy of an article titled "Army chaplain credited with inventing basketball," published by the Department of Defense through their defense.gov website. The article was published on March 26, 2015 and was written by Mark W. Johnson. It details James A. Naismith's work as an army chaplain in the Kansas Army National Guard and his work in France during World War I. ; James A. Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939), known as "The Father of Basketball" was born in Almonte, Ontario. When he was nine, both of his parents died of typhoid fever and he was raised by his uncle, who later financed Naismith's way through college. He earned his theological degree from McGill University and graduated from Springfield College, then the YMCA Training School, in 1891. After graduation, he was hired as a faculty member, where he taught for five years. It is in his first year as a faculty member at Springfield College that he created the game of Basketball as an activity for an unruly class. In 1895, Naismith enrolled at the Gross Medical School in Denver and received his M.D. in 1898. In that same year, Naismith took the position of department head of physical education at the University of Kansas, where he remained until his death.

Johnson reviews CENTRAL ASIA: Aspects of Transition edited by Tom Everett-Health.

Numerous studies have called attention to the importance of rhetoric inscientific writing by focusing on arguments presented in scientific debate articles. In contrast, citation analysis studies indicate that empirical research articles are generally nonconfrontational in criticizing the work of other researchers. How do empirical research reports establish opposing perspectives to argue against? One rhetoricalstrategy is to be 'interesting', which, according to Davis (1971), is the author's attempt to contradict a taken-for-granted assumption of the reader. Scholars in management, marketing, and consumer research have also cited Davis' conception of 'interestingness' as a characteristic of research that is more influential and intellectually creative. This article presents textual evidence from a volume of the Journal of Consumer Research demonstrating that a majority of researcher-authors of these articles use 'interestingness' as a rhetorical framing device in the abstracts, introductions, and concluding sections of empirical articles. However, an analysis of article citations and references suggests that these 'interesting' articles are neither more influential nor more innovative than other articles in the same volume.

The attempts to reform the Russian education system since the fall of communism have had very uneven results. (… The authors research has lead him) to conclude that both Russian reformers and their international allies miscalculated the degree to which professional activism or a nascent "civil society" would compensate for the loss of state or public administration and financing after 1991. Assuming that the end of "totalitarian" education would result in a flourishing of grass-roots "innovation", reformers failed to anticipate the deepening financial and administrative crises in post communist education. These severe crises, mitigated only in part by Western assistance, have resulted in the sharp degradation of the public education systems and human resource capacities in Russia and the other newly independent states, and directly threaten the future of democratic and market reform. It seems that both many Russian reformers and their Western allies were guided more by idealized Western models than by an accurate sense of Russian needs and capacities. (… The authors) conclusions are that international assistance should be focused more directly on helping to foster new professional networks that can better defend and retrain educators and teachers; and also that we must better combine general educational research with area studies knowledge to inform our cooperative efforts. (DIPF/ Orig.)