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Purdue University General Institutional Description, Purdue University Office Of Research

University General Facility Boilerplate Descriptions

Overview of Purdue University mission, statistics, and key cross-campus infrastructure.

Rosen Center For Advanced Computing: Facilities, Equipment, And Resources, X Carol Song, Purdue University Office Of Research

University General Facility Boilerplate Descriptions

Overview of RCAC as the research computing arm of Information Technology at Purdue. Describes technical support services as well as collaboration resources in software development, integration, and hosting.

Research Worksheet, Wlura Adjudication Committee

WLURA Documents

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Library Publishing Curriculum Content Module: Working With Multimodal Content (Unit 6), Instructor's Guide, Peter Berkery, Meredith Babb, Jasmine Mulliken, Friederike Sundaram, Dennis Lloyd, Mary Rose Muccie, Brenna Mclaughlin

Library Publishing Curriculum

Sometimes a text-based format will not serve an author’s need –time for a more unique presentation! When does material and research require a multi-modal product? How do you help the author create the final product, be it a database, a video, an interactive work, a website, or an online course? What kinds of files can you accept, publish, and preserve? What material requires any kind of review, and how is that review validated? Who will maintain the site and who gets credit for the creation? Do you have access to a digital humanities center or humanities librarian, and if so …

Separate And Unequal?: The Problematic Segregation Of Special Populations In Charter Schools Relative To Traditional Public Schools, Julian Vasquez Heilig

Julian Vasquez Heilig

The extent to which special student populations (ELL, Special Education and Economically Disadvantaged) gain access to charter schools is understudied. In this article we compare the enrollment of high-need special populations in charter schools with non-charter public schools at the state, district, and local levels. State-level dissimilarity analyses show only modest disparities in segregation and access of high-need students within the Texas charter system compared to traditional public schools. However, local-level descriptive and geospatial analyses of charters in a large metropolitan area shows that there are large disparities in the enrollment of high-need students relative to traditional public schools nearby. …

Latif V. Obama: The Epistemology Of Intelligence Information And Legal Evidence, Richard O. Morgan

Richard O. Morgan

The process used by the Intelligence Community to collection information concedes a degree of truth-finding efficacy in order to serve other social values and policy considerations. As a result, the use of information derived from the “intelligence cycle” as evidence in judicial proceedings creates conceptual and procedural challenges. For example, the need to quickly and widely disseminate intelligence information across vast geographic spaces results in the Intelligence Community relying heavily on written communication. As a consequence, degrees of uncertainty or reliability may be distilled into written caveats within intelligence reports, with an attendant loss of subtlety. In contrast, judicial trials …

Mapping, Modeling, And The Fragmentation Of Environmental Law, David R. Owen

David R Owen

In the past forty years, environmental researchers have achieved major advances in electronic mapping and spatially explicit, computer-based simulation modeling. Those advances have turned quantitative spatial analysis—that is, quantitative analysis of data coded to specific geographic locations—into one of the primary modes of environmental research. Researchers now routinely use spatial analysis to explore environmental trends, diagnose problems, discover causal relationships, predict possible futures, and test policy options. At a more fundamental level, these technologies and an associated field of theory are transforming how researchers conceptualize environmental systems. Advances in spatial analysis have had modest impacts upon the practice of environmental …

The Limitations And Admissibility Of Using Historical Cellular Site Data To Track The Location Of A Cellular Phone, Aaron M. Blank

Aaron M Blank

The Limitations and Admissibility of using Historical Cellular Site Data to Track the Location of a Cellular Phone

by Aaron Blank

Imagine a crime has just been committed. Shortly thereafter, law enforcement responds and quickly apprehends a suspect close by. Combining this with testimony or physical evidence may provide enough to obtain a conviction. Now imagine a longer, more complex investigation where a suspect is neither identified nor apprehended for days, weeks, or even months until after the crime. Law enforcement gathers some evidence but it is not enough for a conviction. If the prosecution can place the suspect in …