Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

PDF

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Conference

Discipline
Keyword
Publication Year

Articles 1 - 30 of 83

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Developing A Technological Garment To Aid Those With Anxiety Disorder, Katherine N. Boedecker Nov 2017

Developing A Technological Garment To Aid Those With Anxiety Disorder, Katherine N. Boedecker

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The purpose of this research was to develop a technological garment for patients in behavioral health hospitals with anxiety disorder.


Problems In Embalming: Cyanide Poisoning, Rebecca Majus Nov 2017

Problems In Embalming: Cyanide Poisoning, Rebecca Majus

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

To inform funeral professionals, or anyone interested, what cyanide poisoning is, how death from it occurs, how to detect it in postmortem remains, how it poses a problem for embalmers, and what embalming techniques can be used to treat it.


Building The Ascend Siu Web Application, Lee Cooper, Cody Lingle, Ren Jing, Hallie Martin, Matt Gross, Nancy Martin Nov 2017

Building The Ascend Siu Web Application, Lee Cooper, Cody Lingle, Ren Jing, Hallie Martin, Matt Gross, Nancy Martin

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This poster represents a year-long web application development project completed by undergraduate students in the Information Systems Technologies department at Southern Illinois University. The web application was developed for the Ascend registered student organization using Agile Scrum software engineering methods.


Fashion Technology Forecasting: From Now To Future, Seung-Hee Lee, Yuli Liang Nov 2017

Fashion Technology Forecasting: From Now To Future, Seung-Hee Lee, Yuli Liang

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The purposes of this research were to further investigate how fashion has been driven by technology and to provide how fashion technology will be moving forward in the future.


Standing Out From The Affordable Luxury Brands: Can Coach Be The Next Lvmh?, Yuli Liang, Seung-Hee Lee Nov 2017

Standing Out From The Affordable Luxury Brands: Can Coach Be The Next Lvmh?, Yuli Liang, Seung-Hee Lee

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This exploratory research intends to study the improvement procedure for Coach and provide justification why and how Coach could be further developed.


Reengineering A 2-Tier Database Application With Software Architecture, Hong G. Jung Nov 2017

Reengineering A 2-Tier Database Application With Software Architecture, Hong G. Jung

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The purpose of this research is to demonstrate how to reengineer a legacy Database Application using to a target system with MVC and 3-layered architecture. A Coffee Inventory Management database application is used for legacy application. The benefits of the reengineering are discussed.


The Dark Side Of Counterfeit Luxury Goods, Carissa Teal, Seung-Hee Lee Nov 2017

The Dark Side Of Counterfeit Luxury Goods, Carissa Teal, Seung-Hee Lee

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The purposes of this research were to examine prevalence of fashion luxury counterfeit products online, and investigate negative aspects of counterfeit product consumption.


Dermatomyositis, Sandi Watts Nov 2017

Dermatomyositis, Sandi Watts

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Dermatomyositis is a rare disease which affects the skin and muscles. This disease can manifest in children or not present until one is older. Since this disease is so rare, most individuals who are diagnosed with it will have a team of physicians who work together to help treat the patient.


Personalization, Territory, And The Refugee Housing Crisis, Emmalie Grace Hall-Skank Nov 2017

Personalization, Territory, And The Refugee Housing Crisis, Emmalie Grace Hall-Skank

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This poster will present preliminary evidence of the need for facilitating greater ease and/or ability with respect to personalization activities in migrant and refugee housing and suggest opportunities for design intervention. Connections will be made to territoriality and how humans claim space by means of visual cues.


Employee Recruitment And Retention In Rural Emergency Medicine: Why Is Turnover So High And How Do We Change It?, Sarah Hepper Nov 2017

Employee Recruitment And Retention In Rural Emergency Medicine: Why Is Turnover So High And How Do We Change It?, Sarah Hepper

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The focus of this research is majorly based upon literature review. From the collected data in the referenced articles, comparisons are made to determine the best options for employee recruitment and retention in rural emergency medicine facilities; changing turnover rates is the ultimate goal.


Are Funeral Homes Nickel And Diming The Consumer To Death?, Anthony Fleege, Brian R. Powell Nov 2017

Are Funeral Homes Nickel And Diming The Consumer To Death?, Anthony Fleege, Brian R. Powell

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Funeral prices vary greatly across the United States. Even in the same community prices can vary by hundreds or thousands of dollars for the same services. Based on existing data and from surveying funeral homes in all fifty states, we are trying to determine if the public is getting nickel and dimed to death by unnecessary or over -inflated prices.


Software Reengineering: Reverse Engineering With Using 4+1 Architectural Views And Forward Engineering With Mvc Architecture, Shane Mueller Nov 2017

Software Reengineering: Reverse Engineering With Using 4+1 Architectural Views And Forward Engineering With Mvc Architecture, Shane Mueller

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

As software complexity is increasing exponentially in our modern era, software architecture becomes increasingly important. The separation of concerns through architecture allows each programmer the opportunity to limit their need of understanding to only the portion of code for which they are responsible for, thus saving large amounts of time.


A Case Study Of Applying Node.Js In Basic Drone Programming And Web Development, Jeremy Kim, Alireza Khamesipour, Charith Atapattu, Mahdi Moradi, Abdallah Jameel Al-Khayri Nov 2017

A Case Study Of Applying Node.Js In Basic Drone Programming And Web Development, Jeremy Kim, Alireza Khamesipour, Charith Atapattu, Mahdi Moradi, Abdallah Jameel Al-Khayri

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

In this research, we first seek to determine if basic drone programming can give insight to learning Node.js and be applied to web development through using Node.js and the Drone. Second, we seek how drone programming can help student recruitment by using a showcase.


Southern Illinois: An Analysis Of Opioid Prevention Strategies, Brittany Clemmons, Brooke Griffin Nov 2017

Southern Illinois: An Analysis Of Opioid Prevention Strategies, Brittany Clemmons, Brooke Griffin

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This research analyzes the opioid epidemic in Southern Illinois and evaluates the effectiveness of current prevention and intervention programs.


2017 Robinson Engine Design, Christian Klem, Alli Giblin, James Gross Nov 2017

2017 Robinson Engine Design, Christian Klem, Alli Giblin, James Gross

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The Robinson-Malibu patent is an engine design theory that will reduce emissions, increase MPGs and performance.


Radiation Therapy And Patient Fear, Robert C. Rados, Katelyn Sternberg Nov 2017

Radiation Therapy And Patient Fear, Robert C. Rados, Katelyn Sternberg

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Radiation therapy and the fears that patients may experience.


Health Care Management, Mortuary Science, And Millennials, Robert C. Rados, Anthony T. Fleege, Abel Salazar Nov 2017

Health Care Management, Mortuary Science, And Millennials, Robert C. Rados, Anthony T. Fleege, Abel Salazar

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This research proposal focuses on conducting survey research, to gather current information from representatives of hospice, mortuary science/funeral homes, and millennials, to determine current questions of alignment regarding changing traditions and differences in death attitudes.


Marketing A Masters Of Healthcare Informatics (Mhi) Degree Program, Robert C. Rados, Brittany Clemmons, Ladeja Dean, Brooke Griffin, Azideen Hajissa Nov 2017

Marketing A Masters Of Healthcare Informatics (Mhi) Degree Program, Robert C. Rados, Brittany Clemmons, Ladeja Dean, Brooke Griffin, Azideen Hajissa

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This proposal for survey research, is intended include Health Care Management student researchers, to gather information to better identify potential MHI students, and utilize specialized techniques and electronic methods to promote student enrollment.


Memory Care Residents And Indoor Ecotherapy, Robert C. Rados, Jun Kim Nov 2017

Memory Care Residents And Indoor Ecotherapy, Robert C. Rados, Jun Kim

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The positive benefits of this study support the use of “indoor ecotherapy” as an intervention, and as an alternative to use of medications, for resident residing in a memory care facility.


Evidence-Based Devops For Continuous Collaboration, Process, And Delivery, Weon S. Chung Nov 2017

Evidence-Based Devops For Continuous Collaboration, Process, And Delivery, Weon S. Chung

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The purpose of this research is to propose Evidence-Based DevOps and to demonstrate its application to software reengineering. For this purpose, we borrow an approach from Medicine, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), and apply it to DevOps. Evidence-Based DevOps supports continuous collaboration, process, and deployment within or across diverse teams.


Perspectives Of Executives And Students On Leadership Characteristics For Healthcare Managers: Does A Gap Exist?, Marcea Walter Nov 2017

Perspectives Of Executives And Students On Leadership Characteristics For Healthcare Managers: Does A Gap Exist?, Marcea Walter

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Preparing healthcare managers for the complexity of the healthcare industry poses a heavy challenge on healthcare organizations, CEOs, managers, and educational institutions. In order to ensure that future healthcare managers are prepared to enter the workforce, it is important that the characteristics and skills deemed important by current CEOs in the field are similar to those of undergraduate healthcare management students that will be entering the workforce.


Performance Results Of Using Waste Vegetable Oil Based Biodiesel Fuel In A Turboshaft Gas Turbine Engine, Donald Bartlett 5218591, Blaine M. Heisner Nov 2017

Performance Results Of Using Waste Vegetable Oil Based Biodiesel Fuel In A Turboshaft Gas Turbine Engine, Donald Bartlett 5218591, Blaine M. Heisner

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The purpose of this research is to record and compare the operating parameters of a turboshaft gas turbine engine using two different blends of biodiesel fuel and the standard Jet A fuel.


Machine Intelligence And Higher Education, Andy Wang Nov 2017

Machine Intelligence And Higher Education, Andy Wang

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

What will Applied Sciences and Arts curriculum look like at the end of the 21st century? How are we going to teach 50 years later? What impact and implication of machine intelligence to higher education?


Elements Of A Successful Distance Education Program: One Example, Kevin S. Collins Nov 2017

Elements Of A Successful Distance Education Program: One Example, Kevin S. Collins

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The purpose of this presentation is to list the technology requirements of a successful distance education program. Benefits of offering a distance education program will also be shared.


What Happens To Nox Emissions Of Vw Diesel Cars When Water/Methanol Injection Is Used?, Andrew Croxell Nov 2017

What Happens To Nox Emissions Of Vw Diesel Cars When Water/Methanol Injection Is Used?, Andrew Croxell

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Volkswagen has come under fire for their "Clean Diesel" automobiles that were found to emit too much NOx (Oxides of Nitrogen) when driven on the street. Since NOx is created by high temperature combustion events, the addition of a water/methanol injection system was tested on a VW diesel vehicle to identify if it could cool combustion temperatures and thus reduce NOx to an acceptable specification.


Advanced Multi-Speed Transmissions And Their Effect On Fuel Economy, Durability And Reliability, Sean Boyle Nov 2017

Advanced Multi-Speed Transmissions And Their Effect On Fuel Economy, Durability And Reliability, Sean Boyle

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

In a challenge to meet the high corporate average fuel economy (CAFE), manufacturers are using transmissions with 8, 9, and 10 speeds. This oral presentation addresses vehicle fuel economy impact with advanced multi-speed transmissions and also forecasts the reliability and durability when compared to a conventional 5 and 6-speed transmission.


Progress Towards An Opposed Piston Two Stroke Gasoline Aviation Engine, Donald R. Morris Nov 2017

Progress Towards An Opposed Piston Two Stroke Gasoline Aviation Engine, Donald R. Morris

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Opposed Piston Engine Technology is not new, but its application to small two-stroke gasoline engines is unexplored. This presentation explores the potential advantages of such an engine as well as progress towards a workable design.


On Demand Streaming Video In Self Paced Lab Environments, Donald R. Morris Nov 2017

On Demand Streaming Video In Self Paced Lab Environments, Donald R. Morris

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This is a quasi-experimental study which investigates the effectiveness of streaming video as an educational medium in self-paced lab environments. This study investigates student mastery of the subject as well as student attitudes and perceptions towards their performance and the usefulness of streaming video as an educational tool.


Siuc Green Fund Research Project: Using Waste Motor Oil As Diesel Fuel, Blaine M. Heisner, Dustin C. Nance, Tyler Frascone Nov 2017

Siuc Green Fund Research Project: Using Waste Motor Oil As Diesel Fuel, Blaine M. Heisner, Dustin C. Nance, Tyler Frascone

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

An update of the ongoing research project to validate the repurposing of waste motor oil into diesel fuel. This research was sponsored by the SIUC Green Fund. This project will benefit the University by: reducing WMO disposal fees, reducing diesel fuel costs, encouraging student participation, promoting alternative fuel research, reducing the SIUC carbon footprint, and generating credit hours for the University.


2fly With Rpi - Evaluating The Raspberry Pi For Glass Cockpit Applications, Donald R. Morris Nov 2017

2fly With Rpi - Evaluating The Raspberry Pi For Glass Cockpit Applications, Donald R. Morris

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Evaluating the capabilities of Raspberry Pi computers to be used in embedded glass cockpit applications for experimental aircraft. This includes details of what is required for these applications as well as how well the Raspberry Pi 3B can perform in this role.