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A Review Of Baobab (Adansonia Digitata) Products: Effect Of Processing Techniques, Medicinal Properties And Uses, Donatien Kabore, Hagrétou Sawadogo-Lingani, Bréhima Diawara, Clarise Compaoré, Mamoudou H. Dicko Prof., Mogens Jacobsen

Pr. Mamoudou H. DICKO, PhD

A general literature review including the effect of processing techniques, medicinal value and uses of baobab tree is reported in this manuscript. Baobab tree has multi-purpose uses, as it produces food and non-food products such as medicines, fuel, timber, fodder. Every part of the baobab tree is reported to be useful. The seeds, leaves, roots, flowers, fruit pulp and bark of baobab are edible. Baobab leaves are used in the preparation of soup. Seeds are used as a thickening agent in soups, but they can be fermented and used as a flavouring agent or roasted and eaten as snacks. The …

Acuta Enews December 2011, Vol 40, No. 12

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Nominate a Colleague for ACUTA Ruth A. Michalecki Leadership Award

From ACUTA Headquarters: What's New?................ Corinne Hoch, Executive Director

Coping with the Next Ethernet, IEEE 802.3ba ......Gary Audin, Delphi, lnc.

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Helping Young Professionals Get Professional Development....... Jana McDonald, Texas A&M

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Member Benefit of the Month: Free Webinars

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Board Report......... Riny Ledgerwood, SDSU

Thanks to our 201 1 Exhibitors

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Graduate Faculty Workloads: Recognizing Scholarship And Student Engagement At The Comprehensive Institution, Mark Doggett

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Toward A Technology Management Core: Defining What The Technology Manager Needs To Know, Mark Doggett, Pam Mcgee, Sophia Scott

Mark Doggett

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Acuta Enews November 2011, Vol 40, No. 11

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From the President: Higher Ed lT services Trending ......Joe Harrington, Boston College

Testing EAS System Nationwide

lnstitutional Excellence Award 2012: Dead time November 11

Nominate Now for 2012-2013 Board of Directors

FREE ACUTA Webinar: DAS Deployment, Options, Contracts, and Regulation

Cellular signal Boosters............ J.G. Harrington, Dow Lohnes, PLLC

Cell Phone Recycling.................Chris lrion, e-Cycle

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Committee Corner

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Board Report.......... Riny Ledgewood, SDSU

Member Benefit of the Month: Member Logos

Thanks to Exhibitors and Sponsors at Fall Seminar

A University in your pocket: Education and Mobile Devices …

Rethinking Advising: Developing A Proactive Culture To Improve Retention, Amber Settle, John Glatz

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Acuta Enews October 2011, Vol 40, No. 10

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Nominate Now for 2012-2013 Board of Directors

Corinne Hoch Named Executive Director

Define Your Expectations to Vendors ......Ron Walczak, Walczak Technology Consultants

Additional Guidance on Taxation of Employer-Provided Cell Phones.......Michael Hepburn, Dow Lohnes

Institutional Excellence Award 2012

From ACUTA Headquarters: Looking Back to the Future.......... Corinne Hoch, Executive Director

Board Report.......... Riny Ledgerwood, SDSU

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Documenting the Worth of an lT Degree

Member Benefit of the Month: ACUTA Community

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Acuta Enews September 2011, Vol 40, No. 9

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Hurricane lrene Takes Top Priority for Some

From the President: ACUTA: A Career Development Program Joe Harrington, Boston College

To Attract Top lT Talent, Understand Graduates' Needs

You Don't Have to Be Young to Be "Young"............. Emily Harris, Vassar College

Add Names from Your Campus to Your ACUTA Roster

Freed-Hardeman Students Develop iPhone App

Announcing member Benefit of the Month

lnfo Links ..........Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern lowa

Retirement

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ACUTA Fall Seminar in Boston

ACUTA Webinar: Transitioning to lPv6 on Your Campus

Board Report..................Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego state univ

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Acuta Enews August 2011, Vol 40, No. 8

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From ACUTA Headquarters.......... Corinne Hoch, lnterim Executive Director

Hosted/Cloud Provider Checklist .Gary Audin, Delphi, lnc.

ACUTA Webinar: Transitioning to lPv6 on Your Campus

Connecting in the Digital Age............. . Buck Bayliff, PCR

Campus Tech a Top Factor in College Selection and Perceived Career Success

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Acuta Enews July 2011, Vol 40, No. 7

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From the President: The "T" in ACUTA....... Joe Harrington, Boston College

Second Dues lnvoices Mailed

The Daily Grind: What's on Your Desk Today?.......... Mona Brennan-Cotes, Univ. of Western Ontario

Calling All Young Professionals Amy Burton, ACUTA Mgr., Membership Mkt. & Corp. Relations

"The Future of Voice Communications": Winter Journal Looking for Articles

Board Report..................Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ.

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Good Question on the ACUTA Listserv

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Disaster Recovery Requires Lots of What-lfs.................... Gary Audin, Delphi, lnc.

ACUTA Fall Seminar in Boston

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Acuta Enews June 2011, Vol 40, No. 6

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From ACUTA Headquarters........ Corinne Hoch, lnterim Executive Director

Voice and Data Networks Weather the Storms at Sewanee.......Jeanne Jansenius, Univ. of the South

Announcing New ACUTA Online forums

CUPA Salary Survey Results

From the ACUTA Community Listserv: VolP lssues

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Board Report......... Riny Ledgerwad, SDSU

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Come to Baltimore! Emerging ICT Technologies, Funding ICT Services, and more

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Rfid Classroom Management System, Andrew W. Wright

Master's Theses

Professors who manage large classes are unrealistically expected to grade each student fairly and accurately. Even with all of the technological advancements that have occurred in the past thirty years, very little progress has been made in classroom management, and as a result, professors are not equipped with enough tools to successfully manage large class sizes. Because radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is making its way into student issued identification cards, there is an opportunity to use it as a tool to aid professors in the classroom. The focus of this paper is to discover the most effective system that …

Antimicrobial And Antioxidant Activities Of Essential Oil And Methanol Extract Of Matricaria Chamomilla L. From Djibouti, Fatouma M. Abdoul-Latif, Mohamed Nabil, Prosper Edou, Adwa A. Ali, Samatar O. Djama, Louis-Clément Obamé, Mamoudou H. Dicko Prof.

Pr. Mamoudou H. DICKO, PhD

The essential oil and methanol extracts of Matricaria Chamomilla L. were subjected to screening for their possible antioxidant activity by two complementary test systems, namely 2,2-diphenykpicrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging and β-carotene-linoleic acid assays. BHT was used as positive control in both test systems. In the DPPH test system, the IC50 values of essential oil and methanol extracts were 4.18 and 1.83 μg/ml, respectively. In the β-carotene-linoleic acid system, oxidation was effectively inhibited by M. Chamomilla, the RAA value of essential oil and methanol extracts were 12.69 and 11.37 %, respectively. When compared to BHT, the essential oil and methanol …

Acuta Enews May 2011, Vol 40, No. 5

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Corinne Hoch Appointed lnterim Executive Director

From the President: Priorities for 2011-2012 ..............Joe Harrington, Boston College

Donations in memory of Jeri Semer

ACUTA: Getting Personal............................ Jeffry Handat, LSU

View 8 Sessions from the Annual Conference at Your Desktop

Why ACUTA Remains Vital

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Annual Dues lnvoices Mailed May 2

The Daily Grind: What's on Your Desk Today? ....., Jeanne Jansenius, Sewanee, University of the South

Board Report........ George Denbow, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Another Great conference, More Terrific Prizes!

Thanks to Exhibiton and Sponsors at Annual …

Acuta Enews April 2011 Vol. 40, No. 4

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Remembering Jeri Semer

From the President: 2010-2011 in Review............... Matt Arthur, Washington University in St. Louis

ResNet Tips............ Charles Brody, Apogee

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The Daily Grind: What's on Your Desk Today?......... Riny Ledgerwood, SDSU

Board Report......... George Denbow, Univ. Texas, Austin

When Did We Last Try This?... ..............Gary Audin, Delphi Inc.

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Evaluation System Design And Academic Performance Analysis Using Clustering And Simulation, Volkan Cakir

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

The starting point of this study was to understand the possible causes of evaluation system change in a military academic environment. With that motivation the objectives of this study were defined as examining student profiles in a military academy, establishing the nature of academic performance, comparing student groups that were identified by course scores, analyzing student performance changes over time and developing a manageable evaluation system and curriculum by comparing different scenarios.

An analysis was performed on the literature on academic performance prediction, cluster analysis methodologies and their development, and specifically summarized cluster analytic academic performance studies where these two …

Acuta Enews March 2011 Vol. 40, No. 3

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Meet the Board for 2011-12

Tech Talk: Take Two Tablets and Catt Me in the Morning.......... Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR

Free Webinars Coming Soon to ACUTA

Learn More about UC, Voice Trends, the Cloud, and More from Your Desktop

From ACUTA Headquarters: Member Years of Service ,Jeri A. Semer, CAE, Executive Dir

Board Report......... George Denbow, univ. of Texas, Austin

New to ICT or Not, ACUTA Members Are All Busy!........... Young Professionals Subcommittee

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Acuta Enews February 2011 Vol. 40, No. 2

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From the President........Matt Arthur, Washington Univ. in St. Louis, ACUTA President

Security Snapshot: Texas A&M

Tech Talk: Maybe They Should Call it Copper Peak................... Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR

Important lssues on Campus Today

Handling Air Travel Frustrations

lT's Funny.............Cartoon Resource

Lightning Round: New at the Conference

Webinar: The Future of the PBX in a University Environment

Learn More about UC, Voice Trends, the Cloud, and More from Your Desktop

Board Report....... George Denbow, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Thanks to Journal Advertisers for 2010

Thanks to Exhibitors and Sponsors at Winter Seminar

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Biodepollution Of Wastewater Containing Phenolic Compounds From Leather Industry By Plant Peroxidases, Mamounata Diao, Nafissetou Ouedraogo, Lamine Baba-Moussa, Paul W. Savadogo, Georges N'Guessan Amani, Mamoudou H. Dicko Prof.

Pr. Mamoudou H. DICKO, PhD

This study deals with the use of peroxidases (POXs) from Allium sativum, Ipomoea batatas, Raphanus sativus and Sorghum bicolor to catalyze the degradation of free phenolic compounds as well as phenolic compounds contained in wastewater from leather industry. Secretory plant POXs were able to catalyze the oxidation of gallic acid, ferulic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid, pyrogallol and 1,4-tyrosol prepared in ethanol 2% (v:v). Efficiency of peroxidase catalysis depends strongly on the chemical nature of phenolic substrates and on the botanical source of the enzymes. It appeared that POX from Raphanus sativus had the highest efficiency. Results show that POXs can also …

Toward A Technology Management Core: Defining What The Technology Manager Needs To Know, Mark Doggett, Pam Mcgee, Sophia Scott

SEAS Faculty Publications

With the increasing demands on organizations to do “more with less,” and produce acceptable market results, productivity and performance standards continually raise the expectations on competitive success. To meet these expectations, organizations should create learning opportunities that combine the application of technical management skills along with the softer skills involved in people management. Technical managers with little training or past experience with nontechnical skills often perform poorly in technical management positions (Kroecker, 2007). Because this generation lives in a highly technical environment, managers need to be proficient in dealing with knowledge workers and systems; therefore, there is a growing emphasis …

Acuta Enews January 2011 Vol. 40, No. 1

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Board approves slate of nominees

From ACUTA headquaters: rebalancing IT for the future.......... Jeri A. Semer, CAE, Executive Dir.

Nominate now for ACUTA Ruth A. Michalecki Leadership Award

Tech Talk: doing more with less, but in a good way........ Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR

Washington Update Newsletter

Video Surveillance Technology........ Ron Walczak, RCDD, Walczak Techology Consultants

Forensic Tools: keeping up with the bad guys.......... Gary Audin, Delphi, Inc.

Board Report.............. George Denbow, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Thanks to Event Sponsors for 2010

ACUTA 2011 Event Calender

Info links......... Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern Iowa

Welcome New Members

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Understanding Student Pathways In Context-Rich Problems, Pavlo Antonenko, John Jackman, Piyamart Kumsaikaew, Rahul Marathe, Dale Niederhauser, Craig Ogilvie, Sarah Ryan

Sarah M. Ryan

In this paper we investigate the ways that students' problem-solving behaviors evolve when solving multi-faceted, context-rich problems within a structured, computer-based learning environment. During the semester, groups of two or three students worked on several problems that required drawing on more than one concept and, hence, could not be readily solved with simple "plug-and-chug" strategies. The problems were presented to students in a data-rich, online problem-solving environment that tracked which information items were selected by students as they attempted to solve the problem. The students also completed a variety of tasks, like entering an initial qualitative analysis into an online …

An Occupational Analysis Of Prepress In The Des Moines And Eastern Iowa Regions, Lee John Geisinger

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

It is important that educators use a relevant, up-to-date curriculum when educating on a specific occupation. Job task analysis is an effective way for educators to understand an occupation and provide students with valuable information. This study analyzed prepress technicians' duties and tasks.

This research used the occupational analysis method called the DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process. The DACUM process uses an expert worker panel to identify the duties and tasks of an occupation. This study found that there are 9 duties and 55 tasks for a prepress technician. After identifying the duties and tasks, the study confirmed those duties …