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Progression Magazine, 2019 Fall/Winter, Coastal Carolina University

Progression Magazine

Magazine of the College of Science at Coastal Carolina University.

Foreword To Relativizing Newton, Vernon L. Smith

Economics Faculty Books and Book Chapters

A foreword to Ramzi Suleiman's book Relativizing Newton.

6th Annual Sustainability Report, Saint Mary's College Of California

Sustainability Report

Highlights from the past year include reviving the Sustainability Living Learning Community in South Claeys (formerly called the “Green LLC”) with double the anticipated enrollment, representing Saint Mary's at Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Training in Minneapolis, and launching several new paid Sustainability Student Leadership positions.

Internet Of Texas Water Data: Use Cases For Flood, Drought, And Surface Water –Groundwater Interaction, Rudolph A. Rosen, Robert E. Mace

Water Resources Science and Technology Book and E-Book Publications and Reports

Texas’ public and private companies, organizations, and agencies have collected water data for different purposes and at different scales for many years. These data are scattered across multiple platforms with different standards, often making important data sets inaccessible or incompatible. This leaves Texas’ decision makers, industries, landowners, and communities with significant amounts of data of limited use to support real-time decision making, development of opportunities for water security, or for modeling an accurate picture of Texas’ water future. On April 17, 2018, the Connecting Texas Water Data Workshop brought together experts representative of Texas’ water sectors to engage in the …

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, October 2019, University Of Northern Iowa. Iowa Waste Reduction Center.

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

--- Bolick Named IWRC Director
--- EPA Includes Aerosol Cans in Universal Wastes
--- Iowa EASYAir System Now Available
--- 2020-2021 Recordkeeping Compliance Calendars for Dry Cleaners
--- 2020-2021 Compliance Calendar/Logbook for Bulk Gasoline Plants
--- Industry News

Chemical Process Development, University Of North Dakota. Energy And Environmental Research Center

EERC Brochures and Fact Sheets

Fact sheet on the Energy & Environmental Research Center’s (EERC’s) chemical process development capabilities, facilities and equipment, and history.

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter, November 2019, University Of Northern Iowa. Iowa Waste Reduction Center.

Iowa Waste Reduction Center Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

--- IWRC Welcomes Two More Students to the Staff
--- Meet Dre Presswood
--- Meet Maritza Salinas
--- Iowa DNR's New EASY Air System
--- Painter Training Program Featured in UNI Business Magazine
--- Industry News

2019 Celebration Of Scholarship, Creativity, And Engagement, Beth Heldebrandt, Todd Bruns, Seth Yeakel, Matthew Eifrid

Programs

Scholarship, creativity, innovation, and the many forms of collaborative engagement that shape faculty life and student learning are central to the mission of Eastern Illinois University. For that reason, our faculty, department chairs, college deans, the Provost, and the entire campus community celebrate the achievements and outstanding contributions of our colleagues and students to their disciplines and professions every year. And, as the following pages illustrate, faculty engaged in continuing scholarly and creative activities that have provided outstanding mentoring experiences for our undergraduate and graduate students.

In addition to recognizing faculty performances, shows, publications, grants and other professional efforts, the …

The Dragonflies And Damselflies Of Nebraska, Fred Sibley, Janis Paseka, Roy Beckemeyer

Zea E-Books Collection

Odonates of Nebraska

The Nebraska odonate list has 109 species in two suborders, damselflies (Zygoptera) with 47 species and dragonflies (Anisoptera) with 62 species. Nebraska had been very poorly surveyed prior to 2005 and 63 counties had fewer than 10 records. By 2017 the number of county records had nearly quadrupled, to over 3000 records, the average county total had increased from 9 to 33 and all counties had at least 21 records. An effort was made to collect data more or less uniformly from all 93 Nebraska counties. The areas with intense corn and soybean farming, eastern and southcentral …

A Computational Model For Recovery From Brain Injury, Wayne Wakeland

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

A computational simulation model calculates recovery trajectories following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Prior publications include a multi-scale framework for studying concussion and a systems-level causal loop diagram (CLD) and discussion of feedback processes. The scope of the computational model goes beyond concussion to include all severities of TBI. A set of first order ordinary differential equations and their associated parameters determines recovery trajectories. While highly speculative, the model serves to demonstrate the potential utility of computational models in this context. Much more research will be needed to create a properly supported research model that could be used for clinical trial …

Why Does Ramanujan, The Man Who Knew Infinity, Matter?, Ken Ono

Dalrymple Lecture Series

Dr. Ken Ono is the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia, the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics at Emory University, and the vice president of the American Mathematical Society.He is an associate producer of the film The Man Who Knew Infinity starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons about Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-trained two-time college dropout who left behind three notebooks filled with equations that mathematicians are still trying to figure out today. Ramanujan claimed that his ideas came to him as visions from an Indian goddess. This lecture is about why Ramanujan matters. The answers …

Descriptive Astronomy I: The Solar System (Csu), Rosa Williams, Kimberly Shaw

Physics and Astronomy Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Descriptive Astronomy I was created under a Round Thirteen ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Circulation, Volume 25, No. 1, Center For Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Tal Ezer

CCPO Circulation

Fall 2019 issue of CCPO Circulation featuring the article, "The International Reach of CCPO in Ocean Modeling and Education: Reflections from a Recent Trip to China," by Tal Ezer.

Mathematical Modeling (Fvsu), Samuel Cartwright, Bhavana Burell

Mathematics Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Mathematical Modeling was created under a Round Thirteen ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Survey Of Calculus (Ga Southern), Paul Hadavas

Mathematics Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Survey of Calculus was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

College Algebra (Atlm), Shreyas Desai, Anthonia Ekwuocha, Noel Whelchel

Mathematics Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for College Algebra was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

South Dakota State University : Research Fall 2019, South Dakota State University

Research: South Dakota State University

[Page] 2 Curcumin formulation on its way to health product market
[Page] 4 Flexibility key to forging research partnership with Kodo Kids
[Page] 6 Researcher examines hope among children in Flint, Michigan
[Page] 7 Plant pathologist battles stem canker
[Page] 8 Removing ‘Typhoid Marys’ restores health of Custer bighorn sheep herd
[Page] 10 Breeder, food scientist help improve quality of oats, increase local production
[Page] 13 SDSU, community leaders explore new ways to drive research, partnerships
[Page] 14 SDSU, community leaders explore new ways to drive research, partnerships
[Page] 16 Engineering builds business connections through Research Park
[Page] 17 Research …

Nir Mapping Of The Mastodon Tusk Layers, Carli Jo Russenberger

Fall 2019 - Chemical Analysis Class Projects

This tusk was unearthed in September of 1933 in the town of Hampton, Iowa. About two feet from the proximal end, the tip broke upon extrication. In order to preserve this archaeological finding, many layers of lacquers, plasters, and varnishes were applied. 3 The layers of preservation are not well identified, as well as the timing of application.

By using the Near Infrared (NIR) technique, infrared light is applied to the tusk and wavelengths are absorbed. The absorbances can help determine the functional groups of the restoration materials in the NIR range of 4,000 to 10,000 wavenumbers.

The objective of …

Mapping The Exterior Of A Mastodon Tusk Using Uv-Vis Diffuse Reflectance, Teresa Feldman

Fall 2019 - Chemical Analysis Class Projects

The 12-foot, 600-pound mastodon tusk was discovered in Hampton, Iowa, in the 1930s by a man digging in the gravel. It was the largest discovered mastodon tusk until the 1970s. The tusk was donated to UNI in 1933, under Dr. Cable, and put on display at the UNI Museum in the 1960s. Over the years, there have been many efforts to conserve the tusk, but it has still sustained breakage and water damage. It has also been subject to inadvertent degradation from some of the previous conservation efforts.

The purpose of the research conducted was to create a spectral map …

Identification Of Dye Compounds In Chinese Artifacts By Gc Ms, Pratima Raut

Fall 2019 - Chemical Analysis Class Projects

UNI Museum homes wide variety of textile artworks.
Many of them have historical significance. Two of them are UNIM 2005.2.24 (Tapestry) and UNIM1986.14.1985.1.124 (Hanging)

Figure 1: UNIM 2005.2.24 (Tapestry)
Rectangular Textile
Dimension: 36cm × 69cm
Dark blue silk embroidery of an old bearded man believed to be Chinese god, Shou Hsing
Contrasting floral designed 1'' border
“Made in China” stamp on the plain cotton fabric back

Figure 2: UNIM 1986.14.1985.1.124 (Hanging)
Silk fabric
Dimension 158cm × 74cm
Dimension: 36cm × 69cm
Depiction of an elderly man like the one in Chinese folklore about prosperity
Assumed to be of Chinese origin

Chemistry Matters Fall 2019, Otterbein University Chemistry Department

Chemistry Matters Department Newsletter

In this issue:

A Word from the Chair, Homecoming Tailgate, Students Present at National Meetings, Class of 2015 Updates, Part-Time Faculty Recognized for Outstanding Teaching, Writing Poems, Periodically, Faculty Sabbatical at the Interface of Chemistry and Art, Fall ACS Meeting, Summer Student Internships, 2019 Science Lecture Series, Class of 2019 Updates

The Periodical Fall 2019, Southern Adventist University

the Periodical – Chemistry Department Newsletter

Volume 7, issue 1 of the Periodical includes articles about new faculty member Tamie Suzuki, an alumni spotlight, general department news, at a pictorial listing of 2019 December chemistry graduates.

The Planet, 2019, Fall, Emily Dietzel, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Natural Disasters: Resource Lists, Hilary Martens

Open Educational Resources (OER) at University of Montana

This record includes a syllabus, unit-by-unit lists of open and free resources, a course project description, and additional, optional resources used in a course on natural disasters. The course covers plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, climate change, floods, fires, landslides, avalanches, and impacts with space objects.

Bakken Flares And Satellite Images, University Of North Dakota. Energy And Environmental Research Center, Xiaodong Zhang

EERC Brochures and Fact Sheets

Fact sheet refuting a magazine article about Bakken gas flares and satellite images. Includes research into gas flares and satellite images by the University of North Dakota and the Energy & Environmental Research Center.

User Interface Engineering (Ksu), Yong Shi, Dan Lo, Selena He, Mingon Kang, Sarah North

Computer Science and Information Technology Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for User Interface Engineering was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Mobile Software Development (Ksu), Yong Shi, Dan Lo, Selena He, Sarah North, Mingon Kang

Computer Science and Information Technology Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Mobile Software Development was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Advanced Web Development (Ksu), Meng Han, Jack Zheng

Computer Science and Information Technology Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Advanced Web Development was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Computer Organization And Architecture (Ksu), Yong Shi, Dan Lo, Selena He, Mingon Kang, Sarah North

Computer Science and Information Technology Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Computer Organization and Architecture was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final Report

Communiqué: College Of Humanities, Arts & Sciences Alumni Magazine, Volume 8, Fall 2019, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts, And Sciences.

Communiqué: College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences Alumni Magazine

Inside This Issue:
EVERY ISSUE
--4 Message from the Dean
--5 Donor Feature
--34 CHAS Briefs
--42 New Faculty
--44 Class Notes
FEATURES
--6 Cyber Defense Team
--10 Christine Stewart: Poet Laureate
--14 A New Data Degree for the Future
--28 How Puppets Can Teach Art
STORIES
--18 Prairie Dedication
--20 CS Endorsement
--22 Legacy of Light
--25 EMBARC Program
--26 Metal Casting Center
--32 Periodic Table Lecturer
--36 Sertoma Lab
--38 Golf Internship
--40 Art, Biology and Autism
--47 Visiting Author