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Surface Functionalization With Cobalt Complexes For Electro/Photocatalytic Proton Reduction, Dejun Dong

Doctoral Dissertations

The energy shortage and the global climate change have drawn great attention from humankind. Scientists worldwide are trying to find a green energy pathway. Shifting from a primarily fossil fuel-based energy economy to a solar fuel derived energy economy is a promising solution to eliminate greenhouse gases emissions and to protect our climate.

Electrocatalysis and photocatalysis are two practical strategies devised to generate solar fuels. Catalysis using transition metal complexes have been intensively investigated as their structures can be precisely controlled allowing an understanding of the mechanism of the catalytic reactions. This ultimately allows improvement of the activity can be …

Revisiting Institutional Voids: Advancing The International Business Literature By Leveraging Social Sciences, Marleen Dieleman, Stanislav Markus, Tazeeb Rajwani, George White Iii

Faculty Publications

Institutions are vital for solving collective action problems and enabling functioning markets. Based on this notion, the institutional voids literature has offered a dynamic research agenda for international business scholarship. In this perspective article, we leverage work from political science, development economics, legal studies, and anthropology to: (a) expose hidden assumptions about institutional voids in the management literature; (b) propose new directions for research based on our revised assumptions; and (c) provide direction-specific theoretical constructs from other social sciences to stimulate theory-building and empirical inquiry into institutional voids. We develop a framework that identifies four revised assumptions about institutional voids …

Evaluation Rubric For An Oer Source In Philosophy, Alina N. Feld

Open Educational Resources

Criteria of evaluating an OER source in Philosophy

Cat1_Na_Day 5_P1, Joshua B. Wadler, David S. Nolan, Jun A. Zhang, Lynn K. Shay, Joseph B. Olson, Joseph J. Cione

The Effect of Advection on the Three-Dimensional Distribution of Turbulent Kinetic Energy and its Generation in Idealized Tropical Cyclone Simulations

No abstract provided.

Cat1_Na_Day 6_P1, Joshua B. Wadler, David S. Nolan, Jun A. Zhang, Lynn K. Shay, Joseph B. Olson, Joseph J. Cione

The Effect of Advection on the Three-Dimensional Distribution of Turbulent Kinetic Energy and its Generation in Idealized Tropical Cyclone Simulations

No abstract provided.

Cat1_Wa_Day 4_P1, Joshua B. Wadler, David S. Nolan, Jun A. Zhang, Lynn K. Shay, Joseph B. Olson, Joseph J. Cione

The Effect of Advection on the Three-Dimensional Distribution of Turbulent Kinetic Energy and its Generation in Idealized Tropical Cyclone Simulations

No abstract provided.

Cat5_Na_Day 3_P1, Joshua B. Wadler, David S. Nolan, Jun A. Zhang, Lynn K. Shay, Joseph B. Olson, Joseph J. Cione

The Effect of Advection on the Three-Dimensional Distribution of Turbulent Kinetic Energy and its Generation in Idealized Tropical Cyclone Simulations

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Scent Lures On Detection Is Not Equitable Among Sympatric Species Data, Marlin M. Dart, Lora B. Perkins, Jonathan A. Jenks, Gary Hatfield, Robert C. Lonsinger

NRM Departmental Data Sets

This data represents wildlife detection data resulting from a camera trapping survey conducted in southcentral South Dakota during summer 2019, along with information on sites surveyed, treatments applied, and environmental conditions during sampling.

Each files contains data associated with different sampling stations; wildlife species detection data, site specific data, and survey specific environmental conditions. The files all contain a common field (i.e., ‘Station’) to indicate this relationship.

Downloadable zip file contains the following data:

1. Dart et al_Species_Detection_Data.txt
2. Dart et al_Site_Data.txt
3. Dart et al_Survey_Data.txt

Prioritization Of Invasive Alien Species With The Potential To Threaten Agriculture And Biodiversity In Kenya Through Horizon Scanning, Joseph Mulema, Roger Day, Winnie Nunda, Komivi Senyo Akutse, Anani Y. Bruce, Sospeter Gachamba, Solveig Haukeland, Ruth Kahuthia-Gathu, Staline Kibet, Asenath Koech, Thomas Kosiom, Douglas Watuku Miano, George Momanyi, Lucy Kananu Murungi, James Wanjohi Muthomi, Julianna Mwangi, Maina Mwangi, Nicholas Mwendo, John Huria Nderitu, Johnson Nyasani, Miriam Otipa, Sarah Wambugu, Eric Were, Fernadis Makale, Laura Doughty, Steve Edgington, Ivan Rwomushana, Marc Kenis

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Invasive alien species (IAS) rank among the most significant drivers of species extinction and ecosystem degradation resulting in significant impacts on socio-economic development. The recent exponential spread of IAS in most of Africa is attributed to poor border biosecurity due to porous borders that have failed to prevent initial introductions. In addition, countries lack adequate information about potential invasions and have limited capacity to reduce the risk of invasions. Horizon scanning is an approach that prioritises the risks of potential IAS through rapid assessments. A group of 28 subject matter experts used an adapted methodology to assess 1700 potential IAS …

Imagining Urban Transformation In Kenya, Rose Cairns, Joel Onyango, Andy Stirling, Phil Johnstone

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

This paper examines the diverse ways in which science and technology are implicated in collective imaginations of urban futures in Kenya. Despite calls for a ‘deep reimagining’ of African urbanisation (UN Habitat 2014), globalised narratives of urban ‘smartness’ are intersecting with pan-African tendencies toward top-down Master Planning to constrain spaces for collective imagining of urban futures. Using the conceptual lens of sociotechnical imaginaries and the methodological approach of Q method, we hope to open up and navigate the space of tension between the violence of narratives of failure and crisis in African cities, and the sometimes ‘blinding power’ of certain …

Tactics Ideation Experiment Data, Thomas L. Ashworth, Carl D. Sorensen

ScholarsArchive Data

This data includes the template worksheets, as well as filled worksheets that include ideas written by the participants in a research experiment. This experiment tested the effectiveness of a novel tactics ideation method (i.e., Random Prompts method) to a modified Brainwriting method. Transcribed copies of this data are also included.

Accompanying the data are experiment briefing presentations, Python code for rapid evaluation of the data (the evaluation methods themselves were also developed by the authors), a spreadsheet file with evaluation data (this is a necessary input to the code), and organizational trees (for team idea sets) associated with the evaluation …

Jennifer Holberg Talks With Makoto Fujimura, Jennifer Holberg, Makoto Fujimura

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

In this episode, Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell interviews Jennifer Holberg, professor of English at Calvin University, co-director of Calvin Center for Faith and Writing, and frequent writer for the Reformed Journal Blog. Jennifer discusses her childhood as an army brat, the effects of the early death of her mother, and her forthcoming book “Nourishing Narratives: The Power of Story to Shape our Faith,” which is expected to come out in July 2023.

Balance Sheet Items Of The Snb, Swiss National Bank

Documents

No abstract provided.

Predictable Book Shifting, Joshua Lambert

MSU Libraries

There are many methods to carry out a library book shift but those methods allow for varying degrees of predictability. The Bookshift.py script, when used in conjunction with accurate measurements of a library’s collection and shelving, provides library staff with predictability, flexibility, and the ability to shift in parallel. For every shelf, the script outputs a phrase such as the following, “The last book from this shelf goes 12.3 in/cm into shelf 776.” While complicated shifts can still create surprises, using Bookshift.py or similar methods typically make those surprises easy to correct.

Commentary On Consumer Protection Act, 2019, Ashok R. Patil

Books

The development of new technology in the form of e-commerce and the increasing integration of global markets and supply chains have changed the way consumers interact with the marketplace. This has given rise to new challenges for the consumer, and the existing consumer protection framework falls short in dealing with them. To address these concerns, the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, seeks to lay down a more robust scheme for consumer protection with the introduction of new measures such as the establishment of a general regulator, providing for a product liability regime, encouraging mediation, and developing appropriate regulations to protect and …

Dataset For Sex Impact On Knee And Ankle Muscle Extensor Forces During Loaded Running, Kade D. Wagers, Nicholas J. Lobb, Auralea C. Fain, Kayla D. Seymore, Tyler N. Brown

Center for Orthopaedic and Biomechanics Research Data Repository

Background: This study determined whether the knee and ankle muscle extensor forces increase when running with a body-borne load and whether these forces differ between the sexes.

Methods: Thirty-six (twenty male and sixteen female) adults had the knee and ankle extensor force quantified when running 4.0 m/s with four body-borne loads (20, 25, 30, and 35 kg). Peak normalized (BW) and unnormalized (N) extensor muscle force, relative effort, and joint angle and angular velocity at peak muscle force for both the ankle and the knee were submitted to a mixed model ANOVA.

Results: Significant load by sex interactions for knee …

Differential Immune Responses In New And Old Fruit Fly-Parasitoid Associations: Implications For Their Management, Rehemah Gwokyalya, Jeremy K. Herren, Christopher W. Weldon, Fathiya M. Khamis, Shepard Ndlela, Samira Abuelgasim Mohamed

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

The oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), and marula fruit fly, Ceratitis cosyra (Walker), are major fruit-infesting tephritids across sub-Saharan Africa. Biological control of these pests using parasitic wasps has been widely adopted but with varying levels of success. Most studies investigating host-parasitoid models have focused on functional and evolutionary aspects leaving a knowledge gap about the physiological mechanisms underpinning the efficacy of parasitoids as biocontrol agents of tephritids. To better understand these physiological mechanisms, we investigated changes in the cellular immune responses of C. cosyra and B. dorsalis when exposed to the parasitic wasps, Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmaed) and Psyttalia …

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Simulations Using Connectivity Modeling System: Daily Oil Mass And Concentrations On A Spatio-Temporal 4-D Grid, Surface Oil Concentrations, Non-Gridded Sedimented Oil Mass, Claire Paris, Natalie Perlin

C-IMAGE data

The dataset contains the numerical results of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident at Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, as estimated from the simulations using the latest updated version of the oil application of the Connectivity Modeling System (CMS) or oil-CMS. This contains additional data that complements the dataset that is available at GRIIDC under Unique Dataset Identifier (UDI) R4.x267.000:0084 (DOI: 10.7266/N7KD1WDB). In this version of the oil-CMS model, the specified hydrocarbon pseudo-components are in the same droplet. The post-processing analysis yielded 4-D spatiotemporal data of the oil concentrations and oil mass on a regular horizontal and …

A Support Vector Machine Based Cure Rate Model For Interval Censored Data, Suvra Pal, Y Peng, S Barui, P Wang

SAGE Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

The mixture cure rate model is the most commonly used cure rate model in the literature. In the context of mixture cure rate model, the standard approach to model the effect of covariates on the cured or uncured probability is to use a logistic function. This readily implies that the boundary classifying the cured and uncured subjects is linear. In this paper, we propose a new mixture cure rate model based on interval censored data that uses the support vector machine (SVM) to model the effect of covariates on the uncured or the cured probability (i.e., on the incidence part …

Caste Matters In Public Policy: Issues And Perspectives, N Jayaram, Rahul Choragudi, Sony Pellissery

Books

Caste in India, despite its historical resilience, has been undergoing transformation since independence. If caste as a system of rigid stratification has been on the decline, castes as autonomous interest-serving groups have been on ascendance. This book critically engages with the changing notions of caste and its intersection with public policy in India. It discusses key issues such as social security, internal reservation, the idea of Most Backward Classes, caste issues among non-Hindu religious communities, caste in census, caste in market, and service castes and urban planning. Drawing on in-depth case studies from states including Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Punjab, …

Removal Of Selenium And Heavy Metals From Coal Combustion Residuals Wastewater Using Surface Modified Iron Based Media, Madan Tandukar, Alex Korff, Andrew Vincent, Chris Hardin

World of Coal Ash Proceedings

No abstract provided.

Clinical Characteristics And Implications Of Bradycardia In Covid‐19 Patients Treated With Remdesivir: A Single‐Center Retrospective Cohort Study, Ariyon Schreiber, Justin S. Bauzon, Kavita Batra, Salman Mohammed, Kevin Lee, Nazanin Houshmand, Uyen Pham, Celica Cosme, Kim Inciong, Omar Al‑Taweel, Keaton Nasser, Jibran Rana, Chris Sossou, Ariel Go, Dalia Hawwass, Jimmy Diep, Chowdhury H. Ahsan

School of Medicine Faculty Research

Background and Objectives: Remdesivir is an antiviral drug used to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with a relatively obscure cardiac efect profle. Previous studies have reported bradycardia associated with remdesivir, but few have examined its clinical characteristics. The objective of this study was to investigate remdesivir associated bradycardia and its associated clinical characteristics and outcomes. Methods: This is a single-institution retrospective study that investigated bradycardia in 600 patients who received remdesivir for treatment of COVID-19. A total of 375 patients were included in the study after screening for other known causes of bradycardia (atrioventricular [AV] nodal blockers). All patients were …

Entomological Assessment Of Tsetse-Borne Trypanosome Risk In The Shimba Hills Human-Wildlife-Livestock Interface, Kenya, Faith I. Ebhodaghe, Armanda D.S. Bastos, Michael N. Okal, Daniel K. Masiga

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Shimba Hills is a wildlife area in Kenya and a major focus of tsetse-borne trypanosomes in East Africa. In Shimba Hills, tsetse-borne trypanosomes constrain animal health and smallholder livelihoods. However, epidemiological data to guide hotspot-targeted control of infections are limited. This study assessed the dynamics of tsetse-borne trypanosome risk in Shimba Hills with the objective to describe infection hotspots for targeted control. Tsetse flies (n = 696) collected in field surveys between November 2018 and September 2019 in Shimba Hills were characterized for chronological age and phenotypic sizes and screened for trypanosome and cattle DNA. Entomological inoculation rates for trypanosome …

Macro Barriers To Business And Innovation In Developing Economies: Evidence From Egyptian, Moroccan, And Tunisian Smes, Nizar Becheikh, Mohammed Bouaddi

Faculty Journal Articles

Investing in knowledge and innovation is recognised as a key driver of economic growth in any country. This paper contributes to the thin literature on innovation determinants in developing economies by empirically examining the impact of macro-level obstacles to business on small and medium-sized enterprises’ innovations in three Arab countries, namely, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia. While R&D emerged as the main factor that impacts positively and significantly the likelihood that firms innovate and succeed in producing a diverse set of product and process innovations, different combinations of other factors proved to affect innovation in each of the three countries.

How Relevant Is The Apa Ethics Code To Industrial-Organizational Psychology? Applicability, Deficiencies, And Recommendations, Logan L. Watts, Joel Lefkowitz, Manuel F. Gonzalez, Sampoorna Nandi

Cambridge University Press Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

Opinions have been divided regarding the relevance of the APA Ethics Code to non-mental health specialties and even whether the code should attempt to encompass all psychology specializations. However, these opinions have crystallized without the benefit of any appreciable empirical data, until now. This study investigates the applicability of the ethical principles and standards of the code to 398 first-person narratives of ethical incidents reported by industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologists. On average, 2.8 (of the 5) principles enumerated in the code were deemed applicable to each incident, and each principle was applicable to more than half the incidents provided. Of the …

Data Set For A Meta-Analysis And Quality Review Of Math Interventions Conducted In Informal Learning Environments, Hannah Carter, Gena Nelson, Peter Boedeker

Early and Special Education Datasets

The purpose of this dataset is to provide readers with article coding for variables associated with the publication, A Meta-Analysis and Quality Review of Mathematics Interventions Conducted in Informal Learning Environments with Caregivers and Children. This is a meta-analysis and quality reporting review of 23 math interventions implemented in informal learning environments (e.g., the home) by children’s caregivers. The meta-analysis of 81 effect sizes yielded a statistically significant summary effect (g = 0.28, 95% CI [0.08, 0.48]) on children’s math achievement. Variables provided in this data set include: basic study information and participant demographics, methodological information, intervention features, outcome measures, …

Common Ground: An Examination Of Rural Planning And The Growing Amish Presence In Missouri, Krista Evans

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

How do rural communities in Missouri balance the potentially conflicting land use and economic planning needs between incoming and growing Amish populations and non-Amish populations? This qualitative research addresses a gap in the literature by examining the growing Amish population in rural America through the lens of community planning. A comparative case study was conducted in three Amish communities in Missouri and included interviews with public officials who engage in planning and planning-related tasks and an Amish leader at each case site. This project finds that Amish growth and expansion is resulting in both community conflicts and collaborative efforts in …

The Fallacy And Verification Of Criticism On Contemporary Chinese Confessional Poetry, Lei Wei

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Contemporary Chinese confessional poetry has engaged much academic attention despite its short existence between the 1980s and the 1990s. The confessional poetry has been related with female poetry by scholars since the beginning, and they have been criticized for lacking Chinese cultural characteristics, skills or aesthetic values etc.. However, contemporary Chinese confessional poetry is not exclusively the product of female poets, as there are quite a few male poets who created some fine confessional poems. Chinese confessional poetry of new period turned out to be embodied with a literary form of strong nationalistic features and contain rich elements of traditional …

Modna: Motif-Oriented Pre-Training For Dna Language Model, Weizhi An, Yuzhi Guo, Yatao Bian, Hehuan Ma, Jinyu Yang, Chunyuan Li, Junzhou Huang

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

Obtaining informative representations of gene expression is crucial in predicting various downstream regulatory-related tasks such as promoter prediction and transcription factor binding sites prediction. Nevertheless, current supervised learning with insufficient labeled genomes limits the generalization capability of training a robust predictive model. Recently researchers model DNA sequences by self-supervised training and transfer the pre-trained genome representations to various downstream tasks. Instead of directly shifting the mask language learning to DNA sequence learning, we incorporate prior knowledge into genome language modeling representations. We propose a novel Motif-oriented DNA (MoDNA) pre-training framework, which is designed self-supervised and can be fine-tuned for different …

Robust Self-Training Strategy For Various Molecular Biology Prediction Tasks∗, Hehuan Ma, Feng Jiang, Yu Rong, Yuzhi Guo, Junzhou Huang

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

Molecular biology prediction tasks suffer the limited labeled data problem since it normally demands a series of professional experiments to label the target molecule. Self-training is one of the semi-supervised learning paradigms that utilizes both labeled and unlabeled data. It trains a teacher model on labeled data, and uses it to generate pseudo labels for unlabeled data. The labeled and pseudo-labeled data are then combined to train a student model. However, the pseudo labels generated from the teacher model are not sufficiently accurate. Thus, we propose a robust self-training strategy by exploring robust loss function to handle such noisy labels, …