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Using Subdivision Surface Technique To Solve Generalized Debye Sources Based Efie, Xin Fu, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang, Jie Li, Balasubramaniam Shanker

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this work, we extend the idea of generalized Debye sources (GDS) method to electric field integral equation (EFIE) and establish a new well-conditioned GDS-EFIE. The principal challenge in implementing this approach arises from the difficulty in developing a robust solver for the surface Laplacian equation. In this paper, we propose using subdivision surfaces that permits such a solution due to the higher order continuous nature of the surface representation. This permits an efficient and effective solution. Thus, GDS-EFIE can be resolved within isogeometric analysis framework as an emerging approach for design-through-analysis. Several numerical results are provided to validate the …

A High Impedance Surface Based Leaky-Wave Antenna Excited By Collimated Surface-Wave, Zi Long Ma, Chi Hou Chan, Kung Bo Ng, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents a high impedance surface (HIS) based leaky-wave antenna excited by collimated surface-wave (SW). The proposed antenna consists of a novel SW launcher (SWL) and a carefully designed HIS structure. The SWL employs a substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) based 2-D offset-fed parabolic reflector and can efficiently generate collimated SW with TM0 mode. On the other hand, the HIS structure is formed by a periodically arranged rectangular microstrip patch array. With the perturbation of the patches, leaky-wave radiation with m=-1 space harmonic mode can be excited. Furthermore, an additional secondary slit is properly designed in each unit cell in the …

Fully Differential Study Of Dissociative Single Capture And Coulomb Explosion Through Double Capture In P+ H2 Collisions, B. R. Lamichhane, Ahmad Hasan, T. Arthanayaka, M. Dhital, K. Koirala, T. Voss, R. A. Lomsadze, Michael Schulz

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We have measured fully differential cross sections for dissociative single capture and Coulomb explosion through double capture in 75 keV p+H2 collisions. Data were analyzed for fixed kinetic energy releases and molecular orientations as a function of scattering angle. Two-center interference was identified for dissociative single capture. The interference pattern is not inconsistent with the symmetry of the dissociative electronic state affecting the phase angle of the interference term. No clear signatures of single-center interference were observed for either process. For double capture at most only a very weak two-center interference structure was found. This very small (or zero) visibility …

New And Upcoming Bepress Developments, Promita Chatterji

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

This presentation will discuss recent and upcoming developments from bepress, including:

• Harvesting: Work with pilot testers, a demonstration of the initial release of our harvesting tool, and plans for future development of the feature
• New option to host streaming content on Digital Commons
• Fields to support grants and professional service information on the Expert Gallery Suite
• Tools to support reporting on campus

Cool Things In Scholars' Mine, James Roger Weaver

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

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Customizing Metadata Fields And Using The Content Inventory Report To Manage Digital Commons, Nancy S. Krost

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

In Scholars’ Mine, we have heavily customized the metadata in our series, event communities, journals and galleries. This allows us to more easily track the content in our IR, discover errors, find opportunities to make the IR more robust, and run statistics.

The Content Inventory report is an incredibly useful tool in managing Digital Commons because it combines data across series rather that our having to export each series, adjust the metadata fields and then combine them. One example of this is our faculty works which are deposited in departments and filtered into a Faculty Research and Creative Works collection. …

Closing The Gap? Curating Bepress Metadata For Share, Emily Stenberg, Lisa Palmer, Joanne Paterson, Wendy Robertson

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

The goal of the SHARE initiative, a partnership between the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Center for Open Science (COS), is to build a “free, open, data set about research and scholarly activities across their life cycle.” As of August 2017, 161 repositories and publishers have made metadata available to SHARE for harvesting, and the aggregated data set is available for searching. Many metadata providers are institutional repositories utilizing the bepress Digital Commons platform whose metadata is harvested through the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol for repository interoperability. A group of Digital Commons repository …

12 Years Plus An Ir Manager, Paul Royster

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

From 2005 through 2017, I have managed the University of Nebraska's Digital Commons institutional repository. This presentation covers some past, present, and future concerns: Why Nebraska? Our mission. Our history. Our content and usage. Our assets. Our competition. Our allies. Our obstacles. Our services. Our strategies. Our risks and rewards. Our relations with publishers. Order vs. chaos. The information universe. Miracles and disruption.

Uno Open Access Fund Statistics: What Do They Tell Us?, Yumi Ohira

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

Institutional digital repositories provide open access to research outputs created within a university or research institution. Many institutions currently support open access by paying article processing charges (APC) for their affiliated faculty and researchers. The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Libraries started the Open Access (OA) Fund program in 2014 to help cover the APC of tenure-track UNO authors. The fundamental goals of the UNO OA Fund is to include and encourage the UNO community to publish their research in an OA journal and platform, DigitalCommons@UNO (http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/).

This poster focuses on sharing the OA Fund management and …

Umsl Data, Helena Marvin

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

Using an infographic style the UMSL Data poster is meant to bring awareness of Library Data Management Services to the UMSL faculty. A graphic illustrated by Ainsley Seago, depicting a researcher carrying a box of data to a Data Repository down a path, acts as the focal point. This graphic is a derivative (with permission from the illustrator) of the image available from https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001779.g001. The poster is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND as shown by the graphic at the bottom.

Case Study - A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille To Digital Commons, Elizabeth Chance, Jennifer Sauer

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

No abstract provided.

Data Management, James Roger Weaver

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

No abstract provided.

Zea Books: Free Monograph Publishing From The Library At Nebraska—How And Why, Paul Royster

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries has been publishing monographs since 2006, with 55 titles to date. This program will give a brief history of the effort, with examples, focusing on why we do it, how we do it—costs, staff, methods, particular concerns—, and what are the possible implications for the larger arena of scholarly communications. Online at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/

Automagical Faculty Works, Helena Marvin, Zoe J. Scala

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

In this presentation, how the University of Missouri-St. Louis Institutional Repository Library is using a combination of Zotero, Google Apps and Sherpa Romeo to discover faculty works that can be shared, will be examined. Automagical is defined by dictionary.com as an adjective describing something that is "happening in a way that is hidden from or not understood by the user, and in that sense, apparently "magical." "The automagical aspects of this process will be explored, but not so deeply as to make them non-magical.

Case Study - A Call To Action: Migrating The Reveille To Digital Commons, Elizabeth Chance, Jennifer Sauer

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

Like many institutions, Forsyth Digital Collections presents their content on more than one platform. Since the acquisition of Digital Commons and the launch of the FHSU Scholars Repository in January 2016, there has been an institutional effort to determine which platform is best suited to displaying existing content. Beginning in 2009, the FHSU Reveille Yearbooks collection had been hosted in CONTENTdm. The user experience for this collection left much to be desired. In 2014 additional effort was put into improving the user experience in CONTENTdm for this collection. However, in the spring of 2017 it was determined that the Reveille …

An Open Access Solution That Is Genuinely And Globally Open, A. Townsend Peterson

Digital Commons - Heartland User Group + IR Day

Keynote Address

The Missouri Miner, October 12, 2017

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

The Missouri Miner, October 5, 2017

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

Best Practice - Scholars' Mine Producing Quality Video Files, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

Best practices employed by Scholars' Mine to produce quality video files.

Best Practice - Scholars' Mine Producing Quality Image Files, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

Best practices employed by Scholars' Mine in creating quality image files.

Best Practice - Scholars' Mine Producing Quality Audio Files, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

Best practices employed by Scholars' Mine to produce quality audio files.

Best Practice - Scholars' Mine Producing Quality Pdf Files, James Roger Weaver

Scholars' Mine - Policies, Procedures and Guidelines

Best practices employed by Scholars' Mine to create quality PDF files.

Dermal Uptake Of Benzophenone-3 From Clothing, Glenn C. Morrison, Gabriel Bekö, Charles J. Weschler, Tobias Schripp, Tunga Salthammer, Jonathan Hill, Anna Maria Andersson, Jørn Toftum, Geo Clausen, Hanne Frederiksen

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Benzophenone-3 (also known as BP-3 or oxybenzone) is added to sunscreens, plastics, and some coatings to filter UV radiation. The suspected endocrine disruptor BP-3 has been detected in the air and settled dust of homes and is expected to redistribute from its original sources to other indoor compartments, including clothing. Given its physical and chemical properties, we hypothesized that dermal uptake from clothing could contribute to the body burden of this compound. First, cotton shirts were exposed to air at an elevated concentration of BP-3 for 32 days; the final air concentration was 4.4 μg/m3. Next, three participants wore the …

Identification Of Genes That Maintain Behavioral And Structural Plasticity During Sleep Loss, Laurent Seugnet, Stephane Dissel, Matthew S. Thimgan, Lijuan Cao, Paul J. Shaw

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Although patients with primary insomnia experience sleep disruption, they are able to maintain normal performance on a variety of cognitive tasks. This observation suggests that insomnia may be a condition where predisposing factors simultaneously increase the risk for insomnia and also mitigate against the deleterious consequences of waking. To gain insight into processes that might regulate sleep and buffer neuronal circuits during sleep loss, we manipulated three genes, fat facet (faf), highwire (hiw) and the GABA receptor Resistance to dieldrin (Rdl), that were differentially modulated in a Drosophila model of insomnia. Our results indicate …

Application Worksheet -- Affordable & Open Educational Resources Grant Program, Um System Affordable & Open Educational Resources Committee

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The UM System Affordable & Open Educational Resources (A&OER) initiative works with faculty to support student success by lowering the cost of education, increasing student access to educational resources, and enhancing student learning.

To achieve these goals, the A&OER Grant Program helps faculty to transition to more affordable and open educational resources.

This document is used for application preparation.

Aoer Talking Points, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Oer Committee

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Aoer Faculty Questions To Ask And Answer, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Oer Committee

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How International Is Your Lis/Is Program In The Global Higher Education Era?, Hsin-Liang Chen, Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic, Ina Fourie, Sandy Hirsh, Ruhua Huang

University Libraries Faculty Research & Creative Works

Internationalization is a critical issue in LIS/IS education and the LIS/IS profession. This panel assembles educators from various continents to discover their experiences and to address the following issues: International students should comprise what percentage of a student body in order to adequately represent the spectrum of disciplines that are critical to contemporary LIS/IS schools?

International faculty members should comprise what percentage of a faculty in order to adequately represent the spectrum of disciplines that are critical to contemporary LIS/IS schools?

How international must a curriculum be in order to adequately prepare graduates for the challenges of the rapidly changing …

Scholars' Mine Quick Facts October 2017, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine statistical quick facts for October 2017.

Rethinking The Design Of Low-Cost Point-Of-Care Diagnostic Devices, Faith W. Kimani, Samuel M. Mwangi, Benjamin J. Kwasa, Abdi M. Kusow, Benjamin K. Ngugi, Jiahao Chen, Xinyu Liu, Rebecca Cademartiri, Martin M. Thuo

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Reducing the global diseases burden requires effective diagnosis and treatment. In the developing world, accurate diagnosis can be the most expensive and time-consuming aspect of health care. Healthcare cost can, however, be reduced by use of affordable rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs). In the developed world, low-cost RDTs are being developed in many research laboratories; however, they are not being equally adopted in the developing countries. This disconnect points to a gap in the design philosophy, where parameterization of design variables ignores the most critical component of the system, the point-of-use stakeholders (e.g., doctors, nurses and patients). Herein, we demonstrated that …