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Efficient Support Of Consistent Cyclic Search With Read-Copy-Update And Parallel Updates, Jonathan Walpole, Paul E. Mckenney

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

A method, system and computer program product for supporting concurrent updates to a shared data element group while preserving group integrity on behalf of one or more readers that are concurrently referencing group data elements without using locks or atomic instructions. Two or more updaters may be invoked to generate new group data elements. Each new data element created by the same up dater is assigned a new generation number that is different than a global generation number associated with the data element group and which allows a reader of the data element group to determine whether the new data …

Systems Ideas For The Scientific And Societal Imperatives Of The Coastal Ocean: Case Of The Bp Oil Gusher In The Gulf Of Mexico, Spring & Summer 2010, Christopher Mooers

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

In recent decades, great progress has been made in advancing the scientific understanding of the coastal ocean (i.e., the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)) across a broad set of disciplines. Simultaneously, the societal use of the coastal ocean has skyrocketed through, for example, increased shipping & boating, sports & commercial fishing, and exploitation of non-living resources, such as, oil & gas extraction and sand & gravel mining. International law and national policy assign coastal nations the responsibility for stewardship (i.e., wise management) of their respective EEZs. The scope of the stewardship and applications can be summarized as (1) …

Climate Change And Climate Variability: Personal Motivation For Adaptation And Mitigation, Jan C. Semenza, George B. Ploubidis, Linda Acha George

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Global climate change impacts on human and natural systems are predicted to be severe, far reaching, and to affect the most physically and economically vulnerable disproportionately. Society can respond to these threats through two strategies: mitigation and adaptation. Industry, commerce, and government play indispensable roles in these actions but so do individuals, if they are receptive to behavior change. We explored whether the health frame can be used as a context to motivate behavioral reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation measures. Methods: In 2008, we conducted a cross-sectional survey in the United States using random digit dialing. Personal …

The Portland Spectator, May 2011, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Portland Spectator

Editor: Jonathan Miles

Articles in this issue include: Portland Pow Wows: Native Americans gather at Portland State for singing, drumming and dancing; Free Weiwei! Photo essay on Portland State’s silent protest to free Chinese political prisoner Ai Weiwei; Education bond under fire: Oregon’s efforts to fund public schools may be shut down by antitax groups; Borrowing up: Why students continue to borrow more and more for higher ed. and how it will hurt U.S. taxpayers.

Open Engagement 2011 Catalog, Jen Delos Reyes

Open Engagement

2011 — Portland, Oregon — Art and Social Practice

"Open Engagement is an artist-led initiative directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes committed to expanding the dialogue around and serving as a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. We highlight the work of transdisciplinary artists, activists, students, scholars, community members, and organizations working within the complex social issues and struggles of our time. Since 2007, OE has presented ten conferences in two countries and six cities, hosting over 1,800 presenters and over 7,000 attendees. In addition, OE managed a publishing arm, and assembled a national consortium …

Hardware Acceleration Of Inference Computing: The Numenta Htm Algorithm, Dan Hammerstrom

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

In this presentation I will describe the latest version of the Numenta HTM Cortical Learning Algorithm and why it is interesting for doing research into radical new computer architectures. Then I will discuss the hardware acceleration research we are doing, and briefly look at some preliminary applications development.

Interview With Michelle Markesteyn-Ratcliffe, Oda, 2011, Michelle Markesteyn-Ratcliffe

All Sustainability History Project Oral Histories

Interview of Michelle Markesteyn-Ratcliffe by Megan Rice in Portland, Oregon on May 10th, 2011.

The interview index is available for download.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet May 2011, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The May 2011 Monthly packet includes the May agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held April 4, 2011.

Interview With Tjerk Dusseldorp (Audio), Heather Oriana Petrocelli

Center for the Moving Image Oral Histories

Heather Petrocelli interviewed Tjerk Dusseldorp in Portland, Oregon on his involvement with the Center for the Moving Image.

Tjerk Dusseldorp is Chairman of the WorldSkills Foundation who, in 2009, received the Order of Australia Medal for services to education and to the community.

Center For Real Estate Quarterly, Volume 5, Number 2, Portland State University. Center For Real Estate

Center for Real Estate Quarterly

Table of Contents:
--Summary and Editorial by Eric Fruits (p. 2-4)
--Real Estate Cycles: They Exist and are Predictable by Christopher Lee (p. 5-11)
--The Coming Mini-Boom in Real Estate by Bill Conerly (p. 12-14)
--The FASB 13 Accounting Rule and Real Estate by Brian Owendoff (p. 15-20)
--Smart Growth Policies and Carbon Emissions by Todd Litman (p. 21-30)
--Residential Market Analysis by Ngan Nguyen (p. 31-52)
--Multifamily Market Analysis by Ngan Nguyen (p. 53-59)
--Office Market Analysis by David West (p. 60-68)
--Retail Market Analysis by David West (p. 69-74)
--Industrial Market Analysis by David West (p. 75-79)

Improved Complexity Of Quantum Oracles For Ternary Grover Algorithm For Graph Coloring, Marek Perkowski, Yushi Wang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Graph Coloring Grover Algorithm has several applications in logic synthesis, scheduling, allocation, planning, robot motion, robot communication, resource allocation, conflict resolution, floor-planning, and many others.

It can serve as a “generic CSP solver” similar to a general SAT solver.

Systems Views Of The Economics Of Sustainable Development, Joshua Hughes

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

The mainstream economics of the 20th century (and now 21st century) has often failed to predict what will happen--or explain what has happened--in the real world, even with (or because of?) an ever-increasing reliance on quantitative and computational methods. Since the mid-20th century a number of people part of, or closely associated with, the systems community--economists among them--have provided insights about what is wrong with "traditional" economics. Systems science offers a number of alternative methods for understanding economic systems that take heed of these criticisms, especially in the context of sustainable development. Yet, while promising, few of these alternatives …

Worlds Collide! Facebook, Family & George Costanza, Amy L. Spears, Julie Driscoll

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

If facebook and social media have wrecked our ability to sustain lengthy treatises on topics, well then, by George, we'll make the blurb our convention and still tell you what we think.

Harlot Runs In The Family, Paul Muhlhauser, Kelly Bradbury

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

Much to our delight, our call for this special issue on family rhetoric attracted a record number of submissions. For some, the connection was deeply personal; for others, cultural representations of family and/or the role of various communities on family drew shrewd attention. Ultimately, the pieces in this issue were selected not only for their brilliant and creative insights about family rhetoric (how family members communicate with each other) and the rhetoric of family (how culture and society inform us about the meaning of family), but also because they represent an array of perspectives, experiences, and forms of expressing our …

A Name On The Tree, Laura J. Davies

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

What's in a name? For some, family history, arguments, and identity.

Mothers And Teen Daughters: Make Room For The Internet, Jaqueline Mcleod Rogers

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

When the internet steals our daughters, mothers turn cyborg.

Of Peerenting, Trophy Wives, And Effeminate Men: Modern Family's Surprisingly Conservative Remediation Of The Family Sitcom Genre, Christina M. Lavecchia

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

Just because the family is modern doesn't mean the family is new.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet April 2011, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The April 2011 Monthly packet includes the April agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held March 2011

Portland State Library Update: News For Supporters And Friends; Spring 2011, Portland State University Library

Library Newsletters

In this issue: Focus On Service: Technologies; Focus on Librarianship: Professor Sharon Elteto; Focus on Collections: Oregon Political Leadership Archive; and Donor Spotlight: Governor Barbara Roberts

New School, New Job, New Life: Supporting The Transition Of Student Affairs Graduate Assistants, Karen J. Haley, Brandi Hephner, Peggy Koutas

Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Student affairs professionals have a responsibility for the professional development of graduate assistants (GAs) in the department as these positions are marketed as first professional positions. While prior literature has addressed the transition of graduate students into graduate school, there is little about the transition process for students with graduate assistantships in student affairs. Student transitions are important as they may set the tone for their first professional experience and ongoing professional development. Four key themes emerged from the voices of the graduate student participants in this study as they described their transition process into a GA position. First, they …

Prevention Of Human Trafficking: A Review Of The Literature, Portland State University. Criminology And Criminal Justice Senior Capstone

Criminology and Criminal Justice Senior Capstone Project

A review of the literature pertaining to human trafficking reveals that human trafficking is a difficult crime to detect and prevent. Human trafficking involves the trafficking of human beings for the purpose of commercial sexual activities as well as forced labor. These crimes are occurring worldwide. Research indicates organized crime, prostitution, massage parlors, and brothels are closely linked to the crime of human trafficking. Government corruption and transnational criminal organizations contribute significantly to this crime and financial profit is usually the primary motivation. The objective of this report is to examine the various elements of human trafficking including the recognized …

Establishing Reliability And Validity Of The Chinese Version Of The Jefferson Scale Of Empathy, Hanoch Livneh, Jung-Feng Cheng, Yu-Min Lai

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

[Article in Chinese]

Background: Empathy is an important concept and necessary skill for health care providers. Many studies have adopted the Jefferson Scale of Empathy - Health care Providers Version (JSE-HP) to collect data used to measure healthcare provider empathy. However, this scale has not been used to assess healthcare providers in Taiwan. Purpose: Study purposes were to: (a) translate the JSE-HP into Chinese, (b) examine validity and reliability of the translated scale, and (c) use the scale to measure empathyin a sample of Taiwan healthcare providers.

Methods: Researchers used a backward translation approach to translate the JSE-HP …

Foster Care & Disability, Tina M. Anctil Peterman, Clayton Rees

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

The presentation explores the education instability of children in foster care

Investigation And Evaluation Of Current And Emerging Whole-Water Sampling Technologies For U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Assessment Program, Keith D. Gareau

Environmental Science and Management Professional Master's Project Reports

An investigation was conducted into current and emerging surface water sampling technologies. These technologies were compared and recommendations given to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for adoption by the National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The goal is to reduce labor costs and increase information content. This paper examines lotic system samplers, portable autonomous whole-water samplers, and autonomous submergible whole-water samplers. When investigating whole-water sampling technology, it was imperative to take into consideration what chemical classifications can be sampled for by each respected technology. Chemical classifications considered are: emerging contaminants, major ions, nutrients, polychlorinated biphenyls, pesticides, volatile and semi-volatile …

Macroinvertebrate Community Analysis On Lower Hood River Before And During The Removal Of Powerdale Dam: A Baseline Study, Howard Jay Patterson

Environmental Science and Management Professional Master's Project Reports

Powerdale Dam was an 87-year-old hydroelectric complex on lower Hood River in northern Oregon which was decommissioned in 2010. Macroinvertebrate samples were collected in 2009, before the removal process began, and in 2010, near the end of the demolition project, at one site upstream and three sites downstream of the dam. Macroinvertebrate communities were analyzed using both multi-metric (Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity [B-IBI]) and multivariate (Predictive Assessment Tool for Oregon [PREDATOR]) approaches, as well as EPT and Functional Feeding Group (FFG) analysis. All analytical approaches indicated declines in habitat quality in 2010 relative to 2009, and showed increasing impairment …

Evaluation Of A Merged Secondary And Special Education Program, Ann Fullerton Dr., Barbara Ruben, Stephanie Mcbride, Susan Bert

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications and Presentations

If classroom teachers are among the greatest determinant of student learning, then teacher preparation programs have a role to play improving educational outcomes for struggling learners. There are currently three established teacher preparation program models: (1) "discrete"; (2) "integrated"; and (3) "merged." In the "discrete" model, which is the most widely implemented of the three, general and special education programs are separate. In the "integrated" model, separate programs are retained but faculty work together to develop some courses and/or field experiences in which special education candidates learn about the general education curriculum while general education candidates learn about inclusive education. …

Research On Coupled Human And Natural Systems (Chans): Approach, Challenges, And Strategies, Marina Alberti, Heidi Asbjornsen, Lawrence A. Baker, Nicholas Brozović, Laurie E. Drinkwater, Scott A. Drzyzga, Claire A. Jantz, José Fragoso, Daniel S. Holland, Timothy A. Kohler, Jianguo Liu, William J. Mcconnell, Herbert D. G. Maschner, James D. A. Millington, Michael Monticino, Guillermo Podestá, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., Charles L. Redman, Nicholas J. Reo, David J. Sailor, Gerald Urquhart

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Understanding the complexity of human–nature interactions is central to the quest for both human well-being and global sustainability. To build an understanding of these interactions, scientists, planners, resource managers, policy makers, and communities increasingly are collaborating across wide-ranging disciplines and knowledge domains. Scientists and others are generating new integrated knowledge on top of their requisite specialized knowledge to understand complex systems in order to solve pressing environmental and social problems (e.g., Carpenter et al. 2009). One approach to this sort of integration, bringing together detailed knowledge of various disciplines (e.g., social, economic, biological, and geophysical), has become known as the …

Synthesis Of Quantum Circuits In Linear Nearest Neighbor Model Using Positive Davio Lattices, Marek Perkowski, Martin Lukac, Dipal Shah, Michitaka Kameyama

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

We present a logic synthesis method based on lattices that realize quantum arrays in One-Dimensional Ion Trap technology. This means that all gates are built from 2x2 quantum primitives that are located only on neighbor qubits in a onedimensional space (called also vector of qubits or Linear Nearest Neighbor (LNN) architecture). The Logic circuits designed by the proposed method are realized only with 3*3 Toffoli, Feynman and NOT quantum gates and the usage of the commonly used multi-input Toffoli gates is avoided. This realization method of quantum circuits is different from most of reversible circuits synthesis methods from the literature …

Teaching Matters: A Panel Critique Of Budd's Framing Library Instruction And The Author's Rejoinder, Patrick P. Ragains

Communications in Information Literacy

A detailed examination of John Budd's book, Framing Library Instruction, including discussion of cognitive theories and the state of information literacy instruction.

Why Information Literacy Is Invisible, William Badke

Communications in Information Literacy

Despite the many information literacy programs on higher education campuses, the literature of information literacy and the concept of information literacy as a viable academic subject remain hidden to most professors and academic administrators. Information literacy is invisible to academia because it is misunderstood, academic administrators have not put it on their institutions' agendas, the literature of information literacy remains in the library silo, there is a false belief that information literacy is acquired only by experience, there is a false assumption that technological ability is the same as information literacy, faculty culture makes information literacy less significant than other …