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Technology And Information Fusion Needs To Address The Food, Energy, Water Systems (Fews) Nexus Challenges, David Ebert, Christian Butzke, Melba Crawford, Philip Owens, Dimitrios Peroulis

Purdue VACCINE workshop reports

In response to the Food, Energy, Water Systems (FEWS) Nexus Challenge grant awarded by NSF, the team of investigators led by David Ebert, along with Christian Butzke, Melba Crawford, Phillip Owens, and Dimitrios Peroulis conducted a two-day workshop in Napa, California on November 5th and 6th, 2015. The workshop addressed the emerging issues in the food/energy/water systems throughout the diverse geography of the United States and over various crops and environmental conditions to better understand and model and ultimately devise a solution for the challenges to the FEWS nexus. One of the intended outcomes of the workshop was to generate …

Rising Substance Abuse And Indiana Families: What Are Legislators To Do?, Center For Families

Center for Families Publications

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Ethnographic Collector, Gideon Singer

Purdue GIS Day

Ethnography can be enhanced by utilizing both ArcGIS Online and Arc Collector. Throughout 2015, I have designed and utilized the Ethnographic Collector web map to record qualitative observations, spatial records, and multi-media attachments. Data was recorded while conducting pilot research on the e-waste landscape of Tippecanoe County, Indiana and a class ethnography project on the neighborhood of New Chauncey. The Ethnographic Collector has augmented qualitative data collection via participant observation and go-along interviews and can likely be utilized in tandem with participatory GIS.

Atg Interviews Joyce Ogburn, Dean Of Libraries And Carol G. Belk Distinguished Professor Of Library And Information Studies, Katina Strauch, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

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Deadlines

Against the Grain

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And They Were There--Reports Of Meetings, Ramune K. Kubilius

Against the Grain

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From Your Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Joyce Ogburn Profile

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews Alicia Wise, Director Of Access And Policy, Elsevier, Katina Strauch, Tom Gilson, Matthew Ismail

Against the Grain

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Being Earnest With Collections--Rethinking Monograph Acquisitions In A Large Academic Library, Trish Chatterley, Michael A. Arthur

Against the Grain

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Book Reviews--Monographic Musings, Regina Gong

Against the Grain

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Optimizing Library Services--Digitizing The Humanities: A How-To Guide For The Savvy Librarian, Mandi Shepp, Lindsay Johnston, Ann Lupold

Against the Grain

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Decoder Ring--Unexpectedly Musical Updates, Jerry Spiller

Against the Grain

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Full Page Ads

Against the Grain

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Op Ed--I, Library, Lura D. Sanborn

Against the Grain

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From The Reference Desk--Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Back Talk--I'M A Publisher Too!, Ann Okerson

Against the Grain

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Pelikan's Antidisambiguation--World War Iii, Or Simply War, Ver. 3.0--A Soft Rollout?, Michael P. Pelikan

Against the Grain

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Modeling And Visualizing Regular Tweeting Pattern Of Purdue Campus, Yuki Huang, Jie Shan

Purdue GIS Day

With the strength of social media, many crowd-sourced sensing and collaboration projects can benefit from this kind of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). And this project is trying to find out the potential spatial and temporal pattern of the twitter user and provide the probabilities of the clusters.

Kawm Ntawv Qib Siab Understanding The Psychosociocultural Educational Experiences Of Hmong American Undergraduates, Mariko M. Lin, Pa Her, Alberta M. Gloria

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Using a psychosociocultural framework, this study examined the educational experiences of 85 Hmong American undergraduates attending a predominantly-White university. Differences in class standing indicated that upper-division students reported higher confidence in college-related tasks than their lower-division counterparts, yet the upper-division students perceived a less-welcoming university environment that was incongruent with their cultural values than the lower-division undergraduates. Peer support, college self-efficacy and cultural congruity were salient variables in understanding Hmong American undergraduate’s educational experiences. The study’s limitations, future research directions, and implications for college administrators and faculty are discussed.

Implementation Of A Novel Hydraulic Hybrid Powertrain In A Sports Utility Vehicle, Michael Sprengel, Tyler Bleazard, Hiral Haria, Monika Ivantysynova

School of Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Hydraulic hybrid transmissions offer an efficient and high performance alternative to electric hybrid transmission in on-road vehicles. One of the principle benefits of hydraulic over electric hybrids is the higher power density offered by their energy storage media. This enables hydraulic hybrids to capture virtually all of the available kinetic energy from braking. In contrast electric hybrids are often forced to dissipate part of this energy through friction brakes due to the lower power density inherent in their energy storage media. To date various hydraulic hybrid architectures have been investigated and put into production. However as is typically true there …

Library Publishing Directory 2016, Library Publishing Coalition

Library Publishing Directory

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Wealth And Poverty In Jewish Tradition, Leonard Greenspoon

Studies in Jewish Civilization

Economic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twenty-first century. Although these issues have not troubled all people at all times, they are nonetheless not new. Thus, it is not surprising that Judaism has developed many perspectives, theoretical and practical, to explain and ameliorate the circumstances that produce serious economic disparity. This volume offers an accessible collection of articles that deal comprehensively with this phenomenon from a variety of approaches and perspectives.

Within this framework, the fourteen authors who contributed to Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition bring a formidable array of experience and insight to uncover interconnected …

Pbl In The Era Of Reform Standards: Challenges And Benefits Perceived By Teachers In One Elementary School, Nahid Nariman, Janet Chrispeels

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

We explore teachers’ efforts to implement problem-based learning (PBL) in an elementary school serving predominantly English learners. Teachers had an opportunity to implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) using PBL in a summer school setting with no test-pressures. To understand the challenges and benefits of PBL implementation, a case study method was used and a variety of data collected. Results suggest collaboration amongst teachers is essential to design and implement PBL units. A challenge was the tension between the contradictory accountability and curriculum coverage goals of the regular academic year versus letting go to promote inquiry. Both teachers and …

Stress Granules Modulate Syk To Cause Microglial Cell Dysfunction In Alzheimer's Disease, Soumira Ghosh, Robert Geahlen

Borch Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Faculty Publications

Microglial cells in the brains of Alzheimer's patients are known to be recruited to amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques where they exhibit an activated phenotype, but are defective for plaque removal by phagocytosis. In this study, we show that microglia stressed by exposure to sodium arsenite or Aβ(1–42) peptides or fibrils form ex- tensive stress granules (SGs) to which the tyrosine kinase, SYK, is recruited. SYK enhances the formation of SGs, is active within the resulting SGs and stimulates the production of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species that are toxic to neuronal cells. This sequestration of SYK inhibits the ability of microglial …

Design Of A Guarded Hot Plate For Measuring Thin Specimens Of Polymer And Composite Materials, Clark Stacey, M. J. Parfitt, A. J. Simpkin, J. Wu

International Thermal Conductivity Conference (ITCC) and the International Thermal Expansion Symposium (ITES)

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a new design of guarded hot plate apparatus specifically for absolute measurements on thin specimens of medium thermal conductivity materials, such as the polymer composites that are becoming more widely used in aerospace and other advanced manufacturing sectors. Although NPL has an existing measurement facility based on a commercially manufactured apparatus conforming to ASTM E1530, this current facility is not based on an absolute measurement technique and is not able to provide the low measurement uncertainty or flexibility that is increasingly being demanded by industrial users of this NPL service.

The target specification …

A New Facility For The Experimental Investigation On Nano Heat Transfer Between Gas Molecules And Ceramic Surfaces, D. Bayer, U. Gross, K. Raed

International Thermal Conductivity Conference (ITCC) and the International Thermal Expansion Symposium (ITES)

Since the last decade, the interest has risen in nanoscaled technological products, which have advantages through their size effect. The size effect also plays a significant role in the area of micro- and nanoscale heat transfers. Many applications were developed using this effect, such as nanostructured porous media, e.g. Aerogels or ceramics. This experimental work is focused on the determination of thermal accommodation coefficients (TAC) on ceramic surfaces considering several influencing factors. TAC is influenced by temperature, kind of gas, kind of wall material, roughness, and contamination with adsorbed gas layers. To determine TAC, a parallel plate apparatus is used, …

Heat Transfer Mechanisms In Porous Materials And Contemporary Problems In Thermophysical Properties Investigations: Analyses And Solutions, E. Litovsky, V. Issoupov, J. Kleiman

International Thermal Conductivity Conference (ITCC) and the International Thermal Expansion Symposium (ITES)

This article is an overview of the topical problems in the investigation of thermophysical properties and the development of a database for porous materials. Determination of both apparent/measured and true thermophysical properties is discussed taking into account combined heat and mass transfer, latent heat effects during chemical and physical transformations, as well as structural changes. The approaches to the solution of these problems are demonstrated for a number of different classes of materials:

1. Industrial refractories, ceramics, highly porous insulation;
2. Moist materials and materials undergoing phase, chemical and structural transformations;
3. Materials semitransparent for heat radiation.

The approaches being used in the …