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Random Ramblings -- The Journal Is Dead; Long Live The Article, Bob Holley Jun 2011

Random Ramblings -- The Journal Is Dead; Long Live The Article, Bob Holley

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


From The Reference Desk, Tom Gilson Jun 2011

From The Reference Desk, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


And They Were There -- Reports Of Meetings -- Ssp, Computers In Libraries, And 30th Charleston Conference, Sever Bordeianu Jun 2011

And They Were There -- Reports Of Meetings -- Ssp, Computers In Libraries, And 30th Charleston Conference, Sever Bordeianu

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Legally Speaking -- Righthaven: Wrong Model, Bryan M. Carson J.D., M.I.L.S. Jun 2011

Legally Speaking -- Righthaven: Wrong Model, Bryan M. Carson J.D., M.I.L.S.

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


@Brunning: People & Technology, Dennis Brunning Jun 2011

@Brunning: People & Technology, Dennis Brunning

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Something To Think About -- Spring Fever?, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey Jun 2011

Something To Think About -- Spring Fever?, Mary E. (Tinker) Massey

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Ebooks And Memory: Down The Rabbit Hole?, Tony Horava Jun 2011

Ebooks And Memory: Down The Rabbit Hole?, Tony Horava

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Atg Special Report -- Looking Beyond Etextbooks And Tapping Into The Personal Learning Experience, William Rieders Jun 2011

Atg Special Report -- Looking Beyond Etextbooks And Tapping Into The Personal Learning Experience, William Rieders

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Back Talk -- Under The White Nights Of St. Petersburg, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson Jun 2011

Back Talk -- Under The White Nights Of St. Petersburg, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


A Publisher's Perspective On Pda, Rebecca Seger, Lenny Allen Jun 2011

A Publisher's Perspective On Pda, Rebecca Seger, Lenny Allen

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Politics Of Indigeneity In Fogarty's Poetry, Sean Gorman Jun 2011

Politics Of Indigeneity In Fogarty's Poetry, Sean Gorman

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Politics of Indigeneity in Fogarty's Poetry" Sean Gorman discusses Indigenous themes and issues with regards to the poetry of Murri writer Lionel Fogarty. As Fogarty is seen as a poet who writes complex prose, his material challenges non-Indigenous readerships by subverting Standard English and conventional reading practices. Gorman suggests strategies by which to engage with Fogarty's material and, employing the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, namely heteroglossia and dialogism, to arrive at a better understanding of the rich and complex nature of Fogarty's work. Gorman executes his analysis in relation to the political debates that have arisen since …


Formation Of Silicon Nanodots Via Ion Beam Sputtering Of Ultrathin Gold Thin Film Coatings On Si, Osman El-Atwani, Sami Ortoleva, Alex Cimaroli, Jean Paul Allain May 2011

Formation Of Silicon Nanodots Via Ion Beam Sputtering Of Ultrathin Gold Thin Film Coatings On Si, Osman El-Atwani, Sami Ortoleva, Alex Cimaroli, Jean Paul Allain

Birck and NCN Publications

Ion beam sputtering of ultrathin film Au coatings used as a physical catalyst for self-organization of Si nanostructures has been achieved by tuning the incident particle energy. This approach holds promise as a scalable nanomanufacturing parallel processing alternative to candidate nanolithography techniques. Structures of 11- to 14-nm Si nanodots are formed with normal incidence low-energy Ar ions of 200 eV and fluences above 2 x 10(17) cm(-2). In situ surface characterization during ion irradiation elucidates early stage ion mixing migration mechanism for nanodot self-organization. In particular, the evolution from gold film islands to the formation of ion-induced metastable gold silicide …


Deakin University Library An Active Partner In The Implementation Of The New Generation Platform, Desire2learn, Anne Horn, Sue Owen May 2011

Deakin University Library An Active Partner In The Implementation Of The New Generation Platform, Desire2learn, Anne Horn, Sue Owen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


E-Learning And B-Learning Information Literacy Programs At Science And Technology Universities In Estonia, Finland, Latvia And Poland. A Comparative Study, Marzena Marcinek, Aija Janbicka, Kirsi Heino, Virpi Palmgren, Gerda Koidla May 2011

E-Learning And B-Learning Information Literacy Programs At Science And Technology Universities In Estonia, Finland, Latvia And Poland. A Comparative Study, Marzena Marcinek, Aija Janbicka, Kirsi Heino, Virpi Palmgren, Gerda Koidla

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Social Software On The Information Literacy Skills Of Net Generation Students: A Case Study, Gabor Feuer May 2011

The Impact Of Social Software On The Information Literacy Skills Of Net Generation Students: A Case Study, Gabor Feuer

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Teaching And Learning On The Web, Mona Wernbro, Mauritza Jadefrid May 2011

Teaching And Learning On The Web, Mona Wernbro, Mauritza Jadefrid

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Improving Near-Field Confinement Of A Bowtie Aperture Using Surface Plasmon Polaritons, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Okan Ersoy, Xianfan Xu May 2011

Improving Near-Field Confinement Of A Bowtie Aperture Using Surface Plasmon Polaritons, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Okan Ersoy, Xianfan Xu

Birck and NCN Publications

Bowtie aperture is known to produce subdiffraction-limited optical spot with high intensity. In this work, we investigate integrating a bowtie aperture with circular grooves to reduce the divergence of the near-field produced by the bowtie aperture. Numerical results indicate that surface waves reflected from circular grooves improve the field confinement of a bowtie aperture along the polarization axis. These circular grooves with period near half the wavelength of surface plasmon polaritons reduce the spot size by as much as 40% at distances between 20 and 100 nm from the surface and create a more symmetrical optical spot. (C) 2011 American …


Shared Benefits From Exposing Research Data, Malcom Wolski, Joanna Richardson, Robyn Rebollo May 2011

Shared Benefits From Exposing Research Data, Malcom Wolski, Joanna Richardson, Robyn Rebollo

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Open Access Activities Of The German National Library Of Science And Technology: Scoap3-Dh And The Support Of German Universities For Arxiv, Uwe Rosemann May 2011

Open Access Activities Of The German National Library Of Science And Technology: Scoap3-Dh And The Support Of German Universities For Arxiv, Uwe Rosemann

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Facilitate International Repository Networks: The Pan-European Openaire Project And The International Organisation Confederation Of Open Access Repositories (Coar), Norbert Lossau May 2011

Facilitate International Repository Networks: The Pan-European Openaire Project And The International Organisation Confederation Of Open Access Repositories (Coar), Norbert Lossau

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.


Mosfl1 Is Important For Virulence And Heat Tolerance In Magnaporthe Oryzae., Guotian Li, Xiaoying Zhou, Lingan Kong, Yuling Wang, Haifeng Zhang, Heng Zhu, Thomas K. Mitchell, Ralph A. Dean, Jin-Rong Xu May 2011

Mosfl1 Is Important For Virulence And Heat Tolerance In Magnaporthe Oryzae., Guotian Li, Xiaoying Zhou, Lingan Kong, Yuling Wang, Haifeng Zhang, Heng Zhu, Thomas K. Mitchell, Ralph A. Dean, Jin-Rong Xu

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology Faculty Publications

The formation of appressoria, specialized plant penetration structures of Magnaporthe oryzae, is regulated by the MST11-MST7-PMK1 MAP kinase cascade. One of its downstream transcription factor, MST12, is important for penetration and invasive growth but dispensable for appressorium formation. To identify additional downstream targets that are regulated by Pmk1, in this study we performed phosphorylation assays with a protein microarray composed of 573M. oryzae transcription factor (TF) genes. Three of the TF genes phosphorylated by Pmk1 in vitro were further analyzed by coimmunoprecipitation assays. One of them, MoSFL1, was found to interact with …


Review Of Democracy And The Political Unconscious, Gregory M. Fahy May 2011

Review Of Democracy And The Political Unconscious, Gregory M. Fahy

Education and Culture

Noëlle McAfee analyzes social pathologies that have arisen in the United States. She argues that we have been suffering society-wide repetition compulsions and time collapses, and acting out in ways that continue the cycle of suffering. She presents a detailed prescription of how we might work through these issues more democratically and fruitfully using deliberative talking cures. McAfee’s application of the psychoanalytic model to society is fascinating and she offers very concrete and practical suggestions for how to better resolve social trauma.


Social Capital And Education: Implications For Student And School Performance, Gregory K. Plagens May 2011

Social Capital And Education: Implications For Student And School Performance, Gregory K. Plagens

Education and Culture

Scholarly work on student and school performance poses a variety of explanations for observed variations. One explanation receiving too little attention is social capital, an intangible resource argued to grow out of social relations and social structure. The seedbed of social capital is argued to reside with John Dewey, who in 1900 used the term when explaining the importance of reading, writing and arithmetic to the future of individuals and communities. This paper examines social capital as a concept and discusses indicators and linkages that may be valuable to educators seeking ways to raise student and school performance.


An Overburdened Term: Dewey’S Concept Of “Experience” As Curriculum Theory, Jayson Seaman, Peter J. Nelsen May 2011

An Overburdened Term: Dewey’S Concept Of “Experience” As Curriculum Theory, Jayson Seaman, Peter J. Nelsen

Education and Culture

This article examines Dewey’s concept of ‘experience’ in light of his analysis of industrial capitalism, his anthropological thinking, and his critique of early 20th century educational ideologies, giving the concept a more expansive meaning than what is typically represented in the educational literature. We also outline the specific curricular logic Dewey established in the early 20th century, which was intended to realize his overriding aim of establishing controls over an increasingly corrosive social, economic and technological order brought about by industrial capitalism, while still promoting individual development. Preliminary links between ‘experience’ and contemporary curriculum models are also examined.


Complete Genome Sequence Of Mycoplasma Suis And Insights Into Its Biology And Adaption To An Erythrocyte Niche, Ana Ms Guimaraes, Andrea P. Santos, Phillip Sanmiguel, Thomas Walter, Jorge Timenetsky, Joanne Messick May 2011

Complete Genome Sequence Of Mycoplasma Suis And Insights Into Its Biology And Adaption To An Erythrocyte Niche, Ana Ms Guimaraes, Andrea P. Santos, Phillip Sanmiguel, Thomas Walter, Jorge Timenetsky, Joanne Messick

Department of Comparative Pathobiology Faculty Publications

Mycoplasma suis, the causative agent of porcine infectious anemia, has never been cultured in vitro and mechanisms by which it causes disease are poorly understood. Thus, the objective herein was to use whole genome sequencing and analysis of M. suis to define pathogenicity mechanisms and biochemical pathways. M. suis was harvested from the blood of an experimentally infected pig. Following DNA extraction and construction of a paired end library, whole-genome sequencing was performed using GS-FLX (454) and Titanium chemistry. Reads on paired-end constructs were assembled using GS De Novo Assembler and gaps closed by primer walking; assembly was validated by …


How Much Do U.S. University Students Know, And Want To Know, About Sustainability And Green Building? The Findings Of A Survey, And Possible Implications For General Elective Curricula., Jeremy R. Farner May 2011

How Much Do U.S. University Students Know, And Want To Know, About Sustainability And Green Building? The Findings Of A Survey, And Possible Implications For General Elective Curricula., Jeremy R. Farner

Purdue Polytechnic Masters Theses

Using the survey approach, this investigation examined the attitudes and interest of college students at two universities in different geographic locations within the United States.  Approximately 24,000 students from all disciplines and majors at Weber State University (WSU) in Utah, and 4,000 at Purdue University in Indiana, were invited to participate in a study to determine current knowledge, familiarity, and interest in topics within the sustainability and Green Building educational arena. The goal of this study was to determine what students already know, would like to know, and how much interest there would be in developing …


Leave Them Microseconds Alone: Scalable Architecture For Maintaining Packet Latency Measurements, Myungjin Lee, Nick Duffield, Ramana Rao Kompella May 2011

Leave Them Microseconds Alone: Scalable Architecture For Maintaining Packet Latency Measurements, Myungjin Lee, Nick Duffield, Ramana Rao Kompella

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


How Do Millennial Engineering And Technology Students Experience Learning Through Traditional Teaching Methods Employed In The University Setting?, Elizabeth A. Howard May 2011

How Do Millennial Engineering And Technology Students Experience Learning Through Traditional Teaching Methods Employed In The University Setting?, Elizabeth A. Howard

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

The purpose of the study was to document and analyze how Millennial engineering and technology students experience learning in large lecture classrooms. To help achieve this purpose, perceptions Millennials have toward traditional teaching methods employed in large lecture classes were analyzed and discussed. Additionally, this study documented how Millennials experienced technology within large lecture classrooms. A learning model depicting how Millennials experience learning within the large lecture classroom was created based on the results of this study. This model employed three separate tools utilized within the large lecture classroom. These tools: Lecture, Technology, and Homework, work together to synthesize learning …


Can Video Games Be Valid Predictors Of Success For The Private Pilot Phase Check?, Laura E. Bourguignon May 2011

Can Video Games Be Valid Predictors Of Success For The Private Pilot Phase Check?, Laura E. Bourguignon

Aviation Technology Graduate Student Publications

A study was conducted at a Midwestern university to determine whether or not video game performance can be an accurate predictor of success on the private pilot phase check. In this study, there were thirty-three potential participants enrolled in AT 145, the private pilot flight training course. Twenty-three (70%) students agreed to participate. These volunteer participants were asked to complete a video game (Super Mario Galaxy). The items collected and time to finish a pre-selected level were recorded. These scores were correlated with the aggregated scores that the participants earned during their private pilot phase checks. Although a survey of …


Middle-And High-School Students’ Interest In Nanoscale Science And Engineering Topics And Phenomena, Kelly Hutchinson, George M. Bodner, Lynn Bryan Apr 2011

Middle-And High-School Students’ Interest In Nanoscale Science And Engineering Topics And Phenomena, Kelly Hutchinson, George M. Bodner, Lynn Bryan

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

Research has shown that an increase in students’ interest in science and engineering can have a positive effect on their achievement (Baird, 1986; Eccles & Wigfield, 2002; French, Immekus & Oakes, 2005; Schiefele, Krapp, & Winteler, 1992; Schwartz Bloom & Haplin, 2003; Weinburgh, 1995). Whereas many NSF-funded programs in materials science and nanotechnology have included efforts to develop curriculum materials for use in secondary or tertiary classrooms, relatively little work has been done to determine the topics that increase students’ interest in science, engineering, and technology. As part of the work done by the National Center for Learning and Teaching …