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Three Poems: Qhuab Ke; I Was Basking In The Lights Of New York City, You Were Buried In Laos; In Pretense, Chelsey See Xiong

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Poems for the living and the dead, in conversation between the two worlds.

A Critical Appraisal Of The Dark Triad Literature And Suggestions For Moving Forward, Joshua D. Miller, Colin E. Vize, Michael L. Crowe, Donald R. Lynam

Department of Psychological Sciences Faculty Publications

Since its introduction in 2002, dark-triad research—the simultaneous study of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism—has exploded, with the publication of hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, books, and chapters, as well as coverage by the lay media. Unfortunately, several limitations to this research are unrecognized or ignored. These limitations include (a) the treatment of dark-triad constructs as unidimensional, contrary to evidence for their multidimensionality; (b) the indistinctness between current measures of Machiavellianism and psychopathy; (c) the use of multivariate statistical approaches that pose statistical and interpretive difficulties; (d) failure to test dark-triad relations directly against one another; and (e) methodological concerns related to …

Urban Underground Infrastructure Monitoring Iot: The Path Loss Analysis, Abdul Salam, Syed Shah

Faculty Publications

The extra quantities of wastewater entering the pipes can cause backups that result in sanitary sewer overflows. Urban underground infrastructure monitoring is important for controlling the flow of extraneous water into the pipelines. By combining the wireless underground communications and sensor solutions, the urban underground IoT applications such as real time wastewater and storm water overflow monitoring can be developed. In this paper, the path loss analysis of wireless underground communications in urban underground IoT for wastewater monitoring has been presented. It has been shown that the communication range of up to 4 kilometers can be achieved from an underground …

Pbrm1 Regulates Stress Response In Epithelial Cells, Elizabeth G. Porter, Alisha Dhiman, Basudev Chowdhury, Benjamin C. Carter, Hang Lin, Jane C. Stewart, Majid Kazemian, Michael K. Wendt, Emily C. Dykhuizen

Department of Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Polybromo1 (PBRM1) is a chromatin remodeler subunit highly mutated in cancer, particularly clear cell renal carcinoma. PBRM1 is a member of the SWI/SNF subcomplex, PBAF (PBRM1-Brg1/Brm-associated factors), and is characterized by six tandem bromodomains. Here we establish a role for PBRM1 in epithelial cell maintenance through the expression of genes involved in cell adhesion, metabolism, stress response, and apoptosis. In support of a general role for PBRM1 in stress response and apoptosis, we observe that loss of PBRM1 results in an increase in reactive oxygen species generation and a decrease in cellular viability under stress conditions. We find that loss …

An Analysis Of Student Performance At The Intersection Of Diversity And Information Literacy, Nastasha E. Johnson, Nathan Mentzer

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Objective--When teaching information Literacy (IL) concepts, instructors often have no knowledge about the background or previous IL exposure of the students they are teaching.

This study aims to create a holistic picture of the students at a large Midwestern U.S. university in a first year introductory course on the design process for solving engineering problems.

Method--Institutional data and course level data were traced and linked to individual students, in introduction to design thinking first year course. This course at a major high research activity institution in the Midwestern United States. From a total course size of 650, institutional …

Collaborative Product–Service Approach To Aviation Maintenance, Repair, And Overhaul. Part Ii: Numerical Investigations, Cassio Dias Goncalves, Michael Kokkolaras

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

This two-part paper proposes a new collaborative approach to airframe maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO). A quantitative model is introduced in Part I to represent the business relationships between original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and MRO enterprises. In Part II, the presented model is used to assess potential financial benefits obtained by each of these stakeholders as a result of the collaboration.

The quantitative model is built to capture the main dependencies between an independent MRO operating in South America and its interactions with three major airframe OEMs. Interviews were conducted with MRO and OEM professionals to identify the most impactful …

Two Poems: Stop Time Before; Forsaken Ones, Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This creative work features two poems: Stop Time Before; Forsaken Ones

Two Poems: Chanda Says; Dropping Chanda Off At Nursery School, Bunkong Tuon

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This creative work features two poems: Chanda Says, Dropping Chanda Off at Nursery School.

The Controversial F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: America's Most Expensive Weapons System And Its Global Impact, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Creative Materials

Presentation describing my 2019 Palgrave Macmillan book Global Defense Procurement and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. It describes this aircraft and places particular emphasis on the government information resources from multiple countries used in writing this book.

British Government Information Resources, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Creative Materials

Provides an overview of British Government information resources. Contents include basic British economic and political background and information from British Government websites including the Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Brexit related material produced by British government agencies such as the Department for Exiting the European Union,, the Ministry of Defence, the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Home Office Visas and Immigration Section, the Office of National Statistics, Her Majesty's Treasury, the British Parliament including parliamentary committees and research agencies, the website of Member of Parliament (MP) Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative-North East Somerset), a webcast of House …

Stone Skipping Physics, Charles F. Babbs

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

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An Underground Radio Wave Propagation Prediction Model For Digital Agriculture, Abdul Salam

Faculty Publications

Underground sensing and propagation of Signals in the Soil (SitS) medium is an electromagnetic issue. The path loss prediction with higher accuracy is an open research subject in digital agriculture monitoring applications for sensing and communications. The statistical data are predominantly derived from site-specific empirical measurements, which is considered an impediment to universal application. Nevertheless, in the existing literature, statistical approaches have been applied to the SitS channel modeling, where impulse response analysis and the Friis open space transmission formula are employed as the channel modeling tool in different soil types under varying soil moisture conditions at diverse communication distances …

Le Personnel Est Politique: Médias, Esthétique Et Politique De L'Autofiction Chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume Et Nelly Arcan, Mercédès Baillargeon

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Regardant les questions de témoignage, de confession, de traumatisme, de sexualité et de violence dans les œuvres (semi-)autobiographiques, ce livre explore la co-construction d’identités personnelles et collectives par des femmes écrivains à l’ère des médias et de l’autoreprésentation. À une époque où la littérature française est souvent accusée d'être égocentrique et trop narcissique, Mercédès Baillargeon avance que l’autofiction des femmes a été reçue avec controverse depuis le tournant du millénaire parce qu’elle perturbe les idées reçues à propos des identités nationale, de genre et de race, et parce qu’elle questionne la distinction entre fiction et autobiographie. En effet, ces écrivaines …

Structural Damping By Layers Of Fibrous Media Applied To A Periodically-Constrained Vibrating Panel, Yutong Xue, J Stuart Bolton, Thomas Herdtle, Seungkyu Lee, Ronald W. Gerdes

Publications of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories

It has recently been demonstrated that layers of fibrous, "acoustical" material can effectively damp structural vibration in the sub-critical frequency range. In that frequency range, the acoustical near-field of a panel consists of oscillatory flow oriented primarily parallel with the panel surface. When a fibrous layer occupies that region, energy is dissipated by the viscous interaction of the near-field and the fibrous medium, and the result is a damping of the panel motion. Previously, the damping effect has been demonstrated to occur for line-driven, infinite panels and panels with isolated constraints. In this article, the focus is instead on periodically-constrained …

Composable, Sound Transformations Of Nested Recursion And Loops, Kirshanthan Sundararajah, Milind Kulkarni

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Scheduling transformations reorder a program’s operations to improve locality and/or parallelism. The polyhedral model is a general framework for composing and applying instancewise scheduling transformations for loop-based programs, but there is no analogous framework for recursive programs. This paper presents an approach for composing and applying scheduling transformations—like inlining, interchange, and code motion—to nested recursive programs. This paper describes the phases of the approach—representing dynamic instances, composing and applying transformations, reasoning about correctness—and shows that these techniques can verify the soundness of composed transformations.

Rheo-Physical Characterization Of Microstructure And Flow Behavior Of Concentrated Surfactant Solutions, Eduard Caicedo Casso, Jason E Bice, Lisa R. Nielsen, Jessica L Sargent, Seth Lindberg, Kendra Erk

School of Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Processing-relevant relationships between the microstructure and flow behavior of concentrated surfactant solutions were determined by a combination of basic rheological experiments, rheo-flow velocimetry tests, and flow birefringence measurements. The most common surfactant microstructures found in liquid soaps and other consumer care products—spherical, worm-like, and hexagonally packed micelles and lamellar structures—were recreated by varying the concentration of sodium laureth sulfate in water from 20 to 70 wt% and adding salt in some cases. It was found that common features of flow curves, such as power-law shear thinning behavior, resulted from a wide variety of material responses including shear-induced wall slip in …

The Role Of Faculty Mentoring In Improving Retention And Completion Rates For Historically Underrepresented Stem Students, Kelli L. Chelberg, Lisa Bosman

Technology Leadership and Innovation Faculty Publications

There is a growing recognition of the need for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers who provide diverse perspectives enabling companies to keep up with the demands of the 21st -century workforce. Creating a diverse workforce requires improving access to STEM education for historically underrepresented students, including low-income students and first-generation students. However, significant challenges and barriers exist. The purpose of this paper is to showcase an innovative approach to mentoring historically underrepresented STEM students which integrates photovoice and photo-elicitation. This new approach in mentoring takes student participation one step further by asking students to document and share their …

Pan-African Trials: Fast-Tracking The Delivery Of New Soybean Varieties, Brian Diers, Randy Nelson, Godfree Chigeza

Scale Up Conference

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Mobile Phone-Based Dairy Feeding Support Tool, Bhola Shrestha

Scale Up Conference

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Scaling Up Proven Wheat Technologies And Innovations For Achieving A Wheat Self-Sufficiency In Africa, S. Assefa, T. Wuletaw, Z. Bishaw, K. Shideed, M. Baum, I. Tahir, T. Debele, I. U. Abubakar, O. Olabanji, D. Kutywayo, R. Mogi, O. Goita, C. Akem

Scale Up Conference

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University Of Eldoret Food Processing Training And Incubation Center, Violet Mugalavai

Scale Up Conference

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Precision Agriculture For African Development, Aboubakar Karim

Scale Up Conference

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The Taat Clearinghouse: Coordinating Technology Delivery At Scale, Mpoko Bokanga

Scale Up Conference

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Gem Parboiled Domestic Rice In Urban Markets: A Promising Future In Nigeria, Sidi Sanyang, Kamanda Josey, Fiamohe Rose Edwige, Ndindeng Sali Atanga, Attiogbevisomado A. Kafuata, Abdoulaye Abiba

Scale Up Conference

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Establishing Cassava As An Agro-Industrial Crop Through The Scaling-Out Of Proven Technologies And Innovations For The Production, Processing, And Marketing Of Value-Added Products In Africa, Adebayo Abass

Scale Up Conference

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Postharvest Processing Enterprises For African Smallholders, Alexandra Spieldoch

Scale Up Conference

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What Factors Constrain The Efficient Scaling Up Of Cocoa Value Chain Technologies Among Cocoa Farmers Under The Commercial Agriculture Development Project? - - Insights From Cross River State, Nigeria, Elizabeth A. Onwubuya, Ifeoma Q. Anugwa, Ogochukwu C. Edeh

Scale Up Conference

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Processing Of Yam For Export, Miriam Ahunna Ofoeze

Scale Up Conference

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Scale Up Of Climate Smart Maize Technology Package For Transformation Of The Maize Value Chain And Livelihoods In Africa, Gospel Omanya

Scale Up Conference

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The Ict4scale Initiative: Harnessing Ict To Scale Up Agricultural Solutions, Bernard Pelletier, Berhane Gebru, Catherine Mlozabanda, Stanley Khaila, George Vilili, Mark Leclair, Rex Chapota

Scale Up Conference

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