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Annual Report City Of Nashua, New Hampshire For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2024, Nashua Town Representatives

Nashua, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

2024 Hippology & Horse Judging Information Packet, Unh Cooperative Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

2024 Deerfield Fair 4-H Building Premium Book, Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

2024 Deerfield Fair 4-H Animal Shows Premium Book, Extension

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Sediment Ballast Accelerates Sinking Of Alaska North Slope Crude Oil Measured Ex Situ With Surface Water From Cook Inlet, Jesse Ross, Nancy Kinner, Susan Saupe, Kai Ziervogel

Faculty Publications

Oil spilled into the ocean interacts with suspended matter forming aggregates that transport oil into subsurface layers and towards the bottom. We conducted a series of laboratory experiments to explore aggregation of oil with natural phytoplankton assemblages from Cook Inlet, Alaska at three times during a spring bloom. Oil and phytoplankton formed marine oil snow (MOS) that remained positively buoyant with a small fraction of MOS sinking to the bottom of our experimental bottles. Seawater treatments amended with suspended sediments formed oil-mineral aggregates (OMAs) with an oil capacity similar to MOS (∼20% of aggregate area was covered with oil). OMAs …

Town Of Lee, New Hampshire Annual Town Report June 30, 2024, Lee Town Representatives

Lee, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Faculty Spotlight: Bonnie Brown, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Single-Session Practice Structure On Motor Skill Acquisition And Alpha And Beta Eeg Oscillations, Aubrey Porter, Ronald Victor Croce, Wayne Smith

Faculty Publications

Background: Although it is known that practicing a motor skill updates the associated internal model, it is still unclear as to how cortical oscillations linked with the motor skill change under differing practice schedules. The current study investigated α- and β-power changes associated with motor skill acquisition. Objectives: Firstly, we investigated the behavioral effects of practice on motor learning and retention during repetitive (RP) and variable (VP) practice schedules on an anticipation timing task. Secondly, we investigated changes in cortical α (10 - 13 Hz) and β (15 - 30 Hz) event-related synchronization and desynchronization (ERS/ERD) under RP and VP …

Effects Of Single-Session Practice Structure On Motor Skill Acquisition And Alpha And Beta Eeg Oscillations, Aubrey Porter, Ronald Victor Croce, Wayne Smith

Faculty Publications

Background: Although it is known that practicing a motor skill updates the associated internal model, it is still unclear as to how cortical oscillations linked with the motor skill change under differing practice schedules. The current study investigated α- and β-power changes associated with motor skill acquisition. Objectives: Firstly, we investigated the behavioral effects of practice on motor learning and retention during repetitive (RP) and variable (VP) practice schedules on an anticipation timing task. Secondly, we investigated changes in cortical α (10 - 13 Hz) and β (15 - 30 Hz) event-related synchronization and desynchronization (ERS/ERD) under RP and VP …

Piñero-Benson Named Faculty Member At Gehring Academy This Summer, Keith Testa

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Accurate Determination Of Camera Quantum Efficiency From A Single Image, Yuri Rzhanov

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Knowledge of spectral sensitivity is important for high-precision comparison of images taken by different cameras and recognition of objects and interpretation of scenes for which color is an important cue. Direct estimation of quantum efficiency curves (QECs) is a complicated and tedious process requiring specialized equipment, and many camera manufacturers do not make spectral characteristics publicly available. This has led to the development of indirect techniques that are unreliable due to being highly sensitive to noise in the input data, and which often require the imposition of additional ad hoc conditions, some of which do not always hold. We demonstrate …

Grad Student Receives Prestigious Department Of Energy Graduate Research Award, Hayley Barnhard

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Nfs 2024 Course Expectations, Jesse Wright

UNH Cooperative Extension

No abstract provided.

Visual Images As A Gateway To Scholarly Inquiry In Information Literacy Instruction, Carolyn White Gamtso, Susanne F. Paterson

Faculty Publications

In this interactive session, participants will engage in activities that use student-generated questions about visual images as entry points to research literary criticism of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The presenters collaborated on a student-centered, inquiry-based information literacy lesson (IL) focused on visual literacy, critical thinking, and research question design in an introductory literary analysis course. The co-instructors decentralized the classroom by empowering students to ask probing questions about illustrations from an early 20th-Century edition of Hamlet. Workshop participants will experience the presenters’ lesson firsthand by using the Right Question Institute’s Question Formulation Technique (QFT) as a springboard to research question development, …

5th Annual Noaa Hurricane Preparedness Summit Report, Crrc, Noaa

Coastal Response Research Center

NOAA’s Disaster Preparedness Program partnered with Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) to facilitate webinars on two consecutive days focusing on NOAA’s hurricane preparedness and readiness for personnel, mission, infrastructure (PMI). The virtual event entitled “NOAA Hurricane Preparedness Summit 2024,” helped put NOAA in a better posture for the 2024 hurricane season by identifying best practices and lessons learned from the 2023 season, recognizing and discussing challenges related to climate change and extreme weather events, and socializing tools and resources available to support different stages of response. The summit included plenary presentations from federal and state agency representatives outlining topics such …

Annual Report, Town Of Loudon, New Hampshire Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2024, Loudon Town Representatives

Loudon, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Major Reform With Minor Risk: Implementation Of Change Initiatives As A Learning Challenge, Sara J. Berman, Chance Meyer

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

The call for change in legal education has been loud and clear for more than a century. Despite some resistance among powerholders who benefit from status quo, faculty and administrators across the country work earnestly to solve problems, improve learning, and promote equity. Yet time and again, initiatives are logjammed, shot down as unworkable, misimplemented, or abandoned prematurely when they do not meet unrealistically high expectations for immediate, dramatic results. This article builds on the premises that (1) change is needed, (2) a wide range of sound change ideas for reform and progress are available, and (3) effective implementation of …

Reimagining Legal Education: Insights From Unh Franklin Pierce's First 50 Years, Christopher S. Reed

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

Noted patent lawyer and MIT professor Dr. Robert Rines founded the Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1973 with the aim of training working professionals to practice patent law. The founding faculty comprised working patent lawyers from various fields, it offered the only patent practice course available at the time, and the curriculum overall emphasized practical skills over theory.

Today, half a century later, Dr. Rines’s vision not only endures, but flourishes.

In addition to becoming one of the world’s most celebrated intellectual property institutions, University of New Hampshire (UNH) Franklin Pierce School of Law∗ is the home of two pioneering …

City Of Leaf Collaborative Drinking Water Emergency Response Serious Game, Jingyan Huang, Weiwei Mo

Faculty Publications

The City of Leaf serious game is a five-party role-playing game designed to simulate a response to a drinking water contamination crisis. The game involves five roles: chemical manufacturer, local resident, water treatment plant, environmental agency, and health department, each with distinct knowledge, responsibilities, capabilities, and objectives. Participants assume one of these roles and exchange information, strategize responses, and work towards a solution that satisfies all parties involved throughout the game. This game aims to deepen participants' understanding of the complexities involved in managing a drinking water emergency, with a particular focus on emphasizing the critical role of inter-organizational communication …

Unh: The Magazine Of The University Of New Hampshire, Summer 2024, Unh Magazine

UNH Magazine

No abstract provided.

Bridging The Paradigmatic Crevasse Between Lawyers And Scientists: The Need For New Institutional Models, Stanley P. Kowalski, Stanley Kowalski

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

The professions of science and law have traditionally been siloed paradigms, operating often in tandem with each other but rarely intersecting in the interdisciplinary pasture which separates them, a pasture from which an abundance of synergistic collaboration and ensuing creative concepts might sprout. However, the erstwhile never the twain shall meet situation is neither realistic nor even tenable in the current century, a century increasingly dominated by science, technology, invention, innovation, and intellectual property. Simply put, whereas lawyers are risk averse and build constructed realities to argue points and serve clients, scientists seek an objective assessment of truth and accept …

Nextgen Licensure & Accreditation, Nachman N. Gutowski

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

The Bar Exam is changing. The National Conference of Bar Examiners is pushing full steam ahead with a replacement for the current elements that make up the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). This new exam, called the NextGen Bar Exam (NextGen), is scheduled to launch in Summer 2026. Current American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation standards do not consider the coming changes. A full picture of what the adjustments will look like is hazy and very much in the trial stages still. These shifts impact current law students, the legal education practices of law schools, and accreditation standards. There is a near-universal …

New And Useful Improvements: The Role Of Institutional Culture, Leadership, Incentives, And Regulation In 30 Years Of Legal Education Since The Maccrate Report, Greg Brandes

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

New and useful improvements – in the words of the patent statute – have emerged from legal education’s pursuit of seamlessly developing contributing members of the legal profession, as the 1992 MacCrate Report advocated. These include the widespread adoption of distance learning techniques for better teaching and assessment, course pedagogy that is more inclusive for students with diverse learning needs, and a new subset of the academy schooled and interested in the science of teaching and learning. But it has not been easy.

Efforts to improve legal education have sometimes foundered and other times flourished because of varying faculty and …

Unh Student Team Wins National Marine Energy Competition, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Integration Of A Kongsberg Em712 Aboard A Drix Uncrewed Surface Vehicle, Val Schmidt, Larry A. Mayer

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire owns and operates “DriX-8”, an Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV) manufactured by Exail and funded by NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research through the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute. The DriX vehicle was designed for acoustic survey operations, providing a high-endurance platform with hydrographic grade navigation systems and a subsea gondola for sonars. As delivered, DriX-8 was equipped with a Kongsberg EM2040 with typical full-swath capability to water depths of 200-300 m. NOAA expressed interest in future survey operations to depths exceeding 1000m and encouraged integration of a …

Gray, Drociak ’08 Receive Outstanding Women In Business Honor, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of The Inflection Points Of Height-Diameter Models, Tzeng Yih Lam, Mark J. Ducey

Faculty Publications

The inflection point is an important feature of sigmoidal height-diameter (H-D) models. It is often cited as one of the properties favoring sigmoidal model forms. However, there are very few studies analyzing the inflection points of H-D models. The goals of this study were to theoretically and empirically examine the behaviors of inflection points of six common H-D models with a regional dataset. The six models were the Wykoff (WYK), Schumacher (SCH), Curtis (CUR), Hossfeld IV (HOS), von Bertalanffy-Richards (VBR), and Gompertz (GPZ) models. The models were first fitted in their base forms with tree species as random effects and …

Massachusetts Households Downbeat About Personal Finances, Mixed Expectations For Ma And Us Businesses 5/24/2024, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Most Massachusetts residents say that they are doing about the same financially as a year ago and anticipate similar finances a year from now, but more say they are worse off than say they are better off. Those who anticipate being worse off most often cite the cost of living as a reason. Bay Staters are largely ambivalent in their feelings about the short-term health of the Massachusetts and national economies.

Widespread Discontent With Personal Finances, Economy Among Rhode Islanders 5/24/2024, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Nearly half of Rhode Island residents say that they are worse off financially than a year ago and a majority think now is a bad time to buy a major household item. Rhode Islanders are somewhat positive about the state’s economy in the coming year. Republicans and Independents are far more negative than Democrats about their personal finances, the state economy, and the national economy and the majority disapprove of how President Biden in handling the economy. When asked what they would like Biden to do to improve the economy, Rhode Islanders most often mention reducing inflation or raising taxes …

Development And Evolution Of Clinical Partnerships: K-12 School Leaders' Perspectives, Kimberly Bohannon, Vincent Connelly, Stephen Bigaj, Laura M. Wasielewski

Faculty Publications

PurposeThe purpose of this research study was to examine school leaders’ critical perspectives about the nature of their partnerships with K-12 schools and two Educator Preparation Programs (EPP).Design/methodology/approachData were collected through interviews with K-12 school leaders to obtain partners’ critical perspectives about school–EPP partnerships. The interviews were coded thematically and oriented around the central concept of working to represent the interplay of the participants and their collaborators’ perceptions of the nature and dimensions of school–EPP partnerships.FindingsThe analysis resulted in the construction of a mosaic of school leaders’ collective lived experiences using a statewide conceptual framework as a guide. Four themes …