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Unh: The Magazine Of The University Of New Hampshire, Winter 2003, Unh Magazine

UNH Magazine

Archived version of web content originally found at https://unhmagazine.unh.edu/pastissues.html

University Of New Hampshire Neasc Self-Study Report 2003. Part 2: The Area Reports. Executive Summary: Reports Of "Area Of Focus" Committees, University Of New Hampshire

NEASC Self-Study

Documents related to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) self-study to assess compliance with accreditation standards and to advance the University's Academic Plan.

University Of New Hampshire Neasc Self-Study Report 2003. Part 2: The Area Reports. Undergraduate Experience: Narrative, University Of New Hampshire. Committee On The Undergraduate Experience

NEASC Self-Study

Documents related to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) self-study to assess compliance with accreditation standards and to advance the University's Academic Plan.

Graduate Degree Completions By Program, 1998-2002, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2002-2003 academic year

University Of New Hampshire Neasc Self-Study Report 2003. Part 2: The Area Reports. Synthesis Of Ceps Interviews, University Of New Hampshire. Committee On Institutional Effectiveness.

NEASC Self-Study

Documents related to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) self-study to assess compliance with accreditation standards and to advance the University's Academic Plan.

University Of New Hampshire Neasc Self-Study Report 2003. Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Three Years After The Boyer Report, University Of New Hampshire

NEASC Self-Study

Documents related to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) self-study to assess compliance with accreditation standards and to advance the University's Academic Plan.

Bachelor Degree Completions By College, 1998-2002, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2002-2003 academic year

Free Solution Electrophoresis Measurements And Their Theoretical Relationships To Net Protein Valence, Jennifer A. Durant

Doctoral Dissertations

Biochemical solutions are composed to a large degree of charged molecules (proteins, DNA, dissolved salts, etc) which can interact and therefore exert a force on each other. Analytical determination of the valence of biological macro-ions contributes to our understanding of the forces involved in both intra- and inter-molecular interactions. This dissertation uses two free solution techniques, membrane confined electrophoresis (MCE) and capillary electrophoresis (CE), to study valence in the context of a series of charge mutants of T4 lysozyme and RNase Sa. The use of these mutants allows attribution of the changes in electrophoretic behavior entirely to changes in charge. …

The Effects Of Providing Mathematical Problem -Posing Experiences For K--8 Pre-Service Teachers: Investigating Teachers' Beliefs And Characteristics Of Posed Problems, Todd August Grundmeier

Doctoral Dissertations

This study incorporated problem posing into a mathematics content course for preservice elementary and middle school teachers by extending George Polya's (1957) problem solving heuristic to include problem re-formulation and by having participants pose problems from sets of given information. The course provided pre-service teachers with a new mathematical perspective and this research examined participants' problem posing, beliefs about mathematics, and beliefs about the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Study participants were enrolled in a mathematics content course for pre-service teachers at the University of New Hampshire. There were twenty students in the course and nineteen agreed to be participants …

Design And In Situ Testing Of A Piezometer System To Measure Earthquake -Induced Pore -Pressure Changes, Robert Farrell

Doctoral Dissertations

Pore pressure changes have been measured in fine sand deposits that are known to have liquefied during earthquakes. Some of the measured signals have not been similar to what was expected during earthquake-induced liquefaction. Using artificially generated signals, several investigators have attempted to determine if existing piezometer fields designed to measure earthquake induced pore pressure changes are operating correctly. The signals generated during one investigation were not similar to those expected from an earthquake. In another investigation, while the generated signals were similar to ones expected from an earthquake, the results were not reproducible; the generated signals damaged the aquifer …

Satellite Indices Of Fluvial Influence In Coastal Waters, Joseph E. Salisbury Ii.

Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation a suite of satellite, discharge and in-situ measurements is used to explore the spatio-temporal distribution of terrestrial constituents in coastal environments. The covariance between riverine delivery of optically active constituents and the corresponding optical variability in neighboring coastal waters for the Mississippi and Orinoco Rivers is documented. From this work, satellite-based indices of fluvial influence (IFI), are developed which contain information on the spatial extent of riverine constituents in coastal waters. The IFI is defined as the correlation between time series of riverine discharge and an ocean color satellite-derived property in the region proximal to a river's …

Living The Stereotype: Connections Between Male Behavior And Male Images, Andrew Paul Smiler

Doctoral Dissertations

This project examined some linkages and discrepancies between theories that describe the acquisition of gender typical attributes in childhood with theories that describe the maintenance of those attributes in adulthood. This perspective included the idea that there are several well known ways of enacting masculinity, related to well known stereotypes (e.g., jock, business, sensitive new age guy), and highlighted within sex variability. Because a distinction between biological sex and gender was made, the sample was not restricted to males despite focusing on the masculine. One focus of the project was the consistency with which an individual enacts a particular stereotypical …

Knowledge, Inquiry, Action: Teacher Collaboration At Prospect Center's Summer Institute, Karen Hendrickson Woolf

Doctoral Dissertations

This two-year study describes the work of approximately thirty educators, kindergarten/post-secondary, who attend the Summer Institute on Descriptive Inquiry and November Conference under the auspices of The Prospect Archive and Center for Education and Research in North Bennington, Vermont. The purpose of this study is to portray the experience of collaborative inquiry using Prospect Center's descriptive processes.

Teacher network groups generally center around specific content areas such as language arts or science. In contrast, Prospect Center is an independent national network of educators committed to guided observation and disciplined description as a grounding for teaching practice and inquiry. Generated by …

Wavelet Analysis Of Ulf Magnetospheric Waves, Edward Scott Brennison

Doctoral Dissertations

Wavelet analysis is used to analyze magnetometer data and is compared to the traditional spectrogram technique, in particular, with respect to structured Pc 1--2 emissions. This results in the conclusion that the frequency modulation evident in Pearl pulsations is not continuous, but is comprised of waves localized in both time and space whose overall structure produces the stripe-like patterns. Utilizing information from the Multi-Resolution Analysis in conjunction with traditional spectrogram techniques this paper is the first to show clear signal power relationships between Pc 1--2 and Pc3 waves and also between Pc 1--2 and Pc 5 waves as detected on …

In-Situ Study Of The Influence Of Additives On The Growth Behavior Of Copper Electrodeposits On Copper Single Crystal, Aiwen Wu

Doctoral Dissertations

Trace organic additives are known to be essential in obtaining desired metal electrodeposits in the microelectronic industry, however, fundamental design principles for their use and a scientific understanding of their interaction during electrodeposition is lacking. In the present study we investigated electrodeposition of copper on the Cu(100) surface in air-saturated or dearated acid-sulfate plating solutions containing several combinations of chloride and additives benzotriazole (BTA) and 3-mercapto propane sulfonic acid (MPSA) under galvanostatic pulse-current conditions. The electrodeposition process was followed using in-situ atomic force microscopy (AFM). AFM images were quantitatively analyzed by pattern-recognition and scaling procedures.

In the absence of additives, …

A Wavelet-Based Cmac For Enhanced Multidimensional Learning, Brian P. Kirk

Doctoral Dissertations

The CMAC (Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller) neural network has been successfully used in control systems and other applications for many years. The network structure is modular and associative, allowing for rapid learning convergence with an ease of implementation in either hardware or software. The rate of convergence of the network is determined largely by the choice of the receptive field shape and the generalization parameter. This research contains a rigorous analysis of the rate of convergence with the standard CMAC, as well as the rate of convergence of networks using other receptive field shape. The effects of decimation from state-space …

Bedrock Geology Of The Seacoast Region Of New Hampshire, United States, Jose Cruz Escamilla-Casas

Doctoral Dissertations

The seacoast region of New Hampshire is underlain by two lithotectonic belts: the Rye Complex (RC), and the eastern portion of the Merrimack Group (MG). The Rye Formation and the Breakfast Hill member constitute the RC; the Kittery, Eliot, and Berwick Formations, the MG. The stratigraphic order interpreted in this study places the Kittery Formation transitionally above the Eliot, and identifies the contact between the Berwick and the Eliot Formations as a fault.

Study of folds using a variant of the Fourier series analysis indicates that the degree of asymmetry and shape of folds in the MG and the RC …

The Central New England Sea Breeze Study, Samuel T K Miller

Doctoral Dissertations

The synoptic and mesoscale environments conducive to the formation of sea breezes were examined, as well as the spatial and temporal evolution of sea-breeze circulations, gravity currents, and fronts along the central New England coast. Sea breeze events were defined as occurring when the observed surface wind direction began the day outside the southeast quadrant, shifted to southeast by afternoon, then shifted back out of the southeast quadrant in the evening, driven by mesoscale, insolation-induced cross-shore temperature gradients.

The meso-alpha (200--2000 km) sea-breeze forcing in the study area was defined as a combination of the cross-shore potential temperature gradient (deltatheta/deltax) …

University Of New Hampshire Neasc Self-Study Report 2003. Preface, University Of New Hampshire. Self-Study Steering Committee

NEASC Self-Study

Documents related to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) self-study to assess compliance with accreditation standards and to advance the University's Academic Plan.

Graduate School Catalog, University Of New Hampshire, 2003-2005, University Of New Hampshire

Graduate Catalog

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Headcount Of Majors In Baccalaureate Programs, Fall 1998 - Fall 2002, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2002-2003 academic year

University Of New Hampshire Neasc Self-Study Report 2003. Cihe Data Form Vi: Faculty Profile: Unh/Unh-Manchester, University Of New Hampshire

NEASC Self-Study

Documents related to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) self-study to assess compliance with accreditation standards and to advance the University's Academic Plan.

University Of New Hampshire Neasc Self-Study Report 2003. Part 2: The Area Reports. Appendix: Engagement, Outreach & Public Service Advisory Board, University Of New Hampshire. Engagement, Outreach & Public Service Advisory Board.

NEASC Self-Study

Documents related to the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) self-study to assess compliance with accreditation standards and to advance the University's Academic Plan.

Vocational Science And The Politics Of Independence: The Boston Marine Society, 1754--1812, Matthew Gaston Mckenzie

Doctoral Dissertations

Between 1754 and 1812 the Boston Marine Society developed vocational scientific practices adapted from day-to-day work routines to expand the navigational knowledge of New England's coastlines. For this reason, the Marine Society's navigational work suggests important parallels with the history of colonial science in other areas during the late eighteenth century. Notwithstanding most other studies in the history of American science, the Boston Marine Society indicates that colonial Boston shipmasters were not dependent upon learned societies for their navigational research needs. Rather, they adapted their mutual aid society and developed methodologies to collect navigational observations, analyze them for reliability and …

Active Disturbance Cancellation In Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using Neural Networks, John C. Canfield

Doctoral Dissertations

A proposal for the use of a time delay CMAC neural network for disturbance cancellation in nonlinear dynamical systems is presented. Appropriate modifications to the CMAC training algorithm are derived which allow convergent adaptation for a variety of secondary signal paths. Analytical bounds on the maximum learning gain are presented which guarantee convergence of the algorithm and provide insight into the necessary reduction in learning gain as a function of the system parameters. Effectiveness of the algorithm is evaluated through mathematical analysis, simulation studies, and experimental application of the technique on an acoustic duct laboratory model.

Factors Affecting Ammonium Uptake In Streams - An Inter-Biome Perspective, Jackson R. Webster, Patrick J. Mulholland, Jennifer L. Tanks, H. Maurice Valett, Walter K. Dodds, Bruce J. Peterson, William B. Bowden, Clifford N. Dahm, Stuart Findlay, Stanley V. Gregory, Nancy B. Grimm, Stephen K. Hamilton, Sherri L. Johnson, Eugenia Marti, William H. Mcdowell, Judy L. Meyer, Donna D. Morrall, Steven A. Thomas, Wilfred M. Wollheim

Faculty Publications

The Lotic Intersite Nitrogen experiment (LINX) was a coordinated study of the relationships between North American biomes and factors governing ammonium uptake in streams. Our objective was to relate inter-biome variability of ammonium uptake to physical, chemical and biological processes. 2. Data were collected from 11 streams ranging from arctic to tropical and from desert to rainforest. Measurements at each site included physical, hydraulic and chemical characteristics, biological parameters, whole-stream metabolism and ammonium uptake. Ammonium uptake was measured by injection of '5~-ammonium and downstream measurements of 15N-ammonium concentration. 3. We found no general, statistically significant relationships that explained the variability …

The Granite, 2003, University Of New Hampshire

The Granite – Yearbook

The yearbook of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1909-1922, the University of New Hampshire, 1923-

Automatic Statistical Processing Of Multibeam Echosounder Data, Brian R. Calder

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

This paper presents the CUBE (Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator) algorithm. Our aim is to take advantage of statistical redundancy in dense Multibeam Echosounder data to identify outliers while tracking the uncertainty associated with the estimates that we make of the true depth in the survey area. We recognise that a completely automatic system is improbable, but propose that significant benefits can still be had if we can automatically process good quality data, and highlight areas that probably need further attention. We outline CUBE and its associated support structures, and apply it to a dataset from Woods Hole, MA, USA. …

Mapping And Characterizing Subtidal Oyster Reefs Using Acoustic Techniques, Underwater Videography And Quadrat Counts, Raymond E. Grizzle, J R. Adams, Semme J. Dijkstra, Brian Smith, R W. Ward

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

Populations of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica have been in long-term decline in most areas. A major hindrance to effective oyster management has been lack of a methodology for accurately and economically obtaining data on their distribution and abundance patterns. Here, we describe early results from studies aimed at development of a mapping and monitoring protocol involving acoustic techniques, underwater videography, and destructive sampling (excavated quadrats). Two subtidal reefs in Great Bay, New Hampshire, were mapped with side-scan sonar and with videography by systematically imaging multiple sampling cells in a grid covering the same areas. A single deployment was made …

On The Effect Of Random Errors In Gridded Bathymetric Compilations, Martin Jakobsson, Brian R. Calder, Larry A. Mayer

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

We address the problem of compiling bathymetric data sets with heterogeneous coverage and a range of data measurement accuracies. To generate a regularly spaced grid, we are obliged to interpolate sparse data; our objective here is to augment this product with an estimate of confidence in the interpolated bathymetry based on our knowledge of the component of random error in the bathymetric source data. Using a direct simulation Monte Carlo method, we utilize data from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean database to develop a suitable methodology for assessment of the standard deviations of depths in the interpolated …