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Arriving: Expanding The Personal State Sequence, Danielle M. Pillet-Shore

Communication

When arriving to a social encounter, how and when can a person show how s/he is doing/feeling? This article answers this question, examining personal state sequences in copresent openings of casual (residential) and institutional (parent-teacher) encounters. Describing a regular way participants constitute—and move to expand—these sequences, this research shows how arrivers display a nonneutral (e.g., negative, humorous, positive) personal state by both (1) deploying interactionally timed stance-marking embodiments that enact a nonneutral state, and (2) invoking a selected previous activity/experience positioned as precipitating that nonneutral state. Data demonstrate that arrivers time their nonneutral personal state displays calibrated to their understanding …

Freedom Of Speech And The Constitution, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Arriving: Expanding The Personal State Sequence, Danielle M. Pillet-Shore

Communication

When arriving to a social encounter, how and when can a person show how s/he is doing/feeling? This article answers this question, examining personal state sequences in copresent openings of casual (residential) and institutional (parent-teacher) encounters. Describing a regular way participants constitute – and move to expand – these sequences, this research shows how arrivers display a non-neutral (e.g., negative, humorous, positive) personal state by both (i) deploying interactionally-timed stance-marking embodiments that enact a non-neutral state, and (ii) invoking a selected previous activity/experience positioned as precipitating that non-neutral state. Data demonstrate that arrivers time their non-neutral personal state displays calibrated …

How To Begin, Danielle M. Pillet-Shore

Communication

This article introduces the special issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction organized around the theme “Opening and Maintaining Face-to-Face Interaction.” The contributions to this special issue collectively consider “how to begin” – either a new encounter, or a new sequence after a lapse in conversation. All articles analyze naturally-occurring, videorecorded episodes of casual and/or institutional copresent interaction using multimodal conversation analytic methods. Though the opening phase of a face-to-face encounter may elapse in a matter of seconds, this article shows it to house a dense universe of phenomena central to sustaining our human sense of self and our …

Poly-Victimization: A Broad Assessment Of Childhood Victimization And Its Implications For Juvenile Justice And Child Well-Being, Yahayra Michel-Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

Objective: The objective of this dissertation is twofold. The first objective is to summarize the literature on poly-victimization (PV) with a focus on what relationships have been tested and how poly-victimization has been operationalized in the field. The second objective is to replicate and expand the literature by empirically testing the effect of poly-victimization on delinquency.

Design, Data, and Participants. This dissertation employs a mixed method approach made up of a systematic literature review and secondary data analysis. The systematic literature review summarizes 59 poly-victimization articles published between 2007 and 2017 that contain the terms “poly-victim” or “poly-victimization” in its …

A Triaxiality-Dependent Constitutive Model For Predicting Damage-Induced Softening In 3d-Printed Soft Suture Layer, Lei Liu

Doctoral Dissertations

Adhesive interfacial layers are ubiquitous in both engineering and natural material systems. They are essential in governing the mechanical behaviors of these materials. Especially, in the field of biological and bio-inspired materials, soft interfacial layer plays very important role in mechanics of them. The rapid development of 3D printing enables high quality bonding between dissimilar materials, providing an opportunity to fabricate biomimetic composites with arbitrary morphology. Along with this new development, new challenges appear in constitutive modeling and the prediction of damage initiation and evolution of 3D printed materials. To meet this need in the field, the model and methodology …

Physics-Based Modeling Framework Incorporating Microstructural Evolution For Predicting Deformation And Recrystallization Of Metallic Materials, Miroslav Zecevic

Doctoral Dissertations

Large number of metallic parts is produced from the raw materials by a set of mechanical shaping and heating operations. Considering the need for metallic components in the modern industry, the field of thermo-mechanical processing of metallic materials is of immense importance. Even modest improvements of the existing thermo-mechanical processes could potentially result in great savings of time, recourses and energy. Finite element modeling of the forming and heating operations introduced in the past decades has allowed for the optimization of the thermo-mechanical processes and has thus resulted in significant advancements. However, due to the limitations of the presently used …

Drivers Of Introgression And Fitness In The Saltmarsh-Nelson's Sparrow Hybrid Zone, Logan Maxwell

Master's Theses and Capstones

Hybrid zones can provide an understanding of the genetic basis of biodiversity maintenance and as well as insight into how interacting species respond to climate change, and how climate change may alter patterns of introgression. This body of research focuses on dynamics of hybridization between the Saltmarsh (Ammospiza caudacutus) and Nelson’s Sparrow (A. nelsoni) across two populations in the center of the hybrid zone to gain a window into both the evolutionary processes underlying the relationship between these species and the role of climate change and adaptive introgression on the future persistence of the two sparrows. In Chapter 1, I …

The Bioeconomics Of Shade-Grown Coffee Production Under Climate And Price Risks In Puerto Rico, Yixuan Gao

Master's Theses and Capstones

Coffee production is severely affected by global climate change. One of the important impacts comes from the increasing infestation and distribution of coffee berry borer (CBB), the most damaging coffee pest worldwide. Shade-grown coffee (SGC) systems can alleviate the impacts and increase the resilience of coffee farms by providing non-market and market ecosystem services.

From an ecological perspective, SGC systems can provide many non-market ecosystem services such as pest risk mitigation, soil water retention, soil fertility, and pollination, which are all critical factors affecting coffee yields. From a financial perspective, SGC systems can benefit farmers by increasing the prices through …

Scalable Web Service Development With Amazon Web Services, Patrick Russell Mcelhiney

Master's Theses and Capstones

The objective of this thesis was to explore the topic of scalable web development, and it answered the question, “How do you scale a website to handle more traffic at peak times without wasting resources?” This is important research to any web company that has issues with rising costs as demand for their website increases. It would be wise for every online business to be prepared for more web traffic, before it occurs, without spending the budget of a multi-million user web company in low traffic periods. The last thing you want is an error as your customer base starts …

Learning Temporal Dynamics Of Human-Robot Interactions From Demonstrations, Estuardo Rene Carpio Mazariegos

Master's Theses and Capstones

The presence of robots in society is becoming increasingly common, triggering the need to learn reliable policies to automate human-robot interactions (HRI). Manually developing policies for HRI is particularly challenging due to the complexity introduced by the human component. The aim of this thesis is to explore the benefits of leveraging temporal reasoning to learn policies for HRIs from demonstrations. This thesis proposes and evaluates two distinct temporal reasoning approaches. The first one consists of a temporal-reasoning-based learning from demonstration (TR-LfD) framework that employs a variant of an Interval Temporal Bayesian Network to learn the temporal dynamics of an interaction. …

Unh Law Mourns The Passing Of Former Professor Keith Harrison, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Unh School Of Law And Concord Food Co-Op Announce Strategic Partnership, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Law Professor Tonya Evans To Make Series Of Presentations, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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A Dam Passage Performance Standard Model For American Shad, Daniel S. Stich, Timothy F. Sheehan, Joseph D. Zydlewski

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Objectives for recovery of alosines commonly involve improving fish passage at dams during migration. However, a quantitative basis for dam passage performance standards is largely absent. We describe development of a stochastic life-history-based simulation model for American shad, Alosa sapidissima, to estimate effects of dam passage and migratory delay on abundance, spatial distribution of spawning adults, and demographic structuring in space and time. We used the Penobscot River, Maine, USA, as a case study to examine sensitivity of modeled population metrics and probability of achieving specific management goals to inputs. Spawner abundance and percentage of repeat spawners were most sensitive …

Supreme Court Struggles To Define 'Searches' As Technology Changes, Behzad Mirhashem

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Excerpt] "What the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution means when it protects citizens agains an unreasonable search by government agents isn't entirely clear. It certainly includes police physically entering a person's home, but for almost 100 years, the Supreme Court has tried to define what else might qualify, including keeping the law up-to-date with new technologies - as a recent case illustrates."

Human Activities Accelerated The Degradation Of Saline Seepweed Red Beaches By Amplifying Top‐Down And Bottom‐Up Forces, Weizhi Lu, Jingfeng Xiao, Wei Lei, Jinqiu Du, Zhengjie Li, Pifu Cong, Wenhao Hou, Jialin Zhang, Luzhen Chen, Yihui Zhang, Guoxiang Liao

Faculty Publications

Salt marshes dominated by saline seepweed (Suaeda heteroptera) provide important ecosystem services such as sequestering carbon (blue carbon), maintaining healthy fisheries, and protecting shorelines. These salt marshes also constitute stunning red beach landscapes, and the resulting tourism significantly contributes to the local economy. However, land use change and degradation have led to a substantial loss of the red beach area. It remains unclear how human activities influence the top‐down and bottom‐up forces that regulate the distribution and succession of these salt marshes and lead to the degradation of the red beaches. We examined how bottom‐up forces influenced the germination, emergence, …

Abortion Rights And The Kavanaugh Nomination, John M. Greabe

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Excerpt] "Last week, President Trump nominated federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court seat opened by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Immediately, coverage of the nomination focused on abortion and whether Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation would spell the end of the constitutional right recognized in Roe v. Wade. Let's explore why."

John Greabe Named Director Of Unh Law's Warren B. Rudman Center, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Modelling Competencies For Computing Education Beyond 2020: A Research Based Approach To Defining Competencies In The Computing Disciplines, Stephen Thomas Frezza, Mats Daniels, Arnold N. Pears, Asa Cajander, Viggo Kann, Amanpreet Kapoor, Roger Mcdermott, Anne Kahtrin Peters, Mihaela Sabin, Charles Robert Wallace

Applied Engineering and Sciences Scholarship

How might the content and outcomes of tertiary education programmes be described and analysed in order to understand how they are structured and function? To address this question we develop a framework for modelling graduate competencies linked to tertiary degree programmes in the computing disciplines. While the focus of our work is computing the framework is applicable to education more broadly.

The work presented here draws upon the pioneering curricular document for information technology (IT2017), curricular competency frameworks, other related documents such as the software engineering competency model (SWECOM), the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA), current research in …

Acquisition Planning: A Process For Contract Support And Timely Budget Execution, David Devoy

M. S. in Management

The purpose of this action research project is to develop acquisition policy and procedures for the New Hampshire Army National Guard to decrease acquisition risk and increase budget execution. Contracting data collected reveals that 47% of acquisitions occurred during the last four months of the fiscal year 2017. Internal and external factors will be analyzed to determine an appropriate course of action and implementation plan. The project will enlist subject matter experts from across the National Guard. The end state is to ensure customers are supported through timely execution of contracts and efficient use of resources.

Media Advisory: Unh Law Expert Available To Discuss Retirement Of Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Scotus's 2017-2018 Term: More Of The 'Passive Virtues', John M. Greabe

Law Faculty Scholarship

[exerpt] "Examine a timelier topic: the court's decision to effectively punt on the major religious freedom and partisan gerrymandering cases it was poised to decide this term. For the court's restrain in these cases may have some relation to our turbulent political times."

Unh Faculty Senate Motion # Xxiii - M1 On Conditional Admission Of Post-Gaokao Students, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Motions

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Minerals In The Rhizosphere: Overlooked Mediators Of Soil Nitrogen Availability To Plants And Microbes, Andrea Jilling, Marco Keiluweit, Alexandra R. Contosta, Serita D. Frey, Joshua Schimel, Jorg Schnecker, Richard G. Smith, Lisa Tiemann, A. Stuart Grandy

Faculty Publications

Despite decades of research progress, ecologists are still debating which pools and fluxes provide nitrogen (N) to plants and soil microbes across different ecosystems. Depolymerization of soil organic N is recognized as the rate-limiting step in the production of bioavailable N, and it is generally assumed that detrital N is the main source. However, in many mineral soils, detrital polymers constitute a minor fraction of total soil organic N. The majority of organic N is associated with clay-sized particles where physicochemical interactions may limit the accessibility of N-containing compounds. Although mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) has historically been considered a critical, …

Sports Betting, Federalism And The Constitution, John M. Greabe

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Excerpt] Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has described federalism - how the Constitution divides powers between the federal government and the states - as "perhaps our oldest question of constitutional law."

This past week, the United States Supreme Court returned to this oldest of constitutional questions to strike down a federal law that had prohibited stats from authorizing betting on competitive sporting events.

President Huddleston's Durham Commencement Address 2018, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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2017-18 Faculty Senate Xxii - May 7, 2018 Minutes Summary (Session Xxii Portion), Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Promoting An Ip Powerhouse, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Characterization And Numerical Modeling Of Advanced Automotive Lightweighting Materials, Nengxiu Deng

Doctoral Dissertations

The automotive industry is being challenged to manufacture vehicles to meet the fuel- efficiency, emission and crashworthiness. New generation steels such as high strength steels (HSS) and advanced-/ultra-high strength steels (AHSS/UHSS) are gaining popularity in the automotive industry due to their appealing strength-to-weight ratios. The utilization of these steels has prompted research to seek solutions on issues arising during sheet metal forming processes, e.g., springback prediction/control, edge cracking prediction and avoidance, formability performance prediction and enhancement, etc. This thesis is focused on developing experimental techniques to characterize the forming properties for AHSS, on exploring fundamental principles of their mechanical behavior …