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The Granite, 2004, 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-

A Tale Of The Children: Challenges To Learning And Teaching In Idaho, And Why Some Children Will Be Left Behind, Terry Armstrong

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Teachers are under many stressors from forces seeking to improve education. In Idaho, there are numerous factors beyond educators' control that threaten to undermine success for all children. This article, prepared by eighteen distinguished Idaho public school teachers, outlines variables attendant to school failure for many Idaho children. Teachers need to act as advocates for improving the social climate that impinges on learning.

In addition to the main author, this article was prepared by Cohort Groups III and IV of the Thomas Wright Fellows, University of Idaho:

Cohort III
John Baillie
Kelly Gillie
Katholyn Howell
Ace Marcellus
Ann McLellan
Katherine …

Renaissance 2004, University Of Rhode Island

URI Yearbooks

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island yearbook.

Disassociativity In Conjugacy Closed Loops, J.D. Phillips

Journal Articles

Let Q be a conjugacy closed loop, and N(Q) its nucleus. Then Z(N(Q)) contains all associators of elements of Q. If in addition Q is diassociative (i.e., an extra loop), then all these associators have order 2. If Q is power-associative and |Q| is finite and relatively prime to 6, ten Q is a group. If Q is a finite non-associative extra loop, then 16 | |Q|.

Commutants Of Bol Loops Of Odd Order, J.D. Phillips

Journal Articles

In this note we show that the commutant of a Bol loop of odd order is a subloop.

Introduction To The Elgar Companion To Economics And Philosophy, John B. Davis, Alain Marciano, Jochen Runde

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Collective Intentionality, Complex Economic Behavior, And Valuation (Book Chapter), John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Vertical Dynamical Transport Of Mesospheric Constituents By Dissipating Gravity Waves, Alan Z. Liu, Chester S. Gardner

Physical Sciences - Daytona Beach

Over 400 h of Na wind/temperature lidar observations, obtained at the Star5re Optical Range, NM, are used to study the vertical dynamical transport of Na in the mesopause region between 85 and 100 km. Dynamical transport occurs when dissipating, non-breaking gravity waves impart a net vertical displacement in atmospheric constituents as they propagate through a region. We show that the vertical constituent flux can be related in a simple way to the vertical heat flux. Breaking gravity waves also contribute to eddy transport by generating turbulence. Because eddy transport is a mixing process, it only occurs in the presence of …

Missoula County Sheriff's Department Case #8509102: A Comprehensive Forensic Case Report For "Christy Crystal Creek", Sydney Wimbrow

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism: In Concept And Critique, James Carlin Watson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Internet Searching: Moving From Clueless To Competent, Robert I. Berkman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Breeder Algorithm For Stellarator Optimization, Shengping Wang

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Prison Voices: Lessons On Youth Recidivism, Shad E. Bailey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Improving The Efficiency Of Helicopter Operations On Large Wildland Fires By Including Helicopter Performance Information In The Decision Process, Diane Trethewey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Development Of The Formal Reasoning Abilities Of College Students In A General Chemistry Guided-Inquiry Laboratory, Kereen Monteyne

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Transforming Learning Into A Constructive Cognitive And Metacognitive, Haydee Cuevas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study explored the effectiveness of embedding a guided, learner-generated instructional strategy (query method), designed to support learners' cognitive and metacognitive processes, within the context of a computer-based complex task training environment (i.e., principles of flight in the aviation domain). The queries were presented as "stop and think" exercises in an open-ended question format that asked learners to generate either simple (low-level elaboration) or complex (high-level elaboration) sentences from a list of key training concepts. Results consistently highlighted the benefit of presenting participants with low-level elaboration queries, as compared to the no-query or high-level elaboration queries. In terms of post-training …

Cadastral Management And Maintenance In Costa Rica Using The Geodatabase Model., Esteban A. Mora Vargas

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Detecting Spatiotemporal Clusters Of Accidental Poisoning Mortality Among Texas Counties, Us, 1980 – 2001, Ella T. Nkhoma, Chiehwen E. Hsu, Victoria I. Hunt, Ann M. Harris

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background Accidental poisoning is one of the leading causes of injury in the United States, second only to motor vehicle accidents. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rates of accidental poisoning mortality have been increasing in the past fourteen years nationally. In Texas, mortality rates from accidental poisoning have mirrored national trends, increasing linearly from 1981 to 2001. The purpose of this study was to determine if there are spatiotemporal clusters of accidental poisoning mortality among Texas counties, and if so, whether there are variations in clustering and risk according to gender and race/ethnicity. The Spatial …

The Illusion Of Law: The Legitimating Schemas Of Modern Policy And Corporate Law, Ronald Chen, Jon Hanson

Michigan Law Review

This Article is about some of the schemas and scripts that form and define our lives. It is about the knowledge structures that shape how we view the world and how we understand the limitless information with which we are always confronted. This Article is also about the "evolution of ideas" underlying corporate law and all of modern policymaking. It is about the ways in which schemas and scripts have influenced how policy theorists, policymakers, lawyers, and many others (particularly in the West) understand and approach policymaking generally and corporate law specifically. It is about both the invisibility and blinding …

Algebraic Semantics For Coalgebraic Logics, Clemens Kupke, Alexander Kurz, Dirk Pattinson

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

With coalgebras usually being defined in terms of an endofunctor T on sets, this paper shows that modal logics for T-coalgebras can be naturally described as functors L on boolean algebras. Building on this idea, we study soundness, completeness and expressiveness of coalgebraic logics from the perspective of duality theory. That is, given a logic L for coalgebras of an endofunctor T, we construct an endofunctor L such that L-algebras provide a sound and complete (algebraic) semantics of the logic. We show that if L is dual to T, then soundness and completeness of the algebraic semantics immediately yield the …

The Journey From Brown V. Board Of Education To Grutter V. Bollinger: From Racial Assimilation To Diversity, Harry T. Edwards

Michigan Law Review

Fifty years ago, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court confronted a precise and straightforward question: "Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?" The Court's answer was precise and straightforward: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs ... are, by reason of the segregation complained of, …

Preface, Thomas Hildebrandt, Alexander Kurz

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

No abstract provided.

Measuring Online Students' Ability To Apply Programming Theory: Are Web Courses Really Working?, Kathryn A. Marold, Wayne Haga

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

As a response to troubling doubts about the success of Web-delivered courses that include problem solving and critical thinking skills, the authors gathered data from two online sections of the CIS Application Programming with Visual Basic course at Metropolitan State College of Denver over two semesters and compared it with the data from classroom sections. T-tests showed a significant difference in the means of student projects and tests that required application of theory learned. All sections of the course used the same syllabus and assignments and were taught by the same instructor. Internet students scored significantly lower in theory portions …

Continuous Images Of Big Sets And Additivity Of S0 Under Cpaprism, Krzysztof Ciesielski

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

We prove that the Covering Property Axiom CPA_prism, which holds in the iterated perfect set model, implies the following facts.

• There exists a family G of uniformly continuous functions from R to [0,1] such that G has cardinality \omega₁ < \continuum and for every subset S of R of cardinality \continuum there exists a g in G with g[S]=[0,1].
• The additivity of the Marczewski's ideal s₀ is equal to \omega₁ < \continuum.

Algebras With Inner Mb-Representation, Krzysztof Ciesielski

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

We investigate algebras of sets, and pairs (A,I) consisting of an algebra A and an ideal I, which is a subset of A, that possess an inner MB-representation. We compare inner MB-representability of (A,I) with several properties of (A,I) considered by Baldwin. We show that A is inner MB-representable if and only if A =S(A \ H (A)), where S(^.) is a Marczewski operation defined below and H consists of sets that are hereditarily in A. We study uniqueness issue of the ideal in that representation.

European Lingua Franca? Germany's Relationship With English In The Late Twentieth Century, Anna Elise Fleming

Honors Theses

The following thesis analyses the maintenance of national education, business, and social infrastructures (such as popular media and advertisement) for the English language within German borders. This linguistic situation in Germany, combined with the pressure of English as a global language, signifies the possibility of English becoming the lingua franca (common language) for Europe (both European Union and non-European Union countries), especially in the areas of higher education, business, and media.

A Number Theoretical Approach To Public Key Cryptography, Nathan Morley Holt

Honors Theses

My journey with design cannot be adequately studied without a deeper understanding of my passion for freedom. Through this paper, my use of the word “freedom ’ represents breaking free from bondage. Poverty is bondage. Homelessness is bondage. Slavery is bondage. Radically, I also choose to consider apathy a bondage. During my time at The University of Mississippi, one of the ways I have grown as a graphic artist is through my pursuit to make a difference. Pairing artistic techniques with help others, I have discovered design’s unique ability to initiate action. Speaking louder than words, design can convey messages …

Exact Synthesis Of 3-Qubit Quantum Circuits From Non-Binary Quantum Gates Using Multiple-Valued Logic And Group Theory, Guowu Yang, William N. N. Hung, Xiaoyu Song, Marek Perkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

We propose an approach to optimally synthesize quantum circuits from non-permutative quantum gates such as Controlled-Square-Root–of-Not (i.e. Controlled-V). Our approach reduces the synthesis problem to multiple-valued optimization and uses group theory. We devise a novel technique that transforms the quantum logic synthesis problem from a multi-valued constrained optimization problem to a permutable representation. The transformation enables us to utilize group theory to exploit the symmetric properties of the synthesis problem. Assuming a cost of one for each two-qubit gate, we found all reversible circuits with quantum costs of 4, 5, 6, etc, and give another algorithm to realize these reversible …

Synthesis Of Reversible Circuits From A Subset Of Muthukrishnan-Stroud Quantum Realizable Multi-Valued Gates, Marek Perkowski, Nicholas Denler, Bruce Yen, Pawel Kerntopf

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

We present a new type of quantum realizable reversible cascade. Next we present a new algorithm to synthesize arbitrary single-output ternary functions using these reversible cascades. The cascades use “Generalized Multi-Valued Gates” introduced here, which extend the concept of Generalized Ternary Gates introduced previously. While there were 216 GTGs, a total of 12 ternary gates of the new type are sufficient to realize arbitrary ternary functions. (The count can be further reduced to 5 gates, three 2-qubit and two 1-qubit). Such gates are realizable in quantum ion trap devices. For some functions, the algorithm requires fewer gates than results previously …

A Dictionary Of Middle Egyptian For Students Of Biblical Archaeology And Old Testament Studies, Robert D. Bates

Dissertations

Problem. Middle Egyptian has played an increasingly important role in Biblical Archaeology and Old Testament studies. Much of biblical chronology is closely connected to Egyptian chronology; many biblical events record Egyptian involvement, and some of these are included on Egyptian monuments. A knowledge of Middle Egyptian has been crucial in understanding the historical background and cultural context of the biblical world because this phase of the Egyptian language influenced the widest range of Egyptian writing, particularly as it pertains to Old Testament history. Unfortunately, students do not have all the necessary tools for searching for unfamiliar words in Middle Egyptian. …