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Evaluating The Blending Of An E-Learning Module Into A Knowledge Management Course: A Case Study From The Singapore Management University (Smu), Thomas Menkhoff, Tze Yian Thang, Yue Kee Wong Sep 2007

Evaluating The Blending Of An E-Learning Module Into A Knowledge Management Course: A Case Study From The Singapore Management University (Smu), Thomas Menkhoff, Tze Yian Thang, Yue Kee Wong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In 2005, the authors of this essay led the development and launch of SMU’s (Singapore Management University) first e-learning package on ‘Knowledge Management’. The package is aimed at supporting SMU’s mission to be committed to an interactive, participative and technologically-enabled learning experience. Since its inception in 2000, SMU’s educational and administrative practices are modelled after American institutions, in particular the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. To support SMU’s unique pedagogy, wireless technology for mobile computing is a central feature at SMU. Against this background, the paper features a self-critical and reflective case study of the roll out of …

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The Effect Of Chemical And Biological Treatments On Improving The Nutritive Value Of Corn Cobs And Wild Reed, Raheef S. H. Sep 2007

The Effect Of Chemical And Biological Treatments On Improving The Nutritive Value Of Corn Cobs And Wild Reed, Raheef S. H.

Baghdad Science Journal

This study was conducted in Animal Resources Department , College of Agriculture to estimate the effect of chemical and biological treatments to improve the nutritive value of poor quality roughages ( corn cobs and wild reed ) .The feeds were treated chemically with 4% NaoH solution ,whereas Aspergillusnigerwas used to ferment corn cobs and wild reed samples .The chemical analysis showed that protein percentages of corn cobs and wild reed was increased significantly (P<0.05) from 6.05% to 10.51% and 17.70% and from 3.10 %to 6.50% and 9.96% for both chemical and biological treatments respectively.The crude fiber percentages decreased significantly (P<0.05) from 29.19% and 26.10% to 23.60% and 20.10% for chemical treatment and was 20.20% and 14.50% after biological treatment for both corn cobs and wild reed respectively .In Vitro dry matter and organic matter digestibility was increased significantly ( p<0.05) by using both treatments .The results of this study indicated an improvement in the nutritive value for corn cobs and wild reed when treatedchemically with 4% NaOH and biologically with Aspergillusniger.

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The Kinetic Responses And Foraging Behavior Of Drosophila Melanogaster Larvae, Abdul-Zahra Kadhem Mohammed Ali Sep 2007

The Kinetic Responses And Foraging Behavior Of Drosophila Melanogaster Larvae, Abdul-Zahra Kadhem Mohammed Ali

Baghdad Science Journal

Adaptive responses in larval behavior may be of two kinds: Taxis: This involves a change in direction relative to source of a stimulus. Kinesis: Kinesis has no directional component, but involves change in the rate of performance in response to a stimulus. Drosophila larvae exhibited flexible behavioral responses associated with food acquisition and selection for different environmental conditions. In this investigation, we are concerned explosively with kinetic responses to food viability. Third instar larvae were subjected to test for thirty minutes in each of the following conditions i) in distilled water, ii) in Ringer's solution, iii) in glucose solution and …

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Using Grounded Theory To Understand Resiliency In Pre-Teen Children Of High-Conflict Families, Marlene Pomrenke Sep 2007

Using Grounded Theory To Understand Resiliency In Pre-Teen Children Of High-Conflict Families, Marlene Pomrenke

The Qualitative Report

Using grounded theory, this study identified factors that contributed to children’s ability to utilize their resilient attributes. Children between the ages of 9 and 12 from high-conflict separated or divorced families participated in a study that examined how family and community interactions promote resilient behaviour. Substantive-level theory gained from this study yielded that children from separated or divorced, high- conflict families exhibit resilient characteristics when family cohesion is used to incorporate additional family support systems, particularly step- parents and extended family members. External support systems, particularly peers, augment these resilient characteristics. In order to build resilience in pre-teen children parents …

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Drosophila Piwi Associates With Chromatin And Interacts Directly With Hp1a, Brent Brower-Toland, Seth Findley, Ling Jiang, Li Liu, Hang Yin, Monica Dus, Pei Zhou, Sarah C.R. Elgin, Haifan Lin Sep 2007

Drosophila Piwi Associates With Chromatin And Interacts Directly With Hp1a, Brent Brower-Toland, Seth Findley, Ling Jiang, Li Liu, Hang Yin, Monica Dus, Pei Zhou, Sarah C.R. Elgin, Haifan Lin

Biology Faculty Research

The interface between cellular systems involving small noncoding RNAs and epigenetic change remains largely unexplored in metazoans. RNA-induced silencing systems have the potential to target particular regions of the genome for epigenetic change by locating specific sequences and recruiting chromatin modifiers. Noting that several genes encoding RNA silencing components have been implicated in epigenetic regulation in Drosophila, we sought a direct link between the RNA silencing system and heterochromatin components. Here we show that PIWI, an ARGONAUTE/PIWI protein family member that binds to Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), strongly and specifically interacts with heterochromatin protein 1a (HP1a), a central player in heterochromatic …

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An Instructional Strategy For Pictorial Drawing, James L. Mohler Sep 2007

An Instructional Strategy For Pictorial Drawing, James L. Mohler

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

This contribution presents two major findings from a qualitative investigation into spatial ability. The elicited data suggested that one of the significant differences between individuals identified as high and low in spatial ability was their decomposition skill relative to spatial problems. Also revealing was the impact of frustration and anxiety on spatial functioning. The author discusses an instructional strategy for pictorial drawing that appeared effective for individuals solving pictorial drawing problems.

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2007 September, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University. Sep 2007

2007 September, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for September of 2007.

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Gas Feedback On Stellar Bar Evolution, Ingo Berentzen, Isaac Shlosman, Inma Martinez-Valpuesta, Clayton Heller Sep 2007

Gas Feedback On Stellar Bar Evolution, Ingo Berentzen, Isaac Shlosman, Inma Martinez-Valpuesta, Clayton Heller

Physics & Astronomy: Faculty Publications

We analyze evolution of live disk-halo systems with gas fractions, fgas ≤ 8% of the disk mass, for 5 Gyr. Specifically, we have addressed the issue of angular momentum (J) transfer from the gas to the stellar bar and its effect on the bar. We find that the bar weakening, reported in the literature, is not related to the gas, but is caused by the vertical buckling instability in the gas-poor disks and by a steep stellar heating by the central mass concentration (CMC) in the gas-rich disks. However, the gas has a profound effect on the …

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Overview Of The Imageclef 2007 Object Retrieval Task, Thomas Deselaers, Steven C. H. Hoi Sep 2007

Overview Of The Imageclef 2007 Object Retrieval Task, Thomas Deselaers, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We describe the object retrieval task of ImageCLEF 2007, give an overview of the methods of the participating groups, and present and discuss the results. The task was based on the widely used PASCAL object recognition data to train object recognition methods and on the IAPR TC-12 benchmark dataset from which images of objects of the ten different classes bicycles, buses, cars, motorbikes, cats, cows, dogs, horses, sheep, and persons had to be retrieved. Seven international groups participated using a wide variety of methods. The results of the evaluation show that the task was very challenging and that different methods …

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Evaluating Bag-Of-Visual-Words Representations In Scene Classification, Jun Yang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Chong-Wah Ngo Sep 2007

Evaluating Bag-Of-Visual-Words Representations In Scene Classification, Jun Yang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Based on keypoints extracted as salient image patches, an image can be described as a “bag of visual words” and this representation has been used in scene classification. The choice of dimension, selection, and weighting of visual words in this representation is crucial to the classification performance but has not been thoroughly studied in previous work. Given the analogy between this representation and the bag-of-words representation of text documents, we apply techniques used in text categorization, including term weighting, stop word removal, feature selection, to generate image representations that differ in the dimension, selection, and weighting of visual words. The …

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Grist For The Sceptic's Mill: Rwanda And The African Peer Review Mechanism, Eduard Jordaan Sep 2007

Grist For The Sceptic's Mill: Rwanda And The African Peer Review Mechanism, Eduard Jordaan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The article delves into the impact of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) to Rwanda's achievement of greater democracy and respect for political freedom. It aims to show the improbability that the APRM can influence the country due to its insufficient ability and volition to pressure further democratization and respect for political rights on Rwandan government, the APRM's optimistic view of political governance, and the APR Heads of State Forum's ratification of a program of action discounting the issues of democracy and political freedom. The author stresses that the weaknesses of APRM may be attributed to the existing reduced authorization …

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Scrutinizing The Cybersell: Teen-Targeted Web Sites As Texts, Darren Crovitz Sep 2007

Scrutinizing The Cybersell: Teen-Targeted Web Sites As Texts, Darren Crovitz

Faculty Articles

Darren Crovitz explains that the explosive growth of Web-based content and communication in recent years compels us to teach students how to examine the “rhetorical nature and ethical dimensions of the online world.” He demonstrates successful approaches to accomplish this goal through his analysis of the selling techniques of two Web sites targeted to a teen audience and his description of a project in which team members devise ways to teach students to consider the language and design elements of a selected site.

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What About A Bicentennial? Mr. And Mrs. Crc, James C. Schaap Sep 2007

What About A Bicentennial? Mr. And Mrs. Crc, James C. Schaap

Pro Rege

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Quantitative Study With Alumni: Final Report, The Lawlor Group Sep 2007

Quantitative Study With Alumni: Final Report, The Lawlor Group

Data

In February of 2007, Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, Illinois) retained The Lawlor Group (TLG) to conduct an Identity Assessment assignment as one part of its overall strategic planning effort. The purpose of the assignment is to help IWU better understand its identity and obtain a “collective sense of self” as it embarks on a new strategic plan. As part of that assignment—and to augment the investigation and information gathering for the overall assignment—TLG conducted a web survey with alumni. This research was intended to supplement our qualitative efforts during the site visit and provide quantitative data to support or refute …

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Fluvial Geomorphologic And Hydrodynamic Assessment In The Tidal Portion Of The Lower Rio Grande River, Us-Mexico Borderland, Andrew Ernest, B. Bokhim, N. B. Chang, I. J. Huang Sep 2007

Fluvial Geomorphologic And Hydrodynamic Assessment In The Tidal Portion Of The Lower Rio Grande River, Us-Mexico Borderland, Andrew Ernest, B. Bokhim, N. B. Chang, I. J. Huang

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

With fast population growth and economic development in the US-Mexico Borderland, water diversion and usages has reduced the flow substantially in the Low Rio Grande River (LRGR). Tidal portion of the LRGR has posed an environmental drought issue since 1993 and the channel clogged with the invasion of non-native plants also causes environmental problems. As a result of the intensity of these natural and manmade factors, the Rio Grande stopped flowing to the sea in February 2001. The flows were reduced to a point that they were unable to push out the sand deposited at the mouth. Geomorphologic evolution in …

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Prototype Speech Corpus, Dermot Campbell, Yi Wang, Ciaran Mcdonnell Sep 2007

Prototype Speech Corpus, Dermot Campbell, Yi Wang, Ciaran Mcdonnell

Conference papers

DIT’s prototype speech corpus allows language learners and researchers access to real, informal dialogues–not just the transcripts of dialogues. Because the dialogues were created at a very high acoustic level they are capable of being slowed down using a time-scaling tool for more detailed study of speech production. The recording methodology used produces a natural dialogue exhibiting all the features of native-to-native interchanges. The speech corpus is capable of serving the needs of students and researchers of spoken language. LinguaTag is the first prototype tool within the language work package in the FP6 EU project SALERO to automatically tag speech …

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Assessment Of The Bill Emerson Memorial Cable-Stayed Bridge Based On Seismic Instrumentation Data, Genda Chen, Dongming Yan, Wenjian Wang, Man Zheng, Louis Ge, Frank Liu Sep 2007

Assessment Of The Bill Emerson Memorial Cable-Stayed Bridge Based On Seismic Instrumentation Data, Genda Chen, Dongming Yan, Wenjian Wang, Man Zheng, Louis Ge, Frank Liu

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this study, both ambient and earthquake data measured from the Bill Emerson Memorial Cable-stayed Bridge are reported and analyzed. Based on the seismic instrumentation data, the vibration characteristics of the bridge are investigated and used to validate a three-dimensional Finite Element (3-D FE) model of the bridge structure. The 3-D model is rigorous and comprehensive, representing realistic dynamic behaviors of the bridge. It takes into account the geometric nonlinear properties caused by cable sagging and soil-foundation-structure interaction in the Illinois approach of the bridge. The FE model is successfully verified and validated by using the natural frequencies and mode …

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Gardenscapes: A Harmonious Approach To 3d Art, Charmie Tate Sep 2007

Gardenscapes: A Harmonious Approach To 3d Art, Charmie Tate

Theses

None provided.

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Mesophilic Digestion Kinetics Of Manure Slurry, Khursheed Karim, K. Thomas Klasson, Sadie R. Drescher, Whitney Ridenour, Abhijeet P. Borole, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan Sep 2007

Mesophilic Digestion Kinetics Of Manure Slurry, Khursheed Karim, K. Thomas Klasson, Sadie R. Drescher, Whitney Ridenour, Abhijeet P. Borole, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Anaerobic Digestion Kinetics Study of Cow Manure Was Performed at 35°C in Bench-Scale Gas-Lift Digesters (3.78 L Working Volume) at Eight Different Volatile Solids (VS) Loading Rates in the Range of 1.11-5.87 G L-1 Day-1. the Digesters Produced Methane at the Rates of 0.44-1.18 L L-1 Day-1, and the Methane Content of the Biogas Was Found to Increase with Longer Hydraulic Retention Time (HRT). based on the Experimental Observations, the Ultimate Methane Yield and the Specific Methane Productivity Were Estimated to Be 0.42 L CH4 (G vs. Loaded)-1 and 0.45 L CH …

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The Echo: August 31, 2007, Taylor University Aug 2007

The Echo: August 31, 2007, Taylor University

2007-2008 (Volume 95)

Two-year jail stay sends message – Habecker says cell phone tower is coming to Upland – Taylor is No. 1 – Taylor welcomes new faces – Hall director baby boom brings toothless grins to TU – Students deal with major dilemma – Scintillating? – The good, the bad and the ‘Superbad’ – Josh Porter’s High Five: summer movies ’07 – Harry Potter: defense against the dark arts – The right to protest – Moving Taylor beyond the motto – Re-Vision 2016 – Calling Taylor home – Volleyball defeats NCAA D-II foe – Trojans prepare for season opener – Singing the …

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 109, August 31, 2007 Aug 2007

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 109, August 31, 2007

Central Florida Future

The river runs clean; Faculty asked to raise the bar; UCF officials ready for tropical weather; Teacher's arrest freezes 2 classes; Stadium ticket lottery to begin.

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The Tiger Vol. 101 Issue 12 2007-08-31, Clemson University Aug 2007

The Tiger Vol. 101 Issue 12 2007-08-31, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

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The Daily Gamecock, Friday August 31, 2007, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media Aug 2007

The Daily Gamecock, Friday August 31, 2007, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

August

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Theoretical Framework For Predicting Joint Reaction And Ground Reaction Forces In A Dynamic Pendulum Tree Model Of Human Motion, Peyman Rajai Aug 2007

Theoretical Framework For Predicting Joint Reaction And Ground Reaction Forces In A Dynamic Pendulum Tree Model Of Human Motion, Peyman Rajai

Theses

Lagrangian dynamics and the method of superfluous coordinates are applied to find ground and joint reaction forces on the human body modeled as a general branched 2-D pendulum tree system with arbitrary segments and arbitrarily distributed point masses. A theoretical framework is established for predicting these constraint forces during human motion and consequently their effects on dynamics, dynamic stability, energy efficiency and the potential of these forces to produce joint injury and/or pain. Applications to human walking are initiated. During idealized phases where there is only single point contact of the stance leg with the ground such as just after …

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The Hilltop 8-31-2007, Hilltop Staff Aug 2007

The Hilltop 8-31-2007, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.

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Annual Report: 2006, N/A N/A Aug 2007

Annual Report: 2006, N/A N/A

Annual Reports

I submit herewith the annual report from the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, for the period ending December 31, 2006. This is done in accordance with an act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, entitled, “An act to establish agricultural experiment stations, in connection with the agricultural college established in the several states under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and under the acts supplementary thereto,” and also of the act of the Alaska Territorial Legislature, approved March 12, 1935, accepting the provisions of the act …

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Keyhole Surgery Of The Kidney At Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman, Mohammed S. Al-Marhoon, Josephkunju Mathew, Hawraa Aug 2007

Keyhole Surgery Of The Kidney At Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman, Mohammed S. Al-Marhoon, Josephkunju Mathew, Hawraa

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: Percutaneous access surgery of the kidneys was introduced in Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH) in 1998. We are presenting our early experience in the first 3 patients operated on over an eight year period using the percutaneous approach. Methods: A retrospective review of 25 patients, who underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) for the treatment of large renal stones and 6 patients who underwent endopyelotomy for the treatment of pelviureteric junction (PUJ) obstruction. Results: In the PCNL group complete stone clearance was achieved in 68% (17/25) patients and the complication rate was 28% (7/25). In the endopyelotomy group the success rate …

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The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2007-08-31, Wooster Voice Editors Aug 2007

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2007-08-31, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2001-2011

This edition of the College of Wooster's student run newspaper was published on August 31 of 2007, and it is eight pages long. The first page beings with an article about Wooster's new president, Dr. Grant Cornwell. The Faculty at Large lecture series will kick off on September 18 with presentations given by Jeffrey Lantis, Marina Mangubi and Marilyn Loveless. The Convocation for Wooster's 138th year was held on Tuesday, and a reflection of the Convocation is on page two. The Writing Center space was renovated over the summer. Construction on what will be the college's newest dorm building, Gault …

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Montana Kaimin, August 31, 2007, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula Aug 2007

Montana Kaimin, August 31, 2007, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

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August 31, 2007, The Daily Mississippian Aug 2007

August 31, 2007, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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