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

Tiger Newspapers

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Student Perceptions Of Pullout Instruction, Christen A. Bokinskie

Theses and Graduate Projects

The latest movement in educating students with disabilities is pushing toward full inclusion for academic and social advantages. When considering the educational programming for a child, academic performance is only one part of the picture. Students with special education needs may already have a lower self-esteem than their peers, and leaving the classroom for services may exemplify those feelings.

This study focuses on student impressions of how students are affected by special education and receive pull out instruction. Eight students, four in general education, and four in special education and receive pull out instruction were interviewed and observed in the …

Ab Initio Study Of Hydrogen Adsorption On Benzenoid Linkers In Metal–Organic Framework Materials, Yi Gao, Xiao Cheng Zeng

Xiao Cheng Zeng Publications

We have computed the energies of adsorption of molecular hydrogen on a number of molecular linkers in metal–organic framework solid materials using density functional theory (DFT) and ab initio molecular orbital methods. We find that the hybrid B3LYP (Becke three-parameter Lee–Yang–Parr) DFT method gives a qualitatively incorrect prediction of the hydrogen binding with benzenoid molecular linkers. Both local-density approximation (LDA) and generalized gradient approximation (GGA) DFT methods are inaccurate in predicting the values of hydrogen binding energies, but can give a qualitatively correct prediction of the hydrogen binding. When compared to the more accurate binding- energy results based on the …

Education In The Environment: A Strategy For Continued Interagency Outdoor Programming: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending August 31, 2007, Environmental Education Strategy For Nevada

Reports (PLI Education)

During the past three months, the focus of the university’s efforts has included the following highlights:

• Three projects have been identified to meet SNAP strategic messaging needs: an anti-litter exhibit; a volunteer restoration program with educational components; and activity stations to tell the story of Lee Meadows restoration efforts.
• Interpretive planning is underway for Mountain’s Edge Explorer’s Interpretive Trail.
• A Hispanic survey and monitoring program has been identified.
• A six-week Spanish class tailored to meet the communication needs of environmental educators and interpreters will be offered beginning September 20.
• Forever Earth was scheduled for 11 days and benefited 297 individuals. …

Newscast, August 31, 2007, Illinois State University, College Of Applied Science And Technology

newsCAST

Newsletter of the Illinois State University College of Applied Science and Technology

Assessing The Credit Risk Of Cdos Backed By Structured Finance Securities: Rating Analysts' Challenges And Solutions, Jian Hu

Documents

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Fully Codon-Optimized Luciferase Uncovers Novel Temperature Characteristics Of The Neurospora Clock, Van D. Gooch, Arun Mehra, Luis F. Larrondo, Julie Fox, Melissa Touroutoutoudis, Jennifer J. Loros, Jay C. Dunlap

Dartmouth Scholarship

We report the complete reconstruction of the firefly luciferase gene, fully codon optimized for expression in Neurospora crassa. This reporter enhances light output by approximately 4 log orders over that with previously available versions, now producing light that is visible to the naked eye and sufficient for monitoring the activities of many poorly expressed genes. Time lapse photography of strains growing in race tubes, in which the frq or eas/ccg-2 promoter is used to drive luciferase, shows the highest levels of luciferase activity near the growth front and newly formed conidial bands. Further, we have established a sorbose medium colony …

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 …

The Murray Ledger And Times, August 31, 2007, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

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Hydrodynamic And Magnetohydrodynamic Computations Inside A Rotating Sphere, P. D. Mininni, D. C. Montgomery, L. Turner

Dartmouth Scholarship

Numerical solutions of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are reported for the interior of a rotating, perfectly-conducting, rigid spherical shell that is insulator-coated on the inside. A previously-reported spectral method is used which relies on a Galerkin expansion in Chandrasekhar–Kendall vector eigenfunctions of the curl. The new ingredient in this set of computations is the rigid rotation of the sphere. After a few purely hydrodynamic examples are sampled (spin down, Ekman pumping, inertial waves), attention is focused on selective decay and the MHD dynamo problem. In dynamo runs, prescribed mechanical forcing excites a persistent velocity field, usually turbulent at modest …

The Link Between Emotional Recognition And Executive Functioning Ability, Alexandra Popa

Theses

This study investigated the link between executive functioning (e.g., planning, shifting, inhibiting) and emotional recognition ability based on facial expressions. In addition, differences in emotional recognition and executive functioning among college majors and year in school was assessed. Gender differences were studied as well. A sample of 53 volunteer undergraduate students were administered an abbreviated version of Ekman's Pictures of Facial Affect (AEFER) and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: Computer Version 4 (WCST:CV$). Findings indicate a moderate association between emotional recognition and executive functioning. Participants' performance varied on emotional recognition tasks based on year and major. Also, differences in executive …

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 …

First Total Synthesis And Structural Reassignment Of (-)-Aplysiallene., Jian Wang, Brian L Pagenkopf

Chemistry Publications

The first total synthesis of (-)-aplysiallene has been completed in 16 steps and features a key sequential Mukaiyama aerobic oxidative cyclization to prepare the fused bis-THF core. The original stereochemical assignment has been revised as shown.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

The Weekly Challenger, August 30, 2007, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 30, 2007, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

You Can Teach

News Releases

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Computer-Based Instruction For Engineering Education In The Developing World, Bradford G. Singley

Theses and Dissertations

Although civil engineers continually develop new ways to solve problems involving water, energy, infrastructure and environmental sustainability, these innovations can take years – or even decades – to reach developing countries. Computer-based instruction has the potential to dramatically decrease this lag time by improving engineering education in the developing world. This paper discusses the development of instructional simulations, based on the theory of model-centered instruction. These simulations can serve as self-paced learning modules, which can be accessed for free over the Internet. A pilot learning module was developed for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the …

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 10, No. 3), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

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The Missouri Miner, August 30, 2007

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

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Structural Phase Transition And Ferromagnetism In Monodisperse 3 Nm Fept Particles, Chuan-Bing Rong, Narayan Poudyal, Girija S. Chaubey, Vikas Nandwana, Ralph Skomski, Y. Q. Wu, Matthew J. Kramer, J. Ping Liu

Ralph Skomski Publications

FePt nanoparticles with a size of 3 nm and thermally stable room-temperature ferromagnetism are investigated. The monodisperse nanoparticles were prepared by chemical synthesis and a salt-matrix annealing technique. Structural and magnetic characterizations confirmed the phase transition from the disordered face-centered cubic structure to the L1₀ structure with the chemical ordering parameter of 0.62±0.05. Analysis in blocking temperature and fitting of temperature dependence of switching field reveals that the transformed 3 nm nanoparticles have a magnetic anisotropy constant of (2.8±0.2) x 10⁶ J/m³, smaller than those for the bigger particles and the fully ordered L1 …

2007-08-30 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2007

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The Tennessee State University Automatic Spectroscopic Telescope: Data Processing And Velocity Variation Of Cool Giants, Joel A. Eaton, Michael H. Williamson

Information Systems and Engineering Management Research Publications

This paper discusses data reduction for an echelle spectrograph we have developed for an automatic telescope at Tennessee State University and are using to monitor radial velocities and line profiles of cool giant and supergiant stars. Although our approach to data reduction is rather conventional, we discuss flat‐fielding and extraction of velocities in ways that should be of general interest, establish a transformation to the IAU radial velocity system (+0.35 ± 0.09 km s−1), and determine the external precision for measured velocities (0.10–0.11 km s−1). Also, we present results of the first 2–3 years of monitoring radial velocities in about …

Daily Eastern News: August 29, 2007, Eastern Illinois University

August

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Lateral Resistance Of Piles At The Crest Of Slopes In Sand, Artak Davit Mirzoyan

Theses and Dissertations

Pile foundations near the crest of a slope are often required to resist lateral loads. This is particularly important for piles at the abutments of bridges. However, limited full-scale test data are available to indicate how the lateral resistance of a pile would be affected when it is located near the crest of a slope. To investigate the effect of a slope on lateral pile resistance, three full scale lateral load tests were conducted on an instrumented steel pipe pile. For the first test, the pile was laterally loaded in horizontal ground. For the second test the pile was at …

Dating Potential As A Factor Influencing The Tolerance Of Sexual Harassment, Kara Fetter

Theses and Dissertations

Seventy-nine undergraduate females participated in a laboratory analogue developed to investigate a variable labeled as "Dating Potential," defined as the combination of a man's physical attractiveness and status. Researchers attempted to determine if dating potential could influence a young woman's tolerance of peer sexual harassment. Using an instant-message type interaction, participants were exposed via computer to one of four conditions consisting of a picture and profile of a potential male dating candidate. While a man's status did not influence the participant's tolerance, results indicate that women exposed to an attractive male were more likely to tolerate sexually harassing responses.

Proceedings Of The 18th Irish Conference On Artificial Intelligence And Cognitive Science, Sarah Jane Delany, Michael Madden

Books/Book Chapters

These proceedings contain the papers that were accepted for publication at AICS-2007, the 18th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, which was held in the Technological University Dublin; Dublin, Ireland; on the 29th to the 31st August 2007. AICS is the annual conference of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AIAI).

Montana Students Vie For Prizes In Um Math Competition, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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The Daily Egyptian, August 28, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff

August 2007

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The Temporal Program Of Peripheral Blood Gene Expression In The Response Of Nonhuman Primates To Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, Kathleen H. Rubins, Lisa E. Hensley, Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Kathleen M. Daddario Dicaprio, Howard A. Young, Douglas S. Reed, Peter B. Jahrling, Patrick O Brown, David A. Relman, Thomas W. Geisbert

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Publications

Background: Infection with Ebola virus (EBOV) causes a fulminant and often fatal hemorrhagic fever. In order to improve our understanding of EBOV pathogenesis and EBOV-host interactions, we examined the molecular features of EBOV infection in vivo.

Results: Using high-density cDNA microarrays, we analyzed genome-wide host expression patterns in sequential blood samples from nonhuman primates infected with EBOV. The temporal program of gene expression was strikingly similar between animals. Of particular interest were features of the data that reflect the interferon response, cytokine signaling, and apoptosis. Transcript levels for tumor necrosis factor-α converting enzyme (TACE)/α-disintegrin and metalloproteinase (ADAM)-17 …