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Pursuing The Peak Of Excellence: Wiki As A Knowledge Base, Rebecca Klein, Matthew Smith

Information Technology Faculty and Staff Publications

The pursuit of excellent communication is a path not easily navigated. Challenges arise at every turn, and the greatest obstacle of all is ensuring availability and accuracy of information. Help Desk representatives are the first point of contact for customers placing technology requests and they must have a broad range of knowledge about services provided by the department. A large amount of time is spent in training staff members to achieve the desired level of expertise. At Valparaiso University these staff members are students, adding to the complexity of information sharing as these staff members are only employed for a …

Creating Pathways To Develop Student Professionalism - A New Direction, Jennifer Mcintosh-Elkins, Rebecca Klein

Information Technology Faculty and Staff Publications

The 2007-2008 academic year brought a new program of student employment to our IT department called IT Fellows. This program brings together the technological skills of IT along with soft business skills to assist our student employees in becoming well-rounded individuals fully prepared for life after college. In previous years our primary area of student employment was the Help Desk in which there was a tiered system in place with opportunities for resume and interview experience, raises, and promotions. The area of training needed further development and the move to the new program provided enhanced opportunities for training at all …

Creating Useful Products From Connecticut's 2000 Lidar Data Set Jhr 08-314 Project 07-2, Thomas H. Meyer

Department of Natural Resources and the Environment Articles

The State of Connecticut owns a LIght Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) data set that was collected in 2000 as part of the State’s periodic aerial reconnaissance missions. Although collected eight years ago, these data are just now becoming ready to be made available to the public. These data constitute a massive “point cloud”, being a long list of east-north-up triplets in the State Plane Coordinate System Zone 0600 (SPCS83 0600), orthometric heights (NAVD 88) in US Survey feet. Unfortunately, point clouds have no structure or organization, and consequently they are not as useful as Triangulated Irregular Networks (TINs), digital elevation …

In Transit Vol 3 Fall 2008, Laguardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College Publications

In Transit is the LaGuardia Journal on Teaching and Learning. It is published by the Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY.

Familiarity With Breeding Habitat Improves Daily Survival In Colonial Cliff Swallows, Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, Kathleen R. Brazeal

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

One probable cost of dispersing to a new breeding habitat is unfamiliarity with local conditions such as the whereabouts of food or the habits of local predators, and consequently immigrants may have lower probabilities of survival than more experienced residents. Within a breeding season, estimated daily survival probabilities of cliff swallows, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, at colonies in southwestern Nebraska, USA, were highest for birds that had always nested at the same site, followed by those for birds that had nested there in some (but not all) past years. Daily survival probabilities were lowest for birds that were naive immigrants to …

Lindenword, Fall 2008, Lindenwood University

LindenWord (2006-2011)

LindenWord was a publication for Lindenwood students from 2006 to 2011.

Numerical Simulation Of Thermo-Elasticity, Inelasticity And Rupture Inmembrane Theory, Michael Taylor

Mechanical Engineering

Two distinct two-dimensional theories for the modeling of thin elastic bodies are developed. These are demonstrated through numerical simulation of various types of membrane deformation. The work includes a continuum thermomechanics-based theory for wrinkled thin films. The theory takes into account single-layer sheets as well as composite membranes made of multiple lamina. The resulting model is applied to the study of entropic elastic elastomers as well as Mylar/aluminum composite films. The latter has direct application in the area of solar sails. Several equilibrium deformations are illustrated numerically by applying the theory of dynamic relaxation to a finite difference discretization based …

Coral Reef Restoration And Mitigation In Florida And Beyond, Jocelyn Karazsia, Tom Moore, James Byrne, David S. Gilliam, John Hunt

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

No abstract provided.

The Nova Southeastern Lawyer, Fall 2008, Volume 12, Number 10, Nova Southeastern University - Shepard Broad Law Center

Nova Lawyer

No abstract provided.

These Women Blazed A Trail In Math And Science For Other Women To Follow, Diether Haenicke

WMU President Diether Haenicke

This column was published in the Kalamazoo Gazette mlive.com/kalamazoo

Undiscovered Karst Country: A New Paradigm For The Pecos Region Of Eastern New Mexico And West Texas As A Basin-Scale, Hypogene Speleogenetic Province [Abstract], Kevin W. Stafford, Lewis Land, Alexander Klimchouk

Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.

Sfa Weather Station-October 2008, Arthur Temple College Of Forestry And Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University

Weather Station Data

No abstract provided.

Outlook, Fall 2008, Wayne State University Library System

Library Publications

Newsletter from the Wayne State University Library System. Fall 2008 articles include: Reflections on G. Flint Purdy; 2007-2008 G. Flint Purdy Memorial Award; Virtual Motor City Adds Over 20,000 Images and Videos; Library System Introduces Encore Search; Library System Joins International Consortium for Greater Access; LISP Offers Online Degree; Classroom Technology Redesign; Shiffman Medical Library to Reopen in 2009; Jacob Lawrence Traveling Display; Dean of Library System Elected to OCLC Board of Trustees; Neef Law Library Director Retires; Shiffman Medical Library Director Steps Down; Greeting From Dean Sandra Yee.

Optimization Of Delay-Differential Inclusions Of Infinite Dimensions, Boris S. Mordukhovich, Dong Wang, Lianwen Wang

Mathematics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Chemistry & Biochemistry Newsletter, Department Of Chemistry & Biochemistry, South Dakota State University

Chemistry & Biochemistry Newsletter: 2002-2015

Inside:

Page 2 PlainGreen Conference 2008; Dioszegi attends ACS Green Chemistry Summer School

Page 3 SDSU seeks CLS/Medical Tech accreditation; Pravecek named South Dakota’s ASCLS Member of the Year

Page 4 You awarded grant from Board of Regents; Recent Faculty Publications

Page 5 New Grad Students

Page 6 Native American traditional tea has health benefits; Natalie Garry is SDSU August Career Service Employee

Page 7 Henry A. Lardy Lecture; SDSU offers master’s degree in chemistry education; Grad students attend Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference

Page 8 New Shepard Hall Update

Asymmetric Information Measures: How To Extract Knowledge From An Expert So That The Expert's Effort Is Minimal, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Elizabeth N. Kamoroff

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Knowledge acquisition is when we ask experts questions, and put the answers into the computer system. Since this is a very time-consuming task, it is desirable to minimize the effort of an expert.

As a crude estimate for this effort, we can take a number of binary (yes-no) questions that we ask. The procedure that minimizes this number is binary search.

This approach does not take into account that people often feel more comfortable answering "yes" than answering "no". So, to make our estimates more realistic, we will take into consideration that for a negative answer the effort is bigger. …

Untitled, Darren Poon

Architecture Master Theses

"My objective is to explore the potential of generative design processes driven by user-derived parameters established through computational protocols, algorithms, and simulations resulting in a process embodying ecologies of feedback and performances. Inherent in the designed process is the establishment of feedback, through each cycle of simulation, evaluation, and modification of the geometry.

This thesis project demonstrates a version of these processes specifically examining the performance driven building typology of the massive server farm. Specifically, its implicit correlations with fluid dynamic simulation and its biases toward an optimization of heat dissipation and plan layout. This project is situated between a …

Fall 2008 Vol. 10 No. 2, School Of Information Studies

School of Information Studies - Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Profiles Of Academic Majors - 2008, Governors State University

Profiles of Academic Majors

The Profiles of Academic Majors (PAM) provides a ten-year longitudinal snapshot of selected enrollment (e.g., headcounts) and demographic (e.g., age) statistics arranged by fall term, fiscal year, or academic year as appropriate

Actions Memo October 2008, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Action Memos

No abstract provided.

Second-Generation Consumerism: Increasing Consumer Activation To Improve Health Outcomes And Lower Costs For Patients With Chronic Disease, Judith H. Hibbard, Katherine J. Hayes

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

With health care costs increasing, some policymakers have sought to make patients better health care consumers through increased cost-sharing linked with greater information on the cost of care. These may be successful cost containment strategies in the short term. But patients are just as likely to forgo necessary as unnecessary care, which ultimately leads to greater demand for more intensive and expensive care in the long term. Patients can, however, play an important role in preventing the onset of chronic conditions or preventing deterioration in health once they have been diagnosed with a chronic condition. In this chapter we discuss …

Math/Compsci Newsletter, Fall 2008, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Bridgewater State College

Department of Mathematics Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Initial Educational Experiences Of Tertiary Students, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Briefing Reports

This Briefing presents information about the initial tertiary education experiences, such as satisfaction with aspects of student life and changes to initial enrolments, of two groups of young people, based on two recent LSAY research reports. One study focussed on the first year experiences of a group of young people who completed Year 12 in 2001 and entered tertiary education (university and TAFE) the following year.In this study, TAFE students who were enrolled in traineeships or apprenticeships were excluded from the analyses. The second study examined course changes and attrition from university study among a group of young people who …

Phosphorylation Of P27kip1 Regulates Assembly And Activation Of Cyclin D1-Cdk4, Michelle D. Larrea, Jiyong Liang, Thiago G. Da Silva, Feng Hong, Shan H. Shao, Kathy Han, D. Dumont, Joyce M. Slingerland

Chemistry and Physics Faculty Articles

p27 mediates Cdk2 inhibition and is also found in cyclin D1-Cdk4 complexes. The present data support a role for p27 in the assembly of D-type cyclin-Cdk complexes and indicate that both cyclin D1-Cdk4-p27 assembly and kinase activation are regulated by p27 phosphorylation. Prior work showed that p27 can be phosphorylated by protein kinase B/Akt (PKB/Akt) at T157 and T198. Here we show that PKB activation and the appearance of p27pT157 and p27pT198 precede p27-cyclin D1-Cdk4 assembly in early G₁. PI3K/PKB inhibition rapidly reduced p27pT157 and p27pT198 and dissociated cellular p27-cyclin D1-Cdk4. Mutant p27 allele products lacking phosphorylation at …

Vol. 84, No. 1 | Fall 2008, Bridgewater College

Bridgewater Magazine

No abstract provided.

Fall 2008

Perspectives

No abstract provided.

The Learning Marketspace, October 2008, Bob Heterick, Carol Twigg

The Learning MarketSpace (4/03 - 4/14)

No abstract provided.

Low-Fluence Electron Yields Of Highly Insulating Materials, Ryan Hoffman, John R. Dennison, Clint D. Thomson, Jennifer Albresten

All Physics Faculty Publications

Electron-induced electron yields of high-resistivity high-yield materials - ceramic polycrystalline aluminum oxide and polymer polyimide (Kapton HN) - were made by using a low-fluence pulsed incident electron beam and charge neutralization electron source to minimize charge accumulation. Large changes in the energy-dependent total yield curves and yield decay curves were observed, even for incident electron fluences of < 3 fC/mm². The evolution of the electron yield as charge accumulates in the material is modeled in terms of electron recapture based on an extended Chung-Everhart model of the electron emission spectrum. This model is used to explain the anomalies measured in highly …

Systems Analysis Of Resources Development - California State University, Sacramento, Kaveh Madani

All ECSTATIC Materials

The course presents a variety of systems analysis techniques that can be used for resource planning and management in the civil engineering field. Simulation and optimization techniques (or mathematical programming) are emphasized as they apply to civil engineering problem solving. Course taught at University of Central Florida.

Identity Theft 101, Robert E. Holtfreter

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Business

In this column, the author discusses identity theft complaint data published by the FTC as part of its 2007 "Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data" report.