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Division Of Science And Mathematics Invitational Exhibition At Prca, University Relations

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Poetry, paintings, short stories, hand-dyed cloth, pottery, quilts, knitting, photography, carvings, and calligraphy on exhibit at Prairie Renaissance Cultural Alliance Gallery.

Beam Spin Asymmetries In Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (Dvcs) With Clas At 4.8 Gev, G. Gavalian, Gerard P. Gilfoyle, Et. Al.

Physics Faculty Publications

We report measurements of the beam spin asymmetry in deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) at an electron beam energy of 4.8 GeV using the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The DVCS beam spin asymmetry has been measured in a wide range of kinematics, 1.0 < Q² < 2.8 (GeV/c)², 0.12 < x_B < 0.48, and 0.1 < −t < 0.8 (GeV/c)², using the reaction ep → e' p X. The number of H(e, e' γ p) and H(e, e'π⁰p) events are separated in each (Q², x_B, t …

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Practice Teaching In Urban Schools: The Effectiveness Of Special Education Preclinical Experience In Urban School Settings, Myung-Sook Koh

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at EMU

Myung-sook Koh's contribution to this volume wrestles with an important issue in teacher education. Teacher education students at Eastern Michigan University get very little, if any, experience teaching in urban schools; furthermore, students not majoring in special education rarely gain direct experience working with this population, although the inclusive classrooms they will face as teachers likely will present them with special education students. This chapter details Myung-sook's work in getting her students into inner city schools as part of their field experience as preservice teachers, and examines student reactions to this important activity.

As the core of this project, of …

Matlab As A Tool To Increase The Math Self-Confidence And The Math Ability Of First-Year Engineering Technology Students, Mary L. Brake

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at EMU

Mary Brake's chapter details her efforts to introduce a computational software package (Mathlab) in her Introduction to Engineering Technology course. Mary started off her scholarship of teaching and learning project interested in why women and minorities tend to drop out of engineering programs nationwide; she anticipated it is caused by lack of confidence these students have that they can "make it" in such a program. Along the way, Mary's focus widened as she discovered that the problem may not exactly be lack of confidence; her students continued to feel their ability to solve complex problems even in the face of …

Guided Inquiry Animations In General Chemistry, Larry Kolopajlo

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at EMU

Many people have nightmares about their undergraduate chemistry experiences. I suspect, though, that if Larry Kolopajlo had been our teacher, this would not be the case. Larry's work in this chapter is motivated by his desire to see students achieve mastery in this challenging subject. Larry has developed an impressive collection of computerized animations that, for example, show students the movement of atoms in chemical reactions. By being able to observe what previously had been hidden aspects of the subject, students should be able to gain a deeper understanding of what is going on. This should help the students to …

Introduction: From Order To Chaos To Transformation, Jeffrey L. Bernstein

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at EMU

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Academic Libraries And Copyright Issues In Ghana: The University Of Ghana In Focus, Emmanuel Mensah Darkey, Harry Akussah

International Journal of Legal Information

This paper briefly outlines what copyright is, the main actors in the copyright phenomenon, and the need to maintain a balance among them. The paper further discusses the difficulty in upholding copyright in relation to access to information in the University of Ghana, problems associated with the use of digital materials, the inadequacy of the permitted use principle, and the failure of copyright legislation to address the needs of the library and other groups or institutions.

Robustness Of Semiparametric Efficiency In Nearly-Correct Models For Two-Phase Samples, Thomas Lumley

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Augmented inverse-probability weighted (AIPW) estimators for incomplete-data models typically do not have full semiparametric efficiency, but do have model-robustness properties not shared by the efficient estimator. We examine the performance of efficient and AIPW estimators when the complete-data model is nearly correctly specified, in the sense that the misspecification is not reliably detectable from the data by any possible diagnostic or test. Asymptotic results for these nearly true models are obtained by representing them as sequences of misspecified models that are mutually contiguous with a correctly specified model. For some least favorable direction of model misspecification the bias in the …

Columbia Chronicle (09/28/2009), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from September 28, 2009 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 52 pages and is listed as Volume 45, Number 4. Cover story: "The great Olympic debate" Editor-in-Chief: Bethany Reinhart

Geometric Characterization Of Digital Objects: Algorithms And Applications To Image Analysis., Arindam Biswas Dr.

Doctoral Theses

Several problems of characterizing a digital object, and particularly, those related to boundary description, have been studied in this thesis. New algorithms and their applications to various aspects of image analysis and retrieval have been reported. A combinatorial technique for constructing the outer and inner isothetic covers of a digital object has been developed. The resolution of the background 2D grid can be changed by varying the grid spacing, and this procedure can be used to extract shape and topological information about the object. Next, an algorithm has been designed for constructing the orthogonal (convex) hull of a digital object …

Tracking Rhythmicity In Biomedical Signals Using Sequential Monte Carlo Methods, Sungan Kim

Dissertations and Theses

Cyclical patterns are common in signals that originate from natural systems such as the human body and man-made machinery. Often these cyclical patterns are not perfectly periodic. In that case, the signals are called pseudo-periodic or quasi-periodic and can be modeled as a sum of time-varying sinusoids, whose frequencies, phases, and amplitudes change slowly over time. Each time-varying sinusoid represents an individual rhythmical component, called a partial, that can be characterized by three parameters: frequency, phase, and amplitude. Quasi-periodic signals often contain multiple partials that are harmonically related. In that case, the frequencies of other partials become exact integer multiples …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 05, September 28, 2009, Grand Valley State University

2009-2010, Volume 34

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Patriot Talon Vol. 41 Issue 2 (2009), Archives Account

The Patriot Talon/The Patriot

The official newspaper for the University of Texas at Tyler before it was changed back to the UT Tyler Patriot. Articles in this issue include: SGA Considers Intramural Sport Field Complaints; Voters Fill 13 Seats for SGA; Fee Reflects Small Budget Changes; Drum Line Keeps Beat; Homecoming Festivities Set for October; First Campus Honors Class Includes 20 Students for Fall; Minority Student Group Show Research Projects; Students Granted Charter for HR Management Society; Summer Travel-Study Course Destined for Japan; Student Wins National MBA Association Prize for Project; Winona Elections Planned for off-premise Alcohol Sales; Fall Campus Events; 7 Step Program …

Stormwater Irrigation Volume Iii: Transport Of The Cyanotoxin Microcystin In Groundwater Beneath Stormwater Ponds: Results Of Soil Column Experiments, Martin Wanielista

BMP Trains Research and Publications

As the demand for fresh water increases in central Florida to meet both public supply and irrigation needs, stormwater is increasingly being managed as a resource to help offset possible future declines in aquifer water levels. Water quality is an important consideration when using stormwater for recharge or harvesting. A constituent of recent concern is cyanobacteria (popularly known as blue-green algae) because some of these can produce toxins (cyanotoxins) that are detrimental to animal and human health. Microcystins are the most commonly found type of cyanotoxin in Florida and have been detected in a variety of rivers, natural lakes, and …

Super-Relaxed (Η)-Proximal Point Algorithms, Relaxed (Η)-Proximal Point Algorithms, Linear Convergence Analysis, And Nonlinear Variational Inclusions, Ram U. Verma, Ravi P. Agarwal

Mathematics and System Engineering Faculty Publications

We glance at recent advances to the general theory of maximal (set-valued) monotone mappings and their role demonstrated to examine the convex programming and closely related field of nonlinear variational inequalities. We focus mostly on applications of the super-relaxed (η)-proximal point algorithm to the context of solving a class of nonlinear variational inclusion problems, based on the notion of maximal (η)-monotonicity. Investigations highlighted in this communication are greatly influenced by the celebrated work of Rockafellar (1976), while others have played a significant part as well in generalizing the proximal point algorithm considered by Rockafellar (1976) to the case of the …

Extracting Black Hole Physics From The Lattice, Simon Catterall, Toby Wiseman

Physics - All Scholarship

We perform lattice simulations of N D0-branes at finite temperature in the decoupling limit, namely 16 supercharge SU(N) Yang-Mills quantum mechanics in the 't Hooft limit. At low temperature this theory is conjectured to be dual to certain supergravity black holes. We emphasize that the existence of a non-compact moduli space renders the partition function of the quantum mechanics theory divergent, and we perform one loop calculations that demonstrate this explicitly. In consequence we use a scalar mass term to regulate this divergence and argue that the dual black hole thermodynamics may be recovered in the appropriate large N limit …

Towards Virtual Information Literacy: Academic Librarian Integration Into Teacher Education Distance Learning Programs, Brenna K. Helmstutler

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Psychosemiotics And Information Literacy Instruction: Identifying Signways In Library Tutorials, Barbara Laster, Barbara Blummer, Olga Kritskaya

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Recipient Of The 2009 Alumni Titan Award, Sendhil Revuluri '90

Alumni Titan Award

Sendhil Revuluri was instrumental in laying the foundation for many of IMSA’s current alumni outreach activities. Well-known by alumni, Revuluri was one of a small group who worked diligently to strengthen the alumni network and the IMSA Alumni Association (IAA). As a cabinet member and treasurer of the Alumni Association, Sendhil assisted with early online outreach efforts, reunion planning, and fundraising appeals to alumni. His efforts paved the way for what would be a multi-year campaign to reach the $1 million goal in alumni contributions for the IMSA Fund for Advancement of Education. In addition to his service on the …

Recipient Of The 2009 Alumni Titan Award, Pooja K. Agarwal '01

Alumni Titan Award

Pooja K. Agarwal has contributed a significant amount of time, talent and treasure to IMSA as an alumna. Following graduation, Agarwal became actively involved in the IMSA Alumni Association and served as an at-large cabinet member for three years. She volunteered as an Intersession facilitator from 2004-2007 and assisted as the alumni liaison in 2006, recruiting alumni and organizing appreciation activities. Agarwal’s efforts helped to build the foundation for alumni volunteerism in Intersession, which reached record-high alumni participation in 2009. Since 2001, she has also been actively involved in the IMSA Kids Institute (KI) program as a teacher and member …

Recipient Of The 2009 Alumni Titan Award, Joshua A. Gerlick '99

Alumni Titan Award

Joshua A. Gerlick has provided outstanding service to IMSA and is a loyal and generous supporter of the IMSA Fund. In early 2005, Gerlick participated in phone interviews for the IMSA TALENT Director. He also returned to the Academy in 2005 to serve as the Convocation speaker, and again in 2006 as an Intersession facilitator. During the 2006-07 school year, Gerlick dedicated a substantial amount of time towards volunteering at IMSA, in addition to relocating his home and business from Pittsburgh to Michigan. He served as a class agent for the annual fund, personally soliciting former classmates on behalf of …

Recipient Of The 2009 Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Thandeka K. Chapman '89

Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award

Dr. Thandeka K. Chapman is an Associate Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She has conducted research on policy implementation in desegregated schools, urban small school reforms, teaching and learning in racially diverse classrooms, and evaluating Social Justice curricula. Her most recent publications are six edited volumes of the History of Multicultural Education co-edited with Carl A. Grant. She also co-edited a new book, The Practice of Freedom: Social Justice Pedagogy in the United States, to be published in February 2010. Other publications include: “Peddling Backwards: Reflections of Plessy …

Recipient Of The 2009 Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award, Rebecca Willett '96

Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award

Prof. Rebecca Willett is a prolific contributor to the field of electrical and computer engineering through teaching, cutting-edge research and publishing as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her teaching and research interests are focused on signal and image processing techniques and how these can be applied to help advance a variety of other fields, including medical imaging, astronomy, networks, and bioinformatics. As a testimony to the broad implications of her research, Prof. Willett is assisting the Department of Defense through her work on the Computer Science Study Panel, run by the …

Information Literacy Is Going To The Dogs, Kathy Albertson

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Volume 45 - Issue 03 - Friday, September 25, 2009, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

Causal Inference For Nested Case-Control Studies Using Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Sherri Rose, Mark J. Van Der Laan

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

A nested case-control study is conducted within a well-defined cohort arising out of a population of interest. This design is often used in epidemiology to reduce the costs associated with collecting data on the full cohort; however, the case control sample within the cohort is a biased sample. Methods for analyzing case-control studies have largely focused on logistic regression models that provide conditional and not marginal causal estimates of the odds ratio. We previously developed a Case-Control Weighted Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) procedure for case-control study designs, which relies on the prevalence probability q0. We propose the use of …

Delaware River Bay Authority V. Jan Kopacz

2009 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

The Bison, September 25, 2009

The Bison Newspapers

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 99 [100], No. 6 (Sept. 25, 2009), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 99, but it is the 100th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.