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December 2010 Full Issue Dec 2010

December 2010 Full Issue

NASIG Newsletter

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Motivating Industrial Engineering Students: The Effects Of Authentic Learning Experience, Gender And Class Standing, Danielle Mcdonnell, Marla E. Mayorga, Lisa C. Benson, Laine Mears Dec 2010

Motivating Industrial Engineering Students: The Effects Of Authentic Learning Experience, Gender And Class Standing, Danielle Mcdonnell, Marla E. Mayorga, Lisa C. Benson, Laine Mears

Publications

This paper explores the attitudes and factors contributing to the motivation of Industrial Engineering (IE) students, and how these relate to various ASPECTS of their educational experiences. A mixed methods sequential explanatory study was used, starting with a survey (n=50) to assess different aspects of student motivation, followed by interviews with a smaller population of students (n=8). Survey data revealed that female IE students valued being students, and saw their coursework as more instrumental to their success, more than their male counterparts. Survey data also showed that students with university-sponsored authentic learning experiences had significantly higher expectations of success in …

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Faculty Notes - John Carroll University, John Carroll University Dec 2010

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University, John Carroll University

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University

December 2010, Volume 3, Issue 4

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Mentoring Group Report Dec 2010

Mentoring Group Report

NASIG Newsletter

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Cal Poly Magazine, Winter 2010 Dec 2010

Cal Poly Magazine, Winter 2010

Cal Poly Magazine

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December 1, 2010 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office Dec 2010

December 1, 2010 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

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Creation Of An Asi Training Program, Kelsey E. Rugani Dec 2010

Creation Of An Asi Training Program, Kelsey E. Rugani

Agricultural Education and Communication

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Tharu-State Relations In Nepal And India, Arjun Guneratne Dec 2010

Tharu-State Relations In Nepal And India, Arjun Guneratne

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

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Intended, Proper, And Actual Utilization Of The Emergency Department: A Survey Of Emergency Nurses' Perceptions, Kyle Thomas Bergan Dec 2010

Intended, Proper, And Actual Utilization Of The Emergency Department: A Survey Of Emergency Nurses' Perceptions, Kyle Thomas Bergan

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of emergency nurses on the intended, ideal, and actual utilization of their emergency departments. Emergency nurses who self-identified by membership in a couple of online mailing lists catering to that specialty were invited via email to participate in an online survey. Participants described the purpose of the emergency department in which they work, along with their perception of how it is actually used and should be used. Responses were sorted by content analysis, with some of the resulting themes analyzed using demographic data supplied by participants. A range of responses …

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Teaching The Art And Craft Of Giving And Receiving Feedback, Patricia L. Harms, Deborah Britt Roebuck Dec 2010

Teaching The Art And Craft Of Giving And Receiving Feedback, Patricia L. Harms, Deborah Britt Roebuck

Faculty Articles

The article examines the teaching of business communication related to feedback, or the performance evaluation of employees and executives. The importance of feedback in both management and among teams in the workplace is considered. Models of performance evaluations are discussed. Teaching methods for discussing feedback in business communication courses are considered, with specific class assignments related to performance evaluation and evaluation among teams in the workplace are described. Reactions of students to these teaching methods are discussed.

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Capacity Reduction And Fire Load Factors For Lrfd Of Steel Members Exposed To Fire, Shahid Iqbal, Ronald S. Harichandran Dec 2010

Capacity Reduction And Fire Load Factors For Lrfd Of Steel Members Exposed To Fire, Shahid Iqbal, Ronald S. Harichandran

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

A general reliability-based methodology is proposed for developing capacity reduction and fire load factors for design of steel members exposed to fire. The effect of active fire protection systems (e.g., sprinklers, smoke and heat detectors, fire brigade, etc.) in reducing the probability of occurrence of a severe fire is included. The design parameters that significantly affect the fire design of steel members are chosen as random variables. Raw experimental data published in the literature was analyzed to obtain the statistics of parameters for which no statistical information was available in the literature. Model errors associated with the thermal analysis models …

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Contact Point, Arthur A. Dugoni School Of Dentistry Dec 2010

Contact Point, Arthur A. Dugoni School Of Dentistry

Contact Point

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Huntsman Alumni Magazine, Fall 2010, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business Dec 2010

Huntsman Alumni Magazine, Fall 2010, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Huntsman Business Magazine

Alumni magazine for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

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Island Times, Dec 2010, Kevin Attra Dec 2010

Island Times, Dec 2010, Kevin Attra

Island Times Newspaper, 2010

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Joint Application Of Concentration And Isotope Ratios To Investigate The Global Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Budget: An Inverse Modeling Approach, Key Hong Park Dec 2010

Joint Application Of Concentration And Isotope Ratios To Investigate The Global Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Budget: An Inverse Modeling Approach, Key Hong Park

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Since carbon monoxide is one of the major sinks of hydroxyl radicals, it has been used as a proxy of hydroxyl radicals, which largely control the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere. Thus, CO-related chemistry directly or indirectly affects the abundance of other atmospheric trace gases including methane, halocarbons and tropospheric ozone. Carbon monoxide has also been shown its usefulness as a tracer of transport of pollution and fire emissions and as an additional constraint for CO2 fluxes. Variations in the global CO cycle are closely related to the change of total source strengths. Previously, to estimate the global CO …

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Analysis Of Supercomputers And Development Of A Novel Network, Reid Powell Dec 2010

Analysis Of Supercomputers And Development Of A Novel Network, Reid Powell

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

As supercomputers have reached nearly 300,000 cores with 2 petaflops in Linpack performance in June 2010, energy consumption and temperature control are posing a developmental bottleneck. We retrospectively and comparatively examine all of the available data contained in the Green500 list that launched in November 2007, and the Top500 list, and propose a novel representation and analysis of the data, highlighting major evolutionary trends.With these new insights, we introduce a new technique for generating more efficient networks by systematically interlacing bypass rings to torus networks (iBT networks). The resulting network can improve the original torus network by reducing the network …

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Shear-Induced Platelet Sensitization And The Development Of An Activation Model, Jawaad Sheriff Dec 2010

Shear-Induced Platelet Sensitization And The Development Of An Activation Model, Jawaad Sheriff

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Increased shear stresses are a hallmark of flow conditions in blood recirculating devices, and patients implanted with such devices require lifelong anticoagulation to counteract the high risk of thromboembolism. Despite this limitation, manufacturers only test for hemolysis in order to optimize device design. This is primarily due to the paucity of data regarding platelet damage, a major precursor of thromboembolism. Several studies have shown that platelets exposed to constant shear stress for a specified duration become activated. However, post high-shear stress activation behavior of platelets, which is critical to understanding increased thrombotic risk associated with blood recirculating devices, is poorly …

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Reading Into Race: Unsettled Reading And The Performance Of"Race", Julie Burton Swift Dec 2010

Reading Into Race: Unsettled Reading And The Performance Of"Race", Julie Burton Swift

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Reading, race, and the primary productive link between the two--performativity--are the subject of this dissertation. By reading the formative discourse of phrenology and Ethnology, as well as nineteenth-century textbooks which teach reading, I suggest a context in which reading operates as an expressive framework for the problematics of race. In considering selected works of Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Herman Melville, I examine the uses to which reading is put, not only to elaborate, but to perform race. By looking at unsettled reading--breakdowns of reading, failures to read, readings that prove unaccountable to the text--I emphasize the …

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Measurement Of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array Compression Response, Changhong Cao Dec 2010

Measurement Of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array Compression Response, Changhong Cao

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the form of vertically aligned arrays or films has been of interest due to the super-compressible response and the ability to be used as electrical and thermal contacts. CNT arrays have shown the remarkable ability to react as foam-like structures and exhibit localized, coordinated buckling within specific regions. An understanding of the buckling region evolution and the resulting effects on the bulk CNT array response are important, unanswered fundamental questions necessary for the future application of CNT arrays. Here, we report on the low-cycle compression of bulk vertically aligned CNT arrays to observe …

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Ceramic Nanomaterials For Energy, Gagan Jodhani Dec 2010

Ceramic Nanomaterials For Energy, Gagan Jodhani

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In this work we try to synthesize MoO3 and WO3 nanoceramics by understanding the effects of precursor parameters on the electrospinning process. We synthesized polymer based composites with molybdenum oxide and Tungsten oxide under straight polarity i.e. keeping needle charged and collector grounded; as well as reverse polarity i.e. keeping the needle grounded and collector charged. We observed MoO3 nanotubes after heat treatment of the composite mats spun in reverse polarity. The reason for formation of nanotubes is the presensce of molybdenum oxide particles as an outer shell surrounding the polymer fiber core in the spun mats, this core shell …

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A Quantitative Analysis Of Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Health Care Usage: The Roles Of Perceptions Of Care & Expected Longevity, Jeffrey Alfred Jones Dec 2010

A Quantitative Analysis Of Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Health Care Usage: The Roles Of Perceptions Of Care & Expected Longevity, Jeffrey Alfred Jones

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Countless studies have documented the existence of disparities byrace and ethnicity in the health care system in the United States.However, not many have sought to explicitly quantify the relativeimportance of each of the proposed determining factors. Thisdissertation thus sought to identify the major causes of disparitiesin health care usage by employing an adaptation of theBlinder/Oaxaca decomposition method originally used in theliterature on wage differentials.Specifically, this study sought to investigate the roles that racialdifferences in patients' perceptions of care and expected longevity(as they relate to expected gains) might play in the observeddisparities in usage. Perceptions of care measures (trust andfear/dislike) were …

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The Microstructure And Properties Of Plasma Sprayed Ceramic Composites, Kerry James Lapierre Dec 2010

The Microstructure And Properties Of Plasma Sprayed Ceramic Composites, Kerry James Lapierre

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The microstructure and properties of plasma-sprayed ceramics and ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) have been investigated. Substrate-free deposits were fabricated by plasma spraying onto expendable graphite substrates. The deposits were evaluated in the as-sprayed and heat-treated conditions. X-ray diffractometry (XRD) was used in conjunction with differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to examine the phase content and transformation temperatures of plasma-sprayed Al2O3. Mechanical properties were measured using three-point flexural testing and density measurements were made for both the as-sprayed and heat treated conditions. Significant increases in modulus and strength were achieved as a result of post. spray heat treatment.Having established baseline properties with …

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Transnational Feminism And Gender-Based Violence: Exploring The Relationship Between Feminist Theory And V-Day, Molly Laura Boeder Harris Dec 2010

Transnational Feminism And Gender-Based Violence: Exploring The Relationship Between Feminist Theory And V-Day, Molly Laura Boeder Harris

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

This project explores the prevalence of gender-based violence around the globe, along with the ways in which women and groups are locally, nationally and globally collaborating to resist violence and provide opportunities for survivors to heal. Utilizing feminist theoretical approaches to understanding gender-based violence and cross-cultural organizing as a framework, I examine V-Day and the ways in which it has incorporated feminist practices, specfically transnational feminist practices, into its philosophy as well as its style of organizing and activism. Close attention is paid to understanding transnational feminism, intersectionality and diversity within feminisms, body-centered and empowerment approaches to healing trauma, as …

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The Role Of Owner In Capital Structure Decisions: An Analysis Of Single-Owner Corporations, James Ang, Rebel Cole, Daniel Lawson Dec 2010

The Role Of Owner In Capital Structure Decisions: An Analysis Of Single-Owner Corporations, James Ang, Rebel Cole, Daniel Lawson

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

This study examines the extent to which individual demographic characteristics of owners influence capital structure desisions. Using the Federal Reserve's 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances, we estimate the joint effects of traditional capital structure determinants and manager age, gender, education, business experience, sophistication, and wealth on the capital structure of single-owner corporations. By calculating the marginal contribution of personal risk tolerance, we demonstrate that owner preference contributes meaningfully to the explained variation in capital structure decisions.

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Correlates Of Inter-Generational Transmission Of Intimate Partner Violence, Nivin A. Qudeimat-Tercero Dec 2010

Correlates Of Inter-Generational Transmission Of Intimate Partner Violence, Nivin A. Qudeimat-Tercero

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Intimate partner violence is a prevalent phenomenon plaguing society, with its negative effects being propagated from one generation to the next. The author hypothesized that there exists a qualitative correlation between male children who witnessed adult males perpetrate violence against females in childhood and subsequent adult onset perpetration of violence against women. After conducting a meta-analysis of 44 peer-reviewed articles, the author found that: (a) children who witnessed interparental IPV manifested increased disturbed behaviors as well as cognitive and emotional impairment corresponding to the severity and frequency of the episodes witnessed; and (b) men who witnessed parental IPV were more …

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Dec 2010

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of December 2010 meeting.

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Suffolk Journal, Vol. 71, No. 11, 12/01/2010, Suffolk Journal Dec 2010

Suffolk Journal, Vol. 71, No. 11, 12/01/2010, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

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Présence Francophone, Numéro 75 (2010) Dec 2010

Présence Francophone, Numéro 75 (2010)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Postures Féminines Dans L’Oeuvre De Calixthe Beyala, Carmen Husti-Laboye Dec 2010

Postures Féminines Dans L’Oeuvre De Calixthe Beyala, Carmen Husti-Laboye

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The aim of this paper is to analyze, through the example of the feminist positions proposed by Calixthe Beyala in the novels she wrote between 1987 and 2007, the change of the novelist’s ideological and artistic perspective. It emphasizes the progressive loss of critical voice to the advantage of a new voice wishing to understand itself as individuality in its world. This study reveals the novelist’s contribution to the construction of a new position of the individual in the context of French social and cultural life.

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Écriture Et Oralité Dans L’Oeuvre De Calixthe Beyala, Gloria Nne Onyeziri Dec 2010

Écriture Et Oralité Dans L’Oeuvre De Calixthe Beyala, Gloria Nne Onyeziri

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

A reading of several works of Beyala will help us consider the way orality works for African women and to suggest new forms of the symbolic representation and of narrative framing drawn from the speech of the people. Reference to their African culture, to their consciousness of cultural identity, helps characters such as Édène, Loukoum and Beyala to define themselves and to lay claim to a critical and self-confi dent voice. They learn from orality the ways of saying of the wise, what is to be retained and transmitted through traditional culture and what aspects of collective memory are better …

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