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The New Hampshire, Vol. 100 [101], No. 23 (Dec. 3, 2010), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 100, but it is the 101st volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

The Distribution Of Certain Combinatorial Arrays, Yahya Mohammed Dabab

Research Papers

I determine the distribution function of the binomial coefficients and the Narayana numbers. I then present results which provide numerical evidence for our theorems.

A Phenomenological Study Of High School Students' Perceptions Of English, Richard C. Casey Jr.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of the study was to explore high school English students' perspectives regarding the value associated with English and literature classes. The primary questions addressed in this study were focused on perceptions and atttitudes toward literature and real world value. The participants in this study were 15 high school seniors from a rural, public school and 15 high school seniors from an urban, private school. A phenonmenological study was designed to gather information on the following related questions:a)How does teaching style affect the perceptions that students have towards their English class?b)Do students see any real world value or application …

The Voices Of Four Principals: An Exploration Of The Four Dimensions Of Leadership As Used By Middle School Leaders In Transforming Low Performing Schools Into Schools That Meet And/Or Exceed Local, State, And National Standards, Tanisha Lashan Hunter-Heaston

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

For more than 50 years, education professionals have pondered over the phenomenon of failing schools. Despite years of educational reform efforts, America remains a Nation at Risk (1983). Towards the turn of the 21st century, America was well into it's third attempt to remedy one of its' major maladies, scholastic insufficiency. In the midst of schools failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), decreasing graduation rates, and increasing teacher turn-over rates, stands the school leader. No Child Left Behind (NCLB)mandates, Race to the Top dollars, and other numerous policies attempt to provide incentives for regions and leaders who change failing …

Effect Of Professional Development On Inclusive Practices In A West Tennessee School District, Millicent Achieng' Mackonya

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Introduction of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has placed demands on school districts and teachers. Teachers have always been required to improve students’ academic achievement at all costs. To meet the demands of NCLB of improving education achievement for children with disabilities, school districts have introduced inclusive settings in their educational systems, thus, the need for professional development. The participants in this study were special education and a few general education teachers from a West Tennessee School District.All the participants were female. The purpose of this study was to find out if the teachers had gained knowledge on effective inclusive …

Statistical Analysis Of The Seismic Vulnerability Of Mid-South Building Structures, Andrew Kary Mehdi Assadollahi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A study of buildings in Shelby County, Tennessee and Tipton County, Tennessee was conducted using a sidewalk survey procedure developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), known as a Rapid Visual Survey (RVS). Its purpose is to identify buildings that are potentially at risk to a seismic event. A database of these buildings was generated from the data gathered in the RVS procedure. A loss estimation program developed by FEMA, known as HAZUS-MH MR3, was used to perform a more detailed analysis on the structures utilizing user defined ground motion maps. A rank of the structures was developed based …

An Exploratory Study Into The Impact Of Work Design On The Self-Efficacy Of Workers With Low Literacy Skills, Michael Kenneth Holt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

As trends in the labor market indicate growing worker shortages, the problem of incorporating workers with low literacy skills into the workplace becomes more important. There are significant numbers of low literate workers in the labor market who pose hard dollar costs on business and society due to literacy related mistakes.Organizations have been moving toward more participative work designs in efforts to attract and maintain satisfied and motivated workforces. There are significant skill sets required to become successful team members. Many of these skills are outlined in management literature, but one glaring oversight is dealing with the issue of low …

Random Automata Networks: Why Playing Dice Is Not A Vice, Christof Teuscher

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

Random automata networks consist of a set of simple compute nodes interacting with each other. In this generic model, one or multiple model parameters, such as the the node interactions and/or the compute functions, are chosen at random. Random Boolean Networks (RBNs) are a particular case of discrete dynamical automata networks where both time and states are discrete. While traditional RBNs are generally credited to Stuart Kauffman (1969), who introduced them as simplified models of gene regulation, Alan Turing proposed unorganized machines as early as 1948. In this talk I will start with Alan Turing's early work on unorganized machines, …

Solving A Generalized Heron Problem By Means Of Convex Analysis, Boris S. Mordukhovich, Nguyen Mau Nam, Juan Salinas Jr

Mathematics Research Reports

The classical Heron problem states: on a given straight line in the plane, find a point C such that the sum of the distances from C to the given points A and B is minimal. This problem can be solved using standard geometry or differential calculus. In the light of modern convex analysis, we are able to investigate more general versions of this problem. In this paper we propose and solve the following problem: on a given nonempty closed convex subset of IR!, find a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to n given nonempty …

Gsu Students Teach Math To Educators, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Governors State University graduate and undergraduate students had the opportunity to teach educators recently when they presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Illinois Council of Teacher of Mathematics in Springfield, Illinois.

The students, all studying to be math teachers, presented math activities they designed based on the massive sculptures in the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park. The students found that the 26 sculptures, which are located on the grounds of the university, can be used to illustrate various mathematical formulas and principles.

A Microfluidic Device To Establish Concentration Gradients Using Reagent Density Differences, Qingjun Kong, Richard A. Able, Jr., Veronica Dudu, Maribel Vazquez

Publications and Research

Microfabrication has become widely utilized to generate controlled microenvironments that establish chemical concentration gradients for a variety of engineering and life science applications. To establish microfluidic flow, the majority of existing devices rely upon additional facilities, equipment, and excessive reagent supplies, which together limit device portability as well as constrain device usage to individuals trained in technological disciplines. The current work presents our laboratory-developed bridged microLane system, which is a stand-alone device that runs via conventional pipette loading and can operate for several days without need of external machinery or additional reagent volumes. The bridged microLane is a two-layer polydimethylsiloxane …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, December 2, 2010, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Animal, Dairy and Veterinary Sciences

• New Course

Department of Plants, Soils and Climate

• New Course

Caine College of the Arts

• Course Prefix Change
• Course Prefix Change, Course Description Change

Interior Design Program

• Title Change, Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change, Add Dual List

Department of Theatre Arts

• New Course
• Course Number Change
• University Studies Request

Department of Economics and Finance

• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change, Remove University Studies Designation
• Prerequisite Change
• Prerequisite Change, University Studies Request

School of Teacher Education and Leadership

• New Course

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

• Course Prefix Change
• Course …

December 2, 2010, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the December 2, 2010, meeting of the University Senate. 15 pages

Design Of Assembly Lines With The Concurrent Consideration Of Productivity And Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders Using Linear Models, Zhan Xu

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The productivity of assembly lines is considerably affected by the health condition of assembly workers, and work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are common occupational diseases among assembly workers due to repetitive motions or heavy working loads. The conventional approaches to decreasing WMSD risks in the assembly lines include slowing the work-pace or applying job rotations. These adjustments usually focus on individual assembly workers at the station level but not the work allocation among the workers at the whole assembly line level, and thus may decrease the line productivity. To avoid these negative effects, some research started considering ergonomic characteristics at the …

Gec Meeting Minutes For Dec 2, 2010, General Education Committee

General Education Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Policy Determinants And Medicaid Managed Care, Diane Elizabeth Brandt

Dissertations

The U.S. Medicaid program is increasingly challenged by reductions in federal entitlement spending, a faltering private sector health insurance base, escalating health care expenditures and an aging and increasingly diverse population. Converging pressures on state Medicaid programs have challenged state policy makers to find new approaches to enhance program efficiency. One of these policy tools is the adoption of Medicaid managed care programs for individuals with chronic illness and disability, particularly important as these enrollees incur the highest health care costs. The increasing prevalence of chronic illness combined with the growth of households in poverty creates significant implications for Medicaid …

The Scarlet - Volume Xci, No. 9 (December 2, 2010), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet Archive (Student Newspaper) (1939-2011) (In Progress)

The December 2, 2010 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

The cover story for this issue is "New Director of Athletics appointed". Other headlines include "Clark partners with Chapman University for Innovative graduate fellowship in Holocaust history", "David Lisak speaks at Clark: Presents research about sexual assault and violent crimes", "EPA Administrator comes to Clark", "Hilary Clinton calls a plumber: WikiLeaks strikes again, but does it matter?", "The Fight for Four Loko", "Student musicians Jenova 7 and Clown release new online albums", and coverage of Harry …

Re-Reading Chalmers Johnson, Daniel Little

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Chalmers Johnson, co-founder and president of the Japan Policy Research Institute at the University of San Francisco and long-time professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego, died on November 20, 2010. (Here are several notices — The Atlantic, theNew York Times, and The Nation.) In the past ten years or so Johnson has become widely known for his critical books about American empire (Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (2004), The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (2005), Nemesis: The Last Days of the …

The Comment, December 2, 2010, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Positive Solutions Of Singular Complementary Lidstone Boundary Value Problems, Ravi P. Agarwal, Donal O'Regan, Svatoslav Staněk

Mathematics and System Engineering Faculty Publications

We investigate the existence of positive solutions of singular problem (-1)mx(2m+1) = f(t, x,⋯, x(2m)), x (0) = 0, x(2i-1) (0) = x(2i-1) (T) = 0, 1 ≤ i ≤ m. Here, m ≥ 1 and the Carathéodory function f (t, x0,⋯, x2m) may be singular in all its space variables x0,⋯, x2m. The results are proved by regularization and sequential techniques. In limit processes, the Vitali convergence theorem is used.

Daily Eastern News: December 02, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

Burkholder Integrals, Morrey's Problem And Quasiconformal Mappings, Kari Astala, Tadeusz Iwaniec, Istvan Prause, Eero Saksman

Mathematics - All Scholarship

Inspired by Morrey's Problem (on rank-one convex functionals) and the Burkholder integrals (of his martingale theory) we find that the Burkholder functionals B_p, p > 2, are quasiconcave, when tested on deformations of identity f in Id+C_o^inifinty (omega) with Bp (Df(x)) > 0 pointwise, or equivalently, deformations such that abs[Df]² < (p/(p-2))J_f. In particular, this holds in explicit neighbourhoods of the identity map. Among the many immediate consequences, this gives the strongest possible L^p-estimates for the gradient of a principal solution to the Beltrami equation f_z = mu(z)f_z , for any p in …

A Novel Method To Detect Functional Subgraphs In Biomolecular Networks, Sterling Thomas

Theses and Dissertations

Several biomolecular pathways governing the control of cellular processes have been discovered over the last several years. Additionally, advances resulting from combining these pathways into networks have produced new insights into the complex behaviors observed in cell function assays. Unfortunately, identification of important subnetworks, or “motifs”, in these networks has been slower in development. This study focused on identifying important network motifs and their rate of occurrence in two different biomolecular networks. The two networks evaluated for this study represented both ends of the spectrum of interaction knowledge by comparing a well defined network (apoptosis) with and poorly studied network …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

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The Montclarion, December 02, 2010, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Noncommutative Symmetric Spaces Of Measurable Operators, M. M. Czerwinska

Analysis Seminar

Let �� be a semifinite von Neumann algebra with a faithful, normal, semifinite trace ��, and let �� be a symmetric Banach function space on [0, ��(1)). The symmetric space ��(��, ��) of ��-measurable operators consists of all ��-measurable operators �� for which the singular value function ��(��) belongs to �� and is equipped with the norm ‖��‖ₑ(��, ��) = ‖��‖ₑ. Special cases of noncommutative symmetric spaces include Lₚ(��, ��) (noncommutative Lₚ-spaces), unitary matrix spaces ��ₑ, and Schatten spaces ��ₚ, in particular trace-class ��₁ and the class of Hilbert-Schmidt operators ��₂. The noncommutative spaces have been investigated by several mathematicians, …

Geometry-Dependent Oxygen Diffusion Flux And Limiting Current Density Of The Cathode In A Cathode-Supported Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, Kevin Huang, James L. Shull

Faculty Publications

An analysis is performed on the diffusion of oxygen through tubular porous cathode substrates having several different geometries. It is shown that the flux of oxygen as it diffuses through these different substrate geometries can be explicitly expressed by a general analytical form with a unique geometric factor for each type of substrate geometry. Experimental measurements of the geometry-independent term, oxygen diffusivity, were conducted for two representative geometries: cylindrical and triangular tubes. These measurements show good agreement between samples with similar porosities and thus favorably support the oxygen flux equations presented. Formulations for the limiting current density were also derived …

Getting Families Involved In Students’ Education Through Home Visits At Midwestern Charter Schools, Hakan Solak

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Home visits are a model of communication after school time when school staff members actually go into students homes to foster a relationship among students, families, and teachers. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how home visits take place in a single charter school and how families are involved in the educational process of students at Midwestern Charter Schools.

Thirteen participants from Chicago Math and Science Academia (CMSA) were interviewed via an open-ended questionnaire. Additionally, two home visit observations were made by the primary investigator in the natural setting of the homes of two students. Through this …

Small Rural School Districts In Nebraska: A Case Study Of Challenges And Solutions, Michael R. Montgomery

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this study was to determine the problems faced by small, rural Nebraska school districts. For this study, 15 possible challenges were identified (a) student enrollment, (b) instructional programs, (c) instructional support services, (d) extra curricular activities, (e) hiring and retaining administrative staff, (f) hiring and retaining teaching staff, (g) hiring and retaining non-certified staff, (h) building and grounds, (i) transportation services, (j) food services, (k) school finances, (l) student assessment, (m) accountability school performance, (n) family support, and (o) community support. There were no data on this topic for the state of Nebraska. The case for this …

Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Networking, Dalei Wu

Department of Computer Electronics and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Multimedia communications, especially real-time video communications, is expected to be the major application of the next-generation wireless networks. However, bringing delay-sensitive and loss-tolerant multimedia services based on the current wireless Internet is a very challenging task. In this dissertation, we address cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia networking from both theoretical and practical perspectives. In the first part of the dissertation, we propose cross-layer optimization frameworks for real-time video communications over wireless networks, where the expected received video quality is adopted as the objective function. With the user-centric objective function, we first study content-aware video communications in single-hop wireless networks by exploring …