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K–12 Environmental Education Resources, Roxanne Myers Spencer Dec 2010

K–12 Environmental Education Resources, Roxanne Myers Spencer

DLPS Faculty Publications

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Navigating The Innovation Landscape: Past Research, Present Practice, And Future Trends, Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, Eric H. Kessler, Joanne L. Scillitoe Dec 2010

Navigating The Innovation Landscape: Past Research, Present Practice, And Future Trends, Shanthi Gopalakrishnan, Eric H. Kessler, Joanne L. Scillitoe

Organization Management Journal

The management of innovation is among the most critical capabilities contributing to the success of modern organizations. It is also complex and frequently misunderstood. In this paper we first provide a broad overview of the organizational innovation literature [the Past] to distill five fundamental themes: What is innovation, why is it important, where does it come from, who engages in it, and how can it be best executed? Second, we illustrate how these concepts are applied by three companies on the vanguard of innovation management [the Present] – Google, Walt Disney, and Johnson & Johnson. Third, we project the discussion …

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Unh: The Magazine Of The University Of New Hampshire, Winter 2010, Unh Magazine Dec 2010

Unh: The Magazine Of The University Of New Hampshire, Winter 2010, Unh Magazine

UNH Magazine

Archived version of web content originally found at https://unhmagazine.unh.edu/pastissues.html

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Learned Attention In Younger And Older Adults, Jared M. Holder Dec 2010

Learned Attention In Younger And Older Adults, Jared M. Holder

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A relatively new phenomenon in learning research called highlighting occurs when participants show a seemingly irrational preference to attribute a stronger cue-outcome association to a later presented perfect predictor when it is paired with an imperfect predictor than that of an earlier presented perfect predictor paired with the same imperfect predictor (Kruschke, 1996). Current research suggests that the highlighting effect depends on the ability to learn to shift attention away from an irrelevant cue toward a more relevant cue in order to reduce errors in causal judgment and preserve an earlier formed association (Kruschke, 2003). Much research has suggested that …

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Outsourcing The American Dream: An Analysis Of The Re-Employment Potential Of U.S.-Based Call Center Workers Within The Context Of Globalization, Wendell Allen Robbins Iii Dec 2010

Outsourcing The American Dream: An Analysis Of The Re-Employment Potential Of U.S.-Based Call Center Workers Within The Context Of Globalization, Wendell Allen Robbins Iii

Dissertations

This study examines call center workers in order to determine the effects of globalization on this class of service sector workers and to determine their reemployment potential. A major component of globalization is free trade, which enables offshore outsourcing (offshoring). Outsourcing often has the “Robin Hood” effect of taking jobs from rich countries and sending them abroad in a cost-saving effort, further, the competition of the global market has the capability of upsetting the current social and economic stability and prosperity. While this improves the quality of life for those in the poor country whose economy has developed as a …

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The Economic Situation, 2010 December, Bruce Yandle Dec 2010

The Economic Situation, 2010 December, Bruce Yandle

Publications

Quarterly report on the economic situation of the United States and South Carolina.

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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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Mamdani Approach To Fuzzy Control, Logical Approach, What Else?, Samuel Bravo, Jaime Nava Dec 2010

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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An Assessment Of The Use Of Chimpanzees In Hepatitis C Research Past, Present And Future: 2. Alternative Replacement Methods, Jarrod Bailey Dec 2010

An Assessment Of The Use Of Chimpanzees In Hepatitis C Research Past, Present And Future: 2. Alternative Replacement Methods, Jarrod Bailey

Experimentation Collection

The use of chimpanzees in hepatitis C virus (HCV) research was examined in the report associated with this paper (1: Validity of the Chimpanzee Model), in which it was concluded that claims of past necessity of chimpanzee use were exaggerated, and that claims of current and future indispensability were unjustifiable. Furthermore, given the serious scientific and ethical issues surrounding chimpanzee experimentation, it was proposed that it must now be considered redundant — particularly in light of the demonstrable contribution of alternative methods to past and current scientific progress, and the future promise that these methods hold. This paper builds on …

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An Assessment Of The Use Of Chimpanzees In Hepatitis C Research Past, Present And Future: 1. Validity Of The Chimpanzee Model, Jarrod Bailey Dec 2010

An Assessment Of The Use Of Chimpanzees In Hepatitis C Research Past, Present And Future: 1. Validity Of The Chimpanzee Model, Jarrod Bailey

Experimentation Collection

The USA is the only significant user of chimpanzees in biomedical research in the world, since many countries have banned or limited the practice due to substantial ethical, economic and scientific concerns. Advocates of chimpanzee use cite hepatitis C research as a major reason for its necessity and continuation, in spite of supporting evidence that is scant and often anecdotal. This paper examines the scientific and ethical issues surrounding chimpanzee hepatitis C research, and concludes that claims of the necessity of chimpanzees in historical and future hepatitis C research are exaggerated and unjustifiable, respectively. The chimpanzee model has several major …

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Salmon For Terrestrial Protected Areas, Chris T. Darimont, Heather M. Bryan, Stephanie M. Carlson, Morgan D. Hocking, Misty Macduffee, Paul C. Paquet, Michael H. H. Price, Thomas E. Reimchen, John D. Reynolds, Christopher C. Wilmers Dec 2010

Salmon For Terrestrial Protected Areas, Chris T. Darimont, Heather M. Bryan, Stephanie M. Carlson, Morgan D. Hocking, Misty Macduffee, Paul C. Paquet, Michael H. H. Price, Thomas E. Reimchen, John D. Reynolds, Christopher C. Wilmers

Environment and Nature Conservation Collection

Although managers safeguard protected areas for migratory species, little consideration has been given to how migratory species might benefit parks. Additionally, whereas land‐sea connections are considered in management of protected areas, most effort has focused on reducing negative “downstream” processes. Here, we offer a proposal to promote positive “upstream” processes by safeguarding the seasonal pulse of marine nutrients imported into freshwater and riparian ecosystems by spawning migrations of Pacific salmon. Currently, high rates of fishing limit this important contribution to species and processes that terrestrial parks were designed to protect. Accordingly, we propose limiting exploitation in areas and periods through …

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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

No abstract provided.

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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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A Multiscale Model Of The Thick Ascending Limb, Aniel Nieves-Gonzalez Dec 2010

A Multiscale Model Of The Thick Ascending Limb, Aniel Nieves-Gonzalez

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

A multiscale, cell-based mathematical model of the thick ascending limb (TAL) was implementedand used to estimate the efficiency of Na+ transport along the TAL, to examinewhat determines transport efficiency, and to study the dynamical properties of the TAL.The TAL model consists of epithelial cell models that represent all major solutes and transportpathways. The model equations are based on mass conservation and electroneutralityconstraints. Empirical descriptions of cell volume regulation (CVR), pH control, and tubuloglomerularfeedback (TGF) system are implemented in the model. Transport efficiencywas calculated as the ratio of total net Na+<\super> transport to transcellular Na+<\super> transport. The results show that: 1) …

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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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Carbon Dioxide Multiphase Flows In Microfluidic Devices, Ruopeng Sun Dec 2010

Carbon Dioxide Multiphase Flows In Microfluidic Devices, Ruopeng Sun

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

In this thesis, we experimentally studied the mass transfer during CO2 absorption into water, ethanol, methanol and silicone oil under slug flow in microchannels. We showed that the initial bubble size is determined by the liquid fraction and channel geometry, while the CO2 diffusion rate is determined by the gas pressure and liquid properties, such as the Henry's constant and the diffusion coefficient. The reduction of the gas void fractionΑG along the flow direction and the transformation of segmented flows into dilute bubbly flows was observed and predicted. In high viscosity liquids, we showed the liquid film …

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Distribution Of Number Of Rare Variants Appearing In Cases But Not Controls In Genome-Wide Studies, Wenjie Xu Dec 2010

Distribution Of Number Of Rare Variants Appearing In Cases But Not Controls In Genome-Wide Studies, Wenjie Xu

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

Whole genome sequencing and whole exome sequencing are developing techniques to explore the associations between rare variants and complex diseases. The number of variants that are expected to appear in a randomly selected group that do not appear in a different group randomly selected from the same population has unknown mean and variance. Expressions for these quantities are derived here. Numerical values are calculated assuming that the frequency of a rare variant has a beta distribution using parameters estimated for four populations. Extensions to the number of variants that appear in r ( r >1) members of a randomly selected …

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Switching On And Off The Full Capacity Of An M/M/Infinity Queue & Dynamic Pricing And Power Generation Risk Management In Smart Grids, Xiaoxuan Zhang Dec 2010

Switching On And Off The Full Capacity Of An M/M/Infinity Queue & Dynamic Pricing And Power Generation Risk Management In Smart Grids, Xiaoxuan Zhang

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

Part 1. We study a problem of optimal switching on and off the M/M/Infinity queue with holding, running and switching costs. We show that an optimal policy either always runs the system, or is defined by two thresholds M and N such that the system is switched on upon an arrival epoch if the system size accumulates to N and is switches off upon a departure epoch if the system size decreases to M.Part 2. We design an optimal incentive mechanism offered to energy customers at multiple network levels, such as distribution and feeder networks, with the aim of determining …

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Calculation Of Virial Coefficients And Their Uses, Nicholas Getter Dec 2010

Calculation Of Virial Coefficients And Their Uses, Nicholas Getter

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

This work is centers on the classical statistical derivation of thermodynamic properties of a system from its pair potential through the calculation of virial coefficients and also develops a useful method for modeling systems with the square-well potential. It is organized into 5 chapters.Chapter 1 lays the statistical mechanics background for the use of virial coefficients and the square-well model. It is intended for the reader unfamiliar with these concepts and with the exception of a derivation of C(T) for the square- well potential using overlapping spheres, does not contain any novel discoveries.Chapter 2 introduces a Monte Carlo hit-and-miss technique …

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Learning Commons @ Uconn Assessment Report: Use And Satisfaction Of The Learning Commons, Kate Fuller Dec 2010

Learning Commons @ Uconn Assessment Report: Use And Satisfaction Of The Learning Commons, Kate Fuller

Published Works

Learning commons are borne from user need and created from user input. The rapidly changing needs of students require constant refinement of the services; refinement based on the feedback of primary users is integral to the success of a service such as a learning commons. This study measures the use of, and satisfaction with, the Learning Commons @ UConn one year after it was opened to the public. The findings from the survey discuss how library patrons perceive the services and spaces available in the Learning Commons; recommendations are given for potential improvements to the Learning Commons in the future.

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The Gini Index And Measures Of Inequality, Frank A. Farris Dec 2010

The Gini Index And Measures Of Inequality, Frank A. Farris

Mathematics and Computer Science

The Gini index is a summary statistic that measures how fairly a resource is distributed in a population; income is a primary example. In addition to a self-contained presentation of the Gini index, we give two equivalent ways to interpret this summary statistic: first in terms of the percentile level of the person who earns the average dollar, and second in terms of how the lower of two randomly chosen incomes compares, on average, to mean income.

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From The Editor, James Manasco Dec 2010

From The Editor, James Manasco

Sci-Tech News

No abstract provided.

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Tā, Vā , And Moana: Temporality, Spatiality, And Indigeneity, Hūfanga ‘Okusitino Māhina Dec 2010

Tā, Vā , And Moana: Temporality, Spatiality, And Indigeneity, Hūfanga ‘Okusitino Māhina

Pacific Studies

This article explores how indigenous perspectives—specifically from the Moana—can reshape the way anthropology is practiced and understood. A key focus is on genealogy, not just as family lineage, but as a powerful tool for understanding how people, places, and histories are connected across time and space. The article argues that genealogy in Moana cultures is deeply philosophical and relational, helping to explain how individuals and communities locate themselves within broader social and natural worlds. This approach is grounded in the Moana concepts of tā (time) and vā (space).

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Content Fundamentals For A Tv Show Aimed At Indigenous Children Aged 3 To 6: A Literature Review And Discussion Paper, David Norris Dec 2010

Content Fundamentals For A Tv Show Aimed At Indigenous Children Aged 3 To 6: A Literature Review And Discussion Paper, David Norris

Indigenous Education Research

The following literature review was undertaken to establish a foundation for the discussion of potential content (and the issues pertaining to the implementation of that content) for an educational television program aimed at Indigenous children aged 3 to 6. Specifically, the literature was read with an eye to identifying the most effective and relevant learning styles, teaching techniques and subject matters that will successfully engage, support and inform Indigenous children and their families in the transition from home/pre-school to school, and onwards into their early years of schooling.

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Pittsburg State University Annual Commencement, December 2010, Pittsburg State University Dec 2010

Pittsburg State University Annual Commencement, December 2010, Pittsburg State University

Commencement, 1903-Present

Program of undergraduate and graduate commencement exercises at Pittsburg State University on December of 2010

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Appearance Based Stage Recognition Of Drosophila Embryos, Gopi Chand Nutakki Dec 2010

Appearance Based Stage Recognition Of Drosophila Embryos, Gopi Chand Nutakki

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Stages in Drosophila development denote the time after fertilization at which certain specific events occur in the developmental cycle. Stage information of a host embryo, as well as spatial information of a gene expression region is indispensable input for the discovery of the pattern of gene-gene interaction. Manual labeling of stages is becoming a bottleneck under the circumstance of high throughput embryo images. Automatic recognition based on the appearances of embryos is becoming a more desirable scheme. This problem, however, is very challenging due to severe variations of illumination and gene expressions. In this research thesis, we propose an appearance …

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The Hydrology Of The Carroll Cave-Toronto Springs System: Identifying And Examining Source Mixing Through Dye Tracing, Geochemical Monitoring, Seepage Runs, And Statistical Methods, Benjamin Verlinden Miller Dec 2010

The Hydrology Of The Carroll Cave-Toronto Springs System: Identifying And Examining Source Mixing Through Dye Tracing, Geochemical Monitoring, Seepage Runs, And Statistical Methods, Benjamin Verlinden Miller

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In karst areas relationships between activities occurring on the surface and the overall health of the subsurface environment are often highly interconnected. However, the complex nature of karst flow systems can often make identification of these connections difficult. Carroll Cave, a large stream cave system located in the central Missouri Ozarks, is known for its biological and speleological significance. A dye tracing project to delineate a Carroll Cave recharge area through dye tracing has identified an area of 18.5 km2 which contributes water to the cave. The water from Thunder River within Carroll Cave was positively traced to eight springs …

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