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The Effect Of Enso On Nebraska Winter Snowfall, Jonathan Burnham

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

No abstract provided.

Educators' Attitudes Toward Outdoor Classrooms And The Cognitive Benefits In Children, Carlie Speedlin

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

A case study was organized at a K-5 elementary school in Lincoln, Nebraksa. This school is Saratoga Elementary School and is a United States Title I Distinguished School1 under No Child Left Behind. It has a population of 266 students, with 47% being minority, 1% gifted, and 28% special education (LPS School Profile Brochure). 80% of the student population is eligible for free/reduced meals, implying that it’s a school with a lower socioeconomic status. At this school a garden space was constructed and an after school garden club was implemented for this case study. The club had been running since …

Communication For Mate Selection In Anurans: Dominant Frequency Versus Snout-Vent-Length, Shari Jean Kunert

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

No abstract provided.

Recent Legislation To Promote Wind Energy In Nebraska, Ryan Lemke

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

Nebraska is currently ranked 4th in the nation for wind energy potential, but ranks low in actual wind power production. The lack of wind energy production could be the result of Nebraska’s unique public power districts that have eminent domain of distribution and retail sales of electricity in the State. Public Power districts are prohibited from receiving benefits of state and federal tax incentives for the development of wind farms, however some Nebraska power districts still pursue wind energy as a renewable source of energy.

Recent legislation changes, including the passing of laws LB629 and LB1048, have provided the State …

Structural And Stratigraphic Age Constraints Of The Inskip Formation, East Range, Nevada: Implications For Mesozoic Tectonics Of Western North America, Joshua David Wilkins

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Structural, stratigraphic, and U-Pb geochronologic studies of the Inskip Formation of the north-central East Range place new constraints on the depositional age of the Inskip Formation and the timing of contractional deformation in the East Range, including Golconda thrusting. The Inskip Formation was initially considered Permian in age and to rest unconformably on the Valmy (or Leach) Formation (Ferguson et al., 1951). Later mapping by Whitbread (1978, 1994) divided the formation into the Upper and Lower Inskip Formation, both of which were inferred to be Mississippian in age. Laterreinterpretation of Whitebread’s (1994) work and new paleontological data revised the age …

Assigning Value To Intuitive Dimensions In Creativity, Susan Coburn

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

Assigning Value to Intuitive Dimensions in Creativity

The abilities described by people as intuitive processes include anything from having an unexplained feeling surrounding an event, or having met with a psychic experience, the latter occurring mostly without a catalyst or deliberate engagement. This paper briefly explores the use of these intuitive qualities within the subject of creativity, a thinking skill enhanced by using all available resources. A brief questionnaire was administered to fifteen colleagues regarding information or feelings gained from intuition, dreams, unexplained voice contact or sensations, visual events, and other self-described developments that could be classified as intuitive phenomena. …

Evaluating An Edms : A Case Study Of An Engineering Design Company., Nik Nazaruddin Nik Osman, Anisah Ali

Student Works (2010-2019)

Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) is a system that is commonly found in organizations that deal with a lot of documents. It is the application of technology to reduce paper utilization, expedite communications and increases organization’s performance and productivity. Leveraging information technology to manage document is one of the most important challenges for organizations since most of the valuable information in the organizations is in the form of letters, contracts, agreement, memos, reports, notes of discussion, meeting minutes, policy statements etc. The manual processes usually required to be re-engineered for computerization purposes. The availability of technologies provides more and better …

Editor's Introduction, Ross Louis

XULAneXUS

No abstract provided.

A Poetics Of The Restoration, George B. Handley

BYU Studies

George B. Handley, professor of humanities at Brigham Young University, discusses whether the world's cultural traditions should be considered as treasures that should be embraced by Latter-day Saints, or fallen philosophy and vain deceit. He argues that while culture might be the obstacle that blinds us, it must also become the means or language by which we can come to understand God's will. We can have a lifelong passion for learning both from the word of God—from revelation—and the word of men and women—from the world's cultures. The humanities—literature, philosophy, history, and the arts—help us to see how our own …

When Are Chiasms Admissible As Evidence?, W. Farrell Edwards, Boyd F. Edwards

BYU Studies

*This article is being offered free as a courtesy to lds.org as it was footnoted in an expanded Gospel Topic on their site.

Since John Welch's discovery of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon in 1967, many critics have attempted to show how chiasmus appears in just about every type of literature, from Dr. Seuss to Strangite scripture. This article discusses the authors' statistical admissibility tests to verify whether a chiasmus in a work shows strong evidence of intentionality by the original author. Their results indicate that certain passages in the Old Testament and in the Book of Mormon show …

Perceived Slant Of Binocularly Viewed Large-Scale Surfaces: A Common Model From Explicit And Implicit Measures, Z. Li, Frank H. Durgin

Psychology Faculty Works

It is known that the perceived slants of large distal surfaces, such as hills, are exaggerated and that the exaggeration increases with distance. In a series of two experiments, we parametrically investigated the effect of viewing distance and slant on perceived slant using a high-fidelity virtual environment. An explicit numerical estimation method and an implicit aspect-ratio approach were separately used to assess the perceived optical slant of simulated large-scale surfaces with different slants and viewing distances while gaze direction was fixed. The results showed that perceived optical slant increased logarithmically with viewing distance and the increase was proportionally greater for …

Late Holocene Relationships Among Fire, Climate, And Vegetation In Rangeland Ecosystems Of Southwestern Idaho, Nathan A. Nelson, Jennifer Pierce

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Rangelands are characterized by more arid climates than forested regions; therefore, establishing fire histories using traditional methods (e.g. fire-scars from trees or charcoal in lake sediments) is problematic. This study uses radiocarbon dating of charcoal preserved in alluvial fans and stream deposits to reconstruct a record of fire and geomorphic response in rangelands of southwestern Idaho. Samples indicate three primary periods of fire-related activity: 4400 – 4000, 2000 – 1400, and 650-400 cal yr BP. Charcoal macrofossil identification and comparison with other regional climate and fire records indicate this area has likely switched between a "fuel-limited" system (fires limited by …

Closed-Range Composition Operators On A2 And The Bloch Space, John R. Akeroyd, Pratibha G. Ghatage, Maria Tjani

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

For any analytic self-map φ of {z : |z| < 1} we give four separate conditions, each of which is necessary and sufficient for the composition operator Cφ to be closed-range on the Bloch space B . Among these conditions are some that appear in the literature, where we provide new proofs. We further show that if Cφ is closed-range on the Bergman space A2 , then it is closed-range on B , but that the converse of this fails with a vengeance. Our analysis involves an extension of the Julia-Carathéodory Theorem.

The Google-Nsa Alliance: Developing Cybersecurity Policy At Internet Speed, Stephanie A. Devos

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Application Of Expert System Approach In Designing Knowledge Engineering System, A. Sanaa

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

No abstract provided.

Explicit Level Lowering Of 2-Dimensional Modular Galois Representations, Rodney Keaton

All Theses

Let f be a normalized eigenform of level Npα for some positive integer α and some odd prime p satisfying gcd(p,N)=1. A construction of Deligne, Shimura, et. al., attaches a p-adic continuous two-dimensional Galois representation to f. The Refined Conjecture of Serre states that such a representation should in fact arise from a normalized eigenform of level prime to p.
In this presentation we present a proof of Ribet which allows us to 'strip' these powers of p from the level while still retaining the original Galois representation, i.e., the residual of our new representation arising from level N will …

Normative Reflectance And Transmittance Measurements On Healthy Newborn And 1-Month-Old Infants, Gabrielle R. Merchant, Nicholas J. Horton, Susan E. Voss

Engineering: Faculty Publications

Objective:

Ear-canal-based wideband reflectance (WBR) measurements may provide objective measures to assess and monitor middle-ear status in young babies. This work presents WBR measurements of power reflectance and transmittance on populations of healthy newborn babies (3 to 5 days) and healthy 1-mo-old babies (28 to 34 days). Thus, this work determines how power reflectance and transmittance vary between newborn and 1-mo-old babies and characterizes the range of these measures in normal populations.

Design:

Power reflectance and transmittance were calculated from pressure measurements made in the ear canals of seven newborn (12 ears) and eleven 1-mo-old (19 ears) babies. Permutation tests, …

Research Project For Rokenbok Educational Foundation, Brian Becker-Tirrill, Paul Eichen, Stefanie Kurtz-Harris, Jennifer Tracy

Program Design and Evaluation

Research project on Equipo de Ingenieros en Accion (Team of Engineers in Action), a collaborative program of Rokenbok Educational Foundation and Center for Academic and Social Advancement.

A Reinforcement Learning Approach For Inventory Replenishment In Vendor-Managed Inventory Systems With Consignment Inventory, Zheng Sui, Abhijit Gosavi, Li Lin

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In a Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) system, the supplier makes decisions of inventory management for the retailer; the retailer is not responsible for placing orders. There is a dearth of optimization models for replenishment strategies for VMI systems, and the industry relies on well-understood, but simple models, e.g., the newsvendor rule. in this article, we propose a methodology based on reinforcement learning, which is rooted in the Bellman equation, to determine a replenishment policy in a VMI system with consignment inventory. We also propose rules based on the newsvendor rule. Our numerical results show that our approach can outperform the newsvendor. …

Direct Observation Of Spin-Polarized Surface States In The Parent Compound Of A Topological Insulator Using Spin- And Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy In A Mott-Polarimetry Mode, David Hsieh, Lewis Andrew Wray, Dong Qian, Yuqi Xia, Jan Hugo Dil, Fabian Meier, Luc Patthey, Jurg Osterwalder, Gustav Bihlmayer, Yew San Hor, Robert Joseph Cava, Md Zahid Hasan

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We report high-resolution spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (spin-ARPES) measurements on the parent compound Sb of the recently discovered three-dimensional topological insulator Bi_1-xSb_x (Hsieh et al 2008 Nature 452 970, Hsieh et al 2009 Science 323 919). By modulating the incident photon energy, we are able to map both the bulk and the (111) surface band structure, from which we directly demonstrate that the surface bands are spin polarized by the spin-orbit interaction and connect the bulk valence and conduction bands in a topologically non-trivial way. A unique asymmetric Dirac surface state gives rise to a k-splitting of its …

Evaluating The Technical Efficiency Of Trolley Buses In Athens, Greece, Panayotis G. Michaelides, Athena Belegri-Roboli, Theocharis Marinos

Journal of Public Transportation

Efficiency measurement traditionally has been an important approach of evaluating public firm performance. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the technical efficiency of Trolley Buses of the Athens and Piraeus Area (TBAPA) in Greece for the year 2003. The estimation of technical efficiency is based on the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and employs the Cobb-Douglas specification of the production function. Meanwhile, an attempt is made to investigate the explanatory power of other factors on the organization’s technical efficiency, such as the impact of other competitive means of transportation and the distance of the areas that each line connects. …

Center For Renewable Energy Newsletter, December 2010, Illinois State University, Center For Renewable Energy

Center for Renewable Energy Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Variational Kinematic Geometry For Task Centered Design Of Mechanisms And Robotic Systems, Jun Wu

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

This dissertation deals with the problem of task centered design of mechanisms and robotic systems via novel concept of variational kinematic geometry. The results can be extended to other field such as biomechanics, structure chemistry and protein kinematics, as well as micro- and nano- systems, in which kinematics playsan important roles. Since the early days of Industrial Revolution, machine theorists and kinematicians have sought to develop a theory to analyze and synthesize mechanisms so that engineers could approach the problem in a rational way. This dissertation introduces a task-centered approach to mechanism design using a constraint basedparadigm, and conducts a …

December 1, 2010 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Earmstrong, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong News & Publications: e-Armstrong Newsletter (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Functional Reactive Musical Performers, Justin M. Phillips

Master's Theses

Computers have been assisting in recording, sound synthesis and other fields of music production for quite some time. The actual performance of music continues to be an area in which human players are chosen over computer performers. Musical performance is an area in which personalization is more important than consistency. Human players play with each other, reacting to phrases and ideas created by the players that they are playing with. Computer performers lack the ability to react to the changes in the performance that humans perceive naturally, giving the human players an advantage over the computer performers.

This thesis creates …

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Reproductive Status Regulates Expression Of Sex Steroid And Gnrh Receptors In The Olfactory Bulb, Karen P. Maruska, Russell D. Fernald

Faculty Publications

Neuromodulators including gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and sex steroids help integrate an animal's internal physiological state with incoming external cues, and can have profound effects on the processing of behaviorally relevant information, particularly from the olfactory system. While GnRH and steroid receptors are present in olfactory processing regions across vertebrates, little is known about whether their expression levels change with internal physiological state or external social cues. We used qRT-PCR to measure mRNA levels of two GnRH receptors (GnRH-R1, GnRH-R2), five sex steroid receptors (estrogen receptors: ERα, ERβa, ERβb; androgen receptors: ARα, ARβ), and aromatase in the olfactory bulb of the …

Markov Chains And Dynamical Systems: The Open System Point Of View, Stéphane Attal

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

Transformation Of Quantum Lévy Processes On Hopf Algebras, Michael Schürmann, Michael Skeide, Silvia Volkwardt

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.