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University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, October 10, 2011, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Crow's Nest, October 10, 2011, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The October 10, 2011, issue of the Crow's Nest.

The Collegian (2011-10-10), Rene Cardona Jr.

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 64. No. 8

Effectiveness Of Projectile Screening In Single And Multiple Ionization Of Ne By B2⁺, W. Wolff, H. Luna, A. C.F. Santos, E. C. Montenegro, Robert D. Dubois, C. C. Montanari, J. E. Miraglia

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Pure multiple ionization cross sections of Ne by B²⁺ projectiles have been measured in the energy range of 0.75 to 4.0 MeV and calculated using the continuum distorted wave-eikonal initial state approximation. the experiment and calculations show that the ionization cross sections by B²⁺, principally for the production of highly charged recoils, is strongly enhanced when compared to the bare projectile with the same charge state, He²⁺, at the same velocities. © 2011 American Physical Society.

Acurate Low-Mass Stellar Models Of Koi-126, Gregory A. Feiden, Brian Chaboyer, Aaron Dotter

Dartmouth Scholarship

The recent discovery of an eclipsing hierarchical triple system with two low-mass stars in a close orbit (KOI-126) by Carter et al. (2011) appeared to reinforce the evidence that theoretical stellar evolution models are not able to reproduce the observational mass-radius relation for low-mass stars. We present a set of stellar models for the three stars in the KOI-126 system that show excellent agreement with the observed radii. This agreement appears to be due to the equation of state implemented by our code. A significant dispersion in the observed mass-radius relation for fully convective stars is demonstrated; indicative of the …

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, October 10, 2011, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Indiana Wetnet: A Virtual Water Resource, Edward P. Haslam, Jeff R. Wright

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Training Of Aquatic Ecosystem Scientists: Continue To Languish Or Accept Our Responsibilities?, Robert G. Wetzel

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Continuous Monitoring In The Cloud Environment, Victoria Nyffeler

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology introduced a risk management framework that concludes with a process for continuous monitoring. Continuous monitoring is a way to gain near real-time insight into the security health of an information technology environment. The cloud environment is unique from other environments in the way that resources are virtualized and shared among many cloud tenants. This type of computing has been gaining popularity as a solution for organizations to purchase resources as an on-demand service in the same way that an organization purchases utilities today. In order to experience the benefits promised by the emergence …

Dissemination Of Geological Information In Avoiding Geotechnical Risks Associated With Tunnel Construction: Lessons Learned From Deep Voids In Marble In Lower Manhattan, New York City, Nazrul I. Khandaker, Stanley Schleifer, Masud Ahmed, Leah Scott

Publications and Research

Test boring associated with the recently accomplished City Water Tunnel # 3 in Manhattan, New York City revealed moderately to highly weathered marble with insoluble silicate residues composed mostly of phlogopite, chlorite, and tremolite. Apparent control on the weatherability of the marble was in response to original mineral constituents dominating this lithology. Encountered marble samples ranged between pure calcitic to mixed dolomitic/siliceous types. Fresh marble samples collected from adjacent boring locations revealed characteristic geochemical data: Lime (25-45%), Silica (4-7%), Alumina (1-3%), MgO (5-20%), and LOI (35-42%); compressive strength of unweathered marble varied between 2000-3000 Kg/cm². Relict foliations with …

Requiem, Babette Babich

Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Volume 47 - Issue 05 - Friday, October 7, 2011, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

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

Exploiting The Power Law Distribution Properties Of Satellite Fire Redaiative Power Retrials: A Method To Estimate Fire Radiative Energy And Biomass Burned From Sparse Satellite Observations, S. S. Kumar, David P. Roy, L. Boschetti, R. Kremens

GSCE Faculty Publications

Instantaneous estimates of the power released by fire (fire radiative power, FRP) are available with satellite active fire detection products. The temporal integral of FRP provides an estimate of the fire radiative energy (FRE) that is related linearly to the amount of biomass burned needed by the atmospheric emissions modeling community. The FRE, however, is sensitive to satellite temporal and spatial FRP undersampling due to infrequent satellite overpasses, cloud and smoke obscuration, and failure to detect cool and/or small fires. Satellite FRPs derived over individual burned areas and fires have been observed to exhibit power law distributions. This property is …

Helping Teachers Be Successful: Lessons For Administrators, Steven W. Neill, Paul Bland, Edwin Church, Climetine Clayburn, W. Michael Shimeall

Administrative Issues Journal

The goal of this study was to identify areas of teacher performance that were lacking to the point that the teacher was nonrenewed. Individual school districts can gain insight into why teachers are failing and make adjustments to their training and teacher induction programs that will improve professional practice. The study found that teachers failed primarily in the area of classroom management. Of the 22 possible teaching skills in which teachers could be deficient, four of the top five causes for nonrenewal came within the category of classroom management (Creating an Environment of Respect and Rapport, Managing Student Behavior, Managing …

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Oct 7, 2011, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Bison, October 7, 2011

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Structural Evolution And Stabilities Of Neutral And Anionic Clusters Of Lead Sulfide: Joint Anion Photoelectron And Computational Studies, Pratik Koirala, Boggavarapu Kiran, Anil K. Kandalam, Charles A. Fancher, Helen L. De Clercq, Xiang Li, Kit H. Bowen

Physics & Engineering Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Chimes: October 7, 2011, Calvin College

Chimes

Religious tolerance celebrated by Jasmine Wilson

Jazz club keeps modern music alive by Tyler Slamkowski

Liberia program expands by Allysa Metzner

Science in 'Contagion' accurate by Allison Schepers

Occupy Wall Street protesters frustated with financial situation by Rachel Hekman

Golf looks to final tourney by Jess Koster & Mark Dehaan

Systematic Errors Of The Mcrg Method, Simon Catterall, Luigi Del Debbio, Joel Giedt, Liam Keegan

Physics - All Scholarship

We present a Monte Carlo Renormalisation Group (MCRG) study of the SU(2) gauge theory with two Dirac fermions in the adjoint representation. Using the two-lattice matching technique we measure the running of the coupling and the anomalous mass dimension. We find slow running of the coupling, compatible with an infrared fixed point. Assuming this running is negligible we find a vanishing anomalous dimension, gamma=-0.03(13), however without this assumption our uncertainty in the running of the coupling leads to a much larger range of allowed values, -0.6 < gamma < 0.6. We discuss the systematic errors affecting the current analysis and possible improvements.

The Echo: October 7, 2011, Taylor University

2011-2012 (Volume 99)

Defending our house – Rechanneling entertainment – Social media in classroom settings – Top 5 News Events of the Week – Answering God’s call – Unsubsidized graduate loans – Math, science scores drop – The Bubble – Murder, lies and tabloid fodder – When faith is a crime – Around The World In 30 Seconds – Hey Taylor girl, why are you holding that flower? Because it’s Friday! – Emily and Corrie’s Top ten things you didn’t know you were missing out on – Don’t eat that! – Gummy bears, marathons and Africa – Behind the acronym: Inter-Class Council – …

Parathyroid Hormone And Cell Signaling In Bone Remodeling, Christina Battista

Theses

Many mathematical models relevant to osteoporosis have been developed and studied. Although osteoclasts and osteoblasts are the crucial variables in bone resorption and bone formation, PTH can cause changes in the ratio of these cells and therefore should be studied more closely. Some of the current models for osteoporosis will be analyzed in this thesis as well as amended to account for the phenomenon that occurs with various methods of PTH administration. By administering PTH in either pulsatile or continuous doses, we obtain very different results. When administered in a continuous fashion, the body experiences a net bone loss over …

Two Approximate Minkowski Sum Algorithms, Victor Milenkovic, Elisha P. Sacks

Department of Computer Science Faculty Publications

We present two approximate Minkowski sum algorithms for planar regions bounded by line and circle segments. Both algorithms form a convolution curve, construct its arrangement, and use winding numbers to identify sum cells. The first uses the kinetic convolution and the second uses our monotonic convolution. The asymptotic running times of the exact algorithms are increased by kmlogm with m the number of segments in the convolution and with k the number of segment triples that are in cyclic vertical order due to approximate segment intersection. The approximate Minkowski sum is close to the exact sum of perturbation regions that …

The Murray State News, October 7, 2011, The Murray State News

Murray State University Collection

No abstract provided.

Microarray-Based Cancer Prediction Using Single Genes., Xiaosheng Wang, Richard Simon

Journal Articles: Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy

BACKGROUND: Although numerous methods of using microarray data analysis for cancer classification have been proposed, most utilize many genes to achieve accurate classification. This can hamper interpretability of the models and ease of translation to other assay platforms. We explored the use of single genes to construct classification models. We first identified the genes with the most powerful univariate class discrimination ability and then constructed simple classification rules for class prediction using the single genes.

RESULTS: We applied our model development algorithm to eleven cancer gene expression datasets and compared classification accuracy to that for standard methods including Diagonal Linear …

Total Synthesis Of 4'-Ester Resveratrol Analogs And 8.9-Amido Geldanamycin Analog And Toward The Total Synthesis Of (-)-Englerin A, Yong Wang

Theses and Dissertations

Total Synthesis of 4'-ester Resveratrol Analogs and 8, 9-amido Geldanamycin Analog and toward the Total Synthesis of (-)-Englerin A Yong Wang Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, BYU Doctor of Philosophy The phytoalexin resveratrol and its 4'-ester analogs have been prepared with a decarbonylative Heck reaction. The deprotecting step has been modified and improved to increase yield and avoid chromatography. A set of resveratrol analogs and resveratrol have been tested with melanoma and pancreatic cell assays. The 8, 9-amido Geldanamycin analog has been synthesized with a convergent route, involving 28 simplified steps in its longest linear sequence. Synthetic methodologies, such as …

Competence-Based Profile Of Undergraduate Students In Madrid’S Universities: Differences In Terms Of The Gender And Age, Oscar García, Sara Redondo, Gema Santiago, Francisco López, Ana Cruz

Higher Learning Research Communications

The aim of this study is to corroborate whether the development of academic excellence is affected by the gender and age of students. A sample of 364 students from different universities in the Community of Madrid were administered COMPEUEM, a test that assesses the extent to which students possess eight academic competencies: communication, leadership, team work, adaptation to the changes, initiative, problem solving, decision making, organization, and planning. All students took the test on site, in the classrooms of the participating universities. The results show that older subjects score higher in the acquisition of skills than younger ones. On the …

Surprising Variations In The Rotation Of The Chemically Peculiar Stars Cu Virginis And V901 Orionis, Zdeněk Mikulášek, Jiří Krtička, Gregory W. Henry, Jan Janík, Juraj Zverko, Jozef Žižňovský, Miloslav Zejda, Jiri Liška, Pavel Zvěřina, D. O. Kudrjavtsev, Iosif I. Romanyuk, N. A. Sokolov, Theresa Lüftinger, Corrado Trigilio, Coralie Neiner, S. N. De Villiers

Information Systems and Engineering Management Research Publications

Context. The majority of magnetic chemically peculiar (mCP) stars exhibit periodic light, radio, spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric variations that can be adequately explained by the model of a rigidly rotating main-sequence star with persistent surface structures. CU Vir and V901 Ori belong among these few mCP stars whose rotation periods vary on timescales of decades.

Aims. We aim to study the stability of the periods in CU Vir and V901 Ori using all accessible observational data containing phase information.

Methods. We collected all available relevant archived observations supplemented with our new measurements of these stars and analysed the period variations of …

Diversity Week 2011 - Rhode Island And The Slave Trade - Bringing History To Life, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Student Services Center

Rhode Island and the Slave Trade: Bringing History to Life. Paul Davis, Reporter, Providence Journal. Prize-winning Providence Journal reporter Paul Davis will talk about his newspaper series on the Rhode Island slave trade. A transplanted Southerner, Davis will explore the myth of the abolitionist north versus the slave-holding south and talk about the half year he spent in New England’s historical societies and libraries exploring the state's dark past. He'll also explain why he was thrown off some of Rhode Island’s best-known historic sites. The talk will reveal the north’s deep ties to slavery and the slave trade, and will …

Diversity Week 2011 - Out Of Diversity We Speak, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Student Services Center

Out of Diversity: We Speak.

Dr. Jody Lisberger, Director, and Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies; Dr. Robert Carothers, Academic Affairs; Dr. Adam Roth, Communication Studies; Dr. Ian Reyes, Communication Studies; Dr. Mercedes Rivero Hudec, Chemical Engineering; Dr. Jeremiah Dyehouse, Writing & Rhetoric; and students who will be speaking about their lives, in relation to diversity. Students and faculty rarely find time to engage each other around the arts and share the value of their individual and collective lives. This reading of expressive writing from four culturally diverse faculty and four students will reveal the influences of our diverse ways of being …

Diversity Week 2011 - Raising Your Voice, Multicultural Center

Multicultural Student Services Center

Raise Your Voice: How Diverse Genres of HipHop, Spoken Word and Music Create a Culture of Nonviolence and Peace?

Dr. Paul de Mesquita, Professor, Psychology and Director Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies; and Performing Artists, Rudy Cabrera, Kaly the 5th Element, and Miss Lori. In contrast to a growing culture of violence so prevalent in all forms of mass media, this session will feature live performance artists presenting work in tribute to Gandhi and King, toward the goal of a peaceful inclusive multicultural "beloved community". Join us in interacting and dialoguing with the artists. Sponsored by the URI Center …