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Daily Eastern News: December 07, 2012, Eastern Illinois University Dec 2012

Daily Eastern News: December 07, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

December

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A Survey Of Invasive Exotic Ants Found On Hawaiian Islands: Spatial Distributions And Patterns Of Association, Camie Frandsen Martin Dec 2012

A Survey Of Invasive Exotic Ants Found On Hawaiian Islands: Spatial Distributions And Patterns Of Association, Camie Frandsen Martin

Theses and Dissertations

An intensive sampling of all ant species encountered on 6 Hawaiian Islands: Big Island, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, and Lanai took place between 1988 and 1996. Species presence and absence was recorded at each site. Using remote sensing, variables were added insitu and used throughout my analysis. Species accumulation curves suggest that sampling was comprehensive. There is a significant trend between island area and species richness which validates the Theory of Island Biogeography for invasive species. Islands were found to be significantly nested by area, order, and tourism. Cluster analysis shows a link between elevation, land-use and island, and species …

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Harbor Notes, December 7, 2012, Tom Scherberger Dec 2012

Harbor Notes, December 7, 2012, Tom Scherberger

Harbor Notes

The December 7, 2012, issue of Harbor Notes.

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Lo Grotesco Y La Identidad Nacional En Huasipungo Y El Chulla Romero Y Flores De Jorge Icaza, Ernesto Raul Gonzalez Dec 2012

Lo Grotesco Y La Identidad Nacional En Huasipungo Y El Chulla Romero Y Flores De Jorge Icaza, Ernesto Raul Gonzalez

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Este estudio busca analizar lo grotesco y su relación con la identidad nacional en las dos novelas más importantes de Jorge Icaza: Huasipungo (1934) y El Chulla Romero y Flores (1958). Estas obras exploran los temas de la animalización y la máscara social dentro del contexto de la sociedad ecuatoriana de la primera mitad del siglo XX para denunciar el abuso de los indígenas y el trauma del mestizo por tener sangre indígena. Estos dos conceptos se conectan con la noción de la construcción de una verdadera identidad nacional a través del indigenismo y el reconocimiento de la ascendencia nativa.

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Recognition Of Compassion Fatigue Among Medical-Surgical Nurses: The Provision Of Education To Manage The Effects, Kandace Woodruff Dec 2012

Recognition Of Compassion Fatigue Among Medical-Surgical Nurses: The Provision Of Education To Manage The Effects, Kandace Woodruff

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2010) recommends that healthcare organizations make the “recruitment and retention of qualified nurses a priority”. The ability to comply with the recommendation is fraught with challenges. Nurses are required to care for patients across the age span with varying medical complexities. There are work related stressors which are inherent to the care of a more acutely ill patient population. The tenuousness produced by this type of environment can predispose the nurse to a stress induced phenomenon known as, Compassion Fatigue. The literature is abounding with information related to compassion fatigue among various nursing specialties. However, …

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Junior Recital: Madeline Scott, Soprano, Madeline Scott, Brenda Brent Dec 2012

Junior Recital: Madeline Scott, Soprano, Madeline Scott, Brenda Brent

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Ms. Scott studies voice with Oral Moses.

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2012-12-07 Minutes & Appendices, Longwood University Dec 2012

2012-12-07 Minutes & Appendices, Longwood University

Board of Visitors Meeting Minutes 1964-

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Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Faculty Senate Meeting, December 7, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate Dec 2012

Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Faculty Senate Meeting, December 7, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate

USF St. Petersburg Faculty Senate Meetings: Minutes

The minutes from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate meeting on December 7, 2012.

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Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 7, 2012, Gwen Hayes Dec 2012

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 7, 2012, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The December 7, 2012, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin. Included are articles on plans for President Barack Obama's second inauguration.

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Senior Recital: Sarah Elizabeth Harville, Soprano, Sarah Elizabeth Harville, Judy Cole Dec 2012

Senior Recital: Sarah Elizabeth Harville, Soprano, Sarah Elizabeth Harville, Judy Cole

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance and Bachelor of Music in Music Education. Ms. Harville studies voice with Adam Kirkpatrick.

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Minutes, College Of Education Council Meeting, December 7, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Education. College Council Dec 2012

Minutes, College Of Education Council Meeting, December 7, 2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Education. College Council

College Council Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Education's Council meeting on December 7, 2012.

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Text Messaging As Adjunct To Community Based Weight Management Program, Claudia Bouhaidar Dec 2012

Text Messaging As Adjunct To Community Based Weight Management Program, Claudia Bouhaidar

Theses and Dissertations

Obesity ascending rates are still a public health priority. The primary aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of tailored text messages on body weight change in overweight and obese adults in a community based weight management program. A secondary aim was to detect behavioral changes in the same population. The study design was quasi-experimental with pre and posttest analysis, conducted over 12 weeks. A total of 28 participants were included in the analysis. Body weight, eating behaviors, exercise and nutrition self-efficacy, attitude toward mobile technology, social support and physical activity were assessed at baseline and at 12 …

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Newsroom: C.J. Joseph R. Weisberger (1920-2012), Roger Williams University School Of Law Dec 2012

Newsroom: C.J. Joseph R. Weisberger (1920-2012), Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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France: Financial System Stability Assessment, International Monetary Fund (Imf) Dec 2012

France: Financial System Stability Assessment, International Monetary Fund (Imf)

Documents

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Re-Visiting The Ecb's 3-Year Long Term Refinancing Operations, Sia Partners Dec 2012

Re-Visiting The Ecb's 3-Year Long Term Refinancing Operations, Sia Partners

Documents

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Fall Commencement Ceremonies, University Of North Florida Dec 2012

Fall Commencement Ceremonies, University Of North Florida

Commencement Printed Materials

Program for the Fall Commencement ceremonies.

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Who Participates In Ethnic Organizations: Immigrant Children In Los Angeles, Beatrice Uilani Tiptida Morlan Dec 2012

Who Participates In Ethnic Organizations: Immigrant Children In Los Angeles, Beatrice Uilani Tiptida Morlan

Theses and Dissertations

This exploratory descriptive study looks at the characteristics of immigrant children in the greater metropolitan Los Angeles area who participate in organizations associated with their parents' country of origin. By drawing on the 2004 Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA) survey dataset, I bring together aspects of the participation and assimilation literatures in order to better understand who participates in ethnic organizations. Results provide evidence that ethnic organization participants differ from the full sample and from respondents who participate in community organizations; they exhibit more ethnic resource characteristics. Significant determinants of participation in ethnic organizations include having …

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Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Of Biodiesel Components, Joseph C. Bell Dec 2012

Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium Of Biodiesel Components, Joseph C. Bell

Theses and Dissertations

Biodiesel is produced from vegetable oils through transesterification. Triglyceride mixtures extracted from oilseed feedstocks are upgraded by reaction with an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst to produce fatty acid esters. This reaction produces a mixture of esters, glycerin, alcohol, and catalyst. Separation of the fatty acid esters (biodiesel) and glycerin can be accomplished through liquid-liquid extraction by water addition. Designing liquid-liquid extraction with water as the solvent requires ternary liquid-liquid equilibrium data for mixtures of water, glycerin, and fatty acid esters. Ternary mixture LLE data have been experimentally measured for several of these systems. Those measured include mixtures …

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Best Practices Using Building Information Modeling In Commercial Construction, Simon Beveridge Dec 2012

Best Practices Using Building Information Modeling In Commercial Construction, Simon Beveridge

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There has been an increase in adoption of building information modeling (BIM) by commercial contractors over the past few years but there is not a clear indication of current application or the frequency of each use. This research was undertaken to determine the frequency and best practices of using BIM in commercial construction. Leading commercial contracting firms were contacted and employees were selected to complete a telephone survey that was designed to determine how they are using BIM. It was found that BIM is being used with more frequency on projects, with plans to continue to implement it even further …

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Advanced Numerical Methods In General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics, Michael J. Besselman Dec 2012

Advanced Numerical Methods In General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics, Michael J. Besselman

Theses and Dissertations

We show our work to refine the process of evolutions in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. We investigate several areas in order to improve the overall accuracy of our results. We test several versions of conversion methodologies between different sets of variables. We compare both single equation and two equations solvers to do the conversion. We find no significant improvement for multiple equation conversion solvers when compared to single equation solvers. We also investigate the construction of initial data and the conversion of coordinate systems between initial data code and evolution code. In addition to the conversion work, we have improved some …

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Efficient Estimation For Small Multi-Rotor Air Vehicles Operating In Unknown, Indoor Environments, John Charles Macdonald Dec 2012

Efficient Estimation For Small Multi-Rotor Air Vehicles Operating In Unknown, Indoor Environments, John Charles Macdonald

Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation we present advances in developing an autonomous air vehicle capable of navigating through unknown, indoor environments. The problem imposes stringent limits on the computational power available onboard the vehicle, but the environment necessitates using 3D sensors such as stereo or RGB-D cameras whose data requires significant processing. We address the problem by proposing and developing key elements of a relative navigation scheme that moves as many processing tasks as possible out of the time-critical functions needed to maintain flight. We present in Chapter 2 analysis and results for an improved multirotor helicopter state estimator. The filter generates …

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Website Adaptive Navigation Effects On User Experiences, James C. Speirs Dec 2012

Website Adaptive Navigation Effects On User Experiences, James C. Speirs

Theses and Dissertations

The information search process within a website can often be frustrating and confusing for website visitors. Navigational structures are often complex and multitiered, hiding links with several layers of navigation that user's might be interested in. Poor navigation causes user frustration. Adaptive navigation can be used to improve the user's navigational experience by flattening the navigational structure and reducing the number of accessible links to only those that the user would be interested in. This examines the effects on a user's navigational experience, of using adaptive navigation as the main navigational structure on a website. This study measured these effects …

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The Parthenon, December 7, 2012, Shane Arrington Dec 2012

The Parthenon, December 7, 2012, Shane Arrington

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

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The Roof With No Ceiling: Couch Surfing And The New Vagabond's Trek Through Nation-States, Cyberspace, And Global Consciousness, Kathryn Giroux Dec 2012

The Roof With No Ceiling: Couch Surfing And The New Vagabond's Trek Through Nation-States, Cyberspace, And Global Consciousness, Kathryn Giroux

Honors Theses

In an era of "stranger danger" where society indoctrinates fear of "the other," hospitality exchange and social networking website www.couchsurfing.org offers an alternative movement to these trends. Couchsurfing.org connects travelers with locals offering free accommodation in exchange for meaningful connection, cultural exchange, and the opportunity to "create inspiring experiences" within a rapidly growing, transnational community encompassing over 5 million members. This thesis takes a creative journalism approach to uncovering CouchSurfing's inner workings and impacts, understanding its historical context within globalization and the growth of hospitality exchange networks, and discovering its implications for the global community and global consciousness of vagabonds …

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Who Is An American? The Construction Of American Identity In The Utah Minuteman Project, Michele Elizabeth Bendall Dec 2012

Who Is An American? The Construction Of American Identity In The Utah Minuteman Project, Michele Elizabeth Bendall

Theses and Dissertations

The Minuteman Project is a national civilian border patrol group, founded in 2005 to defend the U.S.-Mexico border from "invasion" by illegal immigrants and protest the "blatant disregard of the rule of law" exhibited by government and politicians. This study explores one state chapter of this organization: the Utah Minuteman Project (UMP). The research questions I seek to address are: Who are the Minutemen? What motivates them? How do the Minutemen define what it means to be an American? Using a grounded theory approach, I explore the construction of American identity among the members of the UMP using a range …

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Convocation, Michael Weber, Rahmaan James Phillip, Bronson Foster, Chang Yue, Patrick Garcia, Christopher Fujiwara, Samantha Ciarlo, Jeremy Russo, Jonathan Cannon, David Chavez Dec 2012

Convocation, Michael Weber, Rahmaan James Phillip, Bronson Foster, Chang Yue, Patrick Garcia, Christopher Fujiwara, Samantha Ciarlo, Jeremy Russo, Jonathan Cannon, David Chavez

Convocations

List of performers and performances.

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Nextet, Virko Baley, Sean Shepherd Dec 2012

Nextet, Virko Baley, Sean Shepherd

Chamber Music Programs

Program listing performers and works performed.

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Schumann's Op. 25: Finding The Narrative Within, Renee Danielle Gaarder Dec 2012

Schumann's Op. 25: Finding The Narrative Within, Renee Danielle Gaarder

Theses and Dissertations

Many of the song cycles written by Schumann have been studied over the years and it is well known that his most prolific time of song production was the year 1840. Myrthen, Op. 25, has been studied less than some of his other cycles because it calls into question the modern view of the song cycle and for this reason is difficult to classify. What is most difficult about the classification of Op. 25 is that there is no immediately apparent narrative. In addition, the musical relationships which exist are usually considered to be of little consequence. What scholars …

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Vibrotactile Feedback Generation Using Envelope Waveforms And Eccentric-Mass Motors, Michael G. Plooster Dec 2012

Vibrotactile Feedback Generation Using Envelope Waveforms And Eccentric-Mass Motors, Michael G. Plooster

Theses and Dissertations

The usefulness of vibrotactile feedback as a channel to communicate information has been widely recognized. However, most of the recent work on this subject uses actuators that are either too expensive or too large for many practical applications. This thesis explores the generation of vibrotacatile feedback patterns using a simple, inexpensive eccentric-mass motor that is constrained to use a constant voltage and a low on/off switching frequency. In particular, it explores the pulse timing method, which utilizes the slow transient response of the eccentric-mass motor to calculate pulse and rest times for an arbitrary envelope waveform shape. Several hardware tests …

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Streamlined Extract Preparation For E. Coli-Based Cell-Free Protein Synthesis And Rapid Site-Specific Incorporation Of Unnatural Amino Acids In Proteins, Prashanta Shrestha Dec 2012

Streamlined Extract Preparation For E. Coli-Based Cell-Free Protein Synthesis And Rapid Site-Specific Incorporation Of Unnatural Amino Acids In Proteins, Prashanta Shrestha

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports the viability of E. coli cell extracts prepared using equipment that is both common to biotechnology laboratories and able to process small volume samples and expression of proteins containing unnatural amino acids (UAAs) at higher level using PCR amplified linear DNA templates (LETs) in cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) system. E. coli-based cell extracts are a vital component of inexpensive and high-yielding CFPS reactions. However, effective preparation of E. coli cell extract is limited to high-pressure homogenizers (French press style or impinge-style) or bead mill homogenizers, which all require a significant capital investment. This work specifically assessed the …

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