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The Graduate Standard - Vol. 1, No. 1, Western Michigan University

Graduate College news

• Dean's Message
• Dr. Tova Samuels
• Meet Tony Dennis
• Writing Ethically and Well: Plagiarism, Patchwriting, and the Thesis/Dissertation
• Kevin Grazioli—Winner of Two EMMY awards!
• Dr. Zella Jackson Hannum
• 2012 MI-AGEP Dissertation Writing Retreat
• Did You Know?

Chemistry & Biochemistry Newsletter, Department Of Chemistry & Biochemistry, South Dakota State University

Chemistry & Biochemistry Newsletter: 2002-2015

Inside:

Page 2 Jing wins Avera/SDSU Collaborative Research Funding; Teaching Assistants complete Certification of Excellence Program; Ron Utecht Issued Two Patents

Page 3 Tille is 2012 Education and Research Grant Recipient; Biochem Student Summit League Male Cross Country Athlete of the Year

Page 4 Zhang receives Board of Regents Grant

Page 5 MLS Receives National Clinical Pathology Scholarship

Page 6 Alumni Updates; Faculty Updates; Recent Publications

Prism #65, October 2012, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Google Apps For Education: Valparaiso University's Migration Experience, Rebecca Klein, Richard Orelup, Matthew Smith

Information Technology Faculty and Staff Publications

Many campuses are investigating cloud-based or hosted email solutions. This paper will cover Valparaiso University’s decision to move to the Google Apps for Education platform and our campus migration strategy. Google Apps offers significant savings in both cost of service and cost of support / maintenance while simultaneously offering functionality improvements to the campus experience over our previous system. Valparaiso University was using the GroupWise email and calendaring system and began the process of migrating all of campus to the Google Apps for Education platform in early 2011. Our process began with a student led evaluation team to select the …

The Housekeeper And The Professor, By Yoko Ogawa, Picador, 2009, Eloise Sureau-Hale

LAS Faculty Book Reviews

No abstract provided.

Utep Magazine: The University Of Texas At El Paso, Utep University Communications

UTEP Magazine

Fall 2012

Homecoming Two-thousand Twelve

The Impact Of Income Generating Programs At Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Dylan Mcdowell

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Tarangire National Park (TAR) is Tanzanian’s third largest grossing park, and is surrounded by 42 villages in five districts. The park’s single Outreach Warden has undertaken many projects since the park’s creation in 1970 to engage the villagers in natural resource conservation, including wildlife. The newest pilot project at TAR is Income Generating Programs (IGP) where community groups organize themselves around an activity that earns income. From September 24-29, 2012, TAR selected 10 members from three groups in the park’s northern end and 15 members from two groups in the park’s southern end to attend an all-expenses paid business class …

Gallaudet Today Volume 42 Number 2 Fall 2012, Todd Byrd

Gallaudet Today

No abstract provided.

[Accepted Article Manuscript Version (Postprint)] Track Me To Track Us: Leveraging Short Range Wireless Technologies For Enabling Energy Efficient Wi-Fi-Based Localization, Mohamed Abdellatif, Abderrahmen Mtibaa, Khaled Harras

Computer Science Faculty Works

Given the success of outdoor tracking via GPS and the rise of real-time context-aware services, users will soon rely on applications that require higher granularity indoor localization. This need is further manifested in countries like Qatar, where various social and business activities occur indoors. Wi-Fi-based indoor localization is one of the most researched techniques due to its ubiquitous deployment and acceptable accuracy for a wide range of applications. However, we do not witness such techniques widely deployed mainly due to their high demand on energy, which is a precious commodity in mobile devices. We propose an energy-efficient indoor localization system …

Analysis Of Music Note Patterns Via Markov Chains, Ala'a Wadi

Senior Honors Projects

This is a presentation of a novel method for measuring the distance between two seemingly analogous fragments of music, as deemed by human perception. This is an approach entirely based on coarse-grained and primitive representations of the order of the notes that make up the songs. Through the use of a simplified Markov chain analysis, transition matrices are derived for each music piece and compared through linear algebraic techniques.

We begin by applying the method to two distinctive, intrinsic, and familiar compositions, “Row Your Boat” and “Happy Birthday”. We will advance to more complicated compositions that have garnered attention for …

Urinformed October 2012, Urinformed

URInformed: The URI Employees' Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Csusb Magazine (Fall 2012), Csusb

CSUSB Magazine

Update......Page 3
Innovation and leadership are two of the qualities that made CSUSB on of five colleges nationwide to receive a prestigious community engagement award.

College News......Page 6
A professor emeritus in geography recounts the university's efforts to improve city development standards and capitalize on the natural beauty of San Bernardino.

Contributions......Page 12
Albert Karnig's retirement gala proves to be scholarship gold.

Pack Tracks......Page 16
A former CSUSB All-American point guard is now in paradise as the head coach for a NCAA Division 1 women's basketball team.

Student Scapes......Page 18
Britney inspires confidence for young …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet October 2012, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The October 2012 Monthly packet includes the October agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held June 2012

Geogram 2012, David J. Keeling, Wku Department Of Geography And Geology

Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Publications

No abstract provided.

The Statesman, V. 56, I. 05, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 56, i. 05

Gjr Volume 35 Number 1 Fall 2012, Christine Draper, Lina Soares

The Georgia Journal of Reading Archive

The Georgia Journal of Reading's Fall 2012 issue includes:

Message From the Editors by Lina Soares and Christine Draper (pg.4)

President’s Page by Lynn C. Minor (pg. 5)

Integrating Mathematics and Reading Fluency Instruction in the Primary Grades by Ryan Nivens, Lori Meier, Michael Brikell, and Edward J. Dwyer (pg. 6)

Visual Literacy: A Picture Can Be Worth Ten Thousand Words by Stacy Delacruz (pg. 12)

Using Interactive Whiteboards to Enhance the Writing Process by Laura Ely and Jerilou Moore (pg. 18)

Teacher Influence on Book Selection of Third Grade Students by Shelia Delony and Katie Hathorn (pg. 24)

Schema …

Current, October 01, 2012, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Examining Spiraled Elementary Curricula On Columbus: A Case Study, Maegan Wilton, John H. Bickford Iii

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

Educators’ content background and use of accurate, age-appropriate teaching materials generates quality teaching. Content in every grade level should supplement content from previous grades in a spiraled format. State test results on students’ math and reading indicate, but do not prove, the presence of these two presumptions. Because history is not tested, the authors examined the basis of these two presumptions for history in two school districts that require every elementary educator to teach about Christopher Columbus. Findings reveal significant interconnections between these two presumptions and have consequential implications as states consider standardized testing in other curricular areas, such as …

William Fulford, “The Set,” And The Oxford And Cambridge Magazine, Patrick C. Fleming

Faculty Publications

The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine is familiar to Victorian scholars largely because its contributors included William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones (the most famous members of the set that produced the magazine) and because Dante Gabriel Rossetti published several poems there. For the magazine’s first readers, however, its most important feature was not the identity of individual contributors but the fact that it was produced by college students. The magazine was a group project, produced not just by Morris and Burne-Jones but by their whole set. Morris’s and Burne-Jones’s contributions are well-known, and their biographies never fail to mention the magazine …

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University, John Carroll University

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University

October 2012, Volume 5, Issue 3

Profile: Twelve From 2012 Where Our Grads Are Headed Now, University Relations

Profile (1996-)

And yet, this issue of Profile does pick out several of our most recent grads, featuring not one but twelve of them. I ask you to remember, as you read about these students, that for each of the twelve students featured here, there are twelve more; and twelve more; and twelve more. There aren’t enough pages for us to include all the stories of our recent graduates. We wish we could.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message

Accretion Properties Of High- And Low-Excitation Young Radio Galaxies, Donghoon Son, Jong-Hak Woo, Sang Chul Kim, Hai Fu, Nozomu Kawakatu, Vardha N. Bennert, Tohru Nagao, Daeseong Park

Physics

Young radio galaxies (YRGs) provide an ideal laboratory to explore the connection between the accretion disk and radio jet thanks to their recent jet formation. We investigate the relationship between the emission-line properties, the black hole accretion rate, and the radio properties using a sample of 34 low-redshift (z < 0.4) YRGs. We classify YRGs as high-excitation galaxies (HEGs) and low-excitation galaxies (LEGs) based on the flux ratio of high-ionization to low-ionization emission lines. Using the Hα luminosities as a proxy of accretion rate, we find that HEGs in YRGs have ~1 dex higher Eddington ratios than LEGs in YRGs, suggesting that HEGs have a higher mass accretion rate or higher radiative efficiency than LEGs. In agreement with previous studies, we find that the luminosities of emission lines, in particular Hα, are correlated with radio core luminosity, suggesting that accretion and young radio activities are fundamentally connected.

Fall 2012 Fact Book, Office Of Institutional Planning & Analysis

Office of Institutional Research

The Fact Book is an annual comprehensive publication of historical trend data on admissions, enrollment, degrees awarded, faculty/staff data, and financial aid.

Uni Today, V95n3 [V96n3], Fall 2012, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

UNI Today

Inside This Issue:
-- I want to be a Panther!
-- The Panther Evolution
-- What I did on my summer vacation
-- Panther Village
-- Alumni and friends receive service, philanthropy awards
-- $1.5 million gift funds math scholarship
-- Gold medal goals
-- Allen announces retirement
-- Seerley's great-grandson creates tribute gift
-- Athletics honors new inductees in Hall of Fame
-- 14 Panthers and counting
-- A look back - College Hill then & now
-- Class Notes
-- Calendar of alumni events

Characterization Of Biofilm Formation By Borrelia Burgdorferi In Vitro, Eva Sapi, Scott L. Bastian, Cedric L. Mpoy, Shernea Scott, Amy Rattelle, Namrata Pabbati, Akhila Poruri, Divya Burugu, Priyanka A. Theophilus, Truc V. Pham, Akshita Datar, Navroop K. Dhaliwal, Alan Macdonald, Michael J. Rossi, Saion K. Sinha, David F. Luecke

Biology and Environmental Science Faculty Publications

Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, has long been known to be capable of forming aggregates and colonies. It was recently demonstrated that Borrelia burgdorferi aggregate formation dramatically changes the in vitro response to hostile environments by this pathogen. In this study, we investigated the hypothesis that these aggregates are indeed biofilms, structures whose resistance to unfavorable conditions are well documented. We studied Borrelia burgdorferi for several known hallmark features of biofilm, including structural rearrangements in the aggregates, variations in development on various substrate matrices and secretion of a protective extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix using several modes …

Uniqueness Of Nonnegative Solutions For Semipositone Problems On Exterior Domains, Alfonso Castro, Lakshmi Sankar, Ratnasingham Shivaji

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

We consider the problem

−Δu = λK(|x|)f(u), x∈Ω

u=0 if |x|=r₀

u→0 as |x|→∞,

where λ is a positive parameter, Δu = div(∇u)is the Laplacian of u, Ω = {x ∈ Rⁿ; n > 2,|x| > r₀}, K ∈ C¹([r₀,∞),(0,∞)) is such that lim r→∞ K(r) = 0 and f ∈ C¹([0,∞),R) is a concave function which is sublinear at ∞ and f(0) < 0. We establish the uniqueness of nonnegative radial solutions when λ is large.

3d Imaging And Mechanical Modeling Of Helical Buckling In Medicago Truncatula Plant Roots, Jesse L. Silverberg, Roslyn D. Noar, Michael S. Packer, Maria J. Harrison, Christopher L. Henley, Itai Cohen, Sharon J. Gerbode

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

We study the primary root growth of wild-type Medicago truncatula plants in heterogeneous environments using 3D time-lapse imaging. The growth medium is a transparent hydrogel consisting of a stiff lower layer and a compliant upper layer. We find that the roots deform into a helical shape just above the gel layer interface before penetrating into the lower layer. This geometry is interpreted as a combination of growth-induced mechanical buckling modulated by the growth medium and a simultaneous twisting near the root tip. We study the helical morphology as the modulus of the upper gel layer is varied and demonstrate that …

Physics Newsletter, Fall 2012-Summer 2013, College Of Arts And Sciences

Physics Newsletter

Contents of the Newsletter for Friends of the Western Michigan University Department of Physics:

• Physics Major Part of Sunseeker Solar Race Team
• Faculty News
• Alumni News
• Student News
• Student Awards

Wright State University Magazine, Fall 2012, Office Of Communications And Marketing, Wright State University

Wright State University Magazine

Thirty-six page issue of the Wright State University Magazine. This magazine is published twice a year and focuses on news related to Wright State alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the university.

A Review Of The Management Arrangements And Licensing Framework For The Aquatic Tour Industry In Western Australia. Discussion Paper On Management And Licensing Options For The Aquatic Tour Industry., Department Of Fisheries Western Australia

Fisheries Management Papers

The Department of Fisheries (Department) is proposing a new simplified management approach which focuses on fishing as the core criteria in the new licensing framework. Given the low level of impact of aquatic eco-tours and shore-based fishing, consideration is being given to removing the need for these activities to be formally licensed. The Department is of the view that these activities can be adequately managed by regulations that have broader application across the community.

The current management, licensing and fee structures are complex and provide limited business flexibility. A simplified management approach will also improve the Department’s capacity to monitor …