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12-11-2012 New Option Available For Swosu Hotel, Restaurant & Gaming Management Program, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

The Hotel, Restaurant & Gaming Management Program (HRGM) at SWOSU – Sayre is entering its third year on campus, and now a new option for existing hospitality industry workers is now available.

Method For Removing Co2 From Coal-Fired Power Plant Flue Gas Using Ammonia As The Scrubbing Solution, With A Chemical Additive For Reducing Nh3 Losses, Coupled With A Membrane For Concentrating The Co2 Stream To The Gas Stripper, Kunlei Liu, James K. Neathery, Joseph E. Remias, Xiansen Li

Center for Applied Energy Research Faculty Patents

A method for removing and capturing carbon dioxide from a fluid stream includes the steps of exposing the fluid stream to an aqueous scrubbing solution that removes and holds carbon dioxide from the fluid stream, passing the aqueous scrubbing solution through a membrane in order to separate excess water from the scrubbing solution and increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the scrubbing solution, heating the scrubbing solution having an increased concentration of carbon dioxide so as to release carbon dioxide gas and recycling the scrubbing solution. A carbon dioxide capture apparatus includes a carbon dioxide scrubber, a membrane downstream …

General Education Subcommittee Minutes, December 11, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Course Approvals

Syllabi Approvals

Business

• USU 3330 –3 Credit Courses
• Gen Ed Demand Data
• Summer School Schedule/Enrollment

Next Meeting

State V. Smith Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39704

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Miller Appointed To Lead Mba Program At Uab, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

"R.U.R" Adaptation By Theatre Uab's Shackleford To Open In Nyc, Shannon Thomason

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Fouad Receives Top Cancer Center Research Award, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Priority Deadline For Competitive Scholarships Approaches, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Morris invites incoming first-year students to submit competitive scholarship applications by Saturday, December 15, 2012.

Genomic And Physiological Footprint Of The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill On Resident Marsh Fishes, Andrew Whitehead, Benjamin Dubansky, Charlotte Bodinier, Tzintzuni I. Garcia, Scott Miles, Chet Pilley, Vandana Raghunathan, Jennifer L. Roach, Nan Walker, Ronald B. Walter, Charles D. Rice, Fernando Galvez

Faculty Publications

The biological consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are unknown, especially for resident organisms. Here, we report results from a field study tracking the effects of contaminating oil across space and time in resident killifish during the first 4 mo of the spill event. Remote sensing and analytical chemistry identified exposures, which were linked to effects in fish characterized by genome expression and associated gill immunohistochemistry, despite very low concentrations of hydrocarbons remaining in water and tissues. Divergence in genome expression coincides with contaminating oil and is consistent with genome responses that are predictive of exposure to hydrocarbon-like chemicals …

Sbe Notícias, Ano 7, No. 247, December 11, 2012, Marcelo A. Rasteiro, Delci K. Ishida

SBE Notícias

Répteis fósseis são encontrados em caverna de Ubajara CE; Artigo sobre tufas quaternárias do sul de São Paulo; Livro aborda a conservação e restauro de cavernas; Justiça mantém proibição de visitas à gruta do Carimbado; Homens das cavernas pintavam melhor que artistas modernos; Fiscalização pega desmatamento do vale do Ribeira; Foto do leitor: Gruta Boca do Sapo (SP-182).

Aggregation And Dynamics Of Oligocholate Transporters In Phospholipid Bilayers Revealed By Solid-State Nmr Spectroscopy, Tuo Wang, Lakmini Widanapathirana, Yan Zhao, Mei Hong

Faculty Publications

Macrocycles made of cholate building blocks were previously found to transport glucose readily across lipid bilayers. In this study, an 15N, 13Cα-labeled glycine was inserted into a cyclic cholate trimer and attached at the end of a linear trimer, respectively. The isotopic labeling allowed us to use solid-state NMR spectroscopy to study the dynamics, aggregation, and depth of insertion of these compounds in lipid membranes. The cyclic compound was found to be mostly immobilized in DLPC, POPC/POPG, and POPC/POPG/cholesterol membranes, whereas the linear trimer displayed large-amplitude motion that depended on the membrane thickness and viscosity. 13C-detected 1H spin diffusion experiments …

Protein Dynamics And Ion Traffic In Bacterioferritin, Huan Rui, Mario Rivera, Wonpil Im

Faculty Publications

Bacterioferritin (Bfr) is a spherical protein composed of 24 subunits and 12 heme molecules. Bfrs contribute to regulate iron homeostasis in bacteria by capturing soluble but potentially toxic Fe2+ and by compartmentalizing it in the form of a bioavailable ferric mineral inside the protein's hollow cavity. When iron is needed, Fe3+ is reduced and mobilized into the cytosol as Fe2+. Hence, key to the function of Bfr is its ability to permeate iron ions in and out of its interior cavity, which is likely imparted by a flexible protein shell. To examine the conformational flexibility of Bfrs in a native-like …

Sources Of Variation In Flow Cytometric Analysis Of Aquatic Species Sperm: The Effect Of Cryoprotectants On Flow Cytometry Scatter Plots And Subsequent Population Gating, Jonathan Daly, Terrence R. Tiersch

Faculty Publications

The use of fluorescent staining and flow cytometry to assess sperm quality in aquatic species has increased over the past decade, but comparisons among studies are difficult or impossible due to variation in application, analysis, and reporting of protocols and data. The goal of the present study was to determine the effect of exposure to two cryoprotectants commonly used for cryopreservation of sperm from aquatic species on the accuracy of flow cytometric assessment of sperm quality. Membrane integrity of zebrafish (Danio rerio) sperm exposed to 10% and 20% methanol and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) in 300mOsmkg-1 Hanks' balanced salt solution (HBSS) …

December 11, 2012 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Share Of Tax Filers Claiming Eitc Increases Across States And Place Types Between 2007 And 2010, Marybeth J. Mattingly, Elizabeth Kneebone

Carsey Publications

In this brief, Authors Beth Mattingly and Elizabeth Kneebone use Internal Revenue Service tax filing data to show that the share of tax returns claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) increased between 2007 and 2010, as did the size of the average credit claimed and the number of EITC filers benefitting from the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit (the Additional Child Tax Credit, or ACTC). They report that one in five federal income tax filers claimed the EITC in tax year 2010, which represents a 4 percentage point increase since 2007, when just over one in six …

Electronic Device, Display And Touch-Sensitive User Interface (Dec 2012), Michael E. Miller, Jerald J. Muszak, Michael J. Telek

AFIT Patents

Display devices and methods for operating the same are provided. In one embodiment, the display device has an electronic display having an active area for presenting visual content; a housing holding the electronic display and having an opening allowing a person to view a first portion of the active area; and a bezel about the opening, the bezel covering a second portion of the active area and providing a window through which at least a part of the second portion can be viewed. A sensor system senses when a person is close to touching the bezel or when a person …

Solid State Fault Interruption Devices In Medium Voltage Microgrid Distribution Systems With Distributed Energy Resources, Mehul K. Madan, Badrul H. Chowdhury

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The solid-state fault interruption device (SSFID) is used for the purpose of quickly isolating sections of power networks under permanent faults. the SSFID is tested for performance by simulation in a simulated medium voltage system. a comparison with the conventional breaker is presented in response to system faults in the presence of wind power plants and other distributed energy resources. the SSFID appears to be a superior alternative to the contemporary mechanical circuit breaker in isolating faulted sections. However, some high transients may appear on the network because of the operation of the device. © 2012 IEEE.

Microgrids - A Review Of Modeling, Control, Protection, Simulation And Future Potential, Shyam Naren Bhaskara, Badrul H. Chowdhury

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Results of a literature survey done on microgrids from conception to installation is presented. the purpose is to evaluate the current status, major obstacles and existing research efforts directed toward establishing functional microgrids within utility systems. This review paper covers technical issues associated with frequency control and re-synchronization associated with typical distributed energy sources. Also evaluated are regulatory and policy issues associated with ownership, maintenance, availability, coordinated equipment control, obligation to provide adequate power quality, etc. associated with operating an islanded microgrid within a utility company's service territory. Actual microgrids in operation today are described. Benchmark test systems for steady …

Symbolic Model-Checking Of Stateful Timed Csp Using Bdd And Digitization, Truong Khanh Nguyen, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, Jin Song Dong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Stateful Timed CSP has been recently proposed to model (and verify) hierarchical real-time systems. It is an expressive modeling language which combines data structure/operations, complicated control flows (modeled using compositional process operators adopted from Timed CSP), and real-time requirements like deadline and within. It has been shown that Stateful Timed CSP is equivalent to closed timed automata with silent transitions, which implies that the timing constraints of Stateful Timed CSP can be captured using explicit tick events, through digitization. In order to tackle the state space explosion problem, we develop a BDD-based symbolic model checking approach to verify Stateful Timed …

Emu Today, December 11, 2012, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Struggling Recovery And Economic Policy Uncertainty: Testimony Before The Joint Revenue Hearing, House And Senate Ways And Means Committees, Massachusetts State House, Boston, Ma, Christian Weller

Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series

The U.S. economy is in the fourth year of a recovery that started in June 2009. The fact that the economy is in recovery, even modestly, is something of a miracle given how stacked the deck is against it.

This is absolutely unique in American economic history: There has never been a recovery without the housing market expanding substantially as well; There has never been a recovery with state and local governments shrinking for three years in a row; There has never been a recovery with households owing, on average, well more than 100 percent of their after-tax income in …

The End Of The Best Men’S College West Of The Alleghenies: Coeducation At Indiana Asbury University, Carroll T. Bible

Student Research

Therefore, this research will explore the influences of religion, particularly Methodism, at Indiana Asbury in the context of the national trend in the late nineteenth century to admit women to higher education institutions. This paper will layout the foundational beliefs of Methodism, Indiana Asbury’s road to becoming coeducational, the experiences of the first Asbury women at college and after graduation, and the establishment of exclusive female organizations. Through detailed analyses, I will demonstrate how Indiana Asbury’s affiliation with the Methodist Church and students’ Methodist faith dramatically shaped: 1. Indiana Asbury’s decision to become coeducational in 1867; 2. the first collegiate …

More Americans Claiming Earned Income Tax Credit, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

University Of New Hampshire’S Wildcat Friends Pitch In To Help Feed Those In Need, Jody Record

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 11, 2012, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The December 11, 2012, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin. Included are articles on aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy, the appointment of General Lloyd J. Austin III to lead the U.S. Central Command, and taxpayer savings due to the Affordable Care Act (also called ObamaCare).

The Advocate, December 11, 2012, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

Cartesian Human Morpho-Informatic System, Don R. Hilbelink

USF Patents

The present invention is a three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system for the human body, having three perpendicular and intersecting planes. The present invention is based upon the use of the three cardinal planes, in the universally recognized orientations. The cardinal planes in accordance with the present invention are: Sagittal: midsagittal plane, Transverse: upper-most extent of the iliac crests, and Coronal: anterior-most aspect of the vertebral canal. The point at which these planes intersect defines the 0,0,0 location in the human body.

Indexing Face Templates Using Linear Models, Pranab Mohanty, Sudeep Sarkar, Rangachar Kasturi, P. Jonathon Phillips

USF Patents

A novel, linear modeling method to model a face recognition algorithm based on the match scores produced by the algorithm. Starting with a distance matrix representing the pair-wise match scores between face images, an iterative stress minimization algorithm is used to obtain an embedding of the distance matrix in a low-dimensional space. A linear transformation used to project new face images into the model space is divided into two sub-transformations: a rigid transformation of face images obtained through principal component analysis of face images and a non-rigid transformation responsible for preserving pair-wise distance relationships between face images. Also provided is …

The Alestle - Vol. 65 No. 16 - 12/11/2012, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 65 No. 16

Adenosine Deaminase Enhances The Immunogenicity Of Human Dendritic Cells From Healthy And Hiv-Infected Individuals, Víctor Casanova, Isaac Isaac Naval-Macabuhay, Marta Massanella, Marta Rodríguez-García

Dartmouth Scholarship

ADA is an enzyme implicated in purine metabolism, and is critical to ensure normal immune function. Its congenital deficit leads to severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). ADA binding to adenosine receptors on dendritic cell surface enables T-cell costimulation through CD26 crosslinking, which enhances T-cell activation and proliferation. Despite a large body of work on the actions of the ecto-enzyme ADA on T-cell activation, questions arise on whether ADA can also modulate dendritic cell maturation. To this end we investigated the effects of ADA on human monocyte derived dendritic cell biology. Our results show that both the enzymatic and non-enzymatic activities of …