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Information Literacy: The Key Competency For The 21st Century, Alan Bundy

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

The Uk Electronic Libraries Programme, Michael Breaks

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Library Purchasing Consortia: Achieving Value For Money And Shaping The Emerging Electronic Marketplace, David Ball

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Libraries In Partnership: Defining Our Core Business For The 21st Century, Gaynor Austen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

A Library Ready For 21st Century Services?: A Case Of The University Of Science And Technology Library, Kumasi, Ghana, Helena R. Asamoah-Hassan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

A Look Inside The Freshman 15, Steven Kuhn

ISU Ethnography of the University Initiative

This paper seeks to explore the factors that lead to freshman weight gain as well as the services the University provides to combat weight gain. This paper provides a detailed study through the perils of the freshman lifestyle.

The Daily Egyptian, December 05, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2012

No abstract provided.

Wednesday Communiqué, 12/5/2012, Chaouki Abdallah

Publications of the Provost's Office

Equity Adjustments: The office of Academic Affairs has now completed its review for equity adjustment appeals.

The Bates Student - Volume 142 Number 08 - December 5, 2012, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

Does Eco-Hotels’ Direct Exposure To Green Spaces Provide Positive Benefits To The Visitors' Health?, Eddie N. Sanchez

Open Access Theses

During the last decade the ecotourism business has boomed in Puerto Rico. There are significant increases in eco-related businesses around the Island. The majority of ecorelated businesses in Puerto Rico are tour guided adventures, canopy tours, surfing, biking, among others. All the activities mentioned above have the same purpose: physical activity and group interaction. These activities promote a healthier environment for the participants, which help increase their physical activity level and at the same time encourage the use of the green spaces. This study utilizes Dr. de Vries’ five direct contact mechanisms to identify their presence and potential impact at …

Shrimp Aquaculture And Aguadulce: A Broken Partnership., Sylvia M. Bolanos

Open Access Dissertations

A socio-economic impact study was conducted in Aguadulce, Panama to analyze the viability of the shrimp aquaculture industry. Two visits in 2004 and 2010 document the changes the industry underwent through the use of a survey and interviews of knowledgeable informants. Interviews were conducted among field and processing plant employees, managers and owners, government officials, and local artisanal fishermen. It was of relevance to understand the viability of this industry at both the town and country level. Changes are evident when comparing the data. The industry has undergone drastic changes resulting from the spread of White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) …

Deming-Based Lean-Six Sigma Applied To The Length Of Stay In An Urban Emergency Department, Mary C. Mckenry

Open Access Dissertations

Deming-based Lean Six-Sigma management is applied to the Emergency Department (ED) of a large metropolitan university hospital to demonstrate the effectiveness of using Deming's approaches to improve processes which will allow a reduction in the length of time the patient remains within the ED. A Voice of Customer analysis is utilized to identify priorities for improvement. Change concepts are utilized for the development of the changes that will improve the ED length of stay. Control charts are used to illustrate the estimated effect of implementation of the proposed changes. A recommendation for further study is enclosed.

Measurement Of Seawater Ph: A Theoretical And Analytical Investigation, Jason F. Waters

Open Access Dissertations

The emission of anthropogenic carbon is leading to the influx of additional CO2 to the atmosphere and global ocean. While the flux of anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere to the ocean may be leading to the mitigation of global climate change, it is also leading to the decline of global ocean pH – a process referred to as Ocean Acidification. The net effects Ocean Acidification will have on physical, biogeochemical, and ecological processes are currently not well constrained, but there is significant research interest in evaluating the effects of decreased pH on ocean processes. Seawater pH is the essential measurement …

Universal Classification Of Topological Categories, Marta Alpar

Open Access Dissertations

The main purpose of this dissertation is to construct, for various well known families of topological categories and some of their generalizations, a member of the family that is universal in the sense that every member of the family is isomorphic to the pullback, along its so called classifying functor, of the said universal family member. This is carried out by first constructing a topological category that is universal for the family of all topological categories and then by defining various family universal categories by describing their classifying functors. A further refinement is made by placing restrictions on the classifying …

Assisting Vocal Studio, Ilana A. Mesnard

Blogging the Library

In the conservatory, each instrument has its own studio class where students have a chance to perform in front of their peers. Tim Sestrick was asked to familiarize the vocal studio students with useful resources dedicated to singers in specific. It was around that time that he showed me a valuable resource for singers like myself. Apparently, Professor Crowne asked him last year to buy Nico Castel Opera Libretti. These books are way cool! Not only do they have the original text and a great word-for-word translation, but they also have IPA ( International Phonetic Alphabet). [excerpt]

Health & Wellness Page, Ilana A. Mesnard

Blogging the Library

Where is health on your priority list? Good health is crucial for all people, but especially for musicians (or athletes) who need their bodies in top performance shape. Musicians in the conservatory need to be aware of how to stay healthy. The purposes of the Health and Wellness Page are to promote good health, and to create awareness of reliable resources on healthy lifestyle choices as musicians. [excerpt]

Fisher's Fishing Expedition, Vinay Harpalani

All Faculty Scholarship

This Essay delves into the Supreme Court oral arguments in Fisher v. Texas, which occurred on October 10, 2012. It examines the exchanges between the advocates and Justices, focusing on the meaning of 'critical mass' and the quest for total race neutrality in UT admissions. It argues that both of these are futile endeavors and unnecessary to decide Fisher. The entire Fisher case is a fishing expedition - albeit one that might reel in race-conscious admissions.

Undergraduate Curriculum And Academic Policy Committee Minutes, December 5, 2012

Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee meeting held on December 5, 2012.

Lawrence University Hosts Traveling Exhibition On Lincoln’S Constitutional Challenges Of The Civil War, Lawrence University

Press Releases

Lawrence University will serve as an eight-week host of a traveling exhibition that examines how President Abraham Lincoln used the U.S. Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the Civil War: the secession of Southern states, slavery and wartime civil liberties.

The 1,000-square-foot exhibit, “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War,” will be displayed on the second floor of Lawrence’s Seeley G. Mudd Library. The exhibition, which opens Dec. 14 and runs until Feb. 8, is free and open to the public.

Lawrence is the first of four stops the exhibition will make in Wisconsin between now and the end …

Sac Treasurer Report November 2012, Staff Council

Staff Advisory Council Treasurer Reports

No abstract provided.

Sensitivity Analysis For Causal Inference Under Unmeasured Confounding And Measurement Error Problems, Iván Díaz, Mark J. Van Der Laan

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

In this paper we present a sensitivity analysis for drawing inferences about parameters that are not estimable from observed data without additional assumptions. We present the methodology using two different examples: a causal parameter that is not identifiable due to violations of the randomization assumption, and a parameter that is not estimable in the nonparametric model due to measurement error. Existing methods for tackling these problems assume a parametric model for the type of violation to the identifiability assumption, and require the development of new estimators and inference for every new model. The method we present can be used in …

Computationally Efficient Confidence Intervals For Cross-Validated Area Under The Roc Curve Estimates, Erin Ledell, Maya L. Petersen, Mark J. Van Der Laan

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

In binary classification problems, the area under the ROC curve (AUC), is an effective means of measuring the performance of your model. Most often, cross-validation is also used, in order to assess how the results will generalize to an independent data set. In order to evaluate the quality of an estimate for cross-validated AUC, we must obtain an estimate for its variance. For massive data sets, the process of generating a single performance estimate can be computationally expensive. Additionally, when using a complex prediction method, calculating the cross-validated AUC on even a relatively small data set can still require a …

A National Model Built With Partial Least Squares And Universal Kriging And Bootstrap-Based Measurement Error Correction Techniques: An Application To The Multi-Ethnic Study Of Atherosclerosis, Silas Bergen, Lianne Sheppard, Paul D. Sampson, Sun-Young Kim, Mark Richards, Sverre Vedal, Joel Kaufman, Adam A. Szpiro

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Studies estimating health effects of long-term air pollution exposure often use a two-stage approach, building exposure models to assign individual-level exposures which are then used in regression analyses. This requires accurate exposure modeling and careful treatment of exposure measurement error. To illustrate the importance of carefully accounting for exposure model characteristics in two-stage air pollution studies, we consider a case study based on data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). We present national spatial exposure models that use partial least squares and universal kriging to estimate annual average concentrations of four PM2.5 components: elemental carbon (EC), organic carbon (OC), …

Volume 104 Issue 13, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Assc Minutes 12/05/2012, Academic Support Services Committee

Academic Support Services Committee (Inactive)

No abstract provided.

Planning Minutes 12/05/2012, Planning Committee

Planning Committee

No abstract provided.

Smokejumper Obituary: Brizee, Harry (Missoula 1951), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

No abstract provided.

Uc Agenda 2012-12-05, Northern Illinois University

University Council Archives

No abstract provided.

December 5, 2012, Communication Disorders & Sciences

Faculty Meeting Minutes & Agendas

Meeting minutes of the December 5, 2012 Faculty Committee meeting.

Minutes Of The Faculty Senate Meeting, December 5, 2012, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.