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Jour 7100: Entrepreneurial Journalism (Syllabus), Carrie Brown-Smith Jan 2013

Jour 7100: Entrepreneurial Journalism (Syllabus), Carrie Brown-Smith

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: This course will examine business models and new media tools that can encourage entrepreneurial thinking and planning in various fields of mass communication, as well as the theory and practices of traditional media management. Subjects will include environment assessment, organization and strategy, budgeting, decision-making, and other functions in advertising, news, and public relations.

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Jour 7450/8450: Public Relations Mgmt (Syllabus), Rick Fischer Jan 2013

Jour 7450/8450: Public Relations Mgmt (Syllabus), Rick Fischer

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Development and management of public relations practice, department, or consultancy through study of planning and decision-making techniques; aspects of public relations practice that differ significantly from other enterprises; development of proposals and presentations; and management of financial and human resources.

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Jour 7450/8450: Public Relations Mgmt (Syllabus), Rick Fischer Jan 2013

Jour 7450/8450: Public Relations Mgmt (Syllabus), Rick Fischer

Journalism and Strategic Media Syllabi Archive

Course Description: Development and management of public relations practice, department, or consultancy through study of planning and decision-making techniques; aspects of public relations practice that differ significantly from other enterprises; development of proposals and presentations; and management of financial and human resources.

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The Surveillance Society And The Third-Party Privacy Problem, Shaun B. Spencer Jan 2013

The Surveillance Society And The Third-Party Privacy Problem, Shaun B. Spencer

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Toward A Better Understanding Of Ripeness And Free Speech Claims, Wm. Grayson Lambert Jan 2013

Toward A Better Understanding Of Ripeness And Free Speech Claims, Wm. Grayson Lambert

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Solution Combustion Synthesis Of Cobalt Oxide For Use As A Catalyst Precursor In The Hydrolysis Of Sodium Borohydride, Teandra Leigh Pfeil Jan 2013

Solution Combustion Synthesis Of Cobalt Oxide For Use As A Catalyst Precursor In The Hydrolysis Of Sodium Borohydride, Teandra Leigh Pfeil

Open Access Theses

Solution combustion synthesized (SCS) cobalt oxide (Co3O4) powder has been studied as a catalyst precursor for the hydrolysis of sodium borohydride (NaBH4). Synthesis is completed in less than two minutes and results indicate SCS is capable of reproducibly synthesizing 98.5-99.5% pure Co3O4 nano-foam materials. SCS materials demonstrate an as-synthesized specific surface area of 24 m2/g, a crystallite size of 15.5 nm, and fine surface structures on the order of 4 nm. Despite having similar initial surface areas and sample purities, SCS-Co3O4 outperforms commercially available Co3 …

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Detecting Low Incidents Effects: The Value Of Mixed Methods Research Designs In Low-N Studies, Isadore Newman, Carolyn S. Ridenour, Carole Newman, Shannon Smith, Russell C. Brown Jan 2013

Detecting Low Incidents Effects: The Value Of Mixed Methods Research Designs In Low-N Studies, Isadore Newman, Carolyn S. Ridenour, Carole Newman, Shannon Smith, Russell C. Brown

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Many important educational situations such as traumatic brain injury among preschoolers, school gun violence, preadolescent eating disorders, and adolescent suicide happen relatively infrequently. In this article, the authors explain why mixed methods research designs offer more meaningful empirical results than do qualitative or quantitative designs alone when asking research questions about low incident situations. The authors present and explain three mixed methods models applicable to low incidents situations.

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Technological Drivers In Data Centers And Telecom Systems: Multiscale Thermal, Electrical, And Energy Management, S V. Garimella, T. Persoons, J. Weibel, L.-T. Yeh Jan 2013

Technological Drivers In Data Centers And Telecom Systems: Multiscale Thermal, Electrical, And Energy Management, S V. Garimella, T. Persoons, J. Weibel, L.-T. Yeh

CTRC Research Publications

including thermal, electrical and energy management challenges, based on discussions at the 2nd Workshop on Thermal Management in Telecommunication Systems and Data Centers in Santa Clara, California, on April 25–26, 2012. The relevance of thermal management in electronic systems is reviewed against the background of the energy usage of the information technology (IT) industry, encompassing perspectives of different sectors of the industry. The underlying drivers for progress at the business and technology levels are identified. The technological challenges are reviewed in two main categories – immediate needs and future needs. Enabling cooling techniques that are currently under development are also …

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Identifying And Developing Students’ Ability To Reason With Concepts And Representations In Biology, Trevor R. Anderson, Konrad J. Schönborn, Lynn Du Plessis, Abindra S. Gupthar, Tracy L. Hull Jan 2013

Identifying And Developing Students’ Ability To Reason With Concepts And Representations In Biology, Trevor R. Anderson, Konrad J. Schönborn, Lynn Du Plessis, Abindra S. Gupthar, Tracy L. Hull

PIBERG Publications

External representations (ERs) and their constituent symbolism are of enormous pedagogical value to instructors, especially in the teaching of the submicroscopic world of biology, inherent in disciplines such as biochemistry, immunochemistry, molecular biology and physiology. Whereas symbolic conventions are rigorously applied in physics and chemistry to enhance learning, this is not always true in biology where inappropriate use of symbolic language often leads to confusing ER designs and a range of conceptual, visual, and reasoning difficulties. In this chapter, we present a synthesis of research conducted by our group within these important areas of biology education. We commence by describing …

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Development Of A Game‐Based‐Learning App For Exposing Students To Chemistry And Life Science As A Research Endeavor, Thanuci Silva, Eduardo Galembeck, Nancy Pelaez, Trevor R. Anderson Jan 2013

Development Of A Game‐Based‐Learning App For Exposing Students To Chemistry And Life Science As A Research Endeavor, Thanuci Silva, Eduardo Galembeck, Nancy Pelaez, Trevor R. Anderson

PIBERG Presentations

We have developed a gamified Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), called 3DClass, to deliver homework to chemistry and life science students through a user-­‐friendly and enjoyable interface. Homework from four courses was delivered using the 3DClass, a computer app that acts as an interface between Moodle and the Apple Game Center. This App allows users to play while learning or to learn while playing. The results show that this App can be used in a flexible manner with designs that can be customized to courses with different characterisOcs, such as with online collaboraOon or face-­‐to-­‐face lectures, and for parOcipant numbers that …

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Disability Identity Formation In People With Severe Mental Illness And Treatment Seeking And Compliance: A Participatory Action Research Study, Kimberly M. Sommers Jan 2013

Disability Identity Formation In People With Severe Mental Illness And Treatment Seeking And Compliance: A Participatory Action Research Study, Kimberly M. Sommers

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

The study of facilitators of treatment seeking and compliance in people with severe mental illness represents a significant gap in the current literature. The present study, using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, attempted to identify facilitators to treatment seeking and compliance through the lived experiences of people living with severe mental illness. Interviews were used to gather information about the experience of people with severe mental illness regarding disability identity development, recovery, interactions with treatment and treatment providers, the experience of being diagnosed with a severe mental illness, and the impact of psychiatric disability on family, friends, and functioning. …

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Is The Motherist Approach More Helpful In Obtaining Women's Rights Than A Feminist Approach? A Comparative Study Of Lebanon And Liberia, Crystal Marie Whetstone Jan 2013

Is The Motherist Approach More Helpful In Obtaining Women's Rights Than A Feminist Approach? A Comparative Study Of Lebanon And Liberia, Crystal Marie Whetstone

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The theory that women gain rights during the social upheaval of war has not held universally. While the debate has traditionally centered over women's participation in fighting and entry into the workforce this paper explores the topic from the form of mobilization, motherist or feminist, that women's organizing takes during war through the use of a longitudinal, comparative study of Lebanon and Liberia. Lebanese women's organizations overwhelmingly employed motherist mobilization and tackled practical gender interests that made no attempt to end women's subordination. In contrast, during the Liberian civil war women's groups were more apt to focus on strategic gender …

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Cobblestone(S): A Chapbook Companion To Poictesme (2013) Jan 2013

Cobblestone(S): A Chapbook Companion To Poictesme (2013)

Pwatem (Poictesme), 2006-

Poictesme (pwa-tem) (now Pwatem) is a student-run literary and art journal of Virginia Commonwealth University. Cobblestone(s) is the first ever chapbook companion to Poictesme.

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Engineering Childhood: Knowledge Transmission Through Parenting, Brianna L. Dorie, Monica Cardella Jan 2013

Engineering Childhood: Knowledge Transmission Through Parenting, Brianna L. Dorie, Monica Cardella

School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series

Parents are the front line when it comes to the education and development of their children, and are important agents in the educational achievement of their child in a formal setting (Yun et al, 2010; Catsambis, 1995; Fan & Chen, 2001; Seyfried & Chung,2003). Parents purchase toys, read books, take children to museums, and interact with their child on a daily basis. Particular background with a subject, such as science or engineering, can affect the parent’s strategies for educating their children and subsequent understanding of main concepts (Yun et al., 2010). However, many adults and children alike have a minimal …

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Critical Literacy And Intercultural Awareness Through The Reading Comprehension Strategy Of Questioning In Business Language Education, Per Urlaub Jan 2013

Critical Literacy And Intercultural Awareness Through The Reading Comprehension Strategy Of Questioning In Business Language Education, Per Urlaub

Global Business Languages

This article is situated at the nexus between critical thinking, literacy, and intercultural awareness, and its goal is to extend the curricular and methodological repertoire of business language programs and instructors. To that end, the article introduces an instructional technique for business language classes that will elevate the learners’ level of criticality toward second language texts. The approach is based on the reading comprehension strategy of self-generating questions. Instead of responding to questions raised by the instructor or the textbook, students self-generate questions vis-à-vis the assigned texts. After providing a working definition of critical literacy and an outline of previous …

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The Global Case Studies Textbook Project: Faculty-Student Research Collaboration In The Business French Classroom, Steven J. Sacco, Dakota E. Senne Jan 2013

The Global Case Studies Textbook Project: Faculty-Student Research Collaboration In The Business French Classroom, Steven J. Sacco, Dakota E. Senne

Global Business Languages

Despite the need for a new generation of entrepreneurs, higher education continues to train new cadres of employees while neglecting entrepreneurship as a viable career path. In this article, the senior author (a Business French instructor and an entrepreneur) and the junior author (an International Business undergraduate) describe an entrepreneurial class project that culminated in a published book of multimedia Business French (BF) case studies. The Business French class, French 423—divided into five research teams—researched, designed, and created five case studies each in English and French. The cases, published using Articulate Storyline, included a one-page case statement, YouTube videos depicting …

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Systematic Identification Of Tor Downstream Effectors Using Random-Walks On The Yeast Interactome, Shahin Mohammadi, Ananth Grama, Shankar Subramaniam Jan 2013

Systematic Identification Of Tor Downstream Effectors Using Random-Walks On The Yeast Interactome, Shahin Mohammadi, Ananth Grama, Shankar Subramaniam

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Gis And Data Curation Librarianship: Mobile Dissemination Of Gis Resources, Benjamin D. Branch, Nicole Kong, Michael Fosmire, Antti M. Rousi Jan 2013

Gis And Data Curation Librarianship: Mobile Dissemination Of Gis Resources, Benjamin D. Branch, Nicole Kong, Michael Fosmire, Antti M. Rousi

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

The Purdue University Libraries’ GIS department is working to advance geospatial services campus wide. In addition to conducting data curation profiles research in an IRB approved manner, we aim to validate new ways and means to make GIS services viable for large and diverse student and faculty community of over 40,000 students, all departments and along interdisciplinary boundaries. Here is a prototype of our mobile dissemination GIS of services and development in collaboration with Aalto University Library. Here, we discuss in a 3-fold manner how the GIS Dept. has prototyped a means of mobile GIS knowledge dissemination towards the development …

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The Anisotropic Hyperelastic Biomechanical Response Of The Vocal Ligament And Implications For Frequency Regulation: A Case Study, Jordan E. Kelleher, Thomas Siegmund, Mindy Du, Elhum Naseri, Roger W. Chan Jan 2013

The Anisotropic Hyperelastic Biomechanical Response Of The Vocal Ligament And Implications For Frequency Regulation: A Case Study, Jordan E. Kelleher, Thomas Siegmund, Mindy Du, Elhum Naseri, Roger W. Chan

School of Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Greenpatch® - Cold Mix Asphalt, Purdue Ect Team Jan 2013

Greenpatch® - Cold Mix Asphalt, Purdue Ect Team

ECT Fact Sheets Archive

GreenPatch® is environmentally friendly cold asphalt that is a direct replacement for traditional cold patch in repairing asphalt pavements. This revolutionary breakthrough in the cold asphalt industry contains no petroleum based softeners such as diesel, toluene, kerosene, and naphthalene found in conventional cold asphalt that pose serious threats to human health and the environment.

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Evaporative Heat Transfer From An Electrowetted Liquid Ribbon On A Heated Substrate, Chris P. Migliaccio, S V. Garimella Jan 2013

Evaporative Heat Transfer From An Electrowetted Liquid Ribbon On A Heated Substrate, Chris P. Migliaccio, S V. Garimella

CTRC Research Publications

Evaporation of narrow water ribbons (of 5 and 7 lL volume) formed on a heated surface is investigated. Chemical and structural patterning of a silicon substrate is employed to fabricate a hydrophilic stripe that bisects hydrophobic pillar arrays of varied geometric roughness. Electrical heating of a 100 nm titanium layer on the back side of the device provides a constant heat flux. In the absence of electrical actuation, water introduced onto the substrate takes a bulging ribbon shape that is constrained to the immediate vicinity of the hydrophilic stripe. Electrowetting of the water ribbon spreads it into the hydrophobic pillar …

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Cyclic Operation Of Molten-Salt Thermal Energy Storage In Thermoclines For Solar Power Plants, Z. Yang, S V. Garimella Jan 2013

Cyclic Operation Of Molten-Salt Thermal Energy Storage In Thermoclines For Solar Power Plants, Z. Yang, S V. Garimella

CTRC Research Publications

The cyclic operation of molten-salt thermal energy storage thermoclines for solar thermal power plants is systematically investigated. A comprehensive, two-temperature model is first developed for the cyclic operation of a thermocline operating with a commercially available molten salt as the heat transfer fluid and quartzite rock as the filler. Volume-averaged mass and momentum equations are employed, with the Brinkman–Forchheimer extension to the Darcy law used to model the porous-medium resistance. Energy equations for the molten salt and the filler are coupled by an interstitial Nusselt number representing the heat transfer between the phases. A finite-volume approach is employed to solve …

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Recent Advances In Vapor Chamber Transport Characterization For High Heat Flux Applications, J. A. Weibel, S V. Garimella Jan 2013

Recent Advances In Vapor Chamber Transport Characterization For High Heat Flux Applications, J. A. Weibel, S V. Garimella

CTRC Research Publications

Owing to their high reliability, simplicity of manufacture, passive operation, and effective heat transport, flat heat pipes and vapor chambers are used extensively in the thermal management of electronic devices. The need for concurrent size, weight, and performance improvements in high-performance electronics systems, without resort to active liquid-cooling strategies, demands passive heat spreading technologies that can dissipate extremely high heat fluxes from small hot spots. In response to these daunting application-driven trends, a number of recent investigations have focused on the design, characterization, and fabrication of ultra-thin vapor chambers for proximate heat spreading away from these hot spots. The predominant …

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Nucleate Boiling From Smooth And Rough Surfaces--Part 1: Fabrication And Characterization Of An Optically Transparent Heater-Sensor Substrate With Controlled Surface Roughness, J. P. Mchale, S V. Garimella Jan 2013

Nucleate Boiling From Smooth And Rough Surfaces--Part 1: Fabrication And Characterization Of An Optically Transparent Heater-Sensor Substrate With Controlled Surface Roughness, J. P. Mchale, S V. Garimella

CTRC Research Publications

devised to conduct detailed heat transfer and bubble measurements during boiling on a heater surface with controlled roughness. This first of two companion papers discusses details of the fabrication, construction, and operation of the experimental facility. Test pieces are fabricated from 50.8 mmx50.8 mmx3.18 mm borosilicate glass squares that are roughened by abrading with diamond compound with particles of known size and then annealed in order to control small-scale roughness features. Heater/sensor devices are fabricated by depositing indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent electrically conductive material, on top of the roughened glass surfaces. A method for calibrating the ITO devices …

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Metal Functionalization Of Carbon Nanotubes For Enhanced Sintered Powder Wicks, A. S. Kousalya, J A. Weibel, S V. Garimella, T. S. Fisher Jan 2013

Metal Functionalization Of Carbon Nanotubes For Enhanced Sintered Powder Wicks, A. S. Kousalya, J A. Weibel, S V. Garimella, T. S. Fisher

CTRC Research Publications

Phase change cooling schemes involving passive heat spreading devices, such as heat pipes and vapor chambers, are widely adopted for thermal management of high heat-flux technologies. In this study, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are fabricated on a 200 micrometer thick sintered copper powder wick layer using microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition technique. A physical vapor deposition process is used to coat the CNTs with a varying thickness of copper to promote surface wetting with the working fluid, water. Thermal performance of the bare sintered copper powder sample (without CNTs) and the copperfunctionalized CNT-coated sintered copper powder wick samples is compared …

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Review Of Molten-Salt Thermocline Tank Modeling For Solar Thermal Energy Storage, S. M. Flueckiger, Z. Yang, S V. Garimella Jan 2013

Review Of Molten-Salt Thermocline Tank Modeling For Solar Thermal Energy Storage, S. M. Flueckiger, Z. Yang, S V. Garimella

CTRC Research Publications

Molten-salt thermocline tanks are a low-cost option for thermal energy storage in concentrating solar power systems. A review of previous experimental and numerical thermocline tank studies is performed to identify key issues associated with tank design and performance. Published models have shown that tank discharge performance improves with both larger tank height and smaller internal filler diameter due to increased thermal stratification and sustained outflow of molten salt with high thermal quality. For well-insulated (adiabatic) tanks, low molten-salt flow rates reduce the axial extent of the heat-exchange region and increase discharge efficiency. Under nonadiabatic conditions, low flow rates become detrimental …

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Evaporation Analysis Of Sintered Wick Microstructures, K. K. Bodla, J. Y. Murthy, S V. Garimella Jan 2013

Evaporation Analysis Of Sintered Wick Microstructures, K. K. Bodla, J. Y. Murthy, S V. Garimella

CTRC Research Publications

Heat pipes offer passive transport of heat over long distances without incurring a significant drop in temperature. Topological and microstructural details of the wick material embedded in a heat pipe help determine its thermal performance. A good understanding of pore-scale transport phenomena is crucial to enhancing heat pipe performance. In this study, pore-scale analysis of thin-film evaporation through sintered copper wicks is performed. X-ray microtomography is employed to generate geometrically faithful, feature-preserving meshes. Commercial sintered wicks with particle sizes in the range of 45–60 lm, 106–150 lm and 250–355 lm and with approximately 61% porosity are considered. The capillary pressure, …

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Fiber Reinforcement Compaction In Resin Injection Pultrusion Process, Neerad Shakya Jan 2013

Fiber Reinforcement Compaction In Resin Injection Pultrusion Process, Neerad Shakya

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Resin injection pultrusion is a cost-effective continuous manufacturing process to produce composites of constant cross-section. In this process, fiber reinforcements are continuously pulled through the injection chamber where liquid resin is injected to cause complete wetout of the fibers before exit. The fiber-resin combination obtained from the injection chamber is then cured to obtain the desired pultruded composite. There are various processing and geometric parameters affecting the wetout process. The main objective of this study is to present a numerical model to simulate the resin flow through the fiber reinforcement when compaction of the fibers is also taken into account. …

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Advances In Fluid And Thermal Transport Property Analysis And Design Of Sintered Porous Wick Microstructures, K. K. Bodla, J. A. Weibel, S V. Garimella Jan 2013

Advances In Fluid And Thermal Transport Property Analysis And Design Of Sintered Porous Wick Microstructures, K. K. Bodla, J. A. Weibel, S V. Garimella

CTRC Research Publications

Sintered porous structures are ubiquitous as heat transport media for thermal management and other applications. In particular, low-porosity sintered packed beds are used as capillary-wicking and evaporation-enhancement structures in heat pipes. Accurate prediction and analysis of their transport characteristics for different microstructure geometries is important for improved design. Owing to the random nature and geometric complexity of these materials, development of predictive methods has been the subject of extensive prior research. The present work summarizes and builds upon past studies and recent advances in pore-scale modeling of fluid and thermal transport within such heterogeneous media. A brief review of various …

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Robust Polyhedral Minkowski Sums With Gpu Implementation, Min-Ho Kyung, Elisha P. Sacks, Victor Milenkovic Jan 2013

Robust Polyhedral Minkowski Sums With Gpu Implementation, Min-Ho Kyung, Elisha P. Sacks, Victor Milenkovic

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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