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Cancer-Fighting Technology Progressing Well In Phase I Clinical Trial, Jim Bakken

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Uab Launches December Blood Drive, Natalie Wade

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Uab Medicine Launches Free Online Learning Channel, Natalie Wade

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Rasmussen Travels With Delegation To Germany, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The Minnesota delegation will attend a conference to explore energy opportunities between Minnesota and North Rhine-Westphalia.

2013-2014 Seinior Recital - Carlos Villareal (Double Bass), Carlos Villareal, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: December 03, 2013, Eastern Illinois University

December

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Um To Collaborate With Pioneering Open Education Consortium, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

University of Mississippi News

University becomes first institution to offer traditional graduate course with open components

Gardner-Webb University Set To Roll Out Revised Master Of Arts In English Program, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Gardner-Webb University Gayle Bolt Price School of Graduate Studies is unveiling a revised Master of Arts (MA) in English program, to include concentrations in English education, literature studies and writing studies. Administrators have announced the online-only teaching model for the program will begin in the fall semester of 2014. University officials are excited about the shift and believe the changes will help Gardner-Webb provide a quality education that meets the needs of modern professionals.

Geo 585 Field Methods: Edge Effects [In The Gordon Natural Area], Matthew Long, James Gregory, Timothy Snow

Gordon Natural Area Biodiversity Studies Documents

No abstract provided.

Four Pirates Earn Daktronics All-Southeast Region Volleyball Honors, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Volleyball News (Archived)

Four Pirates Earn Daktronics All-Southeast Region Volleyball Honors. The No. 17-ranked Armstrong Atlantic State University volleyball squad placed four players on the 2013 Daktronics NCAA Division II All-Southeast Region Volleyball Team, announced today by the organization.

Nd–Fe–B Nanoparticles Through Surfactant Assisted Mechanical Milling And Alloy Design, Jordann M. Bornhoft

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Surfactant-assisted mechanical milling has been used to produce discrete nanoparticles of both Nd-Fe-B and Sm-Co amenable for bottom-up production of nanostructured or nanocomposite permanent magnets. However, in Nd-Fe-B the comminution of the material proceeds by transgranular fracture, which influences both the morphology of the nanoparticles and the magnetic properties. This paper utilizes alloy design to alter the fracture behavior from transgranular fracture to intergranular fracture. Nd-rich Nd₂Fe₁₄B alloys were produced by melt spinning in an overquenched state. The melt spun ribbons were annealed at 700°C and 800°C to ensure complete crystallization and to form different grain …

Standing For The Structural Constitution, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

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Senior Recital: Tim Settineri, Bass Trombone, Tim Settineri, Judy Cole, David Lennertz, Michael Lockwood, Mitchell Frey

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Music Education. Mr. Settineri studies bass trombone with Tom Gibson.

A Comparison Of Evidence Fusion Rules For Situation Recognition In Sensor-Based Environments, Susan Mckeever, Juan Ye

Conference papers

Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory, and its associated Dempster rule of combination, has been widely used to determine belief based on uncertain evi-dence sources. Variations to the original Dempster rule of combination have appeared in the literature to support particular scenarios where unreliable results may result from the use of original DS theory. While theoretical explanations of the rule variations are explained, there is a lack of empirical comparisons of the DS theory and its variations against real data sets. In this work, we examine several variations to DS theory. Using two real-world sensor data sets, we com-pare the performance of DS …

Interview With Johnny Merideth (Fa 1098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcript of interview by Brent Björkman with Johnny Merideth about his experience as a park ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park. In 2013, Kentucky Folklife Program Director Brent Björkman received the Archie Green Fellowship from the Library of Congress to look more intimately at the life stories of the working men and women employed by Mammoth Cave National Park. Part of Folklife Archives Project 1098 titled "Rangerlore: The Occupational Folklife of Parks."

Interview With David Spence (Fa 1098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcript of interview by Brent Björkman with David Spence about his experience as a park ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park. In 2013, Kentucky Folklife Program Director Brent Björkman received the Archie Green Fellowship from the Library of Congress to look more intimately at the life stories of the working men and women employed by Mammoth Cave National Park. Part of Folklife Archives Project 1098 titled "Rangerlore: The Occupational Folklife of Parks."

Sublimation Rate Of Vertically Oriented Naphthalene Cylinders In A Natural Convection Environment, Lauren Raye Carley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The naphthalene sublimation technique was used to determine the rate of mass transfer from three solid naphthalene cylinders in a natural convection environment. The cylinders’ diameters measured 1, 1.5, and 2 inches nominally, and sublimation rates were found to be 1.42 x 10 -8, 1.89 x 10-8, and 2.28 x 10 -8 kg/s, respectively. The mass transfer coefficients were determined to be 1.64 x 10-3, 1.45 x 10-3, and 1.31 x 10 -3 respectively. Correlations were developed for the Sherwood vs. Rayleigh numbers, Sherwood vs. Grashof numbers, and mass transfer coefficient vs. diameter.

Robust Modeling Of Epistemic Mental States And Their Applications In Assistive Technology, A K M Mahbubur Rahman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation presents the design and implementation of EmoAssist: "Emotion-Enabled Assistive Tool to Enhance Dyadic Conversation for the Blind". The key functionalities of the system are to recognize behavioral expressions and to predict 3-D affective dimensions from visual cues and to provide audio feedback to the visually impaired in a natural environment. Prior to describing the EmoAssist, this dissertation identifies and advances research challenges in the analysis of the facial features and their temporal dynamics with Epistemic Mental States in dyadic conversation. A number of statistical analyses and simulations were performed to get the answer of important research questions about …

Improvement Of Dynamic Performance Of The Grid Connected Photovoltaic (Pv) System By Series Compensating Devices, Md Kamal Hossain

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study proposes the bridge type fault current limiter (BFCL) and series dynamic braking resistor (SDBR) methodologies to enhance the low voltage ride through (LVRT) capability of the PV plant during network faults. This work also focuses on smoothing out the PV power fluctuation due to variable irradiance. To achieve this, the output power of diversely located identical and small PV plants, instead of a big PV plant in a certain area, is integrated. Simulations performed through the Matlab/Simulink software shows that the terminal voltage obtained from the proposed protection schemes maintains the grid code, and hence the PV systems …

Propensity Score Methods In Estimating Conditional Hazard Ratio, Wen Feng

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Various simulations have been done to demonstrate how propensity score methods perform in estimating mean difference, proportion, odds ratio and marginal hazard ratio, however, few rigorous simulations have been done to evaluate the performance. We conduct an extensive series of simulations to demonstrate the performance of propensity score methods in estimating conditional hazard ratio. For each propensity method, we characterize the conditions to 7 propensity score scenarios, each contains a different set of variables. For each scenario, we apply four propensity methods to estimate conditional hazard ratio. Meanwhile, we also use multivariate Cox model (conventional Cox model) to estimate conditional …

Infant Volubility Across Circumstance Estimated From All-Day Recordings, Barbara S. Franklin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

By analyzing infant volubility we may illuminate early communication development and aid early identification of disorders. LENA recordings provide a naturalistic method for gathering data all-day and yield automated labeling of speakers including the infant wearing the device. In Study 1, 10 six-month-old infants were studied for volubility in a naturalistic setting analyzed by LENA and a human coder using a traditional repeat-listening method based on a single all-day recording for each infant. Twelve randomly selected 5-minute segments (excluding presumed sleep) were coded for vocal type (vocants, squeals, and growls). This allowed for estimation of six-month-old infant vocal rate across …

The Moderating Effect Of Employee Age On The Association Between Affective Commitment And Human Resource Practices, Michael Mark Mackay

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Drawing hypotheses from a theory of lifespan development called selective optimization with compensation (SOC, Baltes & Baltes, 1990; Baltes, Staudinger, & Lindenberger, 1999), the study explored the degree to which employee age moderates the relationship between employee affective commitment and satisfaction with various high commitment human resource practices (HCHRPs; e.g., providing training, opportunity for advancement, work/life balance). In addition, as exploratory hypotheses, the study also tested whether other employee-level variables such as gender, job tenure, and job type also serve as moderators of the HCHRP-affective commitment relationship. Customer-facing employees (N = 6,360) representing three job types (O*NET titles: Shipping, Receiving, …

2013-December-03-Etsu Fall Commencement, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2013-December-03-Zachary Ross, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Situational Awareness/Triage Tool For Use In A Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear Explosive (Cbrne) Environment, John N. Scarlett, Heather L. Gallup, David A. Smith

AFIT Patents

A method of managing patient care and emergency response following a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear Explosive (CBRNE) attack and maintaining compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The method including identifying each patient with a unique patient identifier, the identifier based upon the geospatial location of the patient, the geospatial location including at least the latitude and longitude of the patient when first treated, the unique patient identifier being part of patient data. Providing a collection point of patient data to form a patient data database where in the patient location data may be used to …

Choral Ensembles Holiday Concert, Brenda Brent, Sherri N. Barrett, Andrew Connard, Delaney Rogers, Ian Kennel, Chris Otts, Dirk Stanfield, Catherine Flinchum, Andy Tuttle, Alex Trull, Joseph Mcbrayer, Danielle Moller, Grace Johnston, Justin Brookins, Michael Roberts, Cecelia Price

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

KSU School of Music presents Choral Ensembles Holiday Concert.

Emu Today, December 3, 2013, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

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Sociology & Anthropology News, Georgia Southern University

Sociology & Anthropology: News & Publications (2012-2020)

• GSU Student Help Recover School House

On The Importance Of Distance Writing, Structured Writing, And Workbooks, Rubin Battino

Human Services Faculty Publications

There is something about keeping a journal or a diary and writing about your experiences and feelings that can be healing and therapeutic.

Surface Micromachined Electrolyte-Cavities For Use In Micro-Aluminum Galvanic Cells, Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia, Jay Dlutowski, Melynda C. Calves, John Bumgarner, Larry Langebrake

USF Patents

The present invention is directed to the fabrication of thin aluminum anode batteries using a highly reproducible process that enables high volume manufacturing of the galvanic cells. In the present invention, semiconductor fabrication methods are used to fabricate aluminum galvanic cells, wherein a catalytic material to be used as the cathode is deposited on a substrate and an insulating spacing material is deposited on the cathode and patterned using photolithography. The spacing material can either be used as a sacrificial layer to expose the electrodes or serve as a support for one of the electrodes. Similarly, the aluminum anode may …