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University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, December 2, 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

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Special Meeting

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, December 2, 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

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Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Interview With Keven Neff (Fa 1098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcript of interview by Brent Björkman with Keven Neff 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 Joe Duvall (Fa 1098), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcript of interview by Brent Björkman with Joe Duvall 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."

Knott County, Kentucky - Cultural Resource Survey (Fa 640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 640. This collection features information and oral histories gathered from traditional artisans of Knott County, Kentucky.

Disentangling The Roles Of Race, Gender, And Socio-Economic Status On Childhood Adiposity From Kindergarten To 8th Grade, Gabrielle Gipson Banks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This project used Latent Growth Curve Modeling to examine race and gender as moderators for the relation between socio-economic status (SES) and children’s initial, standardized Body Mass Index (zBMI) and rate of zBMI change from Kindergarten to 8th grade. Data were obtained on 14,800 White and Black children (~50% male) from a nationally representative database that followed the children from Kindergarten through the 8th grade. BMI data was collected at six time points. Black children had consistently higher zBMIs than their White counterparts. Socio–economic status significantly predicted higher initial status in Black boys and lower initial status and/or rates of …

Comparison Among Series Connected Auxiliary Devices For Fault Ride Through Capability Enhancement Of Wind Generator Systems, Ahmed Eid Abu Hussein

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A comparison among series connected auxiliary devices; SFCL, DVR, TCSC, and SDBR is performed in terms of fault ride through capability improvement of a fixed speed wind generator systems, controller complexity, and cost. The tested system consists of one synchronous generator and one squirrel cage induction machine based wind generator, which feed an infinite bus through a double circuit transmission line. Simulation results show that all the devices performs well under symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults, however, in spite of the DVR controller complexity it has the best performance among all devices in terms of voltage, and speed control of wind …

Model Bias Analysis Using Statistical Methods With The Nga East Ground Motion Database, Luke Philip Ogweno

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) East project has an updated database for Central and Eastern North America (CENA) ground motions. I analyzed the performance of ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) used in the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project (NSHMP) and other potential GMPEs used in the CENA through bias analysis, model inadequacies check using statistical tests and finally ranking the GMPEs using log likelihood (LLH), and the Euclidean Distance Based Ranking (EDR) technique. From bias analysis, Atkinson and Boore (2011) (model A08p), Atkinson and Boore (2011) (model AB06p), and Atkinson and Boore (2006) (model AB06+) …

Radiation Effects On Medical Grade Polycarbonate Urethane, Rudra Gnawali

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Polycarbonate Urethane (PCU) is a material of growing prominence for use as a biocompatible material for joint replacements. PCU has good wear properties, is easy to lubricate, and is very compatible with natural tissues. Extensive studies stil have not been performed to fully investigate the radiation effects on PCU components. Thermally stimulated luminescence (TSL) spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study radiation-induced defects in materials, while electron spin resonance (ESR) is a technique to directly detect free radicals in a material. To better investigate radiation effects on PCU materials, we have subjected PCU to X- and UV-irradiation and analyzed the …

Sample Size/Power Calculation For Stratified Case-Cohort Design And Generalized Stratified Case-Cohort Design, Wenrong Hu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Time to event is a commonly used endpoint in epidemiological and disease prevention trials in order to study the relationship between risk factors and the endpoints. Case-cohort design that consists of a sub-cohort randomly sampled from full cohort, and all subjects with event is often applied in studies where the disease is rare and the cost of collecting the event information is high. with the non-rare events, a generalized case-cohort design is advocated in which a subset of events instead of all events is sampled. Cai and Zeng have proposed the general log-rank tests and the corresponding sample size/power formulas …

The Role Of Web-Based Social Networking On Career Success And Worker Well-Being: A Social Capital And Job Demands-Resources Approach, Jonathan David Burlison

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Through two studies, this research is some of the first to-date to test how the use of social networking websites affects worker well-being and career success. In a period of less than a decade, online social media has quickly redefined many core aspects of human relationships. In 2012, the website, Facebook, reported that one in eight people worldwide used the site weekly. Given such prevalence, this research has far reaching implications for U.S. workers and organizations. The first study (N = 238) used structural equation modeling to examine the effect of site use with coworkers on well-being through increases in …

Flood Inundation Mapping Using Hec-Ras And Gis For Shelby County, Tennessee, Farid Javadnejad

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Flood zones with 1% and 0.02% of annual flooding chance are projected in the ‎Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) digital flood insurance rate maps ‎‎(DFIRMs) and are suited for identifying flood risk at the largest impacts. However, less ‎severe floods, which are not mapped in DFIRMs, still cause significant damage and ‎occur on a more frequent basis. This article employs an easy-to-setup GIS-based ‎solution for rapid inundation mapping of small flood events. The linear interpolation ‎technique (LITE Flood) is developed to rescale the hydraulic behavior inherent with a ‎larger flood event without performing additional hydraulic simulations. The approach is ‎evaluated …

Diversity In The Dietetics Profession, Xin Yi Ter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Majority of Registered Dietitians (RD) in the United States are Caucasian females. This study aims to understand the factors associated with low enrollment of minority students in the dietetics major and difficulties faced in the process of becoming an RD. This was a descriptive survey research. Three sets of survey were given to ethnic minorities who were (1) undergraduate dietetic students in Tennessee, (2) undergraduate students not majoring in dietetics at University of Memphis, and (3) dietetic interns in Tennessee. Seventeen, eleven and six participants responded to survey 1, 2, and 3 respectively. Eight respondents (73%) from survey 2 reported …

Mindset Perfect, Jeremy Eugene Sullivan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Mindset Perfect is a short story collection about the residents who live in the fictional city of Lincoln, Mississippi. Centering mostly on the Moore family, this collection of stories explores themes like religion, gossip, death, and marriage. This collection gives readers an insight into what it is like to live in a small Southern town, where everyone tends to know everyone. Beginning with "Mr. Tansey's Daughter," a story about a prodigal child returning to her hometown after a long absence, and ending with "The Redemption of Donald McCoy," which features a life long resident of Lincoln finally leaving his hometown …

On Display, Devon Taylor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This essay collection is about what we see: what we want to see, how we try to see, and the poses we strike when we imagine we're being seen. I open the collection with a series of personal essays written in memoir style that explore my roots as an observer and the ways in which this tendency has manifested as I have grown older. The second half of the collection takes a more analytical approach to my subjects, exploring the various ways in which people seek to publish themselves and the world. Much of what I am interested in is …

Student Engagement And Reading Competence: Important Connections And The Moderating Role Of Parent Support, Tera Lynn Bradley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Student engagement is a multidimensional construct believed to be a critical component for understanding school dropout (Christenson et al., 2008). The majority of related research has focused primarily on overt (academic and behavioral) rather than covert (psychological and cognitive) subtypes of engagement; however, there is evidence to suggest that psychological and cognitive engagement are linked to increased levels of academic achievement, overall school effort, and positive emotions. Such internal factors may be particularly relevant for enhancing reading competence, as it has been suggested that difficulties with reading can interfere with students’ motivation and engagement with learning (Guthrie & Wigfield, 2000; …

Crash Data Study For The City Of Germantown, Tn, Jared Wayne O'Dell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The City of Germantown has experienced a rise in intersection related crashes over the past several years. They currently must sort throught hundreds of documents to perform analysis on these intersections and the cause of increased crash rates. This thesis proposes a method of visual analysis of the 39 major intersections within the Germantown city limits. Visual mapping software is required for visual analysis. The incorporation of ArcGIS 10 is critical to the success of this project because it provides a means of quick visual analysis of intersection related crash data within the city. This provides Germantown officials with a …

I’M Shocked, Shocked To Find That Politics Is Going On In Here, Anne M. Lofaso

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

2013-December-02-Ken Olive Award, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Clearer Views Of Jesus And The Doctrine Of The Trinity In The Adventist Church, Gilbert M. Valentine

Pastor's Conferences

No abstract provided.

Trinity In Three Stages [Slides], John Reeve

Pastor's Conferences

No abstract provided.

A Novel Broadband Equivalent Source Reconstruction Method For Broadband Radiators, Ping Li, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang, Jun Hu, Sheng Sun

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Traditional equivalent source reconstruction methods are only operating at a single frequency point each time. However, for wide band radiators, their computation cost of the source reconstruction increases linearly with the number of frequency points. In this paper, a wide-band equivalent source reconstruction method (WB-SRM) based on the Neville-type Stoer-Bulirsch (SB) algorithm is developed. Supported by the adaptive frequency sampling (AFS) scheme, the number of required sampling data is significantly reduced, which leads to much better computational efficiency. During the AFS process, three fitting models (FM) are considered: two are 'triangle rules', and another one is 'rhombus rule'. The combination …

December 2, 2013, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Immunolocalization Of An Amino-Terminal Fragment Of Apolipoprotein E In The Pick's Disease Brain, Troy T. Rohn, Ryan J. Day, Lindsey W. Catlin, Raquel J. Brown, Alexander J. Rajic, Wayne W. Poon

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Although the risk factor for apolipoprotein E (apoE) polymorphism in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been well described, the role that apoE plays in other neurodegenerative diseases, including Pick's disease, is not well established. To examine a possible role of apoE in Pick's disease, an immunohistochemical analysis was performed utilizing a novel site-directed antibody that is specific for an amino-terminal fragment of apoE. Application of this antibody, termed the amino-terminal apoE cleavage fragment (nApoECF) antibody, consistently labeled Pick bodies within area CA1 of the hippocampus in 4 of the 5 cases examined. Co-localization of the nApoECF antibody with PHF-1, a general …

Daily Eastern News: December 02, 2013, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

Emu Today, December 2, 2013, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

Unopa Notes Volume 52, Issue 4, December 2, 2013

UNOPA: Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Iron Isotope Cosmochemistry, Kun Wang

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Iron is the most abundant element in the Earth and the 4th most abundant in the crust and mantle; Fe is involved in every stage of planetary formation and differentiation. Iron isotope ratios are robust process tracers used to understand the origin of the Solar System, planetary formation, and differentiation processes such as the moon-forming giant impact, core-mantle segregation, and crust formation. In this dissertation, I report the most complete dataset of high-precision iron isotope compositions of a wide range of extraterrestrial samples including carbonaceous, ordinary, and enstatite chondrites, aubrites, brachinites, HED meteorites: howardites, eucrites and diogenites), martian meteorites, angrites, …

Competitive Scholarship Deadline December 15, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Morris invites incoming first year students to compete for its competitive scholarship packages.

Art Beat : Arts Alliance Newsletter (2013 : 12 : 02), St. Petersburg Arts Alliance

Art Beat

No abstract provided.