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Identifying Institutional Trends In Collaborative And Interdisciplinary Research Using Bibliometrics, Gregory K. Youngen Dec 2013

Identifying Institutional Trends In Collaborative And Interdisciplinary Research Using Bibliometrics, Gregory K. Youngen

Library Faculty and Staff

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Water Quality Monitoring For Selected Priority Watersheds In Arkansas, Upper Saline, Poteau And Strawberry Rivers, L. B. Massey, J.A. Mccarty, M.D. Matlock, A.N. Sharpley, B.E. Haggard Dec 2013

Water Quality Monitoring For Selected Priority Watersheds In Arkansas, Upper Saline, Poteau And Strawberry Rivers, L. B. Massey, J.A. Mccarty, M.D. Matlock, A.N. Sharpley, B.E. Haggard

Arkansas Water Resources Center Technical Reports

Arkansas Natural Resources Commission has identified three priority hydrological unit code (HUC) 8 watersheds, the Upper Saline (HUC 08040203), Poteau (HUC 11110105), and Strawberry Watersheds (HUC 11010012). SWAT models have been developed to estimate nutrient and sediment loads in these watersheds where limited water‐quality data was available. The purpose of this project was to collect additional water samples across these HUC 8 watersheds to better understand how water quality changes across subwatershed with differing land use mixes, as well as estimate nitrate‐nitrogen (NO3‐N), total phosphorus (TP), and total suspended sediment (TSS) loads. Water samples were collected at twenty sites near …

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Rationalizing Entity Law: Corporate Law And Alternative Entities (Part Ii), Joan Macleod Heminway Dec 2013

Rationalizing Entity Law: Corporate Law And Alternative Entities (Part Ii), Joan Macleod Heminway

Scholarly Works

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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes – December 2013, Faculty Senators Dec 2013

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes – December 2013, Faculty Senators

Minutes 2013-2014

This is the archived record of the December 11, 2013 faculty senate meeting minutes.

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Fstc Newsletter, Christopher White Dec 2013

Fstc Newsletter, Christopher White

Provost's Office Newsletters

Newsletter highlighting faculty development events and initiatives at Governors State University.

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Role Of Business Leaders In The Integrality Of The Working Indivual, Ms. Cristine Atienza, Prof. Maria Andreas Santiago Dec 2013

Role Of Business Leaders In The Integrality Of The Working Indivual, Ms. Cristine Atienza, Prof. Maria Andreas Santiago

Center for Business Research and Development

In a world where the benefit to the common good has been overshadowed by the need to spur demand to increase profitability, one begins to wonder if business has turned a blind eye and if the workforce has grown so detached that who they are at work is different from who they are outside the workplace. Fragmentation (Alford and Naughton 2001) and compartmentalization (McIntyre as cited in Martin 2011, Rozuel 2011) at varying degrees and across different arenas have become possible traps for every worker.

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Chromatin-Induced Spindle Assembly Plays An Important Role In Metaphase Congression Of Silkworm Holocentric Chromosomes, Hiroaki Mon, Jae Man Lee, Kazuei Mita, Marian R. Goldsmith, Takahiro Kusakabe Dec 2013

Chromatin-Induced Spindle Assembly Plays An Important Role In Metaphase Congression Of Silkworm Holocentric Chromosomes, Hiroaki Mon, Jae Man Lee, Kazuei Mita, Marian R. Goldsmith, Takahiro Kusakabe

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The kinetochore plays important roles in cell cycle progression. Interactions between 4 chromosomes and spindle microtubules allow chromosomes to congress to the middle of the 5 cell and to segregate the sister chromatids into daughter cells in mitosis. The chromosome 6 passenger complex (CPC), composed of the Aurora B kinase and its regulatory subunits 7 INCENP, Survivin, and Borealin, plays multiple roles in these chromosomal events. In the 8 genome of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, which has holocentric chromosomes, the CPC 9 components and their molecular interactions were highly conserved. In contrast to 10 monocentric species, however, the silkworm CPC …

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Professional Staff Competencies In Women's Centers, Amber L. Vlasnik, Melissa D. Debutz Dec 2013

Professional Staff Competencies In Women's Centers, Amber L. Vlasnik, Melissa D. Debutz

Women's Center Staff Publications

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Infrared Skin Damage Thresholds From 1319-Nm Continous-Wave Laser Exposures, Jeffrey W. Oliver, Revecca Vincelette, Gary Noojin, Clifton D. Clark, Corey Harbert, Kurt J. Schuster, Aurora D. Schingledecker, Semih S. Kumru, Justin Maughan, Naomi Kitzis, Gavin D. Buffington, David J. Stolarski, Robert J. Thomas Dec 2013

Infrared Skin Damage Thresholds From 1319-Nm Continous-Wave Laser Exposures, Jeffrey W. Oliver, Revecca Vincelette, Gary Noojin, Clifton D. Clark, Corey Harbert, Kurt J. Schuster, Aurora D. Schingledecker, Semih S. Kumru, Justin Maughan, Naomi Kitzis, Gavin D. Buffington, David J. Stolarski, Robert J. Thomas

Physics Faculty Publications

A series of experiments were conducted in vivo using Yucatan miniature pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) to determine thermal damage thresholds to the skin from 1319-nm continuous-wave Nd:YAG laser irradiation. Experiments employed exposure durations of 0.25, 1.0, 2.5, and 10 s and beam diameters of ∼0.6 and 1 cm. Thermal imagery data provided a time-dependent surface temperature response from the laser. A damage endpoint of fifty percent probability of a minimally visible effect was used to determine threshold for damage at 1 and 24 h postexposure. Predicted thermal response and damage thresholds are compared with a numerical model of opticalthermal interaction. …

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Information Outlook, November/December 2013, Special Libraries Association Dec 2013

Information Outlook, November/December 2013, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2013

Volume 17, Issue 6

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An Assessment Of A Just-In-Time Training Intervention In A Manufacturing Organization, Barry James Wilkie Dec 2013

An Assessment Of A Just-In-Time Training Intervention In A Manufacturing Organization, Barry James Wilkie

Dissertations

High Performance Work Practices (HPWP) is part of an area of human resource systems growing in interest among performance improvement experts. This research paper assesses the degree to which job-training-intervention programs, a type of HPWP, contribute to organizational performance in a manufacturing environment. The literature review reveals that while there is a growing body of evidence supporting an association between HPWP and organizational performance, limited research exists on the association. This research provides a literature review of previous studies, which show different ways that HPWP help to achieve the optimization of employees’ skill sets. The relationship between one type of …

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Direct Responsibility: Caspar Weinberger And The Reagan Defense Buildup, Robert Howard Wieland Dec 2013

Direct Responsibility: Caspar Weinberger And The Reagan Defense Buildup, Robert Howard Wieland

Dissertations

This dissertation explores the life of Caspar Weinberger and explains why President Reagan chose him for Secretary of Defense. Weinberger, not a defense technocrat, managed a massive defense buildup of 1.5 trillion dollars over a four year period. A biographical approach to Weinberger illuminates Reagan’s selection, for in many ways Weinberger harkens back to an earlier type of defense manager more akin to Elihu Root than Robert McNamara; more a man of letters than technocrat. And yet Weinberger, the amateur historian, worked with budgets his entire public career. Essentially, Pentagon governance is the formation of a military budget that proscribes …

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Emotional Intelligence And Community Healthcare Productivity, Christopher Jacob Fox Dec 2013

Emotional Intelligence And Community Healthcare Productivity, Christopher Jacob Fox

Dissertations

Economic crisis is threatening state budgets. The strain on state budgets effects pensions and the healthcare benefits to communities. Rising healthcare costs and lagging insurance reimbursement rates are forcing healthcare organizations to sustain programs with fewer financial resources. Research studies indicate that payment increases from Medicare and Medicaid will not keep pace with the historical trend in hospital cost inflation (Kaufman, 2011). Of the healthcare facilities affected by federal budget constraints are community mental healthcare centers. The strain on state budgets has taken its toll on community mental healthcare facilities in particular struggling under the healthcare reform initiatives (Simpson, 1995). …

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Infrastructure Redesign And Instructional Reform In Mathematics: Formal Structure And Teacher Leadership, Megan Hopkins, James P. Spillane, Paula M. Jakopovic, Ruth M. Heaton Dec 2013

Infrastructure Redesign And Instructional Reform In Mathematics: Formal Structure And Teacher Leadership, Megan Hopkins, James P. Spillane, Paula M. Jakopovic, Ruth M. Heaton

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

Designing infrastructures to support instruction remains a challenge in educational reform. This article reports on a study of one school system's efforts to redesign its infrastructure for mathematics instruction by promoting teacher leadership. Using social network and interview data from 12 elementary schools, we explore how the district's infrastructure redesign efforts were internally coherent with and built upon existing infrastructure components. We then explore relations between infrastructure and school practice as captured in the instructional advice- and information-seeking interactions among school staff, finding that teacher leaders emerged as central actors and brokers of advice and information about mathematics within and …

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 1, 2013, Barry Strassler Dec 2013

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 1, 2013, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2013

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Effects Of Parental Divorce And Childhood Paternal And Maternal Attachment On Religious Outcomes In Young Adulthood, Lyndsay A. Freeman Dec 2013

Effects Of Parental Divorce And Childhood Paternal And Maternal Attachment On Religious Outcomes In Young Adulthood, Lyndsay A. Freeman

Graduate Theses

This study investigated the relationship between 72 respondents’ parental marriage status and childhood parental attachment on religious outcomes in young adulthood. It partly replicated a study by Zhai et al. (2007) with several notable differences, such as using recent data as opposed to archived data and examining both maternal and paternal attachments separately in light of the compensation hypothesis of religious attachment theory. An online survey was used to gather data. Chi-square tests revealed there were significantly more participants with insecure paternal attachments from families with divorced parents than from traditional families. Also, participants with insecure paternal attachments switched religious …

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Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions By Faculty And Staff, January To December, 2013, Research And Creative Productions Committee. Morehead State University. Dec 2013

Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions By Faculty And Staff, January To December, 2013, Research And Creative Productions Committee. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 2013.

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Reproducibility Of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Changes From The Initial Values On Two Different Days, Garrett I. Ash Dec 2013

Reproducibility Of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Changes From The Initial Values On Two Different Days, Garrett I. Ash

Open Access Author Fund Awardees' Articles

OBJECTIVE: We tested the reproducibility of changes in the ambulatory blood pressure (BP) from the initial values, an indicator of BP reactivity and cardiovascular health outcomes, in young, healthy adults. METHOD: The subjects wore an ambulatory BP monitor attached by the same investigator at the same time of day until the next morning on two different days (day 1 and day 2) separated by a week. We compared the ambulatory BP change from the initial values at hourly intervals over 24 waking and sleeping hours on days 1 and 2 using linear regression and repeated measures analysis of covariance. RESULTS: …

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Gmm Estimation Of Spatial Autoregressive Models With Autoregressive And Heteroskedastic Disturbances, Osman Dogan, Süleyman Taşpınar Dec 2013

Gmm Estimation Of Spatial Autoregressive Models With Autoregressive And Heteroskedastic Disturbances, Osman Dogan, Süleyman Taşpınar

Economics Working Papers

We consider a spatial econometric model containing a spatial lag in the dependent variable and the disturbance term with an unknown form of heteroskedasticity in innovations. We first prove that the maximum likelihood (ML) estimator for spatial autoregressive models is generally inconsistent when heteroskedasticity is not taken into account in the estimation. We show that the necessary condition for the consistency of the ML estimator of spatial autoregressive parameters depends on the structure of the spatial weight matrices. Then, we extend the robust generalized method of moment (GMM) estimation approach in Lin and Lee (2010) for the spatial model allowing …

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Checkouts By Patron Type: December 2013, Ruth E.. Souto Dec 2013

Checkouts By Patron Type: December 2013, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Borrowing by patron type - December 2013

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Checkouts By Institution: December 2013 Helin/All Locations, Ruth E.. Souto Dec 2013

Checkouts By Institution: December 2013 Helin/All Locations, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Borrowing by institution – December 2013

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Challenges Of Asthma Management For School Nurses In Districts With High Asthma Hospitalization Rates, Penny Liberatos, Jennifer Leone, Ann Marie Craig, Elizabeth Mary Frei, Natalie Fuentes, India Marie Harris Dec 2013

Challenges Of Asthma Management For School Nurses In Districts With High Asthma Hospitalization Rates, Penny Liberatos, Jennifer Leone, Ann Marie Craig, Elizabeth Mary Frei, Natalie Fuentes, India Marie Harris

NYMC Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: School nurses play a central role in assisting elementary school children in managing their asthma, especially those in higher-risk school districts that are at increased risk of uncontrolled asthma. Study purposes are to (1) identify barriers to asthma management by school nurses in higher-risk school districts; and (2) assess the extent to which National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) recommendations are followed in these districts. METHODS: School districts containing at least one zipcode with high asthma hospitalization rates among children (0-14 years) in a New York State county were identified. Nurses in 44 elementary schools were surveyed about …

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Gonadal Status-Dependent Effects Of In Vivo Β-Estradiol Administration To Female Rats On In Vitro Epileptiform Activity Induced By Low [Mg2+]₀ In Combined Hippocampus-Entorhinal Cortex Slices, Jana Velíšková, Libor Velíšek Dec 2013

Gonadal Status-Dependent Effects Of In Vivo Β-Estradiol Administration To Female Rats On In Vitro Epileptiform Activity Induced By Low [Mg2+]₀ In Combined Hippocampus-Entorhinal Cortex Slices, Jana Velíšková, Libor Velíšek

NYMC Faculty Publications

There are controversial data regarding estrogen effects on neuronal excitability. We investigated whether β-estradiol (EB) administration to ovariectomized (OVX) or gonadally intact female rats alters epileptiform activity within the dentate gyrus network induced in vitro by removing [Mg2+]o in combined hippocampus-entorhinal cortex slices. In vivo EB administration significantly influenced the epileptiform activity in gonadal status-dependent manner. The onset of epileptiform discharges was modestly delayed in slices from OVX rats replaced with physiologically relevant doses of EB but the number of discharges was not affected. In contrast, EB administration to gonadally intact rats had robust effects such that: EB delayed the …

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Merging And Creating Culturally Relevant Pedagogy In Public Schools, Sunni Ali, Ryan Murphy Dec 2013

Merging And Creating Culturally Relevant Pedagogy In Public Schools, Sunni Ali, Ryan Murphy

Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies Faculty Publications

During the last fifty years, numerous individuals have sought new strategies for students, such as African Americans, whom the public schools have historically underserved. Not only are some parents of these students seeking change, but also researchers, politicians, and local groups. Nevertheless, it is clear that these efforts have posed several dilemmas, which (a) limit the voice and personal choice of learners, (b) standardize the value of learning, and (c) connote a hegemonic discourse. Therefore, this Best Practices essay is based on the theory that a culturally value-driven framework (CVD) of learning will allow African Americans and other students of …

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Effects Of Sequence Context On The Binding Of Tryptophan-Containing Peptides By The Cucurbit[8]Uril-Methyl Viologen Complex, Omar A. Ali, Eric M. Olson, Adam R. Urbach Dec 2013

Effects Of Sequence Context On The Binding Of Tryptophan-Containing Peptides By The Cucurbit[8]Uril-Methyl Viologen Complex, Omar A. Ali, Eric M. Olson, Adam R. Urbach

Chemistry Faculty Research

This paper describes a novel assay for measuring the relative extent of peptide binding in a large parallel format and the use of this assay to explore the effects of sequence context on the binding of tryptophan (Trp)-containing peptides by the synthetic receptor comprising the noncovalent complex between cucurbit[8]uril and methyl viologen (i.e. Q8√MV). The extent of quenching of Trp fluorescence upon binding to Q8√MV was used to measure the relative extent of binding and thus the relative affinities of 104 Trp-containing peptides, in parallel, using a fluorescence plate reader. This study resulted in the remarkable observation that the identity …

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Evangelicals And American Foreign Policy [Review], Lauren Frances Turek Dec 2013

Evangelicals And American Foreign Policy [Review], Lauren Frances Turek

History Faculty Research

In Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy, Mark Amstutz seeks to respond to the recent efflorescence of scholarly work on the role that American evangelical Christians have played in shaping international affairs in the 20th century. Written from an evangelical perspective, the book sets out to dispel what Amstutz terms “prevalent misconceptions” about the nature and underlying motivations for evangelical political participation and engagement abroad (5). He includes among these the dynamics of evangelical support for Israel as well as conventional periodization that locate the beginning of serious evangelical political involvement in the post-World War II era. The book is …

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Vol. L, No. 5: Lance Olsen: The Art Of The New, Kelly Cherry Dec 2013

Vol. L, No. 5: Lance Olsen: The Art Of The New, Kelly Cherry

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

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"And"- And "Or"-Operations For "Double", "Triple", Etc. Fuzzy Sets, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva Dec 2013

"And"- And "Or"-Operations For "Double", "Triple", Etc. Fuzzy Sets, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In the traditional fuzzy logic, the expert's degree of confidence d(A & B) in a complex statement A & B (or A\/B) is uniquely determined by his/her degrees of confidence d(A) and d(B) in the statements A and B, as f&(d(A),d(B)) for an appropriate "and"-operation (t-norm). In practice, for the same degrees d(A) and d(B), we may have different degrees d(A & B) depending on the relation between A and B. The best way to take this relation into account is to explicitly elicit the corresponding degrees d(A & B) and d(A\/B), i.e., to come up with "double" …

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Towards Designing Optimal Individualized Placement Tests, Octavio Lerma, Olga Kosheleva, Shahnaz Shahbazova, Vladik Kreinovich Dec 2013

Towards Designing Optimal Individualized Placement Tests, Octavio Lerma, Olga Kosheleva, Shahnaz Shahbazova, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

To find the current level of a student's knowledge, we use a sequence of problems of increasing complexity; if a student can solve a problem, the system generates a more complex one; if a student cannot solve a problem, the system generates an easier one. To find a proper testing scheme, we must take into account that every time a student cannot solve a problem, he/she gets discouraged. To take this into account, we define an overall effect on a student by combining "positive" and "negative" problems with different weights, and we design a testing scheme which minimizes this effect.

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Why 20? Why 40? A Possible Explanation Of A Special Role Of 20 And 40 In Traditional Number Systems, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich Dec 2013

Why 20? Why 40? A Possible Explanation Of A Special Role Of 20 And 40 In Traditional Number Systems, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Both historical and linguistic evidence shows that numbers 20 and 40 played a special role in many traditional numerical systems. The fact that, e.g., the same number 20 appears in unrelated cultures such as Romans and Mayans is an indication that this number must have a general explanation related to human experience. In this paper, we provide a possible explanation of 20 and 40 along these lines: namely, we show that these numbers can be identified as the smallest sample sizes for which we can extract statistically significant information.

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