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The Use And Effectiveness Of Online Social Media In Volunteer Organizations, Amy J. Connolly

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Volunteer organizations face two challenges not found in non-volunteer organizations: recruiting and retaining volunteers. While social media use is increasing amongst individuals, its use and effectiveness for volunteer recruitment and retention by volunteer organizations is unknown. The dissertation reports the results of three studies to investigate this important question. Using a mixed-methods approach, it addressed the dual nature of social media and its effectiveness by including volunteer organizations and social media users.

This dissertation found that although volunteer organizations are not using social media effectively, they could virtualize requirements of the recruitment process by focusing on relatable events instead of …

Characterization Of Waste Anesthetic Gas Exposures To Veterinary Workers In The Tampa Bay Area, Kyle Vogel

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Veterinarians routinely conduct surgical operations on animals while veterinary technicians administer anesthetic gas to sedate the animal prior to an operation. One commonly used anesthetic agent in veterinary clinics is isoflurane. Veterinary workers have the potential to be exposed to this gas during surgical operations. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not have a specific Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for isoflurane, however The National Institutes for Health (NIH) does advise that workers should not be exposed to isoflurane in concentrations exceeding 2 parts per million (ppm) for an 8 hour Time Weighted Average (TWA).

Animal clinics vary in …

Environmental Impact Assessments For Wave Energy Developments – Learning From Existing Activities And Informing Future Research, Ruth H. Leeney, Deborah Greaves, Daniel Conley, Anne Marie O'Hagan

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Garbage Everywhere What Refuse In India's Streets Reveals About America's Hidden Trash Problem, Noah M. Sachs

Law Faculty Publications

In early 2014, I arrived in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, which just two years before had been paralyzed by a garbage-worker strike and a severe shortage of landfill space. The municipal government had responded to public anger over uncollected trash with decrees on waste segregation and composting that went unenforced, and by the time I showed up, not much had changed. In the city that bills itself as India’s Silicon Valley, there are still putrid piles of garbage all around town. Bangaloreans accept open dumps in their neighborhoods as a fixture of the landscape, to be seen but …

Exploring And Evaluating E-Business Models: A Preliminary Study Of A Community-Based Website, Minnie Yen, Dennis Drinka, Yoshito Kanamori

Communications of the IIMA

Social media is the use of the Internet and mobile technologies to share user-generated content. At a broader level, social media has been providing an increasing amount of the information that is presented to very wide audiences. However, hyper-local media is a form of such social media that tries to target a comparably narrow but focused group of audience with timely and related content. OpenAnchorage presents our vision of a hyper-local information site. It was developed to collect community information created by the local providers and present this information on a local area map where interested users can select the …

A Virtual World As An Introduction To Green It Awareness, Henk Plessius, Diana Boekman, Pascal Ravesteyn

Communications of the IIMA

This paper describes a project to explore the possibilities of virtual worlds in educating Green IT. In the project, a virtual world has been created with various assignments to create awareness on sustainability aspects of IT. The world (and the assignments) will be incorporated in a course for first-year IT students. In order to measure the effects of the course, a questionnaire has been developed which can be used before and after the course to measure the change in attitude towards green IT.

Using Perl Modules To Interact With The Contentdm Api, Andrew Bullen

CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting, May 2014

No abstract provided.

Psychiatry For The Lawyer Common Psychiatric States Not Due To Psychosis , Gaylord Coon P.

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Joe "Jose" Hernandez And David Gasca, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

"Mexican American Veterans' Organizations in South Colton"

A Central Role For Carbon-Overflow Pathways In The Modulation Of Bacterial Cell Death., Vinai Chittezham Thomas, Marat Sadykov, Sujata S. Chaudhari, Joselyn Jones, Jennifer L. Endres, Todd J. Widhelm, Jong-Sam Ahn, Randeep S. Jawa, Matthew C. Zimmerman, Kenneth W. Bayles

Journal Articles: Pathology and Microbiology

Similar to developmental programs in eukaryotes, the death of a subpopulation of cells is thought to benefit bacterial biofilm development. However mechanisms that mediate a tight control over cell death are not clearly understood at the population level. Here we reveal that CidR dependent pyruvate oxidase (CidC) and α-acetolactate synthase/decarboxylase (AlsSD) overflow metabolic pathways, which are active during staphylococcal biofilm development, modulate cell death to achieve optimal biofilm biomass. Whereas acetate derived from CidC activity potentiates cell death in cells by a mechanism dependent on intracellular acidification and respiratory inhibition, AlsSD activity effectively counters CidC action by diverting carbon flux …

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Staff Council Meeting, June 2014, Marshall University Staff Council

Staff Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Challenge Of Happily Ever After: How Once Upon A Time Fanfic Fairy Tales Model Strategies For Ordinary Life Challenges, Christa M. Baxter

Theses and Dissertations

Although many feminist fairy-tale scholars have theorized how the tales shape the lives of their readers, few have explicitly examined what readers themselves have to say about how fairy tales impacted their choices and expectation. This article turns to fanfiction written by fans of ABC's Once Upon a Time television series to discover how these fans challenge or reify fairy-tale expectations, particularly in terms of gender. After outlining the brief history of fairy-tale reception studies concerned with gender, the article then turns to a close reading of three OUAT fanfiction retellings of Beauty and the Beast that show the couple …

Prof, Jeff Bolster

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Using Game Engine Technologies For Increasing Cognitive Stimulation And Perceptive Immersion, Garrett Keenaghan, Imre Horváth

Conference papers

With the development of more user friendly game engine packages and software, detailed cognitive stimulation of procedural activities has now become easier to develop in virtual reality environments. With packages offering built-in visual editors, the amount of labour hours required for the development of specific applications are reduced. This paper considers the use of computer supported game engine technology to provide location independent comprehension and procedural skills learning for built environment education.

Bluebloods, Katharine Webster

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Immunomodulatory Activity Of Interferon-Beta, Lloyd H. Kasper, Anthony T. Reder

Dartmouth Scholarship

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex disorder of the central nervous system that appears to be driven by a shift in immune functioning toward excess inflammation that results in demyelination and axonal loss. Beta interferons were the first class of disease-modifying therapies to be approved for patients with MS after treatment with this type I interferon improved the course of MS on both clinical and radiological measures in clinical trials. The mechanism of action of interferon-beta appears to be driven by influencing the immune system at many levels, including antigen-presenting cells, T cells, and B cells. One effect of these …

The Parthenon, June 19, 2014, Taylor Stuck

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Negotiating Muslim Womanhood: The Adaptation Strategies Of International Students At Two American Public Colleges, Amber Michelle Gregory

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

From a Western perspective, North Americans and Western Europeans perceive Muslim women as being oppressed (Andrea 2009; Lutz 1997, 96; Ozyurt 2013). Led by this assumption, some view studying abroad as an international student as an experience that allows Muslim women the opportunity to "escape" this supposed oppression and to know "freedom" in the U.S. However, Muslim women's experiences are more dynamic and complex than this dualism suggests. In this thesis, I explore adaptation strategies of Muslim women international students, and how gender, race, and religion affect their experiences while abroad. Furthermore, I explore the women's use of emotion management …

Evaluation Of The Influence Of Electric Nets On The Behaviour Of Oviposition Site Seeking Anopheles Gambiae S.S, Sisay Dugassa, Jenny M. Lindh, Steve J. Torr, Steven W. Lindsay, Ulrike Fillinger

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Background: Electric nets (e-nets) are used to analyse the flight behaviour of insects and have been used extensively to study the host-oriented flight of tsetse flies. Recently we adapted this tool to analyse the oviposition behaviour of gravid malaria vectors, Anopheles gambiae s.s., orienting towards aquatic habitats and traps by surrounding an artificial pond with e-nets and collecting electrocuted mosquitoes on sticky boards on the ground next to the nets. Here we study whether e-nets themselves affect the responses of gravid An. gambiae s.s. Methods. Dual-choice experiments were carried out in 80 m2 screened semi-field systems where 200 gravid An. …

A Study Of Slipper And Rail Wear Interaction At Low Speed, Greg V. Cavallaro

Theses and Dissertations

The wear research presented in the work consists of results gathered from adapting a FEM based on a Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT) mission executed in January 2008. The FEM consists of a VascoMax slipper sliding on a stationary AISI-1080 steel rail. The slipper is slid along the rail at speeds of 20 m/s and 40 m/s with complementary vertical velocities of -0.079 m/s and -0.059 m/s, respectively. The surface roughness caused by features such as asperities and valleys of the materials, is simulated in this model by five asperities, 1 micron to 5 microns on the rail and …

Contributors, Advertisements, Issue 40

Ontario Review

No abstract provided.

Going To China Girls, The Agit-Prop Train V.I. Lenin No. 1, Not Everybody Loves A Uniform, Page Dougherty Delano

Ontario Review

Page Dougherty Delano's poems have appeared recently in The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and Thirteenth Moon. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems, Victory Girls, about women in World War II. She teaches at Hunter College, and lives in New York City.

Incognito, And Not & Other Poems, Lynn Mcgee

Ontario Review

Lynn McGee, a former OR contributor, has published poems recently in Painted Bride Quarterly and fiction in Northwest Review. She lives in Brooklyn.

In The Cemetery High Above Shillington, John Updike

Ontario Review

John Updike's Collected Poems 1953-1993 was published by Knopf last spring. His most recent novel is Brazil. A frequent OR contributor, he lives in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.

The Match, Maxine Kumin

Ontario Review

Maxine Kumin’s tenth book of poetry, Looking for Luck, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award of 1993. Her new book, Women, Animals and Vegetables: Essays and Stories, from which this story is taken, will be published by Norton in August 1994. She raises horses on a farm near Warner, New Hampshire.

Assessment Of The Use Of Social Network Tools (Snts) By Agriculture Researches In South West Nigeria, Tajudeen Oyekunle Amoo Banmeke, Matthew Olalekan Oose

Communications of the IIMA

Social network tools (SNTs) constitute part of the revolution the internet has brought about in the transfer and dissemination of information. These tools allow users to carry out a number of activities, such building online profiles and sharing vital information. The study ascertained the use of SNTs by agriculture researchers in tertiary and research institutes in south-west Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was used in sampling 210 respondents. Data were obtained through the use a structured questionnaire that was pre-tested with a Cronbach-alpha internal consistency of 0.84 for SNTs utilization scale. Results were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, chi square, …

Visual Novel Engine Design, Alex R. Mankin

EKU Libraries Research Award for Undergraduates

No abstract provided.

Horsepower In The Civil War: Uses, Suffering, And Personal Relationships, Autumn K. Baisden

EKU Libraries Research Award for Undergraduates

No abstract provided.

The Esm-App - A New Smartphone Application To Map Ecosystem Services, Priess Joerg A., Robin Elger, Jennifer Hauck

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The ecosystem service (ESS) concept increasingly enters the realms of policy and planning. Simultaneously demands for ecosystem service data and maps increase. The new ESS mapping application is intended as a contribution to solve the problem how demands for and supply of multiple ESS can be mapped in a reliable and cost-efficient way. Comparable to efforts in biology in mapping the occurrence of plants and animals, the new smartphone application can be used as a tool in citizen science as well as in research projects by students and scientists. Based on The Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) or …

Interactive Web-Based Flood Modeling At Country Wide Scale And Plantar Size Resolution, Fedor Baart, Jack Ha, Arthur Van Dam, Gennadii Donchyts, Martijn Siemerink

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The flooding of rural and urban areas is an increasing hazard to society. Accurate and timely predictions are essential for the water manager to prepare and respond to these hazards. Predicting flooding requires a numerical model that represents the physical processes (rain, evaporation, infiltration, overland flow, groundwater flow). This model, fed with measurements, and possible measures, calculates the expected flooding. The traditional working method consists of a three step process: schematization setup, running and post-processing, with a total feedback time of hours. This process is suitable for confirmatory modeling. Most of the time, models are applied exploratory, requiring a different …