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2014 December 1 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

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Study Abroad And Moral Development, Andrew B. Johnson, Danielle R. Hathcock

eJournal of Public Affairs

Why should students study abroad? The standard answer universities give cites three types of benefit: academic, cultural, and professional. We argue that this answer sells the value of study abroad short. Just as important as any of these benefits is the value study abroad has in promoting moral development. Drawing on key ideas of the seminal developmental psychologists Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, we make the case that study abroad can facilitate moral development, whether one understands morality in utilitarian, Kantian, or sentimentalist terms. It does so by helping students take the perspective of those who are culturally different, inducing …

Defeating The Islamic State: Commentary On A Core Strategy, Huba Wass De Czege

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Rapdb: The Rapid Social Application Deployment Service, Lance Tyler, Matthew Morris

Computer Science and Software Engineering

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Mbari Swfoce Shallow Water Free Ocean Carbon Enrichment Experiment: Oceanographic Instrument Simulator, Amy Chen, Byungjin Bae, Matthew Mitchell

Computer Engineering

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Quickbooks Self-Employed Ios Application, Braden Young

Computer Science and Software Engineering

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One Stick In The Bundle: Characterizing Nonparticipating Royalty Interests Under West Virginia Law, Andrew S. Graham, Allison J. Farrell, Lauren A. Williams, Amber M. Moore

West Virginia Law Review

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Courts Cap The "Trade": Regulation Of Competitive Markets When Courts Overturn State And Federal Cap-And-Trade Regulation, Steven Ferrey

West Virginia Law Review

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Stuck Between A Lump Of Coal And A Hard Place: The Mine Safety And Health Administration's Struggle With Due Process And America's Coal Industry, Patrick R. Baker

West Virginia Law Review

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Implementation Of The Essential Elements Of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools And Programs And Their Relationship To Student Achievement, Jeffrey Craig

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In New York State, there are regulations that describe many of the practices that middle-level schools are supposed to implement. Yet, little is known about the effectiveness of these middle-level practices in schools in the state. Without definitive information about the impact of middle-level practices on student achievement, it's difficult for practitioners and leaders to know if the school improvement decisions they make are the right ones and whether they will have the desired impact on student achievement.

This study compares the implementation of the middle-level guidelines for New York State, known as The Essential Elements of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools …

The Influence Of Biogenic Opal On 231pa/230th In Sediments From The Bermuda Rise And Its Implication For Paleocirculation Reconstructions, Theresa Marie King

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Thermohaline circulation is responsible for the global transport of heat in surface waters of the ocean, and variability in this circulation has been linked to both short- and long-term climate change on time scales ranging from centuries to tens of thousands of years. Accurate reconstructions of past variability are thus critical to understanding modern and future thermohaline circulation changes and the response of the global climate system. The main circulation feature in the Atlantic is Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), and has been reconstructed using a variety of static proxies, but more recently through the use of sedimentary 231Pa_{xs …}

The Effect Of Patch Dynamics And Nutrient Availability On The Production Of Zostera Marina Seeds Within Shinnecock Bay, Ny, Lisa Jackson

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Exposing Zostera marina to fertilized porewater has been shown to increase vegetative shoot density and leaf growth rates, as well as affect morphological shoot characteristics including increasing leaf length, leaf area and the number of leaves per shoot. However, aside from changes in shoot density, records of morphological changes in reproductive shoots subjected to increased nutrient availability are lacking. To address this, five replicate ambient and nutrient enriched patches, each between 0.5 and 2.0 m2, were selected within a developing Z. marina meadow in Shinnecock Bay, NY. Fertilizer stakes, with a N:P:K of 15:3:3, were used to amend enriched patches …

A Greedy Method To Simulate Drainage In Cross Sections, Long Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Porous media, such as rocks and soil, make up the largest proportion of mass in nature. Pore-network model is a widely used model to describe the tiny and complicated inner structure of porous media. Assisted by the development of X-ray computed microtomography in recent years, researchers are able to extract the geometric characters of inner pores and throats from porous media, then further explore two-phase flow in porous media more exactly. Drainage, a process that a non-wetting phase fluid replaces the other wetting fluid, is the research topic of this thesis. The boundaries between two different phases, named as menisci …

Nitrogen Loading To The South Shore, Eastern Bays, Ny: Sources, Impacts, And Management Options, Isabelle Stinnette

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The excessive delivery of nitrogen from land into coastal waters can lead to a host of environmental problems including algal blooms, hypoxic zones, habitat loss, and acidification. While many of these environmental problems have manifested themselves within Long Island's coastal bays, the quantity and sources of nitrogen are largely unknown in much of this region, making the development of effective management plans to ameliorate these problems exceedingly difficult. This study was designed to quantify nitrogen loads and sources to Moriches, Quantuck and Shinnecock Bays within the eastern extent of Long Island's South Shore Estuary Reserve. Further this study assessed water …

A Greedy Method To Simulate Drainage In Cross Sections, Long Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Porous media, such as rocks and soil, make up the largest proportion of mass in nature. Pore-network model is a widely used model to describe the tiny and complicated inner structure of porous media. Assisted by the development of X-ray computed microtomography in recent years, researchers are able to extract the geometric characters of inner pores and throats from porous media, then further explore two-phase flow in porous media more exactly. Drainage, a process that a non-wetting phase fluid replaces the other wetting fluid, is the research topic of this thesis. The boundaries between two different phases, named as menisci …

The Influence Of Biogenic Opal On 231pa/230th In Sediments From The Bermuda Rise And Its Implication For Paleocirculation Reconstructions, Theresa Marie King

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Thermohaline circulation is responsible for the global transport of heat in surface waters of the ocean, and variability in this circulation has been linked to both short- and long-term climate change on time scales ranging from centuries to tens of thousands of years. Accurate reconstructions of past variability are thus critical to understanding modern and future thermohaline circulation changes and the response of the global climate system. The main circulation feature in the Atlantic is Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), and has been reconstructed using a variety of static proxies, but more recently through the use of sedimentary 231Pa_{xs …}

A Greedy Method To Simulate Drainage In Cross Sections, Long Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Porous media, such as rocks and soil, make up the largest proportion of mass in nature. Pore-network model is a widely used model to describe the tiny and complicated inner structure of porous media. Assisted by the development of X-ray computed microtomography in recent years, researchers are able to extract the geometric characters of inner pores and throats from porous media, then further explore two-phase flow in porous media more exactly. Drainage, a process that a non-wetting phase fluid replaces the other wetting fluid, is the research topic of this thesis. The boundaries between two different phases, named as menisci …

Mechanical Properties Of 3-D Printed Cellular Foams With Triangular Cells, Pratap Kumar Bunga

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In the present work, poly lactic acid (PLA) is used as a model system to investigate the mechanical behavior of 3-D printed foams with triangular cells. Solid PLA tension and compression specimens and foams made of PLA were fabricated using fused deposition 3-D printing technique. The solid PLA tension specimens were characterized for their densities and found to be about 10% lower in density as compared to their bulk counter parts. The triangular foams had a relative density of about 64%. The relationships between the structure of the foams and its deformation behavior under compression along two in-plane directions were …

Defect Analysis Of Boron Phosphide Thin Films And Sapphire Single Crystal Using Synchrotron X-Ray Topography, Zihao Ding

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Boron phosphide is an ideal semiconductor material used for neutron detectors because of its superior material properties, such as wide band gap and large thermal neutron capture cross-section of 10B. Since bulk BP is not readily available for neutron detector application, BP thin films are mainly synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Among all the feasible substrates for BP deposition, SiC stands out due to its small lattice mismatch (4.5%) with BP, however it is necessary to optimize the growth condition to synthesize high quality BP thin films on SiC. In chapter III, BP thin film samples deposited on 4H-SiC …

Investigation Of Biomineralization By Raman Spectroscopy, Robert William Fatscher

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Biomineralization is a process in which living organism grow composite materials consisting of inorganic and organic materials. This produces a composite material consisting of both inorganic and organic components, with superior mechanical properties. In the human body bone and dentin are both examples of biominerals. In this research Raman spectroscopy was used to characterize dentin from mice and human teeth, to determine composition. In the mouse tooth samples areas of irregular dentin were found, along the inside of the tooth, to be in the process of mineralization. By analyzing the samples along these areas we were able to determine the …

Modeling Of Parachute Dynamics With Gpu Enhanced Continuum Fabric Model And Front Tracking Method, Qiangqiang Shi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

An advanced mesoscale spring-mass model is used to mimic fabric surface motion. The fabric surface is represented by a high-quality triangular surface mesh. Both the tensile stiffness and the angular stiffness of each spring are determined by the material's Young's modulus and Poisson ratio, as well as the geometrical characteristics of the surface mesh. The spring-mass system is a nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) system solved by fourth order Runge-Kutta method. The model is shown to be numerically convergent under the constraint that the summation of points masses is constant. Through coupling with an incompressible fluid solver and the front …

Rheological Characterization Of Nano Composite Hydrogels, Jack Lombardi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Engineered Polymer hydrogels and hydrogels from Bio macromolecules have visco-elastic properties that can be measured using Oscillatory Shear Rheology. Manipulation and measurement of physical properties in gels including F-127 Pluronic Block Co-Polymer and Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Clay are shown through OSR by addition of salts, clays and glucose at physiological levels. Rheological analysis of f-127 illustrates changes in G' reduction with phase transition temperature. Measurements also indicate physical changes due to the aforementioned additives vary as a function of the gel physical and chemical structure. In particular, non-enzymatic glycation is shown to change the modulus of elasticity in both of the gels tested. …

Ultrasonic Measurements Of The Elastic Properties Of Lanthanum/Cerium-Based Bulk Metallic Glass And Its Compression Behavior Under High Pressure, Xintong Qi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Metallic glass, as a new member of glass family, has been at the cutting edge of material research for decades since it was first discovered in 1960. Its amorphous, densely packed microstructure makes it popular not only in industrial applications, but also in condensed matter physics. The elastic properties and their pressure dependence provide critical information about the bonding characteristics, microstructure and vibration features of metallic glasses. In this thesis, for the first time, the elastic wave velocities of (La_0.5Ce_0.5)₆₄Al₁₆Ni₅Cu₁₅ bulk metallic glass are measured under high pressure up …

Defect Characterization In 4h Silicon Carbide Bulk Crystals And Epilayers, Fangzhen Wu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

4H silicon carbide (4H-SiC) has been accepted as an optimal semiconductor that can substitute for silicon for fabricating advanced power devices for high temperature, high power, and high frequency applications, owing to its outstanding properties such as wide bandgap, high breakdown electric field, high saturation drift velocity and high thermal conductivity. Developments in advanced growth techniques for both 4H-SiC bulk crystals and epilayers have led to an era of large wafer sizes and relatively low defect densities, and these achievements are partly attributed to extensive and careful studies of different kinds of defects in this material. In turn, high crystal …

On The Uniqueness Of Singular Kaehler-Einstein Metrics, Long Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Bando and Mabuchi proved the uniqueness of Kaehler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds up to a holomorphic automorphism in 1987. Then recently Berndtsson generalized the uniqueness result of Kaehler-Einstein metrics to bounded potentials. We give a new proof of the Bando-Mabuch-Berndtsson uniqueness theorem in a different aspect, based on a new technique developed from Chen's C^{1,1} geodesic and Futaki's spectral formula. Finally, the uniqueness of the conical Kaehler-Einstein metrics will be discussed under the assumption of properness of twisted Ding-functional. | 61 pages

Shintani Zeta Functions And Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series, Jun Wen

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In recent years, substantial progresses have been made towards the development of a general theory of multiple Dirichlet series with functional equations. In this dissertation, we investigate the Shintani zeta function associated to a prehomogeneous vector space and identify it with a Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series. The example under consideration is the set of 2 by 2 by 2 integer cubes, that is the integral lattice in a certain pre-homogeneous vector space acted on by three copies of GL(2). One of M. Bhargava's achievements is the determination of the corresponding integral orbits and the discovery of an extension of …

Numerical Modeling And Combustion Studies Of Scramjet Problem, Ying Xu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Physical and numerical modeling of turbulent mixing and turbulent combustion in a Scramjet combustion chamber is studied. A high-order finite volume scheme is applied to the flow, accompanied with dynamic subgrid-scale model and local averaging procedure to account for the effect of unresolved small length scales turbulent fluid behavior. The Arrhenius law kinetic mechanism is applied to describe the nonlinearity of chemical reactions. To model combustion, the finite rate chemistry is developed to characterize the combustion process inside the combustion chamber. Results are compared among the finite rate model, the flamelet model/progress variable approach adopted by Stanford PSAAP center and …

Effects Of Marine Environments And Cyclic Loading On Carbon Fiber-Vinyl Ester Composites, Arash Afshar

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Fiber-reinforced composites are increasingly being employed in advanced composite based military marine crafts as they can assist in achieving cost savings, weight reductions and increased stealth capabilities. In these crafts, composites are considered for a wide range of applications, such as for superstructures, decks, bulkheads, masts and propellers, among others. However, in marine applications, composites are often exposed to aggressive environments, which include: ultraviolet radiation, salt water and cyclic loadings, to name a few. With time, such harsh elements can individually and cooperatively degrade the mechanical properties of fiber-reinforced polymer composites, diminishing their structural integrity and durability. Accordingly, ensuring the …

On The Dynamics Of Non-Linear Systems And Actuation Devices, Dake Feng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The research results being presented in this thesis is divided into two areas. The first area is related to the development of a systematic method for model parameter identification of a large class of fully and not fully controlled nonlinear dynamics systems such as robot manipulators. The developed method is based on Trajectory Pattern Method (TPM). The developed method uses trajectory patterns with feed-forward controls to identify the system model parameters. The developed method ensures full system stability; does not require close initial estimated values for the system parameters to be identified; and provides a systematic method of emphasizing on …

Analysis And Design Of Thermal Management System For Thermoelectric Generators For Nuclear Power Plant Safety, Chih-Chieh Lin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This project aims to develop thermoelectric generators (TEG)-based devices for sensing during normal and off-normal conditions in Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). Locations such as reactor core vessels, steam generators, housings of pumps, heat exchangers, and steam pipe housings in primary loop and secondary loop are potential installation sites. The heat is conducted through an adaptor to the TEGs and removed by a heat sink by means of natural convection. The electrical power generated by the TEGs is then used to drive sensors and wireless communications. Additional power can be stored in batteries or in super capacitors for emergency operations. The …