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The Information Value Methodology: How Users Assess The Quality Of Web Information, Marilou Haines Oct 2014

The Information Value Methodology: How Users Assess The Quality Of Web Information, Marilou Haines

Theses and Dissertations

The Internet is a self-regulating complex system in which users decide what is relevant through their actions. Since the burden of locating and evaluating information depends on knowledge, experience, and skill, this study rigorously and holistically investigates the Web users' experience. The study began with a multidisciplinary literature review to determine how academics assess IQ on the Web. While individual models are narrowly focused, in aggregate, they delineate the boundaries of IQ needs, and identify the dimensions that are significant to the Web community. These dimensions, categorized into six knowledge domains, are the core of the information value methodology (IVM). …

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Putting Reins On The Brain. How The Body And Environment Use It, Dobromir Dotov Oct 2014

Putting Reins On The Brain. How The Body And Environment Use It, Dobromir Dotov

Journal Articles

Radical embodied cognitive neuroscience (RECN) will probably rely on dynamical systems theory (DST) and complex systems theory for methods and formalism. Yet, there have been plenty of non-radical neurodynamicists out there for quite some time. How much of their work fits with radical embodied cognitive science, what do they need RECN for, and what are the inconsistencies between RECN and established neurodynamics that would have to be resolved? This paper is both theoretical hypothesis and review. First, it provides a brief overview of the typical, purely structural considerations why the central nervous systems (CNS) should be treated as a nonlinear …

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It’S Alive!, Beth Potier Oct 2014

It’S Alive!, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

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Richard Williams Interview, Dean And Professor Raj Soin College Of Business At Wright State University, Lewis Shupe, Richard Williams Oct 2014

Richard Williams Interview, Dean And Professor Raj Soin College Of Business At Wright State University, Lewis Shupe, Richard Williams

Wright State University Retirees Association Oral History Project

Lewis Shupe interviewed Dr. Richard Williams, Dean and Professor of the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University, on October 8, 2014 about his time at Wright State University. In the interview Dr. Williams discusses how he came to Wright State, his career, and his memories of the University.

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Fides: A Trust-Based Framework For Secure User Incentivization In Participatory Sensing, Francesco Restuccia, Sajal K. Das Oct 2014

Fides: A Trust-Based Framework For Secure User Incentivization In Participatory Sensing, Francesco Restuccia, Sajal K. Das

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Participatory sensing (PS) has recently attracted tremendous attention given its potential for a wide variety of sensing applications. Due to the fact that PS systems rely completely on the data provided by the users, incentivizing users' active participation while guaranteeing data reliability is paramount to effectively employ PS systems in practical scenarios. In this paper, we first define a set of attacks which compromise data reliability of existing PS applications. Next, we propose a scalable and secure trust-based framework, called FIDES, which relies on the concept of mobile security agents (MSAs) and Jsang's trust model to rule out incorrect reports …

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Effect: An Energy Efficient Framework For Data Compression In Tree-Based Wireless Sensor Networks, Sk Kajal Arefin Imon, Adnan Khan, Sajal K. Das Oct 2014

Effect: An Energy Efficient Framework For Data Compression In Tree-Based Wireless Sensor Networks, Sk Kajal Arefin Imon, Adnan Khan, Sajal K. Das

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Periodic data collection is an important application in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Since sensors are power constrained, building energy efficient data collection topology offers significant challenge. Compression of correlated data is one of the widely used techniques in WSNs where sensory data are compressed along their routes toward the sink. Consequently, a data compression tree is formed in which a sensor (say, child) selects its parent based on the degree of correlation among their sensed data, and the data of the child node is compressed at the parent node. In periodic data collection, the data collected by individual sensors can …

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Oxygen Reduction Reaction And Supercapacitor Studies Of Cobalt Complexes/Carbon Nanotube Composites And Phosphorous, Nitrogen Doped Carbon Materials, Udaya Bhasker Nasini Oct 2014

Oxygen Reduction Reaction And Supercapacitor Studies Of Cobalt Complexes/Carbon Nanotube Composites And Phosphorous, Nitrogen Doped Carbon Materials, Udaya Bhasker Nasini

Theses and Dissertations

In this fast growing population and industrial revolution, excessive energy consumption has become a great challenge. To overcome the situation in the future it is necessary to utilize cheap and renewable resources to produce environmental-friendly, low cost and efficient energy conversion and storage. Fuel cells and supercapacitors are excellent electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems. The coupling of supercapacitors with fuel cells or batteries has the potential to deliver high power necessary in motor vehicles, cellphones, computers and other useful devices. Modern fuel cells are based on electrochemical combination of hydrogen and oxygen in acidic, neutral and alkaline media to …

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Scalable Tuning Of Building Models To Hourly Data, Aaron Garrett, Joshua New Oct 2014

Scalable Tuning Of Building Models To Hourly Data, Aaron Garrett, Joshua New

Research, Publications & Creative Work

Energy models of existing buildings are unreliable unless calibrated so that they correlate well with actual energy usage. Manual tuning requires a skilled professional and is prohibitively expensive for small projects, imperfect, nonrepeatable, and not scalable to the dozens of sensor channels that smart meters, smart appliances, and sensors are making available. A scalable, automated methodology is needed to quickly, intelligently calibrate building energy models to all available data, increase the usefulness of those models, and facilitate speed-and-scale penetration of simulation-based capabilities into the marketplace for actualized energy savings. The "Autotune" project is a novel, model-agnostic methodology that leverages supercomputing, …

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Slm-Based Fourier Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy, Sahand Noorizadeh Oct 2014

Slm-Based Fourier Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy, Sahand Noorizadeh

Dissertations and Theses

Optical phase microscopy provides a view of objects that have minimal to no effect on the detected intensity of light that are unobservable by standard microscopy techniques. Since its inception just over 60 years ago that gave us a vision to an unseen world and earned Frits Zernike the Nobel prize in physics in 1953, phase microscopy has evolved to find various applications in biological cell imaging, crystallography, semiconductor failure analysis, and more. Two common and commercially available techniques are phase contrast and differential interference contrast (DIC). In phase contrast method, a large portion of the unscattered light that accounts …

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Sustainability Planning, Environmental Justice And Climate Change: Applications Of The Long Island Markal Model, David S. Friedman, Yehuda Klein, Jose Pillich, Michael T. Sullivan Oct 2014

Sustainability Planning, Environmental Justice And Climate Change: Applications Of The Long Island Markal Model, David S. Friedman, Yehuda Klein, Jose Pillich, Michael T. Sullivan

Suburban Sustainability

As pointed out by many authors, sustainability is often vague and amorphous (See, for example, Dovers, 1989; Faber, et al, 2005; Glavič, et al. 2007). There is a clear need to make analytical and data-driven analyses of established and or proposed plans. MARKAL (MARKet ALlocation model) is an analytical tool that can be used characterize the impacts of sustainability plans at multiple spatial scales: global, national, regional, and local. In this study we apply the Long Island MARKAL model to answer three interrelated issues: 1, the development and incremental improvement of local and regional sustainability plans; 2, the impact of …

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Generalized Quantile Treatment Effect, Sergio Venturini, Francesca Dominici, Giovanni Parmigiani Oct 2014

Generalized Quantile Treatment Effect, Sergio Venturini, Francesca Dominici, Giovanni Parmigiani

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

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Strategies For Sensor Data Aggregation In Support Of Emergency Response, X. Wang, A. Walden, M. Weigle, S. Olariu Oct 2014

Strategies For Sensor Data Aggregation In Support Of Emergency Response, X. Wang, A. Walden, M. Weigle, S. Olariu

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Baltimore, Maryland, October 7, 2014. Also available on Slideshare.

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U.S. Drought Monitor, October 7, 2014, Mark D. Svoboda Oct 2014

U.S. Drought Monitor, October 7, 2014, Mark D. Svoboda

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

Drought map of U.S. for October 7, 2014 (10/7/14) plus: U.S. crop areas experiencing drought (map), Approximate percentage of crop located in drought, by state (bar graph), Percent of crop area located in drought, past 52 weeks (line graph) for: Corn, Soybeans, Hay, Cattle, Winter wheat.

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Guesstimation: The Art Of Getting About The Right Answer, Jr Dennison Oct 2014

Guesstimation: The Art Of Getting About The Right Answer, Jr Dennison

Presentations

No abstract provided.

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A Comprehensive Economic And Legal Analysis Of Tying Arrangements, Guy Sagi Oct 2014

A Comprehensive Economic And Legal Analysis Of Tying Arrangements, Guy Sagi

Seattle University Law Review

The law of tying arrangements as it stands does not correspond with modern economic analysis. Therefore, and because tying arrangements are so widely common, the law is expected to change and extensive academic writing is currently attempting to guide its way. In tying arrangements, monopolistic firms coerce consumers to buy additional products or services beyond what they intended to purchase. This pressure can be applied because a consumer in a monopolistic market does not have the alternative to buy the product or service from a competing firm. In the absence of such choice, the monopolistic firm can allegedly force the …

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Academic Senate - Agenda, 10/7/2014, Academic Senate Oct 2014

Academic Senate - Agenda, 10/7/2014, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

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Using Class Interfaces And Mock Objects To Unit Test Aspects, Michael Bryan Snider Oct 2014

Using Class Interfaces And Mock Objects To Unit Test Aspects, Michael Bryan Snider

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

In object oriented programming (OOP) class objects are individual units of code that encapsulate the desired functionality of each object. AOP is an attempt to handle the cross-cutting concerns that represent functionality needed by a class, but is not specific to that class. The cross-cutting functionality is implemented in AOP by using a class-like structure, the aspect. Aspects do not have their own context and as such are dependent upon other objects for their context. By not having their own context it is difficult to test the functionality of aspects. This study investigated the effectiveness of using class interfaces and …

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Systems And Methods For Determining Nanoparticle Dimensions, Martin Matthias Muschol Oct 2014

Systems And Methods For Determining Nanoparticle Dimensions, Martin Matthias Muschol

USF Patents

In one embodiment, the dimensions of nanoparticles are determined by focusing light on a sample of nanoparticles suspended in a solution, collecting light scattered by the nanoparticles, measuring translational and rotational decay rates of the collected light, calculating a ratio of the rotational decay rate to translational decay rate, and estimating a first dimension of the nanoparticles based upon the decay rate ratio.

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Spartan Daily, October 7, 2014, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2014

Spartan Daily, October 7, 2014, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 143, Issue 17

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Collapse Of An Ecological Network In Ancient Egypt, Justin Yeakel, Mathias Pires, Lars Rudolf, Nathaniel Dominy Oct 2014

Collapse Of An Ecological Network In Ancient Egypt, Justin Yeakel, Mathias Pires, Lars Rudolf, Nathaniel Dominy

Dartmouth Scholarship

The dynamics of ecosystem collapse are fundamental to determining how and why biological communities change through time, as well as the potential effects of extinctions on ecosystems. Here, we integrate depictions of mammals from Egyptian antiquity with direct lines of paleontological and archeological evidence to infer local extinctions and community dynamics over a 6,000-y span. The unprecedented temporal resolution of this dataset enables examination of how the tandem effects of human population growth and climate change can disrupt mammalian communities. We show that the extinctions of mammals in Egypt were nonrandom and that destabilizing changes in community composition coincided with …

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Information-Entropic Measure Of Energy-Degenerate Kinks In Two-Field Models, R.A.C. Correa, A. De Souza Dutra, M. Gleiser Oct 2014

Information-Entropic Measure Of Energy-Degenerate Kinks In Two-Field Models, R.A.C. Correa, A. De Souza Dutra, M. Gleiser

Dartmouth Scholarship

We investigate the existence and properties of kink-like solitons in a class of models with two interacting scalar fields. In particular, we focus on models that display both double and single-kink solutions, treatable analytically using the Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound (BPS). Such models are of interest in applications that include Skyrmions and various superstring-motivated theories. Exploring a region of parameter space where the energy for very different spatially-bound configurations is degenerate, we show that a newly-proposed momentum–space entropic measure called Configurational Entropy (CE) can distinguish between such energy-degenerate spatial profiles. This information-theoretic measure of spatial complexity provides a complementary perspective to situations …

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The Legacy Of Alexander Bain, Stephen Lindsay Satterfield Oct 2014

The Legacy Of Alexander Bain, Stephen Lindsay Satterfield

Theses and Dissertations

Alexander Bain's key works are reviewed once again from a rhetorical and historical perspective. Bain was a Scottish empiricist who lived during the Industrial Revolution and contributed to rhetoric, psychology, education, and logic. Bain's emphasis on contiguity, modes of discourse, and grammar are explained. A brief Bain biography is provided along with Bain's interactions with notable friends. Researching Bain again from an interdisciplinary perspective is undertaken to avoid the usual problems with simply repeating prior academic findings and set opinions. However, the way in which Bain was accepted and then discredited is also discussed.

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Numerical Simulation Of The Long-Range Propagation Of Gravity Wave Packets At High Latitudes, C. J. Heale, J. B. Snively, M. P. Hickey Oct 2014

Numerical Simulation Of The Long-Range Propagation Of Gravity Wave Packets At High Latitudes, C. J. Heale, J. B. Snively, M. P. Hickey

Publications

We use a 2-D, nonlinear, time-dependent numerical model to simulate the propagation of wave packets under average high latitude, winter conditions. We investigate the ability of waves to propagate large horizontal distances, depending on their direction of propagation relative to the average modeled ambient winds. Wave sources were specified to represent the following: (1) the most common wave parameters inferred from observations of Nielsen et al. (2009) ((18 km λᵪ , 7.5 min period), (2) waves consistent with the average phase speed observed (40 m/s) but outlying horizontal wavelength and period values (40 km λᵪ , 17 min period), and …

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Connect 209 - October 2014 Oct 2014

Connect 209 - October 2014

Connect

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The Service Learning Experiences Of Hispanic High School Students On The U.S.-Mexico Border, Andrea Joy Garza Oct 2014

The Service Learning Experiences Of Hispanic High School Students On The U.S.-Mexico Border, Andrea Joy Garza

Theses and Dissertations

This phenomenological qualitative study explored the service learning experiences of Hispanic high school students on the U.S.-Mexico border. This study took place in a high school located in south Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border; population approximately 248,142 and ethnically 95.6 percent Hispanic (U.S. Census, 2013). The participants were selected via purposive sampling, thus it was restricted to participants involved in the service learning opportunity with the Volunteer Income Tax Assessor (VITA) program while taking a high school level financial analysis class. Service learning education is defined as the integration of academic material, service activities, and critical reflection based on reciprocal …

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2014 October 6 Oct 2014

2014 October 6

Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 07, October 06, 2014, Grand Valley State University Oct 2014

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 07, October 06, 2014, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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F. Ludwig Diehn Concert Series: The Baltimore Consort -- The Food Of Love: Songs For Shakespeare, The Baltimore Consort, Mary Anne Ballard, Mark Cudek, Larry Lipkis, Ronn Mcfarlane, Mindy Rosenfeld, Danielle Svonavec Oct 2014

F. Ludwig Diehn Concert Series: The Baltimore Consort -- The Food Of Love: Songs For Shakespeare, The Baltimore Consort, Mary Anne Ballard, Mark Cudek, Larry Lipkis, Ronn Mcfarlane, Mindy Rosenfeld, Danielle Svonavec

Guest Performances

No abstract provided.

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Communiqué, October 6, 2014, Lindenwood University Oct 2014

Communiqué, October 6, 2014, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

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Interseismic Locking On The Hikurangi Subduction Zone: Uncertainties From Slow-Slip Events, Robert Mccaffrey Oct 2014

Interseismic Locking On The Hikurangi Subduction Zone: Uncertainties From Slow-Slip Events, Robert Mccaffrey

Geology Faculty Publications and Presentations

lnterseismic locking on the Hikurangi subduction zone in New Zealand is examined in light of alternative assumed locking distributions and the impact of transients (slow-slip and volcanic sources) on temporal and spatial resolution. The modern pattern of locking in the north is poorly resolved and, based on simulations of possible transient behavior, may be an ephemeral feature of the subduction cycle. While there appears to be some contemporary locking in the northern half of the Hikurangi subduction zone (HSZ), its location is model dependent, and hence, its relationship to structure, slow-slip, or any transition zone there is unclear. Simulations of …

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