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Uab To Host Commencement, Doctoral Hooding Ceremonies Dec. 13, Shannon Thomason Dec 2014

Uab To Host Commencement, Doctoral Hooding Ceremonies Dec. 13, Shannon Thomason

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The Economics Of Implementing Population Health Strategies: Progress In Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays Dec 2014

The Economics Of Implementing Population Health Strategies: Progress In Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays

Health Management and Policy Presentations

Successful strategies to scale up and spread complex community-level interventions require an understanding of the resources required for implementation, how best to distribute them among supporting institutions, and how resource consumption and distribution varies across settings. This session reviews methods and early findings from the RWJF’s Public Health Delivery and Cost Studies (DACS) Initiative, which includes 12 inter-related studies examining the causes and consequences of variation in the costs of delivering complex community-level prevention strategies across more than 300 community settings in 12 states. Findings from these studies highlight the value of studying the economics of implementation, the measurement and …

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Even Perfusion Pump-Integrated Blood Oxygenator, Dongfang Wang, Joseph B. Zwischenberger Dec 2014

Even Perfusion Pump-Integrated Blood Oxygenator, Dongfang Wang, Joseph B. Zwischenberger

Surgery Faculty Patents

A blood oxygenator includes an integral pneumatic pump disposed substantially within a housing thereof, an inlet blood flow redirector, and an outflow blood collector. An atrium provided at an inlet of the oxygenator promotes even delivery of blood to the oxygenator. In use, the oxygenator provides an even dispersion of blood therethrough, establishing even perfusion and reducing areas of stagnant blood flow.

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Synchronous And Asynchronous Collaboration Technology Use In Teamwork, Thanaporn Sundaravej Dec 2014

Synchronous And Asynchronous Collaboration Technology Use In Teamwork, Thanaporn Sundaravej

Dissertations

With the increasing geographic dispersion of project teams and the evolution of collaboration technologies, organizations are increasingly facilitating synchronous and asynchronous collaboration amongst dispersed team members using information technologies. While the facilitating role of collaboration technologies to enhance the outcomes of project teams has been examined in prior research, little, as of yet, is known about the influence of a project team member’s task characteristics and extent of usage of collaboration technologies on that member’s project task outcomes. This study drew upon media richness theory to examine the impacts of a project team member’s task characteristics and extent of usage …

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Electrochemical Synthesis Of Nanostructured Noble Metal Films For Biosensing, Jay Kishan Bhattarai Dec 2014

Electrochemical Synthesis Of Nanostructured Noble Metal Films For Biosensing, Jay Kishan Bhattarai

Dissertations

Nanostructures of noble metals (Au and Ag) are of interest because of their important intrinsic properties. Noble metals by themselves are conductive, physically robust, chemically inert, and strongly bind to thiols. However, when the nanostructures are formed, they in addition possess high surface area and unique optical properties tunable by adjusting the shape and size. All of these properties make nanostructures of noble metals suitable candidates to be used as a transducer for biosensing. Individual nanostructures might be easier to prepare but difficult to handle to be used as a transducer. Therefore, we prepared and analyzed nanostructured films/coating of noble …

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Student Piano Showcase, Mia Barinaga, Jaycie Kim, Brittany Buendia, Jovan Majano, Gina Kouyoumdjian, Stella Monshaw, Christiane Moon, Varsenik Aslanyan, Elliot Wulff, Daniel Shipley, Rachel Danielson, Duke Kim, Alayne Hsieh, Gloria Cho, Heather Moore, Connie Tu, Arsen Jamkotchian, Kristi Mckinley Dec 2014

Student Piano Showcase, Mia Barinaga, Jaycie Kim, Brittany Buendia, Jovan Majano, Gina Kouyoumdjian, Stella Monshaw, Christiane Moon, Varsenik Aslanyan, Elliot Wulff, Daniel Shipley, Rachel Danielson, Duke Kim, Alayne Hsieh, Gloria Cho, Heather Moore, Connie Tu, Arsen Jamkotchian, Kristi Mckinley

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

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Going The Distance: Best Practices In Designing And Sharing Reusable Learning Objects, Philip Russell Dec 2014

Going The Distance: Best Practices In Designing And Sharing Reusable Learning Objects, Philip Russell

Support services (Former ITT) - Conference Papers

This paper presents an overview of the suite of online interactive tutorials that have been developed at the Institute of Technology Tallaght (ITT Dublin); with a particular emphasis on best practices for pedagogy and instructional design in terms of creating eLearning tools. The author also details how these learning objects have been made available for reuse on a national and international basis as open educational resources via online repositories.

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Daily Eastern News: December 09, 2014, Eastern Illinois University Dec 2014

Daily Eastern News: December 09, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

December

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12-09-2014 Swosu Libraries Hosting First "Destress Fest" During Finals Week, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Dec 2014

12-09-2014 Swosu Libraries Hosting First "Destress Fest" During Finals Week, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2014

The Al Harris Library on the Southwestern Oklahoma State University campus is providing various opportunities for students to release stress and take a break while studying for their finals that start December 11 and continue through the 17th.

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Roseann Zirnsak V. Commissioner Social Security Dec 2014

Roseann Zirnsak V. Commissioner Social Security

2014 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

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Tales That Tell All: A Political Analysis Of Folktales Of Iran, Yass Alizadeh Dec 2014

Tales That Tell All: A Political Analysis Of Folktales Of Iran, Yass Alizadeh

Doctoral Dissertations

This research presents an analytical study of the rewritten folktales of Iran in 20th century, and investigates the ideological omissions and revisions of oral tales as textual productions in modern Iran. Focusing on the problematic role of folktales as tales about the unreal and the fantastic serving a political purpose, this study traces the creative exercises of Iranian storytellers who apply ideological codes and meanings to popular folk language. The works of Mirzadeh Eshqi (1893-1924), Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951), Samad Behrangi (1939-1968) and Bijan Mofid (1935-1984) are examples of a larger collection of creative writing in Iran that through the …

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White-Nose Syndrome Initiates A Cascade Of Physiologic Disturbances In The Hibernating Bat Host, Michelle L. Verant, Carol U. Meteyer, John R. Speakman Dec 2014

White-Nose Syndrome Initiates A Cascade Of Physiologic Disturbances In The Hibernating Bat Host, Michelle L. Verant, Carol U. Meteyer, John R. Speakman

KIP Articles

The physiological effects of white-nose syndrome (WNS) in hibernating bats and ultimate causes of mortality from infection with Pseudogymnoascus (formerly Geomyces) destructans are not fully understood. Increased frequency of arousal from torpor described among hibernating bats with late-stage WNS is thought to accelerate depletion of fat reserves, but the physiological mechanisms that lead to these alterations in hibernation behavior have not been elucidated. We used the doubly labeled water (DLW) method and clinical chemistry to evaluate energy use, body composition changes, and blood chemistry perturbations in hibernating little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) experimentally infected with P. destructans to better understand …

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Elastic Differential Cross Sections For Space Radiation Applications, Charles M. Werneth, Khin M. Maung, William P. Ford, John W. Norbury, Michael D. Vera Dec 2014

Elastic Differential Cross Sections For Space Radiation Applications, Charles M. Werneth, Khin M. Maung, William P. Ford, John W. Norbury, Michael D. Vera

Faculty Publications

The eikonal, partial wave (PW) Lippmann-Schwinger, and three-dimensional Lippmann-Schwinger (LS3D) methods are compared for nuclear reactions that are relevant for space radiation applications. Numerical convergence of the eikonal method is readily achieved when exact formulas of the optical potential are used for light nuclei (>A≤>16), and the momentum-space representation of the optical potential is used for heavier nuclei. The PW solution method is known to be numerically unstable for systems that require a large number of partial waves, and, as a result, the LS3D method is employed. The effect of relativistic kinematics is studied with the PW and …

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A New Approach To Interior Lighting Design :Early Stage Research In Ireland, James Duff, Kevin Kelly Dec 2014

A New Approach To Interior Lighting Design :Early Stage Research In Ireland, James Duff, Kevin Kelly

SDAR* Journal of Sustainable Design & Applied Research

Current standards for interior lighting design are discussed and an alternative design methodology proposed. Cuttle has previously suggested a new criterion be defined as perceived adequacy of illumination (PAI), and that the metric for specifying minimum illumination standards becomes mean room surface exitance (MRSE). This metric specifies the overall brightness of illumination, enabling its distribution to be planned in terms of target/ ambient illuminance ratio (TAIR). This new methodology is explained, analysed and discussed along with on-going research at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

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Claim Clarity At The Uspto, Jonas Anderson Dec 2014

Claim Clarity At The Uspto, Jonas Anderson

Presentations

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Water-Level Changes And Change In Water In Storage In The High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment To 2013 And 2011-13, Virginia L. Mcguire Dec 2014

Water-Level Changes And Change In Water In Storage In The High Plains Aquifer, Predevelopment To 2013 And 2011-13, Virginia L. Mcguire

United States Geological Survey: Water Reports and Publications

The High Plains aquifer underlies 111.8 million acres (about 175,000 square miles) in parts of eight States—Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. Water-level declines began in parts of the High Plains aquifer soon after the beginning of substantial irrigation with groundwater in the aquifer area (about 1950). This report presents water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer from predevelopment (generally before 1950) to 2013 and from 2011 to 2013. The report also presents change in water in storage in the High Plains aquifer from predevelopment to 2013 and from 2011 to 2013.

The methods to …

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Kansas V. Nebraska & Colorado: Keeping Equity Afloat In The Republican River Dispute, Charles Punia Dec 2014

Kansas V. Nebraska & Colorado: Keeping Equity Afloat In The Republican River Dispute, Charles Punia

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

This commentary previews an upcoming Supreme Court case, Kansas v. Nebraska & Colorado. The Supreme Court will have the opportunity to resolve a decades-old conflict over water rights in the Republican River which flows through Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas. In this case of original jurisdiction, the Court will determine both whether Nebraska violated a 60-year old compact concerning water rights, and what the appropriate remedy should be for that violation.

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The Advocate, December 9, 2014, Minnesota State University Moorhead Dec 2014

The Advocate, December 9, 2014, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

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Method And Device For The Treatment Of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Vinod Patel Dec 2014

Method And Device For The Treatment Of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Vinod Patel

USF Patents

A method and device for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The device includes a cutting device for resection of a thickened myocardium. The operator positions the cutting device adjacent to the myocardium that is to be resected and then slides a tubular blade within an outer shell of the cutting device to resect the septum.

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Methods And Compositions For Improving Bioavailability Of Epigallocatechin Gallate (Egcg), Roland Douglas Shytle, Jun Tan, Adam Smith, Brian Giunta, Cyndy Davis Sanberg Dec 2014

Methods And Compositions For Improving Bioavailability Of Epigallocatechin Gallate (Egcg), Roland Douglas Shytle, Jun Tan, Adam Smith, Brian Giunta, Cyndy Davis Sanberg

USF Patents

Compositions and methods of increasing the bioavailability of catechins are presented. Compositions for increasing the bioavailability of catechins include compositions where the catechin is added to a solution of ethanol and water; compositions where the catechin is encapsulated within a nanoparticle; and compositions in which a nanoparticle complex is formed between the catechin and the nanoparticle. Each of these compositions was shown to increase bioavailability of EGCG and is useful in treating diseases such as Alzheimer's and HIV-associated dementia.

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Implantable Imaging Device, Richard Gitlin, Craig Lusk, Shekhar Bhansali, Alexander Rosemurgy Dec 2014

Implantable Imaging Device, Richard Gitlin, Craig Lusk, Shekhar Bhansali, Alexander Rosemurgy

USF Patents

An imaging device for in vivo medical applications that enables minimally invasive surgical procedures. The imaging device includes an elongated frame having a base, a module housing, and an optional helical member interposed between the base and module housing. The imaging device further includes an actuation unit positioned within the frame that engages the module housing causing the frame to bend at the optional helical member. The module housing includes an imaging module and may include other modules including tools used for laparoscopic surgery.

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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (Ofdm) Transmitter And Receiver Windowing For Adjacent Channel Interference (Aci) Suppression And Rejection, Ertugrul Guvenkaya, Huseyin Arslan Dec 2014

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (Ofdm) Transmitter And Receiver Windowing For Adjacent Channel Interference (Aci) Suppression And Rejection, Ertugrul Guvenkaya, Huseyin Arslan

USF Patents

An optimum time domain windowing scheme for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-based waveforms in the sense of spectral concentration is proposed. Instead of evenly suppressing the sidelobes along the frequency, the sidelobe power is concentrated within a guard band while maximally suppressing the power for a desired frequency range. This is achieved by employing optimum finite duration pulses, prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWF), to shape the OFDM transmit pulse. Also with per-subcarrier windowing scheme, the effect of inner subcarriers on sidelobes is diminished by utilizing the concentration bandwidth versus out-of-band power trade-off in PSWF and the multicarrier nature of the OFDM.

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Effective Treatment Of Ovarian Cancer Using Triciribine And Related Compounds, Jin Q. Cheng Dec 2014

Effective Treatment Of Ovarian Cancer Using Triciribine And Related Compounds, Jin Q. Cheng

USF Patents

The inventors have determined, contrary to the prior art and experience, how to successfully use triciribine to treat ovarian cancer by one or a combination of (i) administering triciribine only to patients which according to a diagnostic test described below, exhibit enhanced sensitivity to the drug; (ii) use of a described dosage level that minimizes the toxicity of the drug but yet still exhibits efficacy; or (iii) use of a described dosage regimen that minimizes the toxicity of the drug. The invention further encompasses a number of miRNAs, which are altered in human ovarian cancer, with the most significantly deregulated …

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Methods And Materials For Increasing Potency Of Cells (Con 1), Kiminobu Sugaya, Angel Alvarez Dec 2014

Methods And Materials For Increasing Potency Of Cells (Con 1), Kiminobu Sugaya, Angel Alvarez

UCF Patents

Disclosed herein are methods and materials for producing a more developmentally potent cell from a less developmentally potent cell. Specifically exemplified herein are methods that comprise introducing an expressible dedifferentiating polynucleotide sequence into a less developmentally potent cell, wherein the transfected less developmentally potent cell becomes a more developmentally potent cell capable of differentiating to a less developmentally potent cell of its lineage of origin or a different lineage.

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The Sun Star Vol 34 No 14 (December 9th, 2014), N/A N/A Dec 2014

The Sun Star Vol 34 No 14 (December 9th, 2014), N/A N/A

Sun Star

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Impact Of Minimum Wages On Employment: Evidence From China, Jinlan Ni, Guangxin Wang, Xianguo Yao Dec 2014

Impact Of Minimum Wages On Employment: Evidence From China, Jinlan Ni, Guangxin Wang, Xianguo Yao

Economics Faculty Publications

This article examines the impact of the minimum wage on employment in China using data from 2000 to 2005. The effect of the minimum wage on employment levels was found to be mixed. Overall, minimum wages have no significantly adverse effect on employment. In particular, the results in the eastern region of China indicate few significant negative effects, which is consistent with the minimum wage theory in the competitive market. In contrast, the central and western regions experience few significantly positive effects, which is consistent with the theory in the monopsony model. The results are robust regardless of ownership (non-state-owned …

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Mapping The Umbrella Movement: Uncovering Grounded Theologies In Hong Kong, Justin Kh Tse Dec 2014

Mapping The Umbrella Movement: Uncovering Grounded Theologies In Hong Kong, Justin Kh Tse

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

As this Syndicate forum on the Umbrella Movement and theology winds to a close, the physical occupations in Hong Kong seem to be nearing their end stage. With court injunctions, police clearances, statements of support from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for the Hong Kong government, the attempted voluntary surrender of Occupy Central leaders to the police, and a student hunger strike after over seventy days of street occupations, it might seem late in the game to call for the mapping of “grounded theologies,” “performative practices of placemaking informed by understandings of the transcendent,” woven into the political constitution …

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Nh International Seminar Lecture Highlights U.S. Government's Views On Ukrainian Crisis, Michelle Morrissey Dec 2014

Nh International Seminar Lecture Highlights U.S. Government's Views On Ukrainian Crisis, Michelle Morrissey

UNH Today Archive

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Pathways To Sustainable Development, Ishrat Husain Dr. Dec 2014

Pathways To Sustainable Development, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Talks, Speeches, & Discourse

I would venture to broaden the scope of sustainable Development to include shared growth. After innumerable debates and discussions among the academic, practitioners and civil society Organizations, it has now been established that the concept of economic growth synonymous with increases in per capita income is too narrow and limiting. Various alternative conventional concepts such as Quality of Growth, Pattern of Growth, Growth with Redistribution, and Inclusive Growth have entered the vocabulary at several periods of time. One of the lessons we have learnt from the experience of the past few decades is that rapid economic growth has led to …

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Recruitment Patterns Of The Fouling Community On Eelgrass In Long Island Sound, Diana Lancaster Dec 2014

Recruitment Patterns Of The Fouling Community On Eelgrass In Long Island Sound, Diana Lancaster

Master's Theses

The seagrass Zostera marina (eelgrass) is typically found in shallow protected areas of portions of eastern Long Island Sound (LIS). Although the species and its associated ecosystem have been well studied in many places, work in LIS has been limited. A field study was conducted to assess the fouling communities associated with eelgrass beds around Pine Island, in eastern LIS. Samples were collected from four sites between July and October, 2011. A total of 15 species of fouling organisms were found on eelgrass leaves throughout the study period. Recruitment patterns varied spatially and temporally. Differences in the composition of fouling …

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