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Reply Comments To Docket Id Ed-2015-08-0105, Open Licensing Requirement For Direct Grant Program, 80 Fed. Reg. 67672 (November 3, 2015), Brett Currier

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Reply Comments to Docket ID ED-2015-08-0105, Open Licensing Requirement for Direct Grant Program, 80 Fed. Reg. 67672 (November 3, 2015). Response on behalf of UT Arlington Libraries to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from the Department of Education

Um United Way Donations Needed, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Less than quarter of $150,000 goal realized as annual campaign nears end

Abraham C. Bates V. District Court : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

No abstract provided.

From The Library Stacks, Brian Young

University of Mississippi News

Electronic kits available for use to all library users

Chancellor's Report 2015-12, Richard Caulfield

Chancellor's Report

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A "Case" Study On Developing Science Communication And Outreach Skills Of University Graduate Student Researchers In Alaska, Molly E. Tedesche, Laura Conner, Jennifer Danielson

Research Posters

Well rounded scientific researchers are not only experts in their field, but can also communicate their work to a multitude of various audiences, including the general public and undergraduate university students. Training in these areas should ideally start during graduate school, but many programs are not preparing students to effectively communicate their work. Here, we present results from the NSF-funded CASE (Changing Alaska Science Education) program, which was funded by NSF under the auspices of the GK-12 program. CASE placed science graduate students (fellows) in K-12 classrooms to teach alongside of K-12 teachers with the goal of enhancing communication and …

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, December 17-18, 2015

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on December 17-18, 2015.

Setting The Kids' Table, Elizabeth Fiske

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Tailgating With The Dean' Was A Top Draw, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Engineering tent attracted, served record number of patrons during 2015 home football games

Tedxum 2015 Available On Youtube, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

Short lectures include talks on nanotechnology, humor and water issues

Crull Calling The Shots, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Civil engineering alumna is senior engineer at U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center

Dawn Of A New Era, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

School of Engineering's first female department chair taking CIS to another level

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hong Lei's Regular Press Conference On December 17, 2015, Foreign Affairs

Documents

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"I Don't Think Of All The Misery, But Of The Beauty That Still Remains": Holocaust Education In The Music Classroom, Kathryn Eileen Stiadle

Honors Theses

On June 26, 2014, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed a law requiring mandatory Holocaust and Genocide education in all Pennsylvania schools. This legislation, the result of efforts made by Holocaust author and advocated Rhonda Fink-Whitman, made Pennsylvania the sixth state to require Holocaust and Genocide education. However, the law does not state how to teach about this rather difficult topic. According to anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Alan Merriam, one of the functions of music in any society is "emotional expression." Because music gives us the ability to convey emotions in a way that speech perhaps cannot, it is a beneficial tool …

2015-December-17-Two Faculty Members Co-Author Textbook Chapter, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Geomorphic And Geologic Controls Of Geohazards Induced By Nepal’S 2015 Gorkha Earthquake, J. S. Kargel, G. J. Leonard, D. H. Shugar, U. K. Haritashya, A. Bevington, E. J. Fielding, K. Fujita, M. Geertsema, E. S. Miles, J. Steiner, E. Anderson, S. Bajracharya, G. W. Bawden, D. F. Breashears, A. Byers, B. Collins, M. R. Dhital, A. Donnellan, T. L. Evans, M. L. Geai, M. T. Glasscoe, D. Green, D. R. Gurung, R. Heijenk, A. Hilborn, K. Hudnut, C. Huyck, W. W. Immerzeel, Jiang Liming, R. Jibson, A. Kääb, N. R. Khanal, D. Kirschbaum, P. D. A. Kraaijenbrink, D. Lamsal, Liu Shiyin, Lv Mingyang, D. Mckinney, N. K. Nahirnick, Nan Zhuotong, S. Ojha, J. Olsenholler, T. H. Painter, M. Pleasants, K. C. Pratima, Q. I. Yuan, B. H. Raup, D. Regmi, D. R. Rounce, A. Sakai, Shangguan Donghui, J. M. Shea, A. B. Shrestha, A. Shukla, D. Stumm, M. Van Der Kooij, K. Voss, Wang Xin, Brandon J. Weihs, D. Wolfe, Wu Lizong, Yao Xiaojun, M. R. Yoder, N. Young

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

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Income-Tested College Financial Aid And Labor Disincentives, Rajeev Darolia

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Working has become commonplace among college students; however, this activity can have unexpected financial consequences. Federal formulas implicitly tax the amount of financial aid students are eligible to receive by as much as 50 cents for each marginal dollar of income. This tax creates an incentive for college students to reduce income, though abstruse formulas and the timing of financial aid receipt are likely to limit responses. Using data from a national sample of financially independent college students in the United States, I do not find that students bunch below earnings protection thresholds in a manner that would indicate attempts …

Direct And Indirect Effects Of Wolves On Interior Alaska's Mesopredator Community, Kelly J. Sivy

Biological Sciences

Large carnivores may indirectly benefit small predators by suppressing competitively dominant mesopredators. However, our current understanding of interactions within the carnivore guild does not account for carrion subsidies provided by large carnivores, which could facilitate mesopredators during times of prey scarcity. This could be particularly relevant in northern ecosystems characterized by long harsh winters and decadal prey cycling. In Alaska, state-sponsored wolf (Canis lupus) control programs reduce wolf populations by as much as 50-80% across 8 game management units that collectively total over 165,000 km2, yet the impact of this practice on the Alaska's diverse mesopredator community remains unknown. We …

Sound And Human Impacts On Beluga Whales In Cook Inlet, Alaska, Rachael E. Blevins

Fisheries

Cook Inlet beluga whales (CIBs) are a geographically and genetically isolated population residing in Cook Inlet, Alaska year round. The population declined by approximately 50% between 1994 and 1998 and was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 2008. The original decline was attributed to overharvest; however, the population has failed to rebound despite the virtual absence of harvest since 1998. This suggests that other factors, such as declining prey availability, increased predation, contaminants, disease, climate change, catastrophic events, habitat loss, unauthorized take, and underwater noise pollution, may be limiting the population's recovery. The goal of this dissertation …

Influence Of Physical And Biological Oceanography On The Structure Of The Seabird Community In The Northeastern Chukchi Sea, Adrian E. Gall

Marine Biology

The Chukchi Sea is losing seasonal ice cover as global temperatures rise, facilitating human access to the region for activities such as oil and gas exploration, shipping, and tourism. Processes and responses to environmental change by marine ecosystems are often challenging to quantify because they are hidden under water. Seabirds, however, offer visible evidence of the health and status of marine ecosystems. I studied the community structure, variability in abundance and distribution, and habitat associations of seabirds in the eastern Chukchi Sea. My results provide insights into the influence of climate change on seabirds and a benchmark against which to …

Iol On The Move, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

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Using A Spoon To Bail Out A Boat, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

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Four Undergrads Receive Study Abroad Scholarships, Laura Perille

UNH Today Archive

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Enhancing Upper-Level Performance From Below: Performance Measurement And Optimization In Lte Networks, Ruofan Jin

Doctoral Dissertations

The current 4G LTE cellular networks provide significantly higher data rate and lower network latency than earlier generation systems. The advances provided by LTE, however, may not be fully utilized by upper-level protocols and applications. In this dissertation, we first investigate the predictability of link bandwidth in cellular networks. We then design and implement a new transport protocol that utilizes the link bandwidth prediction framework. Last, we design and implement a control-theoretic approach for adaptive video streaming for cellular networks.

For cellular link bandwidth prediction, we conduct an extensive measurement study in major US commercial LTE networks and identify various …

An Examination Of The Factors And Characteristics That Contribute To The Success Of Putnam Fellows, Robert A. J. Stroud

Doctoral Dissertations

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is an intercollegiate mathematics competition for undergraduate college and university students in the United States and Canada and is regarded as the most prestigious and challenging mathematics competition in North America (Alexanderson, 2004; Grossman, 2002; Reznick, 1994; Schoenfeld, 1985). Students who earn the five highest scores on the examination are named Putnam Fellows and to date, despite the thousands of students who have taken the Putnam Examination, only 280 individuals have won the Putnam Competition. Clearly, based on their performance being named a Putnam Fellow is a remarkable achievement. In addition, Putnam Fellows go …

Using Twitter To Analyze Stock Market And Assist Stock And Options Trading, Yuexin Mao

Doctoral Dissertations

Twitter has rapidly gained popularity since its creation in March 2006. Stock is a popular topic in Twitter. Many traders, investors, financial analysts and news agencies post tweets about various stocks on a daily basis. These tweets reflect their collective wisdom, and may provide important insights on the stock market. In this dissertation work, we investigate using the tweets concerning Standard & Poor 500 (S&P 500) stocks to analyze the stock markets and assist stock and option trading.

The first part of the dissertation focuses on understanding the correlation between Twitter data and stock trading volume, and predicting stock trading …

Mhealth Risk Screening In Urban Primary Care, Martha R. Staeheli

Doctoral Dissertations

Background: Urban, underserved populations experience considerable disparities in the screening, prevention, and treatment of chronic disease, including behavioral health disorders. Screening patients for such problems is widely recommended, yet is challenging to do in a brief primary care encounter, particularly for this complex patient population. Electronic risk screening provides one method of eliminating disparities in the identification of risks, while limiting burden on providers.

Objectives: 1) Screening data were compared to EHR data to assess differences in the prevalence of 12 risk factors and clustering of risks; 2) Patients screening positive for behavioral health problems were followed to determine rates …

A Deeper Semiotic Richness: Empowering English Language Students Through Digital Storytelling, Karah Parks

Master's Projects and Capstones

The current philosophies underpinning TESOL higher education curricula and classroom practices still reinforce the essentialized narrative of the native speaker and teach English as an objective, disinterested, linguistic system of static signs (Blommaert, 2010; Kramsch, 2009; Larsen-Freeman, 2015; Pennycook, 1997). This has significantly limited the development students’ identities, and agency within English language speaking communities. To address this issue, this project contains a supplemental, online digital storytelling curriculum for intermediate to advanced adult learners at the university level in U.S. colleges as a means of scaffolding intentional identity development through multimodal, symbolic competence in the English language. Entitled Creative ESOL: …

Studies In The History Of Anthropology In The United States, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

I will talk about a study I did on the first persons to do Ph.D.s in anthropology and how the project led to my leaving the anthropology profession and becoming a librarian. The project began in a biographical study of a little-known anthropologist that involved archival work. As a librarian who has left the profession of anthropology (not without trauma), I remain keenly interested in the history and bibliography of anthropology and view dissertation projects as crucial to understanding the biographies of scholars and trends in academic professions.

Parlamentārās Izmeklēšanas Komisijas Par Valstij Piederošo 75 % Bankas "Citadele" Akciju Pārdošanas Procesa Virzību, Pārdošanas Cenas Un Tālākpārdošanas Aizlieguma Termiņa Noteikšanas Kritērijiem, Akciju Pārdošanas Līgumā Ietvertajiem Noteikumiem, Izdevumiem Pārdošanas Konsultantiem Un Sabiedrisko Attiecību Pakalpojumiem Pārdošanas Procesā Galaziņojums, Parliament Of Latvia

Documents

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