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Academic Senate - Agenda, 12/1/2015, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Marketing Alaskan Seafood: Strategies With Brand Identification, Differentiation, And Promotions, Anna Jacobson

Journalism

Everyday the globe experiences changes with food. New methods in growing and harvesting are becoming approved, while others are frowned upon. People care more about where their food comes from than ever before. This research is to explore how Alaska seafood can successfully market their products in an ever-changing world. As challenges present themselves in the industry, opportunities are there as well.

This study sets out to explore marketing strategies for promoting a seafood brand. Through exploring current literature and interviewing experts to obtain data, conclusions will be drawn and analyzed. These findings will help to understand the best practices …

Using Foraminifera Shell Geochemistry To Test Proxies For Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Catherine Hudson

Honors Capstones

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Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company V. Greytak: Adopting The Notice-Prejudice Rule And Clarifying Misinterpretations, Kristen Zadick

Montana Law Review Online

Seeking to clarify past decisions and protect insureds’ rights to insurance coverage, the Montana Supreme Court formally adopted the notice-prejudice rule in third party coverage disputes in Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company v. Greytak. However, in doing so, the Court failed to fully reconcile the decision with prior case law regarding the noticeprejudice issue.

Pedagogy, Social Transformation, And Space: Toward A Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy For Space, Derek R. Ford

Dissertations - ALL

Building on the work of Peter McLaren, Henri Lefebvre, and David Harvey, this dissertation develops a revolutionary critical pedagogy for space. I begin with a historical and theoretical survey of the roots critical pedagogy, a pedagogical orientation that is often called upon but rarely situated deeply. I then break down revolutionary critical pedagogy into seven components. I elaborate the dominant trends in the current social-political moment. I introduce two terms here, neoliberalism and the global class war. I argue that the former is a necessary but ultimately insufficient framework for understanding the present moment, and that the latter provides a …

Classical Codes For Quantum Broadcast Channels, Ivan Savov, Mark M. Wilde

Faculty Publications

We present two approaches for transmitting classical information over quantum broadcast channels. The first technique is a quantum generalization of the superposition coding scheme for the classical broadcast channel. We use a quantum simultaneous nonunique decoder and obtain a proof of the rate region stated in Yard et al., IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 57 (10), 2011. Our second result is a quantum generalization of the Marton coding scheme. The error analysis for the quantum Marton region makes use of ideas in our earlier work and an idea recently presented by Radhakrishnan et al. in arXiv:1410.3248. Both results exploit recent advances …

The Seesaw Effect Of Winter Temperature Change On The Recruitment Of Cotton Bollworms Helicoverpa Armigera Through Mismatched Phenology, Gadi V.P. Reddy, Peijian Shi, Cang Hui, Xiaofei Cheng, Fang Ouyang, Feng Ge

Faculty Publications

Knowing how climate change affects the population dynamics of insect pests is critical for the future of integrated pest management. Rising winter temperatures from global warming can drive increases in outbreaks of some agricultural pests. In contrast, here we propose an alternative hypothesis that both extremely cold and warm winters can mismatch the timing between the eclosion of overwintering pests and the flowering of key host plants. As host plants normally need higher effective cumulative temperatures for flowering than insects need for eclosion, changes in flowering time will be less dramatic than changes in eclosion time, leading to a mismatch …

Next-Generation Sequencing Reveals Frequent Opportunities For Exposure To Hepatitis C Virus In Ghana, Joseph C. Forbi, Jennifer E. Layden, Richard O. Phillips, Nallely Mora, Guoliang Xia, David S. Campo, Michael A. Purdy, Zoya E. Dimitrova, Dorcas O. Owusu, Lili T. Punkova, Pavel Skums, Shirley Owusu-Ofori, Fred Stephen Sarfo, Gilberto Vaughan, Hajung Roh, Ohene K. Opare-Sem, Richard S. Cooper, Yury E. Khudyakov

Faculty Publications

Globally, hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection is responsible for a large proportion of persons with liver disease, including cancer. The infection is highly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. West Africa was identified as a geographic origin of two HCV genotypes. However, little is known about the genetic composition of HCV populations in many countries of the region. Using conventional and next-generation sequencing (NGS), we identified and genetically characterized 65 HCV strains circulating among HCV-positive blood donors in Kumasi, Ghana. Phylogenetic analysis using consensus sequences derived from 3 genomic regions of the HCV genome, 5'-untranslated region, hypervariable region 1 (HVR1) and NS5B …

Emergency Takings, Brian Lee

Faculty Scholarship

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Labrad : Vol 41, Issue 3 - December 2015, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi

LABRAD - Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Radiology Archives

• Overview on Approach to Inherited Bleeding Disorders
• Diagnostic Approach to Haemoglobinopathies
• Transient Abnormal Myelopoiesis
• Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) in Children
• Role of Histopathology in the Diagnosis of Paediatric Renal Tumours
• Role of Histopathology in the Diagnosis of Paediatric Bone and Soft Tissue Small Round Cell Tumours
• Evaluation of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) In a Nutshell
• An Update on Blood Lead Levels in Children
• Clinical Utility of Immature Platelet Fraction – An advanced 25 Parameter in Laboratory Hematology
• Meeting Report: “Les Confluences” The Society for the Study 30 of Inborn errors of Metabolism (SSIEM) Annual Symposium 2015 in Lyon, France

An Immersive Telepresence System Using Rgb-D Sensors And Head-Mounted Display, Xinzhong Lu, Ju Shen, Saverio Perugini, Jianjun Yang

Computer Science Faculty Publications

We present a tele-immersive system that enables people to interact with each other in a virtual world using body gestures in addition to verbal communication. Beyond the obvious applications, including general online conversations and gaming, we hypothesize that our proposed system would be particularly beneficial to education by offering rich visual contents and interactivity. One distinct feature is the integration of egocentric pose recognition that allows participants to use their gestures to demonstrate and manipulate virtual objects simultaneously. This functionality enables the instructor to effectively and efficiently explain and illustrate complex concepts or sophisticated problems in an intuitive manner. The …

Of Minds, Morals, And Methods: Combining Moral Meteorology And Disaster Relief In Historiography Of China’S Disaster Management, Wee-Kiat Lim

CCX Research

In this working paper, I argue that disaster management in high Qing period can be better understood by simultaneously considering the historiographies of how governing elites understood disasters at the metaphysical level and the administration of disaster relief. During High Qing late imperial China, the regime encountered rapid changes in population, economy, and environment. Following how environmental historian Mark Elvin describes the prevalent ideology that guided Chinese governing elites on implicating human conduct with the manifestation of disasters as “moral meteorology”, I link it to the granary system so as to underscore how these two related but separate streams of …

December 2015 / January 2016, Center For Research & Grants

Research Matters (Archival - No longer actively being published)

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Molen V. Christian Clerk's Record Dckt. 43755

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Review Of Steven Bob's Go To Nineveh, Alan T. Levenson

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

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Special-Education Litigation: An Empirical Analysis Of North Carolina's First Tier, Lisa Lukasik

West Virginia Law Review

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Folate Stability In Fortified Corn Masa Flour, Tortillas, And Tortilla Chips, Renee Phillips

Theses and Dissertations

Neural tube defects (NTDs) occur at higher rates in Hispanic populations in the USA. Such populations would benefit from folic acid fortification of corn masa flour (CMF). This study evaluated folate stability in fortified CMFs and products made from the flours, tortillas and tortilla chips. There was no significant loss of folate during the six-month shelf-life of fortified tortilla CMF and tortilla chip CMF. There was a 13% loss (P < 0.05) of folate during tortilla baking and no loss during tortilla chip frying. Both tortillas and tortilla chips showed significant folate losses over the two-month shelf-life for these products, with a 17% loss in fortified tortillas and 9% loss in tortilla chips. Folate in fortified CMFs, tortillas and tortilla chips is relatively stable and comparable to the stability of folate in wheat flour and breads.

Utilizing Monte Carlo Simulations To Optimize Institutional Empiric Antipseudomonal Therapy, Sarah J. Tennant, Donna R. Burgess, Jeffrey M. Rybak, Craig A. Martin, David S. Burgess

Pharmacy Practice and Science Faculty Publications

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common pathogen implicated in nosocomial infections with increasing resistance to a limited arsenal of antibiotics. Monte Carlo simulation provides antimicrobial stewardship teams with an additional tool to guide empiric therapy. We modeled empiric therapies with antipseudomonal β-lactam antibiotic regimens to determine which were most likely to achieve probability of target attainment (PTA) of ≥90%. Microbiological data for P. aeruginosa was reviewed for 2012. Antibiotics modeled for intermittent and prolonged infusion were aztreonam, cefepime, meropenem, and piperacillin/tazobactam. Using minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) from institution-specific isolates, and pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters from previously published studies, a 10,000-subject Monte …

Exploring The Structure Of Library And Information Science Web Space Based On Multivariate Analysis Of Social Tags, Soohyung Joo, Margaret E. I. Kipp

Information Science Faculty Publications

Introduction. This study examines the structure of Web space in the field of library and information science using multivariate analysis of social tags from the Website, Delicious.com. A few studies have examined mathematical modelling of tags, mainly examining tagging in terms of tri-partite graphs, pattern tracing and descriptive statistics. This study is one of the few studies to employ multivariate analysis in investigating dimensions of Web spaces based on social tagging data.

Method. This study examines the post data collected from a set of library and information science related Websites bookmarked on Delicious.com using a Web crawler. Post data consist …

Mindful Mustangs: A Mindful Meditation App For Cal Poly Slo, Neha Jagannath

Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies

This report discusses the creation and research behind a new mindfulness meditation application called Mindful Mustangs, which is created for the students of Cal Poly SLO. The goal of this mobile website is to use the various techniques used in mindful meditation to reduce the stress and anxiety that college students regularly face. With the onset of iOS and Android applications, similar health and behavioral applications are on the rise. The increase of these applications calls for a certain type of design and a robust analysis must be done to ensure the psychological health of the user. Mindfulness applications such …

Injective Type Families For Haskell, Jan Stolarek, Simon Peyton Jones, Richard A. Eisenberg

Computer Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

Haskell, as implemented by the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), allows expressive type-level programming. The most popular type- level programming extension is TypeFamilies, which allows users to write functions on types. Yet, using type functions can cripple type inference in certain situations. In particular, lack of injectivity in type functions means that GHC can never infer an instantiation of a type variable appearing only under type functions.

In this paper, we describe a small modification to GHC that allows type functions to be annotated as injective. GHC naturally must check validity of the injectivity annotations. The algorithm to do so is …

After Obergefell V. Hodges: The Continuing Battle Over Equal Rights For Sexual Minorities In The United States, Simone Chriss, Danaya C. Wright

UF Law Faculty Publications

This article examines the pathbreaking U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that held same-sex marriage was a fundamental right that could not be denied by any state, despite the myriad same-sex marriage bans that had been passed in a majority of states. After explaining the constitutional jurisprudence of due process and equal protection, the article then examines the history of the same-sex marriage movement and the Obergefell decision. We conclude by discussing how the jurisprudential theory of the case, fundamental rights under the due process clause, narrows the scope of the case’s precedential value. Although gay rights activists …

From Text To Context: Literacy Practices Of Native Speakers Of Arabic In Arabic And English, Ghada Gherwash

Open Access Dissertations

Previous studies that looked at the written product of native speakers of Arabic in their second language (L2), English, have identified traces of Arabic rhetoric (L1), mainly Classical Arabic, in their writing (e.g., Atari, 1983; Kaplan, 1966; Ostler, 1987). These studies focused primarily on the L2-written texts, where the written product is used to make inferences about the rhetorical structures of the writers’ L1. The results from these studies portrayed the native-Arab writer’s text as highly influenced by Classical Arabic. This was evidenced by “foreign” rhetorical structures that Arab writers employ when producing texts in their L2 that are considered …

Generalized Techniques For Using System Execution Traces To Support Software Performance Analysis, Thelge Manjula Peiris

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation proposes generalized techniques to support software performance analysis using system execution traces in the absence of software development artifacts such as source code. The proposed techniques do not require modifications to the source code, or to the software binaries, for the purpose of software analysis (non-intrusive). The proposed techniques are also not tightly coupled to the architecture specific details of the system being analyzed. This dissertation extends the current techniques of using system execution traces to evaluate software performance properties, such as response times, service times. The dissertation also proposes a novel technique to auto-construct a dataflow model …

Siu Alumni, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

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Project Gate Self-Assurance Review Framework For Major Alaskan Oil And Gas Projects, Anca Bertus

Student Projects for Graduate Degrees

Major Alaska oil and gas capital projects can fail or have poor outcomes, including significant cost and schedule overruns if the projects are not ready to proceed into subsequent project stages. A comprehensive project gate assurance review ensures their readiness for the next project gate. Internal Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) should be leveraged in the review process to determine whether all design, construction, commissioning, and operational issues have been formally and properly addressed by the project team. A new project gate Self-Assurance Review Framework (SARF) applicable to major Alaskan oil and gas companies to improve project delivery is proposed in …

The Law Of Unintended Consequences: Whether And When Mandatory Disclosure Under Model Rule 4.1(B) Trumps Discretionary Disclosure Under Model Rule 1.6(B), Peter R. Jarvis, Trisha M. Rich

Hofstra Law Review

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Amending State Putative Father Registries: Affording More Rights And Protections To America’S Unwed Fathers, Ivy Waisbord

Hofstra Law Review

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Childhood Trauma And Special Education: Why The "Idea" Is Failing Today's Impacted Youth, Felicia Winder

Hofstra Law Review

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Regional Stratigraphy Of The Marble Falls Formation And Underlying Late Mississippian To Early Pennsylvanian Deposits, Fort Worth Basin, North-Central Texas, Usa, Beau Daniel Berend

Earth & Environmental Sciences Theses - Archive

The Early Pennsylvanian Marble Falls Formation in the Fort Worth Basin (FWB) of North-Central Texas was deposited in a broad carbonate ramp system during the initial stages of Ouachita orogenesis. It extends across an area of more than 15,000 square miles and comprises an assortment of facies that vary considerably across the region due to high-frequency sea-level fluctuations. The Marble Falls has been studied extensively in outcrop around the periphery of the Llano Uplift where it was informally divided into lower and upper members separated by a regional unconformity representing the Morrowan-Atokan boundary. A sequence of the Marble Falls Formation …