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Thinking And Making: Art And Craft In Library Of Congress Classification, Rochelle Smith Dec 2015

Thinking And Making: Art And Craft In Library Of Congress Classification, Rochelle Smith

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Why are art and craft so widely separated in the Library of Congress Classification (LC) System? All classification systems give insight into worldviews prevalent at the time they were created, and library systems are especially illustrative of the cultures and cultural moments which shaped them. The separation of art and craft in LC, in N and TT respectively, compared to their collocation in LC’s contemporaries, Dewey Decimal Classification and Cutter’s Expansive Classification, suggests divergent views of the arts within librarianship, illuminating American views on the relative definitions of art and craft from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries.

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A Comparative Study Of Use Of The Library And The Internet As Sources Of Information By Graduate Students In The University Of Ghana, Cynthia H. Kumah Dec 2015

A Comparative Study Of Use Of The Library And The Internet As Sources Of Information By Graduate Students In The University Of Ghana, Cynthia H. Kumah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was conducted to compare Internet use and library use among graduate students. It was based on the assumption that graduate students use the Internet more than the library. Literature on library and the Internet were reviewed. The researcher adopted convenient sampling technique to select the sample for the study. Data was collected using questionnaires. Collected data was statistically analyzed and interpreted using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Findings of the study indicated students do not bypass the library in satisfying their information need. They use both the library and the Internet, although Internet usage was more …

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Measuring Physiological Arousal Towards Packaging: Tracking Electrodermal Activity Within The Consumer Shopping Environment, Rupert Andrew Hurley, Dan E. Hutcherson, Charles E. Tonkin, Shaundra B. Dailey, Julie C. Rice Dec 2015

Measuring Physiological Arousal Towards Packaging: Tracking Electrodermal Activity Within The Consumer Shopping Environment, Rupert Andrew Hurley, Dan E. Hutcherson, Charles E. Tonkin, Shaundra B. Dailey, Julie C. Rice

Journal of Applied Packaging Research

Contrasted against the popular belief that consumers make purely rational decisions, purchasing decisions are rapid, subconscious, and emotional decisions. In order to understand a consumer’s purchasing decisions, we suggest finding methods beyond focus groups, which typify this type of research, to measure and interpret consumer reactions to various packaging designs. In this paper, we examine electrodermal activity, a measure of emotional arousal, and eye tracking in the context of a realistic shopping environment as possible measures to support insight into customer preference of packaging. We hypothesized that presenting consumers with an experience more closely related to actual shopping would encourage …

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Fall Commencement Program, December 11-12, 2015, Coastal Carolina University Dec 2015

Fall Commencement Program, December 11-12, 2015, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

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Dynamic Modeling And Attitude Control Of High-Altitude Balloon Payload, Nathaniel Adam Stepp Dec 2015

Dynamic Modeling And Attitude Control Of High-Altitude Balloon Payload, Nathaniel Adam Stepp

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

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12-11-2015 Swosu Receives $30,000 Ocast Grant For Student Internships, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Dec 2015

12-11-2015 Swosu Receives $30,000 Ocast Grant For Student Internships, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2015

Southwestern Oklahoma State University's Dr. Andrea Holgado, Dr. Sophia Lee and Brad Bryant recently received a $30,000 grant from the Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) Student Intern Partnerships program.

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Oral History Project/ Robert Lecroy, Sandra M. Quintero Dec 2015

Oral History Project/ Robert Lecroy, Sandra M. Quintero

Cold War

Interview with a U.S. Navy submarine Veteran who served for thirty years where he worked closely with nuclear filled submarines as a missile technician and other duties. Interview consisted of his experience during his service.

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[2015-12-11] Meeting Of The Board Of Visitors Of Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors Dec 2015

[2015-12-11] Meeting Of The Board Of Visitors Of Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

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Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, December 11, 2015, University Of South Florida Dec 2015

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, December 11, 2015, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Honorary Doctor of Science - Eric Jacobsen; Outstanding Graduate - Mary Babcock; King O'Neal Scholars - Matthew Anderson, Stephenie Cannon, Ian Dibble, Wenjun Meng, Dominick Schiavo, Alisa Vasserman, and Savannah Young

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Oral History Project/ Jerry Lafave, Heidi M. Perez Dec 2015

Oral History Project/ Jerry Lafave, Heidi M. Perez

Vietnam

No abstract provided.

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The Use Of Peer Mentoring To Decrease Stress In Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Elise G. Head Dec 2015

The Use Of Peer Mentoring To Decrease Stress In Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Elise G. Head

Doctoral Projects

Nurse anesthesia programs throughout the nation are extremely competitive with strict admissions criteria and demanding curriculum. Students enrolled in these programs, termed Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists (SRNAs), experience high average daily stress levels throughout their enrollment in a nurse anesthesia program (NAP). This quantitative study examined whether there is a decrease in SRNA average daily perceived stress when peer mentoring is employed. Inclusion criterion was all SRNAs enrolled in a single 3 year, post-baccalaureate Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) NAP at a comprehensive Carnegie research university with Southern Regional Education Board-Level 1 designation. Fifty-six SRNAs were surveyed using a modified …

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Would Not-For-Cause Randomized Drug Testing Reduce The Incidence Of Drug Misuse Among Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists?, Katy G. Gavin Dec 2015

Would Not-For-Cause Randomized Drug Testing Reduce The Incidence Of Drug Misuse Among Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists?, Katy G. Gavin

Doctoral Projects

Healthcare providers have easy access to drugs of various types and strengths, often times highly addictive drugs, all the while working long hours in high stress environments. Studies show that anesthesia providers, among other healthcare providers, are at highest risk for drug misuse. There are numerous ways substance abuse and addiction among anesthesia providers could be decreased significantly or prevented completely including, but not limited to, education, routine mental health evaluations, stress coping through exercise, debriefing sessions, and mentoring. This project focused on prevention through randomized not-for-cause drug testing. After an exhaustive review of the literature was performed, implications for …

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Utilization Of A Focus Group To Evaluate The Perceived Stress Levels And Coping Mechanisms Of Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Cillora Hicks Dec 2015

Utilization Of A Focus Group To Evaluate The Perceived Stress Levels And Coping Mechanisms Of Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Cillora Hicks

Doctoral Projects

Each year, thousands of Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists (SRNAs) matriculate into a nurse anesthesia educational program, confronted with unforeseen challenges and stressors. Although a certain amount of stress is essential to stimulate learning, excessive stress can have dire consequences in delaying a students’ academic and clinical progression. The purpose of this Capstone Project was to explore and describe the perceptions of 12 SRNAs relevant to their stress levels and coping behaviors in the management of academic and personal stress. The clinical research questions guiding the study examined the stress levels and coping behaviors of the SRNAs as measured by the …

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Improved Yield And Nitrogen Use Efficiency Of Corn Following Soybean In Irrigated Sandy Loams, Ahmed Attia, Charles A. Shapiro, William Kranz, Mitiku Mamo, Michael Mainz Dec 2015

Improved Yield And Nitrogen Use Efficiency Of Corn Following Soybean In Irrigated Sandy Loams, Ahmed Attia, Charles A. Shapiro, William Kranz, Mitiku Mamo, Michael Mainz

Haskell Agricultural Laboratory (Northeast Research and Extension Center)

Crop rotation influences yield through its effects on nutrient and pest cycles, soil C, water availability, and soil physical and chemical properties. A cropping system study was conducted from 2004 to 2008 near Brunswick, NE, on sandy loam (Haplustolls) soils to evaluate improvements of irrigated corn (Zea mays L.) yield and N use efficiency (NUE) when following soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] in 2 yr as corn following soybean (CS) or in 3 yr as first-year corn following soybean (C1) and second-year corn following soybean (C2) compared with continuous corn (CC). SPAD readings at V10 and R2 were …

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2015 Fall Commencement Program: Winona State University, Winona State University Dec 2015

2015 Fall Commencement Program: Winona State University, Winona State University

WSU Commencement Programs

This is the Winona State University Fall 2015 commencement program. Commencement was on Friday, December 11, 2015.

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Secure Cloud Computing For Solving Large-Scale Linear Systems Of Equations, Xuhui Chen Dec 2015

Secure Cloud Computing For Solving Large-Scale Linear Systems Of Equations, Xuhui Chen

Theses and Dissertations

Solving large-scale linear systems of equations (LSEs) is one of the most common and fundamental problems in big data. But such problems are often too expensive to solve for resource-limited users. Cloud computing has been proposed as an efficient and costeffective way of solving such tasks. Nevertheless, one critical concern in cloud computing is data privacy. Many previous works on secure outsourcing of LSEs have high computational complexity and share a common serious problem, i.e., a huge number of external memory I/O operations, which may render those outsourcing schemes impractical. We develop a practical secure outsourcing algorithm for solving large-scale …

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Partnership Launched To Increase International Recruitment At Uab, Jim Bakken Dec 2015

Partnership Launched To Increase International Recruitment At Uab, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

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Newsletter, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Celebrates 50, December 11, 2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of University Advancement Dec 2015

Newsletter, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Celebrates 50, December 11, 2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Office Of University Advancement

USF St. Petersburg 50th Celebration: Monthly Newsletter

An e-newsletter with updates about events for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's 50th anniversary.

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[2015-12-11] Meeting Of The Finance, Investment And Property Committee, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors Dec 2015

[2015-12-11] Meeting Of The Finance, Investment And Property Committee, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

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December 11, 2015 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate Dec 2015

December 11, 2015 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate December 11, 2015 Approved Minutes

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Scene & Herd, December 11, 2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Division Of University Relations Dec 2015

Scene & Herd, December 11, 2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Division Of University Relations

Points of Pride, Scene & Herd, and E-News

The December 11, 2015, issue of Scene & Herd, a newsletter for faculty and staff at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

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Lending A Megaphone To The Muted: The Merits Of Comprehensive Conflict Engagement Through Photovoice In Refugee Resettlement Communities, Birthe C. Reimers Dec 2015

Lending A Megaphone To The Muted: The Merits Of Comprehensive Conflict Engagement Through Photovoice In Refugee Resettlement Communities, Birthe C. Reimers

Doctor of International Conflict Management Dissertations

Local refugee resettlement sites are often overlooked as hotspots of conflict because of the unstated assumption that resettlement and escape from militarized conflict automatically mean peace. However, refugees are resettled in local communities into which old conflicts are imported, and where new ones emerge as refugees and locals need to find ways of coexisting despite cultural differences. This research was developed in response to calls by the US Office of Refugee Resettlement and the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for grassroots-level data on the challenges faced by residents of resettlement communities and for the development of strategies for promoting …

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Use Of Satellite Soil Moisture To Estimate Soil Strength And Ground Vehicle Mobility, Maria T. Stevens Dec 2015

Use Of Satellite Soil Moisture To Estimate Soil Strength And Ground Vehicle Mobility, Maria T. Stevens

Theses and Dissertations

Soil moisture is a key variable in off-road mobility. Mobility analysis was conducted based on three soil moisture sources: WindSat (a satellite), LIS (a computer model), and in situ ground sensors (assumed to represent ground truth). Mobility of six vehicles, each with different ranges of sensitivity to soil moisture, was examined in three test sites. Two methods were used: a simplified method based on time series and a fulleatured terrain method. The results demonstrated that the effect of the soil moisture error on mobility predictions is complex and may produce very significant errors in mobility analysis for certain combinations of …

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Simulation Of The Erdc Blast Load Simulator (Bls) In Various Test Configurations Using Loci/Blast, Clayton T. Mord Dec 2015

Simulation Of The Erdc Blast Load Simulator (Bls) In Various Test Configurations Using Loci/Blast, Clayton T. Mord

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis describes the simulation of ERDC’s Blast Load Simulator (BLS) using MSU’s Loci/BLAST. The BLS was created to replicate waveforms found in blast scenarios. Loci/BLAST is an explicit, unstructured CFD code that specializes in moving waveforms. ERDC conducted various tests, and a grid for each scenario was created using the SolidMesh tool. Each grid was simulated, and the results were displayed as time history plots and spatial plots. Simulations were also performed that compared 2D and 3D grids and determined the effect of the grate and striker components. There was a strong correlation between the experimental and simulation results …

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Multichannel Analysis Of Surface Waves Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors, Gustavo Galan-Comas Dec 2015

Multichannel Analysis Of Surface Waves Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors, Gustavo Galan-Comas

Theses and Dissertations

The Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) method traditionally uses an array of collinear vertical geophones to measure seismic wave propagation velocity at discrete points along the ground surface. Distributed fiber optic sensors (FOS) measure the average longitudinal strain over discrete lengths (i.e., zones) of a buried fiber optic cable. Such strain measurements can be used to assess ground motion and thus analyzed with the MASW method. To evaluate the feasibility of using FOS strain measurements in the MASW method, field experiments were conducted with both FOS and surface vertical geophones. Synthetic seismograms were also used to compare FOS to …

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Levee Slide Detection Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Magnitude And Phase, Ramakalavathi Marapareddy Dec 2015

Levee Slide Detection Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Magnitude And Phase, Ramakalavathi Marapareddy

Theses and Dissertations

The objectives of this research are to support the development of state-of-the-art methods using remotely sensed data to detect slides or anomalies in an efficient and cost-effective manner based on the use of SAR technology. Slough or slump slides are slope failures along a levee, which leave areas of the levee vulnerable to seepage and failure during high water events. This work investigates the facility of detecting the slough slides on an earthen levee with different types of polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (polSAR) imagery. The source SAR imagery is fully quad-polarimetric L-band data from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL’s) …

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Low Rank And Sparse Representation For Hyperspectral Imagery Analysis, Alex Hendro Sumarsono Dec 2015

Low Rank And Sparse Representation For Hyperspectral Imagery Analysis, Alex Hendro Sumarsono

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation develops new techniques employing the Low-rank and Sparse Representation approaches to improve the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms in hyperspectral image analysis. The contributions of this dissertation are outlined as follows. 1) Low-rank and sparse representation approaches, i.e., low-rank representation (LRR) and low-rank subspace representation (LRSR), are proposed for hyperspectral image analysis, including target and anomaly detection, estimation of the number of signal subspaces, supervised and unsupervised classification. 2) In supervised target and unsupervised anomaly detection, the performance can be improved by using the LRR sparse matrix. To further increase detection accuracy, data is partitioned into several highly-correlated groups. …

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Daily Eastern News: December 11, 2015, Eastern Illinois University Dec 2015

Daily Eastern News: December 11, 2015, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

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Observation Of Transverse Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations Of Charged Pion Pairs In P↑+P At √S=200  Gev, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, G. S. Averichev Dec 2015

Observation Of Transverse Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations Of Charged Pion Pairs In P↑+P At √S=200  Gev, James K. Adkins, Renee H. Fatemi, Suvarna Ramachandran, L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, A. Aparin, D. Arkhipkin, E. C. Aschenauer, G. S. Averichev

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report the observation of transverse polarization-dependent azimuthal correlations in charged pion pair production with the STAR experiment in p↑+p collisions at RHIC. These correlations directly probe quark transversity distributions. We measure signals in excess of 5 standard deviations at high transverse momenta, at high pseudorapidities η>0.5, and for pair masses around the mass of the ρ meson. This is the first direct transversity measurement in p+p collisions.

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The Mimes Survey Of Magnetism In Massive Stars: Introduction And Overview, G. A. Wade, C. Neiner, E. Alecian, H. H. Grunhunt, V. Petit, B. Batz, D. A. Bohlender, D. H. Cohen, H. F. Henrichs, O. Kochukhov, J. D. Landstreet, N. Manset, F. Martins, S. Mathis, M. E. Oksala, S. P. Owocki, Th. Rivinius, M. E. Schultz, J. O. Sundqvist, R. H.D. Townsend, A. Doula, J. C. Bouret, J. Braithwaite, M. Briquet, A. C. Carciofi, A. David-Uraz, C. P. Folsom, A. W. Fullerton, B. Leroy, W. L.F. Marcolino, A. F.J. Moffat, Y. Naze, N. St Louis, M. Auriere, S. Bagnulo, J. D. Bailey, R. H. Barba, A. Blazere, T. Bohm, C. Catala, J-F Donati, L. Ferrario, D. Harrington, I. D. Howarth, Richard Ignace, L. Kaper, T. Luftinger, R. Prinja, J. S. Vink, W. W. Weiss, I. Yakunin Dec 2015

The Mimes Survey Of Magnetism In Massive Stars: Introduction And Overview, G. A. Wade, C. Neiner, E. Alecian, H. H. Grunhunt, V. Petit, B. Batz, D. A. Bohlender, D. H. Cohen, H. F. Henrichs, O. Kochukhov, J. D. Landstreet, N. Manset, F. Martins, S. Mathis, M. E. Oksala, S. P. Owocki, Th. Rivinius, M. E. Schultz, J. O. Sundqvist, R. H.D. Townsend, A. Doula, J. C. Bouret, J. Braithwaite, M. Briquet, A. C. Carciofi, A. David-Uraz, C. P. Folsom, A. W. Fullerton, B. Leroy, W. L.F. Marcolino, A. F.J. Moffat, Y. Naze, N. St Louis, M. Auriere, S. Bagnulo, J. D. Bailey, R. H. Barba, A. Blazere, T. Bohm, C. Catala, J-F Donati, L. Ferrario, D. Harrington, I. D. Howarth, Richard Ignace, L. Kaper, T. Luftinger, R. Prinja, J. S. Vink, W. W. Weiss, I. Yakunin

ETSU Faculty Works

The MiMeS (Magnetism in Massive Stars) project is a large-scale, high-resolution, sensitive spectropolarimetric investigation of the magnetic properties of O- and early B-type stars. Initiated in 2008 and completed in 2013, the project was supported by three Large Program allocations, as well as various programmes initiated by independent principal investigators, and archival resources. Ultimately, over 4800 circularly polarized spectra of 560 O and B stars were collected with the instruments ESPaDOnS (Echelle SpectroPolarimetric Device for the Observation of Stars) at the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope, Narval at the Télescope Bernard Lyot and HARPSpol at the European Southern Observatory La Silla 3.6 m …

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