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2015 Annual Report For The Ksu Library System, Kennesaw State University Library System

Library Reports and Surveys

This is the Annual Report for the Kennesaw State University Library System for fiscal year 2015 (July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015). The content of the report represents the Horace W. Sturgis Library, the Lawrence V. Johnson Library, and the Performing Arts Library of KSU.

Maine Turnpike Authority Financial Report December 2015, Maine Turnpike Authority

Department of Transportation (MaineDOT)

No abstract provided.

Educational Leadership Newsletter December 2015, Educational Leadership Department, University Of Southern Maine

Educational Leadership Newsletters

Inside this issue:

• From the Chair
• Southern Maine Partnership Update
• Alumni News
• Two Cohort Programs to Begin Fall 2016
• Thinking About Internship?
• PhD in Public Policy with a Concentration in Educational Leadership and Policy New Cohort Starting Fall 2016
• Spring 2016 Schedule

Student-Faculty Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Research Synopsis: Complement Resistance In Bartonella Species, Benjamin Mason

Additional DHC Research, Creative Scholarship, Papers, and Presentations

Of the 31 validated species in the genus Bartonella, 11 are agents of serious infectious diseases of humans, among them Carrión’s disease, trench fever, cat-scratch disease, and bacillary angiomatosis. Bartonella are extremely widespread, having been found in virtually every type of mammal surveyed. As facultative intracellular parasites employing hemotrophy (infection of red blood cells), the key to their success comes in their ability to survive within the bloodstream of their host or reservoir. It has been demonstrated that bartonellae are resistant to the effects of complement proteins in serum, the primary agents of the innate immune system. Although this effect …

Review Of Peter Wade, Et Al., Eds., Mestizo Genomics: Race Mixture, Nation, And Science In Latin America, Julia E. Rodriguez

History

No abstract provided.

Responsible Wastewater Management: Whiting Farm Wastewater System Design And Feasibility Analysis, Annie Horstmeyer, Sacha Zabotin, Ana Urbina, Ben Pratt

Community Engaged Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Commercial Kitchen Use And Capacity Around The Lewiston-Auburn Area In The Grow L+A And Irssc Assessment Of Development Opportunities For Bates Mill No. 5, Lewiston, Maine, Adam Auerbach, Catherine Dipietro, James Jhun, Hannah Kiesler

Community Engaged Research Reports

None

Innovation In The Library: How To Encourage New Ideas, Create Buy-In, And Serve Our Patrons Better, Julie Evener

Other Topics

Innovation is a much touted concept in the business world. Libraries, too, have felt the need for continuous innovation as we serve ever-changing needs. Leaders can use principles practiced in business to transform academic libraries into cultures of innovation. In a culture of innovation, employees are engaged in their work and excited about the possibilities of it. Leaders help cultivate creativity by promoting growth mind-sets, rewarding experimentation, and practicing discovery skills. Importantly, library leaders in cultures of innovation hone persuasive abilities to create buy-in for implementing innovations in order to serve users more effectively with dynamic solutions to persistent problems.

The Thinker 3.12, Amy Thompson

Library Newsletters

The Thinker newsletter for December 2015

Gsu View, 2015-12-01, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

December 2015 Isidore Update, University Of Dayton. Center For Online Learning

Center for Online Learning Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Identifying The Gaps In The Methodology Of Nh Farm Injury Surveillance Using Hospital Discharge Data, Karla R. Armenti, D. Weiss

Institute on Disability

No abstract provided.

Economic Impact To Shipping Industry : Economic Impact To Shipping Industry Considering Maritime Spatial Planning And Green Routes In Pilot Case Studies, Pantelis G. Anaxagorou, A Pappas, I Giraud, D Stratigis, E Papadopoulos, Lilitha Pongolini, Fabio Ballini, Piotr Treichel, Xavier Martínez De Osés, Sergio Velásquez Correa, M ·La Castells, I Ortigosa

MONALISA 2.0

In this project, three case studies are considered in order to examine the economic impact of the implementation of MSP when considering environmental impact of the shipping industry. Specific characteristics and limitations of areas in the Greek Sea, the Balearic Sea and the Baltic Sea are evaluated with respect to their economic effects on the maritime transport domain.

The purpose of the above is to evaluate the economic impacts and risk implications of different scenarios and particularly:

• The economic impact of vessel traffic rerouting and/or reducing the speed in order to reduce the probability of vessel strikes or other negative …

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Integrating Dynamic Route Planning : Feasibility Of Integrating Dynamic Route Planning In Maritime Spatial Planning, Riccardo Bozzo, Lilitha Pongolini, Fabio Ballini, Xavier Martínez De Osés, Sergio Velásquez Correa

MONALISA 2.0

MONALISA 2.0 report on the feasibility of integrating dynamic route planning in Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP.

Selected Characteristics For Nebraska Counties From The 2010-2014 American Community Survey, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Past Publications

On December 5, 2015, the U.S. Census Bureau released five‐year American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for the combined years of 2009 through 2013, making available social, economic, housing and demographic statistics for Nebraska’s counties. Also available are estimates for every community and legislative district in Nebraska and the nation.

The data are based on a rolling national sample survey mailed to about 3 million addresses each year, resulting in nearly 2 million final interviews each year from 2010 through 2014. By pooling several years of survey responses, the ACS can generate detailed statistical portraits of smaller geographies such as counties. …

Buddy Study: Partners For Better Health In Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes, Allison C. Sylvetsky, Randa Nandagopal, Tammy T. Nguyen, Marisa R. Abegg, Mahathi Nagarur, Paul Kaplowitz, Kristina I. Rother

Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Faculty Publications

AIM: To investigate whether assigning young, healthy and motivated lay volunteer partners (“buddies”) to adolescents with type 2 diabetes improves hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c).

METHODS: Adolescents with type 2 diabetes were randomized to partnering with a “buddy” or to conventional treatment. During the initial screening visit, which coincided with a routine outpatient diabetes clinic visit, patients with type 2 diabetes underwent a physical examination, detailed medical history, laboratory measurement of HbA1c, and completed two questionnaires (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory and Children’s Depression Inventory) to assess their overall quality of life and the presence of depressive symptoms. Patients were …

To The Mountaintop, Earnest Bickerstaff

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

Rehearsal, Robin Tryloff

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

Loss, Ashley Curtice

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

Catholic Guilt : Longing And Belonging In The Fiction Of François Mauriac And John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher

Articles

No abstract provided.

A Bystander Bullying Psychoeducation Program With Middle School Students: A Preliminary Report, Aida Midgett, Diana Doumas, Dara Sears, Amanda Lundquist, Robin Hausheer

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a brief, stand-alone bystander bullying psychoeducation program for middle school students. The purpose of the program was to train students to take action as peer advocates. Pre- and post-tests indicated that after completing the 90-minute psychoeducation program, students reported an increase in their ability to identify what different types of bullying look like, knowledge of bystander intervention strategies, and general confidence intervening as peer advocates. Implications for school counselors are discussed, including (1) taking a leadership role in program implementation, (2) having access to a brief, cost-effective bystander training intervention, and (3) applying the …

Judicial Candor And Extralegal Reasoning: Why Extralegal Reasons Require Legal Justifications (And No More), Eric Dean Hageman

Notre Dame Law Review

This Note’s first Part explores two landmark Supreme Court cases, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey and NFIB, that may have been decided based on extralegal considerations. Part II describes three prominent theories of judicial candor with an eye to the results they might yield with respect to extralegal reasoning. Part III offers and defends a new, partial theory of judicial candor. This theory is that a judge who employs extralegal reasoning should omit discussion of her reliance on that reasoning and justify her decision with legal reasoning.

The first two Parts will demonstrate that there is a …

Swerve, Kaitlin A. Castillo, Cichasky A. Catherine

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Carpooling yields great benefits environmentally, socially, and economically for carpooling, however there is no easy to use, safe, and enjoyable application for people to connect with others who are both close in proximity and have schedules that match currently. By creating a database and visual mock ups, our senior project creates the basis for an application called Swerve that matches users by location and schedules and has social and economic incentives. Our research allowed us to further understand the social, environmental and economic benefits and incentives of carpooling. We also looked into current carpooling websites and applications and could not …

Estimation Of Cold Plasma Outflow During Geomagnetic Storms, S. Haaland, A. Eriksson, M. Andre, L. Maes, L. Baddeley, A. Barakat, R. Chappell, V. Eccles, C. Johnsen, B. Lybekk, K. Li, A. Pedersen, Robert W. Schunk, D. Welling

All Physics Faculty Publications

Low-energy ions of ionospheric origin constitute a significant contributor to the magnetospheric plasma population. Measuring cold ions is difficult though. Observations have to be done at sufficiently high altitudes and typically in regions of space where spacecraft attain a positive charge due to solar illumination. Cold ions are therefore shielded from the satellite particle detectors. Furthermore, spacecraft can only cover key regions of ion outflow during segments of their orbit, so additional complications arise if continuous longtime observations, such as during a geomagnetic storm, are needed. In this paper we suggest a new approach, based on a combination of synoptic …

Predictive Formula For Electron Range Over A Large Span Of Energy, Anne C. Starley

Reports

A model developed by the Materials Research Group that calculates electron penetration range of some common materials, has been greatly expanded with the hope that such extensions will predict the range in other, perhaps, more interesting materials. Developments in this extended model aid in predicting the approximate penetration depth into diverse classes of materials for a broad range of energetic incident electrons (10 MeV, with better than 20% accuracy). The penetration depth—or range—of a material describes the maximum distance electrons can travel through a material, before losing all of its incident kinetic energy. This model has started to predict a …

Predictive Formula For Electron Range Over A Large Span Of Energy, Anne C. Starley, Jr Dennison

Senior Theses and Projects

A model developed by the Materials Research Group that calculates electron penetration range of some common materials, has been greatly expanded with the hope that such extensions will predict the range in other, perhaps, more interesting materials. Developments in this extended model aid in predicting the approximate penetration depth into diverse classes of materials for a broad range of energetic incident electrons (<10 eV to>10 MeV, with better than 20% accuracy). The penetration depth—or range—of a material describes the maximum distance electrons can travel through a material, before losing all of its incident kinetic energy. This model has started to predict …

Observation Of Transverse Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations Of Charged Pion Pairs In P + P At Sqrt(S) = 200 Gev, Adam Gibson-Even, Shirvel Stanislaus, Donald Koetke, Star Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Regional Wine Reputation: How It Influences Trade And Consumer Purchasing Behavior, Joseph Bernard Ostrander

Master's Theses

ABSTRACT

Regional Wine Reputation: How It Influences Trade

and Consumer Purchasing Behavior

Joseph Bernard Ostrander

What are wine trade buyers and wine consumers willing to pay for a bottle of wine based on the reputation of the grape growing region apart from existing corporate branding reputation, variety popularity, or accolades from industry periodicals and celebrity wine critics? Results from a previous study discovered how attitudes about place-of-origin influenced consumer perceptions regarding the quality associated with the wines from that region. Related research also looked at how wine prices depended on the quality associated with a wine region’s reputation when linked …

The Science Of Christmas...Dinner Table, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Other resources

No abstract provided.

Ethnic Differences In Self-Efficacy At Southern Adventist University, Seth L. Daly Stennis

Capstone Research Projects

Valid concern has been expressed about the poor academic performance of African American students, in comparison to their other ethnic counterparts. The literature has attempted to explain this anomaly. A large portion of the studies show how socioeconomic standing and parental involvement play a role in this achievement gap. A more modest smattering used psychological factors to explain the deplorable academic achievement in African Americans. One such psychological factor, self-efficacy, was not well represented in the literature; few papers discussed the association of self-efficacy and African American academic success. The purpose of this study was to describe self-efficacy levels of …