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Supporting Sensemaking Of Complex Objects With Visualizations: Visibility And Complementarity Of Interactions, Kamran Sedig, Paul Parsons, Hai-Ning Liang, Jim Morey

All Works

Making sense of complex objects is difficult, and typically requires the use of external representations to support cognitive demands while reasoning about the objects. Visualizations are one type of external representation that can be used to support sensemaking activities. In this paper, we investigate the role of two design strategies in making the interactive features of visualizations more supportive of users’ exploratory needs when trying to make sense of complex objects. These two strategies are visibility and complementarity of interactions. We employ a theoretical framework concerned with human–information interaction and complex cognitive activities to inform, contextualize, and interpret the effects …

Cardiovascular Regulation By Kvβ1.1 Subunit, Jared Tur

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Heterologous expression systems such as COS-7 cells have demonstrated the profound effects of KCNAB1-3 or Kvβ1-3 proteins on voltage gated potassium channels (Kv) channels. Indeed, in the presence of these β-subunits transiently expressed Kv channels are often modulated in multiple ways. Kv channel membrane expression is often increased in the presence of β-subunits. In addition, non-inactivating Kv currents suddenly become fast-inactivating and fast-inactivating channels become even faster. While much research has demonstrated the profound effects the β-subunits in particular the Kvβ1 subunit have on transiently expressed Kv currents little to date is known of the physiological role it may play. …

Effects Of Eurycoma Longifolia And Maca Root On Libido And Mood In Premenopausal Women With Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder: A Case Study Design, Ryan Gerald Moran

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The aim of this study was to determine if Eurycoma longifolia in combination with maca root could be effective in treating women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder. Using a randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over, case study design we evaluated the hypothesis that E. longifolia and maca root (3400 total mg/day) supplementation by premenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder would imporve mood, libido, overall quality of life, muscular strength, and aerobic capacity. E. longifolia and maca root su[[lementation did not elicit positive changes in muscular strength or aerobic capacity. Further investigation using a larger sample size may evalutate the aphrodisiac properties of …

Touch Of Nature - Design Build, Katlyn Montague

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Touch of Nature, an educational facility that’s goal is to enhance learning of the natural environment, hired our Architecture Building Technology class to design and build several educational kiosks located along the Rocky Ledges Trail. These kiosks included signage that will educate hikers on the environment around them.

Where's Walrus? And Penguin?, Aylea Stephens

Children's Book and Media Review

When Walrus and Penguin manage to escape from the zoo, they are in for a lot of fun adventure. Disguising themselves as a mother and a baby, ticket takers and newspaper sellers, a pigeon feeder and a pigeon, part of a crew on a rowboat, a taxi driver and passenger, the orchestra director and member of an opera, and players on a baseball team, they manage to avoid the zookeepers trying to catch them. When Walrus gets hit on the head and has to be taken to the hospital, however, Walrus finds someone to be the love of his life.

Wake Up, Island, Tessa Mcmillan

Children's Book and Media Review

During the dawning hours, as a child sleeps soundly in bed, the world on the child’s island home starts waking up. Animals, birds, plants, and insects begin their morning routines of waking from their beds, foraging for food, and securing their homes. In the midst of all this outdoor activity, the child is awakened by the sun’s light. However, not even a hearty pancake breakfast can keep the child from running outside to welcome the start of a new day.

The Somewhat True Adventures Of Sammy Shine, Tessa Mcmillan

Children's Book and Media Review

Jimmy has built a flight-ready, small aircraft, and he’s itching for a test pilot. So, he steals Hanks’ pet mouse, Sammy Shine. But the launch goes awry when Jimmy accidentally destroys the plane’s remote. Sammy takes over the controls, but he eventually crashes inside the wild Great Woods. Once there, Sammy meets a mouse clan and their friendly leader, Osmund. Osmund believes Sammy is magical because of his airplane, but warns that Mustela, the evil weasel, will want it to take over the woods. When Sammy’s aircraft disappears and Mustela isn’t to blame, Sammy searches for Goggles, an old and …

Pax, Jess Verzello

Children's Book and Media Review

Pax and his boy Peter are inseparable—that is until the oncoming war forces them apart. Before he reports to the front lines, Peter’s father is sending Peter off to live with his grandfather, but forces the boy to leave his fox behind in the forest where Pax will be “safe.” However, once apart, Peter discovers that leaving Pax was the worst decision of his life. He sets out on a journey to find his beloved other half; his determination fueled by love and loyalty. Even though Pax and Peter are apart, their connection is stronger than ever as they faithfully …

Numbers With Nemo, Cynthia Phillips

Children's Book and Media Review

Nemo is having a party! The characters from Disney’s Finding Nemo are featured in an under the sea party aimed at teaching preschoolers numbers one through ten. Preschoolers will identify, count, trace, sequence, and match numbers. Children can record the numbers in their own voice and decorate interactive scenes with earned stickers. Mr. Ray, Nemo’s teacher, is the host and entertains the guests with songs. A secured parent section allows you to add accounts for up to four children that will track their progress. It also provides additional information on reinforcing learning at home. This animated app has been awarded …

No Better Friend: A Man, A Dog, And Their Incredible True Story Of Friendship And Survival In World War Ii (Young Readers Edition), Liz Kazandzhy

Children's Book and Media Review

World War II began in the Pacific as a result of Japan’s imperialist desire to conquer its surrounding nations. In 1942, after sweeping through Siam and Malaya, Japanese forces unexpectedly overtook Britain-occupied Singapore. It was at this point that the stories of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain’s Royal Air Force, and Judy, a loyal and talented pointer, began to collide. Having both been on ships that were attacked by the Japanese, they found themselves stranded for a time until finding a way to journey across the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the city of Padang. Unfortunately for them, Padang …

Muddle And Match: Monsters, Cynthia Phillips

Children's Book and Media Review

Barry the brave, batty beast gives a graceful and glorious gig on the guitar and obtains an ovation from the other outlaws. Confused? This charming board book is filled with silly monster alliterations. Each monster has a top, a middle, and a bottom that can be mixed and matched with monster parts on other split pages. The there are 8 monsters in simple and bright illustrations. The combinations that are made make new monsters and new stories to tell. Muddle and Match Monsters is one in a book series entitled Muddle and Match. Other books in the series include Muddle …

Jake's Never Land Shapes And Patterns, Cynthia Phillips

Children's Book and Media Review

That sneaky Captain Hook is after the treasure! Jake and his friends need get there before Captain Hook and Smee. In this game, children learn about shapes and patterns with the characters from Disney’s Jake and the Neverland Pirates. This preschool game has tracing, matching, and patterns presented in a storybook format. During the adventure they can earn gold doubloons, buy pirate gear, and take pictures of themselves for a personalized dancing puppet.

Volume 2, Chapter 12-18: Terrestrial Insects: Holometabola - Diptera Nematocera: Tipuloidea, Janice M. Glime

Bryophyte Ecology Subchapters

No abstract provided.

In Vivo Calcium Imaging Study Of The Geniculate Ganglion And The Taste Transmission In The Periphery, An Wu

Open Access Dissertations

Taste information travels from the taste end organ, taste buds, to gustatory sensory neurons before integrating into central gustatory regions. In taste buds, receptor cells transduce sweet, bitter, or umami taste. Presynaptic cells directly transduce sour taste although they respond to multiple tastes as well via cell-cell communications. Salty taste is believed to be sensed by ENaC-expressing taste cells. Despite this consensus about coding in taste buds, whether information in gustatory sensory neurons is organized following the labeled-line theory or more complex coding mechanisms remains controversial. The geniculate ganglion is a major sensory ganglion of the gustatory system; it innervates …

October 27, 2016, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Eleanor Noriega Muratalla, Csusb

South Colton Oral History Project Collection

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 19, October 27, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Plamen Ivkov Ayvazov V. Attorney General United States

2016 Decisions

Agency

Luring Bobcats With "Chanel #5 For Kitties", Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, October 27, 2016, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Inefficient Inequality, Shi-Ling Hsu

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

For the past several decades, much American lawmaking has been animated by a concern for economic efficiency. At the same time, broad concerns over wealth and income inequality have roiled American politics, and still loom over lawmakers. It can be reasonably argued that a tension exists between efficiency and equality, but that argument has had too much purchase over the past few decades of lawmaking. What has been overlooked is that inequality itself can be allocatively inefficient when it gives rise to collectively inefficient behavior. Worse still, some lawmaking only masquerades as being efficiency-promoting; upon closer inspection, some of this …

Dynamic Perception Of Dynamic Affordances: Walking On A Ship At Sea, Hannah Walter, Jeffrey B. Wagman, Nicholas Stergiou, Nurtekin Erkmen, Thomas A. Stoffregen

Journal Articles

Motion of the surface of the sea (waves, and swell) causes oscillatory motion of ships at sea. Generally, ships are longer than they are wide. One consequence of this structural difference is that oscillatory ship motion typically will be greater in roll (i.e., the ship rolling from side to side) than in pitch (i.e., the bow and stern rising and falling). For persons on ships at sea, affordances for walking on the open deck should be differentially influenced by ship motion in roll and pitch. Specifically, the minimum width of a walkable path should be greater when walking along the …

Building Viral Replication Organelles: Close Encounters Of The Membrane Types, Peter D. Nagy, Jeroen R. P. M. Strating, Frank J. M. Van Kuppeveld

Plant Pathology Faculty Publications

Positive-strand (+)RNA viruses are important and emerging pathogens of humans, animals, and plants. Upon infection, they induce the formation of specialized membranous replication organelles with unique lipid composition to facilitate robust virus replication. In this article, the authors discuss the proviral role of virus-induced membrane contact sites (vMCSs). The emerging picture is that vMCSs channel lipids to viral membranes and tune the lipid composition for optimal generation and functioning of replication organelles.

Case For Christian Higher Education: Two-Year Technical Programs, Too, Joel K. Sikkema

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"The importance of today’s professional-technical vocations is critical to the collective work for Christ in today’s world. People serving in these fields are truly at the front lines, responding to God’s word with their hearts, minds, and hands."

Posting about the need for Christian technical training from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/the-case-for-christian-higher-education-two-year-technical-programs-too/

The Cowl - V.81 - N.7 - Oct 27, 2016

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 81 - No. 7 - October 27, 2016. 24 pages.

Nitrogen Biogeochemistry In Binghamton, Ny, A Medium-Sized Urban Ecosystem, Stephanie Craig

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Humans have altered nitrogen (N) cycling on a global scale, and elevated nitrogen levels are characteristic of urban ecosystems. The major reasons that N is higher in cities include imports of food, fuel and fertilizer. High N export from both point- and nonpoint-sources is common in large cities. While N cycling has been studied in large urban areas, less is known about its cycling in medium-sized cities, such as Binghamton, N.Y. We found that point-source N exported from the Binghamton-Johnson City Wastewater Treatment Plant (B-JC WWTP) was greater than nonpoint-source N exported from eight urban streams to the Susquehanna River, …

The Intestinal Parasites Of An Assemblage Of Stream Fishes In Central Utah, Matthew Rambo, Ashlee N. Smith, Mehmet Cemal Oguz, Mark C. Belk

Western North American Naturalist

Parasite communities of stream fish assemblages in the western United States are poorly known. We investigated the intestinal parasites of an assemblage of stream fishes in Spanish Fork River in central Utah, USA. Two species, mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdii) and redside shiner (Richardsonius balteatus), had no observable parasites. In the other 3 species, southern leatherside chub (Lepidomeda aliciae), mountain sucker (Catostomus platyrhynchus), and longnose dace (Rhinichthys cataractae), we identified metacercia of an unidentified trematode. We found adult cestodes in southern leatherside chub only. Prevalence and intensity of parasites was highest …

Spartan Daily, October 27, 2016, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2016

Volume 147, Issue 25

The Bg News October 27, 2016, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. October 27, 2016. Volume 96-Issue 21.

The Inkwell, Armstrong State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.