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Old Testament History, Steelman Library, Gerry White Dr. Jan 2016

Old Testament History, Steelman Library, Gerry White Dr.

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No abstract provided.


Jeremiah, Steelman Library, Steven M. Fettke Jan 2016

Jeremiah, Steelman Library, Steven M. Fettke

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No abstract provided.


Western Art Appreciation, Steelman Library, Jon Seals Jan 2016

Western Art Appreciation, Steelman Library, Jon Seals

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Western Art Appreciation, Steelman Library, Jon Seals Jan 2016

Western Art Appreciation, Steelman Library, Jon Seals

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No abstract provided.


Screen Acting, Steelman Library, Chris Clark Jan 2016

Screen Acting, Steelman Library, Chris Clark

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Drawing 2, Steelman Library, Jon Seals Jan 2016

Drawing 2, Steelman Library, Jon Seals

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Color Theory, Steelman Library, Jon Seals Jan 2016

Color Theory, Steelman Library, Jon Seals

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Enhancing Student Learning By Narrowing The Gap Between Feedback Giving And Feedback Receiving, Eileen Goold Jan 2016

Enhancing Student Learning By Narrowing The Gap Between Feedback Giving And Feedback Receiving, Eileen Goold

Conference Papers

Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement. However the mere provision of feedback to students does not necessarily lead to improved learning. Feedback is ineffective if it does not close the gap between learning goals and students’ performance. Often students do not have clear goals and they do not know what learning activities will improve their learning performance. Consequently the opportunity to learn from the feedback is lost. Learning is a social process and while young people have increasingly strong social needs they struggle with academic language. This study investigates the influence of lecturers’ feedback …


Henry Worrall (1825–1902): Anglo-American Guitarist, Robert Ferguson Jan 2016

Henry Worrall (1825–1902): Anglo-American Guitarist, Robert Ferguson

Soundboard Scholar

Anglo-American guitarist Henry Worrall appeared on the American scene just as the guitar reached a plateau of popularity. As vital as the guitar itself, the prevailing social, philosophical, and aesthetic tenets of Worrall's era also wove a unifying thread through his life, career, and oeuvre. His immersion in both the graphic and musical arts; his straddling of vernacular and high culture; his connection to nature and especially agriculture; his nationalist and regionalist sympathies; and his fondness for folk, popular, and heroic musical themes all drew from and evinced a Romantic worldview. Here, Ferguson discusses Worrall's professional life.


The Life And Times Of Josef Kaspar Mertz: New Biographical Insights, Andreas Stevens Jan 2016

The Life And Times Of Josef Kaspar Mertz: New Biographical Insights, Andreas Stevens

Soundboard Scholar

Stevens examines the biographical information about the German Romantic-era guitarist Josef Kaspar Mertz.The first one, authored in Russian by Nicolai Makaroff, became the best known because it has been available in English. By today's standards, Makaroff's recollections of the guitar's situation in the middle of the nineteenth century seem deeply subjective. Ever on the lookout for active exponents of the art of guitar playing, he met Mertz twice in Vienna and witnessed several private performances by Mertz. For better or for worse, his less-than-enthusiastic assessment of Mertz's playing has been taken at face value for perhaps too long, especially since …


Compositional Changes For Reduction Of Polymerisation-Induced Shrinkage In Holo, Dervil Cody, Mohesh Moothanchery, Emilia Mihaylova, Vincent Toal, Svetlana Mintova, Izabela Naydenova Jan 2016

Compositional Changes For Reduction Of Polymerisation-Induced Shrinkage In Holo, Dervil Cody, Mohesh Moothanchery, Emilia Mihaylova, Vincent Toal, Svetlana Mintova, Izabela Naydenova

Doctoral

Polymerisation-induced shrinkage is one of the main reasons why many photopolymer materials are not used for certain applications including holographic optical elements and holographic data storage. Here, two compositional changes for the reduction of shrinkage in an acrylamide-based photopolymer are reported. A holographic interferometric technique was used to study changes in the dynamics of the shrinkage processes occurring in the modified photopolymer during holographic recording in real time. Firstly, the effect of the replacement of the acrylamide monomer in the photopolymer composition with a larger monomer molecule, diacetone acrylamide, on polymerisation-induced shrinkage has been studied. A reduction in relative shrinkage …


Frankenfolk: Distinctiveness And Attractiveness Of Voice And Motion, Jan Ondřej, Cathy Ennis, Niamh Merriman, Carol O'Sullivan Jan 2016

Frankenfolk: Distinctiveness And Attractiveness Of Voice And Motion, Jan Ondřej, Cathy Ennis, Niamh Merriman, Carol O'Sullivan

Articles

It is common practice in movies and games to use different actors for the voice and body/face motion of a virtual character. What effect does the combination of these different modalities have on the perception of the viewer? In this article, we conduct a series of experiments to evaluate the distinctiveness and attractiveness of human motions (face and body) and voices. We also create combination characters called FrankenFolks, where we mix and match the voice, body motion, face motion, and avatar of different actors and ask which modality is most dominant when determining distinctiveness and attractiveness or whether the effects …


The Impact Of Soft Cl Wear On Corneal Curvature And Thickness And On The Outcomes Of Refractive Laser Surgery, Aoife Lloyd Mckernan Jan 2016

The Impact Of Soft Cl Wear On Corneal Curvature And Thickness And On The Outcomes Of Refractive Laser Surgery, Aoife Lloyd Mckernan

Doctoral

Introduction: Soft CL (SCL) wear can alter the cornea and have significant effects on vision quality (Hardten and Gosavi, 2009; Pflugfelder et al., 2002; Ryan and Jacob, 1996; Tseng et al., 2007). This may have implications for visual outcomes following corneal refractive surgery (CRS) (Tang et al., 2005). The time required for resolution of these SCL-induced changes can vary (González-Méijome et al., 2003a; Hashemi et al., 2008; Ng et al., 2007; Nourouzi et al., 2006; Schornack, 2003; Wang et al., 2002b). Despite this, current guidelines relating to cessation of SCL wear prior to CRS vary greatly, and are lacking in …


Resolving Perception Based Problems In Human-Computer Dialogue, Niels Schütte Jan 2016

Resolving Perception Based Problems In Human-Computer Dialogue, Niels Schütte

Doctoral

We investigate the effect of sensor errors on situated human­ computer dialogues. If a human user instructs a robot to perform a task in a spatial environment, errors in the robot's sensor based perception of the environment may result in divergences between the user's and the robot's understanding of the environment. If the user and the robot communicate through a language based interface, these problems may result in complex misunderstand­ ings. In this work we investigate such situations. We set up a simulation based scenario in which a human user instructs a robot to perform a series of manipulation tasks, …


Novel Therapeutic Approaches To Induce Autophagy In Brain Cancer, Gillian Conway Jan 2016

Novel Therapeutic Approaches To Induce Autophagy In Brain Cancer, Gillian Conway

Doctoral

Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is classified as a malignant grade IV astrocytoma, and is considered to be the most biologically aggressive brain tumour with a 5-year survival rate of ~4%. The most frequent issue arising with GBM tumours is the high level of resistance observed to conventional therapeutic methods i.e. surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, thus signifying the urgency for the development of novel therapeutic methods. This study aims to investigate and develop both a complimentary and novel method to overcome the current treatment barriers. We have investigated the use of novel technologies such as cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) as an alternative …


A New Educational Mobile Devices Platform For Social Inclusion In Tanzania, Fredrick Mtenzi Jan 2016

A New Educational Mobile Devices Platform For Social Inclusion In Tanzania, Fredrick Mtenzi

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Abstract— It is evident that advances in technology has led to improvement in societal wellbeing. In this paper we demonstrate how mobile phones are used in providing reliable and quality education to students in disadvantaged areas of Tanzania. The main contribution is on leveraging on the success that Tanzania has had on using mobile banking to the un-banked population. These lessons are adapted to the education sector, where clever/smart integration of existing disruptive technologies such as mobile phones and social networks are be used to provide access to high quality educational contents. Further, the paper shows how educational content can …


Long-Term Drainage Reduces Co2 Uptake And Increases Co2 Emission On A Siberian Floodplain Due To Shifts In Vegetation Community And Soil Thermal Characteristics, Min Jung Kwon, Martin Heimann, Olaf Kolle, Kristina Luus, Edward A. G. Schuur, Nikita Zimov, Sergey A. Zimov, Mathias Göckede Jan 2016

Long-Term Drainage Reduces Co2 Uptake And Increases Co2 Emission On A Siberian Floodplain Due To Shifts In Vegetation Community And Soil Thermal Characteristics, Min Jung Kwon, Martin Heimann, Olaf Kolle, Kristina Luus, Edward A. G. Schuur, Nikita Zimov, Sergey A. Zimov, Mathias Göckede

Articles

Abstract. With increasing air temperatures and changing precipitation patterns forecast for the Arctic over the coming decades, the thawing of ice-rich permafrost is expected to increasingly alter hydrological conditions by creating mosaics of wetter and drier areas. The objective of this study is to investigate how 10 years of lowered water table depths of wet floodplain ecosystems would affect CO2 fluxes measured using a closed chamber system, focusing on the role of long-term changes in soil thermal characteristics and vegetation community structure. Drainage diminishes the heat capacity and thermal conductivity of organic soil, leading to warmer soil temperatures in shallow …


Sparse Adaptive Local Machine Learning Algorithms For Sensing And Analytics, Jack Cannon Jan 2016

Sparse Adaptive Local Machine Learning Algorithms For Sensing And Analytics, Jack Cannon

Maseeh Summer Undergraduate Research Experience

The goal of digital image processing is to capture, transmit, and display images as efficiently as possible. Such tasks are computationally intensive because an image is digitally represented by large amounts of data. It is possible to render an image by reconstructing it with a subset of the most relevant data. One such procedure used to accomplish this task is commonly referred to as sparse coding. For our purpose, we use images of handwritten digits that are presented to an artificial neural network. The network implements Rozell's locally competitive algorithm (LCA) to generate a sparse code. This sparse code is …


“What Is Old Is New Again”: Comments On Malcolm Feeley’S Tappan Lecture, Hadar Aviram Jan 2016

“What Is Old Is New Again”: Comments On Malcolm Feeley’S Tappan Lecture, Hadar Aviram

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


After The Tmdls, Dave Owen Jan 2016

After The Tmdls, Dave Owen

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Judicial Ethical Integrity: Challenges And Solutions, Morris A. Ratner Jan 2016

Judicial Ethical Integrity: Challenges And Solutions, Morris A. Ratner

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Gatekeeping Science: Using The Structure Of Scientific Research To Distinguish Between Admissibility And Weight In Expert Testimony, David L. Faigman, Christopher Slobogin, John Monahan Jan 2016

Gatekeeping Science: Using The Structure Of Scientific Research To Distinguish Between Admissibility And Weight In Expert Testimony, David L. Faigman, Christopher Slobogin, John Monahan

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Cultural Factors And Ethical Integrity, Jessica Vapnek Jan 2016

Cultural Factors And Ethical Integrity, Jessica Vapnek

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Are Litigious Hedge Funds A Problem? A Study Of Activism, Jared A. Ellias Jan 2016

Are Litigious Hedge Funds A Problem? A Study Of Activism, Jared A. Ellias

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Mathis V. Us And The Future Of The Categorical Approach, Evan Tsen Lee Jan 2016

Mathis V. Us And The Future Of The Categorical Approach, Evan Tsen Lee

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Rebellious Heroes, Ascanio Piomelli Jan 2016

Rebellious Heroes, Ascanio Piomelli

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Shining A Light On Shadow Money, John Crawford Jan 2016

Shining A Light On Shadow Money, John Crawford

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Social Enterprise Governance, Alina S. Ball Jan 2016

Social Enterprise Governance, Alina S. Ball

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


South Africa And The Human Right To Water: Equity, Ecology, And The Public Trust Doctrine, David Takacs Jan 2016

South Africa And The Human Right To Water: Equity, Ecology, And The Public Trust Doctrine, David Takacs

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Startups And Unmet Legal Needs, Robin Feldman, Alice Armitage, Evan Frondorf, Christopher Williams Jan 2016

Startups And Unmet Legal Needs, Robin Feldman, Alice Armitage, Evan Frondorf, Christopher Williams

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.