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The Setonian, November 17, 2016, Seton Hall University

2016

No abstract provided.

College Senate Minutes November 17, 2016, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on November 17, 2016.

2016.11.17 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2016

Meeting materials for the NEIU Board of Trustees

Minutes, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty Meeting, Thursday, November 17, 2016, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty, Rollins College

The College of Liberal Arts Faculty Minutes

No abstract provided.

33rd Annual Reception Bibliography, 2015-2016, Leonard H. Axe Library

Bibliographies

Since 1984, Leonard H. Axe Library at Pittsburg State University has honored book authors and other creators for their outstanding scholarship and contributions to their fields.

College Of Liberal Arts Faculty Bylaws - Amended 11/17/16, College Of Liberal Arts Faculty, Rollins College

College of Liberal Arts Bylaws

No abstract provided.

Sigma Gamma Epsilon 2016 Quality Chapter Awards, Paula Even

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

Three Chapters received 2016 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Quality Chapter Awards. This award was established in 2010 to recognize chapters for achieving excellence by providing a quality program to its members. The qualifying criteria for the award are listed and the recipient chapters are noted.

Hawks' Herald -- Nov. 17 , 2016, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

Coupled Impacts Of Climate And Land Use Change Across A River–Lake Continuum: Insights From An Integrated Assessment Model Of Lake Champlain’S Missisquoi Basin, 2000–2040, Asim Zia, Arne Bomblies, Andrew W. Schroth, Christopher Koliba, Peter D.F. Isles, Yushiou Tsai, Ibrahim N. Mohammed, Gabriela Bucini, Patrick J. Clemins, Scott Turnbull, Morgan Rodgers, Ahmed Hamed, Brian Beckage, Jonathan Winter, Carol Adair, Gillian L. Galford, Donna Rizzo, Judith Van Houten

Dartmouth Scholarship

Global climate change (GCC) is projected to bring higher-intensity precipitation and higher- variability temperature regimes to the Northeastern United States. The interactive effects of GCC with anthropogenic land use and land cover changes (LULCCs) are unknown for watershed level hydrological dynamics and nutrient fluxes to freshwater lakes. Increased nutrient fluxes can promote harmful algal blooms, also exacerbated by warmer water temperatures due to GCC. To address the complex interactions of climate, land and humans, we developed a cascading integrated assessment model to test the impacts of GCC and LULCC on the hydrological regime, water temperature, water quality, bloom duration and …

Fort Hays State University Tiger Weekly, November 17, 2016, University Relations

Tiger Weekly Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Confinement Effects And Magnetic Interactions In Magnetic Nanostructures, Kristen Lee Stojak Repa

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Multifunctional nanocomposites are promising for a variety of applications ranging from microwave devices to biomedicine. High demand exists for magnetically tunable nanocomposite materials. My thesis focuses on synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials such as polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with magnetic nanoparticle (NP) fillers.

Magnetite (Fe₃O₄) and cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) NPs with controlled shape, size, and crystallinity were successfully synthesized and used as PNC fillers in a commercial polymer provided by the Rogers Corporation and poly(vinylidene fluoride). Magnetic and microwave experiments were conducted under frequencies of 1-6 GHz in the presence of …

Kenyon Collegian - November 17, 2016

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

The Bg News November 17, 2016, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 17, 2016. Volume 96-Issue 27.

Attitudes Toward Adult Education Among Adult Learners Without A High School Diploma Or Ged, Andrea Rose Bennett

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore attitudes toward adult education among adult learners without a high school diploma or the General Educational Development (GED). In this study, adult learners without a high school diploma or GED completed the Attitudes Toward Adult Education Scale (AACES) and selected respondents volunteered to participate in a face-to-face interview in conjunction with the mixed methods section of the study. For this study, I used a 5-point Likert scale to measure the responses on the 22-item AACES survey.

Three hundred and fifty respondents participated in the study. Descriptive statistics and a three-way ANOVA revealed …

Advancements In Thermal Integrity Profiling Data Analysis, Kevin Russell Johnson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Thermal Integrity Profiling (TIP) is a relatively new non-destructive test method for evaluating the post-construction quality of drilled shafts. Therein anomalies in a shaft are indicated by variations in its thermal profile when measured during the curing stages of the concrete. A considerable benefit with this method is in the ability to detect anomalies both inside and outside the reinforcement cage, as well as provide a measure of lateral cage alignment. Similarly remarkable, early developments showed that the shape of a temperature profile (with depth) matched closely with the shape of the shaft, thus allowing for a straightforward interpretation of …

The Murray Ledger And Times, November 17, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Forget Gate Counts: Assessing Transformative Programming, John Jackson

Librarian Publications & Presentations

One of the five strategic goals of the William H. Hannon Library is to contribute to “formative and transformative education of the whole person through outreach and programming.” Through events such as the annual Haunting of Hannon, the Hannon Human Library, and the Spring Women’s Voices series, the library outreach team at Loyola Marymount University seeks to create experiences that reach beyond connecting students to information resources and highlight the library as a transformative force in student life. Measuring the success of these experiences requires targeted evaluation methods similar to those used for library instruction. This presentation will outline the …

Towards A Computational Model Of Frame Of Reference Alignment In Swedish Dialogue, Simon Dobnik, Christine Howes, Kim Demaret, John D. Kelleher

Conference papers

In this paper we examine how people negotiate, interpret and repair the frame of reference (FoR) in online text based dialogues discussing spatial scenes in Swedish. We describe work-in-progress in which participants are given different perspectives of the same scene and asked to locate several objects that are only shown on one of their pictures. This task requires participants to coordinate on FoR in order to identify the missing objects. This study has implications for situated dialogue systems.

Sigma Gamma Epsilon 2016 W.A. Tarr Awards, Paula Even

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

The W. A. Tarr Award was established in March of 1949, to distinguish exceptional students in the Earth sciences. Thirty-one individuals received the Tarr Award during the 2015-2016 academic year. A brief history of the W.A. Tarr Award and the qualifying criteria for the award are provided.

Sigma Gamma Epsilon Student Research Poster Session, Geological Society Of America Meeting 2016, Denver, Colorado, Usa, Paula Even

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

The 2016 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Poster Session) took place during the 2016, Geological Society of America annual meeting in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, 27 September 2016: 9:00 AM-6:30 PM. The National Council of Sigma Gamma Epsilon awarded the Austin A. Sartin Best Poster Award to Alexa Harrison and Nicholas Schrecongost from Radford University. Jessica Robinson and Allison D. Jones, students at University of Pacific, were awarded the National Council’s Best Poster Award.

Analysis Of Aerosol Absorption Properties And Transport Over North Africa And The Middle East Using Aeronet Data, Ashraf Farahat, Hesham El-Askary, Peter Adetokunbo, Abu-Tharr Fuad

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

In this paper particle categorization and absorption properties were discussed to understand transport mechanisms at different geographic locations and possible radiative impacts on climate. The long-term Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) data set (1999–2015) is used to estimate aerosol optical depth (AOD), single scattering albedo (SSA), and the absorption Ångström exponent (abs) at eight locations in North Africa and the Middle East. Average variation in SSA is calculated at four wavelengths (440, 675, 870, and 1020 nm), and the relationship between aerosol absorption and physical properties is used to infer dominant aerosol types at different locations. It was found that seasonality …

Simultaneous Orbital And Attitude Propagation Of Satellites In Low-Earth Orbit, Kareem Hatim Omar

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Mattes J., 2015. Reisen Ins Unterirdische. Eine Kulturgeschichte Der Höhlenforschung In Österreich Bis In Die Zwischenkriegszeit. [Travelling Into The Underground. A Cultural History Of Cave Exploration In Austria Through The Interwar Years], Monika Schöner

International Journal of Speleology

No abstract provided.

Credential Pickup & Tours, Space Traffic Management

Space Traffic Management Conference

No abstract provided.

Reauthorization: Institute For Museum Services (Ims) (1990): Book 01

Reauthorization: Institute for Museum Services (IMS) (1990)

No abstract provided.

Numerical Methods For Partial Differential Equations, Yang Yang

TechTalks

Many physical phenomena can be modeled by partial differential equations, such as Euler equations and Navier–Stokes equations. However, most cases, we cannot find the exact solutions, hence numerical methods are needed to approximate them. In my work, I use discontinuous Galerkin methods (a kind of finite element method) and finite volume methods to solve hyperbolic and parabolic equations—especially for problems with strong singularities, such as delta-functions. Moreover, some of the physical bounds will be preserved, such as the positivity of the density, maximum-principle of the velocity etc. Some of the problems I am working on include compressible gas dynamics, miscible …

Emergent Frontiers In 2d Nanomaterials For Biomolecular Recognition And Self-Assembly, Nabanita Saikia

TechTalks

2D materials have motivated tremendous interest and exciting research avenues in the next-generation medicine and technological perspectives at nanoscale. Biomolecular recognition of an array of probe molecules starting from therapeutic drugs, organic molecules, amino acids, DNA oligonucleotides to highly complex protein assemblies have been realized, that integrates the electronic and optical properties of nanomaterials for myriad applications. Two challenging research areas in application of 2D materials is highlighted in the talk: (1) functionalization of chemotherapeutic biomolecules pyrazinamide and acetaminophen on silicene, SiC, phosphorene, BN and graphene, and (2) self-assembled DNA nucleobase namely guanine on graphene at the substrate-solvent interface. Atomistic …

Enriching Health-Related Research Through Glycobiological Approaches, Tarun K. Dam

TechTalks

In the Laboratory of Mechanistic Glycobiology at Michigan Technological University, we have been working in four distinct but related areas. Our findings can significantly influence human health-related research. (1) We have documented a molecular strategy that can improve drug designing. (2) We have shown that the tumor-associated protein galectin-3 can create problems in cancer biomarker assays by hiding the biomarkers. (3) In another project, we reported that the role of galectin-3 in cancer could be more complicated than what is reported in the literature. (4) Our team also detected a novel natural product with anti-fungal and anti-cancer activities.

Report Of The President / November 16, 2016, José M. Torres

President's Report

IMSA Leadership Profile To provide Trustees with a report of activities and efforts of note, I continue to organize the Report of the President around the Leadership Profile Components used by the Trustees to evaluate the President’s performance: (1) Institutional Planning (and Executing); (2) Financial/Business Model; (3) Innovations in Teaching and Learning and in STEM Talent Development; (4) Institutional Research and Scholarship on Program Effectiveness and RoI; (5) Thought Leadership in STEM Education Policy; and (6) Stakeholder’s Positive Action(s) on Behalf of IMSA. For additional information and updates on IMSA, please see my Personal Reflections that provide general observations shared …

Benchmark Levels For The Consumptive Water Footprint Of Crop Production For Different Environmental Conditions: A Case Study For Winter Wheat In China, La Zhuo, Mesfin Mekonnen, Arjen Y. Hoekstra

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

Meeting growing food demands while simultaneously shrinking the water footprint (WF) of agricultural production is one of the greatest societal challenges. Benchmarks for the WF of crop production can serve as a reference and be helpful in setting WF reduction targets. The consumptive WF of crops, the consumption of rainwater stored in the soil (green WF), and the consumption of irrigation water (blue WF) over the crop growing period varies spatially and temporally depending on environmental factors like climate and soil. The study explores which environmental factors should be distinguished when determining benchmark levels for the consumptive WF of crops. …