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Connections With The Current Generation Of College Students Using Digital Marketing Practices, Michael Galindo

Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects

Higher education professionals in college and university admissions utilize various forms of communication in enrolling their fall class. The problem with the digital generation, also known as the Millennials, is that students have disconnected from the personal touch - the connection that is established between the student, their admissions counselor and the institution. Often it is found that this connection helps prospective students find that perfect fit in selecting a college.

This study identifies several technological approaches and evaluates their effectiveness in undergraduate admissions recruitment. A review of the literature revealed that recent technological advances such as social media, personal …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 106 [107], No. 24 (Dec. 1, 2016), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 106, but it is the 107th volume in the series.

Interrogation Of Possible Imaging Conditions For Radiation Sensitive Metal Organic Frameworks In Transmission Electron Microscopes, Wei-Yu Pan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Although transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is extremely powerful at the characterization of materials on the nano- and atomic scales, the advantages introduce accompanying drawbacks. That is, high energy electrons offer the structural information while imparting radiation damage to the samples. Metal organic frameworks are a new class of materials that have potential applications in gas storage and catalysis. A direct imaging of their lattice structures is highly desired. However, these samples are extremely radiation sensitive. In order to characterize their structures, low-dose TEM need to be performed. To date, there is a lack of a systematic of radiation study of …

Building A Portable Room Temperature Quantum Memory, Ruoxi Wang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Quantum memory provides a platform for building quantum networks in quantum information processing. Applications of said networks include quantum gates for quantum computing and quantum repeaters for long distance quantum key distribution. An optical quantum memory can be realized by a cold atom system combined with electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). However, room temperature quantum memory via vapor cells benefit from its easy operation without the need for laser cooling and trapping, promoting the scalability. In this work, we studied and tested EIT in a Rubidium vapor cell at room temperature, by storing and retrieving a classical light source using probe …

Nanoscale Eengineering Of Infrared Plasmons In Graphene, Haiming Deng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Surface plasmons are collective oscillations of free charge carriers confined in interface between two dielectrics, where the real part of the dielectric changes sign (e.g a metal-insulator interface such as gold film and air). The study of surface plasmon has been a popular research theme with potential applications utilizing the fact that the wavelength of plasmons can be many order smaller than that of the incident lights. The potential applications include transfer of information in hundreds of terahertz instead of upper limit of gigahertz in traditional wires, photodetectors with frequency range from terahertz to mid-IR, and nano-imaging. In our experiment, …

Enhancing Operating Systems With Network Provenance Based Policies For Systematic Malware Defense, Wai Kit Sze

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Todays OSes adopt users as the basic unit of trust. Every file and process owned by the same user has the same userid as the user. This design stems from the very first multi-user OS created, a time when computers were self-contained, and file contents were under the control of users. Today, users frequently download data and code from the Internet, without fully understanding their content or consequences. However, existing desktop OSes reuse the same old trust model and treat downloaded files as if users are fully responsible for them. This trust is exploited by today’s malware. In this dissertation, …

Examining The Functional Role Of The C-Terminal Domain Of The Insulin Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor Kinase Using Naturally Occurring Mutations Present In Human Cancers, Christa Nicole Pappalardo

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Insulin Like Growth Factor 1 Receptor (IGF1R) is a receptor tyrosine kinase that functions to control cell proliferation and apoptosis. Activation occurs upon the binding of the IGF1 ligand to the extracellular domain facilitating trans-autophosphorylation and thus activation. The receptor activates downstream signaling through both the MAPK and PI3K/Akt pathways that contribute to cellular proliferation and preventing cell death, respectively. IGF1R is overexpressed and hyperactive in many human cancers. We postulated that IGF1R could also be activated by mutation. We further hypothesized that particular C-terminal mutations could affect the ability of this domain to autoregulate the receptor. Mutations were chosen …

Tissue Engineering Using 3d Template Casting, Travis Kruse

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

One of the major goals of tissue engineering is to develop methods that reliably fabricate tissues and organs ex vivo for use/implantation in vivo. However, the ability to create large-scale 3D tissues at physiological cell densities is hindered by our inability to sustain cells. The main reason for this is that without an incorporated vascular network, the transport of nutrients and wastes are restricted to molecular diffusion, which is limited to approximately 100 µm in biological tissues. Here we have developed a casting based templating technology to create highly ordered microchannels in polymers for MRI phantom and in vitro tissue …

A West Indian Jubilee In America: British Emancipation And The American Abolition Movement, Dexter Joey Gabriel

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation, “A West Indian Jubilee in America: British Emancipation and the American Abolition Movement,†charts the impact of British Emancipation on American abolitionism and free African-American communities from the 1830s through the 1860s. On August 1,1834 the British Abolition Act freed by proclamation 800,000 slaves in the West Indies. In the coming decades, in print and in public rituals, the success of the former slaves in the British West Indies became a crucial focal point in the debate on American slavery. This debate took place in the flourishing American print culture that emerged in the 1830s: antislavery newspapers, tracts, …

The Graphic Memoir And The Cartoonist's Memory, Alice Claire Burrows

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Graphic memoirs embrace the vibrancy and rich social and artistic history of comics, and the intimacy and imagination of autobiographies. Spanning from Justin Green’s 1972 Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary to Riad Sattouf’s 2014 The Arab of the Future, autobiographical comics capture the fragmented, subjective, and visual nature of memory. Reacting against the Comics Code, underground comics introduced the concept of portraying oneself in comics, a practice that achieved mainstream validation in 1992 when Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus. Drawing from classic comic strips like Richard Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and comic books like the …

Quando La Letteratura Si Incrocia Con L'Architettura, Violanda Franzese

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Abstract of the Thesis Quando la letteratura si incrocia con l’architettura by Violanda Franzese Master of Arts in Italian Stony Brook University 2016 Premessa Con questa tesi cercherò di spiegare la relazione tra letteratura e architettura e il ruolo dell’architettura nella letteratura. Come sono collegate le due discipline? Tra i più evidenti e famosi esempi di questo legame si trovano nelle opere di: Charles Dickens che nel romanzo di Oliver Twist descrive le case popolari di Londra; Victor Hugo che mette la cattedrale gotica di Notre-Dame al centro del suo racconto; James Joyce che usa la città di Dublino come …

At The Juncture Of Homonationalism And Homophobic Nationalism: Sexual Justice Organizing In Uganda And The Paradox Of Transnational Advocacy, Sasha Maria Rodriguez

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 propelled Uganda to the forefront of global media. In its initial manifestation, the Bill threatened to penalize “aggravated homosexuality†with the death penalty. The media attention earned by the proposed legislation opened avenues for transnational cooperation and communication between US-based Human and LGBTI Rights organizations and Ugandan kuchus – a Ugandan identity that encapsulates various identities of same gender loving or gender nonconforming peoples. This project focuses on this transnational relationship as it interacts with the dynamic of organizing in the midst of a national project of sexual repression. This dissertation asks how kuchu organizing …

A Comparison Of Two Theoretical Approaches To Addressing Ageism: Education And Extended Contact, Ashley Elizabeth Lytle

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Ageism continues to be a widespread problem and is of increasing concern given the growing older population worldwide and youth-centered focus of many societies. Despite the need for a better understanding of attitudes towards older adults, ageism is a relatively understudied area of social psychology. This dissertation sought, for the first time, to compare two theoretical approaches to addressing ageism: education about aging (providing accurate information about aging) and extended contact (knowledge of positive intergenerational contact) as well as their potential combined impact (education plus extended contact). Across two studies, participants were randomly assigned to one of the four conditions: …

Partisanship, Political Information, And Money, Jeeyoung Park

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation contains three parts - three papers. My dissertation tries to bridge the gap between two perspectives: the socio-psychological model and the rational choice model in voting behavior. The first part investigates how partisans behave in the prediction market. Using an agent-based model, my simulation results show that participants’ initial beliefs about a candidate’s winning probability, confirmation biases in accepting information, and monetary incentives strongly increase changes in participants’ beliefs about the electoral outcome captured by price volatility in the prediction market. The second part explores the microfoundation about individuals’ behavioral motivations in evaluating political candidates. My experimental results …

Synthesis Of Binary Nanocrystalline Aluminum Alloys Through High Energy Ball Milling, Lacey Lynn Schwab

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Nanocrystalline metals have useful mechanical properties such as high strength, improved wear resistance, and longer fatigue life; however, they are relatively unstable – grain boundary doping is a viable method towards stabilization [1-3]. After comparing the work of Murdoch and Schuh, that used a thermodynamic model to estimate grain boundary segregation enthalpy to the experimental work of Umbrajkar et al. | it was realized that mechanical alloying is a processing route for grain boundary stabilization [10,11]. Whether or not chemical mixing has occurred is a good indicator of a powder system’s potential for grain boundary doping. 99Al1Si, 99Al1Mg, 99Al1Zr, and …

University Honors Program News, Georgia Southern University

Honors College: News & Publications (2008-2020)

• Honors Research at Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference

• Honors Research at the American Chemical Society

• Honors Research at the Georgia Political Science Association

Daily Eastern News: December 01, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

Modelling And Analysis Of A Cavity-Less Tyre Pressure Sensor With Dielectric Composite Material, Kevin A. Mathias

Manipal Journal of Science and Technology

The development that has taken place in automobiles over the past decades is tremendous. A number of sophisticated sensors and actuators have been installed to monitor the satisfactory working of an automobile. The pressure sensor present in a tyre helps to monitor continuously the air pressure. The present study is focused on modelling of Cavity-Less Pressure Sensor for sensing the air pressure inside a tyre. Silicone Rubber filled with Barium Titanate composite material is considered a soft dielectric material for the sensor. The sensor is modelled using an analytical method and Bond Graph modelling technique. The influence of volume fraction …

Pre-Competition, Jorge L. Contreras, Liza S. Vertinsky

North Carolina Law Review

As the costs of pharmaceutical research and development rise and concerns grow about the pace of innovation, both federal agencies and industry participants have turned to new forms of collaboration to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of biomedical research. Industry participants, many of them competitors, come together to define joint research and development objectives and to share project results in what are widely known as “pre-competitive” collaborations. There is a prevailing understanding among both industry and governmental actors that these pre-competitive endeavors are not only permissible, but encouraged. While the term “pre-competitive” is prevalent in the pharmaceutical industry, it is …

Peg3 Binds To H19-Icr As A Transcriptional Repressor, An Ye, Hongzhi He, Joomyeong Kim

Faculty Publications

© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Paternally expressed gene 3 (Peg3) encodes a DNA-binding protein with 12 C2H2 zinc finger motifs. In the current study, we performed ChIP-seq using mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells. This experiment identified a set of 16 PEG3 genomic targets, the majority of which overlapped with the promoter regions of genes with oocyte expression. These potential downstream genes were upregulated in MEF cells lacking PEG3 protein, suggesting a potential repressor role for PEG3. Our study also identified the imprinting control region (ICR) of H19 as a genomic target. According to the results, PEG3 binds to …

Crapemyrtle Bark Scale: A New Threat For Crapemyrtles, A Popular Landscape Plant In The U.S, Zinan Wang, Yan Chen, Mengmeng Gu, Erfan Vafaie, Michael Merchant, Rodrigo Diaz

Faculty Publications

© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Crapemyrtle bark scale, Acanthococcus (=Eriococcus) lagerstroemiae (Kuwana) (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae), is a newly introduced insect pest on crapemyrtles, Lagerstroemia spp. (Myrtales: Lythraceae), one of the most popular flowering shrubs in the U.S. Since first detected in Texas in 2004, this pest has spread to twelve states causing losses to stakeholders. To develop a management plan, we reviewed current knowledge about the pest’s biology and ecology, and suggested research approaches including studying its thermal tolerance, host range, plant resistance and biological control. Parasitoids and predators have been reared from A. lagerstroemiae in the …

A Study Of Sintered Copper Porous Surfaces For Pool Boiling Enhancement, Felix Liu

Theses

Miniaturization in microelectronics demands effective thermal management from high energy density devices. While current cooling solutions employ single-phase heat transfer, they are often limited by high fluid temperature differences and pressure drops. Alternatively, two-phase cooling schemes offers attractive solutions to dissipate high heat fluxes at small temperature differences. Specifically, pool boiling has the potential to dissipate high heat fluxes without using pumps and other complex header configurations.

Two performance criterion that govern the heat transfer in pool boiling systems are the (i) Critical Heat Flux (CHF), and the (ii) Heat Transfer Coefficient. The CHF is the upper limit in nucleate …

Navigating Institutional Complexity In The Health Sector: Lessons From Tobacco Control In Kenya, Raphael Lencucha, Peter Magati, Jeffrey Drope

Political Science Faculty Research and Publications

Introduction  This research examines the institutional dynamics of tobacco control following the establishment of Kenya’s 2007 landmark tobacco control legislation. Our analysis focuses specifically on coordination challenges within the health sector.

Methods  We conducted semi-structured interviews with key informants ( n  = 17) involved in tobacco regulation and control in Kenya. We recruited participants from different offices and sectors of government and non-governmental organizations.

Results  We find that the main challenges toward successful implementation of tobacco control are a lack of coordination and clarity of mandate of the principal institutions involved in tobacco control efforts. In a related development, the …

Enabling Marker Assisted Breeding (Mab) For Phytochemical Compounds In Peach [Prunus Persica (L.) Batsch], Asma Abdelghafar

All Dissertations

Genetic control and location of QTLs associated with phytochemical compounds in peach were evaluated using bi-parental mapping and genome wide association (GWAS). The bi-parental mapping was conducted in an F2 population (ZC2) derived from cross between ‘Zin Dai’ x ‘Crimson Lady’. GWAS was performed on an association panel representing modern peach cultivars available and/or produced for the U.S. market. Antioxidant capacity and phenolic compound accumulation (total phenolics, flavonoids and anthocyanins) were evaluated for two years on all materials. The ZC2 progeny were genotyped using IPSC 9K peach SNP array v1., and the association panel was genotyped using genotyping-by-sequencing. The genetic …

Pedagogías Críticas Para Nuevos Horizontes Emancipadores, Peter Mclaren

Education Faculty Articles and Research

En una sociedad como la nuestra fuertemente marcada por los efectos de la globalización neoliberal, ¿cuál es el papel de una educación crítica para contribuir a un cambio cultural que acabe con todas las visiones androcéntricas, eurocéntricas y productivistas que tan profundamente han calado en nuestro pensamiento?

December 2016; Buffalo-Niagara Lgbtq History Project Minutes, Buffalo-Niagara Lgbtq History Project

Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project Minutes

The Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project is a collective network of peers documenting LGBTQ history in the Buffalo-Niagara Region. This page maintains archival copies of all meeting minutes and is a part of the Dr. Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archives of WNY, E. H. Butler Library, SUNY Buffalo State.

The International Dimension Of The Right To Development: Where Is The Gapping Crack Of Accountability For Non-State Actors, Maxwel Miyawa

The Transnational Human Rights Review

Mainstream legal scholarship has paid much attention to clarifying the meaning of the right to development by placing a great deal of scrutiny primarily on obligations of states to the neglect of non-state actors, as if states are the only integral players in the global economy necessary for realizing the right to development. This entrepreneurship steered clear of assessing viability of the right’s founding vision of redressing institutional imbalances and unfairness of the global economic order. If the discourse took a global order reform trajectory, it would have injected thoughts on how accountability of international economic institutions and transnational corporations …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution By Klaus Schwab, Jake Okechukwu Effoduh

The Transnational Human Rights Review

No abstract provided.

Livd: Issue 15.2: "Letting Go", Portland State University. School Of Art + Design

LIVD

Layout, imagery, and editing: Meredith James

LIVD is a semi/annual publication produced in the Pacific Northwest, dedicated to the intersection of art, design, culture and how these influence lived experience.

LIVD pays hommage to the inspiring and idealistic efforts of the early twentieth century avant-garde, balancing the academic with the personal and experimental.

Issue 15.2 includes contributions responding to the following prompt: screwing up, messing up, vulnerability, shame... that sort of thing. Why isn't the prompt simply: failure? Because something strange happens when you ask people to talk about failure, they start talking about something else entirely.

Contributions by: Roz …

The Efficacy Of A One-To-One Technology Initiative In Improving The Four Cs, Ching-Wen Chang

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)

The Ozarks Educational Research Initiative, a consortium of 19 Southwest Missouri public school districts, partnered with Missouri State University’s Institute for School Improvement from 2011 – 2015 to investigate effective practices for utilizing one-to-one digital technologies in the classroom. The focus of this descriptive study was to determine whether a one-to-one technology initiative would result in improving any of the “four Cs” (communication, collaboration, creativity, or critical thinking) of the Framework for 21st Century Learning. Of the teachers surveyed who have one-to-one classrooms, three-quarters of them (77.5%) believe there were improvements in the four Cs as a result of the …