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Evaluating Library Service Quality At The Aga Khan University Library: Application Of A Total Quality Management Approach, Nasra Gathoni, Thomas Van Der Walt

Libraries

The purpose of this paper is to report on an investigation of the service quality of the Aga Khan University library in Kenya. The total quality management philosophy which forms the basis of this report has been demonstrated by the use of SERVQUAL, a userbased assessment tool, in the evaluation of service quality. The research was conducted among 123 Aga Khan University library users – nursing and medical faculty and nursing and medical students – with an aim to investigate the quality of its services based on the satisfaction of library users with the services and as expressed by and …

Home Away From Home, Nooran Alhamdan

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Shear Driven Micro-Fluidic Pump, Nihad E. Daidzic

Aviation Department Publications

United States Patent, Patent Number US 9,528,503 B2, Date of Patent December 27, 2016.

An example includes an apparatus to pump a fluid. The apparatus includes a housing extending along a length defining an elongate interior, an actuator in the housing, conforming to the elongate interior, the actuator including a plurality of lumens, each having a length extending substantially parallel to the elongate interior, each from around 10 to 200 micrometers across and an actuator configured to oscillate the actuator in the actuator houslng along the length of the elongate interior with a rate differential between movement in a first …

Introduction To The Issue On Organizational Partnerships, Russell Wolff, Rebecca Pfeffer Ph.D.

Journal of Family Strengths

Issue editors Russell Wolff, M.S. and Rebecca Pfeffer, Ph.D. introduce volume 16, Issue 2: Organizational Partnerships: How Collaboration Strengthens Families and Communities.

Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Inhibitors And Methods Of Use Thereof To Modulate Lipid Metabolism, Daniel A. Lawrence, Cory Emal, Jacqueline Cale, Enming Joe Su, Mark Warnock, Shih-Hon Li, Jeanne Ann Cupp

Patents

The invention relates to plasminogen activator-I (PAI-1) inhibitor compounds and uses thereof in the treatment of any disease or condition associated with elevated PAI-1. The invention includes, but is not limited to, the use of such compounds to modulate lipid metabolism and treat conditions associated with elevated PAI-1, cholesterol, or lipid levels.

Praying Poetically, Marta Vander Top

Student Work

"Scripture shows that 'praise' is so much more than our communal gatherings on Sundays."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­poetry as an experience 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/praying-poetically/

New Bounded Backstepping Control Designs For Time-Varying Systems Under Converging-Input-Converging-State Conditions, Frederic Mazenc, Michael Malisoff, Jerome Weston

Faculty Publications

We provide new asymptotically stabilizing backstepping controls for time-varying systems in a partially linear form. Instead of measuring the full current state, our main feedback design uses several time lagged values of a function of the state of the nonlinear subsystem, and has no distributed terms. Other advantages are that we do not require differentiability of the available nominal controls for the nonlinear subsystems, and that our controls do not contain Lie derivatives. This improves on a recent work in Automatica that covered the special case where the linear part has one integrator, since we now allow an arbitrary number …

New Prediction Approach For Stabilizing Time-Varying Systems Under Time-Varying Input Delay, Frederic Mazenc, Michael Malisoff

Faculty Publications

We provide a new sequential predictors approach for the exponential stabilization of linear time-varying systems with pointwise time-varying input delays. Our method circumvents the problem of constructing and estimating distributed terms in the stabilizing control laws, and allows arbitrarily large input delay bounds. We illustrate our method using a pendulum dynamics.

Associating Mathematics To Its History: Connecting The Mathematics We Teach To Its Past, Joseph M. Furner, Ernest A. Brewer

Transformations

Across the USA and around the world now, globalization has taken a strong hold. The purpose of this paper is to explore the historical considerations that can be incorporated in the teaching of mathematics. The paper will also provide suggestions for teaching math by interweaving historical elements into the mathematics instruction. Teachers should strive to bridge the cultural and historical gap among all students by incorporating innovative ideas as well as historical and cultural connections into their teaching so to foster understanding, appreciation, and tolerance for the richness inherent in diversity and a sound understanding of mathematics and appreciation for …

Every Student Can Be An Einstein: Addressing Math Anxiety In Today’S Classrooms, Joseph M. Furner

Transformations

This article is geared toward mathematics educators in hopes that they can ultimately excite young people about mathematics, encourage students to be confident in their ability to solve problems, understand mathematical concepts, and see math as a human endeavor. The author believes that as students feel less anxious about and more confident in their abilities to do math that their performance will improve. As math test scores are often a concern for principals, teachers, and society at large, success and confidence with mathematics is critical in our high-tech globally competitive world. Math anxiety has become a growing concern in the …

Using Technology And Media-Rich Platforms To Help Teach The Pythagorean Theorem, Hui Fang Huang Su, Denise Gates, Janice Haramis, Farrah Bell, Claude Manigat, Kristin Hierpe, Lourivaldo Da Silva

Transformations

The history of mathematics is quite extensive, dating back to ancient times and elapsing several centuries. Many great mathematicians, philosophers, scientists, and scholars have contributed to mathematics on the subject we see today. For the purpose of this research project, we have chosen to highlight the great mathematician Pythagoras and his famous Pythagorean Theorem. We investigate the history of the Pythagorean Theorem, relationships among Pythagorean numbers, and unusual proofs of the Theorem. This paper provides a suggestive lesson plan, activity, and presentation for classroom use.

Higher Ed Needs New Forms Of Marketing., Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

In this day and age of crises – financial, enrollment,

even scandal – among institutions of higher education,

image “management” has become a tool to help

some institutions stay afloat. Countless colleges and

universities have resorted to spending money on

glossy brochures, billboards and even on expensive

TV airtime.

The images they portray are usually one of happy

and attractive students having fun on campus, enjoying

athletic events and amenities that used to be more

likely to be found at country clubs than colleges. The

quality of education is almost an afterthought. The

name of the institution is being sold …

Kepuasan Pelanggan Terhadap Kualiti Perkhidmatan Perbankan Islam: Kajian Ke Atas Pelanggan Bank-Bank Islam Di Kuching, Sarawak / Anitha Rosland, Rosland Anitha

Student Works (2010-2019)

Islamic banking institutions in Malaysia has developed rapidly and globally. Therefore, a competition exists among Islamic banks and conventional banking institutions in offering products and services to the customers. Customer nowadays are very wise to assess and compares the services offered and not just use the service based on the image and profit only. It is necessary for an organization to improve their service quality to meet customers’ needs and requirements. The main objective of this study was to analyze the level of customer satisfaction as well as to analyze the qualities of the services offered by Islamic banking institutions …

Influence Of Processing Parameters In The Mechanical Properties Enhancement Of Forsterite Ceramic / Tan Yoke Meng, Yoke Meng Tan

Student Works (2010-2019)

Phase pure forsterite was synthesized by mechanochemical method owing to its simplicity and low cost process. Different milling methods, i.e. ball milling and attrition milling, were investigated over sintering temperature ranging from 1200 oC to 1500 oC. Upon comparison and selection for the best method based on relative density, Vickers hardness and fracture toughness, the effect of ZnO addition ranging from 0.1-3.0 wt% on the sinterability of forsterite when sintered at 1200 oC to 1500 oC was evaluated. Subsequently, microwave sintering was conducted on both undoped and doped forsterite bulk at temperature ranging from 1100 oC to 1250 oC. In …

Antenna For Wireless Underground Communication, Mehmet Vuran, Xin Dong, David Anthony

School of Computing: Faculty Publications

Systems and methods are disclosed for an underground antenna structure for radiating through a dissipative medium, the antenna structure. The antenna structure includes a dielectric substrate, a feeding structure disposed on the substrate, and one or more electrical conductors. The one or more electrical conductors are disposed on the substrate, oriented, and buried within the dissipative medium. The electrical conductors are also adapted to radiate signals at a frequency in half-space adjacent to the dissipative medium. The adaptation includes a beamwidth state for one or more of the electrical conductors based at least in part on the relative permittivity of …

Can Sub-Saharan Africa Feed Itself?, Martin K. Van Ittersum, Lenny G. J. Van Bussel, Joost Wolf, Patricio Grassini, Justin Van Wart, Nicolas Guilpart, Lieven Claessens, Hugo De Groot, Keith Wiebe, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Haishun Yang, Hendrik Boogard, Pepijn A. J. Van Oort, Marloes P. Van Loon, Kazuki Saito, Ochieng Adimo, Samuel Adjei-Nsiah, Alhassane Agali, Abdullahi Bala, Regis Chikowo, Kayuki Kaizzi, Mamoutou Kouressy, Joachim H. J. R. Makoi, Korodjouma Ouattara, Kindie Tesfaye, Kenneth G. Cassman

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Although global food demand is expected to increase 60% by 2050 compared with 2005/2007, the rise will be much greater in sub- Saharan Africa (SSA). Indeed, SSA is the region at greatest food security risk because by 2050 its population will increase 2.5-fold and demand for cereals approximately triple, whereas current levels of cereal consumption already depend on substantial imports. At issue is whether SSA can meet this vast increase in cereal demand without greater reliance on cereal imports or major expansion of agricultural area and associated biodiversity loss and greenhouse gas emissions. Recent studies indicate that the global increase …

Gina M. Arnold And Charlie S. Ariiold, Plaintiffs And Appellant/Crossappellee, Vs. Gary B. Wliite, M.D., Uintah Basin Medical Center, And David Grigsby, M.D. Defendants And Appellee/Crossappellant., Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

APPEAL FROM THE EIGHTH DISTRICT COURT, DUCHESNE COUNTY, THE HON. SAMUEL P. CIDARA, CML NO. 020800066

Rho Meson Decay Width In Su(2) Gauge Theories With 2 Fundamental Flavours., Tadeusz Janowski, Vincent Drach, Claudio Pica

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Adjoint Su(2) With Four Fermion Interactions, Jarno Rantaharju, Vincent Drach, Claudio Pica, Francesco Sannino

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Generation Of Germ-Free /Ciona Intestinalis For Studies Of Gut-Microbe Interactions, Brittany A Leigh, Assunta Liberti, Larry J Dishaw

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Microbes associate with animal hosts, often providing shelter in a nutrient-rich environment. The gut, however, can be a harsh environment with members of the microbiome settling in distinct niches resulting in more stable, adherent biofilms. These diverse communities can provide orders of magnitude more gene products than the host genome; selection and maintenance of a functionally relevant and useful microbiome is now recognized to be an essential component of homeostasis. Germ-free (GF) model systems allow dissection of host-microbe interactions in a simple and direct way where each member of the symbiosis can be studied in isolation. In addition, because immune …

“Goodness Itself Must Change” – Anthroponomy In An Age Of Socially-Caused, Planetary Environmental Change, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Faculty Scholarship

Given the reality of socially-caused, planetary-scaled, environmental change, how – if at all – should our ethical concepts change? It has been a hallmark of environmental literature in recent years to insist that they should or even must. It will be argued that, yes, our ethical concepts should change by exploring the changes needed for the core ethical concept of goodness. Goodness, it will be argued, must change to reflect a change in priority from personal intentions to the right relation between an agent and the collective to which he/she belongs. This relation, which is called herein the civic relation, …

Clifton Brinson, Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

A Simple Method To Optimize Hmc Performance, A Bussone, Morte M Della, V Drach, M Hansen, A Hietanen, J Rantaharju, C Pica

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Viscous Sealing Glass Compositions For Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Cheol-Woon Kim, Richard K. Brow

Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

A sealant for forming a seal between at least two solid oxide fuel cell components wherein the sealant comprises a glass material comprising B₂O₃ as a principal glass former, BaO, and other components and wherein the glass material is substantially alkali-free and contains less than 30% crystalline material.

Time To Invest In Infrastructure, Evan Barrett

Highlands College

A newspaper column by Evan Barrett.

Published newspaper columns written by Evan Barrett on this topic, which vary somewhat in content from this commentary, appeared in the following publications:

Missoulian, Dec 28, 2016

Helena independent Record, Dec 28, 2016

Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Dec 29, 2016

Daily Inter Lake, January 08, 2017

Review Of Cultural Forests Of The Amazon: A Historical Ecology Of People And Their Landscapes By William Balée, Maria Gabriela Zurita-Benavides

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.

Introduction: Issue In Honor Of Terence S. Turner, Suzanne Oakdale

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.

From The Social Production Of The Person To Transnational Capitalism: Parsons, Turner, And Globalization, Daniel Reichman

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This paper focuses on influence of Talcott Parsons on the thought of Terence Turner, and explores how Turner's Brazilian ethnography led to a critical rethinking of Parsons' general theory of action. While Turner's adaptation of Marxian theory of value to anthropology is often read as a practice-oriented alternative to structuralism, I argue that it can also be fruitfully understood as a response to general theoretical questions first posed by Parsons. Late in his career, Turner published a series of papers on "globalization" which apply his Marxian analysis of the social production of the person in Amazonia to questions of citizenship …

Fraternity, Dignity, And Democracy: Forms Of Value In Northeast Brazil’S Health Care Reform Movement, Jessica Jerome

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This essay applies Terence Turner’s insight that production is the key to understanding social value to the context of an urban poor community in Fortaleza, Brazil. It uses this insight to address a contemporary tension in the community between democratic values espoused by city and state politicians and local forms of value which glorify fraternity and dignity. I argue that older women’s daily activities (such as courtyard maintenance, siestas, and dinner potlucks) produce the values of dignity and fraternity, which women regard as essential to sustaining their households’ viability. It is the dispossession of these values by government sanctioned forms …