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Minutes From December 21 2016, University Senate Dec 2016

Minutes From December 21 2016, University Senate

University Senate Minutes

Minutes from December 21 2016 University Senate Meeting


Japan Peer Review, Financial Stability Board (Fsb) Dec 2016

Japan Peer Review, Financial Stability Board (Fsb)

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No abstract provided.


Students' Lived Experiences Of The Realization Of Academic Wrongness (Raw), Dana Carol Kemery Dec 2016

Students' Lived Experiences Of The Realization Of Academic Wrongness (Raw), Dana Carol Kemery

Theses and Dissertations

Being wrong is a common phenomenon for students in academic environments; however this phenomenon has yet to be described from the student perspective. The purpose of this phenomenologic inquiry is to describe the realization of academic wrongness (RAW) as experienced by senior level nursing students during a high stakes testing period. Observations, class documents, communications, and semi-structured interviews were collected to gain a full description for the realization of academic wrongness within context and as this phenomenon unfolded for the students. The data were analyzed using Moustakas (1994) 7 step phenomenological process. Fourteen invariant constituents emerged during data analysis which …


Gift Reflects Longtime Pontotoc Teacher's Passions, Bill Dabney Dec 2016

Gift Reflects Longtime Pontotoc Teacher's Passions, Bill Dabney

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.


An Added Benefit, University Of Dayton Dec 2016

An Added Benefit, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton and Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority have formed a partnership to provide free RTA passes to students enrolled in the UD Sinclair Academy. The passes will allow students to travel anywhere at no cost on RTA’s 31 routes in the region.


Donald Trump's Cabinet Bodes Ill For The Planet, Lauren Carasik Dec 2016

Donald Trump's Cabinet Bodes Ill For The Planet, Lauren Carasik

Media Presence

No abstract provided.


The Election Of Donald Trump: Dramatic Changes For The Supreme Court Docket, Jane Rugg Dec 2016

The Election Of Donald Trump: Dramatic Changes For The Supreme Court Docket, Jane Rugg

Denver Law Review Forum

No abstract provided.


The Guarantee Granted By Belgium To The Arco Group Financial Cooperatives Infringes Eu Law, Court Of Justice Of The European Union Dec 2016

The Guarantee Granted By Belgium To The Arco Group Financial Cooperatives Infringes Eu Law, Court Of Justice Of The European Union

Documents

No abstract provided.


Machine Learning Database For Bulk Metallic Glasses, David Robinson, Katharine Flores Dec 2016

Machine Learning Database For Bulk Metallic Glasses, David Robinson, Katharine Flores

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Independent Study

This document describes the progress made on the development of a machine-learning database for use in identifying untested metallic glass alloys.


Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis Of An Idealized Modern Wingsuit, Maria E. Ferguson, Ramesh K. Agarwal Dec 2016

Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis Of An Idealized Modern Wingsuit, Maria E. Ferguson, Ramesh K. Agarwal

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Independent Study

The modern wingsuit has been the subject of few scientific studies to date, and the prevailing design process remains the dangerous “guess-and-check” method. This study employed the commercial flow solver ANSYS Fluent to solve the steady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations with turbulence models. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) results provided information on the flow about a wingsuit designed with an airfoil cross section and large planform. The CFD simulation was performed using the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model for the 3D wingsuit case and the k‑kl‑ω Transition model for the 2D airfoil case. Although the lack of experimental data available on wingsuit …


Electrodeposition Of Boron Fiber, Michelle Heredia, Parag Banerjee Dec 2016

Electrodeposition Of Boron Fiber, Michelle Heredia, Parag Banerjee

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Independent Study

From previous experiments, it was determined that nickel was able to coat boron fiber, however this was done unevenly, with cracks characterizing the coating. This was where it was hypothesized that the boron fiber crossed the interface of the nickel electrolyte solution during electrodeposition. This was different than the coating at the middle, which was all under the electrolyte solution, and was characterized by a smoother surface. This experiment sought to find a way to coat the nickel across the boron fiber wire evenly. SEM images were taken at the top and at the middle of the fiber. An overview …


Moudi Analysis Of Particle Size Distributions For Ultrasonic Spraying Of Salt Solutions From An Array Of Microscopic Orifices, Yichen Sun, J. Mark Meacham Dec 2016

Moudi Analysis Of Particle Size Distributions For Ultrasonic Spraying Of Salt Solutions From An Array Of Microscopic Orifices, Yichen Sun, J. Mark Meacham

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Independent Study

We report characterization of spray-based nanoporous particle synthesis for use in the cathode of lithium-ion batteries. Ultrasonic Microarray Spray Tuning (uMIST) was used to create microdroplets of salt solutions and battery material precursors, and the size distributions of produced microdroplets were investigated with a MicroOrifice Uniform Deposit Impactor (MOUDI). Experimental challenges associated with spray orientation, flow control and consistency of operation were addressed, and a promising solution for continuous droplet collection to obtain a statistically relevant droplet size distribution was proposed. Improved analysis capabilities will lead to a better understanding of the uMIST droplet formation mechanism.


Usda Renews Drug Discovery Grant For Natural Products Center, Sydney Slotkin Dupriest Dec 2016

Usda Renews Drug Discovery Grant For Natural Products Center, Sydney Slotkin Dupriest

University of Mississippi News

University has held research grant since 1996


A Locomotion Control Algorithm For Robotic Linkage Systems, Jeffrey L. Dohner Dr. Dec 2016

A Locomotion Control Algorithm For Robotic Linkage Systems, Jeffrey L. Dohner Dr.

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

This dissertation describes the development of a control algorithm that transitions a robotic linkage system between stabilized states producing responsive locomotion. The developed algorithm is demonstrated using a simple robotic construction consisting of a few links with actuation and sensing at each joint. Numerical and experimental validation is presented. In this algorithm, transitioning excitations, called rhythms, are formulated using terminal state control solutions. Rhythms are constrained to be low order parameterized functions allowing for the optimal control problem to be replaced by a parametric optimization problem with a limited set of easily solved unknowns. This algorithm is developed and demonstrated …


Preoperative Cognition Screening And Postoperative Delirium In Older Surgical Patients, Lucy Andrews Dec 2016

Preoperative Cognition Screening And Postoperative Delirium In Older Surgical Patients, Lucy Andrews

DNP and Student Works

People 65 years or older are having surgery later in life and are at risk of developing a major postoperative complication, delirium. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, is a preoperative cognitive screening tool which was used to screen thirty-three older orthopedic surgical patients to reduce the incidence of this serious postoperative complication. Patients who scored below normal were identified as at risk and monitored to ascertain if identification and monitoring influenced their postoperative course. At the first postoperative visit, each patient was evaluated for falls, confusion, and the ability to follow the required postoperative home exercise program to identify an undetected …


Robustness, Flexibility, And Sensitivity In A Multifunctional Motor Control Model, David N. Lyttle, Jeffrey P. Gill, Peter J. Thomas, Hillel J. Chiel Dec 2016

Robustness, Flexibility, And Sensitivity In A Multifunctional Motor Control Model, David N. Lyttle, Jeffrey P. Gill, Peter J. Thomas, Hillel J. Chiel

Faculty Scholarship

Motor systems must adapt to perturbations and changing conditions both within and outside the body. We refer to the ability of a system to maintain performance despite perturbations as “robustness,” and the ability of a system to deploy alternative strategies that improve fitness as “flexibility.” Different classes of pattern-generating circuits yield dynamics with differential sensitivities to perturbations and parameter variation. Depending on the task and the type of perturbation, high sensitivity can either facilitate or hinder robustness and flexibility. Here we explore the role of multiple coexisting oscillatory modes and sensory feedback in allowing multiphasic motor pattern generation to be …


Nonlinear Characterization Of Gesbs Chalcogenide Glass Waveguides, Ju Won Choi, Zhaohong Han, Byoung Uk Sohn, George F.R. Chen, Charmayne Smith (Lonergan), Lionel C. Kimerling, Kathleen A. Richardson, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Dawn T.H. Tan Dec 2016

Nonlinear Characterization Of Gesbs Chalcogenide Glass Waveguides, Ju Won Choi, Zhaohong Han, Byoung Uk Sohn, George F.R. Chen, Charmayne Smith (Lonergan), Lionel C. Kimerling, Kathleen A. Richardson, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Dawn T.H. Tan

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

GeSbS ridge waveguides have recently been demonstrated as a promising mid - infrared platform for integrated waveguide - based chemical sensing and photodetection. To date, their nonlinear optical properties remain relatively unexplored. In this paper, we characterize the nonlinear optical properties of GeSbS glasses, and show negligible nonlinear losses at 1.55 μm. Using self - phase modulation experiments, we characterize a waveguide nonlinear parameter of 7 W-1/m and nonlinear refractive index of 3.71 x 10-18 m2/W. GeSbS waveguides are used to generate supercontinuum from 1280 nm to 2120 nm at the -30 dB level. The spectrum expands along the red …


Tennessee Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2016, Tennessee. Department Of Finance & Administration. Dec 2016

Tennessee Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2016, Tennessee. Department Of Finance & Administration.

Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports

No abstract provided.


Library-Sponsored Case Competitions: Best Practices And Assessment Of Learning Gains, Ilana Stonebraker Dec 2016

Library-Sponsored Case Competitions: Best Practices And Assessment Of Learning Gains, Ilana Stonebraker

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

The Parrish Library Case Competition is an annual library-administered, library-sponsored case competition where teams of undergraduate students compete against one another to make better evidence-based decisions for business problems. This article includes a description the case competition as a resource for other libraries interested in sponsoring similar case competitions as part of their information literacy programs. Students who participated in the case competition saw their learning grow as assessed through questionnaires and focus groups. Students who had not taken an information literacy course perceived their understanding as lower than those who had taken a course.


Parental Perceptions Of The Social Environment Are Inversely Related To Constraint Of Adolescents' Neighborhood Physical Activity, Maura Kepper, Stephanie Broyles, Richard Scribner, Tung-Sung Tseng, Jovanny Zabaleta, Lauren Griffiths, Melinda Sothern Dec 2016

Parental Perceptions Of The Social Environment Are Inversely Related To Constraint Of Adolescents' Neighborhood Physical Activity, Maura Kepper, Stephanie Broyles, Richard Scribner, Tung-Sung Tseng, Jovanny Zabaleta, Lauren Griffiths, Melinda Sothern

School of Public Health Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: The current study examined relationships between the neighborhood social environment (parental perceived collective efficacy (PCE)), constrained behaviors (e.g., avoidance or defensive behaviors) and adolescent offspring neighborhood physical activity in low- versus high-incivility neighborhoods. METHODS: Adolescents ( = 71; 11-18 years (14.2, SD ± 1.6); male = 37 (52%); non-white = 24 (33.8%); low-income = 20 (29%); overweight/obese = 40 (56%)) and their parents/guardians enrolled in the Molecular and Social Determinants of Obesity in Developing Youth study were included in the current study. Questionnaires measured parents'/guardians' PCE, constrained outdoor play practices and offspring neighborhood physical activity. Systematic social observation performed …


Note From The Editor, Adam H. Kaldor Dec 2016

Note From The Editor, Adam H. Kaldor

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.


Building Relations: Alaska Natives, Ancsa And The Federal Government, Raina Thiele Dec 2016

Building Relations: Alaska Natives, Ancsa And The Federal Government, Raina Thiele

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.


Look Back To Go Forward, Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley Dec 2016

Look Back To Go Forward, Elizabeth Saagulik Hensley

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.


Sovereignty And Subsistence: Native Self-Government And Rights To Hunt, Fish, And Gather After Ancsa, Robert T. Anderson Dec 2016

Sovereignty And Subsistence: Native Self-Government And Rights To Hunt, Fish, And Gather After Ancsa, Robert T. Anderson

Alaska Law Review

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was passed in 1971 to extinguish aboriginal rights of Alaska Natives and provide compensation for those rights extinguished. Instead of vesting assets (land and money) in tribal governments, Congress required the formation of Alaska Native corporations to receive and hold these assets. A major flaw in the settlement was the failure to provide statutory protections for the aboriginal hunting, fishing, and gathering rights extinguished by ANCSA. Moreover, while ANCSA did not directly address Alaska Native tribal status or jurisdiction, the Supreme Court interpreted the Act to terminate the Indian country status of ANCSA …


Ancsa Section 7(I): $40 Million Per Word And Counting, Aaron M. Schutt Dec 2016

Ancsa Section 7(I): $40 Million Per Word And Counting, Aaron M. Schutt

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.


Issuing New Stock In Ancsa Corporations, Maude Blair Dec 2016

Issuing New Stock In Ancsa Corporations, Maude Blair

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Benefits Of A Benefit Corporation Statute For Alaska Native Corporations, William Robinson Dec 2016

The Benefits Of A Benefit Corporation Statute For Alaska Native Corporations, William Robinson

Alaska Law Review

In the forty-five years since the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) created the Alaska Native regional corporation and village corporations, shareholders and outside observers have criticized the statute’s use of the traditional corporate form as inappropriate for Alaska Native communities. The emergence of the benefit corporation entity across the United States may soon mean that Native corporations have a promising alternative. If Alaska joins the majority of states that have adopted this new legal entity, Native corporations would have an opportunity to significantly reform their corporate governance within the existing framework of ANCSA. This Note will argue that Alaska …


A Business Entity By Any Other Name: Corporation, Community And Kinship, Christian G. Vazquez Dec 2016

A Business Entity By Any Other Name: Corporation, Community And Kinship, Christian G. Vazquez

Alaska Law Review

Forty-five years ago, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act resolved outstanding land claims between the federal and state government and Alaska Natives. The fund created by the settlement was used as seed money to establish the Alaska Native Corporations. The Native corporations have particular features which make them distinct from other business entities, these differences have been lauded by some shareholders but have simultaneously drawn ire from others. In 2015 the Alaska legislature introduced H.B. 49, a benefit corporation bill that would allow entrepreneurs to pursue both profits and social ends. This note traces the rise of the modern Alaska …


A Tribal Advocate’S Critique Of Proposed Ancsa Amendments: Perpetuating A Broken Corporate Assimilationist Policy, Vance A. Sanders Dec 2016

A Tribal Advocate’S Critique Of Proposed Ancsa Amendments: Perpetuating A Broken Corporate Assimilationist Policy, Vance A. Sanders

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.


Protection Of Alaska Native Customary And Traditional Hunting And Fishing Rights Through Title Viii Of Anilca, John Sky Starkey Dec 2016

Protection Of Alaska Native Customary And Traditional Hunting And Fishing Rights Through Title Viii Of Anilca, John Sky Starkey

Alaska Law Review

This paper analyzes the degree to which the administration of Title VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) of 1980 protects customary and traditional hunting and fishing by Alaska Natives and their tribal communities. A recent Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) entered into by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Kuskokwim Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (KRITFC) for co-management of subsistence fisheries will be used as a means to analyze the issue. This paper concludes with suggestions for improving the administration of Title VIII to better secure Alaska Native and Tribal rights for self-determination.