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Cloth Folding Machine, Yiwei Liu, Dung Tran, Kexin Wang Dec 2017

Cloth Folding Machine, Yiwei Liu, Dung Tran, Kexin Wang

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

The project was designed to meet the needs of folding clothes for college students, housewives or anyone who has trouble folding clothes. Lots of college students are annoyed by spending time folding clothes based on our customer interviews. In addition, most of clothes folding machine in market are either for industry use or too expensive. We are trying to build a portable automatic clothes folding machine at a cheap cost to serve most people. It not only combined the metrics from existing products but also have two folding patterns, which is more convenient and efficient.

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3d Printed Prosthetic Hand, Mark Sullivan, Bryan Oh, Ian Taylor Dec 2017

3d Printed Prosthetic Hand, Mark Sullivan, Bryan Oh, Ian Taylor

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

3D printed prosthetic hands are a common medical device for pediatric partial hand patients due to their manufacturability and cost-effectiveness. Current designs employ a single fist grip, but prosthetists agree that the most useful grip is the three-finger chuck. We aim to modify an existing 3D printed prosthetic hand to enable the user to switch between a single fist grip and three-finger chuck as well as lock the grip that is being used.

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The Use Of Clickers In Instrumentation And Control Engineering Education: A Case Study, Asiya Khan Dec 2017

The Use Of Clickers In Instrumentation And Control Engineering Education: A Case Study, Asiya Khan

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

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Interference Unmixing And Estimation Technique For Improvement Of Speech Separation Performance, Ankur Maurya Dec 2017

Interference Unmixing And Estimation Technique For Improvement Of Speech Separation Performance, Ankur Maurya

Dissertations

Presence of noise in the speech can sometimes become annoying as it can lead to loss of important data or create misunderstandings between the communications area which can lead to major problems associated to loss of time and money. This thesis focuses to filter out noise form a speech signal which is simulated in Matlab/Octave software while making a comparison between temporal resolution of signal with respect to the spectral resolution of the signal in which the parameters such as the size of window length are varied in order to obtain the best speech separation performance. To get the best …

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Bomber Boy, Biying Xu Dec 2017

Bomber Boy, Biying Xu

Theses

Bomber Boy is a 2D animation thesis with a length of three minutes and 44 seconds. It is a story about finding a better way to control temper to avoid causing harm to others. It happens in a world that people blow up when they are angry. All the people in this world have a fuse on their head. While the main character, Thorn, has a very short fuse. He blows up quickly because of it. He blows up several times in school, which makes other students afraid of him. He hates himself and runs into an illusion that he …

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A Reader's Guide To Intergenerational Ministry And Faith Formation, Dudley Chancey, Ron Bruner Dec 2017

A Reader's Guide To Intergenerational Ministry And Faith Formation, Dudley Chancey, Ron Bruner

Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

The concept of intergenerational ministry and faith formation has gained an increasing number of proponents over the last thirty years. Because of the burgeoning literature produced in this field, we have assembled an annotated bibliography intended to give practitioners and church members an overview of the printed work that addresses this important approach to ministry and spiritual formation.

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Shared Leadership In Congregations: How To Construct A Holding Environment To Do Adaptive Work, Zach Ellis Dec 2017

Shared Leadership In Congregations: How To Construct A Holding Environment To Do Adaptive Work, Zach Ellis

Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

Many congregations struggle to adapt to changes in their environment. Congregational and pastoral leadership is an important factor in a congregation’s success or failure. The emerging practice of Shared Leadership offers congregational leaders one tool that might help them successfully engage in the adaptive work necessary in the face of a changing environment. Recent research has connected the practice of Shared Leadership to increased innovation in businesses. This form of leadership should be explored as a model for congregations as they engage in adaptive change. However, because it is adaptive change that is required, and not only technical change, a …

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Estrangement, Dialectic, And Process: Marx And Engels’S Read Rousseau’S “Second Discourse”, Daniel Whitten Dec 2017

Estrangement, Dialectic, And Process: Marx And Engels’S Read Rousseau’S “Second Discourse”, Daniel Whitten

Agora

No abstract provided.

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“No Net Ensnares Me”: Servitude, Love, And The Self In Charlotte Bronte’S Jane Eyre, J. Larae Ferguson Dec 2017

“No Net Ensnares Me”: Servitude, Love, And The Self In Charlotte Bronte’S Jane Eyre, J. Larae Ferguson

Agora

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Short Formal Report: Effective Selection Of Successful Franchisees, Shana Noblitt, Luke Armstrong, Robyn Blanchard, Koty Hoesman, James Kramer, Deandre Williams, Adam El Alami Dec 2017

Short Formal Report: Effective Selection Of Successful Franchisees, Shana Noblitt, Luke Armstrong, Robyn Blanchard, Koty Hoesman, James Kramer, Deandre Williams, Adam El Alami

Student Scholarship

Effective Selection of Successful Franchisees and Productive Expectations for Franchisees by Franchisors

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Events & Outreach; 2017-12-09; Niagara University Research Symposium, Catherine Collins Dec 2017

Events & Outreach; 2017-12-09; Niagara University Research Symposium, Catherine Collins

Events and Outreach

No abstract provided.

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Dialogues On Ethical Vegetarianism, Michael Huemer Dec 2017

Dialogues On Ethical Vegetarianism, Michael Huemer

Between the Species

Two philosophy students, M and V, discuss the ethics of meat consumption. Standard arguments on both sides are reviewed, with emphasis on the argument that meat-consumption is wrong because it supports extreme cruelty. M and V also address such questions as how conflicting intuitions ought to be weighed, whether meat-eating is comparable to participating in a holocaust, why ethical arguments often fail to change our behavior even when they change our beliefs, and how an ethical vegetarian morally ought to interact with non-vegetarians.

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Finding Meaning In The Lack Thereof: An Analysis Of Nietzsche's And Sartre's Responses To The Problem Of Existential Nihilism, Daniel J. Hassall Dec 2017

Finding Meaning In The Lack Thereof: An Analysis Of Nietzsche's And Sartre's Responses To The Problem Of Existential Nihilism, Daniel J. Hassall

Honors Theses

There have been countless philosophers who have attempted to create ways that humanity can overcome the threat of existential nihilism and the loss of objective meaning. Two of the most influential philosophers who have attempted to do this are Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre. This paper analyzes both of their philosophical solutions to the problem of nihilism, comparing and contrasting. While similar in many respects, Nietzsche and Sartre differ on several key aspects: they approach nihilism slightly differently, they have different views about ethics and subjectivity, and Nietzsche is a determinist while Sartre advocates a radical free will. When comparing …

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Understanding Business Education: Examining The Effect Of The Application Of Strategic Learning Among Diverse Business Disciplines, Dan Thoman Dec 2017

Understanding Business Education: Examining The Effect Of The Application Of Strategic Learning Among Diverse Business Disciplines, Dan Thoman

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Strategic learning is an educational construct that evaluates the skill, will, and self-regulation of students across ten learning attributes to determine interventions that can improve overall academic achievement. If precisely implemented to a targeted grouping of students, these interventions can be generalized to achieve broader successful results in learning. Determining these groupings, therefore, is a necessary first step in applying this construct. Business discipline was identified as a possible method of categorizing business students in higher education for the purposes of more precisely applying the strategic learning construct. The purpose of this dissertation was to determine if the delineation of …

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Group Q- Automatic Ball Launching Entity, Zachary White, Tim Grote, Joshua Norlin Dec 2017

Group Q- Automatic Ball Launching Entity, Zachary White, Tim Grote, Joshua Norlin

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

The goal of the project is to create a machine that can track and aim at a target and deliver a tennis ball at a safe speed. The machine can be calibrated to ensure accurate aim. The application of the product is for entertainment and sports training, with calibration being able to be used to make easy shots for fun, and difficult shot for training. The device uses a two-axis rotation, allowing it to aim up/down and left/right. The device uses a microprocessor to calculate aim based on position of target and knowledge about the strength of the firing mechanism.

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Mems 411 Design Project: Dry Ingredients Dispenser, David Robinson, Maya Wong, Elijah Kessler Dec 2017

Mems 411 Design Project: Dry Ingredients Dispenser, David Robinson, Maya Wong, Elijah Kessler

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

No abstract provided.

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Cultivating Cultural Exchange: Improving University Study Abroad Programs, Katherine Crawford Dec 2017

Cultivating Cultural Exchange: Improving University Study Abroad Programs, Katherine Crawford

Honors Theses

My affinity for culture, both foreign and domestic, has greatly shaped my life and future career path. As I have been frequently reminded, I did not take the “typical” exchange route. However, I accredit this atypical experience to my passion towards the subject. My first immersive cultural experience occurred during a yearlong, high school, Rotary led exchange to Bourges, France. Simply put, it changed my life. I encountered the culture first hand, accepting a new normal: bisous greetings, daily baguettes, and a well-structured hierarchy. Within six months, I considered myself fluent in the language. I lived with French families, was …

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Hunger Games: Policies To Address Food Deserts In Rhode Island's Low Income Communities, Jessi Mcneill Dec 2017

Hunger Games: Policies To Address Food Deserts In Rhode Island's Low Income Communities, Jessi Mcneill

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

This policy paper examines the global, health, and social implications of food deserts in the state of Rhode Island. This paper assesses the inception of the food desert phenomenon and draws attention to three policy options for the state. While there is sufficient research on food deserts in large cities like New York and Philadelphia, little information is available regarding the implications of food deserts and policy options available to provide low-income Rhode Islanders with healthy, affordable food. Research methodology consists of site visits and interviews, as well as research courtesy of the 2017 Rhode Island Food Strategy and nonprofit …

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Why The Perfect Being Theologian Cannot Endorse The Principle Of Alternative Possibilities, Samuel Director Dec 2017

Why The Perfect Being Theologian Cannot Endorse The Principle Of Alternative Possibilities, Samuel Director

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

I argue that perfect being theologians cannot endorse the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (AP). On perfect being theology, God is essentially morally perfect, meaning that He always acts in a morally perfect manner. I argue that it is possible that God is faced with a situation in which there is only one morally perfect action, which He must do. If this is true, then God acts without alternative possibilities in this situation. Yet, unless one says that this choice is not free, one must say that God has acted freely without alternative possibilities.

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Habitat Use Of Blacktip Sharks (Carcharhinus Limbatus) At Fishing Piers, Kelsey L. Spencer Dec 2017

Habitat Use Of Blacktip Sharks (Carcharhinus Limbatus) At Fishing Piers, Kelsey L. Spencer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) can be observed near fishing piers throughout the summer along the northeast coast of South Carolina. These piers attract and support a wide variety of potential prey and sharks are able to forage on fishers’ discards with minimal energetic cost. I tagged 12 blacktip sharks with acoustic transmitters, monitored piers with acoustic receivers, and conducted pier-creel surveys to determine the habitat use of blacktip sharks at fishing piers, factors that influenced residence time and presence/absence at piers, and any cyclical patterns in visits to piers. Data were analyzed with pier association indices (PAI), mixed models, and …

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Older People In A Community Gospel Choir: Musical Engagement And Social Connection, Dawn Joseph, Jane Southcott Dec 2017

Older People In A Community Gospel Choir: Musical Engagement And Social Connection, Dawn Joseph, Jane Southcott

The Qualitative Report

This research explores the role of community music in the lives of older Australians. This qualitative case study investigated the meanings and understandings ascribed by participants to their musical engagement in the South of the River Community Gospel Choir. This mixed a cappella SATB choir was formed in 2002 in Melbourne. The choir began with a repertoire of African-American Gospel music and South African Freedom Songs. With time their musical choices have transitioned to include more contemporary Australian composed works. The choir sings in diverse community settings such as high security prisons, palliative care, hospitals and the more common range …

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Translation And Transformation: Uncovering The Source Of Alchemy’S Association With Magic Through A Study Of Its Translation Into Latin In The High Medieval Period, Morgan Taylor Greer Dec 2017

Translation And Transformation: Uncovering The Source Of Alchemy’S Association With Magic Through A Study Of Its Translation Into Latin In The High Medieval Period, Morgan Taylor Greer

University Honors Theses

Alchemy is one of the longest lived ideas and practices in intellectual history and one of the most habitually misunderstood. Until the 1950's historians of science considered alchemy to be pseudoscience or a facet of magic. Since then historians of alchemy have produced a considerable body of work that is mostly concerned with making corrections and establishing the scientific character of alchemy. Alchemists made significant contributions to chemistry, theology, and medicine. Alchemy itself influenced art, literature, and pop culture. The current literature on alchemy lacks one component, a study of the source of alchemy’s association with magic and relegation to …

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Hyper Suggestion Spans For Improved Text Correction, Glen Shires, Jakob Foerster, Diego Melendo Casado Dec 2017

Hyper Suggestion Spans For Improved Text Correction, Glen Shires, Jakob Foerster, Diego Melendo Casado

Defensive Publications Series

Improved techniques for correcting text transcriptions of voice input is described herein. A computing device may perform speech recognition to transcribe voice input (e.g., speech) into text, enable a user to select any of one or more consecutive words in the text transcription, and, in response, determine and output a set of alternative hypotheses for the selected one or more consecutive words, so that the user may select one alternative hypothesis in the set of alternative hypotheses in order to replace the selected one or more consecutive words with the alternative hypothesis.

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The Rise Of Russia's Cold-Water Ports, Alex Merker Dec 2017

The Rise Of Russia's Cold-Water Ports, Alex Merker

The Compass

No abstract provided.

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The Compass, Issue 4, Arcadia University, Honors Program Dec 2017

The Compass, Issue 4, Arcadia University, Honors Program

The Compass

No abstract provided.

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Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2017-12-08, Bowling Green State University Dec 2017

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2017-12-08, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.

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Panther - December 2017, Prairie View A&M University Dec 2017

Panther - December 2017, Prairie View A&M University

PV Panther Newspapers 2017

No abstract provided.

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December 8, 2017, Council On University Planning And Budget Dec 2017

December 8, 2017, Council On University Planning And Budget

Minutes

No abstract provided.

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An Investigation Of The Alkali Metals In The Fcc Structure Using An Embedded-Atom-Method (Eam) Model, Marcus Jackman Dec 2017

An Investigation Of The Alkali Metals In The Fcc Structure Using An Embedded-Atom-Method (Eam) Model, Marcus Jackman

Physics Capstone Projects

Embedded-atom-method models have been used in the calculation and prediction of many vibrational and thermal properties of materials. In 2012 Wilson and Riffe constructed a model that predicts dispersion relations and frequency-moment Debye temperatures of the alkali metals with a greater degree of accuracy than previous models. The Wilson-Riffe model was implemented using MATLAB code. Here that model is extended to model alkali metals in the close-packed fcc structure. Code development is discussed, and results are presented for dispersion relations, density of states, Debye temperatures and free energy. The vibrational free energy combined with a suitable constant representing the electronic …

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Faculty Senate Minutes 2017-12-08, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Faculty Senate. Dec 2017

Faculty Senate Minutes 2017-12-08, The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

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