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The Alma Early Science View Of Fuor/Exor Objects - V. Continuum Disc Masses And Sizes, Lucas Cieza, Dary Ruiz-Rodriguez, Sebastian Perez, Simon Casassus, Jonathan P. Williams, Alice Zurlo, David A. Principe, Antonio Hales, Jose L. Prieto, John J. Tobin, Zhaohuan Zhu, Sebastian Marino

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

Low-mass stars build a significant fraction of their total mass during short outbursts of enhanced accretion known as FUor and EXor outbursts. FUor objects are characterized by a sudden brightening of ∼5 mag at visible wavelengths within 1 yr and remain bright for decades. EXor objects have lower amplitude outbursts on shorter time-scales. Here we discuss a 1.3 mm Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) mini-survey of eight outbursting sources (three FUors, four EXors, and the borderline object V1647 Ori) in the Orion Molecular Cloud. While previous papers in this series discuss the remarkable molecular outflows observed in the three FUor …

Mode-Sum Prescription For Vacuum Polarization In Black Hole Spacetimes In Even Dimensions, Peter Taylor, Cormac Doran

Articles

We present a mode-sum regularization prescription for computing the vacuum polarization of a scalar field in static spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes in even dimensions. This is the first general and systematic approach to regularized vacuum polarization in higher even dimensions, building upon a previous scheme we developed for odd dimensions. Things are more complicated here since the even-dimensional propagator possesses logarithmic singularities which must be regularized. However, in spite of this complication, the regularization parameters can be computed in closed form in arbitrary even dimensions and for arbitrary metric function f(r). As an explicit example of our method, we …

Briefly Speaking, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Public comment is being sought for University reaccreditation and a local attorney's support for law review honors longtime law school faculty member. Plus, students and faculty will host event to benefit local food bank.

Sampling Effort And Uncertainty In Leaf Litterfall Mass And Nutrient Flux In Northern Hardwood Forests, Yang Yang, Ruth D. Yanai, Craig R. See, Mary A. Arthur

Forestry and Natural Resources Faculty Publications

Designs for litterfall sampling can be improved by understanding the sources of uncertainty in litterfall mass and nutrient concentration. We compared the coefficient of variation of leaf litterfall mass and nutrient concentrations (nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, and potassium) at different spatial scales and across years for six northern hardwood species from 23 stands in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA. Stands with steeper slopes (P = 0.01), higher elevations (P = 0.05), and more westerly aspect (P = 0.002) had higher interannual variation in litter mass, probably due to a litter trap design that allowed litter …

Changes In The Cholinergic, Catecholaminergic, Orexinergic And Serotonergic Structures Forming Part Of The Sleep Systems Of Adult Mice Exposed To Intrauterine Alcohol, Oladiran I. Olateju, Adhil Bhagwandin, Amadi O. Ihunwo, Paul R. Manger

Brain and Mind Institute

We examined the effect of chronic prenatal alcohol exposure on certain neuronal systems involved with the sleep-wake cycle of C57BL/6J mice exposed to prenatal alcohol once they had reached 56 days post-natal. Pregnant mice were exposed to alcohol, through oral gavage, on gestational days 7–16, with recorded blood alcohol concentration (BAC)s averaging 1.84 mg/ml (chronic alcohol group, CA). Two control groups, an oral gavage sucrose control group (chronic alcohol control group, CAc) and a non-treated control group (NTc), were also examined. At 56 days post-natal, the pups from each group were sacrificed and the whole brain sectioned in a coronal …

Bias V. State Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45169

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

State V. Dyerson Respondent's Brief Dckt. 44876

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

State V. Bristlin Respondent's Brief Dckt. 45076

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

A Bilingual Diabetes Self-Management Education Program For Hispanic Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Juanita Castillo

DNP and Student Works

The aim of this intervention was to determine whether diabetes self-management education will help Hispanics/Latinos with type 2 diabetes mellitus change unhealthy behaviors and effectively manage their disease. Healthcare free clinics serve a large majority of Hispanic/Latino patients who could benefit from a formalized diabetes education program.

Being-With Dying: Tacit Wisdom Embedded In The Experiences Of Nurses Who Attend To Dying, Virginia L. Burton

Dissertations

Dying persons and their family members have needs that are notably unidentified and unmet in the United States today. This is in large part due to health professionals' being unprepared to provide end of life care that assists persons in their transition from dying to death with personal dignity and peace. Martin Heidegger's existential, interpretive phenomenology informed this study, providing the philosophical background, structures, language and metaphors to interpret narratives for patterns of being-with dying.

Dynamics Of Prochlorococcus And Synechococcus At Station Aloha Revealed Through Flow Cytometry And High-Resolution Vertical Sampling, Ger J. Van Den Engh, Joseph K. Doggett, Anne W. Thompson, Martina A. Doblin, Carla N.G. Gimpel, David M. Karl

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The fluorescence and scattering properties of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus at Station ALOHA as measured by flow cytometry (termed the FCM phenotype) vary with depth and over a variety of time scales. The variation in FCM phenotypes may reflect population selection or physiological acclimation to local conditions. Observations before, during, and after a storm with deep water mixing show a short-term homogenization of the FCM phenotypes with depth, followed by a return to the stable pattern over the time span of a few days. These dynamics indicate that, within the upper mixed-layer, the FCM phenotype distribution represents acclimation to ambient light. …

Dedan Kimathi On Trial : Colonial Justice And Popular Memory In Kenya’S Mau Mau Rebellion, Julie Macarthur

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an already contentious Kenyan history and its reverberations in the postcolonial present.

Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions that the Mau Mau Rebellion represented: rebel statesman, literate …

November 27, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Minutes (Archived)

November 27, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Minutes

November 27, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Agenda, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Armstrong Faculty Senate Agenda (Archived)

November 27, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Agenda

The Rider (2017-11-27), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.3 No.13

(Dis)Appearing Subjects: Managing Violence Through The Discourse Of Bullying, Rachel E. Levitt

American Studies ETDs

In the early 2000’s, “bullying” became the new center of LGBTQ justice organizing. As part of this development a bullied subject emerged. This bullied person on whose behalf liberation was being sought took various forms from the bullied school shooter, to the cyberbullying victim, to the bullied suicidal queer. As the subtitle of my dissertation suggests, I focus on “managing violence through the discourse of bullying.” This marks a two part process: how the discourse of bullying manages to do violence and how it manages populations biopolitically. This study tackles one of the core paradoxes that inform the formation of …

Wavelet Neural Network Model For Yield Spread Forecasting, Firdous Ahmad Shah, Lokenath Debnath

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

In this study, a hybrid method based on coupling discrete wavelet transforms (DWTs) and artificial neural network (ANN) for yield spread forecasting is proposed. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) using five different wavelet families is applied to decompose the five different yield spreads constructed at shorter end, longer end, and policy relevant area of the yield curve to eliminate noise from them. The wavelet coefficients are then used as inputs into Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) ANN models to forecast the predictive power of each of these spreads for output growth. We find that the yield spreads constructed at the shorter end and …

November 27, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Weak-Value Amplification And Optimal Parameter Estimation In The Presence Of Correlated Noise, Josiah Sinclair, Matin Hallaji, Aephraim M. Steinberg, Jeff Tollaksen, Andrew N. Jordan

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

We analytically and numerically investigate the performance of weak-value amplification (WVA) and related parameter estimation methods in the presence of temporally correlated noise. WVA is a special instance of a general measurement strategy that involves sorting data into separate subsets based on the outcome of a second “partitioning” measurement. Using a simplified correlated noise model that can be analyzed exactly together with optimal statistical estimators, we compare WVA to a conventional measurement method. We find that WVA indeed yields a much lower variance of the parameter of interest than the conventional technique does, optimized in the absence of any partitioning …

Deformation Of Wood In Compression During Moisture Movement, Hamdan Sinin, Hasan Mahbub, Yew Chew Meng

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

This work presents the phenomenon of mechano-sorptive strain in the deformation of wood during moisture content (MC) changes. A series of experiments were designed to demonstrate the greatly enhanced deformation due to the mechano- sorptive effect. The purpose of this work is to show the magnitude of mechano-sorptive creep compared to the ordinary viscoelastic creep with applied compressive load. In order to do this, the moisture movement with MC change, moisture movement without MC change and conditions without moisture movement were induced. The unique patterns of strains of various conditions induced in the experiments were observed. The characteristics shown in …

Classification Of Daily Activities For The Elderly Using Wearable Sensors, Jian Liu, Jeehoon Sohn, Sukwon Kim

Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering Faculty Research

Monitoring of activities of daily living (ADL) using wearable sensors can provide an objective indication of the activity levels or restrictions experienced by patients or elderly. The current study presented a two-sensor ADL classification method designed and tested specifically with elderly subjects. Ten healthy elderly were involved in a laboratory testing with 6 types of daily activities. Two inertial measurement units were attached to the thigh and the trunk of each subject. The results indicated an overall rate of misdetection being 2.8%. The findings of the current study can be used as the first step towards a more comprehensive activity …

Koe Koe Tech: Maymay Impact Assessment, Athena Nguyen

Miller Center Fellowship

Koe Koe Tech (KKT) in Myanmar embodies the United Nations’ third Sustainable Development Goal: ensuring healthy lives and promoting the wellbeing of all ages.

Myanmar faces tremendous challenges with unsanitary birth practices, lack of access to health information, and inadequate resources. KKT addresses the shortcomings in Myanmar’s health sector by giving patients, hospitals, and government access to quality health information and services.

This report analyzes the impact of KKT’s effort through maymay, its mobile application (app). KKT creates an impact by influencing the lives of women and their respective families. As seen throughout this report, women take care of their …

Brief On The Investigation Of Canadian Nationals For War Crimes And Crimes Against Humanity In Afghanistan, Craig Scott

Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents

Acting Director of the Nathanson Centre, Professor Craig Scott, has submitted a brief to Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court providing evidentiary reasons why Canadians in the military and civilian chain of command during Canada ‘s presence in the war in Afghanistan should fall within the scope of the Prosecutor’s efforts to investigate the “situation in Afghanistan” with respect to war crimes committed by the Taliban, the CIA and Afghan National Security Forces. Potential criminal responsibility arises from Canada ‘s policy and practices on the transfer of captives to both the US and Afghanistan. The brief also highlights …

Norwegian Missionary Linguistic Mishap, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[Interviewer introduces the topic of a family legend about the informant’s religious, LDS mission to Norway, and some of the linguistic troubles some of the American missionaries had while learning Norwegian.]

Well the fun part about learning a new language is that you get to learn that they have, different words for, to mean different things. So a good example of that in English is change, and, in English you can have change on a dollar and so you have coins, or you can have, um, a, change your clothes, from you know, change your clothes, you can change you …

Christmas Eve Pizza, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Becca: Our mom’s family, her dad is Italian, and when they moved to Mantua everyone in Mantua is Dutch, primarily Dutch, who has very traditional ham, Christmas dinner, and they went ‘You know what, we’re Italian, we should do something different’, so they made homemade pizza, crust and everything for Christmas dinner.

Ben: Christmas Eve Dinner

Becca: Yeah we do it on Christmas Eve

Ben: Oh, so they did it on Christmas dinner

Jenn: Yeah, that’s because we get all together, we would, for most of our, childhood we’d get together with that family for Christmas Day, and we’d have …

Writing With The ‘Other’: Combining Poetry And Participation To Study Leaders With Disabilities, Rama Cousik, Paresh Mishra, Mariesa K. Rang

The Qualitative Report

In this paper, we describe the process of transformative co-authorship between researchers and a participant with disabilities. The researchers were conducting a larger study that aimed to identify different factors that shaped individuals with disabilities to assume leadership roles. Drawing from interview data obtained from the participant, one researcher wrote a poem that provided a stage for the researchers and the participant to engage in reflexive process that transformed the researchers-participant relationship to that of co-authors. This paper describes this transformative process and what everyone learned from this enriching experience.

Combinational Sirna Delivery Using Hyaluronic Acid Modified Amphiphilic Polyplexes Against Cell Cycle And Phosphatase Proteins To Inhibit Growth And Migration Of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells, Manoj B. Parmar, Daniel Nisakar Meenakshi Sundaram, Remant Bahadur Kc, Robert Maranchuk, Hamidreza Montazeri Aliabadi, Judith C. Hugh, Raimar Löbenberg, Hasan Uludağ

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Triple-negative breast cancer is an aggressive form of breast cancer with few therapeutic options if it recurs after adjuvant chemotherapy. RNA interference could be an alternative therapy for metastatic breast cancer, where small interfering RNA (siRNA) can silence the expression of aberrant genes critical for growth and migration of malignant cells. Here, we formulated a siRNA delivery system using lipid-substituted polyethylenimine (PEI) and hyaluronic acid (HA), and characterized the size, ζ-potential and cellular uptake of the nanoparticulate delivery system. Higher cellular uptake of siRNA by the tailored PEI/HA formulation suggested better interaction of complexes with breast cancer cells due to …

Memorandum: Quality Assurance Of 2016 Great Bay Estuary Water Quality Data And 2017 Cocheco River And Bellamy River Water Quality Data Collected By Unh, Lara M. Martin

PREP Reports & Publications

The purpose of this memorandum is to document the results of quality assurance checks on the 2016-2017 water quality data collected by UNH for the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GBNERR) System-Wide Monitoring Program, GBNERR Diel Sampling, and UNH Tidal Water Quality Monitoring stations. These programs were previously established in the NHDES Environmental Monitoring Database with project identifiers of “NERRTWQ”, “NERRDIEL”, and “JELTWQ”, respectively. UNH/GRB NERR reviewed these data to ensure that they met data quality objectives for the National Estuarine Research Reserve and its partners.

Rath Yatra And Rivers: Reimagining Reformation And Luther’S Theology, Mary (Joy) Philip

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Women, Priests And The Anglican Church In Southern Africa: Reformation Of Holy Hierarchies, Miranda N. Pillay

Consensus

No abstract provided.