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A Hybrid Dynamic System Assessment Methodology For Multi-Modal Transportation-Electrification, Thomas J.T Van Der Wardt, Amro M. Farid

Dartmouth Scholarship

In recent years, electrified transportation, be it in the form of buses, trains, or cars have become an emerging form of mobility. Electric vehicles (EVs), especially, are set to expand the amount of electric miles driven and energy consumed. Nevertheless, the question remains as to whether EVs will be technically feasible within infrastructure systems. Fundamentally, EVs interact with three interconnected systems: the (physical) transportation system, the electric power grid, and their supporting information systems. Coupling of the two physical systems essentially forms a nexus, the transportation-electricity nexus (TEN). This paper presents a hybrid dynamic system assessment methodology for multi-modal transportation-electrification. …

Quality Of Crowdsourced Data On Urban Morphology—The Human Influence Experiment (Huminex), Benjamin Bechtel, Matthias Demuzere, Panagiotis Sismanidis, Daniel Fenner, Oscar Brousse, Christoph Beck, Frieke Van Coillie, Olaf Conrad, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Ariane Middel, Gerald Mills, Dev Niyogi, Marco Otto, Linda See, Marie-Leen Verdonck

Department of Agronomy Faculty Publications

The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) is a community initiative to collect worldwide data on urban form (i.e., morphology, materials) and function (i.e., use and metabolism). This is achieved through crowdsourcing, which we define here as the collection of data by a bounded crowd, composed of students. In this process, training data for the classification of urban structures into Local Climate Zones (LCZ) are obtained, which are, like most volunteered geographic information initiatives, of unknown quality. In this study, we investigated the quality of 94 crowdsourced training datasets for ten cities, generated by 119 students from six …

Haunted By Waters: The Future Of Memory And The Red River Flood Of 1997, David Haeselin

Digital Press Books

“… gives a new generation of Grand Forksers and Red River valley valley citizens the occasion to look backward so that they can look forward”

This twentieth anniversary of the Red River Flood of 1997, which devastated the town of Grand Forks, North Dakota and surrounding areas, gives a new generation of Grand Forksers and Red River valley citizens the occasion to look backward so that they can look forward. Taking stock of how the city and its people have changed in these last twenty years offers us a new chance to envision the future of Grand Forks and the …

Kinematics Of Late Cretaceous Subduction Initiation In The Neo-Tethys Ocean Reconstructed From Ophiolites Of Turkey, Cyprus, And Syria, M Maffione, Hinsbergen Djj Van, Gelder Gino De, Der Goes Fc Van, A Morris

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Satan's Beach Surf Them Webs 666, Shawn Burkard

Graduate School of Art Theses

It is crucial in today’s world to embrace technology, which is an essential component of our daily lives. It makes communication in our lives easier. Technology serves a variety of functions that help in the development of education, business, communication, and scientific research. The freedom it offers through social media platforms allows for personal connections at a global level to become feasible. Although the Internet provides ease of communication at a large scale, it is bound to have issues that pollute the intended connections. Virus, spam mail and cyberbullies are some of the items that contribute to it becoming a …

A Guide To The Literature Of The Southwest, Genevieve Porterfield

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Return Voyage, Jorge Carrera Andrade

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Collective Memory: Xvith-Century Spain, Paul Horgan

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A Guide To The Literature Of The Southwest, Genevieve Porterfield

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A Guide To The Literature Of The Southwest, Genevieve Porterfield

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

In Conversation With Seth Pollack, Seth Pollack, Marshall Welch

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

In November 2016, EPiCHE Editor Marshall J. Welch sat down with service-learning scholar and practitioner Seth Pollack. They explored how the spiritual and religious dimensions of Seth’s life have influenced his personal passions and academic career.

Seth Pollack is Professor of Service Learning, and the founding faculty director of the Service Learning Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). For the past 17 years, Seth has provided overall leadership for the Service Learning Institute at CSUMB. In 2005, he received the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, recognized as the nation’s outstanding faculty in the field of community …

Brief Reviews, University Of New Mexico Press

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A Guide To The Literature Of The Southwest, Genevieve Porterfield

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Serpent Symbol And Maize Culture, Hartley Burr Alexander

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Self-Esteem And Reflected Appraisals Of Women’S Hair In College Women, Jenee Lee

Journal of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research

The purpose of this study was to assess the beliefs and attitudes college women hold towards their hair and other women’s hair. Previous literature has found that women are the most likely to be dissatisfied with their appearances and have lower self-esteem compared to their male counterparts. However, research has not focused on particular characteristics of appearance that may account for differences in selfesteem. The purpose of this study was to understand the beliefs and attitudes college women hold towards their hair and other women’s hair. Participants (n = 35) in the current study were asked to take a survey …

The Editor's Corner Continued, University Of New Mexico Press

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Harvey Fergusson And The Crossroads, Lorene Pearson

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Back Matter, University Of New Mexico Press

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Black Legend And Recent Latin American, John E. Longhurst

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Laura Gilpin: Western Photographer, John Collier Jr.

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Frontier Territories And The Weight Of Violent Inequality: Land Concentration And Land Grabbing In The Colombian Frontier, 2000-2015, Diego Andrés Lugo Vivas

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation examines phenomena of land concentration, land grabbing, and intensive uses of soil in peripheral regions in Colombia designated as New Frontiers of Land Control between 2000 and 2015. Land distribution has been one of the mechanisms linked to the armed conflict in Colombia either as a cause, as a consequence or as a parallel condition. Following that, different struggles around land have evolved since 1990s when this country entered the hardest era in the escalation of the conflict. Although peripheral regions share a number of economic, social, political and to a lesser extent cultural conditions (regarding the presence …

Vulnerability Of Caribbean Island-Nations To Future Climate Change, Julia A. Dileo

Open Access Theses

The Caribbean is predicted to be one of the most impacted regions by climate change. However, the impacts of climate change will not be uniformly felt across the region due to the inherent geographic properties and unique socioeconomic characteristics that define each nation individually. This thesis has two goals. First, the vulnerability of thirteen island-nations in the Caribbean to future climate change is estimated by combining indicators of green infrastructure, socioeconomic infrastructure, and future climate change risks. Second, the contribution of five explanatory variables (GDP per capita, population density, land area size, political stability, and years of independence) to the …

Structural Comparisons Of Natural Versus Seawall Shoreline Mangrove Stands, Michael R. Timm

Open Access Theses

Mangroves are key indicator species that manifest the interplay of abiotic and biotic inputs or energy signatures of a particular location. Technological advancements in living shoreline design have resulted in a growing interest in understanding and comparing the ecological role of mangroves along hardened shorelines to mangrove communities in natural settings. The objective of the present study was to compare fringe seawall and natural shoreline mangrove stands using structural attributes in south Florida. Structural surveys were conducted in four study sites using the fixed-plot method where all sites were assessed for the following structural attributes: tree diameter, height, species, leaf …

The Journey Of A Polymer Producer To Support Customers E&L Needs, Jerome Vachon

Single-use Technologies II: Bridging Polymer Science to Biotechnology Applications

In the view of SABIC’s ambitions to grow in the Healthcare applications market, a clear understanding of customers’ challenges and problems with respect to Extractables and Leachables is crucial. In addition to ensuring high quality products and compliance with standard regulations, material suppliers must also have a deep knowledge of their product chemistries for specific healthcare applications. Responding to our customers’ needs when performing their own material toxicological assessment, SABIC has continued to develop and share deeper insights into E&L. A growing involvement of SABIC to develop a true E&L knowledge base, from Research to Marketing, has thus been taking …

Pierian Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 610), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 610. Minutes, correspondence, yearbooks, and miscellaneous records of the Pierian Club, a women's literary club in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Animating Chinese Cinemas: A Preface, Li Guo, Jinying Li

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This preface by the guest editors provides a situated overview of the purpose, structure and methodologies of the contributing articles on Chinese animations in this special issue. Aiming to reconfigure Chinese film studies through historical and theoretical inquiries about the relationship between the animated and the cinematic, the special issue introduces a nascent perspective on Chinese animations by offering rigorous and stimulating studies on the forms, genres and materiality of animation, as well as on the technological and ontological conditions of animated moving images in the age of digital new media. The preface also provides a brief historical overview of …

Picus Martius - Niu Mars Rover, Thomas M. Jareczek, Gunnar R. Baechler

Honors Capstones

The Mars Society hosts an annual collegiate level robotics competition called the University Rover Challenge (URC) at the Mars Society Desert Research Station in Utah. The URC is a task oriented competition featuring challenges and obstacles replicating those expected during the colonization of Mars such as astronaut assistance, extreme terrain traversal, autonomous operation, and scientific experimentation. Picus Martius is NIU’s first submission into the URC and features a wide range of custom designed mechanical components. Implementing a concurrent engineering design process, each component was carefully selected based upon resulting design analysis, manufacturability, and economic feasibility. Picus Martius channels NASA’s Curiosity …

Estimating Age Of Rock Cairns In Southeast Alaska By Combining Evidence From Successional Metrics, Lichenometry, And Carbon Dating, Bruce Mccune,, Nijmah Ali,, Ralph J. Hartley, William J. Hunt Jr.

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

We estimated ages of rock cairns in alpine tundra in southeast Alaska by combining information from three general classes of methods, each of them imperfect, but considered together providing better estimates than any of the three alone. We used lichenometry, radiocarbon dating, and five successional metrics: score on a nonmetric multidimensional scaling axis of vegetation composition, cover-weighted average successional class of organisms, overgrowth of contact points between rocks, sum of species cover, and species richness. Lichenometry estimated absolute ages, but with considerable error because we violated key assumptions. Successional metrics provided relative ages, probably with more precision than lichenometry, but …

The Importance Of Scientific Publishing: Teaching An Undergraduate How To Swim The Entire Length Of The Pool, Garey A. Fox, Emma L. Kuster, Amanda K. Fox

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Erodibility Parameters Derived From Jet And Flume Erosion Tests On Root-Permeated Soils, Bailey Mcnichol, Kayla Kassa, Garey Fox, Ron Miller, Lucie Guertault

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Flume tests and in situ jet erosion tests (JETs) allow for the process-based quantification of erodibility parameters of cohesive soils. In the excess shear stress model used to predict soil detachment, the critical shear stress (τc) corresponds to the stress at which fluvial forces can detach soil particles or aggregates and the erodibility coefficient (kd) governs the rate at which detachment occurs when the imposed shear exceeds τc. The primary objective of this research was to derive and compare erodibility parameters from flume tests and JETs on various root-permeated soil samples. Based on statistical analysis, erodibility coefficients from the flume …