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Group G: Drink Mixer Ii, Yvette Anguiano, Tristram Wilson, Jacob Rother

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

We, group G, want to address the needs of the restaurant industry by facilitating it with the products, alcoholic beverages, that often brings in the most income in a night for the business and for its bartenders. Mixing drinks takes specialized attention, energy, and time and can be a stressful task for bartenders to perform when a restaurant is packed with customers. Waits become longer and drink orders back up until the restaurant empties again. Our group strives to create a product that will ensure each customer is served with fast and efficient service, while still providing the special attention …

Light Activated Blinds Group K, Griffin Beriont, Kessashun Arthur, Madeline Stadler

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

The purpose of this project is to develop an attachable device to a pair of rolling blinds that will automatically open them when sunlight is detected and close them when the sun goes down. This device will promote energy efficiency during warmer and colder months. And be a commodity for those who tend to forget to open close blinds.

Blind-Automation Device, Melinda Lai, Dalton Nonweiler, Haley Nichols

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

This project is intended to be a safe, easy, and inexpensive addition to existing window covers to maintain consistent indoor lighting by automatically adjusting blinds in response to ambient light levels. Our target customers are homeowners/renters and business owners concerned about employee productivity and wellness. This product will allow homeowners, business owners, and building tenants to increase occupant productivity. Bright sunlight can cause glare, making employees uncomfortable and reducing their productivity, along with their health. The product will automatically adjust window blinds to maintain a comfortable interior lighting level, promoting productivity and the bottom line. The product can also reduce …

Ucf Hands Gs Women's Basketball A 62-38 Road Loss On Sunday, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• UCF Hands GS Women's Basketball A 62-38 Road Loss On Sunday
• Eagles shoot just 25 percent from the floor in falling to the Knights in Orlando

Eagles In The Nfl: Week 14, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Eagles In The NFL: Week 14

2017-2018 Gingerbread Holiday Concert, Lynn University Philharmonia, Jon Robertson

Philharmonia

15th Annual Gingerbread Holiday Concert presented by Lynn University and Friends of the Conservatory of Music

Study Of Preparation And Characterization Of Hydroxyapatite Coatings By Sol-Gel Technique, Ramanan Sutapa Roy, Venkatesh Ramanan

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

Hydroxyapåtite (HAP) coatings were prepared on glass substrates by sol-gel dip coating method, using a isopropanol solution of calcium nitrate and 2-butanol solution of phosphorous pentoxide as starting precursors and mixing them to get a coating solution with Ca/P ratio of 1.67. The prepared coatings were dried at 150°C and subsequently fired at 500°C to obtain dense coatings. Multilayer coatings were prepared to increase the final thickness. For some samples, SiO2, TiO2, Al2O, and Zr02 coatings modified the interface between the glass and HAP. X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, FTIR and DTA/TG were used for characterization. All the coatings obtained …

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 …

Transnormativity And The Visual Hierarchies Of Acceptance, Katie Mcbride

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper presents a critical analysis of the subjective, symbolic, and systemic harmsexperienced as hate by transgender individuals. An analysis of the lived experiences oftransgender individuals in this way illustrates how neoliberal discourses create and sustain a hierarchy of acceptable forms of self-identity for transgender individuals that is transnormative.The data presented is drawn from my doctoral research and was obtained using in-depth qualitative interview methods that generated thick descriptions and reflections of the lived experiences of individuals. The research incorporated the use of visual narrative methods that helped to elucidate the role of symbolic and systemic harm in the shaping …

2017-December-10-Percussion Ensemble Concert, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

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 …

Multivariate Statistical Analyses Of Air Pollutants And Meteorology In Chicago During Summers 2010–2012, Katrina Binaku, Martina Schmeling

Chemistry: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Aerosol, trace gas, and meteorological data were collected in Chicago, Illinois during 2010–2012 summer air studies. Ozone, nitrogen oxides, acetate, formate, chloride, nitrate, sulfate, and oxalate concentrations as well as temperature, wind speed, wind direction, and humidity data were explored by both principal component analysis (PCA) and canonical correlation analysis (CCA). Multivariate statistical techniques were applied to uncover existing relationships between meteorology and air pollutant concentrations and also reduce data dimensions.

In PCA, principal components (PC) revealed a relationship of ozone and nitrate concentrations with respect to temperature and humidity, coupled with transport of species from the south in relation …

Long-Term Follow-Up Of Cardiac Function And Quality Of Life For Patients In Nsabp Protocol B-31/Nrg Oncology: A Randomized Trial Comparing The Safety And Efficacy Of Doxorubicin And Cyclophosphamide (Ac) Followed By Paclitaxel With Ac Followed By Paclitaxel And Trastuzumab In Patients With Node-Positive Breast Cancer With Tumors Overexpressing Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2, Patricia A. Ganz, Edward H. Romond, Reena S. Cecchini, Priya Rastogi, Charles E. Geyer Jr., Sandra M. Swain, Jong-Hyeon Jeong, Louis Fehrenbacher, Howard M. Gross, Adam M. Brufsky, Patrick J. Flynn, Tanya A. Wahl, Thomas E. Seay, James L. Wade Iii, David D. Biggs, James N. Atkins, Jonathan Polikoff, John L. Zapas, Eleftherios P. Mamounas, Norman Wolmark

Markey Cancer Center Faculty Publications

Purpose

Early cardiac toxicity is a risk associated with adjuvant chemotherapy plus trastuzumab. However, objective measures of cardiac function and health-related quality of life are lacking in long-term follow-up of patients who remain cancer free after completion of adjuvant treatment.

Patients and Methods

Patients in NSABP Protocol B-31 received anthracycline and taxane chemotherapy with or without trastuzumab for adjuvant treatment of node-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–positive early-stage breast cancer. A long-term follow-up assessment was undertaken for patients who were alive and disease free, which included measurement of left ventricular ejection fraction by multigated acquisition scan along with patient-reported …

Copulas And Vines, L Dalla Valle

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

The Importance Of An Alternative Approach To Measuring Quality In A Volume To Value World: A Case Study Of Diabetes Care, Betty J. Burston, L. J. Coombs, D. Liu

Healthcare Administration and Policy Faculty Research

Background: To develop a statistical tool that allows practitioners and/or their practice managers to easily select the relevant range in which volume and value are maximised. Methods: Data for the study were based on 55 primary care practices that participated in the Colorado Improving Performance in Practice programme in 2014. We used two composite variables including the volume of processes of care variables listed in Diabetes Practice Guidelines and value (quality) as measured by changes in the intermediate outcomes. We assessed volume/value trade-offs using a multilevel model with a time-varying covariate partitioned into a between-practice and within-practice effect. Results: The …

Building Globally Accepted Local Brands And Locally Authentic Global Brands, Ellen Schmidt-Devlin

Student Scholarship

In academic literature, brands have been categorized as either global or local, driven primarily by the distance their businesses reach beyond their national borders. This difference is evaporating with the advent of digital marketing and ecommerce. Academics clearly recognize this changing landscape and have researched the impacts to consumer perceptions and identities, but literature has provided less strategic direction for global and local brand leaders as they compete head-to-head in the fast-paced global marketplace. This qualitative study of fifty executives in the global/local sports product industry reveals distinctly different paths taken by global brands toward local authenticity and local brands …

Building Globally Accepted Local Brands And Locally Authentic Global Brands, Ellen Schmidt-Devlin

Student Scholarship

In academic literature, brands have been categorized as either global or local, driven primarily by the distance their businesses reach beyond their national borders. This difference is evaporating with the advent of digital marketing and ecommerce. Academics clearly recognize this changing landscape and have researched the impacts to consumer perceptions and identities, but literature has provided less strategic direction for global and local brand leaders as they compete head-to-head in the fast-paced global marketplace. This qualitative study of fifty executives in the global/local sports product industry reveals distinctly different paths taken by global brands toward local authenticity and local brands …

Erratum: First Search For Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars With Advanced Ligo (Astrophysical Journal (2017) 839 (12) Doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aa677f), B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, P. A. Altin, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, S. Appert, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, J. S. Areeda, N. Arnaud, K. G. Arun, Tiffany Z. Summerscales

Faculty Publications

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. There is an error in Equation?(4) of the original paper, which should instead be (Formula Presented) This makes it consistent with Equation?(3) of Aasi et al. (2014), which was actually used when calculating the value of the Q22 upper limits from the h0 upper limits for the results of this paper.

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

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Pre-Pilot And Pilot Studies With Malaysian Nurses On Transnational Nurse Education, N Arunasalam

School of Nursing and Midwifery

This paper reports on research undertaken to identify Malaysian nurses’ experiences of the part-time Transnational Higher Education post-registration top-up degree programmes delivered by one Australian and two UK universities. An interpretive paradigm and hermeneutic phenomenology and ethnographic principle of cultural interpretation research designs were used. A mixed methods approach was chosen, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The Bristol Online Survey Questionnaire (BOS) and semi-structured interviews were initially selected to collect data. Pre-pilot testing refined the quantitative and qualitative data collection tools. However, the pilot study for BOS failed to elicit useful responses. This led to only the qualitative methodology …

December Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

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.

Fostering Healing Through Narrative Transformation, Randall Carr

Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

The methodology developed for recent research originated from the idea that God is constantly transforming and adapting a congregation’s narrative. With this in mind, it becomes imperative for church leaders to discern how God continues to alter the congregation’s narrative in order to effectively reach out to an immediate context. To assist church leaders to identify God’s transformative work, I developed a procedure designed to move from a congregation’s existing narrative to envisage a future narrative. This process blends Appreciative Inquiry, Ethnographic Inquiry, and Paul Ricoeur’s three moves toward mimesis, culminating in the discovery of God’s transformed future narrative.

Discovering …

Practicing Missional Hospitality In A Suburban Church, Kevin Stewart

Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

The West Houston Church of Christ is typical of many churches in North America that struggle to relate in meaningful ways to the surrounding culture. Over thirty years West Houston changed from a small, vibrant young church with a thriving family-like atmosphere to a large church in a new building, yet mourning its loss of family connections. It was struggling to find a new identity. In this article I discuss the ingrained sense of family that has served as the identity of West Houston and explore both theological and practical ways—specifically those involving missional hospitality—through which a church can navigate …

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 …

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

Agora

No abstract provided.

Landscape Of Change: An Ecocritical View Of Willa Cather’S My Antonia, Melissa Taitano

Agora

No abstract provided.

The Social Nature In John Stuart Mill’S Utilitarianism, Helena Snopek

Agora

No abstract provided.

Accepted Science And Rejected Sexuality: The Revealing Nature Of The Uncanny In Aldous Huxley’S Brave New World, Caitlin Pettman

Agora

No abstract provided.

Kairos And Comedy In Shakespeare, Lindsey Nemshick

Agora

No abstract provided.