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A Fireside Chat With Lyor Cohen Global Head Of Music At Youtube And Google, Cardozo Fame Center, Entertainment Law Society

2018 Event Invitations

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Fractals And The Geometry Of Matrix Operators, Xiaona Zhou

Publications and Research

In this project, we are interested in how certain fractals can be generated by using introductory linear algebra techniques. A fractal is an object or a structure that is self-similar in all length scales. Sierpinski Carpet and Sierpinski Triangle are two classic examples of fractals. Fractals have many applications in real life, for instance, in imaging, art and biological sciences. In this project, we apply classes of linear transformation to describe and generate fractals in the Euclidean plane, and we generate different examples of fractal using MATLAB.

Curricular Report No. 2017-18-4 From The Graduate Council To The Faculty Senate: Curricular Changes, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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Instances Of Influenza In The United States Visualized, Parth Patel

Publications and Research

The Tycho Project collects large data sets related to healthcare and in particular, instances and geographical information of diseases. We look at the instance counts and locations of Influenza from 1919-1951 across the United States. We hope to find seasonal and geographical insight to the spread of the disease.

2018-December-05-Upward Bound, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Dec. 5, 2018) — Area high school students participating in the Upward Bound program at East Tennessee State University will experience an enhanced science, technology, engineering and math curriculum thanks to a supplemental award from the U.S. Department of Education.

Upward Bound, a federally funded TRIO program aimed at increasing opportunities for high school students to attend college, submitted four STEM project proposals ranging from field trips to robotics courses. Each proposal received a one-time supplemental award of $40,000.

More than 270 students from 14 area high schools are currently enrolled in ETSU Upward Bound.  Students typically start …

Frege's Constraint And The Nature Of Frege's Foundational Program, Marco Panza, Andrea Sereni

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

Recent discussions on Fregean and neo-Fregean foundations for arithmetic and real analysis pay much attention to what is called either ‘Application Constraint’ ( ) or ‘Frege Constraint’ ( ), the requirement that a mathematical theory be so outlined that it immediately allows explaining for its applicability. We distinguish between two constraints, which we, respectively, denote by the latter of these two names, by showing how generalizes Frege’s views while comes closer to his original conceptions. Different authors diverge on the interpretation of and on whether it applies to definitions of both natural and real numbers. Our aim is to trace …

Commencement Ceremonies Set For December 15 At Family Arena, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Corporate Entrepreneurship In The Digital Era: The Cascading Effect Through Operations, Maheshkumar P. Joshi, Ravi Kathuria, Sidhartha Das

Business Faculty Articles and Research

This study examines a firm’s response to perceived changes in the environment, such as the growth of the digital era, at different levels of a firm—beginning with the adoption of corporate entrepreneurship (CE) down to process renewal (PR). We further explore if the technological intensity of a firm, high-tech or low-tech intensity, influences its choice of mode for organisational renewal (OR)—use of internal competence or outside acquisition—to exploit the opportunities created by the digital era. Using survey data from 170 firms, we test a sequential relationship among environmental changes (growth of the digital era), CE, OR and finally PR that …

Building Maintenance Files, 1981-2009, Construction & Engineering Office

University Archives Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Sb16-18/19: Resolution Regarding Asum Legislative Priorities, Alex Butler, Elizabeth R. Story

Senate Resolutions, 2007-Present

SB16-18/19: Resolution Regarding ASUM Legislative Priorities passed 21Y-3N on a roll call vote during the December 5, 2018 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM).

Sb17-18/19: Resolution Prompting Family Rooms, Sylvia Borstad

Senate Resolutions, 2007-Present

SB17-18/19: Resolution Prompting Family Rooms passed 23Y-0N-1A on a roll call vote during the December 5, 2018 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM).

Sb19-18/19: Resolution Regarding Primary Elections, Thomas Hiett

Senate Resolutions, 2007-Present

SB19-18/19: Resolution Regarding Primary Elections passed 23Y-0N on a roll call vote during the December 5, 2018 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM).

Cover Of Volume 9, Sung Yu

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

No abstract provided.

Smart Iot Sprinkler System, Galib F. Rahman

Publications and Research

The average family spends more than $1000 in water costs per year. One-way water is commonly wasted in many households is via inefficient sprinkler systems for lawns. Current technology has enabled the development of automatic sprinkler systems, which can be preconfigured to operate at desired times of day and intervals. Although these systems may reduce the amount of water utilized overall, they are not weather forecast aware. In situations when rainfall is upcoming the systems still water the lawn. In this project, we plan to implement a smart sprinkler system that has full awareness of upcoming weather and take account …

Historical Effects Of Electronic Interfaces, G James Mitchell

Publications and Research

Electronic interfaces are a primary tool for most professional and personal communication currently happening. Electronics, like the human mind, are limited by the understanding of executing will, or commands. This can be characterized as “interface limitations” of digital technology. Identifying this bottleneck in technological development has been critical in historical changes to both hardware and software technology. Recent medical research examines a novel user interface to reduce task load. I hypothesize, interface developments that take cues from nonverbal human communication enhance and sustain the significance of those technologies in society. By examining pivotal moments of historical technology we can identify …

Accuplacer Placement Cutoff Scores As Predictors Of Freshman Performance: A Correlational Analysis, Lulani Tomaszewski

CUP Ed.D. Dissertations

There is uncertainty on how to maximize freshman performance in an English course when students have competing placement scores. Students who have scored above the cutoff score on one of the English placement tests (either reading or writing) and scored below the cutoff score on the other are not systematically placed. The purpose of this study was to determine whether ACCUPLACER placement cutoff scores in reading and writing predicted performance in first-semester English courses and first-semester cumulative GPA among incoming students at a community college in the Pacific Northwest during the 2015−2016 and 2016−2017 school years. Two research questions guided …

Faircloth To Lead Alabama Statewide Area Health Education Centers Program, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

December 5, 2018 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Cheak, Bob (Fa 1232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1232. Student paper titled “Dream Interpretations” in which Bob Cheak provides the symbolic meaning of common motifs found in dreams. Cheak collected several interpretations from family and friends. Motifs are listed alphabetically until page 75.

Gardner-Webb Senior Learns Important Life Lessons While Preparing For Physical Therapy School, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Emily Nordberg’s studies at Gardner-Webb University have given her the academic foundation required for graduate school, but equally important is the knowledge she’s gained outside the classroom and as a member of the GWU swim team. “Through relationships with my teammates, my classmates, my professors, and my coaches, I have learned a great deal about myself and how to approach others,” asserted Nordberg, who graduates in 2019. “I have been able to grow as an individual and as a teammate, and it is these lessons that will stay with me after I leave Gardner-Webb.”

Canvass: A Crowd-Sourced, Natural-Product Screening Library For Exploring Biological Space, Sara E. Kearney, Gergely ZahoráNszky-KőHalmi, Kyle R. Brimacombe, Mark J. Henderson, Caitlin Lynch, Tongan Zhao, Kanny K. Wan, Zina Itkin, Christopher Dillon, Min Shen, Dorian M. Cheff, Tobie D. Lee, Danielle Bougie, Ken Cheng, Nathan P. Coussens, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, Richard T. Eastman, Ruili Huang, Michael J. Iannotti, Surendra Karavadhi, Carleen Klumpp-Thomas, Jacob S. Roth, Srilatha Sakamuru, Wei Sun, Steven A. Titus, Adam Yasgar, Ya-Qin Zhang, Jinghua Zhao, Rodrigo B. Andrade, M. Kevin Brown, Robert B. Grossman

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Natural products and their derivatives continue to be wellsprings of nascent therapeutic potential. However, many laboratories have limited resources for biological evaluation, leaving their previously isolated or synthesized compounds largely or completely untested. To address this issue, the Canvass library of natural products was assembled, in collaboration with academic and industry researchers, for quantitative high-throughput screening (qHTS) across a diverse set of cell-based and biochemical assays. Characterization of the library in terms of physicochemical properties, structural diversity, and similarity to compounds in publicly available libraries indicates that the Canvass library contains many structural elements in common with approved drugs. The …

Three Square, Cyrenz Garcia

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

I think that Three Square is an organization that truly aims to help the people of Southern Nevada. I believe that the work and the change that the people in this organization is just tremendous. They reach out to various organizations all over the county to be able to distribute the to as many people as they can.

Three Square, Emily Teliska

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The social issue that Three Square addresses is food insecurity. Food insecurity occurs when people aren't able to secure enough food for a healthy diet and active lifestyle, at some point during the year.

Service Learning, Ken Wu

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

We are facing many kinds of pollution as human progress with technology. For example, after the world is industrialized, we are facing the risk of global warming and air pollution. Also, The invention of the irrigation system cause desertification. While we are trying to find a replacement for fossil fuels, we created contamination along the way, we started affecting the wild lives around us and it is beginning to affect us.

Pixel-Level Reconstruction And Classification For Noisy Handwritten Bangla Characters, Manohar Karki, Qun Liu, Robert Dibiano, Saikat Basu, Supratik Mukhopadhyay

Faculty Publications

Classification techniques for images of handwritten characters are susceptible to noise. Quadtrees can be an efficient representation for learning from sparse features. In this paper, we improve the effectiveness of probabilistic quadtrees by using a pixel level classifier to extract the character pixels and remove noise from handwritten character images. The pixel level denoiser (a deep belief network) uses the map responses obtained from a pretrained CNN as features for reconstructing the characters eliminating noise. We experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by reconstructing and classifying a noisy version of handwritten Bangla Numeral and Basic Character datasets.

Mammal Collections Of The Western Hemisphere: A Survey And Directory Of Collections, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Bryan S. Mclean, Robert C. Dowler, Sergio Ticul Alvarez-Castañeda, Jeff E. Bradley, Robert D. Bradley, Leslie N. Carraway, Juan P. Carrera-E, Christopher J. Conroy, Brandi S. Coyner, John R. Demboski, Carl W. Dick, Kate Doyle, Jacob A. Esselstyn, Eliecer Gutiérrez, John D. Hanson, Paula M. Holahan, Thorvald Holmes, Carlos A. Iudica, Rafael N. Leite, Thomas E. Lee, Burton K. Lim, Jason L. Malaney, Suzanne B. Mclaren, Nancy D. Moncrief, Link Olson, Nicte Ordóñez-Garza, Caleb D. Phillips, Marcia A. Revelez, Eric A. Rickart, Duke S. Rogers, Cody W. Thompson, Nathan S. Upham

Faculty Publications

As a periodic assessment of the mammal collection resource, the Systematic Collections Committee (SCC) of the American Society of Mammalogists undertakes decadal surveys of the collections held in the Western Hemisphere. The SCC surveyed 429 collections and compiled a directory of 395 active collections containing 5,275,155 catalogued specimens. Over the past decade, 43 collections have been lost or transferred and 38 new or unsurveyed collections were added. Growth in number of total specimens, expansion of genomic resource collections, and substantial gains in digitization and web accessibility were documented, as well as slight shifts in proportional representation of taxonomic groups owing …

Campus Organizations - And Dogs - Help Relieve Final Exam Stress, Rachel Mccarthy

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Volume 56, Number 17: December 05, 2018, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Design Synthesis Of Flexible Antennas Using Artificial Neural Network, Ali Isam Hammoodi

Theses and Dissertations

Nowadays, flexible devices have witnessed a great deal of interest in both industrial and academia. Consistently, flexible electronic systems require the integration of a conformal and flexible antenna operating in specific frequency bands to provide wireless connectivity which is highly demanded in today’s information-oriented society. Designing of microstrip antenna has become the focus of modern technologies due to their light weight, ease of fabrication, and ability to integrate electronics devices. Simple structure such has square patch, circular patch, or rectangular patch are easy to maintain using empirical equations which based on some experimental results. However, more complicated structures are hard …

Battery-Buffered Frequency-Controlled Smart Load With Time-Of-Use Energy Arbitrage, Ahmed Jabbar Abbas Zurfi

Theses and Dissertations

In existing long-established power systems, the grid control and balancing are implemented on the generation side in centralized schemes. As the use of renewable, non-dispatchable, inverter-based (inertia-less) energy sources is becoming increasingly pervasive in modern power systems, this paradigm will change and the need for decentralized demand-side control will be imperative to ameliorate the grid’s dynamic performance and stability. Battery energy storage (BES) is one of the essential constituents that will empower this transition. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are eminent for their features of scalability, mobility, high energy density, and rapid response in tracking abrupt power fluctuations. These features …