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A Coach, Now An Alum: John Murphy Earns Gs Graduate Degree Saturday, Georgia Southern University

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• A Coach, Now An Alum: John Murphy Earns GS Graduate Degree Saturday

Entergy Mississippi Commits Support To Law School, Mary Stanton Knight

University of Mississippi News

Strong relationship benefits corporation, students and state

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern graduate dedicated to giving back, will join Peace Corps in May

University Of Montana Commencement Program, Fall 2019, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Commencement Programs, 1898-2020

Commencement program from the University of Montana.

Retrofit Of Corroded Corrugated Metal Culverts Using Gfrp Slip-Liner, Rahulreddy Chennareddy

Civil Engineering ETDs

Culverts are water conveyance structures, typically used to allow water flow and maintain a balance between the flow streams without interrupting structures such as highways and bridges. Corrugated metal pipes (CMPs) have been used as culverts in North America since the 1950s because of their low cost and simple construction method. Today, the corrosion of CMPs is a major problem faced by all U.S. Departments of Transportation. There is an urgent need to provide an efficient solution, one that is corrosion-resistant, to retrofit thousands of corroded CMPs across the country. High specific strength, high strength to weight ratio, corrosion resistance, …

In-Situ Observation Of Aln Formation From Ni-Al Solution Using An Electromagnetic Levitation Technique, Andrew J. Loach, Justin S. Fada, Laura G. Wilson, Roger H. French, Jennifer L. W. Carter

Faculty Scholarship

Aluminum nitride is a promising substrate material for AlGaN-based UV-LED. In order to develop a robust growth processing route for AlN single crystals, fundamental studies of solution growth experiments using Ni-Al alloy melts as a new solution system were performed. Al can be stably kept in solution the Ni-Al liquid even at high temperature; in addition, the driving force of the AlN formation reaction from solution can be controlled by solution composition and temperature. To investigate AlN crystal growth behavior we developed an in situ observation system using an electromagnetic levitation technique. AlN formation behavior, including nucleation and growth, was …

My Experience Manifesto, Xuechun Wu

Theses

In contemporary society, people tend to judge and evaluate the growth and development status of others to different degrees. Also, people are easily persuaded by others' judgments, gossip, and appraisement. However, people ignore the importance of both their backstories and those of others; thus, a person may make subjective and incomplete value judgments.

The first approach of my project included an illustration of a typical story of a Chinese woman at turning points of her life: childhood, puberty, teenage rebellion, marriage, and menopause. The purpose of this illustration is to make the audience imagine and resonate with the different turning …

Ms. Dorothy Mae Smith

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Usefulness Of Library And Information Services At The Higher Education Level: A Study Of Deemed To Be University Libraries In Andhra Pradesh, Kona Ramakrishna, Rudraksha Gowridevi, Chagari Sasikala

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Study examined usefulness of library and Information Services in Deemed to be University libraries in Andhra Pradesh. In this study the questionnaires were circulated among 1164 library users (nearly 20% of the Universe) (faculty members, research scholars and postgraduate students) out of whom 1030 responses were received representing 88 percent of the total sample to whom the questionnaire was distributed. It is evident from the analysis that majority of users opinioned book lending service as effective. Among those who considered the facility as very effective and effective the percentage of users from GITAM is more compared to others. Furthers …

Integrated Design Approach For Coronary Stents Using Flexinol Shape Memory Alloy, Matthew Lucci

Mechanical Engineering Theses

This research seeks to develop and verify a model for control of the shape memory alloy (SMA) Flexinol and apply such findings to practical application of the material as a platform for bare metal stenting technologies. Utilizing experimental data and material properties, a mathematical model of the thermoelectric contraction behavior of Flexinol wire samples was developed. This model accounted for variable resistance due to the shape memory effect of the Flexinol wire as it experiences a crystalline phase change. It also accounted for the change in the cross-sectional area of the wire as the wire experienced thermal expansion and contraction. …

Computational Screening Of New Perovskite Materials Using Transfer Learning And Deep Learning, Xiang Li, Yabo Dan, Rongzhi Dong, Zhuo Cao, Chengcheng Niu, Yuqi Song, Shaobo Li, Jianjun Hu

Faculty Publications

As one of the most studied materials, perovskites exhibit a wealth of superior properties that lead to diverse applications. Computational prediction of novel stable perovskite structures has big potential in the discovery of new materials for solar panels, superconductors, thermal electric, and catalytic materials, etc. By addressing one of the key obstacles of machine learning based materials discovery, the lack of sufficient training data, this paper proposes a transfer learning based approach that exploits the high accuracy of the machine learning model trained with physics-informed structural and elemental descriptors. This gradient boosting regressor model (the transfer learning model) allows us …

Comparison Of Feeding Diets Diluted With Sorghum-Sudangrass Silage Or Low-Quality Grass On Nutrient Intake And Digestibility And Growth Performance Of Holstein Dairy Heifers, Lingyan Li, Nancy M. Esser, Robin K. Ogden, Wayne K. Coblentz, Matthew S. Akins

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

This study was carried out to evaluate the nutrient intakes and growth of dairy heifers offered an alfalfa silage– corn silage diet (CON; 14.3% crude protein, 61.1% total digestible nutrients, 47.9% neutral detergent fiber) compared with diets containing 1 of 2 types of sorghumsudangrass (SS) silages: conventional or photoperiod sensitive. The objective of the study was to determine the potential to use SS to control dry matter (DM) and nutrient intakes and weight gain. Both diets were similar in nutrient composition, with approximately 13% crude protein, 60 to 61% total digestible nutrients, and 55% neutral detergent fiber. Seventy-two Holstein heifers …

How To Promote Education For Sustainable Development? Vision Of The Educational Situation And Its Contribution To Sustainable Development., Khalid Aada

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

During the last decade, the importance of leaving a rational paradigm, debtor of functionalist and utilitarian models, towards another more congruent with the preservation of natural resources, and therefore of life, has been widely discussed. In the same way, different voices have been raised, pointing out the urgency of inserting these precepts into the educational field, hoping to achieve the true cultural transformation that is needed to consolidate the change. Multiple International Entities promote sustainability in Education as an initiative that should be ambitious, complex and reforming character, given the global scope of the social, economic and environmental situation affecting …

Non-Trivial Off-Path Network Measurements Without Shared Side-Channel Resource Exhaustion, Geoffrey I. Alexander

Computer Science ETDs

Most traditional network measurement scans and attacks are carried out through the use of direct, on-path network packet transmission. This requires that a machine be on-path (i.e, involved in the packet transmission process) and as a result have direct access to the data packets being transmitted. This limits network scans and attacks to situations where access can be gained to an on-path machine. If, for example, a researcher wanted to measure the round trip time between two machines they did not have access to, traditional scans would be of little help as they require access to an on-path machine to …

Feasibility Of Diffusion And Probabilistic White Matter Analysis In Patients Implanted With A Deep Brain Stimulator., J. Muller, M. Alizadeh, L. Li, S. Thalheimer, C. Matias, M. Tantawi, J. Miao, M. D. Silverman, V. Zhang, G. Yun, V. Romo, F. B. Mohamed, C. Wu

Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease (PD) is an established advanced therapy that produces therapeutic effects through high frequency stimulation. Although this therapeutic option leads to improved clinical outcomes, the mechanisms of the underlying efficacy of this treatment are not well understood. Therefore, investigation of DBS and its postoperative effects on brain architecture is of great interest. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is an advanced imaging technique, which has the ability to estimate the structure of white matter fibers; however, clinical application of DWI after DBS implantation is challenging due to the strong susceptibility artifacts caused by implanted devices. This …

Academic Application Of Smartphone By University Students In Developing Country, Dr. Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Mr. Bashir Ahmed Shakil

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main premise of this study is to investigate the purposes of academic application of smartphone by university students in developing country and also explores the academic benefits and advantages of using smartphone. The survey method with a structured questionnaire was used for collecting data from 200 students of four private universities in developing country such as Bangladesh. The study findings are - all university students use smartphones and the most popular academic application of smartphone is watching learning videos, followed by reading text books and reading scholarly articles. Then again around 80% respondent students stated the academic benefits …

Another Shot At Rectifying The District Of Columbia V. Heller Ambiguities: The Constitutional Right To Arms, The Nonconstitutional Right To Arms, And The Commerce Clause, Noah Gaarder-Feingold

San Diego Law Review

In an article for The New Yorker titled Active Shooter, David Sedaris quipped that, in preparing for the potential that a psychopath might break into his home, he would just as soon have a back door as a gun. Sedaris wrote the article after visiting a shooting range in North Carolina. Before, during, and after the writing of the article, Sedaris lived in the United Kingdom and noted that in the United Kingdom, it is nearly impossible to acquire a handgun let alone fire a handgun for sport.

Conversely, in the United States, a citizen has a right to a …

Dorthy Mae Smith

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Experimental Study Of Condensation In A Thermoacoustic Cooler With Various 3d Printed Regenerators Using Water Vapor As The Working Fluid, Aibek Bekkulov, Andrew Luthen, Ben Xu

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Thermoacoustics (TA) deals with the conversion of heat into sound and vice versa. The device that transfers energy from a low temperature reservoir to a high temperature one by utilizing acoustic work is called TA cooler (TAC). The main components of a typical TAC are a resonator, a porous regenerator (e.g. stack of parallel plates) and two heat exchangers. The thermoacoustic phenomenon takes place in the regenerator where a nonzero temperature gradient is imposed, and interacts with the sound wave. The low temperature at the cold end of TAC can be used to condense water from the humid air and …

Normalized Multi-Bump Solutions For Saturable Schrödinger Equations, Xiaoming Wang, Zhi-Qiang Wang

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of multi-bump solutions for a class of semiclassical saturable Schrödinger equations with an density function:

We prove that, with the density function being radially symmetric, for given integer k ≥ 2 there exist a family of non-radial, k-bump type normalized solutions (i.e., with the L² constraint) which concentrate at the global maximum points of density functions when ε → 0⁺. The proof is based on a variational method in particular on a convexity technique and the concentration-compactness method.

Objectification Of Women In Rap Music Videos, Jamie O. Broadnax

Research Papers

Misogyny in the hip-hop culture has played a major role in the representation of women in society, and their glorification as sex objects in music videos is becoming popular and inevitable. Women are often objectified in Hip Hop music and this research project presents how women are being used as targets for objectification in music videos and the violent treatment by men in these videos are analyzed. Author Murali (2010) mentions that black womanhood has become more closely connected to postmodern identity and resistance. The post hip-hop era, feminists and media critics brought up the idea of who controls the …

Enhanced Heat Transfer Performance By Shape Optimization Of A Non-Axisymmetric Droplet Evaporating On A Heated Micropillar, Haotian Wu

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Abstract

Enhanced Heat Transfer Performance by Shape Optimization of a Non-axisymmetric Droplet Evaporating on a Heated Micropillar

By

Haotian Wu

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Washington University in St. Louis, 2019

Research Advisor: Professor Damena Agonafer

The stacked multilayer 3D IC structure used in next generation high-powered electronics poses great challenges in dissipating their large heat flux, which causes extreme difficulties for traditional cooling technologies. In response, more advanced two-phase liquid cooling technologies, such as droplet evaporation, which utilizes the latent heat of vaporization to remove excessive heat, have been widely investigated. Compared to traditional single-phase cooling techniques, …

Expanding The Palette: Synthesizing Microencapsulated Organic Phase Change Materials In Metallic Matrices For Transient Thermal Applications, Melissa Kate Mccann

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

As the demand for smaller and faster electronics increases, it becomes increasingly challenging to effectively manage the generated heat without hindering device performance in applications whose thermal profiles are dominated by pulsed thermal loads. Heat propagation in a system can be characterized by steady or transient state heat transfer. In steady state, the temperature at any particular point remains constant after thermal equilibrium is reached. In a transient state, the temperature within a system varies over time. The changing parameters and time dependency associated with a transient regime make heat transfer calculations far more complex than in a steady state. …

Molecular Dynamics Studies Of Thin-Film Evaporation: The Effect Of Graphene-Coated Silicon On Water Evaporation Behavior, Rui Zhou

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Conventional single-phase air or liquid cooling methods are insufficient to dissipate the high heat flux of next-generation electronic systems. Thin-film evaporation is one of the most promising solutions, because it takes advantage of the large amount of latent heat in the phase change process. It is important to understand the relationship between interfacial thermal resistance, surface wettability, and thin-film evaporation behavior. In this study, non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations are used to study mass and heat transfer in thin-film evaporation of water on a silicon substrate, and equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the surface wettability by measuring contact …

Mems 411 Group L (Fall 2019) - Speedy Seeder Final Report, Michael Morrow, Christopher Nelson, Ross Frame

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

The Speedy Seeder or ”SS” is a device designed to decrease the time it takes to fill one seed plot by hand to roughly sixteen percent of the time. The customer of the SS is EarthDance Organic Farms School. EarthDance fills a large number of plots each year by placing a seed in every single compartment which come in three sizes: 32, 72, and 128 compartments per plot. Filling a single plot by hand can take roughly 8 minutes. The SS makes filling a plot much easier and faster, allowing a single plot to be filled in under 75 seconds. …

3d Chocolate Printer Bed Design, Dean Oken, Jacob Margolin, Ben Hartmann, Sam Grossman

Mechanical Engineering Design Project Class

The client wished for a device to gain the interest of young undergraduate students into basic thermal science and fluid dynamics concepts. A 3D printer bed was created from concept to prototype design and paired with chocolate dropper teams to complete the project and accomplish the client's goals.

Library Users Opinion About Library Professional Staff Help To Users In University Libraries: A Study, Kona Ramakrishna, Rudraksha Gowridevi, Chagari Sasikala

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library users opinion about library professional staff help to users in university library: a study in deemed to be university libraries, Andhra Pradesh, India. In this study distributed 1164 questionnaires to library users and received 1030 responses, the response rate is 88%. The study revealed that the response rate among the faculty fluctuated between 71 and 100, among the research scholars it ranged between 68 and 91 percent and among Post Graduate students it varied between 84 and 95 percent. It is clearly evident from the responses of users that majority of them visited the library for borrowing library books. …

Deacon Wilbert Lee Daniels

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Improving Handoff To Decrease Sepsis Mortality: A Quality Improvement Project, Macdana Selecon, Macdana Selecon

Master's Projects and Capstones

A sepsis handoff tool utilized between Emergency Department nurses and unit nurses at a 554-bed acute care hospital were investigated. A survey assessing general knowledge of the facilities sepsis protocol was given to ED nurses, and unit nurses. The electronic health records (EHR) were evaluated for feasibility to transfer the facilities current paper format sepsis handoff tool into the EHR with time sensitive alerts. Three literature reviews supported utilization of standardized handoff tools for improved patient outcomes.

Leaflet: Congress Has A Record... Call Naral's Choiceline, Naral

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Leaflet encouraging calling NARAL ChoiceLine to find out how Congressional members and former Senator Bob Dole voted on reproductive Choice. No date given.