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“Space For All?”: An Analysis Of Race, Gender, And Society In The Cult Classic Doctor Who., Liron Sussman

Honors Theses

Much like the Doctor, people are constantly growing and evolving, and it is out of a desire for human connection that people strive, always, to improve and as a long-running television program, Doctor Who reflects that desire for connection. This analysis explores race, gender, and society as portrayed in the modern series of Doctor Who (2005-).

Intersectionality Shapes Adaptation To Social-Ecological Change, Anna Erwin, Zhao Ma, Ruxandra Popovici, Emma Patricia Salas O'Brien, Jonathan Bauchet, Nelly Ramirez Calderón, Glenn Roberto Arce Larrea

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

People from across the Caylloma Province of Peru are adapting to social-ecological changes, such as decreasing water supplies and rapidly retreating glaciers, in different and unequal ways. In this study, we show how this inequality is intersectional; identities like gender and age compound and interact with systems of power to shape how people adapt to these changes at the individual, household, and district scales. We draw from 130 semi-structured interviews with agricultural actors and participant observations in district and regional meetings across four districts, to demonstrate how intersectionality shapes adaptation to social-ecological change. Our results show (1) what social-ecological changes …

User Satisfaction Of Library Resources And Services: A Survey Of Pre- University College Teachers In Karnataka, India, Narasappa K. C, Dr. Dharani Kumar P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Present study examines the user satisfaction of library resources and services: A survey of pre-university college teachers in Karnataka, India. Well structured questionnaires were distributed among 125 teachers to collect their opinions regarding the frequency and purpose of visit to the library. Study also highlights the available information resources and services. From the study we found that the majority of the respondents 65 (63.73%) are male followed by female respondents 37 (36.27%). It is also observed that 86 (84.31%) respondents are from rural area. About 35.29% respondents are happy with availability of text books in library. It was found that …

Wmu Essential Studies Program: Creating Awareness For The New Required Curriculum, Catherine Lemus

Honors Theses

In the Fall semester of 2020, the WMU Essential Studies (WES) Program officially launched. This new program replaces the previous WMU General Education curriculum which was over 30 years old with curriculum concepts over 100 years old. While the WES program was not allocated any financial or human resources by Western Michigan University as its inception, it required assistance in creating messaging and content to help educate multiple audiences including current and prospective students, WMU faculty, WMU staff, and local community members. Catherine Lemus stepped in the role of WES Strategy and Marketing Assistant with the guidance of Prof. Greg …

12 Wooster St. Tenants Corp. V. 12 Wooster St. Leasing Corp.

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Social Science Considerations For Integrating Aviation Technology, Emergency Services, And Human Resilience, Chelsea A. Lenoble, Joel M. Billings, Janel M. Ingraham, Ray H. Chang, Allison A. Kwesell

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have a range of innovative applications within the field of disaster management, underscoring the potential to enhance human security by integrating UAS across phases of disasters. This paper highlights important social science challenges that must be addressed to ensure the effective integration of UAS, the complex team of teams that respond to disasters, and the populations affected by disasters. Expanding upon points of intersection between UAS capabilities and disaster management identified in recent research, UAS uses in disaster management and corresponding psychosocial considerations are discussed. Broadly, these considerations focus on the training and development of the …

Simulation And Analysis Of 4-D Airspace Closures Due To Commercial Space Operations: Impacts On Airlines And General Aviation, Janet K. Tinoco, Noah D. Eudy, Maxwell Cannon

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

When industries share key portions of their eco-systems, industry-industry competitive and structural pressures can inhibit the advancement of both. In the case of aviation and commercial space, an eco-system component critical to both industries is shared airspace. The integration of air and space activities in a safe, efficient, effective, and equitable manner is compulsory for both industries to grow and thrive. In order to develop solutions, one must first understand the effects of space operations on current national airspace system (NAS) users. By using actual flight data in a simulation environment of space operations out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, we …

What Type Of Collegiate Pilot Is Likely To Experience Imposter Phenomenon?, Rian Mehta, Stephen Rice, Tianhua Li, Sadie Cooke, Ryan Lange, Morgan Black, Cynthia Smith, Mattie Milner, Scott R. Winter, Nadine Ragbir, Austin Vaughn

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Background: Imposter Syndrome (IS), also called Imposter Phenomenon (IP), has been studied in a variety of paradigms over the past few decades. However, IP is not a well-researched concept in the field of aviation, and no studies that we know of have examined this phenomenon with student pilots.

Method: Two hundred and forty-one student pilots were interviewed from two southeastern universities with flight schools. Participants were asked a series of questions about demographics, flight training, personality measures, self-efficacy, self-handicapping, and perceived organizational support. In addition, they responded to the Clance IP scale.

Results: A regression equation was …

Configuration Management Challenges Of Model Based Systems Engineering On Multiple Variant Aircraft Fleets, David R. Zubowski

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is moving from traditional Systems Engineering (SE), focusing on managing documentation, to Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), focusing on a system model (All Partners Access Network, n.d.). As NAVAIR transitions to an MBSE standard, controlling the Configuration Management (CM) of a fleet of a single series of aircraft in varying states of engineering change incorporations will be critical. Traditional systems engineering and configuration management are both text document focused disciplines that have existed since the end of World War II. The method chosen to conduct the research was by performing a case study on MBSE …

Translating Greek Mythology In Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction, Emily Olive Moore

Theses and Dissertations

Given its early connection to western science fiction, it is not entirely surprising that contemporary Chinese science fiction (csf) frequently references the "west" in general and Greek mythology in particular. The three works that I analyze in this paper are Xia Jia's "Psychology Game," Gu Shi's "Chimera," and Egoyan Zheng's The Dream Devourer. These three texts utilize Greek mythology in different ways, to different degrees, and with different purposes, and yet they all use Greek mythology to visually disrupt their respective texts. Xia Jia ends "Psychology Game" with a direct Greek-language quotation. Throughout "Chimera," Gu Shi quotes Chinese translations of …

Exploration Of Pregnancy Recognition In Ruminants Using A Novel Type I Interferon Receptor Knockout Sheep Model, Christopher J. Davies

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Alumni. former mayor, journalist, state official and higher education administrator to speak at Fall 2020 Commencement ceremonies

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Alumni, former mayor, journalist, state official and higher education administrator to speak at Fall 2020 Commencement ceremonies

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, December 9, 2020, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

No abstract provided.

Led Zip Model Development, Mhd Anas Alkrch

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The representation of load components deemed to be an essential factor for power system studies as the load characteristics influence the system performance. Thus, choosing an appropriate load model for load behavior studies is very significant for system analysis purposes. Load models can be categorized into three types: static, dynamic, and composite models. Static ZIP load model is a well-known model in the power industry, it represents the relationship between the active and reactive power as a function of the applied voltage. In this paper, a detailed review of the existing static ZIP model coefficients for load components achieved by …

Climate Change: Increased Potential For Fire Disaster In Taos, New Mexico, Matthew F. Vigil

Climate Change and Public Health Preparedness

No abstract provided.

Research Contributions Of Saarc Countries In Social Science: A Bibliometric Study, Dr. Jayaprakash G. Hugar, B U. Kannappanavar Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

SCI mago is the Journal and Country Ranking database available freely on the internet. We have accessed the required data from 2008 to 2017 from this database and evaluated the research productivity of SAARC countries and citations in the field of social science subject. This article studied SAARC countries publications, citations, citations per document, self-citations and degree of self – citations. The study revealed that on an average 6054 articles are published during the study period. India is the only country to publish more than the average citations publications during the ten years of study. India received 78% of citations …

Profiling Genome-Wide Dna Methylation Patterns In Human Aortic And Mitral Valves, Sarah Halawa

Theses and Dissertations

Cardiac valve structure and function are complex and include dynamic interactions between cells, extracellular matrix (ECM) and their hemodynamic environment. Valvular gene expression is tightly regulated by a variety of mechanisms including epigenetic factors such as histone modifications, RNA-based mechanisms and DNA methylation. To date, methylation fingerprints of non-diseased human aortic and mitral valves have not been studied. In this work I analyzed the differential methylation profiles of 12 non-diseased aortic and mitral valve tissue samples (in matched pairs). Methylation data were acquired via reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS). Of 1601 promoters analyzed genome-wide, my analysis revealed 584 differentially methylated …

Relationships Between In-Situ Tests And Soil Cyclic Strength For Earthquake Hazard Characterization In The Pacific Northwest, Tanner Scott Bryantt

Dissertations and Theses

Strong earthquake shaking is a natural hazard threat in the Pacific Northwest. Soil failure due to strong earthquake shaking -- known as cyclic soil failure or liquefaction -- is expected to cause large ground deformations and damage to roads, bridges, and other civil infrastructure. Cyclic soil strength (CRR) is often characterized with in-situ geotechnical tests including the cone penetration test (CPT). Relationships between CRR and in-situ test data are not well established for soils in the Pacific Northwest. Portland State University, in partnership with New Albion Geotechnical has compiled a database of cyclic lab tests for Pacific Northwest soils to …

Reinforcement Learning Approach For Inspect/Correct Tasks, Hoda Nasereddin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In this research, we focus on the application of reinforcement learning (RL) in automated agent tasks involving considerable target variability (i.e., characterized by stochastic distributions); in particular, learning of inspect/correct tasks. Examples include automated identification & correction of rivet failures in airplane maintenance procedures, and automated cleaning of surgical instruments in a hospital sterilization processing department. The location of defects and the corrective action to be taken for each varies from task episode. What needs to be learned are optimal stochastic strategies rather than optimization of any one single defect type and location. RL has been widely applied in robotics …

Reciprocating Subsurface Wetlands For Drainage Water Treatment - A Case Study In Egypt., Ahmed Rashed

Mansoura Engineering Journal

A new patented constructed wetlands treatment technology for enhanced nutrients reduction has been developed by Tennessee Valley Authority. This new treatment technology is known as Reciprocating Flow Constructor Wetland (RFCW) through increasing oxygen content in the treatment processes. The RFCW has a process of operating two adjacent subsurface flow gravel beds by alternately draining and filling the wastewater on a recurrent basis to achieve tertiary levels of wastewater treatment. In Egypt, A pilot-scale RFCW was built near Lake Manzala as a demonstration of low cost treatment technology to treat a portion of Bahr El-Baqar drain wastewater that carries drainage water …

Fpga Versus Asic Implementation Of Radix-8 Scalable Montgomery Modular Multiplier., Atef Ibrahim, Hamed Elsemary, Amen Nassar

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Traditional ASIC implementations have the well known draw-back of reduced flexibility compared to software implementations. Since modern security protocols are increasingly defined to be algorithm independent, a high degree of flexibility with respect to the cryptographic algorithms is desirable. A promising solution which combines high flexibility with the speed and physical security of traditional hardware is the implementation of cryptographic algorithms on reconfigurable devices such as FPGA. In this paper we compare - in terms of area and speed- FPGA implementation of radix-a scalable Montgomery modular multiplier using retiming technique with ASIC implementation for different word sizes of operands. The …

Proposed Scheme For Characterization Of Power Quality Disturbances., Akram Ibrahim El-Mitwally, A. Abdelmageid, S. Fathy

Mansoura Engineering Journal

A voluminous amount of disturbance waveforms are captured and recorded by power quality survey projects. These disturbances need to be automatically classified and characterized to provide informative and useful results about the power quality condition of the system. Intensive research is conducted to accomplish efficient automatic classification tools. There is still a notable scarcity in apt techniques for characterization or quantification of disturbances. In this paper, a scheme based on discrete wavelet transform and neural networks is proposed to characterize the recorded power quality disturbances. A routine is presented to compute the disturbance duration. A dedicated neural network is used …

Tracking High Performance Of An Isolated Pv-Diesel System Without Energy Storage., Akram Ibrahim Elmitwally, Mohamed Rashed

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In this paper, a control scheme is proposed for three-phase isolated PV-diesel system without energy storage element. The scheme aims to: track maximum power from the PVA, regulate the load voltage, compensate the load unbalance viewed by the diesel generator, and to control the diesel engine speed. The first three tasks are achieved by controlling the PWM inverter interfacing the PV array to the system. The fourth is realized by a modified fuzzy logic controller of the diesel engine. The obstacles encountered on operating the system under certain probable loading conditions are addressed. Two strategies are proposed to adapt the …

Impact Of Wind Farms On Power System Voltage Stability., Sahar Kaddah, Magdi El-Saadawi, Mohamed Osman, M. Abdel-Wahab

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Steady state analysis of wind turbine generating units (WTGUs) interconnected with the grid is needed as the use of WTGU are getting more popular and many new systems are being planted. In this paper, probabilistic voltage stability algorithm of WTGUs interconnected with the utility grid is developed via power Moy analysis where these units are modeled as P-Q bus(es) by detecting the collapse point on the Q-V curves. The developed algorithm also facilitates the computation of both the real and reactive power output of the fixed speed pitch regulated wind turbine at a specific site, wind turbine characteristics, wind speed …

Study Of Selective Parameters Influencing Surface Roughness And Metal Removal Rate Of Internal Cylinders Produced By Ech., N. Radwan, A. Kohail, S. Abbas, I. Mousa

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Electrochemical Honing process (ECH) is a modification of conventional honing techniques whereby material is removed from electrically conductive workpieces through a combination of anodic dissolution and mechanical abrasion. Eighty percent, or more, of the material removal occurs through electrolytic action. ECH is one of the non-equilibrium processes and is a technique, which in spite of being used in some industrial plants especially to smoothen surfaces, is still not fully described due to the variety of the factors affecting the process. More information about the process is required, especially the effects of the working parameters on the produced surface roughness. This …

Trajectory Planning For Autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicles., Jamal Azzam

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) will be more lethal and strengthen the air force than the remotely-piloted platforms in use today. The new tendency is to implement it in combat missions. Among the many open issues in their development is that of trajectory planning (TP). This is a challenging problem for several reasons. The algorithm must compute a stealthy path, and minimizes a cost function The cost function is composed of : trajectory length and threat of adversarial sites which may be Radar Sites or Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs). This problem becomes more complicated if a UAV fleet is considered …

Evaluation Of Egyptian Cotton Cleaning Efficiency By Analysis Of Trash Particle Size Distribution., Fawkia Fahim El-Habiby

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The aim of this work is evaluation of Egyptian cottons cleanability by blow room. Where eleven Egyptian cotton varieties were processed through the blow room line. Cotton samples from bale and from output of successive opening and cleaning machines were tested using Advanced Fibre Information System (AFIS) for thrash content. Trash content and as cunt/g are considered. Blow room cleaning efficiency of the different cottons is calculated and the different cotton varieties are classified to three groups: low, medium and high resistance lo cleaning. For the three groups of different cleaning resistance trash particle size distribution for the different cotton …

Studying The Influence Of Some Parameters Of Opening And Cleaning Machines On Cleaning Efficiency., Fawkia Fahim El-Habiby

Mansoura Engineering Journal

The aim of this work is studying the influence of some parameters of blowroom opening and cleaning machines on cleaning efficiency. Erect of grid gap width on waste and good fibre elimination as well as cleaning efficiency is studied for opening and cleaning machines and for blowroom line. Factorial analysis were carried out to determine if the variation in cleaning efficiency is significant or by accident. For bale opener the variables were cotton type (trash content), grid gap width and spiked lattice and evener roller selling with interaction 2 x 3 x 5. Also for cleaner RN factorial analysis were …

Developing The Procedures Of No Contact Geodetic Measurements For High Building's Facades With Complicated Separate., Zaki El-Sheikha

Mansoura Engineering Journal

In this paper was developed a methodology and executive surveys of the position, component and operational monitoring of façade constructions, This methodology is available for separately façade elements with different and complicated geometric shapes. Procedures and interpretation of the results of measurements with the appropriate theoretical substantiation of the proposed solutions are developed in this thesis, resection method used for determining the coordinates in the most probable plan and intersection method used for the coordinates of the separate element points. : The results of the geodetic measurements were processed. The coordinates of the separate elements of the façade were calculate …