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Evaluation Of A Brief Marriage Intervention For Internal Behavioral Health Consultants In Military Primary Care, Ashley L. Evans, Jeffrey A. Cigrang, Tatiana D. Grey, James V. Cordova, Elizabeth Najera, Rosalyn S. Pace, Abby D. Fields, Michael A. Glotfelter, Jennifer A. Mitchell, Jolyn Tatum

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

Military couples face significant challenges to their relationships including demanding schedules, multiple deployments, and frequent moves. Despite the high costs of chronic marital distress, very few military (or civilian) couples seek marriage therapy. The military services and the VA system have implemented collaborative care models in primary care where internal behavioral health consultants are integrated into primary care. Integrated primary care can reduce the stigma of behavioral health services and may increase the odds that couples would seek help earlier. There are no established couple interventions designed for use in primary care. The purpose of this presentation is to describe …

Synthesis Of Functionalized Peek Analogues Via “One-Pot” Synthesis, Zachary B. Ewing, Eric A. Fossum

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

Poly(arylene ether)s, PAEs

• High performance engineering thermoplastic materials

• Excellent mechanical properties and thermal stability

• Resistant to hydrolysis and oxidation

• Many prepared via nucleophilic aromatic substitution (NAS)

• Electron withdrawing groups (EWG) typically in para positions

• PAEs can also be synthesized with an EWG in the meta positions, creating easily functionalized systems, with no change in the backbone

Investigating The After-Effects Of Stochastic Resonance For Use In Laparoscopic Surgery, Muhammad S. Hamdan, Caroline G. L. Cao

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

Laparoscopic surgery is a modern surgical technique in which surgeons insert tools through small incisions in the abdomen to perform a surgical procedure.

City360: Visualizing Multimodal City Events For Decision Support, Vaikunth Sridharan, Tanvi Banerjee, Pramod Anantharam, Archana Sheshadri, Roopteja Muppalla, Amit P. Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

Cities are increasingly outfitted with sensors for monitoring various conditions such as traffic, weather, air quality, and infrastructure related issues. Such well outfitted cities are generating massive amounts of multi-modal data leading to daunting challenges in assimilating, visualizing, and making sense of this data by city authorities and citizens. We propose City360 to address these challenges and provide decision support to city authorities and citizens. We demonstrate the utility of our system through concrete use cases for San Francisco Bay area that utilize heterogeneous data from various open city data sources.

H, He-Like Recombination Spectra – I. L-Changing Collisions For Hydrogen, Francisco Guzmán, N. R. Badnell, R. J. R. Williams, P. A. M. Van Hoof, Marios Chatzikos, Gary J. Ferland

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Hydrogen and helium emission lines in nebulae form by radiative recombination. This is a simple process which, in principle, can be described to very high precision. Ratios of He I and H I emission lines can be used to measure the He⁺/H⁺ abundance ratio to the same precision as the recombination rate coefficients. This paper investigates the controversy over the correct theory to describe dipole l-changing collisions (nl → nl′ = l ± 1) between energy-degenerate states within an n-shell. The work of Pengelly & Seaton has, for half-a-century, been considered the definitive …

A Mathematical Formalization Of Hierarchical Temporal Memory's Spatial Pooler For Use In Machine Learning, James W. Mnatzaganian

Theses

Hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) is an emerging machine learning algorithm, with the potential to provide a means to perform predictions on spatiotemporal data. The algorithm, inspired by the neocortex, consists of two primary components, namely the spatial pooler (SP) and the temporal memory (TM). The SP is utilized to map similar inputs into generalized sparse distributed representations (SDRs). Those SDRs are then utilized by the TM, which performs sequence learning and prediction. One challenge with HTM is ensuring that proper SDRs are generated from the SP. If the SDRs are not generalizable, the TM will not be able to make …

Fort Hays State University Tiger Weekly, April, 15, 2016, University Relations

Tiger Weekly Newsletters

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Usefulness Of Relative Hypochromia In Risk Stratification For Nonanemic Patients With Chronic Heart Failure, Muhammad Hammadah, Marie Luise Brennan, Yuping Wu, Stanley L. Hazen, W.H. Wilson Tang

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of a reduction of hemoglobin (Hb) content in the erythrocytes as estimated by mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) on long-term clinical outcomes in nonanemic patients with heart failure (HF). We prospectively enrolled 1,579 subjects with HF who underwent coronary angiography enrolled in the GeneBank study with 5-year follow-up of all-cause mortality. Levels of Hb and MCHC were assessed at enrollment and after 6 months of follow-up. Anemia was defined as Hb levels <13 g/dl in men and <12 g/dl in women. In our nonanemic cohort (n = 785, 49.7%), mean Hb and median MCHC were 13.8 ± 1.1 g/dl and 34.3 g/dL (interquartile range 33.6 to 35), respectively. Nonanemic patients with heart failure with lower MCHC had higher mortality risk (quartiles 1 vs 4, hazard ratio = 2.1, 95% confidence interval 1.4 to 3.3, p = 0.001). In a subset of nonanemic patients with persistent normal Hb on follow-up (n = 206), the mean time between baseline and follow-up MCHC levels was 169.3 ± 41.6 days. In comparison with patients with levels of MCHC more than the first quartile (≥33.6 g/dl) on baseline and follow-up, patients with persistently low MCHC (<33.6 g/dl) had a significantly increased mortality risk (log rank <0.001). All models remained significant even after adjusting for traditional cardiac risk factors, left ventricular ejection fraction, baseline Hb levels, and mean corpuscular volume. In conclusion, relative hypochromia is an independent predictor of increased mortality risk in patients with HF, even in the setting of normal Hb levels.

Doc 2007-05 Processes And Procedures Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate

Senate Governing Documents

Legislative authority

II. B. 1

Official, approved document of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton. This document was revised April 24, 2009, April 23, 2010, April 15, 2011, April 27, 2012, April 19, 2013, April 25, 2014, April 17, 2015 and April 15, 2016.

Um, Legislature Working To Secure Stem Center Funding, Michael Newsom

University of Mississippi News

University seeks up to $40 million for massive building project

The Last Glacial Maximum In Central North Island, New Zealand: Palaeoclimate Inferences From Glacier Modelling, Shaun. R. Eaves, Andrew N. Mackintosh, Brian M. Anderson, Alice M. Doughty

Dartmouth Scholarship

Quantitative palaeoclimate reconstructions provide data for evaluating the mechanisms of past, natural climate variability. Geometries of former mountain glaciers constrained by moraine mapping afford the opportunity to reconstruct palaeoclimate, due to the close relationship between ice extent and local climate. In this study, we present results from a series of experiments using a 2D coupled energy-balance/ice-flow model that investigate the palaeoclimate significance of Last Glacial Maximum m

oraines within nine catchments in the central North Island, New Zealand. We find that the former ice limits can be simulated when present-day temperatures are reduced by between 4 and 7 ◦C, if …

A Novel Nonlinear Feedback Control And Its Application To Course-Keeping Autopilot, Xian-Ku Zhang, Guo-Qing Zhang, Xiu-Jia Chen

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Over the past years, more and more concentration has been attended on developing novel control algorithms to stabilize or regulate the practical plant. In this note, a novel technique is presented to improve the control performance by modulating the output error using a sine function. This nonlinear feedback signal is sent to the original control law instead of the output error itself, which is the derivation between the system output and the reference signal. That is the so-called nonlinear feed-back control technique. By virtue of the describing function and the robust control theory, the theoretical analysis shows that the minor …

Effect Of Battery Energy Storage Systems On The Value Of An Intermittent Wind Energy Source In Isolated Systems, Chun-Lung Chen

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The increase in environmental protection awareness and the progressive exhaustion of conventional fossil energy sources have increased interests in integrating wind energy sources into existing power systems. Despite the various benefits of wind power, the intermittency and unpredictability of wind power generation cause operational concerns and waste usable capacity as the installation of the wind generation sources increases. To enhance the value of an intermittent wind energy source by using a battery energy storage system (BESS), an iterative algorithm that combines improved dynamic programming and a hybrid direct search method were developed for solving the optimal wind-thermal-battery coordination scheduling (WTBCS) …

Investigation Of Permanent Aerosol Source Regions Over Asia Using Multi-Year Modis Observations, Dashnyam Gerelmaa, Gin-Rong Liu, Tsung-Hua Kuo, Tang-Huang Lin

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

This work examines the permanent aerosol source regions over Asia by analyzing 7-years data of aerosol optical thick-ness (AOT) product from MODerate Imaging Spectroradi-ometer (MODIS) onboard Aqua and Terra satellites. The analysis is carried out by taking the average AOT map during the years 2002-2008 over the region in different seasons, in which the permanent source regions will appear pronounced whereas the locations influenced by transport or any emissions that last for shorter time period will be smoothened. The results show four such main permanent source regions. Ang-strom Exponent (AE) aerosol product is used to infer about the possible type …

Assessment On Long-Term Fluctuations Of Runoff And Its Climate Driving Factors, Hong-Bo Zhang, Wen-Cheng Huang, Qiu-Yi Xi, Bin Wang, Tian Lan

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The Jing River is the largest tributary of the Wei River in northwestern China. Studying the long-term characteristics of its runoff is of significance to water resources planning and management as well as the design of hydraulic engineering activities at the local and Wei River basin scales in the present and future. Several methods were utilized in this study to investigate the long-term fluctuations in runoff for the Jing River, including continuous wavelet analysis, the HilbertHuang transform and correlational analysis. Furthermore, the responses of runoff to various climatic and meteorological factors including precipitation, evaporation, solar activity and the El Niño-Southern …

Taking Teacher Quality Seriously, Derek W. Black

William & Mary Law Review

Although access to quality teachers is one of the most important aspects of a quality education, explicit concern with teacher quality has been conspicuously absent from past litigation over the right to education. Instead, past litigation has focused almost exclusively on funding. Though that litigation has narrowed gross fundinggaps between schools in many states, it has not changed what matters most: access to quality teachers.

This Article proposes a break from the traditional approach to litigating the constitutional right to education. Rather than constitutionalizing adequate or equal funding, courts should constitutionalize quality teaching. The recent success of the constitutional challenge …

Carbonation Resistance Of Concrete With Mortar Coating, Wen-Hu Tsao, Ming-Te Liang, Nai-Ming Huang, Ke-Hung Liao

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The principal purpose of this paper was theoretically to study the carbonation resistance of a semi-infinite medium which concrete has a mortar coating having diffusion properties different from those of the rest of the medium. The analytical solution of a semi-infinite composite medium was used to predict the time required for subsidence due to concrete with mortar coating. The inaccurate analytical solution was published in previous books. Thus, the analytical solution of a semi-infinite composite medium is re-derived in this article. The governing equations without initial and boundary conditions in the previous books are also pointed out. In order to …

A System Simulation Model For A Training Ship Evacuation Plan, Chian Liou, Ching-Wu Chu

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Evacuation techniques for land buildings have been applied to passenger ships in maritime transportation. However, real and full-scale evacuation drills on a passenger ship are difficult to execute because of their high cost. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to present a system simulation model for developing an evacuation plan of a training ship by minimizing the total evacuation time. In our model, evacuation time can be expressed as a function of three variables: (1) walking speed, (2) the number of cadets turning to the left or right at T junctions, and (3) the number of cadets moving forward …

Maximum-Likelihood Directivity For Depicting Perceptual Contours, Chun-Shun Tseng, Jung-Hua Wang, Ren-Jie Huang

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

This paper presents a novel method based on MaximumLikelihood Estimation (MLE) to evaluate pixel directivity for depicting image contours of objects as perceived by human eyes. The method is characterized by employing discrete masks with different shapes centered at a target pixel to sample gradient orientations of neighboring pixels for evaluating directivity of the target pixel, and applying MLE to determine one of these discrete sampling masks that best fits the orientation similarity of the target pixel. We show that such a fitting process in effect fulfils the similarity and proximity laws in Gestalt theory, and a salient alignment location …

An Evaluation Of Key Service Effectiveness Of Keelung Port, Ji-Feng Ding, Ming-Tao Chou, I-Chun Yeh, Ya-Ling Yang, Chien-Chang Chou, Wen-Hwa Shyu

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

In the keen competitive port market, service effectiveness has become a key to customer satisfaction and loyalty for port operators in future business endevors. The main purpose of this article was to apply the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model to evaluate key factors influencing service effectiveness for Keelung Port in Taiwan. Based on the port literature and experts’ opinions, a hierarchical structure with 5 assessment aspects and 15 assessment criteria was first constructed. A fuzzy AHP model was then proposed. Finally, we employed the fuzzy AHP model to empirically evaluate the key criteria of service effectiveness. The results showed …

Applying Fuzzy Ahp In Selection Of Transport Modes For Kinmen Military Logistics, Yu-Jie Wang, Tzeu-Chen Han, Ming-Tao Chou

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Kinmen is suited as an important tactical location for Taiwan, despite being a small island with scarce resources. A number of soldiers defend Kinmen for essential military reasons. Therefore, logistics in Kinmen are very important, especially with regard to the military. Generally, necessary goods and materials for Kinmen are transported from Taiwan by ship or air. However, inclement weather in Kinmen often causes delays and difficulties in transportation. This is a serious problem for Kinmen military logistics. To enhance and increase transportation performance, military logistics centers need to evaluate feasible transport modes based on efficiency and cost, and then select …

Establishment Of Effective Metamodels For Seakeeping Performance In Multidisciplinary Ship Design Optimization, Dongqin Li, Philip A Wilson, Xin Zhao

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Ship design is a complex multidisciplinary optimization process to determine configuration variables that satisfy a set of mission requirements. Unfortunately, high fidelity commercial software for the ship performance estimation such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is computationally expensive and time consuming to execute and deters the ship designer’s ability to explore larger range of optimization solutions. In this paper, the Latin Hypercube Design was used to select the sample data for covering the design space. The percentage of downtime, a comprehensive seakeeping evaluation index, was also used to evaluate the seakeeping performance within the short-term …

Magnetic Simulation For Possible Causes Of The Vanishing Of The High Magnetic Anomaly Belt In Central Taiwan, Yu-Ying Chen, Chengsung Wang, Yih-Min Wu, Shu-Kun Hsu

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

A striking high magnetic anomaly belt (HMAB) trending almost SW-NE is situated along the continental shelf edge off the southeastern Chinese continent. It extends northeastward to central Taiwan and gradually vanishes there. In this paper, magnetic simulation is performed and compared with other geological and geophysical data to establish a better understanding of the nature of the magnetic source of HMAB and how it makes HMAB vanish. The magnetic simulation was performed with a geometrical constraint from the seismic velocity structure published in literature. Our simulation shows that there is a layer of material with high magnetic susceptibility (which should …

Length-Based Estimates Of Growth And Natural Mortality For Blue Marlin (Makaira Nigricans) In The Northwest Pacific Ocean, Nan-Jay Su, Chi-Lu Sun, Chuan-Yuan Tai, Su-Zan Yeh

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Blue marlin is an important resource for commercial and recreational fisheries. However, several life history parameters needed for stock assessments of this species are poorly determined. Sex-specific catch-at-size data (eye fork length, EFL) for blue marlin were collected from the Taiwanese offshore longline fishery in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and analyzed using the MULTIFAN, a length-frequency analysis, to derive growth parameters. The von Bertalanffy growth parameters of blue marlin were estimated to be different between sexes. The best model for the females included 11 age-classes in the lengthfrequency data sets (asymptotic length L = 312.5 cm EFL, growth coefficient k …

Locally Convex Words And Permutations, Christopher Coscia, Jonathan Dewitt

Dartmouth Scholarship

We introduce some new classes of words and permutations characterized by the second difference condition pi(i - 1) + pi(i + 1) - 2 pi(i)

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Institute for Coastal Plain Science Awards Summer Graduate Student Research Assistantships
• Martha Abell, Ph.D., wins award from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

Removal Of Arsenic From Water Using Synthetic Fe7s8 Nanoparticles, Jesus Cantu, Louis E. Gonzalez, Jacqueline Goodship, Monica Contreras, Meera Joseph, Cameron Garza, Thomas Eubanks, Jason Parsons

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Chemistry)

In the present study, pyrrhotite was used to remove arsenite and arsenate from aqueous solutions. The Fe7S8 was synthesized using a solvothermal synthetic method and it was characterized using XRD and SEM micrographs. Furthermore, the particle size for the nanomaterial Fe7S8 was determined to be 29.86 ± 0.87 nm using Scherer’s equation. During the pH profile studies, the optimum pH for the binding of As (III) and As (V) was determined to be pH 4. Batch isotherm studies were performed to determine the binding capacity of As(III) and As(V), which was determined to be 14.3 mg/g and 31.3 mg/g respectively …

The Influence Of Doctoral Psychology Trainees' Personal Cannabis Use, Perceptions Of Cannabis' Risks, And Attitudes Toward Substance Use On Ability To Identify Cannabis Use Disorder, Alexandra G. Stratyner

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The incidence of cannabis use disorder is increasing across the United States as a function of increased cannabis use (Hasin et al., 2015); accordingly, it is critical that mental healthcare professionals be able to accurately identify cannabis use disorder. In light of this imperative, the current study explored potential barriers to diagnosing cannabis use disorder among doctoral psychology trainees. Participants (N = 123) were doctoral students in clinical psychology, counseling psychology, and related disciplines. Utilizing a quasi-experimental analogue design, the study examined whether doctoral psychology trainees’ personal cannabis use predicted their perceptions of the risks of cannabis use and …

Final Progress Report California Open Educational Resources Council, Katherine Harris

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Submitted to the Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates December 1, 2015 (rev 4/15/16) Permalink: http://tinyurl.com/FPRCAOERC41516 Printable PDF Version: http://tinyurl.com/FPRCAOERC41516pdf See also CA-OERC White Paper: OER Adoption in College Classrooms

Gas Gap Conductance Between Ht9 And Ss316, Michael Luke Scoggins, Chris Martinez

Student Research Symposium

Inside a nuclear reactor, it is important to understand in detail the heat transfer between surfaces. This research aims to ensure the safety of new fuel experiments in the Idaho National Laboratory test reactor by studying the thermal properties of stainless steel and high temperature steel surfaces with a microscopic gas gap between them. The complex behavior of the gas requires a combination of experimental and theoretical modeling. A technique called laser flash analysis is being applied to calculate the effective thermal conductivity of the metal-gas-metal composite sample. From there, gap conductance is calculated using the other known physical parameters …