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Towards Teaching Effectiveness Assessing Student Performance, Francis Herlehy, Harold E. Gray

Bollinger-Rosado Teaching & Learning Effectiveness Symposium Proceedings

Evaluation is a process that is used to measure the depth and breadth of specific knowledge and skills. It is used while the instructional process is taking place to indicate a degree of movement towards a desired performance. It is also used to indicate a level of achievement or degree of competence after the instructional process has taken place. Further, and most relevant to this presentation, is that it gives faculty an indication of the efficacy of their teaching methods.

The intended purpose of the author was to review the literature on how it is that adults learn and how …

Using One-Minute Papers For Immediate Feedback Of Student Comprehension Of Mathematics In The Classroom, Loren L. Vian

Bollinger-Rosado Teaching & Learning Effectiveness Symposium Proceedings

A problem in teaching is the assessment of the students comprehension. The earlier the problem areas can be identified, the easier it is to correct the problems and to proceed on to new concepts successfully. The One-Minute paper technique can be used to evaluate the students understanding of the concepts and their ability to apply them. This quick and easy process allows the instructor to alter teaching methods at the earliest possible moment.

Using The Teaching Goals Inventory (Tgi) To Improve Teaching Effectivness, Steven N. Ulosevich

Bollinger-Rosado Teaching & Learning Effectiveness Symposium Proceedings

The national debate about education, which escalated in 1983 with the publication of A Nation at Risk by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, continues with a reexamination into the teaching and learning processes employed at all levels of education in the United States. A Nation at Risk cited the quality of teaching and learning as the primary issue of concern regarding education. Quality remains the major educational issue and warrants answers to two fundamental questions: (1) How effectively are teachers teaching? and (2) How well are students (a) learning? and (b) able to perform in higher education institutions, …

The Dual Regulatory Role Of Amino Acids Leu480 And Gln481 Of Prothrombin, Joesph R. Wiencek, Jamila Hirbawi, Vivien C. Yee, Michael Kalafatis

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Prothrombin (FII) is activated to α-thrombin (IIa) by prothrombinase. Prothrombinase is composed of a catalytic subunit, factor Xa (fXa), and a regulatory subunit, factor Va (fVa), assembled on a membrane surface in the presence of divalent metal ions. We constructed, expressed, and purified several mutated recombinant FII (rFII) molecules within the previously determined fVa-dependent binding site for fXa (amino acid region 473–487 of FII). rFII molecules bearing overlapping deletions within this significant region first established the minimal stretch of amino acids required for the fVa-dependent recognition exosite for fXa in prothrombinase within the amino acid sequence Ser⁴⁷⁸–Val^{479 …}

The Spectroscopic Orbits Of Five Γ Doradus Stars, Francis C. Fekel, Gregory W. Henry, Dimitri Pourbaix

Information Systems and Engineering Management Research Publications

We have determined the spectroscopic orbits of five γ Dor variables, HD 776, HD 6568, HD 17310, HD 19684, and HD 62196. Their orbital periods range from 27.8 to 1163 days and their eccentricities from 0.01 to 0.65. Of the five systems, only HD 19684 shows lines of its binary companion, but those lines are always so weak and blended with the lines of the primary that we were unable to measure them satisfactorily. The velocity residuals of the orbital fits were searched for periodicities associated with pulsation. No clear, convincing case for velocity periodicities in the residuals was found …

Identification Of Critical Paraoxonase 1 Residues Involved In High Density Lipoprotein Interaction, Xiaodong Gu, Ying Huang, Bruce S. Levison, Gary Gerstenecker, Anthony J. Didonato, Leah B. Hazen, Joonsue Lee, Valentin Gogonea, Joseph A. Didonato, Stanley L. Hazen

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) is a high density lipoprotein (HDL)-associated protein with atherosclerosis-protective and systemic anti-oxidant functions. We recently showed that PON1, myeloperoxidase, and HDL bind to one another in vivo forming a functional ternary complex (Huang, Y., Wu, Z., Riwanto, M., Gao, S., Levison, B. S., Gu, X., Fu, X., Wagner, M. A., Besler, C., Gerstenecker, G., Zhang, R., Li, X. M., Didonato, A. J., Gogonea, V., Tang, W. H., et al. (2013) J. Clin. Invest. 123, 3815–3828). However, specific residues on PON1 involved in the HDL-PON1 interaction remain unclear. Unambiguous identification of protein residues involved in docking interactions to …

January 22, 2016, Ohio University Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ohio University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes document the activities of Ohio University's Board of Trustees.

Scaling Law For Electrocaloric Temperature Change In Antiferroelectrics, Sergey Lisenkov, B. K. Mani, E. Glazkova, C. W. Miller, Inna Ponomareva

Physics Faculty Publications

A combination of theoretical and first-principles computational methods, along with experimental evidence from the literature, were used to predict the existence of a scaling law for the electrocaloric temperature change in antiferroelectric materials. We show that the temperature change scales quadratically with electric field, allowing a simple transformation to collapse the set of ΔT(E) onto a single curve. This offers a unique method that can be used to predict electrocaloric behavior beyond the limits of present measurement ranges or in regions where data are not yet available.

Application Of Combinatorial Structures In Wireless Communication., Samiran Bag Dr.

Doctoral Theses

Wireless communication has a compelling need in today’s world. This need is driven by the sudden surge in the demand of ad-hoc networks like wireless sensor networks. These networks consist of many isolated devices called nodes that use the wireless medium for communication. There are three security notions attached to any wireless communication. These are data confidentiality, data integrity and data availability. Cryptographic protocols are required for achieving the first two notions which in turn require shared secret keys. The last notion viz. data availability mainly deals with protecting the data from ‘denial of service attack’.In this thesis, we apply …

Ehugs: Enhanced Hierarchical Unbiased Graph Shrinkage For Efficient Groupwise Registration, Guorong Wu, Xuewei Peng, Shihui Ying, Qian Wang, Pew-Thian Yap, Dan Shen, Dinggang Shen

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

Effective and efficient spatial normalization of a large population of brain images is critical for many clinical and research studies, but it is technically very challenging. A commonly used approach is to choose a certain image as the template and then align all other images in the population to this template by applying pairwise registration. To avoid the potential bias induced by the inappropriate template selection, groupwise registration methods have been proposed to simultaneously register all images to a latent common space. However, current groupwise registration methods do not make full use of image distribution information for more accurate registration. …

Vadim Mazo, Vadim Mazo, Meg Miner

All oral histories

Mazo recalls his first conversation with Myers and the support he felt from him right away for their mutual interests in music and also discusses encounters he had with Myers in his studio and about "Musical Bridges," a program he feels Myers' interest in his work inspired. Mazo feels Myers was a personal inspiration with his example of curiosity. He credits the widening of his interest in bows and batons to Myers' influence. In turn, he is sharing his interests with his students. He speculates that visitors Myers brought in were to improve the intellectual health of the campus and …

Daily Eastern News: January 22, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

January

No abstract provided.

Physical Fitness Of Police Cadets: Baseline Characteristics And Changes During A 16-Week Academy, Amy Crawley, Ross Sherman, William Crawley, Ludmila M. Cosio-Lima

Open Access Publishing Support Funded Articles

Police academies traditionally emphasize the importance of being physically fit. The purpose of this research was to determine cadet baseline physical fitness characteristics and assess effectiveness of a 16-week training program. Sixty-eight cadets (61 men, 7 women) volunteered to have baseline physical fitness characteristics assessed, and 55 cadets (49 men, 6 women) completed further testing at weeks 8 and 16. The testing comprised hand grip (strength), arm crank (upper-body power), 30 seconds Wingate (lower body power), sum of skinfolds and percentage body fat (body composition), 40-yard dash (sprint speed), 1 repetition maximum bench press (strength), T-test (agility), and sit-and-reach (flexibility). …

Creating A Better World With Information And Communication Technologies: Health Equity, Sajda Qureshi

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications

When news broke on 23rd July 2014, that a case of the deadly virus Ebola had been confirmed in Lagos, home to about 21 million people and a major transportation hub, the World held its breath. If not contained, this virus could spread quickly killing a multitude of people around the World. By 15th October, cases of Ebola had been recorded around the World: Liberia reported 4249 cases with 2458 deaths, Sierra Leone reported 3252 cases with 1183 deaths, Guinea 1472 cases with 843 deaths, Nigeria reported 20 cases with 8 deaths, the USA reported 3 cases and 1 death, …

Stem Faculty Focus On Improving Instruction, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

UM workshop participants aim to enhance teaching in new and nontraditional spaces

Utilizing High Resolution Bus Gps Data To Visualize And Identify Congestion Hot-Spots In Urban Arterials, Nicholas B. Stoll

PSU Transportation Seminars

The research uses high resolution bus data to examine sources of delay on urban arterials. A set of tools were created to help visualize trends in bus behavior and movement, which allowed for larger traffic trends to be visualized along urban corridors and urban streets. By using buses as probes and examining aggregated bus behavior, contoured speed plots were used to understand the behavior of roadways outside the zone of influence of bus stops. These speed plots can be utilized to discover trends and travel patterns with only a few days’ worth of data. Congestion and speed variation can be …

Segmentation Of Planar Surfaces From Laser Scanning Data Using The Magnitude Of Normal Position Vector For Adaptive Neighborhoods, Changjae Kim, Ayman Habib, Muwook Pyeon, Goo-Rak Kwon, Jaehoon Jung, Joon Heo

Lyles School of Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Diverse approaches to laser point segmentation have been proposed since the emergence of the laser scanning system. Most of these segmentation techniques, however, suffer from limitations such as sensitivity to the choice of seed points, lack of consideration of the spatial relationships among points, and inefficient performance. In an effort to overcome these drawbacks, this paper proposes a segmentation methodology that: (1) reduces the dimensions of the attribute space; (2) considers the attribute similarity and the proximity of the laser point simultaneously; and (3) works well with both airborne and terrestrial laser scanning data. A neighborhood definition based on the …

The Parthenon, January 22, 2016, Megan Osborne

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, was published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly on Thursdays during the summer. Due to budgetary constraints, beginning with the 2015 Fall semester, the newspaper is only published four days a week. There is no issue on Mondays, physical issues are printed on Tuesdays and Fridays, and online issues only are published on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

Cosm News, Georgia Southern University

College of Science & Mathematics: News & Publications (2012-2022)

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Abstraction And Epistemic Economy, Marco Panza

MPP Published Research

Most of the arguments usually appealed to in order to support the view that some abstraction principles are analytic depend on ascribing to them some sort of existential parsimony or ontological neutrality, whereas the opposite arguments, aiming to deny this view, contend this ascription. As a result, other virtues that these principles might have are often overlooked. Among them, there is an epistemic virtue which I take these principles to have, when regarded in the appropriate settings, and which I suggest to call ‘epistemic economy’. My purpose is to isolate and clarify this notion by appealing to some examples concerning …

Particle Diffusion In Active Fluids Is Non-Monotonic In Size, Alison E. Patteson, Arvind Gopinath, Prashant K. Purohit, Paulo E. Arratia

Physics - All Scholarship

We experimentally investigate the effect of particle size on the motion of passive polystyrene spheres in suspensions of Escherichia coli. Using particles covering a range of sizes from 0.6 to 39 microns, we probe particle dynamics at both short and long time scales. In all cases, the particles exhibit super-diffusive ballistic behavior at short times before eventually transitioning to diffusive behavior. Surprisingly, we find a regime in which larger particles can diffuse faster than smaller particles: the particle long-time effective diffusivity exhibits a peak in particle size, which is a deviation from classical thermal diffusion. We also find that …

January 2016 Academic Affairs Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Setonian, January 21, 2016, Seton Hall University

2016

No abstract provided.

Continuous Processing Of Liposomes To Control And Predict Physical Properties, Antonio P. Costa

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival abstract submitted

Improved Viirs And Modis Sst Imagery, Irina Gladkova, Alexander Ignatov, Fazlul Shahriar, Yury Kihai, Don Hillger, Boris Petrenko

Publications and Research

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) radiometers, flown onboard Terra/Aqua and Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP)/Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellites, are capable of providing superior sea surface temperature (SST) imagery. However, the swath data of these multi-detector sensors are subject to several artifacts including bow-tie distortions and striping, and require special pre-processing steps. VIIRS additionally does two irreversible data reduction steps onboard: pixel aggregation (to reduce resolution changes across the swath) and pixel deletion, which complicate both bow-tie correction and destriping. While destriping was addressed elsewhere, this paper describes an algorithm, adopted in …

Daily Eastern News: January 21, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

January

No abstract provided.

Processes Controlling Carbon Cycling In Antarctic Glacier Surface Ecosystems, Elizabeth A. Bagshaw, Martyn Tranter, Jemma L. Wadham, Andrew G. Fountain, A. Dubnick, S. Fitzsimons

Geology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Glacier surface ecosystems, including cryoconite holes and cryolakes, are significant contributors to regional carbon cycles. Incubation experiments to determine the net production (NEP) of organic matter in cryoconite typically have durations of 6-24 hours, and produce a wide range of results, many of which indicate that the system is net heterotrophic. We employ longer term incubations to examine the temporal variation of NEP in cryoconite from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica to examine the effect of sediment disturbance on system production, and to understand processes controlling production over the lifetimes of glacier surface ecosystems. The shorter-term incubations have durations of …

Visualizing Electric Circuits: The Role Of Spatial Visualization Skills In Electrical Engineering, Gavin Duffy, Sheryl Sorby, Brian Bowe

ASEE EDGD Midyear Conference

A significant and sizeable correlation is established between engineering students’ scores on a spatial visualization test and their scores on an electric circuits concept test with about 25 % of the variation shared between the two tests. Visualization appears to play a very important role in the analysis of electric circuits which requires the mental transformation of pictorial representations of circuits to formal circuit diagrams.

Visualizing Success: Investigating The Relationship Between Ability And Self-Efficacy In The Domain Of Visual Processing, Jason Power Mr, Jeffrey Buckley Mr, Niall Seery Dr

ASEE EDGD Midyear Conference

The purpose of this study is to investigate the spatial reasoning capacities and related self-efficacy beliefs of student teachers. In recent years self-efficacy has been a focal point for those investigating various modes of determinism. The relationship between an individual’s perceptions of their ability to succeed within spatial reasoning tasks is examined in conjunction with their spatial reasoning ability. In this study three tests of spatial ability were administered to align with three unique spatial factors associated with mental rotation. These include Spatial Relations, Speeded Rotation and Spatial Orientation. Self-efficacy within the spatial domain is measured using an adapted Academic …

Enhancing Engineering Students’ Communication Skills Through A Team-Based Graphics Course Project, Leroy L. Long Iii, Kari Jordan

ASEE EDGD Midyear Conference

Although communication skills are highly valued by engineering associations and companies, instructors may find it difficult to incorporate them into specific engineering courses. Some attention has been given to research on undergraduate students’ communication skills. However, additional research and training is needed to help instructors develop curricula -- the type that can enhance students’ communication skills -- in technical subjects like engineering graphics. Such work can help engineering programs offer increased opportunities for students to continually develop desirable professional traits throughout their collegiate experience. This paper will explore the implementation of a team-based graphics course project -- one that focused …