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Issue 51, Beth Heldebrandt

NoteBooth

No abstract provided.

Lead At Any Level, Will Gunzelman

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentation discusses the key leadership imperatives and leadership lessons learned in combat, which transfer to the corporate sector

•Keywords: leadership, team building, strategy, talent management, ethics, Christian leadership, combat, special operations, project management, employee retention, recruiting, planning, and risk management

• Author, Will Gunzelman: retired U.S. Army Special Forces (“Green Berets”) after 27 years of service and numerous combat deployments. – Adjunct professor of Business Strategy and Policy – Strategy, leadership, and operations consultant for senior executives

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine For The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 51, Fall 2021), Center For Gifted Studies, Tracy Inman, Editor, Erika Solberg, Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

No abstract provided.

Poster: The Roots Of Racism, University Of Dayton

The Roots of Racism: Exploring the Legacy of Dayton's Racial Divide

Poster provides details about this three-part series on racism in Dayton.

The Coastal Monitor: Vol. 7 No. 3, John Tanacredi Ph.D.

The Coastal Monitor

Where has all the pollution gone? No hazardous toxic algal blooms? Incredible summer estuarine water quality! No fish kills. Banner years in recreational fisheries for Stripers and Blues and incredible numbers of Humpback whales! No going to restaurants, so greater at home use of water and septic systems! Since March 2020, drier years than most, thus reducing runoff with fertilizers and organic pesticides, resulting in reduced water contamination. So maybe, just maybe, this COVID- 19 period which has altered our collective lives forever, has also resulted in a grand experiment on what has been hiding in plain sight? That is, …

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter Newsletter, Issue #60 Fall 2021

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters

President's message -- Paul C. Hay

2020 Nebraska Chapter Awards, The Honor Society of Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta: Merit, Teaching, Extension, Research, Outstanding Graduate Student, Outstanding Undergraduate Senior, Outstanding Undergraduate Student

New members inducted

Gamma Sigma Delta committees 2021

Nomination information and criteria for awards: Merit, Extension, Teaching, Research, Outstanding Graduate Student

Membership information and form

Annual dues notice

Outstanding Graduate Student Award Fund

In memoriam: Lisa Brown Jasa (October 11, 1956-September 28, 2020)

In memoriam: Frederick Paul Baxendale (April 10, 1949-September 30, 2021)

In memoriam: Daniel Eugene Bigbee, Sr. (April 1930-November 1, 2021)

Design Optimization And Experimental Study Of Coreless Axial-Flux Pm Machines With Wave Winding Pcb Stators, Peng Han, Damien Lawhorn, Yaser Chulaee, Donovin Lewis, Greg Heins, Dan M. Ionel

Power and Energy Institute of Kentucky Faculty Publications

This paper presents a systematic design optimization and experimental study of coreless axial-flux permanent magnet (AFPM) machines with wave winding printed circuit board (PCB) stators. Existing PCB winding configurations are briefly reviewed and compared to serve as a performance reference. A new concept –the “macro coil”– is proposed to model PCB stator windings in 3D finite element analysis (FEA) to facilitate large-scale multi-objective optimization with the winding eddy current losses evaluated in each design candidate. The detailed trace-by-trace model for a selected optimal design is then built to check the voltage difference between parallel paths and the resulting circulating currents. …

Roles Matter: Graduate Student Perceptions Of Active Learning In The Stem Courses They Take And Those They Teach, Lorelei E. Patrick, Leigh Ann Howell, Everett William Wischusen

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Despite many calls to reform undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to incorporate active learning into classes, there has been little attention paid to graduate level classrooms or courses taught by graduate students. Here, we set out to understand if and how STEM graduate students’ perceptions of active learning change in the classes they take versus those they teach. We found that graduate students had taken relatively few graduate level classes using active learning and they felt that more time should be devoted to active learning in the courses they were taking. Teaching assistants felt that they were …

Exploring And Exploiting The Dynamics Of Networks In Complex Applied Research Projects: A Reflection On Learning In Action, Paul Coughlan, David Coghlan, Clare Rigg, Denise O'Leary

Books/Book Chapters

Since 1984, the European Union (EU) has supported research and development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines through a series of multi-annual Framework Programmes. The current programme is Horizon 2020. Common across the key indicators of research project performance have been actions by companies, including introduce and test innovations new to the company or the market. Initiatives to achieve these objectives require researchers to generate transdisciplinary knowledge in partnership with practitioners as co-researchers. This paper reflects on the authors’ experience of engaging in five EU-funded complex applied research projects over 20 years. The paper locates the process of the five …

Reducing Fraud, Waste, And Abuse In International Aid Supply Chains Using Blockchain, Ilana Blackwood

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Supply chains are an integral part of manufacturing, disaster management, charity, as well as many other sectors. Currently, supply chains are susceptible to many potential inefficiencies. For example, supply chains are prone to be affected by fraud, waste and abuse. Hence, this project seeks to explain how the implementation of smart contracts and block coupled with Internet of Things (IoT) to solve the inefficiencies currently existing within the supply chain, using development aid as an example.

Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Check Out The Library, 2021 Fall Issue, Humboldt State University Library

Library Publications

Table of Contents

• Welcome Back
• Meet Our New Library Employees
• Meet Your HSU Press Team
• New Online SkillShops
• Take the First Steps to Adopt or Adapt OER in Your Course
• ABC: Always Borrow Course Materials on Reserve
• Blast from the Past

Modulation Of T Cell Response Hierarchy By Coinhibition And Costimulation With Cancer Immunotherapy, Yu Zhang

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Cancer is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Cancer immunotherapy with coinhibition antagonist antibodies blocking the Program Death 1 (PD-1) and Program Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1) coinhibitory pathway (anti-PD therapy) have improved the survival for millions of patients with advanced cancers providing the possibility of achieving a prolonged durable response. However, few patients are considered to be clinically cured with anti-PD therapy. Many patients who initially respond to anti-PD therapy eventually develop tumor progression or recurrence in a clinical observation collectively called acquired immune resistance (AIR). Many potential mechanisms of AIR are being studied, such as the loss …

Wireless Transmissions: Early Russian Radio And Modernist Poetics, Ana Berdinskikh

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines the first era of mass wireless communication in Russia, and the ways in which emerging media technologies shaped and intersected with cultural production in the early twentieth century. In this project, I study a series of authors and artists who participated in a growing technological discourse, as they wrote, debated and conceived of methods to achieve “direct” and “instantaneous” communication that exceeded the capabilities of written text. Through their poems, fiction, lithographs and collages, these artists explored the role that wireless telegraphy and radio played in shaping conceptions of spatial and temporal limitations, and how these devices …

Synaptic Density Imaging With Sv2a Using Positron Emission Tomography: Optimization Of Reference Region Analysis And Applications In The Human Spinal Cord And The Developing Nonhuman Primate Brain, Samantha Rossano

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging modality in which radioactive ligands are used to target physiological functions, including metabolism or receptor densities, in vivo. Once administered into a subject, the PET radioligand distributes throughout the body and undergoes radioactive decay, emitting two gamma rays 180 degree from each other. These gamma rays are detected by the PET camera as coincidence events, and the PET raw data are reconstructed into 4-dimenstional images (x, y, z, t). Dynamic PET images can be quantified by applying various kinetic models to radioactivity concentrations in a volume or region of interest (ROI) over …

Next Generation Phenotyping In Clinical Trial Based On Real-World Data, Guannan Gong

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Real-world data (RWD) or information generated outside of a traditional clinical trial, including electronic health records (EHRs), insurance claims and billing activity, product and disease registries, medical devices used in the home, and applications (apps) on mobile devices, provide a key analyte that can be used to advance biomedical investigation and drive discovery. While RWD can have significant value, analysis of these data has limitations and often requires new analytic approaches. One of the key areas in utilizing RWD is identifying patients with certain characteristics of interest through a process known as digital phenotyping. Although great benefits and potentials, identifying …

Cross-Kingdom Expression Of Synthetic Genetic Elements Promotes The Discovery Of A New Class Of Nucleotide Analogs From The Human Microbiome, Jaymin Patel

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The ability to mobilize functional genetic cargo into a versatile array of hosts is a defining challenge, as scientists increasingly reprogram diverse organisms as living therapeutics, for bioremediation, and as foundries for producing materials and molecules. However porting genetic material to diverse recipients is challenged by barriers to robust expression and mobilization. To address these challenges, we have developed an approach that integrates computer aided redesign of genetic sequences that are subsequently mobilized, expressed, and characterized cross-kingdom in diverse microbial hosts, including Gram negative and positive bacteria and yeast. Using the technology developed in this thesis, we were able to …

Rational Design And Self-Assembly Studies Of Mixed-Graft Block Copolymers, An Le

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) represents a promising route to the bottom-up fabrication of nanostructured materials, which have potential applications in areas including microelectronics, separations, photonics, and energy storage. The versatility of BCPs in various applications draws on their highly tunable bulk properties, and their high performance relies on the nanostructures having precisely defined size, morphology, orientation, and molecular functionality. Control over BCP nanostructure and bulk properties can be exercised through judicious control of various aspects of molecular structures, such as molecular weight, chemical composition, stereochemistry, and chain architecture or topology. This thesis focuses on control of polymer properties …

Directed Assembly Of Anisotropic Inorganic Nanomaterials Using Self-Assembled Soft Mesophases, Uri Roei Gabinet

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Anisotropic nanomaterials have propelled new technologies and materials in diverse fields ranging from electronics and photonics to catalysis and biomedicine. While initially nanomaterials’ utilization in application focused on their unique properties which are a direct result of their confinement to the nanoscale, such as size-dependent fluorescence or bandgap, more recently, additional properties and enhanced functionality are sought after by controlling the spatial organization and orientation of nanomaterials. Such advanced functionality can be enabled by controlling the juxtaposition of nanomaterials, eliciting an array-geometry-dependent effect from multiple individual nanostructures collectively interacting with one another, as is evident in plasmonic metamaterials. Another possibility …

Probing The Upper Limits To Light-Matter Interactions: From Spontaneous Emission To Superresolution, Hyungki Shim

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

As newly emerging optical devices and metamaterials enrich the photonic landscape, there is a growing need to understand the limits to optical response. Are current, physical-intuition-based designs already near the frontiers of what is possible, or can they be significantly further improved? New approaches are needed to explore the vast, physical design space. In this thesis, we will establish fundamental limits to light-matter interactions at three levels: in free space, where beam-shaping can be used for wide-ranging applications including superresolution, for arbitrary scattering structures, where we develop new tools for identifying "power-bandwidth limits" to near-field optical response, and, finally, at …

Polymer Nanoparticles For Optimized Gene Delivery To Mucosal Tissues, Molly Grun

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

After decades of pre-clinical and clinical research, gene therapies are finally achieving clinical success. There is rapidly growing interest in using the potential of nucleic acids to develop new treatment options in diverse fields of medicine, but effective gene therapies are still limited by effective delivery systems. Localized gene delivery to mucosal tissues—which include the eyes, respiratory system, digestive system, and female reproductive tract—are being developed to treat disorders and diseases ranging from cystic fibrosis to HIV. However, agent penetration through the mucus barrier that is common to all of these tissues poses a significant challenge to delivery vector design. …

Architectures Of The Humanitarian Front, 1915-1930 The American Red Cross And The Refugee Settlement Commission Of The League Of Nations, Theodossios Issaias

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines a period around WWI when conflict, displacement, and territorial insecurity provoked the reconfiguration of humanitarian operations –their spatial organization and ethical imperatives. Between the 1910s and 1930s, a flurry of humanitarian activity emerged, old institutions were restructured, new institutions were formed, and new methods of action crystalized, entrenching representations, languages, and practices that have stayed with us ever since. The dissertation begins with an examination of the American Red Cross (ARC, 1881-), as it transformed from a relatively unknown philanthropic society into the only recognized relief organization responsible for administering foreign aid on the country’s behalf. Contingent …

Ferroelectric Hf0.5zr0.5o2: ’Negative Capacitance’ And Wake-Up Effect, Zhan Liu

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Ferroelectricity has been studied for more than a century since its discovery in 1920. The unique feature of two spontaneous polarization states making ferroelectric materials favorable for semiconductor memory and several ferroelectric materials have been commercialized, including Lead zirconate titanate (PZT), Strontium Bismuth Tantalate (SBT), and barium titanate (BTO). Commercial FeRAM memory has been used in low-power microcontrollers and other embedded applications. However, due to the scaling and process compatibility issues, ferroelectric memory never becomes a mainstream memory technology. In 2011, Hf-based ferroelectric materials are discovered. The promising scalability and CMOS-friendly fabrication process making Hf-based ferroelectrics a potential game-changer for …

Wright State University Magazine, Fall 2021, Wright State Alumni Association, Wright State University Foundation

Wright State University Magazine

52-page issue of the Wright State Magazine. This magazine is published twice a year and focuses on news related to Wright State alumni, faculty, and friends of the university.

Examining The Correlation Between Leadership Engagement And The Formation Of A Lean Culture In Organizations, Dagmar Vlahos

M.S. in Leadership

This research entailed exploring the correlation between leadership engagement and the formation of an organizational lean culture. Additionally, it evaluated the impact leaders have on employee adoption of a lean culture and sustainability. Inspiration for this project resulted from former struggles experienced while establishing lean cultures. Initial research focused on understanding organizational culture, lean leadership, employee engagement, and then expanded to explore if leadership engagement affects the formation of a lean culture, employee adoption and sustainability. Overall, this research discerned that leadership engagement is an integral element not only in the formation of a lean culture but also in employee …

Crest Or Trough? How Research Libraries Used Emerging Technologies To Survive The Pandemic, So Far, Scout Calvert

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Introduction

In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was impossible to tell if we were at the crest of a wave of new transmissions, or a trough of a much larger wave, still yet to peak. As of this writing, as colleges and universities prepare for mostly in-person fall 2021 semesters, case counts in the United States are increasing again after a decline that coincided with easier access to the COVID vaccine. Plans for a return to campus made with confidence this spring may be in doubt, as we climb the curve of what is already the second …

System View Of The Talent Gap In The Commercial Property And Casualty Insurance Sector: A Pre-Mortem, Bibi R. Khan

Full-Text Theses & Dissertations

The commercial property and casualty insurance industry play an essential role by providing critical strategic benefits to society and fueling the economy through risk transfer. The literature review concludes that the industry faces a looming talent crisis, and although the industry leaders are aware of the problem, there is no apparent strategy to address it. Therefore, ascertaining strategies to address the problem requires an understanding of the current state of the property and casualty system.

This study applied system thinking methodology and interactive planning method of intervention to understand how and why the system operates the way it currently does, …

Ott, Megan And Joycin Stonacek. "Physiology For Kids Club." After-School Club Lesson Plans. University Of Nebraska, 2021., Megan Ott, Joycin Stonacek

Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs

No abstract provided.

Up And Atom, Emily Plotnik, Elizabeth Struwe

Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs

"Up and Atom" is a hands-on and creative afterschool club geared towards fourth and fifth graders. Through conducting a variety of science experiments, the goal of this club is to inspire a creative and immersive perspective of the sciences for the younger generation.

Science, Sustainability, And Saving The World Club, Duncan Works, Sarah Brady

Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs

After-school club lesson plans to educate grade school students on sustainable practices and inform them of the earth's changing climate.