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2021.09.13 - Finance, Buildings And Grounds Committee Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2021

Meeting materials for the NEIU Finance, Building and Grounds Committee

Precision Grasp Using An Arm-Hand System As A Hybrid Parallel-Serial System: A Novel Inverse Kinematics Solution, Shuwei Qiu, Shuwei Qiu Ph.D., P.Eng.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

In this letter, we present a novel inverse kinematics (IK) solution for a robotic arm-hand system to achieve precision grasp. This problem is kinematically over-constrained and to address the issue and to solve the problem, we propose a new approach with three key insights. First, we propose a human-inspired thumb-first strategy and consider one finger of the robotic hand as the “thumb” to narrow down the search space and increase the success rate of our algorithm. Second, we formulate the arm-thumb serial chain as a closed chain such that the entire arm-hand system is controlled as a hybrid parallel-serial system. …

202122 Glidden Professor Brings Expertise To Edwards Accelerator Undergraduate Physics Labs, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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2021 September 13 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

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Improving The Power Outage Resilience Of Buildings With Solar Pv Through The Use Of Battery Systems And Ev Energy Storage, Huangjie Gong, Dan M. Ionel

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Buildings with solar photovoltaic (PV) generation and a stationary battery energy storage system (BESS) may self-sustain an uninterrupted full-level electricity supply during power outages. The duration of off-grid operation is dependent on the time of the power fault and the capabilities of the home energy management system (HEMS). In this paper, building resilience is quantified by analyzing the self-sustainment duration for all possible power outages throughout an entire year. An evaluation method is proposed and exercised on a reference house in California climate zone 9 for which the detailed electricity usage is simulated using the EnergyPlus software. The influence of …

Completions 2020-21, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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Fall Enrollment 2020-21, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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IPEDS Report created by the SWOSU Office of Institutional Research

Human Resources 2020-21, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

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IPEDS Report created by the SWOSU Office of Institutional Research

With New Nsf Grant, Uab Researchers Have A Hot Ticket To The Materials Of The Future, Matt Windsor

Browse All News

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Development Of Predictive Equations For Thermal Conductivity Of Compost Bedding, Flávio A. Damasceno, Joseph L. Taraba, George B. Day V, Randi A. Black, Jeffrey M. Bewley, Tales J. Fernandes, Carlos E. A. Oliveira, Rafaella R. Andrade, Matteo Barbari, Patrícia F. P. Ferraz, Lorenzo Leso

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

Among animal facilities, compost-bedded pack (CBP) barns have attracted a lot of attention from milk producers and the scientific community. Systematic investigation of the main thermal properties utilizing sawdust in CBP barns is of environmental and economic relevance. In this paper, the aim was to (a) develop predictive equations for the thermal conductivity (k) of compost bedding as a function of moisture content (MC), the degree of compaction (DC_o), and particle size (PS); and (b) investigate the links between k and depth within bedding material. Samples of compost bedding materials were collected from 42 commercial CBP …

The Guardian, Week Of September 13, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of September 13, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Intouch September 13, 2021, New York Medical College

InTouch

• SHSP Inks Agreement with Catholic Health System of Long Island for Clinical Ethics Instruction
• NYMC Marks World Field Epidemiology Day
• NYMC Issues Updated Policy on the Development, Issuance and Maintenance of Policies
• Quill and Scope is Online
• The Health Sciences Library (HSL) Offers Abundant Resources to the NYMC Community

Evidence For Involvement Of Non‐Classical Pathways In The Protection From Uv‐Induced Dna Damage By Vitamin D‐Related Compounds, Warusavithana Gunawardena Manori De Silva, Jeremy Zhuo Ru Han, Chen Yang, Wannit Tongkao‐On, Bianca Yuko Mccarthy, Furkan Akif Ince, Andrew J A Holland, Robert Charles Tuckey, Andrzej T Slominski, Myriam Abboud, Katie Marie Dixon, Mark Stephen Rybchyn, Rebecca Sara Mason

All Works

The vitamin D hormone, 1,25dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3), and related compounds derived from vitamin D3 or lumisterol as a result of metabolism via the enzyme CYP11A1, have been shown, when applied 24 hours before or immediately after UV irradiation, to protect human skin cells and skin from DNA damage due to UV exposure, by reducing both cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD) and oxidative damage in the form of 8‐oxo‐7,8‐dihydro‐2’‐ deoxyguanosine (8‐OHdG). We now report that knockdown of either the vitamin D receptor or the endoplasmic reticulum protein ERp57 by siRNA abolished the reductions in UV‐induced DNA damage with 20‐hydroxyvitamin D3 or 24‐hydroxylumisterol3, …

Dep't. Of Hous. Pres. And Dev. V. Vabre

All Decisions

No abstract provided.

Chimes: September 13, 2021, Calvin University

Chimes

Freshman enrollment sees first growth in eight years by Harm Venhuizen

Calvin puts up historic numbers in 13-0 win over Finlandia by Jamison Van Andel

Student organizations experience loss in numbers due to COVID-19, chartering process confusion by Grace Toma

Presidential Search Committee hunts for new hire by Abigail Ham

Top five ways to get out and exercise while at Calvin by Jamison Van Andel

New art installations offer break from first semester stress by Ezra Craker

NSF grant funds STEM ambassadors, builds interdepartmental community by Timothy Lin

Faith, science and self-determination: the long history of vaccine hesitancy by Michaela …

Fantastic Voyage, Rebecca Irelan

UNH Today Archive

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Undergraduate Nursing Education Based On The Ram At St.Mary's College In Japan: How The Ram Supports Nurses' Understanding Of People Who Suffer From Illness, Tsuyako Hidaka, Satsuki Obama, Eric Fortin, Nobu Ide

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

The purpose of this presentation is to show through RAM-based practice, understanding the suffering of people in various situations leads to the healing of patients, and it is possible for students to find meaning in each patient's situation. The faculty and students have learned from the RAM how to adapt to the environment, and the coping ability of patients has a great effect on the everyone's nursing practice.

Hyperspectral Imaging With Cost-Sensitive Learning For High-Throughput Screening Of Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda L.) Seedlings For Freeze Tolerance, Yuzhen Lu, Kitt G. Payn, Piyush Pandey, Juan J. Acosta, Austin J. Heine, Trevor D. Walker, Sierra Young

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is a commercially important timber species planted across a wide temperature gradient in the southeastern U.S. It is critical to ensure that the planting stock is suitably adapted to the growing environment to achieve high productivity and survival. Long-term field studies, although considered the most reliable method for assessing cold hardiness of loblolly pine, are extremely resource-intensive and time-consuming. The development of a high-throughput screening tool to characterize and classify freeze tolerance among different genetic entries of seedlings will facilitate accurate deployment of highly productive and well-adapted families across the landscape. This study presents a …

Lanthorn, Vol. 56, No. 04, September 13, 2021, Grand Valley State University

Volume 56, August 2, 2021 - April 18, 2022

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Optimal Steering Of Nonredundant Cmg Configurations For Spacecraft Attitude Control, Victor Hakim

Mechanical Engineering Master's Theses

This thesis presents the problem of optimal steering with three or two single-gimbal control moment gyros (SGCMGs). Most SGCMG configurations use more than three rotors so that the resulting Jacobian always has a nontrivial nullspace. We consider the specific case of a four-CMG pyramid configuration where only three or two CMGs are operational. We use the Gauss pseudospectral method to find the optimal gimbal angle trajectories of the CMGs and the states of an agile spacecraft subject to mission-specific constraints. We do so while either minimizing time or maximally avoiding the angular-momentum singularities. The proposed steering method is implemented in …

Modeling Of Mos2 Tunnel Field Effect Transistor In Verilog-A For Vlsi Circuit Design, Md Azmot Ullah Khan, Naheem Olakunle Adesina, Jian Xu

Faculty Publications

This paper presents the design of an inverter, half adder, and ring oscillator using compact models of MoS2 channel-based tunnel field effect transistor (TFET). The TFET models (both nand p-type) are written in high-level hardware language Verilog-Analog (Verilog-A) following the analytical model of [1] and the output characteristics of the components are simulated in Cadence/Spectre software. The performance of the designed inverter (a basic building block of VLSI circuit) is analyzed by extracting its different parameters, such as transfer characteristics, power dissipation and consumption, delay, power delay product. The simulated outputs (sum carry) obtained from the half adder circuit exactly …

Content Management Analysis Of Indian Institutes Of Science Education And Research (Iisers) Libraries: A Comparative Study., Rajendra Singh Mr., Pravish Prakash Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study aims to discover the most suitable framework used by the libraries in institutes of Higher education. Design/methodology/approach – We have adopted the online survey method to analyze the services and resources which are being offered. The study also emphasizes the usability of resources. A deep immersed checking has been done to check the hypertext links given at each IISER Library’s website in form of percentage and natural numbers. While making observation broadly six research questions have been formulated covering of all areas of knowledge management, the study tried to find suitable answers to formulated questions. The analysis also …

Use Of Electronic Resources Among Library Science Students Of Kashmir, Javaid Wagay, Dr Pc Sehgal

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

. The electronic resources are also known as online information resources covering bibliographic databases, electronic reference books, search engines for full text books, and digital collections of data. At present, the libraries actively procure, organize, display and issue e-forms of books, journals, newspapers, theses and dissertations .In this study, the researcher analyzed the electronic resources usage among the Library science students of Kashmir. Further, the paper aims to highlight the problems faced by Library science students in accessing e-resources, their opinions on feature of e-resources, and their views on usefulness of e-resources compared to that of conventional sources. Because of …

Open Access Scholarly Resources: Awareness And Use Among Research Scholars, Chowdappa V

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study analyses the awareness and use of open access scholarly resources by research scholars of Bangalore University. A total 97 research scholars are selected from Bangalore University. A structure Questionnaire used as tool to collect the primary data. The results show that most research scholars 92.7% are aware and use of open access scholarly resources. The study also revealed that majority of the research scholars 61.85% used OA journals. Comparatively less percentage of research scholars used E-books 46.39% , The study also found that 47.42% of research scholars used open access resources Daily and 30.92% respondent used open access …

Teachers As Instructional Designers: Unearthing The Essence Of The Primary School Curriculum For Delivery Within The Remote Learning Classroom, Angela Gonzalez, Michael Poole

Journal of Practitioner Research

Moving our elementary curriculum to emergency remote instruction presented numerous challenges to our elementary school, as teachers recognized that elementary-age children could not be expected to spend the amount of time on computer screens that they had spent in face-to-face classrooms. Working with our colleagues, we adopted a “less is more” approach, using inquiry processes to make systematic and informed choices as to which state standards would be covered. We acted as instructional designers to develop coherent learning units for remote instruction, using inquiry processes to study the effectiveness of our lessons and adjust instruction accordingly. This work could only …

Effect Of Thickness On Structural, Optical And Sensing Properties Of Sns Thin Films Prepared By Ultrasonic Nebulizer Method, Salah. Q. Hazaa, Hiba R. Shaker

International Journal of Thin Film Science and Technology

Thin Film of tin sulfide with different thickness (100, 250, 450, 600 ) nm have been prepared on pre-heated glass substrates up to (430oC)by Ultrasonic Nebulizer Deposition (UND). The effect of thickness on the structural, optical, and gas sensing properties of films has been investigated. The results of the XRD show that the film which deposited with thickness (100 and 250) nm exhibit only SnS phase with (111) orientation, and with thickness (450 and 600) nm crystallized in the mixed phase SnS and Sn2S3depending upon the films thickness. Atomic force measurement showed the grain size increase with thickness in the …

Facile Development, Characterization, And Optimization Of New Nano-Demulsifiers System For Treating Water In-Crude Oil Emulsions, Magdy A.Zahran, Mohamed M. Mohammady, Hany M. Abd El-Raheem, Moneer M. Basuni

International Journal of Thin Film Science and Technology

A novel series of new nano-demulsifiers based on a polymerizable nonionic surfactant for treating water-in-crude oil emulsions were prepared, characterized and evaluated. The results were obtained from various characterizations such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC), Zeta-sizer and Zeta-potential revealed that the polymer were prepared in amorphous form with the variety of particle sizes 30-120 nm. The efficiency of these demulsifiers was tested in water-in-oil emulsions (w/o) at different concentrations (50, 100 and 200 ppm).The results showed that, the nano-demulsifier samples are effective and achieved, the complete separation of the water during …

On Optimization Of Manufacturing Of A High-Voltage Current Driver Based On Hetero Structures To Increase Density Of Their Elements. Influence Of Miss-Match Induced Stress And Porosity Of Materials On Technological Process, E. L. Pankratov

International Journal of Thin Film Science and Technology

In this paper we introduce an approach to increase density of field-effect transistors and diodes framework a high-voltage current driver. Framework the approach we consider manufacturing the driver in hetero structure with specific configuration. Several required areas of the hetero structure should be doped by diffusion or ion implantation. After that do pant and radiation defects should by annealed framework optimized scheme. We also consider an approach to decrease value of mismatch-induced stress in the considered hetero structure. We introduce an analytical approach to analyze mass and heat transport in hetero structures during manufacturing of integrated circuits with account mismatch-induced …

Steady State Creep Characteristics Of Sn96.5ag3.5 Based Alloys, M. Y. Salem

International Journal of Thin Film Science and Technology

The creep curves of Sn96 Ag3.5In0.5, Sn95.5Ag3.5In1.0, and Sn95Ag3.5In1.5 ternary alloys have been studied at various constant loads from 10 to 19.5 MPa in temperature range from 303 to 393 K. The results indicated that the steady state creep parameters m and steady-state creep rate ε.st are increased with increasing both the deformation temperature and the applied stress. Significant improvement in creep of 5% and7% is realized, respectively when compared of the Sn95.5 Ag3.5 In1.0, and Sn95 Ag3.5 In1.5 with Sn96 Ag3.5 In0.5s older. This finding in dicates the capability of newly developed ternary1.5 in solder alloys to serve a …

Influence Of Deposition Parameters On Optical Properties Of Sputtered Tungsten Oxide Films, Christopher Mkirema Maghanga

International Journal of Thin Film Science and Technology

Thin films of tungsten oxide were deposited on glass substrates at different temperatures and O2/Ar ratios using DC Magnetron sputtering system. The samples were characterized using x-ray diffractometry and spectrophotometer structurally and optically respectively. Analysis of the results reveals dependence of structure on thickness and temperature. The O2/Ar ratio is also found to influence the optical properties appreciably for the entire wavelength range studied. Visual inspection of the films show that O2/Ar ratio influences the coloration of the film which varies from clear to dark blue for high to low O2/Ar ratios respectively.