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Usa V. Scott Hornick Jul 2012

Usa V. Scott Hornick

2012 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


James Moore V. Secretary Us Department Of Vet Jul 2012

James Moore V. Secretary Us Department Of Vet

2012 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Calling All Prospective Csis: Unh Offers New Program In Forensics, Lori Wright Jul 2012

Calling All Prospective Csis: Unh Offers New Program In Forensics, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


Dead Weight Or Change Catalysts? Long-Term Employees And Their Impact On Organizational Change Efforts, Sara M. Frasch Jul 2012

Dead Weight Or Change Catalysts? Long-Term Employees And Their Impact On Organizational Change Efforts, Sara M. Frasch

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

In today's world, organizational change is inevitable for organizations and for the employees who support and labor for that organization (Goodstein & Burke, 2005; Leana & Barry, 2000). How employees perceive initiated changes will impact if and when they adopt the change, and how they participate in the change. The role of long-tenured employees in organizational change efforts has not been studied sufficiently. The assumption that long-tenured employees resist change and have lower productivity (Auer, Berg & Coulibaly, 2004) is juxtaposed against the assertion in the literature that it is these long-term employees who move into change because they feel …


Technology Can Be Blessing, Curse To Students, Alexandra Pittman Jul 2012

Technology Can Be Blessing, Curse To Students, Alexandra Pittman

UCF Forum

Many college students seem to have forgotten what a university is for because they have become lost within their own technology.


Uab Optometry Student Places In Student Bowl, Jim Bakken Jul 2012

Uab Optometry Student Places In Student Bowl, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.


The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, July 3, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media Jul 2012

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, July 3, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

July

No abstract provided.


Neural Network Field Programmable Gate Array (Fpga) Controllers For Reconfigurable Antennas, Eyad Al Zuraiqi Jul 2012

Neural Network Field Programmable Gate Array (Fpga) Controllers For Reconfigurable Antennas, Eyad Al Zuraiqi

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Advantages of reconfigurable antennas are numerous, but limited by the method of controlling their configuration. This dissertation proposes to utilize the advantages of both Neural Networks (NN) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to overcome this dilemma. In this work, the methodology of modeling of reconfigurable antennas using neural network embedded on an FPGA board is presented. This work shows a new approach of modeling reconfigurable antennas using neural networks in Matlab, a code is written to generate a NN for any antenna (or any reconfigurable system in general) by providing input/output data of the antenna. An HDL code is …


Heterostructure Engineering Of Quantum Dots-In-A-Well Infrared Photodetectors, Ajit Barve Jul 2012

Heterostructure Engineering Of Quantum Dots-In-A-Well Infrared Photodetectors, Ajit Barve

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Three of the most important characteristics of third-generation imaging systems are high operating temperature, multispectral operation, and large format arrays. The quantum dot infrared photodetector technology, owing to the three-dimensional confinement of carriers, the richness of the electronic spectra in quantum dots, and the mature III-V based fabrication technology, satisfy these requirements. This work focuses on quantum dots-in-a-well (DWELL) detectors in which InAs quantum dots are embedded in a compressively strained InGaAs-GaAs quantum well. Barriers separating two stacks of quantum dots can be GaAs, AlGaAs or a combination of different materials, with 'smart barriers'. Motivation for this work is to …


Legacy Of Betrayal: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison Of The Cherokee Removal And The Highland Clearances, Lisa Brown Jul 2012

Legacy Of Betrayal: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison Of The Cherokee Removal And The Highland Clearances, Lisa Brown

History ETDs

In my work I offer a comparative study of the removal experiences of the Cherokees of Georgia and the Sutherland Gaels in the Highlands of Scotland. Examining the effects of colonialism and cultural imperialism on indigenous populations, the following examines the ways in these peoples mediated their colonial experiences through their own cultural mores, how the removals were carried out, and the resultant impact on these indigenes. The following focuses largely on the role of acculturation, or assimilation, of the elite into the colonizing societys values and life ways, and how this led to a growing distance between the chiefs …


Forging Alliances Across Fronteras: Transnational Narratives Of Female Migration And The Family, Vanessa De Veritch Woodside Jul 2012

Forging Alliances Across Fronteras: Transnational Narratives Of Female Migration And The Family, Vanessa De Veritch Woodside

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This dissertation examines the effects of transnational migration on women with particular attention to the (re-)negotiation of personal and cultural identity resulting from the adoption of novel roles within Chicana narratives of Mexican migration. Chapter One offers a historical background regarding the U.S.-Mexico border, (im)migration, and more specifically, women and migration, as well as an overview of pertinent Chicano migrant literature that serves as an appropriate point of departure for discussion of Chicana re-writings of such texts. This discussion offers border feminism as a framework for analyzing the representation of evolving feminine roles and familial configurations in the context of …


Director And Assistant Of Student Life And Leadership Named, Lindenwood University Jul 2012

Director And Assistant Of Student Life And Leadership Named, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Moore, Gerald Grattan, 1887-1972 (Sc 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Moore, Gerald Grattan, 1887-1972 (Sc 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 438. Letter written by Gerald Grattan Moore, secretary of the Annual Convention of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Chicago, Illinois, to Lee Collins, Cave City, Kentucky, expressing the
Convention’s sympathy for the imprisonment of his son, Floyd, in southcentral Kentucky Cave, and relating that they are praying for his release.


Murphey, G. N. (Sc 441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Murphey, G. N. (Sc 441), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 441. Copy of application, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for a license to practice medicine in Kentucky.


Daily Eastern News: July 03, 2012, Eastern Illinois University Jul 2012

Daily Eastern News: July 03, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

July

No abstract provided.


Recordando Nuestra Gente: Ritual Memorialization Along The Camino Real De Tierra Adentro, Theresa J. CóRdova Jul 2012

Recordando Nuestra Gente: Ritual Memorialization Along The Camino Real De Tierra Adentro, Theresa J. CóRdova

American Studies ETDs

This dissertation provides a contemporary study of the memorialization and ritual practices that serve as historical markers of community cultural mapping along the region of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. The dissertation features two explicit case studies involving separate tragic stories of death of two women prior to consummating their marriage and the memorialization that intersects their cultural identities from distinct communities--one from the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, who died in 1930, and the other from El Rito, New Mexico who died in 1997. By juxtaposing their stories I sought to interconnect the lives and experiences of Chicana/o, Hispana/o, …


The Becoming Of Age: How Discourses Of Aging And Old Age In Contemporary, Popular Film Both Reinforce And Reimagine The Narrative Of Aging As Decline, Pamela H. Gravagne Jul 2012

The Becoming Of Age: How Discourses Of Aging And Old Age In Contemporary, Popular Film Both Reinforce And Reimagine The Narrative Of Aging As Decline, Pamela H. Gravagne

American Studies ETDs

This dissertation examines how to think critically about the ways in which aging and old age are understood, represented, and problematized in American popular film. Rather than subscribe to the narrative of decline that views growing older as a linear process of chronological and biological deterioration with no possibility of gain, this dissertation reveals the shared meanings, discourses, narratives, and philosophical positions that underlie constructions such as the narrative of decline, and that populate the screen in contemporary film, to be both historical and open to revision. Chapter 2, therefore, explores the ways in which film simultaneously relies on stereotypical …


Shingles Vaccine Ok For People With Immune Disorders, Alicia Rohan Jul 2012

Shingles Vaccine Ok For People With Immune Disorders, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.


Negative-Order Korteweg–De Vries Equations, Zhijun Qiao, Engui Fan Jul 2012

Negative-Order Korteweg–De Vries Equations, Zhijun Qiao, Engui Fan

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

In this paper, based on the regular Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) system, we study negative-order KdV (NKdV) equations, particularly their Hamiltonian structures, Lax pairs, conservation laws, and explicit multisoliton and multikink wave solutions thorough bilinear B¨acklund transformations. The NKdV equations studied in our paper are differential and actually derived from the first member in the negative-order KdV hierarchy. The NKdV equations are not only gauge equivalent to the Camassa-Holm equation through reciprocal transformations but also closely related to the Ermakov-Pinney systems and the Kupershmidt deformation. The bi-Hamiltonian structures and a Darboux transformation of the NKdV equations are constructed with the aid …


Famous Author And Gardner-Webb Alumnus Ron Rash To Make Television Appearance, Office Of University Communications Jul 2012

Famous Author And Gardner-Webb Alumnus Ron Rash To Make Television Appearance, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Award-winning author and Boiling Springs, N.C., native, Ron Rash will be featured during the season premiere of “North Carolina Bookwatch” on UNC-TV (public television) this Friday, July 6 at 9:30 p.m. The show will spotlight Rash’s latest novel, “The Cove.” This marks the third appearance for Rash on the program, where he’s previously spoke about his books “Serena” and “One Foot in Eden.”


Measurement Of A Model Of Implementation For Health Care: Toward A Testable Theory, Joan M. Cook, Casey O'Donnell, Stephanie Dinnen, James C. Coyne, Josef I. Ruzek, Paula P. Schnurr Jul 2012

Measurement Of A Model Of Implementation For Health Care: Toward A Testable Theory, Joan M. Cook, Casey O'Donnell, Stephanie Dinnen, James C. Coyne, Josef I. Ruzek, Paula P. Schnurr

Dartmouth Scholarship

Greenhalgh et al. used a considerable evidence-base to develop a comprehensive model of implementation of innovations in healthcare organizations [1]. However, these authors did not fully operationalize their model, making it difficult to test formally. The present paper represents a first step in operationalizing Greenhalgh et al.'s model by providing background, rationale, working definitions, and measurement of key constructs.A systematic review of the literature was conducted for key words representing 53 separate sub-constructs from six of the model's broad constructs. Using an iterative process, we reviewed existing measures and utilized or adapted items. Where no one measure was deemed appropriate, …


Efficient Airframe Management Using In-Situ Structural Health Monitoring, Mark M. Derriso, M. S. Leonard, Martin P. Desimio, Steven E. Olson Jul 2012

Efficient Airframe Management Using In-Situ Structural Health Monitoring, Mark M. Derriso, M. S. Leonard, Martin P. Desimio, Steven E. Olson

Student Publications

The United States Air Force utilizes the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) to service and maintain its airframes. This schedule-based maintenance approach works well for ensuring system integrity; however, it is very costly, labor-intensive, and it reduces system availability. As a result, the Air Force intends to transition to a process that services aircraft based on their actual condition instead of the presumptive schedule-based approach. Structural health monitoring (SHM) technologies are being investigated to enable such real-time state awareness and decision-making. This paper provides a brief review of ASIP and the required inspections to investigate structural fatigue. The current ASIP …


Intermediate Outcomes Following Percutaneous Fixation Of Proximal Humeral Fractures, Alicia K. Harrison, Konrad I. Gruson, Benjamin Zmistowski, Jay Keener, Leesa Galatz, Gerald Williams, Bradford O. Parsons, Evan L. Flatgow Jul 2012

Intermediate Outcomes Following Percutaneous Fixation Of Proximal Humeral Fractures, Alicia K. Harrison, Konrad I. Gruson, Benjamin Zmistowski, Jay Keener, Leesa Galatz, Gerald Williams, Bradford O. Parsons, Evan L. Flatgow

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.


Butte Silver Bow Courthouse Centennial Celebration, Max S. Baucus Jul 2012

Butte Silver Bow Courthouse Centennial Celebration, Max S. Baucus

Max S. Baucus Speeches and Remarks

Butte Silver Bow Courthouse Centennial Celebration


Capillary-Column-Based Bioseparator/Bioreactor With An Optical/Electrochemical Detector For Detection Of Microbial Pathogens, Yanbin Li, Yongcheng Liu Jul 2012

Capillary-Column-Based Bioseparator/Bioreactor With An Optical/Electrochemical Detector For Detection Of Microbial Pathogens, Yanbin Li, Yongcheng Liu

Patents Granted

The present invention is directed to satisfying the need to detect microbial contamination of food products. The described bioseparator/bioreactor coupled with an optical/electrochemical biosensor was able to specifically detect E. coli O157:H7 from 8.8 x 10^1 to 8.8 x 10^6 CFU/ml in 2.5 hours without any enrichment. Using this invention, concentrations of S. Typhimurium ranging from 8.6 x 10^2 to 8.6 x 10^6 CFU/ml in pure culture were detected in 2 hours without any enrichment. The invention may also be used for the detection of S. Seftenberg, which has the same sensitivity as S. Typhimurium. Other pathogens such as L. …


Soil Geomorphology Of The Eastern Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research Site, Debra Bryan-Ricketts Jul 2012

Soil Geomorphology Of The Eastern Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research Site, Debra Bryan-Ricketts

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Soils in the arid to semi-arid piedmont landscapes of central New Mexico were examined in order to evaluate surficial processes and landscape evolution in the central Rio Grande Rift. These soils were found to contain key information regarding pedologic and geomorphic responses to climate change, rifting and base level drop. A rare association of sepiolite and palygorskite occurs in old soils formed in eolian fines. Pedologic and mineralogical data indicate that palygorskite formed by transformation of dust-borne, aluminum-rich minerals, and that sepiolite subsequently formed by transformation of palygorskite. The association of these two minerals, and geomorphic observations, confirm the existence …


Methods Of Treating Ovarian Cancer By Modulating Snon, Meera Nanjundan, Gordon Mills, Dawn Smith Jul 2012

Methods Of Treating Ovarian Cancer By Modulating Snon, Meera Nanjundan, Gordon Mills, Dawn Smith

USF Patents

Genomic analysis of ovarian cancers demonstrated a regional chromosomal increase in expression and gene duplication. TGF-β stimulation indicated a link between SnoN RNA and TGF-β. In TIOSE, SnoN protein levels were reduced 15 min post TGF-β-stimulation, likely by proteosome-mediated degradation. SnoN inhibition decreased cell growth between 20 and 50% concurrent with increased p21 levels. Stable expression of SnoN led to growth arrest through induction of senescence. Collectively, these results implicate SnoN levels in multiple roles during ovarian carcinogenesis: promoting cellular proliferation in ovarian cancer cells and as a positive mediator of cell cycle arrest and senescence in non-transformed ovarian epithelial …


Adaptive Ultrawideband Receiver Method, Huseyin Arslan Jul 2012

Adaptive Ultrawideband Receiver Method, Huseyin Arslan

USF Patents

In accordance with the present invention, novel methods for adaptive receiver design and related parameter estimation techniques for efficient and non-coherent reception of ultrawideband signals are presented. Efficient estimation of maximum excess delay of the channel for enabling many useful adaptation techniques is additionally provided. Also, noise power estimation which significantly improves the performance of the receivers is presented.


Pair Of Concave Mirrors For Projecting Non-Inverted Real Images, Stephen Mcclanahan Jul 2012

Pair Of Concave Mirrors For Projecting Non-Inverted Real Images, Stephen Mcclanahan

USF Patents

The optical device projects a three dimensional image into free space. A series of minors are aligned thereby allowing an image reflect three times between the two minors. The distance between the mirrors may be altered, changing the size and orientation of the final image. In other arrangements, the minors are aligned to permit an image to reflect five times. The minors of the device are concave, may be spherical or parabolic, and may be fragments of a spherical or parabolic minor.


Effect Of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation On The Attention Network Task (Ant), Michael Trumbo Jul 2012

Effect Of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation On The Attention Network Task (Ant), Michael Trumbo

Psychology ETDs

This investigation studied the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on the Attention Network Task (ANT) - a combination speeded response/flanker task, which elucidates activity of three attentional networks - alerting, orienting, and executive functioning. Anodal tDCS was applied over the right inferior frontal cortex at 0.1 mA or 2.0 mA for 30 minutes. Participants were tested prior to stimulation, roughly 30 minutes following cessation of stimulation, 70 minutes following cessation of stimulation, and 115 minutes following cessation of stimulation. Due to the areas being stimulated (RIFC), and results from previous studies that link the alerting network to frontal …