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Household Food Security In Developing Countries: Understanding The Role Of Dynamic Natural And Social Systems, Steven Archambault

Economics ETDs

The lack of consistent and reliable levels of nutritious food may be one of the most brutal results of poverty. Beyond the human suffering, the lack of food security has damaging economic consequences, making it difficult for communities to break poverty cycles. This dissertation studies the various decisions made by households, governments, and the international community that impact household food security. Food security, the long-term availability of nutritious foods, is essentially achieved through a trade-off of consumption and investment in assets and capital to ensure future availability of food. Chapter 2 builds an optimal control model to analyze the trade-offs …

The Landscape Of Fdi Flows, Nicholas Rohl

Economics ETDs

Over the last forty years, the world has experienced a rapid rise in the level and significant shift in the composition of recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Researching FDI is critical because of the increasingly important role it has in the global economy and the many potential benefits it provides investors and host countries. This paper will examine the past, current, and future state of FDI flows. An aggregate inflows dataset as well as a specific pair flows dataset will be analyzed to gain a better understanding of the drivers of FDI. The aggregate flows dataset contains data …

08-27-2012 Swosu Welcomes New Faculty And Staff, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

Southwestern Oklahoma State University added 21 new faculty members for the 2012-13 year on the Weatherford and Sayre campuses.

08-27-2012 Swosu Organizational Fair Is This Thursday, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2012

The Southwestern Oklahoma State University Organizational Fair is this Thursday, August 30, on the Weatherford campus.

Quantum Algorithms, Symmetry, And Fourier Analysis, Aaron Jafar Denney

Physics & Astronomy ETDs

I describe the role of symmetry in two quantum algorithms, with a focus on how that symmetry is made manifest by the Fourier transform. The Fourier transform can be considered in a wider context than the familiar one of functions on Rn or Z/nZ; instead it can be defined for an arbitrary group where it is known as representation theory. The first quantum algorithm solves an instance of the hidden subgroup problem--distinguishing conjugates of the Borel subgroup from each other in groups related to PSL(2; q). I use the symmetry of the subgroups under consideration to reduce the problem to …

2012-08-27 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council.

Faculty Senate Records

General Education Council meeting minutes from August 27, 2012.

Peckham V. Idaho State Bd. Of Dentistry Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39758

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

State V. Eddins Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 39933

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Ulrich V. Bach Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39318

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

A Molecular Survey Of S. Mutans And P. Gingivalis Oral Microbial Burden In Human Saliva Using Relative Endpoint Polymerase Chain Reaction (Re-Pcr) Within The Population Of A Nevada Dental School Revealed Disparities Among Minorities, Jay Ericksen Davis, Nicholas Freel, Allison Findley, Keaton Tomlin, Katherine M. Howard, Clifford C. Seran, Patricia Cruz, Karl Kingsley

Dental Medicine Faculty Research

Background: The University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine recently opened an orthodontic treatment clinic to address the needs of the racially and ethnically diverse population of Southern Nevada, primarily focusing on the treatment and care of low-income and minority patients. Although orthodontic treatment and therapy has been shown to induce changes in the oral cavity, much of this evidence was collected from traditional White, teenage orthodontic clinic populations. The primary goal of this study was to describe the microbial burden of the cariogenic and periodontal pathogens, Streptococcus mutans and Porphyromonas gingivalis within the UNLV-SDM patient population.Methods: Representative …

The Daily Egyptian, August 27, 2012, Daily Egyptian Staff

August 2012

No abstract provided.

Rosario Dawson To Speak At Uab, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Dental Hygiene Special Needs Education In New Mexico-A Survey, Juliet Roybal

Dental Hygiene ETDs

The number of institutionalized persons with developmental disabilities has decreased by 75 percent and those living in psychiatric facilities has decreased by 91 percent since deinstitutionalization began in the1960s1-3. These people have been integrated into community settings only to find out that their community is often unprepared to meet their dental and oral health needs2, 3. Those with developmental disabilities are experiencing an increase in life expectancy due to advances in medical care3. Dental professionals often avoid treating this population in fear of behavioral support techniques that may be unfamiliar to them15. Compounding this is the fact that many individuals …

Daily Eastern News: August 27, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

August

No abstract provided.

The Pan American (2012-08-27), Karen Antonacci

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 69, No. 1

Gardner-Webb Community Band Seeks New Members For Fall, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Gardner-Webb University School of Performing and Visual Arts Symphonic Band is currently seeking additional instrumentalists for the fall 2012 semester that will culminate with a public concert on Tuesday, Nov. 27. All wind and percussion players in the area, from high school juniors and seniors, college age, and adults, are invited to participate with GWU students and faculty. Music to be performed at the concert includes “The Vanished Army March” by Steven Alford, “Paintings” by William Owens, “Ichabod Fanfare” by Brian Balmages, “O Magnum Mysterium” by Morton Lauridsen, and “Overture to a Winter Celebration” arranged by James Stephenson.

A Generalization Of The Mader-Helgason Inversion Formulas For Radon Transforms, Y. A. Antipov, B. Rubin

Faculty Publications

In 1927, Philomena Mader derived elegant inversion formulas for the hyperplane Radon transform on ℝ ⁿ. These formulas differ from the original ones by Radon and seem to be forgotten. We generalize Mader's formulas to totally geodesic Radon transforms in any dimension on arbitrary constant curvature space. Another new interesting inversion formula for the k-plane transform was presented in the recent book "Integral geometry and Radon transform" by S. Helgason. We extend this formula to arbitrary constant curvature space. The paper combines tools of integral geometry and complex analysis. © 2012 American Mathematical Society.

Rigid Finite Element Model Of A Cracked Rotor, Zbigniew Kulesza, Jerzy T. Sawicki

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

The article introduces a new mathematical model for the cracked rotating shaft. The model is based on the rigid finite element (RFE) method, which has previously been successfully applied for the dynamic analysis of many complicated, mechanical structures. In this article, the RFE method is extended and adopted for the modeling of rotating machines. An original concept of crack modeling utilizing the RFE method is developed. The crack is presented as a set of spring–damping elements of variable stiffness connecting two sections of the shaft. An alternative approach for approximating the breathing mechanism of the crack is introduced. The approach …

Faculty Member’S Film To Air On Hec-Tv In September, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

2012-13 Faculty Senate - August 27, 2012 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

Terms For Talking About Information And Communication, Corey Anton

Peer Reviewed Articles

This paper offers terms for talking about information and how it relates to both matter-energy and communication, by: (1) Identifying three different levels of signs: Index, based in contiguity, icon, based in similarity, and symbol, based in convention; (2) examining three kinds of coding: Analogic differences, which deal with positive quantities having contiguous and continuous values, and digital distinctions, which include “either/or functions”, discrete values, and capacities for negation, decontextualization, and abstract concept-transfer, and finally,iconic coding, which incorporates both analogic differences and digital distinctions; and (3) differentiating between “information theoretic” orientations (which deal …

State V. Day Respondent's Brief Dckt. 39165

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Magnetic Properties Of The S=1/2 Quasisquare Lattice Antiferromagnet Cuf2(H2o)(2)(Pyz) (Pyz = Pyrazine) Investigated By Neutron Scattering, C H. Wang, M D. Lumsden, R S. Fishman, G Ehlers, T Hong, W Tian, H Cao, A Podlesnyak, C Dunmars, J A. Schlueter, Jamie L. Manson, A D. Christianson

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

We have performed elastic and inelastic neutron scattering experiments on single crystal samples of the coordination polymer compound CuF2(H2O)(2)(pyz) (pyz = pyrazine) to study the magnetic structure and excitations. The elastic neutron diffraction measurements indicate a collinear antiferromagnetic structure with moments oriented along the [0.7 0 1] real-space direction and an ordered moment of 0.60 +/- 0.03 mu(B)/Cu. This value is significantly smaller than the single-ion magnetic moment, reflecting the presence of strong quantum fluctuations. The spin wave dispersion from magnetic zone center to the zone boundary points (0.5 1.5 0) and (0.5 0 1.5) can be described by a …

State V. Ward Clerk's Record Dckt. 40069

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Experimental Study Of Electrostatic Aerosol Filtration At Moderate Filter Face Velocity, Andres Sanchez

Chemical and Biological Engineering ETDs

Electrostatic filtration media (electret) has been used in many applications due to its ability to efficiently collect submicron particles while maintaining a low pressure drop. Filter face velocities have ranged from 0.01-0.5 m/s in previous studies. However, in this study, measurements were conducted from 0.5-2.5 m/s, a region where Reynolds numbers range from 0.05-0.24. Within this regime, commonly used filtration theory is incomplete and does not predict performance of electret media, therefore data must be measured. Experimental measurements were conducted in various combinations of charge and neutralized filter media with aerosolized particles possessing the Boltzmann charge distribution or zero charge. …

Mindfulness In Education : The Impact Of Mental Training On Attention And Working Memory In Children, Julia Keller

Psychology ETDs

Mindfulness (MF) is the self-regulation of attention, including sustained attention, switching attention between tasks, and the inhibition of elaborative processing. Another type of attentional skill not specifically targeted in this definition, but that might benefit from MF training, is control over working memory (WM), a type of executive attention: the ability to use attention to maintain or suppress short-term representations of information. Greater WM capacity also means an increased ability to use attention to overcome distraction and is predictive of performance on higher-order cognitive tasks. In this study, I hypothesized that, after eleven weeks of MF training, participants would have …

Spartan Daily August 27, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 139, Issue 2

An Innovative Solution Set Of Algorithm For Converting Architectural Drawings To Vector-Based Computer Graphics, Yuye Peng

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Appraisal Floor Plan Sketch (AFPS) as a simplified architectural floor plan shows the bird's eye view of a building’s spatial arrangement. An efficient automated vectorization system of AFPS not only fulfills AFPS’s preservation and dissemination purposes but also helps extract the building’s geometric information, which can be used to create 3D models of the building and improve building energy efficiency. The purpose of this study is to develop an automated system for converting scanned AFPS into vector based computer graphics.

Text/graphic separation and corner detection are two essential components in this vectorization system. Text/graphic separation ensures that only graphic data …

More Than 2,000 Freshmen Set To Rush Football Stadium, Admin

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Median Household Income Differences Between Election Day-Vbm And Eip Voters, Mark Salling, Norman Robbins

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Analysis of early in-person (EIP) voting in 2008 in Cuyahoga County shows that African-American, white, and Hispanic voters who used EIP voting had significantly lower incomes than members of those same groups who voted on election day or by mail. This result applies to those voting EIP on weekdays, extended weekday hours, weekends, and the three days before election day.