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Want A Good Reference Letter? Do Something To Deserve It, Linda Walters

UCF Forum

Each August, the entire UCF community anticipates the start of the fall semester. As we all laze through the final days of summer, we reminisce about the highs and lows of previous school years and strategize how we can avoid those same lows this fall.

The Effect Of Using Technology And Self-Monitoring To Teach Basic Facts To Children At Risk, Jennifer Ellis

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not the use of technology would increase automaticity of basic subtraction facts with "at risk" students and whether or not self-monitoring would motivate "at risk" students to improve their math scores to achieve automaticity of basic subtraction facts. Participants included four "at-risk" second graders from an elementary school in a small suburban community in southern New Jersey. The study took place over 11 weeks and was conducted by the classroom teacher. The first week consisted of collecting baseline data followed by five weeks of students using the Everyday Mathematics online …

Lister Hill Library Offering Health Fair Aug. 21, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Heart Pump Offers Better Outcomes For Kids Awaiting Transplant, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Sara Krajewski, Inova's New Director, Curtis L. Carter

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Unh Professor Named Prestigious Fulbright Scholar For Work In Croatia, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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Transforming Regular Classroom Instruction To Differentiate For Gifted And Highly Capable Learners, Stephanie Brown

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative action research study documented the transformation of a small suburban school district from an educational culture focused on minimal levels of achievement reflective of No Child Left Behind to one valuing the continuous progress of all levels of learners. The participant-researcher led teachers in third through seventh grades with instructional program changes in social studies and science that implemented advanced differentiation using a curriculum compacting model. The two-fold purpose of the study explored how teacher engagement in an effective professional development program impacted their practice and disposition toward meeting the needs of gifted learners, while seeking information regarding …

Schmidtea Mediterranea Planaris As A Novel Animal Model For Investigating The Dynamics Of Nervous System Development In Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Jesse Lowe

Theses and Dissertations

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a prevalent developmental disease that is caused by excess in utero exposure to ethanol. The importance of timing and dosage of ethanol has been elucidated by previous investigations conducted with humans, rodents, and other model organisms, but challenges associated with determining functional deficiencies have necessitated the introduction of a novel animal model for investigating the dynamics of FASD. In this thesis, we propose that the freshwater flatworm planarian species, Schmidtea mediterranea, has the capability to fulfill this need. Planaria have the ability to completely regenerate fragments into intact, functional animals, and in these studies, …

Search Me: Eastern Michigan University's Journey Through The Highs And Lows Of Implementing The Summon Discovery Tool, Jackie Wrosch, Karen Rogers-Collins, Michael V. Barnes, William Marino

Faculty Scholarship - University Library

In early 2011, Eastern Michigan University (EMU) began implementation of the Summon Web-scale discovery service from Serials Solutions. This case study will explore the challenges and successes of the implementation and launch process. Topics covered will include project management overview; integration of Summon with our ILS, link resolver, and Automated Retrieval Collection (ARC); mapping of the library's print collection to the Summon interface; issues that arose with the ingest of our titles; incorporation into the library's daily workflow; maintenance of e-resource holdings in two separate knowledge bases; and integration into public services reference and teaching.

Lindenwood University Named ‘Great College To Work For’ For Fourth Time, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Multifidus Muscle Size And Atrophy Among Dancers With And Without Low Back Pain, Alyssa Leann Smyres

Theses and Dissertations

Design: A single-blinded, cross-sectional observational study.

Objectives: Examine muscle cross-sectional area and symmetry of the lumbar multifidus muscle in elite ballroom dancers with and without low back pain (LBP).

Background: The incidence of LBP among elite ballroom dancers is high and at Brigham Young University is 57%. Previous research has linked lumbar multifidus muscle atrophy to low back pain; however this relationship has not been examined in ballroom dancers.

Methods and Measures: Lumbar multifidus cross-sectional area was assessed at rest on the right and left side at levels L1-L5. Thirty-seven subjects (age 24 ± 3.2 years; height, 172.8 ± 11.3 …

Taylor V. Chamberlain Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39378

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Bridging The Gap: An Exploratory Study Of Corporate Social Responsibility Among Smes In Singapore, Mui Hean Lee, Angela Ka Mak, A. Pang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) among small-medium enterprises (SME) is an overlookedarea, despite the latter’s emerging prominence as an economic player. To provide a comprehensiveanalysis of the CSR landscape among Singapore SMEs, a triangulation of 15 in-depth interviews anda self-administered Web survey was conducted among 113 senior executives from top 500 SingaporeSMEs (27.2% response). Key findings include (a) moderate awareness but low comprehension ofCSR; (b) engagement relevance to immediate stakeholders; (c) individual values, stakeholderrelationships, and governmental influences as main drivers; and (d) lack of various resources askey barriers. Implications and future research directions are discussed.

Fluorescene Imaging Of Mouse Sperm / Noorain H., H. Nooraain

Student Works (2010-2019)

The protocol for detecting acrosome in mouse sperm was developed by using two types of fluorescent dyes namely fluorescein conjugated Pisum sativum agglutinin (FITC-PSA) and rhodamine conjugated Lens culinaris agglutinin (TRITC-LCA). The results showed that mean percentages of acrosome intact sperm incubated in vitro were considerably low. After one-hour incubation there were 43.20±2.83%, 31.81±8.44% and 30.90±4.15% for ICR, C57/6J and F1 sperm, respectively. Intact acrosome in ICR sperm was significantly reduced (p<0.05) to 16.95±4.23% after two-hour incubation, however, insignificant reduction (p>0.05) was found for C57BL/6J and F1 sperm, which were 30.03±2.06% and 20.93±3.81%, respectively. The results showed that both dyes FITC-PSA and TRITC-LCA suitably stained the mouse sperm …

Vibrational Frequencies Of Clusters: Arsenic Oxide, Carbon Nitride, Copper Oxide, Selenium And Related Compounds With Different Atoms / Ahmad Nazrul Bin Rosli., Ahmad Nazrul Rosli

Student Works (2010-2019)

The density functional theory (DFT) has been used to solve the SchrÄodinger equation. The computer programmes have been developed which give a real advantage for solving large matrices in DFT that seem impossible to write by hand. The Amsterdam density functional (ADF) and DMol3 of Accelerys have been used to calculate the vibrational frequencies of the atoms and molecules. The clusters of the molecules have been made for the study of glasses such as AgGeSe, AsSe, AsS, AsO, CuO, Se, FeP, FeAs, CN and graphene. These calculations are in good agreement with the experimental results. The local density approximation (LDA) …

Synthesis, Reaction And Structural Studies Of Triorganotin Carboxylates / Thong Pui Yee, Yee Thong Pui

Student Works (2010-2019)

iiiC6H4CH(Br)CH(OCH3)COOH was obtained as the major product. The triorganotin diorganodithiocarbamylacetate were found to be inert towards any brominating agents. The bromination products were characterized by spectroscopic techniques such as 1H, 13C NMR and FT-IR spectroscopies. The X-ray structures of four bromination products namely 2,3-dibromo-3-phenylpropionic acid (A6), 2-bromo-3-methoxy-3-(p-methoxyphenyl)propionic acid (A7), bis(4,4-dimethyl-aminopyridinium)-2,3-dibromo-3-(p-chlorophenyl)propionate (A9) and tricyclohexyltin 2,3-dibromo-3-phenylprionate (P4) were also determined.In addition, ten selected triorganotin carboxylates, C4–C10, C14, P4–P6 were investigated for their cytotoxic activities against the human leukemia HL60 cells. In general, the triorganotin carboxylates exhibit comparable cytotoxic activities to that of cisplatin.

Energy Analysis For Food Industries In Malaysia / Mohamed Bashir Ali Bashir, Mohamed Bashir Ali Bashir

Student Works (2010-2019)

The industrial sector is the largest consumer of energy in Malaysia. Malaysian food industries consume a significant amount of energy, about 14% of total manufacturing energy consumption. Therefore, the recent increase in energy cost has created has an essential consequence for developing alternative energy efficient technologies. In this case, energy efficiency means reduction of environmental degradation, increase of sustainability and cost savings. This dissertation focuses on the energy savings, economic benefits and emission reductions. These objective could be achieved by installation of variable speed drives, high efficiency motors, waste heat recovery unit of the boiler, new efficiency lamp (T5) for …

Analysis On The Future Energy Demand In Malaysia / Nardia Zubir, Zubir Nardia

Student Works (2010-2019)

Malaysia as a rapidly developing country has a very unique energy profile with mixed energy resources such as oil, natural gas, hydroelectric potential and coal. The production of the crude oil and petroleum products in Malaysia is expected to decline from year to year. Natural gas is the major contributor to current trending of electricity generation while coal is expected to be the major contributor for the future pattern of the electricity generation in Malaysia. The industrial sector is expected remain to be the largest consumer of energy in Malaysia; while the electricity consumption from residential and commercial sectors is …

Ph Wave-Front Propagation In The Urea-Urease Reaction, Magdalena M. Wrobel, Tamás Bánsági, Stephen K. Scott, Annette F. Taylor, Chris O. Bounds, Arturo Carranzo, John A. Pojman

Faculty Publications

The urease-catalyzed hydrolysis of urea displays feedback that results in a switch from acid (pH ∼3) to base (pH ∼9) after a controllable period of time (from 10 to >5000 s). Here we show that the spatially distributed reaction can support pH wave fronts propagating with a speed of the order of 0.1-1 mm min-1. The experimental results were reproduced qualitatively in reaction-diffusion simulations including a Michaelis-Menten expression for the urease reaction with a bell-shaped rate-pH dependence. However, this model fails to predict that at lower enzyme concentrations, the unstirred reaction does not always support fronts when the well-stirred reaction …

Breast Tumour Initiating Cell Fate Is Regulated By Microenvironmental Cues From An Extracellular Matrix, Sharmistha Saha, Pang-Kuo Lo, Xinrui Duan, Hexin Chen, Qian Wang

Faculty Publications

Cancer stem cells, also known as tumour-initiating cells (TICs), are identified as highly tumorigenic population within tumours and hypothesized to be main regulators in tumour growth, metastasis and relapse. Evidence also suggests that a tumour microenvironment plays a critical role in the development and progression of cancer, by constantly modulating cell–matrix interactions. Scientists have tried to characterize and identify the TIC population but the actual combination of extracellular components in deciphering the fate of TICs has not been explored. The basic unanswered question is the phenotypic stability of this TIC population in a tissue extracellular matrix setting. The in vivo …

The Hidden Limits Of The Charitable Deduction: An Introduction To Hypersalience, Lilian Faulhaber

Faculty Scholarship

Behavioral economics introduced the concept of salience to law and economics. In the area of tax policy, salience refers to the prominence of taxes in the minds of taxpayers. This article complicates the literature on salience and taxation by introducing the concept of “hypersalience,” which is in many ways the mirror image of hidden taxation. While a revenue-raising tax provision must be hidden for taxpayers to underestimate their tax bill, a revenue-reducing tax provision – such as a deduction, exclusion, or credit – must be more than fully salient for taxpayers to underestimate their tax bill. In other words, the …

Automation Of Landmark Selection For Rodent Brain Mri-Histology Registration Using Thin-Plate Splines, Ayan Sengupta

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Image registration is the process of aligning two different images of the same object taken at different times, at different orientations or using different instruments. This is common in medical applications since multiple modalities are used to image different parts of the body. This is an important early step in many diagnostic procedures such as change detection, monitoring tumor or quantifying spread of a disease. The widely used landmark based registration approach is tedious, time consuming, inconsistent and error prone. Furthermore, the standard schemes based on rigid and affine transformation can only describe global geometric differences between the objects of …

Methylene Blue Modulates Huntingtin Aggregation Intermediates And Is Protective In Huntington's Disease Models, Emily M. Sontag, Gregor P. Lotz, Namita Agrawal, Andrew Tran, Rebecca Aron, Guocheng Yang, Mihaela Necula, Alice Lau, Steven Finkbeiner, Charles G. Glabe, J. Lawrence Marsh, Paul J. Muchowski, Leslie M. Thompson

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder with no disease-modifying treatments available. The disease is caused by expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat and manifests with progressive motor abnormalities, psychiatric symptoms, and cognitive decline. Expression of an expanded polyglutamine repeat within the Huntingtin (Htt) protein impacts numerous cellular processes, including protein folding and clearance. A hallmark of the disease is the progressive formation of inclusions that represent the culmination of a complex aggregation process. Methylene blue (MB), has been shown to modulate aggregation of amyloidogenic disease proteins. We investigated whether MB could impact mutant Htt-mediated aggregation and neurotoxicity. MB …

Minutes, College Of Education Internship Committee Meeting, August 8, 2012, Angelica Foley

College of Education: Ad Hoc and Occasional Committees

Minutes from the August 8, 2012, meeting of the Internship Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's College of Education.

Board Of Trustees Minutes, August 8, 2012, Eastern Washington University

Board of Trustees Minutes

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World Trade Center Health Effects, Erin Neill

Theses

The author worked with the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program to create part of a public health education campaign to advertise the existence of the program and to explain World Trade Center health effects. World Trade Center Dust contained particles of many sizes, and it caused irritation to the body's tissues resulting in aerodigestive disorders like World Trade Center Cough, Sinusitis, Bronchitis, Rhinitis and Tracheo-Laryngitis. At the completion of this project, 2 posters, 1 brochure, 4 fact sheets and an interactive web site were created. One of the posters designed was used to promote program awareness amongst …

Ebsco Library Of Congress Classification Report 2012, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

This report lists all periodicals subscribed to in 2012 through EBSCO Subscription Services by the University Libraries, University of Rhode Island. Information provided includes title, ISSN, Library of Congress Classification number and name, and account number (for URI, Pell, or CCE). The list is sorted by LC Classification to better show the journals that support each discipline/subject area. Not included here are titles available through online journal packages and reference databases, which now comprise the majority of the Libraries' subscriptions. The journals listed here are those to which the Libraries subscribe to individually, title-by-title, through EBSCO.

Acquisitions Unit Annual Report 2011-2012, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual Report of the Acquisitions Unit, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island for FY12. Covers personnel, work flow, special projects, serial and monograph acquisitions, and goals for the coming year. Supplemental files include data on library materials expenditures by a number of variables as well as important working documents from the year.

University Of Mississippi Named 'Great College To Work For' Fourth Consecutive Year, Erin Garrett

University of Mississippi News

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Experimental Study Of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells Using A Graphite Composite Bipolar Plate Fabricated By Selective Laser Sintering, Nannan Guo, Ming-Chuan Leu

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) can be used to fabricate graphite composite bipolar plates with complex flow fields for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cells. The additive manufacturing process can significantly reduce the time and cost associated with the research and development of bipolar plates as compared to other fabrication methods such as compression molding. In this study, bipolar plates with three different designs, i.e., parallel in series, interdigitated, and bio-inspired, were fabricated using the SLS process. The performance of these SLS-fabricated bipolar plates was studied experimentally within a fuel cell assembly under various operating conditions. The effect of temperature, relative …