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Programmatic Assessment Of Mathematical Content Knowledge For Teaching, Shannon Driskell, G. Keen

Shannon O.S. Driskell

Driskell, S. (Co-PI), & Keen, G. (Co-PI), WeEXCEL (West Ohio Center of Excellence for Science and Mathematics Education) Mini-Grant, $9,000 Year: 2008

Engaging Individuals In Climate Change Mitigation, John Dernbach

John C. Dernbach

No abstract provided.

Investigation Of Ionic Liquids For The Separation Of Butanol And Water, S. Davis, Samuel Morton

Samuel A Morton

No abstract provided.

Enumeration Schemes For Words Avoiding Patterns With Repeated Letters, Lara Pudwell

Lara K. Pudwell

No abstract provided.

Generating Shape Invariant Potentials, Asim Gangopadhyaya

Asim Gangopadhyaya

Platform Technology For Dienone And Phenol–Formaldehyde Architectures, Ram Mohan, Marilena Giarrusso, Luke Higham, Ulf Kreher, Anthony Rosamilia, Janet Scott, Christopher Strauss

Ram S. Mohan

Claisen–Schmidt condensations, yielding only water as a by-product, performed on building blocks serving as shape-selective male or female terminals and unions, enable the preparation of diverse molecular structures including novel linear rods and semi-elliptical, rectangular or trapezoidal macrocycles. Isoaromatization affords a corresponding range of phenol-formaldehyde derivatives, in atom economical reactions.

Waves Initiative Within Seacoos, George Voulgaris, Brian Haus, Paul Work, Lynn Shay, Harvey Seim, Robert Weisberg, James Nelson

George Voulgaris

Amongst other ocean state parameters, the development of a wave measurement program was supported as part of the Southeast U.S. Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing System (SEACOOS). The program focused on supporting nearshore wave measurements using both cabled and autonomous systems but also examined the feasibility of using HF Radar systems for remote estimation of wave parameters. The nearshore stations have provided a significant database on directional wave climate for a number of nearshore locations in the region that provide valuable information to coastal engineers and managers for sustainable development along the coast of the southeastern United States. The ability of …

Teaching Structural Geology Through Integrated Field Observation And Modeling, Phillip Resor

Phillip G Resor

Research in Earth and Environmental Sciences is becoming increasingly quantitative and process-based. This trend is driven by the widespread availability of digital data sets and high-power computing as well as the need to develop predictive models of earth processes to address societal problems. To address these changes in the field I integrate traditional aspects of structural geology including field observation and three-dimensional visualization with quantitative process-based methods in a series of topical course modules. Two examples of this approach are: 1) An integrated investigation into rock fracture that includes performing Nick Nickelsen's plaster of paris dike in Jello experiment (Davis …

Photogrammetric 3d Mapping Of The Permian Reef, Nm And Tx, Usa, Phillip Resor, George Bennum, Eric Flodin, Jeremy Fairbanks

Phillip G Resor

Although the Permian Capitan depositional system is perhaps one of the best-exposed and most thoroughly studied steep-rimmed carbonate systems, the role of synsedimentary deformation in the development of the platform geometry is still poorly understood. We have undertaken an effort to map 3D stratal and structural architecture in two regions of the Guadalupe Mountains, Slaughter and Big Canyons, to better constrain present-day geometry and quantify the distribution and magnitude of syn- and post-depositional deformation. The resulting 3D geologic models serve to inform and constrain mechanical models aimed at understanding the process of synsedimentary deformation, including formation of early fracture systems …

Community-Based Rangeland Rehabilitation: The Tall Ar-Remah Case Study, Raed Al-Tabini, H. Saoub, K. Alkhalidi

Raed Al-Tabini

No abstract provided.

Community-Based Projects In Jordan's Badia: The Anaqeed Al-Khair Case Study, Raed Al-Tabini, B. Gorman, J. Libbin, R. Grassberger, I. Abuamoud, S. Aloun

Raed Al-Tabini

No abstract provided.

Integrating Geomechanical Modeling And Three-Dimensional Mapping To Constrain Deformation Associated With Growth Of The Permian Capitan Reef Complex, Phillip Resor, Eric Flodin

Phillip G Resor

The stratal geometry of the Permian Capitan Reef Complex has been influenced by syn-sedimentary deformation including tilting, folding, Previous HitfracturingTop, and faulting of strata. The importance of these effects has been a topic of debate for decades and impacts our understanding of the initial sedimentary geometry as well as the distribution of early-formed fracture systems. We use geomechanical finite element modeling to predict the magnitude and distribution of syn-sedimentary deformation associated with a prograding shelf margin. The model is linear elastic with heterogeneous layering comprised of four principal facies (platform, reef, upper slope, and lower slope/basin). In order to simulate …

A Framework Supporting Context-Aware Multimedia Web Services Delivery, Jia Zhang, Liang-Jie Zhang, Francis Quek, Jen-Yao Chung

Jia Zhang

No abstract provided.

Heavy-Fermion Superconductivity, Peter Riseborough, George Schmiedeshoff, James Smith

George Schmiedeshoff

Heavy Fermion Superconductivity: A state of the art review of superconductivity in the Heavy Fermion metals is presented. Many important results are given. Theory and experiment are compared and critically discussed

Bayesian Density Forecasting Of Intraday Electricity Prices Using Multivariate Skew T Distributions, Anastasios Panagiotelis, Michael Smith

Michael Stanley Smith

Electricity spot prices exhibit strong time series properties, including substantial periodicity, both inter-day and intraday serial correlation, heavy tails and skewness. In this paper we capture these characteristics using a first order vector autoregressive model with exogenous effects and a skew t distributed disturbance. The vector is longitudinal, in that it comprises observations on the spot price at intervals during a day. A band two inverse scale matrix is employed for the disturbance, as well as a sparse autoregressive coefficient matrix. This corresponds to a parsimonious dependency structure that directly relates an observation to the two immediately prior, and the …

Teacher's Solutions Manual For Yates, Moore And Starnes's The Practice Of Statistics, Brad Hartlaub

Brad Hartlaub

An Investigation Into Shock-Associated Noise Near Coanda Surfaces, Caroline Lubert, C. Schwartz

Caroline P Lubert

No abstract provided.

Optimum Healthcare Image Smoothing And Restoration Based On The Two-Dimensional Arma Model, Terry O'Neill, Jack Penm, Johathan Penm

Terry O'Neill

Tuberculosis Screening For International Students At A Midwestern Liberal Arts College, Grace Goetzke, Victor Addona, Chad M. Topaz

Chad M. Topaz

Participants: 318 international students at Macalester College screened for latent tuberculosis infection via tuberculin skin tests (TST) from 2004-2008. Objective: To estimate positive TST probability based on countries of residency and history of BCG vaccination. Methods and Results: 52% of students had a positive TST. Logistic regression modeling shows that a positive TST is insignificantly correlated with history of BCG vaccination (p=0.910) but is significantly negatively correlated with residence in the European Union (p=0.00502) and the Middle East (p=0.00451), and positively correlated with residence in North America (p=0.00151). Conclusions: There is a significant relationship between TST result and residence in …

The Aeroacoustics Of Turbulent Coanda Wall Jets, Caroline Lubert

Caroline P Lubert

No abstract provided.

From Dataveillance To Überveillance (Uberveillance) And The Realpolitik Of The Transparent Society, K. Michael, M. G. Michael

Professor Katina Michael

The 2007 Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security: from Dataveillance to Überveillance and the Realpolitik of the Transparent Society was organised by the Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA) funded by the Australian Research Council. The Workshop will become a biennial event bringing together both researchers and practitioners in the fields relating to the national research priority entitled Safeguarding Australia. In 2007, the workshop was held on the 29th October, at the Function Centre at the University of Wollongong between 8.30 am and 5.00 pm.

The Workshop was organised by RNSA members from the IP Location-Based Services …

Differences In Electrochemical Properties Of Contact Printed And Solution Adsorbed Alkanehtiol Self-Assembled Monolayers On Gold, Leslie Adamczyk, Mark Anderson

Mark R. Anderson

No abstract is currently available.

Effects Of Potential On Ionic Self-Assembly Of Carboxylic Acid Terminated Monolayers, Wesley Sanders, Mark Anderson

Mark R. Anderson

No abstract is currently available.

Effects Of Electrolyte Concentration On Surfactant Adsorption To A Qcm Immersed In Surfactant + Electrolyte Solutions, S. Ray, R. Counce, Samuel Morton

Samuel A Morton

No abstract provided.

Investigation Of Ionic Liquids For The Separation Of Butanol And Water, Samuel Morton, S. Davis, A. Jermusyk, N Newman, D. Shlossman

Samuel A Morton

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Model Tests For The Design Of A Gliding Deep Water Elevator, Christopher Roman, T. Gregory, E. Martin, A. Sanguinetti, J. Drummond

Christopher N. Roman

This paper presents progress on the design of a "smart elevator" to be used in conjunction with deep sea ROV operations. Deep sea elevators are gravity driven untethered platforms used to deliver and or return items from the sea floor. Elevators are used when items are too large or heavy to be handled by the ROV, or when the turn around time to recover and redeploy the ROV system for sample removal is prohibitive. Unfortunately, efficiency is complicated by the precision with which elevators can be landed at a specific location on the bottom and recovered on the surface because …

Mitigation Of Biases Using The Schmidt-Kalman Filter - Art. No. 66990q, Randy Paffenroth, Roman Novoselov, Scott Danford, Marcio Teixeira, Stephanie Chan, Aubrey Poore

Randy C. Paffenroth

Fusion of data from multiple sensors can be hindered by systematic bias errors. This may lead to severe degradation in data association and track quality and may result in a large growth of redundant and spurious tracks. Multi-sensor networks will generally attempt to estimate the relevant bias values (usually, during sensor registration), and use the estimates to debias the sensor measurements and correct the reference frame transformations. Unfortunately, the biases and navigation errors are stochastic, and the estimates of the means account only for the "deterministic" part of the biases. The remaining stochastic errors are termed "residual" biases and are …

Evaluation Of Ionic Liquids For Green Separation, Samuel Morton

Samuel A Morton

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Ionic Liquids For Green Separation, Samuel Morton

Samuel A Morton

No abstract provided.

A Service Supporting Universal Access To Mobile Internet With Unit Of Information-Based Intelligent Content Adaptation, Stephen Yang, Jia Zhang, Norman Shao, Rick Chen

Jia Zhang

No abstract provided.