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James Accuosti

Informal Learning," Review of Educational Research, vol.peer evaluations. She also used her tools to embellish her 79, pp. 625-649, 2009.class: for example, using visual forms of art to enhance the [8] P. S. Owen and A. Demb, "Change Dynamics and Leadership inlesson at hand [42]. If research and testing is sufficient, certain Technology Implementation," The Journal of Higher Education, vol. 75, pp. 636-666, 2004.technologies such as computer-aided instruction (CAI) tools [9] M. J. Johnson, R. L. Schwab and L. Foa, "Technology as a Changeshould be considered as

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Areej Alshehri; Christian Bach

these factors affect 19.the goal positively i.e. the four factors (that treatment, patient [13] Michael, O., Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Cerebral Palsy incare & support, clinical processes and patient quality of life) Near-Term/Term Infants. Clin Obstet Gynecol, 2008. 51(4): p. 816-828. [14] Krigger, K., Cerebral Palsy: An Overview. American Family Physician,are the major challenges to CP management. 2006. 73(1): p. 91-100. Apart from insights on the application of secondary [15] Dinah, S., et al

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Suleman Belal Kazi; Sherjeel Sikander; Sadia Yousafzai; Suleman Mazhar

positive. Fig. 4 Low Pass Filtered Values [10] J. Parkka et al., "Activity classification using realistic data CONCLUSION: from wearable sensors", Information Technology in Biomedicine,The strategy to use a cellphone as a portable fall detector IEEE Trans. Jan., 2006, pp. 119-128. [11] L. Bao and S. S. Intille. "Activity recognition from user-and for health related data collection (such as the EEG data annotated acceleration data", In Pervasive

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Matthew Foley; Matthew Janiga; John Adams; Yan Varun Pande; Jayanta Paul; Manuel Curillo; Jani Macari Pallis

can be made with bigger capacitiesthis had almost risked a failed mission which shows the and a constructing line strategy can be done while fabricationproblem of depending on larger spacecraft for gathering to lower the costs even more.scientific information.Minimized concept of cansat has parallel equipment in awhole system and if we can think of a scenario where a know Mars seismology has been of grave importance since the 1970’s [13] but no mission has been possible so miniature canasta can do the impossible

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Tomislav Bujanovic; Prasanta Ghosh

knowledge in mathematics and engineeringFig. 4 and determine the slope at t = 0 s, which serves to optimization until they achieve a satisfactory level of the optimization results compared to the acquired laboratory data. Ladetermine the RaLa equivalent circuit time constant τ= Raused in the equation for the step response current VBR ⎛ − ⎞ tiL (t ) = ⎜ e ⎟ , where VBR is the applied blocked 1 − τ Ra ⎝ ⎠rotor step voltage

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Franco Capaldi

. [5] S. Chen, B. Mulgrew, and P. M. Grant, “A clustering technique for digital communications channel equalization using radial basis function networks,” IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 4, pp. 570–578, Jul. 1993. [6] R. W. Lucky, “Automatic equalization for digital communication,” Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 547–588, Apr

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Shanique Jiles

[1] S. Shrivastava, J. Rawat, and A. Agrawal, “Controlling DC Motor using Microcontroller (PIC16F72) with PWM,” ijer.ijer.in, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 45–47, 2012. [2] D. Siegwart, R.; Nourbakhsh, I.; Scaramuzza, “Introduction,” in in Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, 2011, pp. 1–12. V. CONCLUSION [3] T. Mohammad, “Using ultrasonic and infrared sensors for distance

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Hui Zhang; Joseph Chen; Kai Zhang

[21] Kai Zhang, Emmanuel G. Collins Jr., Adrian Barbu, ‘‘An Efficient Stochastic Clustering Auction for Heterogeneous Robotic Collaborativewas proposed to optimize the localization result. Testing Teams,’’ Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Volume 72, Issue 3results indicate the proposed system is a feasible method to (2013) , Page 541-558.locate mobile robots with low average error. Future research [22] S. Thrun, W. Burgard and D. Fox, Probabilistic Robotics, Cambridge, MA: MIT

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Hussain A. Alhassan; Eman Abdel Fattah

REFERENCES [1] Y. Rodriguez-Gallo Guerra, J. P. B. Rodriguez, and C. R. Beltran, “Development of laboratory practice on WiMAX IEEE 802.16d physical layer,” Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching (TAEE), pp. 216 - 221, 2012.Bit Error Rate [2] M. D. Patidar, R.; Jain, N.K.; Kulpariya, S., “Performance analysis of WiMAX

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Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

: Examining Organizational Factors that Contribute to Retention and Graduation. Research in Higher Education, 47(6), 613-642. [7] Deming, D., & Dynarski, S. (2008). The lengthening of childhood. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22(3), 71–92. [8] Angrist, J., Lang, D., & Oreopoulos, P. (2009). Incentives and services

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Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

0.02potential area(s) of student spatial reasoning thatbenefited, or had not benefited, from building a t Critical one-tail 1.73physical model or computer model. TABLE 3First, each group’s pre-test results were compared to VIEWS: PROVEN IMPROVEMENTtheir post-test results for each of the 3 areas(Developments, Rotations and Views) to see whether View Tests – Physical Modelthere was a statistically significant change in each t-Test: Paired Two Sample for Meansstudent’s spatial reasoning ability. The results wereas follows: Views

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Shanon Reckinger; Blanca Aca; Katherine Pitz

Science andbachelor’s degrees in all fields from US universities exceeds Education (BASE) camp and was developed by Dr. Shelley Phelan, Professor of Biology at Fairfield University. BASE Manuscript received February 14, 2014. This work was supported by the Camp was designed to engage students in hands-on, research-the National Institute of Health (NIH) under Award R25MD006836 from the based experiences in the natural sciences and mathematics.National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparity Populations The goal is to inform the students of STEM research topics(NIMHD) . S. M. Reckinger is with the Mechanical Engineering Department at

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Khaled Almgren; Christian Bach

. [9] Mandal, P., & Gunasekaran, A. (2003). Issues in implementing ERP: a case study. European Journal of Operational Research, 146(2), 274-283. [10] McGaughey, R. E., & Gunasekaran, A. (2007). Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Past, Present and Future (pp. 23-35): IGI Global. [11] Nah, F. F.-H., Lau, J. L.-S., & Kuang, J

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Ali Radhi Al Essa; Christian Bach

. 2008. [6] Dongkwon, J. and M. Songchun. Scalable Web mining architecture for backward induction in data warehouse environment. in TENCON 2001. Proceedings of IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Fig 3 : Developed Star Schema for the proposed Data warehouse Electrical and Electronic Technology. 2001. [7] Bora, S. Data mining and ware housing. in Electronics Computer

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Nicholas J. Macedo; Tracie L. Ferreira

1. Wu, N. et al. (2004). Mol. Biotech. 27, 119-125. 4- CELL 9.1 ± 3.8 2.16 2. Ying SY and Lin SL. (2005). MicroRNA: Fine- HIGH 6.3 ± 2.3 1.92 24 HPF 5.8 ± 4.2 1.92 tunes the function of genes in zebrafish. Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 335(1): 1–4.Figure 7. RNA isolation from a single embryo at three stages ofdevelopment. Using the optimized protocol, over 5.0 µg of total RNA on 3. Osawa S, Shimada Y, Sekine S, Okumura T,average

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Xi Kang; Chengxin Zhang; Xingguo Xiong; Sk Hasan Hafizul Haque

mixing efficiency such that a thorough mixing performancesimulation, almost 100% mixing can be finished within a mixing can be achieved within shorter mixing channels, which candistance x equal to3.24mm of outlets for flow rates ranging in reduce the characteristic size of micro fluidic devices.1000um/s, and when the micro-fluids (3 kinds of liquids) near theoutlets, the mixing degree is better. More or less than this velocity, Furthermore, the development of efficient mixing schemes isthe micro-fluids cannot get a good mixing. ANSYS simulation is essential for increasing the

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Jian Chen; Xingguo Xiong; Mirza Rishad Hasan

consumption. It consumes bit full adder. The 8-bit static CMOS full adder by usingless energy and has a lower transistor count compared to hierarchy design is shown in Fig. 3 below.other proposed full adder cells. We use the 10-transisorSERF adder design from [19] in our 8-bit low powerenergy-recovery full adder design. II. CMOS FULL-ADDER DESIGNIn order to compare the power consumption with the 8-bitenergy recovery SERF full adder, an 8-bit static CMOS full-adder is also designed. The schematic design of 1-bit staticCMOS full adder cell [20] is shown in Fig. 1. It consists oftwo complex gates connected in series: one implementscarry-out (Co) and the other implements Sum (S). Thecarry-out is used to generate Sum. In

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Christopher Palmieri; Judith Hooymans; Cole Gingrich; Tooran Emami Ph. D.; Aaron Dahlen; Joseph Staier

Tooran.Emami@uscga.edu Aaron.P.Dahlen@uscga.edu Joseph.E.Staier@uscga.eduAbstract—This paper presents the milestones of a senior the inspectors can understand the different systems and howcapstone project in Electrical Engineering at the United State they integrate together.Coast Guard Academy. Three students worked on their seniorcapstone project for two semesters. Students applied a Offshore oil drilling began in the early 1960’s when atcombination of knowledge they learned in their undergraduate sea drilling began using anchored vessels. The need for DPSeducation to construct an autonomous dynamic positioning

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Thomas Dodson; Nicholas Mattei; Joshua T. Guerin; Judy Goldsmith; Joan M. Mazur

Directions for Community Colleges, vol. 1993, no. 82, pp. 21–31, 1993.including course descriptions, student grades, and course [4] B. S. Metzner, “Perceived quality of academic advising: The effect onevaluations is an intriguing area

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Matthew Baideme P.E.; Cristian Robbins; Jeffrey Starke

[6] H. Combs & S. Bourne, “The renaissance of educational debate: Results of a five-year study of the use of debate in business education,” inscoring scale and providing detailed representative examples Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, vol. 5 number 1, Oxford, OH: Miami (OH) University, 1994, pp. 57-67.[7] N. Tumposky, “The debate debate,” in Clearing House, vol. 78 number 2, Washington, D.C.: Heldref, 2004, pp. 52.[8] T. Easton, Taking Sides: Clashing View on Environmental Issues. 15th ed., New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2014.[9] M. Omelicheva & O. Avdeyeva, “Teaching with lecture or debate? Testing the effectiveness of traditional

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Joseph Chen; Mark Molnar

, from the taguchi array a signal to noise ratio can be formed. The S/N ratio is a numerical value that indications how well the factors correspond to a desired signal, given the inclusion of possible noise. These values are used to help determine where the optimum parameters are located in the taguchi test for the desired Y variable, ultimate tensile strength

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Tamer Abukhalil; Madhav Patil

maintain a constant distance from the wall as therobot with a given work space), depends on the area being painting starts.sprayed by the nozzle attached to the end effecter (gripper),that actually determines the width of a stripe (S) painted in a • The tool will be moved in two linear verticalsingle tool movement. movements in which the paint is being sprayed. During the movement, each sprayer is activated or de-activated according to the movement of the arm [9] S. S. Nestinger and H. H. Cheng, "Mobile-R

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Abdulrahman Alkhodairy; Sarosh Patel

Yaxes to coordinates 200 and 200 mm, the command string TABLE III. ROBOT MOVING CHARACTERISTICS‘!9923403001E001E012C00030D4000030D40@@’ will be Speed Acceleration Decelerationsent, where : 500 mm/s 0.3G 0.3G • ‘!’ is the header • ‘99’ is the station number • ‘234’ is the massage id • ‘03001E001E012C00030D4000030D40’ is the content of the command. • ‘@@’ means the checksum is disabled

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Arar Alkhader; Junling Hu; Akinwumi Akinkunmi; Prabir Patra; Xingguo Xiong

perfusion rate [ml/100ml-s], ρb the Material properties are important issue, as these properties density of the blood [kg/m3], Cb is the specific heat capacitywill directly affect the heat flow within the layers of the design, of the blood [J/kgK], and, (Ta - T)is the difference betweenand overall heat exchanging as well. arterial blood temperature and local tissue temperature. In this type of analysis, the main interest is with the With these three equations it is easily recognized the effectthermal properties of the material, that's why choosing the of any variable on the total heat flux, but in this project and asmaterials is

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Priscilla Tengdin; Kayla Santello; Robert Henry

environment.project must be able to read, accurately interpret and work The AISC Steel Sculpture was the example used for thiswith the project drawings. project. “It is crucial for anyone involved in construction and II. S URVEY R ESULTS manufacturing projects to have the ability to read and understand blueprints and building plans. Whether you're In October 2013, notification of a Construction Drawing in the field or in the office, you need to know how the Survey was sent to all the department heads and chairs that site plan affects the building plan, …” [1] are registered with the Department Heads Council (DHC

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Sithisone Kalaya; Hussain A. Alhazmi

robot and uncalibrated stereo," in Robotics and Automation, 1989. Proceedings., 1989 IEEE International Conference on, 1989, pp. 984- 989. [5] I. Jebari, S. Bazeille, E. Battesti, H. Tekaya, M. Klein, A. Tapus, et al., "Multi-sensor semantic mapping and exploration of indoor environments," in Technologies for Practical Robot Applications

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Lile Yu; Jingyun Xiao; Xingguo Xiong; Prabir Patram

optimized designparameters, we can get the change volume of one diaphragm Fig 10. First vibration mode of middle membrane of micropumpin one cycle ∆V 1.371 10 L, if we assume 80HZ, (f0=377908Hz)flow rate of magnetic micropump in one cycle Q 4.3910 pL/s. VI. ANSYS SIMULATION ANSYS is an engineering simulation software. It is used tosolve mechanical problems such as static or dynamicstructural analysis, and electro-magnetic problems. Thedynamic analysis of this magnetic micropump predicts therelationship between device performance parameters andvarious design parameters (such as pump length, pump width,and pump thickness). However, those parameters are based onthe theoretical analysis. In order to

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Thair Jamal Khdour; Shaima Salem

stiltedexpression, “One of us (R. B. G.) thanks . . .” Instead, try“R. B. G. thanks”. Put applicable sponsor acknowledgmentshere; DO NOT place them on the first page of your paper or asa footnote. REFERENCES[1] Aldrich, Clark, “The Learning Revolution”, Gartner Symposium, IT XPO 2000, Orlando, Florida, October, 2000.J[2] Elsa Rhoads – 2012, “KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND ELEARNING ARE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN”.[3] Cross, J. (2006). Informal learning: Rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance. San Francisco, CA: Pfeiffer.[4] Minhong Wang and Stephen J.H. Yang - Knowledge Management & ELearning: An International Journal, Vol.1, No.1 – 2009[5] Ravet. S, “eLearning and Knowledge

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Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; Zhineng Li; Rahel Steffen; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Vazgen Shekoyan; Paul Marchese; Tak Cheung

(about 10 million Kelvin) has been used tostudy magnetic flux rope in side-loop images [10]. Sunspotprobability density function (pdf) modeled with Fokker-Plankequation (Figure 7) on star-spot cycle has been published [11]. Figure 8: Bright area fractal dimension histogram for the entire studied duration.Figure 7: Fokker Planck equation tracks the development of thesunspot number probability density function f (s, t) with s0 forthe initial sunspot number and t0 as the initial time. The righthand side contains the diffusion term with coefficient σ , and The speculation whether the standard deviation in the

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Ryan Kondracki; Courtney Collins; Khalid Habbab; Bijan Karimi

://NEWSDESK.GMU.EDU/2013/07/SOLAR-POWERED-STATION- LETS-YOU-RECHARGE-OUTDOORS/ [3] CALAHAN, R. (2012). UT STUDENTS PUMP UP AT CAMPUS SOLAR STATION. ALCADE. [4] GOAL ZERO. (2013). RETRIEVED FROM STREET CHARGE: HTTP://STREET-CHARGE.COM/ [5] TOOTHMAN, J., & ALDOUS, S. (2000, APRIL). HOW SOLAR CELLS WORK. RETRIEVED FROM HOW STUFF WORKS: HTTP://SCIENCE.HOWSTUFFWORKS.COM/ENVIRONMENTAL/ENERGY /SOLAR-CELL.HTM [6] KIETH, J. (2008). MAXIMIZING SOLAR PANEL EFFICIENCY AND OUTPUT POWER. RETRIEVED FROM ELECTRO SCHEMATICS: HTTP://WWW.ELECTROSCHEMATICS.COM/8280/MAXIMIZING- SOLAR-PANEL-EFFICIENCY-AND-OUTPUT-POWER/ [7] WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION, INC. (2014, FEBRUARY 7