Guide to measurement of winds with instrumented aircraft

Aircraft measurement techniques are reviewed. Review of past and present applications of instrument aircraft to atmospheric observations is presented. Questions to be answered relative to measuring mean wind profiles as contrasted to turbulence measurements are then addressed. Requirements of instrumentation and accuracy, data reduction, data acquisition, and theoretical and certainty analysis are considered

Improvements and Additions to the Entrepreneurship Ideation Laboratory

Entrepreneurs and successful businesses recognize that innovation is a major driving force behind new businesses, especially within the field of product development. The Industrial Technology (IT) department embraces Cal Poly’s “learn by doing” approach by incorporating laboratory work into the curriculum. The IT labs need to be continually updated and reconfigured, as to be more responsive to the evolving technology of California’s economy. Moreover, there is a unique opportunity for Industrial Technology graduates, especially with the addition of the Entrepreneurship concentration, to use their education and skills to start and grow a business. This senior project evaluates the current status of the Entrepreneurship Ideation Laboratory (completed in 2009), as well as makes changes and improvements to the lab to meet the evolving needs of the Industrial Technology program. After reviewing literature on the topics of ideation, brainstorming, and prototyping, the solution was to create a set of ideation “kits” for the lab and attempt to create an inspiring, creative atmosphere for the students. This report will summarize the research performed as well as explain in detail the project’s solution

The Effects of the Transition from Pre-nursing to Nursing on Mental Health

Mental health is an ever-growing crisis among adolescents and young adults, with suicide as second leading cause of death and the number of those negatively affected continually on the rise. Transitions are one of the major stressors prevalent among these age groups, placing individuals at risk for mental health deficits. This quantitative voluntary response comparative study assesses the transitional mental health of pre-nursing students and students in the nursing program at East Tennessee State University. Emailed to all with a declared major of pre-nursing or nursing, this study measured mental health using evidenced based assessment tools. The PHQ-9 for depression and the GAD-7 for anxiety, along with additional demographic information and mental health service usage questions, was sent to and completed by participants. A total of n = 173 responses were received. Of these responses n = 99 or 57.2 percent were nursing students, a participation rate of 9.6 percent, and n = 74 or 42.8 percent were pre-nursing students. The research revealed that depression and anxiety scores were above the cutoff for moderate depression and anxiety in both groups, as well as identified a deficit in availability of mental health resources, with over 10 percent of students unable to access counseling or psychiatric services. Contraindicatory to literature, which predicted improving mental health in the progression through university studies, this study reveals a variable and even worsening trajectory of mental health as students transition into the nursing program and progressed through college

Gender Differences in the Relationships between Research Impact and Compensation and Promotion: A Case Study Among PhD/PharmD

We examine whether the effects of research impact on faculty compensation and promotion to full professor differ for male and female associate and full professors in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta. We exclude faculty with MDs and DDSs and proxy for research impact using the faculty member’s h-index, where h represents the number of publications that have been cited at least h times. We find that while the compensation of male faculty members increases by 0.6% for every one-unit increase in the h-index, the compensation of female faculty is essentially uncorrelated with their h-indices. We likewise find that for female faculty to be promoted to full professor they have to have higher research impact proxies than their male peers. Our findings highlight the urgent need for more research on the gendered relationships between research impact and career rewards among faculty.Nous avons évalué l’impact de la recherche sur la rémunération du corps professoral et la promotion au rang de professeur titulaire, entre les professeurs agrégés et titulaires hommes et femmes de la Faculté de médecine et de dentisterie de l’Université de l’Alberta. Nous avons exclu les professeurs cliniciens ayant un doctorat en médecine (MD) ou un doctorat en médecine dentaire (DDSs). L’impact de la recherche a été évalué à l’aide de l’indice h de chaque membre du corps professoral, oùh représente le nombre de publications qui ont été citées au moins h fois. Nous constatons ainsi que tandis que la rémunération des hommes augmente en moyenne de 0,6 % pour chaque augmentation d’une unité de l’indice h, la rémunération des femmes est essentiellement non corrélée avec leurs indices h. Nous constatons également que les professeures atteignent la parité pour la  promotion au poste de professeur titulaire avec les professeurs masculins équivalents à des indicateursd’impact de la recherche considérablement supérieurs aux valeurs médianes normalement attendues pour une promotion au poste de professeur titulaire. Nos résultats mettent en évidence le besoin urgent de plus de recherches sur les relations entre le genre et l’impact de la recherche sur l’avancement de la carrière chez les professeurs-chercheurs

Complete Genome Sequences of Pseudomonas fluorescens Bacteriophages Isolated from Freshwater Samples in Omaha, Nebraska

The complete genome sequences of four Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteriophages, UNO-SLW1 to UNO-SLW4, isolated from freshwater samples, are 39,092 to 39,215 bp long. The genomes are highly similar (identity, \u3e0.995) but dissimilar from that of Pseudomonas phage Pf-10 (the closest relative, 0.685 to 0.686 identity), with 48 to 49 protein-coding genes and 66 regulatory sites predicted