Fundamentals of Computer Applications for Business (GHC)

This Grants Collection for Fundamentals of Computer Applications was created under a Round Ten ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process. Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials: Linked Syllabus Initial Proposal Final Reporthttps://oer.galileo.usg.edu/business-collections/1009/thumbnail.jp

A sophisticated, multi-channel data acquisition and processing system for high frequency noise research

A sophisticated, multi-channel computerized data acquisition and processing system was developed at the NASA LeRC for use in noise experiments. This technology, which is available for transfer to industry, provides a convenient, cost-effective alternative to analog tape recording for high frequency acoustic measurements. This system provides 32-channel acquisition of microphone signals with an analysis bandwidth up to 100 kHz per channel. Cost was minimized through the use of off-the-shelf components. Requirements to allow for future expansion were met by choosing equipment which adheres to established industry standards for hardware and software. Data processing capabilities include narrow band and 1/3 octave spectral analysis, compensation for microphone frequency response/directivity, and correction of acoustic data to standard day conditions. The system was used successfully in a major wind tunnel test program at NASA LeRC to acquire and analyze jet noise data in support of the High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT) program

Transition from school to university:some issues for kazakhstan and the wider region

This short presentation commented on three issues relating to students’ transition from school to higher education: selection; curriculum and teacher training. In all cases the observations point towards the crucial importance of schools and universities working in a close partnership based on mutual respect. The comments were derived primarily from experience and research in Kazakhstan conducted with colleagues from Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education

THE UNIVERSITY: A CENTER OF LEARNING?

"I want to begin with the significance that both the Minister and Deputy Prime-minister have attached to the university's contribution to economic development.This is clearly a theme on which one could expand very extensively, but the contribution includes a number of different dimensions, and I think it worth distinguishing some of these. Part of it is certainly about equipping an economy with higher level understanding and skills, and at the moment many international companies coming into Kazakhstan have to bring these with them or seek in the international market place, higher level skills, which in future, one hopes.Kazakhstan w i l l be able to supply through its own higher education system" - ..

QUALITY ASSURANCE IN EDUCATION & RESEARCH AND ACCOUNTABILITY

“As a general observation, we should probably be alert to the different conditions and requirements that operate between e.g.'big science'(that might require heavy investment in equipment and facilities and large teams of researchers) and research e.g. in the humanities and social sciences that might have different features and requirements.”--

Transition from school to university:some issues for kazakhstan and the wider region

This short presentation commented on three issues relating to students’ transition from school to higher education: selection; curriculum and teacher training. In all cases the observations point towards the crucial importance of schools and universities working in a close partnership based on mutual respect. The comments were derived primarily from experience and research in Kazakhstan conducted with colleagues from Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education

QUALITY ASSURANCE IN EDUCATION & RESEARCH AND ACCOUNTABILITY

“As a general observation, we should probably be alert to the different conditions and requirements that operate between e.g.'big science'(that might require heavy investment in equipment and facilities and large teams of researchers) and research e.g. in the humanities and social sciences that might have different features and requirements.”--

Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Determine Temporal Patters and Mixed Species Flocking Associations of Migrating North American Warblers in the Gulf of Maine

Recent development of plans for offshore and land-based wind energy projects has created the need for a better understanding of migration in the Gulf of Maine region, an important flyway for countless migrant birds each year. To better understand migration in this region, the University of Maine’s Lab of Avian Biology, working in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, deployed acoustic recording units at various sites throughout the Gulf of Maine to detect and quantify flight calls of nocturnally migrating songbirds. Using these data from selected nights, the detected flight call temporal patterns of American Redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla), Myrtle Warblers (S. coronata coronata), Black-and-white Warblers (Mniotilta varia), Common Yellowthroats (Geothlypis trichas), and Ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla) were shown to be bunched non-uniformly throughout given nights. To show evidence of birds flying in aggregations or flocks a five second window of time was established around each selected warbler’s detected flight calls and the presence of a corresponding flight call within that call window was treated as evidence of a possible flock or aggregation of birds. Approximately 50% of the detected flight calls of all five species showed evidence of potential conspecific and heterospecific flock associations with other songbirds during nocturnal migration

THE UNIVERSITY: A CENTER OF LEARNING?

"I want to begin with the significance that both the Minister and Deputy Prime-minister have attached to the university's contribution to economic development.This is clearly a theme on which one could expand very extensively, but the contribution includes a number of different dimensions, and I think it worth distinguishing some of these. Part of it is certainly about equipping an economy with higher level understanding and skills, and at the moment many international companies coming into Kazakhstan have to bring these with them or seek in the international market place, higher level skills, which in future, one hopes.Kazakhstan w i l l be able to supply through its own higher education system" - ..

A geological and geophysical study of the Tendaho Graben in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia: insights into transitional continental rifting

A detailed magnetic and gravity study across the Tendaho Graben (the Red Sea propagator within the Afar Depression, Ethiopia) revealed features that can best be interpreted as a continental rift undergoing oceanization. This NW-trending extensional structure is ~50 km wide and it is confined within well-developed NW-trending boarder faults that deform the 2 km thick and ~ 2 Ma basaltic flows of the Afar Stratoids. The age of the basaltic flows becomes progressively younger inward from the boarder faults until it reaches ~30,000 years close to the rift axis. The central part of the Tendaho Graben is characterized by a 10 km wide magnetic trough, the central part of which is dominated by a narrow zone (~3 km) of a relatively elevated magnetic anomaly that coincides with a linear region of hydrothermal activity. This magnetic geometry is similar in dimension and magnitude to that observed from magnetic stripes of typical mid-ocean ridges. Forward modeling of the magnetic data (combined with geochronological data) shows that the basaltic rocks within the magnetic trough were crystallized after 0.78 Ma under normal magnetic polarity. The width of the magnetic trough (10 km) and the age of basaltic rocks (\u3c0.78 Ma) indicate a spreading rate of ~ 0.64 cm/year. However, to achieve the ~50 km width of the Tendaho Graben which started opening ~2.0 Ma, a 1.64 cm/year spreading rate is needed between 1.6 and 0.78 Ma. This suggests that the spreading rate with Tendaho Graben is slowing down and extension within Afar is accommodated somewhere else. A new model is proposed for the evolution of the Tendaho Graben based on fieldwork, the newly acquired magnetic data and geochronology --Abstract, page iii