Creating An Information Technology Security Program for Educators

Information Technology (IT) Security education has become a critical component to college curriculum within the past few years. Along with developing security courses and degrees, there is a need to train college educators and disseminate the security curriculum and best-practices to other colleges. St. Petersburg College implemented a project entitled Information Technology Security and Education for Educators (ITSCEE) designed to address Priority III of the “National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace”, establishment of a “national cyberspace training program.” The project was designed to produce three nationally relevant IT Security degree and certificate programs at the associate, advanced technical certificate, and baccalaureate levels. Also, the project was designed to provide training and an opportunity for the Florida Community College Faculty to obtain certification in the IT Security arena to assist their institutions in deploying relevant IT Security degree programs. This paper will describe the evolution of this project, the success in meeting goals, lessons learned and techniques and best practices other colleges may use to enhance their programs

The Stellar Population of Stripped Cluster Spiral NGC 4522: A Local Analog to K+A Galaxies?

We present observations of the stripped Virgo Cluster spiral NGC 4522, a clear, nearby example of a galaxy currently undergoing ISM-ICM stripping. Utilizing SparsePak integral field spectroscopy on the WIYN 3.5m telescope and GALEX UV photometry, we present an analysis of the outer disk (r > 3 kpc) stellar population of this galaxy, beyond the HI and Halpha truncation radius. We find that the star formation in the gas-stripped outer disk ceased very recently, ~100 Myr ago, in agreement with previous claims that this galaxy is currently being stripped. At the time of this stripping, data and models suggest that the galaxy experienced a modest starburst. The stripping is occurring in a region of the cluster well outside the cluster core, likely because this galaxy is experiencing extreme conditions from a dynamic ICM due to an ongoing sub-cluster merger. The outer disk has a spectrum of a K+A galaxy, traditionally observed in high-redshift cluster galaxies. In the case of NGC 4522, a K+A spectrum is formed by simple stripping of the interstellar gas by the hot intracluster medium. These data show K+A spectra can be created by cluster processes and that these processes likely extend beyond the cluster core.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letter

In Search of Sustainable Water Management: International Lessons for the American West and Beyond

This digital resource contains only an abstract, cover image and table of contents information from the published book. Print copy of book is available in the University of Colorado’s Wise Law Library: http://lawpac.colorado.edu/record=b279300~S0 Contents: Water policy and cultural exchange : transferring lessons from around the world to the western United States / James L. Wescoat Jr. -- Roles for the public and private sectors in water allocation : lessons from around the world / Charles W. Howe, Helen Ingram -- Integrating environmental and other public values in water allocation and management decisions / David H. Getches, Sarah B. Van de Wetering -- Protecting indigenous rights and interests in water / David H. Getches, Sarah B. Van de Wetering -- Transboundary water conflicts and cooperation / Aaron T. Wolf -- Sustainability and the future of western water law / Lakshman Guruswamy, A. Dan Tarlockhttps://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1145/thumbnail.jp

Enhancing Watershed Planning in Implementation of the Colorado Water Plan: An Overview of Implementation Challenges and Opportunities

25 pages. Introduction -- Review of existing efforts -- Summary of interviews -- The salience of funding -- Recommendations -- Attachment A: Summary of reviewed watershed plans.https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1180/thumbnail.jp

Involvement of College Football Fans at The University of Southern Mississippi

The modern college football market faces several challenges including the fact that game day attendance numbers have continued to drop for the past few years and show no signs of slowing down. Understanding the psychological involvement of sports fans could play a major role in improving attendance numbers and providing consumers with a greater experience during football games. The primary goal of this research was to determine predictors of sports involvement among Southern Miss football fans. Another goal was to determine which facets of involvement predicted return intentions. With those who had attended a home Southern Miss football game in the last three years as the target demographic, a survey was created to understand which aspects of the game day experience influenced fans’ involvement and return intentions. A series of multiple regression analyses were utilized to examine the predictors of involvement with two distinct samples (students and non-students). As a result, this study contributed to the field of marketing by revealing that there are differences between the predictors of involvement for students and non-students, and that importance and pleasure play the largest role in determining return intentions

Water Allocation Compacts in the West: An Overview

14 p. : charts ; 28 cmhttps://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1132/thumbnail.jp

In Search of Sustainable Water Management: International Lessons for the American West and Beyond

This digital resource contains only an abstract, cover image and table of contents information from the published book. Print copy of book is available in the University of Colorado’s Wise Law Library: http://lawpac.colorado.edu/record=b279300~S0 Contents: Water policy and cultural exchange : transferring lessons from around the world to the western United States / James L. Wescoat Jr. -- Roles for the public and private sectors in water allocation : lessons from around the world / Charles W. Howe, Helen Ingram -- Integrating environmental and other public values in water allocation and management decisions / David H. Getches, Sarah B. Van de Wetering -- Protecting indigenous rights and interests in water / David H. Getches, Sarah B. Van de Wetering -- Transboundary water conflicts and cooperation / Aaron T. Wolf -- Sustainability and the future of western water law / Lakshman Guruswamy, A. Dan Tarlockhttps://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1145/thumbnail.jp

Enhancing Watershed Planning in Implementation of the Colorado Water Plan: An Overview of Implementation Challenges and Opportunities

25 pages. Introduction -- Review of existing efforts -- Summary of interviews -- The salience of funding -- Recommendations -- Attachment A: Summary of reviewed watershed plans.https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1180/thumbnail.jp

CMOS compatible metamaterial absorbers for hyperspectral medium wave infrared imaging and sensing applications

We experimentally demonstrate a CMOS compatible medium wave infrared metal-insulator-metal (MIM) metamaterial absorber structure where for a single dielectric spacer thickness at least 93% absorption is attained for 10 separate bands centred at 3.08, 3.30, 3.53, 3.78, 4.14, 4.40, 4.72, 4.94, 5.33, 5.60 μm. Previous hyperspectral MIM metamaterial absorber designs required that the thickness of the dielectric spacer layer be adjusted in order to attain selective unity absorption across the band of interest thereby increasing complexity and cost. We show that the absorption characteristics of the hyperspectral metamaterial structures are polarization insensitive and invariant for oblique incident angles up to 25° making them suitable for practical implementation in an imaging system. Finally, we also reveal that under TM illumination and at certain oblique incident angles there is an extremely narrowband Fano resonance (Q < 50) between the MIM absorber mode and the surface plasmon polariton mode that could have applications in hazardous/toxic gas identification and biosensing