Theoretical Re-Design of the Baker Pattillo Student Center Grand Ballroom Employing LED Technology

The driving approach to my project was, “How can I design a space that is flexible, efficient, easily sustainable and provides an educational value to the students?” This project began through my Advanced Lighting Technology course where I was provided the opportunity of researching LED technology and determining how to re-structure or re-design a campus facility with that technology

An introductory study into the relationship between ministerial adherance to Wesleyan soteriology and church growth in the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church

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Neo-Liberal Attacks on Labour: A Municipal Workers\u27 Strike in a Labour Town

Labour is the primary target of neo-liberalism. A principled strike in 2009 over post-retirement medical benefits for new hires by Canada’s largest public sector union in the labour town of Windsor, Ontario was studied in the local monopoly daily. Three quarters of the reported news on the 101-day strike was anti-union, while the editorials and opinion columns were virtually entirely negative. City administrators could do no wrong, as they stuck to their agenda of privatization and union derogation. Four out of every five articles inaccurately described the City unions as greedy, wasteful, self-destructive, violent or militant. Ironically, the Windsor Star reporters are members of the CAW union, demonstrating that newspaper management’s prerogatives prevail

Too Cool for School? The Relationship between Coolness and Academic Reputation in Early Adolescence

The relationship between peer‐nominated coolness and academic reputation was examined at two time points spanning the first year of middle school (N = 807; 52 percent female; 52 percent African‐American; 48 percent European American). Students predominantly nominated peers who were from their same gender and ethnic group as being cool. Associations between coolness and academic reputation differed across subgroups, were contingent upon level of disruptive behavior, and changed over time from fall to spring of the academic year. In the fall, patterns differed by gender, not by ethnicity. For both white and African‐American boys, hierarchical regressions evidenced a null association between coolness and academic reputation; for both white and African‐American girls, this association was positive. In the spring, findings for white girls were similar to findings from the fall. For the three remaining groups—white boys and African‐American boys and girls—conditions worsened over time, albeit in slightly dissimilar ways. For white boys, fall coolness did not predict significant declines in academic reputation over time; nonetheless, as a group, the coolness–academic reputation was negative by the end of the year. For African‐American boys and girls, fall coolness significantly predicted declines in academic reputation from fall to spring, although the concurrent coolness–academic reputation association was not significantly negative for either group in the spring.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110861/1/sode12097.pd

Control and management of a microgrid and the use of Droop control

Microgrids are a group of distributed generation systems that enable the support of local loads and have the ability to connect and disconnect to the main electrical utility grid. To respond to the increase in electrical power requirements from the customer base, Microgrids are a useful method of achieving network expansion, but have a number of protection issues related to reliability of supply, which is why the need of some form of microgrid control is required. This thesis report includes an analysis of droop control methods for control of a microgrid when connected to the distributed network, and when operating in islanded mode. The microgrid control strategies investigated as part of this report included an initial analysis of the various methods, and a more detailed analysis of synchronous generator control, including cooperative droop. This method has an improved response in regards to voltage regulation, frequency regulations and active power sharing. The use of droop control including primary and secondary control, to ensure the reliability of the network supply in the event of minor disruption includes events such as a load increase or decrease and larger disruptions that occur such as the loss of a generator, or the main electricity grid. It was found through the investigation of the governor control and the use of power-frequency droop control, that active power and frequency remained within the defined parameters of as set by the standard. Voltage regulation did have some events that caused the Distributed Generation (DG) voltage to exceed the limits, which is attributed to the grid-restoration event and would benefit from further investigation into control methods that would better support these types of events

ESTABLISHING A CULTURABLE HOST/BACTERIA SYSTEM TO EXPLORE INTERACTIONS OF SOUTHERN OCEAN DIATOMS AND BACTERIA WITHIN THE PHYCOSPHERE

Marine phytoplankton and bacteria impact global biogeochemical processes, including global net primary productivity (NPP), carbon sequestration, silica sequestration, nitrogen availability, and oxygen production. In the Southern Ocean, phytoplankton growth is limited by light and the availability of micronutrients, in spite of high nitrogen concentrations. It is important to NPP and nutrient cycling that two colimiting nutrients, Fe and B vitamins, are synthesized by bacteria that are closely associated with diatoms. The goal of my research project is to isolate multiple strains of bacteria from polar diatoms, test the strains’ abilities to be genetically manipulated, and reintroduce the bacteria to the phytoplankton phycospheres. The intention is to establish basic feasibility of building a model system to explore bacteria-diatom and bacteria-bacteria interactions and to further understand how these interactions impact NPP in the Southern Ocean.Master of Scienc

Intervention Program Using Alterable Variables to Improve School Success of Underachievers

Student Personnel and Guidanc