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Uniform mechanical wet grain unloading system

A process for uniformly removing wet grain in a layer of relatively uniform thickness from a wet grain container. Wet grain charged into the grain container is supported on an perforated or air-pervious floor supported above the bottom of the grain container. A continuous upward flow of ambient air travels in a path through the air-pervious floor and upwardly through the wet grain mass. A layer of wet grain of relatively uniform thickness is removed from the area immediately above the floor and discharged from the grain container for further processing such as heated-air drying

Diverse and Resilient: Insights into the Demography, Quality of Life, and Gender-Related Life Experiences of Transgender Wisconsin Residents

The purpose of this study was to describe the demography, quality of life, and genderrelated life experiences of Wisconsin’s transgender residents. For this mixed-methods pilot study, a snowball sampling technique was used to recruit transgender Wisconsin residents (n=29) to complete an anonymous online survey that included demographic measures, quality of life measures, and free response questions on experiences related to respondents’ gender in specific contexts. The original survey instrument was modeled on similar reliability and validity-tested instruments and was field-tested before being used. Descriptive analysis was used to interpret demographic and quality of life data and thematic content analysis was used to interpret qualitative data on gender-related life experiences. The sample was diverse in terms of demography. The average participant was 18-30 years of age, white, prescribed a sex of female at birth, transgender, queer, and partnered. Quality of life among the sample was lower than among the U.S. population. The rate of homelessness was higher than the national average and unemployment was more than twice the national rate. On average, participants were in good health, of low-middle income, and more educated than the average American. While a history of mental health issues was prevalent, respondents reported being in average to good mental health. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) status was overwhelmingly negative and sexual risk behaviors were low. Incidence of negative gender-related experiences was high within the contexts of healthcare and education and 63% of respondents reported having been harassed because of their trans* identity

Utilizing the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) to Identify Sexual Aggression in Men

The current study examined the validity of the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) in predicting sexually aggressive cognitions in men. Specifically, this study examined the role of maladaptive personality traits and personality functioning’s relationship with sexually aggressive beliefs in comparison to the Five-Factor Model (FFM). This study recruited 300 male participants, aged 18 and older, who identified as male for both sex and gender, and identified as heterosexual. Participants completed measures of personality functioning, several personality traits, views about sexual entitlement, gender roles, rape myths, and token resistance to sex. Multiple regression and semipartial correlation analyses were used to evaluate the relationship between the AMPD, FFM, and sexually aggressive cognitions. Maladaptive traits, personality functioning, and FFM traits were related to sexually aggressive thoughts. Additionally, personality functioning incremented the prediction of sexual entitlement, endorsed rape myths, and perceptions of token resistance to sex over maladaptive traits. Further, FFM traits incremented the predictions of sexually aggressive thoughts over the AMPD. Specifically, openness added to the prediction of all measures of sexually aggressive thoughts. Agreeableness specifically added to the prediction of views about rape myths. Overall, this study provides a more comprehensive knowledge of how personality functioning and personality traits are related to sexual aggressiveness by examining the relationship between the AMPD and FFM in predicting sexually aggressive cognitions

Direct numerical simulation of heat transfer from the stagnation region of a heated cylinder affected by an impinging wake

Copyright © 2011 Cambridge University Press.The effect of an incoming wake on the flow around and heat transfer from the stagnation region of a circular cylinder was studied using direct numerical simulations (DNSs). Four simulations were carried out at a Reynolds number (based on free-stream velocity and cylinder diameter D) of Re = 13200: one two-dimensional (baseline) simulation and three three-dimensional simulations. The three-dimensional simulations comprised a baseline simulation with a uniform incoming velocity field, a simulation in which realistic wake data - generated in a separate precursor DNS - were introduced at the inflow plane and, finally, a simulation in which the turbulent fluctuations were removed from the incoming wake in order to study the effect of the mean velocity deficit on the heat transfer in the stagnation region. In the simulation with realistic wake data, the incoming wake still exhibited the characteristic meandering behaviour of a near-wake. When approaching the regions immediately above and below the stagnation line of the cylinder, the vortical structures from the wake were found to be significantly stretched by the strongly accelerating wall-parallel (circumferential) flow into elongated vortex tubes that became increasingly aligned with the direction of flow. As the elongated streamwise vortical structures impinge on the stagnation region, on one side they transport cool fluid towards the heated cylinder, while on the other side hot fluid is transported away from the cylinder towards the free stream, thereby increasing the heat transfer. The DNS results are compared with various semi-empirical correlations for predicting the augmentation of heat transfer due to free-stream turbulence.German Research Foundatio

On Nietzsche, Homer, and Dissimulation

In this thesis, I focus on two undervalued aspects of Nietzsche’s admiration of the ancient Greeks: the healthy psychology of the Greeks, and the origins of this health in Homeric poetry. I argue that Homer was a cultural physician for the ancient Greeks and is responsible for creating a new, healthy set of values through his epic poetry. In turn, these Homeric values brought Greece into its “tragic age”—a time during which Greek culture was “the highest authority for what we may term cultural health” (PTAG 1). Moreover, Homer’s success as a cultural physician comes from his ability to lie poetically lie. So, I also give an account of how Nietzsche thinks this kind of lying is psychologically possible through what I call Nietzschean dissimulation

Turning What You Do in the Classroom into a Publication or Conference Presentation

Most academics are trained to do rigorous research in their field, and view teaching responsibilities as disconnected from their research agenda. This session will merge these activities and provide participants with a primer on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL). This PDW will help those interested in developing what they do in the classroom into teaching and learning academic conference presentations, publishable classroom activities, peerreviewed journal publications, and other intellectual contributions

When using voter advice applications, citizens should be aware that they reflect the political assumptions of their developers

Voter Advice Applications (VAA’s) have grown in popularity over recent election cycles, with users matched to a party on the basis of their agreement or disagreement with certain statements or policies. Here, Thomas Fossen and Bert Van Der Brink argue that though VAA’s present themselves as objective sources of political information, they in fact reflect the presuppositions of their developers, and their users should be aware of this when using them