P-wave and surface wave survey for permafrost analysis in alpine regions

We discuss the results of seismic survey to delineate temporal and spatial changes of frozen layer in Alpine environments. The seismic characterization allows us to detect changes of soil deformability properties related to the temperature effect on subsoi

Faculty Development: Mission and Methods for Practical Integration

This essay proposes a Catholic structure for the intellectual life of faculty that invites participation in ways that honor their diverse backgrounds, even antipathy toward religion, while also demonstrating that identifiable Catholic perspectives, including Catholic social teaching, can provide a useful framework for faculty members to understand their academic roles in support of Catholic identity, no matter their religious background

Copyright and Creative Commons: Guidelines for Faculty and Student

For faculty and students, copyright laws regarding the reproduction and distribution of course materials are sometimes difficult to negotiate. This is particularly true with the rise of digital information used in courses, as well as Open Access Resources.Intellectual property is protected by copyright law. Let’s start from the beginning to understand copyright and digital commons in the context of U.S. copyright law

Understanding the Co-Teaching Experience of Teachers: Negotiating Choice and Efficacy

Co-teaching, a main strategy of the inclusionary movement, has been widely researched over the last 25 years. Although there is much research in the way of student outcomes and best practices, the research on teachers’ perceptions of co-teaching on the secondary level is non-existent. Although all of the research on best practices of co-teaching suggests that voluntary participation and choice of partner is important when implementing a co-teaching program, school administration tend to veer away from giving teachers a choice due to scheduling or financial constraints. Using qualitative, case-study research methods, including teacher and administrative interviews, survey and field observations, this study’s findings add to the existing body of research that focuses on teachers’ experiences in co-teaching. This research reaffirms findings from extant research while also identifying new themes of choice of partner and/or participation as well as efficacy.. Teacher choice and teacher collective efficacy informed the positive experiences of co-teaching in important and interesting ways and should be acknowledged by district level and school wide administrators looking to implement or improve co-teaching initiatives. This study not only endeavored to explain, understand, and share the stories of 12 teachers given choice, but it also hopes to bring awareness to the understanding of the value teachers bring to their craft through their self and collective efficacy. Also, this study attempts to describe the influence administrative decision-making has on the practice and perceptions of teacher

Intellectual Property: A Student and Faculty Resource

For both faculty and students, the concept of intellectual property (IP) is important to understand. Arguably, the application and protection of intellectual property is even more important. Over the past several years, IP has become increasingly more valuable to institutions of higher education, both domestically and globally. The innovation and creation of scholarship, technology, industrial processes, data analytics and so forth, not only are now tied to accreditation requirements for universities, but also allow for the collaboration between the private sector and universities through financial sponsorship (Van Dusen, 2013; Duval-Couetil et al., 2014)

A hierarchical Bayesian model to infer PL(Z) relations using Gaia parallaxes

Aims. We aim at creating a Bayesian model to infer the coefficients of PL or PLZ relations that propagates uncertainties in the observables in a rigorous and well founded way. Methods. We propose a directed acyclic graph to encode the conditional probabilities of the inference model that will allow us to infer probability distributions for the PL and PL(Z) relations. We evaluate the model with several semi-synthetic data sets and apply it to a sample of 200 fundamental mode and first overtone mode RR Lyrae stars for which Gaia DR1 parallaxes and literature Ks-band mean magnitudes are available. We define and test several hyperprior probabilities to verify their adequacy and check the sensitivity of the solution with respect to the prior choice. Results. The main conclusion of this work is the absolute necessity of incorporating the existing correlations between the observed variables (periods, metallicities and parallaxes) in the form of model priors in order to avoid systematically biased results, especially in the case of non-negligible uncertainties in the parallaxes. The tests with the semi-synthetic data based on the data set used in Gaia Collaboration et al. (2017) reveal the significant impact that the existing correlations between parallax, metallicity and periods have on the inferred parameters. The relation coefficients obtained here have been superseded by those presented in Muraveva et al. (2018a), that incorporates the findings of this work and the more recent Gaia DR2 measurements.Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to A&

Dispersion phenomena in microchannels: Transition from Taylor-Aris to convection-dominated regime

This paper was presented at the 2nd Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2009), which was held at Brunel University, West London, UK. The conference was organised by Brunel University and supported by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, IPEM, the Italian Union of Thermofluid dynamics, the Process Intensification Network, HEXAG - the Heat Exchange Action Group and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.This article addresses the qualitative and quantitative properties of solute transport and dispersion in microchannel of finite-length. As the Peclet number increases a transition from the Taylor-Aris to a new regime referred as convection dominated dispersion occurs, which is controlled by the velocity profile near the stagnation points at the solid walls. The properties characterizing dispersion dominated regime can be used for analytical purposes as a chromatographic-based velocimetry and for determining the eventual occurrence of slip at the solid walls of microchannels