Protective Factors Among Postsecondary Students Enrolled in a First-Generation Program

For generations, researchers have examined attributes that contribute to the adaptability of low socioeconomic youth. Attributes that help one become resilient are known as protective factors. The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore the protective factor(s) that contributed to the enrollment of first-generation, low-socioeconomic status (SES) students at a southern land-grant university. The population consisted of postsecondary students in a First Scholars program during the 2015-2016 academic year. The authors examine the existing literature on the effects of low SES on postsecondary education in order to explore what assists these students in maintaining a steadfast behavior. Recommendations are made for the recruitment of students who display a higher resiliency to be successful at the postsecondary level and for the First Scholars program on how to further enhance the program

Laboratory Astrophysics: Enabling Scientific Discovery and Understanding

NASA's Science Strategic Roadmap for Universe Exploration lays out a series of science objectives on a grand scale and discusses the various missions, over a wide range of wavelengths, which will enable discovery. Astronomical spectroscopy is arguably the most powerful tool we have for exploring the Universe. Experimental and theoretical studies in Laboratory Astrophysics convert "hard-won data into scientific understanding". However, the development of instruments with increasingly high spectroscopic resolution demands atomic and molecular data of unprecedented accuracy and completeness. How to meet these needs, in a time of severe budgetary constraints, poses a significant challenge both to NASA, the astronomical observers and model-builders, and the laboratory astrophysics community. I will discuss these issues, together with some recent examples of productive astronomy/lab astro collaborations

Transmission loss predictions for dissipative silencers of arbitrary cross section in the presence of mean flow

A numerical technique is developed for the analysis of dissipative silencers of arbitrary, but axially uniform, cross section. Mean gas flow is included in a central airway which is separated from a bulk reacting porous material by a concentric perforate screen. The analysis begins by employing the finite element method to extract the eigenvalues and associated eigenvectors for a silencer of infinite length. Point collocation is then used to match the expanded acoustic pressure and velocity fields in the silencer chamber to those in the inlet and outlet pipes. Transmission loss predictions are compared with experimental measurements taken for two automotive dissipative silencers with elliptical cross sections. Good agreement between prediction and experiment is observed both without mean flow and for a mean flow Mach number of 0.15. It is demonstrated also that the technique presented offers a considerable reduction in computational expenditure when compared to a three dimensional finite element analysis

An existential-phenomenological investigation of women’s experience of becoming less obsessed with their bodily appearance

This study investigated women’s lived experience of becoming less obsessed with their bodily appearance. Written narrative accounts were collected from seven women co-participants and a phenomenological analysis of these descriptive protocols was then performed in order to reveal the prereflective structure of the focal phenomenon, seven essential constituents of which emerged. A major goal of this research was to contribute to the undernourished area of phenomenological research regarding the experience of body image

2003 Precision Planted Performance Trials: Corn

This publication reports the performance of entries in the 2003 South Dakota corn hybrid performance trials for both non-Roundup-Ready and Roundup-Ready hybrids. Information includes both the most recent 2-year and 1-year grain yields in bushels per acre; and 1-year bushel weight, moisture percentages of shelled corn at harvest, acre harvest population, and stalk lodging percentages. These performance trials are conducted by the South Dakota Crop Performance Testing ( CPT) program at South Dakota State University

1998 Crop Performance Trials: Corn

This report evaluates the performance of entries in the 1998 South Dakota corn hybrid performance trials. Information includes both 1997-98 and 1998 grain yields in bushels per acre (bu/ac); and 1998 test weight, moisture percentages of shelled corn at harvest, final plant populations per acre, and stalk lodge percentages. T hese trials were conducted by the South Dakota State University crop performance testing ( CPT) program

1999 Crop Performance Trials: Corn

This publication reports the performance of entries in the 1999 South Dakota performance trials of conventional and Roundup Ready corn hybrids. Information includes both 1998-99 and 1999 grain yields in bushels per acre; and 1999 test weight, moisture percentages of shelled corn at harvest, final plant populations per acre, and stalk lodge percentages. T hese trials were conducted by the South Dakota State University crop performance testing (CPI) program

2006 Precision Planted Performance Trials: Corn

Performance of entries in the 2006 South Dakota corn hybrid performance trials for both non-Roundup-Ready and RoundupReady ™ hybrids is reported. Information includes both the most recent 2-year and 1-year grain yields in bushels per acre and 1-year bushel weight, grain moisture at harvest, percent stand at harvest, and stalk lodge percentages. These performance trials are conducted by the South Dakota Crop Performance Testing ( CPT ) program at South Dakota State University