Building Your Local Web One Thread at a Time: Archiving Websites at Trinity University

In this presentation I will discuss my efforts at Trinity to start a website archiving program to document campus activities, especially difficult to document groups such as student organizations. This presentation is meant to show how even a small shop at a liberal arts university can leverage their resources and time to build a website archiving program step by step

Measurement of Working, Reflected, and Detrimental Active Power in a Three Phase System

Study of the decomposition of the active power into composite components with respects to power industry economics namely, working active power, reflected active power, and detrimental active power. The working active energy is considered the permanent flow of useful energy to the load that results in deliberate heat, lighting, or torque on the motor shaft. The reflected active energy is the extra component of active energy originating from the load and dissipates on the supply impedance that does not contribute to useful energy. Lastly, detrimental active energy is the flow of harmonic energy from the supply to the load due to supply asymmetry and distortion that does not contribute to useful energy to the load. Traditional revenue meters measure active energy as a whole. This means that the reflected active energy component does not get billed to the customer even though the utility must provide energy for the reflected active power and ultimately, not being compensated for energy delivered. Detrimental active energy gets charged by the traditional revenue meter yet does not contribute to useful energy. Instead this detrimental active energy is converted to useless energy, namely heat in an induction motor\u27s windings yet the customer still pays for the useless energy harming his own equipment. As one can see, active power in the sense of economics is not a simple quantity as originally thought. With the introduction of a new working active power concept, energy accounts can be fairer to both the customer and utility. Using revenue meters based on working active power concept can pinpoint economic responsibilities of the customer and utility and accurately compensated

The Influence of Metaphorical and Literal Language on Conspiracy Theory Belief: The Role of Language and Individual Differences

Although conspiracy theories have long existed, they are of current interest due to their widespread nature on social media (Enders et al., 2021). Research has shown the impact of informational framing on overall conspiracy theory believability (Swami et al., 2013). Informational framing can influence overall public perception of conspiracy theories (Butler et al., 1995; Hameleers, 2020; Enders et al., 2021), showing the impact of the language used in spreading conspiracy theories. Individual difference measures have been shown to impact overall conspiracy theory belief (Swami et al., 2010; Swami et al., 2013; Douglas, 2019). However, research has not explored the relationship between the type of language used in conspiracy theories and how these individual differences may impact overall believability. Beeman’s coarse and fine semantic coding theory (Beeman et al., 1994) provides a theoretical framework to explain why literal and figurative language is processed differently in the brain. Therefore we predict that the language type used in conspiracy theories (i.e., literal or figurative language) would also be processed differently, and would significantly impact overall believability. The current study investigated whether language type in conspiracy theory texts would impact overall believability, as moderated by schizotypal ideation, magical ideation, and delusional ideation (Raine & Benishay, 1995; Eckblad & Chapman, 1983; Peters et al., 2004), as well as the interaction effects of these variables. Participants read 13 conspiracy theory texts and were randomly assigned a metaphorical or literal conspiracy text and rated their overall believability and completed three individual difference measures. Results showed significant moderated relationships for magical ideation and delusional ideation on overall conspiracy theory text believability

A study of three paradigms for storing geospatial data: distributed-cloud model, relational database, and indexed flat file

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related applications of geospatial data were once a small software niche; today nearly all Internet and mobile users utilize some sort of mapping or location-aware software. This widespread use reaches beyond mere consumption of geodata; projects like OpenStreetMap (OSM) represent a new source of geodata production, sometimes dubbed “Volunteered Geographic Information.” The volume of geodata produced and the user demand for geodata will surely continue to grow, so the storage and query techniques for geospatial data must evolve accordingly. This thesis compares three paradigms for systems that manage vector data. Over the past few decades these methodologies have fallen in and out of favor. Today, some are considered new and experimental (distributed), others nearly forgotten (flat file), and others are the workhorse of present-day GIS (relational database). Each is well-suited to some use cases, and poorly-suited to others. This thesis investigates exemplars of each paradigm

Evaluation of Fish Meal Supplement on Physiological Response and Milking Performance in Lactating Dairy Cattle Under Heat Stress.

Twenty-four mid-lactation heat stressed dairy cows were paired in a completely randomized block design on basis of breed, age, lactation number, calving date, previous mild production and milk fat content in order to evaluate experimental responses. Test treatment was a 50:50 dry matter (DM) corn silage-concentrate diet supplemented with 4.75% DM specially-selected fish meal (FM). Animals were housed under natural summer conditions for the duration of a 70-d experimental period, commencing in mid-June. Low roughage diets were slightly below NRC requirements for both energy and crude protein. DM intake, milk fat content, and milk fat:milk lactose ratio were statistically significant, with means and SE of 14.56, 12.83 ($\pm$0.337) kg/d, 3.71, 4.20 ($\pm$0.04)%, and 0.79, 0.877 ($\pm$0.010) for fish meal supplemented (FMS) and control (CON) diets, respectively. Other milk component contents and yields and component ratios were not statistically significant. Though FM supplementation increased DM intake, it also significantly decreased gross milk production efficiency. Mean daily ETI and THI index values for experiment duration were 33.16 $\pm$ 0.86 and 78.02 $\pm$ 0.89, respectively. Respiration rates (RR) and rectal temperatures (RT) for FMS and CON cows were 99.6, 105.4 ($\pm$1.75) cycles per minute, and 39.7, 39.9 ($\pm$0.12) C, respectively. Significant correlations between RT and climate indexes were found only for the CON diet (r $\u3e$ 0.21), while the FMS diet lacked significance (r $\u3c$ 0.03). Plasma cortisol levels were not different between treatments, yet plasma aldosterone was significantly lower for the FMS group. FMS and CON diets mean plasma steroid concentrations were 8.65, 8.61 ($\pm$0.34) ng/ml and 217.5, 252.5 ($\pm$6.10) pg/ml for cortisol and aldosterone, respectively. Cortisol correlated negatively with daily maximum temperature in FMS cows, but not in CON cows. Cortisol correlated positively with RR in FMS cows, only. Plasma aldosterone did not correlate with RT, nor RR in either treatment group. Plasma aldosterone may provide an index for evaluating levels of adaptability on varying intakes of nutrients during times of heat stress in the lactating dairy cow. Productive performance was not enhanced from inclusion of dietary FM, yet non-productive physiological adaptability was improved

Working active power, reflected active power, and detrimental active power in the power system

Study of decomposition of the active power into components with deeper economical meanings, namely working active power, reflected active power, and detrimental active power is the subject of the thesis. The decomposition of active power will be based on the Current’s Physical Component (CPC) Theory. Working active power is equivalent to useful power that is the rate of energy used to do work, such as mechanical power. Reflected active power is the rate of energy transfer that the load sends back to the supply which dissipates off the supply resistance. This reflected active power is not taken into account on traditional power meters and the utility is not compensated for the power sent to the load to generate the reflected active power. Detrimental active power is the power that the supply sends to the load that is not considered useful power. The traditional power meter takes into account detrimental active power and the customer is paying for power that does not convert to useful work and potentially harming equipment. Working active power shows that the standard definition for active power does not fully take into account all economical responsibilities. With active power decomposed into economical components, the economic responsibilities can be accounted to the correct party

An investigation of the effect of natural tool sharpness upon cutting forces

M.S.Joseph P. Vidosi

Black Robes at the Edge of Empire: Jesuits, Natives, and Colonial Crisis in Early Detroit, 1728-1781

This thesis examines the Jesuit missionaries active in the region of Detroit and how their role in that region changed over the course of the eighteenth century and under different colonial regimes. Jesuits Armand de la Richardie, Pierre Potier, and Pierre du Jaunay influenced imperial decision-making and policy in the eighteenth-century pays d’en haut through their notable influence within certain indigenous communities. The priests were deeply influential during the French regime as demonstrated by their impact on several colonial crises discussed in the text. The Seven Years War and the conquest of New France by Great Britain gradually eroded Jesuit influence as the distrustful British were reluctant to utilize the French Catholic priests as imperial assets. As a result, the indigenous communities began to cut out the middlemen and deal with imperial Britain directly rather than through a proxy. Despite these changes, the Jesuits still shaped imperial realities through methods deployed under the French and new means made available by the conquest. Pontiac’s War brought about a conclusive end to Jesuit political power in the pays d’en haut as the British, ever suspicious of the French Jesuits, completed their political ostracization. Historians typically focus on the Jesuits of the seventeenth century when examining colonial North America and rarely examine how the role of the Jesuits changed during the eighteenth century and in different colonial contexts. This thesis seeks to demonstrate the value in examining this neglected aspect of colonial-indigenous alliance and diplomacy by examining how the Jesuits influenced several colonial crises that arose from the strategic colonial entrêpot of Detroit

The Consensual Assessment Technique as a measure of creativity in children\u27s musical compositions motivated by visual and verbal stimuli

ABSTRACT The purposes of this study were: 1) To compare the relationship between the degrees of creativity shown in musical compositions of third grade students (N=163) when they were exposed to either a visual or verbal stimulus, and 2) to examine inter-judge reliability for creativity ratings using the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) with instrumental group compositions. Throughout a nine-week teaching unit, all subjects participated in regular music classes where they learned compositional techniques and concepts. They worked in small cooperative learning groups of 3 to 6 students throughout the unit to compose several “mini” compositions and two large-scale compositions. For the last composition, four classes received a verbal stimulus and the other four received a visual artwork stimulus. Performances of these 34 compositions were videotaped and judged on 13 dimensions by three elementary music teachers using the CAT. Even though both stimuli were successful compositional motivators for their respective groups, the subtle differences in stimuli types over a short period of time as in this study were not influential enough to affect the creativity scores of student compositions. No significant differences were found between the two groups for any of the dimensions. Reliability scores were calculated, and ranged from .48 to .83 with coefficients on 11 of the 13 dimensions resulting in significant (p\u3c.05) agreements among the three judges. This assessment technique was found to be successful when used with small group instrumental music compositions of third grade students

Lucrative Blue

Lucrative Blue, a book-length collection of original poetry, explores themes such as questioning prevailing American ideologies, birth/motherhood, and accessing/confronting the inner self. The poems are influenced by Modern and Post Modern conceptions of art and form; Gertrude Stein\u27s concept of the continuous present and Charles Olsen\u27s concept of projective verse are particularly important. The collection attempts to pay close attention to the world surrounding the poems\u27 speakers; the sounds of airplanes, dogs, and the images and sounds of construction frequently appear, as they were frequently present when the poems were created; The collection is divided into three sections; the first entitled Devour, is largely political and takes a critical stance against many current American ideologies and choices. The second, entitled Empire of Song, contains poems that react to international travel to Italy and France. The third, entitled Fathomless, deals primarily with the inner self and emotional responses to the present