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Assessing the Effect of English Contact on Spanish Futurity in 19-century Texas
Since the 13th century, the Spanish periphrastic future (PF; voy a cantar) has been steadily replacing the morphological future (MF; cantaré) (Aaron, 2006). Attempting to account for the especially fast rate of change from ... -
Assessing the performance of confidence intervals for high quantiles of Burr XII and Inverse Burr mixtures
Recent research in the area of univariate mixture modeling indicated that the finite mixture models based on Burr and Inverse Burr component distributions perform well in the modeling of heavy-tail insurance data. Mixture ... -
Assessing the Quality of Caregiver Support Services
(2006-08-01)The project's primary objective wsa to desin and test an outcome-focused system for the quality monitoring of caregiver support services based largely on input from caregivers themselves. -
Assessment of a Broad-Based CCC “Get It Now” Program Implementation
We conducted a year-long pilot of the Copyright Clearance Center’s “Get It Now” rapid document delivery program. Get It Now is intended to supplement traditional library journal collections by providing rapid on-request ... -
Assessment, Analytics, and Analysis: Demonstrating the Impact of LMS Embedded Librarians on Student Learning
The Ithaka S&R US Library Survey 2016 documents that library directors are committed to supporting teaching and learning services in terms of staffing and budget. They are equally committed to supporting student success, ... -
Attitudes and Advocacy: Understanding Faculty Views on Racial/Ethnic Diversity
(2009-10-08)Diversity has been a hot-button issue in higher education for the past several decades (Chang, Witt, Jones & Hakuta, 2003). A significant portion of research has been dedicated to how students experience the campus ... -
The Austrian Myth: Victimization and Nationalism in the Post-War Period
(2012-04-23)The words of the Moscow Declaration of 1943 allowed Austria to claim itself as a victim of Hitler, rather than a contributor to the Nazis in WWII. In the years following the war, this distinction would define the attitude ... -
Automated Bulk Uploading of Images and Metadata to Flickr
(2014-03-26)The Digital Initiatives department at Miami University, like most Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, has a large amount of rich digital image collections, stored primarily in a third-party database. ... -
Automated Livestock Barn System
The objective of this project is to provide monitoring of livestock, automated animal care, and user safety. It has several systems to meet these objectives: fire detection, watering system, feeding system, temperature ... -
Automated Metadata Generation and the Critical Role of Catalogers and Indexers in Technical Services of the Future
(2012-05-11)Academic and research libraries have an important role in collecting, organizing, and facilitating access to the world’s scholarly information. Technical services librarians build the foundation upon which scholarly ... -
Automated Wire Stripper
For our groups ENT 498 Senior Design Project we decided to design and build an automated wire cutter and stripping machine. Our final machine can automatically feed, cut and strip wires to a given length and quantity. ... -
Avoiding the “Axe”: Advancing Affordable and Open Education Resources at a Midsize University
INTRODUCTION To address the soaring cost of textbooks, higher education institutions have launched a number of strategies to promote the adoption of affordable and open educational resources (AOER). Although a few models ... -
Battlebot
Battlebots are machines that have been popular to niche crowds over the past two decades. The show Battlebots first aired in the year 2000 and is still creating new episodes today. There are other similar robot fighting ... -
Be a Force For Affordable Learning!
In this session the presenters will provide an overview of Affordable Learning (AL) initiatives that can help address student textbook costs, including the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), also known as Freely ... -
Because You Can, You Should: A Beauvoirian Ethics of Food
The freedom to act in humans and the inability to act in nature imposes the moral responsibility on humans to return to nature that which they have used or ruined and improve upon it for future generations and the preservation ... -
Before the Numbers Disappeared: Media and Perception of the 1937 Soviet Census
This thesis surveys the 1936 All-Soviet Census and its importance to national image under Stalin as an explanation for its suppression shortly after completion. The census served as a vital data collection tool for the ...