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Kevin M. O\u27Connell
No full textKevin M. O’Connell is the Director of the Office of Space Commerce at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Within this position, Mr. O’Connell leads an office with responsibility as a space industry advocate within the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. Mr. O’Connell brings over 35 years of experience in the U.S. government, in research organizations, and as an entrepreneur and business leader to this position.
Mr. O’Connell has researched and written extensively on the policy, security, and global market issues related to commercialization of remote sensing. Aside from numerous articles and op-eds, he was co-author of Commercial Observation Satellites: at the Leading Edge of Global Transparency (2000). He served as the Executive Secretary and Staff Director of the NIMA Commission (1999-2000). He was a member, and later Chair, of NOAA’s federal advisory committee on remote sensing from 2002-2016.
Previously, Mr. O’Connell served as the CEO of Innovative Analytics and Training, a Washington, D.C. professional services firm focused on analysis and decision support for U.S. government and commercial clients. Among other issues, the firm focused on market trends and anticipatory/futures analysis for high-technology industries such as cyber, cloud computing, and geospatial technologies. During this time, he also served as a senior consultant to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and as an independent advisor to the Director, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
Mr. O’Connell’s background also includes extensive experience in national security and intelligence matters, including assignments in the Department of Defense, Department of State, National Security Council, and the Office of the Vice President. He spent a decade conducting and managing research in these areas at the RAND Corporation, including as the first director of RAND’s Intelligence Policy Center.
Finally, Mr. O’Connell has taught a long-running course on comparative intelligence in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Security Studies Program.https://commons.erau.edu/stm-images/1119/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Kevin Cherry – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Kevin Cherry, Assistant Professor of Political Science,discusses his new book, Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics, published recently by Cambridge University Press. In this book, he compares the views of Plato and Aristotle about the practice, study and the purpose of politics
Productivity in Higher Education/ Kevin Stange, Kevin Strange, Caroline M. Hoxby.
No full textIn English.How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are "multiproduct" firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.Hoxby, Caroline M. / Stange, Kevin -- Staiger, Douglas -- Hoxby, Caroline M. -- Minaya, Veronica / Scott-Clayton, Judith -- Riehl, Evan / Saavedra, Juan E. / Urquiola, Miguel -- Altonji, Joseph G. / Zimmerman, Seth D. -- Courant, Paul N. / Turner, Sarah -- Vlieger, Pieter De / Jacob, Brian / Stange, Kevin -- Deming, David J. / Lovenheim, Michael / Patterson, Richard -- Carrell, Scott E. / Kurlaender, Michal -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / 1. What Health Care Teaches Us about Measuring Productivity in Higher Education / 2. The Productivity of US Postsecondary Institutions / 3. Labor Market Outcomes and Postsecondary Accountability: Are Imperfect Metrics Better Than None? / 4. Learning and Earning: An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions / 5. The Costs of and Net Returns to College Major / 6. Faculty Deployment in Research Universities / 7. Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education / 8. The Competitive Effects of Online Education / 9. Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road to Four- Year College Success / Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index1 online resource (392 p.)
Measuring Bird Migration Using Spatial and Temporal Counts
No full text12 pages, 1 article*Measuring Bird Migration Using Spatial and Temporal Counts* (Cottrell, Kevin; Bernstein, Elliott; Altman, Naomi; Dhont, Andre; Hochachka, Wesley; Slothower, Roger) 12 page
Quality Counts Certificate
No full textThis certificate accompanies the Quality Counts program. 1 page. It comes in packages of 25 certificates
An evaluation of two strains of Cyrtobagous salviniae Calder and Sands as natural enemies of the aquatic weeds salvinia molesta Mitchell and Salvinia minima Baker
No full textThe floating aquatic weeds common salvinia (Salvinia minima Baker) and giant
salvinia (Salvinia molesta Mitchell) degrade aquatic systems through fast, mat forming
growth. The Salvinia specialist weevil Cyrtobagous salviniae Calder and Sands has
been used to reduce the severity of giant salvinia infestations and associated with
reduced severity of common salvinia infestations. Genetically, morphologically and
biologically distinct strains of C. salviniae exist, but their relative potential for success as
biological control agents of Salvinia species has not been evaluated. This thesis (1)
describes a recirculating water system designed for conducting such studies and (2)
reports the results of C. salviniae strain comparisons.
A recirculating water system with a high degree of replication and minimal
variation in water flow, temperature and light intensity was used for laboratory
experiments using sixty-day temperature profiles averaging 31.4, 26.5 and 8.0��C
derived from surface water temperatures measured at lakes in expected range of Salvinia
species in the North America. Larval and adult population numbers of two C. salviniae strains (Australia and Florida) were determined for each temperature profile along with
feeding induced plant necrosis on both Salvinia species. Australia C. salviniae had
lower survivorship rates to adulthood on common salvinia than did Florida C. salviniae
at the 31.4 and 26.5��C temperature profiles. Neither strain reproduced, and no
significant between-strain differences in plant necrosis were detected at the 8.0��C
temperature profile. At 31.4��C there were no significant differences in adult counts,
larval counts or plant damage between the two strains on giant salvinia. At 26.5��C,
however, significantly fewer larvae were collected from initially released adults and
significantly less plant necrosis was associated with weevil feeding by Florida strain
compared to Australia strain weevils. These results may have arisen from comparing
Australia weevils from a growing colony to Florida weevils from a declining colony.
Overall, the results indicate that only Florida C. salviniae should be released against
common salvinia. Florida C. salviniae may be equally suitable to Australia C. salviniae
for releases against giant salvinia, but further study is needed to fully assess the potential
for using Florida C. salviniae against giant salvinia
Quality Counts Exhibitor Card
No full textThis exhibitor card identifies young livestock exhibitors as participants in the Quality Counts! program. The card is printed with a leather-style background on heavy card stock. It features the 4-H clover and the FFA logo, as well as the logo of the corporate sponsor who provided funds for printing the cards
FIGURE 4 in Unraveling Siren (Caudata: Sirenidae) systematics and description of a small seepage specialist
No full textFIGURE 4. Box plots with points representing specimens per showing distribution of costal groove counts of Siren lineages.Published as part of Fedler, Matthew T., Enge, Kevin M. & Moler, Paul E., 2023, Unraveling Siren (Caudata: Sirenidae) systematics and description of a small seepage specialist, pp. 351-378 in Zootaxa 5258 (4) on page 359, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/778432
Introgression of resistance to Rotylenchulus reniformis into Meloidogyne incognita resistant upland cotton
No full textDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-84).Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.Reniform nematodes, Rotylenchulus reniformis, can cause losses in cotton yield as high as 60% (Robinson; Yik and Birchfield). High levels of resistance to this nematode has not been reported in Gossypium hirsutum, although Gossypium barbadense accession TX110 has shown a moderate level of resistance to R. reniformis (Yik). TX110 was crossed with M315, G. hirsutum, a root-knot (Meloidogyne incognita) resistant line, and screened in order to identify F[2:3] progeny resistant to both reniform and root-knot nematodes in a G. hirsutum background. F2 plants produced from TX110/M315 were screened for early maturity since the TX110 parent is photoperiodic. A selection of greenhouse-grown F[2:3] plants were inoculated with 15,000 eggs/pot of R. reniformis and screened using eggs counts collected from root and soil samples 10 weeks after inoculation. Resistant plants were transplanted and inoculated with 19,500 eggs/pot of M. incognita. Approximately 29 weeks after inoculation, nematode eggs were extracted from the roots. These egg counts produced an even distribution not typical of a trait controlled by two genes as reported for root-knot resistance. The eggs were then hatched to ascertain that the eggs were in fact R. reniformis, indicating the reniform populations remaining on the roots following transplanting were able to out-compete M. incognita. The plants that showed low egg densities in the reniform screening also showed low egg densities from the root-knot inoculation where reniform thrived. F[3:4] plants derived from these F[2:3] reniform resistant plants are currently being screened for root-knot resistance. Additional F[2:3] plants were screened for resistance to M. incognita in a manmade sandy soil at the Texas A&M Research Farm. Harvesting and rating the roots showed insufficient levels of galling on susceptible lines to screen for resistance, so a subset of 200 plants was transplanted to a greenhouse and re-inoculated with M. incognita to be screened at a later date. Results suggest that it is possible to combine resistance to reniform and root-knot nematodes by using interspecific hybridization with selection
A Guide to Kevin Poelking's By the Hands That Reach Us
No full textThis thesis is written to accompany the full score of Kevin Poelking's By the Hands That Reach Us for wind symphony. The first chapter includes studies and expert opinions that attempt to define quality music. It begins with a brief synopsis of the recent (post World War II) increase of wind band repertoire and the difficulties that conductors encounter as a result. Quotations from conductors and composers throughout history are included in an attempt to shed light on the topic. The second chapter is a detailed biography of composer Kevin Poelking. It discusses personal, professional, and musical experiences that have shaped his compositional voice. There are also specific music examples given with explanations as to how they affected Poelking in his development as a composer. The final chapter is a detailed summary of Poelking's compositional process when writing By the Hands That Reach Us. The chapter includes original sketches, score excerpts, and specific compositional techniques that were used throughout the work
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