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K-State 2025 Strategic Direction Action Plan and Alignment for K-State First
No full textK-State First, University's First Year Experience ProgramA strategic direction outline on how Kansas State University's K-State First initiative, comprised of the First Year Seminars, Connecting Across Topics (CAT) Communities, the K-State Book Network (KSBN), and Guide to Personal Success (GPS) program, envisions their 2025 plan to operate, with short-term, intermediate, and long-term expected outcomes. The strategic direction coincides with the university's strategic goal of becoming a top research institution within the United States
Decemberlaration by Earl K. Long (various dates)
No full textThe declaration, written in French and signed by Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long, speaks about the Free Commune of Monmarte [Commune Libre du Vieux Monmarte]. It was signed on September 14 and 25, 1951. It was mailed to Hubert Creekmore at the Huntington Hartford Foundation in Pacific Palisades, California, on November 4, 1951. Includes envelope.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/creekmore/1464/thumbnail.jp
Thermodynamics of K-Ca exchange in soils II Effects of mineralogy, residual K and pH in soils from long-term ADAS experiments
No full textSurface soils from six ADAS long‐term experiments, including two on Andover series, were examined for K‐Ca exchange by exchange isotherm and calorimetric methods. Preference for K decreased in the order Worcester > Clwyd > Newport. The latter two acid soils showed ‘no preference’ and Ca preference respectively. Preference for K decreased with decreasing surface area and increasing surface charge density. The enthalpic factor favoured K preference in every soil, but the entropic factor favoured Ca preference in all but one soil. The magnitude of the enthalpic factor was greater than that of the entropic factor, resulting in K preference, in the Andover, Hanslope and Worcester soils, while the reverse was the case in the Newport soil. In the Clwyd soil, enthalpic and entropic forces were counterbalanced. These relative contributions were related to the interactions between clay mineralogy, pH and manurial history.
Differential heat measurements, ‐d (ΔHx)/dx revealed exchange site heterogeneity in five of the soils. Five regions of constant ‐d (ΔHx)/dx were found, ranging from 6 to 12 kJ eq−1, a maximum of three occurring in any one soil. These were assigned to montmorillonite (two regions), mica, hydrous mica and vermiculitic mica surfaces. The 2: 1 phyllosilicate contents of the clay fractions of the whole soils calculated thus differed from those determined by XRD analysis of the clay fractions.
Residual K decreased the cation exchange capacity of some of the soils but did not alter their surface areas. Its effect on K preference, K binding strength and the arrangement of the components of the system (the entropic factor) was complex.
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On the Complexity of k-DQBF
No full textRecently Dependency Quantified Boolean Formula (DQBF) has attracted a lot of attention in the SAT community. Intuitively, a DQBF is a natural extension of quantified boolean formula where for each existential variable, one can specify the set of universal variables it depends on. It has been observed that a DQBF with k existential variables - henceforth denoted by k-DQBF - is essentially a k-CNF formula in succinct representation. However, beside this and the fact that the satisfiability problem is NEXP-complete, not much is known about DQBF.
In this paper we take a closer look at k-DQBF and show that a number of well known classical results on k-SAT can indeed be lifted to k-DQBF, which shows a strong resemblance between k-SAT and k-DQBF. More precisely, we show the following.
a) The satisfiability problem for 2- and 3-DQBF is PSPACE- and NEXP-complete, respectively.
b) There is a parsimonious polynomial time reduction from arbitrary DQBF to 3-DQBF.
c) Many polynomial time projections from SAT to languages in NP can be lifted to polynomial time reductions from the satisfiability of DQBF to languages in NEXP.
d) Languages in the class NSPACE[s(n)] can be reduced to the satisfiability of 2-DQBF with O(s(n)) universal variables.
e) Languages in the class NTIME[t(n)] can be reduced to the satisfiability of 3-DQBF with O(log t(n)) universal variables.
The first result parallels the well known classical results that 2-SAT and 3-SAT are NL- and NP-complete, respectively
Frankfurt book fair: cancelled prize ceremony for Palestinian author is part of a long history of political zigzagging
No full textFirst paragraph: The Frankfurt Buchmesse, or book fair, is the world’s largest publishing industry gathering, attracting thousands of exhibitors every October. On one level, it’s a business event focused on creating buzz for forthcoming bestsellers, trading rights and discussing industry developments. On another, it’s a public celebration of books and the values associated with them.https://theconversation.com/frankfurt-book-fair-cancelled-prize-ceremony-for-palestinian-author-is-part-of-a-long-history-of-political-zigzagging-21574
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Inoculum microbiome composition impacts fatty acid product profile from cellulosic feedstock, supporting data
No full textSupporting 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data and statistical analyses for:
Jorge L. Rico, Kenneth F. Reardon, Susan K. De Long, Inoculum microbiome composition impacts fatty acid product profile from cellulosic feedstock, Bioresource Technolog
Inoculum microbiome composition impacts fatty acid product profile from cellulosic feedstock, supporting data
No full textSupporting 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data and statistical analyses for:
Jorge L. Rico, Kenneth F. Reardon, Susan K. De Long, Inoculum microbiome composition impacts fatty acid product profile from cellulosic feedstock, Bioresource Technolog
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
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