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Nash, L., W. Fountain, and M. Witt. "URBAN FORESTRY AND EXTENSION: A WORKING PARTNERSHIP." HortScience 28, no. 4 (April 1993): 272D—272. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.28.4.272d.
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In a unique partnership. the University of Kentucky Dept. of Horticulture, the Cooperative Extension Service, and the Kentucky State Division of Forestry are teaming up to produce two training packages for “train-the-trainer” workshops throughout the state. The workshops will be open to people interested in urban/community trees and arboriculture. The first training session will be held in 1993 and will cover five modules: 1) Designing the planting site to compensate for a disturbed environment; 2) Species selection for the existing site; 3) Scientific planting techniques; 4) Post-planting care: and 5) Integrated pest management. The second training session will be held in 1994 and will cover the following topics: 1) Establishing a scientific management program for the urban forest; 2) Preparation and administration of grants: 3) Fund-raising and efficient use of volunteers; 4) Developing an urban tree inventory; 5) Recognition of hazard trees; and 6) Selecting quality nursery stock. The training packages will consist of a written manual, videos, and slide sets. Training sessions are open to foresters, county agents, city planners, developers, and others in Kentucky who are interested in returning to their communities and training others on the topics covered.
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Conforto, Adriana Bastos, Fábio Iuji Yamamoto, Cláudia da Costa Leite, Milberto Scaff, and Suely Kazue Nagahashi Marie. "Facial sensory symptoms in medullary infarcts." Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 63, no. 4 (December 2005): 947–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0004-282x2005000600008.
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the correlation between facial sensory abnormalities and lesional topography in eight patients with lateral medullary infarcts (LMIs). METHOD: We reviewed eight sequential cases of LMIs admitted to the Neurology Division of Hospital das Clínicas/ São Paulo University between July, 2001 and August, 2002 except for one patient who had admitted in 1996 and was still followed in 2002. All patients were submitted to conventional brain MRI including axial T1-, T2-weighted and Fluid attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR) sequences. MRIs were evaluated blindly to clinical features to determine extension of the infarct to presumed topographies of the ventral trigeminothalamic (VTT), lateral spinothalamic, spinal trigeminal tracts and spinal trigeminal nucleus. RESULTS: Sensory symptoms or signs were ipsilateral to the bulbar infarct in 3 patients, contralateral in 4 and bilateral in 1. In all of our cases with exclusive contralateral facial sensory symptoms, infarcts had medial extensions that included the VTT topography. In cases with exclusive ipsilateral facial sensory abnormalities, infarcts affected lateral and posterior bulbar portions, with slight or no medial extension. The only patient who presented bilateral facial symptoms had an infarct that covered both medial and lateral, in addition to the posterior region of the medulla. CONLUSION: Our results show a correlation between medial extension of LMIs and presence of contralateral facial sensory symptoms.
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Adefemi Oladiran, Afolabi, and Ezeme Constantine. "Evaluation of thoracic inlet view plain radiograph in the management of patients with goitre." African Health Sciences 23, no. 4 (December 27, 2023): 356–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i4.38.
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Background: Thoracic inlet view radiograph is an investigation for assessing patients with goitre in many centres in the sub-Saharan-region. However, there is paucity of information on its usefulness in the diagnosis of retrosternal goitre (RSG) and in planning for thyroidectomy.Method: A review of patients with goitre managed in the Division of Endocrine Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, between 2002 and 2014 was done. Data were obtained from Operating Theatre Log and electronic data archive of the Division. Clinical RSG (CRSG) was taken as a gland that the examining fingers could not get below its lower margin and Radiological RSG (RRSG) on thoracic inlet view was any extension of the thyroid gland beyond the thoracic inlet. Intra-operatively, if any part of the gland extends beyond the thoracic inlet it was considered as an RSG.Results: 221 (96.5%) of the 229 patients who had thoracic inlet plain radiograph were included in this study. The Male to Female ratio was 1:5.5. WHO grade III goitre was seen in 56.1% of the patients and 43.9% had grade II goitre. The CRSG, RRSG and Intra-operative RSG were seen in 7.7%, 16.7% and 17.6% respectively. The specificity and sensitivity of clinical examination in determining RSG was 88.7% and 94.1% and that of Thoracic inlet radiograph was 97.8% and 94.6% respectively.
Conclusion: It is a useful study for screening patients with goitre for retrosternal extension, however it could not be used to determine the need for extra-cervical surgical access during thyroidectomy.
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Honeycutt, Nathan, and Laura Freberg. "The Liberal and Conservative Experience Across Academic Disciplines." Social Psychological and Personality Science 8, no. 2 (September 21, 2016): 115–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550616667617.
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Inbar and Lammers asked members of APA Division 8 (personality and social psychology) about their political orientation, hostility experienced related to their political orientation, and their willingness to discriminate against others based on perceived political orientation. In this replication and extension, 618 faculty members from various academic disciplines across four California State University campuses completed an online questionnaire that added parallel questions about the liberal experience to the original questions about the conservative experience. Participants were overwhelmingly liberal in self-report across all academic areas except agriculture. The conservative minority reported experiencing more hostility than the liberal majority, but both groups expressed similar “in-group/out-group” attitudes. Results supported the ideological-conflict hypothesis for discrimination and a “birds of a feather flock together” interpretation of the lack of political diversity among the professoriate.
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Crawford, John C. "‘A not unedifying field for some local antiquary of the future’: new evidence on library activity and mutual improvement. The experience of the north-east of Scotland." Library and Information History 36, no. 1 (April 2020): 18–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/lih.2020.0004.
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Mutual improvement, an early form of lifelong learning, was widespread among the nineteenth-century working classes and has been portrayed as a variable and relatively unstructured phenomenon. This essay challenges this view by examining the movement in north-east Scotland in the nineteenth century and its symbiotic relationship with library activity as libraries provided information to facilitate debate. The movement originated in the 1830s and flourished until the end of the century. Mutual improvement activity was fuelled by religious division and a relationship with the Liberal Party. The principal ideologue of the movement, which peaked in the 1850s, was Robert Harvie Smith, who articulated a sophisticated lifelong learning ideology supported by specific learning objectives, prioritised in order. A notable feature was the involvement of women in the movement. Most of the participants were tradesmen or small tenant farmers, and the subjects of their debates reflected their preoccupations: modern farming, religious controversy, and the ‘farm servant problem’. The movement anticipated the university extension movement by about thirty years. Because the north-east had its own university and was a self-contained learning culture, mutual improvers might proceed to university, thus anticipating modern ideas about received prior learning (RPL) and articulation. Mutual improvement activity demonstrates the continuing intellectual vitality in rural Scotland in the late nineteenth century.
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Concepcion C. Chavez, Aimee. "Impact assessment of a campus journalism extension project: Write here right now." Polaris Global Journal of Scholarly Research and Trends 2, no. 1 (February 14, 2023): 72–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.58429/pgjsrt.v2n1a124.
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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are directed to instill change in the people of their community and implementing extension programs and services is one of the modalities. This study assessed the impact of the “Write Here, Right Now” extension project of the College of Teacher Education of one state university in Laguna. “Write Here, Right Now” is a set of training aimed to develop skills in campus journalism, such as news writing, feature writing, sports writing, editorial writing, editorial cartooning, literary writing, photojournalism, and layout design with students of one elementary school in the Department of Education Sta. Maria District is the beneficiary of the project. This mixed methods research utilizing the sequential exploratory design intends to explore the attainment of the objectives of the project and the impact of the project on the social aspect of its beneficiaries. The responses of the total enumeration of the beneficiaries were considered in the analysis of the evaluation of the project and two participants for the case study were interviewed. All the training conducted was rated excellent and beneficiaries have gone from zero to adequately skilled in campus journalism due to the competencies acquired from the project. Triangulated results showed that the “Write Here, Right Now” extension project has contributed significantly to the improvement in the knowledge and skills of the students as evidenced by the establishment of a school paper and awards received in district-wide and division-wide press conferences. It is therefore recommended to replicate the project in a different locale and with an increase in the number of beneficiaries.
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Azarenko, Anita Nina. "Situation-based and Cooperative Learning in an Upper-division Fruit Production and Physiology Course." HortTechnology 10, no. 2 (January 2000): 283–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.10.2.283.
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A situation-based or modified case study approach to learning has been adopted in an upper division fruit production course that is taught at Oregon State University in the Department of Horticulture. A new case study, which will have a high probability of generating discussion on key pomological themes, is developed each term. On the first meeting day of class, students identify relevant themes in the case study. A modified jigsaw cooperative learning strategy is then used to cover the relevant subject matter throughout the term. While using this strategy, groups of two to three students become experts on a theme and are responsible for sharing their knowledge with their peers. The instructor mentors the experts by reviewing assignments created by them, checking answers to assignments, and administering quizzes on the themes. About midterm, larger groups of six to seven students begin their preparation of an oral presentation and written synthesis of the goals and possible pathways for achieving the targets of the primary stakeholders (i.e., orchardists, field representatives, extension faculty, etc.) that are presented in the case study. The groups make their presentations to the stakeholders at the end of the term. Students are required to prepare an individual written report. This learning approach links theory with practice, gives students practice in extensively analyzing a situation, enables students to become conversant in and knowledgeable of basic pomology, builds positive relationships between fellow students, and provides multiple experiences for communicating information and student's discoveries.
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Cato, Sarah, Amanda McWhirt, and Lizzy Herrera. "Combating Horticultural Misinformation through Integrated Online Campaigns Using Social Media, Graphics Interchange Format, and Blogs." HortTechnology 32, no. 4 (August 2022): 342–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech05009-22.
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Misinformation relating to horticulture can spread quickly among laypersons. Although some misinformation may be harmless, such as the myth that bell pepper (Capsicum annuum) fruit can be either male or female, other misinformation is generated to sway consumer decisions. The demand from Cooperative Extension Service (CES) agents for support to combat the spread of horticultural misinformation, horticulture specialists at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service (UACES) created a “Horticulture Fact or Fiction” series of blog posts that targeted common horticulture myths with science-based explanations and used graphics interchange format (GIFs) to promote the blog posts on social media. The integrated social media campaign was shared on the authors’ UACES Horticulture social media accounts and by eight UACES agents during 2021. The effort reached 13,397 social media users, and the blog posts had a total of 45,544 pageviews. Although social media was not the major driver of traffic to the blog post series, GIF-based outreach on social media did direct more than 1000 additional users to the blog posts. Through this integrated approach of using social media and GIFs shared by both specialists and CES agents, we were able to connect a large number of stakeholders to research-based content, resulting in higher average traffic to our webpage-based blogs than the average UACES webpage. This type of integrated approach using multiple online means of communication including GIFs, blogs, and social media to create a toolkit of resources for CES agents may be useful for extension professionals targeting stakeholders online.
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Mafukata, Mavhungu Abel. "Skills-based constraints and complexities affecting small-scale communal cattle farmer entrepreneurs in Vhembe District." International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478) 4, no. 3 (July 22, 2015): 11–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v4i3.19.
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This paper investigates constraints and complexities affecting entrepreneurial and Agri-business small-scale communal cattle farming success and sustainability in the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa. The respondent entrepreneur farmers were randomly selected (n=55) amongst 183 other farmers for primary data collection. A semi-structured cross-language (English-Tshivenda) questionnaire was employed to gather the data. Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were also employed. The results of this paper revealed that the entrepreneur farmers’ formal school educational levels and basic literacy skills in addition; subtraction; multiplication and division were reasonably higher while technological skills in farm risk management and production, and managerial competence in business financial skills; budgeting and marketing were low amongst the farmers. Government extension service could be employed to improve some of these deficient skills through skills training programmes for the farmers. Institutions of higher learning such as the University of Venda and Madzivhandila Agricultural College could be utilized for the trainings.
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Achiri, Lum Bobga Jacqueline. "Work Environment as a Correlate of Teachers Psychological Wellbeing in Universities in Fako Division: The Case of the Chattered University Institute of Cameroon- CUIC." American Journal of Psychology 6, no. 2 (June 26, 2024): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.47672/ajp.2119.
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Purpose: This study investigates the correlation between the work environment and the psychological wellbeing of teachers within Universities in Cameroon: The Case of the Chattered University Institute of Cameroon-CUIC Drawing on theories such as Herzberg's Motivation-hygiene theory, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and the Affective Events Theory, the research explores how factors like classroom teaching space and office space availability influence the psychological wellbeing of educators. Materials and Methods: Using a quantitative-based cross-sectional design and purposive sampling, data were collected via a Likert scale questionnaire from 10 participants across seven departments. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed for data analysis. Findings: The findings reveal significant positive relationships between both the availability of classroom teaching space and office space with the psychological wellbeing of teachers. The study underscores the importance of a conducive work environment in enhancing teachers' psychological wellbeing. Implications to Theory, Practice and Policy: It recommends measures for improving classroom and office space provisions to support teacher satisfaction and effectiveness. These findings contribute to the ongoing discourse on the role of the work environment in promoting teacher wellbeing and, by extension, student learning outcomes.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "University Extension Division"
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Osters, Sandra Norton. "Usefulness of the Texas award for performance excellence in education criteria for a comprehensive program review in student affairs: a case study of two departments in a division of student affairs at a research extensive university." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5795.
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The culminating recommendations of the United States Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellingsâ 2006 Commission on the Future of Higher Education report demand greater access, affordability, quality and accountability in higher education. Student affairs, as well as their academic counterparts, must show that they function effectively and contribute to student learning and development. A promising program review process for student affairs to fulfill this expectation is found in the Education Criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and its state-level equivalent, the Texas Award for Performance Excellence in Education Criteria. The purpose of this study was to determine the usefulness of the Texas Award for Performance Excellence Education Criteria, Progress Level, as the basis for a comprehensive program review in two diverse student affairs departments. Additionally, the study was to determine the potential usefulness of the Criteria as a management strategy for senior leadership in each department to focus on assessment, planning, improvement and change. The descriptive case study was conducted using naturalistic inquiry methodology with two student affairs departments. The researcher spent nine months in the field as a participant observer. Methodology included observations of training and team leader meetings; interviews with participants, department directors, and the Office of the Vice President; document review of both self-study reports; and the researcherâÂÂs reflexive journal. Student affairs departments are particularly well-suited for the quality concept of serving customers and, in this case, students as their primary customer. The researcher concluded that the Texas Award for Performance Excellence in Education Criteria serve as a useful basis for a comprehensive program review and as a management strategy for senior leadership under the following conditions: The department must be a mature and functional unit. Student affairs staff need a foundation in quality principles, in general, and the core values, Criteria and language of the Texas Award for Performance Excellence in Education before embarking on the self-study process. The Measurement, Analysis and Knowledge Category and the Planning Category provided the most introspection and action planning for both departments. The Process Category was the most challenging for both departments.
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"Marvellous times : the Indian homemaking program and its effects on extension instructors at the Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan, 1967-1972." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-01082007-111624.
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Because the history of Indian-White relations in Canada has focussed mainly on the colonized Indians and ignored the impact of colonization on the White colonizers, it has simplified a complex affiliation which, clearly, had an impact on both groups while reducing Indian peoples to objects to be studied. By understanding the concept of a relationship involved in colonization, we can alternatively focus on the effects colonization had on both the large and small colonizers. Not only will a study of this type allow us to emphasize the once-ignored impact of colonization on the colonizers, it will also help to avoid the over-study of the Indian peoples in Canada.
Exploring the history of the Indian Homemaking Program, Extension Division, University of Saskatchewan, 1967-1972 is an excellent venue in which to perform such a study. The program, which involves White Extension Instructors travelling to Saskatchewan reserves to teach Indian women homemaking skills such as knitting and crocheting, sewing and food preparation, promoted informal cross-cultural education in a setting that was both relaxed and enjoyable. After speaking with Extension Instructors about their vast array of experiences with respect to the program, it is abundantly clear that their days in the program, and with Indian women, changed the way they saw and experienced Saskatchewan.
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CHANG, PEI-LING, and 張佩玲. "The Study of Relationships among University Image, Service Quality, Student Satisfaction and Student Loyalty- The Case from Extension Education Division." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xa64v2.
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There are rapid changes in population, insufficient number of prospective students, university extension center quickly increased and the Community College established. In response to the trend, a University Extension Centre should work on how to show different characteristics and advantages from other adult education institutions in future to enhance students ' willingness to choose this university. This research aimed to investigate on the associations between service quality, corporate Image, customer satisfaction, and loyalty. Paper-based questionnaire survey was made on students in university extension center, with total effective sample of 174 was collected and analyzed by using software SPSS 20.0 and LISREL 8.50. Research results show that service quality and corporate image have positive effects on the customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. In addition, it also verified that customer satisfaction played a partial mediating role in service quality, corporate image and customer loyalty. Key words: service quality, corporate image, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty
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KUO, Chuan-Chuan, and 郭娟娟. "A Study of Decision Factors for College Choosing of Extension Education Division Enrollees of Technology and Vocational University — Taking C College as an Example." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89523706323669359878.
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碩士龍華科技大學
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The decline of birth rates in Taiwan has worsened in recent years. Despite the decrease of schooling population year by year, the number of colleges is still on the increase, causing an imbalance of demands and supplies in highereducation. All colleges, particularly those offering extension education, are faced with more difficulties in recruiting students. The pass rate of the joint examination for four-year extension education programs and two-year night-division programs in northern Taiwan reached a record high of 78.20% this year. Under the promotion of lifelong learning by the Ministry of Education, universities in Taiwan are developing toward providing more diverse curriculums. This tendency also highlights the importance of further education programs for adult education. To attract more students, recruitment strategies become particularly important. In setting up recruitment strategies, students’ future needs and variation of their needs should be first understood. Hence, this study investigated the following issues: What are the factors determining college choice among students of four-year and two-year extension education programs? Is their school choice significantly affected by their jobs? What are the gender differences in common factors considered? Results showed that among the common factors determining college choice, “college’s overall performance and outstanding achievements” were most highly emphasized by students of four-year further education programs, followed by “promotion of recruitment information” and “people influencing college choice”. “Living functions” and “college ranking” were less important to them. For students of two-year extension education programs, “college’s overall performance and outstanding achievements” were also most important, followed by “promotion and advertisement of recruitment”, “job factors”, and “people influencing college choice”. They were less concerned about “living functions” and “school ranking” as well. In terms of gender differences among students studying in four-year extension education programs, female students were more influenced by “overall impression of the college”, “professors’ academic background and research capacity”, “teachers”, and “convenience of accessing the college” than male ones; male students were more influenced by “recruitment information on the radio”, “recruitment information on papers, bus banners, and overpass banners”, “recruitment information distributed by supplementary education providers”, and “telephone promotions” than female ones. Among students studying in two-year extension education programs, female students were more influenced by “college’s laboratory and research facilities”, “professors’ academic background”, “college’s honor of being designated to execute Teaching Excellence Projects”, “post-graduation career”, “recruitment information on papers” , “website of college”, “distance from home”, “convenience of accessing the college” , “the rank of college and department in university of science and technology”, and “the rank of college and department on the web”than male ones. “Friends” were more influential to male students than to female ones.
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Chen, Hsin-Lan, and 陳欣蘭. "The Effect of Creative Drama English Teaching on Creativity and Learning Achievements for the Students in Extensive Education Division of University of Technology." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14614952789746176210.
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The main purpose of this study was to explore the effect of creative drama English teaching on creativity and learning achievements for the students in Extensive Education Division of University of Technology. This study was a quasi-experimental design with the pretest and the posttest. The total samples were 68, accepting a 14-week (28-hour) instruction, the experiment group with creative drama teaching, and the control group with traditional one. “Test of Unusual Uses of Chopsticks”, “English Proficiency Test”, and “Questionnaire of English Learning Attitudes” were used as the instruments of this study. Statistical analysis was concluded as follows: (1) Compared with traditional teaching, creative drama English teaching enhanced much more creativity; (2) Creative drama English teaching significantly promoted student’s creativity, especially the facet of “Fluency”; (3) Both of the teaching methods mentioned above helped upgrade student’s English; (4) Creative drama English teaching obviously advanced students’ English, especially in “Listening”; however, the traditional teaching in “Reading”; (5) Compared with traditional teaching, creative drama English teaching improved student’s English learning attitudes; (6) Creative drama English teaching significantly helped better students’ learning attitudes, especially the facet of “Enthusiasm for learning English”. Based on the results mentioned above, some suggestions were proposed to the Adult English teachers, University Administrators, and future researchers. For Adult English teachers, suggestions such as using creative drama for English teaching, using real-life teaching materials, and being an advisory counselor were made. For University Administrators, administrative support was recommended. For future researchers, different fields, subjects, methods, and variables were recommended to vary the research results.
Books on the topic "University Extension Division"
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Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture. Agricultural Experiment Station. Nevada University, Reno, Agricultural Extension Division, Bureau of Industry, Agriculture and Irrigation, bulletins, 1912-1930. Carson City, Nev: Nevada Printing and Micrographics Division, 1991.
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Seminar on Agricultural Marketing and Policy (1989 University of Missouri--Columbia). Agricultural and rural legislation for the 1990s: Report of Seminar on Agriculture Marketing and Policy, College of Agriculture and Extension Division, University of Missouri, November 16-17, 1989, Columbia, Missouri. Columbia, Mo: Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Missouri--Columbia, 1989.
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University of Rochester Division of. Bulletin of the Division of University Extension; 1922/23. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2021.
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Steam Engines, Prepared in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2023.
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Electrical Meters: Prepared in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin. Nabu Press, 2010.
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Winning, Robert L., and Earle Bertram Norris. Gas Engine Ignition: Prepared in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.
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Gas Engine Ignition, Prepared in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin. Franklin Classics, 2018.
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Sheet Metal Drafting, Prepared in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.
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Winning, Robert L., William C. Weaver, and Earle B. 1882 Norris. Gas Engine Ignition, Prepared in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.
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Longfield, Ellsworth M. Sheet Metal Drafting, Prepared in the Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.
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El-Nasr, Magy Seif, Truong Huy Nguyen Dinh, Alessandro Canossa, and Anders Drachen. "Case Study." In Game Data Science, 345–66. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192897879.003.0012.
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This chapter discusses Social Network Analysis, a technique used to analyze social networks within social games as a method to enhance retention in games. We will show how one can use this method by applying it to the problem of retention within the game Tom Clancy’s The Division (TCTD). Using the game and the analysis will help you understand how to use SNA to understand types of players and influential players, and, as a result, understand how to engage different players, especially influencers, to increase retention. While the chapter will focus on the use of SNA for TCTD as a case study, the methods discussed under SNA can be applied to other types of games. Please note that this chapter is an extension of the work done by several collaborators to the authors, including Casper Harteveld (professor, Northeastern University), Sebastian Deterding (professor, York University), and Ahmad Azadvar (User Research Lead at Ubisoft Massive), and the work was accomplished with the support of Ubisoft, the Games Lab, and the Live Ops team at Massive Entertainment.
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Fost, Joshua, Vicki Chandler, Kara Gardner, and Allison Gale. "A New Team-Teaching Approach to Structured Learning." In Building the Intentional University. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262037150.003.0013.
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We review the processes and tools we use to help achieve a consistent and high-quality learning environment for our students and a pleasant and productive working environment for our faculty. Our Cornerstone courses have multiple instructors, who meet weekly, along with the development faculty for the course; we are extending this model to upper-division (sophomore year and above) courses as we grow. Extensive use of a real-time chat tool ("Slack") facilitates tight synchronization, knowledge-sharing, and team-building among our geographically distributed team. Full faculty meetings and a faculty advisory committee provide additional channels for higher-level strategic direction. The substance of the exchanges provided in these communication channels spans content, pedagogy, classroom management, and grading support. Before they begin teaching, a one-month orientation course helps all new faculty develop working relationships, become comfortable with the unique Minerva pedagogy and the digital tools we use for development, assessment, and instruction.
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Marsden, George M. "Outsiders." In The Soul Of The American University, 357–68. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195070460.003.0020.
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Abstract Despite attempts to define the university in terms of the inclusivist ideal of liberal Protestantism, some significant groups were in fact being left out. For the pre-World War I generation who believed in the advance of both science and a higher Christianity, such exclusion might be represented as only temporary, since education would surely eventually eliminate most parochialism and prejudice. By the interwar era, such a view was increasingly problematic. Groups were underrepresented in the leading institutions of the dominant culture for two major reasons. At one end of the spectrum were those who chose to maintain their own cultural identity, usually supported by strong religious convictions. At the other end were those who, while cultivating cultural identities with religious roots, nonetheless aspired to become part of the mainstream. Most religious groups, however, fell somewhere in between, exhibiting various mixes of both tendencies. Roman Catholics were the largest group whose outsider status had a large voluntary component. They maintained their own parochial school system, an extensive network of colleges, and a few modest universities. So while Catholics’ 5 to 10 percent representation among student bodies and faculties of non-Catholic universities was much less than their representation in the population generally, the difference was attributable more to choice and social class than overt religious discrimination. Even at prestigious schools of the East there was little evidence of overt discrimination against Catholics, Even a 5 to 10 percent representation in the nation’s major universities spoke of Catholic division on the question of separation from the dominant culture.
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Secord, Theresa. "Journey from Geologist to Basket Maker." In Outsiders: Personal Stories of Marginalization and Perseverance in the Geosciences. Geological Society of America, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2024.1223(03).
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ABSTRACT With the exception of summer trips to visit my grandparents, I spent most of my growing-up years 150 miles away from my tribe, the Penobscot Indian Nation on Indian Island, Maine. I obtained a bachelor’s degree in earth science at the University of Southern Maine and spent three years in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I landed a summer job on a gold project crew with Mobil Minerals Division as I was finishing up my M.S. in economic geology. In 1980, the Penobscot Nation, together with the Passamaquoddy Tribe, regained 300,000 acres in what, at the time, was the largest land claim settlement in U.S. history, the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act. In 1984, I went to work for my tribe on the minerals assessment program. The fieldwork encompassed extensive soil surveys, geophysical surveys, and bedrock drilling. About a decade into my work for the tribe, my career began to change as the funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs ended and the minerals assessment on the trust lands was wrapping up. In 1993, I co-founded and headed the Indigenous arts, non-profit Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance (MIBA). This work would become my most rewarding and meaningful as it had a deep relationship to my own values system. In addition, I had become a serious basket maker and relied upon a network of other Indigenous practitioners. My evolution from a practicing geologist to an award-winning artist and Native American arts leader and advocate speaks to having a strong sense of identity and belief in myself. Throughout my career, I learned to observe my environment and listen to advice, but ultimately charted my own course.
Conference papers on the topic "University Extension Division"
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Mangun, Derek A., and John J. Moskwa. "Comparative Test Results From a Virtual Multi-Cylinder Engine Transient Test System." In ASME 2010 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icef2010-35195.
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Researchers in the Powertrain Control Research Laboratory (PCRL) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed and built a single-cylinder engine transient test system which accurately replicates the dynamic operation of a multi-cylinder engine. Using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, the multi-cylinder engine’s transient (a) rotational dynamics, (b) intake gas dynamics, and (c) heat transfer dynamics are reproduced in real time using several patented subsystem designs. These subsystems produce the dynamic boundary conditions that would be present for a given cylinder within a multi-cylinder engine, based on either real-time model execution or predetermined command trajectories (e.g. measured data). In addition to replicating the effects of the virtual cylinders, the test system facilitates extension of the single-cylinder engine capabilities beyond typical steady-state regime limitations. The primary goals of this project are to retain the attributes of the single-cylinder engine that are most beneficial while overcoming the problems which cause the single-cylinder engine to operate differently than a multi-cylinder engine. This system represents a very unique test bed for controlling and understanding the influences of changes in the engine design and control, solves several of the problems associated with the operation of a single-cylinder engine, and allows rapid transient testing with slew rates in excess of 10,000 rpm/s. A virtual powertrain and vehicle model can be incorporated into this system so that standardized vehicle emission testing can be conducted with this single-cylinder engine system (e.g., FTP and other transient drive cycle tests). This paper reports the research findings of the performance effects achieved by including the multi-cylinder dynamic interactions during HIL simulation using only single-cylinder engine hardware. The target engine used for this study is the Ford 3.0 L V-6 SI engine, and both the multi- and single-cylinder engines are resident in the PCRL. By directly comparing the operation of this virtual multi-cylinder transient test system with its actual multi-cylinder engine counterpart, the influences of the included dynamics are documented. Evaluations include comparative data from rotational dynamics and intake gas dynamics, as well as the ability to control heat transfer dynamics and conduct exhaust emission testing.
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Lonsdale, Cameron, Steven Dedmon, Jay Galbraith, and James Pilch. "Recent Research to Improve Wheel and Axle Composition, Properties and Designs." In ASME 2007 Rail Transportation Division Fall Technical Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/rtdf2007-46008.
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This paper describes research efforts by a North American railroad wheel and axle manufacturer to improve steel chemistry, cleanliness, and properties for improved component service performance. The authors describe extensive work to improve steel cleanliness in the melting process. Also they review attempts to correlate ultrasonic testing data with microcleanliness test results, and detail subsequent work to determine steel cleanliness using the Advanced Steel Cleanliness Assessment Technique (ASCAT), which is being developed by a university and a supplier. Emphasis is placed on determining the type, number and size of discontinuities within the steel. Additionally, efforts to improve mechanical properties of microalloyed axles are reviewed along with microstructural details relevant to the work. The role of vanadium, molybdenum, aluminum, and other elements, on axle structure and properties is discussed. A new axle design, with significantly larger body diameter, is described and finite element analysis (FEA) results for the design are presented.
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Fontanesi, Stefano, Simone Malaguti, and E. V. McAssey. "CFD Methodology Assessment for the Investigation of Convective Heat Transfer Properties of Engine Coolants Under Boiling Conditions." In ASME 2009 Internal Combustion Engine Division Spring Technical Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ices2009-76056.
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The paper presents a combined experimental and numerical program directed at defining a cost/effective methodology for conjugate heat transfer CFD simulations of engine water cooling jackets. As a first step in the process, deficiencies in current numerical strategies for the analysis of conjugate heat transfer problems under typical engine operating conditions are exposed and commented. Results are shown form a wide validation program based on the comparison between experimental measurements from a test facility at Villanova University and CFD predictions at the University of Modena. On the experimental side, the test apparatus consists of a test section, pump, accumulator tank, rejection heat exchanger and required pumping. The test section is provided with a constant volumetric flow rate, and consists of a cylindrical aluminum body with a drilled horizontal flow channel. The section is heated by ten cartridge heaters located at a constant radial distance from the cylinder axis. The test section is connected to the flow loop by means of two calming sections, respectively at the cylinder inlet and exit. Twenty thermocouples are used to measure the test section local temperature along a radial plane cutting the cylinder. Water / ethylene-glycol binary mixture and pure water are tested and compared during the experimental program, in order to reproduce a set of thermal situations as close as possible to actual engine cooling system operation. On the CFD side, an extensive program reproducing the experiments is carried out in order to assess the predictive capabilities of some of the most commonly used eddy viscosity models available in literature. Both non-evaporating and evaporating conditions are tested, showing severe limitations to the use of simplified boiling models to correctly capture the complex interaction between turbulent boundary layer and vapor bubble dynamics. In order to overcome the above stated deficiencies under boiling conditions, a methodology is then proposed to both improve the accuracy of the CFD forecasts and reduce the computational costs of the simulations. A few preliminary results from the validation process are shown and briefly discussed at the end of the paper.
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Matousek, Vaclav. "Pipe-Wall Friction in Vertical Sand-Slurry Flows." In ASME 2005 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2005-77278.
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Friction due to the presence of solid particles suspended in a flow is a result of processes in a relatively thin layer near the pipe wall. Pipe-wall friction generated by particles in permanent contact with pipe wall is relatively well understood. However, very little is known about the friction deriving from sporadic contact (collisions) of particles with the wall. This friction is a major contributor to the frictional pressure drop in many slurry pipeline applications. The paper describes results of extensive laboratory tests of vertical flows of different sand fractions (fine, medium and coarse sands) carried out in the Laboratory of Dredging Engineering of the Delft University. In order to identify mechanisms that govern the solid-particle friction at the pipe wall the paper analyses friction conditions in observed vertical flows. The effects of particle-particle interactions and particle-liquid interactions on the pipe-wall friction are evaluated. One of the interesting phenomena observed in the laboratory was that frictional pressure drops in highly-concentrated flows at high velocities are lower for slurries of medium sand and coarse sand than for slurries of fine sand. The observed trend is believed to be associated with the liquid–lift force acting on solid particles traveling near a pipe wall. This off-wall force seems to be the most effective for medium to coarse particles traveling in highly concentrated mixture in the near-wall region. Thus pressure drops due to the presence of solids in non-stratified flows seem to be primarily produced by the combined effect of the Bagnold collisional force (force that colliding particles exert against the pipe wall) and liquid lift force acting on solid particles in the near-wall zone of the slurry flow.
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Rodriguez, Demy, Leslie Trevizo, Arturo Rodriguez, Julio Aguilar, Clinton Chijioke, Brandon Paez, Rafael Baez, V. M. Krushnarao Kotteda, and Vinod Kumar. "Learning and Engaging Through Transformative Informal Setting Driven by COVID Induced Leading Edge Virtual Technology for Advanced Fluid Mechanics Modeling and Simulations Seminar Series." In ASME 2022 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2022-87409.
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Abstract COVID-19 pandemic has forced students to learn about advanced scientific concepts, such as Fluid Mechanics and Modeling and Simulations, in a completely virtual setting. Such advanced concepts have traditionally been taught in face-to-face settings partially because these concepts require rigorous mathematical derivation and discussions. Pandemic has brought new challenges to educators to create engaging learning materials for students. The study indicates that students unconsciously absorb information that triggers motivation and endurance in students’ desire to pursue a lifelong research career. Pandemic however has brought new attention to technology development and created effective technology-driven solutions to learning needs for such concepts. Using the leading-edge technology, we have conducted extensive learning sessions for engineering undergraduate and graduate students for the last two years. In this paper, we will present a qualitative study aimed to understand the benefits of informal learning via advanced modeling and simulations seminar series. In this study, world-renowned STEM experts have given 45-minute seminar talks accompanied by 15-minute Q&A sessions to engineering graduate and undergraduate students, primarily from the University of Texas at El Paso. The seminar discussions, feedback, and comments were recorded using the Microsoft Teams video conferencing platform. We created this seminar series aimed to enhance and mitigate motivation losses faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal lies in bringing students closer to new ways of learning, enhancing their knowledge not only in traditional classroom settings but also to motivate students and convince leaders to create dual engineering partnership study programs among the United States’ top universities for diverse groups of students to foster an atmosphere of collaboration and inclusion among the United States higher education systems. This study indicates that students unconsciously absorb information that triggers motivation and endurance in students’ desire to pursue a lifelong research career.
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Zieg, Parker, John Benson, and Yang Liu. "An Experimental Study on the Effects of Burst Pressure on Air Blast Development in a Blast Wave Simulator." In ASME 2021 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2021-65930.
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Abstract Due to the extensive use of explosive devices in military conflicts, there has been a dramatic increase in life-threatening injuries and resultant death toll caused by explosive blasts. In an attempt to better understand the blast waves and mitigate the damages caused by such blast waves, various devices/systems have been developed to replicate the field blast scenarios in laboratory conditions. The East Carolina University Advanced Blast Wave Simulator (i.e., ECU-ABWS) is one such facility that can reproduce blast waves of various shapes and profiles. The peak overpressure of a blast is the key factor that causes the greatest number of damages, and it is essentially determined by the burst pressure of the blast. Therefore, a better understanding of the effects of burst pressure on blast generation and development is strongly desired to develop safer and more effective blast mitigation technologies. In the present study, a series of experiments were carried out in the ECU-ABWS to characterize the blast waves generated under different burst pressure conditions. While the incident (side-on) pressures at multiple locations along the blast propagation direction were measured using a temporally-resolved multi-point pressure sensing system, the time-evolutions of blast wave profiles were also qualitatively revealed by using a high-speed Schlieren imaging system. The synchronization of pressure sensing and Schlieren image acquisition enables us to extract more physical details of the dynamic blast wave development under different burst pressure conditions by associating the incident pressures and shock wave morphologies. In this study, the different burst pressures were achieved by altering the thickness of the membrane separating the driver section of pressurized gas and the driven section of air at atmospheric pressure. It is found that there is a linear relationship between the burst pressure and the peak overpressure. As the burst pressure increases (by increasing the membrane thickness), more clearly defined shock wavefronts are also observed along with the peak overpressure increase.
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Rodríguez, Claudio A., F. Taveira-Pinto, and P. Rosa-Santos. "Experimental Assessment of the Performance of CECO Wave Energy Converter in Irregular Waves." In ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2018-77686.
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A new concept of wave energy device (CECO) has been proposed and developed at the Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment Division of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). In a first stage, the proof of concept was performed through physical model tests at the wave basin (Rosa-Santos et al., 2015). These experimental results demonstrated the feasibility of the concept to harness wave energy and provided a preliminary assessment of its performance. Later, an extensive experimental campaign was conducted with an enhanced 1:20 scale model of CECO under regular and irregular long and short-crested waves (Marinheiro et al., 2015). An electric PTO system with adjustable damping levels was also installed on CECO as a mechanism of quantification of the WEC power. The results of regular waves tests have been used to validate a numerical model to gain insight into different potential configurations of CECO and its performance (López et al., 2017a,b). This paper presents the results and analyses of the model tests in irregular waves. A simplified approach based on spectral analyses of the WEC motions is presented as a means of experimental assessment of the damping level of the PTO mechanism and its effect on the WEC power absorption. Transfer functions are also computed to identify nonlinear effects associated to higher waves and to characterize the range of periods where wave absorption is maximized. Furthermore, based on the comparison of the present experimental results with those corresponding to a linear numerical potential model, some discussions are addressed regarding viscous and other nonlinear effects on CECO performance.
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Bobkova, Evgeniya, Lars Marcus, and Meta Berghauser Pont. "The dual nature of land parcels: exploring the morphological and juridical definition of the term." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5070.
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The importance of the parcel (also referred to as ‘plot’ or ‘lot’) as one of the fundamental elements of urban form is well recognized within the field of urban morphology. It has been described as a basic element in the pattern of land divisions that works as an organizational grid for urban form. One of the distinctive features of the parcel is its dual character: it means both a legal unit defining property rights and a physical entity. In urban fabrics, these dimensions act together to drive the evolution of built space. In this paper, we will investigate the entanglements of the morphological and the legislative definitions of the term, with the aim to resolve these, we better can address and compare the vital layer of parcels in different urban contexts, by both identifying common properties of the notion parcels, and dealing with variations in its legal framework in different countries. What we aim to capture with such a comprehensive definition is the relation between urban form and generic functions, which mainly concerns the functions of occupation and movement, where the system of parcels can be identified as spaces that embed an affordance for occupancy in cities of most kinds. The intended outcome of the paper is to unveil the power of the dual nature of the parcel, bridging between spatial and non-spatial dimensions of cities, that is, more precisely, a potential to establish a stronger interface between urban design and planning practice. References Conzen, M., 1960. Alnwick, Northumberland: a study in town-plan analysis. London: Institute of British Geographers. Kropf, K., 1997. When is a plot not a plot: problems in representation and interpretation. Unpublished. Birmingham, University of Birmingham. Marcus, L., 2000. Architectural knowledge and urban form. The functional performance of architectural urbanity. Stockholm Marcus, L., 2010. Spatial Capital. A proposal for an Extension of Space Syntax into a More General Urban Morphology. The Journal of Space Syntax, pp. 30-40. P.Panerai, J. Castex, J.-C. Depaule, 2004. Urban forms. The death and life of urban block. Oxford: Architectural press.
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Varshochi, H., N. Attal, and P. Ramaprabhu. "Shock-Induced Mixing With Chemical Reactions Using the FLASH Code." In ASME 2014 4th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fedsm2014-21695.
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FLASH is a massively parallel, multi-physics, open source code developed by the University of Chicago [1] for investigating astrophysical phenomena. FLASH was modified [2] to handle detailed chemical kinetics for hydrogen and methane combustion and heat release, in order to enable the code to be used for combustion applications. These capabilities have been tested and validated [2, 3] through an extensive suite of simulations. These modifications include the addition of detailed H2-air and CH4-air chemistry along with temperature dependent thermodynamic and transport properties. The aim of this work is to apply the modified version of FLASH to three cases of highly compressible supersonic flows, involving chemical reactions. The first problem is a reacting shock-bubble interaction, in which the shock triggers combustion in a fuel bubble. In the second problem, a two-dimensional, Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability leading to combustion of the fuel at a non-premixed, single mode perturbed interface has been studied numerically. In these cases, the relationship between the integral heat release rate, the integral H2O production rate and total circulation is investigated. In the third example, a multimode perturbed interface has been implemented into a 3D simulation. Time evolution of the interface undergoing reacting RMI is studied. By defining a reflecting endwall for RMI simulations, the effect of a second reflected shock on the mixing behavior and combustion on an already shocked interface has been studied. Numerical simulations of the interaction of a shock (Mach number 2) in air with H2 bubble was performed [2]. The misalignment between the pressure gradient across the shock front and the density gradient at the site of H2-Air interface generates baroclinc vorticity. This phenomenon generates counter-rotating vortices that breakdown the H2 bubble (fuel). The rapid breakdown of the H2 bubble transitions to turbulent mixing, intensifying the heat release rate. In two more general configurations, chemically reacting, single-mode and multimode Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability has been studied. RMI is the driving mechanism for growth of small interfacial perturbations. Initially single-mode perturbations of small amplitude grow linearly due to impulsive acceleration by shock. This is followed by non-linear growth at late times due to the formation of secondary Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Heat release and product formation in the vicinity of interface will affect perturbation growth rates which will affect the mixing behavior and therefore the combustion efficiency [4].