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Scalable Distributed Image Transcoding Using Python-WorkQueue
(2013-05)Transcoding large amounts of digital media from one format to another is a common data intensive workflow. The purpose of this study was to present a scalable image transcoding system based on Python-WorkQueue that ... -
Scaling of Plant Functional Diversity Across Stress Gradients
(2017-11-17)Scale has an incredible ability to influence biological patterns. Well-known examples include the change in metabolic rate with body size and the increase in biodiversity with area. Community assembly addresses how the ... -
Schadenfreude : Contexts in Which Men and Women Feel Pleasure in Response to Others' Misfortune
(2014-04)"Schadenfreude" is a German word used to represent a feeling of pleasure in response to another person's misfortune. Systematic research suggests that schadenfreude is felt most often toward same-sex peers who are disliked ... -
Schedule Induced Procrastination in College Students.
(2009-02-10)When the frequency of Congess' bills production is plotted as a cumulative function across a congressional term, the result is a positively accelerated curve which is reminiscent of a fixed-interval scallop (Critchfield ... -
Schematic Illustrations of Evolving Tholeiitic and Calc-Alkaline Magmatic Systems: New Models
(2016-10-21)The dramatic contrast in the geochemical evolution of tholeiitic and calc-alkaline magmatic systems has remained an enigma since their original characterization nearly a century ago. Recently, two new models that describe ... -
School Bullying: Discrepancy Between Students' and Staff Members' Reports and Perceptions.
(2009-04)Many studies have shown that bullying has become a growing concern for teachers, parents, and students alike, and that awareness of the pervasiveness of such aggression has increased. Although the literature to date ... -
School Wide Early Literacy Screening : A Comparison of PALS-K and AIMSweb Tests of Early Literacy
(2015-04)The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between PALS-K and AIMSweb assessments. -
Science Literacy Among University Students: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Students in Eau Claire, WI and Students in Stirling, UK
(2012-04)Acceptance of evolution in America is relatively low according to absolute standards, with an estimated one in 20 Americans meeting basic requirements for science literacy (Miller, 1998). However, the U.S.A. ranks high ... -
Scientific and Unscientific Aspects of Buddhism
(2010-04)In the West, for most American Buddhists, it is assumed that Buddhism -- as a philosophy and practice of awareness -- is both psychological and scientific. Why is this so? Why would an ancient Asian religion seem to be in ... -
Scientific Literacy and its Correlates : Knowledge of Evolution, Genetics, and the Physical Sciences in UWEC Freshmen
(2010-04)Rates of basic scientific literacy in adult America are low--in fact, they are lower than rates of scientific literacy in 32 European countries and Japan. Researchrs have identified education as a key positive correlate, ... -
Scientists as News Sources in the Aftermath of Disasters : Trends in News Coverage Following Two Devastating Tsunamis
(2013-05)Natural disasters are becoming more frequent in the United States (NCDC, 2013), and this increase will result in more people being affected. To mitigate the loss of life, it is important that as many people as possible ... -
A Scoring and Grouping System of Climate Change Acceptance/Knowledge/Concern for Citizens in the United States, China and Vietnam
(2018-02-08)With mounting scientific evidence regarding the realities of climate change including causes and consequences, the international/global importance of this issue cannot be overstated. Significant research has assessed public ... -
Screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus spp. Dog Isolates Capable of Transferring mecA
(2018-01-26)Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an antibiotic-resistant strain of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus that is responsible for many community and hospital-acquired infections worldwide. A survey of the ... -
Screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus spp. Dog Isolates Capable of Transferring mecA.
(2017-03-20)Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an antibiotic-resistant strain of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus that is responsible for many community and hospital-acquired infections world-wide. A survey ... -
Screening for Novel Antibiotic Producers
(2022-04)The continual emergence of antibiotic resistant microbes is of great concern in the medical community. Many pathogenic bacteria previously susceptible to common antibiotic treatments have evolved resistance, resulting in ... -
Screening the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Campus for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus spp. Isolates Capable of Transferring Methicillin-Resistance
(2015-04)The purpose of this study was to determine the presence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus. -
Sculpting a Monumental Truth : a Search for Inclusive Equality
(2010-04)This project began during a trip to Washington, D.C. where the student researcher discovered the "Portrait Monument," a (1927) sculpture by Adelaide Johnson, depicting Stanton, Mott and Anthony--pioneers from the ... -
The Search for Identity in Native American Literature
(2018-04-30)The topic of identity is central not only to literature, but also to human existence, for everyone has a unique identity that is formed in different ways. My research follows the journey of identity for the main characters ... -
A Search for Primitive Roots in the Eisenstein Integer Ring
(2021-04)Named after Gotthold Eisenstein (1823-1852), the Eisenstein integers are a well-studied collection of complex numbers. Our goal is to classify the Eisenstein Unit groups using new techniques. There are two main strategies ... -
Searching for a physiological basis for age-specific alarm response in Creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus)
(2008-10-03)As a group, minnows (Family Cyprinidae) possess an unusual ability to detect pheromones released from nearby fish injured or consumed by predators. This research found evidence of a strong age-specific alarm response in ...