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The symposium is a great opportunity to bring together world experts in bridge design, analysis, and retrofit from Italy and the United States. Both the US and Italy are at the forefront in international developments in seismic design and retrofit of bridges. Earthquake events in recent decades have illustrated the potential vulnerability of highway bridges and their importance as critical components of the transportation network. These lifelines are essential for emergency response efforts and recovery following a natural disaster. In addition to these indirect effects, the damage to bridges can result in significant repair or replacement costs. This workshop is critical in providing a forum for exchanging ideas on the latest advances in the area of seismic design, retrofit, and analysis of bridges. The workshop will have participation from over 20 Italians, and 14 Americans. Professor Reginald DesRoches and Dr. Phil Yen will serve as co-Chairmen of the US team, and Profs Calvi and Pinto serve as co-Chairmen of the Italian Team. The intellectual merit of the proposed workshop is that this forum will bring together leading researchers and practicing engineers to discuss the most recent advances in the area of seismic bridge design, further advancing the knowledge in this field. The broader impacts of the workshop are that it brings together a diverse group of researchers with a healthy mix of experienced practicing engineers and researchers with those that are at the early stages of their career. In addition, the group that is assembled is diverse in gender and race. This is particularly important in a field that has a history of being male-dominant and not particularly diverse.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "13316", "attributes": { "award_id": "2104629", "title": "The Influence of Mental Representations of Social Agents on Social Decision Preferences", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "SPRF-Broadening Participation" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1351, "first_name": "Josie Welkom", "last_name": "Miranda", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-03-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 29398, "first_name": "Joao", "last_name": "Moreira", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 29396, "first_name": "Rick", "last_name": "Dale", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 29397, "first_name": "Carolyn M", "last_name": "Parkinson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2266, "ror": "", "name": "Moreira, Joao F", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Carolyn Parkinson at the University of California, Los Angeles, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating how mental representation of social agents affect decision processes involving these others. Defined as decisions that have direct or indirect social consequences, social decision-making has received much scientific attention over the past two decades. However, existing social decision-making research is impoverished insofar that very little is known about how the features of social targets implicated in social decision-making influence decision processes. Humans represent a wealth of information about others that profoundly shapes thought and behavior, yet it is unknown how these representations—dynamic mental models of others—impact decision preferences. Indeed, classic work from social cognitive psychology and neuroscience indicates that representations guide behavior in context, suggesting that mental representations likely play an important role in shaping social decision preferences. The current study aims to use computational methods to analyze functional magnetic resonance images and text data to (i) probe mental representations of common social decision-making targets (parents, friends) and (ii) relate structural features of these representations to social decision behavior. This project stands to make important theoretical contributions towards social decision-making research and contribute to ongoing efforts to build unifying and generalizable models of social decision-making. Notably, because social decision-making behavior has widespread impacts—ranging from individual well-being to aggregate societal phenomena—this project could inform future efforts to promote individually and societally adaptive social decision behavior.<br/><br/>This project will employ eminent computational methodologies to test how mental representations of real-life social partners shape social decision preferences as a function of the motivational goals and needs fulfilled by said agents. By combining multivariate pattern analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data with natural language processing (NLP) and computational models of behavior, this project will comprehensively measure mental representations of everyday social partners and identify their relationship to social decision-making preferences. Concretely, this will involving (i) probing the neural representations of different kinds of social agents using fMRI, (ii) determining how neural representational overlap shapes social decision preferences, and (iii) use NLP tools on written content of social agents to help identify the representational content that drives differences in social decision preferences across social partners. This research will hopefully help lay the groundwork for the gradual establishment and refinement of unifying quantitative models of social decision-making, aiding both basic and applied scientific endeavors in the future.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "2553", "attributes": { "award_id": "2002923", "title": "Migration and cultural change", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "SPRF-Broadening Participation" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2020-08-01", "end_date": "2020-12-31", "award_amount": 148000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 7340, "first_name": "Sofia", "last_name": "Pacheco Fores", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 889, "ror": "", "name": "Pacheco Fores, Sofia", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 7339, "first_name": "James T", "last_name": "Watson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 889, "ror": "", "name": "Pacheco Fores, Sofia", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AZ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award was provided as part of NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. James T. Watson at the University of Arizona, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist examining migration and cultural change. Archaeologists often cite migration as an explanatory factor for observed patterns of cultural change. However, relatively few studies scrutinize the purported relationship between changes in material culture and the biological reality of migration. This project will directly test hypothesized migrations, using a bioarchaeological approach to examine phenotypic variation in human skeletal remains to reconstruct patterns of biological relatedness and likely ancient migration patterns. Additionally, through targeted public outreach at museums and schools serving primarily Latinx communities, as well through collaborative workshops, the project will broaden participation of historically underrepresented groups within archaeology and the social sciences.\n\nThis project will evaluate how and to what extent migration and cultural change were linked in the past. To test models of migration based on observed material changes in the archaeological record, the Fellow will collect dental and skeletal phenotypic data from approximately 2500 individuals curated in museums and repositories. Biodistance relationship (R) matrix and finite mixture analyses will allow the Fellow to identify past migrations at multiple scales, including large-scale population replacements, as well as small-scale individual migrants. Results will allow archaeologists and anthropologists working on similar topics to better evaluate how and to what extent migration and cultural change were linked in the past. Moreover, the time-depth provided by archaeological studies of migration provides scientists with a means of contextualizing and better understanding the long-term consequences of on-going migration processes today.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "15646", "attributes": { "award_id": "2422986", "title": "PFI (MCA): Integration of Protein Engineering and Electrochemical Biosensors for Virus Detection", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Special Projects" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 2267, "first_name": "Samir M.", "last_name": "Iqbal", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2025-04-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 331189, "principal_investigator": { "id": 32150, "first_name": "Karin", "last_name": "Chumbimuni-Torres", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 173, "ror": "", "name": "The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "FL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This Partnerships for Innovation – Mid Career Advancement (PFI-MCA) project is focused on the development of a new, affordable technology to test for viruses with high accuracy. The project innovation is in the use of stable enzymes that can be stored at room temperature without requiring cold environments. The enzymes, combined with an electrochemical biosensor and microfluidics technology, will create a portable, affordable platform for virus detection in resource-limited environments. This technology can impact areas like health diagnostics, national security, and food safety. The research is multidisciplinary as it integrates chemistry, biology, and engineering. The project will give students hands-on experience in research scientific fields. The commercial impact of this technology will be important since it has potential to develop technology for virus detection that will be low cost and portable so it can be used anywhere and can supplement virus outbreak surveillance. This project will also translate the technology to manufacturing and commercialization. This project employs protein engineering to make stable enzymes that can be stored at room temperature without requiring cold environments. These enzymes are used to perform isothermal amplification of a virus fragment for posterior detection with electrochemical biosensors. By combining these two technologies, the project will develop a virus detection platform that works even in areas with limited resources, making it more accessible and cost-effective. The recent pandemic has shown the urgent need for affordable and quick virus detection methods. Currently, the most common virus detection method, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, is expensive, requires special equipment and trained staff, and is mostly available in large labs, which makes it hard to use in areas with limit resources. This project aims to develop a more affordable and practical solution by using protein engineering to create stable, cost-effective enzymes that can be used with Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification technique at a single temperature. The enzymes, combined with an electrochemical biosensor and microfluidics technology, will create a portable, affordable platform for virus detection in resource-limited environments. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4823", "attributes": { "award_id": "1211005", "title": "The Undergraduate ALFALFA Team", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "SPECIAL PROGRAMS IN ASTRONOMY" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2012-09-01", "end_date": "2017-08-31", "award_amount": 437883, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16748, "first_name": "Rebecca", "last_name": "Koopmann", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 927, "ror": "https://ror.org/058w5nk68", "name": "Union College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 927, "ror": "https://ror.org/058w5nk68", "name": "Union College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Undergraduate ALFALFA Team (UAT), a consortium of 19 undergraduate-focused institutions from across the United States, is conducting a multi-faceted program of student training, faculty development, and public outreach that is integrated into the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (where ALFA refers to the Arecibo L-band Feed Array detector) collaboration. ALFALFA surveys the local Universe for neutral hydrogen (HI) sources external to the Milky Way using the seven-beam ALFA receiver on the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope. It has detected more than 20,000 galaxies, resulting in a wide range of scientific applications. UAT students and faculty participate through several program components: \n\n(1) The Annual UAT Workshop at Arecibo Observatory communicates ALFALFA and HI science via lectures, observing sessions, and group work led by team faculty, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and Arecibo Observatory staff. \n(2) Observing at Arecibo provides students and faculty with hands-on experience at a world-class national facility. \n(3) Computer infrastructure ensures the success of researchers at smaller schools. \n(4) Intellectually engaging research projects are supported via a summer research program, academic year advising by faculty mentors, and travel to meetings to present results. \n(5) Collaborative research projects in coordination with the ALFALFA PIs provide students and faculty with transformative research experiences while demonstrating the modern collaborative model of scientific interactions. \n\nThrough the UAT program, students and faculty mentors at a diverse set of universities, both public and private, participate directly and collaboratively in observations at a major national observatory and analyze survey data to contribute to the science goals of a legacy survey. The direct participation of undergraduate students in research projects enhances their education and intellectual development. The collaborative nature of the program, supported by appropriate computer infrastructure and communication media, enables students and faculty to participate effectively in data analysis and remote observing. The program builds connections between staff at Arecibo Observatory and faculty and students at the participating US institutions. The project develops publicly available materials that enhance the undergraduate astronomy curriculum for both science and non-science majors.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5460", "attributes": { "award_id": "0635586", "title": "Southwest Regional ACS Solid-State Matls Chemistry Symposium: \"Synthesis & Structure-Property Relationships in New Inorganic Matls, 10/19-22/ 2006; Houston, Texas", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "SOLID STATE & MATERIALS CHEMIS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2006-08-01", "end_date": "2007-07-31", "award_amount": 3895, "principal_investigator": { "id": 19027, "first_name": "P.Shiv", "last_name": "Halasyamani", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 231, "ror": "https://ror.org/048sx0r50", "name": "University of Houston", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 231, "ror": "https://ror.org/048sx0r50", "name": "University of Houston", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Technical Abstract\n\nThe Solid-State Chemistry Symposium at the 2006 Southwest Regional meeting of the\nAmerican Chemical Society (October 19 22, 2006) will include scientists from the solid state inorganic and physical chemistry disciplines, as well as materials scientists. The symposium is titled: Synthesis and Structure-Property Relationships in New Inorganic Materials, and topics will include nonlinear optical materials, fuel cells, oxide nanoparticles, and perovskite oxides. The full-day session will involve mostly early career faculty, with the involvement of graduate students and post-doctoral associates being highly encouraged.\n\nNon-technical Abstract\n\nThe symposium will provide faculty, specifically younger faculty, with an opportunity to discuss their research. Additionally, these early career scientists will be able to interact with established researchers in the solid-state chemistry and materials research community. Collaborations will be enhanced, as scientists from different, but related, disciplines are able to interact. Most importantly, knowledge and discovery in critical areas of solid-state chemistry will be advanced, and the solid-state materials community will be informed of pressing research challenges.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4793", "attributes": { "award_id": "1239849", "title": "Symposium on Design and Applications of Organic and Metal-Organic Porous Materials, Fall ACS Meeting, August 19-23, 2012, Philadelphia PA", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "SOLID STATE & MATERIALS CHEMIS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2012-08-01", "end_date": "2013-07-31", "award_amount": 5000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16628, "first_name": "Wei", "last_name": "Zhang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 172, "ror": "", "name": "University of Colorado at Boulder", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CO", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "TECHNICAL SUMMARY\nThe Solid State and Materials Chemistry program supports the travel costs of speakers and graduates students to participate in the symposium titled \"Design and Applications of Organic and Metal-Organic Porous Materials\" that will be held at the 244th ACS meeting in Philadelphia, PA from Aug. 19-23, 2012. The ACS meeting is held twice every year, and serves as an interdisciplinary venue for members of the American Chemical Society to share information and research progress in areas of common interest. This symposium is scheduled for 2 full-day oral presentation sessions, which have been tentatively assigned the following topics, based on the organizer?s survey of the newest advances in porous materials:\nSession 1: Design and Concepts for Porous Polymers\nSession 2: Design and Concepts for Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)\nSession 3: Design and Concepts for Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs)\nSession 4: Design and Concepts for Covalent Organic Polyhedrons (COPs)\n\nNON TECHNICAL SUMMARY\nThis symposium will act as a leading vehicle for educating U.S. researchers with interests in designing/making new porous materials, but also the general scientific public about materials. The abstracts of this symposium will be made accessible via the Internet to the general public as a research and educational tool for this purpose. This symposium will also serve as an important international platform for allowing young U.S. scientists (i.e., starting professors, graduate students, and postdoctoral materials chemistry (of all forms) and engineering process.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5319", "attributes": { "award_id": "0821913", "title": "RIG: Regulated Intramembrane Proteolytic Activation of Membrane-anchored Transcription Factors in Anabaena", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "SIGNAL TRANSDCTN/CELL REGULATN" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2008-09-01", "end_date": "2009-02-28", "award_amount": 171960, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18683, "first_name": "Ruanbao", "last_name": "Zhou", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 521, "ror": "https://ror.org/05hs6h993", "name": "Michigan State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Intellectual Merit\n The regulation of gene transcription is one of the most important mechanisms used by cells to respond to alterations in their internal or external environment. To ensure a rapid response, transcriptional regulators are often synthesized and stored in a dormant form, becoming active only in response to a specific signal. Much of the biological interest in transcriptional responses focuses on how the activity of transcription factors is regulated. Sequestration of transcription factors away from their DNA targets, by temporary attachment to cellular membranes, is emerging as an elegant mechanism to regulate their activities. Several membrane-anchored transcription factors (MTFs) have been experimentally identified whose access to the transcriptional machinery is regulated by proteolytic cleavage from the membrane. This process is broadly referred to as regulated intramembrane proteolysis (RIP). RIP is a newly discovered mechanism that controls many important signaling pathways conserved from bacteria to humans. The discovery of an essential role for RIP in biologically relevant processes makes it important to understand the full gamut of RIP function. However, RIP is little understood and so far there has been no systematic study of RIP in any organism. This project is for a genome-wide study of RIP in Anabaena variabilis 29413, a multicellular cyanobacterium, capable of simultaneously carrying out agriculturally relevant O2-producing photosynthesis and O2-labile N2-fixation, as well as bio-solar H2 gas production. In addition, its vegetative cells can differentiate into three other types of cells in response to environmental changes, which presents a rare opportunity to investigate gene regulation of several differentiation processes in a single bacterium. Given its unique capabilities, A. variabilis provides a very attractive experimental system to study fundamental biological problems, especially for agriculture and bio-energy related problems. An analysis of the genomic sequence of A. variabilis identified 19 putative RIP genes that encode 5 RIP proteases and 14 MTFs. Literature surveys imply that some orthologs of the putative RIP genes may be involved in regulation of stress responses, chloroplast development, cellular differentiation, cell-cell communication, and photosynthesis, as well as aerobic N2-fixation. Therefore, the 19 putative RIP genes in A. variabilis may play important biological roles. The aims of the project are 1) to obtain clues for the cellular functions of 19 putative RIP genes by inactivating these genes; 2) to determine the expression patterns of these genes for further definition of their functions during A. variabilis growth and development, and in response to various stress conditions; 3) to determine the proteolytic activities of 5 putative RIP proteases in a reconstituted E. coli system; and 4) to identify specific MTF/RIP protease pairs. \n\nBroader Impact\n The PI has a history of mentoring students and in this project will broaden participation through outreach activities in an established collaboration at Michigan State University with a minority female professor who participates in the Charles Drew program. The Charles Drew Program is a retention and academic enhancement program for high-achieving undergraduate students and graduates from underrepresented minority groups. The PI will mentor students in the program, provide career development guidance to the participants, and serve as a research advisor to interested students. In this project the PI will provide hands-on research experiences to four undergraduates.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5156", "attributes": { "award_id": "0930811", "title": "Workshop: Models of Intercultural Service Systems: Scholarly Discussion for Building a Research Agenda; San Juan, Puerto Rico;May 19 to 22, 2009", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "SERVICE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-04-01", "end_date": "2011-12-31", "award_amount": 44987, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18318, "first_name": "Viviana", "last_name": "Cesani", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1024, "ror": "", "name": "University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18317, "first_name": "Omell", "last_name": "Pagan-Pares", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1024, "ror": "", "name": "University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Workshop: Models of Intercultural Service Systems: Scholarly Discussion for Building a Research Agenda \n\nSan Juan, Puerto Rico, May 19 to 22, 2009 \nChairperson: Alexandra Medina-Borja, Ph.D.\nOmell Pagán, Ph.D., Viviana Cesaní, Ph.D.\nInternational Service Systems Engineering Research Lab, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez\n\n\nThis grant will provide funding for a research workshop involving a wide range of interdisciplinary researchers discussing and identifying key aspects of inter-cultural service encounters in the design and implementation of service delivery systems. The standardization of services is difficult, if not impossible, because of the customer participation in the service ?co-production?. Some attempts have been made to incorporate human considerations into service models, but truly interdisciplinary system design has not yet occurred. Service system design, and the accompanying technology, is usually the work of engineers and computer scientists while services and culture have been studied by marketing researchers, behavioral scientists, anthropologists, ethnographers and human resources researchers. Thus, a truly inter-disciplinary research workshop is needed to foster this new field of inquiry and advance a research agenda. The main goal of the workshop is to hasten the development of modeling frameworks that include inter-cultural considerations by fostering interdisciplinary research among a variety of fields, academic disciplines and technical clusters spanning the areas of, but not limited to, industrial engineering, complex systems, cognitive and behavioral science, anthropology/ethnography, information systems, and management and human resources. \n\nIf successful, this workshop will (1) identify and extend an inter-cultural service systems (ICSS) research community; (2) define ICSS issues and propose interdisciplinary methodologies and, (3) articulate a common agenda for the emerging research frontier of inter-cultural Service Science and Engineering. The development of this research direction is of increasing importance given the distributed locations of service providers and their customers; sometimes coming from radically different cultures. For the diverse participants in the service encounter, perceptions of politeness, time, sympathy and expertise might be quiet different. Call centers in international locations, hotel chains, and domestic health care centers serving diverse populations are only few of the many service systems whose design would benefit from this research direction.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5153", "attributes": { "award_id": "0745393", "title": "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Chemostratigraphic Analysis of Panthalassic and Tethyan Permian-Triassic Boundary Sections: Assessment of Global Paleoceanographic Dynamics", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-04-01", "end_date": "2014-03-31", "award_amount": 79983, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18315, "first_name": "Brooks", "last_name": "Ellwood", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 360, "ror": "https://ror.org/05ect4e57", "name": "Louisiana State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 360, "ror": "https://ror.org/05ect4e57", "name": "Louisiana State University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Chemostratigraphic Analysis of Panthalassic and Tethyan Permian-Triassic Boundary Sections: Assessment of Global Paleoceanographic Dynamics\nEAR-0745574 Thomas Algeo, University of Cincinnati¡XLead\nEAR-0745393 Brooks B. Ellwood, Louisiana State University\nEAR-0746189 Katherine Freeman, Pennsylvania State University\nEAR-0745592 Timothy Lyons, University of California, Riverside\nEAR-0745817 Arne Winguth and Harry Rowe, University of Texas, Arlington\nABSTRACT\nThe causes and dynamics of the Permian-Triassic boundary (PTB) mass extinction, the largest in Earth history, remain uncertain. Gradual deterioration of marine and terrestrial environments during the Late Permian and persistence of inhospitable conditions through the Early Triassic suggest that intrinsic factors were important, but an extinction rate peak, abrupt lithofacies changes, and geochemical anomalies associated with the end-Permian event horizon are evidence of a catastrophic event (e.g., massive volcanic eruption, bolide impact, and/or large-scale oceanic overturn). Despite long study of the PTB, there are remarkably few integrated, high-resolution chemostratigraphic studies of marine boundary sections that can address critical questions related to the extent and intensity of Permo-Triassic deep-ocean anoxia, patterns of upwelling of toxic deep-ocean waters onto shallow-marine shelves and platforms, the relationship of such events to contemporaneous changes in seawater carbonate saturation and to the delayed recovery of marine biotas, controls on the post-extinction global negative C-isotope shift, and the relative timing and causal relationship of PTB crises in the marine and terrestrial realms. In this project, we propose to generate geochemical proxy datasets consisting of magnetic susceptibility, elemental concentrations, TOC-TIC, ?Ô13Ccarb-?Ô13Corg, S-Fe speciation, ?Ô34Ssulfide-?Ô34Ssulfate, REEs, and biomarkers for a total of 19 sections in eight study areas, including 8 sections in four areas of the former Panthalassic Ocean (the Cache Creek terrane, Western Sedimentary Basin, and Sverdrup Basin of Canada, and the Maitai-Waipapa terranes of New Zealand) and 11 sections in four areas of the former Tethys Ocean (Vietnam-China, India, Iran, and Italy). Conodont biostratigraphy combined with C-isotope and MS event stratigraphy will facilitate correlations within and between study areas. Paleoceanographic modeling will be used to investigate the effects of potential forcings on Permo-Triassic ocean chemistry and sedimentary fluxes, and comparisons with globally integrated chemostratigraphic datasets will allow refinement of model simulations. This project has the potential to yield important new findings regarding events at the Permian-Triassic boundary and key insights regarding proximate and ultimate controls on contemporaneous chemical oceanographic perturbations.\n Investigation of catastrophic climate and environmental change associated with the largest mass extinction in Earth history should be of considerable interest to both the Earth-science community and the scientifically literate public. The broader impacts of the project are varied and include public outreach and dissemination of project results, mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students, development of research synergies among a diverse group of geoscience professionals, and the potential for results of broad scientific significance. The PIs are committed to training the next generation of scientists (they have collectively supervised ~60 graduate students, and all are actively engaged in advising and training undergraduate students), to advancing science education in the public schools, and to achieving greater ethnic and gender diversity among these future scholars (Algeo and Ellwood are both involved in programs to recruit minority students). Project datasets funded through NSF will be made available to the larger scientific community through CHRONOS and PaleoStrat.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 2, "pages": 1392, "count": 13920 } } }