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Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 3, November 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Nov 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 3, November 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 2, October 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Oct 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 2, October 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 1, September 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Sep 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 1, September 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A fourteen page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 6, June 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Jun 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 6, June 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A fourteen page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 5, May 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University May 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 5, May 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A nineteen page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 4, April 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Apr 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 4, April 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

An eight page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Research Ethics: An Introduction, Tom Regan Apr 2000

Research Ethics: An Introduction, Tom Regan

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

Research Ethics: an Introduction focuses both on how Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) fits into the field of applied ethics and on procedures for making decisions that have a moral component. Tom Regan presents “Morally Relevant Questions: A Check List” with the central theme of balancing conflicting obligations. We expand this discussion with several classic resources by well known experts in research ethics that articulate critical topics. We present a Case Study from The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. We consider the question of professional codes and think about the toll of making the right decision. In the Additional …


The Mentoring Of Graduate Students, Margaret King Apr 2000

The Mentoring Of Graduate Students, Margaret King

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

The Mentoring of Graduate Students presents basic issues that face both mentors and their protégés. Margaret King, the Graduate School, is our faculty guide for this module. We focus on some of the ethical values most central to the mentoring process such as justice and the idea of contracts. One of the challenges of the mentoring experience is that it involves rules and practices both tangible and intangible. Dr. King explores some of these intangibles- Right Attention, Right Balance, Right Empowerment and Right Boundaries- in the central essay and we focus on them additionally in our Central Theme section. We …


Responsible Authorship And Peer Review, James Wilson Apr 2000

Responsible Authorship And Peer Review, James Wilson

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

Responsible Authorship and Peer Review presents the basic issues facing researchers at the publication stage of research. We focus on some of the ethical values particularly relevant to publication: honesty, objectivity, trust, collegiality, and the problem of power differentials. We present Jim Wilson’s Guidelines for Authors and the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) Guidelines: ORI has also posted extensive materials on authorship and peer review issues. We present a Case Study from The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. We consider the challenges of peer review, especially in terms of innovation in research. In the Resources section, you will find …


Professional Responsibility And Codes Of Conduct, Nell Kriesberg Apr 2000

Professional Responsibility And Codes Of Conduct, Nell Kriesberg

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

Professional Responsibility and Codes of Conduct presents an overview of major issues concerning professionalism as they relate to the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). Joe Herkert emphasizes both the micro (between individuals) and macro (between professionals and society) ethical dimensions of professional responsibility and codes of conduct. We compare ethical codes with aspects of moral theory, expanding the discussion with some of the classical readings for this topic. We present a case study from the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. We consider the complex issue of whistle-blowing. We close with a sampling of additional resources.


Human Subjects In Research, Matt Ronning Apr 2000

Human Subjects In Research, Matt Ronning

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

Human Subjects in Research presents basic ethical issues that face researchers when doing work with human participants. Matt Ronning, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Administration Sponsored Programs and Regulatory Compliance, (SPARCS) is our guide for this module. In the Overview section we review chapters from two well known textbooks on Research Ethics. In the Applied Ethics section we focus on the consent form as a contract and comment upon the recurring topics of Justice and Honesty as they apply particularly to human subjects. In the Central Theme section we review institutional guidelines, both at the national and institutional level, utilizing …


Rightdoing And Misconduct In Research, Rebeca Rufty, Nell Kriesberg Apr 2000

Rightdoing And Misconduct In Research, Rebeca Rufty, Nell Kriesberg

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

Rightdoing and Research presents the major issues concerning research integrity and misconduct; we intend this to be more of a reference handbook than the other modules in the series. Our faculty expert for this module is Becky Rufty, the Graduate School. Concepts of Rightdoing and integrity are discussed, and we expand the discussion with several key articles in the evolution of research ethics literature. Ethical concerns about ambiguity and trust are explored, as is the idea of micro and Macroethics. We focus on the resources at NC State University for promoting research integrity, as well as national guidelines. We present …


Intellectual Property - Copyright, Peggy Hoon Apr 2000

Intellectual Property - Copyright, Peggy Hoon

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

The goal of this module is to present the major issues surrounding intellectual property (IP): rather than attempt to discuss all four types of IP, trademarks, trade secrets, patents and copyright, we will focus on copyright. Our Faculty Expert for this module is Peggy Hoon, Director of the Scholarly Communications Center, NC State University. The Overview section presents two chapters from two well known textbooks on research ethics. In the Applied Ethics portion we discuss the idea of the labor contract and the idea of the Intellectual Commons to clarify some of the more complex issues. In the Central Theme …


Responsible Use Of Statistical Methods, Larry Nelson, Charles Proctor, Cavell Brownie Apr 2000

Responsible Use Of Statistical Methods, Larry Nelson, Charles Proctor, Cavell Brownie

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

Responsible Use of Statistical Methods focuses on good statistical practices. In the Introduction we distinguish between two types of activities; one, those involving the study design and protocol (a priori) and two, those actions taken with the results (post hoc.) We note that right practice is right ethics, the distinction between a mistake and misconduct and emphasize the importance of how the central hypothesis is stated. The Central Essay, Identification of Outliers in a Set of Precision Agriculture Experimental Data by Larry A. Nelson, Charles H. Proctor and Cavell Brownie, is a good paper to study. The Applied Ethics section …


Science And The Media: Ethics Issues, Joann Burkholder Apr 2000

Science And The Media: Ethics Issues, Joann Burkholder

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

This module addresses the complex interface of research and the media; this interface necessarily involves issues of public policy, however, for the purposes of this module we will focus on media issues and touch on public policy in the Thinking Outside the Box section. For simplicity, when we refer to “media” we are speaking of journalists covering the science beat. In the Introduction we talk about the special collaboration between the media and the researcher and the challenges both face in communicating science to the public at large. We note the ethical component inherent in all communication and include quotations …


Feature Evaluation, Classification And Rule Generation Using Fuzzy Sets And Neural Networks., Rajat Kumar De Dr. Mar 2000

Feature Evaluation, Classification And Rule Generation Using Fuzzy Sets And Neural Networks., Rajat Kumar De Dr.

Doctoral Theses

Pattern recognition and machine learning form a major area of research and develop- ment activity that encompasses the processing of pictorial and other non-numerical information obtained from the interaction between science, technology and society. A motivation for the spurt of activity in this field is the need for people to com- municate with the computing machines in their natural mode of communication. Another important motivation is that the scientists are also concerned with the idea of designing and making intelligent machines that can carry out certain tasks that we human beings do. The most salient outcome of these is the …


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 3, March 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Mar 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 3, March 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Quantum Stochastic Dilation Of Completely Positive Semigroups And Flows., Debashish Goswami Dr. Feb 2000

Quantum Stochastic Dilation Of Completely Positive Semigroups And Flows., Debashish Goswami Dr.

Doctoral Theses

The central theme of the present thesia is quantum stochastic dilation af semigroupe of completely panitive mapa on operator algebran. It is the sim of all mathemati- cal, or even all scientific theorics, to understand a given class of objects through a tanonical and simpler subclass of it. For example, abstract C"-algebras are studied through their conerete realisation as elgebra of operators, contractions on a Hilbert space by unitaries. Hilbert modules by the factorissble ones, to mention anly a few. In most af these caes, a general object of the relavant class is sociated with a canonical candidate of the …


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 2, February 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Feb 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 2, February 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 1, January 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Jan 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 1, January 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

An eight page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Value Engineering: Final Report- Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Headquarters And Education Complex, U.S. Bureau Of Reclamation Jan 2000

Value Engineering: Final Report- Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Headquarters And Education Complex, U.S. Bureau Of Reclamation

Elusive Documents

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Behavioural Modelling Of High Temperature Superconducting Wires And Coils For Power Engineering Applications, Thomas Hardjono, Christopher David Cook, Sarath Perera Jan 2000

Behavioural Modelling Of High Temperature Superconducting Wires And Coils For Power Engineering Applications, Thomas Hardjono, Christopher David Cook, Sarath Perera

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

Many aspects of the behaviour of high temperature superconducting (HTS) wires are well understood for dc applications. However, models of HTS suitable for use in circuit analysis by power engineers designing HTS applications are not readily available. This paper describes the initial development of suitable models for HTS wire. The V-I characteristics for wires carrying dc transport current can be empirically determined using a power law V=kIn. Experimentally measured V-I characteristics are fitted using the above power law. This enables the simulation of the behaviour of Bi-2223/Ag wire using the well-known circuit simulator PSpice. Other factors affecting the dc critical …


Soapbox: The Academic Research Fleet: An Exciting Time For Renewal, Larry Atkinson Jan 2000

Soapbox: The Academic Research Fleet: An Exciting Time For Renewal, Larry Atkinson

CCPO Publications

(First Paragraph) Academic research ships in the United States are the envy of many scientists around the world. A great strength of our system is the diversity of ships and operators: users have a choice, the system can change. A weakness of the system is that very diversity: sometimes it is hard for us to act together. Nevertheless, we now must act together. The vitality of the academic fleet in the coming decades is at stake. The reason is simply because many of our ships, especially in the intermediate size range, will soon reach the end of their useful life.