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Planning Your Way To A More Usable Web Site, Pamela Gore, Sandra Hirsh May 2003

Planning Your Way To A More Usable Web Site, Pamela Gore, Sandra Hirsh

Faculty Publications

Planning for long-term periodic usability assessment is therefore as important as adding regularly fresh content and tracking usage. Fortunately, usability assessments need not be time consuming or expensive, unless your site is large and complex and you want to test it thoroughly each time. In a practical sense, usability assessment can reveal problems in the design, navigation, layout, or labeling that prevent users from finding what they need quickly. After analyzing your environment and setting the stage for ongoing usability assessment, it is time to develop the usability assessment plan, which will serve as the blueprint for usability assessment activities …

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Information Outlook, April 2003, Special Libraries Association Apr 2003

Information Outlook, April 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

Volume 7, Issue 4

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Oliver Grau Interview: The Image--From Real To Virtual, Switch Staffs Mar 2003

Oliver Grau Interview: The Image--From Real To Virtual, Switch Staffs

SWITCH

An interview with German art historian and media theorist Oliver Grau. Grau discussed the basic functions of images and the impact of new media on the development of images from the perspective of virtual and real. He states that the network and computer have played a great role in the development of art. But, he believes that art history is still the core pillar of art development. He goes on to describe new media as a tool that provides support and assistance for art research. He discusses the immersive experience created by the fusion of images and equipment. He warns …

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Slipping The Interface: Strategies Of Art Making And Lynn Hershman, Jennifer Henderson Mar 2003

Slipping The Interface: Strategies Of Art Making And Lynn Hershman, Jennifer Henderson

SWITCH

This article examines creative approaches to making fine art by slipping and destructing the common boundaries of Modern art with Lynn Hershman Leeson. She is known for her feminist artworks and innovative films that investigates common issues within society and digital media. The author discusses the work’s significance; Leeson’s contribution to feminist art theories and its movement that has transformed the expectations and established interfaces of the art world. In her practice, she explores the surfaces between art and reality; role projection and identity in the 70s, boundaries between human and cyborg in the 80s, polarities of perspectives in the …

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Information Outlook, March 2003, Special Libraries Association Mar 2003

Information Outlook, March 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

Volume 7, Issue 3

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Spartan Daily, February 20, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Feb 2003

Spartan Daily, February 20, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 120, Issue 20

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Spartan Daily, February 12, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Feb 2003

Spartan Daily, February 12, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 120, Issue 14

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Spartan Daily, February 6, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Feb 2003

Spartan Daily, February 6, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 120, Issue 10

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Spartan Daily, February 5, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Feb 2003

Spartan Daily, February 5, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 120, Issue 9

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Spartan Daily, February 3, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Feb 2003

Spartan Daily, February 3, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 120, Issue 7

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Sediment Transport By Dry Ravel, Emmanuel Gabet Jan 2003

Sediment Transport By Dry Ravel, Emmanuel Gabet

Faculty Publications

Dry ravel is a general term that describes the rolling, bouncing, and sliding of individual particles down a slope and is a dominant hillslope sediment transport process in steep arid and semiarid landscapes. During fires, particles can be mobilized by the collapse of sediment wedges that have accumulated behind vegetation. On a daily basis, particles may be mobilized by bioturbation and by small landslides. Experiments on a dry ravel flume indicate that a basic expression of the momentum equation predicts the distance traveled by particles propelled down a rough surface. This equation is further elaborated to produce a nonlinear slope-dependent …

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Sediment Detachment By Rain Power, Emmanuel Gabet, Thomas Dunne Jan 2003

Sediment Detachment By Rain Power, Emmanuel Gabet, Thomas Dunne

Faculty Publications

In interrill areas, overland flow is often incapable of detaching soil particles so detachment is primarily by raindrop impact. We derive a mathematical expression, rain power (R, W m−2), relating the energy expenditure of raindrops impacting a soil surface to the rate of detachment of soil particles. Rain power incorporates rainfall, hillslope, and vegetation characteristics and is modulated by flow depths. Rainfall simulation experiments on natural hillslopes were performed to measure detachment rates and across-slope flow depth distributions in surface runoff. Our results indicate that flow depths follow a Poisson distribution, and this observation is used to develop a dimensionless …

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Professional Competencies For Reference And User Services Librarians, Jo Bell Whitlatch Jan 2003

Professional Competencies For Reference And User Services Librarians, Jo Bell Whitlatch

Faculty Publications

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A Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method For The Uehling-Uhlenbeck-Boltzmann Equation, Alejandro Garcia, W. Wagner Jan 2003

A Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method For The Uehling-Uhlenbeck-Boltzmann Equation, Alejandro Garcia, W. Wagner

Faculty Publications

In this paper we describe a direct simulation Monte Carlo algorithm for the Uehling-Uhlenbeck-Boltzmann equation in terms of Markov processes. This provides a unifying framework for both the classical Boltzmann case as well as the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein cases. We establish the foundation of the algorithm by demonstrating its link to the kinetic equation. By numerical experiments we study its sensitivity to the number of simulation particles and to the discretization of the velocity space, when approximating the steady-state distribution.

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Tracing The Star Stream Through M31 Using Planetary Nebula Kinematics, H. R. Merrett, K. Kuijken, M. R. Merrifield, Aaron J. Romanowsky, N. G. Douglas, N. R. Napolitano, M. Arnaboldi, M. Capaccioli, K. C. Freeman, O. Gerhard, N. W. Evans, M. I. Wilkinson, C. Halliday, T. J. Bridges, D. Carter Jan 2003

Tracing The Star Stream Through M31 Using Planetary Nebula Kinematics, H. R. Merrett, K. Kuijken, M. R. Merrifield, Aaron J. Romanowsky, N. G. Douglas, N. R. Napolitano, M. Arnaboldi, M. Capaccioli, K. C. Freeman, O. Gerhard, N. W. Evans, M. I. Wilkinson, C. Halliday, T. J. Bridges, D. Carter

Faculty Publications

We present a possible orbit for the Southern Stream of stars in M31, which connects it to the Northern Spur. Support for this model comes from the dynamics of planetary nebulae (PNe) in the disc of M31: analysis of a new sample of 2611 PNe obtained using the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph reveals ∼20 objects with kinematics inconsistent with the normal components of the galaxy, but which lie at the right positions and velocities to connect the two photometric features via this orbit. The satellite galaxy M32 is coincident with the stream both in position and velocity, adding weight to the …

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A Dearth Of Dark Matter In Ordinary Elliptical Galaxies, Aaron J. Romanowsky, N. G. Douglas, M. Arnaboldi, K. Kuijken, M. R. Merrifield, N. R. Napolitano, M. Capaccioli Jan 2003

A Dearth Of Dark Matter In Ordinary Elliptical Galaxies, Aaron J. Romanowsky, N. G. Douglas, M. Arnaboldi, K. Kuijken, M. R. Merrifield, N. R. Napolitano, M. Capaccioli

Faculty Publications

The kinematics of the outer parts of three intermediate-luminosity elliptical galaxies were studied with the Planetary Nebula Spectrograph. The galaxies' velocity-dispersion profiles were found to decline with the radius, and dynamical modeling of the data indicates the presence of little if any dark matter in these galaxies' halos. This unexpected result conflicts with findings in other galaxy types and poses a challenge to current galaxy formation theories.

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Information Outlook, January 2003, Special Libraries Association Jan 2003

Information Outlook, January 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

Volume 7, Issue 1

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San José State University: An Interpretive History, 1950-2000, James P. Walsh Jan 2003

San José State University: An Interpretive History, 1950-2000, James P. Walsh

University History

Professor Emeritus Walsh traces the University's progress from the 1950's to the end of the twentieth century. He highlights the University's leadership, faculty and students, as well as the challenges and issues of those decades.

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Inverted Velocity Profile In The Cylindrical Couette Flow Of A Rarefied Gas, Alejandro Garcia, K. Aoki, H. Yoshida, T. Nakanishi Jan 2003

Inverted Velocity Profile In The Cylindrical Couette Flow Of A Rarefied Gas, Alejandro Garcia, K. Aoki, H. Yoshida, T. Nakanishi

Faculty Publications

The cylindrical Couette flow of a rarefied gas is investigated, under the diffuse-specular reflection condition of Maxwell’s type on the cylinders, in the case where the inner cylinder is rotating whereas the outer cylinder is at rest. The inverted velocity profile for small accommodation coefficients, pointed out by Tibbs, Baras, and Garcia [Phys. Rev. E 56, 2282 (1997)] on the basis of a Monte Carlo simulation, is investigated extensively by means of a systematic asymptotic analysis for small Knudsen numbers as well as the direct numerical analysis of the Boltzmann equation, and the parameter range in which the phenomenon appears …

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Results On Chromatic Sum Of Graphs, Sundararajan Arabhi Jan 2003

Results On Chromatic Sum Of Graphs, Sundararajan Arabhi

Master's Theses

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Special Boundary Value Problems, Graciela Pousa Cochran Jan 2003

Special Boundary Value Problems, Graciela Pousa Cochran

Master's Theses

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A New Approach To Primary Decomposition, Pamela R. Kochman Jan 2003

A New Approach To Primary Decomposition, Pamela R. Kochman

Master's Theses

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Judging Distance Across Texture Discontinuities, Cary S. Feria, M. L. Braunstein, G. J. Andersen Jan 2003

Judging Distance Across Texture Discontinuities, Cary S. Feria, M. L. Braunstein, G. J. Andersen

Faculty Publications

Sinai et al (1998 Nature 395 497 - 500) showed that less distance is perceived along a ground surface that spans two differently textured regions than along a surface that is uniformly textured. We examined the effect of texture continuity on judged distance using computer-generated displays of simulated surfaces in five experiments. Discontinuities were produced by using different textures, the same texture reversed in contrast, or the same texture shifted horizontally. The simulated surface was either a ground plane or a frontoparallel plane. For all textures and both orientations, less distance was judged in the discontinuous conditions than in continuous …

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Spartan Daily, November 26, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2002

Spartan Daily, November 26, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 119, Issue 63

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Spartan Daily, November 22, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2002

Spartan Daily, November 22, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 119, Issue 61

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Spartan Daily, November 20, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Nov 2002

Spartan Daily, November 20, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 119, Issue 59

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The Design And Evaluation Of Interactivities In A Digital Library, Muniram Budhu, Anita Coleman Nov 2002

The Design And Evaluation Of Interactivities In A Digital Library, Muniram Budhu, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

The US National Science Foundation has established a program to create a National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL). One of the subsidiary NSDL libraries under development is the National Civil Engineering Educational Resources Library (NCERL). The first phase of NCERL is the creation and collection of digital resources in three areas of civil engineering—geotechnical (soil), rock, and water engineering (GROW). The concept of interactivities guides the design, development, and evaluation efforts of the GROW digital collection. This article describes the salient features of GROW, defines and discusses interactivities as an emerging, integral part of teaching and …

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Spartan Daily, October 21, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2002

Spartan Daily, October 21, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 119, Issue 37

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Spartan Daily, October 17, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2002

Spartan Daily, October 17, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 119, Issue 35

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Spartan Daily, October 16, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2002

Spartan Daily, October 16, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 119, Issue 34

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