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Central Florida Future, February 23, 2000 Feb 2000

Central Florida Future, February 23, 2000

Central Florida Future

Florida One ends up "the one"; UCF's CREOL professor honored; Jane Elliot speaks about racism to UCF; 2nd annual Knight Images Awards double awards sponsorships.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 14, February 4, 2000, University Of Central Florida Feb 2000

The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 14, February 4, 2000, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Next batter: women's softball team: The golden Knights softball team will step up to the plate beginning next year; UCF is searching for a coach now; Classroom Building I a lesson in perfection: The high-tech facility is on schedule to open this spring, with few design changes; Serving a campus that never sleeps: With almost 22,000 students taking classes in the evening, administrators are working late to serve their needs.


Central Florida Future, January 12, 2000 Jan 2000

Central Florida Future, January 12, 2000

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.


Virtual Environment Technology Laboratory Research Testbed: Project Report #8 Year Two Final, Glenn A. Martin Jan 2000

Virtual Environment Technology Laboratory Research Testbed: Project Report #8 Year Two Final, Glenn A. Martin

Institute for Simulation and Training

Report discusses the status of software installation at the University of Houston Virtual Environment Technology Laboratory, including prototype demonstrations, status of serving as a node within a shared virtual environment testbed, exploration of the integration of virtual environments at UH, and the initiation of a study of the representation of human figures in virtual environments via high level architecture.


Rollins College Brevard Campus, Rollins College Jan 2000

Rollins College Brevard Campus, Rollins College

Text Materials of Central Florida

Rollins College catalogue with list of faculty and students and courses by department.


University Of Central Florida Libraries, Annual Report 1999-2000, Ucf Libraries Jan 2000

University Of Central Florida Libraries, Annual Report 1999-2000, Ucf Libraries

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.


Press Release - 2000-2001 June S. Stillman And Lois Holt Scholarship Winners, Ucf Libraries Jan 2000

Press Release - 2000-2001 June S. Stillman And Lois Holt Scholarship Winners, Ucf Libraries

Libraries' Documents

Press Release announcing the winner of the 2000-01 June S. Stillman Memorial Endowed Scholarship, Sarah B. Patton, and Lois Holt Scholarship, Erin Zink.


Field Evaluation Of Ultrasound Enhancement Of Permeable Treatment Walls, Aamod Sudhakar Sonawane Jan 2000

Field Evaluation Of Ultrasound Enhancement Of Permeable Treatment Walls, Aamod Sudhakar Sonawane

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this research was to demonstrate the application of ultrasound to field sites having problems with precipitation build up and corrosion. PTW s are passive reactive walls containing zero-valent iron metal for in-situ remediation of contaminated groundwater. However, loss of reactivity over time due to build up of corrosion and other precipitates on the iron surface is a major concern. Ultrasound energy has been established as an effective tool for revitalizing iron surface. This research applied ultrasound energy to a zero-valent iron wall constructed below the ground surface to remove precipitates and iron corrosion, increasing iron reactivity. Two …


University Of Central Florida Ir 3 Year Fact Book - Ay 1997-1998 Through 1999-2000, University Of Central Florida Jan 2000

University Of Central Florida Ir 3 Year Fact Book - Ay 1997-1998 Through 1999-2000, University Of Central Florida

Historical Fact Book and Enrollment

Historical fact book and enrollment data for the University of Central Florida.


James Bryan Herrick - Profiles In Cardiology, Louis J. Acierno, L. Timothy Worrell Jan 2000

James Bryan Herrick - Profiles In Cardiology, Louis J. Acierno, L. Timothy Worrell

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

No abstract provided.


Identification Of Surface Chemical Functional Groups Correlated To Failure Of Reverse Osmosis Polymeric Membranes, Sharon Beverly, Sudipta Seal, Seungkwan Hong Jan 2000

Identification Of Surface Chemical Functional Groups Correlated To Failure Of Reverse Osmosis Polymeric Membranes, Sharon Beverly, Sudipta Seal, Seungkwan Hong

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

The goal of this study is to identify the causes of membrane failure observed during a 15-month operation of a low pressure reverse osmosis (RO) membrane pilot plant to treat a highly organic surface water from the Hillsborough River in Tampa, Florida, using various surface analytical techniques. Three different commercial RO membranes, made of cellulose acetate or polyamide, were used in this pilot study, and all of these membranes showed performance deterioration presumably due to membrane fouling and degradation at given experimental conditions. In order to elucidate the mechanisms of membrane failure, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectrometry (SEM/EDS), …


Association Of Beta 1 Integrin With Focal Adhesion Kinase And Paxillin In Differentiating Schwann Cells, Li-Mei Chen, Debora Bailey, Cristina Fernandez-Valle Jan 2000

Association Of Beta 1 Integrin With Focal Adhesion Kinase And Paxillin In Differentiating Schwann Cells, Li-Mei Chen, Debora Bailey, Cristina Fernandez-Valle

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Schwann cells (SCs) differentiate into a myelinating cell when simultaneously adhering to an axon destined for myelination and basal lamina. We are interested in defining the signaling pathway activated by basal lamina. Using SC/sensory neuron (N) cocultures, we identified beta 1 integrin and F-actin as components of a pathway leading to myelin gene expression and myelination (Fernandez-Valle et al., 1994, 1997). Here, we show that focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and paxillin are constitutively expressed by SCs contacting axons in the absence of basal lamina. Tyrosine phosphorylation of FAK and paxillin increases as SCs form basal lamina and differentiate. FAK and …


Feasibility Tests Of Transmission X-Ray Photoelectron Emission Microscopy Of Wet Samples, Gelsomina De Stasio, B. Gilbert, T. Nelson, R. Hansen, J. Wallace, D. Mercanti, M. Capozi, P. A. Baudat, P. Perfetti, G. Margaritondo, B. P. Tonner Jan 2000

Feasibility Tests Of Transmission X-Ray Photoelectron Emission Microscopy Of Wet Samples, Gelsomina De Stasio, B. Gilbert, T. Nelson, R. Hansen, J. Wallace, D. Mercanti, M. Capozi, P. A. Baudat, P. Perfetti, G. Margaritondo, B. P. Tonner

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

We performed feasibility tests of photoelectron emission spectromicroscopy of wet samples in the water window (285-532 eV) soft x-ray spectral region. Water was successfully confined in an ultrahigh vacuum compatible compartment with x-ray transparent sides. This water cell was placed in the MEPHISTO spectromicroscope in a transmission geometry, and complete x-ray absorption spectra of the water window region were acquired. We also show micrographs of test samples, mounted outside of the compartment, and imaged through the water. This technique can be used to study liquid chemistry and, at least to the micron level, the microstructure of wet samples. Possibilities include …


Activation Of A Plasmodium Falciparum Cdc2-Related Kinase By Heterologous P25 And Cyclin H - Functional Characterization Of A P. Falciparum Cyclin Homologue, Karien Le Roch, Claude Sestier, Dominique Dorin, Norman Waters, Barbara Kappes, Debopan Chakrabarti, Laurent Meijer, Christina Doerig Jan 2000

Activation Of A Plasmodium Falciparum Cdc2-Related Kinase By Heterologous P25 And Cyclin H - Functional Characterization Of A P. Falciparum Cyclin Homologue, Karien Le Roch, Claude Sestier, Dominique Dorin, Norman Waters, Barbara Kappes, Debopan Chakrabarti, Laurent Meijer, Christina Doerig

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Several Plasmodium falciparum genes encoding cdc2-related protein kinases have been identified, but the modalities of their regulation remains largely unexplored. Zn the present study, we investigated the regulation in vitro of PfPK5, a putative homologue of Cdk1 (cdc2) in P. falciparum. We show that (i) PfPK5 is efficiently activated by heterologous (human) cyclin H and p25, a cyclin-like molecule that specifically activates human Cdk5; (ii) the activated enzyme can be inhibited by chemical Cdk inhibitors; (iii) Pfmrk, a putative P. falciparum homologue of the Cdk-activating kinase, does neither activate nor phosphorylate PfPK5; and (iv) PfPK5 is able to autophosphorylate in …


Evidence Of Scattering Anisotropy Effects On Boundary Conditions Of The Diffusion Equation, G. Popescu, C. Mujat, A. Dogariu Jan 2000

Evidence Of Scattering Anisotropy Effects On Boundary Conditions Of The Diffusion Equation, G. Popescu, C. Mujat, A. Dogariu

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

We present experimental evidence that the diffusion process close to the boundary is fundamentally different from the bulk diffusion in the sense that it is affected by the scattering properties of the individual centers. Systematic measurements show a nontrivial behavior of the extrapolation length ratio on the scattering anisotropy of individual particles. The results are compared with other works and are supported by an independent Monte Carlo simulation. A simple analytical model that emphasizes the influence of the last scattering event successfully describes the results.


Fast Algorithms For Histogram Matching: Application To Texture Synthesis, J. P. Rolland, V. Vo, B. Bloss, C. K. Abbey Jan 2000

Fast Algorithms For Histogram Matching: Application To Texture Synthesis, J. P. Rolland, V. Vo, B. Bloss, C. K. Abbey

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

Texture synthesis is the ability to create ensembles of images of similar structures from sample textures that have been photographed. The method we employ for texture synthesis is based on histogram matching of images at multiple scales and orientations. This paper reports two fast and in one case simple algorithms for histogram matching We show that the sort-matching and the optimal cumulative distribution function (CDF)-matching (OCM) algorithms provide high computational speed compared to that provided by the conventional approach. The sort-matching algorithm also provides exact histogram matching. Results of texture synthesis using either method show no subjective perceptual differences. The …


Multiple Source Pools And Dispersal Barriers For Galapagos Plant Species Distribution, J. Alan Yeakley, John F. Weishampel Jan 2000

Multiple Source Pools And Dispersal Barriers For Galapagos Plant Species Distribution, J. Alan Yeakley, John F. Weishampel

Faculty Bibliography 2000s

We reexamined geographic factors explaining the number of plant species on islands in the Galapagos Archipelago. We hypothesized that plant species richness (S) was related to the number of source pools and that plant species dispersal preferentially followed direct, oceanic pathways. To test different dispersal pathways from multiple source pools, the total number of islands within a given dispersal radius (i) was posed as the sum of the number of line-of-sight islands (C-i) and of the number of islands without line-of-sight connection (B-i). In partial regression analyses, controlling for nearest island area (A(2)) and for recipient island elevation (E) and …


A Multivariate Approach To The Dynamic Of Violence Within Intimate Relationships: An Application Of Theory Of Coercive Power In Exchange, Giovanna Gianesini Jan 2000

A Multivariate Approach To The Dynamic Of Violence Within Intimate Relationships: An Application Of Theory Of Coercive Power In Exchange, Giovanna Gianesini

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

This study, drawing from theories of structural power and exchange, verified the hypotheses that the mechanisms, dynamics, and direction of violence in intimate relationships depends on the resources of each partner, the ratio of such resources, and their summative effects. Specifically, this study developed a framework that integrates the factors found related to domestic violence and defined as resources, and took into account their reward power, with reference to the status quo of the partners, to determine each partner's power within the relationship. The resources considered have included variables from four domains, individual, relational, social structural, and sociocultural. Existing gender-based …


University Of Central Florida Commencement, December 18, 1999, University Of Central Florida Dec 1999

University Of Central Florida Commencement, December 18, 1999, University Of Central Florida

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 11, December 17, 1999, University Of Central Florida Dec 1999

The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 11, December 17, 1999, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Last class of 1990s graduates this month: Four commencement ceremonies will be held on Dec. 18 for nearly 2,400 grads; Nobel winners: Time for peace: Desmond Tutu and Oscar Arias talked of God, need for more generosity at forum; 1999 a memorable year for university: A glance back at the past 12 months show that UCF took several more steps in its quest to become a great university.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 10, December 3, 1999, University Of Central Florida Dec 1999

The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 10, December 3, 1999, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Peace forum ushers in millennium: The 5,000-seat UCF Arena is expected to be filled for the Dec. 7 event featuring two Nobel Peace Prize winners; $10 million given to university last year: Donations to the UCF Foundation were the most ever, bringing total to $62 million; Computer to school, Engineering merge: The goal is to better serve the community by forming the College of Engineering and Computer Science.


Central Florida Future, November 24, 1999 Nov 1999

Central Florida Future, November 24, 1999

Central Florida Future

Get the most out of your internship; Dancers raise awareness for culture; Disappearing sorority seeks a return to its once-popular status.


Sandspur, Vol 106 No 10, November 19, 1999, Rollins College Nov 1999

Sandspur, Vol 106 No 10, November 19, 1999, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 9, November 19, 1999, University Of Central Florida Nov 1999

The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 9, November 19, 1999, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Chancellor praises Talented 20 plan: Adam Herbert called the governor's plan to stop using race as a consideration for college admission 'historic'; To be or not to be no longer a question: The OSF secured its future with a 30-year lease for the old Science Center; Peace forum UCF's gift to community: There has been enthusiastic response to a Dec. 7 peace forum that features Desmond Tutu and Oscar Arias


Central Florida Future, November 10, 1999 Nov 1999

Central Florida Future, November 10, 1999

Central Florida Future

Former senator charged with grand theft; Coping with student stress; Changing of the guard: New senate sits despite controversy over Engineering candidates; UCF Chorus and Orchestra to perform 'Elijah.'


Sandspur, Vol 106 No 08, November 5, 1999, Rollins College Nov 1999

Sandspur, Vol 106 No 08, November 5, 1999, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.


Central Florida Future, October 20, 1999 Oct 1999

Central Florida Future, October 20, 1999

Central Florida Future

Hang time at UCF: Extreme sports on the rise among students; Judicial Council rules Senate elections valid; Trial Team ranked 14th in nation.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 6, October 8, 1999, University Of Central Florida Oct 1999

The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 6, October 8, 1999, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Helping companies get down to business: The university has opened a center in Research Park to help new technology-driven businesses succeed; University looks west for campus expansion: Valencia will soon share classroom space on its main campus with UCF; Changes in store for tomorrow's UCF: Vice president says the university will have to adapt to a growing enrollment.


Configurations, Materials And Wavelenghts For Euv Lithium Plasma Discharge Lamps, William Silfvast, Marc Klosner Oct 1999

Configurations, Materials And Wavelenghts For Euv Lithium Plasma Discharge Lamps, William Silfvast, Marc Klosner

UCF Patents

This invention relates to Lithium Plasma discharge sources, and in particular to methods of making and producing pulsed and continuous discharge sources for plasma soft-x-ray or EUV projection lithography. Specifically, novel configurations, metal and ceramic material combinations and efficient wavelengths over and including 11.4 nm are disclosed for EUV lithium plasma discharge lamps.


The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 5, September 24, 1999, University Of Central Florida Sep 1999

The Ucf Report, Vol. 22 No. 5, September 24, 1999, University Of Central Florida

The UCF Report

Too close for comfort: Hurricane Floyd gave Florida a scare, forcing UCF to cancel classes, open shelter; UCF reaches out to neighbors: Steps are being taken to help students living of campus feel more like members of the university community.