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Informal Methods Of Enhancing The Accountability Lawyers, W. B. Wendel

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Design And Testing Of Spacecraft Power Systems Using Vtb, Zhenhua Jiang, Shengyi Liu, Roger A. Dougal

Faculty Publications

A study is presented on the design and testing of spacecraft power systems using the virtual test bed (VTB). The interdisciplinary components such as solar array and battery systems were first modeled in native VTB format and validated by experiment data. The shunt regulator and battery charge controller were designed in Simulink according to the system requirements and imported to VTB. Two spacecraft power systems were then designed and tested together with the control systems.

June 25, 2003 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Bis[Μ-1,2-Bis(2-Pyridyl)Ethyne-K2N:N']Bis[Aquadinitratocadmium(Ii)], Badruz Zaman Md., Matthew J. Davis, Mark D. Smith, Hans Conrad Zur Loye

Faculty Publications

Two twisted 1,2-bis(2-pyridyl)ethyne ligands bridge two Cd²⁺ centers in the C₂-symmetric title complex, [Cd₂(NO₃)₄(-C₁₂H₈N₂)₂(H₂O)₂]. The bridging ligands arch across one another creating a `zigzag loop' molecular geometry. Two nitrate ions and a water molecule complete the irregular seven-coordinate Cd-atom environment. The dihedral angles between the equivalent pyridyl ring planes of the two independent ligands are 67.2 (1)°. O_water-HO_nitrate hydrogen bonding creates two-dimensional layers parallel to the ab plane.

Formula: [Cd₂(NO₃)₄(C …

Image Segmentation With Ratio Cut, Song Wang, Jeffrey Mark Siskind

Faculty Publications

This paper proposes a new cost function, cut ratio, for segmenting images using graph-based methods. The cut ratio is defined as the ratio of the corresponding sums of two different weights of edges along the cut boundary and models the mean affinity between the segments separated by the boundary per unit boundary length. This new cost function allows the image perimeter to be segmented, guarantees that the segments produced by bipartitioning are connected, and does not introduce a size, shape, smoothness, or boundary-length bias. The latter allows it to produce segmentations where boundaries are aligned with image edges. Furthermore, the …

John Hersey: A Collection Of First Editions, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Rare Books & Special Collections Publications

The exhibit accompanied by this catalog was mounted to display the collection of John Hersey first editions assembled by Harry E. Hootman, the 2003 winner of the Thomas Cooper Society Student Book Collecting Award.

Links Between Snow Cover, Surface Skin Temperature, And Rainfall Variability In The North American Monsoon System, Toshi Matsui, Venkataraman Lakshmi, Eric Small

Faculty Publications

The influence of land–atmosphere interactions on the variability of the North American monsoon system(NAMS) is investigated using the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) Operational Vertical Sounder(TOVS) Pathfinder, the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) gauge precipitation, and observed snow water equivalent(SWE). Three hypotheses are tested regarding the connection between land surface variables and precipitationin the NAMS region. First, there is a weak negative correlation between 1 April SWE and subsequent surfacetemperature in the southern Rocky Mountains (SRM) region. However, this connection persists only until Juneand, therefore, cannot directly influence monsoon rainfall in July and August. Second, there is a negativecorrelation between SRM …

May 1, 2003 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Sr3Mgpto6, Mark D. Smith, Hans Conrad Zur Loye

Faculty Publications

Single crystals of the mixed alkaline earth platinate, tristrontium magnesium platinum hexaoxide, Sr₃MgPtO₆, were grown from a KOH flux at 1273 K. The compound adopts the rhombohedral K₄CdCl₆ structure type, featuring chains of face-shared, distorted MgO₆ trigonal prisms (Mg site symmetry 32) and PtO₆ octahedra (Pt site symmetry ) surrounded by columns of Sr²⁺ ions (Sr site symmetry 2).

Rapid Prototyping Of Digital Controls For Power Electronics, Antonello Monti, Enrico Santi, Roger A. Dougal, Marco Riva

Faculty Publications

The process for designing digital controls for power electronics is typically quite convoluted and affords many opportunities for errors to occur. We present here a new and complete, method for rapid prototyping of digital controls that allows rapid realization of new designs. The approach uses a collection of tools that include both software (the virtual test bed (VTB) and Matlab/Simulink) and hardware (dSpace DSP). An example application of the methodology completes the discussion.

Eocene To Miocene Magnetostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, And Chemostratigraphy At Odp Site 1090 (Sub-Antarctic South Atlantic), J E T Channell, S Galeotti, Ellen E. Martin, K Billups, Howie Scher, J S. Stoner

Faculty Publications

At Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1090 (lat 42854.89S, long 8854.09E) locatedin a water depth of 3702 m on the Agulhas Ridge in the sub-Antarctic South Atlantic, ~300 m of middle Eocene to middle Miocenesediments were recovered with the advancedpiston corer (APC) and the extendedcore barrel (XCB). U-channel samplesfrom the 70–230 meters composite depth(mcd) interval provide a magnetic polaritystratigraphy that is extended to 380 mcd byshipboard whole-core and discrete sampledata. The magnetostratigraphy can be interpretedby the fit of the polarity-zone patternto the geomagnetic polarity time scale(GPTS) augmented by isotope data andbioevents with documented correlation tothe GPTS. Three normal-polarity subchrons(C5Dr.1n, C7Ar.1n, …

2003 Report Of Gifts (70 Pages), South Caroliniana Library--University Of South Carolina

University South Caroliniana Society - Annual Report of Gifts

No abstract provided.

April 2, 2003 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Accommodating Mental Disabilities In Higher Education: A Practical Guide To Ada Requirements, Suzanne Wilhelm

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

State Court And Lower Federal Court Decisions - Primary And Secondary Education Recent Developments In The Law

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

No Child Left Behind And The Promotion Of Single-Sex Public Education In Primary And Secondary Schools: Shattering The Glass Ceilings Perpetuated By Coeducation Chalk Talk, Erin C. Logsdon

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Rescuing The Confrontation Clause, Penny J. White

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Atkins V. Virginia: Commutation For The Mentally Retarded?, Sue Anne G. Shannon

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Problems And Opportunities For Progressive Comprehensive Land Use Planning In Richland County, South Carolina After Mcclanahan V. Richland County Council, David J. Harmon

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Overview Of Land Use Regulation In South Carolina, Bradford W. Wyche

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

South Carolina Release Prevention, Reporting And Liability: A Primer On The Legal Requirements Imposed To Avoid And, If Necessary, To Respond To Environmental Accidents, Mark E. Freeze, Rolf R. Von Oppenfeld, Eric L. Hiser

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Must Have Got Lost: Traditional Sentencing Goals, The False Trail Of Uniformity And Process, And The Way Back Home, Mark Osler

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reflections - Spring 2003, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents:

USC Libraries Plan New Rare Books and Special Collections Facility..... p.1
Library Planning Committees Established..... p.2
Director of the South Caroliniana Library Steps Down..... p.3
Butterflies in Cyberspace: The John Abbot Watercolors Project..... p.4
Treasure Acquisitions Program..... p.4
In Memoriam: Dr. C. Warren Irvin, Jr. ..... p.4
Business Library Offers New Full-Text Database..... p.4
Emerson Bicentenary Exhibition on View in Thomas Cooper Library..... p.5
Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries..... p.5
News Briefs..... p.6
Burroughs Collection Donated to Thomas Cooper Library..... p.6
TDNet to Provide Improved Journal Access..... p.7
USC Columbia Libraries Survey Quality of Service..... p.7
New Faces: …

A Different Sort Of Justice: The Informal Courts Of Public Opinion In Antebellum South Carolina, Elizabeth Dale

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

News From The South Carolina Library Association V.1 N.2 04/2003

South Carolina Libraries

News from the South Carolina Library Association v.1 n.2 04/2003

Influence Of A Cyclonic Eddy On Microheterotroph Biomass And Carbon Export In The Lee Of Hawaii, Robert R. Bidigare, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Carrie L. Leonard, Paul D. Quay, Michael L. Parsons, David G. Foley, Michael P. Seki

Faculty Publications

[1] A multi‐platform sampling strategy was used to investigate carbon cycling in a cold‐core eddy that formed in the lee of Hawaii during September 2000. Microheterotroph biomass and 234Th‐derived carbon export rates within the eddy were 2 to 3 times higher than those observed for adjacent waters. If this eddy is representative of other cyclonic eddies that are frequently formed in the lee of Hawaii, then eddy activity may significantly enhance the areal efficiency of the biological pump and facilitate the transfer of organic carbon to organisms inhabiting the mesopelagic and abyssal‐benthic zones of this subtropical ecosystem.

March 5, 2003 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Semiclassical Dynamics With Quantum Trajectories: Formulation And Comparison With The Semiclassical Initial Value Representation Propagator, Sophya Garashchuk, Vitaly A. Rassolov

Faculty Publications

We present a time-dependent semiclassical method based on quantum trajectories. Quantum-mechanical effects are described via the quantum potential computed from the wave function density approximated as a linear combination of Gaussian fitting functions. The number of the fitting functions determines the accuracy of the approximate quantum potential (AQP). One Gaussian fit reproduces time-evolution of a Gaussian wave packet in a parabolic potential. The limit of the large number of fitting Gaussians and trajectories gives the full quantum-mechanical result. The method is systematically improvable from classical to fully quantum. The fitting procedure is implemented as a gradient minimization. We also compare …

February 5, 2003 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

The James Willard Oliver Collection Of David Hume & Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

Describes a collection of first and other editions of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, recently donated to the University of South Carolina by Prof. James Willard Oliver, and uses older library records from the library of South Carolina College (founded in 1801) to chart the changing reputation and influence of Hume's philosophical works as compared to his essays and historical writings. First presented at the SE American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, in Columbia, SC, February 3003.