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Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives, Kathleen Blake Yancey, Irwin Weiser

All USU Press Publications

Yancey and Weiser bring together thirty-one writing teachers from diverse levels of instruction, institutional settings, and regions to create a stimulating volume on the current practice in portfolio writing assessment. Contributors reflect on the explosion in portfolio practice over the last decade, why it happened, what comes next; discuss portfolios in hypertext, the web, and other electronic spaces; and consider emerging trends and issues that are involving portfolios in teacher assessment, faculty development, and graduate student experience.

Environmental Assessment For Coal Planning Decisions In The Carbon Basin Area Of The Great Divide Resource Area, United States Department Of The Interior Bureau Of Land Management

Environmental Assessments (WY)

In 1982, a federal coal lease was issued for approximately 60% of the federal coal lands located in the Carbon Basin. Because this lease was still in effect at the time the current BLM land use plan (the Great Divide Resource Area Resource Management Plan-RMP-1990) covering the Carbon Basin area was prepared, it was exempt from the coal screening/planning requirements. However, development of this lease was never pursued and the lease expired in 1992. Also at the time the Great Divide RMP was prepared, there was no other interest expressed by industry in obtaining federal coal leases in the area. …

Economic Development And Growth Of Cities: A Retrospective Synthesis, Herbert H. H. Fullerton

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

This paper provides an overview of development strategies and historic growth patterns among major cities in industrialized countries. The papers objective is to identify patterns which may be repeated in the further growth and development of emerging urban centers, such as the Inchon metropolitan complex in Northeast Asia. Selected empirical results and conclusions drawn from recent published work in. regional/urban economics and development economics are synthesized. Topics addressed include: (i) contemporary development issues, strategies, and uncertainties; (ii) long-term growth patterns of cities in industrialized economies; (iii) impacts of agglomeration economies on growth and emergence of networks among major urban centers; …

Record Of Decision Final Environmental Impact Statement (Feis) For The Revised Forest Plan, Targhee National Forest, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

Record of Decisions (ID)

The Targhee National Forest covers approximately 1.8 million acres (this includes the portion of the Caribou National Forest which is administered by the Targhee). The majority of the forest lies in eastern Idaho and the remainder in western Wyoming. Situated next to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, the forest lies almost entirely within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Record Of Decision, Gillette South Coal Bed Methane Project Environmental Impact Statement, United States Department Of The Interior Bureau Of Land Management

Record of Decisions (WY)

This document records the decision made by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for managing public land surface and federal mineral estate in the Gillette South Coal Bed Methane Project Area. The project area is located in Campbell County, Wyoming within Twps. 42-49 N., Rags. 70-73 W., 6th Principal Meridian. The project area encompasses approximately 685 square miles of mixed federal, state, and private lands.

Final Environmental Impact Statement For Management Of The High Uintas Wilderness, United States Forest Service

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The Final Environmental Impact Statement analyzes four alternatives to amend the Ashley and Wasatch-Cache National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) to include Desired Future Condition for mapped Condition Classes with accompanying indicators and standards for the High Uintas Wilderness. The No Action Alternative is analyzed in depth, also. Significant issues considered include effects of human overuse on ecosystem components, the extent visitor experience is impacted by rules and regulations, the extent visitor solitude is impacted by other users, structures and resource impacts, the extent trails meet wilderness objectives, the threat of human and animal waste to water …

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 23, No. 1, 1997

Journal of Mormon History

CONTENTS

LETTERS vi

ARTICLES

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

• --The Web of Print: Toward a History of the Book in Early Mormon Culture David J. Whittaker, 1

TANNER LECTURE

• --National Perceptions of Utah's Statehood Howard R. Lamar, 42

• --St. Johns's Saints: Interethnic Conflict in Northeastern Arizona, 1880-85 Mark E. Miller, 66

• --LDS Sister Missionaries: An Oral History Response, 1910-71 Jessie L. Embry, 100

REVIEW ESSAY

• --Issues in Writing European History and in Building the Church in Europe Review of Bruce A. Van Orden. Building Zion: The Latter-day Saints in Europe Wilfried Decoo, 140

REVIEWS

--Dean L. May, Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society …

Phasic Temperature Control Appraised With The Ceres-Wheat Model, Tyler Volk, Bruce Bugbee, Francesco Tubiello

Controlled Environments

Phasic control refers to the specification of a series of different environmental conditions during a crop's life cycle, with the goal of optimizing some aspect of productivity. Because of the enormous number of possible scenarios, phasic control is an ideal situation for modeling to provide guidance prior to experiments. Here we use the Ceres-Wheat model, modified for hydroponic growth chambers, to examine temperature effects. We first establish a baseline by running the model at constant temperatures from 10°C to 30°C. Grain yield per day peaks at 15°C at a value that is 25 % higher than the yield at the …

Update Of Appendix C Summer & Winter Access Final Environmental Impact Statement For The Forest Plan Revision, United States Forest Service

Final Environmental Impact Statements (ID)

The District tables contained in Appendix C of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Forest Plan Revision have been updated as shown on the attached sheets. Deletions are shown as strike-overs. Changes and additions are shown in bold. Most of the changes are the result of relabelling roads and trails to correspond with current designations. A large number of duplicate entries have been eliminated.

A Novel In Vitro Model To Study The Calcification Of Biomaterials, Q. Liu, J. Weng, J. G. C. Wolke, J. R. De Wijn, C. A. Van Blitterswijk

Cells and Materials

A novel in vitro model based on a solution mainly composed of sodium, calcium, chloride and phosphate ions, was developed to study the calcification of biomaterials at near physiological conditions. This model, due to its ability to quickly calcify the tested materials, is called Accelerated Calcification Solution (ACS). Polyactive ™ 30170, Polyactive™ 70/30 and its composites with nano-apatite were used as testing materials because of their known calcification behaviour. The results showed that Polyactive™ 70/30 and its composites could calcify in ACS in a relatively short period, while the polymer without filler failed to induce calcium phosphate precipitation in more …

Record Of Decision Open Road And Open Motorized Trail Travel Plan, Targhee National Forest, United States Forest Service

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

The purpose and need of this Travel Plan is to offer a balanced range of motorized road and trail related recreation opportunities in the Forest that is consistent with the management prescriptions adopted in the Revised Forest Plan. These prescriptions include standards for the miles of open roads and motorized trails allowed per square mile. This Travel Plan shows which roads and trails will remain open to meet these road and trail density standards.

Appendix A Response To Public Comments Volume Ii, Targhee National Forest 1997 Revised Forest Plan, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

Final Environmental Impact Statements (ID)

Includes the Counties of Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi, Madison, and Teton of Idaho and Lincoln and Teton Counties of Wyoming.

Final Gillette South Coal Bed Methane Project Environmental Impact Statement, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Final Environmental Impact Statements (WY)

This document has been prepared as an abbreviated final environmental impact statement (EIS). It must be used in concert with the draft EIS to understand the analysis which includes the responses to comment letters. It is organized by chapters, the same as the draft EIS, but only changes (errata) or new information or analysis is included. Most of these were generated in response to public comments. The largest section of the document is chapter 5, Consultation and Coordination. It includes an update on what coordination has taken place since the draft EIS was issued, responses to comments, and all comment …

A Senone Based Confidence Measure For Speech Recognition, Z. Bergen, W. Ward

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

This paper describes three experiments in using frame level observation probabilities as the basis for word confidence annotation in an HMM speech recognition system. One experiment is at the word level, one uses word classes, and the other uses phone classes. In each experiment we categorize hypotheses into correct and incorrect categories by aligning a best recognition hypothesis with the known transcript. The confidence of error prediction for each class is a measure of the resolvability between the correct and incorrect histograms.

Landscape Cover-Type Modeling Using A Multi-Scale Thematic Mapper Mosaic, Collin G. Homer, R. Douglas Ramsey, Thomas C. Edwards Jr., Allan Falconer

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Landscape ecological applications of remotely sensed data are needed over increasingly larger areas and at finer spatial scales. Within the framework of the National Biological Service Gap Analysis program, 36 Utah cover types were modeled from a state-wide Landsat TM mosaic created from 24 scenes at 30-metre resolution (219,883 sq km). The state was subset into three ecoregions for classification, with cover-type association to spectral classes defined using a two-step modeling approach. Steps included post-classification correlation of 1,758 state-wide field training sites to spectral classes, and post-classification ancillary GIS modeling using ecological parameters of elevation, slope, aspect, and location to …

Evidence That Elevated C02 Levels And Indirectly Increase Rhizosphere Denitrifier Activity, John M. Stark, D. Smart, K. Ritchie, Bruce Bugbee

Biology Faculty Publications

We examined the influence of elevated CO2 concentration on denitrifier enzyme activity in wheat rhizoplanes by using controlled environments and solution culture techniques. Potential denitrification activity was from 3 to 24 times higher on roots that were grown under an elevated CO2 concentration of 1,000 micromoles of CO2 mol-1 than on roots grown under ambient levels of CO2. Nitrogen loss, as determined by a nitrogen mass balance, increased with elevated CO2 levels in the shoot environment and with a high NO3- concentration in the rooting zone. These results indicated that aerial CO2 concentration can play a role in rhizosphere denitrifier …

Urban Infrastructure: Transportation, Public Utilities, Waste Management And Pollution Control, A. Bruce Bishop

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Paris, tube under the channel -- London, satellite spinning above cables on the ocean floor -- New York, concrete ribbons across undulating land -- San Francisco, silver wings soaring across the Pacific -- Tokyo and Seoul. Etched against the sky are the graceful towers of mighty bridges, the broad glass and steel fronts to massive buildings, the tall slender stacks of industries exhaling; and traced on the surface are the intricate patterns of people and their machines; and buried below are the tubes and tunnels, water pipes and power conduits and communication networks along with concrete caissons and piles that …

Advancing Skills Of Developmental Specialists, Robert L. Morgan

Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Faculty Publications

Advancing Skills of Developmental Specialists focuses on general skills related to preparing and delivering instruction, carrying out activities related to Individual Program Plans, gathering information on a person's progress, and troubleshooting problems. This program addresses topics important to many specialists, including those working with people who have various disabilities. Since its scope is broad, the program is organized around general principles that have a wide range of application. However, because the scope is broad, instructors working for some organizations may wish to supplement information in this manual with additional material. You are encouraged to supplement with additional information where necessary!

Insights, Winter, 1996, Utah State University

Discovery Magazine

Bi-annual alumni newsletter for the College of Science of Utah State University in Logan.

Utah's Transportation Solution: Future Vision, Bryan Ray Farris

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

In the vision statement for the future of the State of Utah drafted by the Utah Tomorrow Committee one of the primary objectives outlined is to “Build a statewide economy and infrastructure that supports a broad spectrum of opportunity for all citizens while advancing the standard of living and maintaining a high quality of life.” This statement has been reiterated by many over the last several years as the state continues to grow, experiencing along with that growth many pains along the way.

Preliminary Evaluation Of The Effects Of A Pumping Well On Existing Surface Water Resources Located In T. 12n, R. 2e, Sec. 23, Cache And Box Elder Counties, Denny J. Johnson, Richard C. Peralta

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

This report contains the results of a preliminary study of the impact of pumping a well located in T. 12N, R. 2E, sec. 23, Cache and Box Elder Counties, Utah. A semianalytical capture zone analysis was performed to determine if pumping at the well is likely to reduce flow in Willow Creek or any of three springs in the surrounding area. The well has been used from 1974 to present and is sometimes pumped at 90 gallons per minute (gpm) (verbal communication, Veibell, 1996).

Making Space For The Mormons, Utah State University Press

Arrington Annual Lecture

No abstract provided.

Relative Intranuclear Magnesium And Phosphorus Contents In Normal And Tumor Cells Of The Human Thyroid Gland As Revealed By Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Microanalysis, Geza L. Lukacs, Imre Zs.-Nagy, Janos Steiber, Ferenc Gyori, Gyorgy Balazs

Scanning Microscopy

Energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis was performed on altogether 42 surgically removed tissue specimens of 32 patients, which were taken either from intact thyroid parts or various histopathologically verified tumors of the thyroid gland. The tissue specimens were processed with the freeze-fracture-freeze-drying technique and then analyzed in the so-called bulk specimen form. The studies were carried out during the years 1980-81, when intranuclear monovalent ionic composition was studied in detail. From the retained total elemental peak list, it was possible to calculate retrospectively the relative intranuclear Mg and P contents. The data processed by nested (hierarchical) analysis of variance show that …

Video Rate Confocal Laser Scanning Reflection Microscopy In The Investigation Of Normal And Neoplastic Living Cell Dynamics, Pavel Vesely, Alan Boyde

Scanning Microscopy

The introduction of video rate confocal laser scanning microscopes (VRCLSM) used in reflection mode with high magnification, high aperture objective lenses and with further magnification by a zoom facility allowed the first detailed observations of the activity of living cytoplasm and offered a new tool for investigation of the structural transition from the living state to the specimen fixed for electron microscopy (EM). We used a Noran Odyssey VRCLSM in reflection (backscattered) mode. A greater degree of oversampling and more comfortable viewing of the live or taped video image was achieved at zoom factor 5, giving a display monitor field …

Secondary Electron Emission From Simple Metals: Comparative Studies For Al, Mg, And Be, M. Rosler

Scanning Microscopy

In the secondary electron emission (SEE) from solids, the role of different excitation processes is now as ever of special interest from both the theoretical and the experimental points of view. Depending on the primary energy, the relative importance of different excitation mechanisms related to conduction as well as core electrons will be discussed for different simple metals. So far, first principles results are available only for Al for primary energies up to 10 keV. Starting from a microscopic description of the SEE based on the transport equation formalism, calculations were performed for other nearly-free-electron metals (Mg, Be) up to …

Deposition Of Supercoiled Dna On Mica For Scanning Force Microscopy Imaging, B. Samori, I. Muzzalupo, G. Zuccheri

Scanning Microscopy

The deposition of DNA molecules on mica is driven and controlled by the ionic densities around DNA and close to the surface of the substrate. Dramatic improvements in the efficiency and reproducibility of DNA depositions were due to the introduction of divalent cations in the deposition solutions. The ionic distributions on DNA and on mica determine the mobility of adsorbed DNA molecules, thus letting them assume thermodynamically equilibrated conformations, or alternatively trapping them in non-equilibrated conformations upon adsorption.

With these prerequisites, mica does not seem like an inert substrate for DNA deposition for microscopy, and its properties greatly affect the …

Creating Small Satellite Constellations Around The Sun, C. Mclain, M. Martinez-Sanchez, G.R. Ricker

Small Satellite Conference

This paper deals with the propulsion and trajectory issues of creating a small satellite constellation around the Sun. The possible uses for such a constellation, including stereoscopic imaging of the Sun and gamma ray burst localization, are briefly discussed. The focus of the paper is then narrowed to a range of orbits and payload masses. Spread rate, the most important parameter for creating a sun orbiting constellation, is explained and defined. Next, it is shown that impulsive chemical propulsion is better than low thrust electric propulsion for this mission class. Finally, a full discussion of the propulsion and trajectory options …

A Multi-Channel Direct Conversion Digital Uplink Receiver, Ron Huebner, Nick Pappageorge, Lee Atkinson, Tom Seay, Erik Odeen, Ron Manherz, Stuart Golden

Small Satellite Conference

The design details of a direct block-down converting receiver which provides simultaneous demodulation of up to seven uplink channels is presented. The overall architecture is that of a block down converting receiver utilizing a fixed tuned RF front end and a single conversion. The bandwidth of interest is complex down-converted to baseband into I and Q channels, and sampled by a high speed analog-to-digital converter. The digitized I and Q data is then input to a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) processor to perform coarse channelization. Finally, filtering, channelization, and demodulation is performed within a digital signal processor (DSP) dedicated to …

Near Costing As A Template For Future Small Spacecraft Missions, J.T. Hemmings

Small Satellite Conference

On February 17, 1996, NASA solidified its "faster, better, cheaper" guidelines for low cost planetary missions with the successful launch of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft. A guide for future small spacecraft missions has now been established. NEAR, the first mission in NASA's Discovery Program for "faster, better, cheaper" planetary exploration and the first asteroid orbiter ever was designed and built at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). The design emphasizes simplicity, reliability, and low cost. Discovery Program criteria include a cost ceiling of $150 million (FY 92 dollars) on spacecraft development to launch plus 30 …

Streamlining Satellite Development, Testing, And Operations Using A Cots Command And Telemetry Package, Andrew Lewin

Small Satellite Conference

This paper discusses how modern, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) command and telemetry packages and data analysis tools can reduce cost and tighten schedules. By including the ground station from the start of the program life cycle, organizations can improve efficiency through the parallelization of activities, reuse of program resources, improvement of processes, and elimination of development tasks. The benefits of this approach are substantial for a single program. However, corporations can realize even greater productivity when subsequent programs build upon the strong foundation created by their predecessors. The methods introduced in this paper are brought to life through the example of …