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A Cumulus Project: Design And Implementation, Lizhe Wang, Gregor Von Laszewski, Marcel Kunze Jan 2008

A Cumulus Project: Design And Implementation, Lizhe Wang, Gregor Von Laszewski, Marcel Kunze

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The Cloud computing becomes an innovative computing paradigm, which aims to provide reliable, customized and QoS guaranteed computing infrastructures for users. This paper presents our early experience of Cloud computing based on the Cumulus project for compute centers. In this paper, we introduce the Cumulus project with its various aspects, such as design pattern, infrastructure, and middleware.


Bad Timing?, Andrew Davidhazy Jan 2008

Bad Timing?, Andrew Davidhazy

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Another "vintage" article (in Word document format) from 1969 describing several applications of photography in the Distillation Research Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology. Added here in June 2007.


Improvised Lens Filter Thread Ding Repair Tool And Procedure, Andrew Davidhazy Jan 2008

Improvised Lens Filter Thread Ding Repair Tool And Procedure, Andrew Davidhazy

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Most photographers have at one time of another run into a situation where the filter thread ring on the front of the lens has been bent in some accident and now there is a need to attach a certain filter or accessory to the lens's filter threads. Here is a guide to one solution. Added here in April 2008.


Improved High-Temperature Stability And Sun-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Activity Of Sulfur-Doped Anatase Tio2, Suresh Pillai, Declan Mccormack, Pradeepan Periyat, John Colreavy, Steve Hinder Jan 2008

Improved High-Temperature Stability And Sun-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Activity Of Sulfur-Doped Anatase Tio2, Suresh Pillai, Declan Mccormack, Pradeepan Periyat, John Colreavy, Steve Hinder

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Globalization, Internationalization, And Rankings, Ellen Hazelkorn Jan 2008

Globalization, Internationalization, And Rankings, Ellen Hazelkorn

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Topics: Financing and Funding, Globalization and Internationalization, International and Foreign Students, Marketization and Commercialization and Academic Quality, Assessment and Accreditation.


Learning To Live With League Tables And Ranking: The Experience Of Institutional Leaders, Ellen Hazelkorn Jan 2008

Learning To Live With League Tables And Ranking: The Experience Of Institutional Leaders, Ellen Hazelkorn

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This paper draws on the results of an international survey of HE leaders and senior managers which was supported by the OECD Programme on Institutional Management of Higher Education (IMHE) and the International Association of Universities (IAU). It focuses on how HEIs are responding to league tables and rankings (LTRS), and what impact or influence – positive or perverse – they are having on institutional behaviour, decision-making and actions. The growing body of academic research and journalist reportage is referenced to contextualise this international experience. The paper shows that while HE leaders are concerned about the impact of rankings, they …


Supply Chain Management Diffusion Among Firms In The Republic Of Ireland, Edward Sweeney, Claudia-Maria Wagner, Bernd Huber Jan 2008

Supply Chain Management Diffusion Among Firms In The Republic Of Ireland, Edward Sweeney, Claudia-Maria Wagner, Bernd Huber

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The changing business environment has sharpened the focus on the need for robust approaches to supply chain management (SCM) and the improvement of supply chain capability and performance. This is particularly the case in Ireland, which has the natural disadvantage of a location peripheral to significant markets and sources of raw materials which results in relatively high transport and distribution costs. Therefore, in order to gain insights into current levels of diffusion of SCM, a survey was conducted among 776 firms in the Republic of Ireland. The empirical results suggest that there is a need for more widespread adoption of …


Luminescent Solar Concentrators: A Review Of Recent Results, Wilfrid G.J.H.M. Van Sark, Keith W.J. Barnham, Lenneke H. Slooff, Amanda J. Chatten, Andreas Buchtemann, Andreas Meyer, Sarah Mccormack, Rolf Koole, Daniel J. Farrell, Rahul Bose, Evert E. Bende, Antonius R. Burgers, Tristram Budel, Jana Quilitz, Manus Kennedy, Toby Meyer, C. De Mello Donega, Andries Meijerink Jan 2008

Luminescent Solar Concentrators: A Review Of Recent Results, Wilfrid G.J.H.M. Van Sark, Keith W.J. Barnham, Lenneke H. Slooff, Amanda J. Chatten, Andreas Buchtemann, Andreas Meyer, Sarah Mccormack, Rolf Koole, Daniel J. Farrell, Rahul Bose, Evert E. Bende, Antonius R. Burgers, Tristram Budel, Jana Quilitz, Manus Kennedy, Toby Meyer, C. De Mello Donega, Andries Meijerink

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Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) generally consist of transparent polymer sheets doped with luminescent species. Incident sunlight is absorbed by the luminescent species and emitted with high quantum efficiency, such that emitted light is trapped in the sheet and travels to the edges where it can be collected by solar cells. LSCs offer potentially lower cost per Wp. This paper reviews results mainly obtained within the framework of the Fullspectrum project. Two modeling approaches are presented, i.e., a thermodynamic and a ray-trace one, as well as experimental results, with a focus on LSC stability.


Enabling Location-Based Services In Data Centers, Krishna Kant, Neha Udar, R. Viswanathan Jan 2008

Enabling Location-Based Services In Data Centers, Krishna Kant, Neha Udar, R. Viswanathan

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In this article, we explore services and capabilities that can be enabled by the localization of various assets in a data center or IT environment. We also describe the underlying location estimation method and the protocol to enable localization. Finally, we present a management framework for these services and present a few case studies to assess benefits of location-based services in data centers.


Latinos And The Law Symposium Symposium: Latinos And Latinas At The Epicenter Of Contemporary Legal Discourses: Forword, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic Jan 2008

Latinos And The Law Symposium Symposium: Latinos And Latinas At The Epicenter Of Contemporary Legal Discourses: Forword, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic

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Billowing White Goo, Jessica D. Litman Jan 2008

Billowing White Goo, Jessica D. Litman

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The title of this symposium is the question: "Fair Use: "Incredibly Shrinking" or Extraordinarily Expanding?" I'd argue that the answer to the question is "no." Fair use isn't doing either. The size of the fair use footprint has stayed remarkably constant over the past 30 or even 50 years. What has expanded, extraordinarily, is the size of rights granted by the copyright law. It may seem as if fair use is either expanding or shrinking, because the greater reach of copyright has made a bunch of uses potentially fair that weren't even potentially infringing 50 years ago. In order to …


Strange Bedfellows, David M. Uhlmann Jan 2008

Strange Bedfellows, David M. Uhlmann

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Environmental protection has not been a priority for the Bush administration, but, contrary to popular perception, criminal prosecution of companies and officials accused of breaking environmental laws has flourished.


Noncompliance, Nonenforcement, Nonproblem? Rethinking The Anticommons In Biomedical Research, Rebecca S. Eisenberg Jan 2008

Noncompliance, Nonenforcement, Nonproblem? Rethinking The Anticommons In Biomedical Research, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

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A decade ago the biomedical research community was sounding alarm bells about the impact of intellectual property (IP) rights on the ability of scientists to do their work. Controversies and delays in negotiating terms of access to patented mice and genes, databases of scientific information, and tangible research materials all pointed toward the same conclusion: that IP claims were undermining traditional sharing norms to the detriment of science. Michael Heller and I highlighted one dimension of this concern: that too many IP rights in "upstream" research results could paradoxically restrict "downstream" research and product development by making it too costly …


Thinking About Civil Discovery In Alabama: Using The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure As A Thinking Tool Essay: Alabama Legal Issues Series, Carol Rice Andrews Jan 2008

Thinking About Civil Discovery In Alabama: Using The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure As A Thinking Tool Essay: Alabama Legal Issues Series, Carol Rice Andrews

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When American Small Business Hot The Jackpot: Taxes, Politics And The History Of Organizational Choice In The 1950'S, Mirit Eyal-Cohen Jan 2008

When American Small Business Hot The Jackpot: Taxes, Politics And The History Of Organizational Choice In The 1950'S, Mirit Eyal-Cohen

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Empirical Research For Public Policy: With Examples From Family Law, Richard O. Lempert Jan 2008

Empirical Research For Public Policy: With Examples From Family Law, Richard O. Lempert

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Perhaps more than in any other field, legal scholarship has aimed directly at influencing public policy. Hence, it is not surprising that empirical scholarship on law related issues often seems to have an agenda that extends beyond the common social science goals of adding to our knowledge base and understanding of human behavior to suggesting to policy makers and practitioners legal and administrative changes that will ameliorate problems they confront and, by the researcher’s lights, make this a better world in which to live.


Do Different Iindustries Report Corporate Social Responsibility Differently?: An Investigation Through The Lens Of Stakeholder Theory, Lorraine Sweeney, Joseph Coughlan Jan 2008

Do Different Iindustries Report Corporate Social Responsibility Differently?: An Investigation Through The Lens Of Stakeholder Theory, Lorraine Sweeney, Joseph Coughlan

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The social responsibility of business has become a major issue in recent years and the reporting of such activity is becoming more prevalent. Companies are attuning to the benefits of being seen as socially responsibly and many industries are jumping on the bandwagon of reporting CSR and using different media to communicate their activities in this arena to their stakeholders. This paper considers the content of one type of such communications, the annual report, and looks at how organisations are taking a focused stakeholder view of CSR rather than a wider view as would be expected from the ambiguity of …


The Domestic Incorporation Of Human Rights Law And The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Janet E. Lord, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2008

The Domestic Incorporation Of Human Rights Law And The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities, Janet E. Lord, Michael Ashley Stein

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This Article reviews the processes by which domestic-level transposition of international human rights norms may occur as a consequence of human rights treaty ratification, or other means of incorporation. Specifically, we consider the transformative vision of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD or Convention) as a vehicle for fostering national-level disability law and policy changes. In doing so, we outline the challenges and opportunities presented by this new phase in disability rights advocacy, and we draw conclusions that bear generally upon human rights practice and scholarship. We contend that the role of human rights in domestic …


Business As Usual: The Roberts Court's Continued Neglect Of Adequacy And Equity Concerns In American Education, Osamudia R. James Jan 2008

Business As Usual: The Roberts Court's Continued Neglect Of Adequacy And Equity Concerns In American Education, Osamudia R. James

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Contextualising Nanotechnology In Chemistry Education, Christine O'Connor, Hugh Hayden Jan 2008

Contextualising Nanotechnology In Chemistry Education, Christine O'Connor, Hugh Hayden

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This paper will give an example of a pedagogical approach taken in integrating nanotechnology into a chemistry degree course. In recent years nanotechnology has widely become part of the course content for undergraduate chemistry and physics degree curriculum. How contextualised the delivery of the subject matter may vary. The role of contextualisation of nanotechnology in the delivery of the content is the main focus of this paper, as to date in Ireland and many other countries nanotechnology has not been integrated into many chemistry degree courses but is slowly becoming the case. An evaluative methodology of the pedagogical approach for …


Procedural Path Dependence: Discrimination And The Civil-Criminal Divide, Julie C. Suk Jan 2008

Procedural Path Dependence: Discrimination And The Civil-Criminal Divide, Julie C. Suk

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Procedural path dependence occurs when the particular features of the procedural system that is charged with enforcing a given legal norm determine the substantive path of that norm. This Article shows how the limits of employment discrimination law in two different national contexts can be explained by procedural dynamics. In France, as in several European countries, employment discrimination law is enforced predominantly in criminal proceedings. French criminal procedure enables the discovery of information necessary to prove the facts of discrimination, whereas the limits of French civil procedure make it impossible for such information to be revealed. As a result, the …


First Amendment Decisions From The October 2006 Term, Erwin Chemerinsky, Marci A. Hamilton Jan 2008

First Amendment Decisions From The October 2006 Term, Erwin Chemerinsky, Marci A. Hamilton

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Sudoku: A Little Lesson In Oop, Axel-Tobias Schreiner, James Heliotis Jan 2008

Sudoku: A Little Lesson In Oop, Axel-Tobias Schreiner, James Heliotis

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Paying only lip service to the principles of object-oriented programming rarely results in the expected benefits. This paper presents a series of designs for a Sudoku application that will lead introductory students through the allimportant process of trial and error. They will see examples of design analysis, criticism, and improvement. The paper concludes with some general pointers why and how the initial mistakes could have been avoided.


Efficient Mining Of Heterogeneous Star-Structured Data, Manjeet Rege, Qi Yu Jan 2008

Efficient Mining Of Heterogeneous Star-Structured Data, Manjeet Rege, Qi Yu

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Many of the real world clustering problems arising in data mining applications are heterogeneous in nature. Heterogeneous co-clustering involves simultaneous clustering of objects of two or more data types. While pairwise co-clustering of two data types has been well studied in the literature, research on high-order heterogeneous co-clustering is still limited. In this paper, we propose a graph theoretical framework for addressing star- structured co-clustering problems in which a central data type is connected to all the other data types. Partitioning this graph leads to co-clustering of all the data types under the constraints of the star-structure. Although, graph partitioning …


Can Gravitational Collapse Sustain Singularity-Free Trapped Surfaces?, Manasse R. Mbonye, Demos Kazanas Jan 2008

Can Gravitational Collapse Sustain Singularity-Free Trapped Surfaces?, Manasse R. Mbonye, Demos Kazanas

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In singularity generating spacetimes both the out-going and ingoing expansions of null geodesic congruences + and − should become increasingly negative without bound, inside the horizon. This behavior leads to geodetic incompleteness which in turn predicts the existence of a singularity. In this work we inquire on whether, in gravitational collapse, spacetime can sustain singularity-free trapped surfaces, in the sense that such a spacetime remains geodetically complete. As a test case, we consider a well known solution of the Einstien Field Equations which is Schwarzschild-like at large distances and consists of a fluid with a p = − equation of …


The People-Profit Polarity, Donna Dickson, Sara Cegelski Jan 2008

The People-Profit Polarity, Donna Dickson, Sara Cegelski

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History And Symptoms Of Psychology, Peter Hauser Jan 2008

History And Symptoms Of Psychology, Peter Hauser

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The History and Systems of Psychology course provides background to the development of current psychological perspectives. It examines beliefs, practices, achievements and limitations of various systems of psychology from Greek times through to the late 20th century.


Canon Digital Rebel Vs. Fuji Is-1 Infrarecapd Able Camera, Andrew Davidhazy Jan 2008

Canon Digital Rebel Vs. Fuji Is-1 Infrarecapd Able Camera, Andrew Davidhazy

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This is an article on how one might make a makeshift infrared transmitting filter using two relatively easy to obtain glass filters to substitute for a true infrared filter, the Wratten #87. This test also compares the performance of a Canon camera not designed for IR use and a Fuji IS-1 that is infrared capable. Added here in February 2008.


Leveraging Multiple Imaging Modalities To Improve Breast Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, And Management, Karl Baum Jan 2008

Leveraging Multiple Imaging Modalities To Improve Breast Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, And Management, Karl Baum

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ANSYS On Campus article. Breast cancer is the most common malignant disease in women, and the second leading cause of cancer death among American women today [1]. The primary tool for detection and diagnosis of breast cancer is x-ray mammography, but it is hoped that additional information provided by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) will provide a means to determine if a suspected lesion, seen in mammography, is malignant or not. The procedure may prevent a large number of retrospectively unnecessary breast biopsies, a surgical procedure, which can result in pain, bruising, and scaring, that is …


Front Projection: A Useful Compositing Special Effects Technique, Andrew Davidhazy Jan 2008

Front Projection: A Useful Compositing Special Effects Technique, Andrew Davidhazy

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Photographers have devised many different ways to place a subject of choice against some desired and visually interesting and appropriate background without going to the expense of traveling to exotic locations on the world or having at their disposal a large variety of background props. This article describes a novel "traditional" technique especially useful for social photography but also advertising and illustration. Added here in April 2008.