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Atmospheric Deposition Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Near New England Coastal Waters, D. Golomb, E. Barry, G. Fisher

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Master Plan Task Force Reports, Facilities Planning And Capital Projects, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

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1981-2001, Strom Thurmond Institute: Two Decades Of Service, 2001

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A Partitioned Likelihood Analysis Of Swallowtail Butterfly Phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), Michael S. Caterino, Robert D. Reed, May M. Kuo, Felix A H Sperling

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Although it is widely agreed that data from multiple sources are necessary to confidently resolve phylogenetic relationships, procedures for accommodating and incorporating heterogeneity in such data remained underdeveloped. We explored the use of partitioned, model-based analyses of heterogeneous molecular data in the context of a phylogenetic study of swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae).

What Difference Has Feminism Made To Engineering In The 20th Century?, Pam Mack

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Until the last quarter of the twentieth century women have been very scarce in engineering, so the impact of feminism on engineering might seem like a topic with a very short history. However, somewhat broader definitions of feminism and of engineering bring to light very significant influences of the women’s reform movement of the first half of the twentieth century on industrial and municipal engineering. I first conceptualized this influence as women pushing for regulation that in turn transformed engineering. But as I went deeper into the material I discovered a tremendous amount of travel over the line between reformer …

A Collection Of Papers, 1997-2001, Clinton H. Whitehurst Jr.

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This compilation of papers written by Clinton H. Whitehurst, Jr. includes:

1. Defining America's military sealift capability: U.S. or foreign flag, 2001

2. Facing up to another cold war, 2000 June

3. Taiwan's role in WWII forgotten, 2000

4. American military options in a Taiwan Strait conflict, 1999

5. Alliances, the balance of power, and American national interests, 1998

6. Last clear chance for an enduring maritime policy, 1998

7. The forgotten concepts of sovereignty, independence and nationhood as criteria for UN membership, 1998 July

8. Limited wars, civilian casualties, and who must decide, 1998

9. Criticizing India's nuclear weapons …

Defining America's Military Sealift Capability: U.S. Or Foreign Flag, 2001, Clinton H. Whitehurst Jr.

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Analysis Of Privatization Of Russia's Nuclear Ministry On The Nuclear Nonproliferation Objectives Of The United States, 2001, Michael T. Maloney, Oana Diaconu

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The Extraordinarily Bright Optical Afterglow Of Grb 991208 And Its Host Galaxy, A. J. Castro-Tirado, V. V. Sokolov, J. Gorosabel, J. M. Castro Cerón, J. Greiner, R. A. M. J. Wijers, B. L. Jensen, J. Hjorth, S. Toft, Dieter H. Hartmann

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Broad-band optical observations of the extraordinarily bright optical afterglow of the intense gamma-ray burst GRB 991208 started ∼2.1 days after the event and continued until 4 Apr. 2000. The flux decay constant of the optical afterglow in the R-band is −2.30 ±0.07 up to ∼5 days, which is very likely due to the jet effect, and it is followed by a much steeper decay with constant −3.2 ±0.2, the fastest one ever seen in a GRB optical afterglow. A negative detection in several all-sky films taken simultaneously with the event, that otherwise would have reached naked eye brightness, implies either …

Gibson L-5 Loyd Loar's Timeless Masterpiece, Eric C. Shoaf

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Finding Grandpa's Patent: Using Patent Information For Historical Or Genealogical Research, Jan Comfort

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Hardly a week goes by without a phone call, an e-mail message, or a visit from a patron who is looking for a patent issued to a family member. Often, the patron does not have complete information, and sometimes has nothing more than a name and a notion that Grandpa once invented something. This article describes some strategies that can be used by Librarians to assist patrons in historical patent research. It, additionally, includes a list of sources and highlights special materials that are available at Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries.

Integration & Biocomplexity, Lakshman Guruswamy

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Sustainable development (SD) is premised on the inescapable and integral role played by humans in shaping and impacting the natural world and has been recognized as a foundational norm of international environmental law and policy. Ecologicalism - an outlook that embraces a comprehensive approach to interdependent natural and human systems - provides the conceptual underpinnings for a creative and integrated environmental management philosophy for implementing SD. This Article argues that the daunting task of defining and applying such an integrated approach and philosophy to the multiple interacting changes affecting planetary life support systems can benefit from the U.S. experience in …

Internet Governance, Standard Setting, And Self-Regulation, Philip J. Weiser

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Book Review: Space Shuttle: The History Of The National Space Transportation System: The First 100 Missions, T. D. Oswalt

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This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Space Shuttle : the History of the National Space Transportation System: the First 100 Missions by Dennis R. Jenkins. Voyageur Press, 2001 513p, 0-9633974-5-1 $39.95.

Beyond Indian Law: The Rehnquist Court’S Pursuit Of States’ Rights, Color-Blind Justice And Mainstream Values, David H. Getches

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The Metamorphosis Of Western Water Policy: Have Federal Laws And Local Decisions Eclipsed The States’ Role?, David H. Getches

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Securities Price Risks And Financial Derivative Markets, Peter H. Huang

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The financial and popular media report almost daily on the volatility of securities market prices. Yet, many people continue to buy securities to hedge against or speculate on certain risks. People can also buy or sell derivatives to hedge against or speculate on fluctuations in securities prices. This Article discusses three regulatory policy implications of utilizing derivatives markets to reallocate the bearing of securities price risks. First, if there are too few non-redundant derivative markets, a competitive market equilibrium allocation of securities price risks is typically constrained Pareto inefficient. This financial economic result means that for typical economies, a regulator …

The Unsettling Of The West: How Indians Got The Best Water Rights, David H. Getches

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The Economic Situation, 2000 December, Bruce Yandle

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Quarterly report on the economic situation of the United States and South Carolina.

The Economic Situation, 2000 September, Bruce Yandle

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Quarterly report on the economic situation of the United States and South Carolina.

Human Error And Accident Causation Theories, Frameworks And Analytical Techniques: An Annotated Bibliography, Douglas A. Wiegmann, Aaron M. Rich, Scott A. Shappell

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Over the last several decades, humans have played a progressively more important causal role in aviation accidents as aircraft have become more [complex]. Consequently, a growing number of aviation organizations are tasking their safety personnel with developing safety programs to address the highly complex and often nebulous issue of human error. However, there is generally no “off-the-shelf” or standard approach for addressing human error in aviation. Indeed, recent years have seen a proliferation of human error frameworks and accident investigation schemes to the point where there now appears to be as many human error models as there are people interested …

Characterization Of An Isolate That Uses Vinyl Chloride As A Growth Substrate Under Aerobic Conditions, Matthew F. Verce, Ricky L. Ulrich, David L. Freedman

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An aerobic enrichment culture was developed by using vinyl chloride (VC) as the sole organic carbon and electron donor source. VC concentrations as high as 7.3 mM were biodegraded without apparent inhibition. VC use did not occur when nitrate was provided as the electron acceptor. A gram-negative, rod-shaped, motile isolate was obtained from the enrichment culture and identified based on biochemical characteristics and the sequence of its 16S rRNA gene as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, designated strain MF1. The observed yield of MF1 when it was grown on VC was 0.20 mg of total suspended solids (TSS)/mg of VC. Ethene, acetate, glyoxylate, …

Estimating The Economic Value Of The Ocean In A National Income Accounting Framework, Charles S. Colgan

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A key part of the effort to estimate the economic value of the ocean is to develop estimates of the appropriate values of the goods and services traded in the market economy. Such estimates should include the output of industries associated with the ocean, as well as other measures of economic activity, including income generated, employment, the number of firms, etc. Providing the information that permits seeing the economy of the ocean within the context of other economic activity requires preparing estimates that are consistent with the National Income and Product

Accounts (NIPA). The key component is Gross Product Originating …

Evaluating How Local- And Regional-Scale Processes Interact To Regulate Growth Of Age-0 Largemouth Bass, James E. Garvey, Russell A. Wright, Roy A. Stein, Kristen H. Ferry

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Regional- and local-scale processes may interact to influence early growth and survival, thereby governing cohort strength. During summer through fall 1994–1996, we assessed how precipitation (a regional-scale process) and prey availability (a local-scale process) influenced piscivory and growth of age-0 largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides in five Ohio reservoirs (190–1,145 ha). We expected early growth to vary with the abundance and relative sizes of age- 0 gizzard shad Dorosoma cepedianum. We collected age-0 largemouth bass and prey fishes every 3 weeks in each reservoir. In 1994, May precipitation was low (total = 4 cm), resulting in low mean daily reservoir …

Mpi Collective Operations Over Ip Multicast, Amy Apon, H A. Chen, Y O. Carrasco

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Many common implementations of Message Passing Inter- face (MPI) implement collective operations over point-to-point operations. This work examines IP multicast as a framework for collective operations. IP multicast is not reliable. If a receiver is not ready when a message is sent via IP multicast, the message is lost. Two techniques for ensuring that a message is not lost due to a slow receiving process are examined. The techniques are implemented and compared experimentally over both a shared and a switched Fast Ethernet. The average performance of collective operations is improved as a function of the number of participating processes …

Crystal And Magnetic Structures Of Lani5−Xmnx, C. Y. Tai, G. K. Marasinghe, O. A. Pringle, W. J. James, M. Chen, W. B. Yelon, I. Dubenko, N. Ali, Ph. I’Héritier

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The crystallographic and magnetic properties of LaNi_5−xMn_x with x=1, 1.5, and 2, have been investigated using x-ray and neutron diffraction, vibrating sample magnetometer and superconducting quantum interference device measurements. All the samples crystallize in the hexagonal CaCu₅-type (P6/mmm) structure. Manganese atoms preferentially occupy the 3g site in the LaNi₅ structure. The bulk magnetization of the LaNi_5−xMn_x powder samples decreases rapidly as nickel is replaced by manganese. A ferrimagnetic model is applied to describe the magnetic structure of the LaNi_5−xMn_x samples for …

Aquaculture Performance Comparison Of Sunshine Bass, Palmetto Bass, And White Bass, James B. Rudacille, Christopher C. Kohler

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Aquaculture performance of phase II and phase III sunshine bass (a female white bass Morone chrysops × male striped bass M. saxatilis), palmetto bass (a female striped bass × male white bass), and white bass were evaluated in separate 12-week yield trials conducted in indoor recirculating-water systems. Phase II sunshine bass, palmetto bass, and white bass had mean initial weights of 40.0 g, 39.7 g, and 41.0 g, respectively. A diet containing 40.2% crude protein (CP) was fed to fish twice daily at a rate of 3% body weight/d. At the end of the trial, sunshine bass and white …

The Human Factors Analysis And Classification System--Hfacs, Scott A. Shappell, Douglas A. Wiegmann

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Human error has been implicated in 70 to 80% of all civil and military aviation accidents. Yet, most accident reporting systems are not designed around any theoretical framework of human error. As a result, most accident databases are not conducive to a traditional human error analysis, making the identification of intervention strategies onerous. What is required is a general human error framework around which new investigative methods can be designed and existing accident databases restructured. Indeed, a comprehensive human factors analysis and classification system (HFACS) has recently been developed to meet those needs. Specifically, the HFACS framework has been used …

Canarypox Virus-Induced Maturation Of Dendritic Cells Is Mediated By Apoptotic Cell Death And Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Secretion, Ralf Ignatius, Mary A. Marovich, Erin Mahlhop

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Recombinant avipox viruses are being widely evaluated as vaccines. To address how these viruses, which replicate poorly in mammalian cells, might be immunogenic, we studied how canarypox virus (ALVAC) interacts with primate antigen-presenting dendritic cells (DCs). When human and rhesus macaque monocyte-derived DCs were exposed to recombinant ALVAC, immature DCs were most susceptible to infection. However, many of the infected cells underwent apoptotic cell death, and dying infected cells were engulfed by uninfected DCs. Furthermore, a subset of DCs matured in the ALVAC-exposed DC cultures. DC maturation coincided with tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) secretion and was significantly blocked in …

Municipal Shellfish Management Using Gis, Christopher S. Heinig, Seth Barker

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