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A State Space Modeling And Control Method For Multivariable Smart Structural Systems, Robert Butler, Vittal S. Rao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A system identification technique for the derivation of minimal, continuous time state variable models for multivariable smart structural systems is presented. The structural identification technique is based on the measurement of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the structure. Two sensors are required for each mode included in the structural system model. Unlike computational system identification techniques, the relatively large number of sensors simplifies the identification process making it ideal for systems with several inputs and outputs. Additionally, the identification technique allows the implementation of multi-input multi-output full state feedback controllers with simple analog hardware. The amount of hardware required for the …

What Is Your Diagnosis, Pranee Tuntivanich

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

No abstract provided.

ชุดกระดูกข้อเท้าขาหน้าและข้อเท้าขาหลังแบบเคลื่อนที่ได้ ของม้า วัวและควาย, เกรียงยศ สัจจเจนิญพงษ์, พยัตรา ตันติลีปิกร

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

การศึกษาลักษณะทางด้านกายวิภาคของข้อต่อขาหน้าและขาหลังของม้า วัว และควายนั้นมีความสำคัญต่อการวินิจฉัยโรคกระดูกและงานด้านศัลยกรรม การศึกษาครั้งนี้แทนที่จะศึกษาจากกระดูกที่ยึดติดทั้งตัว ได้มีการพัฒนาโดยแยกกระดูกแต่ละชิ้นอย่างอิสระในแต่ละข้อต่อเพื่อสะดวกในการเคลื่อนกระดูกแต่ละชิ้นและการขนย้าย ข้อเท้าขาหน้าม้า ใช้เชือก 5 เส้น ส่วนในวัวและควายใช้เชือก 4 เส้น ข้อเท้าขาหลังใช้เชือก 4 เส้นในสัตว์ทั้ง 3 ชนิด การศึกษาด้วยวิธีนี้จะสามารถเคลื่อนย้ายรูปร่างและตําแหน่งของกระดูกได้อย่างอิสระและช่วยให้เข้าใจเกี่ยวกับข้อต่อได้ดียิ่งขึ้น นอกจากนี้ยังได้มีการทาสีบนกระดูกเพื่อใช้แทนเอ็นยึดระหว่างกระดูก

West River Ag Center Crops And Soils Research Annual Progress Report, 1996, Agricultural Experiment Station

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is the 1996 progress report of the West River Crops and Soils Research Projects, South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. This document includes reports on: weather and climate, wheat and grain variety trials, management and tillage, and weed and pest control.

Vytis, Volume 82, Issue 10 (December 1996), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

The Influence Of The Federal Administrative Procedure Act On California's New Administrative Procedure Act, Michael Asimow

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents / Masthead

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

In Memoriam: Katherine Anderson Goodpasture, 1909-1994, Ann T. Tarbell

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Contents, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Species Index To Volume 67, 1996, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

The Season, Robert P. Ford, Martha G. Waldron, Richard L. Knight, Richard P. Lewis

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry And Ornament In Islamic Architecture, By Gulru Necipoglu, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Reviewed work: The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture, Gulru Necipoglu. Santa Monica, CA: J. Paul Getty Publications, 1996.

Reproducing the patterns from a 15th-century scroll (Topkapi Palace Museum Library, MS H.1956) that served as a guide for architects and artisans, Necipoglu brilliantly explores the juncture of geometry and philosophy that informed art and architecture over the centuries. Lucid essays accompany illustrations the scroll's 114 sequential patterns and place this virtually unknown work the dynamic intellectual discourses on geometry, religion and building that taking place in Europe and parts of the Islamic world during the 15th century. …

Have Efforts To Improve Higher Education Opportunities For Low-Income Youth Succeeded?, Yiiksel Ozden

Journal of Student Financial Aid

There has been increasing public concern about whether financial aid programs enable low-income youth to pursue college education. This study identifies overall changes in college-going behavior before and after the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program. It finds that federal efforts to increase college access have been constrained by a heavy reliance on test scores in college admissions decisions. The analysis is based on college-going decisions of the 12,099 high school graduates who participated in the 1982 High School and Beyond Survey.

Water Current, Volume 28, No. 6, December 1996

Water Current Newsletter

UNL Remediation Research Gets NSF/EPSCoR Funding Boost
From the Director: Implementation Plans Continue for "School of Natural Resources;" New Staff Joins Water Center
Drought, Climate Change Effects on Aquifer Are Topics for 26th Water Conference
New Database Aids Navigating Platte River Information
Applicator Training Sessions to Start Again Next Month
"When the Rains Don't Come" Subject of Seminar Series
Spaldings Speak at Korea's Cheju University

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Colby Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Paratextual Snow; Or, The Threshold Of Mercedes Merlin, Roberto Ignacio Diaz

Colby Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Colby Quarterly

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The Effect Of Collisions On Error Performance In Intelligent Tag Systems, Xiaowei Zhang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Symphony No. 1, Randon Myles Chisnell

Masters Theses

Symphony No. 1 is a three-part one movement piece for full orchestra. The harmonic structure is based on an underlying recurring harmonic progression. The melodic elements are based on a theme which is never heard in its entirety, but from which the harmonic progression was originally derived.

Side Chain Effect On Micellarly Catalyzed Hydrolysis Of Hydroxamic Acids In Perfluorooctanoic Acid Environment, A.C. Menik Fernando

Masters Theses

The side chain effect on micellar catalysis of hydroxamic acids with perfluorooctanoic acid as the reactive counterion surfactant in aqueous acetonitrile solution has been demonstrated in this thesis.

The rate constant-surfactant concentration profiles were used to estimate the critical micelle concentration and the second order rate constant for hydrolysis in the aqueous bulk phase.

The pseudo-phase ion exchange model satisfactorily explains the surfactant effect. The second order rate constants in the aqueous bulk phase show a direct relationship with steric substituent constants. The major influence of the change in micellar catalysis is the location in the micelle where the substrate …

A Depositional Analysis Of The Wymer Site, Berrien County, Michigan And Its Relationship To Post-Glacial Lake Levels In The Lake Michigan Basin, Kevin A. Kincare

Masters Theses

The Wymer site is an archeological site on the St. Joseph River floodplain 1.5 miles north of Berrien Springs, Michigan. Early and Middle Archaic cultural phases were found at the site. These sites are unusual in that their occurrence corresponds to low lake levels associated with Lake Chippewa and were assumed to occupy the now submerged shoreline areas.

A site evaluation was undertaken to examine the types of sediments and depositional structures. Trenches, grainsize analysis, ¹⁴C samples and valley topography were used to determine that the site was a point bar situated on a terrace above the modern floodplain. …

Japan's Oda (Official Development Assistance): Foreign Aid Policy And Practice In Asian Countries, Akiko Nakaya

Masters Theses

Two objectives of this study are (1) to examine the relationship between the Japanese people's perspectives and government policies toward Japan's foreign aid, and (2) to examine Japan's aid administration in Asia. Two significant aid philosophies of Japan are humanitarianism and interdependence among nations. A questionnaire survey was conducted in Japan to examine public attitudes toward Japan's foreign aid. The Japanese people support Japan's ODA. They recognize their duty to the world through its foreign aid. Both the public and the government put a high priority on humanitarianism; however, not many Japanese are aware of the interdependence factor.

Japanese aid …

The Relationship Of Crime Patterns To Social And Ecological Conditions In Grand Rapids, Michigan: 1980-1990, Christine L. Mcgavin

Masters Theses

The spatial distribution of the relationship between crime rates and urban ecology in Grand Rapids, Michigan over time is the focus of this study. Urban ecology can often be measured by indicators of social disorganization. Five crimes (larceny, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, and homicide) were regressed with several indicators of social disorganization. The independent variables were poverty, transience, family disorganization, the percentage of youth in the population, race, and household density. Both violent and property crimes were strongly related to race while specific crimes were related to poverty, family disorganization, the percentage of youth in the population, and transience. Property …

Gender Consciousness, Patriarchy And The Indian Women’S Movement, Aparna Thomas

Masters Theses

The women's movement has a long history in India. There exists an active women's movement in India today. Furthermore, there also exists a strong legal environment to protect women's rights. However, the social status of the majority of Indian women remains unchanged. In other words, the women's movement has failed to change the social status of Indian women.

This thesis examines the Indian women's movement historically from the nineteenth century to the present to explain why it has not had a greater impact on changing the social status of Indian women.

I argue that the lack of change in the …

Factors Affecting The Educational Attainment Of African-American Males: An Observational Analysis, Chauncey Williams

Masters Theses

African-American males participation in higher education has declined due to low academic achievement. The research suggests that this low achievement is caused by racism, academic preparation, self-esteem, teacher expectation, and goals. Although I agree with most of the research, I have concluded that along with teacher's expectations, four other factors greatly impact academic achievement. These other four factors are (1) school demographics, (2) curriculum, (3) parental involvement, and (4) peer pressure. These factors were observed through casual conversations with African-American male high school students in a large midwestern area. The observational analysis suggests that improvement in these areas will help …

Group Cohesiveness Represented Through A Multidimensional Analysis Of Group Improvisations, Rosemary Hakes

Masters Theses

This research examined the particular aspect of group process, group cohesiveness, through an electroacoustic analysis of group musical improvisations. The musical parameter, amplitude, was displayed and compared to independent judges' ratings of group cohesiveness. The interrater reliability for ratings of group cohesiveness vs. noncohesiveness was very high (100%). The interrater reliability for the degree of group cohesiveness or non-cohesiveness was, given the small number of examples used, adequate (80%). The improvisations rated cohesive by the judges also matched in rank order placement. The two dimensions of the amplitude patterns that were relevant to this study were density and form. These …

Biology: What One Needs To Know, Ursula Goodenough

Biology Faculty Research

Biology on this planet represents an astonishing experiment in carbon-based chemistry which, over billions of years, has generated billions of species adapted to countless major and minor fluctuations in ecological circumstances. In one sense there is no way to generalize about biology. While biological activities can all be ultimately explained by physical laws (like everything else in the universe), it is the emergent intensely particular properties of organisms that most interest us. This essay represents an attempt to describe some of the more prominent patterns that emerge from the sea of biological particularities, patterns that present many opportunities for religious …

Table Of Contents - Cardozo Law Review, Volume 18, Issue 3

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

National Laws And International Markets: Strategies Of Cooperation And Harmonization In The Enforcement Of Competition Law, Spencer Weber Waller

Cardozo Law Review

This Article contrasts how two leading competition law systems, the United States and the European Union ("EU"), have reacted to the growing internationalization of markets and the relative decline of the ability of any single jurisdiction to regulate transnational business behavior. For reasons unique to their respective histories, cultures, and politics, these two jurisdictions have adopted very different strategies for dealing with this problem.

The Nature And Structure Of The State, Hermann Heller

Cardozo Law Review

The question of the "purpose" of the state has been a permanent and fundamental problem of all theories of the state ever since Aristotle opened his Politics with the theory of the purpose of the state and placed this sentence at its head: pasa koinonia agathou tivos heneka sunesteken. It was left to the Romantics to contest for the first time the appropriateness of this question and to maintain that the state "just as the plant and the animal" is selfdirected. From that time on, theories have neglected the question of the purpose of the state. They decline to …