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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 022, Number 14, November 3, 1997, Grand Valley State University

1997-1998, Volume 22

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Bard Observer, Vol. 2, No. 4 (November 3, 1997), Bard College

Bard Observer - All Issues (1956 - Current)

"News is Whatever Sells Newspapers. The Observer is Free."

The Soul Of The Firm (Santa Fe, Nm), C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

This speech was delivered at the 1997 fall seminar of the Evangelical Christian Publishing Association in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In it Pollard addresses what he calls the "confusion" and "insecurity" felt by many Americans at the turn of the century. To remedy this situation the corporate leader must adopt a servant attitude, one that helps her prioritize the well-being of the people who make up any given institution.

Crossflow Microfiltration Of Recombinant Escherichia Coli Lysates After High Pressure Homogenization, Stuart M. Bailey, Michael M. Meagher

Papers in Biotechnology

Abstract: Crossflow membrane filtration was used to process recombinant Escherichia coli cell lysates containing protein inclusion bodies after high pressure homogenization. The number of passes through the high pressure homogenizer changed the viscosities and average particle sizes of the cell lysates. The different cell lysates were processed with a hollow fiber unit containing microfiltration membranes and a plate and frame unit with either ultrafiltration or microfiltration membranes. There were differences in permeate flux and protein transmission for the various membranes with the best performing membranes giving permeate fluxes greater than 60 L m−2 h−1 and protein transmissions greater than 90%. …

Role And Mission Statement - Western Region Space Grant, Hank Lehrer, Brent D. Bowen

NASA Western Space Grant

Role and Mission Statement - Western Region Space Grant (11/3/1997)

This Role and Mission Statement is for the express purpose of developing and enhancing future western region NASA Space Grant and EPSCoR educational partnerships with Native American populations, schools, faculty, and students.

Stronks, Bill Oral History Interview: Sesquicentennial Of Holland, "150 Stories For 150 Years", Geoffrey Reynolds

Sesquicentennial of Holland, "150 Stories for 150 Years"

No abstract provided.

November 3, 1997 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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From The Editor, Issue 16, 1997, Alvin White

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

The Reform Calculus Debate And The Psychology Of Learning Mathematics, James M. Cargal

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Teaching Mathematics Appreciation To Nonscience Majors, Josefina Alvarez

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Poems, David L. Finn

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Comments And Letters, Issue 16, 1997

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Complete Issue 16, 1997

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Principles Of Typography For The Screen, Tracy Glassman

Theses

For the past 500 years humans have been developing means of communication through the development of technology for producing and presenting pages of printed text to the reader. The idea of communicating with letters by the composition of a page grew from traditional manuscript writing of the 15th century to today's electronic portable document for the World Wide Web. But unlike the properties of ink on paper, computers, monitors and electronic documents pose many new and different problems which don't apply to paper. One of the major problems with viewing text on a monitor is resolution. Most monitors today have …

A Study Of Effect Of Crt Gamma And White Point On Softcopy And Hardcopy Agreement, Shih-Lung Kuo

Theses

DTP (Desk Top Publishing) professionals rely on CRT displays to provide visual feedback to adjust or to proof color prior to hardcopy. Solutions are now appearing in the market to meet this need. But the proper CRT calibration is still not clear to the end users. The objective of this work is to study the CRT setting in terms of gamma and white point; and to explore gamma and white point's effects on softcopy (CRT displayed image) and hardcopy (CMYK printed image) agreement. A number of CRT calibration experiments were performed. Two SCID (Standard Color Image Data) images were used …

Dentalgram - Vol. 11, No. 11, Loma Linda University School Of Dentistry

Dentalgram

In this issue:

• Student scholarships
• Annual LLUSD retreat
• Annual LLUSD picnic
• ADA/NASDAD meetings
• Newsnotes
• Dean's List
• Reports on Papua New Guinea and Ecuador mission trips
• Department news
• Thanksgiving baskets
• Dean's Christmas breakfast
• LLU/Inland Regional Center reception

Macalester Today November 1997, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Borsuk-Ulam Implies Brouwer: A Direct Construction, Francis E. Su

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided in this article.

Steps Toward Determination Of The Size And Structure Of The Broad-Line Region In Active Galactic Nuclei. Xi. Intensive Monitoring Of The Ultraviolet Spectrum Of Ngc 7469, I. Wanders, Bradley M. Peterson, D. Alloin, T.R. Ayres, J. Clavel, D. Michael Crenshaw, K. Horne, Gerard A. Kriss, Julian Henry Krolik, Matthew A. Malkan, Hagai Netzer, Paul T. O'Brien, G.A. Reichert, P.M. Rodriguez-Pascual, W. Wamsteker, T. Alexander, K. S.J. Anderson, E. Benitez, N.G. Bochkarev, A.N. Burenkov, F.-Z. Cheng, S.J. Collier, A. Comastri, M. Dietrich, D. Dultzin-Hacyan, B.R. Espey, A. V. Filippenko, C. Martin Gaskell, I.M. George, M.R. Goad, L.C. Ho, Shai Kaspi, W. Kollatschny, Kirk T. Korista, Ari Laor, G.M. Macalpine, M. Mignoli, S.L. Morris, K. Nandra, S. Penton, Richard William Pogge, R.L. Ptak, J.M. Rodriguez-Espinoza, M. Santos-Lleo, A.I. Shapovalova, J.M. Shull, Stephanie A. Snedden, L.S. Sparke, G.M. Stirpe, W.-H. Sun, T.J. Turner, M.-H. Ulrich, T.-G. Wang, C. Wei, W.F. Welsh, S.-J. Xue, Z.-L. Zhou

C. Martin Gaskell Publications

From 1996 June 10 to July 29, the International Ultraviolet Explorer monitored the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469 continuously in an attempt to measure time delays between the continuum and emission-line fluxes. From the time delays, one can estimate the size of the region dominating the production of the UV emission lines in this source. We find the strong UV emission lines to respond to continuum variations with time delays of about 2_.^d3-3_.^d1 for Lyα, 2_.^d7 for C _IV λ1549, 1_.^d9-2_.^d4 for N _IV λ …

From Fuzzification And Intervalization To Anglification: A New 5d Geometric Formalism For Physics And Data Processing, Scott A. Starks, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

No abstract provided.

A Situational Pedagogy For Elementary Mathematics, Vincent Haag

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

The Object And The Study Of Mathematics, Pinar Karaca

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Ethnomathematics--Challenging Eurocentrism Inmathematics Education, Edited Byarthur B. Powell And Marilyn Frankenstein, Karen Dee Michalowicz

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Subsidies In Oligopoly Markets: A Welfare Comparison Between Symmetric And Asymmetric Costs, Stephen F. Hamilton, Rickard Sandin

Economics

Oligopolistic industries generally produce less than is socially desirable. As a result, the use of production subsidies is often suggested as a means of raising production toward the efficient level in imperfectly competitive markets. In cases where firms are equally efficient in producing the good, the common prescription is a policy of uniform subsidization, as suggested by Besley (1989).(1) When firms in an industry differ in cost efficiency, however, uniform subsidization involves subsidizing inefficient firms in the same manner as efficient firms. Consequently, uniform policy may be undesirable from a social perspective, particularly when the price-cost margins of inefficient firms …

Teaching College Physics To A Blind Student, Michelle Parry, Mark Brazier, Ephraim Fischbach

Chemistry & Physics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Irrigation Performance Measures: Efficiency And Uniformity, Charles M. Burt, Albert J. Clemmens, Theodor S. Strelkoff, Kenneth H. Solomon, Ronald D. Bliesner, Leland A. Hardy, Terry A. Howell, Dean E. Eisenhauer

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

It is essential to standardize the definitions and approaches to quantifying various irrigation performance measures. The ASCE Task Committee on Defining Irrigation Efficiency and Uniformity provides a comprehensive examination of various performance indices such as irrigation efficiency, application efficiency, irrigation sagacity, distribution uniformity, and others. Consistency is provided among different irrigation methods and different scales. Clarification of common points of confusion is provided, and methods are proposed whereby the accuracy of numerical values of the performance indicators can be assessed. This issue has two companion papers that provide more detailed information on statistical distribution uniformity and the accuracy of irrigation …

Strawberry Valley Assessment, A Cooperative Project Between The Mitigation Commission & The U.S. Forest Service, Mitigation Commission, U.S. Forest Service

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

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Observational Evidence Of Wave Ducting And Evanescence In The Mesosphere, J. R. Isler, Michael J. Taylor, D. C. Fritts

All Physics Faculty Publications

A collaborative radar and imaging study of gravity waves over the Hawaiian Islands was performed during October 1993 as part of the Airborne Lidar and Observations of Hawaiian Airglow 1993/Coupling and Dynamics of Regions Equatorial (ALOHA-93/CADRE) campaign to investigate the propagation characteristics of short-period (<1 hour) waves at nightglow altitudes. The horizontal wavelengths and apparent phase speeds of quasi-monochromatic wave events were measured in four separate nightglow emissions using data obtained by a high-resolution CCD imager. This information was correlated with simultaneous MF radar wind measurements over the same height interval (∼80–100 km) to infer intrinsic wave parameters in each case. Correlating the two data sets allowed the determination of the local vertical wavenumber for each event, in particular whether it be real (indicative of freely propagating waves) or imaginary (indicative of ducted or evanescent waves). The results of this study indicate a preponderance of ducted or evanescent waves at 80–100 km during the time of the observations, with up to ∼75% of the events recorded exhibiting ducted or evanescent behavior. Also noted was a tendency for ducted behavior to be more prevalent among waves with shorter horizontal wavelengths, in agreement with Doppler ducting theory. These results suggest that ducted waves are relatively common in the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere region, at least over the mid-Pacific Ocean. As small-scale waves which are ducted have the potential to travel much longer horizontal distances than freely propagating waves, the frequency of their occurrence should be taken into account in efforts to quantify gravity wave effects at these altitudes.

Academic Science News & Reviews November 1997, Stony Brook University. Academic Science News & Reviews.

Academic Science News & Reviews

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Ua11/1 On Campus, Vol. 7, No. 8, Wku University Relations

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. Regular features are:

• College News
• Sponsored Programs
• Hot off the Press
• Personnel File
• Coming Up - Calendar of Events

This issue includes articles:

• $20 Million Grant to Assist Head Start Programs - WKU Training & Technical Assistance Services
• Reception to Honor Kentucky Poet Laureate Joy Bale Boone
• Dr. Jim Ramsey Will Head New Center for Public Policy Studies
• Kiwanis Contributes to Scholarship Fund
• Groves, Chris. When the Pits Become the Payoff - WKU Center for Cave & Karst Studies
• She's Now an Ironman! - Libby Greaney …