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Spectrum, Volume 15, Number 12, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Students fight for their right to party -- Changing of the guard in student government -- Crime on rise at Taft -- East Hall decision awaits -- Job possibilities arrive on Career Day -- SHU reaps benefits of Pitt Center -- Herman's book praises Jewish heroes -- Is love more important than time alone -- SHU chorale performs annual holiday concert -- Woman's basketball on five game winning streak

December 10, 1997 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, December 10, 1997

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Learning To See Analogies: A Connectionist Exploration, Douglas S. Blank

Computer Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

The goal of this dissertation is to integrate learning and analogy-making. Although learning and analogy-making both have long histories as active areas of research in cognitive science, not enough attention has been given to the ways in which they may interact. To that end, this project focuses on developing a computer program, called Analogator, that learns to make analogies by seeing examples of many different analogy problems and their solutions. That is, it learns to make analogies by analogy. This approach stands in contrast to most existing computational models of analogy in which particular analogical mechanisms are assumed a priori …

Spartan Daily, December 10, 1997, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 109, Issue 69

Markovian Decision Control For Traffic Signal Systems, Xiao-Hua Yu, Allen R. Stubberud

Electrical Engineering

Setting signals at intersections to minimize the queue length and vehicle delay time is a key goal in traffic management. In this paper, a new control strategy for a signalized traffic intersection is developed by applying Markovian decision control theory. Statistical analysis of simulation results with different arrival rates indicate the excellent potential of this approach.

Audit Of The Department Of Energy's Contracts With Envirocare Of Utah, Inc., U.S. Department Of Energy, Office Of Inspector General, Office Of Audit Services, Eastern Regional Audit Office

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

The Department of Energy (Department) is responsible for protecting human health and the environment by providing an effective and efficient system that treats, stores, and disposes of Departmental waste. The Department disposes of some of its waste at Envirocare of Utah, Inc., (Envirocare) a commercial treatment and disposal facility in Clive, Utah. The audit objective was to determine whether the Department and its contractors were using the most favorable rates available for the disposal of waste at Envirocare.

We found that the Department's contractors did not always use the most favorable rates available. Although volume discounts were available under Departmentwide …

Dekel Computer Engineering Services Ltd. V. Heshev Inter-Kibbutz, Tova Strasberg-Cohen, Dorit Beinisch, Jacob Turkel

Translated Opinions

Facts: Appellant sued respondent for damages under the Copyright Ordinance, arguing that respondent had copied several price lists that appellant had published in at least eleven different booklets. The district court found that the respondent, despite copying from several different sources, had, for the purposes of section 3A of the Copyright Ordinance, only committed one single act of infringement. The district court also held that once appellant had failed to prove actual damages, it could not sue for statutory damages.

Held: The Court held that, for the purposes of section 3A of the Copyright Ordinance, an "infringement" should be interpreted …

Stony Brook Press, V. 19, N. 08, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 19, n. 08, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

Energy Secretariat Announces New Infrastructure Projects For 1998, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

Optimal Block Encoding And Optimal Entropy For Lossless Image Compression, Larry Ray Dennis

Dissertations and Theses

In this thesis, a novel approach is designed using a quad-tree stack structure to encode the image to determine the optimal block size at the optimal and effective entropy in the lossless image compression method. Proof is given through encoding of the predictor and randomly constructed planes. There is a high degree of relationship between the placement of bits in the planes. Clearly results shows that use of the optimal entropy and encoding block sizes will increase the compression ratio using the lossless method. The cost of using the block size methods to encoding and entropy is discussed and proven. …

Bias And The Probability Of Generalization, Tony R. Martinez, D. Randall Wilson

Faculty Publications

In order to be useful, a learning algorithm must be able to generalize well when faced with inputs not previously presented to the system. A bias is necessary for any generalization, and as shown by several researchers in recent years, no bias can lead to strictly better generalization than any other when summed over all possible functions or applications. This paper provides examples to illustrate this fact, but also explains how a bias or learning algorithm can be “better” than another in practice when the probability of the occurrence of functions is taken into account. It shows how domain knowledge …

The Daily Egyptian, December 10, 1997, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 1997

No abstract provided.

Banner News, Moses Lueth, R.J. Brogden, Lorraine Powell, Michelle Reiff, Joanne Johnson, Patrice Harson, Brent West, Jason D. Van Arkel, Jason Rearick

Banner News

No abstract provided.

The Missouri Miner, December 10, 1997

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

Ke Alakai, Vol. 53, No. 15 (1997-12-10), Brigham Young University Hawaii

Ke Alaka'i

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, December 10, 1997

Central Florida Future

Home for the holidays: Airlines suffer from discounts and rule bending; GLBSU considers lawsuit against SG; Bookstore writes a new chapter.

The Bg News December 10, 1997, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 10, 1997. Volume 80-Issue 71.

Business Briefs: Toys In Informal Economy, Film Industry Success, New Ford Plant, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

A Unification Between Nonlinear-Nonquadratic Optimal Control And Integrator Backstepping, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Wassim M. Haddad, Jerry L. Fausz, Vijaya-Sekhar Chellaboina

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper we develop an optimality-based framework for backstepping controllers. Specifically, using a nonlinear-nonquadratic optimal control framework we develop a family of globally stabilizing backstepping controllers parametrized by the cost functional that is minimized. Furthermore, it is shown that the control Lyapunov function guaranteeing closed-loop stability is a solution to the steady-state Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for the controlled system and thus guarantees both optimality and stability. The results are specialized to the case of integrator backstepping.

12-09-97 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 15, Issue 13)

1997 -- 1998

No abstract provided.

Silica Gel: An Experiment In Surface Area, Scott Vermullen

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Within the paper industry today, there are advancements in technology every year, every month, most likely every day as well. These new technologies work to obtain the same major goals. These goals include faster machine speeds for improved output. They-include less, pollution, and in fact are working towards a pollutant free system. And finally, product quality for today's high demanding consumer market.

To realize these goals, paper makers must effectively utilize the most amount of fiber and filler possible in their sheet. That is, they must bind up fines and filler within the sheet rather than sending it to the …

Properties Of Grb Host Galaxies, Dieter H. Hartmann, David L. Band

Publications

The transients following GRB970228 and GRB970508 showed that these (and probably all) GRBs are cosmological. However, the host galaxies expected to be associated with these and other bursts are largely absent, indicating that either bursts are further than expected or the host galaxies are underluminous. This apparent discrepancy does not invalidate the cosmological hypothesis, but instead host galaxy observations can test more sophisticated models.

Air Quality. Tax Credits.

Initiatives

AIR QUALITY. TAX CREDITS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE. Authorizes State Air Resources Board, and delegated air pollution control districts, to award $218 million in state tax credits annually, until January 2011, to encourage air-emissions reduction through acquisition, conversion, and retrofitting of vehicles and heavy-duty trucks; hearth products; construction vehicles and equipment; lawn, garden equipment; ambient air pollution destruction technology; off-road, nonrecreational vehicles; port equipment; agricultural waste and rice straw conversion facilities; and through research and development. Requires study of air quality market-based incentive program for prescribed burning projects. Establishes local transportation funds as trust funds. Summary of estimate by …

Tax Credits. Air Quality.

Initiatives

TAX CREDITS. AIR QUALITY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE. Authorizes State Air Resources Board, and delegated air pollution control districts, to award $218 million in state tax credits annually, until January 2011, to expedite and encourage air-emissions reduction through acquisition, conversion, and retrofitting of vehicles and heavy-duty trucks; hearth products; construction vehicles and equipment; lawn and garden equipment; pumps and generators; ambient air pollution destruction technology; off-road, nonrecreational vehicles; port equipment; agricultural waste and rice straw conversion facilities; and through research and development. Requires study for air quality market-based incentive program for prescribed burning projects. Summary of estimate by Legislative …

Air Quality Improvement. Tax Credits.

Initiatives

AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT. TAX CREDITS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Authorizes State Air Resources Board, and delegated air pollution control districts, to award $218 million in state tax credits annually, until January 2011, to encourage air-emissions reduction through acquisition, conversion, and retrofitting of vehicles, buses, and heavy-duty trucks; hearth products; construction vehicles and equipment; lawn and garden equipment; ambient air pollution destruction technology; off-road, nonrecreational vehicles; port equipment; agricultural waste and rice straw conversion facilities; and through research and development. Requires study of air quality market-based incentive program for prescribed burning projects. Establishes local transportation funds as trust funds. Summary of estimate by …

Air-Emissions. Tax Credits.

Initiatives

AIR-EMISSIONS. TAX CREDITS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Authorizes State Air Resources Board, and delegated air pollution control districts, to award $218 million in state tax credits annually, until January 2011, to encourage air-emissions reduction through acquisition, conversion, and retrofitting of vehicles, buses, and heavy-duty trucks; hearth products; construction vehicles and equipment; lawn and garden equipment; pumps and generators; ambient air pollution destruction technology; off-road, nonrecreational vehicles; port equipment; agricultural waste and rice straw conversion facilities; and through research and development. Requires study for air quality market-based incentive program for prescribed burning projects. Requires Board to adopt regulations. Summary of estimate by Legislative …

The Pan American (1997-12-09), Mark M. Milam

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

46th Year, No. 27

Appendix 1: Authors' Affiliations

Symposium on Double-Crested Cormorants: Population Status and Management Issues in the Midwest

Authors' affiliations

Employers Swarming To College Campuses, On-Campus Recruiting Up 36 Percent At University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that Jeff Stamen has accepted a job with Midmark Corp. in Versailles.