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Requirement Elicitation For Environmental Life Cycle Processes, Mariam Y. Burmawalla

Theses

To develop a user-satisfying product the most essential ingredient is to understand user's needs and expectations from the system. Lack of communication between the user and the developer results in an unsatifying output from the user's point of view. Thus proper understanding between the stakeholder and the developer is the most important requirement during the development of any system.

Requirement elicitation process is one such means of expressing wants and requirements from the system by both the parties. Based on Software Engineering Institute's model, requirement elicitation is a web-based application that allows all the people involved in the system to …

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Coagulation And Metabolic Studies, William Usinode Atiomo

Peninsula Medical School Theses

The polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a heterogeneous disorder in women characterised by chronic ovulatory failure, hyperandrogenaemia, and insulin resistance. Some women are completely asymptomatic and others present with extreme menstrual disturbance, severe hirsutism, infertility and recurrent miscarriage. The pathophysiology of PCOS is not completely understood, but it is thought that insulin resistance plays a central role. In normal subjects, non-diabetic obese patients and patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes, insulin resistance is associated with elevated plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) levels. PAI-1 is a glycoprotein, which inhibits the formation of plasmin (a proteolytic enzyme). Plasmin aids fibrinolysis and extracellular proteolysis. High …

1001 Beauty Secrets, Gerri Jardine

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Paying Attention| Time And Form In The Work Of James Galvin, Henrietta S. Goodman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Tornadoes And Other Quarrels, Sandy Woodson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Integration Of Real-Time Air Pollution Parameters Into The Decision Making Process Regarding Highway Construction Work Zone Traffic Flow Requirements (Phase 1), Ouattara Fatogoma, Todd A. Premo, Robert Bertram Jacko

JTRP Technical Reports

The Midac Fourier Transform Infrared air monitoring system was used to measure real-time vehicular exhaust emission concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbons (HCs) during the Purdue Vehicle Emission Monitoring and Modeling Project (PVEMP) conducted in spring and summer 1997. The experiments took place on the Borman Expressway, in Gary. Indiana and on 1-65, south of Lafayette, Indiana Concurrently, two speed-readings were acquired from the passing vehicles in the vicinity of the air monitoring system using a hand-held laser gun. The speeds were integrated to determine the speeds and accelerations of the passing vehicles at the spectrometer. An 8-mm camcorder …

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Turkish Journal of Botany

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White Light Interferometric Surface Profiler, Vincent Toal, Brian Bowe

Articles

We describe an optical system for 3-D profilometry based on the white light interferometer. We detail a simple way to construct a profiler that uses two simple algorithms which deal efficiently and quickly with the data. The system has a theoretically unlimited range and can deal with rough and smooth surfaces

The Origin Of Clay Minerals In Salina Playa-Mudflat Facies,Yeniçubuk Formation (Lower-Middle Miocene), Gemerek, Sivas, Türkiye, İbrahim Türkmen, Cemal Bölücek

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The playa-mudflat facies under investigation are found in the Gemerek Basin (Sivas, Türkiye). This Miocene basin is bordered by the Akdağ Metamorphics (Paleozoic) to the N-NW, the Elmalıdağ Volcanic Rocks (Thanetian) to the E and clastic rocks and evaporites of the Cevizcik Formation (Oligocene) to the S-SW. Illite, palygorskite, smectites (montmorillonite, saponite and sauconite), chlorite (clinochlore) and serpentines had been studied using XRD analysis of mudstone samples. Illites and chlorites were found to have originated from marble, schists, granitic rocks, dioritic rocks and syenitic rocks of Akdağ Massif to the north. Palygorskite were formed in evaporitic basins by chemical sedimantation. …

Geochemistry And Origin Of The Oligocene Binkılıç Manganese Deposit;Thrace Basin, Turkey, Ali Haydar Gülteki̇n

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Many Oligocene Manganese deposits are found in the Trace basin, a Tertiary collisional-collapse type basin in the northwestern part of Turkey. All the mineralizations are originally sedimentary type. The most economically important deposits are around Çatalça; of these, the Binkılıç manganese ore occurs conformably within the Oligocene fossiliferous formations, as a stratiform type manganese deposit. The manganese ores at Binkiliç show a continuity along strike and consists of micro-to Cryptocrystalline pyrolusite, psilomelane, radial manganite, cryptomelane, wad, rhodochrosite and dispersed organic matter, calcite, feldspar, clay minerals, and quartz but generally only minor quantities of limonite and goethite. Mn oxides with variable …

Evidence For Damaging Historical Earthquakes At Priene, Western Turkey, Erhan Altunel

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The ancient cilty of Priene was one of the earliest Ionian settlements within the western part of the Büyük Menderes valley (the ancient Maeander River) and was first founded about 8 km in the east of the present site. The old Priene was probably destroyed by a destructive earthquake in the 350s BC and the city was shifted to the existing place in 350 BC. The new city contains an abundance of evidence related to earthquakes. The following evidence indicates that damaging earthquakes, occurred in the Büyük Menderes graben, caused great damage to the new Priene. (1) Part of the …

Petrology Of The Post-Collisional, Within-Plate Yıldızdağ Gabbroic Pluton, Yıldızeli-Sivas Region, Central Anatolia, Turkey, Durmuş Boztuğ, Mustafa Yağmur, Nazmi Otlu, Sibel Tatar, Akif Yeşi̇ltaş

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Yildizdag gabbroic pluton intrudes the Paleocene-Eocene Yakupoğlan formation which is imbricated with the ophiolitic melange of the northern branch of the Neo-Tethyan ocean, and the crustal metasediments of Kırsehir block or Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex. It is subdivided into some mapable subunits such as gabbroic main body, dioritic marginal facies and microdioritic dykes. Mineralogical-geochemical (major, some trace and REE) data reveal that the magnetite + olivine + augite + calcic plagioclase, and hornblende + biotite + intermediate (or sodic) plagioclase fractionation/accumulation has formed the gabbroic main body and dioritic rocks, respectively, during the solidification of a single mafic magma …

Application Of The Correspondence-Type Geostatistical Analysis On Theco, Ni, As, Ag And Au Concentrations Of The Listwaenites Fromserpentinites In The Divrigi And Kuluncak Ophiolitic Mélanges, Ali̇ Uçurum

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The main aim of this research was to find out correlation-if there is any-among Co, Ni, As, Ag and Au concentrations in three different listwaenite sampling sets in Divirigi and Hekimhan areas. The low temperature hydrothermal alteration of serpentinite bodies from the Divrigi and Kuluncak ophiolitic mélanges in the Cürek, Divrigi-Sivas, Güvenç and Karakuz areas, Hekimhan-Malatya, has formed two distinct types of listwaenite. Type I, is silica-carbonate listwaenite, which is dominated by silica+calcite+dolomite+ankerite±magnesite. Type II listwaenite bodies are carbonate listwaenite characterized by calcite+dolomite+ankerite ±magnesite, and lack any significant introduced silica. Correspondence-type geostatistical analysis has been thought to be the best …

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Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

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Crystallization Processes And Role Of Compositional Convection In Themacrolayer Formation In A Small Layered Complex, Bernard Plateovet

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Peloso complex is a 1000m thick gabbroic body composed of two main layered zones (ZA and ZB) that are made up of cyclic macrolayers of olivine gabbro, leucogabbronorite and anorthosite cumulates, and a third zone of unlayered quartz-gabbro (ZC) which may represent a residual liquid. Within a representative macrolayer, cryptic evolution of minerals can not be neglegted, showing that the crystallizing magma batch had a limited volume and was renewed between the formation of two successive macrolayers. The comparison between calculated parental magma density and densities of successive cumulates shows that the residual liquid was probably extracted by compositional …

Petrogenesis Of The Çiçekdağ Igneous Complex, N Of Kırşehir, Centralanatolia, Turkey, Sabah Yilmaz Şahi̇n, Durmuş Boztuğ

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Central Anatolia typically represents well-preserved geological features of a collision zone. This collision zone is characterized by some geological events occurred in the Anatolide passive margin of the Anatolide-Pontide collision along the Ankara Erzincan suture zone. This suture zone is commonly known to be formed by the pre-Maastrichtian northward subduction of the northern branch of Neo-Tethys beneath the Pontides which was constituting the southernmost tip of Eurasiain plate at that time. These geological occurrences are inverted metamorphism; ophiolitic slabs derived from main suture zone; syn-collisional and S/C ST type magmatism; post-collisional, high-K calcalkaline, hybrid and I/H LO type magmatism; post-collisional, …

Geochemical And Petrological Characteristics Of The Eastern Pontide Eocene (?) Alkaline Volcanic Province, Ne Turkey, Cüneyt Şen, Mehmet Arslan, Ali̇ Van

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Eastern Pontide Alkaline Volcanic Province is developed by volcanic cycles erupted in Cenozoic era. Petrographical and geochemical data suggest presence of at least two different suits of alkaline rocks (Tonya group and Trabzon group). Petrographically, both groups consist of alkali basalt, tephrite, phonolitic tephrite, basanite, nephelinite, nepheline latite and their pyroclastic rocks. Geochemically, Tonya samples have high MgO and Ni, low LREE contents and LILE/HFSE ratios compare to Trabzon group. Preliminary studies show that these two groups of rocks are related with low level differentiation and derived from a metasomatised mantle source.

Latest Cr Etaceous Magmatism In The Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex: Review Of Field, Petr Ographic And Geochemical Features, Nurdan S. Aydin, M. Cemal Göncüoğlu, Ayhan Erler

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Magmatic, metamorphic and ophiolitic rock assemblages in Central Anatolia ar e collectively named as the Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex (CACC). Magmatic rocks form significant portion of the CACC and display a range of fabrics, mineralogies and compositions. However , composite granitoid intrusions, such as the Yozgat, Agaçör en, Ekecikdağ and Cefalıkdağ, dominate the geology of the complex. Overall, ther e ar e two main types of Central Anatolian Granitoids (CAG): a) the C-type (crustal) leucog ranites and b) the H-type (hybrid) hornblende ± K-feldspar megacrysts ± mafic micr ogranular enclave bearing granites. The emplacement of granitoid magmatism was followed by …

Alkali Basalts From The Galatia Volcanic Complex, Nw Central Anatolia, Turkey, Ayla Tankut, Ni̇lgün Güleç, Marjorie Wilson, Vedat Toprak, Yilmaz Savaşçin, Orhan Akiman

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Alkali basalts occur as small lava flows associated with the andesitic lava flows and pyroclastics of Early to Middle Miocene age which are the main constituents of the Galatia volcanic complex. The northern margin of the complex is bordered by the North Anatolian Fault wher eas the southern margin is surrounded by a continental sedimentary sequence which interfingers with the volcanics. New K-Ar age determinations of the basalts reveal that alkali basalts erupted at two differ ent periods of time: Early Miocene and Late Miocene. The Lower Miocene basalts are contemporaneous with the major phase of the andesitic volcanism in …

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Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

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Signal Processing Topics In Multicarrier Modulation : Frequency Offset Correction For Ofdm And Multiuser Interference Cancellation For Mc-Cdma, Pingping Zong

Theses

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is discussed as a special form of multi-carrier modulation (MCM). One major problem of the OFDM system is the sensitivity to an unknown frequency offset at the receiver. To improve the performance of the OFDM system, correction of the frequency offset is required before decision making. An adaptive method of frequency offset correction is presented. The adaptation algorithm used here is based on the LMS and the estimation is proven unbiased. A multiuser communications system having similar signal structure to the OFDM system, termed as multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA), is discussed. The MC-CDMA …

Agricultural Water Quality Index, Jeffrey Cooper, Richard Rediske, Melvin Northup, Mark Thogerson, Jonathan Van Denend

Scientific Technical Reports

The primary purpose of the Agricultural Water Quality Index (AWQI) is to provide the agricultural community with a practical technical method for conducting cost-effective water quality assessments of rivers and streams in agroecosystems. The protocols presented have been derived from extensive literature review and the results of field research in agroecosystems performed during the summer of 1997 by the authors of this index. This assessment tool is not intended to replace those already in use by state agencies or to be used without regional modifications.

An Analysis Of The Pedagogical Methods Of Hindu Gurus, Pearl Anjanee Gyan Edd

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the pedagogical methods of Hindu gurus that could be applicable to elementary school teaching for the inner development of students. With severe cutbacks to classroom instruction and demands by economic, political, and educational leaders for education to produce a highly skilled work force for the future of the economy, teachers are forced to use precision teaching for measurable learning. The review of the literature in this study presented a historiography of Western pedagogical methods. It showed how Western teaching methods have been defined by the seventeenth-century Newtonian objectivistic-reductionistic-mechanistic paradigm and later enforced …

Evidence, Economics, And Ethics: What Information Should Jurors Be Given To Determine The Amount Of A Punitive Damage Award?, David Crump

Maryland Law Review

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Punitive Awards After Bmw, A New Capping System, And The Reported Opinion Bias, Theodore Eisenberg, Martin T. Wells

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Capping punitive damages awards is a centerpiece of the tort reform movement. According to the American Tort Reform Association, as of June 30, 1996, forty-three states allowed punitive damages awards. Of these, twenty-nine states impose no caps on punitive damages and fourteen impose some form of cap. In states that cap punitive awards, the preferred method is to employ a simple multiple of the compensatory award. Eleven states rely on a multiple of the compensatory damages award. The most popular multiple is three times the compensatory award, but this is used by only five states. The capping multiples range from …

Western Australian Fisheries - Key Achievements 1997-1998, Fisheries Western Australia

Fisheries Published Reports

The WA fishing community can look back at the past year with considerable satisfaction.

Close partnership arrangements between Government, industry, the community and Fisheries Western Australia have both consolidated and advanced the State's position at the forefront of sustainable management of marine environments and fish resources.

Together, commercial fishing and recreational fishing make 􀁚 annual $1.5 billion contribution to the Western Australian economy. Through a carefully balanced portfolio of policies and initiatives the Coalition is making sure that both sectors continue to prosper, while at the same time ensuring that future generations inherit a marine environment which we are all …

Focus On The Future Agriculture Western Australia's Strategic Directions 1998 - 2008, Agriculture Western Australia

Reports

Strong growth in global demand combined with productivity gains, product innovation and sustainability improvements throughout the 1990s enable Western Australia agriculture to look to the 21st century with confidence.

This optimistic outlook is largely the result of innovation across the agricultural industries based on research, development and extension - activities in which Agriculture Western Australia continues to be the State's leading provider.

Focus on the Future is ambitious, and sends a unequivocal message about our strategic directions and the rationale guiding the agency in allocating resources to those areas which offer the biggest benefits to the Western Australian agriculture, food …

Notes On Pki And Digital Negotiability: Would The Cybercourier Carry Luggage, Walter Effross

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Mechanistic Studies Of Cation Photogeneration, Mary Frances Clifton

Dissertations

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Effects Of Physical And Chemical Properties Of Bright And Dull Coal Lithotypes On The Formation Of Char Particles, Chad G. Tomforde

Theses and Dissertations

The Energy and Environmental Research Center is working with EPRI and a consortium of companies in partnership with DOE to determine factors causing sticky ash to blind or bridge hot-gas cleanup filters. In this study, bright and dull lithotypes were separated from bituminous, subbituminous and lignitic coals to determine physical and chemical properties that may lead to the formation of different charforms, and consequently, fine and sticky ash that is problematic in coal-fired combustion systems.

Proximate and ultimate, maceral, and energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) analyses were used to characterize each lithotype. A bench-scale pressurized fluidized-bed reactor (PFBR) was used …