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醫學工程：整合台灣大學醫學與工程教育的基石, 啟萬 林, 淵如 曾 Dec 1998

醫學工程：整合台灣大學醫學與工程教育的基石, 啟萬 林, 淵如 曾

Journal of Medical Education

醫學工程的廣泛定義是以物理與數學的觀念方法有規劃地去解決生命科學的問題，而實際的醫學工程則包括應用電機、電子、機械、化工、光學、材料、等其他工程原理於暸解、修改、或控制生物系統（人與動物），以致於設計、製造、用於監測患者生理功能與協助診斷、治療程序之儀器與設備。有鑑於此一醫工領域的多樣性與整合性，本院醫學工程研究中心自八十七年八月一日起正式改制為醫學院與工學院合設之醫學工程研究所，為本校醫學工程敎育設立重要的里程碑。値此重要轉型時刻，實有必要依國內現況對未來之課程、研究領域與學生之生涯規劃提出說明，作為將來敎學與研究的方針。

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The Conference Proceedings Of The 1998 Air Transport Research Group (Atrg) Of The Wctr Society, Volume 3 , Tae Hoon Oum, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute Dec 1998

The Conference Proceedings Of The 1998 Air Transport Research Group (Atrg) Of The Wctr Society, Volume 3 , Tae Hoon Oum, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute

Faculty Books and Monographs

UNOAI Report 98-8

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Bridgewater Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, December 1998 Dec 1998

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, December 1998

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

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The Novelist As Historian, Michael Boyd Dec 1998

The Novelist As Historian, Michael Boyd

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

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Monetary Policy In Russia, Tomas J. T. Balino Dec 1998

Monetary Policy In Russia, Tomas J. T. Balino

Documents

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Collaborative Writing : Professional Accounts, Personal Discoveries, Lisa A. Mirando Dec 1998

Collaborative Writing : Professional Accounts, Personal Discoveries, Lisa A. Mirando

Digitized Theses and Dissertations (prior to 2008)

A portfolio submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a degree of Masters of Arts in Professional Writing in the Department of English in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kennesaw State University

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Number 2, 1998, Palara Editors Dec 1998

Number 2, 1998, Palara Editors

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association

Complete Issue

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Toxicologist William Benson Named Fellow Of World's Largest Federation Of Scientists, Rick Hynum Dec 1998

Toxicologist William Benson Named Fellow Of World's Largest Federation Of Scientists, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Dr. William Benson of The University of Mississippi has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest federation of scientific and engineering societies.

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Ole Miss Facilitates Use Of New Technology To Promote More Cost-Effective Highway Programs, Elaine Pugh Dec 1998

Ole Miss Facilitates Use Of New Technology To Promote More Cost-Effective Highway Programs, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

... Specialists from seven states to attend Oxford workshop

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Genuflect, Gentlemen And Other Stories, Matt B. Mullins Dec 1998

Genuflect, Gentlemen And Other Stories, Matt B. Mullins

Dissertations

Genuflect, Gentlemen is a novella-Iength work of fiction in which Dan Mooney, a recovering drug-addict and former rock star, has a religious awakening that inspires him to write a journal as an attempt to find meaning in his past. This journal, a soapbox for Dan’s newly realized philosophies, focuses primarily in his troublesome experiences as a student at an all-boys Catholic boarding high school; it is essentially Dan’s version of the “story” of those years just before his fame when music was replacing religion as the center of his spirituality. The ultimate conclusion Dan reaches through the reconsideration of that …

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An Image Model Based On Occluding Object Images And Maximum Entropy, John A. Stuller, Rahul Shah Dec 1998

An Image Model Based On Occluding Object Images And Maximum Entropy, John A. Stuller, Rahul Shah

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This Paper Introduces a Statistical Image Model based on Occlusion and Maximum Entropy. the Statistical Model Combines a Fundamental Property of Image Formation, Occlusion, with Both Object-Image Shape and Nonuniform Object-Image Intensity. the Model is a Composition of Individual Object-Images that Have Random Positions, Shapes, and Intensities, and that Occlude Both Background and One Another. We Derive the Autocorrelation and Second-Order Probability Density Functions of This Model and Give Several Examples. © 1998 IEEE.

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Operational Report 1998, University Of Montana--Missoula Dec 1998

Operational Report 1998, University Of Montana--Missoula

University of Montana Annual Financial Reports, 1918-2012

University of Montana annual financial report for fiscal year ending June 30, 1998.

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Vol 43 #3, Heidi M. Nickisch Dec 1998

Vol 43 #3, Heidi M. Nickisch

MPLA Newsletter

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Determination Of The Tensile And Shear Strengths Of Screws And The Effect Of Screw Patterns On Cold-Formed Steel Connections, Marc Allen Sokol, Roger A. Laboube, Wei-Wen Yu Dec 1998

Determination Of The Tensile And Shear Strengths Of Screws And The Effect Of Screw Patterns On Cold-Formed Steel Connections, Marc Allen Sokol, Roger A. Laboube, Wei-Wen Yu

CCFSS Library (1939 - present)

PREFACE This report summarizes two studies related to the design of cold-formed steel connections. The study topics included the creation of a test standard for determining the strength of a screw, and the determination of the strength of a screw connection. A standard test protocol does not exist for determining the strength of a screw. Today, manufacturers use test protocols developed for their products. Thus, there is no consistency in defining the structural performance of a screw. A test standard has been developed. The standard used as its model the American Society of Testing and Material's F 606, Standard Test …

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164th Infantry News: December 1998, 164th Infantry Association Dec 1998

164th Infantry News: December 1998, 164th Infantry Association

164th Infantry Regiment Publications

December 1998 edition of the 164th Infantry News. A total of 28 pages, containing news articles, event notices, photographs, and personal memories from the veterans of the 164th Infantry Regiment.

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Durability Of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Wrap System For The Rehabilitation Of Concrete Structures, Sachin Kshirsagar Dec 1998

Durability Of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Wrap System For The Rehabilitation Of Concrete Structures, Sachin Kshirsagar

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The objective of this research was the investigation of the durability of composite materials employed for rehabilitation of concrete bridge piers. Standard concrete cylinders (4&inches; x 8&inches; in dimensions) wrapped with 1 layer of glass fabric embedded in an epoxy resin matrix were used to simulate the field situation. Wet lay-up method was used to wrap the concrete cylinders where the epoxy also served the purpose of bonding the composite to the concrete. Specimens were subjected to six different accelerated aging conditions: (i) pH 9.4, 73°F; (ii) pH 12.4, 73°F; (iii) pH 12.4, 150°F; (iv) pH 7.0, 150°F; (v) Dry …

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Semi-Automated Modeling Approaches To Route Selection In Gis, Binfei Chen Dec 1998

Semi-Automated Modeling Approaches To Route Selection In Gis, Binfei Chen

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

As an alternative to traditional graphical intuitive approaches (GIA), a semi-automated modeling approach (SMA) can more efficiently identify linear routes by using powerful iterative and automated methods. In this research, two case studies were investigated to examine critical issues relating to the accuracy and effectiveness of raster-defined algorithmic approaches to linear route location. The results illustrate that different shortest-path algorithms do not necessarily result in markedly different linear routes. However, differing results can occur when using different neighboring-cell links in the cell-based route network construction. Cell-based algorithmic approaches in both Arc/Info and IDRISI software generate very similar results which are …

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Interoperable Components Across Multiple Component Architectures, Ravi S. Banda Dec 1998

Interoperable Components Across Multiple Component Architectures, Ravi S. Banda

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A component is a pre-fabricated, pre-tested software object that provides clients with a well-defined set of services. Component software requires an architecture through which any developer or vendor can deliver a component at any time and have that component become immediately useful to applications on any given system. A system that supports component software must therefore support a generic service abstraction that is, an architecture that defines how all types of components appear and how they are manipulated. As part of the thesis various component architectures COM, JavaBeans and CORBA have been studied and the interoperability issues between the components …

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Droplet Coalescence In The Shear Flow Of Model Emulsions, Adam Abdallah Al-Mulla Dec 1998

Droplet Coalescence In The Shear Flow Of Model Emulsions, Adam Abdallah Al-Mulla

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

During the flow of an emulsion, droplets of the dispersed phase can deform, breakup, coalesce or migrate to other regions within the flow field. Understanding these different processes, both individually and jointly, is relevant, for example, to the development of morphology in immiscible liquid-liquid systems such as polymer blends formulated using single screw or twin screw extruders. While deformation and breakup have been well researched for single drops, migration occurs only for concentrated emulsions. In this study, dilute emulsions of silicone oil and castor oil were employed to observe drop coalescence in the absence of drop breakup; flow fields utilized …

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Real-Time Multimedia-Based Education Through The Internet, Abhay Arun Bakshi Dec 1998

Real-Time Multimedia-Based Education Through The Internet, Abhay Arun Bakshi

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The rapid advances in computer and communications technologies are challenging the American education systems to provide increased educational opportunities beyond the traditional geographic boundaries at a reasonable cost. Many educational institutions are answering this challenge by developing distance education programs. Distance education provides effective learning environment. An important requirement for effective distance education is the availability of continuous interactivity and immediate feedback. Over the Internet, synchronous sharing of multimedia content introduces unacceptable delays as network bandwidth is limited. In this thesis, the issue of Internet bandwidth is minimized and a novel system is developed for distance education using multimedia course …

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Computational Modeling Of Brittle Impact Erosion Mechanisms, Shanmuga Sundaram Balasubramaniyam Dec 1998

Computational Modeling Of Brittle Impact Erosion Mechanisms, Shanmuga Sundaram Balasubramaniyam

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Materials are subjected to an erosion-corrosion environment in a wide range of applications today. Elevated temperatures promote the formation of oxide layers in jet engines. In fluidized bed boilers, the bed materials and piping of slurries and caustic materials cause erosion and corrosion. The process of erosion-corrosion may result in material loss and damage. Proper analytical modeling of the erosion-corrosion processes validated by experiments is needed to estimate the extent of damage in the material.;Empirical relations are available in the literature for predicting the amount of material loss due to erosion. These are obtained by conducting large number of experiments. …

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Impedance Effects Of Metallic Ground Plane On The Ctha Antenna, Tao Guan Dec 1998

Impedance Effects Of Metallic Ground Plane On The Ctha Antenna, Tao Guan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

As with the fast-paced development of the communication industry, antennas have become an indispensable part of daily life. However, everyone may have experienced the malfunction of a communication system or radio due to a nearby human body or building or automobile. Then comes the question of how adjacent objects influence the antenna. This thesis has concentrated on the study of these effects on the impedance of the CTHA (contrawound toroidal helical antenna).;The results of this study indicate the CTHA's input impedance changes as a damped sinusoid function of the distance between it and the metallic ground plane. For equivalent distances …

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Experimental And Modeling Studies On A Catalytic Packed Bed Membrane Reactor, Ashutosh G. Deshpande Dec 1998

Experimental And Modeling Studies On A Catalytic Packed Bed Membrane Reactor, Ashutosh G. Deshpande

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In the present work, the effects of operating conditions in a catalytic packed bed membrane reactor were investigated with the reactant gases H 2 and CO flowing through the membrane tube, and an inert gas N 2 flowing on the outside. The reaction under study was methanol synthesis with BASF catalyst, and a gamma-alumina membrane with a nominal pore size of 40 A was used.;Preliminary experiments were carried out in the membrane reactor without any catalyst inside membrane to characterize it in terms of its flux, permeance, and selectivity of H2 over CO. Experiments were carried out in the packed …

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Development Of A Heavy-Duty Vehicle Chassis Dynamometer Test Route, James Joseph Daley Dec 1998

Development Of A Heavy-Duty Vehicle Chassis Dynamometer Test Route, James Joseph Daley

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A heavy duty vehicle chassis dynamometer driving route, titled "City-Suburban Heavy Vehicle Route" (CSHVR) was developed. Data for designing the CSHVR were collected using a Campbell Scientific 21x. Procedures were developed to reduce statistically the speed and time data into representative speed vs. time cycles. Criteria for producing the speed vs. time cycles included average vehicle speed, standard deviation of vehicle speed and total cruise time. The speed vs. time cycle was converted into a speed vs. distance route with free acceleration ramps. Using this method, the CSHVR was developed. Testing of the CSHVR was completed using the West Virginia …

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Determination And Analysis Of Natural Gas Vehicle Tailpipe Emissions Based On Continuous Cvs Measurement, Jingang Fu Dec 1998

Determination And Analysis Of Natural Gas Vehicle Tailpipe Emissions Based On Continuous Cvs Measurement, Jingang Fu

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Code of Federal Regulations Title 40 (CFR-40) specified a formula for calculating constant Dilution Factor (DF) to account for background pollutants in Constant Volume Sampler (CVS) emissions measurement system. However, it is recognized that the DF is dynamically changing due to the CVS mechanism. Based on the continuous measurement data obtained from natural gas vehicle emissions testing, a new approach was used in this study to calculate instantaneous DF of the CVS system during the test cycle. Using the instantaneous DF improves the accuracy of mass emission measurements, especially when the exhaust pollutant concentrations were approaching that in the ambient …

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Determination Of Resistance Across Development Section Return Stoppings, James Robert Gandy Dec 1998

Determination Of Resistance Across Development Section Return Stoppings, James Robert Gandy

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis describes a ventilation engineering study to determine the resistance across return stoppings on continuous miner development sections. By determining the resistance across return stoppings, one equivalent resistance branch can be created to model leakage across a return stopping line on a development section. This thesis evaluates four types of return stoppings to determine which construction techniques and materials provide the highest resistance, thus allowing minimal leakage from the intake to return entry.;The first phase of the thesis outlines the data gathering process including; station locations, equipment requirements and techniques. Second, the data is used to create a model …

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Implementation Of Courseware For Internet Delivery, Sohail Ramzan Khan Dec 1998

Implementation Of Courseware For Internet Delivery, Sohail Ramzan Khan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A process centered environment for implementing courseware is presented. The proposed environment addresses some of the constraints in the existing state of the art technology, presently used for distance education. The environment interface is developed using MS FrontPage 98 web development software. The thesis describes the design and implementation of the environment, which is named WVUCT. WVUCT utilizes MS NetMeeting software as a mode for interacting with the students in many different ways. WVUCT uses MS FrontPage 98 for developing a web-based course. The course web once developed using the environment can be published to any httpd server for student's …

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Rheological Properties Of Candle Filter Deposits At Elevated Temperatures And Pressures, Brian Robert Jordan Dec 1998

Rheological Properties Of Candle Filter Deposits At Elevated Temperatures And Pressures, Brian Robert Jordan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In order to improve the performance of hot gas ceramic candle filters, the theological properties of two types of filter deposits were studied. Black powder from the IGCC (Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle) provided consistent data when sampled from two different sources. This powder's mechanical properties were independent of elevated temperature conditions, suggesting that the particle adhesion process is controlled by the theological properties of the powder. Per US DOE request an apparatus was built to more accurately simulate candle filtration, and it was used to show that the process was unaffected by elevated inlet pressure conditions. The system was modeled …

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Velocity Profile In Confined Elliptic Fractures, Stephen Ronald Pack Jr. Dec 1998

Velocity Profile In Confined Elliptic Fractures, Stephen Ronald Pack Jr.

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The primary objective of this research is to determine the friction inside a smooth fracture and to incorporate the effect of friction on a fluid transient inside a tapered-elliptical-confined fracture. In order to do so, the non-uniform velocity profile in an elliptic fracture with laminar flow of both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids was calculated. A transient flow computer program is presented using the method of characteristics, to show the frictional effects on acoustic damping. However for flow inside a hydraulic fracture, the 3D velocity profile is highly non-uniform, and the use of Vav creates an error as Vmax >> Vav. The …

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Hydrothermal Aging Of Zeolite-Based Catalysts, Joongjai Panpranot Dec 1998

Hydrothermal Aging Of Zeolite-Based Catalysts, Joongjai Panpranot

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In this study the RE-USY (Davision GO-40) FCC catalyst, a composite of RE-USY zeolite and alumina-silica gel matrix, was treated hydrothermally under simulated FCC regenerator conditions in a laboratory scale fluidized bed. Fresh and steam-aged catalysts were characterized by surface area reduction using the nitrogen BET and t-Plot surface area methods. The surface morphology was apparent from the scanning electron photomicrographs. An irreversible deactivation kinetic model developed earlier by Gardner.; S0- S/S0 ns=Ks t was applied to account for changes of surface area of the zeolite component as a function of time on stream, temperature and steam partial pressure. The …

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