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Pssc's Science Study Series, Robert J. Whitaker

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

No abstract provided.

Ole Miss Journalism Dept. Names First Talbert Lecturer In Journalism, Deidra Walters

University of Mississippi News

... Burnis Morris Brings Wealth of Newspaper Experience to Post

Answers To Complex Wetlands Problems Sought In Epa-Funded Study, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- A comprehensive study of environmental threats to north Mississippi wetlands is underway, but don't expect easy answers and quick solutions, warns a University of Mississippi scientist heading up the project.

Utb/Tsc This Week 1998-11, University Of Texas At Brownsville And Texas Southmost College. Office Of News And Information

UTB/TSC Archives - This Week Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Field Evaluation Of Efficient Building Technology With Photovoltaic Power Production In New Florida Residential Housing, Florida Solar Energy Center, Danny Parker

FSEC Energy Research Center®

The objective of the project, sponsored by the Florida Energy Office and Sandia National Laboratories, is to test the feasibility of building very efficient residential buildings that when combined with utility-interactive PV power, exert little net demand on the utility during the summer peak demand period.

Two single family homes - one, a super efficient residence with a utility interactive photovoltaic (PV) system, and another, a control home - have been constructed in Lakeland, Florida. The PV residence, or PVRES, was constructed with many measures designed to make it more efficient (Fig.E-1). These include a white tile reflective roof system, …

Judge Warren L. Jones And The Supreme Court Of Dixie, Allison Herren Lee, William W. Shakely, J. Robert Brown Jr.

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Theriot V. Bourg: The Demise Of The Business Judgment Rule In Louisiana?, Thomas M. Mceachin

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pocket Glances At The University Of North Florida: 98 Bites, University Of North Florida

Faculty and Staff History Printed Materials

Reference book prepared by the Division of Administration and Finance.

The Effects Of The Architectural Design, Replacement Algorithm, And Size Parameters Of Cache Memory In Uniprocessor Computer Systems, Eric Berzofsky

Theses

To investigate the effects of cache coherency on multiprocessors, it is helpful to first explore coherency issues within uniprocessors, working with a small part of a big problem instead of attacking the big problem from the start. This thesis will investigate the design and implementation of three different cache designs, varying the mapping strategy, replacement algorithm, and size parameters to determine the effects each have on the cache miss ratio, coherency, and average memory access time. VHDL is used to create software models of each cache design investigated, so that parameter values can be easily changed, and so that no …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet November 1998, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The November 1998 Monthly packet includes the November agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held October 1998.

The Politics Of Implementation: Oregon's Statewide Transportation Planning Rule - What's Been Accomplished, Martha J. Bianco, Sy Adler

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

This paper is a case study of the evolution of Oregon’s groundbreaking Transportation Planning Rule, from its adoption in 1991, up through present amendments. Our analysis is an assessment of how private- and public-sector investors grapple with the coproduction of the built environment under the constraints of a value system that emanates from the state, shepherded by litigious public interest groups. In this case, this value system is articulated in the Oregon administrative rule known as the Transportation Planning Rule. This Rule emphasizes a reduction in the reliance on automobiles and, among other things, requires a decrease in vehicle miles …

Lochner In Cyberspace: The New Economic Orthodoxy Of "Rights Management", Julie E. Cohen

Michigan Law Review

Ninety-three years ago, in Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court struck down a maximum-working-hours law for bakers as an impermissible invasion of employer-employee liberty of contract and, by implication, of the employer's property rights in his business. Lochner came to symbolize, and was vilified for, a vision of state power as rigidly circumscribed by the operation of judicially-determined laws of social ordering. By the late 1930s, the Court had changed course and accepted that the states' police power - or, in the case of Congress, the commerce power - encompassed even protective regulation of the parameters of the private …

Sample-Adaptive Coding Scheme (Sacs): A Structurally Constrained Vector Quantizer, Dong Sik Kim, Ness B. Shroff

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In this paper, we propose a novel feed-forward adaptive coding scheme called SACS (sample adaptive coding scheme) for the lossy compression of a discrete-time memoryless stationary source. SACS is based on a concept of adaptive quantization to the varying samples of the source and is very different from traditional adaptation techniques for non-stationary sources. SACS quantizes each solirce sample using a sequence of quantizers. Even when using scalar quantization in SACS, we can ach.ieve performance comparablse to vector quantization (with the complexity still of the order of scalar quantization). We also show tihat important lattice based vector quantizers can be …

A Knowledge Discovery Methodology For The Performance Evaluation Of Scientific Software, Vassilios S. Verykios, Elias N. Houstis, John R. Rice

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Parallel Algorithms For 3d Reconstruction Of Asymmetric Objects From Electron Micrographs, Robert E. Lynch, Dan C. Marinescu, Hong Lin, Timothy S. Baker

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Partial Redundancy Elimination For Access Path Expressions, Antony L. Hosking, National Nystrom, David Whitlock, Quintin Cutts, Amer Diwan

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Cracking The Shell To Student Learning: An Innovative Instructional Approach, John R. Olson, Paul Savory

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Management and Industrial Engineering courses is motivating students to learn and apply the quantitative and managerial aspects of the material. The aim of our educational methodology is to not only teach and reinforce the core principles of the disciplines, but to have students develop a set of skills that will make them competitive in the classroom and the workforce. Teaching is why a university exists. As a result, the objective of our instructional approach is to attract and retain dedicated students to the fields of Operations Management and Industrial Engineering and to keep those students competitive and in focus with …

Robust Course-Boundary Extraction Algorithms For Autonomous Vehicles, Chris Roman, Charles Reinholtz

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Practical autonomous robotic vehicles require dependable methods for accurately identifying course or roadway boundaries. The authors have developed a method to reliably extract the boundary line using simple dynamic thresholding, noise filtering, and blob removal. This article describes their efforts to apply this procedure in developing an autonomous vehicle.

Chemicals For Fertigation, Charles M. Burt

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

No abstract provided.

Sex In The Oval Office And Cover-Up Under Oath: Impeachable Offense, Daniel H. Pollitt

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Who Put The Right In The Right Of Publicity?, Diane Leenheer Zimmerman

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Information Outlook, November 1998, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 1998

Volume 2, Issue 11

Predictive Relationships For Uptake Of Organic Contaminants By Hybrid Poplar Trees, Joel Gerard Burken, Jerald L. Schnoor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Twelve Organic Compounds Commonly Found at Hazardous Waste Sites Were Studied for Uptake by Hybrid Poplar Trees. the Vegetative Uptake of Many of These Compounds Has Not Previously Been Demonstrated for Plant Species Being Utilized for Phytoremediation, Such as Hybrid Poplar Trees. Experiments Were Conducted Hydroponically Utilizing 14C-Labeled Compounds to Ascertain Translocation and Fate. Predictive Relationships for the Translocation and Partitioning to Plant Tissues Were Developed from the Experimental Data. Translocation and Partitioning Relationships based on Compounds' Octanol- Water Partitioning Coefficients (100 K(Ow)) Produced the Best Results, But the Relationships Did Not Allow for Fully Accurate Prediction of Each Contaminant's …

Portfolio Assessment In Vocational Education: The Assessor's View, Zita M. Wagner

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Portfolio assessment has been traditionally used in art, design, music, writing and dance programs. However in recent years the use of portfolio assessment in vocational education has expanded to include many different subject areas such as economics, business, nursing, human resources, mathematics and engineering. As an assessment tool the portfolio has much to offer in terms of involving students in the assessment process and in documenting their achievements. From the assessor's point of view, the use of portfolios for assessment raises issues of reliability, the time consuming nature of assessment, objectivity and authenticity of the work. In this paper twentyfour …

Women's Voice, November 1998, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program

Women's Voice (1991-2006)

No abstract provided.

On-Road Remote Sensing Of Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Emissions In The Austin- San Marcos Area: August 1998, Jerome A. Morris, Gary A. Bishop, Donald H. Stedman

Fuel Efficiency Automobile Test Publications

No abstract provided.

The Dit Examiner : The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union, November - December, 1998, Dit Students' Union

DIT Student Union

The DIT Examiner : the Newspaper of the Dublin Institute of Technology Students' Union.

Successive Galerkin Approximation Algorithms For Nonlinear Optimal And Robust Control, Timothy Mclain, Randal W. Beard

Faculty Publications

Nonlinear optimal control and nonlinear H infinity control are two of the most significant paradigms in nonlinear systems theory. Unfortunately, these problems require the solution of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, which are extremely difficult to solve in practice. To make matters worse, approximation techniques for these equations are inherently prone to the so-called 'curse of dimensionality'. While there have been many attempts to approximate these equations, solutions resulting in closed-loop control with well-defined stability and robustness have remained elusive. This paper describes a recent breakthrough in approximating the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs equations. Successive approximation and Galerkin approximation methods are combined to derive …

A Virtual Classroom Via Dataconferencing: A Multi-Institutional Experience, Shelli K. Starrett, Anil Pahwa, Kraig J. Olejniczak, S. D. Sudhoff, Mariesa Crow

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents the experience of five faculty from four universities who are co-developing and team teaching courses using the world-wide web (WWW). In particular two novel power engineering courses, Flexible Control of Transmission Systems and Flexible Control of Distribuction Systems, introduce the student to the application of power electronic-based controllers, known specifically as flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) controllers, to enhance the performance of the transmission and distribution systems in an electric power system. In order to leverage faculty expertise in the various topics included in each course, a unique partnership was formed among five faculty from the following …

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.