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Northern Light, March 1, 1999, N/A N/A Mar 1999

Northern Light, March 1, 1999, N/A N/A

The Northern Light

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The Relationship Between Spotted Owl Diet And Reproductive Success In The San Bernardino Mountains, California, Richard B. Smith, M. Zachariah Peery, R.J. Gutierrez, William S. Lahaye Mar 1999

The Relationship Between Spotted Owl Diet And Reproductive Success In The San Bernardino Mountains, California, Richard B. Smith, M. Zachariah Peery, R.J. Gutierrez, William S. Lahaye

Wilson Bulletin

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Scale-Dependent Habitat Selection By American Redstarts In Aspen-Dominated Forest Fragments, Navjot S. Sodhi, Cynthia A. Paszkowski, Shannon Keehn Mar 1999

Scale-Dependent Habitat Selection By American Redstarts In Aspen-Dominated Forest Fragments, Navjot S. Sodhi, Cynthia A. Paszkowski, Shannon Keehn

Wilson Bulletin

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Judicial Politics, Death Penalty Appeals, And Case Selection: An Empirical Study, John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg Mar 1999

Judicial Politics, Death Penalty Appeals, And Case Selection: An Empirical Study, John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Several studies try to explain case outcomes based on the politics of judicial selection methods. Scholars usually hypothesize that judges selected by partisan popular elections are subject to greater political pressure in deciding cases than are other judges. No class of cases seems more amenable to such analysis than death penalty cases. No study, however, accounts both for judicial politics and case selection, the process through which cases are selected for death penalty litigation. Yet, the case selection process cannot be ignored because it yields a set of cases for adjudication that is far from a random selection of cases. …

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Mid-Infrared Visibility Measurements Of Evolved Stars, Jeffrey J. Sudol, H. M. Dyck, R. E. Stencel, D. I. Klebe, M. J. Creech-Eakman Mar 1999

Mid-Infrared Visibility Measurements Of Evolved Stars, Jeffrey J. Sudol, H. M. Dyck, R. E. Stencel, D. I. Klebe, M. J. Creech-Eakman

Physics & Engineering Faculty Publications

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Sliding Mode Measurement Feedback Control For Antilock Braking Systems, Cem Unsal, Pushkin Kachroo Mar 1999

Sliding Mode Measurement Feedback Control For Antilock Braking Systems, Cem Unsal, Pushkin Kachroo

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research

We describe a nonlinear observer-based design for control of vehicle traction that is important in providing safety and obtaining desired longitudinal vehicle motion. First, a robust sliding mode controller is designed to maintain the wheel slip at any given value. Simulations show that longitudinal traction controller is capable of controlling the vehicle with parameter deviations and disturbances. The direct state feedback is then replaced with nonlinear observers to estimate the vehicle velocity from the output of the system (i.e., wheel velocity). The nonlinear model of the system is shown locally observable. The effects and drawbacks of the extended Kalman filters …

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Edison Communicator Volume Four; Number Seven, Edison Community College Mar 1999

Edison Communicator Volume Four; Number Seven, Edison Community College

Edison Communicator

Edison Communicator: A Publication for the Faculty, Staff and Friends of Edison Community College.

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University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 07 - March 1999, University Of Massachusetts Boston Mar 1999

University Reporter - Vol. 03, No. 07 - March 1999, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

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Nontoric Hamiltonian Circle Actions On Four-Dimensional Symplectic Orbifolds, S. F. Singer, Janet Talvacchia, N. Watson Mar 1999

Nontoric Hamiltonian Circle Actions On Four-Dimensional Symplectic Orbifolds, S. F. Singer, Janet Talvacchia, N. Watson

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Works

We construct four-dimensional symplectic orbifolds admitting Hamiltonian circle actions with isolated fixed points, but not admitting any Hamiltonian action of a two-torus. One example is linear, and one example is compact.

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Capital Flows To Nigeria: Issues And Determinants, E.A. Essien, E.A. Onwioduokit Mar 1999

Capital Flows To Nigeria: Issues And Determinants, E.A. Essien, E.A. Onwioduokit

Economic and Financial Review

This paper examines issues in capital flows to Nigeria as well as its determinants. Using the Error Correction Modeling technique, results indicate that the macroeconomic conditions of host country, reflecting opportunities for investment, risk, market conditions, and rates of returns are very crucial in attracting capital. Most interestingly the speed of adjustment, indicating the sustainability of capital flow was highly significant. Thus, capital flow adjusts rapidly to changes in these variables in Nigeria. The paper concludes that the relevance of these variables imposes a great challenge to policy makers and recommends that the newly acquired autonomy of the Central Bank …

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Environmental Change, Economic Development, And Emigration In Tuvalu, John Connell Mar 1999

Environmental Change, Economic Development, And Emigration In Tuvalu, John Connell

Pacific Studies

Growing consensus on the accelerated greenhouse effect indicates that potential increases in both sea levels and tropical storms will pose problems for atoll states, especially Tuvalu. Land areas and water supplies may be threatened by coastal erosion, depleting agricultural and fisheries potential. Tuvalu’s economy is limited and partly reliant on aid and remittances whose sustainability is uncertain. More than a third of the population now lives in overcrowded conditions in the urban center of Funafuti. Population growth has accelerated since independence, despite attempts to implement a population policy, while opportunities for temporary or permanent emigration have not increased. If environmental …

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Interracial Marriage And Status Exchange: A Study Of Pacific Islanders In Hawai‘I From 1983 To 1994, Xuanning Fu Mar 1999

Interracial Marriage And Status Exchange: A Study Of Pacific Islanders In Hawai‘I From 1983 To 1994, Xuanning Fu

Pacific Studies

Intermarriage is one of the most salient demographic features of Hawai‘i. Between 1983 and 1994, 46 percent of all marriages contracted in Hawai‘i were racially exogamous. This article examines socioeconomic status exchange in outgroup marriage and explores the impact this status change has had on the social well-being of four ethnic groups of Pacific Islanders (Hawaiians, part-Hawaiians, Samoans, and other Pacific Islanders). Status homogamy emerges as the most important pattern of mate selection. In a broad sense, people choose their mates on the basis of equal socioeconomic status, either within or across boundaries of race and ethnicity. Gender differences are …

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Contributors: Vol 22 No. 1, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 1999

Contributors: Vol 22 No. 1, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Contributors list of Vol. 22 (1999): Pacific Studies Full Issue 1

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Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Mar 1999

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 22, No 1 Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

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Coveted Truman Scholarship Captured By Ole Miss Junior, Tina Hahn Mar 1999

Coveted Truman Scholarship Captured By Ole Miss Junior, Tina Hahn

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi junior Cassie Williford had to borrow Chancellor Robert Khayat's handkerchief after learning on a recent Tuesday morning that she is one of few in the nation to win a coveted $30,000 Truman Scholarship.

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Main Hall To Main Street, March 1999, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations Mar 1999

Main Hall To Main Street, March 1999, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

Main Hall to Main Street, 2005-2010

This is volume 5, number 3 of Main Hall to Main Street.

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The Murray Ledger And Times, March 1, 1999, The Murray Ledger And Times Mar 1999

The Murray Ledger And Times, March 1, 1999, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Intellectual Property And The Academic Enterprise, Kenneth W. Dam Mar 1999

Intellectual Property And The Academic Enterprise, Kenneth W. Dam

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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The Post–Common Envelope And Pre–Cataclysmic Binary Pg 1224+309, Jerome A. Orosz, Richard A. Wade, Jason J. B. Harlow, John R. Thorstensen, Cynthia J. Taylor, Michael Eracleous Mar 1999

The Post–Common Envelope And Pre–Cataclysmic Binary Pg 1224+309, Jerome A. Orosz, Richard A. Wade, Jason J. B. Harlow, John R. Thorstensen, Cynthia J. Taylor, Michael Eracleous

Dartmouth Scholarship

We have made extensive spectroscopic and photometric observations of PG 1224+309, a close binary containing a DA white dwarf primary and an M4+ secondary. The Hα line is in emission due to irradiation of the M star by the hot white dwarf and is seen to vary around the orbit. From the radial velocities of the Hα line we derive a period of P = 0.258689 ± 0.000004 days and a semiamplitude of KHα = 160 ± 8 km s-1. We estimate a correction ΔK = 21 ± 2 km s-1, where KM …

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Globalization And The Sustainability Of Human Health: An Ecological Perspective, Robert Costanza, A. J. Mcmichael, Bert Bolin, Gretchen C. Daily, Carl Folke, Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling, Elisabet Lindgren, Bo Niklasson Mar 1999

Globalization And The Sustainability Of Human Health: An Ecological Perspective, Robert Costanza, A. J. Mcmichael, Bert Bolin, Gretchen C. Daily, Carl Folke, Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling, Elisabet Lindgren, Bo Niklasson

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

The last half-century has seen momentous and accelerating changes in humankind's economic activities, political relations, and social and demographic profile. A prominent feature of this change is the increasing scale of human impact on Earth's natural biophysical systems: the climate system, stratospheric ozone, biodiversity, terrestrial and marine food-producing ecosystems, and the great cycles of water, nitrogen, and sulfur (Meyer 1996, Vitousek et al. 1997). These systems sustain the conditions on which life depends, and their weakening may therefore have profound long-term implications for human population health (McMichael 1993, Last 1997).

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Interpreting Patterns Of Gene Expression With Self-Organizing Maps: Methods And Application To Hematopoietic Differentiation, Pablo Tamayo, Donna Slonim, Jill Mesirov, Qing Zhu, Sutisak Kitareewan, Ethan Dmitrovsky Mar 1999

Interpreting Patterns Of Gene Expression With Self-Organizing Maps: Methods And Application To Hematopoietic Differentiation, Pablo Tamayo, Donna Slonim, Jill Mesirov, Qing Zhu, Sutisak Kitareewan, Ethan Dmitrovsky

Dartmouth Scholarship

Array technologies have made it straightforward to monitor simultaneously the expression pattern of thousands of genes. The challenge now is to interpret such massive data sets. The first step is to extract the fundamental patterns of gene expression inherent in the data. This paper describes the application of self-organizing maps, a type of mathematical cluster analysis that is particularly well suited for recognizing and classifying features in complex, multidimensional data. The method has been implemented in a publicly available computer package, GENECLUSTER, that performs the analytical calculations and provides easy data visualization. To illustrate the value of such analysis, the …

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Can Kiva Accurately Simulate A Gas Turbine Combustor?, John R. Rice Mar 1999

Can Kiva Accurately Simulate A Gas Turbine Combustor?, John R. Rice

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Visualizing Three-Dimensional Configuration Spaces For Mechanical Design, Elisha Sacks, Charles Pisula, Leo Joskowicz Mar 1999

Visualizing Three-Dimensional Configuration Spaces For Mechanical Design, Elisha Sacks, Charles Pisula, Leo Joskowicz

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Least Squares Approximation Of Bezier Coefficients Provides Best Degree Reduction In The L 2-Norm, J. Peters, U Reif Mar 1999

Least Squares Approximation Of Bezier Coefficients Provides Best Degree Reduction In The L 2-Norm, J. Peters, U Reif

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Infrared Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy Of Methanol Clusters: Single Donor Hydrogen Bonding, R. A. Provencal, J. B. Paul, K. Roth, C. Chapo, R. N. Casaes, R. J. Saykally, G. S. Tschumper, H. F. Schaefer Mar 1999

Infrared Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy Of Methanol Clusters: Single Donor Hydrogen Bonding, R. A. Provencal, J. B. Paul, K. Roth, C. Chapo, R. N. Casaes, R. J. Saykally, G. S. Tschumper, H. F. Schaefer

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Infrared cavity ringdown laser absorption spectroscopy has been used to study the O-H stretching vibrations of jet-cooled methanol clusters in direct absorption. Rovibrational bands for (CH3OH)2, (CH3OH)3, and (CH3OH)4 have been measured. Both bonded and free O-H stretches were measured for the dimer, indicating that its structure is linear. Five bands were assigned to the methanol trimer, indicating the presence of a second cyclic isomer in the molecular beam. A detailed study of the free O-H stretching region shows that methanol clusters larger than dimer must exist in cyclic …

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Molecular Dynamics Study Of A Phase-Separating Fluid Mixture Under Shear Flow, Ryoichi Yamamoto, Xiao Cheng Zeng Mar 1999

Molecular Dynamics Study Of A Phase-Separating Fluid Mixture Under Shear Flow, Ryoichi Yamamoto, Xiao Cheng Zeng

Xiao Cheng Zeng Publications

Molecular dynamics simulation is carried out to study domain structures and rheological properties of a two-dimensional phase-separating binary fluid mixture under shear flow. In the early stage of the phase separation, anisotropic composition fluctuations appear immediately after the quench. As the domain grows, the anisotropy in the composition fluctuations increases. The quenched system eventually reaches a dynamical steady state, in which anisotropic domain structures are preserved. In the steady state, the shortest characteristic length scale R⊥ of domains decreases with increasing shear rate γ̇ as R⊥∼γ̇-1/3. Stringlike domain structures are observed in the strong shear regime, …

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The Practitioner From Within: Revisiting The Virtues, Frances Grodzinsky Mar 1999

The Practitioner From Within: Revisiting The Virtues, Frances Grodzinsky

School of Computer Science & Engineering Faculty Publications

Traditionally the study of computer ethics involves taking students who are not philosophically trained, exposing them to action-guiding theories, presenting them with the codes of ethics of several companies and professional organizations and asking them to make ethical decisions in scenario-based cases. This approach is deliberately action-based and focuses on doing. "What would you do?" is the traditional question we ask our students. While this pedagogical methodology forces them to examine situations and argue from a particular point of view, it does little to influence their character. They see the utilitarian or deontologist as someone other than themselves. There seems …

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Incidental Memory For Spatial Information In Young Children As A Function Of Age And Gender, Isabelle D. Cherney Mar 1999

Incidental Memory For Spatial Information In Young Children As A Function Of Age And Gender, Isabelle D. Cherney

Student Work

The purpose of the present study was to investigate Hasher and Zacks' (1979,1984) automaticity theory of memory for spatial location information in young children using two incidental memory tasks. A total of 96 three- and fiveyear- olds (48 boys and 48 girls) were randomly assigned to either the "manipulation condition" (MC) or the "observation condition" (OC). In order to assess task difficulty, half of the participants manipulated a total of 18 genderstereotyped animal toys (male, female, neutral) and half of the participants a total of 9. After a 2 minute filler task, the participants were instructed to return the animals …

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Arkansas Soil Fertility Studies 1998, Wayne Sabbe Mar 1999

Arkansas Soil Fertility Studies 1998, Wayne Sabbe

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Series

Rapid technological changes in crop management and production require that the research efforts also be presented in an expeditious manner. The contributions of soil fertility and fertilizers are major production factors in all Arkansas crops. The studies contained within will allow producers to compare their practices with the university’s research efforts. Additionally, soil test data and fertilizer sales are presented to allow comparisons among years, crops, and other areas within Arkansas.

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Tga/Ftir Studies On The Thermal Degradation Of Some Polymeric Sulfonic And Phosphonic Acids And Their Sodium Salts, David D. Jiang, Qiang Yao, Michael A. Mckinney, Charles Wilkie Mar 1999

Tga/Ftir Studies On The Thermal Degradation Of Some Polymeric Sulfonic And Phosphonic Acids And Their Sodium Salts, David D. Jiang, Qiang Yao, Michael A. Mckinney, Charles Wilkie

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

The thermal degradation of poly(vinyl sulfonic acid) and its sodium salt, poly(4-styrenesulfonic acid) and its sodium salt, and poly(vinylphosphonic acid) was studied by a combination of techniques, including TGA/FTIR, to identify the volatile products which were evolved during the degradation as well as analysis of the residues which were obtained in order to propose a mechanism for the degradation. The motivation for the work was to attempt to identify new monomers which could be graft copolymerized onto a polymer in order to improve the thermal stability of that polymer.

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