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A Spatial And Temporal Analysis Of Riparian Vegetation Along Satus Creek On The Yakama Indian Reservation, Kathryn Gellenbeck

All Master's Theses

Satus Creek provides critical habitat for the Yakima River Basin steelhead. A diverse community of riparian vegetation is important for healthy fish habitat; vegetation changes can affect shade, cover, channel structure, water quality, and food availability. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and illustrate riparian vegetation change, both temporally and spatially, along three separate reaches of Satus Creek. A Geographic Information Systems approach was applied to assess the vegetation change by comparing plant species composition and density on 1949 and 1995 aerial photographs. The GIS approach allowed patterns and trends in the vegetation to be identified. In less …

A Study To Determine Selected Industry's Perception In The Savannah Metropolitan Statistical Area Regarding The Competencies Required Of Baccalaureate Industrial Technology Graduates In The Year 1998, Cary Alan Van Sickle

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

Keith M. Jonsson V. Reed Bromley, Bromley Farms, A Utah Corporation, And Utah Valley Egg And Poultry, Inc., A Utah Corporation : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

REPLY BRIEF OF APPELLANTS

Appeal from the October 13, 1999, Order and Judgment of the Honorable Gary D. Stott, District Judge of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Utah County, Utah.

James Gordon Holmes V. American States Insurance Company, Economy Auto Inc, And Clarendon National Insurance Company : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM: ORDER OF PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT, DATED JUNE 10, 1998; AND ORDER OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT, DATED JANUARY 22, 1999.

Privately Legislated Intellectual Property Rights: Reconciling Freedom Of Contract With Public Good Uses Of Information, J.H. Reichman, Jonathan A. Franklin

Librarians' Articles

In an age of omnipresent clickwrap licenses, we acknowledge the need for a uniform set of default rules that would validate non-negotiable licenses as a mechanism for minimizing transaction costs likely to hinder economic development in a networked environment. However, we contend that any model of contract formation not driven by the traditional norms of mutual assent requires specially formulated doctrinal tools to avoid undermining long-established public good uses of information for such purposes as education and research, technical innovation, free speech, and the preservation of free competition.

With the convergence of digital and telecommunications technologies, creators and innovators who …

Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Construction Law, James R. Harvey Iii

University of Richmond Law Review

In 1998 and 1999, the Supreme Court of Virginia decided numerous cases that impact the practice of construction litigation in the Commonwealth. This flurry of activity by the high court reflects its apparent attempt to clarify an approach to the interpretation of contracts that fall outside the scope of the Uniform Commercial Code. By addressing an increasing number of cases in this area of the law, the court has been able to adapt many of its longstanding precedents to the problems found in today's construction contracting environment. This Survey article evaluates recent construction cases concerning the use of applicable federal …

Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Damages For Medical Malpractice In Virginia, Michael L. Goodman, Kathryn Freeman-Jones, Kathleen M. Mccauley

University of Richmond Law Review

As a general rule, a plaintiff in actions for personal injury and wrongful death in Virginia, regardless ofwhether the cause derives from medical malpractice, may state a claim for any medical expenses incurred as a result of the alleged injury or death. By definition, an expense is incurred when it has been paid or one "become[s] legally obligated to pay it." A tortfeasor is bound and obligated to make the plaintiff whole, which means the injured party or his estate must be reasonably compensated for the fair and reasonable value of incurred medical expenses.

Louise A. Symes V. Merlin David Symes : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Case No. 990234- Priority 15 OPENING BRIEF OF APPELLANT APPEAL FROM A DECISION FROM THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, DAVIS COUNTY HONORABLE DARWIN C. HANSEN

Richard K. Bertoch, William E. Poulsen V. Bruce A. Lefavi : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM THE THIRD DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR SALT LAKE COUNTY, JUDGE LESLIE A. LEWIS

Richard K. Bertoch, William E. Poulsen V. Bruce A. Lefavi : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM THE RULING OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH THE HONORABLE LESUE LEWIS PRESIDING

Richard K. Bertoch, William E. Poulsen V. Bruce A. Lefavi : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM THE RULING OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH THE HONORABLE LESLIE A. LEWIS PRESIDING

Keith M. Jonsson V. Reed Bromley, Bromley Farms, A Utah Corporation, And Utah Valley Egg And Poultry, A Utah Corporation : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

BRIEF OF APPELLEE

Appeal from the October 13, 1999, Order and Judgment of the Honorable Gary D. Stott. District Judge of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Utah County, Utah.

Neural Classifiers For Learning Higher-Order Correlations, Marifi Güler

Turkish Journal of Physics

Studies by various authors suggest that higher-order networks can be more powerful and are biologically more plausible with respect to the more traditional multilayer networks. These architectures make explicit use of nonlinear interactions between input variables in the form of higher-order units or product units. If it is known a priori that the problem to be implemented possesses a given set of invariances like in the translation, rotation, and scale invariant pattern recognition problems, those invariances can be encoded, thus eliminating all higher-order terms which are incompatible with the invariances. In general, however, it is a serious set-back that the …

Ordering Due To Disorder In Frustrated Quantum Magnetic Systems, Taner Yildirim

Turkish Journal of Physics

The phenomenon of order by disorder in frustrated magnetic systems is reviewed. Disorder (thermal or quantum fluctuations) may sometimes give rise to long range ordering in systems with frustration, where one must often consider the selection among classically degenerate ground states which are not equivalent by any symmetry. The lowest order effects of quantum fluctuations in such frustrated systems usually resolves the continues degeneracy of the ground state manifold into discrete Ising--type degeneracy. A unique ground state selection out of this Ising degenerate manifold then occurs due to higher order effects of quantum fluctuations. For systems such as face-centered cubic …

Diverging Strains Near Threshold: Breakdown Of The Elastic Description Of A Charge Density Wave Model, Muhittin Mungan, Susan N. Coppersmith, Valeri M. Vinokur

Turkish Journal of Physics

We analyze the strains near threshold in 1-d charge density wave models at zero temperature and strong pinning. We show that in these models local strains diverge near the depinning threshold and characterize the scaling behavior of the phenomenon. This helps quantify when the underlying elastic description breaks down and plastic effects have to be included.

Photon Counting In Astrophotometry. Fundamentals And Some Advices For Beginners, Romualdas Kalytis

Turkish Journal of Physics

The beginners in astrophotometry are reminded of fundamentals of photon counting. Several advices for new users of electrophotometric technics are given.

Kinematics Of Rs Cvn And W Uma Binaries In The Hipparcos Catalogue, Zeki̇ Aslan, Tuncay Özdemi̇r, Cahi̇t Yeşi̇lyaprak, Ahmet İskender

Turkish Journal of Physics

Space motions of RS CVn and W UMa binaries have been calculated using parallaxes and proper motions from Hipparcos catalogue and radial velocities from the literature. We have calculating the mean motions and velocity dispersions. We have excluded those binaries with relative parallax errors \geq 0.5. The comparison of the asymmetric drift, velocity ellipsoids and vertex deviation with those of main sequence stars given by Dehnen and Binney indicates that both RS CVn and W UMa binaries have kinematics similar to main sequence stars slightly bluer than the Parenago's discontinuity and B-V \simeq 0.62. Implication of this has been discussed.

Heat Pulse Studies Of The Emission And Absorption Of Acoustic Phonons In Gaas Quantum Wells And Wires, A. J. Kent

Turkish Journal of Physics

This paper reviews some recent experiments in which heat pulse techniques have been used to study the interaction of acoustic phonons with electrons in semiconductor quantum wells and wires. Heat pulse experiments provide temporal and spatial resolution of the phonons that are emitted or absorbed by the electrons and so give more detailed information about the electron-phonon interaction than can be obtained by other methods (e.g. transport measurements). Phonon experiments demonstrate clearly the effect of the electron confinement on the carrier-phonon interaction and the overall energy loss rate due to acoustic phonon emission. A qualitative explanation of the results is …

Modelling Of Devices For Optoelectronic Applications: The Quantum Confined Stark Effect And Self-Electrooptic Effect Devices, Eckehard Scholl

Turkish Journal of Physics

Electro-optical effects, such as the Franz-Keldysh effect in bulk materials or the quantum confined Stark effect in quantum well structures, lead to strong optoelectronic nonlinearities which form the basis for optical modulators and optically bistable devices. They result from a modification of the optical absorption properties by an applied electric field and are particularly pronounced in the case of low dimensional semiconductors. We review theoretical modelling and computer simulations of such optoelectronic devices in particular for ZnSe based quantum well structures, where excitonic features dominate even at room temperature. The field dependent absorption spectra are calculated by a many-body theory …

Stability Of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Bipolarons, R. Tuğrul Senger, Ati̇lla Erçelebi̇

Turkish Journal of Physics

The stability criteria of quasi-two-dimensional dimensional bipolarons have been studied within the framework of strong coupling and path-integral theories. It is shown that the critical values of the electron-phonon coupling constant (\alpha), and the ratio of dielectric constants (\eta = \epsilon_{\infty}/\epsilon_{0}) exhibit some non-trivial features as the effective dimensionality is tuned from three to two.

Band-Gap Renormalization In Quantum Wires, K. Güven, C. R. Bennett, B. Tanatar

Turkish Journal of Physics

Improved techniques in semiconductor fabrication increased the interest in quantum wire structures, because of their opto-electronic device application possibilities. Many-body interactions among the electrons and holes in the wire lead to the band-gap renormalization (BGR), which in turn affect the optical properties of the system. We study the BGR within the random-phase approximation incorporating the dynamical effects, and investigate the density dependence.

Light Emission From Travelling Space Charge Domains, M. Hostut, N. Balkan

Turkish Journal of Physics

We report light emission from n-doped GaAs epilayers associated with impact ionization when the device is biased in the negative difference resistance (NDR) regime (F > 3.5 kV cm^{-1}). Spectral distribution of the emitted light (electroluminescence) has been measured to identify the energy distribution of the recombining electron-hole pairs. Electron temperatures, calculated from the high energy tail of the electroluminescence spectra, show that the light emission is due to the recombination of the impact ionized holes with the background, channel, and the travelling space charge electrons. The range of the electron temperatures obtained indicate that the contribution to the light emission …

The Orbit Center Dependence Of The Energy Levels In A Multiple Quantum Wells Under External Tilted Magnetic And Electric Fields, R. Amca, Y. Ergün, H. Sari, S. Elagöz, İ. Sökmen

Turkish Journal of Physics

An analytical solution to the Schrödinger equation for a multiple quantum well system subjected to an externally applied electric field the growth direction and an externally applied tilted magnetic field are obtained and the results are discussed. The energy dependence energy spectrum of the system as a function of the external electric field and the orbit center is also discussed.

Feasibility Of Fabrication Of Heteroepitaxial Ge_X Si_{1-X}/Si(111) Structure By Pulsed Nd: Yag Laser, R. N. Al-Rawi, R. A. Ismail, R. N. Mousis

Turkish Journal of Physics

Heteroepitaxial Ge_x Si_{1-x} alloy layers have been formed by 10 ms and 300 \mu s laser pulse induced mixing of pure germanium films and Si(111) substrates where Ge films of thickness (500-1250) Å are thermally evaporated onto Si(111) under vacuum pressure \sim 10^{-5} Torr. The near surface of the sample then undergoes rapid melting and regrowth processes during each pulse from a free running Nd; YAG laser. The alloy layers are (4.6-6.5) \mum thick and have a Ge fraction of x = 6-8.2%.

Electronic And Lattice Thermal Conductivity Of Bi_{1-X} Sb_X And Ag-Sb-Te Systems, Sabi̇r Ali̇yev, Agami̇rza Movsum-Zadeh, Sadiyar Ragimov, Eldar Zulfigarov

Turkish Journal of Physics

An investigation of the electronic (\aleph_e) and lattice (\aleph_L) parts of the thermal conductivity for samples of Bi_{1-x} Sb_x (0,02 < X < 0,12) and system of Ag-Sb-Te was carried out in the temperature interval 6-300K. Separation of \aleph_L and \aleph_e has been made by suppressing \aleph_e in magnetic field. The experimental data of \aleph_L and \aleph_e have been compared, respectively, with Gallaway's theory and with a theory which takes into account the inelastic character of scattering. It is observed that the Lorentz number L calculated by using the experimental values of \aleph_e and thermomagnetic coefficients is smaller than its Zommerfeld's value L_0 in high doping Bi_{0.88}Sb_{0.12}. A satisfactory agreement between the theory and the experiment allows to conclude that besides the normal and U-processes in Bi_{1-x}Sb_x the defects of mass also plays a considerable role in scattering. It is observed that \aleph_L of single phase samples Ag_{0.82}Sb_{1.18}Te_{2.18} is smaller than AgSbTe_2 samples. It is shown that this is due to the presence of p-Ag_2 Te in AgSbTe_2. It is established that the high concentration of intrinsic defects plays a considerable role in scattering for Ag-Sb-Te as well.

Field Sampling And Necropsy Examination Of Fish, A. S. Kane, A. Baya, R. Reimschuessel, K. M. St. Pé, C. A. Poukish, C. P. Driscoll

Virginia Journal of Science

This paper presents an overview of observational and fish sampling tech­niques for investigating fish lesions, morbidity and mortality. These sam­pling techniques and investigations are much like detective work and require attention to detail, common sense, technical proficiency and experience. To solve the mystery of a fish kill, the investigator must use available evidence and clues to piece together a series of events that often have long since passed. The cause of these field events may be chemical, biological or physical; more often, it is some combination of these. An initial categorization approach may be used to reduce the great number …

Pcr And Fish Detection Extends The Range Of Pfiesteria Piscicida In Estuarine Waters, P. A. Rublee, J. Kempton, E. Schaefer, J.M. Burkholder, H. B. Glasgow Jr., David Oldach

Virginia Journal of Science

PCR and fluorescent in situ hybridization probes were used to assay for the presence of the dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida in 170 estuarine water samples collected from New York to northern Florida. 20% of samples tested positive for the presence of P. piscicida, including sites where fish kills due to Pfiesteria have occurred and sites where there was no historical evidence of such events. The results extend the known range of P. piscicida northward to Long Island, New York. The results also suggest that P. piscicida is common, and normally benign, inhabitatant of estuarine waters of the eastern US.

The Efficiency Of Resource Allocation And Productivity In The Agricultural Farms In Kazova Region Of Tokat Province, Yaşar Akçay, Kemal Esengün

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

This study covers agricultural farms in Kazova area of Tokat province. The main material of the study was the data obtained from 134 farms by survey in period of 1994- 1995. In the study, translog production fonction and Allen Partial Elasticity of Substitution (AES) in order to determine input-input relation were used. Estimated equations analyzed econometrictly and marginal analysis belonging to the each estimated equations which are marginal production elasticity. Production elasticity of function, coefficient of efficiency and AES were analyzed and commented. In the light of findings, it can be said that farming income might be increased by efficient …

Opinion, Probable Cause, Factual Investigation: The Admissibility Of Ntsb Reports And Investigator's Opinions In Aviation Accident Litigation, Lorri E. Badolato

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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