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Volume 37, Number 5: September 24, 1999, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Board Of Trustees Minutes, September 24, 1999, Eastern Washington University

Board of Trustees Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Carroll News- Vol. 75, No. 3, John Carroll University

The Carroll News

No abstract provided.

September 23, 1999, James Madison University

The Breeze, 1990-1999

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Musings On The Millennium, Richard Warch

Presidential Addresses

The Matriculation Convocation is the traditional start of the academic year. President Warch used many of his Convocation addresses to articulate the values and virtues of liberal learning.

Vol.27 N.34 September 23rd 1999, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

Index

Issues... A-2

Lifestyles... A-3

Entertainment... A-6

Sports... B-1

Business Directory... A-4

Legals/Classified... B-2

The Massachusetts Welfare To Work Program: How Well Will It Serve Its Customers?, Abigail Jurist Levy

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author examined the initial two-year Massachusetts Welfare to Work plans to identify early signs of potential program strengths and weaknesses when the states were just beginning to implement it. She surveyed the then current literature that defines the work-first philosophy and its social context, outlining the essential elements of work-first programs for participants' success. The author then reviewed Massachusetts's sixteen regional plans to determine the degree to which they incorporated these elements in their program designs. Finally, she outlined the challenges, potential risks, and advantages that arise when national social policy shifts and local planners and policymakers must adapt …

Washington University Record, September 23, 1999

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

The Mechtech Program: An Education And Training Model For The Next Century, Robert Forrant

New England Journal of Public Policy

The small-firm metalworking industry is routinely characterized by cutthroat competition and fierce privacy. Yet, since the late 1980s, the members of the western Massachusetts chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association have participated in an education, training, and technology diffusion network characterized by a high degree of interfirm cooperation. Hundreds of workers and managers have take part in group training sessions and seminars. The reconstruction of the skill base is central to the MechTech apprenticeship program through which apprentices spend four years in participating firms, exiting the program as licensed machinists, tool and die makers, or moldmakers. In an …

September 23, 1999, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 17, Number 2, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Purchasing property key to SHU expansion -- Charity walkathons hitting SHU soon --OT starting up next year -- Forum held for part-time students -- WHRT takes leaps into establishing cam[pus radio -- SHU's sponsoring first ever Habitat House in Fairfield -- Pledges rushing at the start of semester -- Lady Ruggers win opener -- Football defeated by Wagner 33-0

Illinois State University Report, September 23, 1999, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 2, No. 5), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

September 22, 1999 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Stochastic Functional Differential Equations On Manifolds (Conference On Probability And Geometry), Salah-Eldin A. Mohammed

Miscellaneous (presentations, translations, interviews, etc)

We prove an existence theorem for solutions of stochastic functional differential equations under smooth constraints in Euclidean space. The initial states are semimartingales on a compact Riemannian manifold. It is shown that, under suitable regularity hypotheses on the coefficients, and given an initial semimartingale, a sfde on a compact manifold admits a unique solution living on the manifold for all time. We also discuss the Chen-Souriau regularity of the solution of the sfde in the initial process. The results are joint work with Remi Leandre.

University Of Montana Events Thursday, Sept. 23, Through Thursday, Sept. 30, 1999, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

The Bg News September 22, 1999, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 22, 1999. Volume 84-Issue 21.

The Knight Volume 10: Issue 2, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

System And Method For Improving Data Acquisistion Capability In Spectroscopic Rotatable Element, Rotating Element, Modulation Element, And Other Ellipsometer And Polarimeter And The Like Systems, Steven E. Green, Craig M. Heringer, Blaine D. Johs, John A. Woollam, Stephen P. Ducharme

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Disclosed is a System and method for controlling polarization State determining parameters of a polarized beam of light in an ellipSometer or polarimeter and the like System, (e.g. a modulation element ellipsometer System), So that they are in ranges wherein the Sensitivity, (of a Sample system characterizing PSI and DELTA value monitoring detector used to measure changes in Said polarization State resulting from interaction with a “composite Sample System,” comprised of a Sample System per Se.. and a beam polarization State determining variable retarder, to noise and measurement errors etc. therein), is reduced. The present invention allows determining Sample System …

September 21, 1999, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Conformal Actions In Any Dimension, Andre Wehner, James Thomas Wheeler

All Physics Faculty Publications

Biconformal gauging of the conformal group gives a scale-invariant volume form, permitting a single form of the action to be invariant in any dimension. We display several 2n-dimensional scale-invariant polynomial actions and a dual action. We solve the field equations for the most general action linear in the curvatures for a minimal torsion geometry. In any dimension n > 2, the solution is foliated by equivalent n-dimensional Ricci-flat Riemannian space-times, and the full 2n-dimensional space is symplectic. Two fields defined entirely on the Riemannian submanifolds completely determine the solution: a metric e_μ^α, and …

Grade Inflation Rates Among Different Ability Students, Controlling For Other Factors, Stephanie Mcspirit, Kirk E. Jones

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This study compares grade inflation rates among different ability students at a large, open admissions public University. Specifically, this study compares trends in graduating grade point average (GPA) from 1983 to 1996 across low, typical and higher ability students. This study also tests other explanations for increases in graduating GPA. These other explanations are changes in 1) ACT score 2) gender 3) college major and 4) vocational programs. ...

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 024, Number 08, September 20, 1999, Grand Valley State University

1999-2000, Volume 24

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Trace Gas Emissions From Laboratory Biomass Fires Measured By Open-Path Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy: Fires In Grass And Surface Fuels, Jon G. Goode, Robert J. Yokelson, Ronald A. Susott, Darold E. Ward

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

The trace gas emissions from six biomass fires, including three grass fires, were measured using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer coupled to an open-path, multipass cell (OP-FTIR). The quantified emissions consisted of carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, water vapor, carbon monoxide, methane, ammonia, ethylene, acetylene, isobutene, methanol, acetic acid, formic acid, formaldehyde, and hydroxyacetaldehyde. By including grass fires in this study we have now measured smoke composition from fires in each major vegetation class. The emission ratios of the oxygenated compounds, formaldehyde, methanol, and acetic acid, were 1–2% of CO in the grass fires, similar to our other laboratory and …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 07/30 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Grade inflation rates among different ability students, controlling for other factors / Stephanie McSpirit [and] Kirk E. Jones.

Stellar Masses, Kinematics, And White Dwarf Composition For Three Close Da+Dme Binaries, Stephane Vennes, John R. Thorstensen, Elisha F. Polomski

Dartmouth Scholarship

We determine the mass functions and mass ratios for three close white dwarf plus red dwarf binaries (EUVE J0720-317, 1016-053, and 2013+400). Hubble Space Telescope Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph spectra of the He II λ1640 and C IV λ1550 spectral lines trace the white dwarf orbital motion, and Hamilton Spectrograph echelle spectra (Lick Observatory) and lower dispersion spectra trace the red dwarf orbital motion. The data sets allow us to measure orbital periods and velocities, as well as the white dwarf gravitational redshifts. The red dwarf and white dwarf mass estimates obtained from a combination of independent mass measurements for the …

The Daily Egyptian, September 20, 1999, Daily Egyptian Staff

September 1999

No abstract provided.

Hubble Space Telescope/Faint Object Spectrograph Spectroscopy Of Spatially Resolved Narrow-Line Regions In The Seyfert 2 Galaxies Ngc 2110 And Ngc 5929, Pierre Ferruit, Andrew S. Wilson, Mark Whittle, Chris Simpson, John S. Mulchaey, Gary J. Ferland

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present the results of UV and optical Hubble Space Telescope/Faint Object Spectrograph spectroscopy of bright, extranuclear regions of line emission in the Seyfert galaxies NGC 2110 and NGC 5929. We have obtained spectra of the brightest region of the ``nuclear jet'' of NGC 2110 (75 pc from the nucleus) and of the southwest emission-line cloud of NGC 5929 (90 pc from the nucleus), in the G130H (1090-1605 Å), G190H (1570-2310 Å), G400H (3235-4780 Å), and G570H (4570-6820 Å) configurations. The observed line ratios are compared with the predictions of the two component (matter- and ionization-bounded, MB-IB), central source …

Large‐Scale Power Spectrum And Cosmological Parameters From Sfi Peculiar Velocities, Wolfram Freudling, Idit Zehavi, Luiz N. Da Costa, Avishai Dekel, Amiram Eldar, Riccardo Giovanelli, Martha P. Haynes, John J. Salzer, Gary Wegner, Saleem Zaroubi

Dartmouth Scholarship

We estimate the power spectrum of mass density fluctuations from peculiar velocities of galaxies by applying an improved maximum likelihood technique to the new all-sky SFI catalog. Parametric models are used for the power spectrum and the errors, and the free parameters are determined by assuming Gaussian velocity fields and errors and maximizing the probability of the data given the model. It has been applied to generalized cold dark matter (CDM) models with and without COBE normalization. The method has been carefully tested using artificial SFI catalogs. The most likely distance errors are found to be similar to the original …

Block Scheduling Effects On A State Mandated Test Of Basic Skills, William R. Veal, James Schreiber

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This study examined the effects of a tri-schedule on the academic achievement of students in a high school. The tri-schedule consists of traditional, 4x4 block, and hybrid schedules running at the same time in the same high school. ...