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Journal Of Mathematics And Science: Collaborative Explorations

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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Journal Of Mathematics And Science: Collaborative Explorations

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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Challenges For Science And Mathematics Faculty, S. T. Thornton

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

The increased science and mathematics teacher licensure requirements for K-8 teachers are clearly necessary to prepare teachers to appropriately teach the new Virginia SOLs [1]; The expectations of a program equivalent to 12 hours of science and 12 hours of mathematics for the PreK-6 endorsement and the 21 hours each of math and science to teach middle school math and science must be chosen very carefully indeed if future teachers are to be prepared to teach the specific SOL content, as well as "practical applications and the use of appropriate technology“. Most Virginia colleges and universities are not currently offering …

A New Interdisciplinary Mathematics And Science Course, P. E. Mcneil

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

As Norfolk State University has been considering how to adequately prepare students to teach the challenging new mathematics and science called for the Virginia Standards of Learning [1], we have reached the conclusion that the student programs need to provide interdisciplinary experiences linking mathematics and science. We reached the conclusion for two reasons. First, even with the larger number of courses called for in the new licensure regulations, there are not enough course hours available to teach all of the different mathematics and science topics that future teachers need to have studied. Second, elementary and middle school students do not …

Higher Education's Greatest Current Opportunity And Responsibility, R. F. Watson

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

Preparing the next generation of teachers at all levels from kindergarten through college is higher education’s greatest current opportunity. Getting it right may be our greatest challenge. The face of science and technology is by definition changing constantly. Today, many feel that the most important work in science is going on increasingly at and across the interfaces of the traditional discipline. To serve our society well, education in the sciences, mathematics, engineering, and technology must change accordingly. In my view, curricula at all levels (K-16) too often continue to reflect only the narrow traditional disciplinary approaches that science has taken …

Defense Within Limits: The Conflicts Of "Wasting" Or "Cannibalizing" Insurance Policies, Greg Munro

Faculty Journal Articles & Other Writings

This article discusses defense within limits (DWL) provisions of insurance liability policies and the potential conflict inherent when the limit of liability available to indemnify the insured against verdicts or settlements is reduced by the costs of defense.

"Stacking" In Montana In 1999, Greg Munro

Faculty Journal Articles & Other Writings

This article discusses the status of stacking, the aggregation of coverages by reason of multiple autos insured under a single policy as well as multiple autos insured under separate policies as long as the autos are insured with the same company, in Montana in 1999.

Application Of The Fdtd Method For The Analysis Of Finite-Sized Phased Array Microstrip Antennas, Javier Gomez Tagle Rangel

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method has gained tremendous popularity in the past decade as a tool for solving Maxwell's equations. Phased Array Antennas find several applications including mobile communications ( cellular, personal communication systems and networks), satellite communications, global positioning system (GPS), aeronautical and radar systems. This dissertation describes the application of the FDTD method for calculating broadband characteristics of finite-sized phased array antennas consisting of microstrip elements fed with coaxial probes.

The characterization of such antennas is dependent upon the development of simulation tools that can accurately model general topologies including wires, dielectrics, conductors lumped elements and metallic strips. …

The International Association Of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) V. Lowry: The Lost Argument, John W. Bolanovich

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

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Prosecution Of Corporations For Manslaughter: Towards A New Offense Of "Corporate Killing" In The United Kingdom, Mark Franklin

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

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"Risky Business": Epa Decision-Making In The Screening Of Biotechnology Products, Nuno M. Santos

Fordham Environmental Law Review

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The Crummer Suntrust Investment Portfolio 1999, Marty Bruce, Tim Wu, Nick Dolya, Matt Williams, Robert High

Crummer Truist Portfolios

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Fortnightly - 1999

Fortnightly Collated by Year

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Regulation Of Rubisco In Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria, Amy Cohn

Honors Capstones

Rubisco is an enzyme that catalyzes the first reaction in the Calvin Cycle in photosynthesis. Since it is a poor catalyst, research has attempted to improve the rate at which it fixes carbon because this could in turn increase crop yields, in plants, Rubisco is regulated by light but the evolution of regulatory proteins and mechanisms is unknown. By studying Rubisco activity in photosynthetic bacteria, the origins of its regulation can be explored, we grew purple nonsulfur bacteria on two main substrates and used a culture grown in constant light conditions as a control. The experimental culture was grown in …

The Quantity-Quality Transition In Asia, Mark R. Montgomery, Mary Arends-Kuenning, Cem Mete

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Societies in which fertility is falling and human capital investment per child increasing are experiencing a “quantity-quality transition.” Such transitions imply, over the long term, both slower rates of labor force growth and higher levels of human capital per worker. They are fundamental to economic development. Yet, these transitions are neither automatic or self-propelling. Their momentum depends on competing forces acting at both the family and the macroeconomic levels; the balance can easily tip against further transition. Family decisions about schooling are largely motivated by its private economic returns. These returns are determined in labor markets, and here the logic …

A Comparison Of Observations And Model Simulations Of NoX/NoY In The Lower Stratosphere, R. S. Gao, D. W. Fahey, L. A. Del Negro, Stephen G. Donnelly Ph.D., E. R. Keim, J. A. Neuman, E. Teverovskaia, P. O. Wennberg, T. F. Hanisco, E. J. Lanzendorf, M. H. Proffitt, J. J. Margitan, J. C. Wilson, J. W. Elkins, R. M. Stimpfle, R. C. Cohen, C. T. Mcelroy, T. P. Bui, R. J. Salawitch, S. S. Brown, A. R. Ravishankara, R. W. Portmann, M. K.W. Ko, D. K. Weisenstein, P. A. Newman

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Extensive airborne measurements of the reactive nitrogen reservoir (NOy) and its component nitric oxide (NO) have been made in the lower stratosphere. Box model simulations that are constrained by observations of radical and long-lived species and which include heterogeneous chemistry systematically underpredict the NOx (= NO + NO2) to NOy ratio. The model agreement is substantially improved if newly measured rate coefficients for the OH + NO2 and OH + HNO3 reactions are used. When included in 2-D models, the new rate coefficients significantly increase the calculated ozone loss due to NOx and modestly change the calculated ozone abundances in …

High Country News, Water In The West, Amy W. Beatie

Water Law Review

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Application From Town Of Georgetown For A Change Of Use Of Water Rights, And A Plan For Augmentation, Including Exchange, In Clear Creek County., Chip Cutler

Water Law Review

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Ocean Shipping Deregulation And Maritime Ports: Lessons Learned From Airline Deregulation, Christopher Clott, Gary S. Wilsoner

Transportation Law Journal

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Federal Indian Law, Heather A. Weckbaugh

Denver Law Review

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Deja Vu All Over Again: What To Do When The Octogenarian Really Is Fertile And Other Legal Conundrums Which Will Result From The Cloning Of Human Beings, Kevin H. Smith

Denver Law Review

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Symposium: Stopping Science -- Stopping Embryo Research, Ronald M. Green

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Stopping Science: The Case Of Cryptography, David Banisar

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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The Maladaptation Of Miranda To Advance Directives: A Critique Of The Implementation Of The Patient Self-Determination Act, Thaddeus Mason Pope

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Report Of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School Of Law 1998-1999, William & Mary Law School

Annual Report

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Using Spatial Systems To Establish Priorities For Catchment Management, David Deeley, David Weaver, J Hick

Conference papers and presentations

Priorities for catchment management can be established based on either, an objective assessment of relative priorities throughout the catchment, or by simply responding to crises associated with particular land uses and their sectional interests. While the latter method can have advantages in terms of establishing community good will, team cohesion, and a sense of achievement for particular sectional interests, it may have shortcomings in terms of a more objective and rational assessment of the relative magnitude and hence priority of land management problems. Spatial modelling using GIS can form the basis for developing a catchment-wide understanding of the relative importance …

International Law And The Maritime Carriage Of Radioactive Materials: Prospects For The Non-Anthropocentric Greening Of International Law, A. Suzette V. Suarez

LLM Theses

A review of the legal regime governing the shipments of radioactive materials reveals an array of preventive and emergency measures as well as liability and compensation measures. The legal regime, however, does not provide any voice to all potentially affected entities, particularly developing Coastal States and the marine environment. The legal regime must be transformed in order to take the above interests into consideration. Any reform in the legal system must start with an evaluation of the ethics and philosophy underlying the system. Understanding the ethical and philosophical basis of the legal regime contributes to the formulation of recommendations for …

On The Use Of Undefined Logic Values In Digital Vlsi, William D. Armitage

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation addresses both the consequences and advantages of the fact that all digital logic implementations are analog in reality. Although, in the ideal sense, all digital signals exist at either a logic 0 or a logic 1, in practice signals are generally between these two extreme values. There is a poorly-defined zone (which we denote as φ) near the midpoint of the logic range where a logic level is not recognizable as a 0 or 1 beyond a reasonable doubt. Variations in design and fabrication exacerbate this uncertainty. We introduce the concept of zoned binary, which has three …

Real Time Two Color Variable Resolution Video Moire And Error Map Moire Using A Mach-Zehnder Interferometer, Neville Maycock, August Schutte, Joel H. Blatt

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

A variable resolution two color video moire system has been built which uses a dual laser illuminated Mach-Zehnder interferometer as the fringe projector. One input of the interferometer is illuminated by a He-Ne laser and the other by an Argon-Ion laser, allowing simultaneous projection of red and green fringes with different spatial frequencies. The dual interferometer outputs are also used, allowing illumination of both the target and reference surfaces. Video cameras view the two surfaces and by mixing the video signals with a chroma-key mix in a video special effects generator, real time moire can be observed. A piezo-electrically driven …

Emerald: University Built Satellite Extending Communications Experimentation For The Amateur Community, Robert J. Twiggs, Freddy Pranajaya

Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection

A published report by Bob Twiggs and Freddy Pranajaya titled "Emerald: University Built Satellite Extending Communications Experimentation for the Amateur Community" from 1999.