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Spectrum, Volume 17, Number 22, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Student government elections wrap up -- Candlelight vigil attracts over 200 participants -- Stamford mayor new SHU professor -- Student web pages growing -- Lazy East Hall cops jeopardize student's safety -- Social work program going the extra mile -- SHU posts three winners at science com[petition -- Works by Luxembourg artists at the Gallery -- Baseball loses 3 NEC games - Dance team places 13th in national competition -- More NCAA changes pass

Kenyon Collegian - April 13, 2000

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

April 12, 2000 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Student Scholarship Day 2000, Grand Valley State University

Student Scholars Day Archives

No abstract provided.

Minutes Of The Faculty Senate Meeting, April 12, 2000, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

School Facilities. 55% Local Vote. Bonds, Taxes. Accountability Requirements.

Initiatives

SCHOOL FACILITIES. 55% LOCAL VOTE. BONDS, TAXES. ACCOUNTABILITY REQUIREMENTS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE. Authorizes bonds for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities if approved by 55% vote for projects evaluated by schools, community college districts, county education offices for safety, class size, and information technology needs. Accountability requirements include annual performance and financial audits on use of bond proceeds. Prohibits use of bond proceeds for salaries or school operating expenses. Requires facilities for public charter schools. Authorizes property taxes in excess of 1% limit by 55% vote, rather than current two-thirds, as necessary to pay school bonds. …

Banner News, Patrice Harson, Mandy Olson, Patrick Fleming, Katie Bents, Arthur Davis, Jay Cue, Jessica Anderson, Chris Lambader, Scott Anderson

Banner News

No abstract provided.

Bounding Interval Rational Bézier Curves With Interval Polynomial Bézier Curves, Thomas W. Sederberg, Falai Chen, Wenping Lou

Faculty Publications

In this paper, we put forward and study the problem of bounding an interval rational Bézier curve with an interval polynomial Bézier curve. We propose three different methods—Hybrid Method, Perturbation Method and Linear Programming Method to solve this problem. Examples are illustrated to compare the three different methods. The empirical results show that the Perturbation Method and the Linear Programming Method produce much tighter bounds than the Hybrid Method, though they are computationally several times more expensive.

Mathematician Presents Lecture April 19, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- A well-known mathematician and logician — who possesses the musical ability of a concert pianist, enjoys building telescopes and delves into magic — presents a public program and holds a teacher workshop April 19 at The University of Mississippi.

It's Happening At State: April 12, 2000

It's Happening at State

Provides summary information of news and events of interest to the faculty and staff of NDSU.

The Guardian, April 12, 2000, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Sixteen page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Um Events Celebrate Math Awareness Month, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For April 11, 2000, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the April 11, 2000 Board of Regents Meeting

The Murray Ledger And Times, April 11, 2000, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Faculty Meeting, April 11, 2000, Arts & Sciences Faculty

The College of Liberal Arts Faculty Minutes

No abstract provided.

Academic Senate - Agenda, 4/11/2000, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

A Dynamical Solution To The Problem Of A Small Cosmological Constant And Late-Time Cosmic Acceleration, Christian Armendariz-Picon, V. Mukhanov, Paul J. Steinhardt

Physics - All Scholarship

Increasing evidence suggests that most of the energy density of the universe consists of a dark energy component with negative pressure, a ``cosmological constant" that causes the cosmic expansion to accelerate. In this paper, we address the puzzle of why this component comes to dominate the universe only recently rather than at some much earlier epoch. We present a class of theories based on an evolving scalar field where the explanation is based entirely on internal dynamical properties of the solutions. In the theories we consider, the dynamics causes the scalar field to lock automatically into a negative pressure state …

Center Attempts To Erase Census Undercount, Michael Harrelson

University of Mississippi News

When it comes to excuses as to why some Mississippians don't fill out their U.S. Census forms, Dr. Max Williams has heard them all.

An Optimal-Order Error Estimate For An Ellam Scheme For Two-Dimensional Linear Advection-Diffusion Equations, Hong Wang

Faculty Publications

An Eulerian-Lagrangian localized adjoint method (ELLAM) is presented and an- alyzed for two-dimensional linear advection-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs). An optimal-order error estimate in the L^2 norm and a superconvergence estimate in a discrete H^1 norm are derived. Numerical experiments are performed to verify the theoretical estimates.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 89 [90], No. 47 (Apr. 11, 2000), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 89, but it is the 90th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Carbon Nanotube Atomic Force Microscopy Tips: Direct Growth By Chemical Vapor Deposition And Application To High-Resolution Imaging, Chin Li Cheung, Jason H. Hafner, Charles M. Lieber

Barry Chin Li Cheung Publications

Carbon nanotubes are potentially ideal atomic force microscopy probes because they can have diameters as small as one nanometer, have robust mechanical properties, and can be specifically functionalized with chemical and biological probes at the tip ends. This communication describes methods for the direct growth of carbon nanotube tips by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) using ethylene and iron catalysts deposited on commercial silicon-cantilever-tip assemblies. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy measurements demonstrate that multiwalled nanotube and single-walled nanotube tips can be grown by predictable variations in the CVD growth conditions. Force-displacement measurements made on the tips show that they …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 024, Number 34, April 10, 2000, 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.

April 10, 2000, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

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

Teaching And Assessing The Writing Process, Gail H. Biros

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to provide valuable information regarding the assessment and teaching of writing skills. Although students spend time writing stories, they do not write frequently enough to learn the basic skills of writing. Just as teachers learned that children needed direct instruction in reading skills to make "Whole Language" successful, similarly writing must be taught utilizing direct instruction of specific skills.

There are few reliable and valid assessment tools in the written language domain. A comprehensive assessment tool is needed at the beginning of the school year to help the teacher focus on the individual student …

A Single Circumbinary Disk In The Hd 98800 Quadruple System, D. W. Koerner, Eric L.N. Jensen, K. L. Cruz, T. B. Guild, K. Gultekin

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We present subarcsecond thermal infrared imaging of HD 98800, a young quadruple system composed of a pair of low-mass spectroscopic binaries separated by 0".8 (38 AU), each with a K-dwarf primary. Images at wavelengths ranging from 5 to 24.5 mu m show unequivocally that the optically fainter binary, HD 98800B, is the sole source of a comparatively large infrared excess on which a silicate emission feature is superposed. The excess is detected only at wavelengths of 7.9 mu m and longer, peaks at 25 mu m, and has a best-fit blackbody temperature of 150 K, indicating that most of the …

Monitor Newsletter April 10, 2000, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

The Murray Ledger And Times, April 10, 2000, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Researchers Explore Arctic Freshwater's Role In Ocean Circulation, Steven L. Forman, Wieslaw Maslowski, John T. Andrews, David Lubinski, Michael Steele, Jain Zhang, Richard B. Lammers, Bruce Peterson

Faculty Publications

A critical, but insufficiently understood, component of global change is the influence of Arctic freshwater input on water mass exchange between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Four of the Earth's 10 largest river systems, the Mackenzie, Ob,Yenisei, and Lena, contribute water to the Arctic shore (Figure 1) from a vast watershed that drains continental interiors. This river discharge flows into the world's largest contiguous continental shelf and supplies over 50% (1823 km3 ) of the riverine input to the Arctic Ocean.

The Murray Ledger And Times, April 8, 2000, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Roles Of Odor, Taste, And Toxicity In The Food Preferences Of Lambs: Implications For Mimicry In Plants, Frederick D. Provenza, Bruce A. Kimball, Juan J. Villalba

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

In the traditional sense, food ingestion consists of prehending, masticating, swallowing, and digesting plant matter. It is also possible to ingest plants without eating them. Volatile compounds are inhaled directly into the lungs and transported from the lungs into the bloodstream. Volatiles in high concentrations could presumably produce toxicosis, without an herbivore ever ingesting a plant in the customary sense. Volatile compounds may be aposematic, serving to warn potential predators of toxins in plants. We conducted three experiments to explore the roles of odor, taste, and toxicity in the food preferences of lambs. The first experiment determined if brief exposure …