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Explicit Resolutions Of Cubic Cusp Singularities, Helen G. Grundman

Mathematics Faculty Research and Scholarship

Resolutions of cusp singularities are crucial to many techniques in computational number theory, and therefore finding explicit resolutions of these singularities has been the focus of a great deal of research. This paper presents an implementation of a sequence of algorithms leading to explicit resolutions of cusp singularities arising from totally real cubic number fields. As an example, the implementation is used to compute values of partial seta functions associated to these cusps.

The Guardian Ad Litem In Custody And Conflict Cases: Investigator, Champion, And Referee, Dana E. Prescott J.D.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

Spring 2000, Nsu Oceanographic Center

Currents

No abstract provided.

Now That The Floodgates Have Been Opened, Why Haven't Banks Rushed Into The Certification Authority Business, Tara C. Hogan

North Carolina Banking Institute

No abstract provided.

The New Biology And International Sharing - Lessons From The Life And Works Of George P. Smith, Ii (Inaugural Lecture: George P. Smith, Ii, Distinguished Visiting Professorship-Chair Of Law), Michael D. Kirby

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

[The George P. Smith, II, Distinguished Visiting Professorship-Chair

of Law and Legal Research endowment was established by George P.

Smith to broaden students' exposure to scholars and judges of national

and international reputation and to allow distinguished visiting scholars

the opportunity to do research at Indiana University and share their

ideas with the faculty and students of the Indiana University School of

Law and Indiana University. George P. Smith, an Indiana native,

received his B.S. degree in business, economics, and public policy in

1961 from Indiana University and his J. D. from the Indiana University

School of Law in 1964. …

Setting A New Standard For Public Education: Revision 6 Increases The Duty Of The State To Make ‘Adequate Provision’ For Florida Schools, Jon L. Mills, Timothy Mclendon

UF Law Faculty Publications

Among the nine revisions proposed to Florida voters by the Constitution Revision Commission in 1998, Revision 6 fundamentally enhanced Florida's responsibility for public education. Revision 6 amended Article IX, Section 1, of the Florida Constitution, which sets forth the State's duty to provide for public education. Entitled “PUBLIC EDUCATION OF CHILDREN,” Revision 6 makes a declaration of the relative importance of education to the people of Florida, and describes as “paramount” the duty of the state to adequately provide for education. Revision 6 goes on to detail and raise the constitutional standard for what constitutes “adequate provision” for public education, …

Risk In Contemporary Society, François Ewald

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Integrating The Fine Arts Across The Elementary Curriculum, Emily Gilbert '00

Honors Projects

I began my research with the intention of discovering in what ways elementary teachers incorporate the fine arts across the curriculum. For those teachers who do, I wanted to know where they learned how to do so, and how their students respond to the integration of the arts. I have a strong personal connection to this topic. The fine arts always have been an integral part of my life, which I attribute to my education: my teachers introduced me to the arts and fostered my love of the arts. From an educational standpoint, I began to wonder how teachers incorporate …

Evolutionary Statutory Interpretation: Mr. Justice Scalia Meets Darwin, Jeffrey G. Miller

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Primary Caretaker Presumption: Have We Been Presuming Too Much?, Paul L. Smith

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Gambling On Faith: A Holistic Examination Of Blaise Pascal's Wager, Jan Van Vliet

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Over three centuries after the publication of the Wager the sense of shock and dismay that meets Blaise Pascal's unorthodox tool of apologetics is matched only by attempts to reinterpret and reconstruct it or by out of hand dismissal of Pascal's claim to be Christian.This essay attempts to take a close and holistic look at the Wager - its premises and claims, as well as some attempts at reinterpretation. Do the reinterpretations stretch the integrity of the model or are they successful endeavors to push out the boundaries? We offer a tentative suggestion for conceptual and statistical extension of the …

Fuel Optimization For Constrained Rotation Of Satellite Formations, Timothy Mclain, Randal W. Beard, Fred Y. Hadaegh

Faculty Publications

This paper considers the problem of reorienting a constellation of spacecraft such that the fuel distributed across the constellation is both conserved and expended uniformly. Results are derived for constellations with an arbitrary number of spacecraft, assuming that the constellation is in free space, that the spacecraft mass is time invariant, and that the thrusters can produce thrust in any direction. An open-loop control algorithm is derived by minimizing a cost function that trades off total fuel minimization and fuel equalization. The associated optimization problem is shown to be amenable to standard algorithms. Simulation results using a four-spacecraft constellation are …

How The Host ‘Sees’ Pathogens: Global Gene Expression Responses To Infection, Ian D. Manger, David A. Relman

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Publications

Innate immune responses to pathogens are believed to be patterned and stereotyped. Adaptive responses display variety but in relatively few types of products and with limited numbers of mechanisms. Is this apparent disparity between microbial pathogen diversity and a restricted set of host responses an accurate picture of infection or is it the result of a limited collection of analytic tools? DNA microarray technology permits one to address simple descriptive questions about global gene expression inside cells. In particular, it offers an opportunity to examine the relationship between host and pathogen in much greater detail than has been possible previously. …

The Massachusetts Environmental Industry: Facing The Challenges Of Maturity, Betty J. Diener, David Terkla, Erick Cooke

Management and Marketing Faculty Publication Series

For most of the past 20 years, the environmental industry has been a very significant one, both in Massachusetts and across the country. Some have placed it alongside the electronics, computer hardware, software, biotechnology, fiber optics, and composite materials industries as part of the high-technology sector that has diversified and strengthened the state’s economy. Nationally, environmental industry employment exceeded that of several major manufacturing industries, including chemicals, paper, and aerospace.

In the late 1990s, however, the momentum of the environmental movement began to wane. A decline in both employment and sales suggests that many of the most pressing environmental concerns …

Computational Geometry Column 38, Joseph O'Rourke

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Recent results on curve reconstruction are described.

General Education Faculty Survey Instrument, 2000, Assessment Of Student Learning Committee

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

The Ciceronian Rhetoric Of John Quincy Adams, Lyon Rathbun

Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications

This article examines the way in which the classical rhetorical tradition inspired John Quincy Adams's public life. While rhetorical scholars have probed Adams's role as Harvard's first Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, they have not appreciated how the classical tradition in general, and Ciceronian rhetoric in particular, influenced his political career. Social scientists, on the other hand, have studied Adams's impact on Antebellum America but have not appreciated how his life-long devotion to classical rhetoric shaped his response to public issues. John Quincy Adams remained inspired by classical rhetorical ideals long after the neo-classicalism and deferential politics of the founding generation …

Development Of Organoiron Methodology For Preparation Of The Polyene Natural Product Macrolactin A, Heiko Bärmann, Vadapalli Prahlad, Chunlin Tao, Young K. Yun, Zhi Wang, William A. Donaldson

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

Methodology for the synthesis of the C7–C13 segment (19) and C14–C24 segment (41) of macrolactin A have been developed. Dicarbonyl(methyl 7-nitro-2E,4Z-heptadienoate)triphenylphosphineiron (19) is prepared by nucleophilic addition to a (1-methoxycarbonylpentadienyl)iron cation. The C23 stereocenter of 41 is established by introduction of a C20 stereocenter, chirality transfer from C20 to C23 followed by (diene)iron mediated selective ionic reduction of the C20 hydroxyl. The C15 stereocenter may be established by nitrile oxide–olefin cyclocondensation.

Unmanned Research Vehicle (Urv): Development, Implementation, & Flight Test Of A Mimo Digital Flight Control System Designed Using Quantitative Feedback Theory, Constantine H. Houpis, Steven J. Rasmussen

Faculty Publications

The Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT) design technique, which has the ability to bridge the gap between theory and the real-world control design problem, is utilized in the design of a MIMO digital flight control system for an unmanned research vehicle (URV) that is presented in this paper. The design illustrates how the real-world knowledge of the plant to be controlled and the desired performance specifications can be utilized in trying to achieve a successful robust design for a nonlinear control problem. This paper presents some of the issues involved in developing, implementing, and flight testing a flight control system (FCS) …

Community, Spring 2000, Office Of Communications And Marketing, Wright State University

Community

Thirty-six page issue of Community which was published periodically from 1996 through 2011. The magazine focused on news and events at Wright State University relating to faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the university.

Periodical Price Survey 2000: Pushing Toward More Affordable Acccess, Lee Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Scholarly Papers and Articles

No abstract provided.

Advancement

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Cal Poly Magazine, Spring 2000

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Class Notes

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Magnetite Biomineralization And Ancient Life On Mars, Richard B. Frankel, Peter R. Buseck

Physics

Certain chemical and mineral features of the Martian meteorite ALH84001 were reported in 1996 to be probable evidence of ancient life on Mars. In spite of new observations and interpretations, the question of ancient life on Mars remains unresolved. Putative biogenic, nanometer magnetite has now become a leading focus in the debate.

The Timing Of Opinion Formation By Jurors In Civil Cases: An Empirical Examination, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Mott, G. Thomas Munsterman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The question of when and how jurors form opinions about evidence presented at trial has been the focus of seemingly endless speculation. For lawyers, the question is how to capture the attention and approval of the jury at the earliest possible point in the trial. Their goal is to maximize the persuasiveness of their arguments--or at least to minimize the persuasiveness of those of the opposing side. Judges, in contrast, are more concerned about prejudgment. They regularly admonish jurors to suspend judgment until after all the evidence has been presented and after the jurors have been instructed on the law. …

The Emotional Economy Of Capital Sentencing, Stephen P. Garvey

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

You often hear that one reason capital jurors condemn capital defendants is that jurors don't empathize with defendants. And one reason they don't empathize is that the process of capital sentencing is rigged against empathy. Using data from the South Carolina segment of the Capital Jury Project, I try to examine the role emotion plays in capital sentencing.

Without entering here all the important and necessary caveats, I find that the self-reported emotional responses jurors have toward capital defendants run the gamut from sympathy and pity at one extreme, to disgust, anger, and fear at the other. What causes these …

Insurance And The Utopian Idea, Carol Weisbrod

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Recent Developments In The Law - Primary And Secondary Education

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Invitation To An Enterprise: From Physics To World History To The Study Of Civilizations, Arthur Iberall, Frank Hassler, Harry Soodak, David Wilkinson

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.