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The Savannah River Site: Site Description, Land Use And Management History, David L. White, Karen F. Gaines Dec 2000

The Savannah River Site: Site Description, Land Use And Management History, David L. White, Karen F. Gaines

Publications

The 78,000-ha Savannah River Site, which is located in the upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina along the Savannah River, was established as a nuclear production facility in 1951 by the Atomic Energy Commission. The site’s physical and vegetative characteristics, land use history, and the impacts of management and operations are described. Aboriginal and early European settlement was primarily along streams, where much of the farming and timber cutting have occurred. Woodland grazing occurred in the uplands and lowlands. Land use intensity increased after the Civil War and peaked in the 1920s. Impacts from production of cotton and corn, naval …

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John Wesley Powell Trailblazing Iwu Prof-Scientist Subject Of New Biography, Bob Aaron Dec 2000

John Wesley Powell Trailblazing Iwu Prof-Scientist Subject Of New Biography, Bob Aaron

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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An Evaluation Of The S2ia Switched-Current Architecture For (Delta)(Sigma) Modulator Adcs, Andre Botha Dec 2000

An Evaluation Of The S2ia Switched-Current Architecture For (Delta)(Sigma) Modulator Adcs, Andre Botha

Theses

Switched-Current (SI) is a design methodology by which discrete time, current mode, analog circuits can be implemented using standard digital CMOS processes, allowing the addition of analog signal processing circuits, analog to digital converters (ADCs), digital to analog converters (DACs) and other analog and mixed-signal circuits to otherwise digital only microchips without the need and expense of any extra fabrication steps. SI circuits operate by employing a secondary effect in CMOS circuits, a transistor's gate capacitance, to store charge and thus form a current memory cell. A current memory cell is one of the basic building blocks found in most …

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Review Of Pernille Flensted-Jensen (Ed.), Further Studies In The Ancient Greek Polis. Historia Einzelschriften 138, Cpcpapers 5., Vanessa B. Gorman Dec 2000

Review Of Pernille Flensted-Jensen (Ed.), Further Studies In The Ancient Greek Polis. Historia Einzelschriften 138, Cpcpapers 5., Vanessa B. Gorman

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Further Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis is the fifth volume in the series of Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, which monographs, along with six volumes of CPCActs, have served to distribute the continuing conclusions arrived at by the Centre. The reader is expected to know the purpose of these works, as this volume lacks any kind of prefatory explanation for its existence and leaps immediately into the twelve essays of which it is comprised. The reader discovers that the book is actually two works. The seven initial essays treat specific regions within Hellas, often dealing with issues of …

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Lady Eagles & Eagles Basketball Games From December 17, 2000 And January 4, 2001, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics. Dec 2000

Lady Eagles & Eagles Basketball Games From December 17, 2000 And January 4, 2001, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The official game program from the December 17, 2000 to January 4, 2001 basketball games of Morehead State University.

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Design And Construction Of A Low Earth Orbit Satellite Ground Station, Eric Darnel Dec 2000

Design And Construction Of A Low Earth Orbit Satellite Ground Station, Eric Darnel

Engineering

This thesis describes the design and construction of a satellite ground station constructed in support of the Citizen Explorer Program. The University of Alaska Fairbanks was chosen to participate in this program due to its latitude that gives it excellent access to polar-orbiting satellites. The advantage that higher latitudes have in accessing low earth orbiting satellites is examined. It is demonstrated that Fairbanks, Alaska, has roughly twice the access to polar orbiting satellites than the mid-latitudes of the contiguous US. Link budgets for the communication system were developed, which led to the construction of helical antennas to communicate with the …

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Design And Simulation Of Flight Computer Using Vhdl For Arim-1 Sounding Rocket Payload, Anirban Chowdhury Dec 2000

Design And Simulation Of Flight Computer Using Vhdl For Arim-1 Sounding Rocket Payload, Anirban Chowdhury

Engineering

Atmospheric Refractive Index Measurement-1 (ARIM-1) is a sounding rocket payload designed to collect information regarding atmospheric turbulence. ARIM-1 is designed to make high-resolution (4 samples per centimeter) differential temperature measurements of the atmosphere to determine the structure of atmospheric turbulence and hence it's refractive index. The rocket's flight computer schedules and manages data acquisition from various payload sub-systems and transmits this acquired data to the ground station. The goal of this work is to develop a custom design for this flight computer using Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL). This thesis presents simulation and hardware requirements for …

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The Geography Of Isolation: Nineteenth Century Science, Exploration And The Conception Of The Aleutian Islands, Annette Watson Dec 2000

The Geography Of Isolation: Nineteenth Century Science, Exploration And The Conception Of The Aleutian Islands, Annette Watson

Arctic and Northern Studies

The purpose of this thesis is threefold: first, to follow the early history of Alaska from the point of view of the Aleutian Islands; second, to follow how the history of science intersects with this history. Third, to show how nineteenth century science and scientists conceived of the Aleutians, and how their conceptions translated to public perceptions of landscape. The Aleutian Islands went from being the center of the newly-purchased Alaska in 1867--to an isolated chain of islands stretching beyond the margins of the map. Tracing the progression of this isolation demonstrates how landscape--an amalgamation of physical experience and myth--is …

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Japanese Winter Tourism In Rural Alaska: Bettles Lodge, Mie Kojima Dec 2000

Japanese Winter Tourism In Rural Alaska: Bettles Lodge, Mie Kojima

Rural Development

Japanese tourists increasingly visit the Arctic in wintertime because of their interest in northern lights. Some rural communities in Alaska see this as an opportunity to enter winter tourism by targeting the Japanese market. The purpose of this study is to gain better understanding of the interests of these Japanese visitors and to explore potentials for tourism development in rural Alaska. A Japanese visitor survey was conducted in the spring of 2000 at Bettles Lodge in Interior Alaska. The data reveal that the average visitor to Bettles Lodge was female, over 61 years of age, an urban dweller, employed full-time, …

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Women, Culture, And Identity In Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' And Assia Djebar's 'Ombre Sultane', Shayle M. Hutchison Dec 2000

Women, Culture, And Identity In Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' And Assia Djebar's 'Ombre Sultane', Shayle M. Hutchison

English

Beginning with the assumption that women of all cultures experience a conflict between their culturally prescribed gender roles and their individual sexual desires, I comparie the characters Edna Pontellier of Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' with Isma and Hajila of Assia Djebar's 'Ombre Sultane.' Each woman undergoes a process of awakening body consciousness that leads to her first experience of desire, an essential link between physical and mental consciousness. The expression of female desire conflicts with prescribed cultural behavior. Each character also moves away from her family and cultural roots, thus assuring herself a necessary distance for rebellion against social standards. …

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Lived Ethnicity: Identity, Consciousness, And Discursive Practice In Grayling, Alaska, Brenden Raymond-Yakoubian Dec 2000

Lived Ethnicity: Identity, Consciousness, And Discursive Practice In Grayling, Alaska, Brenden Raymond-Yakoubian

Anthropology

This thesis is an analysis of data collected from academic, archival, and ethnographic inquiries into the lives, culture, and history of the residents of Grayling, Alaska. The main argument forwarded in this thesis is that forms of discursive practice provide a means, emic and etic, for critically engaging the historically and locally constructed web of meanings that inscribe and inform the lived social reality of ethnic identity of ethnic identity and consciousness in Grayling. Using a communicative-discursive theoretical framework, influences and forces which inform this 'lived ethnicity, ' the strands of the web, are understood dialogically - as discursive forms …

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Motion And Calving At Leconte Glacier, Alaska, Shad O'Neel Dec 2000

Motion And Calving At Leconte Glacier, Alaska, Shad O'Neel

Theses (Unassigned)

An analysis of motion and calving in the terminus region of LeConte Glacier delineates controls which are important to tidewater glacier stability. Ice velocities in this region are quite high; at the terminus they exceed 27 m d⁻¹. Our analysis reveals fluctuations in velocity that are forced by ocean tides, surface melt and precipitation. However, the overall velocity is steady over seasonal time intervals. LeConte's terminus position varied substantially, even given this steady ice influx, establishing a correlation between the calving flux and the terminus position (flux out). Although this correlation is largely numerical, the occurrence of calving events is …

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A Qualitative Analysis Of The Relationship Between Religion And Women's Self Development, Bertha Elia Rodarte Dec 2000

A Qualitative Analysis Of The Relationship Between Religion And Women's Self Development, Bertha Elia Rodarte

Psychology

This study explored women's spiritual experiences and the effects of patriarchal religions on women's lives. To understand how patriarchal beliefs affect women, a sample of twenty-one women answered open-ended questions about their self-perceptions, images of God, discrepancies between religious education and beliefs in feminist ideology, and views of other women. The participants' experiences describe their spiritual self as Explorers, Adherents, or Liberated women. The research revealed that seventy-one percent of the women categorized as Explorers had a discrepancy between their religious and feminist belief systems. To cope they used emotion focused/avoidance, problem-oriented/avoidance and problem-oriented/active coping strategies. Both the Adherent and …

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A Qualitative Study Of The Women And Children's Residential Treatment Center Substance Abuse Treatment Program, Phillip Elwyn Gilbert Dec 2000

A Qualitative Study Of The Women And Children's Residential Treatment Center Substance Abuse Treatment Program, Phillip Elwyn Gilbert

Psychology

This thesis presents the results of a formative process evaluation of the Fairbanks Native Association Women and Children's Residential Treatment Center abuse program using interviews, participant observation, and grounded theory methods of qualitative research. Eight clients and eight staff were interviewed across the domains of culture, spirituality and family. A theory of program operation emanated from and was grounded in the data: program functioning was significantly affected by the relationship perceived by the clients to exist between themselves, (their needs, values, desires, goals and world view) and the program's goals and priorities.

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A Retrospective Assessment Of Primary Productivity On The Bering And Chukchi Sea Shelves Using Stable Isotope Ratios In Seabirds, Grace Elizabeth Abromaitis Dec 2000

A Retrospective Assessment Of Primary Productivity On The Bering And Chukchi Sea Shelves Using Stable Isotope Ratios In Seabirds, Grace Elizabeth Abromaitis

Marine Biology

Recent declines of marine mammal seabird populations in the Bering Sea have raised the question of whether the changes are caused by fishing pressure or a decrease in ecosystem carrying capacity. Stable carbon (¹³C⁾ and nitrogen (¹⁵N⁾ isotope ratios in Thick⁻billed Murre muscle and feathers were used as indicators of changing seasonal primary production. ¹³C values in phytoplankton vary directly with growth rates and are passed up the food web to consumers. Muscle and feather ¹³C values decreased over the period 1976-1998 suggesting a decline in Bering/Chukchi continental shelf primary production. Carbon isotope ratios in murres were correlated with bowhead …

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Use Of Beaufort Sea As Feeding Habitat By Bowhead Whales (Balaena Mysticetus) As Indicated By Stable Isotope Ratios, Sang Heon Lee Dec 2000

Use Of Beaufort Sea As Feeding Habitat By Bowhead Whales (Balaena Mysticetus) As Indicated By Stable Isotope Ratios, Sang Heon Lee

Marine Biology

The feeding habitats of the Western Arctic bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) during summer are generally known, but the precise amounts of food consumed from the eastern Beaufort Sea (EBS) are not known. [Alpha]13C and [alpha]15N ratios in whale tissues were used to estimate the amounts of food required from EBS. The feeding strategies of adults and subadults were also compared. For all whales, the [alpha]13C values in muscle sampled in fall were not significantly different from those in the muscle sampled in spring, indicating most food of adults and subadults comes from the Bering/Chukchi seas. The ¹³C data from baleen …

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A Comparison Of Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus Nerka) In Two Climate Regimes In The North Pacific Ocean Using Stable Carbon And Nitrogren Isotope Ratios, Franklin Robert Satterfield Dec 2000

A Comparison Of Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus Nerka) In Two Climate Regimes In The North Pacific Ocean Using Stable Carbon And Nitrogren Isotope Ratios, Franklin Robert Satterfield

Marine Biology

This study explores how the climate shift in the late 1970's impacted sockeye salmon feeding. Stable isotope ratios (¹³C and ¹⁵N) of recent muscle and scale tissues from five mature salmon species are highly correlated (R²=0.96 and 0.91, respectively), validating the use of archived scales for retrospective analysis. These data suggest a trophic separation by species with chinook occupying the highest level, followed by coho with some degree of overlap among sockeye, pink and chum at the lowest level. Archived scales from four different sockeye stocks from Kodiak Island and Southeast region were analyzed over the last 34 years to …

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Carbon And Nitrogen Uptake Dynamics During 1997 And 1998 Anomalous Conditions In The Bering Sea, Taekeun Rho Dec 2000

Carbon And Nitrogen Uptake Dynamics During 1997 And 1998 Anomalous Conditions In The Bering Sea, Taekeun Rho

Oceanography

During 1997 and 1998, unusual physical conditions caused dramatic changes in the regional oceanic environment and function of the southeastern Bering Sea ecosystem. The changes in ecosystem function were examined using ¹³C and ¹⁵N tracer techniques. In 1997, unusually clear and calm conditions allowed an ice-related early bloom over the middle shelf of the southeastern Bering Sea and resulted in nitrate uptake below the pycnocline. In 1998, the duration of phytoplankton growth was extended by warm temperatures and frequent storms that resulted in slow growth of phytoplankton and prevented rapid utilization of nitrate over the shelf. In coccolithophorid bloom regions, …

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Experimental And Economic Evaluation Of Gtl Fluid Flow Properties And Effect On Taps, Hariharan Ramakrishnan Dec 2000

Experimental And Economic Evaluation Of Gtl Fluid Flow Properties And Effect On Taps, Hariharan Ramakrishnan

Engineering

In this study, procedures are outlined to recondition and sample crude oil from high-pressure Welker cylinders. Standard laboratory procedures are developed to determine viscosity and density properties of crude oil, GTL and their mixtures. The steps needed to ensure Quality Assurance and Project Plan (QAPjp) is given in detail. A calibration macro is written to automate viscometer calibration calculations. A preliminary economic model is developed to evaluate GTL transportation options. Viscosity and density are measured for various samples at different temperatures. The reproducibility of the results is found to be within 5%. Batching is more preferable then blending for the …

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Rayleigh Lidar Studies Of The Arctic Middle Atmosphere, Laura Jeanette Cutler Dec 2000

Rayleigh Lidar Studies Of The Arctic Middle Atmosphere, Laura Jeanette Cutler

Engineering

Rayleigh lidar allows us to measure density and temperature structure of the atmosphere at heights from approximately 35 to 80 kilometers. A Rayleigh lidar was installed at Poker Flat Research Range in November of 1997 and has been operated routinely since. This thesis presents an engineering analysis of the lidar system performance and a scientific analysis of the data obtained. The engineering analysis considers the receiver and transmitter alignment of the lidar system and the signal quality of the lidar data. The scientific analysis considers the retrieval of density and temperature profiles under a range of geophysical conditions. This study …

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Genetic Engineering And Characterization Of Lysr-Type Transcriptional Regulators, Honghong Sun Dec 2000

Genetic Engineering And Characterization Of Lysr-Type Transcriptional Regulators, Honghong Sun

Biological Sciences

This thesis describes research aimed at understanding the structure and function of LysR-type transcriptional regulators. I studied two LysR-type proteins. One from the archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii, MJ-LysR. The other is from Burkholderia cepacia, DgdR. The MJ-LysR is the first putative LysR-type transcriptional regulator found in archaea. It is surprising that a prokaryotic transcriptional regulator is present in archaea, whose basal transcription machinery and RNA polymerase are more closely related to those of eukaryotes. To elucidate the structure and function of M-LysR protein, the gene was subcloned and expressed in E. coli. The gene product was isolated and purified by heat …

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Juvenile Pacific Herring (Clupea Pallasi) Feeding Ecology In Prince William Sound, Alaska, Robert James Foy Dec 2000

Juvenile Pacific Herring (Clupea Pallasi) Feeding Ecology In Prince William Sound, Alaska, Robert James Foy

Fisheries

Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) are commercially exploited along the Asiatic and North American Pacific Ocean continental shelves. In Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska, herring were commercially important until a year class failures in 1993. A noticeable lack of life history information on juveniles was available in PWS to use for studies addressing the failed recruitment. This study describes the seasonal herring feeding ecology in PWS nursery areas from 1996 to 1998. Zooplankton from 535 vertical tows and herring diet data from 3,282 stomach contents were collected from Eaglek, Simpson, Whale and Zaikof Bays. Zooplankton species composition was dominated by small …

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The Ecology Of The Arctic Char And The Dolly Varden In The Becharof Lake Drainage, Alaska, Brendan P. Scanlon Dec 2000

The Ecology Of The Arctic Char And The Dolly Varden In The Becharof Lake Drainage, Alaska, Brendan P. Scanlon

Fisheries

Becharof Lake is home to both Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and the closely related Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma), two species known not only to be similar in appearance but also to exhibit similar life histories. The body morphometry, otolith microchemistry, and stomach contents of both species were studied in fish collected from May to September 1998. Morphometric and meristic analysis revealed clear separation in body structure between the two species, as well as potential sub-populations within each species. Otolith microchemistry revealed incidences of anadromy and non-anadromy in both species. Stomach content analysis revealed a broad feeding niche but smaller ranges …

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Land Cover Change On The Seward Peninsula: The Use Of Remote Sensing To Evaluate The Potential Influences Of Climate Change On Historical Vegetation Dynamics, Cherie Sumitra Silapaswan Dec 2000

Land Cover Change On The Seward Peninsula: The Use Of Remote Sensing To Evaluate The Potential Influences Of Climate Change On Historical Vegetation Dynamics, Cherie Sumitra Silapaswan

Biological Sciences

Vegetation on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, which is characterized by transitions from tundra to boreal forest, may be sensitive to the influences of climate change on disturbance and species composition. To determine the ability to detect decadal-scale structural changes in vegetation, Change Vector Analysis (CVA) techniques were evaluated for Landsat TM imagery of the Seward Peninsula. Scenes were geographically corrected to sub-pixel accuracy and then radiometrically rectified. The CVA results suggest that shrubbiness is increasing on the Seward Peninsula. The CVA detected vegetation change on more than 50% of the burned region on TM imagery for up to nine years …

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Habitat Selection By Calving Caribou Of The Central Arctic Herd, 1980-95, Scott Adrian Wolfe Dec 2000

Habitat Selection By Calving Caribou Of The Central Arctic Herd, 1980-95, Scott Adrian Wolfe

Biological Sciences

Habitat selection by calving caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) of the Central Arctic Herd, Alaska, was assessed in relation to distance from roads, vegetation type, relative plant biomass (NDVI; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), accumulation of plant biomass during early lactation (NDVIrate), snow cover, and terrain ruggedness. From 183 calving sites of 96 radio collared- females, 1980-95, calving distribution was estimated in reference (no development) and treatment (oilfields present) zones east and west of the Sagavanirktok River, respectively. In the reference zone, caribou regularly selected wet-graminoid vegetation, above-median NDVIrate, and non-rugged terrain; concentrated calving remained in habitats with zonal average NDVI on …

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Commencement Program 2000 December, Gcsu Special Collections Dec 2000

Commencement Program 2000 December, Gcsu Special Collections

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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South Dakota State University Graduation Exercises, December 16, 2000, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State University Dec 2000

South Dakota State University Graduation Exercises, December 16, 2000, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State University

Commencement Programs

Please be advised that the individuals listed in the program do not represent an official confirmation of having met the graduation requirements. The commencement ceremony for the 2000 Graduation Exercises at South Dakota State University will commence with an introduction by University President Peggy Gordon Elliott. Honorary marshals for the event will be Dr. Gerald E. Bergum, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, and Mary J. Fleming, Emerita Extension EFNEP Coordinator/Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Food Science, and Hospitality. The commencement address, titled "What Do I Do Now?" will be delivered by Dr. Virgil Ellerbuch, Dean of the College of Engineering. Dr. …

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Fall Commencement [Program], December 16, 2000, University Of Northern Iowa Dec 2000

Fall Commencement [Program], December 16, 2000, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Commencement Programs

The program of the commencement ceremonies, including a list of institutional leadership, a list of the departments by college, awards given at the ceremonies, and a list of undergraduate and graduate degree candidates.

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December 16, 2000 (Pages 6409-6528), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau Dec 2000

December 16, 2000 (Pages 6409-6528), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 30 (2000)

No abstract provided.

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Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar Dec 2000

Ua45/6 Commencement Program, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program listing graduates.

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