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2001-06-08, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Morehead State University Board of Regents meeting minutes for June 8, 2001.

Topological Noise Removal, Igor Guskov, Zoë J. Wood

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Meshes obtained from laser scanner data often contain topological noise due to inaccuracies in the scanning and merging process. This topological noise complicates subsequent operations such as remeshing, parameterization and smoothing. We introduce an approach that removes unnecessary nontrivial topology from meshes. Using a local wave front traversal, we discover the local topolo-gies of the mesh and identify features such as small tunnels. We then identify non-separating cuts along which we cut and seal the mesh, reducing the genus and thus the topological complexity of the mesh.

The Weekly Challenger, June 7, 2001, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The June 7, 2001, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Illinois State University Report, June 7, 2001, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet June 2001, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The June 2001 Monthly packet includes the June agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held May 2001.

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, June 7-8 2001

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on June 7-8 2001.

Recognition Of Plants Using A Stochastic L-System Model, Ashok Samal, Brian Peterson, David J. Holliday

School of Computing: Faculty Publications

Recognition of natural shapes like leaves, plants, and trees, has proven to be a challenging problem in computer vision. The members of a class of natural objects are not identical to each other. They are similar, have similar features, but are not exactly the same. Most existing techniques have not succeeded in effectively recognizing these objects. One of the main reasons is that the models used to represent them are inadequate themselves. In this research we use a fractal model, which has been very effective in modeling natural shapes, to represent and then guide the recognition of a class of …

June 6, 2001, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

June 6th 2001, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

New Apple-flavored Manzana Mia and popular fantasoft drinks roll out in southern California Page 2

Ernestine Martinez selected 2001 'Elk Lady of the Year' Page 3

Governor Davis launches program to help low-income families pay energy bills Page 5

RCOE Media specialist heads statewide group Page 5

Mariachi concert performs to full house Page 6

High School senior achieves step toward goal in music Page 7

UCR launches girls' summer math program in Riverside Page 8

When is the right time for professional help for your marriage? Page 9

Assemblyman Robert Pacheco honored by his alma mater-western State University College …

Mustang Daily, June 6, 2001

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Perspective Filters As A Means For Interoperability Among Information-Centric Decision-Support Systems, Kym J. Pohl, Jens G. Pohl

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

No abstract provided.

Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 6/5/2001, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Information-Centric Decision-Support Systems: A Blueprint For ‘Interoperability’, Jens G. Pohl

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

For the past 20 years the US military services have suffered under the limitations of stove-piped computer software applications that function as discrete entities within a fragmented data-processing environment. Lack of interoperability has been identified by numerous think tanks, advisory boards, and studies, as the primary information systems problem (e.g., Army Science Board 2000, Air Force SAB 2000 Command and Control Study, and NSB Network-Centric Naval Forces 2000). Yet, despite this level of attention, all attempts to achieve interoperability within the current data-centric information systems environment have proven to be expensive, unreliable, and generally unsuccessful.

Proceedings Of The 2001 Onr Decision-Support Workshop Series: Continuing The Revolution In Military Affairs, Collaborative Agent Design Research Center

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

In August of 1998 the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center (CADRC) of the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), approached the Office of Naval Research (ONR) with the proposal for an annual workshop focusing on emerging concepts in decision-support systems for military applications. The proposal was considered timely by the ONR Logistics Program Office for at least two reasons. First, rapid advances in information systems technology over the past decade had produced distributed, collaborative computer-assistance capabilities with profound potential for providing meaningful support to military decision makers. Indeed, some systems based on these new capabilities such …

As-572-01 Resolution On The Environment, Hank Apfelberg (Graphic Communication), Harvey Greenwald (Mathematics), And Bob Wolf (Mathematics)

Academic Senate Resolutions

Requests Cal Poly put a high premium on preserving the campus environment by forming a committee to study ways of doing same and recycling materials to greatest extent possible.

As-567-01 Resolution On Department Name Change For The Physical Education And Kinesiology Department, Physical Education And Kinesiology Department

Academic Senate Resolutions

Department name changed to Kinesiology Department.

Approximation Techniques For Average Completion Time Scheduling, Chandra Chekuri, Rajeev Motwani, Balas Natarajan, Clifford Stein

Dartmouth Scholarship

We consider the problem of nonpreemptive scheduling to minimize average ( weighted) completion time, allowing for release dates, parallel machines, and precedence constraints. Recent work has led to constant-factor approximations for this problem based on solving a preemptive or linear programming relaxation and then using the solution to get an ordering on the jobs. We introduce several new techniques which generalize this basic paradigm. We use these ideas to obtain

improved approximation algorithms for one-machine scheduling to minimize average completion time with release dates. In the process, we obtain an optimal randomized on-line algorithm for the same problem that beats …

Ccu Newsletter, June 4, 2001, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

A newsletter for faculty, staff and friends of Coastal Carolina University. Volume 11, Number 9

Univercity News (2001-06-04)

UniverCity News, 1998-2001

VCU Today, the University’s first official administrative organ, began as a somewhat irregular monthly publication but moved to a bi-weekly newspaper format in the 1980s. The newspaper changed its name to VCU Voice in 1988 and ten years later it appeared under the title UniverCity News. As it neared the end of its run as a physical newspaper, the publication became simply VCU News. These four publications were essentially the same periodical published under different titles by the Office of University Relations. VCU News appeared online for the first time in 2002.

Use Of Short-Pulse Laser For Optical Tomography Of Tissues, Kunal Mitra, Tuan Vo-Dinh

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Faculty Publications

This paper analyzes the short pulse laser propagation through tissues for development of a time-resolved optical tomography system for detection of tumors and inhomogeneities in tissues. Traditional method for analyzing optical transport in tissues is the parabolic or diffusion approximation in which the energy flux is assumed proportional to the fluence (intensity averaged over all solid angles) gradients. The inherent drawback in this model is that it predicts infinite speed of propagation of the optical signal. In this paper accurate hyperbolic or wave nature of transient radiative transfer formulation is used to overcome such drawbacks. The transmitted and reflected intensity …

June 4, 2001 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Webalps Implementation And Performance Analysis: Using Trusted Co-Servers To Enhance Privacy And Security Of Web Interactions, Shan Jiang

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

The client-server model of the Web poses a fundamental trust issue: clients are forced to trust in secrecy and correctness of computation occurring at a remote server of unknown credibility. The current solution for this problem is to use a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) system and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) digital certificates to prove the claimed identity of a server and establish an authenticated, encrypted channel between the client and this server. However, this approach does not address the security risks posed by potential malicious server operators or any third parties who may penetrate the server sites. The WebALPS (Web …

Commencement Of The Class Of 2001, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Ceremony

No abstract provided.

Counting Guns In Early America, James T. Lindgren, Justin Lee Heather

Law and Economics Papers

The picture of gun ownership that emerges from these analyses directly contradicts the assertions of Michael Bellesiles in Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000). Contrary to Arming America's claims about probate inventories in 17th and 18th century America, there were high numbers of guns, guns were much more common than swords or other edge weapons, women in 1774 owned guns at rates (18%) higher than Bellesiles claimed men did in 1765-90 (14.7%), and 83-91% of gun-owning estates listed at least one gun that was not old or broken. The authors replicated all the portions of Bellesiles' …

Immaccs: A Multi-Agent Decision-Support System, Jens G. Pohl, Mark Porczak, Kym Jason Pohl, Russell Leighton, Hisham Assal, Alan Davis, Lakshmi Vempati, Anthony Wood

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

This report describes work performed by the Collaborative Agent Design Research Center for the US Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL), on the IMMACCS experimental decision-support system. IMMACCS (Integrated Marine Multi-Agent Command and Control System) incorporates three fundamental concepts that distinguish it from existing (i.e., legacy) command and control applications. First, it is a collaborative system in which computer-based agents assist human operators by monitoring, analyzing, and reasoning about events in near real-time. Second, IMMACCS includes an ontological model of the battlespace that represents the behavioral characteristics and relationships among real world entities such as friendly and enemy assets, infrastructure objects …

What Is Raindrop Size Distribution?, A. R. Jameson, Alexander Kostinski

Department of Physics Publications

It is commonly understood that the number of drops that one happens to measure as a function of diameter in some sample represents the drop size distribution. However, recent observations show that rain is “patchy” suggesting that such a seemingly “obvious” definition is incomplete. That is, rain consists of patches of elementary drop size distributions over a range of different scales. All measured drop size distributions, then, are statistical mixtures of these patches.

Moreover, it is shown that the interpretation of the measured distribution depends upon whether the rain is statistically homogeneous or not. It is argued and demonstrated using …

Ctd/O2 Measurements Collected Abroad The R/V Knorr, February-March 2001: Redsox-1, Williams Johns, Hartmurt Peters, Rainer Zantopp, Amy Bower, David Fratantoni

RSMAS Technical Reports

Summaries of Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD/ O2) measurements acquired on an oceanographic research cruise into the Gulf of Aden during February/March 2001 aboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ship R/V Knorr are presented. The data acquisition and processing system is described and calibrartion procedures are documented.

June 2001, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

DEPARTMENTS AND COLUMNS

AT DEADLINE

OPINION EDITORIAL

Getting ORGANIZED

CORPORATE PROFILE

CORNER ON THE MARKET

CLOSE UP

COMPUTERS/SOFTWARE

EMPLOYERS GROUP

MANAGING

LAW

LIST: HOSPITALS SERVING THE I.E

LIST: TOP SAVINGS & LOANS

LIST: LARGEST CREDIT UNIONS

DUFF & PHELPS, LLC STOCK SHEET

LIST: MOTORCYCLE DEALERS IN THE I.E

DESERT BUSINESS JOURNAL

STATLER'S BEST BETS

EXECUTIVE TIME OUT

MANAGER'S BOOKSHELF

WINE REVIEW

RESTAURANT REVIEW

RESOURCE DIRECTORY

CALENDAR

NEWS AND FEATURES

Interior Secretary Addresses Indian Affairs Committee................ .4

New Insectary a Tool in the Fight against Agricultural Pests ......... 5

Energy Crisis to Have Indirect Impact on Real Estate: Clients May

Face …

On The Green Vol. 31 No. 16 June 1, 2001, Gallaudet University

2001-2010

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.

Student As Researcher: A Process Evaluation Of A Mental Health Study, Lisa Ann Lobianco

UCHC Graduate School Masters Theses 2003 - 2010

No abstract provided.