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Energy Content Of The Stormtime Ring Current, Niescja E. Turner, D N. Baker, T I. Pulkkinen, J L. Roeder, J F. Fennell, V K. Jordanova

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Research

Given the important role the ring current plays in magnetospheric energetics, it is essential to understand its strength and evolution in disturbed times. There are currently three main methods for deducing the strength of the ring current: measuring ground magnetic perturbations, measuring high-altitude magnetic perturbations, or directly measuring ring current particles. The use of ground magnetometers is the most convenient, and many use the ground magnetometer-derived Dst index as a proxy for the ring current. Recent work suggests, however, that a substantial portion of Dst may not be caused only by the ring current but also by local induction effects …

Evaluating Water Quality Monitoring With Hyperspectral Imagery, Adam Goodenough

Theses

Water quality is an important indicator of the health of an environmental system. Traditionally, water quality analysis has involved directly sampling areas in question. This method is difficult, if not impractical, to apply to large areas where data needs to be taken frequently. Remote sensing offers the possibility of covering a large spatial area with a high temporal frequency. It also provides a spatial distribution of the constituents which direct sampling cannot economically accomplish. Spatial distributions provide deeper insight into many of the hydrologic and biological processes that are directly affected by the concentrations of water constituents. The drawback of …

Texture Characterization In Dirsig, Christy Burtner

Theses

This research project tested the quality of DIRSIG's texture characterization routines for a grass target and potential techniques to improve it. The objective of the DIRSIG is to produce output images that are analogous to real image outputs so the model can be applied to a wide range of problems. It is very important that both spectral and spatial properties of targets are modeled correctly to obtain realistic results. DIRSIG applies texture to each pixel spectrally. Current techniques examine only one bandpass region, using statistical means to compare a texture image in that bandpass with a spectral database in order …

Mallory Archival Filmstrip Registration, Luke Morgan

Theses

This project will create a method for importing and registering archival filmstrips for analysis and digital storage. Images will be registered in the horizontal and vertical directions with subpixel accuracy, and a method for rotational registration will also be developed to compensate for camera movement. In addition, the three filmstrips used to develop the programs will be analyzed for possible sightings of climbers scaling Mount Everest in 1924.

Image Resizing And Image Quality, Michael Godlewski

Theses

The need to resize an image is a common occurrence in all facets of industry, from data collection to consumer use. However, most of the research conducted in this area focuses on the various statistical measures, such as RMS deviation. While the statistical measures are suitable for determining the effectiveness of the interpolator f data collection, they do not necessarily coincide with the effectiveness of the interpolator in a consumer application. This study, therefore, focuses on the use of the three most common resizing algorithms, the bi-c bi-linear and nearest neighbor interpolators, in the area of image quality from the …

A Third Metaphor For Learning: Toward A Deweyan Form Of Transactional Inquiry, Timothy Koschmann

Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Heating And Ionization Of The Intergalactic Medium By An Early X-Ray Background, Aparna Venkatesan, Mark L. Giroux, J Shull

Physics and Astronomy

Observational studies indicate that the intergalactic medium (IGM) is highly ionized up to redshifts just over 6. A number of models have been developed to describe the process of reionization and the effects of the ionizing photons from the first luminous objects. In this paper we study the impact of an X-ray background, such as high-energy photons from early quasars, on the temperature and ionization of the IGM prior to reionization, before the fully ionized bubbles associated with individual sources have overlapped. X-rays have large mean free paths relative to EUV photons, and their photoelectrons can have significant effects on …

Koinonia, David S. Guthrie, Laurie A. Schreiner, Jerry Pattengale, Tess Bradley, Jesse Brown, Calvin Miller

Koinonia

In This Issue
The Fabric of Our Faithfulness: Part 1, David S. Guthrie

What is the Sophomore Slump-and Why Should We Care?: Excerpted from Visible Solutions for Invisible Students: Helping Sophomores Succeed, by Laurie A. Schreiner & Jerry Pattengale

Around Campus
Servant Leadership, Tess Bradley

The 7 "Be's" of Student Leader Supervision, Jesse Brown

Spotlight on Speakers
John 7:53-8:11: The Politically Correct Version, Calvin Miller

Regular Features
President's Corner

Editor's Disk

ACSD Business: Placement Services 2001, Conference Thoughts: Something Old...Something New..., Submissions Sought

Parnassus 2001

Parnassus

The 2001 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

World Wide Campus 2001-2002 Course Catalog, Taylor University Fort Wayne

Institute of Correspondence Studies

The 2001-2002 catalog of the World Wide Campus at Taylor University Fort Wayne.

Open To Reason, David L. Neuhouser

Books by Taylor faculty, staff, and administrators

Open to Reason is a comparison of the roles of reason, experience, imagination, intuition, faith, love, humility, and obedience in mathematics and religion.

Coach Odle's Full Court Press: Taylor University & Sports Evangelism, Jessica Rousselow-Winquist, Alan H. Winquist

Books by Taylor faculty, staff, and administrators

The year 2002 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Venture for Victory (VV) by Don Odle, former basketball coach at Taylor University. Coach Odle's Full Cort Press describes this man's role as the central figure in the unfolding early development of sports evangelism which began with a simple phone call in February 1952. Despite daunting obstacles, Coach Odle successfully displayed "the power of one" by seizing the opportunity to bring a Christian basketball team to East Asia during the summer of 1952. From that humble beginning, VV's fame gradually spread. "The power of one" was transformed into …

An Economic View Of Campaign Finance Spending Under The First Amendment, Ethan Fenn

The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable

No abstract provided.

Examination And Management Of Spasticity And Weakness, Charles Leonard

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Faculty Publications

ln this paper information pertaining to the teaching, within a MS physical therapy curriculum, of the concepts of "spasticity" and "weakness" is presented.These concepts are taught in 2 required and 1 elective course, which span the 2-year program. Students are expected to develop both physical mastery of the skills necessary to treat, confidently and efficiently, as well as the ability to critically analyze each examination and intervention procedure. Four questions are used to guide the students as they learn the material pertaining to examination and intervention. (1) What is the theoretical rationale? (2) Is there basic science evidence that is …

View From The Hill: Encounters With Vibrating Molecules, Jay Cox

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Alumni News & Notes: Class Notes

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

2001 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 2001 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

George Fox University Catalog, 2000-2001, George Fox University Archives

Catalogs

Catalog of George Fox University. 93 pages, color.

Nerve Injury Induces A Rapid Efflux Of Nitric Oxide (No) Detected With A Novel No Microsensor, Shanta M. Kumar, D. M. Porterfield, Kenneth J. Muller, Peter J.S. Smith, Christie L. Sahley

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

An early step in repair of the leech CNS is the appearance of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) immunoreactivity and NOS activity, but coincident generation of NO at the lesion after injury has not been shown. This is important because NO can regulate microglial cell motility and axon growth. Indirect measurement of NO with the standard citrulline assay demonstrated that NO was generated within 30 min after nerve cord injury. A polarographic NO-selective self-referencing microelectrode that measures NO flux noninvasively was developed to obtain higher spatial and temporal resolution. With this probe, it was possible to demonstrate that immediately after …

Calculating Available Forage, Mindy Pratt, G. Allen Rasmussen

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

Afterword: The Hermeneutics Of Natural Science, Patrick A. Heelan

Research Resources

A Husserlean intentionality analysis of the early Bohr-Heisenberg view of the quantum theory; of quantum logic as a context logic of differently embodied inquirers; of the problems of causality and localization in quantum mechanics.

Heideggerian analysis of the ontological status of measurement and laboratory data. The Husserlean group transformation structure of perceptual objects in general, and of theoretically denominated laboratory entities construed as perceptual objects.

A critique of David Marr’s program for machine perception.

A study of Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, Bedroom at Arles (1888), of the art and aesthetics of the (negatively curved) local Riemannian pictorial space achieved by …

Psychoanalytic Praxis And The Truth Of Pain, William J. Richardson

Research Resources

William J. Richardson’s, “Psychoanalytic Praxis and the Truth of Pain” critically reviews Lacan’s conception of science, truth, and language above all. For Lacan, speaking of the “subject of science,” it is as if the entire scientific enterprise – its history, its institutions and all the virulence of its burgeoning power – may be conceived as the function of a single hypostasized, egoless subject: the “correlate” of science as such, taken as a whole. Reading Lacan’s essay “Science and Truth,” Richardson offers a philosophical outline of the strengths of Lacan’s analysis along with its limitations, including a discussion of Heidegger's aletheia …

Sokal’S Hermeneutic Hoax: Physics And The New Inquisition, Babette Babich

Research Resources

“The Hermeneutics of a Hoax: Physics and the New Inquisition” offers a rhetorical analysis and hermeneutics reading of the parodic character of Sokal's "hoax." From the perspective of a philosopher of science, it is argued that it is important to attend both to the rhetorical level of philosophy and science. In addition it is important to consider the culture of status (Bourdieu) as well as the self-reflective weaknesses of the culture of physics including those of (traditionally) physics-dominated philosophy of science. Echoing some of the criticisms and highlighting the points of social advocacy of the late Paul Feyerabend underscores the …

(First Person)2: A Study Of Co-Authoring In The Academy, Kami Day, Michele Eodice

All USU Press Publications

In (First Person)2, Day and Eodice offer one of the few book-length studies of co-authoring in academic fields since Lunsford and Ede published theirs over a decade ago. The central research here involves in-depth interviews with ten successful academic collaborators from a range of disciplines and settings. The interviews explore the narratives of these informants' experience—what brought them to collaborate, what cognitive and logistical processes were involved as they worked together, what is the status of collaborated work in their field, and so on—and situate these informants within the broader discussion of collaboration theory and research as it has been …

Virginia Commonwealth University Commencement Program [2001], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Assimilation Ionosphere Model: Development And Testing With Combined Ionospheric Campaign Caribbean Measurements, Jan Josef Sojka, D. C. Thompson, Robert W. Schunk, T. W. Bullett, J. J. Makela

All Physics Faculty Publications

Assimilation Ionosphere Model (AIM) is a physics-based, global, ionospheric specification model that is currently under development. It assimilates a diverse set of real-time (or near-real-time) measurements, such as ionograms, GPS slant total electron content (TEC), and in situ plasma measurements. This study focuses on a middle latitude ionosonde assimilation capability in both local and regional forms. The models described are capable of using theƒ₀ F ₂ and h _m F ₂ from ionograms to generate either a local or a regional distribution of the induced plasma drift. This induced drift is usually caused by the meridional neutral wind. Results …

Environmental Determinants Of Cost Sharing--An Application To Irrigation, David Aadland, Van Kolpin

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

Multiple-cost sharing rules often coexist in seemingly identical environments. We use shared irrigation costs as a context for examining the extent to which the structural environment explains the selection of a cost sharing rule. We find that environmental factors that-induce greater dependence on the cooperation of others, influence majority interests, create difficulties for interpersonal utility comparisons, or impact notions of "faimess"-all have impressive explanatory power. These results present the first formal empirical analysis of the manner in which structural features influence the actual cost-sharing choices of economic agents.

A Dynamic Analysis Of The Global Timber Market Under Global Warming: An Integrated Modeling Approach, Dug Man Lee, Kenneth S. Lyon

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

We developed a dynamic integrated modeling approach to identify the effect of global warming on the global timber market. The Timber Supply Model 2000, BlOME 3, and Hamburg were used as a suitable economic and ecological model. The TSM 2000 was adopted to model dynamic economic behavior in the global timber market. BlOME 3 was utilized as our steady state ecological model, and Hamburg as our general circulation model. The TSM 200 was developed to consider more important up-to-date components in the global timber market. We estimated dynamic ecological change based on the simulation results of BlOME 3 using Hamburg …

Annual Research Activities, 2000, Keith R. Criddle

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

The research activities described in this document were supported by the Utah State University Economics Research Institute (ERI) in 2000. The ERI was founded in 1965 to support cooperative research to assist in the solution of local, regional, and national economic problems. Base support for the ERI has been provided by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station. Project funding has been secured from state, federal, and international agencies and organizations. Boldface type is used to identify Utah State University Economics Department faculty and staff.

Legally Binding Electronic Documents: Digital Signatures And Authentication, Christopher Reed

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.