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University Of San Diego Football Media Guide 2001, University Of San Diego Athletics Department

Football (Men)

48 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21.5 x 28 cm

Values Education Influence On Elementary Students' Self-Esteem, Ron W. Germaine Edd

Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to determine if there was a significant difference in measures of self-esteem between elementary school students to whom specific values were formally taught in their school as part of the curriculum and those who did not receive such instruction. The setting for the study was a school district in Canada that had identified sixteen values through community consensus. The district developed curriculum and lessons for the teaching of these values. A quasi-experimental research design was utilized. The treatment group was taught values as a formal part of their curriculum for a period of four …

Water Resources Year In Review - Winter 2001, Annis Water Resource Institute

AWRI Reviews

No abstract provided.

University Of San Diego Women's Basketball Media Guide 2000-2001, University Of San Diego Athletics Department

Basketball (Women)

44 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21.5 x 28 cm

The Investigation Of The Relationship Between Middle School Organizational Health, School Size, And School Achievement In The Areas Of Reading, Mathematics, And Language., Janice Johnston Barth

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between school organizational health, school size, and school achievement in the areas of reading, mathematics, and language as mediated by socioeconomic status (SES) in West Virginia public middle schools during the school year 1999-2000. The study will use the participating schools' free and reduced lunch rate to determine socioeconomic status. Once determined, socioeconomic status will be assumed as a mediating categorical variable and data analysis will determine its effects. The population for this study were the 99 West Virginia middle schools that were configured by the county boards of education …

Suffolk University Beacon Yearbook, 2001, Suffolk University

Undergraduate Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Language Support For Morton-Order Matrices, David S. Wise, Gregory A. Alexander, Jeremy D. Frens

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

The uniform representation of 2-dimensional arrays serially in Morton order (or Ee Cyrillic sign order) supports both their iterative scan with cartesian indices and their divide-and-conquer manipulation as quaternary trees. This data structure is important because it relaxes serious problems of locality and latency, and the tree helps to schedule multi-processing. Results here show how it facilitates algorithms that avoid cache misses and page faults at all levels in hierarchical memory, independently of a specific runtime environment. We have built a rudimentary C-to-C translator that implements matrices in Morton-order from source that presumes a row-major implementation. Early performance from LAPACK's …

2001-2002 Just The Facts, University Of San Diego

USD Fact Books (1985- )

No abstract provided.

Full Potential Linear Muffin-Tin Orbital Modeling Of Zinc-Selenide And Zinc-Magnesium-Selenide Alloy., Yaxiang Yang

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In this dissertation, we used ab-initio full potential linear muffin-tin orbital (FP-LMTO) method to study native defects, chlorine and nitrogen doping, and chromium incorporation issues in ZnSe and ZnMgSe alloys. The method we used and the results we obtained are discussed in details. In chapter 1, an introduction to recent studies in ZnSe was given. The methodology was discussed at chapter 2. In chapter 3, we studied lattice relaxation around native defects in ZnSe and formation energies for these native defects. Our results were compared with other theoretical results. In chapter 4, chlorine doping in ZnSe and ZnMgSe alloys are …

Some Limit Theorems For Szego Polynomials, Michael Joseph Arciero

Open Access Dissertations

We investigate a variety of convergence phenomena for measures on the unit circle associated with certain discrete time stationary stochastic processes, and for the class of Szego polynomials orthogonal with respect to such measures.

Szego polynomials, which form the basis of autoregressive (AR) methods in spectral analysis, are not uniquely defined when the degree is less than the number of points on which the spectral measure is supported; that is, when the spectral measure corresponds to a sum of complex sinusoids, the number of which is less than the degree. We consider the asymptotic behavior of Szego polynomials of fixed …

Gender Roles And Science Beliefs And Their Relationship To Science Interest, Judith Jean Paolucci

Open Access Dissertations

This study investigated adolescents' views about the nature of science (NOS) and conceptions of their gender identities, and revealed whether these conceptions and views are related to their science interest. Participants were 566 high school students enrolled in chemistry courses at three high schools in a New England state. A questionnaire was used to assess participants' science interest, gender role perceptions, and views about science, as well as to provide background and math and science achievement data. The study found that while student scores of NOS understanding did not differ by gender, some significant differences were noted on the student …

Rational Functions Whose Zeros And Poles Are Constrained By Conditions Arising In Control, Rebecca L. Sparks

Open Access Dissertations

We shall study three different, yet related mathematical problems. The first is given as follows. Beta problem. Given β > 0, determine if there exists a rational function H which has no poles in [special characters omitted] so that the rational function [special characters omitted]has no zeros and no poles in [special characters omitted]. This problem in an equivalent form has been studied by Blondel, et al., and its statement can be found in, Open Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory. Previous work on this problem has yielded that there exists β* such that if β < β*, then no solution to the Beta Problem exists. Furthermore, it has been shown that 10−5 < β* < [special characters omitted]. In this dissertation we improve upon the upper bound on β*. We prove that β* ≤ 7 − 4[special characters omitted] ≈ 0.0718 by constructing a solution to a limiting case of the Beta Problem. The Beta Problem is a special ease of the following problem. Avoidance problem. Given a rational function [special characters omitted], and given nonnegative integers n and m, determine if there exists a rational function [special characters omitted] such that[special characters omitted] An algorithm is proposed to construct numerical solutions to the Avoidance Problem by solving an optimization problem. Numerical Experience is reported. By solving the Avoidance Problem, one also solves the simultaneous stabilization problem of control theory. It is well known that "[the] simultaneous stabilization problem is recognized as one of the hard open problems in linear systems theory." With the proposed algorithm, it is possible to construct solutions to the simultaneous stabilization problem when they exist. The third problem to be studied is an interpolation problem. Interpolation problem. Given z1, … , zk ∈ [special characters omitted] with zℓ ≠zj for ℓ ≠j, w1, … , wk ∈ [special characters omitted], wℓ ≠0 for all ℓ = 1, … , k and nonnegative integers n, m, determine if there exist polynomials P and Q such that [special characters omitted] An algorithm is proposed to obtain numerical solutions to the Interpolation Problem by solving an optimization problem. Numerical experience is reported, and properties of solutions to the optimization problem are proved.

An Exploration Of Critical Thinking And Processing In Cardiac Nurses' Practice, Nancy Phoenix Bittner

Open Access Dissertations

The need and demand for critical thinking in cardiac nursing and practice in general is well documented in the nursing literature. However, little attention has been given to solidifying a definition or describing critical thinking as it occurs in practice. In an initial fieldwork project of one experienced nurse in a cardiac rehabilitation setting, an eight-phase process (reference point, congruency check, active questioning, additional gathering, cueing congruency, weighing and selection, action and follow-up/self-evaluation) was identified. It involved both mental and behavioral activities and prompted the renaming of critical thinking to critical processing, as a more encompassing label. The aim of …

Development Of Materials For The Rapid Manufacture Of Die Cast Tooling, Peter Jason Hardro

Open Access Dissertations

The focus of this research is to develop a material composition that can be processed by rapid prototyping (RP) in order to produce tooling for the die casting process. Where these rapidly produced tools will be superior to traditional tooling production methods by offering one or more of the following advantages: reduced tooling cost, shortened tooling creation time, reduced man-hours for tool creation, increased tool life, and shortened die casting cycle time. By utilizing RP's additive build process and vast material selection, there was a prospect that die cast tooling may be produced quicker and with superior material properties. To …

Some Results On Tree Tolerance Representations, Mary Ann Saadi

Open Access Dissertations

Consider a simple undirected graph G = ( V, E). A family of subtrees, {Sv} v∈V, of a host tree H is called a t-subtree representation of G provided uv ∈ E if and only if |V(Su) ∩ V(Sv)| ≥ t. An ( H, t)-representation of G is a t-subtree representation of G with fixed host tree H. In this dissertation we will consider (Hm, t)-representations for cycles and trees, where Hm is the host tree with exactly one node v, of degree three and exactly three leaves, each with distance m from v. We denote the set of (Hm, …

Cadmium Toxicity And Random Motility Studies Using Marine Dinoflagellates, Edwin Li

Open Access Dissertations

The marine biota is exposed to heavy metal residues of industrial and agricultural processes. The effects of these metals on phytoplankton are of particular interest because they represent the first link in the food chain and are able to transfer the metal to higher trophic levels. Members of the phytoplankton population include the diverse community of flagellated unicellular, mostly photosynthetic, microorganisms called dinoflagellates. The effects of cadmium (Cd) on the growth of two marine dinoflagellates Scrippsiella narragansettensis and Heterocapsa triquetra were measured under different medium composition. To investigate the role of metal speciation, experiments were carried out in media prepared …

A Simulation And Analysis Toolbox For Power Systems And Genetic Algorithm-Based Damping Controller Design., Amer Hasanovic

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Due to the recent deregulation, difficulty in acquiring rights-of-way to build new transmission lines, and steady increase in power demand, maintaining power system stability becomes evermore difficult and very challenging problem. Implementation of new equipment based on the latest technologies and proper controller design become essential for improvement of transient and oscillatory stability margins. To be able to develop and test these new devices and their controls it is necessary to have simulation package that allows accurate modeling of all power system components. Simulation environment has to be modular enough to allow frequent additions of new components without compromising overall …

The Electoral College, The Right To Vote, And Our Federalism: A Comment On A Lasting Institution, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Guy-Uriel E. Charles

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The Electoral College has been subject to a constant barrage of criticism. This raises an obvious question: how has the College managed to survive despite its lack of popularity, its opacity and its generally controversial nature?

Commentators look to the wisdom and staying power of the founding generation as well as to the force of history and tradition. In this Article, we look carefully at a third possibility. That is, we look to the foundation of our political structure and the nature of our democratic commitments.

In this vein, we are particularly intrigued by the question of electoral legitimacy. To …

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Saudi Teachers' Curriculum Perspectives And Their Preference Of Curriculum Development Models., Mansour A. Bin Salamah

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Saudi teachers' curriculum perspectives and their preference of curriculum development models. The sample of the study consisted of science, math, and social studies teachers who taught in elementary, middle, and secondary schools in the Riyadh District of Saudi Arabia. The data were randomly collected from 423 teachers by utilizing a questionnaire. The questionnaire was composed of three parts. The participants were asked to determine their preference of the three curriculum perspectives and the three curriculum development models that were based on: Essentialism-Behaviorism, Pragmatism-Cognitivism, and Existentialism-Humanism. Frequencies, percentages, and means …

An Assessment Of The English-Language Needs Of Second-Year Thai Undergraduate Engineering Students In A Thai Public University In Thailand In Relation To The Second-Year Eap Program In Engineering., Patama Kittidhaworn

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study was to investigate the English-language needs of 182 second-year Thai undergraduate engineering students in a Thai public university in Thailand for their study in their second-year English program in engineering. A two-part self-assessment questionnaire was constructed based upon the previous research on the English-language needs of English as a Second Language (ESL)/English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, particularly in Science and Technology in relation to English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The first part of the questionnaire asks for their demographic variables: gender, specialty, years of studying English in the school(s), and self-reported English proficiency in Listening, Speaking, …

Patenting Industry Standards, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 897 (2001), Janice M. Mueller

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Computer-Aided Drug Design Using Patented Compounds: Infringement In Cyberspace?, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1001 (2001), Ted L. Field

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

House Joint Resolution 01-1047, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning Plans To Use The Constitutionally Mandated One Percent Increase In State Funding For Public Schools., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning School Improvement, And Making An Appropriation Therefor., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning State Institutions Of Higher Education Degree Requirements., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning School Funding To Purchase Textbooks, And Making An Appropriation In Connection Therewith., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Concerning The Creation Of The Science And Technology Education Center Grant Program, And Making An Appropriation Therefor., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

City Of Berlin, Nh. Annual Report. Fiscal Year 2001., Berlin Town Representatives

Berlin, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

On Some Reachability Problems For Diffusion Processes, Jose-Luis Menaldi, Maurice Robin

Mathematics Faculty Research Publications

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the minimization of energy spent in order that a controlled diffusion process reaches a given target, a d-dimensional bounded domain. The exterior Dirichlet problem for the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is studied for a class of criteria which includes the case of energy. Extensions to diffusion with jumps, examples and some other reachability problems are considered.