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Semiclassical Application Of The Mo/Ller Operators In Reactive Scattering, Sophya V. Garashchuk, J. C. Light Jan 2001

Semiclassical Application Of The Mo/Ller Operators In Reactive Scattering, Sophya V. Garashchuk, J. C. Light

Faculty Publications

Mo/ller operators in the formulation of reaction probabilities in terms of wave packet correlation functions allow us to define the wave packets in the interaction region rather than in the asymptotic region of the potential surface. We combine Mo/ller operators with the semiclassical propagator of Herman and Kluk. This does not involve further approximations and can be used with any initial value representation (IVR) semiclassical propagator. Time propagation in asymptotic regions of the potential due to Mo/ller operators reduces the oscillations of the propagator integrand and improves convergence of the results with respect to the number of trajectories. The effectiveness …

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Self-Assembly Of A Bis-Urea Macrocycle Into A Columnar Nanotube, Linda S. Shimizu, Mark D. Smith, A. D. Hughes, Ken D. Shimizu Jan 2001

Self-Assembly Of A Bis-Urea Macrocycle Into A Columnar Nanotube, Linda S. Shimizu, Mark D. Smith, A. D. Hughes, Ken D. Shimizu

Faculty Publications

A bis-urea macrocycle 1 was synthesized and shown to form extended nanotubular columns byX-ray crystallography.

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Focus Emu, April 24, 2001, Office Of Public Information Jan 2001

Focus Emu, April 24, 2001, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

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Tracking In An Era Of Standards: Low-Expectation Classes Meet High-Expectation Laws, Kevin G. Welner Jan 2001

Tracking In An Era Of Standards: Low-Expectation Classes Meet High-Expectation Laws, Kevin G. Welner

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

This article explores racial resegregation of students through the practice of tracking - the grouping of students into separate classrooms pursuant to perceived academic ability. It places tracking within its larger historical context, as a means for white parents to feel secure about their children's education, and presents a review of scholarly literature concerning the characteristics and application tracking. The main body of the article then sets forth recent analyses of data from two school districts, investigating the harmful and segregative effects of tracking. The article ends by examining aspects of tracking that leave it susceptible to legal challenge, considering …

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Efficiency Of The Inorganic Fertilization In The Cultivation Of Alfalfa (Medicated Sativa L) And Whitewashing For The Correction Of The Ph Of The Soil, Alex Gonzalo Bravo Morocho Jan 2001

Efficiency Of The Inorganic Fertilization In The Cultivation Of Alfalfa (Medicated Sativa L) And Whitewashing For The Correction Of The Ph Of The Soil, Alex Gonzalo Bravo Morocho

Theses and Dissertations

In our country the necessity to offer new alternatives for the agricultural sector is high-priority especially for the lucern cultivation that every day is surface cultivated especially in the Chimborazo province increases; for what is of our interest to establish the answer from the cultivation to the inorganic fertilization and liming for the flora pH correction, for this way to obtain better yields and for consequence to improve the economic conditions of the farmers. With the result that the titled investigation: Efficiency of the Inorganic Fertilization in the Alfalfa Cultivation (Medicago sativa L) and Liming for the Correction of the …

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Structure Determination Of Ba8Corh6O21, A New Member Of The 2h-Perovskite Related Oxides, Hans Conrad Zur Loye, M. D. Smith, K. E. Stitzer, A. El Abed, J. Darriet Jan 2001

Structure Determination Of Ba8Corh6O21, A New Member Of The 2h-Perovskite Related Oxides, Hans Conrad Zur Loye, M. D. Smith, K. E. Stitzer, A. El Abed, J. Darriet

Faculty Publications

Single crystals of Ba8CoRh6O21 were grown out of a potassium carbonate flux. The structure was solved by a general method using the superspace group approach. The superspace group employed was R3m(00γ)0s with a = 10.0431(1) Å, c1 = 2.5946(1) Å and c2 = 4.5405(1) Å, V = 226.60(1) Å3. Ba8CoRh6O21 represents the first example of an m = 5, n = 3 member of the A3n+3mA'nB3m+nO9m+6n family of 2H hexagonal perovskite related oxides and contains chains consisting of six …

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Review Of Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert And Susan Wiseman, Eds., At The Borders Of The Human: Beasts, Bodies, And Natural Philosophy In The Early Modern Period., Stefani Engelstein Jan 2001

Review Of Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert And Susan Wiseman, Eds., At The Borders Of The Human: Beasts, Bodies, And Natural Philosophy In The Early Modern Period., Stefani Engelstein

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

Erica Fudge, Ruth Gilbert and Susan Wiseman, eds.,At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies, and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. 269 pp. ISBN 0312220383.

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Review Of Jonathan Crary, Suspensions Of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, And Modern Culture., Steven Z. Levine Jan 2001

Review Of Jonathan Crary, Suspensions Of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, And Modern Culture., Steven Z. Levine

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 1999. 397 pp. ISBN 0262032651.

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A New Mechanism For Spin-Lattice Relaxation Of Heavy Nuclei In The Solid State: 207pb Relaxation In Lead Nitrate, John B. Grutzner, Kevin W. Stewart, Roderick E. Wasylishen, Michael D. Lumsden, Cecil Dybowski, Peter A. Beckmann Jan 2001

A New Mechanism For Spin-Lattice Relaxation Of Heavy Nuclei In The Solid State: 207pb Relaxation In Lead Nitrate, John B. Grutzner, Kevin W. Stewart, Roderick E. Wasylishen, Michael D. Lumsden, Cecil Dybowski, Peter A. Beckmann

Physics Faculty Research and Scholarship

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A Robot Team That Can Search, Rescue, And Serve Cookies: Experiments In Multi-Modal Person Identification And Multi-Robot Sound Localization., Doug Blank, G. Beavers Jan 2001

A Robot Team That Can Search, Rescue, And Serve Cookies: Experiments In Multi-Modal Person Identification And Multi-Robot Sound Localization., Doug Blank, G. Beavers

Computer Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

A team of three robots placed second in both the Urban Search and Rescue and Hors d’Oeuvres Anyone? events at the 2000 American Association of Artificial Intelligence au- tonomous robot competitions. This paper describes the multi- robot, low-cost sound localization technique, and the multi- sensor, person recognition system used in the AAAI contests by the robot team.

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A Market-Based Model For Resource Allocation In Agent Systems, Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, Daniela Rus Jan 2001

A Market-Based Model For Resource Allocation In Agent Systems, Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, Daniela Rus

Dartmouth Scholarship

In traditional computational systems, resource owners have no incentive to subject themselves to additional risk and congestion associated with providing service to arbitrary agents, but there are applications that benefit from open environments. We argue for the use of markets to regulate agent systems. With market mechanisms, agents have the abilities to assess the cost of their actions, behave responsibly, and coordinate their resource usage both temporally and spatially. \par We discuss our market structure and mechanisms we have developed to foster secure exchange between agents and hosts. Additionally, we believe that certain agent applications encourage repeated interactions that benefit …

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U.S. Visa Options And Strategies For The Information Technology Industry, Kristen Ness Ayers, Scott D. Syfert Jan 2001

U.S. Visa Options And Strategies For The Information Technology Industry, Kristen Ness Ayers, Scott D. Syfert

North Carolina Journal of International Law

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A K-Out-Of-N Reliability System With An Unreliable Server And Phase Type Repairs And Services: The (N, T) Policy, Srinivas R. Chakravarthy, Achyutha Krishnamoorthy, P. V. Ushakumari Jan 2001

A K-Out-Of-N Reliability System With An Unreliable Server And Phase Type Repairs And Services: The (N, T) Policy, Srinivas R. Chakravarthy, Achyutha Krishnamoorthy, P. V. Ushakumari

Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Publications

In this paper we study a k-out-of-n reliability system in which a single unreliable server maintains n identical components. The reliability system is studied under the (N,T) policy. An idle server takes a vacation for a random amount of time T and then attends to any failed component waiting in line upon completion of the vacation. The vacationing server is recalled instantaneously upon the failure of the Nth component. The failure times of the components are assumed to follow an exponential distribution. The server is subject to failure with failure times exponentially distributed. Repair times of the component, fixing times …

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Hα Imaging With Hubble Space Telescope-Nicmos Of An Elusive Damped Lyα Cloud At Z = 0.61, Nicolas Bouché, James D. Lowenthal, Jane C. Charlton, Matthew A. Bershady, Christopher W. Churchill, Charles C. Steidel Jan 2001

Hα Imaging With Hubble Space Telescope-Nicmos Of An Elusive Damped Lyα Cloud At Z = 0.61, Nicolas Bouché, James D. Lowenthal, Jane C. Charlton, Matthew A. Bershady, Christopher W. Churchill, Charles C. Steidel

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

Despite previous intensive ground-based imaging and spectroscopic campaigns and wideband Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of the z = 0.927 QSO 3C 336 field, the galaxy that hosts the damped Lyα system along this line of sight has eluded detection. We present a deep narrowband Hα image of the field of this zabs = 0.656 damped Lyα absorber, obtained through the F108N filter of NICMOSI on board the HST. The goal of this project was to detect any Hα emission 10 times closer than previous studies to unveil the damped absorber. We do not detect Hα emission between 0".05 and …

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Beyond The Classroom: Study Skill Strategies For Parents And Teachers, Joni Coe Jan 2001

Beyond The Classroom: Study Skill Strategies For Parents And Teachers, Joni Coe

All Graduate Projects

An educator handbook containing tools and activities was designed to help elementary school students develop successful study skills strategies. This handbook may be used in part or as an integrated unit of study. Strategies and activities in this handbook were selected based on research findings, interest and developmental levels of students, as well as for the ease of use by parents, teachers, and students.

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Developing A Model Career Pathway Curriculum For South Kitsap School District, Esther L. Albertus Jan 2001

Developing A Model Career Pathway Curriculum For South Kitsap School District, Esther L. Albertus

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to develop a model Career Pathway Curriculum for South Kitsap School District. To achieve this purpose, current research and an examination of literature and evaluation of current models in place were considered and reviewed. Additionally, recommendations and specific policies were adapted and developed to meet the needs of the South Kitsap School District community.

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Strategies For Reaching At-Risk Elementary Students For Teachers Grades K-5, Lisa T. Boyd Jan 2001

Strategies For Reaching At-Risk Elementary Students For Teachers Grades K-5, Lisa T. Boyd

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of the project was to design and develop a handbook to assist elementary teachers meeting the needs of at-risk students. The strategies and ideas included in the handbook were selected on the bases of current research and literature. In addition, input was solicited from teachers, parents, and administrators for the Clover Park School District in the State of Washington.

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Integrating Computer Technology And Traditional Art Tools: A Visual Literacy Handbook, Carol A. Genson Jan 2001

Integrating Computer Technology And Traditional Art Tools: A Visual Literacy Handbook, Carol A. Genson

All Graduate Projects

Throughout history technology has advanced because new tools have been invented. Within the past fifty years the computer grew to be a new tool for business and industry. In the last twenty years, computers have become a tool for helping with daily activities. Now computers are being recognized as a tool for creativity. Artists have incorporated digital tools in their traditional toolbox. A review of related literature shows that computer generated digital art has been integrated into many aspects of the fine arts, including galleries and museums. This technology is being incorporated into the curriculums of our schools as well. …

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Next Of Kin: A Compassionate Curriculum, Rachel Jacqueline Fouts-Carrico Jan 2001

Next Of Kin: A Compassionate Curriculum, Rachel Jacqueline Fouts-Carrico

All Graduate Projects

Free-living and captive chimpanzees are faced with a struggle to survive. Those chimpanzees that are free-living are faced with extinction through habitat destruction and poaching. Many of the chimpanzees living in captivity are faced with poor treatment, dehumanizing experiments and inhumane living condition. With limited curricula on chimpanzees and animal experimentation, the author was given the task to develop a curriculum focusing on these two subjects. The curriculum will be focused on middle level students (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grade) with activities informing, educating and enlightening the students on issues concerning freeliving and captive chimpanzees as well as all …

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Navigating The Reading Maze: Family Involvement Activities To Help Your Second Grade Child In The Cle Elum-Roslyn School District Become A Better Reader, Rita Mariposa Kretschman Jan 2001

Navigating The Reading Maze: Family Involvement Activities To Help Your Second Grade Child In The Cle Elum-Roslyn School District Become A Better Reader, Rita Mariposa Kretschman

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project is to create a partnership with the author's students and their parents in the area of reading. This project is the development of a parent handbook with state and district reading frameworks as well as a curricular project for home use. Activities and strategies suggested are the same as those used within the author's classroom.

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A Model Parent Involvement Program, Donna J. Kiehn Jan 2001

A Model Parent Involvement Program, Donna J. Kiehn

All Graduate Projects

It is vital that educators provide opportunities for parents to become partners in the education of their children. With an increased emphasis on parent involvement, educators are seeking new ways to involve families in their children's education. Parent involvement can and should take a variety of forms. The purpose of this project was to design and develop a program for elementary schools that details how a parent involvement model of "Family Fun Nights" could help provide parents with a better understanding and knowledge of the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements. The format also allows an opportunity for parents to …

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A Model Secondary-Level Spanish Introductory Curriculum In Alignment With The Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements, Frederick William Lenard Jan 2001

A Model Secondary-Level Spanish Introductory Curriculum In Alignment With The Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements, Frederick William Lenard

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to develop a curriculum to be used during the first weeks of a secondary-level beginning Spanish class. To accomplish this purpose, a review of related literature was conducted. Additionally, related information and materials from selected sources were obtained and analyzed in order to find out what professional Spanish teachers considered to be a required part of the beginning curriculum. The curriculum was written with the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs) in mind to show that Spanish teachers can and do support the EALRs.

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The Conceptual Guidelines And Considerations For The Development Of Elementary Charter Schools In The State Of Washington, Janice Louise Mirro Jan 2001

The Conceptual Guidelines And Considerations For The Development Of Elementary Charter Schools In The State Of Washington, Janice Louise Mirro

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to design a conceptual set of guidelines and considerations for the development of Elementary Charter Schools in the State of Washington. To accomplish this purpose a review ofliterature related to charter schools and their development was conducted followed by a mail reply survey. A wide variety of sources, including journal articles, books, newspaper reports, interviews, and printed material (organizational by-laws, school pamphlets, etc.) from existing charter schools across the nation were studied and synthesized into the findings. As a result of this study a comprehensive conceptual set of guidelines were developed.

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Conflict Resolution In The Elementary School, Cami Lyn Matsuko Okubo Jan 2001

Conflict Resolution In The Elementary School, Cami Lyn Matsuko Okubo

All Graduate Projects

Conflict is a natural part of life. People make the choice to respond to it negatively and/or constructively. Conflict theories explain that conflict is both inevitable in social circumstances and serves to foster individual development. Without conflict resolution skills training, students may not be aware of the viable alternatives to come to a resolution nor may they be aware of how to communicate through negotiation. The purpose of this project was to develop an integrated conflict resolution program for elementary students at the fourth grade level. As a result of this project, students will have an opportunity to learn the …

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Cultural Awareness Activities For Teachers, Martin F. Wittman Jan 2001

Cultural Awareness Activities For Teachers, Martin F. Wittman

All Graduate Projects

We live and grow in an increasingly diverse society, and it is as important for school age students to understand people who are different, as it is for them to understand math or science. The purpose ofthis project was to develop a variety of cultural awareness activities for use by K-12 teachers in the Bethel School District in the State of Washington. All activities were aligned with the tools and concepts of Bethel's employee cultural awareness model and presented in the form of a handbook. The intent of the handbook was to provide a format for teachers which could be …

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Game Theory And Customary International Law: A Response To Professors Goldsmith And Posner, Mark A. Chinen Jan 2001

Game Theory And Customary International Law: A Response To Professors Goldsmith And Posner, Mark A. Chinen

Michigan Journal of International Law

In a pair of recent articles, Professors Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner have used game theoretic principles to challenge the positivist account of customary international law. Their writings join other early attempts to apply game theory to the international law sources. The author has two purposes in this Article. The first is to evaluate game theory's potential for yielding greater insight into customary international law and international law more generally. The second is to respond to the conclusions about customary international law drawn by Professors Goldsmith and Posner.

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Biodiversity: Connecting With The Tapestry Of Life, Elise F. Granek, Francisco Dallmeier, Alfonso Alonso, Peter H. Raven Jan 2001

Biodiversity: Connecting With The Tapestry Of Life, Elise F. Granek, Francisco Dallmeier, Alfonso Alonso, Peter H. Raven

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Biodiversity is the extraordinary variety of life on Earth – from genes and species to ecosystems and the valuable functions they perform. E.O. Wilson, the noted biologist and author who coined the term “biodiversity,” explains it as “the very stuff of life.” Species and the ecosystems in which they live are indelibly linked. Conversion or loss of ecosystems inevitably impairs the species that depend on them. As well, changes in the life cycle of one species could impact the life cycles of many other species (including humans), alter ecosystems and ecosystem functions, and contribute to local, regional and, ultimately, global …

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Can The Market Evaluate Legal Regimes? A Response To Professors Rasmussen, Thomas, And Skeel, Lynn M. Lopucki Jan 2001

Can The Market Evaluate Legal Regimes? A Response To Professors Rasmussen, Thomas, And Skeel, Lynn M. Lopucki

UF Law Faculty Publications

Scholarly projects benefit from thoughtful criticism-particularly by those committed to a contrary view. For that reason, I feel fortunate that the three leading proponents of the efficiency of Delaware bankruptcy reorganization have taken the time to respond to our study.' These three critics recognize that the stakes are enormous. As Professor Rasmussen and Professor Thomas put it, the bankruptcy reorganization of large, public companies was "Delawarized" during the decade of the 1990s. If it can be shown that, during the period of Delawarization, the Delaware court provided a wasteful and inefficient reorganization process, it follows that even a very sophisticated …

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Dis And Distributed Watershed Models I, Jurgen Garbrecht, Fred L. Ogden, Paul A. Debarry, David R. Maidment Jan 2001

Dis And Distributed Watershed Models I, Jurgen Garbrecht, Fred L. Ogden, Paul A. Debarry, David R. Maidment

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

The increasing proliferation of spatial data, geographic information systems (GIS), and models for hydrologic applications provide many new investigation opportunities but also present a number of challenges for the uninitiated water resources practitioner. This two-part paper is intended for the practicing engineer who wants to expand into the arena of spatial data and distributed watershed modeling. It provides an integrated overview of the multiple facets of data-GIS-modeling issues and a source of background information for selection and application of GIS in watershed modeling. This first paper addresses selected spatial data issues, data structures and projections, data sources, and information on …

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Correlation Of Human Olfactory Responses To Airborne Concentrations Of Malodorous Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted From Swine Effluent, J. A. Zahn, A. A. Dispirito, Y. S. Do, B. E. Brooks, E. E. Cooper, J. L. Hatfield Jan 2001

Correlation Of Human Olfactory Responses To Airborne Concentrations Of Malodorous Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted From Swine Effluent, J. A. Zahn, A. A. Dispirito, Y. S. Do, B. E. Brooks, E. E. Cooper, J. L. Hatfield

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Direct multicomponent analysis of malodorous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in ambient air samples from 29 swine (Sus scrofa) production facilities was used to develop a 19-component artificial swine odor solution that simulated olfactory properties of swine effluent. Analyses employing either a human panel consisting of 14 subjects or gas chromatography were performed on the air stream from an emission chamber to assess human olfactory responses or odorant concentration, respectively. Analysis of the olfactory responses using Fisher’s LSD statistics showed that the subjects were sensitive to changes in air concentration of the VOC standard across dilutions differing by …

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