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U.S. Taliban Fighter Most Likely Not To Be Charged With Treason, Says Ud Political Science Professor, University Of Dayton Dec 2001

U.S. Taliban Fighter Most Likely Not To Be Charged With Treason, Says Ud Political Science Professor, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces Christopher Duncan's comments on the odd of John Walker facing a treason charge.

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Implementation And Analysis Of The Ip Measurement Protocol (Ipmp), Steven Michael Carter Dec 2001

Implementation And Analysis Of The Ip Measurement Protocol (Ipmp), Steven Michael Carter

Theses and Dissertations

The increased size and complexity of the Internet necessitates a more substantial measurement protocol than is currently available. This work explores the IP Measurement Protocol, providing background information, covering the development of a reference implementation, and finally comparing its accuracy, overhead, and ease of implementation to the current generation of protocols used in network measurement. Vmware, a hardware simulation application, was used to simulate a network on which to test IPMP, as well as compare it to current generation tools. Ipmp_ping, a tool written to test IPMP, was pitted against ping and traceroute in order to attain round trip time, …

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Nipple Aspirate Cytology And Pathologic Parameters Predict Residual Cancer And Nodal Involvement After Excisional Breast Biopsy., E R Sauter, H Ehya, A Mammen, G Klein Dec 2001

Nipple Aspirate Cytology And Pathologic Parameters Predict Residual Cancer And Nodal Involvement After Excisional Breast Biopsy., E R Sauter, H Ehya, A Mammen, G Klein

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

We previously demonstrated that abnormal nipple aspirate fluid (NAF) cytology predicted residual breast cancer (RC) and tumour size after excisional biopsy (EB), although normal NAF cytology did not exclude RC. Tumour size correlates with the risk of lymph node (LN) metastases. LN metastases provide prognostic information allowing medical and radiation oncologists to determine the need for adjuvant therapy. We hypothesized that pathologic factors known after EB, combined with NAF cytology, would predict with a high degree of accuracy the presence of RC and LN spread. NAF cytology and pathologic parameters: tumour distance from biopsy margins, multifocal and multicentric disease, sub-type …

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 91 [92], No. 25 (Dec. 14, 2001), The New Hampshire Dec 2001

The New Hampshire, Vol. 91 [92], No. 25 (Dec. 14, 2001), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 91, but it is the 92nd volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

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You Can Conquer Holiday Blues, Post-Sept. 11, Deidra Jackson Dec 2001

You Can Conquer Holiday Blues, Post-Sept. 11, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The horrific Sept. 11 attacks, which cast a pall over the country, the economy and the holiday season, have left many people still dazed. Add to those aftereffects a war in Afghanistan, a faceless anthrax attacker, and uncertainty about the future, and some people may have difficulty coping with the mental aftermath.

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No Sign Of Economic Relief In Argentina, Ladb Staff Dec 2001

No Sign Of Economic Relief In Argentina, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.

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The Shiwi Messenger, Vol. 07, No. 24 (2001), Jacqueline Friend, Beth Coates, George Kanesta, Jessica Jamon, Ed Wato Sr. Dec 2001

The Shiwi Messenger, Vol. 07, No. 24 (2001), Jacqueline Friend, Beth Coates, George Kanesta, Jessica Jamon, Ed Wato Sr.

Shiwi Messenger, 1995 - 2003

Zuni Senior Center Contributes to New Mexico Dreamcatcher Project; Letter to the Editor; As The Hospital Turns… Trial of Labor After Caesarian Section; First Peoples Fund Announces Community Spirit Award Recipients; Zuni High School Opening Basketball Games; Jamon Selected to Carry 2002 Olympic Torch; Zuni Eagle Sanctuary Plans on Expansion; Zuni Chirstmas Parade; Year-end Activities for thr Zuni Vietnam Veterans; Drinking and Sexually Transmitted Diseases; P.B. Slices Makes Peanut Butter Funner; Thunderbird Fall Sports Athletes Honored; Udall Urger New Mexicans to Send Overseas Military Personnel Holiday Greetings;

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Space Grant Conference Helps Teachers Make Science, Math Exciting, Mitchell Diggs Dec 2001

Space Grant Conference Helps Teachers Make Science, Math Exciting, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- High school science and math teachers in search of ways to challenge their students can get some out-of-this-world help at The University of Mississippi (UM) Jan. 25-26.

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The Bg News December 14, 2001, Bowling Green State University Dec 2001

The Bg News December 14, 2001, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 14, 2001. Volume 88-Issue 72.

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Volume 39, Number 16: December 14, 2001, University Of North Dakota Dec 2001

Volume 39, Number 16: December 14, 2001, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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University Of Central Florida Commencement, December 14 & 15 2001, University Of Central Florida Dec 2001

University Of Central Florida Commencement, December 14 & 15 2001, University Of Central Florida

Commencement Programs

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Fall Commencement Ceremony, University Of North Florida Dec 2001

Fall Commencement Ceremony, University Of North Florida

Commencement Printed Materials

Program for the Fall Commencement ceremonies held at UNF Arena.

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December 14, 2001 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate Dec 2001

December 14, 2001 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate December 14, 2001 Approved Minutes

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Global Synchronization Of Asynchronous Computing Systems, Richard Neil Barnes Dec 2001

Global Synchronization Of Asynchronous Computing Systems, Richard Neil Barnes

Theses and Dissertations

The MSU ERC UltraScope system consists of a distributed computing system, custom PCI cards, GPS receivers, and a re-radiation system. The UltraScope system allows precision timestamping of events in a distributed application on a system where the CPU and PCI clocks are phase-locked. The goal of this research is to expand the UltraScope system, using software routines and minimal hardware modifications, to allow precision timestamping of events on an asynchronous distributed system. The timestamp process is similar to the Network Time Protocol (NTP) in that it uses a series of timestamps to improve precision. As expected, the precision is less …

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Evaluation Of An Attached Growth Organic Media Bioreactor For Swine Waste Treatment And Odor Abatement, Allison Paige Kirkpatrick Dec 2001

Evaluation Of An Attached Growth Organic Media Bioreactor For Swine Waste Treatment And Odor Abatement, Allison Paige Kirkpatrick

Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this study was to determine if an organic media attached growth bioreactor could effectively be used as a means of odor control for swine waste. The pilot-scale attached growth bioreactor system was evaluated against a standard pit recharge system, which served as the control. Performance was based on water quality testing, odor assessments by a human sensory panel, and air phase measurements of ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. The affect of aeration on the system was also evaluated, along with various types of organic media (kenaf, hardwood mulch, and corncobs). Overall, the bioreactor systems were effective in reducing …

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Evaluation Of Chitosan As A Cell Scaffolding Material For Cartilage Tissue Engineering, Dana Lynn Nettles Dec 2001

Evaluation Of Chitosan As A Cell Scaffolding Material For Cartilage Tissue Engineering, Dana Lynn Nettles

Theses and Dissertations

Current articular cartilage tissue engineering endeavors, using synthetic polymers as scaffolds, have been somewhat successful. However, the use of these materials has not yielded a satisfactory, functional replacement for articular cartilage. Therefore, this project focuses on an alternative to these materials, chitosan, which is a naturally occurring biopolymer. The first project objective was to fabricate and analyze bulk, porous chitosan scaffolds, based on total porosity, average pore diameter, mechanical integrity, and degradation susceptibility. Secondly, scaffolds were evaluated in terms of their ability to support neochondrogenesis, including assessments of cell attachment and viability, cell morphology, and the biosynthesis of proteoglycan and …

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Automated Design Of A High-Velocity Channel, Jacqueline Pettway Hallberg Dec 2001

Automated Design Of A High-Velocity Channel, Jacqueline Pettway Hallberg

Theses and Dissertations

Engineering design is a decision-making process. Optimization techniques can be used to insure that better decisions are made. One design of great interest to engineers is that of high-velocity channels used for routing floodwater out of urban areas. In the design of these channels it is very important to avoid such hydraulic phenomena as standing waves, hydraulic jumps, and shocks. These will require higher wall heights and more expense. These channels can be modeled with physical models, but they are expensive and time consuming. To minimize the cost of building and changing the physical models and the time required to …

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Automated Detection Of Features In Cfd Datasets, Satya Sridhar Dusi Venkata Dec 2001

Automated Detection Of Features In Cfd Datasets, Satya Sridhar Dusi Venkata

Theses and Dissertations

Typically, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) solutions produce large amounts of data that can be used for analysis. The enormous amount of data produces new challenges for effective exploration. The prototype system EVITA, based on ranked access of application-specific regions of interest, provides an effective tool for this purpose. Automated feature detection techniques are needed to identify the features in the dataset. Automated techniques for detecting shocks, expansion regions, vortices, separation lines, and attachment lines have already been developed. A new approach for identifying the regions of flow separation is proposed. This technique assumes that each pair of separation and attachment …

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Development Of A Cycloidal Propulsion Computer Model And Comparison With Experiment, Michael Lynn Mcnabb Dec 2001

Development Of A Cycloidal Propulsion Computer Model And Comparison With Experiment, Michael Lynn Mcnabb

Theses and Dissertations

Simplified unsteady aerodynamic and inertial force models were developed for a cycloidal propeller system operating at small forward speeds. These models were used to support the development of a VTOL concept demonstrator vehicle. The nature of the blade motion showed that interactions between the blades could be neglected to first order. The downwash through the rotor could not be neglected because of the induced angle of attack caused by the downwash. The total force was compared with wind tunnel data produced by Wheatley in the 30's and a ground test system developed for this project. It was found that the …

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Computational Studies Of Fully Submerged Bodies, Propulsors, And Body/Propulsor Interactions, Allison Nicole Cash Dec 2001

Computational Studies Of Fully Submerged Bodies, Propulsors, And Body/Propulsor Interactions, Allison Nicole Cash

Theses and Dissertations

Difficulties exist with designing and testing on a model scale. The purpose of this study is to examine variations in the flow field of a submarine due to hull/propulsor interaction and Reynolds scaling. The scope of this study includes the simulation of the flow past a 1) five-bladed marine propeller with 0° skew, 2) unappended submarine hull, 3) forward propelled submarine with asymmetrical stern appendages, and 4) submarine in crashback with asymmetrical stern appendages. The bare hull simulations are conducted for three different length scales: small model scale, large model scale, and full scale. The isolated propeller and appended submarine …

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Constraint-Based Supply Chain Inventory Deployment Strategies, David Jay Stremler Dec 2001

Constraint-Based Supply Chain Inventory Deployment Strategies, David Jay Stremler

Theses and Dissertations

The development of Supply Chain Management has occurred gradually over the latter half of the last century, and in this century will continue to evolve in response to the continual changes in the business environment. As organizations exhaust opportunities for internal breakthrough improvements, they will increasingly turn toward the supply chain for an additional source of untapped improvements. Manufacturers in particular can benefit from this increased focus on the chain, but the gains realized will vary by the type of supply chain. By applying basic production control principles to the chain, and effectively using tools already common at the production …

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Added Cfo Voltages From Fiberglass Poles And Its Electrical Degradation, Xiaoyong Li Dec 2001

Added Cfo Voltages From Fiberglass Poles And Its Electrical Degradation, Xiaoyong Li

Theses and Dissertations

THE CRITICAL FLASHOVER (CFO) VOLTAGE OF AN INSULATION STRUCTURE IS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE THE INSULATION STRUCTURE¡¯S LIGHTNING IMPULSE STRENGTH. THE FIBERGLASS DISTRIBUTION POLE WAS RECENTLY INTRODUCED TO POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS. HOWEVER, VERY LITTLE WORK HAS BEEN DONE ON EITHER THE LIGHTNING IMPULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF DISTRIBUTION LINE STRUCTURES WITH FIBERGLASS POLES OR THE ELECTRICAL DEGRADATION OF FIBERGLASS. THE WORK IN THIS THESIS REPRESENTS THE RESULTS OF A LABORATORY STUDY ON LIGHTNING IMPULSE CHARACTERISTICS OF DISTRIBUTION LINE STRUCTURES WITH FIBERGLASS POLES AND THE ELECTRICAL DEGRADATION OF FIBERGLASS. THE CRITICAL FLASHOVER (CFO) VOLTAGES OF THE FIBERGLASS DISTRIBUTION POLE AS AN INSULATION STRUCTURE …

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Airs: A Resource Limited Artificial Immune Classifier, Andrew B. Watkins Dec 2001

Airs: A Resource Limited Artificial Immune Classifier, Andrew B. Watkins

Theses and Dissertations

The natural immune system embodies a wealth of information processing capabilities that can be exploited as a metaphor for the development of artificial immune systems. Chief among these features is the ability to recognize previously encountered substances and to generalize beyond recognition in order to provide appropriate responses to pathogens not seen before. This thesis presents a new supervised learning paradigm, resource limited artificial immune classifiers, inspired by mechanisms exhibited in natural and artificial immune systems. The key abstractions gleaned from these immune systems include resource competition, clonal selection, affinity maturation, and memory cell retention. A discussion of the progenitors …

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A Distributed Memory Implementation Of Loci, Thomas George Dec 2001

A Distributed Memory Implementation Of Loci, Thomas George

Theses and Dissertations

Distributed memory systems have gained immense popularity due to their favorable price/performance ratios. This study seeks to reduce the complexities, involved in developing parallel applications for distributed memory systems. The Loci system is a coordination framework which was developed to eliminate most of the accidental complexities involved in numerical simulation software development. A distributed memory version of Loci is developed and has been tested and validated using a finite-rate chemically reacting flow solver developed in the sequential Loci framework. The application developed in the original sequential version of Loci was parallelized with minimal changes in its source code. A comparison …

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A Method For The Investigation Of The Aeroelastic Behavior Of Very High Aspect Ratio Cylinders, Bryan Louis Gassaway Dec 2001

A Method For The Investigation Of The Aeroelastic Behavior Of Very High Aspect Ratio Cylinders, Bryan Louis Gassaway

Theses and Dissertations

This document details the investigation of the aeroelastic behavior of very high aspect ratio cylinders. The difficulty in this investigation lies in the fact that there are two important length scales: the aspect ratio and the Reynolds number. The primary goal is to develop a method that properly represents both length scales during testing. The secondary goal is to develop a method that quantifies the cylinder motion. This paper describes a wind tunnel technique designed to account for the aspect ratio and the Reynolds number of a very high aspect ratio cylinder. This paper also describes the data acquisition and …

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A Transport Study Of Sodium Phosphate Dodecahydrate Pipeline Plugging Mechanisms, Vijay Kumar Raju Dec 2001

A Transport Study Of Sodium Phosphate Dodecahydrate Pipeline Plugging Mechanisms, Vijay Kumar Raju

Theses and Dissertations

The thesis investigates pipeline plugging mechanisms that have occurred during interim stabilization transfers at Hanford. A laboratory-scale saltwell pumping test loop was designed to evaluate a surrogate of Hanford Tank 241-SX-104 supernate. The effect of surrogate flow rate, cooling water flow rate and phosphate concentrations on plugging mechanisms was investigated. Critical parameters like particle and agglomerate size, velocity and bed growth rate were determined. Theoretical models were used to compare the experimental pressure rise and temperature drop of the surrogate in the channel. An operating region in which a plug would not form was developed, based on the experimental results. …

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Accurate Local Time Stepping Schemes For Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations, Kiran Kumar V Adhikarala Dec 2001

Accurate Local Time Stepping Schemes For Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations, Kiran Kumar V Adhikarala

Theses and Dissertations

This study seeks to reduce the cost of numerically solving non-linear partial differential equations by reducing the number of computations without compromising accuracy. This was done by using accurate local time stepping. This algorithm uses local time stepping but compensates for the inconsistencies in the temporal dimension by interpolations and/or extrapolations. Reduction in computations are obtained by time-stepping only a particular region with small time steps. A shock tube problem and a detonation wave were the two test cases considered. The performance of the solution using this algorithm was compared with an algorithm that does not use accurate local time …

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Measuring The Effects Of Soil Parameters On Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function, Pushkar Shrikant Pradhan Dec 2001

Measuring The Effects Of Soil Parameters On Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function, Pushkar Shrikant Pradhan

Theses and Dissertations

Remote sensing data acquisition often requires a revisit to the same target. Therefore, it is not always possible to have the same illumination and viewing conditions. Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) is an attempt to predict the reflectance of an object for any given viewing and illumination geometry by explaining the interaction of the incident energy with the target object, the medium lying between the source and the target, and the interaction of the reflected energy with the medium between the target and the sensor. In this study various factors affecting BRDF were explored. Various factors contribute to this characteristic …

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Reliability-Based Optimization Of Anisotropic Cylinders With Response Surface Approximation Of Axial Buckling Load, Bin Su Dec 2001

Reliability-Based Optimization Of Anisotropic Cylinders With Response Surface Approximation Of Axial Buckling Load, Bin Su

Theses and Dissertations

The reliability analysis and reliability-based optimization of laminated circular cylinders under axial buckling instability are studied. Structural reliability is measured in terms of Hasofer-Lind reliability index. The response surface models are used in both the calculation of the reliability index and the reliability-based optimization. In reliability analysis, both deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity factors are investigated; the results show that the reliability index is most sensitive to the applied load and Young's modulus of the material. Two cases are considered in the optimization study. In the first case, the cylinder weight is minimized subject to a reliability constraint whereas in the …

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The Prediction Via A Mathematical Model Of The "Primary" Self-Weight Consolidation Curve Of Silt Particles During Zone Settling, Tian Hee Hoe Dec 2001

The Prediction Via A Mathematical Model Of The "Primary" Self-Weight Consolidation Curve Of Silt Particles During Zone Settling, Tian Hee Hoe

Theses and Dissertations

Each year in the United States, large volumes of material are dredged out of lakes and waterways and are dumped in confined disposal facilities so that they can consolidate. A mathematical model is proposed to predict the settling of the dredged material by predicting the ?primary? self-weight consolidation curve of silt particles under zone settling conditions. Using a relatively ?pure? specimen of silt, self-weight consolidation tests were performed at concentrations ranging from 10 to 200 grams per liter. To generate the predicted curve, the model requires the location of the zone interface at 180, 600, and 720 seconds and the …

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