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Rumors, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

The Bg News November 1, 2001, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 1, 2001. Volume 88-Issue 46.

A Comparison Of Facts Integrated With Battery Energy Storage Systems, Lin Zhang, Shen Chen, Stan Atcitty, Mariesa Crow

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The integration of energy storage into FACTS devices lead to increased controller flexibility by providing decentralized active power capabilities. Combined FACTS/ESS can improve power flow control, oscillation damping and voltage control. This paper presents a comparison between the dynamic performance of a StatCom, a StatCom/BESS, an SSSC, an SSSC/BESS and a UPFC. Experimental verification is also presented.

Earthquake Hazard Assessment Along Designated Emergency Vehicle Priority Access Routes, Neil Lennart Anderson, Hal Baker, Genda Chen, Tom Hertell, David J. Hoffman, Ronaldo Luna, Yulman Munaf, Shamsher Prakash, Paul Michael Santi, Richard Wesley Stephenson

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Because of the compelling need to reopen vehicular access routes to Sikeston, Cape Girardeau and St. Louis following a devastating earthquake, Missouri Department of Transportation initiated a study of those portions of US 60 and MO 100 that have been officially designated as emergency vehicle priority access routes. The primary objectives of this study were twofold. Objective 1 was to establish a current subsurface and earthquake design geographic information systems (GIS) database for areas in proximity to designated portions of US 60 and MO 100 (includes counties of Butler, Stoddard, New Madrid, Franklin and St. Louis). Objective 2 was to …

Influences Of Transportation Planning On Urban Form, Alison Teresa Gardner

Master's Projects

This research paper analyses the relationship between transportation and urban form, with a special focus on transit-oriented developments (TODs). It examines the development of American and British cities from an historical planning perspective beginning in the nineteenth century. Transportation policies, problems of urban growth and transit systems are also reviewed. Case studies are presented on two West Coast cities where TOD has began to address these problems.

An analysis of urban form in various regions reveals that transportation significantly affects how people live. While decades of planning for the automobile created a vast network of roadways, a recent re-discovery of …

Charge Fluctuations In Yba2cu3o6+X Superconductors, Herbert A. Mook, Fatih Dogan

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Striped phases in which spin and charge separate into different regions in the material have been proposed to account for the unusual properties of the high-T_c cuprate superconductors. The driving force for a striped phase is the charge distribution, which self-organizes itself into linear regions. In the highest Tc materials such regions are not static but fluctuate in time. Neutrons, having no charge, cannot directly observe these fluctuations but they can be observed indirectly by their effect on the phonons. Neutron scattering measurements have been made using a specialized technique to study the phonon line shapes in four crystals …

A New Crystalline Phase (Na2o · 8teo2) In The Na2o-Teo2 System, Dongmei Zhu, Wancheng Zhou, C. S. Ray

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The formation and decomposition of NT8 crystal phase was investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and x-ray diffraction analysis (XRD). DSC measurements indicated that all the glasses used in the investigation crystallized at about 330±5 °C. Results suggested that the NT₈ phase, which was very stable at 330 °C was not stable at or above 340 °C and readily decomposed to NT₄ and TeO₂.

Cross Pollination, Shaun Foster

Theses

A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film about a "cross-pollination" that occurs between plants on a planet and nanites (nanoparticle robots) that arrive on a space ship. Includes original thesis proposal, original storyboard, color stills, and technical notes.

An Interactive Journey: Creative Development For Young Children, Nattawan Wanglee

Theses

Creativity begins in infancy and can be developed when children grow up. Young children are at their peak of creative functioning, which declines with age. They are unique individuals and are highly imaginative. Creativity and imagination are strongly related. Even though all children are capable of creativity, the potential to create remains dormant without practice. Creativity requires practice to flourish. Therefore, creativity plays an important role as much as knowledge does. To educate children, creativity also needs to be paid attention too. Children should be encouraged to represent their world creatively by allowing them to choose what they want to …

Elements And Principles: Experiencing Design Principles Through Interactivity, Niramon Wongsirisup

Theses

A designer is a practical person who confronts visual assignments with a process of visual creation. The creative process is used to solve practical problems that occur in any design assignment. However, before one is ready to solve any problem, one must understand the depth and range of their design language. If one's understanding of design is limited, then the range of possible solutions to a problem will be limited. My thesis aims to broaden and enrich a vocabulary of design through the study of its essential elements and principles. If we familiarize ourselves with a multitude of books, we …

Is Traffic Organized On Trails Of The Leaf Cutting Ant Atta Cephalotes?, November 2001, Angela C. Rao

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The leaf cutting tribe Attini (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) shows numerous adaptations that increase foraging efficiency. Such adaptations are seen in their highly polymorphic caste systems, trails branching from many different exit holes, clearing and maintenance of foraging trails, and pheromonal signaling and recruitment. It is reasonable to assume that mechanisms exist that would reduce incidence of collisions, traffic jams, etc., on foraging trails. This hypothesis was tested by recording trail density and time, linear distance, and direction of ant travel on the trails of Atta Cephalotes and looking for certain trends. Ants traveling towards the nest were not found to vary …

Bat Morphology And Pollinator Specificity In A Neotropical Cloud Forest, November 2001, Kiva Rice

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This study explores the degree of specialization of nectarivorous bat species and the plants they visit by examining pollen loads. The bat species involved are Anoura geoffroyi, Glossophaga commissarisi, and Hylonycteris underwoodi, all of which feed on nectar and are found in the cloud forests of Monteverde. Five nights were spent mist-netting and pollen samples were taken from the head, fore-body and back of each individual caught. These were placed on slides that were observed under a microscope and pollen morphospecies were counted. Twenty-two pollen morphospecies were found and a few were identified. A 1-way ANOVA test was conducted to …

Kara Crombie, Kara Crombie

Theses

None provided.

Rm2072, Po-Chun Lin

Theses

A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film, "Rm2072," set in an art museum. In this film, an old man walks into a room in a Chinese art department. The artworks have their own secret life, and they move whenever humans aren't watching. The old man catches some ancient Chinese figurines moving, and he chooses to keep their secret. Includes original thesis proposal, original storyboard, and color stills.

Inside Unlv, Betty Blodgett, Tom Flagg, Diane Russell

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Transcendentalists & Friends, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Rare Books & Special Collections Publications

This catalog accompanied the exhibit which displays a portion of the Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-century American Literature. It brings to the library comprehensive collections of first editions for Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), Theodore Parker (1810-1860), Walt Whitman (1819-1892), and Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), along with manuscripts, letters, proofs, later and posthumous editions, and associated scholarship. With these core collections are smaller collections for lesser-known writers of the Transcendentalist movement, such as Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892), significant groups of early editions from other writers of the period such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson and Louisa May …

A Round Trip Time And Timeout Aware Traffic Conditioner For Differentiated Services Networks, Ahsan Habib, Bharat Bhargava, Sonia Fahmy

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Design Of An Adaptive Classification Procedure For The Analysis Of High-Dimensional Data With Limited Training Samples, Qiong Zhang Jackson, David Landgrebe

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In a typical supervised classification procedure the availability of training samples has a fundamental effect on classifier performance. For a fixed number of training samples classifier performance is degraded as the number of dimensions (features) is increased. This phenomenon has a significant influence on the analysis of hyperspectral data sets where the ratio of training samples to dimensionality is small. Objectives of this research are to develop novel methods for mitigating the detrimental effects arising from this small ratio and to reduce the effort required by an analyst in terms of training sample selection. An iterative method is developed where …

Evolution Of The Supply Chain In Academic Library Bookselling, Matt Nauman

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Parameter Synthesis Of Higher Kinematic Planars, Min-Ho Kyung, Elisha Sacks

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Atg Interviews Nicholas Basbanes, Author, Patience And Fortitude, Harpercollins Publishers, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Bet You Missed It-Dna And Spaghetti, Pamela M. Rose

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Cases Of Note-Battle Of Rock Titans! Lick It Up!, Bruce Strauch, Jack G. Montgomery, Bryan M. Carson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Competition And Technology As Forces Of Change In The Library Market, Jay Askuvich, Forrest Link

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Op-Ed-Opinions And Editorials-We Don't Need No Stinking Librarians, John Perry Smith

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Library Marketplace: A Whimsical Ramble On Human Understanding, Gary Shirk

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

From The Reference Desk-Oxford Companion To J.M.W. Turner, Encyclopedia Of Asian Philosphy And The Handbook Of Shock Waves, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Choices For Libraries, Publishers And Vendors, Marifran Bustion

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Public Prayers-The Reverant Wishes And Desires Of A Public Library Collection Development Librarian, Rodger Smith

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Adventures In Librarianship: The Weakest Librarian, Ned Kraft

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.