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Adiabatic Invariance With First Integrals Of Motion, Artur D. Adib

Dartmouth Scholarship

The construction of a microthermodynamic formalism for isolated systems based on the concept of adiabatic invariance is an old but seldom appreciated effort in the literature, dating back at least to P. Hertz [Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 33, 225 (1910)]. An apparently independent extension of such formalism for systems bearing additional first integrals of motion was recently proposed by Hans H. Rugh [Phys. Rev. E 64, 055101 (2001)], establishing the concept of adiabatic invariance even in such singular cases. After some remarks in connection with the formalism pioneered by Hertz, it will be suggested that such an extension can …

Neiu Magazine- Fall 2002, Neiu Magazine Staff

NEIU Magazine

No abstract provided.

Effects-Based Operations: Building The Analytic Tools, Desmond Saunders-Newton, Aaron B. Frank

Defense Horizons

The U.S. military, under the guidance of the Secretary of Defense, is moving toward a new concept of military planning and operations that is agile and adaptable to the conflict at hand. The aim is to develop capabilities that can rapidly break an adversary’s will to fight and undermine the utility of asymmetric capabilities. The new concept called effects-based operations (EBO) encompasses processes, tools, and organizations that focus on planning, executing, and assessing military activities for the effects produced rather than merely tallying the number of targets destroyed. EBO practitioners draw on the full range of instruments of national power …

Benthic Biological Monitoring Program Of The Elizabeth River Watershed (2001) With A Study Of Paradise Creek, Daniel M. Dauer

Elizabeth River Reports

Executive Summary

A study of the macrobenthic communities of the Elizabeth River watershed was initiated in summer 1999. This report presents the data from the third year of sampling in 2001. The three objectives of the Benthic Biological Monitoring Program of the Elizabeth River watershed are: (1) To characterize the health of the tidal waters of the Elizabeth River watershed as indicated by the structure of the benthic communities. ( 2) To conduct trend analyses on long-term data at 14 fixed-point stations to relate temporal trends in the benthic communities to changes in water and/or sediment quality. Trend analyses will …

Arts And Sciences Newsletter, Volume 6, Issue 2, College Of Arts & Sciences

Arts and Sciences Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Best Student Paper Awards 2001, Virginia Journal Of Science

Virginia Journal of Science

This document is a list of the Best Student Paper Awards granted by the Virginia Academy of Science at the 2001 Annual Meeting.

Inside Unf Vol. 8 No. 9, University Of North Florida

30th Anniversary Printed Materials

The monthly publication for faculty and staff of the University of North Florida. This edition includes the following articles:

UNF Prepares for 30th Anniversary

Coke and UNF Form Partnership

Awards & Honors

Faculty & Staff

Campus Focus

Osprey Images

Compass Bank Endowed Scholarships in International Business

30th Anniversary Events

A Moment of Remembrance

Sponsored Research Announces Grants

Briefs

Faculty/Staff Fund Drive Launches Next Month

The University Of North Florida Journal Fall 2002, University Of North Florida

30th Anniversary Printed Materials

The UNF Journal is published three times a year by the University of North Florida Division of Institutional Advancement to communicate UNF's mission and its accomplishments to alumni and friends of the university.

Behavioral Genetics And The Best Interests Of The Child Decision Rule, David J. Herring

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article proposes that modern child custody law should be reassessed in light of recent scientific findings. Judicial determinations of custody use the "best interests of the child" rule. The rule is justified to a large extent by the goal of maximizing child developmental outcomes. The assumption is that a child whose "best interests" are protected stands a better chance of becoming a socially well-adjusted, productive and prosperous citizen.

Recent child development studies have shown that so-called "shared environment, "or home environment factors have little effect on child development so long as the shared environment is minimally adequate. Genetics and …

Uncertainty And The Standard For Preliminary Relief, Douglas Gary Lichtman

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

In deciding whether to issue a preliminary injunction, courts today focus on three factors: the likelihood that plaintiff will ultimately prevail on the merits; the harm defendant will suffer if the injunction is wrongly issued; and the harm plaintiff will suffer if the injunction is wrongly denied. The idea is to account for the possibility that the court might err in its prediction on the merits. If wrongful denial would be particularly harmful and there is a real chance of wrongful denial, the court is more reluctant to deny. By contrast, if wrongful issuance poses the greater threat, the court …

Phillips Brook Catchment Appraisal, Paul D. Galloway

Resource management technical reports

This report describes the soils, hydrology and natural vegetation of the Phillips Brook catchment near Toodyay, Western Australia and provides information on the threats to agriculture, infrastructure and natural resources from salinity, waterlogging, erosion and other land degradation processes.

Synthesizing Distributed Controllers For The Safe Operation Of Connectedspaces, Baskar Sridharan, Aditya P. Mathur, Kai-Yuan Cai

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Querying Imprecise Data In Moving Object Environments, Reynold Cheng, Sunil Prabhakar, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Synthesizing A Safety Controller For Connectedspaces Using Supervisory Control, Baskar Sridharan, Aditya P. Mathur, Kai-Yuan Cai

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Similarity Joins For Low-And-High Dimensional Data, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabhakar

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Development Of An Infrastructure For The Management Of Smart Homes, Ramkumar Natarajan, Aditya P. Mathur

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Toward A Theory Of Differentiated Services, Huan Ren, Kihong Park

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

An Isolated, Recently Shocked Ism Cloud In The Cygnus Loop Supernova Remnant, D. J. Patnaude, R. A. Fesen, J. C. Raymond, N. A. Levenson

Dartmouth Scholarship

Spatially resolved ROSAT X-ray and ground-based optical data for the southwestern region of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant (SNR) reveal in unprecedented detail the very early stages of a blast-wave interaction with an isolated interstellar cloud. Numerous internal cloud shock fronts near the upstream flow and along the cloud edges are visible optically as sharp filaments of enhanced H emission. Faint X-ray emission is seen along a line of Balmer-dominated shock filaments north and south of the cloud with an estimated X-ray gas temperature of 1.2 106 K (0.11 keV), corresponding to a shock velocity of 290 km s1 . …

The Stumbling Block: Freedom, Rationality, And Legal Scholarship, Jeanne L. Schroeder

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

2002 (Fall) Ensi Informer Magazine, Morehead State University. Engineering Sciences Department

ENSI Informer Magazine Archive

The ENSI Informer Magazine published in the fall of 2002.

Physica Junior!: The Newsletter Of Utep’S Department Of Physics, Utep Department Of Physics

The Department of Physics

Electronic newsletter for high school students interested in physics, Fall 2002.

Mobile Information Systems – Research Directions On The Conceptual And Logical Level, J. Krogstie, K. Lyytinen, A. Opdahl, B. Pernici, Keng Siau, K. Smolander

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper discusses new challenges and possible approaches for developing and evolving mobile information systems, with focus on model-based approaches on the conceptual and logical level. We have experienced these new challenges through several research and industrial projects on mobile solutions, usability and model-based approaches over the last years. We summarize the main challenges on how model-based approaches can support the development of mobile information systems that are to be used together with other types of systems, primarily in a professional setting and indicate upcoming research issues in this very dynamic area. We argue that this research area is also …

Pasture Condition Guides For The Pilbara, A L. Payne, A A. Mitchell

Agriculture reports

These pasture condition guides are relevant to about 192 000 square kilometres of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The rangeland of the Pilbara can be separated into 12 very broad pasture types. The ‘pasture type’ is not strictly a botanical classification because, in determining such a class of pastoral lands, the perennial plant species that contribute to stock production have an over-riding importance. Even so, each pasture type represents a broad group of similar vegetation associations or ‘site types’ which will have similar management requirements for pastoralism. The aim of this publication is to provide pastoralists with descriptions and …

A Comparison Of The Low Mode And Monte Carlo Conformational Search Methods, Carol A. Parish, Rosina Lombardi, Kent Sinclair, Emelyn Smith, Alla Goldberg, Melissa Rappleye, Myrianne Dure

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The Low Mode (LM) and Monte Carlo (MC) conformational search methods were compared on three diverse molecular systems; (4R, 5S, 6S, 7R)-hexahydro-5,6-dihydroxy-1,3,4,7-tetrakis(phenylmethyl)-2H-1,3-diazapin-2-one (1), 2-methoxy-2-phenyl-2-triflouromethyl-N-α-methyl benzyl propanamide (2) and a trimeric 39-membered polyazamacrolide (3). We find that either method, or a combination of the methods, is equally efficient at searching the conformational space of the smaller molecular systems while a 50:50 hybrid of Low Mode and Monte Carlo is most efficient at searching the space of the larger molecular system.

Nova Quarterly: The University Of Texas At El Paso, The University Of Texas At El Paso University Communications

NOVA

Fall 2002, Vol. 39, No. 1; No. 151

Seismic Cycle And Rheological Effects On Estimation Of Present-Day Slip Rates For The Agua Blanca And San Miguel-Vallecitos Faults, Northern Baja California, Mexico, Timothy H. Dixon, J. Decaix, F. Farina, K. Furlong, Rocco Malservisi

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Geodesy can be used to infer long‐term fault slip rates, assuming a model for crust and upper mantle rheology. We examine the sensitivity of fault slip rate estimates to assumed rheology for the Agua Blanca and San Miguel‐Vallecitos faults in northern Baja California, Mexico, part of the Pacific–North America plate boundary zone. The Agua Blanca fault is seismically quiet, but offset alluvial fans indicate young activity. Current seismicity is confined to the nearby San Miguel‐Vallecitos fault, a small offset fault better aligned with plate motion. GPS measurements between 1993 and 1998 suggest that both faults are active, with a combined …

Seismotectonics Of The Explorer Region, Jochen Braunmiller, John Nábělek

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

The Explorer region offshore western Canada is a tectonically complex area surrounded by the Pacific, North America, and Juan de Fuca plates. Existing tectonic models for the region differ fundamentally. Proposed plate configurations range from multiple independent plate fragments to an Explorer plate now fused to North America along the continental margin and cut by Pacific–North America transform faults in the west. We present new seismological data constraining the region's current tectonics. We use three-component regional waveforms to determine the source parameters of 84 earthquakes with magnitude greater than 4. Combined with 34 Harvard centroid moment tensor solutions, they represent …

On The Number Of Factorizations Of An Element In An Atomic Monoid, Scott T. Chapman, Juan Ignacio García-García, Pedro A. García Sánchez, José Carlos Rosales

Mathematics Faculty Research

Let S be a reduced commutative cancellative atomic monoid. If s is a nonzero element of S, then we explore problems related to the computation of η(s), which represents the number of distinct irreducible factorizations of s∈S. In particular, if S is a saturated submonoid of N^d, then we provide an algorithm for computing the positive integer r(s) for which

0 < limn→∞η(sⁿ)n^r(s)-1∞.

We further show that r(s) is constant on the Archimedean components of S. We apply the algorithm to show how to …

The Classic, Fall 2002, Public Relations

The Classic, 2000-2009

President's Report: How firm a foundation; Students indicate satisfaction; New faculty bring wealth of experience to NWC: Karen Acker, Jan Carrell, Dr. Clyde Vollmers, Dr. Sean Cordry, Dr. Robert Hubbard, Michael Reed, Kimberly Rylaarsdam, Rod Sissel, Dan Young, Dr. Ted Eilders, Jolynn Tonsfeldt, Kevin Bullis, Danyale (Temple '96) Tamminga, Nontando Hadebe; Barker wins playwriting award; College explores study abroad options in South Africa; Theatre project on schedule; Couch appointed to lead institutional research; Faculty/staff news; Summer Institute serves dozen; Auditorium time capsule opened; Library receives enhancements; Burch to coordinate service learning efforts; Multicultural affairs programs revamped; Administrators in new roles; …

Transaction Costs Relating To Acquisition Or Enhancement Of Intangible Property: A Populist, Political, But Practical Perspective, John W. Lee

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.