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The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Ion Contribution To The Astrophysical Important 447.15, 587.56 And 667.82 Nm He I Spectral Lines Broadening, Vladimir Milosavljevic, Stevan Djenize

Articles

Characteristics of the astrophysical important Stark broadened 447.15 nm, 587.56 nm and 667.82 nm spectral line profiles have been measured at electron densities between 0.3 10 and 8.2 10 m and electron temperatures between 8000 and 33 000 K in plasmas created in five various discharge conditions using a linear, low-pressure, pulsed arc as an optically thin plasma source operated in a helium-nitrogen-oxygen gas mixture. On the basis of the observed asymmetry of the line profiles we have obtained their ion broadening parameters ( A) caused by influence of the ion microfield on the line broadening mechanism and also …

October 16, 2002 Cal Poly Report Digest, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Unmeasured Factors Of Success, John K. Carmack

Vol. 1: Answering God's Interrogatories

This fireside address was given at the BYU Law School on March 10, 1996.

A Review Of Selected Works On Crack Indentification, Kurt M. Bryan

Mathematical Sciences Technical Reports (MSTR)

We give a short survey of some of the results obtained within the last 10 years or so concerning crack identification using impedance imaging techniques. We touch upon uniqueness results, continuous dependence results, and computational algorithms.

Spartan Daily, October 16, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 119, Issue 34

Mustang Daily, October 16, 2002

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Volume One: Answering God's Interrogatories

Vol. 1: Answering God's Interrogatories

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, October 16, 2002

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

The Spinnaker Vol. 26, No. 9, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

The Guardian, October 16, 2002, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty-four page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Guest Artist: Marilyn Nonken, Piano; October 16, 2002, Marilyn Nonken

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
Wednesday Evening
October 16, 2002
8:00 p.m.

Long-Lived Oscillons From Asymmetric Bubbles: Existence And Stability, Artur B. Adib, Marcelo Gleiser, Carlos A.S Almeida

Dartmouth Scholarship

The possibility that extremely long-lived, time-dependent, and localized field configurations (“oscillons”) arise during the collapse of asymmetrical bubbles in (2+1)-dimensional φ4 models is investigated. It is found that oscillons can develop from a large spectrum of elliptically deformed bubbles. Moreover, we provide numerical evidence that such oscillons are (a) circularly symmetric and (b) linearly stable against small arbitrary radial and angular perturbations. The latter is based on a dynamical approach designed to investigate the stability of nonintegrable time-dependent configurations that is capable of probing slowly growing instabilities not seen through the usual “spectral” method.

Rapid Determination Of Serum Melatonin By Esi–Ms–Ms With Direct Sample Injection, Shuming Yang, Xiaohui Zheng, Yan Xu, Xiang Zhou

Chemistry Faculty Publications

This paper describes a rapid, simple and sensitive analytical method for the quantitative determination of melatonin in human serum by ESI–MS–MS with direct serum sample injection and on-line extraction. The method uses N-acetyltryptamine as the internal standard. It has high specificity and sensitivity for serum melatonin analysis. The internal calibration curve shows a wide linear range from 0.500 to 200 ng/ml with a correlation coefficient, R2>0.999. The limit of quantitation is 0.500 ng/ml and the limit of detection is 0.100 ng/ml with 10-μl sample injection. The recoveries of serum melatonin at three levels are approximately 70%. The intra-assay precision …

Consciousness The Trickster: Or, Tailors For The Emperor , Linda Rogers

Trickster's Way

No abstract provided.

Apparent Tricritical Behavior At A Nearly Second-Order Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transition Of A Cyclic Liquid Crystalline Trimer, Ishtiaque M. Syed, Virgil Percec, Rolfe G. Petschek, Charles Rosenblatt

Faculty Scholarship

An investigation on the cyclic liquid crystalline trimer TPB-(c)9(3) was performed. The optical retardation and Fréedericksz techniques within a few tens of millikelvins of the superheating limit of the nearly second-order nematic isotropic phase transition were used for the investigation purpose. It was found that both the Fréedericksz bend threshold voltage and optical retardation were in good agreement with tricritical behaviour for the transition.

Applicability And Truth In The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings, And The Silmarillion: Readers, Fantasy, And Canonicity, Sara Upstone

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Questions the exclusion of Tolkien’s works from “the canon,” examining various reasons why critics may exclude them and what critical theory might be more suitable for studying them.

Whalesong 2002-10-15 (V.24 No.3), N/A N/A

Whalesong

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 10/15/2002, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Further Investigations Of A Mesospheric Inversion Layer Observed In The Aloha-93 Campaign, Tai-Yin Huang, Michael P. Hickey Ph.D., Tai-Fu Tuan

Publications

Temperature and wind data obtained from a Na wind/temperature lidar operated by the University of Illinois group during the Airborne Lidar and Observations of the Hawaiian Airglow (ALOHA-93) Campaign, previously analyzed by Huang et al. [1998] using an isothermal Brunt-Va¨isa¨la¨ frequency, have been reexamined to include temperature gradients in the calculation of the Richardson number. In the previous analysis using the isothermal Brunt-Va¨isa¨la¨ frequency the existence of convective instability could not be assessed. New analysis shows that the nonisothermal Richardson number preserves some features found previously, with some striking differences noticable at times between 0900 and 1030 UT. The nonisothermal …

Ccu Newsletter, October 14, 2002, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

A newsletter for faculty, staff and friends of Coastal Carolina University. Volume 12, Number 17

Legislating Equity: The Distribution Of Emergency Permit Teachers In California, Laura Goe

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

There is a significant negative relationship between the percentage of teachers on emergency permits and student achievement at the school level in California schools, after controlling for other student and school characteristics. Generally, the more emergency permit teachers there are in a school, the lower the school's achievement. This phenomenon is examined in the context of other contributors to student achievement such as socio-economic status and school size. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 10/42 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Legislating equity : the distribution of emergency permit teachers in California / Laura Goe.

The Collegian (2002-10-14), John Strubelt

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 55, No. 12

October 14, 2002 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Advanced Accelerator Applications University Participation Program: Quarterly Report, Third Quarter Year 2 (Sept. 2002 To Nov. 2002), Anthony Hechanova

Transmutation Research Program Reports (TRP)

This Quarterly Report is a primary deliverable from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) University Participation Program (UPP) Director to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as described in the UNLV AAA proposal and Statement of Work for the Fourth Quarter.

The UNLV AAA UPP Director implements the program’s administration using staff from the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies (HRC) to ensure that work conducted under the UNLV AAA UPP meets program objectives. The UNLV AAA program consists of three components: Program Support, Research Infrastructure Augmentation, and Student Research.

Rf Rendez-Blue: Reducing Power And Inquiry Costs In Bluetooth-Enabled Mobile Systems, Eric S. Hall, Charles D. Knutson, David K. Vawdrey

Faculty Publications

In resource-limited mobile computing devices, Bluetooth wireless technology imposes a weighty burden due to inefficient power utilization and a sluggish device discovery process. Buttressing Bluetooth with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology by performing an operation we call “Rendez-Blue” alleviates these limitations. In the Rendez-Blue process, an RFID signal is used as a cue to “wake-up” a sleeping Bluetooth radio. This ensures that the Bluetooth radio is active only when needed, significantly reducing power consumption. In addition, RFID is used to communicate Bluetooth device information, allowing the user to bypass the traditional 10.24-second discovery process.

Screw Dislocation Interacting With An Interfacial Edge Crack Between Two Bonded Dissimilar Piezoelectric Wedges, Xiangfa Wu, Yuris A. Dzenis, Wen-Sheng Zou

Department of Engineering Mechanics: Faculty Publications

This letter is concerned with an interface edge crack interacting with a screw dislocation under antiplane mechanical and in-plane electric loading in a piezoelectric bimaterial wedge. In addition with a discontinuous electric potential across the slip plane, the dislocation is subjected to a line-force and a line-charge at the core. The out-of-plane displacement and electric potentials are obtained in closed-form on the basis of the conformal mapping technique and the solution for a screw dislocation in an infinite piezoelectric bimaterial with a semi-infinite interface crack. The intensity factors (IFs) and energy release rate (ERR) are obtained explicitly.

Volume 38 - Issue 05 - Friday, October 11, 2002, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

The Echo: October 11, 2002, Taylor University

2002-2003 (Volume 90)

This Week at Taylor – Taylor to offer graduate programs next fall – Chorale takes 18th trip to Praise Gathering – Brown collection room to be dedicated today – Velez encourages Hispanic awareness in Taylor community – Grace stood for Taylor when the president wouldn’t – Consider Peace Corps as a post-graduate option – Students speak out: Bush and Iraq – Global unawareness at Taylor – Letters to the Editor – Letter to the Editor: Band together and fix the clocks! – Letter to the Editor: Gag! Solid foods wreck the community – Ralf Fiennes is brilliant, ‘Red Dragon’ is …