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Vista: November 13, 2003, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 22, Issue 9, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Part-time Undergrads Honored -- University Launches Study Abroad on Emerald Isle -- Hunger Awareness Week Observed On and Off Campus -- Joe Torre Visits SHU in Fight Against Domestic Violence -- Poor Planning Causes a Horrible Parking Situation -- Food Poisoning? No, But "Dining With The Dean" Was No Cup Of Tea... -- SHU Gives Short Notice -- Government Cautions Student Travelers About Terrorism -- A Diary of Dallas, Texas -- Sleep Deprived Students -- Britney 'Spears' Morality -- Blondes Have More Fun...Again -- Reagan Movie Impeached by CBS -- Ferrell's "Elf" Hardly Short on Laughs -- Sorting …

Distributed Supervisory Control Of Workflows, Pranav Deshpande

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The need for redesigning existing business processes to improve their efficiency makes it essential to adequately represent, study, and automate them. The WFMC defines "workflow" as computerized facilitation or automation of a business process in whole or part. It is actually a representation of the given process, which is made up of well-defined collection of activities called tasks.

Modeling and specification of a workflow involves the following steps: 1) Provide formalism for modeling and specification of workflow 2) specify the tasks together with the associated information and 3) enter the applicable business rules in form of inter-task dependencies.

Earlier …

A Vlsi Architecture For Rijndael, The Advanced Encryption Standard, Naga M. Kosaraju

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The increasing application of cryptographic algorithms to ensure secure communications across virtual networks has led to an ever-growing demand for high performance hardware implementations of the encryption/decryption methods. The inevitable inclusion of the cryptographic algorithms in network communications has led to the development of several encryption standards, one of the prominent ones among which, is the Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard. Rijndael was chosen as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), in October 2000, as a replacement for the Data Encryption Standard (DES). This thesis presents the architecture for the VLSI implementation …

Kinematic Analysis And Evaluation Of Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arms, Edward Jacob Mccaffrey

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this thesis is the kinematic analysis and evaluation of wheelchair mounted robotic arms. More specifically, to address the kinematics of the wheelchair mounted robotic arm (WMRA) with respect to its ability to reach positions commonly required by an assistive device in activities of daily living (ADL).

A robotic manipulator attached to a power wheelchair could enhance the manipulation functions of an individual with a disability. In this thesis, a procedure is developed for the kinematic analysis and evaluation of a wheelchair mounted robotic arm. In addition to developing the analytical procedure, the manipulator is evaluated, and design …

Using The Ablls With English Language Learners: Implications For Students And Teachers, Lorie G. Schultz

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

English language learners are traditionally behind in academics such as reading, math and science. Hispanics, who make up the vast majority of English language learners, tend to not enroll in pre-school or higher education, have higher dropout rates and as adults earn less than whites. Common instructional strategies used in public schools are not meeting the needs of these students. The field of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) has typically offered a wide variety of poorly defined teaching strategies that are not based on empirical research. Within public schools, assessment tends to serve the purpose of …

The Fleeting Effects Of Retrieval Cue Attributes In The Pier2 Memory Model, Amie L. Wilbanks

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Processing Implicit and Explicit Representations (PIER2) is a model of memory that makes predictions about memory performance based on the interaction of known and newly acquired information by studying how implicitly activated associates affect episodic memory. Nelson and Zhang (2000) found a significant effect of cue connectivity in a multiple regression analysis of the variables known to affect cued recall, but at that time no manipulational experiments had studied the cue connectivity effect in the laboratory. The present paper presents a series of three experiments designed to investigate the effect of cue connectivity in the context of the PIER2 memory …

Infrastructure For Performance Tuning Mpi Applications, Kathryn Marie Mohror

Dissertations and Theses

Clusters of workstations are becoming increasingly popular as a low-budget alternative for supercomputing power. In these systems, message-passing is often used to allow the separate nodes to act as a single computing machine. Programmers of such systems face a daunting challenge in understanding the performance bottlenecks of their applications. This is largely due to the vast amount of performance data that is collected, and the time and expertise necessary to use traditional parallel performance tools to analyze that data.

The goal of this project is to increase the level of performance tool support for message-passing application programmers on clusters of …

Montana Kaimin, November 13, 2003, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Benin’S Constitutional Court: An Institutional Model For Enforcing Human Rights, Anna Rotman

ExpressO

This piece is based on field research the author conducted in Benin, West Africa during January 2003. The paper explores how the Court operates as a hybrid institution, by combining the competences traditionally associated with a constitutional court with the mandate of a national human rights commission. The paper argues that the Beninese Constitutional Court could provide an institutional model for guaranteeing human rights through a state-sponsored institution.

The Cord Weekly (November 12, 2003)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

A Nonparametric Comparison Of Conditional Distributions With Nonnegligible Cure Fractions, Yi Li, Jin Feng

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Survival Analysis With Heterogeneous Covariate Measurement Error, Yi Li, Louise Ryan

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Student Learning Minutes 11/12/2003, Assessment Of Student Learning Committee

Assessment of Student Learning Minutes (Inactive)

No abstract provided.

To Model Or Not To Model? Competing Modes Of Inference For Finite Population Sampling, Rod Little

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Finite population sampling is perhaps the only area of statistics where the primary mode of analysis is based on the randomization distribution, rather than on statistical models for the measured variables. This article reviews the debate between design and model-based inference. The basic features of the two approaches are illustrated using the case of inference about the mean from stratified random samples. Strengths and weakness of design-based and model-based inference for surveys are discussed. It is suggested that models that take into account the sample design and make weak parametric assumptions can produce reliable and efficient inferences in surveys settings. …

Usa V. Diaz

2003 Decisions

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Evolution Of The Polarization Of The Optical Afterglow Of The Gamma-Ray Burst Grb 030329, Dieter H. Hartmann, Jochen Greiner, Sylvio Klose, Klaus Reisch, Hans Martin Schmid, Re'em Sari, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Arne Rau, Eliana Palazzi, Christian Straubmeier

Publications

The association of a supernova with GRB 0303291,2 strongly supports the collapsar model3 of -ray bursts (GRBs), where a relativistic jet4 forms after 1 the progenitor star collapses. Such jets cannot be spatially resolved because of their cosmological distances. Their existence is conjectured based on breaks in GRB afterglow light curves and the theoretical desire to reduce the GRB energy requirements. Temporal evolution of polarization5,6,7 may provide independent evidence for the jet structure of the relativistic outflow. Small-level polarization ( 1-3%)8−17 has been reported for a few bursts, but the temporal evolution of polarization properties could not be established. Here, …

Usa V. Merlino

2003 Decisions

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

The Chronicle, Katie Jost, Christina Dalrymple, Amber Bryant-Tapper, Erica Shorkey-Brumm, Heather Kilby, Corey Rolffs, Eric Gookin, Daniel Statterly, Jeremy Thompson, Rosalinda Escaran, Jessica Hofeldt, Alyssa Hesley, Antoine Smith, Amber Moyer, Angela Skalsky, Janelle Tomlinson, Ethan Clarkson, Michael Cooper, Katherne Fulton, Bevan Lucas, Jenny Stanley, Julie Roosa

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Exponent Vol. 35, No. 10, 2003-11-12, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

2003

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of Large Area Cadmium Telluride Films And Solar Cells Deposited On Moving Substrates By Close Spaced Sublimation, Vishwanath Kumar

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With CdTe based photovoltaics developed by close spaced sublimation reaching efficiencies of over 16%, commercialization of this technology draws serious attention. Today large area industrial modules have not been able to produce the same performance of their laboratory counterparts. This work provides a means for understanding the various technical challenges in developing an effective deposition technology for large area processing.

The submodule process investigated provides a model for continuous and sequential processing of subsequent films. The system has a unique design and constructed with the provision for a moving transport module for the substrate transport. The process was developed to …

Ke Alaka'i, Vol. 67, No. 11 (2003-11-12), Brigham Young University Hawaii

Ke Alaka'i

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, November 12, 2003, Daily Egyptian Staff

November 2003

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, November 12, 2003

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

The Spinnaker Vol. 27 No. 13, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

Panther - November 2003 - Vol. Lxxxi, No.11, Prairie View A&M University

PV Panther Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Guardian, November 12, 2003, 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.

Miscellaneous Moratorium Coverage, Anne Ruisi, Marie Schaeffer

Moratorium Deliberations

Coverage of Project Hope Against the Death Penalty's moratorium advocacy from the Birmingham News, Greene County Democrat, Valley Times-News, and Marion Times-Standard.

Ddasaccident464, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

Details of this accident have been withheld by the demining NGO that employed the Victim. A spreadsheet including the Victim’s name and very brief details of the accident was made available in 2007. Some details can be inferred from the information released. For example, the limited injury implies that the victim’s PPE was being worn in the correct manner.

The Bg News November 12, 2003, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 12, 2003. Volume 94-Issue 55.