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Evidence - Pretrial Discovery Of Uncharged Misconduct Evidence - No More Pulling The Uncharged Misconduct Card From The Sleeve. Howard V. Wyoming, 42 P.3d 483 (Wyo. 2002), Robert S. Hitchcock

Wyoming Law Review

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Short Unhappy Judgeship Of Thurman Arnold, The, Spencer Weber Waller

Wyoming Law Review

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Introduction - Symposium Articles, Jerry Parkinson

Wyoming Law Review

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Keeping The Wheels On The Wagon: Observations On Issues Of Legal Ethics For Lawyers Representing Business Organizations, Irma S. Russell

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reflections On The Twentieth Anniversary Of The Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit, Haldane Robert Mayer

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Materiality Guidance In The Context Of Insider Trading: A Call For Action, Joan Macleod Heminway

American University Law Review

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On Statutory Rape, Strict Liability, And The Public Welfare Offense Model, Catherine L. Carpenter

American University Law Review

Statutory Rape. At the center of a long-standing debate on whether its commission should require proof of a criminal mens rea, the prosecution of statutory rape offers a revealing look at the struggle to demarcate the parameters of the public welfare offense doctrine. Specifically, with respect to statutory rape, disagreement is deep and entrenched on whether statutory rape should be categorized as a public welfare offense, which would render irrelevant defendant's lack of knowledge of the victim's age. And despite wholesale revamping of state statutory rape laws on issues of age, gender, and potential grading and punishment, the debate on …

Health And Safety News, January-March 2003, Illinois State University, Office Of Environmental Health And Safety

Health and Safety News

Newsletter of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety

Adaptive-Critic-Based Optimal Neurocontrol For Synchronous Generators In A Power System Using Mlp/Rbf Neural Networks, Jung-Wook Park, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Harley

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents a novel optimal neurocontroller that replaces the conventional controller (CONVC), which consists of the automatic voltage regulator and turbine governor, to control a synchronous generator in a power system using a multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPN) and a radial basis function neural network (RBFN). The heuristic dynamic programming (HDP) based on the adaptive critic design technique is used for the design of the neurocontroller. The performance of the MLPN-based HDP neurocontroller (MHDPC) is compared with the RBFN-based HDP neurocontroller (RHDPC) for small as well as large disturbances to a power system, and they are in turn compared …

An Analysis Of Factors Affecting Electric Transmission Investment, Illona A. Jeffcoat-Sacco

Theses and Dissertations

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Differential Global Positioning System And Inertial Navigation System Integration For Airborne Remote Sensing Camera, Hyo-Sung Ahn

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effects Of Combustor Generated Turbulence And Reynolds Number On Endwall Heat Transfer Distributions In A Linear Vane Cascade, Pierre A. Barbot

Theses and Dissertations

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Institutions And Long Term Planning Lessons From The California Electricity Crisis, Ashutosh Bhagwat

Faculty Scholarship

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Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog [2002-2003], Georgia Southern University

Undergraduate & Graduate Catalogs

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Comparative Serological And Molecular Analysis Of Group Viii Spiroplasma From Australia And North America, April Carmita Murphy

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

Spiroplasma bacteria (Mollicutes: Spiroplasmataceae) are characterized by motility, helical morphology and are most frequently found in insect guts and phloem tubes of plants. Traditionally, Spiroplasma have been classified by serology. Recent work has generated 16S rDNA sequences that generally correlate with the serological findings. Although the serology and the 16S rDNA sequence analysis clearly classifies strains to the group level, they do not distinguish between strains within the same group. The goal of this project was to investigate the utility of the 16S-23S rDNA intergenic spacer region sequence as a means to distinguish these closely related strains.

We chose Group …

Mosquitoes, West Nile Virus, Attractants, Competition, Environmental Conditions, And Insecticide Resistance, Alan Bradley Wells

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

The six main objectives of this project were: 1) test for levels of West Nile Virus in mosquitoes collected at a Fulton County Recreational Facility, 2) assay various mosquito oviposition attractants on West Nile virus positive female mosquitoes, 3) test effects of distance between mosquito infusion attractants, 4) determine effects of study site location, treatment, and competition distances on mosquito collections, 5) test for any correlation between environmental factors and mosquito abundance, and 6) measure levels of enzymatic insecticide resistance present in species of female mosquitoes that tested positive for the presence of West Nile Virus. Ofthe two species that …

An Inquiry Into Gardner's Theory Of Multiple Intelligences And Strengths Of Students Placed In Special Education Under Mildly Disabled Categories, Kathryn Sandiford Harrell

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

This study explored the strengths displayed by 4th-5th grade students placed in special education under mildly disabled categories as compared to the intelligences defined by Howard Gardner in his Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Gardner, 1983, 1999). These categories consist of Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) and Mildly Intellectually Disabled (MUD). Critics maintain that special education has been focused on the weaknesses of students while overlooking their strengths (Miller, 1993; Armstrong, 2000). Under new legislation and new performance goals for special education, the time has come to focus on students' strengths and equal opportunities for students to learn the curriculum mandated by …

Combining Evolving Neural Network Classifiers Using Bagging, Sunghwan Sohn, Cihan H. Dagli

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The performance of the neural network classifier significantly depends on its architecture and generalization. It is usual to find the proper architecture by trial and error. This is time consuming and may not always find the optimal network. For this reason, we apply genetic algorithms to the automatic generation of neural networks. Many researchers have provided that combining multiple classifiers improves generalization. One of the most effective combining methods is bagging. In bagging, training sets are selected by resampling from the original training set and classifiers trained with these sets are combined by voting. We implement the bagging technique into …

The Predictive Utility Of Competitive Trait Anxiety, Social Support, And Daily Hassles For Athletic Injury, Joseph M. Mannion

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive utility of competitive trait anxiety, using a multidimensional measure (Sport Anxiety Scale, Smith, Smoll, & Schutz, 1990) with an added directional component (Jones & Swain, 1992), social support (Social Provisions Scale, Russell & Cutrona, 1984), daily hassles (Daily Hassles Scale, Kanner, Coyne, Schaefer, & Lazarus, 1981), and gender for athletic injury frequency and severity. Questionnaires were administered to 10 male and female high school basketball teams (N= 103) at the beginning of the 2000 - 2001 season, and injury data was collected from that point throughout the regular season. No …

Software Development In The Grid: The Damien Tool-Set, Edgar Gabriel, Rainer Keller, Peggy Lindner, Matthias S. Müller, Michael M. Resch

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The development of applications for Grid-environments is currently lacking the support of tools, which end-users are familiar with from their regular working environment. This paper analyzes the requirements for developing, porting and optimizing scientific applications for Grid-environments. A toolbox designed and implemented in the frame of the DAMIEN project which closes some of the gaps and supports the end-user during the development of the application and its day-to-day usage in Grid-environments is then presented. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• New Student Convocation
• COE Soaring into Action
• Welcome New Faculty and Staff
• Xalapa Teachers Program
• Georgia Southern at Oxford
• Southern Educator Class Roll
• The College of Education Memorial Scholarship
• 15th Annual National Youth-At-Risk Conference
• “Highly Qualified” Teachers A Focus of No Child Left Behind
• Garbarino to present And Words Can Hurt Forever
• News from the Field
• Georgia Center for Education Renewal

Adaptive Critic Neural Network-Based Controller For Nonlinear Systems With Input Constraints, Pingan He, Sarangapani Jagannathan

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A novel adaptive critic-Based multilayer neural network (NN) controller in discrete-time is designed to deliver a desired tracking performance for a class of nonlinear systems in the presence of magnitude constraints on the input. Reinforcement learning scheme in discrete time is proposed for the NN controller, where the action generating NN learning is performed based on a certain performance measure, which is supplied from a critic. using the Lyapunov approach and with a novel weight update, the uniform ultimately boundedness (UUB) of the closed loop tracking error and weight estimates are shown. the adaptive critic NN does not require an …

Million City Traveling Salesman Problem Solution By Divide And Conquer Clustering With Adaptive Resonance Neural Networks, Samuel A. Mulder, Donald C. Wunsch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a very hard optimization problem in the field of operations research. It has been shown to be NP-complete and is an often-used benchmark for new optimization techniques. One of the main challenges with this problem is that standard, non-AI heuristic approaches such as the Lin-Kernighan algorithm (LK) and the chained LK variant are currently very effective and in wide use for the common fully connected, Euclidean variant that is considered here. This paper presents an algorithm that uses adaptive resonance theory (ART) in combination with a variation of the Lin-Kernighan local optimization algorithm to …

Printed Circuit Board Emi Source Mechanisms, Todd H. Hubing

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This tutorial paper reviews the basic mechanisms by which signal voltages and currents on a printed circuit board produce unintentional radiated emissions.

Definition Of A Robustness Metric For Resource Allocation, Shoukat Ali, A. A. Maciejewski, Howard Jay Siegel, Jong-Kook Kim

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Parallel and distributed systems may operate in an environment that undergoes unpredictable changes causing certain system performance features to degrade. Such systems need robustness to guarantee limited degradation despite fluctuations in the behavior of its component parts or environment. This research investigates the robustness of an allocation of resources to tasks in parallel and distributed systems. The main contributions of this paper are (1) a mathematical description of a metric for the robustness of a resource allocation with respect to desired system performance features against perturbations in system and environmental conditions, and (2) a procedure for deriving a robustness metric …

Probabilistic Neural Networks For Multi-Class Tissue Discrimination With Gene Expression Data, Rui Xu, Donald C. Wunsch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

With the emergence and rapid advancement of DNA microarray technologies, construction of gene expression profiles for different cancer types has already become a promising means for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Most previous research has focused on binary classification. Here, we use a probabilistic neural network (PNN) for multi-classification of cancer data. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the PNN in addressing gene expression data.

Implementation Of Adaptive Critic-Based Neurocontrollers For Turbogenerators In A Multimachine Power System, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Donald C. Wunsch, Ronald G. Harley

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents the design and practical hardware implementation of optimal neurocontrollers that replace the conventional automatic voltage regulator (AVR) and the turbine governor of turbogenerators on multimachine power systems. The neurocontroller design uses a powerful technique of the adaptive critic design (ACD) family called dual heuristic programming (DHP). The DHP neurocontroller's training and testing are implemented on the Innovative Integration M67 card consisting of the TMS320C6701 processor. The measured results show that the DHP neurocontrollers are robust and their performance does not degrade unlike the conventional controllers even when a power system stabilizer (PSS) is included, for changes in …

Analysis And Development Of A Vibration Isolation System For The Agicultural Camera : (Agcam) Remote Sensing Camera System, Adam L. Webster

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Algorithms For Computing Homology Groups In Cell Complexes And Applications, Mizuho K. Schwalm

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Auditory Feedback In Controlling Voice Fundamental Frequency, Rino Rondinella

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.