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Teaching The Ethical Foundations Of Economics, Jonathan B. Wight

Economics Faculty Publications

Some economists consider their discipline a science, and thereby divorced from messy ethical details, the normative passions of right and wrong. They teach in a moral vacuum, perhaps even advocating economic agents' operating independently and avariciously, asserting that this magically produces the greatest good for society.

Metabolic Responses Of Shorebird Chicks To Cold Stress: Hysteresis Of Cooling And Warming Phases, Robert Ricklefs, Joseph Williams

Biology Department Faculty Works

We developed a protocol for determining the maximum rate of oxygen consumption of shorebird chicks (Scolopacidae and Charadriidae) in response to cold challenge. We first subjected the chicks to gradually decreasing temperatures until their metabolism peaked and began to decrease. We ended the cooling phase of a trial when a chick’s body temperature Tb had declined typically to 32–34°C. After this point, we gradually increased the temperature in the metabolism chamber until normal Tb values and thermoneutral resting metabolism were restored. We refer to this cycle as the down–up (DU) protocol. We estimated instantaneous oxygen consumption (V . O∑) using …

Toys And Cartoons: The Correlation Between Animated Properties And Toy Products, John Diego Hernandez

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract available.

Murray Ledger And Times, August 15, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Autonomous Telemetry Collection For Single-Processor Small Satellites , Dave Speer

Small Satellite Conference

For the Space Technology 5 mission, which is being developed under NASA’s New Millennium Program, a single spacecraft processor will be required to do on-board real-time computations and operations associated with attitude control, up-link and down-link communications, science data processing, solid-state recorder management, power switching and battery charge management, experiment data collection, health and status data collection, etc. Much of the health and status information is in analog form, and each of the analog signals must be routed to the input of an analog-to-digital converter, converted to digital form, and then stored in memory. If the micro-operations of the analog …

Conceptual Design Of An Ip-Based Satellite Bus Using Internet Technologies , Richard Slywczak

Small Satellite Conference

The goal of this paper is to develop a generic, reconfigurable spacecraft bus architecture that implements IP-based protocols and networking hardware that is common to terrestrial networks. First, a description of the communications architecture for an operational Earth Science mission is presented. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was selected as an example that shows a typical Earth science mission with a nice complement of varying data rate instruments. We will be able to show through the satellite architecture where IP-based protocols will benefit a new design. Secondly, we develop an IP-based satellite bus design with an Ethernet backbone using …

Solar Cell Measurement System For Nps Spacecraft Architecture And Technology Demonstration Satellite, Npsat1 , John Salmon, Ron Phelps, Sherif Michael, Herschel Loomis

Small Satellite Conference

Rapid changes in semiconductor technologies over the last decade have spawned new interest in developing higher efficiency solar cells which are capable of using a broader part of the light spectrum. The Naval Postgraduate School’s NPSAT1, launching in the Spring of 2006, will include a subsystem which can be used to measure the performance of the new solar cells, providing an ability to combine functions previously available on only individual discrete components onto a single chip. The ability can help make space more accessible by reducing cost and complexity. The Solar Cell Measurement System (SMS) is a radiation hardened microcontroller …

Summer Mustang, August 14, 2003

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

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

Eastern Progress - 14 Aug 2003, Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Progress 2003-2004

No abstract provided.

[2003-08-14 Part2] Minutes Of A Regular Meeting Of The Board Of Visitors Of Virginia Commonwealth University August 14, 2003., Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

Chinese Immigrant Restaurant Owner Electrocuted, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Other

On August 12, 2002, at 6:40 pm, a Chinese immigrant restaurant owner (decedent) died after being electrocuted by 110 volts of electricity. The restaurant owner and his wife were refurbishing a restaurant they had recently purchased. They spent the day cleaning the kitchen area while waiting for a washing machine repairman to arrive. Earlier in the day, the decedent had removed the electric cord to a single door, glass-fronted vertical cooler on rollers. He replaced the electrical cord from the unit with an electrical cord he had fabricated himself by attaching one end of a 10 foot length of 10/2 …

Vol.31 N.24 August 14th 2003, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

R.I.T. News & Events - August 14, 2003, University News Services, Rochester Institute Of Technology

University Publications

Students tee up at Oak Hill; RIT professor to fly replica plane; Manning emphasizes using credit wisely; $1.5 million slated for new imaging research; Study examines gender inequities in IT field; Life-threatening illness gives RIT professor strength; Arday appointed new School of Art chair; Gift to help fund Carver learning center; A unique look into historic debates; $1.5 million funding; Professor weighs in on Regents debate; Mulligan named new head of MFA program; Grants help study fuel cells, ergonomics; CIMS focuses on reusing wiper cartridge blades; Tiny technology shines at RIT Research Symposium;

Bullying In College And Relation To Self-Esteem And Parenting Styles, Steven Russell

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates bullying in college and the relationship of bullying and self-esteem in the victims of bullying, as well as the relationship of parenting styles to bullying behavior. The study utilized N = 85 undergraduate students from a midsize northeastern university. The participants were administered a demographic questionnaire, a bullying questionnaire, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the Parental Authority Questionnaire. Frequency percentages were used to report incidence and types of bullying behavior. A correlation matrix was employed to ascertain the relationships between bullying and self-esteem, as well as between parenting style and bullying behavior, and a multiple regression analysis …

Environmental Justice And Information Technologies: Overcoming The Information Access Paradox In Urban Communities, Wendy A. Kellogg, Anjali Mathur

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Scientific studies and resident testimony suggest that urban residents in low-income and minority communities have been subject to an unequal burden of environmental pollution and inequitable environmental enforcement practices. A key component of the equitable development and implementation of environmental policies is the participation of citizens and community-based organizations in the policy process. Such participation rests upon equitable access to agency-generated environmental information and effective use of that information by citizens. This article focuses on the adoption of Internet technologies by environmental agencies as a mechanism for disseminating information and the implications for low-income and minority residents in urban communities. …

Memorandum Of Agreement Between The Federal Aviation Administration, The U.S. Air Force, The U.S. Army, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service, And The U.S. Department Of Agriculture To Address Aircraft-Wildlife Strikes

Other Bird Strike and Aviation Materials

The signatory agencies know the risks that aircraft-wildlife strikes pose to safe aviation.

This Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) acknowledges each signatory agency’s respective missions. Through this MOA, the agencies establish procedures necessary to coordinate their missions to more effectively address existing and future environmental conditions contributing to aircraft-wildlife strikes throughout the United States. These efforts are intended to minimize wildlife risks to aviation and human safety, while protecting the Nation’s valuable environmental resources.

A Reinforcement Learning Approach To Obtain Treatment Strategies In Sequential Medical Decision Problems, Radhika Poolla

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Medical decision problems are extremely complex owing to their dynamic nature, large number of variable factors, and the associated uncertainty. Decision support technology entered the medical field long after other areas such as the airline industry and the manufacturing industry. Yet, it is rapidly becoming an indispensable tool in medical decision making problems including the class of sequential decision problems. In these problems, physicians decide on a treatment plan that optimizes a benefit measure such as the treatment cost, and the quality of life of the patient. The last decade saw the emergence of many decision support applications in medicine. …

The Weekly Challenger, August 14, 2003, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 14, 2003, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

[2003-08-14 Part1] Minutes Of A Regular Meeting Of The Board Of Visitors Of Virginia Commonwealth University August 14, 2003., Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

What’S New From Blue: New Products, Programs And Services For Employer Benefit Plans, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

No abstract provided.

Characteristics Of Phototrophic And Non-Phototrophic Lagoons For Swine Manure, Tongtong Chen, Dennis D. Schulte, Richard K. Koelsch, Anne M. Parkhurst

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

Odors are a major result of inadequately sized and mismanaged anaerobic lagoons. However, purple or pink colored lagoons, indicating the presence of phototrophic purple bacteria, are less likely to be an odor nuisance than are non–purple lagoons. Eight swine lagoons were studied to quantify critical parameters thought to allow purple lagoons to be a more reliable odor control alternative. Bacteriochlorophyll a (Bchl a), which indirectly measures the abundance of phototrophic bacteria, was greater in purple lagoons than in non–purple lagoons (P = 0.01). Oxidation–reduction potential (ORP) was less negative for purple lagoons than for non–purple lagoons in both spring …

Meeting Notes 2003-08-14 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

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Frisbee – A Platform For A Small Satellite Science Swarms, Alex Da Silva Curiel, Max Meerman, Doug Liddle, Steve Schwartz, Martin Sweeting

Small Satellite Conference

The FRISBEE multi-mission platform is presented, alongside the mission concept for SWARM (Space Weather Advanced Research Mission), a fleet of 30 or more microsatellites launched in groups of 5 and covering a range of local times and inclinations. The aim of this mission is to develop an understanding of the dynamic, global, and multiscale solar terrestrial interactions. The scientific payload is restricted to a dc magnetometer and electrostatic charged particle (ion and electron) analyser, providing both high time resolution and characterisation of collisionless plasma processes. The baseline satellite swarm can be launched in a variety of configurations and be augmented …

The New Mexico State University Satellite (Nmsusat) Mission, Stephen Horan, S. Stochaj, L. Alvarez, W. Ege, V. Romero, F. Zamarron, C. Boehmer, J. Cecil, J. Clark, G. Guyer, E. Johnson, S. Ranade, L. Riley

Small Satellite Conference

The New Mexico State University Satellite (NMSUSat) is part of the University Nanosat 3 program managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and it is being developed at New Mexico State University. The planned Science Mission for the satellite is to perform Near Ultra Violet emission intensity measurements of the earth's upper atmosphere over the night side of the earth. The Engineering Mission is to demonstrate techniques for distributed data relaying over the Internet and to conduct an energy storage experiment to assess the operational characteristics of double layer capacitors. The Educational Mission of the program to assist in the …

The Living With A Star Geospace Missions , Andrew Lewin, Laurence Frank

Small Satellite Conference

The Geospace Missions are the second major mission element in NASA’s Living With a Star program. The missions are designed to help scientists understand, and eventually predict, the response of the geo-space system to solar activity. The investigations will be carried out by two pairs of spacecraft and a high-altitude far ultraviolet (FUV) imager. This observatory network provides the first opportunity to make multi-point in situ measurements of the ionosphere-thermosphere (I-T) system and the radiation belts (RB) with coordinated measurements between the two regions. The first two spacecraft are the I-T Storm Probes (I-TSP), which will study mid-latitude ionospheric vari-ability. …

Rapideye - An Earth Observation Smallsat Constellation For Daily Agricultural Monitoring, George Tyc, Keith Ruthman, Paul Stephens, Alex Wicks, Tim Butlin, Martin Sweeting, Manfred Krischke, Michael Oxfort

Small Satellite Conference

The RapidEye mission is a commercial remote sensing mission by the German company Rapi-dEye AG. The RapidEye mission will deliver information products for various customers in the agricultural insurance market, large producers, international institutions and cartography. The mission that generates these information products consists of a constellation of five identical small satellites and a sophisticated ground infrastructure based on proven systems. The five satellites will be placed in a single sun-synchronous orbit of approximately 620 kilome-ters, with the satellites equally spaced over the orbit. The satellites will each carry a 5 band multi-spectral optical imager with a ground sampling distance …

Scout: A Modular, Multi-Mission Spacecraft Architecture For High Capability Rapid Access To Space , Aaron Rogers, Glen Cameron, Luis Jordan

Small Satellite Conference

The long lead and cycle times currently associated with development and launch of satellite systems have established a prohibitive environment for both low-cost access and responsive deployment of tactical capability to orbit. With the advent of the RASCAL program — poised to offer launch capability to LEO with less than 24 hours notice — the motivation for a comparable, multi-mission, rapidly configurable microsatellite is clear. The Small, Smart Spacecraft for Observation and Utility Tasks (SCOUT) will enable this capability while summarily addressing the production and logistic challenges essential to its implementation. SCOUT will challenge the traditional spacecraft systems approach by …

Opening The Door To Smart Power Management In Small Satellites, Patrick Shriver

Small Satellite Conference

The objective of this research is to develop a new power management paradigm that will maximize the capabilities of small satellites and therefore help provide cost-effective access to space. Ground-based, mobile processing systems have experienced a similar engineering problem as the small satellite and have developed successful power management methods to provide increased energy and cost savings with improved computing performance. It is envisioned that the new paradigm of smart power for small satellites can utilize these methods to increase autonomy and enable onboard processing. An onboard, processing payload concept and initial software simulation results are discussed.

Ncube: The First Norwegian Student Satellite, Å.G. Riise, B.C.H. Samuelsen, N. Sokolova, H.D. Cederblad, J. Fasseland, C.O. Nordin, E.T. Sæther, J. Otterstad, K.M. Fauske, O.E.N. Eriksen, F.M. Indergaard, K. Svartveit, P.E. Furebotten

Small Satellite Conference

nCube is a picosatellite complying with the CubeSat standard. It is built completely by students in their final year of their Master education in different Norwegian Institutes. The cross institutional project is mainly sponsored by Norwegian space related industry. The satellite is due to launch March 2004 from Dnepr in Ukraine. The concept incorporates use of a miniaturized version of an Automatic Identification System receiver which will be uploaded the coordinates of reindeer herds, making the Agricultural University of Norway able to track them. The satellite will also be able to surveillance regular marine traffic with certain filter options. nCube …