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Emerging Issues On The Internet For The Legal Profession, Rosaria Vigorito

ExpressO

The paper offers an overview of the emerging issues raised by the Internet in the legal profession. In particular, the extension of the attorney-client privilege; the application of the ethics principle of confidentiality to email communications; Internet connectivity and the security issues pertaining to it; and, general "cyberlegalethics" concerns raised by using the Internet, such as avoiding the unauthorized practice of law and verifying information found on the Web.

Short Pulse Laser Propagation Through Tissues, Champak Das, Ashish Trivedi, Kunal Mitra, Tuan Vo-Dinh

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Faculty Publications

An experimental and numerical study is performed to analyze short pulse laser propagation through tissue phantoms without and with inhomogeneities/tumors imbedded in it. Short pulse laser probing techniques has distinct advantages over conventional very large pulse width or cw lasers primarily due to the additional information conveyed about the tissue interior by the temporal variation of the observed signal. Both the scattered temporal transmitted and reflected optical signals are measured experimentally using a streak camera for samples irradiated with a short pulse laser source. Parametric study involving different scattering and absorption coefficients of tissue phantoms and inhomogeneities as well as …

The Structures Of Fluorene– (H2o)1,2 Determined By Rotational Coherence Spectroscopy, David M. Laman, Alan G. Joly, Douglas Ray

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

Rotational coherence spectroscopy ~RCS!, via time-correlated single photon counting, and two-color resonant two-photon ionization ~R2PI! time-of-flight mass spectrometry, have been used to characterize fluorene–(water)_1,2[FL– (H₂O)_1,2] van der Waals clusters generated in supersonic jets. Rotational coherence traces have been obtained at excitation energies corresponding to several resonant features in the S₁<-S₀ R2PI spectra of FL– (H₂O)_1,2 . RCS simulations and diagonalization of the moment of inertia tensor have been used to obtain S₁ excited state rotational constants and structures of FL– (H₂O)_1,2 that are consistent with …

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Makes Second Award To Cal Poly's Aryan I. Roest Memorial Scholarship, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Bloemendaal, William Oral History Interview: Polio Survivors In Holland, Matthew Nickel

Polio Survivors in Holland

Oral Histories conducted with Polio Survivors in Holland, Michigan in 2003.

July 21, 2003 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Adaptive Live Video Streaming By Priority Drop, Jie Huang, Charles Krasic, Jonathan Walpole

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this paper we explore the use of Priority-progress streaming (PPS) for video surveillance applications. PPS is an adaptive streaming technique for the delivery of continuous media over variable bit-rate channels. It is based on the simple idea of reordering media components within a time window into priority order before transmission. The main concern when using PPS for live video streaming is the time delay introduced by reordering. In this paper we describe how PPS can be extended to support live streaming and show that the delay inherent in the approach can be tuned to satisfy a wide range of …

X-Ray Emission-Line Profile Modeling Of O Stars: Fitting A Spherically Symmetric Analytic Wind-Shock Model To The Chandra Spectrum Of Zeta Puppis, Roban Hultman Kramer , '03, David H. Cohen, S. P. Owocki

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

X-ray emission-line profiles provide the most direct insight into the dynamics and spatial distribution of the hot, X-ray-emitting plasma above the surfaces of OB stars. The O supergiant zeta Puppis shows broad, blueshifted, and asymmetric line profiles, generally consistent with the wind-shock picture of OB star X-ray production. We model the profiles of eight lines in the Chandra HETGS spectrum of this prototypical hot star. The fitted lines indicate that the plasma is distributed throughout the wind starting close to the photosphere, that there is significantly less attenuation of the X-rays by the overlying wind than is generally supposed, and …

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 20, 2003, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2003

No abstract provided.

A.M.I.S. And The Partitioning Of Preference, Ted H. Grossardt

Kentucky Transportation Center Presentations

This presentation reviews work by the researchers that combines group dialogic techniques with analytic hierarchy and GIS to bring the knowledge of large groups of people to bear on a highway routing problem. A significant question is how technical knowledge and local information can be combined, either dialogically or mathematically, to provide the most faithful and practical version of a collaborative preference surface, what we call the Analytic Minimum Impedance Surface, or AMIS. While all preferences can be summed directly for this purpose, it may be more accurate and effective to partition the preference contribution to the landscape by knowledge …

Chemical Characterization Of Ambient Aerosol Collected During The Northeast Monsoon Season Over The Arabian Sea: Labile-Fe(Ii) And Other Trace Metals, Anne M. Johansen, Michael R. Hoffmann

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

Ambient aerosol samples were collected over the Arabian Sea during the month of March of 1997, aboard the German R/V Sonne, as part of the German Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) project. This is the third study in a series of analogous measurements taken over the Arabian Sea during different seasons of the monsoon. Dichotomous high‐volume collector samples were analyzed for ferrous iron immediately after collection, while trace metals, anions, and cations were determined upon return to the laboratory. The main crustal component was geochemically well represented by the average crustal composition and amounted to 5.94 ± 3.08 …

Astrophysical Plasma Diagnostics Through Analysis Of Ar Iine Shape Characteristics, Vladimir Milosavljevic, Stevan Djenize

Articles

On the basis of five accurately recorded neutral argon ( ) line shapes (in the 4s-5p transition) we have recovered the basic plasma parameters i.e. electron temperature ( T) and electron density ( N) using our new line deconvolution procedure in the case of three different plasmas created in a linear, low-pressure, pulsed arc discharge. The mentioned plasma parameters have also been measured using independent experimental diagnostic techniques. An excellent agreement has been found among the two sets of obtained parameters. This recommends our deconvolution procedure for plasma diagnostic purposes, especially in astrophysics where direct measurements of the …

Relative Motion History Of The Pacific-Nazca (Farallon) Plates Since 30 Million Years Ago, Douglas T. Wilder

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Relative plate motion history since 30 Ma between the Pacific and the southern portion of the Nazca (Farallon) plates is examined. The history is constrained by available seafloor magnetic anomaly data and a two-minute grid of predicted bathymetry derived from satellite altimetry and shipboard sensors. These data are used to create a new plate motion reconstruction based on new magnetic anomaly identifications and finite poles of motion. The new identified magnetic isochrons and tectonic reconstruction provides greater resolution to the tectonic history between chrons 7y (24.73 Ma) and 3 (4.18 Ma) than previous interpretations.

Shipboard magnetics and aeromagnetic data from …

The Mistaken Axioms Of Wireless-Network Research, David Kotz, Calvin Newport, Chip Elliott

Computer Science Technical Reports

Most research on ad-hoc wireless networks makes simplifying assumptions about radio propagation. The ``Flat Earth'' model of the world is surprisingly popular: all radios have circular range, have perfect coverage in that range, and travel on a two-dimensional plane. CMU's ns-2 radio models are better but still fail to represent many aspects of realistic radio networks, including hills, obstacles, link asymmetries, and unpredictable fading. We briefly argue that key ``axioms'' of these types of propagation models lead to simulation results that do not adequately reflect real behavior of ad-hoc networks, and hence to network protocols that may not work well …

People Ex Rel. Salazar V. Davidson

Colorado Supreme Court Records and Briefs Collection

No abstract provided.

Vol.31 N.20 July 17th 2003, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Haplotyping And Minimum Diversity Graphs, C Davis, Allen G. Holder

Mathematics Faculty Research

Haplotyping is the process of reconstructing the genetic information donated by a prior generation to form a current population. Haplotyping is important because it allows us to study how traits are passed from one generation to another, which in turn allows us to find genetic markers that describe a current population's susceptibility to diseases. Our goal is to study the underlying graph theory problem, and we study the bipartite graphs, called diversity graphs, that describe haplotyping. In particular, we investigate the problem of finding the minimum number of haplotypes that can reconstruct a population, called the Pure Parsimony problem. The …

Local Impact Of State Testing In Southwest Washington, Linda Mabry, Jayne Poole, Linda Redmond, Angelia Schultz

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

A decade after implementation of a state testing and accountability mandate, teachers' practices and perspectives regarding their classroom assessments and their state's assessments of student achievement were documented in a study of 31 teachers in southwest Washington state. Against a background of national trends and standards of psychometric quality, the data were analyzed for teachers' beliefs and practices regarding classroom assessment and also regarding state assessment, commonalities and differences among teachers who taught at grade levels tested by the state and those who did not, teachers' views about the impact of state assessment on their students and their classrooms, and …

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Local impact of state testing in southwest washington / Linda Mabry, Jayne Poole, Linda Redmond [and] Angelia Schultz.

Dijet Angular Distributions In Photoproduction Of Charm At Hera, S. Chekanov, M. Derrick, D. Krakauer, J. H. Loizides, S. Magill, B. Musgrave, J. Repond, R. Yoshida, Margarita C. K. Mattingly, P. Antonioli, G. Bari, M. Basile, L. Bellagamba, D. Boscherini, A. Bruni, G. Bruni, G. Cara Romeo, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, A. Contin, M. Corradi, S. De Pasquale, P. Giusti, G. Iacobucci, A. Margotti, R. Nania, F. Palmonari, A. Pesci, G. Sartorelli, A. Zichichi, G. Aghuzumtsyan

Faculty Publications

Dijet angular distributions of photoproduction events in which a D*± meson is produced in association with one of two energetic jets have been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA, using an integrated luminosity of 120 pb-1. Differential cross sections as a function of the angle between the charm-jet and the proton-beam direction in the dijet rest frame have been measured for samples enriched in direct or resolved photon events. The results are compared with predictions from leading-order parton-shower Monte Carlo models and with next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. The angular distributions show clear evidence for the existence of charm originating from …

Criteria To Evaluate The Quality Of Pavement Camera Systems In Automated Evaluation Vehicles, Iván Sokolic

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The use of high technology in common daily tasks is boarding all areas of civil engineering; pavement evaluation is not the exception. Accordingly, current pavement imaging systems have been able to collect images at highway speeds and with the use of proper software, this digital information can be translated into pavement distress reports in which all distresses are classified and presented by their type, extent, severity, and location. However, a number of issues regarding the quality of pavement images and the appropriate conditions to acquire them, remain to be addressed. These issues surfaced during the development of a pavement evaluation …

Embedded Cryptography: An Analysis And Evaluation Of Performance And Code Optimization Techniques For Encryption And Decryption In Embedded Systems, Jayavardhan R. Kandi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

It is clear that Cryptography is computationally intensive. It is also known that embedded systems have slow clock rates and less memory. The idea for this thesis was to study the possibilities for analysis of cryptography on embedded systems. The basic approach was the implementation of cryptographic algorithms on high-end, state-of-the-art, DSP chips in order to study the various parameters that optimize the performance of the chip while keeping the overhead of encryption and decryption to a minimum.

Embedded systems are very resource sensitive. An embedded system is composed of different components, which are implemented in both hardware and software. …

Emissions Of Trace Gases And Particles From Savanna Fires In Southern Africa, Parikhit Sinha, Peter V. Hobbs, Robert J. Yokelson, Isaac T. Bertschi, Donald R. Blake, Isobel J. Simpson, Song Gao, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tihomir Novakov

Chemistry and Physics Faculty Articles

Airborne measurements made on initial smoke from 10 savanna fires in southern Africa provide quantitative data on emissions of 50 gaseous and particulate species, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, methane, ammonia, dimethyl sulfide, nonmethane organic compounds, halocarbons, gaseous organic acids, aerosol ionic components, carbonaceous aerosols, and condensation nuclei (CN). Measurements of several of the gaseous species by gas chromatography and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy are compared. Emission ratios and emission factors are given for eight species that have not been reported previously for biomass burning of savanna in southern Africa (namely, dimethyl sulfide, methyl nitrate, five …

Trace Gas Measurements In Nascent, Aged, And Cloud-Processed Smoke From African Savanna Fires By Airborne Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (Aftir), Robert J. Yokelson, Issac T. Bertschi, Ted J. Christian, Peter V. Hobbs, Darold E. Ward, Wei Min Hao

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

[1] We measured stable and reactive trace gases with an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR) on the University of Washington Convair-580 research aircraft in August/September 2000 during the SAFARI 2000 dry season campaign in Southern Africa. The measurements included vertical profiles of CO₂, CO, H₂O, and CH₄ up to 5.5 km on six occasions above instrumented ground sites and below the TERRA satellite and ER-2 high-flying research aircraft. We also measured the trace gas emissions from 10 African savanna fires. Five of these fires featured extensive ground-based fuel characterization, and two were in the …

Evolution Of Gases And Particles From A Savanna Fire In South Africa, Peter V. Hobbs, Parikhit Sinha, Robert J. Yokelson, Ted J. Christian, Donald R. Blake, Song Gao, Thomas W. Kirchstetter, Tihomir Novakov, Peter Pilewskie

Chemistry and Physics Faculty Articles

Airborne measurements of particles and gases from a 1000-ha savanna fire in South Africa are presented. These measurements represent the most extensive data set reported on the aging of biomass smoke. The measurements include total concentrations of particles (CN), particle sizes, particulate organic carbon and black carbon, light-scattering coefficients, downwelling UV fluxes, and mixing ratios for 42 trace gases and 7 particulate species. The ratios of excess nitrate, ozone, and gaseous acetic acid to excess CO increased significantly as the smoke aged over ∼40–45 min, indicating that these species were formed by photochemistry in the plume. For 17 other species, …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session July 16, 2003, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Minutes of the WMU Board of Trustees meeting include appendices:

• Remarks by the Chair
• Remarks by the President
• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes of the March 28 and May 9 Formal Sessions
• Academic and Student Affairs Recommendations
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• Proposal to Offer a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geochemistry
• Change of Name of Department of Art to School of Art
• Deletion of School of Community Health Services
• Budget and Finance Committee Recommendations
• Gift Report
• Personnel Report
• Naming of Donald J. Seelye Athletic Center
• Entering Student Development Fee
• Enrollment Fee – Part-time Students
• Vehicle Registration Rates …

Peirce And Jung - Modern Gnostics In Search Of Soul, C. W. Spinks

Trickster's Way

No abstract provided.

Donovan V. Punxsutawney Area

2003 Decisions

United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

The Magician's Autopoietic Action, Or Eros Contained And Uncontained, Inna Semetsky

Trickster's Way

No abstract provided.

Geospatial Education Institute Selects Second Group Of Course Fellows, Mitchell Diggs

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - As the nation's first model for online curriculum on remote sensing nears completion, nine innovators have won contracts for the second set of courses.