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Wagering On Religious Liberty, Nathan B. Oman Jan 2003

Wagering On Religious Liberty, Nathan B. Oman

Faculty Publications

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Network Traffic Properties Of Bimodal Multicast Protocol, Öznur Özkasap, Mi̇ne Çağlar Jan 2003

Network Traffic Properties Of Bimodal Multicast Protocol, Öznur Özkasap, Mi̇ne Çağlar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The popularity of large-scale distributed applications, such as videoconferencing, multimedia dissemination, electronic stock exchange and distributed cooperative work, has grown with the availability of high-speed networks and the expansion of the Internet. The key property of this type of applications is the need to distribute data among multiple participants together with an application-specific quality of service needs. This fact makes scalable multicast protocols an essential underlying communication structure. Although there exist several studies investigating the traffic characteristics of unicast communication, multicast traffic has not been examined extensively in previous studies. It is well known that the aggregate traffic properties of …

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Zero-Crossing Based Demodulation Of Minimum Shift Keying, Mi̇ne Kalkan, Feza Keresteci̇oğlu Jan 2003

Zero-Crossing Based Demodulation Of Minimum Shift Keying, Mi̇ne Kalkan, Feza Keresteci̇oğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Minimum shift keying (MSK) modulation has features such as constant envelope, compact spectrum and good error performance, which are all desirable in many digital applications including mobile radio. Numerous receiver structures to demodulate MSK have been suggested, such as correlation receivers, differential detectors and frequency discriminators. MSK is a form of biphase keying and can be detected by a zero-crossing based phase demodulator which gives near optimum performance. In this paper, the bit error performance of a zero-crossing based coherent MSK demodulator is theoretically investigated and a closed-form expression for the bit error rate is derived. The results indicate that …

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Music, Cbf And Differential Algebraic Constant Modulus Algorithms For Direction Of Arrival Estimation In Passive Coherent Locators, Ahmet Özçeti̇n Jan 2003

Music, Cbf And Differential Algebraic Constant Modulus Algorithms For Direction Of Arrival Estimation In Passive Coherent Locators, Ahmet Özçeti̇n

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In passive coherent locators (PCL) systems, noise and the precision of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation are key issues. This paper addresses the implementation of high-resolution DOA estimation methods, in particular the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm, the conventional beam forming (CBF) algorithm, and the algebraic constant modulus algorithm (ACMA). The goal is to compare the ACMA to the MUSIC and CBF algorithms for application to PCL. The results and analysis presented here support the use of constant modulus information, where available, as an important addition to DOA estimation. The ACMA offers many simple solutions to noise and separation related …

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Cover And Contents Jan 2003

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

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Sand Creek Watershed Project / Sand Creek Watershed Management Plan, Annis Water Research Institute Jan 2003

Sand Creek Watershed Project / Sand Creek Watershed Management Plan, Annis Water Research Institute

Watershed Management Plans and Reports

The overall goal of the Sand Creek Watershed Project is to improve and protect the designated uses of the watershed. In order to achieve this overall goal and attain compliance with the TMDL established in Sand Creek, four goals have been established and prioritized. The primary goal of the Sand Creek Watershed Project is to restore or improve the cold water fishery. The secondary goal of the project is to protect and improve the habitats of native aquatic life and wildlife. Both goals can be achieved by reducing the amount of known pollutants affecting both of these uses. Pollutant reduction …

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Water Resources Year In Review - Winter 2003, Annis Water Resource Institute Jan 2003

Water Resources Year In Review - Winter 2003, Annis Water Resource Institute

AWRI Reviews

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Relationship Between Evaluative Groups' Perceptions Of Children And Children's Self-Reported Levels Of Self-Concept, Terry T. Burgener Jan 2003

Relationship Between Evaluative Groups' Perceptions Of Children And Children's Self-Reported Levels Of Self-Concept, Terry T. Burgener

Masters Theses

The significance of significant others' (parents, peers and teachers) ratings on children's self-reported levels of self-concept were investigated. Self-reported levels of self-concept were determined by administrating the Multidimensional Self Concept Scale (MSCS), while parent, peer, and teacher ratings of children were determined by the use of rating scales designed using selected MSCS items. Results indicated that all significant others' ratings were positively correlated to children's self-reported levels of self-concept. Peer ratings were the most predictive of self-reported level of self-concept, while teacher ratings were the second most predictive variable and parent ratings the least predictive variable. The findings are congruent …

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Facade Of A Romantic: Benjamin Disraeli And Coningsby Or The New Generation, Sybil Or The Two Nations, And Tancred Or The New Crusade, Peggy Pope Jan 2003

Facade Of A Romantic: Benjamin Disraeli And Coningsby Or The New Generation, Sybil Or The Two Nations, And Tancred Or The New Crusade, Peggy Pope

Masters Theses

Dismissed by contemporary critics as a second-rate writer, Benjamin Disraeli has been undervalued for over a hundred and fifty years. Writing in 1979, D.R. Schwarz rued that no recent full-length study of his novels had been undertaken, while other, even more minor novelists have been regularly exhumed. A substantial reassessment may be underway, as Paul Smith notes, particularly in the area of Disraeli's Jewishness. Bernard Glassman's volume, Benjamin Disraeli: The Fabricated Jew in Myth and Memory (2003), and Disraeli's Jewishness (2002), by Todd Endelman and Tony Kushner, attest to this new interest. A recent general study, Disraeli (2000), by Edgar …

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Making The Case For Social And Emotional Learning And Service-Learning, Education Commission Of The States Jan 2003

Making The Case For Social And Emotional Learning And Service-Learning, Education Commission Of The States

Service Learning, General

This ECS Issue Brief provides an overview and description of both social and emotional learning (SEL) and service-learning (S-L) as tools to improve the lives and academic performance of students. It describes how the two practices are interrelated and the research evidence that supports the expanded use of both practices in the classroom. Also provided are descriptions of the essential elements required of successful SEL and S-L programs, examples of such successful programs that are in existence today, and a discussion of state activities and experiences. Lastly, the brief discusses a series of likely challenges that education leaders implementing SEL …

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Making The Case For Social And Emotional Learning And Service-Learning, Linda Fredericks Jan 2003

Making The Case For Social And Emotional Learning And Service-Learning, Linda Fredericks

Service Learning, General

This ECS Issue Brief provides an overview and description of both social and emotional learning (SEL) and service-learning (S-L) as tools to improve the lives and academic performance of students. It describes how the two practices arc interrelated and the research evidence that supports the expanded use of both practices in the classroom. Also provided are descriptions of the essential clements required of successful SEL and S-L programs, examples of such successful programs that are in existence today, and a discussion of state activities and experiences. Lastly, the brief discusses a series of likely challenges that education leaders implementing SEL …

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Seasonal And Nocturnal Variations Of The Mesospheric Sodium Layer At Starfire Optical Range, New Mexico, Hu Xiong, Chester S. Gardner, Alan Z. Liu Jan 2003

Seasonal And Nocturnal Variations Of The Mesospheric Sodium Layer At Starfire Optical Range, New Mexico, Hu Xiong, Chester S. Gardner, Alan Z. Liu

Physical Sciences - Daytona Beach

The seasonal variations of the mesospheric sodium layer structure over Starfire Optical Range (SOR: 35ºN, 106.5ºW), New Mexico are characterized using 46 night data of Na wind/temperature lidar observations collected from Jan. 1998 to May 2000. The column abundance has a mean value of 5.06 x 109 cm -2 and strong annual oscillations of with a maximum in November and a minimum in June and July. The annual mean rms width of the sodium layer is 4.30 km and the mean centroid height is 91.60 km. Semiannual oscillations are evident in seasonal variations of the rms width and the …

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Low Tech And High Tech: The Spectrum Of Special Collections Use In A Technological Institute, Anne A. Salter, Marilyn Williamson Jan 2003

Low Tech And High Tech: The Spectrum Of Special Collections Use In A Technological Institute, Anne A. Salter, Marilyn Williamson

The Southeastern Librarian

The gradual expansion of the Georgia Institute of Technology ‘s Library and Special Collection has resulted in a unique and outstanding science and technological research facility. The process was expanded by a number of individuals who dedicated their professional years to improving the holdings. Unique among these treasures is the first edition of Newton’s Principia. Collecting, preserving, and utilizing the new technologies to expand access to this outstanding collection has proved challenging. The primary materials, carefully collected over the years, are being protected and made available through traditional means; while at the same time technological advances are being utilized to …

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The Granite, 2003, University Of New Hampshire Jan 2003

The Granite, 2003, University Of New Hampshire

The Granite – Yearbook

The yearbook of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1909-1922, the University of New Hampshire, 1923-

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Protecting Tribal Stories: The Perils Of Propertization, Stephen D. Osborne Jan 2003

Protecting Tribal Stories: The Perils Of Propertization, Stephen D. Osborne

American Indian Law Review

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See Otter Digging For Algebraic Pearls, J.D. Phillips Jan 2003

See Otter Digging For Algebraic Pearls, J.D. Phillips

Journal Articles

We give an introduction to Otter for the practicing loop theorist. Although this paper is self-contained, it is intended as a supplement to the author's Otter workshop at Loops'03, Prague, August 2003.

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Cross-Shelf Habitat Utilization Patterns Of Reef Fishes In Southwestern Puerto Rico, John D. Christensen, Christopher F.G. Jeffrey, Chris Caldow, Mark E. Monaco, Matthew S. Kendall, Richard S. Appeldoorn Jan 2003

Cross-Shelf Habitat Utilization Patterns Of Reef Fishes In Southwestern Puerto Rico, John D. Christensen, Christopher F.G. Jeffrey, Chris Caldow, Mark E. Monaco, Matthew S. Kendall, Richard S. Appeldoorn

Gulf and Caribbean Research

In June 2000, the National Ocean Service and University of Puerto Rico initiated a long-term reef-fish-monitoring program in La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Objectives of this ongoing work are to: 1) develop spatially-explicit estimates of reef fish habitat utilization patterns to aid in defining essential habitats, and 2) provide a quantitative and ecologically sound foundation to delineate marine reserve boundaries. Central to this effort are recently completed digital and georeferenced benthic habitat maps for the near-shore waters of Puerto Rico. The GIS-based map served as a framework for development of a spatially stratified reef-fish-monitoring program across the shelf. Simultaneous collections of …

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Cover And Contents Jan 2003

Cover And Contents

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

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Affine Manifolds, Log Structures, And Mirror Symmetry, Mark Gross, Bernd Siebert Jan 2003

Affine Manifolds, Log Structures, And Mirror Symmetry, Mark Gross, Bernd Siebert

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

We outline work in progress suggesting an algebro-geometric version of the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture. We define the notion of a toric degeneration, a special case of a maximally unipotent degeneration of Calabi-Yau manifolds. We then show how in this case the dual intersection complex has a natural structure of an affine manifold with singularities. If the degeneration is polarized, we also obtain an intersection complex, also an affine manifold with singularities, related by a discrete Legendre transform to the dual intersection complex. Finally, we introduce log structures as a way of reversing this construction: given an affine manifold with singularities with …

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Duality And Fibrations On G_2 Manifolds, Sergei Gukov, Shing-Tung Yau, Eric Zaslow Jan 2003

Duality And Fibrations On G_2 Manifolds, Sergei Gukov, Shing-Tung Yau, Eric Zaslow

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

We argue that G_2 manifolds for M-theory admitting string theory Calabi-Yau duals are fibered by coassociative submanifolds. Dual theories are constructed using the moduli space of M-five-brane fibers as target space. Mirror symmetry and various string and M-theory dualities involving G_2 manifolds may be incorporated into this framework. To give some examples, we construct two non-compact manifolds with G_2 structures: one with a K3 fibration, and one with a torus fibration and a metric of G_2 holonomy. Kaluza-Klein reduction of the latter solution gives abelian BPS monopoles in 3 + 1 dimensions.

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U(1)-Invariant Special Lagrangian 3-Folds In {\Mathbb C}^3 And Special Lagrangian Fibrations, Dominic Joyce Jan 2003

U(1)-Invariant Special Lagrangian 3-Folds In {\Mathbb C}^3 And Special Lagrangian Fibrations, Dominic Joyce

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

This is a survey of the author's series of three papers [8, 9, 10] on special Lagrangian 3-folds (SL 3-folds) in {\mathbb C}^3 invariant under the U(1)-action (z_1,z_2,z_3)e^{i\theta}z_1, e^{-i\theta}z_2,z_3), and their sequel {\mathbb C} [11] on special Lagrangian fibrations and the SYZ Conjecture. We briefly present the main results of these four long papers, giving some explanation and motivation, but no proofs. The aim is to make the results and ideas accessible to String Theorists and others who have an interest in special Lagrangian 3-folds and fibrations, but have no desire to read pages of technical analysis. Let N be …

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Polyhedral Approximations Of Riemannian Manifolds, Anton Petrunin Jan 2003

Polyhedral Approximations Of Riemannian Manifolds, Anton Petrunin

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

I'm trying to understand which Riemannian manifolds can be Lipschitz approximated by polyhedral spaces of the same dimension with curvature bounded below. The necessary conditions I found consist of some special inequality for curvature at each point (the geometric curvature bound). This inequality is also sufficient condition for local approximation. I conjecture that it is also a sufficient condition for global approximation, and I can prove it if the curvature bound is positive. In general I can prove it only with the additional assumption that tangent bundle of the manifold is stably trivial.

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Fuzzy Ideals In Gamma-Rings, Mehmet Ali̇ Öztürk, Mustafa Uçkun, Young Bae Jun Jan 2003

Fuzzy Ideals In Gamma-Rings, Mehmet Ali̇ Öztürk, Mustafa Uçkun, Young Bae Jun

Turkish Journal of Mathematics

The converse of [7, Theorem 3.3] is provided. For an Artinian \Gamma-ring, a few results are investigated.

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High Frequency Atmospheric Gravity Wave Damping In The Mesosphere, G. R. Swenson, Alan Z. Liu, F. Li, J. Tang Jan 2003

High Frequency Atmospheric Gravity Wave Damping In The Mesosphere, G. R. Swenson, Alan Z. Liu, F. Li, J. Tang

Physical Sciences - Daytona Beach

Correlative measurements of temperature and winds by Na lidar and brightness in OH and O2 Atmospheric band airglow have been made at Albuquerque, NM and Maui, HI for a study of high frequency (period less than 30 minutes) Atmospheric Gravity Waves. Wave studies from four nights have been made and the correlative information describes the intrinsic wave properties with altitude, their damping characteristics, and resulting accelerations to the large scale circulation in the 85-100 km altitude region. Generally, saturated to super-saturated conditions were observed below 95 km. Above this altitude, they were less saturated to freely propagating.

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Measurements Of Atmospheric Stability In The Mesopause Region At Starfire Optical Range, Nm, Yucheng Zhao, Alan Z. Liu, Chester S. Gardner Jan 2003

Measurements Of Atmospheric Stability In The Mesopause Region At Starfire Optical Range, Nm, Yucheng Zhao, Alan Z. Liu, Chester S. Gardner

Physical Sciences - Daytona Beach

The structure and seasonal variations of static (convective) and dynamic (shear) instabilities in the mesopause region (80–105 km) are examined using high-resolution wind and temperature data obtained with a Na lidar at the Starfire Optical Range, NM. The probabilities of static and dynamic instability are sensitive functions of N2/S2, where N is the buoyancy frequency and S is the total vertical shear in the horizontal winds. The mesopause region is most stable in summer when the mesopause is low, N is large and S is small. Monthly mean N2/S2 varies from …

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Risk -Sensitivity And Predictors Of Choice Preference: Parenting Addiction And Dispositional Variables, Heide K. Deditius-Island Jan 2003

Risk -Sensitivity And Predictors Of Choice Preference: Parenting Addiction And Dispositional Variables, Heide K. Deditius-Island

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Sustained Attention And Processing Speed In Children With Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi) And Children With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd), Jody Lynn Hagen Jan 2003

Sustained Attention And Processing Speed In Children With Traumatic Brain Injury (Tbi) And Children With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd), Jody Lynn Hagen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Indigenous Language Revitalization In Montana: Perspectives From Four Nations, Mary Groom-Hall Jan 2003

Indigenous Language Revitalization In Montana: Perspectives From Four Nations, Mary Groom-Hall

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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2003-2004 Undergraduate Catalog, Morehead State University Jan 2003

2003-2004 Undergraduate Catalog, Morehead State University

Morehead State Catalog Archive

2003-2004 undergraduate catalog for Morehead State University.

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Using Visual Basic & Arcobjects To Create Activex Controls For Magis-Express Import Wizard, Li Mei Piao Jan 2003

Using Visual Basic & Arcobjects To Create Activex Controls For Magis-Express Import Wizard, Li Mei Piao

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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