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The Minutes Of The Marshall University Faculty Senate Meeting, October 23, 2003, Marshall University Faculty Senate Oct 2003

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Faculty Senate Meeting, October 23, 2003, Marshall University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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The Statesman, V. 46, I. 75, State University Of New York At Stony Brook Oct 2003

The Statesman, V. 46, I. 75, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 46, i. 75

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Rotunda - Vol 83, No 8 - Oct 23, 2003, Longwood University Oct 2003

Rotunda - Vol 83, No 8 - Oct 23, 2003, Longwood University

Rotunda

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Sylvester: Ushering In The Modern Era Of Research On Odd Perfect Numbers, Steven Gimbel, John Jaroma Oct 2003

Sylvester: Ushering In The Modern Era Of Research On Odd Perfect Numbers, Steven Gimbel, John Jaroma

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In 1888, James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) published a series of papers that he hoped would pave the way for a general proof of the nonexistence of an odd perfect number (OPN). Seemingly unaware that more than fifty years earlier Benjamin Peirce had proved that an odd perfect number must have at least four distinct prime divisors, Sylvester began his fundamental assault on the problem by establishing the same result. Later that same year, he strengthened his conclusion to five. These findings would help to mark the beginning of the modern era of research on odd perfect numbers. Sylvester's bound stood …

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Electrochemical Preparation Of Chitosan/Hydroxyapatite Composite Coatings On Titanium Substrates, Jody G. Redepenning, Guhanand Venkataraman, Jun Chen, Nathan Stafford Oct 2003

Electrochemical Preparation Of Chitosan/Hydroxyapatite Composite Coatings On Titanium Substrates, Jody G. Redepenning, Guhanand Venkataraman, Jun Chen, Nathan Stafford

Jody Redepenning Publications

Composite coatings containing brushite (CaHPO4 • 2H2O) and chitosan were prepared by electrochemical deposition. The brushite/chitosan composites were converted to hydroxyapatite/chitosan composites in aqueous solutions of sodium hydroxide. The coatings ranged from 1 to 15% chitosan by weight. Qualitative assessment of the coatings showed adhesion signifi cantly improved over that observed for electrodeposited coatings of pure HA.

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Montana Kaimin, October 23, 2003, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula Oct 2003

Montana Kaimin, October 23, 2003, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

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Hygroscopic Growth Of Ammonium Sulfate/Dicarboxylic Acids, Matthew E. Wise, Jason D. Surratt, Daniel B. Curtis, John E. Shilling, Margaret A. Tolbert Oct 2003

Hygroscopic Growth Of Ammonium Sulfate/Dicarboxylic Acids, Matthew E. Wise, Jason D. Surratt, Daniel B. Curtis, John E. Shilling, Margaret A. Tolbert

CUP Faculty Research

Recent studies have shown that tropospheric sulfate aerosols commonly contain 50% by mass organic species. The influence of these organics on the chemical and physical properties of sulfate aerosols is not fully established. We have measured the water activity of pure dicarboxylic acids and eutonic mixtures of ammonium sulfate/dicarboxylic acids at 25°C and have calculated van't Hoff factors for each individual system. We have also used the vapor pressure data to determine the hygroscopic growth curves for pure dicarboxylic acids and eutonic mixtures and provide power law fits to the data. For the systems studied we find that the presence …

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Lanthorn, Vol. 38, No. 11, October 23, 2003, Grand Valley State University Oct 2003

Lanthorn, Vol. 38, No. 11, October 23, 2003, Grand Valley State University

Volume 38, July 17, 2003 - June 17, 2004

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

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Otter Realm, October 23, 2003, Vol. 9 No. 3, California State University, Monterey Bay Oct 2003

Otter Realm, October 23, 2003, Vol. 9 No. 3, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Two minutes, $500 later -- It's not easy being green... -- Log in, print out, pay up -- Waiver Goodbye: Incoming Liberal Studies students will have to pass the test -- Breaking the Fall: Students, faculty mull over fall break -- Colin's Column -- Diggin' it to the top -- Outstanding Otters -- Multi-Cultural Feminism: not your feminist group of yesterday -- CSUMB students harvest community dream -- Off the Ord destinations. Part one: CSU International Programs -- Local designers strut their stuff -- Much Ado About Advertising -- Person on campus -- Artist spotlight: Beauty of art meant to …

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Redox Scale For Assigning An Oxidizing/Reducing Potential To Groundwater: Method Development And Initial Results, Julie Bertoia, Vernon Hodge, Klaus J. Stetzenbach, Amy J. Smiecinski Oct 2003

Redox Scale For Assigning An Oxidizing/Reducing Potential To Groundwater: Method Development And Initial Results, Julie Bertoia, Vernon Hodge, Klaus J. Stetzenbach, Amy J. Smiecinski

Publications (YM)

This report outlines the progress on Task 33 of the Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain Cooperative Agreement with the University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN). The task is titled "The Experimental Determination of a "Redox Scale" for Assigning an Oxidizing/Reducing Potential to Groundwater from Wells in the Nye County Early Warning Drilling Program: A Scale for Predicting the Solubility and Mobility of Elements Commonly Found in Nuclear Wastes". The purpose of the research was to determine the concentrations of the various electrochemical oxidation states or redox species of eleven elements in groundwater samples collected from the Nye County …

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Mustang Daily, October 23, 2003 Oct 2003

Mustang Daily, October 23, 2003

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

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

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October 22, 2003 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office Oct 2003

October 22, 2003 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

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Spartan Daily, October 22, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2003

Spartan Daily, October 22, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 38

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Ordered Multinomial Parameters , Nicholas P. Jewell, Jack Kalbfleisch Oct 2003

Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Ordered Multinomial Parameters , Nicholas P. Jewell, Jack Kalbfleisch

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

The pool-adjacent violator-algorithm (Ayer et al., 1955) has long been known to give the maximum likelihood estimator of a series of ordered binomial parameters, based on an independent observation from each distribution (see, Barlow et al., 1972). This result has immediate application to estimation of a survival distribution based on current survival status at a set of monitoring times. This paper considers an extended problem of maximum likelihood estimation of a series of ‘ordered’ multinomial parameters pi = (p1i, p2i, . . . , pmi) for 1 < = I < = k, where ordered means that pj1 < = pj2 < = .. . < = pjk for each j with 1 < = j < = m-1. The data consist of k independent observations X1, . . . ,Xk where Xi has a multinomial distribution with probability parameter pi and known index ni > = 1. By making use of variants of the pool adjacent violator algorithm, …

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The Winonan, Winona State University Oct 2003

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2000s

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On Textured Image Analysis Using Wavelets., Mausumi Acharyya Dr. Oct 2003

On Textured Image Analysis Using Wavelets., Mausumi Acharyya Dr.

Doctoral Theses

In image processing and computer vision research, we aim to derive better tools that give us different perspectives on the same image, allowing us to understand not only its content, but also its meaning and significance. Image processing can not compete with the human eye in terms of accuracy but it can outperform the latter easily on observational consistency, and ability to carry out detailed mathematical estimations. With time, image processing research has broadened from the basic pixel-based low- level operations to high-level analysis, that now includes the use of artificially intelligent techniques for image interpretation and understanding. These new …

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Report, Designing Educational Opportunities For The Hazards Manager Of The 21st Century, October 22-24, 2003, Deborah S.K. Thomas, Dennis S. Mileti Oct 2003

Report, Designing Educational Opportunities For The Hazards Manager Of The 21st Century, October 22-24, 2003, Deborah S.K. Thomas, Dennis S. Mileti

Natural Hazards Center Collection

"As emergency/hazards management has professionalized, the need for higher education opportunities is ever-increasing. In order to address issues surrounding higher education opportunities for emergency/hazards managers, this workshop was convened on October 22-24, 2003, by the Natural Hazard Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado at Denver in partnership with the FEMA Higher Education Project with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Fifty-five leaders from the hazards community addressed issues surrounding educational needs."

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October 21, 2003, Council On Graduate Studies Oct 2003

October 21, 2003, Council On Graduate Studies

Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Coastal Observatory Investigates Energetic Current Oscillations On Southeast Florida Shelf, Alexander Soloviev, Rebekah J. Walker, Robert H. Weisberg, Mark E. Luther Oct 2003

Coastal Observatory Investigates Energetic Current Oscillations On Southeast Florida Shelf, Alexander Soloviev, Rebekah J. Walker, Robert H. Weisberg, Mark E. Luther

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Coastal circulation along the southeast Florida shelf is strongly related to the dynamics of the Florida Current. The current follows the steep bottom terrain along the shelf break separating the deep ocean from the coastal zone (Figure 1 a, b). Energetic and complex flow regimes arise along the current's western edge, causing transient features such as sub-meso-scale eddies [Lee and Mayer, 1977; Shay et al., 2000] and energetic internal oscillations [Mooers, 1975; Soloviev et al., 2003], which affect mixing between the shelf and deeper ocean waters. Understanding of these regimes is important for modeling and prediction of the …

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October 21, 2003, Faculty Senate Oct 2003

October 21, 2003, Faculty Senate

Minutes

No abstract provided.

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2003 October 21, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland Oct 2003

2003 October 21, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

FACULTY SENATE MINUTES NO. 4 October 21, 2003

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Using Fecal Glucocorticoids For Stress Assessment In Mourning Doves, Brian E. Washburn, Joshua J. Millspaugh, John H. Schulz, Susan B. Jones, Tony Mong Oct 2003

Using Fecal Glucocorticoids For Stress Assessment In Mourning Doves, Brian E. Washburn, Joshua J. Millspaugh, John H. Schulz, Susan B. Jones, Tony Mong

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Fecal glucocorticoid assays provide a potentially useful, noninvasive means to study physiological responses of wildlife to various stressors. The objective of our study was to validate a method for measuring glucocorticoid metabolites in Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) feces. We validated the assay using standard procedures (e.g., parallelism, recovery of exogenous corticosterone) to demonstrate that the assay accurately and precisely measured glucocorticoid metabolites in Mourning Dove fecal extracts. We conducted adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) challenge experiments to validate the assay’s ability to determine biologically important changes in fecal glucocorticoids. Fecal glucocorticoid levels increased significantly approximately 2–3 hr after administration of ACTH …

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Effects Of Radio-Transmitters On Fecal Glucocorticoid Levels In Captive Dickcissels, Kimberly M. Suedkamp Wells, Brian E. Washburn, Joshua J. Millspaugh, Mark R. Ryan, Michael W. Hubbard Oct 2003

Effects Of Radio-Transmitters On Fecal Glucocorticoid Levels In Captive Dickcissels, Kimberly M. Suedkamp Wells, Brian E. Washburn, Joshua J. Millspaugh, Mark R. Ryan, Michael W. Hubbard

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

We determined the effects of a leg-harness transmitter on fecal glucocorticoid levels of wild male Dickcissels (Spiza americana) in captivity. During the post-breeding season of 2001, we captured 10 male Dickcissels in central Missouri and housed them in individual pens of an outdoor aviary. We radio-tagged five birds; the other five were captured and handled, but were not radio-tagged. We collected fecal samples every other day prior to attachment (31 July– 21 August) and after attachment (24 August–20 September). Body condition and morphology were similar between control and transmitter-equipped birds. We observed a significant interaction between transmitter attachment …

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Eugene Bahniuk Interview, 21 October 2003 Oct 2003

Eugene Bahniuk Interview, 21 October 2003

All interviews

Eugene Bahniuk provides a detailed account of his childhood and young adulthood in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Bahniuk recounts his early memories of the neighborhood, the diverse community, and the various activities he and his friends engaged in, from playing in Lincoln Park to exploring the flats. He reflects on his experiences at local schools, his involvement in sports and social clubs, and his work at his father's gas station. Bahniuk also discusses the impact of World War II on his life, including his military service and post-war education in mechanical engineering. Throughout the interview, he offers insights …

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Nota Bene, October 20, 2003 Oct 2003

Nota Bene, October 20, 2003

Nota Bene, 2003

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Nonparametric Estimation Of The Bivariate Recurrence Time Distribution, Chiung-Yu Huang, Mei-Cheng Wang Oct 2003

Nonparametric Estimation Of The Bivariate Recurrence Time Distribution, Chiung-Yu Huang, Mei-Cheng Wang

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

This paper considers statistical models in which two different types of events, such as the diagnosis of a disease and the remission of the disease, occur alternately over time and are observed subject to right censoring. We propose nonparametric estimators for the joint distribution of bivariate recurrence times and the marginal distribution of the first recurrence time. In general, the marginal distribution of the second recurrence time cannot be estimated due to an identifiability problem, but a conditional distribution of the second recurrence time can be estimated non-parametrically. In literature, statistical methods have been developed to estimate the joint distribution …

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 028, Number 12, October 20, 2003, Grand Valley State University Oct 2003

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 028, Number 12, October 20, 2003, Grand Valley State University

2003-2004, Volume 28

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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Mapping The Intellectual Structure Of Information Science And Information Technology: A Study Of Geographic Information Science, Anita Coleman Oct 2003

Mapping The Intellectual Structure Of Information Science And Information Technology: A Study Of Geographic Information Science, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Baselines For Assessment Of Choice Programs, Paul T. Hill, Kacey Guin Oct 2003

Baselines For Assessment Of Choice Programs, Paul T. Hill, Kacey Guin

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Critics of choice argue that it will allow alert and aggressive parents to get the best of everything for their children, leaving poor and minority children concentrated in the worst schools. But choice is not the only mechanism whereby this occurs. Alert and aggressive parents work the bureaucracy to get the best for their children. Thus, choice programs should be compared against the real performance of the current public education system, not its idealized aspirations.

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Clustering Of Galaxies At Z ∼ 3 Around The Probable Damped Lyα Absorber Toward Qso Apm 08279+5255, Nicolas Bouché, James D. Lowenthal Oct 2003

Clustering Of Galaxies At Z ∼ 3 Around The Probable Damped Lyα Absorber Toward Qso Apm 08279+5255, Nicolas Bouché, James D. Lowenthal

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

We present results on the clustering of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) around a probable damped Lyα absorption line cloud (DLA) at z = 2.974 from deep UBVI images of the field containing the quasar APM 08279+5255 (z = 3.91). The large area covered by our images, 0.31 deg or ∼40 × 40 Mpc comoving at redshift z = 3, and their depth, μ (sky) ≃ 27.6 mag arcsec , allow us to identify ∼450 LBG candidates brighter than I = 24.80 at 2. 75 < z < 3.25 both close (50 kpc) to the DLA line of sight and up to 20 Mpc (comoving) from the DLA, i.e., physically unrelated. LBG candidates were identified using photometric redshift techniques that include the I magnitude as a prior estimate in addition to the colors. The two are combined using Bayes's theorem. This helps to break the degeneracies that occur in a pure spectral template fitting scheme. The overall rms is σ ≃ 0.15 at z ∼ 3 based on our analysis of photometric redshifts in the HDF-N. From the redshift likelihood distributions, we selected LBG galaxies within a redshift slice of width W = 0.15(≃ σ ) centered on the redshift of the DLA z . Within that redshift slice, we find an enhancement of galaxies near the DLA using both the surface density (Σ/Σ ≃ 3) and an estimator of the three-dimensional spatial overdensity (n/n̄ ∼ 5 ± 3). The surface overdensity Σ/Σ is significant at the more than 95% significance level on scales 2.5 < r < 5 Mpc comoving. The overdensity cannot be related to the QSO environment since the QSO is at z = 3.91. These results imply that some DLA could reside in high-density regions. We search within 45″ from the line of sight for galaxies responsible for the DLA and find one candidate with Z = 3.03 that is 26″ (145 kpc physical) away. From its magnitude I = 24.65 ± 0.2, its luminosity is M = -21.35. Due to its large impact parameter, however, this galaxy is not a likely candidate for the absorber. abs em I,AB AB z z z abs g g g θ em phot I,AB 2 -2

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