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Mwir And Lwir Spectral Signatures Of Water And Associated Materials, Herbert J. Mitchell, Carl Salvaggio

Articles

Spectral infrared emissivity measurements have been made of a variety of materials both with and without surface water. The surface water was either natural, in the form of dew or residual rainwater, or artificially introduced by manual wetting. Materials naturally high in water content were also measured. Despite the rather diverse spectral population of the underlying materials, they exhibited very similar, featureless, water-like spectra; spectrally flat with a very high magnitude across the emissive infrared region. The implication to exploitation personnel that may use emissive infrared hyperspectral image data is that in areas where condensation is likely (e.g. high humidity) …

The Importance Of Background In The Detection And Identification Of Gas Plumes Using Emissive Infrared Hyperspectral Sensing, Herbert Mitchell, Gerard P. Jellison, David P. Miller, Carl Salvaggio, Craig J. Miller

Articles

Using a Fourier transform infrared field spectrometer, spectral infrared radiance measurements were made of several generated gas plumes against both a uniform sky and terrestrial background. Background temperature, spectral complexity, and physical homogeneity each influenced the success of emissive infrared spectral sensing technology in detecting and identifying the presence of a gas plume and its component constituents. As expected, high temperature contrast and uniform backgrounds provided the best conditions for detectability and diagnostic identification. This report will summarize some of SITAC’s findings concerning plume detectability, including the importance of plume cooling, plumes in emission and absorption, the effects of optical …

Date Rape Survivor To Speak Out At Iwu, Chris Weber

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Kinetics Of Ferroelectric Switching In Ultrathin Films, G. Vizdrik, Stephen Ducharme, V.M. Fridkin, S.G. Yudin

Stephen Ducharme Publications

The kinetics of polarization switching in ultrathin ferroelectric polymer films exhibit a critical behavior; there is a pronounced slowing just above the coercive field and just below the critical temperature. The critical slowing is observed in the switching kinetics of ferroelectric Langmuir-Blodgett films of 70% vinylidene-fluoride and 30% trifluoroethylene copolymer with thickness up to 30 ML. Thicker films exhibit an exponential dependence on the field and temperature that is normally associated with extrinsic switching by domain nucleation and growth. We show that the critical behavior arises naturally from the dynamics of homogeneous intrinsic switching in the context of mean-field theory. …

The Ticker, September 22, 2003

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Hawks' Eye - September 22, 2003, Roger Williams University

The Hawk's Eye

No abstract provided.

Nota Bene, September 22, 2003

Nota Bene, 2003

No abstract provided.

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

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 17

Columbia Chronicle (09/22/2003), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from Septmeber 22, 2003 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 36 pages and is listed as Volume 37, Number 1. Cover story: "No takers for Presidential mansion" Editor-in-Chief: Chris Coates

Long-Range Transportation Planning In Utah: Summary Of Research Results From A Statewide Telephone Survey., Douglas Reiter, Dale Blahna, Steve Burr, Christina Klien, Joanna Endter-Wada, Judith Kurtzman, Michael Butkus, Douglas Gibbons

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

This is the final Report from Phase I of the 2003 Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) Benchmark Study. The study involved two phases and the USU research team produced two final reports, one for each phase of the research project, and an overarching Executive Summary. The purposes of the 2003 UDOT Benchmark Study conducted by Utah State University (USU) were to provide the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) with information for use in its statewide, long-range transportation plan and to provide benchmark data for tracking trends over time. The study was conducted jointly by the Institute for Outdoor Recreation and …

Long-Range Transportation Planning In Utah: Executive Summary, Dale Blahna, Joanna Endter-Wada, Steve Burr, Michael Butkus, Douglas Gibbons, Christina Klien, Judith Kurtzman, Douglas Reiter

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

This is the Executive Summary of the 2003 Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) Benchmark Study. The study involved two phases and the USU research team produced two final reports, one for each phase of the research project, and an overarching Executive Summary. The purposes of the 2003 UDOT Benchmark Study conducted by Utah State University (USU) were to provide the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) with information for use in its statewide, long-range transportation plan and to provide benchmark data for tracking trends over time. The study was conducted jointly by the Institute for Outdoor Recreation and Tourism and the …

Unh Health Services Celebrates Love Your Body Day, Lori Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Celebs Lend A Hand To Unh Domestic Violence Awareness Event, Lori Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

E-News, Volume 1, No. 5, September 22, 2003, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Media Relations

Points of Pride, Scene & Herd, and E-News

The September 22, 2003, issue of E-News, a newsletter for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg community.

U.S. Neglect Of Latin America Can Be Dangerous, Warns Iwu Political Scientist, Jeffery Hanna

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

September 22, 2003 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Are We Legislating Away Our Scientific Future? The Database Debate, Dov Greenbaum

Duke Law & Technology Review

The ambiguity of the present copyright laws governing the protection of databases creates a situation where database owners, unsure of how IP laws safeguard their information, overprotect their data with oppressive licenses and technological mechanisms (condoned by the DMCA) that impede interoperation. Databases are fundamental to scientific research, yet the lack of interoperability between databases and limited access inhibits this research. The US Congress, spurred by the European Database Directive, and heavily lobbied by the commercial database industry, is presently considering ways to legislate database protections; most of the present suggestions for legislation will be detrimental to scientific progress. The …

The Bg News September 22, 2003, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. September 22, 2003. Volume 94-Issue 21.

The Collegian (2003-09-22), Sonia Mejia

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 56, No. 5

University Of Dayton Establishes Programs With Universities And Companies In China

News Releases

News release announces that UD has signed a partnership agreement with Shanghai Normal University to establish a transfer program in engineering technology.

Lectures Celebrate Mary: University Of Dayton Offers Seminars As Part Of Vatican Art Exhibit

News Releases

News release announces that the University of Dayton is offering a series of weekly free seminars about religious art as part of its two-month exhibit of rarely seen art of the Virgin Mary from Vatican Museums.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 06, September 22, 2003

Central Florida Future

One of our own crowned Miss America: UCF senior postpones graduation to wear crown; Students band together against Patriot Act; Visitors beware: You will be towed; Lights burning up UCF budget.

Former Director Of The U.S. Commission On Civil Rights To Speak At Illinois Wesleyan University, Anna Deters

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Iwu News Advisory, Sherry Wallace

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Media Advisory, Sherry Wallace

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Hollins Columns (2003 Sept 22), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Task force to bring diversity
• Changes divide English Department
• Campus joins crackdown on music downloads
• Recent events spark a new protest group
• Abroad program expands horizons
• Students happy with quality of life
• Revised meal plan comes to campus
• Banta Room almost ready to use new license
• Questions unanswered after faculty, staff depart
• Graduate students join residence life
• Rosenberg to increase student participation
• New students adjust to unfamiliar campus
• Writing Center Hours
• Spirit week 2003 Sept. 29-Oct. 2
• Hollins rated Number 1 in quality of strife
• Horoscopes
• Too bad life isn't like this in the real world
• 'Dickie …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, September 21, 2003, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2003

No abstract provided.

Back Matter: Trotter Review, Vol. 15, Issue 1

Trotter Review

No abstract provided.

American Warfare In The Twenty-First Century, Paul R. Camacho

New England Journal of Public Policy

Over the last several years there have been a number of calls for the development of a new theoretical doctrine to govern the force structure of the United States military. The last big change in doctrine occurred in the post-Vietnam era. It involved not simply the change to the all-volunteer force, but an abandonment of escalation brinkmanship and open-ended missions. The subsequent Powell Doctrine demanded the use of overwhelming force and clear objectives and boundaries for military intervention. As the new millennium approached, the deficiencies of the Powell Doctrine became apparent — the multilateral approach of coalition building and the …

The Link Between Poverty And Violent Conflict, J. Brian Atwood

New England Journal of Public Policy

The threat to the international system from the many forms of violent conflict, terrorism being the most prominent among them, is greater today than it was at the end of the twentieth century. This escalation of global conflict has been attributed to the breakup of the Soviet State, increasing ethnic tensions, weak governance at both the nation-state and international levels, and the rise of religious extremism. Each of these factors contributes to instability and the social tensions that lead to violence. It will be posited here that there is also a significant link between poverty and violent conflict, one that …