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Social Science Division Minutes 12/11/2003, Social Science Division Dec 2003

Social Science Division Minutes 12/11/2003, Social Science Division

Social Science Division

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The Daily Egyptian, December 11, 2003, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 2003

The Daily Egyptian, December 11, 2003, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2003

No abstract provided.

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The Bg News December 11, 2003, Bowling Green State University Dec 2003

The Bg News December 11, 2003, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 11, 2003. Volume 94-Issue 72.

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Campus Chronicle (Vol. 6, No. 17), Valparaiso University Dec 2003

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 6, No. 17), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

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The Missouri Miner, December 11, 2003 Dec 2003

The Missouri Miner, December 11, 2003

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

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December 10, 2003 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office Dec 2003

December 10, 2003 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

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Volume 95 Issue 14, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Dec 2003

Volume 95 Issue 14, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

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Paul Young Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Paul Young, Judy Leasure Dec 2003

Paul Young Interview For The Lest We Forget Collection Of Oral Histories, Paul Young, Judy Leasure

Lest We Forget (MS-396)

Judy Leasure interviewed Paul Young about his work with the mentally ill and developmentally disabled. The interview was part of the Lest We Forget Collection of oral histories that was created to capture the stories of those involved with mental health and those with developmental disabilities. There are two transcripts to cover the full interview. The project focused on stories and experiences of people from Ohio that lived at, worked in, or dealt with large institutions and the modern movement to smaller home settings and modern treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.

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Space Adventures By Stanford Students & Mentors, Robert J. Twiggs Dec 2003

Space Adventures By Stanford Students & Mentors, Robert J. Twiggs

Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection

A PowerPoint Presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "Space Adventures by Stanford Students & Mentors" from December 10, 2003.

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The Lumberjack, December 10, 2003 Dec 2003

The Lumberjack, December 10, 2003

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

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The Simplepipe Toolset Manual, Vinayak Joshi, Mark A. Franklin Dec 2003

The Simplepipe Toolset Manual, Vinayak Joshi, Mark A. Franklin

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

SimplePipe is a simulation framework/tool for analyzing performance effects of alternative task allocations in network processors having multiple pipelines where pipeline stages are either processors or dedicated hardware functions. Tasks are defined in terms of sequence of separate C program executions with each sequence representing the functional requirements of a flow, where a flow is defined as the set of packets having the same processing requirements. The assignment of tasks to pipeline stages, selection of number of stages, and determination of processor cache sizes are important designing decisions impacting performance.

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Hawks' Herald - December 10, 2003, Roger Williams University Dec 2003

Hawks' Herald - December 10, 2003, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

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Campus Observer, Volume 4, Issue 20, Office Of University Communications, Florida Institute Of Technology Dec 2003

Campus Observer, Volume 4, Issue 20, Office Of University Communications, Florida Institute Of Technology

Campus Observer

The Campus Observer was a newsletter for the Florida Tech community produced by the Office of University Communications (now the Office of Marketing and Communications). Visit the Campus Observer Collection Guide for more information. Earlier publications of this kind include Tech Talk and Technology Topics.

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Transportation Control Measures In The San Francisco Bay Area, Karoline Grigsby Dec 2003

Transportation Control Measures In The San Francisco Bay Area, Karoline Grigsby

Master's Projects

Throughout the later half of the century air pollution and its effects on the environment and human health has emerged as a focus of regulatory action at the federal and state level. This report will examine the effect that federal air quality legislation has had on regional air quality management through transportation control measures (TCMs). Federal transportation control measures (TCMs) are a transportation-planning tool for controlling regional air quality. TCMs are a means to control traffic congestion on streets and highways and to reduce the total amount of vehicle miles traveled (VMT), therefore reducing motor vehicle emissions and improving air …

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Apparatus And Method For Dispersing Nano-Elements To Assemble Device, Craig A. Grimes, Elizabeth Dickey Dec 2003

Apparatus And Method For Dispersing Nano-Elements To Assemble Device, Craig A. Grimes, Elizabeth Dickey

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Patents

An apparatus for dispersing a first plurality of conductive elongated nano-elements distributed within a carrier-fluid to assemble a conductive device made of a first charge-receptive area of a support surface to which at least one nano-element has attached, including: a nozzle through which the elongated nano-elements are directed such that the nano-elements pass through an electromagnetic field for imparting a preselected charge thereto, and toward at least the first charge-receptive area. The charge-receptive area is given a charge such that it attracts a first end-portion of one of the nano-elements. Also, a method of assembling a conductive device. Steps include: …

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The Daily Egyptian, December 09, 2003, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 2003

The Daily Egyptian, December 09, 2003, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2003

No abstract provided.

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12-09-03 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 21, Issue 10) Dec 2003

12-09-03 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 21, Issue 10)

2003 -- 2004

No abstract provided.

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Spartan Daily, December 9, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 2003

Spartan Daily, December 9, 2003, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 121, Issue 68

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Rivers : Our Heritage Our Future, Khairulmaini Osman Salleh Dec 2003

Rivers : Our Heritage Our Future, Khairulmaini Osman Salleh

Archival Material (2000s)

"Inaugural lecture University of Malaya, 9 December 2003".

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Flyer News, Vol. 51, No. 20 (Dec. 9, 2003), University Of Dayton Dec 2003

Flyer News, Vol. 51, No. 20 (Dec. 9, 2003), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

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Processes For Nanomachining Using Carbon Nanotubes, Robert Ryan Vallance, Apparao M. Rao, M. Pinar Mengüç Dec 2003

Processes For Nanomachining Using Carbon Nanotubes, Robert Ryan Vallance, Apparao M. Rao, M. Pinar Mengüç

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Patents

Novel methods and devices for nanomachining a desired pattern on a surface of a conductive workpiece are disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises using an electron beam emitted from one or more nanotubes to evaporate nanoscale quantities of material from the workpiece surface. The surface of the workpiece to be machined may be excited to a threshold energy to reduce the amount of power required to be emitted by the nanotube. In another aspect, a device is described for nanomachining a desired pattern on a surface of a conductive workpiece, comprising a vessel capable of sustaining a vacuum, a …

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High Efficiency Ceiling Fan Blades, Danny Parker, Bart Hibbs, Guan Su Dec 2003

High Efficiency Ceiling Fan Blades, Danny Parker, Bart Hibbs, Guan Su

UCF Patents

Ceiling fan blades for maximizing air flow at operational speeds of up to approximately 200 revolutions per minute(rpm). The blades have a positive twist at the tip ends of approximately 5 degrees to approximately 10 degrees parallel to the ceiling. The root end of the blades closest to the motor can have a positive twist exceeding that of the tip end and can be approximately 20 to approximately 35 degrees parallel to the ceiling. The ceiling fans can have individual blade lengths of approximately 20 inches and overall spans of up to approximately 52 inches and up to approximately 54 …

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The Effect Of Time Delays In The Stability Of Load Balancing Algorithms For Parallel Computations, Chaouki T. Abdallah, J. D. Birdwell, John Chiasson, Zhong Tang, Nivedita Alluri, Tsewei Wang Dec 2003

The Effect Of Time Delays In The Stability Of Load Balancing Algorithms For Parallel Computations, Chaouki T. Abdallah, J. D. Birdwell, John Chiasson, Zhong Tang, Nivedita Alluri, Tsewei Wang

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Deterministic dynamic nonlinear time-delay systems are developed to model load balancing in a cluster of computer nodes used for parallel computations. The model is shown to be self consistent in that the queue lengths cannot go negative and the total number of tasks in all the queues are conserved (i.e., load balancing can neither create nor lose tasks). Further, it is shown that using the proposed load balancing algorithms, the system is stable. Experimental results are presented and compared with the predicted results from the analytical model. In particular, simulations of the models are compared with an experimental implementation of …

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Dynamical Discrete-Time Load Balancing In Distributed Systems In The Presence Of Time Delays, Chaouki T. Abdallah, S. Dhakal, B. S. Paskaleva, M. M. Hayat, E. Schamiloglu Dec 2003

Dynamical Discrete-Time Load Balancing In Distributed Systems In The Presence Of Time Delays, Chaouki T. Abdallah, S. Dhakal, B. S. Paskaleva, M. M. Hayat, E. Schamiloglu

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

The implementation of a load balancing policy on a continuous basis in a delay-limited distributed computing environment may not only drain the computational resources of each computational element (CE), but can also lead to an unnecessary exchange of loads between the CEs. This degrades the system performance, measured by the overall completion time of the total tasks in the system. Thus, for a given distribution of the load among the CEs, there has to be an optimal number and distribution of discrete balancing instants. This paper focuses on #xing the number of balancing instants and optimizing the completion time over …

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Robust Mobile Robotic Formation Control Using Internet-Like Protocols, Chaouki T. Abdallah, R. Sandoval-Rodriguez, R. H. Byme Dec 2003

Robust Mobile Robotic Formation Control Using Internet-Like Protocols, Chaouki T. Abdallah, R. Sandoval-Rodriguez, R. H. Byme

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This work presents an internet-like protocol (ILP) to coordinate the formation of n second-order agents in a two dimensional (2D) space. The trajectories are specified trough via points and a desired formation at each point. A basis for the proof of convergence is given using Lyapunov second method. Simulink is used to verify the response of the agents for a variety of desired trajectories. The proposed algorithms are robust in the sense that they can accommodate changes in the formation of the agents and more importantly, changes in the number of agents as some of them drop of or join …

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Bounded Controller Design Of An Abr Explicit Rate Algorithm For Atm Switches, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Sophie Tarbouiech, Marco Ariola Dec 2003

Bounded Controller Design Of An Abr Explicit Rate Algorithm For Atm Switches, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Sophie Tarbouiech, Marco Ariola

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Browse > Conferences> Decision and Control, 2003. Pr ... Bounded controller design of an ABR explicit rate algorithm for ATM switches .1273000 abstract . Tarbouriech, S.; Ariola, A.; Abdallah, C.T.; CNRS, Toulouse, France This paper appears in: Decision and Control, 2003. Proceedings. 42nd IEEE Conference on Issue Date: 9-12 Dec. 2003 On page(s): 2519 - 2524 Vol.3 ISSN: 0191-2216 Print ISBN: 0-7803-7924-1 INSPEC Accession Number: 8037709 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CDC.2003.1273000 Date of Current Version: 15 March 2004 Abstract Congestion control in the available bit rate (ABR) class of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks poses interesting challenges due to the presence of …

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Least Squares Support Vector Machines For Fixed-Step And Fixed-Set Cdma Power Control, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Judd A. Rohwer, Christos G. Christodoulou Dec 2003

Least Squares Support Vector Machines For Fixed-Step And Fixed-Set Cdma Power Control, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Judd A. Rohwer, Christos G. Christodoulou

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper presents two machine learning based algorithms for CDMA power control. The least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) algorithms classify eigenvalues estimates into sets of power control commands. A binary LS-SVM algorithm generates fixed step power control (FSPC) commands, while the one vs. one multiclass LS-SVM algorithm generates estimates for fixed set power control.

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Rotational Molding Of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene Polymers And Blends, Mark Grant Spencer Dec 2003

Rotational Molding Of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene Polymers And Blends, Mark Grant Spencer

Theses and Dissertations

The development of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) resins for use in rotational molding would provide a medium performance material, thus opening doors to new markets for the rotational molding industry. Unfortunately, ABS resins have shown serious problems during the rotational molding process, namely discoloration, bridging, and poor impact strength. It is believed that these effects are due to degradation of the carbon-carbon double bond in the butadiene, through attack by either oxygen or heat. Previous efforts have shown some success in addressing these issues. However, additional improvements are necessary to make ABS resins commercially viable to rotational molders. This study, fourth in …

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Murray Ledger And Times, December 9, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2003

Murray Ledger And Times, December 9, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

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Spatiotemporal Databases: Models For Attracting Students To Research, Ágnes Bércesné Novák, Peter Revesz, Zsolt Tuza Dec 2003

Spatiotemporal Databases: Models For Attracting Students To Research, Ágnes Bércesné Novák, Peter Revesz, Zsolt Tuza

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

In higher education professors often make much effort to introduce their students to research. Unfortunately, the present standard database systems curriculum is composed of well-settled subjects that do not lead to research. The challenge is to bring the research frontier closer to students at beginner level. In this paper we describe how it can be done in the area of spatiotemporal databases. We propose a new database systems curriculum and illustrate its benefits by mentioning several highly succsesful student projects in some recent experimental introductory database systems courses that followed the new curriculum.

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