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

December 2003

No abstract provided.

Debiec V. Cabot Corp

2003 Decisions

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Norris V. Comm Social Security

2003 Decisions

United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Rivers : Our Heritage Our Future, Khairulmaini Osman Salleh

Archival Material (2000s)

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

December 9, 2003, Faculty Senate

Minutes

No abstract provided.

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

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

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 …

Patenting Computer Data Structures: The Ghost, The Machine And The Federal Circuit, Andrew Joseph Hollander

Duke Law & Technology Review

Courts view "data structures," the mechanism by which computers store data in meaningful relationships, differently than do computer scientists. While computer scientists recognize that data structures have aspects that are both physical (how they are stored in memory) and logical (the relationships among the stored information), the Federal Circuit, in its attempts to set clear standards of the scope of patentability of data structures, has not fully appreciated their dualistic nature. This i-brief explains what data structures are, explores how courts have wrestled with setting a limiting principle to determine their patentability, and discusses the resultant impact on claim drafting.

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

Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor Diode Laser, Peter Delfyett, Hong Shi

UCF Patents

Single-stripe GaAs/AlGaAs semiconductor optical amplifiers which simultaneously generates from four to more than twenty tunable WDM channels. A four channel version trsnsmits approximately 12 picosecond pulses at approximately 2.5 GHz for an aggregate pulse rate of 100 GHz. Wavelength tuning over 18 nm has been demonstrated with channel spacing ranging from approximately 0.8 nm to approximately 2 nm. A second version uses approximately 20 wavelength channels, each transmitting approximately 12 picosecond pulses at a rate of approximately 600 MHz. A spectral correlation across the multiwavelength spectrum which can be for utilizing single stripe laser diodes as multiwavelength sources in WDM-TDM …

Shroud Nozzle For Gas Jet Control In An Extreme Ultraviolet Light, Roy Mcgregor, Charles Clendening

UCF Patents

A gas jet nozzle for an extreme-ultraviolet light source, including a housing having a front and back. The housing is coupleable to a primary gas source and a secondary gas source and is adapted to expel primary has and secondary gas from the housing front. The housing has a gas=expelling primary channel located centrally within the housing and a gas-expelling secondary channel proximate the primary channel. The primary channel may be circular and a secondary channel may be annular, surrounding the primary channel. A secondary gas stream expelled from the secondary channel restricts the lateral expansion of a primary gas …

Learning By Dewey-Ing, Jodie L. Rung

Digitized Theses and Dissertations (prior to 2008)

This is to certify that the Master of Education Portfolio of Jodie L. Rung has been approved by the Supervising Committee for the portfolio requirement for the Master of Education in Special Education in the Department of Special Education

The New Hampshire, Vol. 93 [94], No. 24 [25] (Dec. 9, 2003), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 93, but it is the 94th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

This issue was printed as 24, but it is the 25th issue in this volume. This was corrected in pencil.

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 …

Schooling The Whole Child, Tanya M. Woods

Digitized Theses and Dissertations (prior to 2008)

This is to certify that the Master of Education Portfolio of Tanya Woods has been approved by the Supervising Committee For the portfolio requirement for the Master of Education in Special Education In the Department of Special Education

Anisotropic Splitting Of Intersubband Spin Plasmons In Quantum Wells With Bulk And Structural Inversion Asymmetry, Carsten A. Ullrich, M. E. Flatté

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In semiconductor heterostructures, bulk and structural inversion asymmetry and spin-orbit coupling induce a k-dependent spin splitting of valence and conduction subbands, which can be viewed as being caused by momentum-dependent crystal magnetic fields. This paper studies the influence of these effective magnetic fields on the intersubband spin dynamics in an asymmetric n-type GaAs/Al_0.3Ga_0.7As quantum well. We calculate the dispersions of intersubband spin plasmons using linear-response theory. the so-called D'yakonov-Perel' decoherence mechanism is inactive for collective intersubband excitations, i.e., crystal magnetic fields do not lead to decoherence of spin plasmons. Instead, we predict that the main signature …

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.

Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods In Robust Control Design, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Peter E. Hokayem

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Many practical control problems are so complex that traditional analysis and design methods fail to solve. Consequently, sampling methods that provide approximate solutions to such difficult problems have emerged. In this paper we address the deterministic quasi-Monte Carlo method of sampling and attempt to impose bounds on the error involved in the evaluation of the quality of performance of a specific controller over the whole plant parameter uncertainty space.

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 …

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 …

Gsuniverse, 2003-12-08, Office Of Public Affairs

GSUniverse

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2002-2005.

Minutes December 8, 2003

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Arbiter, December 8, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Communicator, December 8, 2003, Bronx Community College

The Communicator

The Communicator newspaper published on December 8, 2003.

The Statesman, V. 46, I. 87, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 46, i. 87

Columbia Chronicle (12/08/2003), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from December 8, 2003 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 28 pages and is listed as Volume 37, Number 12. Cover story: "Not spent: $400K in award cash" Editor-in-Chief: Chris Coates

Ernie Bonner And His Family, Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Hollins Columns (2003 Dec 8), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Senior gift set to break record
• Student committee aims to solve issues
• Condoms distributed on campus may be harmful
• First Flash Mob experiments meets success
• Giardina returning as writer in residence
• Sound off: What do you think about Michael Jackson?
• Substitution dieting will save us all, right?
• Campus community faces ethical controversy
• This semester's lesson: balance is key
• Dear Editor: belittling opinions never constructive
• Campus community members to run for arthritis
• Swimming warming up for winter season

Re-Examining Vonnegut: Existential And Naturalistic Influences On The Author's Work, Marybeth Davis

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis looks at several Vonnegut novels through both the lenses of existentialism and naturalism, claiming that each is just as important and present in his work as the other. It examines his life, as well, and how his experiences and observations on life tie into his writing.

December 8, 2003 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.