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Performance Analysis For Remote Power Systems In Rural Alaska, Tyler Chubb Dec 2004

Performance Analysis For Remote Power Systems In Rural Alaska, Tyler Chubb

Engineering

Due to the logistical difficulties involved in maintaining a rural Alaskan power generation facility, it is extremely important that the system function as efficiently as possible. Presently, many rural generation systems are not equipped with automated monitoring that enables knowledgeable personnel to view the performance of the system from a distant location. Consequently, system deficiencies resulting in increased fuel consumption and operating expense often go unnoticed as do potential system improvements. This thesis describes the design and implementation of a sophisticated monitoring system that consists of measurement sensors connected to an internet enabled data recorder. The monitoring system was used …

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Assessing The Production Of Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus Nerka) At Chilkat Lake, Southeast Alaska, Using Current Trophic Conditions And The Paleolimnologic Sediment Record, David Barto Dec 2004

Assessing The Production Of Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus Nerka) At Chilkat Lake, Southeast Alaska, Using Current Trophic Conditions And The Paleolimnologic Sediment Record, David Barto

Fisheries

Anadromous sockeye salmon are the only Pacific salmon that require an extensive rearing period in a lake environment. Recent studies suggest changes in lake nutrient inputs are directly related to the magnitude of annual spawning populations (escapement), and can be quantified by sediment stable isotope analysis of nitrogen ¹⁵N). Marine nitrogen supplied by returned salmon is enriched in ¹⁵N relative to the freshwater nitrogen, which is derived from atmospheric N₂ (ð¹⁵N=0 ⁰/₀₀). Recent (1987-1996) limnological investigations of Chilkat Lake, Alaska, matched to brood year escapement estimates, indicate that sockeye marine-derived phosphorus and nitrogen contributed up to 87% and 20%, respectively, …

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Maturation Of Walleye Pollock, Theragra Chalcogramma, In The Eastern Bering Sea In Relation To Temporal And Spatial Factors, Jennifer Paige Stahl Dec 2004

Maturation Of Walleye Pollock, Theragra Chalcogramma, In The Eastern Bering Sea In Relation To Temporal And Spatial Factors, Jennifer Paige Stahl

Fisheries

Walleye pollock, Theragra chalcogramma, are both ecologically and commercially important in the eastern Bering Sea (EBS). Maturity is a critical parameter in the stock assessment to set annual total allowable catch. Pollock maturity has not been examined in the EBS since 1976, and possible interannual and geographic variation has not been studied to date. Our goal is to estimate correct maturity schedules for EBS pollock. Maturity data, fish lengths and macroscopic maturity stages were collected aboard pollock trawlers during winter 2002 and 2003 across the EBS from 10,197 pollock. Similar data were collected by NMFS scientists during hydroacoustic surveys from …

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The Role And Structure Of Mediating Entities In University-Community Partnerships: An Examination Of Urban Routes, Mathew Spaan Dec 2004

The Role And Structure Of Mediating Entities In University-Community Partnerships: An Examination Of Urban Routes, Mathew Spaan

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the use of mediating entities in overcoming barriers found in many university-community partnerships, which arise out of unequal power, a lack of mutual understanding, and divergent agendas of the partners. In order to develop a theory or model of the functions and structure of these mediating entities, this thesis analyzes the Urban Routes program of International Project for Nonprofit Leadership. This study identifies four main functions of mediating entities: integration, interpretation, equalization, and sustaining. This case study reveals the importance of structuring these mediating entities in a way that allows for the most effective utilization of the …

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The Biology Of Spaeroma Terebrans In Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana With Emphasis On Burrowing, Laura Lee Wilkinson Dec 2004

The Biology Of Spaeroma Terebrans In Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana With Emphasis On Burrowing, Laura Lee Wilkinson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Sphaeroma terebrans (Bate 1866) is an economically and ecologically important cosmopolitan species because this isopod is found burrowed in wood and marine structures of fresh to saline water. Existing literature on S. terebrans focuses on the destruction of red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) in India, Pakistan, and Florida. This study concentrates on S. terebrans habitat and boring preferences in bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) in Lake Pontchartrain near the Bonnet Carre Spillway, Louisiana. In addition laboratory experiments for water column distribution and substrate preferences were conducted using cypress, Styrofoam, and balsa. Results indicate that this population may be parthenogenic and that wood …

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Shrub Expansion In Arctic Alaska: 50 Years Of Change Documented Using Aerial Photography, Ken Tape Dec 2004

Shrub Expansion In Arctic Alaska: 50 Years Of Change Documented Using Aerial Photography, Ken Tape

Geosciences

Evidence from arctic Alaska suggests that the terrestrial landscape is changing in response to warming. Between 1946 and 1951, several thousand low-altitude panchromatic oblique aerial photographs were taken as part of geologic reconnaissance and exploration of Alaska's Arctic Slope and Brooks Range. For this study, 202 of the landscapes in the old photographs were re-photographed. Comparison of the old and new photographs revealed an increase in shrub cover in the last half-century. The changes were observed over a 220,000 km2 tract of arctic tundra, and it is likely that they are more widespread. A quantitative method for comparing the photographs …

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Physical Volcanology Of A Sub-Plinian And Phreatomagmatic Eruption At Okmok Volcano, Alaska: Implications For Explosive Mafic Volcanism, Lily J. Wong Dec 2004

Physical Volcanology Of A Sub-Plinian And Phreatomagmatic Eruption At Okmok Volcano, Alaska: Implications For Explosive Mafic Volcanism, Lily J. Wong

Geosciences

The Middle Scoria Unit (M.S.) of Okmok Volcano is a basaltic andesite (̃54 wt. % SiO₂) fall deposit that is stratigraphically located between two caldera-forming eruptions (̃12,000 and 2050 y B.P.). Stratigraphy, geochemistry, vesicularity, and crystallinity data imply that the M.S. erupted in three phases that began with an initial phreatomagmatic phase followed by a sub-Plinian phase caused by rapid ascent of magma. The sequence culminates with short-lived Vulcanian eruptions that demonstrate a strong magmatic influence and a possible decrease in ascent rate. The M.S. covers ̃300 km² and averages about 2 m thick. Estimates from this work suggest a …

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Volume 40 - Issue 12 - Thursday, December 16, 2004, Rose Thorn Staff Dec 2004

Volume 40 - Issue 12 - Thursday, December 16, 2004, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

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Clemson Commencement Program, December 2004, Clemson University Dec 2004

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2004, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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Usa V. Al Hedaithy Dec 2004

Usa V. Al Hedaithy

2004 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

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2004-12-16, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents. Dec 2004

2004-12-16, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 33, December 16, 2004 Dec 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 33, December 16, 2004

Central Florida Future

What I want for the holidays...A peek at the gifts Future writers hope to find under the tree

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University Of Minnesota Offers Assistance To Small Towns:, University Relations Dec 2004

University Of Minnesota Offers Assistance To Small Towns:, University Relations

Campus News Archive

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Lack Of Diversity In College Sports Leadership, Richard C. Crepeau Dec 2004

Lack Of Diversity In College Sports Leadership, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It was a month ago that my colleagues at the University of Central Florida in the Institute for the Study of Diversity and Ethics in Sport issued a fascinating report on the lack of diversity in leadership positions in Higher Education. One of the conclusions of the study is that this lack of diversity may contribute to the same lack of diversity in Division I Football Head Coaching positions. The conclusion seems more than likely, indeed even self-evident.

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Nursing Students' Self-Efficacy And Attitude: Examining The Influence Ofthe Omaha System In Nurse Managed Centers, Cherie Mooy Dec 2004

Nursing Students' Self-Efficacy And Attitude: Examining The Influence Ofthe Omaha System In Nurse Managed Centers, Cherie Mooy

Master's Projects

Self-efficacy, or confidence, as an outcome behavior has been identified as influencing nursing job satisfaction and retention. Clinical learning environments and teaching strategies that build and support perceived self-efficacy are critical aspects of preparing new nurses for their entry and continuing role as professional nurses in today's information-intensive data-management healthcare environment. The purpose of this pre-test post-test study is to measure, using the C-scale (Grundy, 1992), nursing students' self-efficacy to perform patient assessment in Nurse Managed Centers (NMC) after one semester of using the Omaha System documentation framework. Nursing students' attitudes of preparation for using Standardized Nursing Languages (SNL) in …

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Critical Discourse Analysis Of Sexual Enhancement Medication Ads, John-Paul Gomez Dec 2004

Critical Discourse Analysis Of Sexual Enhancement Medication Ads, John-Paul Gomez

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This study contributes to the expanding critical range of discourse analysis by analyzing texts used to market Viagra and other "sexual enhancement medication," pharmaceuticals that treat "erectile dysfunction". Applying elements of Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis framework, this study examines as cultural artifacts Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis print advertisements and television commercials and it offers insight into the institutional discourse of "sexual enhancement medication" and how this discourse constructs male identity and subjectivity.

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Meeting Notes 2004-12-16 [Part A] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation Dec 2004

Meeting Notes 2004-12-16 [Part A] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

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Speech-Language Pathologists’ Professional Efficacy Beliefs About Assessing The Language Skills Of Bilingual/Bicultural/Bidialectal Students, Karen Patricia Harris Dec 2004

Speech-Language Pathologists’ Professional Efficacy Beliefs About Assessing The Language Skills Of Bilingual/Bicultural/Bidialectal Students, Karen Patricia Harris

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Like educators, speech-language pathologists can anticipate working with culturally and linguistically diverse students and their families. Data reported from the Study of Personnel Needs in Special Education (SPeNSE), 1999-2000, revealed that during the years 1999-2000 speech-language pathologists caseloads included students from various culturally and linguistically diverse groups (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, 2001). Furthermore, on average, more than one-fourth of students seen by speech-language pathologists were from a culturally and/or linguistically diverse group than their own and 8.8% were English language learners (U.S. Department of Education, 2001). Thus, guaranteeing a highly qualified pool of speech-language pathologists …

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Faculty Senate Minutes - December 15, 2004, Usm Faculty Senate Dec 2004

Faculty Senate Minutes - December 15, 2004, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

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A Review Of General Education Teachers' Perceptions Of Classroom And Instructional Accommodations For Students With Disabilities, Jennifer Askue-Collins Dec 2004

A Review Of General Education Teachers' Perceptions Of Classroom And Instructional Accommodations For Students With Disabilities, Jennifer Askue-Collins

Theses & Honors Papers

The primary purpose of this study was to find out whether general education teachers believe that accommodations for students with special needs help those students succeed. Secondarily, this study seeks to find whether general educators find accommodations to be practical (feasible for general classroom use and fair to students without disabilities) in promoting success for all students. This review will discuss special education laws, service models for special education, and how accommodations fit into these parameters. The researcher created an online survey for K-5 general educators in Virginia's Region 8 to complete. From the responses it was found that this …

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Effect Of Stocking Density On Sunshine Bass (Morone Chrysops X M. Saxatilis) Production And Water Quality At Minor Clark Fish Hatchery, Kentucky, Todd A. Leonard Dec 2004

Effect Of Stocking Density On Sunshine Bass (Morone Chrysops X M. Saxatilis) Production And Water Quality At Minor Clark Fish Hatchery, Kentucky, Todd A. Leonard

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Science and Technology at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science by Todd A. Leonard on December 15, 2004.

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Bolinger V. Vi Telephone Corp Dec 2004

Bolinger V. Vi Telephone Corp

2004 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands

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12/15/2004 - Commencement Ceremonies.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications Dec 2004

12/15/2004 - Commencement Ceremonies.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications

2004

No abstract provided.

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12/15/2004 - First Luis Clay Mendez Distinguished Service Award Goes To Long Time Friend.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications Dec 2004

12/15/2004 - First Luis Clay Mendez Distinguished Service Award Goes To Long Time Friend.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications

2004

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Direct Brain-Computer Communication And Its Application For Neuroprosthesis, Sing Yau Goh Dec 2004

Direct Brain-Computer Communication And Its Application For Neuroprosthesis, Sing Yau Goh

Archival Material (2000s)

"An inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Malaya, 15 December 2004."

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Dec. 15. Cso Recommendations For Embedding Human Rights In Pss, Michael Bassett, Diana Bronson, Daniel Bradlow, Andrea Durbin, Steve Hertz, Petr Hlobl, David Hunter, Fergus Mackay, Anne Perrault, Jorge Daniel Taillant Dec 2004

Dec. 15. Cso Recommendations For Embedding Human Rights In Pss, Michael Bassett, Diana Bronson, Daniel Bradlow, Andrea Durbin, Steve Hertz, Petr Hlobl, David Hunter, Fergus Mackay, Anne Perrault, Jorge Daniel Taillant

IFC E&S Performance Standards

No abstract provided.

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Dec. 15, 2004, A. Durbin, Et Al, Draft Cso Tracked Comments And Suggested Revisions To Ifc's August 12, 2004 Draft, Ifc Dec 2004

Dec. 15, 2004, A. Durbin, Et Al, Draft Cso Tracked Comments And Suggested Revisions To Ifc's August 12, 2004 Draft, Ifc

IFC E&S Performance Standards

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Dec. 2004, Cso Proposals For Integrating Human Rights Into Pss, Michael Bassett, Diana Bronson, Daniel Bradlow, Andrea Durbin, Steve Hertz, Petr Hlobl, David Hunter, Fergus Mackay, Anne Perrault, Jorge Daniel Taillant Dec 2004

Dec. 2004, Cso Proposals For Integrating Human Rights Into Pss, Michael Bassett, Diana Bronson, Daniel Bradlow, Andrea Durbin, Steve Hertz, Petr Hlobl, David Hunter, Fergus Mackay, Anne Perrault, Jorge Daniel Taillant

IFC E&S Performance Standards

No abstract provided.

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History Channel Fishes For Modern Marvels Off New Hampshire Coast, Dolores Leonard Dec 2004

History Channel Fishes For Modern Marvels Off New Hampshire Coast, Dolores Leonard

Media Relations

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December 15th 2004, Hispanic News Dec 2004

December 15th 2004, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

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