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Synopsis Of Reports By Citizen Action Independent Experts Re: Corrective Measures Study For Mixed Waste Landfill Sandia National Labs/U.S. Department Of Energy, Citizen Action (Through New Mexico Community Foundation)

Citizen Action (through New Mexico Community Foundation)

Background: Through a grant awarded to Citizen Action from the Citizens’ Monitoring and Technical Assessment Fund (CMTA), Citizen Action hired two consultants to independently review Sandia’s study of options for the Mixed Waste Landfill. This study of options is known as a “Corrective Measures Study” or a CMS. The New Mexico Environment Department required Sandia to conduct a CMS for the Mixed Waste Landfill as a result of a request submitted by Citizen Action to investigate other alternatives for the waste.

Independent experts: The consultants included Marvin Resnikoff, Radioactive Waste Management Associates; and Paul Robinson, Southwest Research and Information …

Spartan Daily, November 30, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 61

People V. Harlan

Colorado Supreme Court Records and Briefs Collection

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: November 30, 2004, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

Optimal Topologies For Wireless Sensor Networks, Jason Tillett, Shanchieh Jay Yang, Raghuveer Rao, Ferat Sahin

Presentations and other scholarship

Since untethered sensor nodes operate on battery, and because they must communicate through a multi-hop network, it is vital to optimally configure the transmit power of the nodes both to conserve power and optimize spatial reuse of a shared channel. Current topology control algorithms try to minimize radio power while ensuring connectivity of the network. We propose that another important metric for a sensor network topology will involve consideration of hidden nodes and asymmetric links. Minimizing the number of hidden nodes and asymmetric links at the expense of increasing the transmit power of a subset of the nodes may in …

Deregulating Telecommunications In Internet Time, James B. Speta

Law and Economics Papers

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has yielded more litigation and less local competition than its supporters expected or intended. Calls for its reform are multiplying. The article diagnoses the 1996 Act's failings and prescribes a framework for reform. The successful deregulations of the transportation industries and of long-distance telecommunications (precedents the 1996 Act sought to follow) demonstrate that the Act should have taken additional steps to promote intermodal telecommunications competition. Transportation deregulation successfully prompted competition where (as in the case of airlines and trucking) multiple firms could compete on an intramodal basis or where (as in the case of railroads) …

Telerobotic Controller, Michael Fewless, George Slater, Steve Waldron

Honors Theses

Atelerobotic system allows a user to interact with an environment indirectly. Our project successfully creates a telerobotic environment between the Phantom 1.5 controller and the UMI RTX robotic arm. Utilizing the haptic features of the Phantom controller, a more realistic interaction was created between the telerobotic system and the user by providing sensory feedback. As the user manipulates the hand-controlled Phantom device, signals are sent via a parallel port to the personal computer. A real-time WIN32 application, utilizing the GHOST SDK library, reads the position of the Phantom controller's coordinates and calculates the corresponding motor positions of the UMI RTXrobotic …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 94 [95], No. 21 (Nov. 30, 2004), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 94, but it is the 95th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Ip Algorithm Applied To Proteomics Data, Christopher Lee Green

Theses and Dissertations

Mass spectrometry has been used extensively in recent years as a valuable tool in the study of proteomics. However, the data thus produced exhibits hyper-dimensionality. Reducing the dimensionality of the data often requires the imposition of many assumptions which can be harmful to subsequent analysis. The IP algorithm is a dimension reduction algorithm, similar in purpose to latent variable analysis. It is based on the principle of maximum entropy and therefore imposes a minimum number of assumptions on the data. Partial Least Squares (PLS) is an algorithm commonly used with proteomics data from mass spectrometry in order to reduce the …

Heated Bridge Deck System And Materials And Method For Constructing The Same, Christopher Y. Tuan, Sherif Yehia, Bing Chen,, Lim Nguyen

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications

Aheated bridge deck (20) uses electrodes (24,26) embedded within conductive concrete and connected to a power Source to remove Snow and ice accumulation. A cement-based mixture containing optimal amounts of conductive materials is molded into pre-formed slabs (22) placed atop the paved Surface of a bridge deck. Alternatively, the conductive concrete may be cast in place on top of an existing bridge deck. A control unit with temperature and moisture Sensors may be coupled to the heated bridge deck.

Mustang Daily, November 30, 2004

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

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

Cooling Load Reduction And Air Conditioner Design In A 19th Century Florida House Museum, Florida Solar Energy Center, Dave Chasar

FSEC Energy Research Center®

Restoration plans at the H.S. Williams house included the installation of a space conditioning system. This contract report details how building envelope construction and air conditioner design were optimized as a system. Many aspects of the effort lent themselves to maintaining important "character-defining" features of the building including the resurrection of passive cooling attributes like light colored exterior paint and operable storm shutters. In addition, outside air infiltration was measured on the Williams house and six other balloon-frame homes to document this often significant cooling load component.

Using A Reply Path And Handshaking Protocol To Allow For Incentives With Mix-Net Servers, Timothy J. Atkinson, Marius C. Silaghi

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Sending a message to a destination anonymously so that the destination cannot figure out who the originator was, and ensuring that the message reaches the destination untampered with, can be a difficult problem. Chaum's mix-net solves this problem but offers little motivation for a person to set up a mix-net server. This paper discusses a method that not only allows monetary payments as an incentive to create a public mix-net server, but also provides some fraud detection at the time a message is being sent. Also compared with other methods, the method described here can be considered reasonable from the …

The Bg News November 30, 2004, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 30, 2004. Volume 95-Issue 65.

Assessing Student Reading Progress: A Comparison Of Generic And Basal Curriculum-Based Reading Probes, Kelli S. Henson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to clarify and extend previous research on the comparibility of curriculum-based measurement oral reading fluency results using reading materials from outside of the students’ curriculum for repeated measurement over time. Specifically, this study evaluated the use of generic measurement materials for monitoring student reading growth and expected gains in words read correctly per minute over time at different grade levels. Sixty-four first through third grade students were assessed twice weekly using both AimsWeb and Open Court reading probes. The dependent variables in this study were the level, which is defined as the mean of …

Mustang Daily, November 29, 2004

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

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

Current, November 29, 2004, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2000s)

No abstract provided.

Columbia Chronicle (11/29/2004), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from November 29, 2004 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 32 pages and is listed as Volume 38, Number 10. Editor-in-Chief: Andrew Greiner

Murray Ledger And Times, November 29, 2004, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Interview With Ann Davis Thomas, Meghan L. Mccluskey

Interior Design Program: Student Creative Activity

An interview with Ann Davis Thomas, daughter of London architect Arthur Joseph Davis (1878-1951). Discusses her father’s partnership with Charles Mèwes, his work on buildings such as the Ritz Hotel, the Morning Post and the Royal Automobile Club, and the ocean liners Aquitania and Queen Mary in the early 20th century.

The Collegian (2004-11-29), Sonia Mejia

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 57, No. 15

Secure Hardware Enhanced Myproxy: A Ph.D. Thesis Proposal, John Marchesini, Sean Smith

Computer Science Technical Reports

In 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman demonstrated how "New Directions In Cryptography" could enable secure information exchange between parties that do not share secrets. In order for public key cryptography to work in modern distributed environments, we need an infrastructure for finding and trusting other parties' public keys (i.e., a PKI). A number of useful applications become possible with PKI. While the applications differ in how they use keys (e.g., S/MIME uses the key for message encryption and signing, while client-side SSL uses the key for authentication), all applications share one assumption: users have keypairs. In previous work, we …

Vol. 27, No. 13 (November 29, 2004)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: November 29, 2004, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

Further Thoughts On Kanter And Ballard, Steve R. Johnson

Scholarly Publications

On December 7, 2004, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the consolidated Kanter and Ballard cases. The Tax Court had substantially upheld the IRS’s determinations of large deficiencies and fraud penalties against several taxpayers. The taxpayers argued in part that the Tax Court's application of its Rule 183 violated both due process and applicable statutes. I disagreed with those arguments then, and I continue to do so now. On appeal, the taxpayers' challenges to Rule 183 were rejected by the Fifth, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuits. The decisions of those circuits are sound and should be affirmed.

Both an …

Pluton Zonation Unveiled By Gamma-Ray Spectrometry And Magnetic Susceptibility; A Case Study Of The Sheeprock Granite, Western, Utah, Paul D. Richardson

Theses and Dissertations

A radiometric survey of the zoned 21 Ma, A-type Sheeprock granite, western Utah, combined with measurements of magnetic susceptibility and field observations were analyzed using a geographic information system. The intrusion spans 25 square km and is roughly eliptical in shape with its long axis trending northwest. Concentration maps (composed of more than 500 survey stations) of eU, eTh, texture, magnetic susceptibility, color, and joint density help to constrain magmatic and post-magmatic processes related to its chemical and physical zonation. Uranium ranges from 3.9 to 26.9 ppm (mean 12.7) and thorium from 1.7 to 125.7 ppm (mean 45.5). Similarities in …

Evolution And Phylogeny Of Basal Winged Insects With Emphasis On Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Thomas H. Ogden

Theses and Dissertations

Ephemeroptera (mayflies) is a monophyletic group of semi-aquatic pterygote insects, comprising 3083 species, 376 genera, and 37 described families and are present on all continents, excluding Antarctica, being associated with freshwater and brackish water habitats. The order is unique among pterygote insects in possessing functional wings at the penultimate molt (subimago stage), prior to the full development of genitalia; in all other insects the presence of functional wings occurs only after the final molt. The purpose of this dissertation is to use molecular and morphological data, in order to investigate the position of the order Ephemeroptera among other insect orders, …

Density Effects On Growth, Survival And Diet Of June Sucker (Chasmistes Liorus): A Component Allee Effect In An Endangered Species., David Barrett Gonzalez

Theses and Dissertations

Density-dependence is considered one of the most important regulators of population growth, and it has been documented across a wide variety of species. Typically, population growth rate and components thereof decline with increasing density (i.e., negative density-dependence); however, in species that exhibit high population densities and social behavior, positive density-dependence (i.e., Allee effect) may occur at low density. June sucker, a federally endangered lake sucker endemic to Utah Lake, Utah, USA, occurred historically at high density, and it exhibits coordinated feeding behavior. These characteristics indicate a potential for the existence of an Allee effect at current low population densities. To …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 28, 2004, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2004

No abstract provided.

11/27/2004 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 11/27/2004. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.