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The Effect Of Gas Pressure On No Conversion Energy Efficiency In Nonthermal Nitrogen Plasma, Morris D. Argyle, Gui-Bing Zhao, S.V.B. Janardhan Garikipati, Xudong Hu, Maciej Radosz Nov 2004

The Effect Of Gas Pressure On No Conversion Energy Efficiency In Nonthermal Nitrogen Plasma, Morris D. Argyle, Gui-Bing Zhao, S.V.B. Janardhan Garikipati, Xudong Hu, Maciej Radosz

Faculty Publications

This work explores the effect of gas pressure on the rate of electron collision reactions and energy consumption for NO conversion in N2 in a pulsed corona discharge reactor. A previous study showed that the rate constant of electron collision reactions, multiplied by the electron concentration, can be expressed as k[e] = βα−0.5P−0.5W0.75exp(−αP/W). The model parameter α remains constant with increasing gas pressure, which verifies the previous assumption that the electron temperature is inversely proportional to gas pressure. However, the model parameter β decreases with increasing gas pressure, which indicates that the rate constant of electron collision reactions decreases with …


Pluton Zonation Unveiled By Gamma-Ray Spectrometry And Magnetic Susceptibility; A Case Study Of The Sheeprock Granite, Western, Utah, Paul D. Richardson Nov 2004

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 …


Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 30, November 29, 2004 Nov 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 30, November 29, 2004

Central Florida Future

Broken home: A displaced resident wants out of his one-year lease for a ruined apartment in Pegasus Pointe; Master Plan will add 2000 campus beds: Activists say complaints are ignored in UCF's growth plan; Muslims vote with religions in mind; No fair-weather fans here.


Evolution And Phylogeny Of Basal Winged Insects With Emphasis On Mayflies (Ephemeroptera), Thomas H. Ogden Nov 2004

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, …


Free Will's A Gamble, Seow Hon Tan Nov 2004

Free Will's A Gamble, Seow Hon Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The debate over whether Singapore should have a casino has turned from the contest between moral values and social repercussions, on the one hand, and economic values on the other, to whether Singaporeans can be trusted to act responsibly. Put another way, the issue now seems to be whether the approach should be paternalistic, with all its connotations of the nanny state protecting the individual from himself.


Density Effects On Growth, Survival And Diet Of June Sucker (Chasmistes Liorus): A Component Allee Effect In An Endangered Species., David Barrett Gonzalez Nov 2004

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 …


Applications Of Power Electronics-Based Systems In Vehicular Technology: State-Of-The-Art And Future Trends, R. Jayabalan, Babak Fahimi, A. Koenig, Steven Pekarek Nov 2004

Applications Of Power Electronics-Based Systems In Vehicular Technology: State-Of-The-Art And Future Trends, R. Jayabalan, Babak Fahimi, A. Koenig, Steven Pekarek

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Power electronics-Based systems and components have been increasingly used in land, air, and sea vehicles over the past decade. This has turned the vehicular products into a primary market for power electronics applications. Moreover, the existing trend in more electrification of the vehicles represents an even bigger potential for an increase in the existing demand. Although the primary incentive for introduction of multi-converter systems into vehicular technologies was to enhance fuel economy and environmental issues associated with vehicles; today, improvement of fault tolerance, cost, and compactness have boosted the motivation for development of the more electric vehicles. the use of …


American Folk, Preston Poe Nov 2004

American Folk, Preston Poe

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This piece is a forty-five minute video utilizing the concept of liquid medium cross-pollination of media including, sound, music, video and "found" art. The piece was shot over the course of three years at a cost of twelve thousand dollars using a Sony trv950, a Mac PowerBook, a 1954 Gibson J45, and a 1971 Guild F212, edited on Final Cut Pro and conceptualized for multiple viewings.


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

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

DeafDigest Gold 2004

No abstract provided.


Volume 42, Number 14: November 26, 2004, University Of North Dakota Nov 2004

Volume 42, Number 14: November 26, 2004, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.


Murray Ledger And Times, Part 1, November 26, 2004, Murray Ledger And Times Nov 2004

Murray Ledger And Times, Part 1, November 26, 2004, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Murray Ledger And Times, Part 2, November 26, 2004,, Murray Ledger And Times Nov 2004

Murray Ledger And Times, Part 2, November 26, 2004,, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


Procedural Due Process Aspects Of District Of Columbia Eviction Procedures, Lynn E. Cunningham Nov 2004

Procedural Due Process Aspects Of District Of Columbia Eviction Procedures, Lynn E. Cunningham

ExpressO

The District of Columbia Superior Court, Landlord and Tenant Branch, administers the local Forcible Entry and Detainer statute in a manner that arguably violates standards of adequate notice under the Due Process Clause.


November 24, 2004 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office Nov 2004

November 24, 2004 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.


The Cord Weekly (November 24, 2004) Nov 2004

The Cord Weekly (November 24, 2004)

The Cord

No abstract provided.


Tangible And Intangible Costs Of "Protecting Human Subjects": The Impact Of The National Research Act Of 1974 On University Research Activities, Frederic Jacobs, Arina Zonnenberg Nov 2004

Tangible And Intangible Costs Of "Protecting Human Subjects": The Impact Of The National Research Act Of 1974 On University Research Activities, Frederic Jacobs, Arina Zonnenberg

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This article (1) examines the overall structure of regulatory research oversight in the United States; (2) details the origins and evolution of federal legislation pertaining to the protection of human subjects in biomedical and behavioral treatment and research; and (3) describes the expansion of oversight regulation from biomedical and behavioral treatment areas to the social sciences. ...


Blog Post, I Am Usf St. Petersburg: Cyndie Collins, November 24, 2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Office Of University Advancement. Nov 2004

Blog Post, I Am Usf St. Petersburg: Cyndie Collins, November 24, 2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Office Of University Advancement.

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

A blog post from the series "I am USF St. Petersburg" about members of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg (USFSP). Cyndie Collins began her advising duties in the College of Education at USFSP. In 1997, she became the first director of the Academic Advising Center that handles undergraduate advising across all USFSP colleges.


Ke Alaka'i, Vol. 70, No. 12 (2004-11-24), Brigham Young University Hawaii Nov 2004

Ke Alaka'i, Vol. 70, No. 12 (2004-11-24), Brigham Young University Hawaii

Ke Alaka'i

No abstract provided.


Novelist, Former Creative Writing Instructor Larry Brown Dies, Deidra Jackson Nov 2004

Novelist, Former Creative Writing Instructor Larry Brown Dies, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Acclaimed novelist Larry Brown, 53, whose work has been lauded for its powerful descriptions of the rural South, died at home Tuesday night of a heart attack. He was buried Saturday at the Brown Family Farm in Tula.


E-News, Volume 2, No. 61, November 24, 2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Division Of University Relations Nov 2004

E-News, Volume 2, No. 61, November 24, 2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Division Of University Relations

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

The November 24, 2004, issue of E-News, a newsletter for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg community.


Banner News, Josh Hutt, Breget Medley, Matt Christensen, Jason Moore, Tammy Hartmann, Ashley Crouthamel, Erin Bradley, Megan Shadle, Brandon Kleinke Nov 2004

Banner News, Josh Hutt, Breget Medley, Matt Christensen, Jason Moore, Tammy Hartmann, Ashley Crouthamel, Erin Bradley, Megan Shadle, Brandon Kleinke

Banner News

No abstract provided.


Kalman Consensus Strategies And Their Application To Cooperative Control, Randal Beard, Derek Kingston, Wei Ren Nov 2004

Kalman Consensus Strategies And Their Application To Cooperative Control, Randal Beard, Derek Kingston, Wei Ren

Faculty Publications

Sponsorship: AFOSR, NSF. In this paper, we propose discrete-time and continuous-time consensus update schemes motivated by the discrete-time and continuous-time Kalman filters. With certainty information encoded into each agent, the proposed consensus schemes explicitly account for relative confidence in the information that is communicated from each agent in the team. We show mild sufficient conditions under which consensus can be achieved using the proposed schemes in the presence of switching interaction topologies. The Kalman consensus scheme is shown to be input-to-state stable. We show how to exploit this fact in multi-agent cooperative control scenarios.


Novelist, Former Creative Writing Instructor Larry Brown Dies, Deidra Jackson Nov 2004

Novelist, Former Creative Writing Instructor Larry Brown Dies, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Acclaimed novelist Larry Brown, 53, whose work has been lauded for its powerful descriptions of the rural South, died at home Tuesday night of a heart attack. Services are to be announced by Coleman Funeral Home of Oxford.


Design Of Cmos Four-Quadrant Gilbert Cell Multiplier Circuits In Weak And Moderate Inversion, Craig Timothy Remund Nov 2004

Design Of Cmos Four-Quadrant Gilbert Cell Multiplier Circuits In Weak And Moderate Inversion, Craig Timothy Remund

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents four-quadrant CMOS current-mode multiplier architectures based on the bipolar Gilbert cell multiplier architecture. Multipliers are designed using the CMOS subthreshold region to take advantage of the subthreshold exponential I-V relationship that closely matches bipolar modeling. It is discovered that biasing to remove drift current components and to address higher order effects such as ideality factor mismatch, threshold mismatch, body effect, and short channel effects, is important to provide a linear multiplier. It is also shown that distortion caused by device size mismatch and offset input currents can be used to cancel the distortion introduced by drift currents …


Development Of Pole Impact Testing At Multiple Vehicle Side Locations As Applied To The Ford Taurus Structural Platform, Mark Halford Warner Nov 2004

Development Of Pole Impact Testing At Multiple Vehicle Side Locations As Applied To The Ford Taurus Structural Platform, Mark Halford Warner

Theses and Dissertations

A test method was developed whereby repeated pole impacts could be performed at multiple locations per test vehicle, allowing a comparison of energy and crush relationships. Testing was performed on vehicles moving laterally into a 12.75 inch diameter rigid pole barrier. Crush energy absorption characteristics at the different locations were analyzed, and the results compared to test data from broad moving barrier crashes and available crash tests with similar pole impacts. The research documents the crush stiffness characteristics for narrow impacts at various points on the side of the Taurus vehicle platform. Factors encountered during the research include the importance …


Thanksgiving, Gleaves Whitney Nov 2004

Thanksgiving, Gleaves Whitney

Ask Gleaves

No abstract provided.


Vol. 55, No. 8, November 23, 2004, University Of Michigan Law School Nov 2004

Vol. 55, No. 8, November 23, 2004, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Scalia Visit Brings Attention, Constitutional Debate to M-Law •Editorial: Urine Trouble •Too 'Legit': Chomsky Rocks Hutchins •Scalia Faces Student Questions, Reactions •No Monopoly on Closed Mindedness •Actual Useful Information: Exam-Taking Tips from Profs, Students •Eating Crow: A Messy Situation •From the Bookshelf: Recommended Reading for Winter Break •Jenny Runkles Photos •Music Attorney Lays Down Laws of Rock •The Reason for the Season: Things to be Thankful for in the State of Hutchins •Why a Nation No Longer United? •Treat Your Last Like Your First: Recapture the First Semester Magic •Crossword •Question on the Quad


Curricular Affairs Committee Report #427, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate Nov 2004

Curricular Affairs Committee Report #427, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

No abstract provided.


Campus Assembly Minutes 11/23/2004, Campus Assembly Nov 2004

Campus Assembly Minutes 11/23/2004, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.


Minutes_04_11_23, Unm Faculty Senate Nov 2004

Minutes_04_11_23, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 1920 - 2013

Minutes from the November 23rd, 2004 Faculty Senate meeting.