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2004 William & Mary Tax Conference Speakers

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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Bell’S Inequalities For Particles Of Arbitrary Spin In Fixed Analyzers, Ronen Mukamel, John C. Howell

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

We propose a new set of observables for experiments on entangled particles of arbitrarily large spin that produce significant Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality violations for fixed analyzer settings over a wider range of spins than was previously possible. These observables are better suited for experiments where analyzer orientations must be chosen before the spin of the entangled particles is known, such as experiments using polarization entangled downconverted photons.

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, November 18-19, 2004

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on November 18-19, 2004.

Tandem Intramolecular Nicholas And Pauson-Khand Reactions For The Synthesis Of Tricyclic Oxygen-Containing Heterocycles, Miriam M. Quintal, Kristina D. Closser, Kevin M. Shea

Chemistry: Faculty Publications

Simple acyclic enynes can be easily converted into tricyclic ethers upon treatment with Co2(CO)8followed by Nicholas and Pauson−Khand reactions. Tricyclic [5,8,5]- and [5,7,5]-systems can be prepared in high overall yields in only seven synthetic steps.

Minutes From The November 18, 2004 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty

University of Montana Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from the November 18, 2004 meeting of the University of Montana faculty.

Spartan Daily, November 18, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 57

Morphodynamics Of Bunces Pass, Florida, Jack C. Wilhoit Ii

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Bunces Pass is an unstructured tide-dominated inlet just north of the main entrance to Tampa Bay, Florida. The inlet has been stable for at least 130 years, as the size, shape, and orientation have remained unchanged. The morphological evolution of the Bunces Pass ebb-tidal delta is influenced by adjacent inlets. Historically, the ebb tidal delta was extremely large, due to the presence of the south channel of Pass-A-Grille Pass. As the tidal prism decreased through the south channel, the sheltering effect produced by the large ebb tidal delta diminished, and large volumes of sand began migrating shoreward. Sediment from the …

Spartan Daily, November 17, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 56

The Anchor, Volume 118.11: November 17, 2004, Hope College

The Anchor: 2004

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Grounding Design In Complexity., Silvia Pizzocaro

DRS Biennial Conference Series

As the frontier of present interdisciplinary sciences, complexity thinking can provide models to approach design research issues. Adaptation to the demands of a complex world requires to generate knowledge, and design knowledge, operating within a context of complexity, more than ever requires expanded and integrated ways of thought. Although the relationship between design and complexity has been explored for decades, the theory of complexity has only recently started to influence the debate in the professional community. Considering design as a wide dimension of making and planning disciplines, here it will be assumed not only that design theory and design thinking …

Mergers And Acquisitions Expert Available To Discuss Kmart, Sears Deal, Deidra Jackson

University of Mississippi News

The news that discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. is combining with Sears, Roebuck & Co. in an $11-billion deal to create the nation's third largest retailer thundered through Wall Street today. But University of Mississippi marketing professor Chuck Ingene believes the new company, Sears Holdings Corp., won't survive because Kmart and Sears "have little in common."

Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together: Pricing In Anticommons Property Arrangements, Ben Depoorter, Sven Vanneste

George Mason University School of Law Working Papers Series

Recently, a new theory has drawn considerable attention in the literature on common property. A number of scholars have pointed to the danger of excessive propertization in the context of what are termed "anticommons" property regimes. Although this theory has found its way into numerous legal and economic applications, the empirical and cognitive foundations of the theory of fragmentation remain unexplored. Based on experimental data, this Article conducts an investigation into the social and personal processes involved in the anticommons.

The results confirm the theoretical proposition that anticommons deadweight losses increase with the degree of complementarity between individual parts and …

Combination Of Cdf And D0 Results On The W Boson Mass And Width, Darin Acosta, Kenneth A. Bloom, Collider Detector At Fermilab Collaboration

Kenneth Bloom Publications

The results based on 1992–95 data (Run 1) from the CDF and D0 experiments on the measurements of the W boson mass and width are presented, along with the combined results. We report a Tevatron collider average M_W =80.456±0.059 GeV. We also report the Tevatron collider average of the directly measured W boson width Γ_W=2.115±0.105 GeV. We describe a new joint analysis of the direct W mass and width measurements. Assuming the validity of the standard model, we combine the directly measured W boson width with the width extracted from the ratio of W and Z boson …

What Is The Future Of Interactive Multi-User Systems?, Mark Palmer

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The research objective concerns the creation of genuine multi-user systems. This work arises from the creation of immersive systems and the philosophical critique of the assumptions made by discourses that seek to understand the digital. Although in philosophical terms this has focused on an immanent rather than transcendent ontology it is also possible to understand this approach through the ‘discoveries’ of complexity theory; concepts through which research can develop practical strategies that can be employed in the creation of these systems.

A Human-Computer Framework For Schema-Driven And Precedent-Driven Visual Analogy In Design., Wei Dai, Hernan Casakin

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The use of visual analogy is considered to be a most suitable aid for design problem solving. Reasoning by analogy deals with two main cognitive paradigms. The first one is concerned with schema-driven analogy, which is defined as the use of abstract experiential knowledge that can direct a design solution to a familiar problem type. The second paradigm has to do with precedent-driven analogy, and is distinguished by the use of a concrete prior design problem whose major components and its corresponding relationships could be explicitly mapped onto the problem at hand. In order to support the use of visual …

Making The Invisible Visible., Patrick Mcquade

DRS Biennial Conference Series

On the surface, the digital image is virtually indistinguishable from the film-based photographic image, but the underlying structure of the digital image is vastly different. The technology and processes employed to produce the digital image file is precisely what makes it unique, and will ultimately determine the future development of new visual aesthetics for this medium. Yet, at present, these aspects of technology and process are not apparent in the visual manifestation of the digital image. This paper argues that by acknowledging the unique process and technology of digital imaging, in other words making the invisible visible, is a logical …

Kansei Design Approach Based On Tangible Interaction Explicit Images Of 3d Objects And Evaluation Of Various Behaviors Related With Creation/Imagination By Analysis Of Brain Waves., Sunghee Lee

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This study aims to provide an understanding of the Kansei evaluation model in human sciences and its practical use of design interaction. Kansei means subjective criteria work on the emotional aspects of events (Lee, 2000). In a previous study (Lee, 2001), we found several effects of Kansei for evaluation when people appreciate or create paintings or products. This paper describes how Kansei works on design approaches and the relationship it has with personality through brain waves. And finally shows some examples of practical Kansei design approach by tangible interaction. Kansei works differently by people, events, and environments and it brings …

Appropriate Theory., Ranulph Glanville

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The relationships that may exist between two entities are examined, and interpreted when the entities are theory and design. Relationships that sustain theory and design, together, are isolated. A test for the appropriateness of a theory to its subject is introduced. The importance of developing this test is indicated. Ways of building theory that avoid the need for an appropriateness test are also explored. The benefits and weaknesses of these various understandings are considered. While some of the work presented here is already established, the means of establishing it and the degree of abstraction are novel.

Morphologic Study Of Laminates Obtained From Straight And Curved Folds, Naoko Takeda

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The following work presents an alternative for generating innovative forms, which can be applied in product design. The most recurred idea representation and form generator in traditional design has been “sketch”. This technique provides a means to represent the abstract ideas a designer’s mind generates in a material world, which in turn generates new formal ideas. The ideas a designer generates are actual databases in the mental archive made through experiences obtained throughout his life. This methodology is limited by the designer's imagination, frequently presenting a repeating cycle, each time with less innovative elements. The morphologic approach is a method …

Intuitive Interaction With Complex Artefacts., Alethea Blackler, Vesna Popovic, Douglas Mahar

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper addresses the application of intuitive interaction to interface design. Intuition is based on experiential knowledge and people can only use intuitive processing if they have previous experience to draw on. Previous research has revealed that prior knowledge of features of a digital camera and a universal remote control allowed participants to use those features intuitively. An experiment was conducted to test various interfaces applied to the universal remote control. The interfaces were designed according to principles developed previously. Users were video recorded doing set tasks with one of the four remote control interfaces. The video data were later …

Practical Uses Of Nanotechnology To Accelerate Design Innovation., Lyndon Anderson, Cameron Jones

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Nanotechnology promises a natural method to accelerate the complex task of innovation for many design problems by exploiting self-assembly and quantum processing at extreme scales of miniaturization. With this objective, a range of hybrid computer devices that use biological cells or chemical thin-films have been built to take advantage of nanoscale information processing. These devices are termed molecular computers and function by manipulating input sets of digital schematics or images stored to Compact Disc optical media. Light transmission through cells or chemical thin-films is a highly nonlinear phenomenon, and causes digital information to replicate with itself. This means that well-defined …

Disciplining Creativity: Neoliberalism And Design Education In New Zealand., Amanda Bill

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Two decades of educational reform in New Zealand have resulted in one of the most market-oriented regimes of higher education in the OECD. In this environment, enrolments in design and other creative degree courses that seem to provide an opportunity for individual expression and self-development have greatly increased. However, representatives of traditional industry sectors complain that there are hardly any jobs for these graduates, and little in the way of career paths. The situation thus seems to confound human capital approaches to education policy, in which tactics such as high fees and student loans are meant to exert a conservative …

Design For Uncertainty., Dirk Pons

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The development of engineering systems, whether those systems be products, plant or services, is a complex activity. The systems themselves are becoming more rather than less complex. Partly this arises from the need to optimise multiple system attributes including function, cost, resource usage, and style, among others. Also, most significant engineering projects involve diverse activities (including design, risk assessment, decision making, construction, and ongoing operation), and these invariably require teams of people with different skills. In turn that diversity requires effective management and leadership. Furthermore, the addition of electronic functionality and active control systems adds functionality but also introduces complex …

On The Implicit Intention In The Incubation And Pre-Inventive Structure Of Creative Design Thinking., Hisataka Noguchi, Yukari Nagai

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In recent research on the creative design thinking, it is pointed out that creative design idea often comes from unexpected thinking process. Finke et al. [1] asserted that there is, at first, pre-inventive structure of thinking while designer generates a visual image, and after he/she get an image as the result of the pre-inventive structure he/she explore and interpret them into creative idea. Lawson [2] presented five-stepped model of creative thinking process. In this model, they pointed out that after making effort to analyze design problem, designer often came to relaxed time and seemed to forget the problem, and after …

Towards 100 Actions For The 100 Languages Of Children: The Use Of Ethnographic Methods And Participatory Design To Enable An Investigation Into Children's Learning Using Tangible Media And Digital Technologies., Frank Feltham

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper takes a look at the opportunities Ethnographic methods including Participant Observation and Participatory Design offers for a context based research into children’s creative learning using tangible media and digital technologies. The intent of this paper is to discuss the study design in terms of its method and intended outcomes. This paper will also discuss some of the issues that have arisen as a result of the study of design of products and services in the information age. The title of the paper refers to the book “The 100 languages of children” (Edwards, Gandini et al. 1993) which documents …

A Comparative Study On Pattern In Traditional Palaces Of Korea, China And Japan., Hyun Jung Lee, Young Soon Park

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the pattern in traditional palaces among those in the neighboring three nations of East Asia, notably Korea, China and Japan. The basic assumption underlying this particular academic study is that these northeastern Asian states have been developed a unique inter-cultural ties over long periods of time in history, culminating in their respective design cultures. Moreover, there are the similarities as well as dissimilarities more conspicuous than the traditional palaces since the traditional palace is the intensive space of the design elements and in better preservation than any other building. Thus, it would …

Resisting Matter: Creating An Armature For Future Digital Practice., Inger Mewburn

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Until recently it was assumed that the 'digital stuff' of three dimensional digital models, although bound by the rigid co-ordinates of Cartesian space, was infinitely malleable. Now software tools can imbue digital models with simulated physical properties, making form through the relations between virtual forces. The forms generated by this process, resulting from the relations between mathematical algorithms have a bizzare birthing proces. Often ‘blobby’ or amorphous, they are startling - and strangely alluring - to a profession steeped in a history of design technique through representation which is dedicated to the idea of progressive refinement of form. Of particular …

Creating User Centred Designers., Andrée Woodcock

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The failure of practicing designers and engineers to encompass ergonomics issues in their practice has long been a source of frustration for both ergonomists and customers - ergonomists, because they know their discipline could inform and benefit the end product, and customers suffer the consequences of poor design. Although the relationship between ergonomics and design has been well explored, and has led to the development of various solutions - these have not had the major impact on design that was desired. This paper looks at a new approach, through education, that might lead to the creation of more user centred …

Road Crack Condition Performance Modeling Using Recurrent Markov Chains And Artificial Neural Networks, Jidong Yang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Timely identification of undesirable pavement crack conditions has been a major task in pavement management. Up to date, myriads of pavement performance models have been developed for forecasting pavement crack condition with the traditional preferred techniques being the use of regression relationships developed from laboratory and/or field statistical data. However, it becomes difficult for regression techniques to predict the crack performance accurately and robustly in the presence of a variety of tributary factors, high nonlinearity, and uncertainty. With the advancement of modeling techniques, two innovative breeds of models, Artificial Neural Networks and Markov Chains, have drawn increasing attention from researchers …

Fueling Loading And Potential Fire Behavior After Selective Harvest In Coast Redwood Stands, Christopher Dicus

Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.