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Internationalizing An Institution: An Emerging Model Of Effective Leadership, Infrastructure And Cultural Factors., Amelia Davis Courts Jan 2004

Internationalizing An Institution: An Emerging Model Of Effective Leadership, Infrastructure And Cultural Factors., Amelia Davis Courts

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

As the United States continues to play a leadership role in the international arena, it depends on the higher education sector to prepare capable leaders who can be guiding forces in the international economic, political, and social environments of the twenty-first century (National Association of State and Land Grant Universities, 2000). This is the ultimate goal of international education. Although current literature clearly describes the benefits of internationalizing higher education, there are few studies that describe how it can be successfully implemented at the institutional level. Using a qualitative, grounded theory approach, this study examined the factors that contributed to …

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Keep Your Home Healthy, Kenneth Hellevang Jan 2004

Keep Your Home Healthy, Kenneth Hellevang

AE Series – Agricultural Engineering/ABEN

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Regulating By Litigation: The Epa's Regulation Of Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines, Andrew P. Morriss, Bruce Yandle, Andrew Dorchak Jan 2004

Regulating By Litigation: The Epa's Regulation Of Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines, Andrew P. Morriss, Bruce Yandle, Andrew Dorchak

Faculty Scholarship

In this Article, the authors provide a case study of heavy-duty diesel engine regulation under the Clean Air Act, which reveals how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chooses various means of regulation at different times. The Article relates the EPA's choices to the incentives the agency faces. The Article also shows how the different forms of regulatory activity influence agency regulations. Finally, the Article concludes with a critique of regulation-by-litigation as a means of imposing substantive rules.

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The Role Of The Holy Spirit In Enabling Believers For Ministry: An Adventist Perspective, Marcos De Benedicto Jan 2004

The Role Of The Holy Spirit In Enabling Believers For Ministry: An Adventist Perspective, Marcos De Benedicto

Doctor of Ministry Projects

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Spectral Analysis And Regularity Quantification Of Skeletal Muscle Signals As A Non-Invasive Assessment Of Muscle Activity., Israel Restus Hall Jan 2004

Spectral Analysis And Regularity Quantification Of Skeletal Muscle Signals As A Non-Invasive Assessment Of Muscle Activity., Israel Restus Hall

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The research presented here was carried out at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Morgantown, West Virginia. At NIOSH, there is a strong need for modes of analyzing a wealth of biomedical data. In this particular case, that data was comprised of numerous muscleinduced force-time series, derived from two groups of experimental subjects. One group was comprised of rats exposed to vibration similar to that experienced by human workers who work with certain hand-tools or equipment. The other group was a control group, not exposed …

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Ot 501 Survey Of Biblical Hebrew, Michael D. Matlock Jan 2004

Ot 501 Survey Of Biblical Hebrew, Michael D. Matlock

Syllabi

1. Seow, C. L. A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. rev. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. This is the foundation text for this course. We will proceed through the text systematically in each module, and it will be referred to often in the lectures and assignments. The text contains lessons which will help us learn the essentials of Biblical Hebrew grammar. It is useful to the student because it introduces actual references from the Old Testament beginning in lesson four. 2. Holladay, William. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1972. This is a standard dictionary. …

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It 660 Technology In Ministry Practicum, R. Dale Hale Jan 2004

It 660 Technology In Ministry Practicum, R. Dale Hale

Syllabi

Heinich, R., Molenda, M., Russell, J. D., Smaldino, S. E., (1996) Instructional media and technologies for learning. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey. (383 pages) (Check out from either library or Help Desk.) Technologies for Worship Magazine – Subscribe online at http://www.tfwm.com White, S. (1994) Christian worship and technological change. Abingdon Press, Nashville. (167 pages)

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A Design Of Experimental Approach To Study The Road Marking Luminance Contrast And Variable Message Signs, Yong Cao Jan 2004

A Design Of Experimental Approach To Study The Road Marking Luminance Contrast And Variable Message Signs, Yong Cao

Open Access Dissertations

Manuscript I presents a study on the effects of road marking luminance contrast on driving safety through laboratory driving simulation experiments. Presented with a series of video stimuli showing different levels of marking luminance contrasts, subjects made responses based on their comprehension of marking color and configuration. It was found that subjects' responses dropped with the increment of marking luminance contrast. White markings are more visible than yellow markings. Driving at higher speeds got faster responses. Older subjects took the longest responses while younger subjects took the least. Female subjects responded slower than males. To warrant proper responses and assure …

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Accuracy Of Airborne Lidar-Derived Elevation: Empirical Assessment And Error Budget, Michael E. Hodgson, Patrick Bresnahan Jan 2004

Accuracy Of Airborne Lidar-Derived Elevation: Empirical Assessment And Error Budget, Michael E. Hodgson, Patrick Bresnahan

Faculty Publications

As part of a countywide large-scale mapping effort for Richland County, South Carolina, an accuracy assessment of a recently acquired lidar-derived data set was conducted. Airborne lidar (2-m nominal posting) was collected at a flying height of 1207 meters above ground level (AGL) using an Optech ALTM (Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper) 1210 system. Unique to this study are the reference point elevations. Rather than using an interpolation approach for gathering observed elevations at reference points, the x-y coordinates of lidar points were located in the field and these elevations were surveyed. Using both total-station-based and rapid-static GPS techniques, observed vertical …

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Dsp Implementation Of A Digital Non-Linear Interval Control Algorithm For A Quasi-Keyhole Plasma Arc Welding Process, Matthew Wayne Everett Jan 2004

Dsp Implementation Of A Digital Non-Linear Interval Control Algorithm For A Quasi-Keyhole Plasma Arc Welding Process, Matthew Wayne Everett

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

The Quasi-Keyhole plasma arc welding (PAW) process is a relatively simple concept, which provides a basis for controlling the weld quality of a subject work piece by cycling the arc current between a static base and variable peak level. Since the weld quality is directly related to the degree of penetration and amount of heat that is generated and maintained in the system, the Non-Linear Interval Control Algorithm provides a methodology for maintaining these parameters within acceptable limits by controlling the arc current based upon measured peak current times. The Texas Instruments TMS320VC5416 DSK working in conjunction with Signalwares AED-109 …

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Fpga Based Implementation Of A Position Estimator For Controlling A Switched Reluctance Motor, Srilaxmi Pampana Jan 2004

Fpga Based Implementation Of A Position Estimator For Controlling A Switched Reluctance Motor, Srilaxmi Pampana

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Rotor Position information is essential in the operation of the Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) for properly controlling its phase currents. This thesis uses Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology to implement a method to estimate the SRMs rotor position using the inverse inductance value of the SRMs phases. The estimated rotor position is given as input to the Commutator circuit, also implemented in the FPGA, to determine when torque-producing currents should be input in the SRM phase windings. The Estimator and Commutator design is coded using Verilog HDL and is simulated using Xilinx tools. This circuit is implemented on a …

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Aligning Mathematics Curriculum To Create Potential For Active Learning In Pre-K Through Eighth Grade Teacher Education, G. E. Parker Jan 2004

Aligning Mathematics Curriculum To Create Potential For Active Learning In Pre-K Through Eighth Grade Teacher Education, G. E. Parker

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

In this paper, we consider some issues surrounding the teaching of mathematics to pre-service teachers. In particular. we look at the possibilities for teaching elementary mathematics from an advanced standpoint and alignments of curriculum that have the capacity to enhance student involvement in the making of the mathematics.The particulars of the James Madison University curriculum are used to illustrate many of the points.

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Wavelet And Sine Based Analysis Of Print Quality Evaluations, Vijay Venkatesh Mahalingam Jan 2004

Wavelet And Sine Based Analysis Of Print Quality Evaluations, Vijay Venkatesh Mahalingam

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Recent advances in imaging technology have resulted in a proliferation of images across different media. Before it reaches the end user, these signals undergo several transformations, which may introduce defects/artifacts that affect the perceived image quality. In order to design and evaluate these imaging systems, perceived image quality must be measured. This work focuses on analysis of print image defects and characterization of printer artifacts such as banding and graininess by using a human visual system (HVS) based framework. Specifically the work addresses the prediction of visibility of print defects (banding and graininess) by representing the print defects in terms …

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Fpga Based Control Of High Temperature Switched Reluctance Motor For Improving The Input Power Quality, Anush Viswanath Krishnamurthy Jan 2004

Fpga Based Control Of High Temperature Switched Reluctance Motor For Improving The Input Power Quality, Anush Viswanath Krishnamurthy

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

This thesis develops a hardware circuit implementation of a novel algorithm for reducing a SRM drives input current ripple or equivalently to improve the SRM drives input power quality. The algorithm requires the SRMs phase current to follow a trapezoidal trajectory relative to the rotors position with the magnitude of the current dependent on the desired average torque. This thesis deals with the generation of the required current command that is the input to a separate analog current regulator that forces the SRMs current to follow the generated current command. The final circuit design must be capable of operating at …

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Health Care's "Thirty Years War": The Origins And Dissolution Of Managed Care, Edward P. Richards, Thomas R. Mclean Jan 2004

Health Care's "Thirty Years War": The Origins And Dissolution Of Managed Care, Edward P. Richards, Thomas R. Mclean

Journal Articles

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Design And Analysis Of An R-Shaped Dual-Band Planar Inverted-F Antenna For Vehicular Applications, Mohammod Ali, Guangli Yang, Huan-Sheng Hwang, Tuangsit Sittironnarit Jan 2004

Design And Analysis Of An R-Shaped Dual-Band Planar Inverted-F Antenna For Vehicular Applications, Mohammod Ali, Guangli Yang, Huan-Sheng Hwang, Tuangsit Sittironnarit

Faculty Publications

A dual-band R-shaped planar inverted-F antenna is proposed for vehicular application. Utilization of this unique geometry dual-frequency operation is achieved with a single feed. The proposed antenna operates in the 225- and 450-MHz bands. Input impedance and return loss data as function of various antenna parameters are presented, which show that parameters can be adjusted in order to obtain optimum tuning. Radiation pattern data for the antenna mounted on the roof of two types of vehicles are given. The pattern in the low-frequency band is essentially omnidirectional while that in the high-frequency band is directional and normal to the antenna …

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Federal Government Contractors With Conforming Changes As Of May 1, 2004; Audit And Accounting Guide:, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Government Contractors Guide Special Committee Jan 2004

Federal Government Contractors With Conforming Changes As Of May 1, 2004; Audit And Accounting Guide:, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Government Contractors Guide Special Committee

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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Paths Diverging? The Next Decade In The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance, William E. Rapp Ltc Jan 2004

Paths Diverging? The Next Decade In The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance, William E. Rapp Ltc

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The author explores the changing nature of Japanese security policy and the impact of those changes on the U.S.-Japan security alliance. He begins his analysis by acquainting the reader with an insider's view of the conflicted Japanese conceptions of security policy and the various ideational and structural restraints on expanding the role of the military. Next, he explores the events of the past decade that have caused huge shifts in security policy and posture and predicts the future vectors of those changes within Japan. Finally, the author overlays the likely Japanese security future on the alliance and concludes that changes …

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The Implementation Of Fda Determinations In Litigation: Why Do We Defer To The Pto But Not To The Fda?, William G. Childs Jan 2004

The Implementation Of Fda Determinations In Litigation: Why Do We Defer To The Pto But Not To The Fda?, William G. Childs

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Lay Jurors In Patent Litigation: Reviving The Active, Inquisitorial Model For Juror Participation, Joel C. Johnson Jan 2004

Lay Jurors In Patent Litigation: Reviving The Active, Inquisitorial Model For Juror Participation, Joel C. Johnson

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Changing Channels And Bridging Divides: The Failure And Redemption Of American Broadcast Television Regulation, Anthony E. Varona Jan 2004

Changing Channels And Bridging Divides: The Failure And Redemption Of American Broadcast Television Regulation, Anthony E. Varona

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Lessons From The Interaction Of Biotechnology, Intellectual Property And World Needs, Charles C. Muscoplat Jan 2004

Lessons From The Interaction Of Biotechnology, Intellectual Property And World Needs, Charles C. Muscoplat

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Reform In The "Brave Kingdom": Alternative Compensation Systems For Peer-To-Peer File Sharing, Joseph Gratz Jan 2004

Reform In The "Brave Kingdom": Alternative Compensation Systems For Peer-To-Peer File Sharing, Joseph Gratz

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Flight Muscle–Specific Expression Of Act88f: Gfp In Transgenic Culex Quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae), Margaret L. Allen, Bruce M. Christensen Jan 2004

Flight Muscle–Specific Expression Of Act88f: Gfp In Transgenic Culex Quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae), Margaret L. Allen, Bruce M. Christensen

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

A strategy to engineer a strain of Culex mosquitoes refractory to filarial transmission is described. A requirement for success of the strategy is identification of a flight muscle–specific promoter that functions in the mosquito. A GFP marker gene under the control of the promoter region of the Drosophila melanogaster act88F gene was inserted into the genome of Culex quinquefasciatus. Transformation was confirmed by Mendelian genetics. Hy-bridization of a genomic Southern blot to a radiolabeled probe verified that the entire donor plasmid integrated into the mosquito genome. GFP expression in the transgenic mosquitoes was restricted to the flight muscles.

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A Study In Modeling Low-Conservation Protein Superfamilies, Chang Wang, Stephen Scott, Jun Zhang, Qingping Tao, Dmitri E. Fomenko, Vadim N. Gladyshev Jan 2004

A Study In Modeling Low-Conservation Protein Superfamilies, Chang Wang, Stephen Scott, Jun Zhang, Qingping Tao, Dmitri E. Fomenko, Vadim N. Gladyshev

School of Computing: Technical Reports

We present several algorithms for identification of new proteins in superfamilies with low primary sequence conservation. The low conservation of primary sequence in protein superfamilies such as Thioredoxin-fold (Trx-fold) makes conventional methods such as hidden Markov models (HMMs) difficult to use. Therefore, we use structural properties to build our classifiers. These structural properties include secondary structure patterns as well as various properties of the residues in the protein sequences. We use this information to model proteins via hidden Markov models, support vector machines and algorithms in the multiple-instance learning model. In 20-fold jack-knife tests, some of our models performed well, …

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Variable Rate Execution, Steve Goddard, Xin Liu Jan 2004

Variable Rate Execution, Steve Goddard, Xin Liu

School of Computing: Technical Reports

We present a task model for adaptive real-time tasks in which a task’s execution rate requirements are allowed to change at any time. The model, variable rate execution (VRE), is an extension of the rate-based execution (RBE) model. We relax the constant execution rate assumption of canonical realtime task models by allowing both the worst case execution time (WCET) and the period to be variable. The VRE model also supports tasks joining and leaving the system at any time. Another advantage of the new task model is that the exact execution rate need not be known for soft real-time or …

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Investigation Of Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Micromachining Of Lithium Niobate, A. Malshe, D. Deshpande, E. Stach, Kamlakar Rajurkar, Dennis R. Alexander Jan 2004

Investigation Of Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Micromachining Of Lithium Niobate, A. Malshe, D. Deshpande, E. Stach, Kamlakar Rajurkar, Dennis R. Alexander

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Lithium Niobate has a potential for applications in electronics and communication industries due to its unique electro-optical, piezoelectric and nonlinear properties. Femtosecond laser machining offers the best alternative to machine the mechanically fragile and optically delicate lithium niobate crystal. This paper reports a study of the effect of femtosecond laser machining on the surface integrity of lithium niobate. The transmission electron microscopy reveals a 100nm thin amorphous region and a void. The chemical analysis shows a loss of lithium and oxygen from the surface and sub-surface. Optical illumination facilitates the selective readout of the written spots of 2 microns size.

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The Relationship Of Field Burn Severity Measures To Satellite-Derived Burned Area Reflectance Classification (Barc) Maps, Andrew T. Hudak, Pete Robichaud, Terrie Jain, Penelope Morgan, Carter Stone, Jess Clark Jan 2004

The Relationship Of Field Burn Severity Measures To Satellite-Derived Burned Area Reflectance Classification (Barc) Maps, Andrew T. Hudak, Pete Robichaud, Terrie Jain, Penelope Morgan, Carter Stone, Jess Clark

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Preliminary results are presented from ongoing research on spatial variability of fire effects on soils and vegetation from the Black Mountain Two and Cooney Ridge wildfires, which burned in western Montana during the 2003 fire season. Extensive field fractional cover data were sampled to assess the efficacy of quantitative satellite image-derived indicators of burn severity. The objective of this study was to compare the field burn severity measures to the digital numbers used to produce Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) maps. Canopy density was the field variable most highly correlated to BARC data derived from either SPOT Multispectral (XS) or …

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Less Waste Corn, More Land In Soybeans, And The Switch To Genetically Modified Crops: Trends With Important Implications For Wildlife Management, Gary L. Krapu, David A. Brandt, Robert R. Cox Jr. Jan 2004

Less Waste Corn, More Land In Soybeans, And The Switch To Genetically Modified Crops: Trends With Important Implications For Wildlife Management, Gary L. Krapu, David A. Brandt, Robert R. Cox Jr.

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

American agriculture has provided abundant high-energy foods for migratory and resident wildlife populations since the onset of modern wildlife management. Responding to anecdotal evidence that corn residues are declining in cropland, we remeasured waste corn postharvest in the Central Platte River Valley (CPRV) of Nebraska during 1997 and 1998 to compare with 1978. Post-harvest waste corn averaged 2.6% and 1.8% of yield in 1997 and 1998, respectively. After accounting for a 20% increase in yield, waste corn in 1997 and 1998 was reduced 24% and 47% from 1978. We also evaluated use of soybeans by spring-staging sandhill cranes ( Grus …

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The Accidental Plant Pathologist, Anne K. Vidaver Jan 2004

The Accidental Plant Pathologist, Anne K. Vidaver

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

This article presents the experiences of a woman in academic plant pathology from the 1950s to today. Topics include the social climate for women in science, personal and professional developments and research discoveries, public policy issues in agriculture and biotechnology affecting plant pathology, and projections for the future of plant pathology.

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