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Historiography And Civil War, Christopher S. Freeman Dec 2004

Historiography And Civil War, Christopher S. Freeman

Civil War Book Review

The father of history, Herodotus, in The Histories, wrote so that human achievement may not become forgotten in time. While his intellectual successor, Thucydides, in The History of the Peloponnesian War, wrote for those who want to look into the truth of what was done in the past. T....

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Li'l Dan, The Drummer Boy A Civil War Story, Romare Bearden Dec 2004

Li'l Dan, The Drummer Boy A Civil War Story, Romare Bearden

Civil War Book Review

Li'l Dan, The Drummer Boy: Interviews with Dr. Maya Angelou and Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley by Leah Wood Jewett

Maya Angelou is a celebrated poet, writer, and educator. The author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor. She....

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Feature Essay, David Madden Dec 2004

Feature Essay, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Swinging a Sabre Dipped in Ink

American artist's political parries and thrusts retold

Did Van Gogh, Degas, Daumier, and Dore sketch the American Civil War?Of course not. But in the satirical and sentimental sketches and paintings of the war by Thomas Nast one sees resemblances b....

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Feature Essay, James D. Hardy Dec 2004

Feature Essay, James D. Hardy

Civil War Book Review

Trials and Tribulations

Two Books offers insight into court cases

From the Compromise of 1850 through the Civil Rights cases, the Civil War era brought contentious jurisprudential issues to the Supreme Court. Litigation arose over Civil War measures, military justice, Reconstruct....

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In The Presence Of Mine Enemies: War In The Heart Of America, 1859-1863, Paul Christopher Anderson Dec 2004

In The Presence Of Mine Enemies: War In The Heart Of America, 1859-1863, Paul Christopher Anderson

Civil War Book Review

View from the Valley

Book compares Pennsylvania and Virginia counties

When Edward L. Ayers last published a book on the scale of his new one, In the Presence of Mine Enemies, he found himself defending what he called an experiment in narrative history. That work, The Pr....

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Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission And Enslavement In New Orleans, 1846-1862, Kym S. Rice Dec 2004

Becoming Free, Remaining Free: Manumission And Enslavement In New Orleans, 1846-1862, Kym S. Rice

Civil War Book Review

Fragile Freedom

Lawsuits illuminate struggle to maintain liberty

Legal historian Judith Kelleher Schafer's book compliments other recent and important studies of manumission and freedom in the antebellum South. Schafer's work, like Stephen Whitman and Christopher Phillips study....

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A Country Of Our Own: A Novel Of The Civil War At Sea, Thomas Dyja Dec 2004

A Country Of Our Own: A Novel Of The Civil War At Sea, Thomas Dyja

Civil War Book Review

War on the Waves

Novel details battles at sea

If you can use fardage in a sentence, you may well enjoy this book more than the lay reader who will be, sorry to say, left at sea by A Country of Our Own, not so much a nautical thriller as a Civil War technothriller. While C.....

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Gettysburg: Memory, Market, And An American Shrine, Glenn W. Lafantasie Dec 2004

Gettysburg: Memory, Market, And An American Shrine, Glenn W. Lafantasie

Civil War Book Review

Paying Homage

Scholar identifies commercial roots of battlefield's development

For Americans, all roads lead to Gettysburg. As the site of one of the Civil War's most pivotal battles and the most famous speech in American history, Gettysburg has come to mean many different thing....

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Guerrilla Season, Julia Rose Dec 2004

Guerrilla Season, Julia Rose

Civil War Book Review

Friend or Foe?

Fictional family fights enemies at home

Matt Howard's boots were too small causing him pain when he plowed his family's corn fields and hunted rabbits for his widowed mother and five siblings. Matt refused to exchange his cramped boots for shoes big enough for a ma....

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Hallowed Ground: A Walk At Gettysburg, Eric Campbell Dec 2004

Hallowed Ground: A Walk At Gettysburg, Eric Campbell

Civil War Book Review

On the Battlefield

Scholar illustrates trek through sacred space

The combination of the country's preeminent Civil War historian writing about the most famous battle in American history would it seems, produce an irresistible book. The result is Hallowed Ground, A Walk at Get....

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In Time Of War, Diana E. Barrett Dec 2004

In Time Of War, Diana E. Barrett

Civil War Book Review

Turning Back the Clock

Modern characters struggle to navigate the past

In Time of War, by Allen Appel, starts with a bang—literally. Time-traveler, Alex Balfour, arrives on a steep hillside in the Shenandoah Valley between the forces of Custer and Sheridan just moments be....

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Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Glycoprotein K And The Ul20 Protein Are Interdependent For Intracellular Trafficking And Trans-Golgi Network Localization, Timothy P. Foster, Jeffrey M. Melancon, Trisha L. Olivier, Konstantin G. Kousoulas Dec 2004

Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Glycoprotein K And The Ul20 Protein Are Interdependent For Intracellular Trafficking And Trans-Golgi Network Localization, Timothy P. Foster, Jeffrey M. Melancon, Trisha L. Olivier, Konstantin G. Kousoulas

Faculty Publications

Final envelopment of the cytoplasmic herpes simplex virus Hype 1 (HSV-1) nucleocapsid is thought to occur by budding into trans-Golgi network (TGN)-derived membranes. The highly membrane-associated proteins UL20p and glycoprotein K (gK) are required for cytoplasmic envelopment at the TGN and virion transport from the TGN to extracellular spaces. Furthermore, the UL20 protein is required for intracellular transport and cell surface expression of gK. Independently expressed gK or UL20p via transient expression in Vero cells failed to be transported from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Similarly, infection of Vero cells with either gK-null or UL20-null viruses resulted in ER entrapment of …

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Wind Tunnel Investigation Of The Static Stability And Control Effectiveness Of A Rotary Tail In A Portable Uav, Jose R. Rivera Parga Dec 2004

Wind Tunnel Investigation Of The Static Stability And Control Effectiveness Of A Rotary Tail In A Portable Uav, Jose R. Rivera Parga

Theses and Dissertations

The Air Force Research Lab, Munitions Directorate, Flight Vehicles Integration Branch (AFRL/MNAV) developed a man-portable, carbon-fiber matrix UAV with a flexible rectangular wing of 24" span and 6" chord, 18.2" length. There is a need for the development of smaller and lighter UAV's to perform certain missions. The objective of this experimental study was to determine the behavior and the aerodynamic characteristics of rotary tails. The bird-inspired rotary tail mechanism studied enabled control of two degrees of freedom and was configured to provide elevator deflection and rotation. Its effects on the static stability and control effectiveness were measured using the …

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Ultra Wide Band Signal Modeling For Radar Receiver Characterization, Robert J. Backscheider Dec 2004

Ultra Wide Band Signal Modeling For Radar Receiver Characterization, Robert J. Backscheider

Theses and Dissertations

Results for modeling, simulation, and analysis of interference effects that modern wideband signals have on existing narrowband radar system performance are presented. In particular, radar detection performance is characterized using a basic radar receiver model and operational parameters consistent with those of the ARSR-4 air route surveillance radar. Two modern wideband signals (interferers) are addressed in this work, including the GPS military signal (M-Code signal) and a direct sequence ultra wideband (DS-UWB) waveform meeting outdoor emission restrictions imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Interference effects are characterized for an unmodulated sinusoidal pulse as well as linear frequency modulated (LFM) …

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Non-Cooperative Detection Of Ultra Wideband Signals, Brett D. Gronholz Dec 2004

Non-Cooperative Detection Of Ultra Wideband Signals, Brett D. Gronholz

Theses and Dissertations

Techniques for the non-cooperative (non-matched filter) detection of impulse-like ultra wideband signals using channelized receiver architectures are developed and evaluated. Each technique considered is modeled and simulations conducted to characterize detection performance, the results of which are compared with the detection performance of three receivers: the matched filter receiver, which provides optimum detection performance in AWGN; the radiometer, or energy detector; and the multi-aperture cross correlation receiver. It is shown that a channelized receiver (with no downconversion) can provide approximately 2.5 dB improvement over the radiometer when performing detection using the temporal-temporal matrix (TTM). The TTM processing technique provides the …

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Forensic Analysis Of Digital Image Tampering, Jonathan R. Sturak Dec 2004

Forensic Analysis Of Digital Image Tampering, Jonathan R. Sturak

Theses and Dissertations

The use of digital photography has increased over the past few years, a trend which opens the door for new and creative ways to forge images. The manipulation of images through forgery influences the perception an observer has of the depicted scene, potentially resulting in ill consequences if created with malicious intentions. This poses a need to verify the authenticity of images originating from unknown sources in absence of any prior digital watermarking or authentication technique. This research explores the holes left by existing research; specifically, the ability to detect image forgeries created using multiple image sources and specialized methods …

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Effects Of Variable Contact Load On Fretting Fatigue Behavior Of Shot-Peened And Un-Peened Titanium Alloy, Chia-Hawa Lee Dec 2004

Effects Of Variable Contact Load On Fretting Fatigue Behavior Of Shot-Peened And Un-Peened Titanium Alloy, Chia-Hawa Lee

Theses and Dissertations

Fretting fatigue occurs between two components in contact under relative motion and reduces fatigue life when compared with plain fatigue. Shot-peening, on the other hand, is the most commonly used cold working process to improve material fatigue resistance in aeronautical industries. Nearly all work accomplished to date has assumed a constant contact load while investigating fretting fatigue. The primary goal of this study was to explore fretting fatigue behavior under constant and variable contact load configurations using both shot-peened and un-peened specimens made up of Ti-6Al-4V alloy. Contact loads were applied with four different frequencies. Applied axial loads were also …

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Consistency Results For The Roc Curves Of Fused Classifiers, Kristopher S. Bjerkaas Dec 2004

Consistency Results For The Roc Curves Of Fused Classifiers, Kristopher S. Bjerkaas

Theses and Dissertations

The U.S. Air Force is researching the fusion of multiple classifiers. Given a finite collection of classifiers to be fused, one seeks a new classifier with improved performance. An established performance quantifier is the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve, which allows one to view the probability of detection versus the probability of false alarm in one graph. Previous research shows that one does not have to perform tests to determine the ROC curve of this new fused classifier. If the ROC curve for each individual classifier has been determined, then formulas for the ROC curve of the fused classifier exist …

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Recommender Systems For Multimedia Libraries: An Evaluation Of Different Models For Datamining Usage Data, Raquel Oliveira Araujo Dec 2004

Recommender Systems For Multimedia Libraries: An Evaluation Of Different Models For Datamining Usage Data, Raquel Oliveira Araujo

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Many recommender systems exist today to help users deal with the large growth in the amount of information available in the Internet. Most of these recommender systems use collaborative filtering or content-based techniques to present new material that would be of interest to a user. While these methods have proven to be effective, they have not been designed specifically for multimedia collections. In this study we present a new method to find recommendations that is not dependent on traditional Information Retrieval (IR) methods and compare it to algorithms that do rely on traditional IR methods. We evaluated these algorithms using …

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Hydrogeologic Model Of A Leachate Plume In An Unconfined Coastal Plain Aquifer And Chemical Transport Mechanisms Of Metals And Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids, Thomas Lindblad Dec 2004

Hydrogeologic Model Of A Leachate Plume In An Unconfined Coastal Plain Aquifer And Chemical Transport Mechanisms Of Metals And Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids, Thomas Lindblad

Theses and Dissertations

Groundwater contamination is of increasing environmental concern as many aquifers across the globe have experienced a decrease in water quality in recent time. The growth of the world's population over the last couple of decades has caused a dramatic increase in the rate of groundwater use. One potential source of groundwater contamination is waste material in landfills. The 1 st Division Road Sanitary landfill at Fort Benning Military Reservation was studied to evaluate the potential effect on local groundwater and a leachate plume was recognized using data from 16 groundwater monitoring wells located around the facility. The study site is …

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Look Before You Leap And Keep On Looking: Lessons From The Institutionalization Of Court-Connected Mediation, Bobbie Mcadoo, Nancy A. Welsh Dec 2004

Look Before You Leap And Keep On Looking: Lessons From The Institutionalization Of Court-Connected Mediation, Bobbie Mcadoo, Nancy A. Welsh

Nevada Law Journal

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Legal Pragmatism, An Ideal Speech Situation, And The Fully Embodied Democratic Process, Dmitri N. Shalin Dec 2004

Legal Pragmatism, An Ideal Speech Situation, And The Fully Embodied Democratic Process, Dmitri N. Shalin

Nevada Law Journal

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The Lawyer's Role(S) In Deliberative Democracy, Carrie Menkel-Meadow Dec 2004

The Lawyer's Role(S) In Deliberative Democracy, Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Nevada Law Journal

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Extending A Qualified Evidentiary Privilege To Confidential Communications Between Employees And Their Union Representatives, Michael D. Moberly Dec 2004

Extending A Qualified Evidentiary Privilege To Confidential Communications Between Employees And Their Union Representatives, Michael D. Moberly

Nevada Law Journal

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Lawyers, Democracy And Dispute Resolution: The Declining Influence Of Lawyer-Statesmen Politicians And Lawyerly Values, Jeffrey W. Stempel Dec 2004

Lawyers, Democracy And Dispute Resolution: The Declining Influence Of Lawyer-Statesmen Politicians And Lawyerly Values, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Nevada Law Journal

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Interferences In Electron Emission Spectra For H+ Impact On H2, Sabbir Hossain Dec 2004

Interferences In Electron Emission Spectra For H+ Impact On H2, Sabbir Hossain

Dissertations

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Relational And Informational Privileges And The Case Of The Mysterious Mediation Privilege, Eileen A. Scallen Dec 2004

Relational And Informational Privileges And The Case Of The Mysterious Mediation Privilege, Eileen A. Scallen

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Back To The Future With Privileges Abandon Codification, Not The Common Law, Paul R. Rice Dec 2004

Back To The Future With Privileges Abandon Codification, Not The Common Law, Paul R. Rice

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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A Legisprudential Analysis Of Evidence Codification: Why Most Rules Of Evidence Should Not Be Codified - But Privilege Law Should Be, Paul F. Kirgis Dec 2004

A Legisprudential Analysis Of Evidence Codification: Why Most Rules Of Evidence Should Not Be Codified - But Privilege Law Should Be, Paul F. Kirgis

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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A Conversation With Judith Hopkins: Part I, Ellen T. Mcgrath Dec 2004

A Conversation With Judith Hopkins: Part I, Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Other Scholarship

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