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Ten Cal Poly Teachers Recognized In 'Who's Who' For Excellence, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Fixed-Connectivity Membranes, Mark Bowick

Physics - All Scholarship

The statistical mechanics of flexible surfaces with internal elasticity and shape fluctuations is summarized. Phantom and self-avoiding isotropic and anisotropic membranes are discussed, with emphasis on the universal negative Poisson ratio common to the low-temperature phase of phantom membranes and all strictly self-avoiding membranes in the absence of attractive interactions. The study of crystalline order on the frozen surface of spherical membranes is also treated.

Gsuniverse, 2004-12-21, Office Of Public Affairs

GSUniverse

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2002-2005.

Nanostructured-Doped Compound For Use In An El Element, Richard Czerw, David Carroll, Sakutaro Hoshi

Clemson Patents

A compound for use in an electro luminescent (EL) device. The compound includes a first substance in combination with a second substance. The first substance includes nanostructures in combination with an equal weight percentage of PPV derivative, whereas the second substance is a PPV derivative. The first substance makes up from greater than 0 wt % to about 3 wt % of the compound, whereas the second substance makes up the remainder. Also, an EL device made from the compound, and a method of making the EL device, are disclosed.

Envirotest Sys. V. Colo. Dep't Of Revenue

Colorado Supreme Court Records and Briefs Collection

No abstract provided.

12/21/2004 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/21/2004. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Baer V. Chase

2004 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Pociute V. West Chester Univ

2004 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Dedaj V. Atty Gen Usa

2004 Decisions

Agency

Fasold V. De River Bay Auth

2004 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Wilhelm V. Comm Of Pa

2004 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Amiot V. Kemper Ins Co

2004 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Graphic Communications Authority Frank Romano To Speak At Cal Poly, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Murray Ledger And Times, December 21, 2004, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Peter Bay Homeowners V. Stillman

2004 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands

Hollman V Cisneros: The Hollman Consent Decree, A Policy Analysis, David C. Broberg

Theses and Graduate Projects

The Hollman Consent Decree was the negotiated settlement in 1995 of a class action lawsuit, Hollman v Cisneros, filed in the fourth district federal judicial court in 1992 by the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis and the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, alleging racial discrimination by the City of Minneapolis and its public housing authority.

Despite the decrees call for the relocation of the public housing residents of the four north-side housing projects to areas of lower race and poverty concentrations, the majority of families relocated to other neighborhoods on the north side …

Openline Newsletter, December 21, 2004, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter for Civil Service employees, Volume XXIX, Number 6, December 21, 2004.

A Meta-Analytic Review Of The Effects Of High Stress On Eyewitness Memory, Kenneth A. Deffenbacher, Brian H. Bornstein, Steven D. Penrod, E. Kiernan Mcgorty

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

In the past 30 years researchers have examined the impact of heightened stress on the fidelity of eyewitness memory. Meta-analyses were conducted on 27 independent tests of the effects of heightened stress on eyewitness identification of the perpetrator or target person and separately on 36 tests of eyewitness recall of details associated with the crime. There was considerable support for the hypothesis that high levels of stress negatively impact both types of eyewitness memory. Meta-analytic Z-scores, whether unweighted or weighted by sample size, ranged from -5.40 to -6.44 (high stress condition–low stress condition). The overall effect sizes were -.31 for …

Loop Quantum Gravity Effects On Inflation And The Cmb, Shinji Tsujikawa, Parampreet Singh, Roy Maartens

Faculty Publications

In loop quantum cosmology, the universe avoids a big bang singularity and undergoes an early and short super-inflation phase. During super-inflation, non-perturbative quantum corrections to the dynamics drive an inflaton field up its potential hill, thus setting the initial conditions for standard inflation. We show that this effect can raise the inflaton high enough to achieve sufficient e-foldings in the standard inflation era. We analyse the cosmological perturbations generated when slow-roll is violated after super-inflation and show that loop quantum effects can in principle leave an indirect signature on the largest scales in the CMB, with some loss of power …

Secure Context-Sensitive Authorization, Kazuhiro Minami, David Kotz

Computer Science Technical Reports

There is a recent trend toward rule-based authorization systems to achieve flexible security policies. Also, new sensing technologies in pervasive computing make it possible to define context-sensitive rules, such as ``allow database access only to staff who are currently located in the main office.'' However, these rules, or the facts that are needed to verify authority, often involve sensitive context information. This paper presents a secure context-sensitive authorization system that protects confidential information in facts or rules. Furthermore, our system allows multiple hosts in a distributed environment to perform the evaluation of an authorization query in a collaborative way; we …

Public Health, Primary Care, And Privatization

Florida Public Health Review

No abstract provided.

Unh Students Help Seacoast Children Learn To Read, Jessica D'Avanza

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Willard Keith Bacon V. Norma Jean Bacon, Frank Pommersheim

Tribal Court Opinions Authored by Emeritus Professor of Law Frank Pommersheim

No abstract provided.

Partitioning Regular Polygons Into Circular Pieces Ii: Nonconvex Partitions, Mirela Damian, Joseph O'Rourke

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

We explore optimal circular nonconvex partitions of regular k-gons. The circularity of a polygon is measured by its aspect ratio: the ratio of the radii of the smallest circumscribing circle to the largest inscribed disk. An optimal circular partition minimizes the maximum ratio over all pieces in the partition. We show that the equilateral triangle has an optimal 4-piece nonconvex partition, the square an optimal 13-piece nonconvex partition, and the pentagon has an optimal nonconvex partition with more than 20 thousand pieces. For hexagons and beyond, we provide a general algorithm that approaches optimality, but does not achieve it.

During Season Of Giving, Parents Memorialize Son With Scholarship, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Despite being physically challenged, Mike Carmichael lived a remarkable life, graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1980 then spending his remaining years helping others.

Structural Properties Of Discs And Bulges Of Early-Type Galaxies, Roelof S. De Jong, Luc Simard, Roger L. Davies, R. P. Saglia, David Burstein, Matthew Colless, Robert Mcmahan, Gary Wegner

Dartmouth Scholarship

We have used the EFAR sample of galaxies to investigate the light distributions of early-type galaxies. We decompose the two-dimensional light distribution of the galaxies in a flattened spheroidal component with a Sérsic radial light profile and an inclined disc component with an exponential light profile. We show that if we assume that all galaxies can have a spheroidal and a disc component, then the brightest, bulge-dominated elliptical galaxies have a fairly broad distribution in the Sérsic profile shape parameter n_B, with a median of approximately 3.7 and with σ∼ 0.9. Other galaxies have smaller n_B values. …

Taking Back The Law School Classroom: Using Technology To Foster Active Student Learning, Paul L. Caron, Rafael Gely

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Teaching Talking: Oral Communication Skills In A Law Course, Jane Korn

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Samorządowy Model Ochrony Zdrowia. Przegląd Systemów I Reform W Wybranych Krajach Unii Europejskiej, Alicja Sobczak

European Management Studies

The article offers a description of characteristics of a local governmental model of health care. According to the author, these characteristics are: the domination of public sources of financing (especially local governments' budgets), the distribution of money on health care by the local government and administration, local government's ownership of most health-care units, availability of health-care services to every citizen. The article describes local governmental health care in the Scandinavian countries and Spain, presenting similarities and differences between particular systems and the reforms they have gone through. Special note was taken of the regulative function of the state and the …

Recenzja Książki Ekonomika Zdrowia Thomasa E. Getzena, Krzysztof Piotrowski

European Management Studies

No abstract provided.