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A Moving-Boundary Model Of A Centrifugal Chiller System, Satyam Bendapudi, James E. Braun, Eckhard A. Groll

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Q-Pod: Deployable And Scalable End System Support For Enabling Qos In Legacy Enterprise Systems, Asad Khan Awan, Kihong Park

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Convective Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics Of R410a In Microchannels, Rin Yun, Jae Hyeok Heo, Yong Chan Kim, Jin Taek Chung

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Evaporator Fouling On The Performance Of Packaged Air Conditioners, Li Yang, James E. Braun, Eckhard A. Groll

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

On Refrigeration Effects Of The Power Cycles With Gas-Dynamic Regeneration, Igor I. Samkhan

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Noise Reduction Technology With Porous Metal For Refrigerant Two-Phase Flow Through The Expansion Valve, Satoshi Hirakuni, Masahiro Nakayama, Hiroaki Makino, Atsushi Mochizuki, Yoshihiro Sumida

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Using The Tewi Methodology To Evaluate Alternative Refrigeration Technologies, Reinaldo Maykot, Gustavo C. Weber, Ricard A. Maciel

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Unitary Air Conditioner Field Performance, Todd M. Rossi

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Foam Flow Of Oil-Refrigerant R134a Mixture In A Small Diameter Tube, Heryca Olenir Sousa Castro, Jose Luiz Gasche, Wanderson Paterlini Conti

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Sensible Heat Recovery Of Ventilation Energy Of Heat Pump In Heating Mode, An Nguyen, Youn Gil Kim

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

2004 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award For Excellence In Work-Family Research Publication, Shelley M. Macdermid

Center for Families Publications

Over the past few decades there has been an explosion of research on the relationships between work and non-work life. Researchers studying these issues come from many disciplines and professions, resulting in fragmented awareness of one another's work. In addition, exchanges of research information among scholars, consultants and corporate practitioners are limited. Many research studies are not well-grounded in theory, slowing the generation of new knowledge. As a result, it has been difficult to develop shared standards for research quality and to avoid redundance in the research literature. Some excellent studies have failed to have impact because of lack of …

Eco 104 Smith, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Anwar Shaikh. (197?, November 24). Value I: Marx on Smith (TSV, I) [Unpublished handwritten lecture notes]. Author.

• Shaikh, A. (2001, October 2). Historical background on merchant capitalism and industrial capitalism [Unpublished manuscript]. Author.

• Shaikh, A. (1996, January 31). Rude and early state: Ricardo and Smith [Unpublished handwritten lecture notes]. Author.

• Shaikh, A. (1979, February 13). Value seminar: Smith regarding conflict of interest [Unpublished handwritten seminar notes]. Author.

• Ronald L. Meek. (1956). Adam Smith and the development of the labour theory. In Studies in the labour theory of value (Chap. 2). Monthly …

Classical Accumulation Analysis, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Classical accumulation analysis [Title page]. (1987, August).

• Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Classical model [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1988, February 23). Slow adjustment with limit cycle [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (1988, February 28). Shape of cost curves and profit margin [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A., & Milberg, W. (2000, Spring). Lectures on growth theory for Economics 105 [Course lectures]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (2004, May 18). Simple dynamic Keynesian model [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript.

• Shaikh, A. (2003, October 18). RAL and FROP connection [Handwritten notes]. Unpublished manuscript. …

The Eagleville Times, Volume 2, Issue 8, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

Cd40-Associated Traf 6 Signaling Is Required For Disease Induction In A Retrovirus-Induced Murine Immunodeficiency, Kathy A. Green, Cory L. Ahonen, W. James Cook, William R. Green

Dartmouth Scholarship

LP-BM5 retrovirus-infected C57BL/6 mice develop splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, hypergammaglobulinemia, and immunodeficiency; thus, this disease has been named mouse AIDS. In this syndrome, CD154/CD40 interactions are required for but do not mediate disease by upregulation of CD80 or CD86. We report here that there is nonetheless a necessity for CD40 signaling competence, specifically an intact tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF 6) binding site.

Inactivation Of A Bacterial Virulence Pheromone By Phagocyte-Derived Oxidants: New Role For The Nadph Oxidase In Host Defense, Jacob M. Rothfork, Graham S. Timmins, Michael N. Harris, Xian Chen, Aldons J. Lusis, Michael Otto, Ambrose L. Cheung, Hattie D. Gresham

Dartmouth Scholarship

Quorum sensing triggers virulence factor expression in medically important bacterial pathogens in response to a density-dependent increase in one or more autoinducing pheromones. Here, we show that phagocyte-derived oxidants target these autoinducers for inactivation as an innate defense mechanism of the host. In a skin infection model, expression of phagocyte NADPH oxidase, myeloperoxidase, or inducible nitric oxide synthase was critical for defense against a quorum-sensing pathogen, Staphylococcus aureus, but not for defense against a quorum sensing-deficient mutant. A virulence-inducing peptide of S. aureus was inactivated in vitro and in vivo by reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates, including HOCl and ONOO(-). …

Fast Algorithms For Fragment Based Completion In Images Of Natural Scenes, Siddharth Rajkumar Borikar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Textures are used widely in computer graphics to represent fine visual details and produce realistic looking images. Often it is necessary to remove some foreground object from the scene. Removal of the portion creates one or more holes in the texture image. These holes need to be filled to complete the image. Various methods like clone brush strokes and compositing processes are used to carry out this completion. User skill is required in such methods. Texture synthesis can also be used to complete regions where the texture is stationary or structured. Reconstructing methods can be used to fill in large-scale …

A Holistic Model Of The Interplay Of Parent-Adolescent Interaction Varialbes: Outcomes As A Result Of Conflictual Processes, Cliff Blake Mckinney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many variables have been analyzed in order to understand parent-adolescent interactions and outcomes for adolescents. These variables must be integrated into a model that demonstrates the holistic interplay of parent-adolescent interaction variables so that a more comprehensive understanding of parent-adolescent interactions is achieved. Variables included in the model proposed here were parenting, family environment, expectations, conflict, and outcomes. Parenting, family environment, and conflict were associated with outcomes for adolescents. When the variables were analyzed simultaneously with structural equation modeling, however, the relationship of parenting and adolescent outcomes was mediated wholly for male-father, male-mother, and female-father relationships but remained significant for …

Possible Use Of P20 Antigen In Serodiagnosis Of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Shinchieh Yang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Crohn's disease (CD) is an idiopathic, chronic, relapsing inflammatory disorder, which is most commonly involved terminal ileum and colon. The incidence and prevalence of CD has dramatically increased during the last 50 years; however, the etiology and mechanism of this disorder remain unveiled. Besides genetic susceptibility, recent integrated researches investigated the role of environmental triggers such as microflora, measles viruses and mycobacteria in the pathogenesis of CD. The association between M. avium subsp paratuberculosis (MAP) and CD has been heightened because of clinical resemblance to Johne's disease (JD), a granulomatous enteritis in ruminants caused by MAP. Isolation of MAP from …

Land Use Effects On Lake Water Quality In Central Florida, Jonathan Seiler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Land use affects the water quality of lakes. Different land use types yield different effects due to varying amounts and constituents of runoff. In this study, the effects of surrounding land use on the water quality of 50 lakes in Seminole County, Florida was assessed. Using GIS, I placed buffers of 100 and 500 m around each lake. The percentages of land use type were calculated within these buffers for 1990 and 1995. An ordination of lakes was done using Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) to determine if the surrounding land use patterns were adequate to describe the trophic status of …

Teacher Performance Pay: The Perceptions Of Certified School-Based Pe, Gregory Adkins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

To meet the continued demand for educational reform, the state of Florida enacted legislation in 1998 that required school boards to base a portion of the salary for school administrators and instructional personnel on performance. Although ahead of the required statutory timeline, the School District of Lee County implemented a teacher performance pay plan during the 1998–1999 school year as a result of Florida's legislative direction. The problem of this study was to determine the perceptions of Southwest Florida school-based certified staff regarding the implementation of teacher performance pay in a school district where performance pay had been in operation …

Assumption, William Hinton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Assumption is the story of a slave named Nathan living in a racially hostile environment in antebellum and post-Civil War Louisiana. Assumption Parish was the kind of place where slaves were whipped frequently, where disease and rustic living were the normal course of life, where the swamp, with all its savage foreboding, loomed nearby. It was a place, Nathan discovered, that traded in men's spirits, breaking them little by little for purposes that were difficult for him to comprehend. Like many slaves of his time, Nathan is raised without biological parents. His surrogate mother, Abbie, longs for the day when …

Using The Six Sigma Policy Deployment Cycle To Mitigate Project Failur, Archana Magadi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many organizations are struggling to improve customer-focused quality in today's highly competitive domestic and global markets. At the same time, these organizations have failed to implement the Six Sigma methodology into their daily control and strategic planning processes. Six Sigma deployment failures have been categorized as coming from many sources, both management related and person related. Some of the key management related Six Sigma project failures have been identified and discussed in this research work. For continuous improvement to truly take root, organizations must realize that just successfully applying quality tools on any process will not necessarily provide dramatic results, …

An Investigation Into Providing Feedback To Users Of Decision Support, James Pharmer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Research in several domains has shown that the implementation of computerized decision support aids is often associated with issues of human-automation interaction, which can have disastrous consequences. One often-cited reason for these issues is the poor quality of the feedback that is provided to the operators through these tools. The objective of the proposed investigation is to examine how providing feedback through a decision support tool affects operator knowledge and performance in the context of a fault management task for naval gunfire support. A one-way between-groups comparison was made to investigate differences between providing decision support feedback (logic trace, mission …

'A Man's World'?: A Study Of Female Workers At Nasa's Kennedy Space C, Nanci Schwartz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

By focusing on women workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this study seeks to understand why women were initially congregated in certain occupations such as clerical work and later moved into non-traditional jobs such as engineering and the sciences. Such an investigation requires careful examination of the changing attitudes towards female workers in technical or non-traditional fields and why and how those attitudes changed over time and the extent to which this occurred. It also attempts to identify areas of continuing concern. The study reveals that several factors contributed to the women's progress in the workplace. These included …

Monolithic Integration Of Dual Optical Elements On High Power Semicond, Laurent Vaissie

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the monolithic integration of dual optical elements on high power semiconductor lasers for emission around 980nm wavelength. In the proposed configuration, light is coupled out of the AlGaAs/GaAs waveguide by a low reflectivity grating coupler towards the substrate where a second monolithic optical element is integrated to improve the device performance or functionality. A fabrication process based on electron beam lithography and plasma etching was developed to control the grating coupler duty cycle and shape. The near-field intensity profile outcoupled by the grating is modeled using a combination of finite-difference time domain (FDTD) analysis of the nonuniform …

Data Transmission Scheduling For Distributed Simulation Using Packet A, Juan Vargas-Morales

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Communication bandwidth and latency reduction techniques are developed for Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocols. Using logs from vignettes simulated by the OneSAF Testbed Baseline (OTB), a discrete event simulator based on the OMNeT++ modeling environment is developed to analyze the Protocol Data Unit (PDU) traffic over a wireless flying Local Area Network (LAN). Alternative PDU bundling and compression techniques are studied under various metrics including slack time, travel time, queue length, and collision rate. Based on these results, Packet Alloying, a technique for the optimized bundling of packets, is proposed and evaluated. Packet Alloying becomes more active when it is …

General Interference Suppression Technique For Diversity Wireless Rece, Tianyu Yang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The area of wireless transceiver design is becoming increasingly important due to the rapid growth of wireless communications market as well as diversified design specifications. Research efforts in this area concentrates on schemes that are capable of increasing the system capacity, providing reconfigurability/reprogrammability and reducing the hardware complexity. Emerging topics related to these goals include Software Defined Radio, Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Systems, Code Division Multiple Access, Ultra-Wideband Systems, etc. This research adopts space diversity and statistical signal processing for digital interference suppression in wireless receivers. The technique simplifies the analog front-end by eliminating the anti-aliasing filters and relaxing the requirements for …

First-Mover Advantage: A Cross-National Comparison Of Mature And Emerging Market Consumers' Attitudes Toward Pioneer And Follower Brands, Tarek T. Mady

Theses and Dissertations in Business Administration

A number of scholars suggest that the ability to accrue any competitive advantage stemming from time of entry is a function of the type of market being entered (e.g., Lieberman and Montgomery 1988; Kerin et al. 1992; Szymanski et al. 1995; VanderWerf and Mahon 1997). This dissertation extended the current behaviorally-based research domain of the field vis-a-vie a survey-based comparative study of mature market (U.S.) and emerging market (Indian) consumers' attitudes toward pioneer and follower brands. Two fundamental questions were asked: (1) Are there significant attitudinal differences between mature market and emerging market consumers based on order of …

Occupation Failures And The Legality Of Armed Conflict: The Case Of Iraqi Cultural Property, Mary Ellen O'Connell

Journal Articles

To wage war consistently with international law, a national leader must be able to answer at least three questions in the affirmative: Is there a right to resort to force? Is the use of force necessary? If it is necessary, can it be carried out in a way that the cost in terms of human lives, property, and damage to the natural environment will not outweigh the value of resorting to force? If the answer to any of these questions is no, the use of force is unlawful. International lawyers tend to focus on the first question, understandably. Why analyze …