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Hilltopics: Volume 1, Issue 4, Hilltopics Staff

Hilltopics

Politics: The editors pick their favorite (and least favorite) slogans, page 4.

Campus:  Betsy Holmes sounds off on campus safety, page 4.

Entertainment: An ode to the death of Ashlee Simpsonʼs career, page 2.

Greek life: Greek Philanthropies are more than just another party, page 2.

On the web: Go to www.smu.edu/honors/hilltopics to read all of the stories in this issue and more.  You can also post your thoughts on our readersʼ message board.

Daily Eastern News: October 25, 2004, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

The Collegian (2004-10-25), Sonia Mejia

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 57, No. 10

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 21, October 25, 2004

Central Florida Future

You [don't] get what you pay for: Board of Governors approves block tuition for state schools; Stickers suffer sneaky switch: Bitter partisanship of election leads to petty vandalism and replacement of bumper stickers; User unfriendly: MyUCF portal frustrates most who try to log on; Former senator decries 'the most corrupt meeting I've ever seen': Brand new Senate off to a rocky start; leadership in doubt.

"To Move People From Apathy": A Multi-Perspective Approach To Ethics Across The Engineering Curriculum, Donna Riley, Glenn Ellis, Susannah Howe

Engineering: Faculty Publications

A multi-perspective approach to ethics across the engineering curriculum at Picker Engineering Program at Smith college, to move people from apathy is discussed. The required courses in the Smith curriculum includes a design based introductory course, a final year course in mass and energy balances, and continuum mechanics. The first year course motivate a well-rounded engineering education and social education and social responsibility and introduce frameworks for ethical problems solving and case analysis. Elements that students as essential parts of an ethics curriculum included standards, responsibilities, decision making, analytical frameworks and multiple perspective.

Teaching High School Students To Teach Machines, Glenn W. Ellis, Baaba Andam

Engineering: Faculty Publications

In this paper we present elements of a learner-centered AI curriculum for high school students that was field-tested in two private high schools. One of these elements is a unit in which students explore the possibilities of machine intelligence and consciousness through readings and hands-on activities. Also presented in the paper is a unit for teaching students about artificial neural networks (ANN) and their application. In this unit students learn to develop and train ANNs through small projects and activities that lead up to an independent research project. Examples of student projects are presented including the application of ANNs for …

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, October 25, 2004, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, October 25, 2004, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Vol. 27, No. 08 (October 25, 2004)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Estate Tax Repeal And The Budget Process, Karen C. Burke, Grayson M.P. Mccouch

University of San Diego Law and Economics Research Paper Series

This article examines the Bush Administration’s proposal, as part of its proposed fiscal year 2005 budget, to extend permanently the repeal of the federal estate tax. The article considers the budgetary impact of permanent estate tax repeal and discusses procedural impediments to use of the reconciliation process for permanent tax cuts. The article also notes the possibility of a durable compromise solution involving retention of the estate tax with lower rates and a higher exemption.

2004-05 Faculty Senate - October 25, 2004 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 029, Number 13, October 25, 2004, Grand Valley State University

2004-2005, Volume 29

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

30-Second Psa: Indoor Soccer At Um Set To Start, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Bergland, Beatrice And Bergland, Harriet, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Beatrice Bergland and Harriet Waites of the community church of Morrisania were interviewed for the Bronx African American History Project on October 25^th 2004. They began their interview by recounting their past and present experiences with the community church of Morrisania, which was founded by Pastor William E. Thompson in 1956. He, along with community members, purchased a house on Teller Ave. for $10,000 to serve as the non-denominational church’s building which facilitated the needs of the African American community that was developing in the neighborhood and also began the formation of new, warm, active community in Morrisania.

One …

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

October 25, 2004

The Gavel Gazette

No abstract provided.

Monitor Newsletter October 25, 2004, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

The Bg News October 25, 2004, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. October 25, 2004. Volume 95-Issue 44.

26th Concert Band Festival Set For November 5-6, University Relations

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.

Development Of A High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy Method For The Determination Of Strychnine Concentrations In Insects Used To Assess Potential Risks To Insectivores, Randal S. Stahl, Wendy M. Arjo, Kim K. Wagner, Carol Furcolow, Dale L. Nolte, John J. Johnston

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

A high performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS) method was developed in support of a study to assess potential tertiary risks posed to insectivores by strychnine baited pocket gophers (Thomomys sp.). Necropholous insects are primary consumers of pocket gopher carcasses. A field study was conducted to collect insects from strychnine-baited and control pocket gopher carcasses. The majority of the insects collected were from the orders Diptera (flies, assayed separately as adults and larvae), Coleoptera (beetles), and Hymenoptera (ants and wasps, assayed separately). Samples (0.5 g) were extracted in acetic acid (2%) and analyzed with the mass spectrometer configured for tandem …

Phase Stability And Segregation In Alloy 22 Base Metal And Weldments, Jeffrey Lacombe, Shantanu A. Namjoshi, Paige Russel, Raymond E. Keeler, Amy J. Smiecinski

Publications (YM)

The current design of the waste disposal containers relies heavily on encasement in a multi-layered container, featuring a corrosion barrier of Alloy 22, a Ni-Cr-Mo-W based alloy with excellent corrosion resistance over a wide range of conditions. The fundamental concern from the perspective of the Yucca Mountain Project, however, is the inherent uncertainty in the (very) long-term stability of the base metal and welds. Should the properties of the selected materials change over the long service life of the waste packages, it is conceivable that the desired performance characteristics (such as corrosion reistance) will become compromised, leading to premature failure …

Media Advisory, Taylar Kuzinar

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, October 25, 2004, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

Layered Unequal Loss Protection For Image Transmission Over Packet Loss Channels With Delay Constraints, Jianfei Cai, Xiangjun Li, Chang Wen Chen

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

In the case of high bit rate image transmission or having lots of packets, the FEC (forward error correction) encoding and decoding processes in the ULP (unequal loss protection) based schemes should be applied to individual packet groups instead of all the packets in order to avoid long processing delay. In this paper, we propose a layered ULP (L-ULP) scheme for fast and efficient FEC allocations among different packet groups and also within each packet group. The numerical results show that the proposed L-ULP scheme is quite promising for fast image transmission over packet loss networks.

Multiple Wavelet-Tree-Based Image Coding And Robust Transmission, Lei Cao, Chang Wen Chen

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

In this paper, we present techniques based on multiple wavelet-tree coding for robust image transmission. The algorithm of set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) is a state-of-the-art technique for image compression. This variable length coding (VLC) technique, however, is extremely sensitive to channel errors. To improve the error resilience capability and in the meantime to keep the high source coding efficiency through VLC, we propose to encode each wavelet tree or a group of wavelet trees using SPIHT algorithm independently. Instead of encoding the entire image as one bitstream, multiple bitstreams are generated. Therefore, error propagation is limited within individual …

Joint Source-Channel Decoding For Mpeg-2 Video Transmission, Liuguo Yin, Weigang Chen, Jianhua Lu, Chang Wen Chen

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Joint source-channel coding schemes have been proven to be effective ways for reliable multimedia communications. In this paper, a joint source-channel decoding (JSCD) scheme that combines the hidden Markov source (HMS) estimation and low-density parity-check (LDPC) coding is proposed for the standard MPEG-2 video transmission. The LDPC code of the proposed scheme has a near-Shannon-limit error-correcting capability, while the HMS estimator may accurately extract the residual redundancy within the MPEG-2 video stream without any prior information. Furthermore, with a joint iterative decoding algorithm, the estimated source redundancy may be well exploited by the LDPC decoder, and the channel decoding feedback …

Multiple-Description Image Coding With Distributed Source Coding And Side Information, Min Wu, Anthony Vetro, Chang Wen Chen

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Multiple description coding (MDC) is a source coding technique that involves coding the source information into multiple descriptions. When these descriptions are transmitted over different channels in packet network or error-prone wireless environment, graceful degradation can be achieved even if part of descriptions are not received by the receiver. When MDC is applied to wavelet subband based image coding, it is possible to introduce correlation between the descriptions in each subband. In this paper, we consider using such a correlation as well as potentially error corrupted description as side information in the decoding to formulate the MDC decoding as a …

Multiple Description Coding Based On Multiple-Bitstream Wavelet Zero-Tree Image Compression, Daewon Song, Chang Wen Chen, Lei Cao

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Multiple description coding (MDC) is a well-known robust data compression algorithm designed to minimize the distortion caused by data loss in packet-based communication systems. Several MDC schemes for transmitting wavelet compressed images have been developed. However, these MDC schemes cannot be adopted for digital mobile wireless applications where both packet loss and bit error are present, because individual description in these MDC schemes usually does not have adequate error resilience capability to combat the bit error in transmission. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to achieve robust communication over error prone transmission channels with both packet loss and bit …

종업원 서비스와 점포충성도간의 구조적 관계에 관한 연구, Sung Wook Yoon, Geun Ha Suh

Asia Marketing Journal

No abstract provided.

현대카드: 라이프스타일에 따른 차별화 마케팅, Byung Joon Moon, Jae Il Kim, Chang Jo Yoo

Asia Marketing Journal

No abstract provided.