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Informal Animation Sketching With K-Sketch, Richard C. Davis Oct 2005

Informal Animation Sketching With K-Sketch, Richard C. Davis

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Animation is a powerful medium that is accessible to few, because current animation tools are extremely complex. This complexity arises partially from current tools’ focus on precise, often unnecessary details and partially from the difficulty of finding a small but sufficiently powerful set of tool features. We are designing K-Sketch, an informal 2D animation tool that uses sketching and demonstration to radically reduce the time needed to create an animation. Our field studies investigating the needs of current anima-tion tool users and would-be users are helping us to mini-mize complexity by showing us how to prioritize the many possible tool …

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The Salt Shaker (Vol. 2, Issue 1), Valparaiso University Oct 2005

The Salt Shaker (Vol. 2, Issue 1), Valparaiso University

SALT Shaker

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Phylogenetic Analysis Of Large Sequence Data Sets, Hyrum Carroll, Mark J. Clement, Keith Crandall, Quinn O. Snell Oct 2005

Phylogenetic Analysis Of Large Sequence Data Sets, Hyrum Carroll, Mark J. Clement, Keith Crandall, Quinn O. Snell

Faculty Publications

Phylogenetic analysis is an integral part of biological research. As the number of sequenced genomes increases, available data sets are growing in number and size. Several algorithms have been proposed to handle these larger data sets. A family of algorithms known as disc covering methods (DCMs), have been selected by the NSF funded CIPRes project to boost the performance of existing phylogenetic algorithms. Recursive Iterative Disc Covering Method 3 (Rec-I-DCM3), recursively decomposes the guide tree into subtrees, executing a phylogenetic search on the subtree and merging the subtrees, for a set number of iterations. This paper presents a detailed analysis …

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Acoustic And Spectral Characteristics Of Young Children's Fricative Productions: A Developmental Perspective, Shawn L. Nissen, Robert Allen Fox Oct 2005

Acoustic And Spectral Characteristics Of Young Children's Fricative Productions: A Developmental Perspective, Shawn L. Nissen, Robert Allen Fox

Faculty Publications

Scientists have made great strides toward understanding the mechanisms of speech production and perception. However, the complex relationships between the acoustic structures of speech and the resulting psychological percepts have yet to be fully and adequately explained, especially in speech produced by younger children. Thus, this study examined the acoustic structure of voiceless fricatives (/f, θ, s, ʃ/) produced by adults and typically developing children from 3 to 6 years of age in terms of multiple acoustic parameters (durations, normalized amplitude, spectral slope, and spectral moments). It was found the acoustic parameters of spectral slope and variance (commonly excluded from …

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The Emergence Of Corporate Forms In China, 1872- 1949. An Analysis On Institutional Transformation, Wai Keung Chung Oct 2005

The Emergence Of Corporate Forms In China, 1872- 1949. An Analysis On Institutional Transformation, Wai Keung Chung

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Growth Is Good For Whom, When, How?, John A. Donaldson Oct 2005

Growth Is Good For Whom, When, How?, John A. Donaldson

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Economic growth often helps the poor, but what about the many cases when it does not? The consensus that economic growth reduces poverty, encapsulated by two World Bank economists in the above-quoted article entitled Growth is Good for the Poor, leaves many important questions unanswered. What help does the knowledge that economic growth can reduce poverty provide for economies with few realistic prospects for robust, sustained growth? What hope does the understanding that growth reduces poverty on average provide for poor families that are excluded from prosperity? How should we respond when economic growth undermines the market positions of the …

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The State, The Market, Economic Growth And Poverty In China, John A. Donaldson Oct 2005

The State, The Market, Economic Growth And Poverty In China, John A. Donaldson

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The People’s Republic of China is often cited as an unprecedented success story as far as rural poverty is concerned. Despite recent reports of sometimes violent protests in rural areas over illicit land seizures and pollution, since implementing reforms in 1978, China has seen rural poverty rates fall from xxx to yyy, as economic growth increased zzz on average each year, according to World Bank estimates. Some have ascribed liberal policy prescriptions based on open markets and pro-market government policies as are largely responsible, even as they forwent expensive, large-scale mass welfare programs. Starting with their initial round of fundamental …

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Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 16, Número 2, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited Oct 2005

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 16, Número 2, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
Monstruos 3
Unos Monstruos de Taos 3
La Muchacha de la Carretera 4
Unos Monstruos de Santa Fe 5
2006 Elections in New Mexico 6
Ciencia 1
La Vía Láctea y el Sistema Solar 7
Unas Investigaciones 8
Educación 1
Southwest Hispanic Research Institute 9
Música 1
Dos Arbolitos 10
Personas 2
Chief Joseph 11
Mónica Lovato 12
Unos Repasos 2
Bruja, The Legend of La Llorona, un libro por Lucinda Leyba 13
Es Amor, un CD por Candace Vargas 13
Actividades 1
¿Qué/Quién Soy? 14
Remedios 1
Remedies Made from Herbs and Foods 15
La …

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Landscapes Of Power And Identity. Comparative Histories In The Sonoran Desert And The Forests Of Amazonia. Endnotes To The Book., Cynthia Radding Oct 2005

Landscapes Of Power And Identity. Comparative Histories In The Sonoran Desert And The Forests Of Amazonia. Endnotes To The Book., Cynthia Radding

Faculty and Staff Publications

Landscapes of Power and Identity presents three interrelated stories, starting with the authors personal journey over two decades of research and reflection about the relationships between human societies and the environments they create in North and South America. It links her experiences to the histories of conquest, native communities, and the colonial societies they helped to shape in two frontier regions of Spanish America: northwestern Mexico and eastern Bolivia. Beginning with the title, this book explores nuanced meanings of landscapes coming from art history, landscape architecture, history and anthropology. It makes special contributions as a comparative history grounded in extensive …

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Agile Modeling, Agile Software Development, And Extreme Programming: The State Of Research, John Erickson, Kalle Lyytinen, Keng Siau Oct 2005

Agile Modeling, Agile Software Development, And Extreme Programming: The State Of Research, John Erickson, Kalle Lyytinen, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While there are many claims for the successful use of extreme programming (XP) and agile modeling (AM), and the proponents can often be vocal in the extreme regarding their supposed benefits, research evidence supporting proponents' claims is somewhat lacking. Currently, the only research appearing to investigate the phenomena consists of two prominent streams. A small number of case studies and experience reports that generally promote the success of XP in various development environments, and a well-established stream of research into pair programming has generated results that in part support the idea of XP. Research into AM appears to be even …

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Managerial Assessments Of E-Business Investment Opportunities: A Field Study, Anandhi S. Bharadwaj, Amrit Tiwana Oct 2005

Managerial Assessments Of E-Business Investment Opportunities: A Field Study, Anandhi S. Bharadwaj, Amrit Tiwana

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Managers charged with assessing investment opportunities for information technologies such as e-business projects face considerable uncertainty in their decision-making processes. Contemporary theories of the firm and the normative prescriptions thereof emphasize the potential for such investments to augment firm-level knowledge and relational capabilities. However, prior research has not examined the relative emphases that managers place on the knowledge and relational capability-augmenting characteristics of the e-business investments. In this paper, we develop a model to assess whether managerial evaluations of e-business investment opportunities are consistent with these normative and theoretical prescriptions. A test of the model using survey data on 485 …

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Dsim: A Distance-Based Indexing Method For Genomic Sequences, Xia Cao, Beng-Chin Ooi, Hwee Hwa Pang, Kian-Lee Tan, Anthony K. H. Tung Oct 2005

Dsim: A Distance-Based Indexing Method For Genomic Sequences, Xia Cao, Beng-Chin Ooi, Hwee Hwa Pang, Kian-Lee Tan, Anthony K. H. Tung

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we propose a Distance-based Sequence Indexing Method (DSIM) for indexing and searching genome databases. Borrowing the idea of video compression, we compress the genomic sequence database around a set of automatically selected reference words, formed from high-frequency data substrings and substrings in past queries. The compression captures the distance of each non-reference word in the database to some reference word. At runtime, a query is processed by comparing its substrings with the compressed data strings, through their distances to the reference words. We also propose an efficient scheme to incrementally update the reference words and the compressed …

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Towards Semantic Service Request Of Web Service Composition, Qianhui Althea Liang, Jen-Yao Chung, Steven M. Miller Oct 2005

Towards Semantic Service Request Of Web Service Composition, Qianhui Althea Liang, Jen-Yao Chung, Steven M. Miller

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

When meeting the challenges in automatic and semi-automatic Web service composition, capturing the user's service demand and preferences is as important as knowing what the services can do. This paper discusses the idea of semantic service requests for composite services, and presents a way to model the elements of a composite service request as user preferences and constraints. The model is based on an interactive and iterative strategy meant to obtain the exact requirements from potential service consumers. The markup vocabularies and associated inference mechanism of OWL-S are used as a means to bring semantics to service requests. Language constructs …

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Net Impact Estimates For Services Provided Through The Workforce Investment Act, Kevin Hollenbeck, Daniel Schroeder, Christopher T. King, Wei-Jang Huang Oct 2005

Net Impact Estimates For Services Provided Through The Workforce Investment Act, Kevin Hollenbeck, Daniel Schroeder, Christopher T. King, Wei-Jang Huang

External Papers and Reports

Researchers working under the auspices of the Administrative Data Research and Evaluation (ADARE) Project are conducting a series of research and evaluation projects examining participation in, services provided through, and outcomes from the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and related federal programs in nine states. This paper reports on the net impacts, or "value-added," of WIA services on employment, earnings, and other outcomes of interest using administrative data from seven of the nine ADARE states: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Texas and Washington State.

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Improved Patient Notes From Medical Students During Web-Based Teaching Using Faculty-Calibrated Peer Review And Self-Assessment, Teresita Mccarty, Marie Parkes, Teresa Anderson, Jan Mines, Betty Skipper, James Grebosky Oct 2005

Improved Patient Notes From Medical Students During Web-Based Teaching Using Faculty-Calibrated Peer Review And Self-Assessment, Teresita Mccarty, Marie Parkes, Teresa Anderson, Jan Mines, Betty Skipper, James Grebosky

UME Faculty and Staff Educational Scholarship

Background: This study examines the effectiveness of Calibrated Peer Review (TM) (CPR), a Web-based writing development program, to teach and assess medical students' patient note-writing skills in a standardized fashion. Method: At the end of the clerkship year, 67 medical students were divided inot three groups, introduced to CPR, and instructed in patient note-writing. Students then wrote notes for three clinical cases, presented in different order to each group. After training on faculty-calibrated standards, students evaluated their peers; notes and tehir own notes. Trained faculty, blinded to author, order, and group, also graded student notes. Results: Faculty gave lower scores …

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Water Availability And Economic Development: Signs Of The Invisible Hand - An Empirical Look At The Falkenmark Index And Macroeconomic Development, Jeffrey Edwards, Benhua Yang, Rashid B. Al-Hmoud Oct 2005

Water Availability And Economic Development: Signs Of The Invisible Hand - An Empirical Look At The Falkenmark Index And Macroeconomic Development, Jeffrey Edwards, Benhua Yang, Rashid B. Al-Hmoud

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

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Transboundary Water Law In Africa: Development, Nature, And Geography, Jonathan Lautze, Mark Giordano Oct 2005

Transboundary Water Law In Africa: Development, Nature, And Geography, Jonathan Lautze, Mark Giordano

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

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Books Received, Natural Resources Journal Oct 2005

Books Received, Natural Resources Journal

Natural Resources Journal

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Automatic 3d Face Modeling Using 2d Active Appearance Models, Jianke Zhu, Steven Hoi, Michael R. Lyu Oct 2005

Automatic 3d Face Modeling Using 2d Active Appearance Models, Jianke Zhu, Steven Hoi, Michael R. Lyu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Although a lot of promising research findings have been studied on 3D face modeling in the past years, it is still a challenge to generate realistic 3D human face models and facial animations. This paper presents a novel approach to model 3D faces automatically from still images or video sequences without manual interactions. Our proposed scheme comprises three steps. First, we offline construct 3D shape models using Active Appearance Models (AAMs), which saves large computation costs for online modeling. Second, based on the computed 3D shape models, we propose an efficient algorithm to estimate the parameters of 3D pose and …

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International Lter Meeting, Colima, Mexico, October, 2005, Ilter Oct 2005

International Lter Meeting, Colima, Mexico, October, 2005, Ilter

Long Term Ecological Research Network

No abstract provided.

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Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review Oct 2005

Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

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Lessons From The Rio Abajo: A Colonial Patron's Contested Legacy, Melissa Payne Oct 2005

Lessons From The Rio Abajo: A Colonial Patron's Contested Legacy, Melissa Payne

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

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Leonard W. 'Si' Porter's Memories Of Life In The Civilian Conservation Corps Camps Of Southern New Mexico, 1936–1939, Richard Melzer Oct 2005

Leonard W. 'Si' Porter's Memories Of Life In The Civilian Conservation Corps Camps Of Southern New Mexico, 1936–1939, Richard Melzer

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

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Book Reviews Oct 2005

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

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Index Oct 2005

Index

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

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Application Of Transmission Line Models To Backpanel Plated Through-Hole Via Design, Shaowei Deng, Todd H. Hubing, James L. Drewniak, Jun Fan, James L. Knighten, Norman W. Smith Oct 2005

Application Of Transmission Line Models To Backpanel Plated Through-Hole Via Design, Shaowei Deng, Todd H. Hubing, James L. Drewniak, Jun Fan, James L. Knighten, Norman W. Smith

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper introduces an approach of using a plated through-hole (PTH) via transmission-line model in the design of a thick printed circuit board, such as a backpanel. Full wave FEM modeling of a section of backpanel containing a differential via pair was compared with a transmission model. Computed values of the differential transmission loss agreed within an acceptable range for engineering studies, yet the transmission line model results required less than 2% of the computation time that the full wave model required. Effects of via spacing, via diameter and trace thickness were also examined.

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Control Interaction Mitigation For The Unified Power Flow Controller, Liangying Dong, Mariesa Crow Oct 2005

Control Interaction Mitigation For The Unified Power Flow Controller, Liangying Dong, Mariesa Crow

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper establishes that dynamic interactions can occur between multiple UPFCs installed in power systems. The existence of the dynamic interactions can adversely affect the overall system performance and lead to system instability. This paper identifies two types of interactions among FACTS controllers: low frequency inter-area interaction and high frequency controller interactions. Several control approaches are proposed to mitigate these interactions. The IEEE New England 10-machine 39-bus system is used to demonstrate the existence of the control interactions and illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed interaction mitigation controls.

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Hearing Their Needs: Voices Of Underrepresented Populations, Patreese D. Ingram, Amy K. Syvertsen Oct 2005

Hearing Their Needs: Voices Of Underrepresented Populations, Patreese D. Ingram, Amy K. Syvertsen

Journal of Extension

The Plan of Work process provides an opportunity for Extension to review its educational objectives and consider the changing needs of its potential audiences. In Pennsylvania, a special effort was made to gain input concerning programs to be conducted in 2005-2009 from ethnic minority and low-income populations. This article shares the concerns and needs expressed during focus group interviews, summarizing issues related to youth, family, community, and nutrition and health. Results have important implications for the development of relevant programming with diverse audiences.

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More Tips: What If A Cooperative Extension Professional Must Work With Native American Institutional Review Boards?, Daniel A. Mcdonald, Donna J. Peterson, Sherry C. Betts Oct 2005

More Tips: What If A Cooperative Extension Professional Must Work With Native American Institutional Review Boards?, Daniel A. Mcdonald, Donna J. Peterson, Sherry C. Betts

Journal of Extension

This article focuses on working with tribal IRBs to conduct research or evaluations of projects on tribal lands. It is a follow up to a series of four recent articles designed to help Extension Professionals navigate the university IRB process. The authors use their experience with a community assessment project conducted in one small, remote community located on the Navajo Nation to illustrate some of the issues and tips for success.

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Take What You Can, Give Nothing Back: Judicial Estoppel, Employment Discrimination, Bankruptcy, And Piracy In The Courts, Theresa M. Beiner, Robert B. Chapman Oct 2005

Take What You Can, Give Nothing Back: Judicial Estoppel, Employment Discrimination, Bankruptcy, And Piracy In The Courts, Theresa M. Beiner, Robert B. Chapman

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

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