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Wireless Sensory Networks For Ecology, John Porter, Peter Arzberger, Hans-Werner Braun, Todd Hansen, Pablo Bryant, Sedra Shapiro, Stuart Gage, Paul Hanson, Timothy Kratz, Chau-Chin Lin, Fang-Pang Lin, William Michener, Thomas Williams

Long Term Ecological Research Network

Field biologists and ecologists are starting to open new avenues of inquiry at greater spatial and temporal resolution, allowing them to "observe the unobservable" through the use of wireless sensor networks. Sensor networks facilitate the collection of diverse types of data (from temperature to imagery and sound) at frequent intervals--even multiple times per second--over large areas, allowing ecologists and field biologists to engage in intensive and expansive sampling and to unobtrusively collect new types of data. Moreover, real-time data flows allow researchers to react rapidly to events, thus extending the laboratory to the field. We review some existing uses of …

Uranium Geochemistry In Vadose Zone And Aquifer Sediments From The 300 Area Uranium Plume, John M. Zachara, J. A. Davis, James Mckinley, D. M. Wellman, Chongxuan Liu, N. Qafoku, S. B. Yabusaki

United States Department of Energy: Publications

In 1996, an interim record of decision was issued for the 300-FF-5 Operable Unit on the Hanford Site in southeast Washington State. The record of decision specified the interim remedy as (1) continued monitoring of groundwater and (2) institutional controls to restrict groundwater use. This record of decision was based on a remedial investigation that suggested levels of uranium would decrease with time because of natural geochemical and hydrologic processes. A prediction was made that concentrations of uranium would decrease to the proposed drinking water standard or lower (20 μg/L) in 3 to 10 years from 1993. This prediction has …

First Confirmed Breeding Of The Rock Wren In Minnesota, Philip C. Chu

Biology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Organization And Signal Processing Of The Descending Tracts In The Cervical Spinal Cord, Yanmei Tie

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation addresses the research for the development of spinal cord-computer interface (SCCI). The main objective of SCCI is to generate voluntary motor control signals for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).

In the neuroscience aspect, organization of the fibers in the descending tracts of the dorsolateral funiculus of the cervical spinal cord was investigated in cats. The spinal cord was penetrated with silicon substrate microelectrodes at 400 μm intervals in the medio-lateral direction at the C5/C6 and C6/C7 segmental borders. The stimulus consisted of a 20 ms train of charge-balanced biphasic pulses at 330 Hz. The evoked activities from …

Refuge Update – July/August 2005, Volume 2, Number 4

RefugeUpdate (USFWS-NWRS)

Table of Contents:
A New Line on Refuge Fishing, page 3
Northeast Refuges Reach Half- Million-Acre Milestone, page 5
Focus on…Trails and Wildlife Observation, pages 8-15
An Earth Day Visit, page 22

Scwds Briefs: Volume 21, Number 2 (July 2005), Michael J. Yabsley

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications

Unexplained Sea Bird Mortality: Since June 12, 2005, there have been numerous reports of dead or dying sea birds along the beaches of the eastern seaboard from Florida to Maryland.
Deer as Hosts of Anaplasmosis: Anaplasma phagocytophilum is the causative agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA)
Vesicular Stomatitis Update: Vesicular stomatitis New Jersey virus (VSNJV) infection was confirmed in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, and Utah.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that four transplant recipients had developed severe illnesses after receiving organs from a Rhode Island donor. Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) infection was confirmed in all …

What's Happening: July, 2005, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Gsbs News, Summer 2005, Graduate School Of Biomedical Sciences, University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston/M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

GSBS News

No abstract provided.

Uab Nurse Scientist - Summer 2005, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

UAB Nursing magazine

No abstract provided.

Salinity Tolerance Of Eight Ornamental Herbaceous Perennials, Nickolee Zollinger, Teresa Cerny-Koenig, Roger Kjelgren, Rich Koenig, Kelly L. Kopp

Plants, Soils, and Climate Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Drought Responses Of Ornamental Herbaceous Perennials, Nickolee Zollinger, Roger Kjelgren, Teresa Cerny-Koenig, Rich Koenig, Kelly L. Kopp

Plants, Soils, and Climate Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Renaissance Retirees, Summer 2005, College Of Arts And Sciences

Renaissance Retirees

Newsletter profiling retirees from Illinois State University's College of Arts and Sciences

Wooster Magazine: Summer 2005, Lisa Watts

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the Summer of 2005. The Oak Grove section includes news from the Wooster baseball team, an update on the Kauke renovations, and story on how Wooster students assisted a small village in India following a tsunami. Statistics regarding the class of 2005 and their Independent Studies are on page eleven to twenty-eight. Six students and their Independent Studies are featured. These articles are written by the students, they reflect on the effect that IS has had on them and also explain their projects to readers. The Class Notes section is from …

Centre Canadien Cooperatif De La Sante De La Faune, Rapport Annuel 2004-2005 (Francais)

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

Le CCCSF est un partenariat inter agences qui permet aux quatre facultés de médecine vétérinaire du Canada, à des agences de tous les paliers de gouvernement et à des agences non gouvernementales de mettre leurs ressources et leur savoir-faire en commun, en vue de réduire le fardeau économique et écologique ainsi que les effets néfastes des maladies qui touchent les animaux de la faune.

Illinois State Magazine, Summer 2005, University Marketing And Communications

Illinois State Magazine (1999-present)

Alumni magazine for Illinois State University

Taking The Pulpit Out Of The Bully Pulpit: The Establishment Clause And Presidential Appeals To Divine Authority, Rachael F. Goldfarb

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

A New Species Of Streptanthus (Brassicaceae) From Three Peaks In Lake County, California, Rebecca W. Dolan, Richard O'Donnell

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Streptanlhus vernalis is a newly described species inhabiting serpentine rock outcrops in the Three Peaks area in Lake County, California. Morphological and allozyme data indicate that this taxon is related to the S. morrisonii complex.

The Bridge Summer 2005 Vol. 46 No. 2, Harding School Of Theology

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

The 'Abuse Excuse' In Capital Sentencing Trials: Is It Relevant To Responsibility, Punishment, Or Neither?, Paul J. Litton

Faculty Publications

The violent criminal who was a victim of severe childhood abuse frequently appears in the responsibility literature because he presents a difficulty for theorists who maintain the compatibility of causal determinism and our practices of holding persons responsible. The challenge is based on the fact that learning about an offender's horrific childhood mitigates the indignation that many persons feel towards him, possibly indicating that they hold him less than fully responsible. Many capital defendants present evidence of suffering childhood abuse, and many jurors find this evidence to count against imposing death. The most obvious explanation for a response like this …

The Voice, Summer 2005: Volume 50, Issue 4, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Board of Trustees Approves New Campus Master Plan; Dordt's "Really Rolling Now"; A Moment of Reflection in This Jubilee Year; Sewell Pens Major Work on Historian Herbert Butterfield; Dordt College Invites Twenty-Four into Kuyper Scholars Program; Engineering Department Receives Grant to Promote Renewable Energy; Computer People Mix Pizza and Patterns; Schour Studies Language Differences Between Genders and How to Better Relate; Dordt Student Speaks at Physics Conference; Individual Studies Takes Buteyn to the Zoo; Campus Wetland Proposal Provides Students with a Concrete Project; Raising Money Isn't Hard When It's for a Good Cause: Lyle Gritters Ends Thirty-Six Years of Promoting …

Orchestrating The Future Of Clinical Care, Brian G. Harrison, Robert L. Barchi

Thomas Jefferson University Administrative Documents and Reports

2005 Annual report of Thomas Jefferson University.

Animal Health Laboratories Service Manual 2005-2006, Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia

Agriculture reports

This service manual is designed to help you, the user of services provided by the Animal Health Laboratories (AHL), to get the most from the laboratories.

The section on ‘General Instructions’ contains information required for packaging and submission of samples to AHL.

Other sections contain information on the type of sample required for each laboratory service and associated tests offered by AHL. The detail of Services offered by each laboratory is given in a table, followed by collection notes to assist with submission of specimens.

Each table describes the Services offered, the Tests available for each Service, a description of …

Adr Through A Cultural Lens: How Cultural Values Shape Our Disputing Processes, Julia Ann Gold

Journal of Dispute Resolution

I arrived for my second Nepali language class on time, but the teacher kept chatting about inconsequential things. I was paying by the hour, and we had already spent 25 minutes talking about nothing! A week later, I received an invitation to an art exhibit. The location was "Royal Museum," so that is where I went, only to find an empty building and no people. What had I missed? In my first meeting with the Dean of the Law Campus, we talked about trekking, the upcoming religious holidays, his visit to Seattle two years ago, relatives in the United States, …

Music, Mediation, And Superstrings: The Quest For Universal Harmony, John W. Cooley

Journal of Dispute Resolution

It is my thesis that to be an effective mediator, one needs to be a musician at heart (if not in fact)-both a composer and performer. Music is what a mediator does-what a mediator makes. To design or perform well, a mediator must at least understand music composition and performance in all its aspects. A mediator has no choice in the matter, because music, in a broad sense, permeates nature and is considered to be the quintessential ingredient of all matter and energy-of everything or unthing in the universe. To understand how music relates to what he or she does, …

Jefferson Medical College Annual Report, 2005, Thomas J. Nasca

Jefferson Medical College Administrative Documents and Reports

No abstract provided.

Forage News [2005-07], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• U.K. All Commodity Field Day to be Held in Princeton July 28
• WKU Wins AFGC Grassland Evaluation Contest
• Kentuckian’s Fair Well at AFGC
• Using Poultry Litter on Pastures
• Hay Moisture Meters and More
• Does Fertilizer Harm Soil Microbes?
• Upcoming Events

Three Approaches To Practical Theology, Theological Education, And The Church’S Ministry, Kathleen A. Cahalan

School of Theology and Seminary Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Institutional Data Book 2004-2005, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Institutional Research

Institutional Effectiveness and Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Faculty, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

MacKinnon elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Conference celebrates Law School ties with China; Scholars honor James Boyd White; Certification moves ahead for child welfare specialists; West joins boards of two scholarly journals; On the subject of torture; Activities; Simma: Foreigners have a right to consular aid; Pottow, Reimann win top teacher award; Animal rights are advancing; Two law journals honor Kamisar.

Differences In Indexing Term Vocabularies And Agreement With Subject Specialists, John M. Weiner

E-JASL: Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009, Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

Index terms are an important component in considering a scientific topic. In a real sense, the indexing terms represent the vocabulary and language of the topic. Study of these critical terms has employed human and machine techniques. Computerized indexing systems can accurately and completely recognize terms, but the different strategies for organizing and evaluating the concepts (i.e., informative terms) and related issues may not be effective in accomplishing the desired descriptive actions. This paper explored the results of two computer supported approaches in indexing scientific documents against a background of simple random generation of informative terms in varying sized …