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Prospectus, April 20, 2005, Erin Deyoung, Sarah Trusty, Alison Smith, Nicole Simmons, Aaron Geiger, Susan Lenfestey, Larry V. Gilbert, Joseph Rosenbaum, Jon Volkman, Erin Koelkebeck, Megan M. Olson, Ryan Zerrusen

Prospectus 2005

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, April 20, 2005

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Hollins Columns (2005 Apr 20), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Alum and acclaimed golfer chosen as commencement speaker
• Photo chemicals no longer to be dumped down the drain
• With the Club Coordinator's resignation, position to be revamped
• A changed ADA comes back on campus
• SGA Elections and Appointment Results
• Tinker Day Spring '05!
• General Speakers Bureau chair brought diverse group of speakers to campus
• Full Frame Festival a success
• A review of the hard-to-find film "Prozac Nation": more praise please
• Catch the pitch, you'll get the fever
• Off the shelf: Thoughts on poetry
• Nobody said finding a summer job was easy, but should it really be this …

Improving And Extending Behavioral Animation Through Machine Learning, Jonathan J. Dinerstein

Theses and Dissertations

Behavioral animation has become popular for creating virtual characters that are autonomous agents and thus self-animating. This is useful for lessening the workload of human animators, populating virtual environments with interactive agents, etc. Unfortunately, current behavioral animation techniques suffer from three key problems: (1) deliberative behavioral models (i.e., cognitive models) are slow to execute; (2) interactive virtual characters cannot adapt online due to interaction with a human user; (3) programming of behavioral models is a difficult and time-intensive process. This dissertation presents a collection of papers that seek to overcome each of these problems. Specifically, these issues are alleviated …

Lewis And Clark School Cleans Up For Earth Day, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, April 19, 2005, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 124, Issue 51

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 50 [52], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Clark, Ashlee. Big Red Way Might Get Name Change
• Wilberding, Beth. Honors Students Find Success
• Mullins, Mandy. Greek Tug it Out – Tug of War
• Wilberding, Beth. New Staff Council to Be Elected
• Sewell, Chase. Groups Sing the Gospel – Amazing Tones of Joy Gospel Extravaganza
• Coulter, Amber. Volunteers Clean Up Campus, Get T-Shirts, Food
• Salary Increases Begin to Measure Up
• Ingram, Brooks. Editorial Cartoon – Evolution of the Professor Salary Increase
• Tetreault Jeff. Attack on Catholics Not Christian-Like
• Saravia, Alejandro. College Heights Herald Stories Conflicting – Katie Autry …

Species Composition And Visitation Frequency Of Birds And Mammals At A Bait Station In Northern Minnesota, Adam Roiko

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors program.

The Murray Ledger And Times, April 19, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

April 19, 2005, Council On Graduate Studies

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: April 19, 2005, Eastern Illinois University

April

No abstract provided.

Iwu Student Wins Science Fiction Award Honorable Mention, Meg Dubuque

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

The Neural Substrates Of Infant Sleep In Rats, Karl Æ. Karlsson, Andrew J. Gall, Ethan J. Mohns, Adele M. H. Seelke, Mark S. Blumberg

Faculty Publications

Sleep is a poorly understood behavior that predominates during infancy but is studied almost exclusively in adults. One perceived impediment to investigations of sleep early in ontogeny is the absence of state-dependent neocortical activity. Nonetheless, in infant rats, sleep is reliably characterized by the presence of tonic (i.e., muscle atonia) and phasic (i.e., myoclonic twitching) components; the neural circuitry underlying these components, however, is unknown. Recently, we described a medullary inhibitory area (MIA) in week-old rats that is necessary but not sufficient for the normal expression of atonia. Here we report that the infant MIA receives projections from areas containing …

Bimetallic Pt-Ag And Pd-Ag Nanoparticles, Frank D. Blum, Akira Tokuhiro, Massimo F. Bertino, Carmen M. Doudna

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

We report studies of bimetallic nanoparticles with 15%-16% atomic crystal parameters size mismatch. The degree of alloying was probed in a 2-nm Pt core (smallest attainable core size) of Pt-Ag nanoparticles (completely immiscible in bulk) and 20-nm-diameter Pd-Ag nanowires (completely miscible in bulk). Particles were synthesized radiolytically, and depending on the initial parameters, they assume spherical or cylindrical (nanowire) morphologies. In all cases, the metals are seen to follow their bulk alloying characteristics. Pt and Ag segregate in both spherical and wire forms, which indicates that strain due to crystallographic mismatch overcomes the excess surface free energy in the small …

Method For Producing A Three-Dimensional Macro-Molecular Structure, Rudiger Schlaf, Joern Kohlscheen, Chris Braunagel

USF Patents

A method produces a three-dimensional macro-molecular structure on a substrate in a vacuum. In this method, a solution of a solvent and a macro-molecular species is provided. The solution is ionized to provide ionized molecules of the solvent and molecules of the macro-molecular species. The ionized molecules of the solvent have a first electrical charge and the molecules of the macro-molecular species have a second electrical charge equivalent to the first electrical charge. As such, the ionized molecules of the solvent and the molecules of the macro-molecular species naturally repel each other. The molecules of the macro-molecular species are deposited …

The Bg News April 19, 2005, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. April 19, 2005. Volume 95-Issue 138.

Adoption Of Riparian Forest Buffers On Private Lands In Nebraska, Usa, Peter Skelton, Scott J. Josiah, James W. King, James R. Brandle, Glenn A. Helmers, Charles A. Francis

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Pesticide and nutrient runoff from agricultural fields is a socio-environmental problem in the Midwestern United States. Riparian forest buffers (RFBs) are a proven conservation practice that effectively manage this problem, though adoption rates are low. A mail survey was conducted to determine differences between adopter and nonadopter characteristics and attitudes with regard to the use of RFBs. Data were collected from 48 RFB adopters and 261 RFB nonadopters in two Nebraska watersheds. Inferential and multivaririate statistics were used to identify differences between adapter status and producer status groups. About half (50.8%) the respondents were nonproducers. Nonproducers are agricultural landowners not …

Executive Committee - Agenda, 4/19/2005, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Personalized Ranking Of Search Results With Implicitly Learned User Interest Hierarchies, Hyoung-Rae Kim, Philip K. Chan

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Web search engines are usually designed to serve all users, without considering the interests of individual users. Personalized web search incorporates an individual user's interests when deciding relevant results to return. We propose to learn a user profile, called a user interest hierarchy (UIH), from web pages that are of interest to the user. The user's interest in web pages will be determined implicitly, without directly asking the user. Using the implicitly learned UIH, we study methods that rank the results from a search engine. Experimental results indicate that our personalized ranking methods, when used with a popular search engine, …

Sr-04-05-(35) 92 Cc, Marshall University

Recommendations

No abstract provided.

The Statesman, V. 48a, I. 21, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 48A, i. 21

Current, April 18, 2005, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2000s)

No abstract provided.

2004 Student Estuarine Research Project, Terri W. Grizzle

PREP Reports & Publications

This report describes the results of the second education and bird-monitoring program conducted by sixth grade students, teachers, and volunteers at Portsmouth Middle School. The program combined classroom lessons with field trips to monitor bird populations in South Mill Pond, a tidal pond-like estuary in front of the school. The Pond has suffered over the years from a variety of environmental problems as the City of Portsmouth developed, including major watershed changes, combined sewer overflows, runoff from city streets and parking lots, and fill projects. Several years ago, the City initiated a long-term project to re-direct sewage away from the …

The International Lepidoptera Survey Newsletter, April 2005, International Lepidoptera Survey, Kenneth E. Davenport, Ray E. Stanford, Robert L. Langston

International Lepidoptera Survey Newsletter

Contents (pages 1-66)

Title

Flight Periods of California Butterflies for “Resident Species,” Subspecies and Most Strays to the State (2005)

Authors

Kenneth E. Davenport, Ray E. Stanford and Robert L. Langston

Abstract

Normal flight periods and early/late records for resident species, subspecies and regular strays of butterflies of California are presented below.. Many subspecies or populations in the state are distinctive and may prove to merit species recognition by specialists in the future.

Ada News - 04/18/2005, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Immature Stages Of Estigmene Acrea From Guatemala (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), Jack Harry

The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey

The immature stages of Estigmene acrea Drury are described and figured. The larval host utilized was Brassica oleracea L. var. botrytis (cauliflower).

Immature Stages Of Colias Johanseni From Arctic Canada (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), Jack Harry

The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey

The immature stages of Colias johanseni are described and figured. The probable larval host plant is Hedysarum mackenziei, a common arctic legume.

Immature Stages Of Colias Occidentalis Sullivani From Oregon (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), Jack Harry

The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey

The immature stages of Colias occidentalis sullivani Hammond and McCorkle are described and figured. The larval host is Lathyrus rigidus White.

The Collegian (2005-04-18), José Borjón

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 57, No. 27

Vol. 28, No. 15 (April 18, 2005)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.