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International Transportation, Lorraine B. Halloway, Mark J. Andrews, Kenneth E. Siegel, Dean Saul

The International Lawyer

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Gps Unit Fact Sheet, John Nowatzki, Christopher Daigle

AE Series – Agricultural Engineering/ABEN

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Federalism In Brazil, Keith S. Rosenn

Articles

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Afterword Culture By Law: Backlash As Jurisprudence, Francisco Valdes

Articles

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Afterword "We Are Now Of The View"*: Backlash Activism, Cultural Cleansing, And The Kulturkampf To Resurrect The Old Deal, Francisco Valdes

Articles

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Spain Gazing: Postcolonial Aspirations, Neocolonial Systems And Postponed Reckonings - Queries From The Margins, Francisco Valdes

Articles

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Seed Storage Reserves And Glucosinolates In Brassica Rapa L. Grown On The International Space Station, M. E. Musgrave, Anxiu Kuang, L. K. Tuominen, L. H. Levine, R. C. Morrow

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

Although plants are envisioned to play a central role in life support systems for future long-duration space travel, plant growth in space has been problematic due to horticultural problems of nutrient delivery and gas resupply posed by the weightless environment. Iterative improvement in hardware designed for growth of plants on orbital platforms now provides confidence that plants can perform well in microgravity, enabling investigation of their nutritional characteristics. Plants of B. rapa (cv. Astroplants) were grown in the Biomass Production System on the International Space Station. Flowers were hand-pollinated and seeds were produced prior to harvest at 39 days after …

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Turkish Journal of Physics

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Surface Textures For Enhanced Lubrication: Fabrication And Characterization Techniques, Sriram Venkatesan

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Theoretical and experimental results show that the performance of a load-bearing surface in hydrodynamic lubrication may be enhanced by engineering a definable surface texture onto the surface. These surface textures are in the form of protrusions (positive asperities) or cavities (negative asperities) of known size and geometry. The benefits of such surface textures include lower friction torque, higher load capacity and lower operating temperatures. This Thesis details a fabrication process to manufacture such surface textures/asperities on flat surfaces. The asperities are fabricated using a UV photolithography process followed by electroplating. A complete surface characterization is done to evaluate the effectiveness …

Innovative Product Design For Sustainability Enhancement In Aluminum Beverage Cans Based On Design For Sustainability Concepts, Jason Chun Tchen Liew

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

A new methodology for innovative product development based on the application of sustainability principles for the entire life-cycle of a product and beyond is developed. This involves an analysis of multi-life cycle material flow leading towards perpetual life products, making it truly sustainable. In order to achieve the function of such a sustainable product, it has to fulfill the concept of 6R (Recover, Reuse, Recycle, Redesign, Reduce and Remanufacture), which are composed of 6 stages of material flow in a products life, as opposed to the traditional 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recover) concept. We apply the 6R concept in designing a …

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Turkish Journal of Physics

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Turkish Journal of Physics

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Physical Properties Of Holmium Promoted Superconductivity In Nd-Doped Ybco Ht_C-Superconductors, Morsy Abou Sekkina, Abdul Raouf Tawfik, Osama Hemeda, Mohamad Ahmad Taher Dawoud, Samy El-Attar

Turkish Journal of Physics

Samples of the nominal composition (Y_{0.5}Nd_{0.5-x}Ho_x) Ba_2Cu_3O_{7- \delta} , 0 \le x \le 0.5, have been prepared using the conventional solid state reaction. The effect of holmium and neodymium substitution on electrical resistivity, transition temperature T_c, lattice parameters, size of crystallite and grain size has been investigated. X-ray diffraction, electron micro-probe, scanning electron microscope and IR spectra, have been used in our investigation. The results show that the transition temperature T_c, electron-hole jump rate and lattice parameters (a, b) have minimum values at x = 0.2, while c increases to maximum at x = 0.2. The size of crystallite, the …

Discovery, Validation, And Genetic Dissection Of Transcription Factor Binding Sites By Comparative And Functional Genomics, Jason Gertz, Linda Riles, Peter Turnbaugh, Su-Wen Ho, Barak A. Cohen

Open Access Publications

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Murine Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Cells Can Be Recognized And Cleared In Vivo By Adaptive Immune Mechanisms, Jessica L. Pollock, Andrew A. Lane, Kelly Schrimpf, Timothy J. Ley

Open Access Publications

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Yersinia Enterocolitica Invasin-Dependent And Invasin-Independent Mechanisms Of Systemic Dissemination, Scott A. Handley, Rodney D. Newberry, Virginia L. Miller

Open Access Publications

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Issec: A Socio-Technical Dss For Information Security Planning, Brian D. Fritz, Omar F. El-Gayar

Research & Publications

The traditional notion of information security, rooted in a solidly technical foundation, has within the past decade seen wide criticism within academia - much of which has originated from the social sciences community - as being narrow and technology-centric instead of holistic and organizational in its focus. As information security awareness encompasses an ever-greater scope of organizational dynamics, it becomes necessary for us to develop design methodologies and ultimately, systems, capable of dealing practically with the complex and multifaceted nature of the decision-making of information systems security which is entailed by the emerging notions of a new paradigm for security. …

An Agent-Based Approach For Sourcing Business Rules In Supply Chain Management, Jun Liu, Sudha Ram

Research & Publications

In recent years, business rule management has become an important component of enterprise information systems. Business rules represent guidelines about how an enterprise should conduct its business and provide better service for customers. Business rules are being widely deployed in supply chains to support real-time decision making. The research reported in this paper is aimed at designing a dynamically adaptable data-sourcing service for deploying business rules effectively in supply chain management. Such a data-sourcing service is important since execution of business rules requires data to be retrieved from various data sources spread across the enterprise, including the enterprise data warehouse. …

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Building Services Engineering

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07. Commentary To Amcc Ii.A - Passengers And People On The Surface, Aviators Code Initiative

Commentary, Aviators Model Code of Conduct

Maintain passenger safety first, and then reasonable passenger comfort.

About the Commentary: The Commentary addresses selected issues within the Code of Conduct to elaborate on their meaning, provide interpretive guidance, and suggest ways of adopting the Code of Conduct. It is intended primarily for implementers, policy administrators, aviation association management, and pilots who wish to explore the Code in greater depth.

Seaplane Pilots' Model Code Of Conduct V 1.1, Aviators Code Initiative

Seaplane Pilots Model Code of Conduct

The SEAPLANE PILOTS’MODEL CODE OF CONDUCT (Code of Conduct) presents broad guidance and recommendations for seaplane pilots to improve airmanship, flight safety, and to sustain and improve the seaplane community.

Haptic-Based Dental Procedure Training Simulator, Cristian Luciano

Link Foundation Modeling, Simulation and Training Fellowship Reports

Since the beginning of the last century, simulators have been widely used in military and aviation. Recently, the use of simulation in medicine and dentistry has brought the attention of the research community, looking for efficient ways to increase patient's safety by improving surgeon's and dentist's skills. Traditionally, plastic mannequins and cadavers were used to train medical and dental students. However, the lack of details and differences on material properties (in the case of mannequins), and high costs and ethical issues (in the case of cadavers)- supported by the lately improvements of virtual reality, haptics and robotics - have increased …

Advances In In-Situ Calibration Of Attitude And Doppler Sensors For Precision Oceanographic Submersible Navigation, James C. Kinsey

Link Foundation Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Fellowship Reports

This paper reviews the development and experimental evaluation of three techniques for estimating the alignment matrix of Doppler sonars, which are commonly used for precision navigation of oceanographic submersibles, employing sensors commonly employed aboard these vehicles. Most previously reported methods addressed the problem of single degree of freedom alignment using bottom-lock Doppler sonar data and global positioning system (GPS) navigation data. This paper reviews three techniques for three degree of freedom calibration of attitude and Doppler sonar sensors, using sensor data available to vehicles at full ocean depth. The first technique provides a general linear least-square estimate of the alignment …

Pre-Computation Approach To Nonlinear Simulations Of Deformable Objects, Jernej Barbic

Link Foundation Modeling, Simulation and Training Fellowship Reports

My research area involves building real-time interactive simulations of solid deformable objects. For example, liver tissue should defo1m realistically during a vi1tual surgery simulation. A virtual assembly simulation can catch airplane construction design flaws early on during the manufacturing process. Deformable objects are also useful in computer games, for example to model the motion of trees in the wind. Researchers in computational physics, mechanics, and applied mathematics have been developing algorithms for simulations of deformable objects for the past 40 years. However, the partial differential equations of solid continuum mechanics that govern deformations of physical objects are very involved and …

Creating Geo-Specific Road Databases For A Real-Time Interactive Driving Simulator, Dahai Guo

Link Foundation Modeling, Simulation and Training Fellowship Reports

Geo-specific road database development is important to a driving simulation system and a very labor intensive process. Road databases for driving simulation need high resolution and accuracy. Even though commercial software is available on the market, a lot of manual work still has to be done when the road crosssectional profile is not uniform. This research deals with geo-specific road databases development, especially for roads with non-uniform cross sections. In this research, the United States Geographical Survey (USGS) road information is used with aerial photos to accurately extract road boundaries, using image segmentation and data compression techniques. Image segmentation plays …

Performance Enhancement Of The Wirewalker Wave-Powered Profiler, Jonathan Pompa

Link Foundation Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Fellowship Reports

The Wire-Walker is a wave-powered vertical profiler made for carrying oceanographic instruments. It cycles continuously through the depth range set by the user, providing a traveling platform for sensors. To achieve high data resolution in time varying environments, the Wire-Walker was redesigned from its original configuration for higher profiling speed. Improvements were made to the WireWalker profiler by using a numerical simulation of the system dynamics. Each physical parameter was varied in the model to find its effect on the profiling speed. Using the guidelines from the modeling experiment, a new WireWalker was constructed and tested in the ocean. The …

06. Commentary To Amcc I.F – General Responsibilities - Aspire To Professionalism, Aviators Code Initiative

Commentary, Aviators Model Code of Conduct

About the Commentary: The Commentary addresses selected issues within the Code of Conduct to elaborate on their meaning, provide interpretive guidance, and suggest ways of adopting the Code of Conduct. It is intended primarily for implementers, policy administrators, aviation association management, and pilots who wish to explore the Code in greater depth.

Mathematics & Statistics Newsletter January 2005, Rit Department Of Mathematics And Statistics

RIT Digital Archives

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Questions And Answers With Dr. A. Simone Jan 2005, Albert J. Simone

RIT Digital Archives

Information Technology||Student Life||RIT History

Regionalisation And Singapore's Transborder Industrialisation: A New Perspective On Suzhou Industrial Park, Xun Cai, Lu Gao, Caroline Yeoh

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The dynamics of international economic competition have prompted governments to re-examine accustomed policies, and search for alternative strategies, in order to re-position their economies for the future. This paper takes a look at Singapore’s search for a competitive positioning in the global marketplace, and focuses on the city-state’s much-publicized, and controversial, flagship project in China, viz, the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). This strategic initiative is premised on the perceptions that Singapore’s positive reputation with multinational corporations, and ‘guanxi’ (or connections) with regional governments, will give the regional sites a strategic advantage in the competition for foreign investments. Earlier studies have …