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Analysis Of Straw By X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Guilin Jiang, Ghaleb A. Husseini, Larry Lin Baxter, Matthew R. Linford Dec 2005

Analysis Of Straw By X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Guilin Jiang, Ghaleb A. Husseini, Larry Lin Baxter, Matthew R. Linford

Faculty Publications

Determining the chemical structure and composition of biomass fuels using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy XPS can provide fundamental knowledge of their structures that is useful in understanding and predicting their combustion behavior. Straw is an example of an agricultural residue byproduct of food and feed production of potential interest for biomass combustion. The XPS spectra of straw provide both its elemental composition and indications of its bonding. Traditional fuel analyses of this fuel are also provided. These include: ultimate analysis — the elemental composition of the overall fuel C, H, N, S, and O; chlorine analysis — reported here as part …


Method And System For Electronically Generating Random Answers, Stephen O. Bozzone, Bonnie Bachman Dec 2005

Method And System For Electronically Generating Random Answers, Stephen O. Bozzone, Bonnie Bachman

Economics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The invention concerns a method (300) and system (110) for electronically generating random responses in a portable electronic device (110). The method includes the steps of detecting (316) motion of the portable electronic device, in response to the detecting step, generating (318) the random response and outputting (320) the random response to a user of the portable electronic device. The method can further include the steps of prompting (312) the user to ask a question and following a predetermined time period after prompting the user to ask the question, prompting (314) the user to shake the portable electronic device. The …


The Murray Ledger And Times, December 29, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2005

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 29, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


Good Faith Performance In Employment Contracts: A "Comparative Conversation" Between The Us And England, Katherine M. Apps Dec 2005

Good Faith Performance In Employment Contracts: A "Comparative Conversation" Between The Us And England, Katherine M. Apps

ExpressO

This paper asks two questions connected by the fact that they both stem from the inherent incompleteness of employment contracts: in American law, how can the terms in employment handbooks be variable, but sometimes only within reasonable procedurally fair circumstances; and in English law, why doesn’t the implied term of mutual trust and confidence in employment contracts fall foul of the strict test for implication of terms into contract? This paper finds the answer to both questions in the doctrine of good faith. An analysis of good faith as a “comparative conversation” between academic and judicial debates in the US …


Evaluation Of The Conversion For Northbound Bus Route From Sw 31St Road To Sw 32Nd Road, Larry Hagen, Pei-Sung Lin Dec 2005

Evaluation Of The Conversion For Northbound Bus Route From Sw 31St Road To Sw 32Nd Road, Larry Hagen, Pei-Sung Lin

CUTR Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Synthesis Of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Using Unseeded Hydrocarbon Diffusion Flames, Kozo Saito, Forman A. Williams, Alvin S. Gordon, Liming Yuang Dec 2005

Synthesis Of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Using Unseeded Hydrocarbon Diffusion Flames, Kozo Saito, Forman A. Williams, Alvin S. Gordon, Liming Yuang

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Patents

A method is provided for synthesizing carbon nanotubes from unseeded methane-air diffusion flames. A novel stainless steel and Ni—Cr wire probe is also provided for collecting carbon nanotubes from those diffusion flames.


Cal Poly Orchesis Dance Company To Present 'Metamorphosis', Public Affairs Office Dec 2005

Cal Poly Orchesis Dance Company To Present 'Metamorphosis', Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Romanoff V. State Comm'n On Judicial Performance Dec 2005

Romanoff V. State Comm'n On Judicial Performance

Colorado Supreme Court Records and Briefs Collection

No abstract provided.


Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Yuan Wang, Frank Yates, Olaia Naveiras, Patricia Ernst, George Q. Daley Dec 2005

Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Yuan Wang, Frank Yates, Olaia Naveiras, Patricia Ernst, George Q. Daley

Dartmouth Scholarship

Despite two decades of studies documenting the in vitro blood-forming potential of murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs), achieving stable long-term blood engraftment of ESC-derived hematopoietic stem cells in irradiated mice has proven difficult. We have exploited the Cdx-Hox pathway, a genetic program important for blood development, to enhance the differentiation of ESCs along the hematopoietic lineage. Using an embryonic stem cell line engineered with tetracycline-inducible Cdx4 , we demonstrate that ectopic Cdx4 expression promotes hematopoietic mesoderm specification, increases hematopoietic progenitor formation, and, together with HoxB4, enhances multilineage hematopoietic engraftment of lethally irradiated adult mice. Clonal analysis of retroviral integration sites …


System And Method For Generating Psuedo-Noise Sequences, Sina Balkir, Walter D. Leon Salas, Michael W. Hoffman, Lance C. Pérez Dec 2005

System And Method For Generating Psuedo-Noise Sequences, Sina Balkir, Walter D. Leon Salas, Michael W. Hoffman, Lance C. Pérez

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Disclosed is a method for generating psuedo-noise (PN) sequences utilizing a system comprised of a quantizer, and N directly quantized output/input map containing chaotic map cells, each in functional combination with combiner means and an m-bit shift register.


Predicted Redidual Strength Of Damaged Isotrussâ® Structures, Travis S. Carroll Dec 2005

Predicted Redidual Strength Of Damaged Isotrussâ® Structures, Travis S. Carroll

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis utilized a linear analytical approach to explore the damage tolerance or residual strength as a function of increasing damage in traditional single and hybrid-grid IsoTruss® structures. Residual strength was studied for structures subjected to axial compression, torsion and flexural bending, independently. Carbon/epoxy material properties were applied in all load cases, and fiberglass/epoxy material properties were also applied in the flexural bending case. Prior to imposing damage conditions, the IsoTruss® structures were parametrically optimized to achieve the highest strength-to-weight ratios. Typical compression strut, driveshaft, and utility pole specifications governed the design strength dimensions and boundary conditions. Damage growth was …


On Wings Of Hope, Volume 9b, Christmas 2005, Phadp, Esther Brown, Darrell Grayson, Leroy White, Derrick Mason, Nicholas Acklin, Jimmy Davis, Omar D, Anthony Tyson, "A.J.", Ron Smith Jr, Helen Losse, Jeff Rieber, Carey Grayson, Art Giles, "Dba A Person", Mohamad Sharifi, Anthony Tyson, Nicholas Acklin, Greg Hunt Dec 2005

On Wings Of Hope, Volume 9b, Christmas 2005, Phadp, Esther Brown, Darrell Grayson, Leroy White, Derrick Mason, Nicholas Acklin, Jimmy Davis, Omar D, Anthony Tyson, "A.J.", Ron Smith Jr, Helen Losse, Jeff Rieber, Carey Grayson, Art Giles, "Dba A Person", Mohamad Sharifi, Anthony Tyson, Nicholas Acklin, Greg Hunt

On Wings of Hope

Christmas 2005 edition.


Tracking Changes In Bioavailable Fe Within High-Nitrate Low-Chlorophyll Oceanic Waters: A First Estimate Using A Heterotrophic Bacterial Bioreporter, Robert Michael Mckay, C. E. Mioni, S. M. Handy, M. J. Ellwood, M. R. Twiss, P. W. Boyd, S. W. Wilhelm Dec 2005

Tracking Changes In Bioavailable Fe Within High-Nitrate Low-Chlorophyll Oceanic Waters: A First Estimate Using A Heterotrophic Bacterial Bioreporter, Robert Michael Mckay, C. E. Mioni, S. M. Handy, M. J. Ellwood, M. R. Twiss, P. W. Boyd, S. W. Wilhelm

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

It is conventional knowledge that heterotrophic bacteria play a key role in the biogeochemical cycling of oceanic carbon. However, only recently has their role in marine iron ( Fe) biogeochemical cycles been examined. Research during this past decade has demonstrated an inextricable link between Fe chemistry and the biota, as >99% of Fe in marine systems is complexed to organic chelates of unknown but obviously biotic origin. Here we present a novel approach to assess and compare Fe bioavailability in low Fe HNLC waters using a bioluminescent bacterial reporter that quantitatively responds to the concentration of bioavailable Fe by producing …


Usa V. Ei Dupont De Nemours Dec 2005

Usa V. Ei Dupont De Nemours

2005 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware


Clemson Commencement Program, December 2005, Clemson University Dec 2005

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2005, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Foreign Migration To The Cleveland-Akron-Lorain Metropolitan Area From 1995 To 2000, Mark Salling, Ellen Cyran Dec 2005

Foreign Migration To The Cleveland-Akron-Lorain Metropolitan Area From 1995 To 2000, Mark Salling, Ellen Cyran

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This report is one of a series on migration to and from the region using the five percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the 2000 Census of Population and Housing and provides a description of foreign migrants moving to the Cleveland-Akron-Lorain (CAL) Consolidated Metropolitan Area (CMSA) from 1995 to 2000.* The report identifies the countries of origin of migrants and compares the demographic, socioeconomic, and housing characteristics of the foreign migrants to the CAL with other groups, including foreign migrants to Ohio and the nation, and, at times, to domestic migrants to and from the CAL.


The Southeastern Librarian V. 53, No. 4 (Winter 2005/2006) Complete Issue Dec 2005

The Southeastern Librarian V. 53, No. 4 (Winter 2005/2006) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 53, no. 4 (Winter 2005/2006).


People News Dec 2005

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


Stateside News Dec 2005

Stateside News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent developments from SELA member institutions.


The Murray Ledger And Times, December 22, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2005

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 22, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.


Review Of Ground-Water Monitoring Well Sampling Techniques, The Ph "Issue", And The Wells Abandoned And Sealed, Concerned Citizens Of Lake Township, Julie Weatherington-Rice Ph.D., Linda Aller Dec 2005

Review Of Ground-Water Monitoring Well Sampling Techniques, The Ph "Issue", And The Wells Abandoned And Sealed, Concerned Citizens Of Lake Township, Julie Weatherington-Rice Ph.D., Linda Aller

Concerned Citizens of Lake Township (CCLT)

At the request of the Concerned Citizens for Lake Township (CCLT), Bennett & Williams, Environmental Consultants, Inc. were asked to again revisit the Uniontown Industrial Excess Landfill (IEL) Superfund site, located in Uniontown, Ohio. Bennett & Williams (B&W) first began evaluating this site in the early 1990s, has been involved in three court actions concerning the site, and drafted the Lake Township Comments on the Existing Public Record (1999) which was submitted on behalf of the Township to the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). Bennett & Williams were also asked to review the "Low Flow" sampling techniques undertaken at …


Bayesian Analysis Of Cell-Cycle Gene Expression Data, Chuan Zhou, Jon Wakefield, Linda Breeden Dec 2005

Bayesian Analysis Of Cell-Cycle Gene Expression Data, Chuan Zhou, Jon Wakefield, Linda Breeden

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

The study of the cell-cycle is important in order to aid in our understanding of the basic mechanisms of life, yet progress has been slow due to the complexity of the process and our lack of ability to study it at high resolution. Recent advances in microarray technology have enabled scientists to study the gene expression at the genome-scale with a manageable cost, and there has been an increasing effort to identify cell-cycle regulated genes. In this chapter, we discuss the analysis of cell-cycle gene expression data, focusing on a model-based Bayesian approaches. The majority of the models we describe …


In Re: Mcallister Towing Dec 2005

In Re: Mcallister Towing

2005 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Harmony Ditch Co. V. Ground Water Mgmt. Subdistrict (In Re Application For Water Rights) Dec 2005

Harmony Ditch Co. V. Ground Water Mgmt. Subdistrict (In Re Application For Water Rights)

Colorado Supreme Court Records and Briefs Collection

No abstract provided.


Geoinformatics Center Teams With Homeland, Global Security To Create State Alert System, Staff Report Dec 2005

Geoinformatics Center Teams With Homeland, Global Security To Create State Alert System, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The Mississippi Office of Homeland Security, in partnership with the University of Mississippi, has launched a program to implement a secure statewide alert system for emergency responders by summer 2006.


Probing Attractive Forces At The Nanoscale Using Higher-Harmonic Dynamic Force Microscopy, S. Crittenden, Arvind Raman, R. Reifenberger Dec 2005

Probing Attractive Forces At The Nanoscale Using Higher-Harmonic Dynamic Force Microscopy, S. Crittenden, Arvind Raman, R. Reifenberger

Birck and NCN Publications

We systematically investigate higher harmonics in the vibration spectrum of scanning force microscope cantilevers operating in the attractive regime. We show that a the magnitudes of the higher-harmonic signals in the vibration spectrum should be directly correlated to the local van der Waals forces for systems without significant electrostatic interactions and b the higher-harmonic resonances are much sharper than the fundamental harmonic. Consequently, and unlike the case of the tapping mode operation, contrast in the amplitudes of the higher harmonics over a scanned sample with small electrostatic forces reflects changes in specific chemical composition. Dynamic force-distance curves and higher-harmonic images …


Adaptive Weighing Of Context Models For Lossless Data Compression, Matthew V. Mahoney Dec 2005

Adaptive Weighing Of Context Models For Lossless Data Compression, Matthew V. Mahoney

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Until recently the state of the art in lossless data compression was prediction by partial match (PPM). A PPM model estimates the next-symbol probability distribution by combining statistics from the longest matching contiguous contexts in which each symbol value is found. We introduce a context mixing model which improves on PPM by allowing contexts which are arbitrary functions of the history. Each model independently estimates a probability and confidence that the next bit of data will be 0 or 1. Predictions are combined by weighted averaging. After a bit is arithmetic coded, the weights are adjusted along the cost gradient …


Special Methods For Educating The Transnational Lawyer, Raymond J. Friel Dec 2005

Special Methods For Educating The Transnational Lawyer, Raymond J. Friel

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Reforming Legal Education In Bangladesh, Mohammad Monirul Azam Dec 2005

Reforming Legal Education In Bangladesh, Mohammad Monirul Azam

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


Special Methods And Tools For Educating The Transnational Lawyer, Duncan Bentley, John Wade Dec 2005

Special Methods And Tools For Educating The Transnational Lawyer, Duncan Bentley, John Wade

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.