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Multifractal Structure In Nonrepresentational Art, Jonas R. Mureika, C. C. Dyer, G. C. Cupchik

Physics Faculty Works

Multifractal analysis techniques are applied to patterns in several abstract expressionist artworks, painted by various artists. The analysis is carried out on two distinct types of structures: the physical patterns formed by a specific color (“blobs”) and patterns formed by the luminance gradient between adjacent colors (“edges”). It is found that the multifractal analysis method applied to “blobs” cannot distinguish between artists of the same movement, yielding a multifractal spectrum of dimensions between about 1.5 and 1.8. The method can distinguish between different types of images, however, as demonstrated by studying a radically different type of art. The data suggest …

Editors’ Commentary, Alicia Partnoy, Karen Mary Davalos

Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Faculty Works

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Indigenous Masculinities In The Global Lobster Economy, Laura Hobson Herlihy

Southern Anthropologist

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Glimpses Of Local Masculinities: Learning From Interviews With Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, And Chicksaw Men, Margaret Bender

Southern Anthropologist

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Southern Anthropologist

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The Promise Of Internet Intermediary Liability, Ronald J. Mann, Seth R. Belzley

William & Mary Law Review

The Internet has transformed the economics of communication, creating a spirited debate about the proper role of federal, state, and international governments in regulating conduct related to the Internet. Many argue that Internet communications should be entirely self-regulated because such communications cannot or should not be the subject of government regulation. The advocates of that approach would prefer a no-regulation zone around Internet communications, based largely on the unexamined view that Internet activity is fundamentally different in a way that justifies broad regulatory exemption. At the same time, some kinds of activity that the Internet facilitates undisputedly violate widely shared …

Patent Claim Interpretation Methodologies And Their Claim Scope Paradigms, Christopher A. Cotropia

William & Mary Law Review

The optimal scope of patent protection is an issue with which patent system observers have struggled for decades. Various patent doctrines have been recognized as tools for creating specific patent scopes and, as a result, implementing specific patent theories. One area of patent law that has not been addressed in the discussion on patent scope and theories is patent claim interpretation. This omission is particularly noteworthy because of the substantive role patent claims and the interpretation thereof play in the patent system, namely the framing of questions of patent infringement and validity. This Article will explore the not-yet-discussed relationship between …

Preparing For 2006: A Constitutional Argument For Closing The 527 Soft Money Loophole, Jeffrey P. Geiger

William & Mary Law Review

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New Take-Home Screening Tests For Colon Cancer, Joseph A. Woelfel

School of Pharmacy Faculty Articles

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2005 (Fall) Ensi Informer Magazine, Morehead State University. Engineering Sciences Department

ENSI Informer Magazine Archive

The ENSI Informer Magazine published in the fall of 2005.

Support For A Delivery Train Based Material Handling Mechanism, Sai P. Boyedapu

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Modeling a delivery train system is more challenging than traditional forklift systems as the delivery train model consists of a tugger, cart and a controller that combine to deliver materials within a manufacturing plant. Also, the decision logic for selection of carts and tuggers, joining of loads to particular delivery trains is more complicated than forklift systems. Simulation software such as Arena, Automod and Flexsim do not provide direct support for modeling delivery train systems.

In this thesis, an object-oriented, platform and language independent model of a delivery train was designed. The model was then implemented as an extension to …

Ozone Concentration In An Atmospheric Pressure Air Plasma Jet, Srinivas Reddy Suddala

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

A stable micro-plasma jet in air was generated from a direct current discharge between two molybdenum electrodes (0.25 mm thick) that were separated by an alumina insulator of the same thickness. The after-glow plasma jet was generated by blowing air through the space between the electrodes. A change from laminar to turbulent flow was observed at a gas flow rate of 140 ml/min. The length of the plasma jet increased with flow rate in the laminar mode to approximately 15 mm and decreased in the turbulent mode.

Increasing the gas flow rate up to 200 ml/min at a constant discharge …

Boys Will Be Boys: A Social Control Approach To Assessment Of Gender-Based Sentencing Disparity In Norfolk Circuit Court Cases, Fay F. Spence

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

This study evaluated the relationship between gender and sentencing severity for defendants convicted of violent crimes, victimless crimes, and theft crimes in Norfolk Circuit Court during 2001 and 2002. Based upon social control theories, the author hypothesized that women receive harsher penalties than men for violent crimes and victimless crimes, but that men receive harsher penalties for theft crimes. To test these hypotheses, the author relied, in part, upon data collected by the Norfolk Commonwealth Attorney's office on 3368 criminal cases filed in 2001 and concluded by May 22, 2002. After eliminating cases not pertinent to the study, the data …

Natural And Synthetic Viniferins Associated With The Grapevine Disease Young Vine Decline, David Michael Mcginnis

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

Grapevine disease has been thc subject of intense research amongst viticulturists over the last few decades, especially during the 1990's. There has been discoveries that suggest grapevine disease is commonly caused by fungal pathogens. One of the most common fungi that the vine may become infected by is known as Botrytis cinerea. B. cinerea is capable of attacking the grapevine which in turn will lead to bunch rot in the grape clusters. This disease has been researched in great detail during the past several years and is one of only few microorganisms that have actually been identified. Phaeoacremrmium chnlmydospnrum …

Chromosomal Localization Of The Islet Neogenesis Associated Protein (Ingap) Gene In Syrian Hamster By Tyramide Signal Amplification-Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (Tsa-Fish), Sallie A. Smith

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

Diabetes mellitus is a group of conditions characterized by hyperglycemia due to an inability to produce or properly utilize insulin. The majority of cases fall into two categories, Type I and Type 2. Type I results from the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic β-cells of the islets. The beta cells are the exclusive source of insulin and the patient becomes entirely dependent on exogenous insulin to survive. Patients with Type 2 are distinguished by insulin resistance, a condition that develops due to the inability of the body to effectively use the insulin being produced. The β-cells gradually lose their ability to …

Complexity Measure Of A Product Or Process By Application Of Fuzzy Multi-Attribute Utility Theory, Shrikant Chandrakant Nagpure

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

During the early phases of design, the development cost of complex products or systems is very difficult to obtain because of the uncertainties related to their work breakdown structures and the wide choice of manufacturing technologies with no historical data specific to these products. This thesis presents a method to derive a complexity index to capture the non-additive property and inherent uncertainty, i.e. fuzziness, of the technologies that could be used for complex objects. This complexity index can then be used as a cost index for comparing various candidate manufacturing processes.

Macros are written in Microsoft Excel to establish a …

Validation Of Finite Element Beam Models, Pavan R. Madhineni

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Finite Element (FE) methods these days are becoming very popular to predict the responses of structures in industries, such as the aerospace and automobile industries. When there is a new design or modification of an existing design, the product must be tested to fulfill the criterion projected by the industry or external agencies before it can be launched. The product must be checked for each and every aspect, and every minute detail of each of the external forces. Hence, it becomes very important to carry out the model validation on the product.

This thesis describes validation of finite element (FE) …

Shape And Size Sensitivity Analysis Of Geometrically Nonlinear Laminated Composite Plates, Nitin R. Mane

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Since major applications of composite laminates involve large deformation, the nonlinear strain-displacement relation in the Von Karman sense has been incorporated here with the first order shear deformation to study bending analysis of composite laminated panels. The finite element model constructed here is an extension of the MIN3 element which is a displacement based element developed by Hughes and Tessler. The element avoids shear locking in the thin bending regime and achieves computational efficiency. The resultant nonlinear matrix equation is solved for analysis of composite panels by using the Newton-Raphson iterative method. Based upon the nonlinear matrix equation, the shape …

Effects Of A Wilderness Orientation Program On Student Expectations Of Adjustment To College, Emily Anne Joyner

Human Movement Studies & Special Education Theses & Dissertations

Wilderness orientation programs are being used at some colleges and universities in the United States to supplement traditional orientation programs for incoming first-year students. Over the past twenty years, the use of wilderness orientation programs has increased significantly; however, little empirical evidence exists to evaluate the benefits of wilderness orientation programs.

This study was designed to examine how one wilderness orientation program affects expectations for adjustment to college among first-year student participants. An adaptation of Baker and Siryk's (1989) Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire was used to evaluate adjustment expectations. This questionnaire includes four dimensions of student adjustment: academic adjustment, …

Using Working Memory Interference Tasks To Test For Verbal And Spatial Route Learning Strategies, Ian Reagan

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Research indicates considerable individual variability exists on a host of tasks that measure navigational ability. This experiment examined the hypothesis that some individuals use verbal and others spatial processing to learn routes. A survey was used to categorize individuals into good or poor sense of direction (GSD or PSD) groups. Then participants learned two routes in a virtual setting; they learned one while engaged in spatial tapping and one while engaged in articulatory suppression. The experimenter led participants through the route once. Participants then traversed the route from memory. During the spatial tapping condition, participants in the GSD group were …

Gauss-Hermite Integration For Reliability Calculation And Sensitivity Analysis, Nilesh K. Borade

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

In the real world, many applications are subjected to uncertainty. A simple illustration would be a structure like a bridge where magnitude and the speed of the loads acting on it are continuously changing. Therefore it becomes essential to study this stochastic or random nature. The thrust of this research is to develop an efficient reliability and sensitivity technique based on stochastic response surfaces (polynomial chaos expansions) constructed using Gauss-Hermite integration. The focus is on calculating the uncertainty propagation using less number of function evaluations since the stochastic response surface needs to be reconstructed at each design cycle. Using the …

Contemporary-Classical Sequential Loop Design With Parameter Uncertainty, Donghyuk Jeong

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Standard sequential loop closure design based on Evans root migration concepts is a well accepted, insightful and effective technique for meeting nominal performance objectives and traditional gain-phase stability margin requirements. Unfortunately, assessment of closed-loop variations resulting from parameter error is a post-process, implying an undesirable design-assess-redesign procedure is necessary if variations are found unacceptable. Further, the modem parameter uncertainty assessment framework is often inconsistent, both quantitatively and qualitatively, with the redesign task. Specifically, the parameter uncertainty assessment variables are not readily apparent in the sequential loop design framework, and these variables provide little guidance for the redesign strategy. Therefore, enhancing …

Corporate Insolvency Law & Practice In South Korea In The Aftermath Of The Asian Financial Crisis, Elinor Kim

Connecticut Journal of International Law

In 2003, South Korea was the eleventh largest economy in the world with a GDP of USD $679.7 billion.' But only half a century ago, it was considered one of the most underdeveloped agrarian countries in the world.2 To develop its economy, the government heavily controlled South Korea's financial sector and thereby the operation of its largest firms, which are known as "chaebols.' 3 For several decades, South Korea enjoyed a growing economy, an increasing role in international financial markets, and membership in international organizations, such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD"), 4 and the World Trade …

The U.S. Libel Law Conundrum And The Necessity Of Defensive Corporate Measures In Lessening International Internet Libel Liability, Blake Cooper

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The tort of libel, "a defamatory statement expressed in a fixed medium,' 2 is neither a unique nor revolutionary concept to Americans. The ability to sue over damage to reputation has been recognized as a legal right longer than relatively recent concepts of freedom of speech.3 From its genesis as a legal cause of action available primarily to royalty and governments to suppress criticism, libel has evolved into its current form as a common law tort available to individuals to protect the economic interests associated with their reputation.4 The use of libel actions subsequent to technological innovations in interpersonal communications …

Divergence And Diversity In Post-Communist European Human Rights Cases, James A. Sweeney

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The enlargement of the Council of Europe at the end of the Cold War presents many significant challenges for its most well know creation, the European Court of Human Rights.' Given the prolific nature of the Court's jurisprudence both within and outside Europe, the implications of the Court's response for international human rights law are profound. This article explores the influence of the "local context" upon the Court's reasoning in cases brought against the newer members of the Council of Europe from Central and Eastern Europe.

In an important sense, the local context gives rise to every case brought before …

Journal Staff

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

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The Public Trust Doctrine, Parens Patriae, And The Attorney General As The Guardian Of The State’S Natural Resources, Allan Kanner

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

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Foreword: Global Governance As Administration — National And Transnational Approaches To Global Administrative Law, Benedict Kingsbury, Nico Krisch, Richard B. Stewart, Jonathan B. Wiener

Law and Contemporary Problems

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The Rule Of (Administrative) Law In International Law, David Dyzenhaus

Law and Contemporary Problems

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Divergent Legal Conceptions Of The State: Implications For Global Administrative Law, Janet Mclean

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.