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The Guardian, September 13, 2006, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Montana Kaimin, September 13, 2006, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Formulaic Deliberation, Andre L. Smith

ExpressO

Formulaic Deliberation describes the major interpretive regimes--textualism, intentionalism, purposivism, and pragmatism—and represents them formulaically. By classifying them this way, it more precisely describes them as theories, so that we can more precisely perform them as deliberative techniques. And, if we agree that none of them, individually, fits all cases at all times, we can formulaically describe how to synthesize them toward a discrete decision.

William Eskridge, Stanley Fish, Hon. Antonin Scalia, Richard Posner, Ronald Dworkin, John Hart Ely, Adrian Vermeule, Hon. Stephen Breyer, Cass Sunstein, Lawrence Lessig. All of them are right, their method for deciding cases produces benefits with …

Cleavage Of Phosphate Ester Bonds By Use Of Novel Group 13 Chelate Compounds, David A. Atwood

Chemistry Faculty Patents

A novel chemical compound has a general formula (LX)_nY wherein X is selected from a group consisting of a group 13 element other than boron, Y is selected from a group consisting of a halide, a chlorate, a sulfate and a nitrate and L is a chelating ligand containing two nitrogen and two oxygen donor groups where n=1 or 2.

Improving Error Discovery Using Guided Model Checking, Neha Shyam Rungta

Theses and Dissertations

State exploration in directed software model checking is guided using a heuristic function to move states near errors to the front of the search queue. Distance heuristic functions rank states based on the number of transitions needed to move the current program state into an error location. Lack of calling context information causes the heuristic function to underestimate the true distance to the error; however, inlining functions at call sites in the control flow graph to capture calling context leads to exponential growth in the computation. This paper presents a new algorithm that implicitly inlines functions at call sites to …

Imaging Complex Structure In Shallow Seismic-Reflection Data Using Prestack Depth Migration, John H. Bradford, Lee M. Liberty, Mitchell W. Lyle, William P. Clement, Scott Hess

CGISS Publications and Presentations

Prestack depth migration (PSDM) analysis has the potential to significantly improve the accuracy of both shallow seismic reflection images and the measured velocity distributions. In a study designed to image faults in the Alvord Basin, Oregon, at depths from 25–1000 m, PSDM produced a detailed reflection image over the full target depth range. In contrast, poststack time migration produced significant migration artifacts in the upper 100 m that obscured reflection events and limited the structural interpretation in the shallow section. Additionally, an abrupt increase from ~2500 to >3000 m/s in the PSDM velocity model constrained the interpretation of the transition …

Detection Of A Landslide Glide Plane Using Seismic Reflection Methods: Investigation At Little Valley Landslide In Draper, Utah, Brady E. Tingey

Theses and Dissertations

An integration of geological and geophysical techniques has been used to characterize the internal structure of the Little Valley Landslide in Draper, Utah, USA. The Little Valley Landslide is a pre-historic landslide as old as 13ka B.P. It is found to consist of chaotic and disturbed weathered volcanic units derived from Tertiary age volcanics that comprise a great portion of the Wasatch Range. Geotechnical investigations that were integrated with the geophysical results included excavation of trenches and drilling of boreholes. Geophysical methods, in particular high-resolution seismic data, were used to provide a framework for interpreting the geotechnical observations. High-resolution seismic …

Independent- Sep. 12, 2006, Tom Robb

The Independent (1988-present)

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Library Construction Bookmarked
• Photo Essay
• Campus News
• News Briefs
• News
• Classifieds
• Sports

Pervasive Data Access In Wireless And Mobile Computing Environments, Ken C. K. Lee, Wang-Chien Lee, Sanjay Kumar Madria

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

The rapid advance of wireless and portable computing technology has brought a lot of research interests and momentum to the area of mobile computing. One of the research focus is on pervasive data access. with wireless connections, users can access information at any place at any time. However, various constraints such as limited client capability, limited bandwidth, weak connectivity, and client mobility impose many challenging technical issues. In the past years, tremendous research efforts have been put forth to address the issues related to pervasive data access. A number of interesting research results were reported in the literature. This survey …

Information Privacy As A Function Of Facial Recognition Technology And Wearable Computers, Woodrow Barfield

ExpressO

As technological advances are made in the design of smart sensors, the issue of privacy in public places, first discussed by Warren and Brandeis in 1890, becomes an important topic for law and policy. This paper examines issues of privacy that are impacted when an individual’s image is recorded by a video-based wearable computer, analyzed using facial recognition software, and uploaded to the internet. While the Constitutional basis of search and seizure law for individual’s placed under video surveillance is reviewed, a particular focus of the paper is on a less investigated but emerging area of concern, the video recording …

Minutes September 11, 2006

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Arbiter, September 11, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Diagnosing Bias In The Inverse Probability Of Treatment Weighted Estimator Resulting From Violation Of Experimental Treatment Assignment, Yue Wang, Maya L. Petersen, David Bangsberg, Mark J. Van Der Laan

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) is frequently used to estimate the causal effects of treatments and interventions. The consistency of the IPTW estimator relies not only on the well-recognized assumption of no unmeasured confounders (Sequential Randomization Assumption or SRA), but also on the assumption of experimentation in the assignment of treatment (Experimental Treatment Assignment or ETA). In finite samples, violations in the ETA assumption can occur due simply to chance; certain treatments become rare or non-existent for certain strata of the population. Such practical violations of the ETA assumption occur frequently in real data, and can result in significant …

Extending Marginal Structural Models Through Local, Penalized, And Additive Learning, Daniel Rubin, Mark J. Van Der Laan

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Marginal structural models (MSMs) allow one to form causal inferences from data, by specifying a relationship between a treatment and the marginal distribution of a corresponding counterfactual outcome. Following their introduction in Robins (1997), MSMs have typically been fit after assuming a semiparametric model, and then estimating a finite dimensional parameter. van der Laan and Dudoit (2003) proposed to instead view MSM fitting not as a task of semiparametric parameter estimation, but of nonparametric function approximation. They introduced a class of causal effect estimators based on mapping loss functions suitable for the unavailable counterfactual data to those suitable for the …

Jigsaw: Solving The Puzzle Of Enterprise 802.11 Analysis, Yu-Chung Cheng, John M. Bellardo, Péter Benkö, Alex C. Snoeren, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage

Computer Science and Software Engineering

The combination of unlicensed spectrum, cheap wireless interfaces and the inherent convenience of untethered computing have made 802.11 based networks ubiquitous in the enterprise. Modern universities, corporate campuses and government offices routinely de-ploy scores of access points to blanket their sites with wireless Internet access. However, while the fine-grained behavior of the 802.11 protocol itself has been well studied, our understanding of how large 802.11 networks behave in their full empirical complex-ity is surprisingly limited. In this paper, we present a system called Jigsaw that uses multiple monitors to provide a single unified view of all physical, link, network and …

A Hand-Held Neutron Detection Sensor Systems, K. Osberg, N. Schemm, S. Balkir, Jennifer I. Brand, M. Susan Hallbeck, Peter A. Dowben

Peter Dowben Publications

In this paper, a hand-held neutron radiation sensor application is described. The sensor system utilizes a new class of boron-carbide diode that interacts with incoming neutrons. To interface with the boron-carbide diode an integrated front-end is designed in a 1.5/spl mu/m standard CMOS technology. With the diode and front-end microchip, a hand-held neutron detection system was realized with an embedded microcontroller for realtime processing. The hand-held detector operation was then tested with a plutonium-beryllium neutron source. Testing results confirm the validity of the approach and the functionality of the design.

Nonextensivity In Magnetic Nanoparticle Ensembles, Christian Binek, Srinivas Polisetty, Xi He, Tathagata Mukherjee, Rajasekaran Rajesh, Jody G. Redepenning

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications

A superconducting quantum interference device and Faraday rotation technique are used to study dipolar interacting nanoparticles embedded in a polystyrene matrix. Magnetization isotherms are measured for three cylindrically shaped samples of constant diameter but various heights. Detailed analysis of the isotherms supports Tsallis' conjecture of a magnetic equation of state that involves temperature and magnetic field variables scaled by the logarithm of the number of magnetic nanoparticles. This unusual scaling of thermodynamic variables, which are conventionally considered to be intensive, originates from the nonextensivity of the Gibbs free energy in three-dimensional dipolar interacting particle ensembles. Our experimental evidence for nonextensivity …

September 11, 2006, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (September 11, 2006), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on September 11, 2006.

Design And Fabrication Of Silicon On Insulator Optical Waveguide Devices, Eric Harvey

Theses

In this thesis we present design, fabrication and testing of several photonic devices on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The historical developments in micro-optic technology including problems it has faced and its current state of maturity is outlined. The most recent integration trends of electronics and optics, particularly the transition of micro-optics to silicon on insulator platform will be reviewed. With this foundation in silicon photonics several rib waveguide structures including directional couplers, WDM couplers, y-branches and MMI splitters are designed, simulated, and fabricated on an SOI substrate. Beam propagation method (BPM) was used in the modeling of these devices. Computation …

Supporting Social And Cognitive Growth Among Disadvantaged Middle-Grades Students In Tasc After-School Projects, Christina A. Russell, Elizabeth R. Reisner

Journal of Youth Development

The field of after-school programming remains rife with unanswered questions. What constitutes quality in after-school programs? Are after-school opportunities valuable for participants regardless of their quality? Are differences in quality associated with differences in participant benefit? This sub-study of the longitudinal evaluation of The After-School Corporation (TASC) looks at how after-school opportunities with varying features affect urban middle-grades (6-8) adolescents who live in impoverished circumstances. Supported by the William T. Grant Foundation, the study explores the associations between after-school project features and the social and cognitive outcomes of disadvantaged middle-grades participants in TASC programs. The study relies on data collected …

Supporting Social And Cognitive Growth Among Disadvantaged Middle-Grades Students In Tasc After-School Projects, Christina A. Russell, Elizabeth R. Reisner

Journal of Youth Development

The field of after-school programming remains rife with unanswered questions. What constitutes quality in after-school programs? Are after-school opportunities valuable for participants regardless of their quality? Are differences in quality associated with differences in participant benefit? This sub-study of the longitudinal evaluation of The After-School Corporation (TASC) looks at how after-school opportunities with varying features affect urban middle-grades (6-8) adolescents who live in impoverished circumstances. Supported by the William T. Grant Foundation, the study explores the associations between after-school project features and the social and cognitive outcomes of disadvantaged middle-grades participants in TASC programs. The study relies on data collected …

Statistics Form A: Discipline Summary 09/11/2006, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

An Adaptive Tabu Search Heuristic For The Location Routing Pickup And Delivery Problem With Time Windows With A Theater Distribution Application, Robert E. Burks Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

The time constrained pickup and delivery problem (PDPTW) is a problem of finding a set of routes for a fleet of vehicles in order to satisfy a set of transportation requests. Each request represents a user-specified pickup and delivery location. The PDPTW may be used to model many problems in logistics and public transportation. The location routing problem (LRP) is an extension of the vehicle routing problem where the solution identifies the optimal location of the depots and provides the vehicle schedules and distribution routes. This dissertation seeks to blend the PDPTW and LRP areas of research and formulate a …

After The Gold Rush?: Grutter, Sander And ‘Affirmative Action’ “On The Run…” In The Twenty-First Century, Anthony Vincent Baker

ExpressO

No abstract provided.

Adaptive Online Program Analysis: Concepts, Infrastructure, And Applications, Matthew B. Dwyer, Alex Kinneer, Sebastian Elbaum

School of Computing: Technical Reports

Dynamic analysis of state-based properties is being applied to problems such as validation, intrusion detection, and program steering and reconfiguration. Dynamic analysis of such properties, however, is used rarely in practice due to its associated run-time overhead that causes multiple orders of magnitude slowdown of program execution. In this paper, we present an approach for exploiting the state-fullness of specifications to reduce the cost of dynamic program analysis. With our approach, the results of the analysis are guaranteed to be identical to those of the traditional, expensive dynamic analyses, yet with overheads between 23% and 33% relative to the un-instrumented …

Multiplatform Genome-Wide Identification And Modeling Of Functional Human Estrogen Receptor Binding Sites, Chin-Yo Lin, Vinsensius B. Vega, Koon Siew Lai, Li Say Kong, Min Xie, Xiaodi Su, Huey Fang The, Jane S. Thomsen, Ai Li Yeo, Wing Kin Sung, Guillaume Bourque, Edison T. Liu

Faculty Publications

Transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) impart specificity to cellular transcriptional responses and have largely been defined by consensus motifs derived from a handful of validated sites. The low specificity of the computational predictions of TFBSs has been attributed to ubiquity of the motifs and the relaxed sequence requirements for binding. We posited that the inadequacy is due to limited input of empirically verified sites, and demonstrated a multiplatform approach to constructing a robust model. Results: Using the TFBS for the estrogen receptor (ER)alpha (estrogen response element [ERE]) as a model system, we extracted EREs from multiple molecular and genomic platforms …

Economic Growth And Income Inequality In The Transition Toward A Market Economy: China’S Experience And Policy Implications, Qingbing Wang, Guanming Shi

Essays in Honor of Stanley R. Johnson

No abstract provided.

Building Gorman’S Nest, Jeffrey T. Lafrance, Timothy K.M. Beatty, Rulon D. Pope

Essays in Honor of Stanley R. Johnson

No abstract provided.