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Variational Approach To The Volume Viscosity Of Fluids, Allan J. Zuckerwar, Robert L. Ash

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

The variational principle of Hamilton is applied to develop an analytical formulation to describe the volume viscosity in fluids. The procedure described here differs from those used in the past in that a dissipative process is represented by the chemical affinity and progress variable (sometimes called "order parameter") of a reacting species. These state variables appear in the variational integral in two places: first, in the expression for the internal energy, and second, in a subsidiary condition accounting for the conservation of the reacting species. As a result of the variational procedure, two dissipative terms appear in the Navier-Stokes equation. …

An Examination Of The Bio-Philosophical Literature On The Definition And Criteria Of Death: When Is Dead Dead And Why Some Donation After Cardiac Death Donors Are Not, Leslie Whetstine

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Human fascination with transplantation has been portrayed in mythology and legend as well as in art and literature throughout history. It has both horrified and captivated our collective conscience and has progressed, in a relatively short time period, from science fiction to a modern accomplishment that can improve longevity and enhance quality of life.

The primary obstacle for transplantation is no longer scientific in nature but is predominantly one of supply and demand and carries with it attendant ethical concerns. Specific to this work is the question of whether a particular method of organ procurement known as Donation After Cardiac …

Is World Law An Emerging Reality? Environmental Law In A Transnational World, Lynton K. Caldwell

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Automated Photo-Identification Of Cetaceans : An Integrated Software Solution, Daniel Griggs

Theses : Honours

This study investigates current techniques used for automated photo-identification of cetaceans (i.e. dolphins and whales). The primary focus constitutes various techniques that can be applied to identify and extract dorsal fins from digital photographs. A comprehensive analysis of these techniques demonstrates the most effective software solution. To further support this analysis, four prototypes are developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of each technique in a practical environment. The analysis bases its final conclusions on test results generated from these prototype software examples. Final conclusions provide recommendations for an effective, accurate, and practical software solution. This software solution allows dorsal fins to …

Methods To Set Land Salinity Resource Condition Targets For The South West : Case Studies From Australia And New Zealand, Sharon Hu

Resource management technical reports

This Resource Management Technical Report provides background to methods to set targets on land salinity in the South West Natural Resource Management (NRM) region of Western Australia. Case studies from Australia and New Zealand have been reviewed to determine what approaches should be used. Resource Condition Targets (RCTs) are required for land salinity, soil condition and remnant vegetation.

Ravensthorpe Area Catchment Appraisal 2006, A Massenbauer

Resource management technical reports

The Ravensthorpe area covers 861, 000 hectares. Ninety percent of the study area covered in this report falls within the Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia. This document aims to give the reader a starting point from which to further assess larger scale areas of the catchment for the purpose of planning to reverse and improve land degradation and sustainable farming in Western Australia.

Neutrosophic Rings, Florentin Smarandache, W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this book we define the new notion of neutrosophic rings. The motivation for this study is two-fold. Firstly, the classes of neutrosophic rings defined in this book are generalization of the two well-known classes of rings: group rings and semigroup rings. The study of these generalized neutrosophic rings will give more results for researchers interested in group rings and semigroup rings. Secondly, the notion of neutrosophic polynomial rings will cause a paradigm shift in the general polynomial rings. This study has to make several changes in case of neutrosophic polynomial rings. This would give solutions to polynomial equations for …

Unmatter Entities Inside Nuclei, Predicted By The Brightsen Nucleon Cluster Model, Florentin Smarandache, Dmitri Rabounski

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Applying the R. A. Brightsen Nucleon Cluster Model of the atomic nucleus we discuss how unmatter entities (the conjugations of matter and antimatter) may be formed as clusters inside a nucleus. The model supports a hypothesis that antimatter nucleon clusters are present as a parton (sensu Feynman) superposition within the spatial confinement of the proton (1H1), the neutron, and the deuteron (1H2). If model predictions can be confirmed both mathematically and experimentally, a new physics is suggested. A proposed experiment is connected to othopositronium annihilation anomalies, which, being related to one of known unmatter entity, orthopositronium (built on electron and …

The Place Of Dissent In Inquiry, Learning, And Reflection, Michael Schwartz

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

In this keynote address presented at the October, 2005 Annual Conference, Dr. Schwartz considers the role of dissent in the academy from the perspective of the turbulent late sixties and early seventies.

Mid-Western Educational Research Association 2006 Annual Meeting Call For Proposals, Craig A. Mertler

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Call for Proposals

Ohio’S Fiscal Year 2006–2007 Budget: Primary, Secondary, And Higher Education, Bill Harris

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The State of Ohio has found itself as the cross-roads of reform efforts in education. In his address President Bill Harris highlights features of the 2006–2007 budget related to educational reform.

The Statistically Significant Exact Replication Method: A Programming And Conceptual Extension, David A. Walker

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The purpose of this article was to extend the research pertaining to the idea of a statistically significant exact replication (SSER) method published recently in the Mid-Western Educational Researcher. The current study continues the idea of SSER and provides researchers with a software program that will calculate easily the SSER value when there is a statistically significant finding, via an independent samples t-test, to assist in determining the chance that an exact replication will be statistically significant beyond 50%. This article also presents an expansion of the SSER concept to the one-way analysis of variance.

Multi-Context Use Of Language: Toward Effective Thinking And Planning For Curriculum, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, William Chandler, M. Virginia Epps, Melissa Frieberg

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The flexible, multi-contextual use of language is essential to integrated learning and thinking. Likewise, learning and thinking in an integrated way is essential to multi-dimensional teaching. This study examines the ways pre-service secondary teachers define their subjects. Students enrolled in a secondary reading methods course were asked to provide multiple definitions for a predetermined list of critical vocabulary terms common to multiple disciplines. We used these definitions to measure participants’ level of sophistication with regard to the multi-context use of language. Participants’ responses illuminated implications for curriculum development in secondary schools including the need for models for pre- and in-service …

Characterization And Interpretation Of The Cephalopod Marker Bed, Oakes Quarry Park, Fairborn, Ohio, Jessica Nicole Mcdonough

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

A distinct sequence of orange-brown, fossiliferous grainstones with interbedded blue mudstones exists in the upper portion of the Silurian-aged (Llandoverian) Brassfield Formation exposure at Oakes Quarry Park, Fairborn, Ohio. The unit is locally referred to as the cephalopod marker bed as it can be easily identified and is continuous throughout the quarry. The unit varies considerably in thickness (0.3m-0.9m) and contains a variety of sedimentary structures and fossils indicative of a warm, shallow marine environment subject to wave action. Dominant fossils within the unit include echinoderms, cephalopods, bryozoans, abraded mollusks, gastropods, brachiopods, and trilobites. Less-common fossil organisms within the unit …

Collapsar: A Vm-Based Honeyfarm And Reverse Honeyfarm Architecture For Network Attack Capture And Detention, Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu, Yi-Min Wang

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Horizontal Scroll Compressor For Transport Applications, John P. Elson, Shawn W. Vehr

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Calculation On The Inter-Lobe Clearance Distribution Of Twin-Screw Compressor By Optimization Method, Wei Xiong

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Use Of Cfd In Design And Development Of R404a Reciprocating Compressor, Yogesh V. Birari, Sanjay S. Gosavi, Pavan P. Jorwekar

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Numerical Simulation And Experimental Comparison Of Refrigeration And Air Conditioning Scroll Compressors. Application To Trans-Critical Carbon Dioxide Cycles, J. Rovira, Joaquim Rigola, Asseni Oliva, Carlos D. Perez-Segarra

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Acoustic Filters: Part Ii: The Four-Microphone Method Of Experimental Verification Of Acoustic Characteristics Of Mufflers, Hubert Bukac

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

Development Of A Two-Dimensional Finite Element Model Of A Suction Valve For Reduction Of Pressure Pulsation In The Suction Manifold Of A Multi-Cylinder Automotive Compressor, Jeongil Park, Nasir Bilal, Douglas E. Adams

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

System Identification In The Presence Of Noise, Hubert Bukac, Alex A. Bukac

International Compressor Engineering Conference

No abstract provided.

A Fractal Analysis Of Binding And Dissociation Kinetics For Analytes Related To Various Human Diseases On Biosensor Surfaces, Atul M. Doke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Refrigeration Cycle With Two-Phase Condensing Ejector, Mark J. Bergander

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Generic Dynamic Model For Heat Exchangers, Shenglan Xuan, Vikrant Aute, Reinhard Radermacher

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

A Dynamic Simulation Model For Fan-And-Damper Controlled Refrigerators, Christian J. L. Hermes, Claudio Melo

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Off-Cycle Condensate Drainage Behavior Of Compact Heat Exchangers: Assessment And Enhancement, Aridom Joardar, Zhongping Gu, Anthony M. Jacobi

International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference

No abstract provided.

Hysteresis And Noise From Electronic Nematicity In High-Temperature Superconductors, E. W. Carlson, K. A. Dahmen, E. Fradkin, S. A. Kivelson

Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

An electron nematic is a translationally invariant state which spontaneously breaks the discrete rotational symmetry of a host crystal. In a clean square lattice, the electron nematic has two preferred orientations, while dopant disorder favors one or the other orientations locally. In this way, the electron nematic in a host crystal maps to the random field Ising model. Since the electron nematic has anisotropic conductivity, we associate each Ising configuration with a resistor network and use what is known about the random field Ising model to predict new ways to test for local electronic nematic order (nematicity) using noise and …

Assessment Of Long-Range Correlation In Time Series: How To Avoid Pitfalls, J. B. Gao, J. Hu, W. W. Tung, Y. H. Cao, N. Sarshar, V. P. Roychowdhury

Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Due to the ubiquity of time series with long-range correlation in many areas of science and engineering, analysis and modeling of such data is an important problem. While the field seems to be mature, three major issues have not been satisfactorily resolved. (i) Many methods have been proposed to assess long-range correlation in time series. Under what circumstances do they yield consistent results? (ii) The mathematical theory of long-range correlation concerns the behavior of the correlation of the time series for very large times. A measured time series is finite, however. How can we relate the fractal scaling break at …

Ultrasensitive Mass Sensing Using Mode Localization In Coupled Microcantilevers, M. Spletzer, A. Raman, A. Q. Wu, X. F. Xu, R. Reifenberger

Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We use Anderson or vibration localization in coupled microcantilevers as an extremely sensitive method to detect the added mass of a target analyte. We focus on the resonance frequencies and eigenstates of two nearly identical coupled gold-foil microcantilevers. Theoretical and experimental results indicate that the relative changes in the eigenstates due to the added mass can be orders of magnitude greater than the relative changes in resonance frequencies. Moreover this sensing paradigm possesses intrinsic common mode rejection characteristics thus providing an alternate way to achieve ultrasensitive mass detection under ambient conditions. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.