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On The Green Vol. 37 No. 4 December 15, 2006, Gallaudet University Dec 2006

On The Green Vol. 37 No. 4 December 15, 2006, Gallaudet University

2001-2010

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.

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Volume 42 - Issue 12 - Friday, December 15, 2006, Rose Thorn Staff Dec 2006

Volume 42 - Issue 12 - Friday, December 15, 2006, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

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2006 Winter Boise State University Commencement Program Dec 2006

2006 Winter Boise State University Commencement Program

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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Governors State University Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes - December 15, 2006, Board Of Trustees Dec 2006

Governors State University Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes - December 15, 2006, Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees Meetings Materials and Recordings

Minutes for the Governors State University Board of Trustees Meeting - December 15, 2006

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Globality Studies Journal, No. 03, Stony Brook University. Center For Global History. Dec 2006

Globality Studies Journal, No. 03, Stony Brook University. Center For Global History.

Globality Studies Journal

v. : ill. ; 28 cm (original analog pub.)

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12/15/2006 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2006

12/15/2006 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/15/2006. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

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Thickness Profiles Through Fatigued Bulk Ceramic Lead Zirconate Titanate, Nina Balke, Doru C. Lupascu, Thomas Blair Dec 2006

Thickness Profiles Through Fatigued Bulk Ceramic Lead Zirconate Titanate, Nina Balke, Doru C. Lupascu, Thomas Blair

Alexei Gruverman Publications

Wedge-cut samples of fatigued ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate ceramics were investigated using piezoresponse force microscopy in conjunction with conventional electrical hysteresis measurements. The local clamping of domains is monitored at different depths in the sample. The coercive fields in grains near the electrodes differ for different materials and preparation methods of the electrodes. For silver, fatigue consistently generates a space charge in the depth of the sample. For platinum electrodes, the fatigue behavior scatters strongly. Microscopically, it either occurs directly underneath the electrodes or resembles the behavior of the silver electrodes in other samples.

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Structure Inhomogeneities, Shallow Defects, And Charge Transport In The Series Of Thermoelectric Materials K2bi8−Xsbxse13, Jeffrey S. Dyck, T. Kyratski, E. Hatzikraniotis, K. M. Paraskevopoulos, C. D. Malliakas, C. Uher, M. G. Kanatzidis Dec 2006

Structure Inhomogeneities, Shallow Defects, And Charge Transport In The Series Of Thermoelectric Materials K2bi8−Xsbxse13, Jeffrey S. Dyck, T. Kyratski, E. Hatzikraniotis, K. M. Paraskevopoulos, C. D. Malliakas, C. Uher, M. G. Kanatzidis

Physics

The charge transport properties of the low-dimensional thermoelectric materials K2Bi8-xSbxSe13 (02Bi8-xSbxSe13 was analyzed on the basis of the classical semiconductor theory and discussed in the context of recent band calculations. The results suggest that the K2Bi8-xSbxSe13 materials possess coexisting domains with semimetallic and semiconducting characters whose ratio is influenced by the value of x and by local defects. The extent and relative distribution of these domains control the charge transport properties. Electron diffraction experiments performed on samples of K2 …

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Commencement Convocation Program, Lakeland Campus, December 15, 2006, University Of South Florida Dec 2006

Commencement Convocation Program, Lakeland Campus, December 15, 2006, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Senior - Justin Chantnicki; USF Lakeland Distinguished Service Award - John Ramil

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2006 Fall Engr333 Project Final Report, 2006 Fall Engr333 Dec 2006

2006 Fall Engr333 Project Final Report, 2006 Fall Engr333

ENGR 333

The objective of this project was to demonstrate Calvin’s interest in alternative energy. The development of a short-term plan to implement a demonstration wind turbine and a long-term plan to determine the feasibility of a larger turbine for the future demonstrates this interest. The class was divided into five teams: management, external relations, long-term technology, short-term technology, and campus infrastructure. While each team had its own objectives, everyone worked together to share information and accomplish the overall project goals. This management technique provided necessary structure and simulated an environment typically found in a career environment.

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Advancing The Methodology For Cyclopenta[C]Thiophene Sythesis: A Step Toward Anit-Leukemia Agents And Improved Semiconductiors, Riley Jones Dec 2006

Advancing The Methodology For Cyclopenta[C]Thiophene Sythesis: A Step Toward Anit-Leukemia Agents And Improved Semiconductiors, Riley Jones

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Metal n5-cyclopenta[c]thienyl complexes are of significant interest in both catalysis and materials chemistry. These relatives of the low-band-gap polymer polybenzo[2,3-c]thiophene show great promise as environmentally stable conductive polymers and as energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) due to their unique electronic properties. Recently, studies have shown that cyclopenta[c]thiophene molecules are effective as photodynamic anticancer agents which are particularly aggressive toward leukemia cells. The current method of synthesizing these compounds is lengthy, costly, and has a very low yield. Our group has developed a novel one-step method to produce precursors of these compounds. This procedure increases product yields, eliminates the use of toxic …

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Reporter - December 15th 2006, Rit Reporter Staff Dec 2006

Reporter - December 15th 2006, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

Greenvehicle Team; SEAL Club; RIT Forecast; SG Senate Update; NaNoWriMo; Quest For the Best Bathroom; Pick Of Destiny Review; At Your Leisure; Grade Infl ation; Does Your GPA Matter?; Word on the Street; Sports Desk; Sports Clubs Unfrozen; RIT Rings; Nuclear Proportions

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Montana Public Radio To Broadcast Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol', University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations Dec 2006

Montana Public Radio To Broadcast Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol', University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

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University Of Nebraska At Omaha, December Commencement 2006, University Of Nebraska At Omaha Dec 2006

University Of Nebraska At Omaha, December Commencement 2006, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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2006 Fall Commencement Program: Winona State University, Winona State University Dec 2006

2006 Fall Commencement Program: Winona State University, Winona State University

WSU Commencement Programs

This is the Winona State University Fall 2006 commencement program. Commencement was on Friday, Decmeber 15, 2006.

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Functional Model Of Cost And Time For Highway Construction Projects, Jin-Fang Shr, Wei-Tong Chen Dec 2006

Functional Model Of Cost And Time For Highway Construction Projects, Jin-Fang Shr, Wei-Tong Chen

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

It is commonly accepted that construction cost, time and quality performance has been regarded as the major success factors for a construction project. With the increasing use of innovative contracts in highway construction, the relationship between construction cost and time has become more crucial than ever. Improved control of time value has become necessary, for quantifying the functional relationship between construction cost and time. This study explores the functional relationship between highway construction cost and time. Data from projects of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) in the US is utilized to develop and illustrate the quantifying model. The proposed …

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A Case Study Of Inter-Arrival Time Distributions Of Container Ships, Tu-Cheng Kuo, Wen-Chih Huang, Sheng-Chieh Wu, Pei-Lun Cheng Dec 2006

A Case Study Of Inter-Arrival Time Distributions Of Container Ships, Tu-Cheng Kuo, Wen-Chih Huang, Sheng-Chieh Wu, Pei-Lun Cheng

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Given the recent prevalence of periodical container liners, the applicability of related models of widely applied queuing theory is left in doubt. Since they focus on marine liners, the distribution pattern is always considered to be a deterministic distribution for periodical schedule. In order to investigate the distribution patterns of container liners, observation units are segmented into single shipping liners, single berths, single container terminals and entire ports. The evolution of the ship arrival distribution pattern and the goodness-of-fit test for observation are based on the ship dynamic data of international harbors in Taiwan. This study aims to implement tests …

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Web Services Of Mms Applications On Mobile Devices, Cheng-Chih Yang, Cheng-Min Lin Dec 2006

Web Services Of Mms Applications On Mobile Devices, Cheng-Chih Yang, Cheng-Min Lin

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

This study develops the Web services that are applied in Multimedia Message Service (MMS) applications via the Internet and operated by mobile portable devices, such as Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and cellular phone. First, a MMS system environment and architecture is modeled. Next, the operations and interface of the MMS system is defined by the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) to represent the web services on MMS application system. Finally, two system prototypes are described in this study that includes distance video cam monitor system and GPRS cellular phone MMS sender.

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Particle Swarm Optimization For Global Optimization Problems, Hsin-Chuan Kuo, Jiang-Ren Chang, Ching-Hsiang Liu Dec 2006

Particle Swarm Optimization For Global Optimization Problems, Hsin-Chuan Kuo, Jiang-Ren Chang, Ching-Hsiang Liu

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

In this paper, the particle swarm optimization (PSO), originated as a simulation of a simplified social system with swarm intelligence and having exploring and exploiting characteristics of the particle swarm, is adopted to deal with the global optimization problems. To begin with, four non-linear two-dimensional functions are adopted as benchmark examples for determining the suitable ranges of parameters in the PSO. It is found that uses of the PSO can make the search quickly converge to the global optimum. Then, several benchmark functions below ten-dimensions are adopted especially for comparisons of search efficiency on the PSO and other algorithms. Results …

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Comparison Between Arpa Radar And Ais Characteristics For Vessel Traffic Services, Bin Lin, Chih-Hao Huang Dec 2006

Comparison Between Arpa Radar And Ais Characteristics For Vessel Traffic Services, Bin Lin, Chih-Hao Huang

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Recently most maritime countries in the world have fitted automatic identification system (AIS) in vessel traffic services (VTS) in compliance with regulations of International Convention in order to identify ship name and collect ship information. Traditionally VTS operators use automatic radar plotting aids (ARPA) to get ship maneuvering information for preventing ships from navigational faults. Although the two equipments can provide similar functions for VTS, the operational theory of them is quite different. In this study an experimental observation was carried out by means of ARPA radar and AIS fitted in the building of Merchant Marine Department, NTOU. The detected …

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Preliminary Screening Of Soil Actinomycetes For Anti-Tyrosinase Activity, Te-Sheng Chang, Min Tseng Dec 2006

Preliminary Screening Of Soil Actinomycetes For Anti-Tyrosinase Activity, Te-Sheng Chang, Min Tseng

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

A bacterial strain TI-B10 was isolated from forest soil in Taiwan. The strain showed 46 U/ml of anti-tyrosinase activity. On the basis of the typical colony appearance and 16S rRNA gene sequences analysis, the strain TI-B10 belonged to the genus Streptomyces. The antityrosinase activity of the strain could be improved to 73 U/ml under optimal cultural conditions at pH 8.0 and 30°C in the YMG medium.

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Some Novice Methods For Software Protection With Obfuscation, Saikrishna Aravalli Dec 2006

Some Novice Methods For Software Protection With Obfuscation, Saikrishna Aravalli

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Previously software is distributed to the users by using devices like CD.S and floppies and in the form of bytes. Due to the high usage of internet and in order to perform the tasks rapidly without wasting time on depending physical devices, software is supplied through internet in the form of source code itself. Since source code is available to the end users there is a possibility of changing the source code by malicious users in order to gain their personnel benefits which automatically leads to malfunctioning of the software. The method proposed in this thesis is based on the …

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Angle Resolved Photoemission Study Of Epitaxial Chromium Dioxide Films, Daniel Borst Dec 2006

Angle Resolved Photoemission Study Of Epitaxial Chromium Dioxide Films, Daniel Borst

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Chromium dioxide is predicted to be a half-metallic oxide. The electronic properties of the surface region of CrO2 have been studied by performing angle-resolved ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy (ARUPS) measurements on epitaxial CrO2 films. The CrO2 thin films were deposited on (100) and (110) – oriented TiO2 substrates by chemical vapor deposition. Previous measurements of the transport properties of devices made from epitaxial CrO2 films have shown very little spin polarization. Possible sources of this low yield are a surface Cr2O3 phase and/or surface contamination. The effects of sputtering the CrO2 films to remove the outer layer of Cr2O3 and any …

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Development Of An Image Noise Estimation Method And A Sub-Imaging Based Wiener Method, Eric F. Smith Dec 2006

Development Of An Image Noise Estimation Method And A Sub-Imaging Based Wiener Method, Eric F. Smith

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This research consists of three parts. The first part is an investigation of several popular image restoration techniques. The techniques are used to restore 2-D image data, f(x, y), that has been blurred by a known point spread function (PSF), b(x, y) and corrupted by an unknown amount of noise, n(x, y). Several sample images are restored using all of the techniques. Of the methods investigated the one which produces the best restoration results was determined to be the Wiener deconvolution method. The determination of the best method is based on the quality of the restored image and the required …

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"The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg"?: The "Bio-Med" Industries Of New Orleans , Robert Habans Dec 2006

"The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg"?: The "Bio-Med" Industries Of New Orleans , Robert Habans

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis addresses New Orleans' "Bio-Med" sector, a broad category that includes biosciences research, health care, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing. Biotechnology, in particular, has emerged as an attractive target for economic development in New Orleans, in Louisiana, and in the nation as a whole. Informed by economic geography and development literature, this research presents a narrative of efforts to foster the Bio-Med industries in New Orleans as a source of economic diversification and employment. Structural economic conditions, as well as a complex and unsettled array of political agendas shaping Bio-Med institutions, underscore a pessimistic view of the …

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Land Loss: Attachment, Place And Identity In Coastal Louisiana, David Burley Dec 2006

Land Loss: Attachment, Place And Identity In Coastal Louisiana, David Burley

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation explores how people frame environmental change. Specifically, this work explores the identity loss that residents of coastal Louisiana experience due to coastal land loss. I rely on 126 in-depth interviews of residents from communities in six coastal parishes (counties). Respondents convey the meanings they give to land loss through constructing a narrative of place. A phenomenological approach is employed that focuses on how stories are told and the subjective interpretations of societal members. First, Louisiana's coastal communities hold a significant attachment to place that in many cases has been developing for close to three centuries. For most residents, …

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An Analytic Image-Technology Inventory Of National Tourism Organizations (Ntos), Lung-Chiuan Chang Dec 2006

An Analytic Image-Technology Inventory Of National Tourism Organizations (Ntos), Lung-Chiuan Chang

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Internet is playing an increasingly crucial role in destination marketing and it is used as a major marketing tool among National Tourism Organizations (NTOs). Website design is influential for consumers' Website preference and destination selection. This study is to understand the application of image-based technology by the major National Tourism Organizations (NTOs) through the collection and comparison of static images and dynamic images presented in their official tourism Websites. Data collected from the sampling of the world's top 25 tourism destination nations reveals that all National Tourism Organizations (NTOs) use either static images or dynamic images for their Websites, …

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Trade Relations Between Southern U.S. Cities And Latin America: A Study Of How The Port Cities New Orleans, Houston, And Miami Fare Against One Another Amid Increasing Competition For Trade With Latin America, Bethany Comboy Dec 2006

Trade Relations Between Southern U.S. Cities And Latin America: A Study Of How The Port Cities New Orleans, Houston, And Miami Fare Against One Another Amid Increasing Competition For Trade With Latin America, Bethany Comboy

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Globalization has affected decentralization and greater centralized control and management within governments traditionally unconstrained by international change, city governments. City governments must be increasingly active internationally to survive in a politically decentralized global environment, especially in international trade. Trade is important to cities because it affects growth, jobs and standard of living among other contributors to local economies. The effects of globalization at the local level are manifested in three Southern U.S. cities with business-generating ports linked to Latin American and world markets: New Orleans, Houston, and Miami. This comparative case study considers the competition among New Orleans, Houston and …

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The Animal Lives Of People, Emily Dziuban Dec 2006

The Animal Lives Of People, Emily Dziuban

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Mechanical Thermal And Microstructural Behaviors Of The Strip Silicates Reinforced Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites, Man Wai Ho Dec 2006

The Mechanical Thermal And Microstructural Behaviors Of The Strip Silicates Reinforced Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites, Man Wai Ho

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Ten different sets of epoxy samples with compositions from 0wt% to 8wt% nanoclay were prepared by mechanical stirring and then casting to mold dog-bone shape samples for tensile and other tests. A gradual trend of changes upon mechanical, thermal and microstructural behaviors were investigated. Introduction of strip silicates inside the epoxy matrix contributed to higher tensile strength, flexural strength and Vickers' hardness. From tensile tests, the ultimate tensile strength of samples from 0wt% to 8wt% nanoclay ranged from 42MPa to 46MPa. The epoxy samples with 1wt%, 4wt% to 6wt% nanoclay had a stepwise increase in the ultimate tensile strength of …

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