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Southern Alumni, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

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Explicit Symmetries Of Strict Feedforward Control Systems, Issa Amadou Tall, Witold Respondek

Miscellaneous (presentations, translations, interviews, etc)

We show that any symmetry of a smooth strict feedforward system is conjugated to a scaling translation and any 1-parameter family of symmetries to a family of scaling translations along the first variable. We compute explicitly those symmetries by finding the conjugating diffeomorphism. We deduce, in accordance with our previous work, that a smooth system is feedback equivalent to a strict feedforward form if and only if it gives rise to a sequence of systems, such that each element of the sequence, firstly, possesses an infinitesimal symmetry whose flow is conjugated to a 1- parameter families of scaling translations and, …

Green Leaves For Diarrhoeal Diseases Used By The Tribals Of Kenojhar And Mayurbhanj District Of Orissa, India, Kambaska Kumar Behera, Purandra Mandal, Dayanidhi Mahapatra

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

The present paper reports with 49 plant species belonging to 30 families, mostly used by the tribal people of Kenojhar and Mayurbhanj district of Orissa. The tribal population of the region primarily depends upon these plants for curing diarrhea. They are enumerated with binomial, family, local name, parts used and ethno medicinal uses. Further studies on chemical and pharmacological actions are suggested to validate the claims.

Bala (Sida Cordifolia L.): Is It Safe Herbal Drug?, Amrit Pal Singh

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

Bala is important medicinal plant of Ayurvedic system of medicine. Previous works have reported presence of ephedrine in Bala although it has not been reported in other varieties of Bala. Extracts of Sida cordifolia standardized to ephedrine are available in the Indian as well as international market. In western world ephedrine once upon a time was widely used for weight loss but recently it has been banned due to reported hepatotoxicity (injurious to the liver). Bala and its varieties including atibala (Sida rhombifolia L.) are exclusively used in Ayurvedic composite formulations. Owing to presence of ephedrine and norpesudoephedrine (PPA) …

Dec. 1, 2006, R. Kyte, Ifc, Letter To B. Jenkins, Bic, Et Al Re Review Of Ehs Guidelines, Rachel Kyte

IFC E&S Performance Standards

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2006 Precision Planted Performance Trials: Corn, R. G. Hall, K. K. Kirby

Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars (1920-1915)

Performance of entries in the 2006 South Dakota corn hybrid performance trials for both non-Roundup-Ready and RoundupReady ™ hybrids is reported. Information includes both the most recent 2-year and 1-year grain yields in bushels per acre and 1-year bushel weight, grain moisture at harvest, percent stand at harvest, and stalk lodge percentages. These performance trials are conducted by the South Dakota Crop Performance Testing ( CPT ) program at South Dakota State University.

Stallion: A New High Performing White Oat, L. Hall

Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011)

This bulletin provides information regarding Stallion, a new high-performing white oat. The origin, agronomic traits, and recommended cultural practices are provided.

Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Annual Progress Report, 2006, Agricultural Experiment Station

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This document highlights 24 crop and livestock research and demonstration reports from projects conducted at Southeast Research Farm in 2006. It is published by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service at South Dakota State University in cooperation with the Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Corporation. Reports in this document include information on: temperatures and precipitation data, corn production and performance, soybean research and planting, soil testing, alfalfa yield test, fertilizer testing, herbicide research, crop rotation, sorghum, small grains, livestock research, and pest and weed control.

Ereview, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

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Broadcast Technology As Diversity Opportunity: Exchanging Market Power For Multiplexed Signal Set- Asides, Michael M. Epstein

Federal Communications Law Journal

This Article proposes an access system based on a theory of quid pro quo: a bargained.for-exchange in which broadcasters would trade media access for market power. Under this quid pro quo approach, the FCC would administer a scaled metric whereby the greater a media company's audience reach, the more access that company must provide to citizens with diverse and local content. Since digital technology permits broadcasters to "multiplex" their television signal bandwidth into multiple signal programming streams, an opportunity exists for the government to require public access to one or more of these programming streams in return for relaxing caps …

Iron In Hot Da White Dwarfs, Stéphane Vennes, Pierre Chayer, Jean François Dupuis, Thierry M. Lanz

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

We present a study of the iron abundance pattern in hot, hydrogen-rich (DA) white dwarfs. The study is based on new and archival far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of a sample of white dwarfs in the temperature range 30,000 K ≲ Teff ≲ 64,000 K. The spectra obtained with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, along with spectra obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the International Ultraviolet Explorer, sample Fe III-Fe VI absorption lines, enabling a detailed iron abundance analysis over a wider range of effective temperatures than previously afforded. The measurements reveal abundance variations in excess of 2 orders of …

How Much Cooperation Between Government Agencies Is Too Much?: Reconciling United States V. Scrushy, The Corporate Fraud Task Force, And The Nature Of Parallel Proceedings, Jody M. Arogeti

Georgia State University Law Review

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Georgia's Codification Of Daubert: Narrowing The Admissibility Of Novel Scientific Evidence In Georgia?, Alfred R. Politzer

Georgia State University Law Review

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The Emperor Has No Clothes: Postmodern Legal Thought And Cognitive Science, Scott Fruehwald

Georgia State University Law Review

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Genomeblast: A Web Tool For Small Genome Comparison, Guoqing Lu, Liying Jiang, Resa M. K. Helikar, Thaine W. Rowley, Luwen Zhang, Xianfeng Chen, Etsuko N. Moriyama

Biology Faculty Publications

Background: Comparative genomics has become an essential approach for identifying homologous gene candidates and their functions, and for studying genome evolution. There are many tools available for genome comparisons. Unfortunately, most of them are not applicable for the identification of unique genes and the inference of phylogenetic relationships in a given set of genomes.

Results: GenomeBlast is a Web tool developed for comparative analysis of multiple small genomes. A new parameter called "coverage" was introduced and used along with sequence identity to evaluate global similarity between genes. With GenomeBlast, the following results can be obtained: (1) unique genes in each …

Marquette Interchange Installation Report, Marquette University, Transportation Research Center

Transportation Research Center: Marquette Interchange Instrumentation

Task three of the Perpetual Pavement Instrumentation Plan for the Marquette Interchange Project called for the installation of the various pavement sensors, data acquisition system, and various other components of the system outlined in the project proposal. The MU-TRC research team has successfully completed the installation of these various components of the system. This report fulfills the requirement of the installation report from task three in the project plan. This report is organized to describe in detail each specific component of the system. Most, but not all, of these details are written in the order they were completed.

Not every …

Down To The Wire: Assessing The Constitutionality Of The National Security Agency's Warrantless Wiretapping Program: Exit The Rule Of Law, Fletcher N. Baldwin Jr., Robert B. Shaw

UF Law Faculty Publications

The article discusses the constitutionality of warrantless wiretapping surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) on U.S. citizens. The wiretapping program existed weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks, on the justification that Congress authorized the president to wiretap U.S. citizens without a warrant, and that the president had inherent authority as commander-in-chief. But it is argued that Congress did not expressly authorize the president to conduct warrantless wiretapping and that he does not have such inherent authority.

We intend this Article to be a commentary on the constitutionality of the NSA wiretapping program solely as it relates to the …

Reheat Treated Microstructures And Gamma Prime Particle Coarsening Behaviour At 900˚C Of Cast Nickel Based Superalloy In-738, S Polsilapa, P Sopon, N Panich, N Chuankrerkkul, A Thueploy

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

Long-term isothermal exposure tests were conducted on IN-738 alloy to evaluate the variation of gamma prime particle coarsening behavior after different rejuvenated heat treatment conditions. The longterm thermal exposure tests (up to 2,500 hours) were conducted at 900˚C to assess gamma prime particle coarsening behavior. Metallographic work had been performed on isothermally aged samples to characterize gamma prime coarsening as a function of heating time. At all investigated heating times, the gamma prime particles in all tested specimens were coarser than the initial reheat treated ones. The gamma prime particles appeared to coarsen more into a round shape or agglomerated …

The Influence Of The Strain Rate On The Material Properties Of The Zinc-Coated Sheet, Z Vadasová, M Mihaliková

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

In this paper the influence of the strain rate on the material properties of the zinc-coated sheet of the thickness (1; 1.5; 1.8) mm made from low-alloyed steel ZINKODUR 340 was analyzed. Increasing the strain rate is one of the possible ways to increase cold mechanical work in products. The tensile test is the most useful method for determining the material characteristic such as ductility. This contribution analyzes the influence of loading rate in range from 1 to 1000mm/min on material characteristics of tested steel during the tensile test. Strain rate is one of the most significant factors, which affected …

Development Of Flame Retardant Polyphosphoric Acid Coating Based On The Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Technique, K Srikulkit, C Iamsamai, S T. Dubas

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

Polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) thin films were deposited on silk by sequential deposition of Chitosan and polyphosphoric acid. This PEM composition takes advantage of synergetic effect of the phosphorus and the nitrogen to provide an efficient coating, which prevents fiber decomposition at high temperature. Prior to the PEM assembly on silk fibers, the growth of the film was initially monitored using an atomic force microscopy (AFM). Films formed on silicon wafer after 10, 20, 30, 40 and 60 layers showed somewhat linear increase, which is consistent with the PEM technique. A total thickness ranging from 10 to 107 nm for the …

Uv Radiation Energy Consumption In Curing Process Of Epoxidized Sunflower Oil-Organoclay Hybrid Coatings, N Jiratumnukul, R Intarat

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

Epoxidized sunflower oil (ESO) can be cured with ultraviolet radiation using either cationic or hybrid initiation. The organoclay was prepared by the cationic exchange process, in which sodium ions were replaced by alkyl ammonium ions. Organoclay was incorporated into epoxidized sunflower oil UVcurable systems. The effects of diluents and types of photo initiators were studied. It was found that the formulations with a hybrid photoinitiator required less energy in the curing process than those with a cationic photoinitator. Moreover, the formulations without diluent can be cured with lower radiation energy than those with diluent.

Electrochemical Oxidation Process For Mineralization Of Solvent, A Charoensri, F Kobayashi, A Kimura, J Ishii

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

A silver mediated electrochemical oxidations is a promising technique for the destruction of organic compounds. The destruction of 30%tributyl phosphate in dodecane in a nitric acid medium containing electrogenerated Ag(II) to carbon dioxide was studied by using a laboratory scale electrochemical oxidation cell. The electrolyte used in this system was 0.5 M AgNO3 in the range of 3 - 7 M HNO3, at operating temperatures of 60ºC ± 5ºC, under ultrasonic agitation and the output of a DC power supply at constant the current was 60 A, respectively. Electrolysis was carried out for 5 hours. The results show that, in …

A Linear Modulation Osl Study Of The Unstable Ultrafast Component In Samples From Glacial Lake Hitchcock, Massachusetts, Usa, R. J. Goble, Tammy M. Rittenour

Geosciences Faculty Publications

Optical ages were determined for samples from delta and sand dune deposits associated with Glacial Lake Hitchcock near Amherst, Massachusetts using the single aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) technique. However, a strong unstable ultrafast component caused initial rejection of data from a large proportion of aliquots. A linearly modulated blue OSL (LM-OSL) study was undertaken on the sample with the strongest ultrafast component, with the data modelled using the equation of Bulur et al. (2000) as 5 fast, medium and slow components, and 1 ultrafast component.

The ultrafast component dominates the LM–OSL, almost completely obscuring the fast component. …

Building Leaders For The Future: Women In The Middle East, Deniz Zeynep Leuenberger

Bridgewater Review

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Excerpts From Four Portfolios, Mary Dondero

Bridgewater Review

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Capital Account Liberalization: The Way Forward For Nigeria, Sam Omoruyi

Economic and Financial Review

Capital account liberalization is a complex and multifaceted issue, which if not properly addressed could increase the risks of a crisis in a country with serious negative consequences for the real sector. The purpose of this paper is to dwell in some detail on capital account liberalization, emphasizing the preconditions for tits safe implementation, the degree and sequencing of implementation, effects of capital account liberalization, noting costs and the way forward to its effective administration in Nigeria.

Boffin's Books And Darwin's Finches: Victorian Cultures Of Collecting, Michael W. Hancock '89

Doctoral Dissertations

Although wealthy continental virtuosos had passionately and selectively accumulated a variety of natural and artificial objects from the Renaissance onwards, not until the nineteenth century did collecting become a conspicuous national pastime among all classes in Britain. As industry and empire made available many new and exotic goods for acquisition and display, the collection as a cultural form offered the Victorians a popular strategy of self-fashioning that was often represented in the literature of the age as a source of prestige and social legitimation. Through interdisciplinary readings of Victorian fiction, narrative nonfiction, and poetry, my study examines how textual representations …

Oncolog Volume 51, Number 12, December 2006, Sunni Hosemann

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Curable But Not Conquered: Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Today
• House Call: Big Benefits for Smokers Who Quit

Contingency Management Techniques And Smoking Cessation In College Students, Laurie Athey

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine smoking cessation using different criteria for delivery of monetary reinforcement for college students from Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. Participants participated in a 4 week study using a single subject reversal design (ABAC) in which baseline phases were alternated with either fixed criterion or shaping using an escalating schedule of reinforcement. The order of administration of intervention phases was determined randomly. Each intervention phase lasted 5 days (Monday-Friday). Results showed that contingent reinforcement for reduced carbon monoxide levels was effective in reducing smoking. However, additional studies need to be completed for longer periods …

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The Prairie Light Review

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