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Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, December 18, 2007, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Dec 2007

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, December 18, 2007, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

USF St. Petersburg Graduations and Commencements

Regional Chancellor's Award for Civic Leadership: Roy Harrell


Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, December 18, 2007, University Of South Florida Dec 2007

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, December 18, 2007, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Regional Chancellor's Award for Civic Leadership - Roy Harrell; Outstanding Graduate - Brenda Mettetal


The Changing Faces Of New Hampshire: Recent Demographic Trends In The Granite State, Kenneth M. Johnson Dec 2007

The Changing Faces Of New Hampshire: Recent Demographic Trends In The Granite State, Kenneth M. Johnson

Carsey Publications

New Hampshire, with a total population of 1.3 million, gained 79,000 residents between 2000 and 2006. Most of this growth (51,000 residents) came from migration. The migration also brought economic gains: New Hampshire gained at least $1.4 billion in income from migration between 2001 and 2005, and households moving in earned nearly $9,000 more than those leaving.


Energy Based Split Vector Quantizer Employing Signal Representation In Multiple Transform Domains., Wasfy Mikhael, Venkatesh Krishnan Dec 2007

Energy Based Split Vector Quantizer Employing Signal Representation In Multiple Transform Domains., Wasfy Mikhael, Venkatesh Krishnan

UCF Patents

This invention relates to representation of one and multidimensional signal vectors in nonorgothonal domains and design of Vector Quantizers that can be chosen among these representations. There is presented a Vector Quantization technique in multiple nonorthogonal domains for both waveform and model based signal characterization. An iterative codebook accuracy enhancement algorithm, applicable to both waveform and model based Vector Quantization in multiple nonorthogonal domains, which yields further improvement in signal coding performance, is disclosed. Further, Vector Quantization in in nonorthogonal domains is applied to speech and exhibits clear performance improvements of reconstruction quality for the same bit rate compared to …


Polarimetry Of Three-Dimensional Optical Fields., Aristide Dogariu, Jeremy Ellis Dec 2007

Polarimetry Of Three-Dimensional Optical Fields., Aristide Dogariu, Jeremy Ellis

UCF Patents

The apparatus, system and method of the present invention provide a three-dimensional polarimeter probe having a coupler for coupling three components of an electromagnetic field that fluctuates in three-dimensions and an emitter for re-emitting a radiation corresponding to said three components. The radiation includes a polarized and an unpolarized component of said electromagnetic field and is used to determine the elements of a field-field correlation martix. In an embodiment, the system includes a detector located a distance from said probe for sensing said re-emitted radiation from said probe and a processor for determining a polarized and an unpolarized component of …


Minutes, Altrusa Club Of Tampa, March-December 2007, Altrusa International Of Tampa Bay, Inc. Dec 2007

Minutes, Altrusa Club Of Tampa, March-December 2007, Altrusa International Of Tampa Bay, Inc.

Altrusa International of Tampa Bay, Inc. - Records

The meeting minutes for the Altrusa Club of Tampa from March through December 2007.


Melton V. State Appellant's Brief Dckt. 33442 Dec 2007

Melton V. State Appellant's Brief Dckt. 33442

Not Reported

No abstract provided.


Zoning The Internet: A New Approach To Protecting Children Online, Cheryl B. Preston Dec 2007

Zoning The Internet: A New Approach To Protecting Children Online, Cheryl B. Preston

BYU Law Review

This Article considers how Internet architecture can be harnessed to create an online environment where government regulation of material harmful to minors can be effective but not unreasonably burdensome. It proposes a solution that engages technology in refocusing the point of regulation, thereby reducing the burden on speech and increasing the ability to achieve constitutionally recognized governmental objectives. This Article briefly examines failed congressional attempts to restrict children's access to sexually explicit content online, and then introduces the Internet Community Ports Concept, which relies on channeling technology to divide kinds of content among various Internet ports. After briefly outlining the …


Making Family-Friendly Internet A Reality: The Internet Community Ports Act, Dawn C. Nunziato Dec 2007

Making Family-Friendly Internet A Reality: The Internet Community Ports Act, Dawn C. Nunziato

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


A New First Amendment Model For Evaluating Content-Based Regulation Ofinternet Pornography: Revising The Strict Scrutiny Model To Better Reflect The Realities Of The Modern Media Age, Mark S. Kende Dec 2007

A New First Amendment Model For Evaluating Content-Based Regulation Ofinternet Pornography: Revising The Strict Scrutiny Model To Better Reflect The Realities Of The Modern Media Age, Mark S. Kende

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Stevenson Center Compass, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, December 18, 2007, Illinois State University, Stevenson Center For Community And Economic Development Dec 2007

Stevenson Center Compass, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, December 18, 2007, Illinois State University, Stevenson Center For Community And Economic Development

Stevenson Center Compass

Newsletter for the Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development


Worldview Construction: International Relations Concepts Embedded In Elementary Social Studies Textbooks, Louise Massey Strauss Dec 2007

Worldview Construction: International Relations Concepts Embedded In Elementary Social Studies Textbooks, Louise Massey Strauss

Open Access Dissertations

Early civic education is crucial for worldview formation compatible with living in an increasingly interdependent world. In U.S. public schools, social studies is the locus of civic education. Social studies textbooks are the container of civic subject matter and teachers are its transmitters. Traditionally, civic education has been linked with national identity creation. In this study, educators are challenged to stimulate a complementary cosmopolitan identity because of social, political, and economic globalization trends and transition to an Information (and instant communication) Age. Using the social constructivist perspective, a content analysis model was developed for multi-state study of elementary social studies …


Ccu Newsletter, December 17, 2007, Coastal Carolina University Dec 2007

Ccu Newsletter, December 17, 2007, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.


Centerpoint Director Named Influential Woman In Business, Office Of Public Affairs Dec 2007

Centerpoint Director Named Influential Woman In Business, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Hilary Burkinshaw, Director of The CenterPoint for Entrepreneurs at Governors State University, was recently honored by the Business Ledger, a regional business publication and the National Association of Women Business Owners Chicago Area Chapter as one of the area’s Influential Women in Business.


Helin Committees' Charges Dec 2007

Helin Committees' Charges

HELIN Documents

Charges to the HELIN standing committees developed and implemented in August 2005.


Pistor V. Secretary Hhs Dec 2007

Pistor V. Secretary Hhs

2007 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey


Commencement Convocation Program, Lakeland Campus, December 17, 2007, University Of South Florida Dec 2007

Commencement Convocation Program, Lakeland Campus, December 17, 2007, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Senior - Tara Crum; Distinguished Service Award - Commissioner Jack Myers


Redistricting. Constitutional Amendment. Dec 2007

Redistricting. Constitutional Amendment.

Initiatives

Creates 14-member redistricting commission responsible for drawing new district lines for State Senate, Assembly, and Board of Equalization districts. Requires State Auditor to randomly select commission members from voter applicant pool to create a commission with five members from each of the two largest political parties, and four members unaffiliated with either political party. Requires nine votes to approve final district maps. Establishes standards for drawing new lines, including respecting the geographic integrity of neighborhoods and encouraging geographic compactness. Permits State Legislature to draw lines for congressional districts subject to these standards. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director …


2007-12-17 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department Dec 2007

2007-12-17 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2007

No abstract provided.


Existence And Nonexistence Results For A Class Of Quasilinear Elliptic Systems, Said El Manouni Dec 2007

Existence And Nonexistence Results For A Class Of Quasilinear Elliptic Systems, Said El Manouni

Mathematics and System Engineering Faculty Publications

Using variational methods, we prove the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for a class of -Laplacian systems with a parameter.


Monitor Newsletter December 17, 2007, Bowling Green State University Dec 2007

Monitor Newsletter December 17, 2007, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff


Investigation Of Phase Behavior And Reservoir Fluid Properties In Support Of Enhanced Oil Recovery Of Alaska North Slope (Ans) Viscous Oils, Kaustubh D. Alurkar Dec 2007

Investigation Of Phase Behavior And Reservoir Fluid Properties In Support Of Enhanced Oil Recovery Of Alaska North Slope (Ans) Viscous Oils, Kaustubh D. Alurkar

Engineering

Declining light oil production on Alaska North Slope (ANS) has attracted oil producers to develop viscous oil resources of ANS that range between 20 to 25 billion barrels. These oils are viscous, flow sluggishly in the formations, and are difficult to transport through unconsolidated formations and are hard to produce by conventional methods. Viscous oil recovery entails neatly designed enhanced oil recovery processes and the success of these processes is critically dependent on accurate knowledge of phase behavior and fluid properties of these oils under variety of pressure and temperature conditions. An experimental study was conducted to quantify the phase …


Design And Implementation Of A Plasma Probe To Measure Relative Plasma Density In The E-Region Of The Ionosphere For The Hex-2 Sounding Rocket Mission, Sujith V. Nair Dec 2007

Design And Implementation Of A Plasma Probe To Measure Relative Plasma Density In The E-Region Of The Ionosphere For The Hex-2 Sounding Rocket Mission, Sujith V. Nair

Engineering

This thesis presents the design and implementation of a Plasma Probe that measures the relative plasma density in the E-region of the ionosphere during an active aurora. The instrument was designed for the Horizontal E-Region Experiment (HEX-2) conducted by the Geophysical Institute (University of Alaska Fairbanks) to investigate the spatial relationship of vertical winds associated with auroral structures. The Plasma Probe was successfully launched into space on a three-stage Black Brant X rocket from Poker Flat Research Range (PFRR) on February 14, 2007. The instrument design exploits the rocket's near horizontal trajectory to measure the relative density of the positively …


Tutor Strategies In Face-To-Face And Distance Tutorial Sessions: Tutor And Student Perceptions, Carrie L. Aldrich Dec 2007

Tutor Strategies In Face-To-Face And Distance Tutorial Sessions: Tutor And Student Perceptions, Carrie L. Aldrich

Linguistics

As university populations become increasingly dependent on distance learning and support services for distance learning, writing centers progressively offer services by telephone, email, or virtual worlds in addition to the traditional face-to-face tutorials. The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Writing Center offers a "telephone tutorial" service for students from remote locations who fax their papers to a tutor who then conducts a tutorial session over the telephone. This study investigates tutor strategies in face-to-face and telephone tutorial sessions and tutor and student perceptions of effectiveness. I audio recorded 30 tutorial sessions with five tutors in six sessions each, half in …


The Future Of Digital Library Development @ Uconn, Michael J. Bennett Dec 2007

The Future Of Digital Library Development @ Uconn, Michael J. Bennett

UConn Library Presentations

No abstract provided.


Grand Valley Forum, Volume 032, Number 21, December 17, 2007, Grand Valley State University Dec 2007

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 032, Number 21, December 17, 2007, Grand Valley State University

2007-2008, Volume 32

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.


December 17, 2007 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Dec 2007

December 17, 2007 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.


Occurrence Patterns Of Whistler Mode (Wm) Echoes Observed By Rpi/Image And Their Relation To Geomagnetic Activity, Amani Reddy Dec 2007

Occurrence Patterns Of Whistler Mode (Wm) Echoes Observed By Rpi/Image And Their Relation To Geomagnetic Activity, Amani Reddy

Engineering

This thesis presents an analysis of whistler mode (WM) echoes observed at altitudes less than 5,000 km by the Radio Plasma Imager (RPI) on the IMAGE satellite. WM echoes are generated either by specular reflection (SR) of RPI signals at the Earth-ionosphere boundary (~90 km) or by magnetospheric reflection of RPI signals [...] at altitudes greater than 1,000 km [Sonwalkar et al., 2004; Sonwalkar et al., 2006]. These echoes are further influenced by field aligned irregularities (FAI) and are categorized into discrete, multipath or diffuse SR- and MR- WM echoes, based on their characteristic spectral forms. A survey of WM …


Post-Breeding Habitat Use By Adult Boreal Toads (Bufo Boreas) After Wildfire In Glacier National Park, Usa, C. Gregory Guscio, Blake R. Hossack, Lisa A. Eby, Paul Stephen Corn Dec 2007

Post-Breeding Habitat Use By Adult Boreal Toads (Bufo Boreas) After Wildfire In Glacier National Park, Usa, C. Gregory Guscio, Blake R. Hossack, Lisa A. Eby, Paul Stephen Corn

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Effects of wildfire on amphibians are complex, and some species may benefit from the severe disturbance of stand-replacing fire. Boreal Toads (Bufo boreas boreas) in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA increased in occurrence after fires in 2001 and 2003. We used radio telemetry to track adult B. boreas in a mosaic of terrestrial habitats with different burn severities to better understand factors related to the post-fire pulse in breeding activity. Toads used severely burned habitats more than expected and partially burned habitats less than expected. No toads were relocated in unburned habitat, but little of the study area …


The Distribution And Phylogeography Of The Alaska Marmot (Marmota Broweri), Aren M. Gunderson Dec 2007

The Distribution And Phylogeography Of The Alaska Marmot (Marmota Broweri), Aren M. Gunderson

Biological Sciences

The taxonomic and distributional status of the Marmota broweri has been the subject of much debate and confusion since it was first described as a subspecies of the hoary marmot (M caligata). Through a review of all museum specimens, published accounts of this species, field surveys, and the identification of previously unidentified marmot specimens we have determined the current distribution of the Alaska marmot to include the Brooks Range, the Ray Mountains, and the Kokrines Hills of northern Alaska. The Yukon River forms the boundary between the peripatric distributions of M broweri and M caligata in Alaska. Since M broweri …