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Uaf Libraries Faculty And Researchers Library Use Survey Fall 2007, Karen Jensen, Lisa Lehman, Anne Christie, Diane Ruess

Faculty

Triennial campus-wide UAF libraries use survey, summary of results for faculty and researchers.

The Advocate (Vol. 5, Issue 6)

Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...)

No abstract provided.

Pro-Gun Scholars Twist Constitution, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

Earlier this year, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia became the first federal tribunal to strike down a local gun-control law, holding that the Founding Fathers would have allowed all private citizens to arm themselves.

Matching Kasteleyn Cities For Spin Glass Ground States, Alan Middleton, Creighton K. Thomas

Physics - All Scholarship

As spin glass materials have extremely slow dynamics, devious numerical methods are needed to study low-temperature states. A simple and fast optimization version of the classical Kasteleyn treatment of the Ising model is described and applied to two-dimensional Ising spin glasses. The algorithm combines the Pfaffian and matching approaches to directly strip droplet excitations from an excited state. Extended ground states in Ising spin glasses on a torus, which are optimized over all boundary conditions, are used to compute precise values for ground state energy densities.

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Executive Committee Meeting, Tuesday, November 20, 2007, Arts & Sciences Executive Committee

Executive Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Olliphaunt, Bard Observer (November 20, 2007), Bard College

Bard Observer - All Issues (1956 - Current)

No abstract provided.

Ei Dupont De Nemours V. Usa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Lin V. Atty Gen Usa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Independent- Nov. 20, 2007, Duncan Macnab

The Independent (1988-present)

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Scalable And Adaptive Metadata Management In Ultra Large-Scale File Systems, Yu Hua, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang

School of Computing: Technical Reports

This paper presents a scalable and adaptive decentralized metadata lookup scheme for ultra large-scale file systems (≥ Petabytes or even Exabytes). Our scheme logically organizes metadata servers (MDS) into a multi-layered query hierarchy and exploits grouped Bloom filters to efficiently route metadata requests to desired MDSs through the hierarchy. This metadata lookup scheme can be executed at the network or memory speed, without being bounded by the performance of slow disks. An effective workload balance algorithm is also developed in this paper for server reconfigurations. This scheme is evaluated through extensive trace-driven simulations and prototype implementation in Linux. Experimental results …

The Music And Literacy Connection, Emily H. Park

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 97 [98], No. 16 [22] (Nov. 20, 2007), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 97, but it is the 98th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

This issue was printed as 16, but it is the 22nd issue in this volume. This was corrected in pencil.

Lochsa Falls V. Idaho State Dept. Of Transportation Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 34039

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Annual Fecundity Of Tautog In Long Island Sound: Size Effects And Long-Term Changes In A Harvested Population, Lori H. Laplante, Eric T. Schultz

EEB Articles

Abstract.—Few studies estimate the impact of individual size on annual reproductive output, which is an important consideration where size-selective harvest may truncate size distributions and sharply reduce populationwide reproductive potential. We conducted a 2-year study of reproduction in field-collected and captive tautog Tautoga onitis from Long Island Sound to investigate the influence of individual size on components that constitute annual fecundity: batch fecundity, spawning frequency, and season duration. Estimates of spawning frequency in field-caught females relied on time-varying features of postovulatory follicles that we validated in experiments conducted on captive spawners.Mature females collected in the wild demonstrated midseason peaks in …

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, November 20, 2007, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Reading First Fall 2007 Report, Emily Hayden, Guy Trainin, Malinda M. Murphy

Research and Evaluation in Education, Technology, Art, and Design

The Nebraska Reading First Fall 2007 Report presents an analysis of the progress and assessment results for Nebraska Reading First schools in the 4th year of implementation.

Mustang Daily, November 20, 2007

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

An Evaluation Of A Low-Cost Uav Approach To Noxious Weed Mapping, Brandon Tyler Jones

Theses and Dissertations

Mapping their location and extent is a critical step in noxious weed management. One of the most common methods of mapping noxious weeds is to walk the perimeter of each patch with a handheld GPS receiver. This is the method used at Camp Williams, a National Guard Bureau training facility in Utah where this study was conducted. It was proposed that a low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that made use of a hobbyist remote control airplane equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and digital camera could be used along with automated post-processing techniques to reduce the cost of …

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy For Children Diagnosed With Reactive Attachment Disorder, Demetria Soulounias-Arriaga

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy is a probably efficacious, evidenced-based

treatment, which has been proven to decrease problem behaviors of children, as well as

improve parent-child interactions. The first phase is the Child-Directed Interaction (CDI),

which allows the child to lead the play session, while parents are taught to interact

without giving demands, asking questions, or providing criticism. According to the

DSM-IV-TR, Reactive Attachment Disorder is a rare diagnosis. Many attachment

therapists indicate that traditional approaches to treatment have not been demonstrated as

being effective with these children. This study will examine the CDI phase of Parent-

Child Interaction Therapy as a …

The Ecology Of Translocated Greater Sage-Grouse In Strawberry Valley, Utah, Rick Joseph Baxter

Theses and Dissertations

Manuscript No. 1 Translocations of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have been attempted in 7 states and one Canadian province with very little success. To recover a small remnant population and test the efficacy of sage-grouse translocations, we captured and transported 137 adult female sage-grouse from 2 source populations to a release site in Strawberry Valley, Utah during March-April 2003-2005. The resident population of sage-grouse in Strawberry Valley was approximately 150 breeding birds prior to the release. We radiomarked each female and documented survival, movements, reproductive effort, flocking with resident grouse, and lek attendance. We used Program MARK to calculate annual …

State V. Frederick Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 36493

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

The Bg News November 20, 2007, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 20, 2007. Volume 98-Issue 64.

Supporting Annotated Relations, M. Y. Eltabakh, M. Ouzzani, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Y. Laura-Silva

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Efficacy Of Field Training Officers’ Organizational Maturity And Their Decision To Utilize Communicative Competencies, Michael White

Masters Theses

The focus of this study was the examination of communication issues in the field of law enforcement in order determine what effect if any, an officers’ organizational maturity has on their decision to utilize verbal and or non-verbal communications when performing their job, especially when interacting with citizens.

The scope of this study is limited, as the research is only concerned with the opinions of patrol officers regarding their ability to effectively communicate verbally and non-verbally. In order to obtain patrol officer perspectives regarding this issue, and for convenience sake, a non-probability sample was established in which field training officers …

Tempo-Spatial Patterns Of Land Use Changes And Urban Development In Globalizing China: A Study Of Beijing, Yichun Xie, Chuanglin Fang, George C.S. Lin, Hongmian Gong, Biao Qiao

Publications and Research

This study examines the temporal and spatial changes in land use as a consequence of rapid urban development in the city of Beijing. Using a combination of techniques of remote sensing and GIS, the study identifies a substantial loss of plain dryland and a phenomenal expansion of urban construction land over the recent decade. Geographically, there is a clear shifting of urban construction land from the inner city to the outskirts as a consequence of suburbanization. The outward expansion of the ring-road system is found to be one of the most important driving forces explaining the temporal and spatial pattern …

Measurement Of The Tt̅ Production Cross Section In Pp̅ Collisions At √S = 1.96 Tev Using Kinematic Characteristics Of Lepton + Jets Events, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory R. Snow, D0 Collaboration

Kenneth Bloom Publications

We present a measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV utilizing 425 pb^-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We consider the final state of the top quark pair containing one high-p_T electron or muon and at least four jets. We exploit specific kinematic features of tt̅ events to extract the cross section. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV, we measure σ _tt̅ = 6.4_-1.2^+1.3(stat) ± 0.7(syst) ± 0.4(lum) pb, in good agreement with the …

November 19, 2007, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Temperature Effects On Metabolic Rate Of Juvenile Pacific Bluefin Tuna Thunnus Orientalis, Jason M. Blank, Jeffery M. Morrissette, Charles J. Farwell, Mathew Price, Robert J. Schallert, Barbara A. Block

Biological Sciences

Pacific bluefin tuna inhabit a wide range of thermal environments across the Pacific ocean. To examine how metabolism varies across this thermal range, we studied the effect of ambient water temperature on metabolic rate of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, swimming in a swim tunnel. Rate of oxygen consumption (M_O2) was measured at ambient temperatures of 8–25°C and swimming speeds of 0.75–1.75 body lengths (BL) s^–1. Pacific bluefin swimming at 1 BL s^–1 per second exhibited a U-shaped curve of metabolic rate vs ambient temperature, with a thermal minimum zone between …

P. V. Sch Dist Cty Erie Pa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania