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An Experimental Technique For The Evaluation Of Strain Dependent Material Properties Of Hard Coatings, Shad A. Reed, Anthony N. Palazotto, William P. Baker

Faculty Publications

A novel vibration experiment consisting of a free-free boundary condition, an electromagnetic excitation source, a vacuum chamber, and a laser vibrometer based surface measurement system has been developed that permits high levels of excitation on highly damped specimens with a minimal amount of unwanted systematic error. While some of the aspects of this experiment are not unique, when combined with a processing technique that accounts for the nonlinearities present in the system, this experiment permits, accurate measurement of strain dependent stiffness and damping properties of hard coatings at high strain levels. This procedure has been demonstrated using a titanium beam …

Adtrees For Sequential Data And N-Gram Counting, Robert Van Dam, Dan A. Ventura

Faculty Publications

We consider the problem of efficiently storing n-gram counts for large n over very large corpora. In such cases, the efficient storage of sufficient statistics can have a dramatic impact on system performance. One popular model for storing such data derived from tabular data sets with many attributes is the ADtree. Here, we adapt the ADtree to benefit from the sequential structure of corpora-type data. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach on a portion of the well-known Wall Street Journal corpus from the Penn Treebank and show that our approach is exponentially more efficient than the naïve approach to …

Outsourcing In U.S. Cities, Ambulances And Elderly Voters, Matthew J. Holian

Working Group on Interlocal Services Cooperation

Many of the largest cities in the United States outsource emergency medical services. This paper develops a political economy model of city service provision. Empirical analysis of emergency ambulances in the 200 largest U.S. cities finds that a number of variables are significant determinants of amblu- ance outsourcing, including the fraction of a city's voters over the age of 65. This finding provides evidence that interest-group politics are important, and suggests a particular shape of the contracting cost curve.

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News October 6, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2007

No abstract provided.

October 6, 2007 (Pages 5365-5514), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 37 (2007)

No abstract provided.

Adventures In Digitization: A New Librarian Shares Five Hard Earned Tips To Avoid Project Management Pitfalls, Cory K. Lampert

Library Faculty Presentations

Many institutions are feeling pressure to embark on digitization projects to provide greater access and visibility to their unique materials. Digitization initiatives have numerous benefits, but they can also drain staff time and resources if they are not planned and prioritized well. As new librarians are hired into increasingly technical entry-level positions, they are often expected to contribute to or lead digitization projects requiring a diverse skill set. Learn five key tips to help recent grads and new digital project managers to avoid pitfalls. Topics will include: the importance of the planning process, involving key people at the right time, …

Vol. 33, No. 06 (October 8, 2007)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Coping With Unreliable Water Supplies And Willingness To Pay For Improved Water Supplies In Kathmandu, Nepal, Hari Katuwal, Alok Bohara

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

Adequacy and quality are crucial for household water supply. One of the major problems with public utilities such as drinking water in developing countries is intermittent, insufficient and unreliable supply. Nepal is no exception to this. Water is not supplied round the clock, pressure is insufficient to pump it to the tap and the amount of water made available to the public, whatsoever, is not directly potable. To combat these problems, households engage in a variety of coping behaviors. Some of the major strategies for coping with intermittent and unreliable water supply are collecting, pumping, storing, treating and purchasing. This …

Game Day Kaimin, October 6, 2007, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Community Based Integrated Natural Resource Management: Policy Options And Areas Of Intervention, Sabita Thapa, John Soussan, Dhruba Pant, Umesh Nath Parajuli, Khem Raj Sharma, Binod Bhatta

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

The paper takes in stock of research results from a project on integrated water and forest management in a micro-basin of Gandaki River System in Nepal. The paper demonstrates that while the results on the ground has been laudable, much more efforts are needed to consolidate the gains and to seize the window of opportunity provided by the strongly and rapidly evolving community-based natural resource management institutions in the country that can contribute to positive policy reform, build synergy and enhance the capacities of local institutions communities to pursue integrated resource management for unleashing the countrys potentials to fulfill and …

Mustang Daily, October 5, 2007

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

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

Volume 43 - Issue 05 - Friday, October 5, 2007, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

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

Optimal Propensity Score Stratification, Jessica A. Myers, Thomas A. Louis

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

Stratifying on propensity score in observational studies of treatment is a common technique used to control for bias in treatment assignment; however, there have been few studies of the relative efficiency of the various ways of forming those strata. The standard method is to use the quintiles of propensity score to create subclasses, but this choice is not based on any measure of performance either observed or theoretical. In this paper, we investigate the optimal subclassification of propensity scores for estimating treatment effect with respect to mean squared error of the estimate. We consider the optimal formation of subclasses within …

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News October 5, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2007

No abstract provided.

We Are…Marshall, October 5, 2007, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

Campus Report, Vol. 35, No. 2, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

The publication for faculty and staff of the University of Dayton. Upward Bound grant; Chapel renovation planning; post-Katrina symposium.

Reporter - October 5th 2007, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

Letters (p. 06); Dominican Republic (p. 07); Anti-Terrorism (p. 08); Brick Beat (p. 10); Forecast (p. 11); SG Weekly Update (p. 11); Reviews (p. 13); At Your Leisure (p. 15); Our Body (p. 16); Dirty Jobs (p. 18); That's How We Dine (p. 24); Sports Desk (p. 26); Volleyball Coach (p. 28); RIT Rings (p. 30); Views (p. 31)

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Oct 5, 2007, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, October 5, 2007, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

October

No abstract provided.

College Voice Vol. 32 No. 4, Connecticut College

2007-2008

No abstract provided.

Volume Cxxv, Number 2, October 5, 2007, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 55, No. 9 (Oct. 5, 2007), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

The Daily Egyptian, October 05, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff

October 2007

No abstract provided.

Getting Started With Materials Booking, Susan Dow, Jennifer L. Murray

Library Presentations & Publications

No abstract provided.

Pepperbox - October 5, 2007, Student Newspaper Of Arcata High School

The Pepperbox

Volume 80, Number 1

Quantitative Study With Current Parents: Final Report, The Lawlor Group

Data

In February of 2007, Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, Illinois) retained The Lawlor Group (TLG) to conduct an Identity Assessment assignment as one part of its overall strategic planning effort. The purpose of the assignment is to help IWU better understand its identity and obtain a “collective sense of self” as it embarks on a new strategic plan. As part of that assignment—and to augment the investigation and information gathering for the overall assignment—TLG conducted a web survey with current parents. This research was intended to supplement our qualitative efforts during the site visit and provide quantitative data to support or …

Clemson Trustees Minutes, 2007 October 5, Clemson University Board Of Trustees

Minutes

Minutes: Full Board Meeting. Clemson University Board of Trustees. The Madren Center. Executive Boardroom. Clemson, South Carolina. 1:30 p.m.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 97 [98], No. 8 [9] (Oct. 5, 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 8, but it is the 9th issue in this volume. This was corrected in pencil.

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2007-10-05, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2001-2011

This edition of the Wooster Voice, the college's student run newspaper, was published on October 5 of 2007, and it is eight pages long. Last Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave the second Forum lecture. The third Forum lecture was given by Ed Begley Jr. on Tuesday. The seventh annual Scots in Service Day was held on September 29. Six cars have been broken into since September 19. Grace Lynch writes about how students are in need of more flexible meal plans, and it would be nice if left over meal swipes would carry over to the next semester. The …

The Eastern Echo, October 5, 2007, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.