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The General Relativistic Infinite Plane, Preston Jones, Gerardo Muñoz, Michael Ragsdale, Douglas Singleton Dec 2007

The General Relativistic Infinite Plane, Preston Jones, Gerardo Muñoz, Michael Ragsdale, Douglas Singleton

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Uniform fields are one of the simplest and most pedagogically useful examples in introductory courses on electrostatics or Newtonian gravity. In general relativity there have been several proposals as to what constitutes a uniform field. In this article we examine two metrics that can be considered the general relativistic version of the infinite plane with finite mass per unit area. The first metric is the 4D version of the 5D “brane” world models which are the starting point for many current research papers. The second case is the cosmological domain wall metric. We examine to what extent these different metrics …

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The Daily Egyptian, December 11, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff Dec 2007

The Daily Egyptian, December 11, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2007

No abstract provided.

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Relationship Between Key Variables In Penile Plethysmograph And Viewing Time Measures Of Sexual Arousal In Sex Offending Adult Males, Lisa Loewinger Cloyd Dec 2007

Relationship Between Key Variables In Penile Plethysmograph And Viewing Time Measures Of Sexual Arousal In Sex Offending Adult Males, Lisa Loewinger Cloyd

Open Access Dissertations

Penile plethysmography is amongst the best measures for prediction of sexual recidivism and has been extensively researched. However, there are a variety of criticisms regarding use of penile plethysmography (PPG), including financial investment, significant training needs, lack of standardization, intrusive nature of the measure, extensive time for testing, and inability to use PPG with all groups of sexual offenders (e.g., women and adolescents). Viewing time has been studied, though not as extensively as PPG, regarding detection of sexual interest. This study examined the relationship between Monarch 21 PPG and Affinity viewing time variables, including responses to individual stimuli, a sex …

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Usa V. Gilbert Dec 2007

Usa V. Gilbert

2007 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

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Accuride Erie Lp V. Local 1186 Dec 2007

Accuride Erie Lp V. Local 1186

2007 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

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Dong V. Atty Gen Usa Dec 2007

Dong V. Atty Gen Usa

2007 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

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Sbs General Campus Announcement 2007-12-11, Darren Johnson Dec 2007

Sbs General Campus Announcement 2007-12-11, Darren Johnson

Southampton Announcements and News

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Sbs General Campus Announcement 2007-12-11 | This Week At Stony Brook Southampton/In The News, Darren Johnson Dec 2007

Sbs General Campus Announcement 2007-12-11 | This Week At Stony Brook Southampton/In The News, Darren Johnson

Southampton Announcements and News

No abstract provided.

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School Commitment And Alcohol Use: The Moderating Role Of Race And Ethnicity, Tamela Mcnulty Eitle, David James Eitle Dec 2007

School Commitment And Alcohol Use: The Moderating Role Of Race And Ethnicity, Tamela Mcnulty Eitle, David James Eitle

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Research indicates that lower levels of school commitment may be one potential outcome of policy initiatives such as high-stakes testing and exit exams. Such outcomes may lead these policy initiatives to have unintended consequences for students, particularly racial or ethnic minority students. This study examines whether race of ethnicity moderate the relationship between school commitment and alcohol use or binge drinking among a sample of Florida public middle and high-school students who were surveyed as part of the 2002 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey. Low school commitment was found to be associated with a greater likelihood of alcohol use in …

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Unh Mathematician Nominated For Grammy Award, Michelle Gregoire Dec 2007

Unh Mathematician Nominated For Grammy Award, Michelle Gregoire

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

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Preparing Calves For The Feedlot, Daniel U. Thomson Dec 2007

Preparing Calves For The Feedlot, Daniel U. Thomson

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Evidence based medicine is a balancing act between data and experience (Apley and Thomson, 2003). Decision making with just experience and no data has been termed “wizardry.” This would be similar as to saying we used drug A last year and they all died. This year we used drug B and they all lived. Great! Scientists and statisticians need not apply to work in this environment. The friendly drug representative that sells drug B is the expert. Paralyzed indecision is using only data with no experience to make decisions. This is the art of trying to fix problems from a …

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Ultrasound-Based Selection: Pitfalls And Rewards, Steve Paisley, Chris Loehr, Frances Niemala Dec 2007

Ultrasound-Based Selection: Pitfalls And Rewards, Steve Paisley, Chris Loehr, Frances Niemala

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Ultrasound has become widely used by the seedstock industry as a selection and evaluation tool. Ultrasound estimates of Ribeye Area, or REA, Intramuscular fat, or %IMF (marbling), and Rump Fat have been used to develop several EPD’s for many breed associations. Despite widespread use by seedstock producers, there is still some apprehension by commercial producers. Additionally, the use of ultrasound for commercial herd replacement decisions, used by some producers, is worth discussing. There are both benefits, as well as cautions, to using ultrasound generated information in a commercial beef herd.

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The Value Of Heterosis In Cow Herds: Lessons From The Past That Apply To Today, Matthew L. Spangler Dec 2007

The Value Of Heterosis In Cow Herds: Lessons From The Past That Apply To Today, Matthew L. Spangler

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Beef cattle producers are currently faced with a multitude of challenges. The traditional cattle cycle appears to have deviated from conventional wisdom, in part because of increasing grain prices due to a biofuels ‘industry’ that has become a competitor for grain resources that the U.S. fed cattle industry has grown dependent upon. A suite of genetic tools have been provided, or are in the works, to address issues such as feed efficiency, fertility, and longevity; along with more traditional EPDs for production and carcass/ultrasound traits. Established EPDs have proven to be very successful at allowing producers to take advantage of …

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Delivery Of Supplements Of Rangelands, Kenneth C. Olson, Adele Harty Dec 2007

Delivery Of Supplements Of Rangelands, Kenneth C. Olson, Adele Harty

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Supplementation of cows grazing rangelands is often beneficial to overcome nutrient deficiencies or imbalances. However, supplemental feeds and their delivery to the cow herd are expenses and thus supplementation decisions should be carefully made to ensure that costs are minimized and benefits in terms of cow performance exceed supplementation costs. When supplementing cows, there are questions that producers should ask themselves to determine the best management practices to provide the most cost effective supplement program for their operation. The first among these is the type of supplement to be provided in terms of whether it will provide the correct nutrient …

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The Experience Of Technology Integration By Teacher Educators In Higher Education, Patricia Ann Suess Dec 2007

The Experience Of Technology Integration By Teacher Educators In Higher Education, Patricia Ann Suess

Dissertations

With the advancing use of technology globally, it is becoming essential for K-12 educators to have knowledge of educational technology and its appropriate classroom use. Thus, it is important for higher education faculty involved in the preparation of those K-12 teachers to achieve technology integration in their teacher education programs. It is not sufficient to simply provide computers and peripheral devices to future teachers. The critical issue is the way in which those tools are used to promote student learning. Therefore, it is necessary for faculty in higher education to model the use of technology as a teaching and learning …

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2007

Education Policy Analysis Archives 15/22 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

School commitment and alcohol use : the moderating role of race and ethnicity / Tamela McNulty Eitle [and] David James Eitle.

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An Investigation Of Cavity Pressure As A Process And Quality Indicator In The Micro-Injection Molding Process, Soon-Chun Kuek Dec 2007

An Investigation Of Cavity Pressure As A Process And Quality Indicator In The Micro-Injection Molding Process, Soon-Chun Kuek

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Increased demand for micro-scale parts and devices is being met in many cases by micro-injection molding of polymer parts. However, part inspection is difficult due to the micro-scale dimension in the micro-injection molding process. In addition, process control also becomes challenging since the process is susceptible to slight changes in process parameters such as mold temperature, injection velocity, and packing pressure. To address these issues, a suitable process monitoring method such as cavity pressure monitoring can be employed to detect any process deviation that may cause defects in part quality. Cavity pressure has been found to be a reliable process …

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Assessing Asr Potential Of Hardened Concrete And The Use Of Rice Husk Ash To Mitigate Asr, David Wingard Dec 2007

Assessing Asr Potential Of Hardened Concrete And The Use Of Rice Husk Ash To Mitigate Asr, David Wingard

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This two part research study was created to first develop a new process using existing test methods to determine the Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) potential of hardened concrete that is exposed to external alkalis and secondly to determine the ASR mitigation potential of using rice husk ash (RHA) as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM). The first part of the research study was completed by using a new aggregate extraction procedure that uses a combination of hydrochloric acid treatments and abrasion to remove the cement paste from the aggregate. This extracted aggregate was then crushed down to the specified sizes and used …

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A Middle-Ware Level Client Cache For A High Performance Computing I/O Simulator, Michael Bassily Dec 2007

A Middle-Ware Level Client Cache For A High Performance Computing I/O Simulator, Michael Bassily

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This thesis describes the design and run time analysis of the system level middle-ware cache for Hecios. Hecios is a high performance cluster I/O simulator. With Hecios, we provide a simulation environment that accurately captures the performance characteristics of all the components in a clusterwide parallel file system. Hecios was specifically modeled after PVFS2. It was designed to be extensible and to easily allow for various component modules to be easily replaced by those that model other system types. Built around the OMNeT++ simulation package, Hecios' inner-cluster communication module is easily adaptable to any TCP/IP based protocol and all standard …

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Fighting For Revival: Southern Honor And Evangelical Revival In Edgefield County, South Carolina, 1800-1860, James Welborn Dec 2007

Fighting For Revival: Southern Honor And Evangelical Revival In Edgefield County, South Carolina, 1800-1860, James Welborn

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ABSTRACT
The focus of this work is Edgefield County, South Carolina, a small, rural district in the central-southwest portion of the state. Edgefield has proven indicative of Southern society in general and as a case study has allowed historians to make broader generalizations on the development of Southern culture. This work will show how the seemingly oppositional Southern cultural ethics of honor and Protestant Evangelicalism developed simultaneously and coexisted in Edgefield, emphasizing the aspects of each ethic that reinforced and intensified one another, as well as the resulting public perception of the ethics in tandem. The result will reconcile two …

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Wafer Probe And Package Test Failure Analysis, Deepa Kalva Dec 2007

Wafer Probe And Package Test Failure Analysis, Deepa Kalva

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In recent years, NAND flash memory has gained a lot of momentum in the semiconductor industry and has become an ideal choice for many consumer and communication products. One of the key elements in the successful production of NAND flash memory is to incorporate elaborate testing methods to ensure functionality and reliability before the part reaches the customer. This in turn necessitates the evaluation and understanding of different failure mechanisms, and the development of methodologies to correct problems.
In this thesis, failure analysis was performed on NAND flash memory at wafer and package level. This involved massive data collection and …

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Mortgage Crisis Forces The Closing Of A Fund, Michael M. Grynbaum Dec 2007

Mortgage Crisis Forces The Closing Of A Fund, Michael M. Grynbaum

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Meeting Of The Federal Open Market Committee December 11, 2007, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc) Dec 2007

Meeting Of The Federal Open Market Committee December 11, 2007, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc)

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No abstract provided.

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Uaf Libraries Undergraduate Student Library Use Survey Fall 2007 , Karen Jensen, Diane Ruess, Lisa Lehman, Anne Christie Dec 2007

Uaf Libraries Undergraduate Student Library Use Survey Fall 2007 , Karen Jensen, Diane Ruess, Lisa Lehman, Anne Christie

Faculty

Triennial campus-wide UAF libraries use survey, summary of results for undergraduate students.

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The Alestle - Vol. 60 No. 33 - 12/11/2007, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Dec 2007

The Alestle - Vol. 60 No. 33 - 12/11/2007, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 60 No. 33

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Countrywide Questions And Answers About Lending, Countrywide Financial Corporation Dec 2007

Countrywide Questions And Answers About Lending, Countrywide Financial Corporation

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Fomc Statement, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc) Dec 2007

Fomc Statement, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc)

Documents

No abstract provided.

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The Bg News December 11, 2007, Bowling Green State University Dec 2007

The Bg News December 11, 2007, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 11, 2007. Volume 98-Issue 75.

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Distance Estimation Between Transceivers Over Short Distances, Karsten Lowe Dec 2007

Distance Estimation Between Transceivers Over Short Distances, Karsten Lowe

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Three methods for determining distances between a user and a fixed coordinate system are considered. One system is based on 802.11g packet communications, another on HF radio carrier frequency interference, and the final system on a signal transmitted over a radio channel. Emphasis is placed on the use of these systems in indoor, building-sized environments. Tests are performed to examine the effectivness and potential of these methods. None of the suggested methods are determined to be usable. Reasons for their failure are examined.

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Rendering Principal Direction Contour Lines With Oriented Textures, Kelly Gallagher Dec 2007

Rendering Principal Direction Contour Lines With Oriented Textures, Kelly Gallagher

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In this paper we explore the use of contour lines in computer graphics as a means of conveying shape to the end-user. Contour lines provide an alternative to traditional realistic rendering styles and may even provide a more appropriate visualization for certain situations. For our images, contour line orientation is established in accordance with principal curvature directions.
We present a method for rendering a texture, oriented in the principal curvature direction, across a traditionally-modeled geometric surface that effectively forms suggestive contour lines to enhance the visualization of that surface. We further extend the method to create animated contour textures, wherein …

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