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Application Of The Themis Bus To New Missions, Michael Cully, Warren Chen, Kevin Brenneman, Gregory Delory Aug 2007

Application Of The Themis Bus To New Missions, Michael Cully, Warren Chen, Kevin Brenneman, Gregory Delory

Small Satellite Conference

It is recognized that small satellites can complement the services provided by existing larger satellites, providing cost effective solutions to military missions, communications systems, remote sensing applications, satellite rapidresponse, science and technology demonstrator missions. However, today’s small satellites are largely confined to low Earth orbit where they perform remote sensing missions, conduct science operations, and serve as technology test beds. Future small satellite missions will include interplanetary missions, space-weather mapping as well as space exploration and robotic probes.

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Afrl's Demonstration And Science Experiments (Dsx) Program – Quest For The Common Micro Satellite Bus, Greg Heinsohn, Tim Girard, Durand Smith, Janet Stuart, Aaron Adler, Jon Schoenberg, Mark Scherbarth, Eric Klaiber Aug 2007

Afrl's Demonstration And Science Experiments (Dsx) Program – Quest For The Common Micro Satellite Bus, Greg Heinsohn, Tim Girard, Durand Smith, Janet Stuart, Aaron Adler, Jon Schoenberg, Mark Scherbarth, Eric Klaiber

Small Satellite Conference

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate has developed the Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) mission to research technologies needed to significantly advance Department of Defense (DoD) capability to operate spacecraft in the harsh radiation environment of medium-Earth orbits (MEO). The ability to operate effectively in the MEO environment significantly increases the DoD’s capability to field space systems that provide persistent global targeting-grade space surveillance, high-speed satellite-based communication, lower-cost GPS navigation, and protection from space weather on a responsive satellite platform. DSX uses a modular design that allows for launch either as a primary satellite on a conventional …

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Smallsats To The Moon: Providing The ‘Picks And Shovels For The 21st Century’S Greatest Exploration Endeavour’ , Adam Baker, Andy Phipps, Philip Davies, Xavier Alabart, Martin Sweeting Aug 2007

Smallsats To The Moon: Providing The ‘Picks And Shovels For The 21st Century’S Greatest Exploration Endeavour’ , Adam Baker, Andy Phipps, Philip Davies, Xavier Alabart, Martin Sweeting

Small Satellite Conference

Small spacecraft have an enviable history of changing the economics of space. Space development and exploration has historically been costly, and going beyond Earth orbit even more so. However the cost-performance balance of small spacecraft has increased to the point where new commercial business cases using space infrastructure can be enabled. This paper outlines SSTL’s approach to low cost missions, and its validity to exploration, in particular the Moon. The political environment for supporting space missions, particularly exploration in the United Kingdom is covered, including study activities building the case for a national exploration programme and their fit to strategic …

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Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: Exploiting The Imminent Low-Cost Launch Era , G.A. Finney, Kevin Spradley, Mark Fowler, Michael Gulley Aug 2007

Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: Exploiting The Imminent Low-Cost Launch Era , G.A. Finney, Kevin Spradley, Mark Fowler, Michael Gulley

Small Satellite Conference

The 1990s initiated the era of “Faster, Better, Cheaper” for small spacecraft, and met with mixed success. However, even under the best of circumstances, “Faster, Better, Cheaper” faces the hurdle of high launch costs. In programs with typical launch costs of $20 - 50M or more, spacecraft capabilities are pushed to the limit in order to extract maximum value from the overall system. This drive for high performance results in complex systems, which require significant engineering to address relatively minor changes. However, new launch vehicles offer the potential to reduce launch costs to under $10M and will change the economics …

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Iset Ors Bus Standards And Prototype, Gurpartap Sandhoo, Mark Johnson, William Raynor, Michael Hurley, Patrick Stadter, Michael Marley, Clint Apland, Robert Lee, Jonathan Bruzzi, Bruce Williams, Edward Schaefer, Steven Vernon, Paul Schwartz, George Moretti, Thomas Doyne Aug 2007

Iset Ors Bus Standards And Prototype, Gurpartap Sandhoo, Mark Johnson, William Raynor, Michael Hurley, Patrick Stadter, Michael Marley, Clint Apland, Robert Lee, Jonathan Bruzzi, Bruce Williams, Edward Schaefer, Steven Vernon, Paul Schwartz, George Moretti, Thomas Doyne

Small Satellite Conference

Advancing sound and accepted spacecraft bus standards is the objective of the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s (OSD) Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Bus Standards Initiative. This effort involves multiple government, industry, and academia participants assembled into an Integrated System Engineering Team (ISET). The core ISET industry team members include AeroAstro, Boeing, Design Net Engineering, General Dynamics Spectrum Astro, Loral, Microcosm, MicroSat, Orbital, Raytheon, and Swales. Government and Laboratory team members include the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), Air Force Space and Missile Command (AF SMC), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), MIT/Lincoln Laboratories …

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University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For August 13, 2007, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Aug 2007

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For August 13, 2007, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the August 13th, 2007 Board of Regents Meeting

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Fast-Food Government And Physician-Assisted Death: The Role Of Direct Democracy In Federalism, K.K. Duvivier Aug 2007

Fast-Food Government And Physician-Assisted Death: The Role Of Direct Democracy In Federalism, K.K. Duvivier

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Modern patients often enter a twilight zone of suspended animation between living and dying that did not exist a generation ago. The majority of Americans believe these terminal patients should have the right to refuse life support and to receive pain relief, even to the point of hastening death. Yet laws addressing the situation are unclear, and physician advocates, like Dr. Kevorkian of Michigan, have faced sanctions and jail time when they responded to patient requests for help to die peacefully. In its 2006 Gonzales v. Oregon decision, the U.S. Supreme Court shifted the physician-assisted death dilemma to the state-side …

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Faculty Handbook, 2007-2008, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville Aug 2007

Faculty Handbook, 2007-2008, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Faculty Handbook

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Ccu Newsletter, August 13, 2007, Coastal Carolina University Aug 2007

Ccu Newsletter, August 13, 2007, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

Coastal Carolina University's weekly on-campus newsletter.

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Interview With Jan Serie, Professor Biology And Director Of The Center For Scholarship And Teaching, Jan Serie Aug 2007

Interview With Jan Serie, Professor Biology And Director Of The Center For Scholarship And Teaching, Jan Serie

Biology Department Oral Histories

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Reduces Public Pension And Retirement Health Care Benefits. Constitutional Amendment. Aug 2007

Reduces Public Pension And Retirement Health Care Benefits. Constitutional Amendment.

Initiatives

For peace officers, firefighters, public safety, and other public employees hired after July 1, 2009, this measure: reduces pension and retirement health care benefits; increases minimum retirement age; restricts early retirement; increases minimum age and years of employment needed to qualify for retirement health care benefits; and limits post-retirement pension increases. For all public employees this measure: prohibits retroactive increases in retirement benefits; requires public employers to make annual payments to fund future benefit costs; and allows public employers to adjust retirement contribution rates in future labor agreements. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal …

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2007 August 13 - Staff Senate Agenda And Minutes, Staff Senate, East Tennessee State University Aug 2007

2007 August 13 - Staff Senate Agenda And Minutes, Staff Senate, East Tennessee State University

Staff Senate Agendas and Minutes

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President's Weekly Perspective, 8/13/2007, David Schmidly Aug 2007

President's Weekly Perspective, 8/13/2007, David Schmidly

President Schmidly's Administration

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Leadership At Pvamu August 13, 2007, George C. Wright Aug 2007

Leadership At Pvamu August 13, 2007, George C. Wright

President Emeritus George C. Wright Speeches

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Authentic Out-Of-Class Communication In Study Abroad Programs: Success Defined By Continued Motivation And Cultural Appreciation, Erin Fairlight Olsen Aug 2007

Authentic Out-Of-Class Communication In Study Abroad Programs: Success Defined By Continued Motivation And Cultural Appreciation, Erin Fairlight Olsen

Theses and Dissertations

The benefits of study abroad experience in second language acquisition have evolved from unchallenged assumption to the focus of rigorous study in the past several decades. The benefits of out-of-class contact with natives have likewise been questioned. Despite conflicting evidence of its benefit, students frequently cite out-of-class conversations with natives as among the most beneficial aspects of their language acquisition experience. Reviewing the extant literature, this study narrows in on authentic communication-that is, meaningful out-of-class contact with natives, in which students are able to genuinely express themselves and their personality-as a previously unanalyzed element of study abroad research. It is …

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08-13-2007 Swosu Dawg Days, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Aug 2007

08-13-2007 Swosu Dawg Days, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2007

Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford has a variety of activities planned for Dawg Days, which will run August 18 (move-in day) through September 22 (Parent’s Day).

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 103, August 13, 2007 Aug 2007

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 103, August 13, 2007

Central Florida Future

Teachers fight tougher punishment; Don't know much about normalcy; Cases of STDs rise in Central Florida; First-generation college students find financial relief.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 032, Number 04, August 13, 2007, Grand Valley State University Aug 2007

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 032, Number 04, August 13, 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.

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August 13, 2007 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham Aug 2007

August 13, 2007 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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Terrazas V. Blaine County Ex Rel. Bd. Of Com'rs Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 34106 Aug 2007

Terrazas V. Blaine County Ex Rel. Bd. Of Com'rs Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 34106

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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The Use Of Non-Natural Nucleotides To Probe Template-Independent Dna Synthesis, Anthony J. Berdis, David Mccutcheon Aug 2007

The Use Of Non-Natural Nucleotides To Probe Template-Independent Dna Synthesis, Anthony J. Berdis, David Mccutcheon

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The vast majority of DNA polymerases use the complementary templating strand of DNA to guide each nucleotide incorporation. There are instances, however, in which polymerases can efficiently incorporate nucleotides in the absence of templating information. This process, known as translesion DNA synthesis, can alter the proper genetic code of an organism. To further elucidate the mechanism of template-independent DNA synthesis, we monitored the incorporation of various nucleotides at the “blunt-end” of duplex DNA by the high-fidelity bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase. Although natural nucleotides are not incorporated at the blunt-end, a limited subset of non-natural indolyl analogues containing extensive π-electron surface …

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Monitor Newsletter August 13, 2007, Bowling Green State University Aug 2007

Monitor Newsletter August 13, 2007, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

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Differential Response Of Various Spore Species To Sporicidal Disinfectants, Michael David Pratt Aug 2007

Differential Response Of Various Spore Species To Sporicidal Disinfectants, Michael David Pratt

Theses and Dissertations

In the fall of 2001, letters laced with anthrax spores were delivered to various news organizations in New York and Florida, as well as to two Senators in Washington, D.C. Over 22 anthrax infections and five deaths resulted from exposure to these spores, and decontamination of the affected buildings was both time consuming and costly. Since these attacks, interest in sporicidal disinfectants has increased greatly. Many chemical sporicidal disinfectants are available commercially, but the exposure time required to sterilize can be relatively long. In addition, some spores are simply injured or inhibited by chemical disinfectants, but not necessarily killed. Studies …

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Human Collagen Krox Up-Regulates Type I Collagen Expression In Normal And Scleroderma Fibroblasts Through Interaction With Sp1 And Sp3 Transcription Factors., Magdalini Kypriotou, Gallic Beauchef, Christos Chadjichristos, Russell Widom, Emmanuelle Renard, Sergio A. Jimenez, Joseph Korn, François-Xavier Maquart, Thierry Oddos, Otto Von Stetten, Jean-Pierre Pujol, Philippe Galéra Aug 2007

Human Collagen Krox Up-Regulates Type I Collagen Expression In Normal And Scleroderma Fibroblasts Through Interaction With Sp1 And Sp3 Transcription Factors., Magdalini Kypriotou, Gallic Beauchef, Christos Chadjichristos, Russell Widom, Emmanuelle Renard, Sergio A. Jimenez, Joseph Korn, François-Xavier Maquart, Thierry Oddos, Otto Von Stetten, Jean-Pierre Pujol, Philippe Galéra

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Despite several investigations, the transcriptional mechanisms that regulate the expression of both type I collagen genes (COL1A1 and COL1A2) in either physiological or pathological situations, such as scleroderma, are not completely known. We have investigated the role of hc-Krox transcription factor on type I collagen expression by human dermal fibroblasts. hc-Krox exerted a stimulating effect on type I collagen protein synthesis and enhanced the corresponding mRNA steady-state levels of COL1A1 and COL1A2 in foreskin fibroblasts (FF), adult normal fibroblasts (ANF), and scleroderma fibroblasts (SF). Forced hc-Krox expression was found to up-regulate COL1A1 transcription through a -112/-61-bp sequence in FF, ANF, …

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Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (August 13, 2007), Dmacc Aug 2007

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (August 13, 2007), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on August 13, 2007.

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The Effect Of Flame Structure On Soot Formation And Transport In Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames Using Direct Numerical Simulation, David O. Lignell, Jacqueline H. Chen, Philip J. Smith, Tianfeng Lu, Chung K. Law Aug 2007

The Effect Of Flame Structure On Soot Formation And Transport In Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames Using Direct Numerical Simulation, David O. Lignell, Jacqueline H. Chen, Philip J. Smith, Tianfeng Lu, Chung K. Law

Faculty Publications

Direct numerical simulations of a two-dimensional, nonpremixed, sooting ethylene flame are performed to examine the effects of soot–flame interactions and transport in an unsteady configuration. A 15-step, 19-species (with 10 quasi-steady species) chemical mechanism was used for gas chemistry, with a two-moment, four-step, semiempirical soot model. Flame curvature is shown to result in flames that move, relative to the fluid, either toward or away from rich soot formation regions, resulting in soot being essentially convected into or away from the flame. This relative motion of flame and soot results in a wide spread of soot in the mixture fraction coordinate. …

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August 13, 2007 Aasu Faculty Meeting Minutes, Armstrong Atlantic State University Aug 2007

August 13, 2007 Aasu Faculty Meeting Minutes, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Minutes (Archived)

August 13, 2007 Armstrong Atlantic State University Faculty Meeting Minutes

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2007-08-13 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department Aug 2007

2007-08-13 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2007

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, August 12, 2007, Barry Strassler Aug 2007

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, August 12, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2007

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, August 12, 2007, Barry Strassler Aug 2007

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, August 12, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2007

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