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Njit Highlanders Tennis 2007-08 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Tennis

No abstract provided.

Njit Highlanders 2007-08 Fencing Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Fencing

No abstract provided.

The Programmable Web: Agile, Social, And Grassroots Computing, E. Michael Maximilien, Ajith Harshana Ranabahu

Kno.e.sis Publications

Web services, the semantic Web, and Web 2.0 are three somewhat separate movements trying to make the Web a programmable substrate. While each has achieved some level of success on their own right, it is becoming apparent that the grassroots approach of the Web 2.0 is gaining greater success than the other two. In this paper we analyze each movement, briefly describing its main traits, and outlining its primary assumptions. We then frame the common problem of achieving a programmable Web within the context of distributed computing and software engineering and then attempt to show why Web 2.0 is closest …

The Chat Room, Vol. 7, College Of Education And Professional Studies

The Chat Room (CEPS Newsletter)

The Chat Room is the College of Education and Professional Studies newsletter. This is Volume 7, September 2007.

Shibboleth As A Tool For Authorized Access Control To The Subversion Repository System, Amy Apon, Linh B. Ngo

Publications

Shibboleth is an architecture and protocol for allowing users to authenticate and be authorized to use a remote resource by logging into the identity management system that is maintained at their home institution. With Shibboleth, a federation of institutions can share resources among users and yet allow the administration of both the user access control to resources and the user identity and attribute information to be performed at the hosting or home institution. Subversion is a version control repository system that allows the creation of fine-grained permissions to files and directories. In this project an infrastructure, Shibbolized Subversion, has been …

Animal Mind: Science, Philosophy, And Ethics, Bernard E. Rollin

Sentience Collection

Although 20th-century empiricists were agnostic about animal mind and consciousness, this was not the case for their historical ancestors – John Locke, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and, of course, Charles Darwin and George John Romanes. Given the dominance of the Darwinian paradigm of evolutionary continuity, one would not expect belief in animal mind to disappear. That it did demonstrates that standard accounts of how scientific hypotheses are overturned – i.e., by empirical disconfirmation or by exposure of logical flaws – is inadequate. In fact, it can be demonstrated that belief in animal mind disappeared as a result …

Tree Windbreaks In The Wheatbelt, Robert Sudmeyer, David Bicknell, Neil Coles

Bulletins 4000 -

Windbreaks comprising trees, or tree and shrub combinations, can offer many benefits on wheatbelt farms, particularly for protection of soil, stock, crops and pastures from damaging winds and erosion. Additional benefits include reduced evaporation from farm dams, reduced groundwater recharge, their use as nature conservation corridors and habitats, increased biodiversity including predators of crop and pasture pests, fire control, tree products and improved lifestyle and aesthetics.

In other areas and farming systems such as intensive horticulture, man-made windbreaks may be used, but their higher cost makes them unsuited for broadscale agriculture. Man-made windbreaks can be effective in reducing evaporative losses …

Cal Poly Magazine, Fall 2007

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Genetic Evidence For The Persistence Of The Critically Endangered Sierra Nevada Red Fox In California, John D. Perrine, John P. Pollinger, Benjamin N. Sacks, Reginald H. Barrett, Robert K. Wayne

Biological Sciences

California is home to both the native state-threatened Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes necator), which historically inhabited high elevations of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains, and to multiple low-elevation red fox populations thought to be of exotic origin. During the past few decades the lowland populations have dramatically expanded their distribution, and possibly moved into the historic range of the native high-elevation fox. To determine whether the native red fox persists in its historic range in California, we compared mitochondrial cytochrome-b haplotypes of the only currently-known high-elevation population (n = 9 individuals) to samples …

Njit Highlanders Women's Basketball 2007-08 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Basketball - Women's

No abstract provided.

Fisheries Research Report No. 163 - Spatial Scales Of Exploitation Among Populations Of Demersal Scalefish: Implications For Management. Part 1: Stock Status Of The Key Indicator Species For The Demersal Scalefish Fishery In The West Coast Bioregion., Department Of Fisheries, Western Australia

Fisheries Research Reports

Final FRDC report - Project 2003/052

The levels of exploitation on dhufish and pink snapper across the West Coast Bioregion and for baldchin groper at the Abrolhos Islands are above international benchmark standards. This indicates that these stocks are currently being overfished and are therefore likely to be being depleted to levels below those necessary to ensure their long-term sustainability. The current reliance of the dhufish catch on a single recruitment pulse together with the extremely truncated age distribution of pink snapper indicates that both these stocks are particularly vulnerable.

The West Coast Demersal Scalefish Fishery is a multi-species fishery …

Linfield College Catalog, 2007-2008, Linfield Archives

Student Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Sports And The Law: Using Court Cases To Teach Sports Economics, Victor Matheson

Economics Department Working Papers

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it lays forth a rationale for the use of court cases in teaching a sports economics class. Second, it provides an overview of the most important cases related to sports economics. Court classes allow students to develop critical reading and reasoning skills while allowing the instructor to present readings outside the standard textbook that are accessible to most undergraduates. A sports economics course with a focus on legal issues also broadens the course to fit better within a liberal arts education rather than being a narrow speciality field.

Managing The Recreational Catch Of Demersal Scalefish On The West Coast. Future Management Scenarios For Community Consideration, Jon Ford (Minister For Fisheries; The Kimberley, Pilbara And Gascoyne)

Fisheries Management Papers

This paper discusses the major issues around controlling the total recreational catch. It also considers some of the tools available to manage the catch to specific target levels. The sustainability of fish species must be a key driver. However, the impacts on the social amenity of recreational fishing must also be taken into account. Any particular tool, if used on its own and to its full extent, may be rather “blunt” in its application and its impacts unacceptable to large parts of the community. The most effective and acceptable management package will probably be a mix of tools, supported by …

Action Items, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Overview of action items handled by the Graduate Council.

Verification Of Automatically Generated Pattern-Based Ltl Specifications, Salamah Salamah, Ann Q. Gates, Vladik Kreinovich, Steve Roach

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

The use of property classifications and patterns, i.e., high-level abstractions that describe common behavior, have been shown to assist practitioners in generating formal specifications that can be used in formal verification techniques. The Specification Pattern System (SPS) provides descriptions of a collection of patterns. The extent of program execution over which a pattern must hold is described by the notion of scope. SPS provides a manual technique for obtaining formal specifications from a pattern and a scope. The Property Specification Tool (Prospec) extends SPS by introducing Composite Propositions (CPs), a classification for defining sequential and concurrent behavior to represent pattern …

Adventure Learning: Situating Learning In An Authentic Context , Aaron Doering

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

Leveraging Identity To Make Learning Fun: Possible Selves And Experiential Learning In Massively Multiplayer Online Games (Mmogs), Joey J. Lee, Christopher M. Hoadley

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Maps In Rational Homotopy, Yves Felix, Gregory Lupton

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

In the rational category of nilpotent complexes, let E be an H-space acting on a space X. With mild hypotheses we show that the action on the base point w: E→X factors through a map ΓE:SE→X, where S E is a finite product of odd-dimensional spheres and Γ E is a homotopy monomorphism. Among others, the following consequences are obtained:π∗(w)6=0 if and only if w is essential and H∗(w)6=0 if and only if X satisfies a strong splitting condition.

Shibboleth As A Tool For Authorized Access Control To The Subversion Repository System, Linh B. Ngo, Amy W. Apon

Publications

Shibboleth is an architecture and protocol for allowing users to authenticate and be authorized to use a remote resource by logging into the identity management system that is maintained at their home institution. With Shibboleth, a federation of institutions can share resources among users and yet allow the administration of both the user access control to resources and the user identity and attribute information to be performed at the hosting or home institution. Subversion is a version control repository system that allows the creation of fine-grained permissions to files and directories. In this project an infrastructure, Shibbolized Subversion, has been …

The Wellspring, September 2007, William Winter Institute For Racial Reconciliation

The Wellspring (Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Njit Highlanders Swimming 2007-2008 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Swimming and Diving

No abstract provided.

Foreign Direct Investment And Economic Growth In The Gcc Countries: A Causality Investigation Using Heterogeneous Panel Analysis, Mahmoud Al-Iriani

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

The Evolution Of Quality Assurance In Higher Education, C Barnabas Charles

Faculty Working Papers from the School of Education

Based on the historical foundations of American higher education, there are a number of references in the literature to important milestones relating to institutional quality and accountability, particularly with regard to program review, evaluation, assessment and accreditation. And even though accreditation did not exist as we know it in higher education’s earliest history, it is still possible to identify those developments that were precursors to contemporary practices in accreditation and assessment. Through the use of appropriate citation of researchers and writers on the issues of institutional quality and accountability, this article critically discusses how these early developments influenced the growth …

X-Ray/Ultraviolet Observing Campaign Of The Markarian 279 Active Galactic Nucleus Outflow: A Close Look At The Absorbing/Emitting Gas With Chandra-Letgs, E. Costantini, Jelle S. Kaastra, Nahum Arav, Gerard A. Kriss, K. C. Steenbrugge, Jack R. Gabel, F. Verbunt, Ehud Behar, C. Martin Gaskell, Kirk T. Korista, Daniel Proga, Jessica Kim-Quijano, J. E. Scott, Elizabeth S. Klimek, C. H. Hedrick

C. Martin Gaskell Publications

We present a Chandra-LETGS observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 279. This observation was carried out simultaneously with HST-STIS and FUSE, in the context of a multi-wavelength study of this source. The Chandra pointings were spread over ten days for a total exposure time of ~360 ks. The maximal continuum flux variation is of the order of 30%. The spectrum of Mrk 279 shows evidence of broad emission features, especially at the wavelength of the OVII triplet. We quantitatively explore the possibility that this emission is produced in the broad line region (BLR). We modeled the broad UV …

Writing For Comprehension, Randy Wallace, Cathy Pearman, Cindy Hail, Beth Hurst

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Many educators continue to treat reading and writing as separate subjects. In response to this observation, the authors offer four research-based writing strategies that teachers can use to improve student reading comprehension through writing. The writing strategies—About/Point, Cubing, Four Square Graphic Organizer, and Read, Respond, Revisit, Discuss—reinforce reading comprehension by helping students strengthen their skills at summarizing, thinking in-depth from multiple perspectives, activating and organizing numerous thoughts, and creating interest through meaningful social interactions.

Ntid Focus Fall 2007, Ntid Marketing And Communications

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

Alan's Update: Thinking Big||A Conversation with RIT President William W. Destler||Alumni Profiles: In Our Nation's Service||Summer Camps Focus on Careers||Students Learn Life Skills||Profiles in College: May May “Summer” Pan Vincent Rehkopf Michael Walsh Ebony Williams||Faculty/Staff Profiles: Gerald Bateman Luane Davis Haggerty||A Life of Commitment and Generosity||Preserving Deaf History

University Magazine Fall 2007, University News Service, Office Of Alumni Relations

University Publications

Imagine what RIT can be||'Green' light||Unforgettable||First impressions||Moving forward together||RIT in Croatia||100,000 strong||From RIT to Mt. Fuji||On campus||RIT works!||Alumni activities||Class notes||From the archives

Refuge Update – September/October 2007, Volume 4, Number 5

RefugeUpdate (USFWS-NWRS)

Table of Contents:

Searching for Japanese MIAs in Alaska – page 3 Japanese and Americans look for burial sites on Attu Island in Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.

The Job of a Lifetime – pages 6-7 Meet a 90-year old volunteer and a 31-year old tractor driver.

Crocs Come Back – page 27 American crocodiles are threatened but no longer endangered.

Summer/Fall 2007, Nsu Oceanographic Center

Currents

No abstract provided.