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Effect Of High Pressurized Carbon Dioxide On Escherichia Coli, I. P. Bateebe, O Kibazohi Dec 2007

Effect Of High Pressurized Carbon Dioxide On Escherichia Coli, I. P. Bateebe, O Kibazohi

Tanzania Journal of Science

Carbon dioxide at high pressure can retard microbial growth and sometimes kill microorganisms depending on values of applied pressure, temperature and exposure time. In this study the effect of high pressurised carbon dioxide (HPCD) on Escherichia coli was investigated. Culture of E. coli was subjected to high pressurised carbon dioxide at 15, 25 and 35 bar, and varying exposure times of 20, 40, 60 and 90 minutes at room temperature (27 oC). Microbial inactivation increased with pressure and exposure time. For the first 20 minutes reduction of viable microbial cells was 18%, 30% and 36% at 15, 25 and 35 …

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The Political Balance Of Power Over The Military: Rethinking The Relationship Between The Armed Forces, The President, And Congress, Geoffery S. Corn, Eric Talbot Jensen Dec 2007

The Political Balance Of Power Over The Military: Rethinking The Relationship Between The Armed Forces, The President, And Congress, Geoffery S. Corn, Eric Talbot Jensen

Faculty Scholarship

Recent events related to the planning and execution of the war in Iraq, most notably the perceived 2003 "firing" of then Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, have raised concerns over the effect of Executive Branch dominance of the military and how that dominance impacts the ability of Congress to obtain timely and important information. Such actions, perceived to discourage members of the military from providing candid views to Congress when they differ with the Administration, even if implied instead of express, strike at the very core of the founder's intent to balance military power within the national government. The …

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Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Eric Talbot Jensen Dec 2007

Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Eric Talbot Jensen

Faculty Scholarship

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Pengaruh Human Capital Terhadap Business Performance Melalui Customer Capital, Siti Pritiza Juwita, Fivi Anggraini Dec 2007

Pengaruh Human Capital Terhadap Business Performance Melalui Customer Capital, Siti Pritiza Juwita, Fivi Anggraini

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

The purpose o f this research is to investigate the effect o f human capital on business performance with customer capital as the intervening variable. Samples used in this research are commodity export companies listed in The Industry and Trade Provincial Office o f West Sumatera. Data used for this research was collected from financial managers and personnel managers that completing and returning the questionnaire. Data collected by mail survey and contact person with 70 questionnaire and respon rate 38 questionnaires (54%). Analysis conducted by path analysis technique and software SPSS 12.00. The result shows that human capital positively but …

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Private Finance Initiative (Pfi) In Malaysia: The Need For And Issues Related To The Public Sector Comparator (Psc), Suhaiza Ismail, Khairuddin Abdul Rashid Dec 2007

Private Finance Initiative (Pfi) In Malaysia: The Need For And Issues Related To The Public Sector Comparator (Psc), Suhaiza Ismail, Khairuddin Abdul Rashid

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

The Concept of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) or Public Private Partnership (PPP) has been internationally implemented over the last two decades. In Malaysia, eventhough the involvement of the private sector in assisting with the provision of public services and facilities is not new, only recently under the Ninth Malaysia Plan the government officially announced the implementation of projects using PFI scheme in order to promote greater involvement of the private sector in delivering public services (Ninth Malaysia Plan, 2006). Consequently, a series of PFI projects is now being implemented including some already under construction. However, little is known on the …

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 30, 2007, Barry Strassler Dec 2007

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 30, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2007

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12/30/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

12/30/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

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12/30/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

12/30/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

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Odometry Correction Of A Mobile Robot Using A Range-Finding Laser, Thomas Epton Dec 2007

Odometry Correction Of A Mobile Robot Using A Range-Finding Laser, Thomas Epton

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Two methods for improving odometry using a pan-tilt range-finding laser is considered. The first method is a one-dimensional model that uses the laser with a sliding platform. The laser is used to determine how far the platform has moved along a rail. The second method is a two-dimensional model that mounts the laser to a mobile robot. In this model, the laser is used to improve the odometry of the robot. Our results show that the one-dimensional model proves our basic geometry is correct, while the two-dimensional model improves the odometry, but does not completely correct it.

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12/29/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

12/29/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

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12/29/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

12/29/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

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Optical Estimation Of Auroral Ion Upflow: Theory, M. Zettergren, J. L. Semeter, P. L. Blelly, M. Diaz Dec 2007

Optical Estimation Of Auroral Ion Upflow: Theory, M. Zettergren, J. L. Semeter, P. L. Blelly, M. Diaz

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This work presents a systematic analysis of optical emissions related to auroral ion upflow. Optical intensities and field‐aligned ion transport are computed for a set of monoenergetic incident electron beams using a combined fluid‐kinetic model. The kinetic portion models the energetic particle transport with a multiple stream approach and provides ionization, excitation, and heating rates to an eight‐moment fluid model of the ionosphere, which then calculates the resulting ion upflow. The analysis is used to develop a technique for estimating upward ion flux from photometric measurements at five discrete wavelengths: 427.8 nm, 557.7 nm, 630.0 nm, 732 nm, and 844.6 …

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12/28/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

12/28/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

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12/28/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

12/28/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

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Neighbors For Resp. Growth V. Kootenai Co. Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 34591 Dec 2007

Neighbors For Resp. Growth V. Kootenai Co. Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 34591

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Neighbors For Resp. Growth V. Kootenai Co. Clerk's Record V. 2 Dckt. 34591 Dec 2007

Neighbors For Resp. Growth V. Kootenai Co. Clerk's Record V. 2 Dckt. 34591

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Fractionation Of The Rice Bran Layer And Quantification Of Vitamin E, Oryzanol, Protein, And Rice Bran Saccharide, Rebecca Schramm, Alicia Abadie, Na Hua, Zhimin Xu, Marybeth Lima Dec 2007

Fractionation Of The Rice Bran Layer And Quantification Of Vitamin E, Oryzanol, Protein, And Rice Bran Saccharide, Rebecca Schramm, Alicia Abadie, Na Hua, Zhimin Xu, Marybeth Lima

Faculty Publications

Value-added processing with respect to rice milling has traditionally treated the rice bran layer as a homogenous material that contains significant concentrations of high-value components of interest for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications. Investigators have shown that high-value components in the rice bran layer vary from differences in kernel-thickness, bran fraction, rice variety, and environmental conditions during the growing season. The objectives of this study were to quantify the amount of rice bran removed at pre-selected milling times and to correlate the amount of rice bran removed at each milling time with the concentration of vitamin E, gamma-oryzanol, rice bran saccharide, …

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Extending The Information Partition Function: Modeling Interaction Effects In Highly Multivariate, Discrete Data, Paul C. Cannon Dec 2007

Extending The Information Partition Function: Modeling Interaction Effects In Highly Multivariate, Discrete Data, Paul C. Cannon

Theses and Dissertations

Because of the huge amounts of data made available by the technology boom in the late twentieth century, new methods are required to turn data into usable information. Much of this data is categorical in nature, which makes estimation difficult in highly multivariate settings. In this thesis we review various multivariate statistical methods, discuss various statistical methods of natural language processing (NLP), and discuss a general class of models described by Erosheva (2002) called generalized mixed membership models. We then propose extensions of the information partition function (IPF) derived by Engler (2002), Oliphant (2003), and Tolley (2006) that will allow …

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12/27/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

12/27/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

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12/27/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

12/27/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

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Validation Of The Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Hnomeasurements, M L. Santee, A Lambert, W G. Read, N J. Livesey, R E. Cofield, D T. Cuddy, W H. Daffer, B J. Drouin, L Froidevaux, R A. Fuller, R F. Jarnot, B W. Knosp, G L. Manney, V S. Perun, W V. Snyder, P C. Stek, R P. Thurstans, P A. Wagner, J W. Waters, G Muscari, R L. De Zafra, Jack E. Dibb, D W. Fahey, P J. Popp, T P. Marcy, K W. Jucks, G C. Toon, R A. Stachnik, P F. Bernath, C D. Boone, K A. Walker, J Urban, D Murtagh Dec 2007

Validation Of The Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Hnomeasurements, M L. Santee, A Lambert, W G. Read, N J. Livesey, R E. Cofield, D T. Cuddy, W H. Daffer, B J. Drouin, L Froidevaux, R A. Fuller, R F. Jarnot, B W. Knosp, G L. Manney, V S. Perun, W V. Snyder, P C. Stek, R P. Thurstans, P A. Wagner, J W. Waters, G Muscari, R L. De Zafra, Jack E. Dibb, D W. Fahey, P J. Popp, T P. Marcy, K W. Jucks, G C. Toon, R A. Stachnik, P F. Bernath, C D. Boone, K A. Walker, J Urban, D Murtagh

Earth Sciences

We assess the quality of the version 2.2 (v2.2) HNO3 measurements from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on the Earth Observing System Aura satellite. The MLS HNO3 product has been greatly improved over that in the previous version (v1.5), with smoother profiles, much more realistic behavior at the lowest retrieval levels, and correction of a high bias caused by an error in one of the spectroscopy files used in v1.5 processing. The v2.2 HNO3 data are scientifically useful over the range 215 to 3.2 hPa, with single-profile precision of ∼0.7 ppbv throughout. Vertical resolution is 3–4 km …

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The Weekly Challenger, December 27, 2007, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Dec 2007

The Weekly Challenger, December 27, 2007, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 27, 2007, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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Limits On Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings In Pp̄ Collisions At S=1.96tev, T. Aaltonen, A. Abulencia, J. Adelman, T. Affolder, T. Akimoto, M. G. Albrow, S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, K. Anikeev, A. Annovi, J. Antos, M. Aoki, G. Apollinari, T. Arisawa, A. Artikov, W. Ashmanskas, A. Attal, A. Aurisano, F. Azfar, P. Azzi-Bacchetta, P. Azzurri, N. Bacchetta, W. Badgett, A. Barbaro-Galtieri, V. E. Barnes, B. A. Barnett, S. Baroiant Dec 2007

Limits On Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings In Pp̄ Collisions At S=1.96tev, T. Aaltonen, A. Abulencia, J. Adelman, T. Affolder, T. Akimoto, M. G. Albrow, S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, K. Anikeev, A. Annovi, J. Antos, M. Aoki, G. Apollinari, T. Arisawa, A. Artikov, W. Ashmanskas, A. Attal, A. Aurisano, F. Azfar, P. Azzi-Bacchetta, P. Azzurri, N. Bacchetta, W. Badgett, A. Barbaro-Galtieri, V. E. Barnes, B. A. Barnett, S. Baroiant

Faculty Publications

We present a search for anomalous triple gauge couplings (ATGC) in WW and WZ boson production. The boson pairs are produced in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV, and the data sample corresponds to 350pb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. In this search one W decays to leptons, and the other boson (W or Z) decays hadronically. Combining with a previously published CDF measurement of Wγ boson production yields ATGC limits of -0.18<λ<0.17 and -0.46<Δκ<0.39 at the 95% confidence level, using a cutoff scale Λ=1.5TeV. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

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Phase Dynamics Of Inas/Gaas Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, T. Piwonski, Guillaume Huyet, Et. Al. Dec 2007

Phase Dynamics Of Inas/Gaas Quantum Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, T. Piwonski, Guillaume Huyet, Et. Al.

Physical Sciences Publications

The gain and phase dynamics of InAs∕GaAs quantum dot amplifiers are studied using single and two-color heterodyne pump probe spectroscopy. The relaxation of the wetting layer carrier density is shown to have a strong effect on the phase dynamics of both ground and excited state transients, while having a much weaker effect on the gain dynamics. In addition, the dynamical alpha factor may also display a constant value after an initial transient. Such behavior is strongly encouraging for reduced pattern effect operation in high speed optical networks.

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12/26/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

12/26/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

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12/26/2007 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2007

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Student Develops Simple Solution For Tedious Coupon Clipping, Emily Eskew Dec 2007

Student Develops Simple Solution For Tedious Coupon Clipping, Emily Eskew

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The tedious task of clipping and organizing coupons may soon be simplified thanks to an invention by a University of Mississippi student. Sophomore pre-med biology major Karah LaMon Evans, a Hickory native, has programmed software that stores coupon bar codes on a chip in the form of a convenient key chain device.

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Development And Parameter Refinement Of A Dynamic Simulation Model Of A Fixed Speed Stall Control Wind Turbine Under Start-Up Conditions, Rhonda R. Peters Dec 2007

Development And Parameter Refinement Of A Dynamic Simulation Model Of A Fixed Speed Stall Control Wind Turbine Under Start-Up Conditions, Rhonda R. Peters

Theses and Dissertations

In this study, the dynamics of a fixed speed stall controlled 900 kW wind turbine connected to a 12.5 kV distribution line were modeled and verified with existing field data under start up conditions. Model components include the wind, the turbine rotor and generator, soft-start power electronics and controls, and the distribution grid. PSCAD/EMTDC (Power Systems Computer Aided Analysis and Design/Electromagnetic Transients including Direct Current) was the software platform used. Because detailed system information was not available, (and is often not) an initial model with generic parameters was first created and then refined to more closely match simulation output with …

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Digital Germany: Virtual Archives, Powerful Portals, Wise Wikis, Richard Hacken Dec 2007

Digital Germany: Virtual Archives, Powerful Portals, Wise Wikis, Richard Hacken

Faculty Publications

Presented in the Winter 2006-2007 issue of the Global Resources Newsletter, the German-North American Resources Partnership issue. Online portals and digital gateways into focused subject and area studies are both boons and blessings. For German Studies but even more extensively, for all disciplines relevant to the German-North American Resources Partnership this past year has seen explosive growth in the preparation, expansion, proofing, and proclamation of virtual libraries, scholarly digital projects, and multidisciplinary portals. German digital scholarship has reached a maturity that calls for the types of systematic registry and centralized access that are vital to researchers from Aachen to Zzyzx.

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 26, 2007, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2007

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 26, 2007, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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