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Nebraska Summary: S723 New Holland T4040, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

Nebraska Summary: S719 New Holland T4020, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

An Occupational Therapy Guide For Teaching Handwriting Skills To Adults, Kyla Miller, Nichole Schroeder

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Handwriting is a skill utilized widely by adults; however, there is a lack of guidelines, information, or literature on the subject as it relates to adults. The purpose of this project was to develop guidelines for occupational therapists to use when providing handwriting interventions with adults. A literature review was conducted using PubMed, CINAHL, SCOPUS, DynaMed, and professional journals to further understand the topic of handwriting with adults and its relation to occupational therapy. Currently, there is limited research and information regarding handwriting with adults and no programs or guidelines were found to assist occupational therapists in developing treatment interventions …

What The Erie Surrogate Triplets Can Teach State Legislatures About The Need To Enact Article 8 Of The Uniform Parentage Act (2000) , Robert E. Rains

Cleveland State Law Review

This Article will explain the protracted legal battles over the "surrogate triplets" and explore potential legislation designed to avoid such battles in the future. While reasonable minds could certainly differ as to the wisdom of the legislative scheme proposed in Article 8 of the UPA (2000), or as to some of its details, surely it would be a vast improvement over the current situation in which most state legislatures have failed to address surrogacy through statutes and those that have done so have failed to act in a uniform manner. As the Erie triplets case amply demonstrates, the state courts …

Evaluation Of The Bailey Method As A Tool For Improving The Rutting Resistance Of Mix Designs Using New Hampshire Aggregate, Felix Alexander Rivera

Master's Theses and Capstones

Currently the NHDOT uses the Superpave method to design and evaluate its asphalt pavements; however, this method lacks guidelines to adjust an aggregate blend that yields unacceptable mixtures. The objective of this project was to determine if the Bailey Method of aggregate blending would help improve the rutting resistance of mix designs that use NH aggregates. The rutting performances of six typical NH mix designs and two Bailey designs were measured using the Third Scale Mobile Model Load Simulator (MMLS3), an accelerated pavement testing (APT) device, in hot, dry conditions. Out of the two mixtures redesigned according to the Bailey …

Multi-Channel Digital Receiver Data Acquisition System For The Arecibo Radar System, Ryan Seal

Theses and Dissertations

Digital Receivers are commercially available, cost effective solutions that are becoming commonplace in modern data acquisition systems (MDAS). The digital receiver has the ability to be reconfigured via software, making MDAS flexible for a variety of applications. This thesis describes the design and implementation of a complete MDAS using a general purpose computer (GPC) equipped with a digital receiver card. This system will replace the older DAS (baseband sampling) used by the Space and Atmospheric Science (SAS) group at the Arecibo Observatory (AO). Emphasis is placed on a generic system easily adaptable to a specific application with minimal effort. A …

The Mural As A Teaching Tool In Elementary Education, Mignon Hatton

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the idea that the mural is a valuable tool that teachers should be encouraged to use. The mural project combines co-operative group work, history lessons, review of current events, social changes, and self evaluation. These public art forms are easily accessible because they can be found on the walls of many public buildings as well as on the Internet. The creation of a mural involves cross curricular learning in math, science, and the language arts.

The Ouroboros Father Project, William L. Betz

Theses and Dissertations

The Ouroboros Father Project is an exploration the author's relationship with his dead father, the authors' reaction to his father's death and the author's dealing with the aftermath of his father's legacy as a child molester. The complex story of this relationship and the author's exploration of his own feelings is told in several different genres. This relationship is told in three poems, an essay, and, finally, a four act play and each piece centers around the ancient symbol of the ouroboros. All of the pieces attempt to construct a healing narrative dealing with the never ending cycle of victim …

A Descriptive Study Of Learning Styles And Multiple Intelligences On Student Creativity Within The Art Classroom, Sharon Boyd-Struthers

Theses and Dissertations

In 2004, a law was enacted in Arkansas that provided art and music to all elementary children, grades first through sixth. Two years after the preliminary thesis began all district elementary schools added certified art teachers. At the end of the 2007/08 school year, these teachers will have been instructing for three years. In 2008/09, a full four years of instructional impact will be assessable through the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) testing scores of second grade students. This thesis considers whether a teacher's receptiveness to student learning differences or teacher methodology affects the level of creativity by either …

A Longitudinal Study Of The Sustained Gains Of Former Discontinued Reading Recovery® Students, Gaynell R. Jamison

Theses and Dissertations

Research has shown that early intervention is the most effective means of reversing reading failure. Reading Recovery is a highly effective, one to one, short term early intervention developed by Marie Clay. It targets the lowest achieving first graders who are experiencing difficulties with literacy learning and brings them to the average ban of their age cohorts. The study examined the literacy measure performance of 534 students: 413 Discontinued Reading Recovery students and 121 Non-Reading Recovery students in Arkansas Public Schools. Two groups were compared: Discontinued Reading Recovery and Non Reading Recovery students on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills …

Creating Leaders: A Correlational Study Of The Principal's Leadership Impacting An Innovation For Sustainability, Felicia L. Bell-Hobbs

Theses and Dissertations

Literacy reform is at the forefront of the accountability movement in the education arena today. School principals must tackle one of the most perplexing problems facing education reform: how to understand and change the culture of the school. Literacy instruction can become the catalyst for school change in the reform effort. Leadership for change can evolve within a professional learning community, in which school principals act as change facilitators, collaboratively leading the reform efforts in their schools. A person that is in the position to facilitate change within a system is considered a change facilitator. In schools, this may include …

Visual Identity, Ariston Sedrak Jacks

Theses and Dissertations

My artwork addresses issues of identity. As an artist, I feel it is my responsibility to delineate the human condition while encouraging the viewers to recall their own experiences. My paintings attempt to serve as a catalyst to evoke emotional, social, and cultural responses by documenting my idea of significant people or events. To accomplish this visually, I explore the human figure through a formal approach addressing the elements of art. I am influenced by various philosophies that impact my artwork. I experiment with a variety of media adding unique details not defined by skilled rendering or complex abstraction, but …

The Effects Of The Mode Of Homework On The Achievement Of Middle School Spanish Language Students, Sarah Moore Merayo

Theses and Dissertations

This study focused on the relationship between the mode of homework completion (either via paper and pencil or via the computer) and student performance on a written test. After taking a pretest, students from three classes received computer-based, pencil/paper, or no homework, and then took a unit test to see if the type of homework they completed affected their performance on that test.

Optimizing Network Performance Of Computing Pipelines In Distributed Environments, Qishi Wu, Yi Gu, Mengxia Zhu, Nageswara S.V. Rao

Computer Science Publications

Supporting high performance computing pipelines over wide-area networks is critical to enabling large-scale distributed scientific applications that require fast responses for interactive operations or smooth flows for data streaming. We construct analytical cost models for computing modules, network nodes, and communication links to estimate the computing times on nodes and the data transport times over connections. Based on these time estimates, we present the Efficient Linear Pipeline Configuration method based on dynamic programming that partitions the pipeline modules into groups and strategically maps them onto a set of selected computing nodes in a network to achieve minimum end-to-end delay or …

Computational Monitoring And Steering Using Network-Optimized Visualization And Ajax Web Server, Mengxia Zhu, Qishi Wu, Nageswara S.V. Rao

Computer Science Publications

We describe a system for computational monitoring and steering of an on-going computation or visualization on a remote host such as workstation or supercomputer. Unlike the conventional “launch-and-leave” batch computations, this system enables: (i) continuous monitoring of variables of an on-going remote computation using visualization tools, and (ii) interactive specification of chosen computational parameters to steer the computation. The visualization and control streams are supported over wide-area networks using transport protocols based on stochastic approximation methods to provide stable throughput. Using performance models for transport channels and visualization modules, we develop a visualization pipeline configuration solution that minimizes end-to-end delay …

Self-Adaptive Configuration Of Visualization Pipeline Over Wide-Area Networks, Qishi Wu, Jinzhu Gao, Mengxia Zhu, Nageswara S. V. Rao, Jian Huang, S. Sitharama Iyengar

Computer Science Publications

Next-generation scientific applications require the capabilities to visualize large archival datasets or on-going computer simulations of physical and other phenomena over wide-area network connections. To minimize the latency in interactive visualizations across wide-area networks, we propose an approach that adaptively decomposes and maps the visualization pipeline onto a set of strategically selected network nodes. This scheme is realized by grouping the modules that implement visualization and networking subtasks, and mapping them onto computing nodes with possibly disparate computing capabilities and network connections. Using estimates for communication and processing times of subtasks, we present a polynomial-time algorithm to compute a decomposition …

Assessment Of Data Processing To Improve Reliability Of Microarray Experiments Using Genomic Dna Reference, Yunfeng Yang, Mengxia Zhu, Liyou Wu, Jizhong Zhou

Computer Science Publications

Background

Using genomic DNA as common reference in microarray experiments has recently been tested by different laboratories. Conflicting results have been reported with regard to the reliability of microarray results using this method. To explain it, we hypothesize that data processing is a critical element that impacts the data quality.

Results

Microarray experiments were performed in a γ-proteobacterium Shewanella oneidensis. Pair-wise comparison of three experimental conditions was obtained either with two labeled cDNA samples co-hybridized to the same array, or by employing Shewanella genomic DNA as a standard reference. Various data processing techniques were exploited to reduce the amount of …

Multiplicative Properties Of Integral Binary Quadratic Forms, A. G. Earnest, Robert W. Fitzgerald

Articles and Preprints

In this paper, the integral binary quadratic forms for which the set of represented values is closed under k-fold products, for even positive integers k, will be characterized. This property will be seen to distinguish the elements of odd order in the form class group of a fixed discriminant. Further, it will be shown that this closure under k-fold products can always be expressed by a k-linear mapping from (Z²)^k to Z². In the case k = 2, this resolves a conjecture of Aicardi and Timorin.

The Adjoint L-Function For Gl5, David Ginzburg, Joseph Hundley

Articles and Preprints

We describe two new Eulerian Rankin-Selberg integrals, using the same Eisenstein series defined on the group E₈, and cuspidal representations from GL₅ and GSpin₁₁, respectively. Connections with past work of Ginzburg, Bump-Ginzburg, Jiang-Rallis and others are described. We give some details of how to relate our two integrals via formal manipulations.

Generating Orthogonal Polynomials And Their Derivatives Using Vertex|Matching-Partitions Of Graphs, John P. Mcsorley, Philip Feinsilver, Rene Schott

Articles and Preprints

A vertex|matching-partition (V|M) of a simple graph G is a spanning collection of vertices and independent edges of G. Let vertex v in V have weight w_v and edge e in M have weight w_e. Then the weight of V|M is w(V|M) = Prod_{v in V} w_v · Prod_{e in M} w_e. Define the vertex|matching-partition function of G as W(G) = Sum_{V|M} w(V|M). In this paper we study this function when G is a path and a cycle. We generate all orthogonal polynomials as vertex|matching-partition functions of suitably labelled paths, and indicate how to find their derivatives in some cases. …

Parametric Probability Densities And Distribution Functions For Tukey G-And-H Transformations And Their Use For Fitting Data, Todd C. Headrick, Rhonda K. Kowalchuk, Yanyan Sheng

Publications

The family of g-and-h transformations are popular algorithms used for simulating non-normal distributions because of their simplicity and ease of execution. In general, two limitations associated with g-and-h transformations are that their probability density functions (pdfs) and cumulative distribution functions (cdfs) are unknown. In view of this, the g-and-h transformations’ pdfs and cdfs are derived in general parametric form. Moments are also derived and it is subsequently shown how the g and h parameters can be determined for prespecified values of skew and kurtosis. Numerical examples and parametric plots of g-and-h pdfs …

The Transatlantic Divergence In Legal Thought: American Law And Economics Vs. German Doctrinalism, Kristoffel Grechenig, Martin Gelter

UC Law SF International Law Review

Economic analysis plays a major role in the American legal discourse, while its position in the German-speaking legal debate remains comparatively limited. In Germany and Austria, a widespread aversion against law and economics can be observed among legal scholars. This article advances an explanation for this divergence on the basis of two main factors. First, American legal realism enjoyed great success, whereas the German freelaw movement failed to leave a lasting impression. While legal realism transformed American legal thought and opened up the discourse to policy arguments, the predominant German legal theory emphasizes the internal coherence of the legal system, …

The Effect Of Intellectual Property Protection On Economic Growth, Andrew Jonathan Mahurin

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This paper tests whether stronger intellectual property protection is good for a country. It focuses on the overall effect of intellectual property protection on per capita economic growth. To measure the strength of intellectual property protection, I use the Ginarte-Park index. An education and an investment variable are also included in the models.

The models are based on simple linear regressions involving a cross-section of countries. The models consistently showed a negative correlation between intellectual property protection and per capita economic growth. Moreover, I tested to see if the effect is different in some countries than in others, based on …

Economic Development: The City Of West Carrollton's Pathway To Growth, Christian J. Hansen

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This report is an overview of an economic development internship with the City of West Carrollton, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. The first section explores the City’s administrative roles and structure. The second section contains a Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat (S.W.O.T.) analysis, which evaluates the City’s current economic factors. Next, the Location Quotient (L.Q.) method quantifies the area’s industry makeup. Summarized is the SWOT analysis and Location Quotient in a listing of industry recommendations based on economic growth trends. The third section is a discussion of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) as an economic development instrument. A cost versus …

Simulation Of Arsenic Partitioning In Tributaries To Drinking Water Reservoirs, Eid A. Alkhatib

Chemistry & Physics Faculty Publications

Arsenic released by bottom sediments was determined by experiments in which the sediments were artificially re-suspended using a particle entrapment simulator (PES) to simulate river conditions. Sediment cores were collected from various tributaries to drinking water reservoirs in Connecticut spiked with arsenic, and run in the PES at simulated bed-flow shear stresses from 0.0 to 0.6 N/m2. Under equilibrium conditions, the dissolved fraction of arsenic was found to range from 8.3 to 22.1 ug/1, which in most cases exceeded EPA Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) of 10 ug/1. Experimental results from these simulations have shown that bed-flow shear stress causes an …

Two Boats, Three Summers, Five Universities, One Dozen Instructors, And Sixty-Five Teachers: A Collaborative Oceanography Field Program For Earth Science, V. Clark, C. Hopper-Brill, C. Petrone

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

A three-day field workshop was an integral component of the graduate-level course entitled, Oceanography, that was offered by Virginia Earth Science Collaborative Project (VESC) to help Virginia educators earn the earth science teaching endorsement. The VESC partner institutions that offered Oceanographngeorge Mason University, James Madison University, the University of Virginia Southwest Center, and Virginia Commonwealth University-lacked direct access to research and education facilities en the coast. The College of William & Mary, another VESC partner, provided this resource through the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s (VIMS) Eastern Shore Laboratory in Wachapreague, Virginia. The field program agenda and activities were developed …

Application Of Computer Simulation Modeling To Evaluate Business Continuity Plans, Jose Francisco Molina Garcia Plaza

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Business continuity plans (BCP) help organizations plan for and withstand the occurrence of unexpected events that interrupt the normal operation of business. Managers typically develop several alternate plans to minimize the business impact of unexpected events. The problem for decision makers is that comparative evaluation of BCP is typically done using subjective judgments.

This research uses a case study approach focusing on a single organization and a single business continuity application to propose the use of computer simulation as a tool for managers to identify and evaluate different BCP prior to committing resources. In the context of an insurance firm, …

Use And Analysis Of Expected Similarity Of Semantic Web Ontological Annotations, Joe Lynn Look

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation studied various means of calculating similarity in the annotations of web pages compared to the similarity of the document text. A software tool, named Semantic Web Analysis of Similarity (SW AS), was developed and utilized to perform the analysis of similarity in annotated documents published from the first three years of the International Semantic Web Conference. Rules concerning the ontological concepts of the documents were specified and these rules as well as other parameters were varied to determine the effect on overall similarity measures. Traditional measures of similarity as well as enhanced measures of similarity proposed for this …

Reducing Cognitive Load Using Hypervariate Display, William Garrabrants

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

This research examined the application of hypervariate display principles to human-computer interfaces with the intent of reducing the cognitive load placed on the operator during high-intensity activity. This research extended the existing body of knowledge relevant to reducing the cognitive load using human-computer interfaces. Existing research has explored the application of techniques that, when used in isolation, contribute to a computer operator's understanding of the data or efficiency in execution of tasks. This research studied the collaborative use of proven display techniques to improve a computer operator's ability to understand large amounts of data more rapidly and react to that …

Graduate Studies Fact Book

Graduate Studies Fact Books (2006-2017)

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