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Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (November 10, 2008), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on November 10, 2008.

Ohio University Faculty Senate Minutes November 10, 2008, Ohio University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

School As A Center For Community: Establishing Neighborhood Identity Through Public Space And Educational Facility, Fred Goykhman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

“Safety is an opportunity for people to open their minds” -Jin Baek, 2008

For my thesis I will design an education facility. That education facility will strive to meet with today's security needs and will provide a safe-feeling place for growth. In identifying the problem, I found two main causes for the described conditions in today's schools. They are improper adaptation and uniform building type.

Improper adaptation has to do with surface applications, rather than integrating with the social fabric of the school's communal requirements. Unfortunate incidents have caused the solutions to heightened security around schools to be fortressing and …

Senior Composition Recital, Jon Harmon, New Music Ensemble, Chapman Chamber Orchestra

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Smartstore: A New Metadata Organization Paradigm With Metadata Semantic-Awareness For Next-Generation File Systems, Yu Hua, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, Dan Feng, Lei Tian

School of Computing: Technical Reports

Existing data storage systems based on hierarchical directory tree do not meet scalability and functionality requirements for exponentially growing datasets and increasingly complex metadata queries in large-scale file systems with billions of files and Exabytes of data. This paper proposes a novel decentralized semantic-aware metadata organization, called SmartStore, which exploits metadata semantics of files to judiciously aggregate correlated files into semantic-aware groups by using information retrieval tools. The decentralized design of SmartStore can improve system scalability and reduce query latency for both complex queries (including range and top-k queries), which is helpful to construct semantic-aware caching, and conventional filename-based point …

Ideas: An Identity-Based Security Architecture For Large-Scale And High-Performance Storage Systems, Zhongying Niu, Ke Zhou, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Tianming Yang

School of Computing: Technical Reports

We develop IDEAS, an identity-based security architecture for large-scale and high-performance storage systems, designed to improve security, convenience and total cost of access control by merging identity management with access control in these systems. IDEAS authenticates users at each I/O node by using a single-identity certificate without the service of a centralized security server and enforces access control mechanism by using an object-based access control (OBAC) model, which is designed to address the complexity and scalability issue of security administration in large-scale storage systems. We also discuss the issue of how to identify and authenticate a large number of users …

Men's And Women's Glee Club: November 9, 2008, Tim Fredstrom, Sarah Graham, Penny Lay

School of Music Programs

This is the forty-eighth program of the 2008-2009 season.

Center for the Performing Arts

November 9, 2008

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

The Peer-Reviewing Game, Marius C. Silaghi, Makoto Yokoo

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

We model a family of peer-reviewing processes as game-theoretic problems. The model helps to understand elements of existing peer-reviewing procedures, and to predict the impact of new mechanisms. The peer-reviewing for evaluation of scientific results submitted to conferences involves complex decision processes of independent participants. Significant tax-payer money is spent by governments for the advancement of science, and such governmental decisions are often based on outcomes of peer-reviewing in scientific conferences. Here we propose to analyze and design improved mechanisms for conference peer-reviewing, based on game-theoretic approaches. Real world conference peer-reviewing processes are overly complex and here we define and …

Uv-Vis Investigations On Ion Beam Irradiated Polycarbonate, Mircea Chipara, Dorina M. Chipara

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

UV-VIS investigations on polycarbonate irradiated with accelerated U ions are reported. The experimental data are consistent with the decrease of the energy gap due to irradiation and indicate the formation of isolated conjugated structures. The relatively weak decrease of the energy gap and the shape of the electron spin resonance lines indicate that the conjugated structures are isolated within the polymeric matrix. published: 8 November, 2008.

Improving Reversal Median Computation Using Commuting Reversals And Cycle Information, William Arndt, Jijun Tang

Faculty Publications

In the past decade, genome rearrangements have attracted increasing attention from both biologists and computer scientists as a new type of data for phylogenetic analysis. Methods for reconstructing phylogeny from genome rearrangements include distance-based methods, MCMC methods, and direct optimization methods. The latter, pioneered by Sankoff and extended with the software suites GRAPPA and MGR, is the most accurate approach, but is very limited due to the difficulty of its scoring procedure—it must solve multiple instances of the reversal median problem to compute the score of a given tree. The reversal median problem is known to be NP-hard and all …

Assessing Inheritance Of Zircon And Monazite In Granitic Rocks From The Monashee Complex, Canadian Cordillera, James Crowley, R. L. Brown, F. Gervais, H. D. Gibson

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Zircon and monazite from granitic sheets and dikes in the Monashee complex, Canadian Cordillera, were investigated to determine whether igneous crystallization occurred at 1.9 Ga or 50 Ma with 1.9 Ga inherited zircon and monazite. Four of the five samples are weakly deformed to undeformed, despite occurring in a gneiss dome at the structurally deepest exposed level of the orogen that elsewhere was strongly deformed and partly melted at 50 Ma. Based on U-(Th)-Pb dates from zircon and monazite, field relationships, and mineral composition and zoning, we conclude that the granitic rocks crystallized at 1.9 Ga and were metamorphosed at …

Reporter - November 7th 2008, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Nov 7, 2008, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2008-11-07, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2001-2011

This edition of the Wooster Voice, published on November 7 of 2008, is eight pages long. The first page is dedicated to the celebration of Barack Obama as he winning his first term as president. construction begins on Beall Avenue. Two English majors premiere musical 'Dracula,' which is a musical take on the classic tale of Dracula. An alter in honor of Day of the Dead is set up outside of Old Main Cafe. A display about John F Kennedy is currently on display in Special Collections. A review of the movie "Saw V" is on page six. The athletic …

Photocycloaddition Of Allenes, Crystal Ward

Theses and Dissertations

For the past ten years the Fleming research group has been involved in the research of allene compounds. We have explored the synthesis of allenes as well as several reactions involving allenes, such as oxidation and nitrene addition. Recently, we have explored the synthesis and photochemistry of allenic alcohols tethered to silicon. There are literature examples using allenes in synthesis, but very few examples exist using allenes in photochemical cycloaddition reactions. We have found that a diisopropylallenyloxy(cinnamyloxy)silane derivative undergoes [2+2] photochemical cycloaddition to produce a cyclobutylsilane product when irradiated for 60-75 minutes.

Measurement Of The Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry And Extraction Of Sin2ӨWEff In Pp → Z/Γ* +X → E+E- + X Events Produced At √S = 1.96 Tev, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, D0 Collaboration

Kenneth Bloom Publications

We present a measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry (A_FB) in pp → Z/γ* +X → e⁺e^- + X events at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using 1.1 fb^-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. AFB is measured as a function of the invariant mass of the electron-positron pair, and found to be consistent with the standard model prediction. We use the AFB measurement to extract the effective weak mixing angle sin²Ө_W^eff = 0.2326 ± 0.0018 (stat) ± 0.0006 (syst).

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session November 7, 2008, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Personnel Report
• Gift Report
• Grant Report
• Lease Agreement - Clearwire, US LLC
• Lease Agreement - Spindler Hall, Office of Community Correction, County of Kalamazoo
• Faculty-Staff Indemnification Policy

The Beacon - Vol 7 No. 5 - November 7, 2008, Merrimack College

The Beacon

The Beacon - the student newspaper of Merrimack College. Volume 7, Number 5 - November 7, 2008. 12 pages

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 100, November 7, 2008

Central Florida Future

Mr. President; 2008 UCF Homecoming; Homecoming splashes down; Comedy Knight delivers laughs; Skit Knight shows off improv; Former SGA senator's case won't be retried.

Modeling Upper Body Kinematics While Using A Transradial Prosthesis, Derek J. Lura

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The prostheses used by the majority of persons with upper limb amputations today offer a limited range of motion. Relative to anatomical joints transradial (below the elbow) prosthesis users lose at least two of the three degrees of freedom provided by the wrist and forearm. Some myoeletric prostheses currently allow for forearm pronation and supination (rotation about an axis parallel to the forearm) and the operation of a powered prosthetic hand. Body-powered prostheses, incorporating hooks and other cable driven terminal devices, have even fewer active degrees of freedom. In order to perform activities of daily living, an amputee must use …

Commonwealth Times 2008-11-06

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Magnetic-Field-Induced Optical Anisotropy In Ferrofluids: A Time-Dependent Light-Scattering Investigation, Corneliu Rablau, Prem Vaishnava, Sudakar Chandran, Ronald Tackett, Gavin Lawes, Ratna Naik

Physics Publications

We report an experimental investigation of time dependent anisotropic light scattering by an aqueous suspension of tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide coated Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles (∼6nm) under the ON-OFF transient of an external dc magnetic field. The study employs the synchronized recording and measurement of the two magnetic-field-induced light-scattering patterns produced by two identical orthogonal He-Ne laser beams passing through the ferrofluid sample and propagating parallel and perpendicular to the applied field, respectively. From these patterns, we extract the time dependence of the induced optical anisotropy, which provides a measure of the characteristic time scale and kinematic response for field-induced …

Magnetic-Field-Induced Optical Anisotropy In Ferrofluids: A Time-Dependent Light-Scattering Investigation, Corneliu Rablau, Prem Vaishnava, Chandran Sudakar, Ronald Tackett, Gavin Lawes, Ratna Naik

Physics Publications

We report an experimental investigation of time dependent anisotropic light scattering by an aqueous suspension of tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles (∼6nm) under the ON-OFF transient of an external dc magnetic field. The study employs the synchronized recording and measurement of the two magnetic-field-induced light-scattering patterns produced by two identical orthogonal He-Ne laser beams passing through the ferrofluid sample and propagating parallel and perpendicular to the applied field, respectively. From these patterns, we extract the time dependence of the induced optical anisotropy, which provides a measure of the characteristic time scale and kinematic response for field-induced structure formation in …

The Setonian, November 6, 2008, Seton Hall University

2008

No abstract provided.

25th Annual Reception Bibliography, 2007-2008, Leonard H. Axe Library

Bibliographies

Since 1984, Leonard H. Axe Library at Pittsburg State University has honored book authors and other creators for their outstanding scholarship and contributions to their fields.

Kenyon Collegian - November 6, 2008

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Students Oversees See Reaction To Obama's Election, Rachel Hatch

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, November 6, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems, Technology and Education

• New Course
• Credit Hour Change

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change, Add Dual List

Department of Plants, Soils and Climate

• Prerequisite Change
• Delete Course

Department of Economics and Finance

• Grade Mode Change

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services

• New Course
• Title Change
• Course Description Change
• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Add dual list, course description change
• Course number change, add dual list, course description change

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• New Course
• Title Change
• Credit Hour Change

Department …

November 6, 2008, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Magnetism And Homogenization Of Microresonators, Robert V. Kohn, Stephen P. Shipman

Faculty Publications

Arrays of cylindrical metal microresonators embedded in a dielectric matrix were proposed by Pendry et al. [IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., 47 (1999), pp. 2075.2084] as a means of creating a microscopic structure that exhibits strong bulk magnetic behavior at frequencies not realized in nature. This behavior arises for H-polarized fields in the quasi-static regime, in which the scale of the microstructure is much smaller than the free-space wavelength of the fields. We carry out both formal and rigorous two-scale homogenization analyses, paying special attention to the appropriate method of averaging, which does not involve the usual cell averages. We …