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Acoustic Pingers Eliminate Beaked Whale Bycatch In A Gill Net Fishery, James Carretta, Jay Barlow, Lyle Enriquez

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Bycatch of beaked whales in gill net fisheries has been documented worldwide (Nicholson 1954, Di Natale 1994, Read 1994, Siliciliano 1994, Julian and Beeson 1998, Waring et al. 2006). Acoustic pingers have been successfully used to reduce bycatch of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) (Kraus et al. 1997, Trippel et al. 1999, Gearin et al. 2000) and common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) (Barlow and Cameron 2003), but pinger efficacy in reducing beaked whale bycatch has never been evaluated due to the rarity of beaked whale entanglements in fisheries.We report that bycatch of beaked whales in a California drift …

Colorado Butterfly Plant (Gaura Neomexicana Coloradensis) In Nebraska, Travis Wooten

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: White Papers, Conference Presentations, and Manuscripts

The state of Nebraska contains a wide variety of plants, twenty of which are listed in The Nebraska Natural Legacy Project as Tier I species of conservation concern (Schneider et al. 2005). Of the 20 Tier I listed species, 4 are listed as either Endangered or Threatened on the Threatened & Endangered Species System (TESS) list (USFWS 2008), with Gaura neomexicana ssp. coloradensis being one of these four. The common name of Gaura neomexicana ssp. coloradensis is the Colorado butterfly plant, and is currently listed as threatened, both state and federally. In Nebraska it is only found along the Lodgepole …

Integrated Mining Of Feature Spaces For Bioinformatics Domain Discovery, Pradeep Chowriappa

Doctoral Dissertations

One of the major challenges in the field of bioinformatics is the elucidation of protein folding for the functional annotation of proteins. The factors that govern protein folding include the chemical, physical, and environmental conditions of the protein's surroundings, which can be measured and exploited for computational discovery purposes. These conditions enable the protein to transform from a sequence of amino acids to a globular three-dimensional structure. Information concerning the folded state of a protein has significant potential to explain biochemical pathways and their involvement in disorders and diseases. This information impacts the ways in which genetic diseases are characterized …

Droughtscape, Fall 2008, Kelly Smith

DroughtScape: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Drought Mitigation Center (2007–2023)

Washington Workshops Scheduled for November

Look for Warm West, Rainy Gulf, Easing Drought

New Drought Monitor Authors Profiled

Drought Impact Awareness Growing: Weather Forecast Offices, Geographers Highlight Issue

NDMC Takes on New Projects

Hundreds+ See NDMC at Ag Trade Show

NDMC Welcomes New Employees

Droughtscape, Fall 2008, Kelly Smith

DroughtScape: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Drought Mitigation Center (2007–2023)

Washington Workshops Scheduled for November

Look for Warm West, Rainy Gulf, Easing Drought

New Drought Monitor Authors Profiled

Drought Impact Awareness Growing: Weather Forecast Offices, Geographers Highlight Issue

NDMC Takes on New Projects

Hundreds+ See NDMC at Ag Trade Show

NDMC Welcomes New Employees

Energy-Constrained Distortion Reduction Optimization For Wavelet-Based Coded Image Transmission In Wireless Sensor Networks, Wei Wang, Dongming Peng, Honggang Wang, Hamid Sharif, Hsiao-Hwa Chen

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications (to 2015)

Image transmissions in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are often energy constrained. They also have requirement on distortion minimization, which may be achieved through Unequal Error Protection (UEP) based communication approaches. In related literature with regard to wireless multimedia transmissions, significantly different importance levels between image-pixel-position information and image-pixel-value information have not been fully exploited by existing UEP schemes. In this paper, we propose an innovative image-pixel-position information based resource allocation scheme to optimize image transmission quality with strict energy budget constraint for image applications in WMSNs, and it works by exploring these uniquely different importance levels among image data …

Erratum: "Warm Hcn, C2h2, And Co In The Disk Of Gv Tau'', E L. Gibb, K A. Vanbrunt, Sean D. Brittain, T W. Rettig

Publications

This is an Erratum for the article 2007 ApJ 660 1572

Why Barring Settlement Bars Legitimate Suits: A Reply To Rosenberg And Shavell, Ted Sichelman

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Civil Contempt And The Indigent Child Support Obligor: The Silent Return Of Debtor’S Prison, Elizabeth G. Patterson

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Catalog, 2008-2009, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 2008-2009 undergraduate academic catalog and introduction to the university.

Using Spreadsheets To Discover Meaning For Parameters In Nonlinear Models, Kris H. Green

Mathematical and Computing Sciences Faculty/Staff Publications

Using spreadsheets one can develop an exploratory environment where mathematics students can develop their own understanding of the relationship between the parameters of commonly encountered families of functions (linear, logarithmic, exponential and power) and a natural interpretation of “rate of change” for those functions. The key to this understanding involves expanding the concept of rate of change to include percent changes. Through the use of the spreadsheet model, students can explore and easily determine which type of change is most natural for a given family of functions. This, in turn, provides a mechanism for interpreting the parameters of the function …

Arctic Report Card 2008: Tracking Recent Environmental Changes, J. Overland, J. Walsh, M. Wang, J. Richter-Menge, J. Comiso, W. Meier, S. Nghiem, D. Perovich, A. Proshutinsky, J. Morison, I. Ashik, E. Carmack, I. Frolov, J. C. Gascard, M. Itoh, R. Krishfield, F. Mclaughlin, I . Polyakov, B. Rudels, U. Schauer, K . Shimada, V. Sokolov, M. Steele, M.-L. Timmermans, J. Toole, V. Romanovsky, R. Armstrong, A. Shiklomanov, D. Walker, G. Jia, J. Box, J. Cappelen, D. Bromwich, L.-S. Bai, T. Mote, B. Veenhuis, N. Mikkelsen, A. Weidick, Michael Svoboda, D. Russell, M.J.J.E. Loonen, C. Zöckler, B. Ebbinge, M. Simpkins, C.D. Sawatzky, J.D. Reist

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

There continues to be widespread and, in some cases, dramatic evidence of an overall warming of the Arctic system.

Atmosphere: 5° C temperature increases were recorded in autumn

Ocean: Observed increase in temperature of surface and deep ocean layers

Sea Ice: Near-record minimum summer sea ice extent

Greenland: Records set in both duration and extent of summer surface melt

Biology: Fisheries and marine mammals impacted by loss of sea ice

Land: Permafrost temperatures tend to increase, while snow extent tends to decrease The Arctic Report Card is introduced as a means of presenting clear, reliable and concise information on recent …

Hybridization Among Three Native North American Canis Species In A Region Of Natural Sympatry, Frank Hailer, Jennifer A. Leonard

Other Publications in Wildlife Management

Background: Population densities of many species throughout the world are changing due to direct persecution as well as anthropogenic habitat modification. These changes may induce or increase the frequency of hybridization among taxa. If extensive, hybridization can threaten the genetic integrity or survival of endangered species. Three native species of the genus Canis, coyote (C. latrans), Mexican wolf (C. lupus baileyi) and red wolf (C. rufus), were historically sympatric in Texas, United States. Human impacts caused the latter two to go extinct in the wild, although they survived in captive breeding programs. Morphological data …

City Of El Paso: Cross Sectional Comparison Of Bilingualism In The Workplace, Elizabeth K. Gibson, Carlos Olmedo, Mario E. Caire

IPED Technical Reports

The Institute for Policy and Economic Development (IPED) at the University of Texas at El Paso conducted an analysis of bilingualism in the workplace between El Paso and other regions. This study, performed for the City of El Paso Department of Economic Development, highlights El Paso’s bilingual workforce in 22 occupational groups and 20 industry sectors and makes cross-sectional comparisons to 19 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) that are in geographic proximity or contain a high number or percentage of Spanish-speaking populations. In addition, detailed occupations and detailed industries are reported for El Paso that offer English-Spanish bilinguals good wages, contain …

A Hyperbolic Two-Step Model Based Finite Difference Method For Studying Thermal Deformation In Three-Dimensional Micro Spheres Exposed To Ultrashort-Pulsed Lasers, Pan Wang

Doctoral Dissertations

Ultrashort-pulsed lasers with pulse durations of the order of sub-picoseconds to femtoseconds possess the capabilities in limiting the undesirable spread of the thermal process zone in a heated sample. Because of this, ultrashort-pulsed lasers have been attracting worldwide interest in science and engineering. The success of ultrashort-pulsed lasers in real application relies on: (1) well characterized pulse width, intensity and experimental techniques; (2) reliable microscale heat transfer models; and (3) prevention of thermal damage. Laser damage induced by ultrashort-pulsed lasers occurs after the heating pulse is over, since the pulse duration time is extremely short and the heat flux is …

Cataloging As A Tool For Outreach - Bringing Campus Collections Together, Derek Wilmott

Presentations

Clemson University Libraries and Tillman Education Media Center cataloging project.

Nature And Application Of Knowledge And Its Significance To Organizational Management Leaders, Heidi Gregory-Mina

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Epistemology is a branch of philosophy, which provides an individual with tools for understanding what he or she knows, but epistemology cannot be separated from an individual’s metaphysics. It is almost impossible to separate a thinker’s epistemology from his or her metaphysics, because epistemology connects with specific ethics and politics and metaphysics connects all of that, in a coherent philosophical system. Metaphysics connects the philosophical system because epistemology does not fit well with randomness but does connect with specific ethics and politics. In 1854, the term epistemology appears to have been used for the first time, correlating with an intense …

A Systematic Approach For Training Candidates To Use The Teacher Work Sample, Beth Walizer, Taggart Germaine, Keith Dreiling

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The purpose of this paper is to describe the benefits of scaffolding the work sample criteria through a teacher preparation program for elementary education candidates. This article illustrates the way that Fort Hays State University’s teacher education program has successfully implemented a work sample process. A process of scaffolding the criteria was woven throughout the elementary teacher education program to instruct candidates on how to develop, implement, and assess instructional units of study. As a way to describe the teacher work sample process, the authors have contextualized the model, provided components of a teacher work sample, and presented a program …

Perspectives In Provisions For Science And Technology Education In Nigeria: The Way Forward, Adebola Ifamuyiwa, Kehinde Alebiosu

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The promotion of science and technology education is a warmly embraced venture. Nigerian educational system prioritized science and technology with policies that are favorably disposed to science and technology education. The national policy on education and the national policy on science and technology made good provisions for science and technology education. Government through the education policy empowered the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), the Basic Education, the senior secondary education, technical and scientific education and tertiary education with robust plan for science and technology education in the programmes. (FGN, 2004). The policy came into existence in 1977 and education …

New Technology And Record Keeping In Educational Management: Levels Of Secondary School Principals’ Computer Literacy And Phobia, Afolakemi Oredein

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

While research on school improvement is now into its third decade, systematic research on what the principal actually does and its relationship to stability and change is quite recent. Some of the earlier implementation research identified the role of the principal as central to promoting or inhibiting change (Sammons, 1999; Goleman, 2000), but it did not examine the principal’s role in any depth or perspective as regards to the utilization of new technology for record-keeping. During the 1980’s research and practice focusing on the role of the principal-ship, vice-principal-ship, and other school leaders mounted, resulting in greater clarity, but also …

Fluorescence Sensor Array For Metal Ion Detection Based On Various Coordination Chemistries: General Performance And Potential Application, Zhuo Wang, Manuel A. Palacios, Pavel Anzenbacher Jr.

Chemistry Faculty Publications

A sensor array containing 9 cross-reactive sensing fluorescent elements with different affinity and selectivity to 10 metal cations (Ca2+, Mg2+, Cd2+, Hg2+, Co2+, Zn2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Al3+, Ga3+) is described. The discriminatory capacity of the array was tested at different ranges of pH and at different cation concentrations using linear discriminant analysis (LDA). Qualitative identification of cations can be determined with over 96% of accuracy in a concentration range covering 3 orders of a magnitude (5-5000 mu M). Quantitative analysis can be achieved with over 90% accuracy in the concentration range between 10 and 5000 mu M. The array performance …

Mcnair News, Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 2008

McNair News: Newsletter of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln McNair Scholars Program

New Scholars Retreat: Welcome Junior Scholars
Meet the New McNair Scholars
McNair - Facts & History
McNair Summer Research Experience
UNL McNair Research Colloquium
Senior Scholar Research Projects
California McNair Scholars Symposium
Reflections on the California McNair Symposium by Kyle Jackson
Mentor Spotlight – Miguel Carranza
Working Effectively with Your Research Mentor by Rebecca Beals
Scholar Spotlight – Mo Wax
McNair Graduate Student Mentors
Dr. Terri Norton “Joins” McNair Community of Scholars
Kudos to McNair Scholars
Conference Presentations
2008 Summer Internships
Alumni News: Degree Watch
McNair Scholars: Now Graduate Students at UNL
UNL Scholars: Now Grad Students Across the Country …

Hedonic Adaptation And The Settlement Of Civil Lawsuits, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco

Articles

This Essay examines the burgeoning psychological literature on happiness and hedonic adaptation (a person's capacity to preserve or recapture her level of happiness by adjusting to changed circumstances), bringing this literature to bear on the probability of pretrial settlement in civil litigation. The existing economic and behavioral models of settlement are incomplete because they do not incorporate the effect of adaptation on the sum for which a plaintiff is willing to accept an offer. When an individual first suffers a serious injury, she will likely predict that the injury will greatly diminish her future happiness. However, during the time that …

Water Resources Review - Fall 2008, Vol 21, No. 1, Annis Water Resource Institute

AWRI Reviews

No abstract provided.

Representative Entry Selection For Profiling Blogs, Jinfeng Zhuang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Aixin Sun, Rong Jin

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Many applications on blog search and mining often meet the challenge of handling huge volume of blog data, in which one single blog could contain hundreds or even thousands of entries. We investigate novel techniques for profiling blogs by selecting a subset of representative entries for each blog. We propose two principles for guiding the entry selection task: representativeness and diversity. Further, we formulate the entry selection task into a combinatorial optimization problem and propose a greedy yet effective algorithm for finding a good approximate solution by exploiting the theory of submodular functions. We suggest blog classification for judging the …

Temperature And Electric Field Dependence Of Conduction In Low-Density Polyethylene, John R. Dennison, Jerilyn Brunson

All Physics Faculty Publications

A traditional constant voltage conductivity test method was used to measure how the conductivity of highly insulating low-density polyethylene (LDPE) polymer films depends on applied electric field, repeated and prolonged electric field exposure, and sample temperature. The strength of the applied voltage was varied to determine the electric field dependence. At low electric field, the resistivity was measured from cryogenic temperatures to well above the glass transition temperature. Comparisons were made with a variety of models of the conduction mechanisms common in insulators, including transient polarization and diffusion and steady-state thermally activated hopping conductivity and variable range hopping conductivity, to …

Embracing Unconscionability’S Safety Net Function, Amy J. Schmitz

Faculty Publications

Despite courts' and commentators' denial of morality and focus on efficiency in contract law, fairness and flexibility have remained the bedrocks of the unconscionability doctrine. This Article therefore departs from the popular formalist critiques of unconscionability that urge for the doctrine's demise or constraint based on claims that its flexibility and lack of clear definition threaten efficiency in contract law. Contrary to this formalist trend, this Article proposes that unconscionability is necessarily flexible and contextual in order to serve its historical and philosophical function of protecting core human values. Unconscionability is not frivolous gloss on classical contract law. Instead, it …

The Patent Lottery: Exploiting Behavioral Economics For The Common Good, Dennis D. Crouch

Faculty Publications

Lotteries are immensely popular. Players are willing to give the organizer a large monetary cut of every ticket purchase in return for a chance at a jackpot. In some ways, our current patent system operates as a lottery as well. Most patents are relatively worthless, while a few are highly valuable. Reaching the major payout of a highly valuable patent takes perseverance in the face of tremendous uncertainty. Like lottery players, small entrepreneurial companies and individuals have shows signs of bounded rationality. In particular, what I call the patent lottery effect is associated with the phenomena of potential innovators overweighting …

Geocoastpilot: Linking The Coast Pilot With Geo-Referenced Imagery & Chart Information, Kurt Schwehr, Matthew D. Plumlee, Briana M. Sullivan, Colin Ware

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

No abstract provided.

The Next Page, Library And Information Technology, Bucknell University

The Next Page

No abstract provided.