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Fall 2008, Marisela Cadena-Smith Sep 2008

Fall 2008, Marisela Cadena-Smith

Connection

The Official Community Newsletter for Collin College Connection is the college's award-winning community newsletter published three times a year to inform members of the Collin County community about college news, awards, events, and more.


The Big Sky Model: A Regional Collaboration For Participatory Research On Environmental Health In The Rural West, Tony J. Ward, Diana Vanek, Nancy Marra, Andrij Holian, Earle Adams, David Jones, Randy Knuth Sep 2008

The Big Sky Model: A Regional Collaboration For Participatory Research On Environmental Health In The Rural West, Tony J. Ward, Diana Vanek, Nancy Marra, Andrij Holian, Earle Adams, David Jones, Randy Knuth

Public and Community Health Sciences Faculty Publications

As an innovative community-based framework for science learning, the Big Sky Model is guiding high school and tribal college students from rural areas of Montana and Idaho in their understanding of chemical, physical, and environmental health concepts in the context of their own homes, schools, and communities. Students participate in classroom lessons and continue with systematic inquiry through actual field research to investigate a pressing, real-world issue: understanding the complex links between poor air quality and respiratory health outcomes. This article provides background information, outlines the procedure for implementing the model, and discusses its effectiveness as demonstrated through various evaluation …


Posteruptive Phenomena In Coronal Mass Ejections And Substorms: Indicators Of A Universal Process?, K. K. Reeves, T. B. Guild, W. J. Hughes, K. E. Korreck, J. Lin, J. Raymond, S. Savage, Nathan A. Schwadron, Harlan E. Spence, D. F. Webb, M. Wiltberger Sep 2008

Posteruptive Phenomena In Coronal Mass Ejections And Substorms: Indicators Of A Universal Process?, K. K. Reeves, T. B. Guild, W. J. Hughes, K. E. Korreck, J. Lin, J. Raymond, S. Savage, Nathan A. Schwadron, Harlan E. Spence, D. F. Webb, M. Wiltberger

Physics & Astronomy

[1] We examine phenomena associated with eruptions in the two different regimes of the solar corona and the terrestrial magnetosphere. We find striking similarities between the speeds of shrinking magnetic field lines in the corona and dipolarization fronts traversing the magnetosphere. We also examine the similarities between supra-arcade downflows observed during solar flares and bursty bulk flows seen in the magnetotail and find that these phenomena have remarkably similar speeds, velocity profiles, and size scales. Thus we show manifest similarities in the magnetic reconfiguration in response to the ejection of coronal mass ejections in the corona and the ejection of …


Linearizable Feedforward Systems: A Special Class, Issa Amadou Tall Sep 2008

Linearizable Feedforward Systems: A Special Class, Issa Amadou Tall

Miscellaneous (presentations, translations, interviews, etc)

We address the problem of linearizability of systems in feedforward form. In a recent paper [22] we completely solved the linearizability for strict feedforward systems. We extend here those results to a special class of feedforward systems. We provide an algorithm, along with explicit transformations, that linearizes the system by change of coordinates when some easily checkable conditions are met. We also re-analyze type II class of linearizable strict feedforward systems provided by Krstic in [9] and we show that this class is the unique linearizable among the class of quasi-linear strict feedforward systems (see Definition III.1). Our results allow …


Wellesley College Courses [2008-2009], Wellesley College Sep 2008

Wellesley College Courses [2008-2009], Wellesley College

The Wellesley College Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Economics Minor Course Summary 2008, Curriculum Committee Sep 2008

Economics Minor Course Summary 2008, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.


Friends Of The Brooks Library Newsletter, September 2008, Friends Of The Brooks Library Sep 2008

Friends Of The Brooks Library Newsletter, September 2008, Friends Of The Brooks Library

Friends of the Brooks Library

No abstract provided.


The Narrow Neck Of Land, Andrew H. Hedges Sep 2008

The Narrow Neck Of Land, Andrew H. Hedges

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.


Synthesis And Assembly Of Nonspherical Hollow Silica Colloids Under Confinement, Stephanie H. Lee, Sharon J. Gerbode, Bettina S. John, Angie K. Wolfgang, Fernando A. Escobedo, Itai Cohen, Chekesha M. Liddell Sep 2008

Synthesis And Assembly Of Nonspherical Hollow Silica Colloids Under Confinement, Stephanie H. Lee, Sharon J. Gerbode, Bettina S. John, Angie K. Wolfgang, Fernando A. Escobedo, Itai Cohen, Chekesha M. Liddell

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

Hard peanut-shaped colloids were synthesized and organized into a degenerate crystal (DC), a phase previously observed only in simulations. In this structure, particle lobes tile a triangular lattice while their orientations uniformly populate the three underlying crystalline directions.


The Whittemore Wire, Fall 2008: Engaged Partnerships, Whittemore School Of Business And Economics Sep 2008

The Whittemore Wire, Fall 2008: Engaged Partnerships, Whittemore School Of Business And Economics

Paul College Newsletters

No abstract provided.


President's Notebook, Fall 2008, James Evans Sep 2008

President's Notebook, Fall 2008, James Evans

James Evans

University updates and personal thoughts from Lindenwood University President, James Evans.


Swosu Fact Book Fall 2008, Denisa Engelman Sep 2008

Swosu Fact Book Fall 2008, Denisa Engelman

Fact Books

I am proud to introduce the seventeenth annual Southwestern Oklahoma State University Fact Book. The Fact Book provides a ready source of information to answer frequently asked questions about the University and its operations. Unless otherwise noted, the information in this Fact Book came from computer-generated reports that are printed following the tenth class day of each fall semester. Because of student fluctuations during the semester, numbers will not match other published enrollment numbers that may be based on enrollment at the end of a semester.


Alternative Scaling Models And Dependencies In Pisa, Greg Macaskill Sep 2008

Alternative Scaling Models And Dependencies In Pisa, Greg Macaskill

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

This paper examines trends between PISA 2003 and PISA 2006 for the reading and mathematics scales for the OECD countries using both the standard one parameter (1PL) model that has been used in published OECD reports, and a generalised partial credit model, as implemented in ACER ConQuest, which estimates optimal values for each possible score on an item.


Computational Methods For Investment Portfolio: The Use Of Fuzzy Measures And Constraint Programming For Risk Management, Tanja Magoc, Francois Modave, Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich Sep 2008

Computational Methods For Investment Portfolio: The Use Of Fuzzy Measures And Constraint Programming For Risk Management, Tanja Magoc, Francois Modave, Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Computational intelligence techniques are very useful tools for solving problems that involve understanding, modeling, and analysis of large data sets. One of the numerous fields where computational intelligence has found an extremely important role is finance. More precisely, optimization issues of one's financial investments, to guarantee a given return, at a minimal risk, have been solved using intelligent techniques such as genetic algorithm, rule-based expert system, neural network, and support-vector machine. Even though these methods provide good and usually fast approximation of the best investment strategy, they suffer some common drawbacks including the neglect of the dependence among among criteria …


Maximum Entropy In Support Of Semantically Annotated Datasets, Paulo Pinheiro Da Silva, Vladik Kreinovich, Christian Servin Sep 2008

Maximum Entropy In Support Of Semantically Annotated Datasets, Paulo Pinheiro Da Silva, Vladik Kreinovich, Christian Servin

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

One of the important problems of semantic web is checking whether two datasets describe the same quantity. The existing solution to this problem is to use these datasets' ontologies to deduce that these datasets indeed represent the same quantity. However, even when ontologies seem to confirm the identify of the two corresponding quantities, it is still possible that in reality, we deal with somewhat different quantities. A natural way to check the identity is to compare the numerical values of the measurement results: if they are close (within measurement errors), then most probably we deal with the same quantity, else …


Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds Vol. 7, No. 6, Wku Provost Sep 2008

Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds Vol. 7, No. 6, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs to highlight the activities of faculty, staff and alumni.


Sequential Sorption Of Lead And Cadmium In Three Tropical Soils, Chip Appel, Lena Q. Ma, Roy D. Rhue, William Reve Sep 2008

Sequential Sorption Of Lead And Cadmium In Three Tropical Soils, Chip Appel, Lena Q. Ma, Roy D. Rhue, William Reve

Earth and Soil Sciences

It is important to examine mechanisms of Pb and Cd sorption in soils to understand their bioavailability. The ability of three tropical soils to retain Pb, Cd, and Ca was evaluated. The objectives of this study were to (1) determine the extent to which soil sorption sites are metal specific, (2) investigate the nature of reactions between metals and soil surfaces, and (3) identify how metals compete for sorption sites when they are introduced to soils sequentially or concurrently. Lead was shown to be much less exchangeable than Cd and inhibited Cd sorption. Cadmium had little effect on Pb sorption, …


Sustainability, Complexity, And The Negotiation Of Constraint, Gregory Todd Jones Sep 2008

Sustainability, Complexity, And The Negotiation Of Constraint, Gregory Todd Jones

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.


Prism #32, September 2008, Office Of The Provost Sep 2008

Prism #32, September 2008, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.


Hydrologic-Carbon Cycle Linkages In A Subalpine Catchment, Diego Andrés Riveros-Iregui Sep 2008

Hydrologic-Carbon Cycle Linkages In A Subalpine Catchment, Diego Andrés Riveros-Iregui

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The feedbacks between the water and the carbon cycles are of critical importance to global carbon balances. Forests and forest soils in northern latitudes are important carbon pools because of their potential as sinks for atmospheric carbon. However there are significant unknowns related to the effects of hydrologic variability, mountainous terrain, and landscape heterogeneity in controlling soil carbon dioxide (CO2) efflux. Mountainous terrain imposes large spatial heterogeneity in the biophysical controls of soil CO2 production and efflux, including soil temperature, soil water content, vegetation, substrate, and soil physical properties. Strong spatial and temporal variability in biophysical controls …


Kernel Density Estimation Of Traffic Accidents In A Network Space, Zhixiao Xie, Jun Yan Sep 2008

Kernel Density Estimation Of Traffic Accidents In A Network Space, Zhixiao Xie, Jun Yan

Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty Publications

A standard planar Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) aims to produce a smooth density surface of spatial point events over a 2-D geographic space. However, the planar KDE may not be suited for characterizing certain point events, such as traffic accidents, which usually occur inside a 1-D linear space, the roadway network. This paper presents a novel network KDE approach to estimating the density of such spatial point events. One key feature of the new approach is that the network space is represented with basic linear units of equal network length, termed lixel (linear pixel), and related network topology. The use …


Catalog 2008-2009, Kingsborough Community College Sep 2008

Catalog 2008-2009, Kingsborough Community College

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Njit Highlanders Tennis 2008-09 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department Sep 2008

Njit Highlanders Tennis 2008-09 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Tennis

No abstract provided.


Members, Wku Graduate Council Sep 2008

Members, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Members of WKU Graduate Council and committees.


Njit Highlanders 2008-09 Fencing Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department Sep 2008

Njit Highlanders 2008-09 Fencing Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Fencing

No abstract provided.


The Statesman, V. 52, I. 01, Stony Brook University Sep 2008

The Statesman, V. 52, I. 01, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 52, i. 01


A Faceted Classification Based Approach To Search And Rank Web Apis, Karthik Gomadam, Ajith Harshana Ranabahu, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma Sep 2008

A Faceted Classification Based Approach To Search And Rank Web Apis, Karthik Gomadam, Ajith Harshana Ranabahu, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma

Kno.e.sis Publications

Web application hybrids, popularly known as mashups, are created by integrating services on the Web using their APIs. Support for finding an API is currently provided by generic search engines or domain specific solutions such as Google and ProgrammableWeb. Shortcomings of both these solutions in terms of and reliance on user tags make the task of identifying an API challenging. Since these APIs are described in HTML documents, it is essential to look beyond the boundaries of current approaches to Web service discovery that rely on formal descriptions. In this work, we present a faceted approach to searching and ranking …


Njit Highlanders Swimming & Diving 2008 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department Sep 2008

Njit Highlanders Swimming & Diving 2008 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Swimming and Diving

No abstract provided.


An Assessment Of The Role Of Chimpanzees In Aids Vaccine Research, Jarrod Bailey Sep 2008

An Assessment Of The Role Of Chimpanzees In Aids Vaccine Research, Jarrod Bailey

Laboratory Experiments Collection

Prior to Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)-infected macaques becoming the ‘model of choice’ in the 1990s, chimpanzees were widely used in AIDS vaccine research and testing. Faced with the continued failure to develop an effective human vaccine, some scientists are calling for a return to their widespread use. To assess the past and potential future contribution of chimpanzees to AIDS vaccine development, databases and published literature were systematically searched to compare the results of AIDS vaccine trials in chimpanzees with those of human clinical trials, and to determine whether the chimpanzee trials were predictive of the human response. Protective and/or therapeutic …


Linfield College Catalog, 2008-09, Linfield Archives Sep 2008

Linfield College Catalog, 2008-09, Linfield Archives

Student Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.