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Studies Of The Performance, Stability And Reliability Of Various Configurations Of The Activated Sludge Process At Full-Scale Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants, Michael A. Redda Dec 2008

Studies Of The Performance, Stability And Reliability Of Various Configurations Of The Activated Sludge Process At Full-Scale Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants, Michael A. Redda

Earth & Environmental Sciences Dissertations - Archive

This research presents a performance, stability and reliability analysis of five configurations of activated sludge process, viz., conventional, contact stabilization, complete mix, extended aeration and sequencing batch reactor. Five years effluent records of carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD5), total suspended solids (TSS) and ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N) were used. The impact of hydraulic load classes (HLCes) and seasons on the performance of configurations were also examined. The Univariate General Linear Model with Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference was employed in the performance and stability studies. Performance was determined based on the observed lowest mean effluent concentrations, while the observed standard deviation from …

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Capt. John Pope’S Collection Of Birds From Indianola, Stanley D. Casto Dec 2008

Capt. John Pope’S Collection Of Birds From Indianola, Stanley D. Casto

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

The specimens taken at Indianola, Texas, by Capt. John Pope during February and March 1855 represent the first collection of birds from this location on the Texas coast. Pope’s “Book of Descriptions” of the Indianola specimens is discussed along with the identities of the birds collected. Specimens of the Greater Scaup, Purple Martin, King Rail, Yellow-rumped Warbler, and American Golden-Plover from Indianola were the first of their species from Texas to be deposited at the Smithsonian Institution.

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College Of Agricultural Sciences And Natural Resources, 15th Annual Report August 1, 2007-July 31, 2008 Dec 2008

College Of Agricultural Sciences And Natural Resources, 15th Annual Report August 1, 2007-July 31, 2008

College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR): Annual Reports

Contents
Introduction 3 • Dedication 5 • Administration and Staff 6 • Academic Unit Administrators 6 • CASNR Standing Committees 7 • Faculty Advisory Council 7 • Student Advising Improvement Committee 8 • Teaching and Learning Improvement Council 9 • Scholarship and Graduation with Distinction Committee 9 • Curriculum Committee 10 • Teaching Faculty 11 • Faculty Meetings 11 • New Faculty or Faculty with New Appointments 11 • Retirements 12 • Faculty Awards 12 • Departmental News and Events 14 • Agricultural Economics 15 • Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication 18 • Agronomy and Horticulture 20 • Animal Science …

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A Novel Experience; The Creation Of A Short Work Of Fiction, Shawn A. Hess Dec 2008

A Novel Experience; The Creation Of A Short Work Of Fiction, Shawn A. Hess

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This is a project about developing a short fictional work or novel. The purpose of the project is to facilitate more effective writing through practice and also, to develop the skill of storytelling or narration. The project describes, in detail, the processes I utilized in order to create the content of the novel as well as the steps I took in assembling the finished product that is the novel. This document contains suggestions, tips and recommendations on how the project could be replicated however; the project is based on developing a skill so each person’s interpretations of the items will …

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Itools A Facilitator’S Tool Kit Of Deliberate Intuition Tools, Tara L. Bissett Dec 2008

Itools A Facilitator’S Tool Kit Of Deliberate Intuition Tools, Tara L. Bissett

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

The purpose of this master’s project was to contribute to Janice Francisco and Cyndi Burnett’s (2008) research on deliberate intuition within the Creative Problem Solving Thinking Skills Model (CPSTSM) framework developed by Puccio, Murdock & Mance (2007). 16 intuition tools, “itools” (Francisco & Burnett, 2008) aimed at tapping into deliberate intuition as an integral component of the creative process, were collected, described, developed, and grouped into 4 categories; Quick & Dirty, Artsy Fartsy, Yellow Brick Road, and Abracadabra. The importance of setting intention was highlighted as an integral component of any itool, as well as the need for more research …

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Draining A Polygon-Or-Rolling A Ball Out Of A Polygon, Greg Aloupis, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Ferran Hurtado, Stefan Langerman, Joseph O'Rourke Dec 2008

Draining A Polygon-Or-Rolling A Ball Out Of A Polygon, Greg Aloupis, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Ferran Hurtado, Stefan Langerman, Joseph O'Rourke

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

We introduce the problem of draining water (or balls representing water drops) out of a punctured polygon (or a polyhedron) by rotating the shape. For 2D polygons, we obtain combinatorial bounds on the number of holes needed, both for arbitrary polygons and for special classes of polygons. We detail an O(n2 log n) algorithm that finds the minimum number of holes needed for a given polygon, and argue that the complexity remains polynomial for polyhedra in 3D. We make a start at characterizing the 1-drainable shapes, those that only need one hole.

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Isometric Morphing Of Triangular Meshes, Prosenjit Bose, Joseph O'Rourke, Chang Shu, Stefanie Wuhrer Dec 2008

Isometric Morphing Of Triangular Meshes, Prosenjit Bose, Joseph O'Rourke, Chang Shu, Stefanie Wuhrer

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

We present a novel approach to morph between two isometric poses of the same non-rigid object given as triangular meshes. We model the morphs as linear interpolations in a suitable shape space S. For triangulated 3D polygons, we prove that interpolating linearly in this shape space corresponds to the most isometric morph in R3. We extend this shape space to arbitrary triangulations in 3D using a heuristic approach.

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Technology In Catholic Schools: Are Schools Using The Technology They Have?, Michael G. Gibbs, Anthony J. Dosen, Rosalie B. Guerrero Dec 2008

Technology In Catholic Schools: Are Schools Using The Technology They Have?, Michael G. Gibbs, Anthony J. Dosen, Rosalie B. Guerrero

Journal of Catholic Education

This article examines important questions related to the use of computer technology in Catholic schools. Under consideration are issues related to how teachers use the Internet in classrooms, communicate with parents, and design lessons with technological support. Differences in computer use between high-poverty and low-poverty schools are also examined.

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News From Hope College, Volume 40.3: December, 2008, Hope College Dec 2008

News From Hope College, Volume 40.3: December, 2008, Hope College

News from Hope College

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Comparative Analysis Of Forecasting Techniques With Intermittent Demand, John Deforest Dec 2008

Comparative Analysis Of Forecasting Techniques With Intermittent Demand, John Deforest

Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

The world and life are filled with uncertainty. Statistics, and more specifically, forecasting techniques allow us to quantify uncertainty and make decisions based on that information. Many find forecasting advantageous in areas such as predicting consumer demand, stock prices, terrorist attacks, epidemiology, etc. This thesis will focus on forecasting intermittent demand, which is the study of analyzing sporadic demand. One application includes an airplane manufacturer’s sporadic or intermittent demand for spare parts in their distribution center. Since spare parts are not needed on any regular schedule, it is thought of as intermittent. Knowing the projected quantity for a given time …

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Modeling, Analysis And Control Of Flexible Solid-State Hysteretic Actuators, Kushan Vora Dec 2008

Modeling, Analysis And Control Of Flexible Solid-State Hysteretic Actuators, Kushan Vora

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A distributed parameters modeling and control framework for flexible solid-state hysteretic actuator is presented in this work. For the simplicity of analysis, the actuator dynamic behavior is decoupled and treated separately from the hysteresis nonlinearity. To include the effects of widely-used flexural mechanisms, a mass-spring-damper boundary condition is considered for system. Moreover, the effect of electromechanical actuation is included as a concentrate force at the boundary. The problem is then divided into two parts: first part deals with free motion analysis of system in order to obtain eigenvalues and eigenfunctions using the expansion theorem and a standard eigenvalue problem procedure. …

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Laboratory Studies Of Responses Of Anuran Amphibians To Roundup Exposures: Reference Toxicant And Components, Lindsay Moore Dec 2008

Laboratory Studies Of Responses Of Anuran Amphibians To Roundup Exposures: Reference Toxicant And Components, Lindsay Moore

All Theses

Roundup¨ has been implicated as a possible cause for the declining amphibian populations in North America. Carefully designed laboratory toxicity tests are crucial for accurate risk assessment of the responses of anuran populations to incidental exposures of Roundup¨ herbicides. The overall objective of these studies was to determine the response of North American anuran species to exposures of Roundup¨ formulations and components to support or refute the claim that Roundup¨ is a factor in amphibian decline in North America. Aqueous 96 hour static non-renewal laboratory tests were utilized to (1) evaluate the effectiveness of copper sulfate as a reference toxicant …

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Iphone Forensics Methodology And Tools, Haitham Al-Hajri, Krishnun Sansurooah Dec 2008

Iphone Forensics Methodology And Tools, Haitham Al-Hajri, Krishnun Sansurooah

Australian Digital Forensics Conference

iPhone mobile devices are rapidly overtaking the new generation of mobile phones market, especially among the young generation. It is also gaining a lot of popularity among security specialists and fancy gadgets for collectors. The device is considered as a “special” mobile phone due to its ability to perform multi-operations if not multitasking. It can therefore be used as a entertainment media device, a camera, a GPS, Internet surfing via Wi-Fi technology, Internet Mobile Edge Services, personal organizer, and finally performing as a cell phone with all the usual services including sms, and so forth. However, the difference between the …

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Unsupervised Indexing Of Medline Articles Through Graph-Based Ranking, Jorge R. Herskovic Dec 2008

Unsupervised Indexing Of Medline Articles Through Graph-Based Ranking, Jorge R. Herskovic

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

The biomedical literature is extensively catalogued and indexed in MEDLINE. MEDLINE indexing is done by trained human indexers, who identify the most important concepts in each article, and is expensive and inconsistent. Automating the indexing task is difficult: the National Library of Medicine produces the Medical Text Indexer (MTI), which suggests potential indexing terms to the indexers. MTI’s output is not good enough to work unattended. In my thesis, I propose a different way to approach the indexing task called MEDRank. MEDRank creates graphs representing the concepts in biomedical articles and their relationships within the text, and applies graph-based ranking …

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Design For Manufacturing (Dfm) Methodology To Implement Friction Stir Welding (Fsw) For Automobile Chassis Fabrication, Harish Bagaitkar, Venkat Allada Dec 2008

Design For Manufacturing (Dfm) Methodology To Implement Friction Stir Welding (Fsw) For Automobile Chassis Fabrication, Harish Bagaitkar, Venkat Allada

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The manufacturing functional feasibility of implementing Friction Stir Welding (FSW) for automobile chassis fabrication is discussed using a case study. in the case study, the Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles are applied to manufacture an aluminum automobile chassis. Various DFM issues are addressed while proposing the FSW technique as an alternative to laser welding and metal inert gas welding techniques. DFM guidelines involving joint design change, component geometries, and component elimination are discussed in this paper. by making appropriate changes in the component geometries and joint designs and eliminating some components, more than 50% of the joints in the example …

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Fully Evolvable Optimal Neurofuzzy Controller Using Adaptive Critic Designs, Salman Mohagheghi, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Harley Dec 2008

Fully Evolvable Optimal Neurofuzzy Controller Using Adaptive Critic Designs, Salman Mohagheghi, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Harley

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A near-optimal neurofuzzy external controller is designed in this paper for a static compensator (STATCOM) in a multimachine power system. The controller provides an auxiliary reference signal for the STATCOM in such a way that it improves the damping of the rotor speed deviations of its neighboring generators. A zero-order Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy rule base constitutes the core of the controller. A heuristic dynamic programming (HDP) based approach is used to further train the controller and enable it to provide nonlinear near-optimal control at different operating conditions of the power system. Based on the connectionist systems theory, the parameters of the …

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Modeling Physical-Chemical Properties Of High Dilutions: An Electrical Conductivity Study, Carla Holandino, Rafael Harduim, Venício Da Veiga, Sheila Garcia, Carlos Zacharias Dec 2008

Modeling Physical-Chemical Properties Of High Dilutions: An Electrical Conductivity Study, Carla Holandino, Rafael Harduim, Venício Da Veiga, Sheila Garcia, Carlos Zacharias

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

The most common way to perform succussions is to place a liquid preparation inside a glass vessel and beat it vigorously against a hard elastic surface, either manually or using a mechanical apparatus. This procedure has been assumed able to transfer mechanical energy to the molecular level, where it becomes available to perform chemical work. Such interpretation has been enforced by observed changes in the electrical conductivity (EC) of High Dilutions (HD) due to succussion. In order to address this question, we compared the electrical conductivity changes of HD prepared from Vincristine sulfate (VCR) samples with those of an inert …

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Full Issue 11(4) Dec 2008

Full Issue 11(4)

Journal of Public Transportation

No abstract provided.

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Preface Dec 2008

Preface

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

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Applicability Of Multiplicative Renormalization Method For A Certain Function, Izumi Kubo, Hui-Hsiung Kuo, Suat Namli Dec 2008

Applicability Of Multiplicative Renormalization Method For A Certain Function, Izumi Kubo, Hui-Hsiung Kuo, Suat Namli

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

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General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Under Regime Switching, Robert J Elliott, Hong Miao, Jin Yu Dec 2008

General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Under Regime Switching, Robert J Elliott, Hong Miao, Jin Yu

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

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A Class Of Extreme X-Harmonic Functions, John Verzani Dec 2008

A Class Of Extreme X-Harmonic Functions, John Verzani

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

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Interacting Fock Space Versus Full Fock Module, Luigi Accardi, Michael Skeide Dec 2008

Interacting Fock Space Versus Full Fock Module, Luigi Accardi, Michael Skeide

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

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Distribution And Propagation Properties Of Superprocesses With General Branching Mechanisms, Zenghu Li, Xiaowen Zhou Dec 2008

Distribution And Propagation Properties Of Superprocesses With General Branching Mechanisms, Zenghu Li, Xiaowen Zhou

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

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The Collegian (2008-12-01), Isis Lopez Dec 2008

The Collegian (2008-12-01), Isis Lopez

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 61, No. 15

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A Holistic Scada Security Standard For The Australian Context, Christopher Beggs Dec 2008

A Holistic Scada Security Standard For The Australian Context, Christopher Beggs

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems which control Australia’s critical infrastructure are currently demonstrating signs of vulnerabilities as they are being interconnected to corporate networks, essentially exposing them to malicious threats. This paper discusses the vulnerabilities associated with SCADA systems, as well as discussing various SCADA standards and initiatives that have been developed in recent years to mitigate such threats. The paper presents the requirement for a holistic SCADA security standard that is practical and feasible for each SCADA industry sector.

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Visualisation Of Critical Infrastructure Failure, W D. Wilde, M J. Warren Dec 2008

Visualisation Of Critical Infrastructure Failure, W D. Wilde, M J. Warren

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

The paper explores the complexity of critical infrastructure and critical infrastructure failure (CIF), real life examples are used to discuss the complexity involved. The paper then discusses what Visualisation is and how Visualisation can be applied to a security situation, in particular critical infrastructure. The paper concludes by discussing the future direction of the research.

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Media, Government And Manipulation: The Cases Of The Two Gulf Wars, William Hutchinson Dec 2008

Media, Government And Manipulation: The Cases Of The Two Gulf Wars, William Hutchinson

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

This paper explores the bias and manipulation of the Western mass media during the Gulf wars of 1991 and 2003. The tactics of compliance and the ethics of the press and journalists are examined. The need for a pluralist press is extolled.

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Toward A Global Phd: Forces & Forms In Doctoral Education Worldwide, Jeffery P. Aper Dec 2008

Toward A Global Phd: Forces & Forms In Doctoral Education Worldwide, Jeffery P. Aper

International Education

This is a book review for Meresi Nerad and Mimi Heggelund, eds. (2008) Toward a Global PhD: Forces & Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide.

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Service Learning In Overseas And Navajo Reservation Communities: Student Teachers’ Powerful Experiences Build Community Connections, Broaden Worldview, And Inform Classroom Practice, Laura L. Stachowski, Aaron Bodle, Michael Morrin Dec 2008

Service Learning In Overseas And Navajo Reservation Communities: Student Teachers’ Powerful Experiences Build Community Connections, Broaden Worldview, And Inform Classroom Practice, Laura L. Stachowski, Aaron Bodle, Michael Morrin

International Education

A study examined student teachers' service learning in Navajo Reservation and overseas communities. Participants were 88 student teachers attending Indiana University. Results revealed that student teachers' service learning experiences helped to build community links, contributed to broader worldviews, and informed classroom practice.

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