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Research Results From A Few Alternate Methods Of Interior Duct Systems In Factory Built Housing Located In The Hot Humid Climate, Florida Solar Energy Center, Neil Moyer Dec 2008

Research Results From A Few Alternate Methods Of Interior Duct Systems In Factory Built Housing Located In The Hot Humid Climate, Florida Solar Energy Center, Neil Moyer

FSEC Energy Research Center®

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Building America Industrialized Housing Partnership (BAIHP) has collaborated with two of its industry partners to work on a portion of the project that relates to the construction and evaluation of prototype interior duct systems. In 2006, work began on a duct system design that would locate the entire length of duct work within the air and thermal barriers of the envelope. One of these designs incorporated a high-side supply register that connects to the conventional floor duct. The other design utilized a single soffit located within the conditioned space at the marriage line. The …

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Assessment Of The Effectiveness And Energy Efficiency Of Humidity Control Approaches In Vacant Florida Homes, Florida Solar Energy Center, James Cummings Dec 2008

Assessment Of The Effectiveness And Energy Efficiency Of Humidity Control Approaches In Vacant Florida Homes, Florida Solar Energy Center, James Cummings

FSEC Energy Research Center®

In a hot and humid climate such as Florida, 'snowbirds' that leave their homes for extended summer periods need guidance on effective and energy efficient methods of humidity control. Experiments were performed in seven residences to evaluate various approaches to humidity control, including providing no mechanical system control. A humidity target was identified to maintain indoor relative humidity (RH) at 65% or lower most of the time. Providing no mechanical conditioning (letting the building 'float') yields relative humidity at 65% or below during hot and sunny weather in some homes, but not during cloudy weather. Setting the AC system thermostat …

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Case Study Of An Innovative Hvac System With Integral Dehumidifier, Florida Solar Energy Center, Richard Raustad Dec 2008

Case Study Of An Innovative Hvac System With Integral Dehumidifier, Florida Solar Energy Center, Richard Raustad

FSEC Energy Research Center®

In most applications, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment is controlled to maintain an indoor dry-bulb set point temperature. Moisture removal by the HVAC system is considered to be an operational byproduct. During summer months, the operation of the HVAC system is usually sufficient to meet both the sensible and latent cooling loads. However, during other times of the year when sensible loads are reduced, the moisture load can be significantly higher than the available moisture removal capacity of the air conditioning system. This can lead to elevated indoor relative humidity levels and an uncomfortable indoor environment. In many …

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12/15/2008 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2008

12/15/2008 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/15/2008. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

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Usa V. Corso Dec 2008

Usa V. Corso

2008 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

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Shernoff V. Hewlett Packard Co Dec 2008

Shernoff V. Hewlett Packard Co

2008 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

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Sunflower: 2008 South Dakota Hybrid Performance Trials, Kathleen Grady, Thandiwe Nleya, John Rickertson, Lee Gilbertson Dec 2008

Sunflower: 2008 South Dakota Hybrid Performance Trials, Kathleen Grady, Thandiwe Nleya, John Rickertson, Lee Gilbertson

SDSU Extension Circulars

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Cal Poly Horse Judging Team Fares Well At Competition In Oklahoma City, Public Affairs Office Dec 2008

Cal Poly Horse Judging Team Fares Well At Competition In Oklahoma City, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

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Fy 2009 Performance Plan, United States: Federal Housing Finance Agency (Fhfa) Dec 2008

Fy 2009 Performance Plan, United States: Federal Housing Finance Agency (Fhfa)

Documents

Performance Plan report generated for the 2009 Fiscal Year

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The Lloyds-Tsb And Hbos Merger: Competition Issues, Louise Smith Dec 2008

The Lloyds-Tsb And Hbos Merger: Competition Issues, Louise Smith

Documents

This information is provided to Members of Parliament in support of their parliamentary duties and is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual. It should not be relied upon as being up to date; the law or policies may have changed since it was last updated; and it should not be relied upon as legal or professional advice or as a substitute for it. A suitably qualified professional should be consulted if specific advice or information is required.

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Weekly Message, 12/15/2008, David Schmidly Dec 2008

Weekly Message, 12/15/2008, David Schmidly

President Schmidly's Administration

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Organic Chemostratigraphic Markers Characteristic Of The (Informally Designated) Anthropocene Epoch, Michael A. Kruge Dec 2008

Organic Chemostratigraphic Markers Characteristic Of The (Informally Designated) Anthropocene Epoch, Michael A. Kruge

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Recognizing the tremendous collective impact of humans on the environment in the industrial age, the proposed designation of the current time period as the Anthropocene Epoch has considerable merit. One of the signature activities during this time continues to be the intensive extraction, processing, and combustion of fossil fuels. While fossil fuels themselves are naturally-occurring, they are most often millions of years old and associated with deeply buried strata. They may be found at the surface, for example, as natural oil seeps or coal seam outcrops, but these are relatively rare occurrences. Fossil fuels and their myriad by-products become the …

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Energy Performance Aspects Of A Florida Green Roof, Part 2, Florida Solar Energy Center, Jeffrey Sonne Dec 2008

Energy Performance Aspects Of A Florida Green Roof, Part 2, Florida Solar Energy Center, Jeffrey Sonne

FSEC Energy Research Center®

This monitored study is an evaluation of summer and winter energy performance aspects of a green roof on a 2-story central Florida university building addition that was completed in 2005. An earlier report on this study was published through the 2006 Symposium on Improving Building Systems in Hot and Humid Climates. This report reviews these earlier results and provides second-summer results which show significant performance improvements for the green roof compared with the first summer results.

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A Multi-Level Parallel Simulation Approach To Electron Transport In Nano-Scale Transistors, Mathieu Luisier Purdue University - Main Campus, Gerhard Klimeck Dec 2008

A Multi-Level Parallel Simulation Approach To Electron Transport In Nano-Scale Transistors, Mathieu Luisier Purdue University - Main Campus, Gerhard Klimeck

Other Nanotechnology Publications

Physics-based simulation of electron transport in nanoelectronic devices requires the solution of thousands of highly complex equations to obtain the output characteristics of one single input voltage. The only way to obtain a complete set of bias points within a reasonable amount of time is the recourse to supercomputers offering several hundreds to thousands of cores. To prot from the rapidly increasing availability of such machines we have developed a state-of-the-art quantum mechanical transport simulator dedicated to nanodevices and working with four levels of parallelism. Using these four levels we demonstrate that an almost ideal scaling of the walltime up …

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Confidence Intervals For A Common Mean With Missing Data With Applications In An Aids Study, Hua Liang, Haiyan Su, Guohua Zou Dec 2008

Confidence Intervals For A Common Mean With Missing Data With Applications In An Aids Study, Hua Liang, Haiyan Su, Guohua Zou

Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In practical data analysis, nonresponse phenomenon frequently occurs. In this paper, we propose an empirical likelihood based confidence interval for a common mean by combining the imputed data, assuming that data are missing completely at random. Simulation studies show that such confidence intervals perform well, even when the missing proportion is high. Our method is applied to an analysis of a real data set from an AIDS clinic trial study.

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Jewish Family Service Employee Development Plan, Brenda Bothel, Karen Gould, Dorothy L. O'Hagan Dec 2008

Jewish Family Service Employee Development Plan, Brenda Bothel, Karen Gould, Dorothy L. O'Hagan

Human Resource and Volunteer Management

Working as consultants on behalf of the USD Nonprofit Leadership program, Brenda Bothel, Dorothy O’Hagan, and Karen Gould partnered with Jewish Family Service (JFS) in San Diego, California to redesign and implement a new employee performance evaluation process. The following pages document the steps taken and research used by the USD consulting team in order to come up with a new employee evaluation process for JFS which will be referred to as the Employee Development Plan.

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Cityland – Vol. 5, No. 11, Center For New York City Law Dec 2008

Cityland – Vol. 5, No. 11, Center For New York City Law

CityLand - 2008

The December 2008 issue of CityLand covers significant land use and legal developments in New York City. Highlights include the City Council’s approval of the East Village/Lower East Side rezoning and the controversial Willets Point Redevelopment Plan, both with concessions on affordable housing and community engagement. The issue also reports on the approval of the Hunter’s Point South waterfront development and the Via Verde affordable housing project in Melrose, Bronx. Landmark coverage includes the designation of NYU’s Silver Towers and the Prospect Heights Historic District, as well as criticism of the South Street Seaport redevelopment proposal. Legal decisions include the …

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Effect Of Linker Structure On Surface Density Of Aptamer Monolayers And Their Corresponding Protein Binding Efficiency, Subramanian Balamurugan, Anne Obubuafo, Robin L. Mccarley, Steven A. Soper, David A. Spivak Dec 2008

Effect Of Linker Structure On Surface Density Of Aptamer Monolayers And Their Corresponding Protein Binding Efficiency, Subramanian Balamurugan, Anne Obubuafo, Robin L. Mccarley, Steven A. Soper, David A. Spivak

Faculty Publications

A systematic study is reported on the effect of linker size and its chemical composition toward ligand binding to a surface-immobilized aptamer, measured using surface plasmon resonance. The results, using thrombin as the model system, showed that as the number of thymidine (T) units in the linker increases from 0 to 20 in four separate increments (T0, T 5, T10, T20), the surface density of the aptamer decreased linearly from approximately 25 to 12 pmol·cm -2. The decrease in aptamer surface density occurred due to the increased size of the linker molecules. In addition, thrombin binding capacity was shown to …

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Monitor Newsletter December 15, 2008, Bowling Green State University Dec 2008

Monitor Newsletter December 15, 2008, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

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Biocaster: Detecting Public Health Rumors With A Web-Based Text Mining System, Nigel Collier, Son Doan, Ai Kawazoe, Reiko Matsuda Goodwin, Mike Conway, Yoshio Tateno, Quoc-Hung Ngo, Dinh Dien, Asanee Kawtrakul, Koichi Takeuchi, Mika Shigematsu, Kiyosu Taniguchi Dec 2008

Biocaster: Detecting Public Health Rumors With A Web-Based Text Mining System, Nigel Collier, Son Doan, Ai Kawazoe, Reiko Matsuda Goodwin, Mike Conway, Yoshio Tateno, Quoc-Hung Ngo, Dinh Dien, Asanee Kawtrakul, Koichi Takeuchi, Mika Shigematsu, Kiyosu Taniguchi

Publications and Research

Summary: BioCaster is an ontology-based text mining system for detecting and tracking the distribution of infectious disease outbreaks from linguistic signals on the Web. The system continuously analyzes documents reported from over 1700 RSS feeds, classifies them for topical relevance and plots them onto a Google map using geocoded information. The background knowledge for bridging the gap between Layman's terms and formal-coding systems is contained in the freely available BioCaster ontology which includes information in eight languages focused on the epidemiological role of pathogens as well as geographical locations with their latitudes/longitudes. The system consists of four main stages: topic …

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Final Report Unesco-Unevoc International Experts Seminar, Dublin, Aidan Kenny Dec 2008

Final Report Unesco-Unevoc International Experts Seminar, Dublin, Aidan Kenny

Conference Papers

UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) UNEVOC National Centre Ireland jointly organised an International Expert’s Consultation seminar from 18 to 20 August, 2008 at DIT Aungier Street Campus, in Dublin, Ireland. Since DIT joined the UNEVOC Network in early 2007, Mr. Aidan Kenny, co-ordinator of the National UNEVOC Centre Ireland and Dr. L. Efison Munjanganja, Head, UNEVOC Networks had in conversations and in correspondence been keen about the idea of a consultative seminar on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and capacity building in the UNEVOC Network. Central to the idea was the stimulation of …

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Daily Eastern News: December 15, 2008, Eastern Illinois University Dec 2008

Daily Eastern News: December 15, 2008, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

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Nerche Updates, Volume 5, Issue 1, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston Dec 2008

Nerche Updates, Volume 5, Issue 1, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston

NERCHE Bulletin

No abstract provided.

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Unique Unh-Nasa Program Launches Students To International Science Meeting, David Sims Dec 2008

Unique Unh-Nasa Program Launches Students To International Science Meeting, David Sims

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

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Newman V. State Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 35568 Dec 2008

Newman V. State Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 35568

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Ac System Equipment Specification, Installation And Operational Options For Improved Indoor Humidity Control, Florida Solar Energy Center, Don B. Shirey Iii Dec 2008

Ac System Equipment Specification, Installation And Operational Options For Improved Indoor Humidity Control, Florida Solar Energy Center, Don B. Shirey Iii

FSEC Energy Research Center®

High-efficiency home designs have significantly reduced sensible cooling loads, and some building codes and IAQ standards have begun requiring continuous outdoor ventilation air. These trends have led to an increased prevalence of high indoor humidity conditions (Rudd and Henderson 2007). This paper presents a summary of low-cost or no-cost equipment selection and operation options for conventional residential air-conditioning equipment than can result in lower indoor humidity levels. These options should be evaluated and employed to the extent possible prior to considering the added first cost and operating costs of separate dehumidification equipment.

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Civil Engineer, Research Group Spotlighted In December Issue Of Emi Online Newsletter, Admin Dec 2008

Civil Engineer, Research Group Spotlighted In December Issue Of Emi Online Newsletter, Admin

University of Mississippi News

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Bank Of England Market Notice: Extended-Collateral Long-Term Repo Operations (12/15/08), Bank Of England/Central Bank Of The United Kingdom Dec 2008

Bank Of England Market Notice: Extended-Collateral Long-Term Repo Operations (12/15/08), Bank Of England/Central Bank Of The United Kingdom

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Sediment Transport Rate-Based Model For Rainfall-Induced Soil Erosion, Zhi Qiang Deng, João L.M.P. De Lima, Hoon Shin Jung Dec 2008

Sediment Transport Rate-Based Model For Rainfall-Induced Soil Erosion, Zhi Qiang Deng, João L.M.P. De Lima, Hoon Shin Jung

Faculty Publications

A one-dimensional mathematical model, termed sediment transport rate-based model, is developed for determining rainfall-induced soil erosion and sediment transport. The model is comprised of (1) the kinematic-wave equation for overland flow, (2) a transport rate-based advection equation for rainfall-induced soil erosion and sediment transport, and (3) a semi-Lagrangian algorithm for numerical solution of the soil erosion and sediment transport equation. A series of soil flume experiments under simulated rainfalls were conducted to simulate the overland flow and sediment transport and to test the sediment transport rate-based model. Numerical results of sediment transport rate-based model indicate that (i) hydrographs display an …

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State Aid Nn 64/2008 - Sweden Rescue Aid To Carnegie Bank, European Union: European Commission Dec 2008

State Aid Nn 64/2008 - Sweden Rescue Aid To Carnegie Bank, European Union: European Commission

Documents

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