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Campus Report, Vol. 36, No. 4, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

A $10 million gift sets a scholarship record; students raise $4,000 for a Marianist school in Africa; a news analyst and a diplomat discuss the "calamity of challenges" facing a new presidential administration; President Curran shares his confidence in UD's financial position; a sacristan and two archivists become history detectives; and six civil engineering students who spent the summer in Africa leave behind new friends, UD T-shirts, soccer cleats ... and clean water.

Reporter - December 5th 2008, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Stevenson Center Compass, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, December 5, 2008, Illinois State University, Stevenson Center For Community And Economic Development

Stevenson Center Compass

Newsletter for the Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development

The Bison, December 5, 2008

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 56, No. 19 (Dec. 5, 2008), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Recursive Dispersion Relations In One-Dimensional Periodic Elastic Media, Ani P. Velo, George A. Gazonas, Erwin Bruder, Nancy Rodriguez

Mathematics: Faculty Scholarship

A frequency bandgap is a range of wave frequencies that are prohibited from passing through a medium. The dispersion relation, which links the frequency to the wave number, enables us to illustrate the bandgaps. In [E. H. Lee, “A survey of variational methods for elastic wave propagation analysis in composites with periodic structures,” in Dynamics of Composite Materials, E. H. Lee, ed., ASME, New York, 1972, pp. 122–138] and [E. H. Lee and W. H. Yang, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 25 (1973), pp. 492–499] the dispersion relation was studied theoretically for the one-dimensional periodic structure made of two materials …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 111, December 5, 2008

Central Florida Future

Football player sent to hospital; Book prices still on the rise; Virtual rehabilitation; VOX tries to prevent HPV; Four-wheeled steeds prowl UCF campus.

December 5, 2008, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business, December 5, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University (USU) requests authorization to restructure departments within the school, effective Spring Semester 2009.

Mustang Daily, December 5, 2008

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

2008-12-05 Minutes & Appendices, Longwood University

Board of Visitors Meeting Minutes 1964-

No abstract provided.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 5, 2008, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The December 5, 2008, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Annual Report: 2007, N/A N/A

Annual Reports

I submit herewith the annual report from the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, for the period ending December 31, 2007. This is done in accordance with an act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887, entitled, “An act to establish agricultural experiment stations, in connection with the agricultural college established in the several states under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and under the acts supplementary thereto,” and also of the act of the Alaska Territorial Legislature, approved March 12, 1935, accepting the provisions of the act …

V. 76, Issue 10, December 5, 2008

Archway (1946-2020)

No abstract provided.

Development Of High Performance Precast/Prestressed Bridge Girders, Amin K. Akhnoukh

Department of Construction Engineering and Management: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Demand continues to increase for bridges with long spans and shallow depths. Due to safety concerns, four-span overpasses are being replaced with two span overpasses to avoid placement of piers near the highway shoulders. In the meantime, the bridge profile is restricted due to existing businesses nearby. Thus, nearly the same superstructure depth must be used for double the span length. This dissertation focuses on topics aiming at providing precast prestressed concrete girders with the shallowest possible depth for a given span. It forms parts of larger projects conducted by the University of Nebraska for the Nebraska Department of Roads …

Sandspur, Vol 115, No 13, December 05, 2008, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Album Recorded At Um Nominated For Grammy Award, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

International Labor Migration And Factors Affecting Repatriation From Developed To Developing Countries: A Case Of Guyana's Brain Drain, Tilokie Depoo

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Guyana has lost most of the human resources it has cultivated and educated, which includes the cream of its young labor force. In a 2005 study, the World Bank singled out Guyana as the "worst example" of outward migration in the region. This study is necessary because given this significant outward migration Guyana have not enjoyed a return flow as similar countries in the Caribbean. There currently exists no empirical work that examined factors that would predict return migration for Guyana.

This study used a quantitative, non-experimental, correlation (explanatory) and causal-comparative (exploratory) cross-sectional survey research design is the first study …

Asian American Social Workers: Exploring Relationships Among Factors Influencing Career Choices, Soon Min Lee

Theses and Dissertations

Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing minority groups in the United States. One of the stereotypes associated with Asians is that they are more likely to choose careers in science, medicine, and engineering rather than social science, inclusive of social work, mass communication, or humanities (Leong & Serafica, 1995; Tang et al., 1999). This occupational stereotyping of Asians is not just a myth in that descriptive studies have shown that only a few Asians choose social work as a career (Lennon, 2005; NASW, 2006). Few studies exist on Asian Americans who do not choose Asian stereotypical career choices, …

Flexible Twist For Pitch Control In A High Altitude Long Endurance Aircraft With Nonlinear Response, Vanessa L. Bond

Theses and Dissertations

Information dominance is the key motivator for employing high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) aircraft to provide continuous coverage in the theaters of operation. A joined-wing configuration of such a craft gives the advantage of a platform for higher resolution sensors. Design challenges emerge with structural flexibility that arise from a long-endurance aircraft design. The goal was to demonstrate that scaling the nonlinear response of a full-scale finite element model of a high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) aircraft was possible if the model was aeroelastically and "nonlinearly" scaled. A straight-forward method of scaling the first three natural vibration frequencies and mode shapes, and the first …

Crusader, December, 5, 2008, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

Faculty Newsnotes 2008 No. 407, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

No abstract provided.

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Science, December 5, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Name Change: Information Systems Emphasis from Software Development Emphasis

The Department of Computer Science at Utah State University (USU) requests a name change of the BS emphasis in Information Systems to an emphasis in Software Development, effective Fall Semester 2009.

This Week At Sbs, V.2, N.13b | This Week At Stony Brook Southampton/In The News, Darren Johnson

Southampton Announcements and News

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Modeling Capture Zones To Determine Potential Threats To The Public Water Supply Wells, Jordan Wollak

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority uses groundwater wells to provide drinking water to the residents of the Albuquerque metropolitan area. Proper management is needed to ensure that the residents have safe drinking water. This study focuses on a particular water distribution trunk of the Albuquerque Water System. Ridgecrest Trunk wells provide approximately 20 percent of the water for Albuquerque, New Mexico. However, throughout the area there are numerous sites that have known releases of hazardous materials that have contaminated soil and groundwater. Mapping sites that have known soil or groundwater contamination is useful to determine the proximity of …

The Roads Of Disintegration In Ecuador, Guest Author

NotiSur

No abstract provided.

Warm Hydroforming Characteristics Of Stainless Steel Sheet Metals, Eren Billur

Theses and Dissertations

For numerical modeling and predictive analysis of warm hydroforming, better understanding of material properties (i.e. Flow curves) is required at elevated temperatures and high strains. Hydraulic bulge testing is a suitable method to obtain this information. However, analysis of the test data is not standardized as there are numerous approaches developed and adopted throughout the years. In this study, first, different approaches for hydraulic bulge analysis were compared with stepwise experiments to determine the best combination of approaches in obtaining accurate flow curves at different temperatures and strain rates. Then, three different grades of stainless steels (AISI 201, 301 and …

Energy Efficient Embedded System Design For Medical Care System Using Wireless Sensor Network, Qi Li

Theses and Dissertations

Recent surveys on medical service systems show that the cost of patient monitoring has grown significantly. The widespread use of portable digital medical device makes it possible to provide a more comprehensive tracking of patient conditions. However, the development of a full scale, distributed health monitoring system is much delayed due to the lack of efficient wireless communication in a large distributed network. This becomes a challenging research topic which is to find a way to provide accurate and real time patient information to medical experts in a fast, efficient and cost effective fashion. This paper proposes a novel solution …

Wireless Intelligent Structural Health Monitoring System, Belle Ashwin

Theses and Dissertations

Metal structures are susceptible to various types of damages, including corrosion, stress damage, pillowing deformation, cracks etc. These kinds of damages in the metal structures occur mainly due to operational conditions and exposure to the environment. Our research involves a portable integrated wireless sensor system with video camera and ultrasound capabilities which is being developed to investigate corrosion damage on real structures in real time. This system uses images of the metal surfaces, which are captured from an integrated wireless sensor and then quantified and analyzed using computational intelligence. The quantification of the obtained images is done with specialized component …

Performance Analysis Of A Light Weight Packet Scanner, Paras Gandhi

Theses and Dissertations

The growth of networks around the world has also given rise to threats like viruses and Trojans. This rise in threats has resulted in counter measures for these threats. These counter measures are in the form of applications called firewalls or IDS. The incorporation of these applications in the network results in some delay in communications. The aim of the experiment in this thesis is to measure the delay introduced by such a firewall in the best case and compare it with the communication done on a network without such an application. These experiments are done using a special miniature …