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Electromagnetic Scattering Solutions For Digital Signal Processing, Jonathan Blackledge

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Electromagnetic scattering theory is fundamental to understanding the interaction between electromagnetic waves and inhomogeneous dielectric materials. The theory unpins the engineering of electromagnetic imaging systems over a broad range of frequencies, from optics to radio and microwave imaging, for example. Developing accurate scattering models is particularly important in the field of image understanding and the interpretation of electromagnetic signals generated by scattering events. To this end there are a number of approaches that can be taken. For relatively simple geometric configurations, approximation methods are used to develop a transformation from the object plane (where scattering events take place) to the …

Classification, Clustering And Data-Mining Of Biological Data, Thomas Triplet

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The proliferation of biological databases and the easy access enabled by the Internet is having a beneficial impact on biological sciences and transforming the way research is conducted. There are currently over 1,100 molecular biology databases dispersed throughout the Internet. However, very few of them integrate data from multiple sources. To assist in the functional and evolutionary analysis of the abundant number of novel proteins, we introduce the PROFESS (PROtein Function, Evolution, Structure and Sequence) database that integrates data from various biological sources. PROFESS is freely available at http://cse.unl.edu/~profess/. Our database is designed to be versatile and expandable and …

Application Of Hydroxyapatite In Protein Purification, Permai Sari Molyana Yusuf, Kiagus Dahlan, Arief Budi Witarto

Makara Journal of Science

The precursors, Na2HPO4.2H2O and CaCl2.2H2O are used for synthesizing pure hydroxyapatite which less of carbonate content. The high temperature of sintering, about 700o C of temperature, is treated to minimize the carbonate group on hydroxyapatite surface. Carbonate content of hydroxyapatite which is sintered in 700o C is less than 110o C. It indicates an increasing temperature of sintering will increase crystallinity and decrease carbonate content of hydroxapatite. This method gave better way to resulting hydroxyapatite crystal. The patterns of band of SDS PAGE in resulting of Protein Purification by DEAE matrix is also appear in using hydroxyapatite matrix. The other …

Cuinse2 Thin Film For Solar Cell By Flash Evaporation, A H. Soepardjo

Makara Journal of Science

Deposition of thin films for material solar cell CuInSe2 are relatively simple. In this research mainly focused on the use of flash evaporation method, and the material created can then be characterized by optical and electrical properties. The optical characterization is done by X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), and transmission and reflection by UV-VIS spectrophotometry. Electrical characterization is done by utilizing the Hall effect equipment. From these characterization, the atomic structure, absorption coefficient, energy gap, material type, composition of each elements and the mobility of CuInSe2 can be measured and determined. During process evaporation were carried out at …

Cuinse2 Thin Film For Solar Cell By Flash Evaporation, A H. Soepardjo

Makara Journal of Science

Deposition of thin films for material solar cell CuInSe2 are relatively simple. In this research mainly focused on the use of flash evaporation method, and the material created can then be characterized by optical and electrical properties. The optical characterization is done by X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), and transmission and reflection by UV-VIS spectrophotometry. Electrical characterization is done by utilizing the Hall effect equipment. From these characterization, the atomic structure, absorption coefficient, energy gap, material type, composition of each elements and the mobility of CuInSe2 can be measured and determined. During process evaporation were carried out at …

Crystal Structure Of [Bis(Dimethylformamide) Bis(2,2’-Pyridyl)Quinoline)Iron(Ii)]Bis-(Tetraphenylborate), Iis Siti Jahro, Djulia Onggo, Ismunandar Ismunandar, Susanto Imam Rahayu, Bohari M. Yamin

Makara Journal of Science

The goal of this research is to obtain single crystal and structural information of iron(II) complex with 2,(2’- pyridyl)quinoline(pq) ligands. The reaction of iron(II) salt with 2,(2’-pyridyl)quinoline ligand and sodium tetraphenylborate in the molar ratio of 1:3:2 in methanol-N,N-dimethylformamide(dmf) solution results in an iron(II) complex. The formula of the [Fe(pq)2(dmf)2](BPh4)2 complex has been obtained from the iron(II) and C, H, N contents. Single crystal of [Fe(pq)2(dmf)2](BPh4)2 suitable for X-ray investigation was obtained by evaporation of the complex solution in N,N-dimethylformamide at room temperature after 24 hours. This compound crystallizes in monoclinic system with C2/c space group, a = 27.950(4), b …

Deteksi Pemalsuan Citra Berbasis Dekomposisi Nilai Singulir, Dewi Yanti Liliana, T. Basaruddin

Makara Journal of Science

Image Fakery Detection Based on Singular Value Decomposition. The growing of image processing technology nowadays make it easier for user to modify and fake the images. Image fakery is a process to manipulate part or whole areas of image either in it content or context with the help of digital image processing techniques. Image fakery is barely unrecognizable because the fake image is looking so natural. Yet by using the numerical computation technique it is able to detect the evidence of fake image. This research is successfully applied the singular value decomposition method to detect image fakery. The image preprocessing …

The Spectroscopic Orbit Of Sao 167450, Visual Companion Of Aa Ceti, Francis C. Fekel, Daryl W. Willmarth

Information Systems and Engineering Management Research Publications

We have determined a spectroscopic orbit for SAO 167450, which is the visual secondary of the W UMa-type eclipsing binary AA Cet, and so the system is quadruple. Radial velocities from the coudé feed and 4 m telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory produce an orbit with a period of 25.68 days and an eccentricity of 0.50. We classify both the primary and secondary as G0 subgiant/dwarf stars and find that they are somewhat metal rich relative to the Sun. The high lithium abundances of both components argue that the stars are less than 1 Gyr old. If the components …

On The Behaviour Of Marginal And Conditional Akaike Information Criteria In Linear Mixed Models, Sonja Greven, Thomas Kneib

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

In linear mixed models, model selection frequently includes the selection of random effects. Two versions of the Akaike information criterion (AIC) have been used, based either on the marginal or on the conditional distribution. We show that the marginal AIC is no longer an asymptotically unbiased estimator of the Akaike information, and in fact favours smaller models without random effects. For the conditional AIC, we show that ignoring estimation uncertainty in the random effects covariance matrix, as is common practice, induces a bias that leads to the selection of any random effect not predicted to be exactly zero. We derive …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles:

• Jenkins, Spencer. Professor Found Dead in Vehicle – Martha Richmond aka Bettina
• Lintner, Jonathan. Willie Taggart Returns to Hill – Football
• Hicks, Billy. Officials: Arts Venues Won’t Clash – Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center, Van Meter Hall, SKyPAC
• Simpson, Mandy. Mid-Life Classes – Adult Learners
• Ulber, Emily. International Enrollment Rises – Admissions
• Cesare, Albert. A Thousand Words – Bill Schumm, Artists
• Harris, Shakia. Student Government Association Opens Drinking Age Debate
• Wilson, Laurel. Housing & Residence Life to Debut Dorm Version of MTV Cribs
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: …

Blogging Out Of Debt: An Observational Netnography, Wendy Garland

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to observe weblogs in their natural setting and to investigate the nature of collective learning within the debt blogging community. How individuals who blog their experiences with getting out of debt use their weblogs as well as the role of the commenter in the debt blogging process were also researched. Four distinct literature pools were used to frame this study including the theory of social constructivism, the context of communities of practice, the problem of consumer debt, and the medium of blogging. Utilizing observational netnography, six weblogs were researched which were comprised of individuals …

Beauty, Ugliness, And Meaning: A Study Of Difficult Beauty, Christine Anne Palmer

Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of modern art, and subsequently contemporary art, has brought with it a deep-rooted deliberation of the definition of beauty and its role in the realm of art. Unlike many representational artworks, contemporary art less often contains a beauty that is readily available on the surface of an artwork- an easy beauty. Instead, it often possesses a beauty that requires substantial reasoning and understanding- a difficult beauty. Just as the definition of beauty has and will continue to be culturally and historically changing, so must our methodological and pedagogical practices in regards to beauty and Aesthetics. As Art Educators, …

Vision-Based Precision Landings Of A Tailsitter Uav, Paul Travis Millet

Theses and Dissertations

We present a method of performing precision landings of a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with the use of an onboard vision sensor and information about the aircraft's orientation and altitude above ground level (AGL). A method for calculating the 3-dimensional location of the UAV relative to a ground target of interest is presented as well as a navigational controller to position the UAV above the target. A method is also presented to prevent the UAV from moving in a way that will cause the ground target of interest to go out of view of the …

Hotline Press Newspaper- November 24,2009 Vol 27 No 24, Hotline Press Newspaper

Hotline Press Newspaper 2009

No abstract provided.

The Current Volume 20 : Issue 15, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Art Appreciation "On The Go"

Imprint

Noon at the Nerman is to art what gourmet fast food is to lunch - premium quality, expert preparation, casual atmosphere, and gratification in 15 to 30 minutes.

Jccc Launches Achieving The Dream

Imprint

Johnson County Community College is the first and only school in Kansas to join Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed.

Imprint Winter 2009 Full Issue

Imprint

This is the full issue of Imprint for Winter 2009.

Presentations Of Rings With Non-Trivial Semidualizing Modules, David A. Jorgensen, Graham J. Leuschke, Sean Sather-Wagstaff

Mathematics - All Scholarship

Let R be a commutative noetherian local ring. A finitely generated R-module C is semidualizing if it is self-orthogonal and satisfies the condition Hom_R(C,C) \cong R. We prove that a Cohen-Macaulay ring R with dualizing module D admits a semidualizing module C satisfying R\ncong C \ncong D if and only if it is a homomorphic image of a Gorenstein ring in which the defining ideal decomposes in a cohomologically independent way. This expands on a well-known result of Foxby, Reiten and Sharp saying that R admits a dualizing module if and only if R is Cohen-Macaulay and a …

When Purple Meets All Other Colors, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Exhibit Summaries

Archived website and summary of exhibit in the Marian Library

Artist: Darel L. Sparling

Exhibit dates: November 23, 2009 - January 28, 2010

The Security Implication Of Multiple Observers In A Distributed System, Derek P. Ditch, Bruce M. Mcmillin

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Confidentiality is an often overlooked, yet crucial point in the security analysis of a system. infrastructures take for granted that confidentiality is maintained through obfuscation by dissemination of information. This dissemination does indeed maintain the confidentiality of the system when only a small portion of the information can be obtained by an outside observer. However, when multiple observers collaboratively make observations, the confidential information can be revealed or even just partially revealed. If a team of attackers on a system can deduce enough information to successfully perform a crippling attack, the system could not be considered secure. This paper will …

Model-Checking Bndc Properties In Cyber-Physical Systems, Ravi Akella, Bruce M. Mcmillin

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

In Cyber-physical systems, which are the integrations of computational and physical processes, it is hard to realize certain security properties. Fundamentally, physically observable behavior leads to violations of confidentiality. We focus on analyzing certain non-interference-based security properties to ensure that interactions between the cyber and physical processes preserve confidentiality. a considerable barrier to this analysis is representing the physical system's interactions. in this paper, these physical system properties are encoded into a discrete event system and the combined Cyber-physical system is described using the process algebra SPA. the model checker, CoPS shows BNDC (Bisimulation based Non-Deducibility on Compositions) properties, which …

Evaluating Logical Pluralism, David Pruitt

Theses

Recently some philosophers, in particular J. C. Beall and Greg Restall, have defended a view they refer to as ‘logical pluralism’. This is the position that there are, in fact, several equally good but distinct logical systems according to which different arguments come out valid and invalid. No one system, they claim, is any more ‘correct’ than any other. I will have several criticisms of this view. I first argue that the phenomena of logical recapture causes problems for the pluralist. Somewhat roughly a logic is recaptured if, though all its argument forms were not valid in the full language, …

Curricular Affairs Committee Minutes November 23, 2009, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

No abstract provided.

Ballistic-Ohmic Quantum Hall Plateau Transition In A Graphene P-N Junction, Tony Low

Birck and NCN Publications

Recent quantum Hall experiments conducted on disordered graphene p-n junction provide evidence that the junction resistance could be described by a simple Ohmic sum of the n and p mediums’ resistances. However in the ballistic limit, theory predicts the existence of chirality-dependent quantum Hall plateaus in a p-n junction. We show that two distinctively separate processes are required for this ballistic-Ohmic plateau transition, namely, (i) hole/electron Landau states mixing and (ii) valley isospin dilution of the incident Landau edge state. These conclusions are obtained by a simple scattering theory argument, and confirmed numerically by performing ensembles of quantum magnetotransport calculations …

Dihomotopic Reduction Used In Deadlock Detection, David A. Cape, Bruce M. Mcmillin

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Deadlock detection for concurrent programs has traditionally been accomplished by symbolic methods or by search of a state transition system. We examine an approach that uses geometric semantics involving the topological notion of dihomotopy to partition the state-space into components, after which the reduced state-space is exhaustively searched. Prior work partitioned the state-space inductively, but in this paper, we show that a recursive technique provides greater reduction of the size of the state transition system. as a result, we expect to see more efficient deadlock detection and eventually more efficient verification of some temporal properties for large problems if the …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 90, November 23, 2009

Central Florida Future

UCF earns spot at bowl game 49-0; Service to give rides to students; Education bill will improve grants, loans; Weezer to play free show; Some push for new sign design.

User Survey Regarding The Needs Of Network Researchers In Trace-Anonymization Tools, Jihwang Yeo, Keren Tan, David Kotz

Computer Science Technical Reports

To understand the needs of network researchers in an anonymization tool, we conducted a survey on the network researchers. We invited network researchers world-wide to the survey by sending invitation emails to well-known mailing lists whose subscribers may be interested in network research with collecting, sharing and sanitizing network traces.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 13, November 23, 2009, Grand Valley State University

2009-2010, Volume 34

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Um Hires Office For Student Success Executive Director, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.