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The Missouri Miner, November 5, 2009

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, November 5, 2009, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Applied Economics

• University Studies Request

Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Credit Hour Change

Huntsman School of Business

• Credit Hour Change

Department of Economics and Finance

• Delete Course

Department of Management

• New Course
• Credit Hour Change
• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• Remove repeatable for credit
• Course Description Change, Grade Mode Change

Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences

• New Course
• Inactivate Course

Department of Biological and Irrigation Engineering

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• New Course
• Title Change, Course Description Change …

Use Of The Worldcat Collection Analysis Tool To Assess The Statewide Serials Collection In Illinois, Chad E. Buckley

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

In an era of consistently poor funding for materials budgets, libraries must work to identify the most cost-effective solutions for providing access to information needed by patrons. Consortia play an important role in these solutions for many libraries and can help leverage their buying power to provide widespread access to various publishers’ content at more affordable costs. The CARLI consortium in Illinois formed a Statewide Serials Collection Task Force in 2006 to “investigate various collaborative options related to print and electronic serials collections across the state.” As part of this group's work, the Worldcat Collection Analysis tool, commonly employed for …

Beco Const. Co., Inc. V. J-U-B Engineers Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 35873

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Independent Sch. Dist. V. Harris Fam. Ltd. Appellant's Brief Dckt. 36410

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Dáil Éireann Debate - Thursday, 5 Nov 2009: Vol. 693 No. 3: National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) And Final Stage, Ireland: Oireachtas

Documents

No abstract provided.

The Montclarion, November 05, 2009, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

Two-Scale Convergence And Applications In Homogenization, Part Ii, Aida Timofte

Analysis Seminar

The two-scale convergence is a very efficient homogenization method for partial differential equations with periodically oscillating coefficients. We introduce the notions of weak/strong two-scale convergence, periodic unfolding/folding operators, and discuss some related results. We also point out their applications in the homogenization of evolutionary variational inequalities and in the homogenization of a ferroelectric material model.

Comparing Experts And Novices In Solving Electrical Circuit Problems With The Help Of Eye-Tracking, David Rosengrant, Colin Thomson, Taha Mzoughi

Faculty Articles

In order to help introductory physics students understand and learn to solve problems with circuits, we must first understand how they differ from experts. This preliminary study focuses on problem-solving dealing with electrical circuits. We investigate difficulties novices have with circuits and compare their work with those of experts. We incorporate the use of an eye-tracker to investigate any possible differences or similarities on how experts and novices solve electrical circuit problems. Our results show similarities in gaze patterns among all subjects on the components of the circuit. We further found that experts would look back at the circuit while …

Task Oriented Simulation And Control Of A Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arm, Fabian Farelo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The main objective of my research is to improve the control structure for the new Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arm (WMRA) to include new algorithms for optimized task execution; that is, making the WMRA a modular task oriented mobile manipulator. The main criterion to be optimized is the fashion in which the wheelchair approaches a final target as well as the starting and final orientation of the wheelchair. This is a novel approach in non-holonomic wheeled manipulators that will help in autonomously executing complex activities of daily living (ADL) tasks.

The WMRA is a 9 degree of freedom system, which provides …

Microwave-Assisted Synthesis Of Zno Micro-Javelins, Suresh Pillai, Declan Mccormack, John M. Kelly, Sibu C. Padmanabhan

Articles

The microwave (MW)-assisted formation of ZnO micro-javelins from zinc nitrate and urea in aqueous solution is described. The particles (named as ‘micro-javelins’ because of their high aspect ratio and needle-like tips) grow hexagonally with well-defined facets in the h0110i direction and pointed tips in (0001) direction. Powder X-ray diffraction patterns show the appearance of a strikingly dominant (1000) orientation. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) investigations reveal the morphological evolution of these hexagonal ZnO particles with time. The effect of precursor concentrations, counterion type andMWirradiation power and their consequent influence on pH and Zn2+ ion concentration are …

Thermal Conductivity Measurement Of Gas Diffusion Layer Used In Pemfc, Arjun Radhakrishnan

Theses

The objective of the present work is to develop an apparatus to measure the thermal conductivity of gas diffusion layer (GDL) as a function of temperature and compression, and also to develop an effective thermal conductivity (ETC) model to predict thermal conductivity of fibrous media as a function of compression. Thermal conductivity of GDL at different operating conditions is essential for accurate thermal modeling in a Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack. Steady state method of guarded hot plate method was used to perform the thermal conductivity measurements and the measurements were carried out on commercially available GDL samples …

A Comparison Of Frequentist And Bayesian Approaches To The Estimation Of Long-Stay Per-Diems, Jeff Hatcher, Jason M. Sutherland

Dartmouth Scholarship

Within many diagnosis related group (DRG) systems, there is recognition that a single cost weight per DRG is not suitable, and that cost weights should take into account extremely lengthy hospital stays. Long lengths of stay are considered to be due to factors largely beyond the control of the hospital, and a single weight per DRG would potentially place hospitals under financial risk.

Within Canada's acute-care, inpatient grouping methodology - Case Mix Groups (CMG+) - long-stay episodes represent approximately 4.5% of all discharges. Within a CMG (analogous to DRG), the cost weight assigned to long-stay cases consists of the typical …

Correlating Molecular Phylogeny With Venom Apparatus Occurrence In Panamic Auger Snails (Terebridae), Mandë Holford, Nicolas Puillandre, Maria Vittoria Modica, Maren Watkins, Rachel Collin, Eldredge Bermingham, Baldomero M. Olivera

Publications and Research

Central to the discovery of neuroactive compounds produced by predatory marine snails of the superfamily Conoidea (cone snails, terebrids, and turrids) is identifying those species with a venom apparatus. Previous analyses of western Pacific terebrid specimens has shown that some Terebridae groups have secondarily lost their venom apparatus. In order to efficiently characterize terebrid toxins, it is essential to devise a key for identifying which species have a venom apparatus. The findings presented here integrate molecular phylogeny and the evolution of character traits to infer the presence or absence of the venom apparatus in the Terebridae. Using a combined dataset …

November 4, 2009 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (Lqas) And The Mozambique Malaria Indicator Surveys, Caitlin Biedron, Marcello Pagano, Bethany L. Hedt, Albert Kilian, Amy Ratcliffe, Samuel Mabunda, Joseph J. Valadez

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, November 4, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

November 4, 2009 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

The Anchor, Volume 123.08: November 4, 2009, Hope College

The Anchor: 2009

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Cwu Faculty Senate Minutes - 11/04/09, Janet Shields

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official Central Washington University Faculty Senate minutes for the 11/04/09 meeting.

November 4, 2009 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Exponent Vol. 41, No. 8, 2009-11-04, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

2009

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, November 04, 2009

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

New 2010 Crop Enterprise Budgets, Roger K. Wilson, Matthew Stockton

Cornhusker Economics

The 2010 Crop Enterprise Budgets will soon be published. They will be available on the web in two places: the University of Nebraska’s “Crop Watch” website (http://cropwatch.unl.edu) in the Economics and Marketing section, and on the Agricultural Economics website at http://www.agecon.unl.edu.

Design And Development Of A Pvdf Sensor To Monitor Intracranial Pressure (Icp), Vivek Vijaywargi

Theses and Dissertations

Monitoring ICP non-invasively is a challenge. A novel method to measure ICP using actuators and sensors has been proposed where the skull is vibrated at high frequencies and the receiving signal is measured at the surface eyelid. A design of experiments approach is used to develop the sensor part of the ICP monitoring device so that gain can be maximized using factors such as area, thickness, electrode, and applied pressure. Statistical analysis showed that thickness has the biggest effect on overall gain. Numerical analysis confirmed these results. In addition, sensor packaging is optimized to minimize dampening of the signal and …

Damping And Decoherence Of A Nanomechanical Resonator Due To A Few Two-Level Systems, Laura G. Remus, Miles P. Blencowe, Yukihiro Tanaka

Dartmouth Scholarship

We consider a quantum model of a nanomechanical flexing beam resonator interacting with a bath comprising a few damped tunneling two-level systems. In contrast with a resonator interacting bilinearly with an ohmic free oscillator bath (modeling clamping loss, for example), the mechanical resonator damping is amplitude dependent, while the decoherence of quantum superpositions of mechanical position states depends only weakly on their spatial separation.

Biological Control Of Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum Salicaria): Factors Affecting Galerucella Pusilla And Galerucella Calmariensis Establishment In Tidal Areas, Lynda Kathryn Moore

Dissertations and Theses

Galerucella pusilla and G. calmariensis have provided successful biological control of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L.) in non-tidal areas but only marginal control in areas of tidal influence. While a previous study identified mechanical scour by tidal waters as the main cause of establishment failure, purple loosestrife stem density explained more than 80% of the variability in presence and absence of Galerucella at my study sites in the Columbia River Estuary. A logistic regression model using purple loosestrife stem density, elevation, and their interaction as predictors accurately predicted 92.5% of Galerucella presence or absence observations of a test data …

Modeling Multilevel Sleep Transitional Data Via Poisson Log-Linear Multilevel Models, Bruce J. Swihart, Brian Caffo, Ciprian Crainiceanu, Naresh M. Punjabi

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

This paper proposes Poisson log-linear multilevel models to investigate population variability in sleep state transition rates. We specifically propose a Bayesian Poisson regression model that is more flexible, scalable to larger studies, and easily fit than other attempts in the literature. We further use hierarchical random effects to account for pairings of individuals and repeated measures within those individuals, as comparing diseased to non-diseased subjects while minimizing bias is of epidemiologic importance. We estimate essentially non-parametric piecewise constant hazards and smooth them, and allow for time varying covariates and segment of the night comparisons. The Bayesian Poisson regression is justified …

Bayesian Functional Data Analysis Using Winbugs, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, A. Jeffrey Goldsmith

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

We provide user friendly software for Bayesian analysis of Functional Data Models using WinBUGS 1.4. The excellent properties of Bayesian analysis in this context are due to: 1) dimensionality reduction, which leads to low dimensional projection bases; 2)the mixed model representation of functional models, which provides a modular approach to model extension; and 3) the orthogonality of the principal component bases, which contributes to excellent chain convergence and mixing properties. Our paper provides one more, essential, reason for using Bayesian analysis for Functional models: the existence of software.

Area Contraction For Harmonic Automorphisms Of The Disk, Ngin-Tee Koh, Leonid V. Kovalev

Mathematics - All Scholarship

A harmonic self-homeomorphism of a disk does not increase the area of any concentric disk.