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Quo Vadis Face Recognition: Spectral Considerations, Stefan Robila

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The paper provides novel approaches for the employment of spectral information when pursuing face recognition. We designed and tested Eigenface based algorithms that improve face recognition through feature extraction, i.e. extracting the 'best bands' according to various criteria such as decorelation and statistical independence. Eigenfaces correspond to principal components and have previously been used for regular grayscale and color images. In this paper we expand theiruse to hyperspectral imagery, i.e. data sets of images of the same scene associated to narrow wavelength intervals. Our approach is a two decomposition process. In the first, the hyperspectral data is reduced to grayscale …

The Hilltop 9-25-2009, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.

Pore Size Characterization Of Monolithic Capillary Columns Using Capillary Flow Porometry, Yan Fang

Theses and Dissertations

A simple capillary flow porometer (CFP) was assembled for pore structure characterization of monolithic capillary liquid chromatography columns based on ASTM standard F316-86. Determination of differential pressures and flow rates through dry and wet samples provided the necessary information to determine the through-pore throat diameter, bubble point pore diameter, mean flow pore diameter, and pore distribution. Unlike measurements in bulk using traditional techniques to provide indirect information about the pore properties of monolithic columns, monoliths can be characterized in their original chromatographic forms with this system. The performance of the new CFP was first evaluated by characterizing the pore size …

Literary Bodies: The Novel As Experience, Britt Dienes

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

For my MA thesis I propose to examine a series of novels that combine motifs of the body with structural and linguistic experimentation that parallels the state of the bodies within the text. Using Tsitsi Dangarembga's 1988 "bodybildungsroman" Nervous Conditions, Sherley Anne Williams' 1986 neo -slave narrative Dessa Rose, Samuel Beckett's 1938 existential novel Murphy, Vikram Seth's 1986 poetic novel Golden Gate, and Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 poetic novel Pale Fire, I will argue that these texts portray the body as a readable space of culture, a legible site of conflict or creation.

I contend that these novels …

Homecoming 2009: Back In Black!, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Alumni, students, faculty, staff, and members of the community will be “glad to be back”—words from a 1980s ACDC song that ring true on the Morris campus!

The Α,Α-Difluorinated Phosphonate L-Pser-Analogue: An Accessible Chemical Tool For Studying Kinase-Dependent Signal Transduction In Vitro, And In Living Cells, Kaushik Panigrahi, Marijean Eggen, Jun-Ho Maeng, Quanrong Shen, David B. Berkowitz

David Berkowitz Publications

This overview focuses on the (α,α-difluoromethylene)phosphonate mimic of phosphoserine (pCF₂Ser) and its application to the study of kinase-mediated signal transduction – pathways of great interest to drug development. The most versatile modes of access to these chemical biological tools are discussed, organized by method of PCF₂-C bond. The pCF₂-Ser mimic may be site-specifically incorporated into peptides (SPPS) and proteins (expressed protein ligation). This isopolar, dianionic pSer mimic results in a “constitutive phosphorylation” phenotype, and is seen to support native protein-protein interactions that depend upon serine phosphorylation. Signal transduction pathways studied with this chemical biological …

Guide To Ms307 Terry De La Mesa Allen Papers, Thomas F. Burdett

Finding Aids

Terry de la Mesa Allen (1888-1969), the son of Samuel Edward Allen, a career army officer and Consuelo de la Mesa Allen, daughter of a Spanish physician, was born at Fort Douglas, Utah. He grew up on army posts and was appointed to the United States Military Academy in 1907. After being dismissed from West Point in 1911, he enrolled in The Catholic University of America and graduated in 1912. On November 30, 1912 he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the cavalry. His regiment spent much of the next five years on the Mexican border. During World War I …

Perturbed S3 Neutrinos, Joseph Schechter, Renata Jora, M. Naeem Shahid

Physics - All Scholarship

We study the effects of the perturbation which violates the permutation symmetry of three Majorana neutrinos but preserves the well known (23) interchange symmetry. This is done in the presence of an arbitrary Majorana phase which serves to insure the degeneracy of the three neutrinos at the unperturbed level.

The Hunt For New Physics At The Large Hadron Collider, Joseph Schechter, Pran Nath

Physics - All Scholarship

We study the effects of the perturbation which violates the permutation symmetry of three Majorana neutrinos but preserves the well known (23) interchange symmetry. This is done in the presence of an arbitrary Majorana phase which serves to insure the degeneracy of the three neutrinos at the unperturbed level.

Ucc Minutes September 24, 2009, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Minutes

No abstract provided.

September 24, 2009, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Reporter's Verbatim Report Of Proceedings, Thursday, September 24, 2009, Volume Xv - Sessions 2 And 3 Of 4 [Pages 3282-3394]

King County Superior Court Documents

Resumes testimony by Nicholas Brossoit, superintendent of the Edmonds School District, and includes testimony by David Armor, professor of public policy at George Mason University.

Reporter's Verbatim Report Of Proceedings, September 24, 2009, Volume Xv, Session 4 Of 4 [Pages 3395-3471]

King County Superior Court Documents

Resumes testimony by David Armor, professor of public policy at George Mason University.

The Pan American (2009-09-24), Brian Silva

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 66, No. 4

Washington University Record, September 24, 2009

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

The Murray Ledger And Times, September 24, 2009, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Geometry Of L₁(Μ) For Vector-Valued Measure, Part I, Iwo Labuda

Analysis Seminar

Let μ be a measure from a σ-algebra of subsets of a set �� into a sequentially complete Hausdorff topological vector space ��. Assume that the convex hull of the range of μ is bounded in �� and denote by L₁(μ) the space of scalar-valued functions on �� that are integrable with respect to the vector measure μ. Sometimes a property of �� is inherited by L₁(μ). I will show that the bounded multiplier property passes from �� to L₁(μ). Answering a 1972 question of Erik Thomas, I will show that for a large class of F-spaces ��, the non-containment …

Carroll Hall Will Be Dedicated This Week, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2009

• A short program will be held at 5 p.m. in the auditorium and a portrait of Larry and Vivian Carroll of Charlotte, N.C., will be unveiled.
• The $7 million facility features cutting-edge technology and opportunities for student and faculty development made possible by a $1.25 million gift by the Carroll family.

The Missouri Miner, September 24, 2009

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

Volume 101 Issue 4, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

The Statesman, V. 53, I. 07, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 53, i. 07

Prospectus, September 23, 2009, Sean Hermann, Chuck Shepherd, Chrissie Mckenney, Sean Whitsitt, Joel Reuter, Alishia Reynolds, Shagun Pradhan, Patrick Wood, Isaac Mitchell

Prospectus 2009

No abstract provided.

September 23, 2009 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Advanced Characterization And Simulation Of Sonne: A Fast Neutron Spectrometer For Solar Probe Plus, R S. Woolf, James M. Ryan, Peter F. Bloser, U Bravar, E O. Fluckiger, Jason S. Legere, A L. Mackinnon, Procheta Mallik, Mark L. Mcconnell, B Pirard

Space Science Center

SONNE, the SOlar NeutroN Experiment proposed for Solar Probe Plus, is designed to measure solar neutrons from 1-20 MeV and solar gammas from 0.5-10 MeV. SONNE is a double scatter instrument that employs imaging to maximize its signal-to-noise ratio by rejecting neutral particles from non-solar directions. Under the assumption of quiescent or episodic small-flare activity, one can constrain the energy content and power dissipation by fast ions in the low corona. Although the spectrum of protons and ions produced by nanoflaring activity is unknown, we estimate the signal in neutrons and γ−rays that would be present within thirty solar radii, …

First Ligo Search For Gravitational Wave Bursts From Cosmic (Super)Strings, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, R. S. Amin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, M. A. Arain, M. Araya, H. Armandula, P. Armor, Y. Aso, S. Aston, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Baker, S. Ballmer, C. Barker, D. Barker, B. Barr, P. Barriga, L. Barsotti, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, B. Behnke, M. Benacquista

Faculty Publications

We report on a matched-filter search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic string cusps using LIGO data from the fourth science run (S4) which took place in February and March 2005. No gravitational waves were detected in 14.9 days of data from times when all three LIGO detectors were operating. We interpret the result in terms of a frequentist upper limit on the rate of gravitational wave bursts and use the limits on the rate to constrain the parameter space (string tension, reconnection probability, and loop sizes) of cosmic string models. Many grand unified theory-scale models (with string tension Gμ/c2≈10-6) …

An Oosterhoff Analysis Of The Galactic Bulge Field Rr Lyrae Stars: Implications On Their Absolute Magnitudes, Andrea Kunder, Brian Chaboyer

Dartmouth Scholarship

We present an analysis of the period-V-amplitude plane for RR0 Lyrae stars (fundamental mode pulsators) with "normal" light curves in the bulge using the MACHO bulge fields. Although bulge globular clusters (GCs) have RR Lyraes that divide into two reasonable distinct groups according to the average period of the RR0 Lyraes, there is no evidence of a gap between Oosterhoff I (OoI) and II (OoII) stars in the bulge field star sample. The majority of the bulge RR0 Lyrae field star population have a difference in period compared to the OoI cluster M3 (Δlog P) that is …

First Ligo Search For Gravitational Wave Bursts From Cosmic (Super)Strings, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Matthew Benacquista, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, R. Grosso, K. Hayama, H. Lei, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Malik Rakhmanov, Joseph D. Romano, Robert Stone

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

We report on a matched-filter search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic string cusps using LIGO data from the fourth science run (S4) which took place in February and March 2005. No gravitational waves were detected in 14.9 days of data from times when all three LIGO detectors were operating. We interpret the result in terms of a frequentist upper limit on the rate of gravitational wave bursts and use the limits on the rate to constrain the parameter space (string tension, reconnection probability, and loop sizes) of cosmic string models. Many grand unified theory-scale models (with string tension ��⁢��/��2≈10−6) …

The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 01 - September 22, 2009, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

Deriving The Radial Distances Of Wide Coronal Mass Ejections From Elongation Measurements In The Heliosphere - Application To Cme-Cme Interaction, Noe Lugaz, Angelos Vourlidas, Ilia I. Roussev

Coronal Mass Ejection Research Group

We present general considerations regarding the derivation of the radial distances of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from elongation angle measurements such as those provided by SECCHI and SMEI, focusing on measurements in the Heliospheric Imager 2 (HI-2) field of view (i.e. past 0.3 AU). This study is based on a three-dimensional (3-D) magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) simulation of two CMEs observed by SECCHI on 24–27 January 2007. Having a 3-D simulation with synthetic HI images, we are able to compare the two basic methods used to derive CME positions from elongation angles, the so-called "Point-P" and "Fixed-φ" approximations. We confirm, following similar …

September 22, 2009, Council On Teacher Education

Minutes

No abstract provided.