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Modeling Resilient Modulus Of Unbound Granular Materials Under Repeated Loading, Cheng Chen, Louis Ge, Jia Sheng Zhang

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Resilient modulus of unbound granular materials is a key design parameter for mechanistic empirical pavement design. But the complexity of the affected factors has made it challenging and difficult for practical designers and researchers to find an appropriate model to describe the entire stress-strain response where the plastic deformation is accumulated during the repeated loading condition. a cyclic plasticity model based on fuzzy sets plasticity theory is presented in this paper to model the resilient modulus and permanent strain behavior of unbound granular materials under repeated loading. the concept of the fuzzy set plasticity is first introduced, followed by its …

Repeals Recent Legislation That Would Allow Businesses To Carry Back Losses, Share Tax Credits, And Use A Sales-Based Income Calculation To Lower Taxable Income. Initiative Statute

Initiatives

Repeals recent legislation that would allow businesses to shift operating losses to prior tax years and that would extend the period permitted to shift operating losses to future tax years. Repeals recent legislation that would allow corporations to share tax credits with affiliated corporations. Repeals recent legislation that would allow multistate businesses to use a sales-based income calculation, rather than a combination property-, payroll- and sales-based income calculation. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Annual state revenue increase from business taxes of about $1.7 billion when fully phased …

Math In The Middle Report To Nebraska December 2009

Math in the Middle Program Materials

Table of Contents:

An overview of Math in the Middle

Gordon-Rushville reaps benefits of Math in the Middle

Nebraska Math & Science Summer Institutes: Courses enhance teaching abilities

Math in the Middle graduates excel as teacher leaders

Math in the Middle graduate achievements: Exemplary leaders in math education

Dan Schaben, former NATM president, reflects on Math in the Middle

Math Teachers’ Circle: The drive to learn continues

Action Research Papers

Math Expository Papers

Doctoral Students and Math in the Middle

Selected Publications

Contributors: Jim Lewis, Ruth Heaton, Michelle Homp, Wendy Smith, Shannon Parry and Lindsay Augustyn

Design/Layout: Lindsay Augustyn

State V. Branigh Clerk's Record V. 6 Dckt. 36427

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

State V. Branigh Clerk's Record V. 4 Dckt. 36427

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Vol. Ix, Tab 46 - Ex. 37 - Expert Report Of Dr. Kent D. Van Liere, Kent Van Liere

Rosetta Stone v. Google (Joint Appendix)

Exhibits from the un-sealed joint appendix for Rosetta Stone Ltd., v. Google Inc., No. 10-2007, on appeal to the 4th Circuit. Issue presented: Under the Lanham Act, does the use of trademarked terms in keyword advertising result in infringement when there is evidence of actual confusion?

Divided We Fall: Religion, Politics, And The Lemon Entanglements Prong, Stephen Matthew Feldman

Faculty Articles

The 2008 campaign for the presidency should remind Americans that mixing religion and politics can be dangerous Polls show that more than half of American voters would hesitate to support a Mormon candidate In terms of Establishment Clause doctrine the entanglements prong of the Lemon test provides a mechanism for protecting political equality by ensuring against religiouslyinspired political divisiveness Yet in recent years numerous scholars and Supreme Court Justices have attacked the entanglements prong Indeed the Court has poked so many holes in the entanglements inquiry that it may no longer exist This Article defends the politicaldivisiveness component of the …

Ada News - 12/14/2009, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

Kimbrough V. Idaho Bd. Of Tax Appeals Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 36726

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

State V. Branigh Clerk's Record V. 2 Dckt. 36427

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

State V. Branigh Clerk's Record V. 3 Dckt. 36427

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Restructuring Of Royal Bank Of Scotland Following Its Recapitalisation By The State And Its Participation In The Asset Protection Scheme, European Union: European Commission

Documents

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: December 14, 2009, Eastern Illinois University

December

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Valosin-Containing Protein (Vcp) Is Required For Autophagy And Is Disrupted In Vcp Disease, Jeong-Sun Ju, Rodrigo A. Fuentealba, Sara E. Miller, Erin Jackson, David Piwnica-Worms, Robert H. Baloh, Conrad C. Weihl

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Why Legal Positivism?, Brian Leiter

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Agenda For The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's Telephonic Business Meeting On Monday, December 14th, Phillip Angelides, Thomas Greene, Beneva Schulte, Gary Cohen, Bill Thomas, Brooksley Born, Byron Stephen Georgiou, Bob Graham, Keith Hennessey, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Heather Murren, John W. Thompson, Peter J. Wallison

Documents

No abstract provided.

State Aid No N 422/2009 And N 621/2009 – United Kingdom Restructuring Of Royal Bank Of Scotland, European Union: European Commission

Documents

No abstract provided.

An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of African American English: A Comparative Study Of Two Dialects, Catherine A. Adams

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

In this thesis, I contribute acoustic phonetic data and analysis to the study of African American English (AAE). For this research, I collected speech samples of self-identified AAE speakers and speakers of a dominant coexisting dialect, the Northern Cities Shift (NCS). I analyze these samples to determine if vowel quality and vowel duration are consistently and predictably varied between the two dialects. Labov's Chain Shift Principles are used as the context for the results.

In my analysis, I find that both vowel quality and duration are different between AAE and NCS in ways previously undocumented in the linguistic literature. The …

Acoustic Mediation Of Vocalized Emotion Identification: Do Decoders Identify Emotions Idiographically Or Nomothetically?, Michael Kenneth Lauritzen

Theses and Dissertations

Most research investigating vocal expressions of emotion has focused on one or more of three questions: whether there exist unique acoustic profiles of individual encoded emotions, whether the nature of emotion expression is universal across cultures, and how accurately decoders can identify expressed emotions. This dissertation begins to answer a fourth question, whether there exist unique patterns in the types of acoustic properties persons focus on to identify vocalized emotions. Three hypotheses were tested: first, whether acoustic patterns are interpreted idiographically or nomothetically as reflected in a comparison of individual vs. group lens model identification ratios; second, whether there exists …

Alimony Treatment For A Single Payment, Douglas A. Kahn

Articles

Before 1942 alimony paid to a former spouse was not included in the spouse’s gross income. In 1942 Congress adopted the antecedent to section 71. Although an alimony recipient must recognize gross income, section 215 provides the payer with a nonitemized deduction for the payment. Therefore, the alimony tax provisions provide a congressionally approved income-splitting arrangement which can benefit the parties by shifting income from a high-bracket taxpayer to one in a lower tax bracket. The parties can divide the resulting savings between them by altering the amount paid to the former spouse.

December 13, 2009: Time To Buy An American Car, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Time to Buy an American Car“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

Memo From Frb Staff To Board Of Governors Re Approval Of Citigroup Incs Request To Redeem Its Tarp Preferred Stock And Terminate The Usg Ring Fence Protection, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors

Documents

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The Blog Election: An Analysis Of The Source Interaction Between Traditional News Media And Blogs In Their Coverage Of The 2006 Congressional Midterm Elections, Marcus Messner

Open Access Dissertations

Political blogs have emerged as a new journalistic format that has gained influence on the political discourse in the United States. Previous research has shown that this influence stems mainly from attention given to blogs by traditional news media. Based on the concepts of intermedia agenda setting and agenda building, this study explored the source interaction between 10 elite traditional news media and 10 political filter blogs during the 2006 Congressional Midterm Elections. An analysis of 2587 sources used in the election context found that traditional news media frequently cited blogs in their election coverage, but that the source attributions …

The Effects Of Yoga On Symptoms Associated With Conduct Disorder With Callous Unemotional Traits As A Moderator, Kym M. Mccabe

Open Access Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to investigate the additive therapeutic effects of a yoga intervention on the anxiety, depression and behavioral problems of conduct-disordered male adolescents in residential treatment. In addition, the moderating effects of callous-unemotional (CU) traits on outcome measures were assessed. The program consisted of a four-week intervention program in which participants were randomly assigned to either the yoga group (n=25), in which they practiced yoga with an instructor, or the control group (n=19), in which they met for a supervised study hall. The study included pre-testing on symptoms of anxiety, depression and CU traits, and post-testing …

Fall Commencement Program, December 12, 2009, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

South Dakota State University Graduation Exercises, December 12, 2009, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State University

Commencement Programs

Please be advised that the names listed in the program do not constitute official confirmation of meeting the graduation requirements. Serving as honorary marshalls for the Fall 2009 Graduation Exercises are Dan Kemp and Harriet Svec. Laurie Stenberg Nichols, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, will acknowledge student honors. Commissioning Air Force officers is Lt. Col. Dana Nielsen. The graduation address will be given by Karen Gayton Comeau.

December 12, 2009 (Pages 6931-7086), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 39 (2009)

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Scalable Multi-Core Model Checking Fairness Enhanced Systems, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Jin Song Dong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Rapid development in hardware industry has brought the prevalence of multi-core systems with shared-memory, which enabled the speedup of various tasks by using parallel algorithms. The Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) model checking problem is one of the difficult problems to be parallelized or scaled up to multi-core. In this work, we propose an on-the-fly parallel model checking algorithm based on the Tarjan’s strongly connected components (SCC) detection algorithm. The approach can be applied to general LTL model checking or with different fairness assumptions. Further, it is orthogonal to state space reduction techniques like partial order reduction. We enhance our PAT …

Evaluation Of The Psychometric Properties Of The Emotion Regulation Scale, Bebhinn Martha Timmins

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common childhood disorder effecting 3-7% of school aged children and accounting for 30-50% of mental health referrals. Recent research in the area of emotional regulation has found that youth with ADHD have more difficulty regulating emotion than youth without ADHD. This is unfortunate, as emotional dysregulation has been linked to psychopathology, poor social functioning, substance abuse and suicide. Given this information, it is extremely important that measurement of emotion regulation is adequate because without good measurement it is impossible to improve our understanding of how emotional regulation is developed, maintained and how …

Evaluating Systemic Change In The Virginia Department Of Corrections: Creating Agents Of Change, Philip Andrew Mayles

Educational Specialist, 2009-2019

The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) is attempting to change the practice of working with offenders placed on probation and parole to effect a reduction in the rate of recidivism. The VADOC’s proposal is to get the probation and parole officers to become “change agents” in motivating the offender toward pro-social behavior using evidence-based practices and Motivational Interviewing (MI). The purpose of this paper is to describe the ways in which organizations attempt change and explores the reasons for the resistance displayed by the probation and parole officers. The author argues that the VADOC should employ a second-order change and …