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University Of Minnesota Legislative Briefing To Be Videocast Live To The Morris Campus, University Relations

Campus News Archive

President Bruininks will present the University’s legislative request.

Macmillan Publishing Releases America And The British Imaginary In Turn-Of-The-Century Literature By Brook Miller, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Miller's research and writing on varied British literary representations of America and Americans around the turn-of-the-century have received excellent reviews.

Survey Says: Implications Of A Public Perception Survey On Stormwater Education Programming, Katie Giacalone, Catherine Mobley, Calvin Sawyer, James Witte, Gene Eidson

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Effective watershed and stormwater education and public involvement programs strive to increase awareness of watersheds and landscape connectivity and also encourage behavior changes that may be contributing to water quality and quantity problems within a targeted basin. According to new guidance from the US Environmental Protection Agency on stormwater permit improvement, regulators are looking for programs to utilize targeted issues relevant to a community to guide the development of a comprehensive outreach program. In an effort to collect information on public perception, knowledge, behaviors and willingness to get involved in improved stormwater management, a telephone survey was implemented. This manuscript …

Staff Council Meeting, 12/21/2010, Unm Staff Council

UNM Staff Council

No abstract provided.

Khatas Presented, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Governors State University professor Dr. Jon Carlson recently returned from India and a meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama with some very special gifts. He presented Khatas to GSU President Elaine P. Maimon, Provost Terry Allison, and Dean of the College of Education Deborah Bordelon.

Khatas are Tibetan scarves that have been blessed by the Dalai Lama. They symbolize purity, goodwill, auspiciousness, and compassion. Once blessed by the Dalai Lama, they become cherished talismans.

12/21/2010 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/21/2010. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Family Micro-Enterprises In Wielkopolska District (2008-2010), Ewa Więcek-Janka

European Management Studies

The paper presents selected aspects of micro-enterprises in the Wielkopolska district. Based on literature and own research the author analyzes the micro-enterprise structure, its current market activities and organizational forms of popular internal and external communication, plans and forms of investment, the occurrence of conflicts and the usage of knowledge in the company management.

Moodys-Real Commercial Property Price Indices, December 2010 (Moody's Special Report), Moody's Investor Service

Documents

No abstract provided.

Self-Insurance And The Potential Effects Of Health Reform On The Small-Group Market, Kathryn Linehan

National Health Policy Forum

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as amended by the Health Care Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 makes landmark changes to health insurance markets. Individual and small-group insurance plans and markets will see the biggest changes, but PPACA also affects large employer and self-insured plans by imposing rules for benefit design and health plan practices. Over half of workers—most often those in very large firms—are covered by self-insured health plans in which employers (or employee groups) bear all or some of the risk of providing insurance coverage to a defined population of workers and their dependents. As PPACA …

Anthony Mazza V. Sheet Metal Workers' National

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Janeka Peace-Wickham V. James Walls

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Ryan Wheeler V. Gerald Rozum

2010 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

In Re: Thomas Kane

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey Filed 12/17/10, No. 08-3268

Ada County V. City Of Garden City Complaint Dckt. 40084

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Formalizing A Conceptual Framework Of Work Domain Knowledge, Min Zhu

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Background: The failure rate of health information systems is high, partially due to fragmented, incomplete, or incorrect identification and description of specific and critical domain requirements. In order to systematically transform the requirements of work into real information system, an explicit conceptual framework is essential to summarize the work requirements and guide system design. Recently, Butler, Zhang, and colleagues proposed a conceptual framework called Work Domain Ontology (WDO) to formally represent users’ work. This WDO approach has been successfully demonstrated in a real world design project on aircraft scheduling. However, as a top level conceptual framework, this WDO has not …

December 21, 2010 Minutes, Illinois Wesleyan University

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Combined Fiber-Optic Absorption And Emission Measurement Apparatus, Nicholas Djeu

USF Patents

Disclosed is a spectroscopic system having a fiber-optic probe for simultaneous IR and Raman measurement. The probe includes a single strand of optical fiber, such as sapphire which is suitable for IR absorption measurements as far as 4 μm and Raman excitation at wavelengths as short as 300 nm. The probe is immersed in the sample and functions in the evanescent wave mode for both IR absorption and Raman scattering measurements. The sensing system makes possible the synergistic, and simultaneous, analysis of both IR and Raman data in an integrated device.

Systems And Methods For Adaptive Interference Cancellation, Guifang Li

UCF Patents

In one embodiment a communications system includes an RF receiver that receives a desired signal and the interference signal, a first phase modulator that receives the desired signal and the interference signal from the RF receiver and generates a resulting optical signal, a second phase modulator that generates a modulated optical signal relative to an inverse interference signal and transmits the modulated optical signal to the first phase modulator, and a detector that receives the resulting optical signal from the first phase modulator and detects the desired signal, wherein the resulting optical signal comprises a modulated optical signal generated by …

Excitation Band-Gap Tuning Of Dopant Based Quantum Dots With Core-Inner Shell-Outer Shell Div, Swadeshmukul Santra, Soumitra Kar

UCF Patents

A composition and method for fabricating and tuning a dopant based core-shell semiconductor having a quantum dot core with an excitation band-gap are provided. A quantum dot core composed of an alloy of cadmium sulfide (CdS) and zinc sulfide (ZnS) as semi-conductor materials include a dopant of manganese (Mn) added to the core and an outer shell of zine sulfide (ZnS). The dopant based core/shell quantum dot semiconductor of the present invention allows the fine tuning of an excitation band-gap, covering a wide range (from 2.4 eV to ~4 eV). When doped with Mn, these alloy Qdots emit bright yellow/orange …

Greece Fourth Extension Of The Support Measures For The Credit Institutions In Greece, Joaquin Almunia

Documents

No abstract provided.

Cuomo V Ernst & Young, Andrew M. Cuomo, United States: Courts: Supreme Courts: New York State

Documents

No abstract provided.

Armstrong's Csri Partners With Nc4, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong News & Publications: Armstrong News Records (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Magnetar Counsel Ross Email To Fcic, Steven Ross

Documents

No abstract provided.

On The Capacity Of Immediately-Decodable Coding Schemes For Wireless Stored-Video Broadcast With Hard Deadline Constraints, Xiaohang Li, Chih-Chun Wang, Xiaojun Lin

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Multimedia streaming applications have stringent Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements. Typically each packet is associated with a packet delivery deadline. This work models and considers streaming broadcast of stored-video over the downlink of a single cell. We first generalize the existing class of immediately-decodable network coding (IDNC) schemes to take into account the deadline constraints. The performance analysis of IDNC schemes are significantly complicated by the packet deadline constraints (from the application layer) and the immediate-decodability requirement (from the network layer). Despite this difficulty, we prove that for independent channels, the IDNC schemes are asymptotically throughput-optimal subject to the deadline constraints when …

Argie Manolis, Office Of Community Engagement Coordinator, Earns Morris Human Rights Award, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Manolis was chosen by the Morris Human Rights Commission based on her work and advocacy on behalf of many issues in the community.

Imagine Fund Awards Allow Professors Lawrence And Rothchild To Collaborate On Study Of Women Politicians In India, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The research will develop strategies to empower women leaders in their communities.

Feasibility Study Among Military Personnel With Traumatic Amputation During Military Combat Or Training, Michele (Shelly) R. Burdette-Taylor Phd, Msn, Rn-Bc, Cwcn, Cfcn

Dissertations

Military operations have resulted in a significant number of mangled extremities leading to traumatic amputations. Extremity injuries predominate, representing 50% to 70% of all injuries treated (Melcer, 2010). The majority of injuries sustained in Operation Endearing Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) are combined penetrating, burn and blast injuries, traumatic amputation, and infections from the multi-drug resistant organism, Acinetobacter (Melcer, 2010). The purpose of this study was to measure the quality of well-being and impact of events in a group of adults who served in the U.S. armed forces and sustained the loss of one or more limbs during any combat or …

Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Alert As To The Intended Use Of The Auditor’S Written Communication, December 21, 2010, Comments Are Requested By April 29, 2011; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2010, December 21, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

Comment Letters On Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards, Alert As To The Intended Use Of The Auditor’S Written Communication, December 21, 2010, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

No abstract provided.

Unl Physicists Model Potential 4-D Imaging Technique, Tom Simons, Hua-Chieh Shao, Anthony F. Starace

Anthony F. Starace Publications

A long-standing goal of science is to be able to understand how matter behaves at the atomic and subatomic level. How electrons rearrange when atoms or molecules come together is the essence of chemistry, and the ability to manipulate those rearrangements is the goal of the emerging sphere of nanotechnology. A fuller understanding could lead to enormous scientific and technological breakthroughs. Unfortunately, significant problems confront scientists and engineers in attacking the question. Not only are atoms and molecules very small, requiring highly specialized equipment to "see" them, everything at the atomic level happens very, very fast. For example, an electron …