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Green Infrastructure Assessment Tools For Varying Scales In Coastal South Carolina, D R. Hitchcock, D L. White, A D. Jayakaran, T M. Williams, K Giacalone, J Calabria, C B. Sawyer, G W. Eidson

S.C. Water Resources Conference

2010 S.C. water Resources Conference - Science and Policy Challenges for a Sustainable Future

Modeling Functional Data With Spatially Heterogeneous Shape Characteristics, Ana-Maria Staicu, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Daniel S. Reich, David Ruppert

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

We propose a novel class of models for functional data exhibiting skewness or other shape characteristics that vary with spatial or temporal location. We use copulas so that the marginal distributions and the dependence structure can be modeled independently. Dependence is modeled with a Gaussian or t-copula, so that there is an underlying latent Gaussian process. We model the marginal distributions using the skew t family. The mean, variance, and shape parameters are modeled nonparametrically as functions of location. A computationally tractable inferential framework for estimating heterogeneous asymmetric or heavy-tailed marginal distributions is introduced. This framework provides a new set …

Nor'easter News Volume 4 Issue 2, Nor'easter News Staff

Nor'easter News

The twenty-ninth issue of the University of New England's student-run newspaper, Nor'easter News.

Towards Establishing A Change Management Process At An Academic Research Laboratory Network, Russell Moult

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

This report focuses on the evaluation and development of a change management process for the Regis University Academic Research Network (ARNe), and specifically the SEAD Practicum. The author originally proposed expanding on a security audit performed on the ARNe in 2008, and researched, evaluated and presents several risk assessment methodologies. This broad approach was later focused on the practical aspects of developing a change management process for the ARNe/SEAD Practicum, based on researching applicable standards and best practice guidance. A management questionnaire and user survey were developed and distributed to obtain valuable opinions and perspectives from the individuals most directly …

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2010s

No abstract provided.

The Number Of Zeros In A Linear Recurrence Sequence Over A Finite Field, Suwanda Hennedige Y. Kottegoda

Research Papers

This paper provides basic results of finite field theory which describe the structure of finite fields, trace function, characters and Gaussian sums in order to determine the bounds on the number of zeros in a linear recurrence sequence of irreducible polynomial of given degree and order.

October 13, 2010 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Rf System Models For The Cern Large Hadron Collider With Application To Longitudinal Dynamics, T. Mastorides, C. Rivetta, J.D. Fox, D. Van Winkle, P. Baudrenghien

Physics

The LHC RF station-beam interaction strongly influences the longitudinal beam dynamics, both single bunch and collective effects. Non-linearities and noise generated within the Radio Frequency (RF) accelerating system interact with the beam and contribute to beam motion and longitudinal emittance blowup. Thus, the noise power spectrum of the RF accelerating voltage strongly affects the longitudinal beam distribution. Furthermore, the coupled-bunch instabilities are also directly affected by the RF components and the configuration of the Low Level RF (LLRF) feedback loops. In this work we present a formalism relating the longitudinal beam dynamics with the RF system configurations, an estimation of …

Functionalization Of Diamond And Its Application In High Performance Liquid Chromatography And Solid Phase Extraction, Gaurav Saini

Theses and Dissertations

The primary focus of my work was to chemically functionalize diamond as normal and reversed phases for solid phase extraction (SPE) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Diamond was functionalized with -NH2 groups via self-limiting adsorption of an amine-containing polymer, polyallylamine (PAAm), onto oxidized diamond particles. The chemical stability of these particles was improved by thermal curing or chemical crosslinking with 1,2,5,6-diepoxycyclooctane. The reversed phase material for SPE was synthesized by reacting amine-functionalized diamond particles with long chain alkyl and a perfluorinated isocyanate. Unlike commercially available silica, functionalized diamond particles were stable under extreme pH conditions (pH 0-14). Functionalized diamond …

Volume 48, Number 8: October 13, 2010, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Brachytherapy Seed And Applicator Localization Via Iterative Forward Projection Matching Algorithm Using Digital X-Ray Projections, Damodar Pokhrel

Theses and Dissertations

Interstitial and intracavitary brachytherapy plays an essential role in management of several malignancies. However, the achievable accuracy of brachytherapy treatment for prostate and cervical cancer is limited due to the lack of intraoperative planning and adaptive replanning. A major problem in implementing TRUS-based intraoperative planning is an inability of TRUS to accurately localize individual seed poses (positions and orientations) relative to the prostate volume during or after the implantation. For the locally advanced cervical cancer patient, manual drawing of the source positions on orthogonal films can not localize the full 3D intracavitary brachytherapy (ICB) applicator geometry. A new iterative forward …

Re-Examining Acts Of God, Jill M. Fraley

Pace Environmental Law Review

Applying recent critiques of the construction of nature as distinct from and excluding all that is human, this article examines the concept of an act of God, which exculpates defendants when a disaster is “solely caused” by a “natural” event. The doctrine incorporates a classical separation of the human from the natural—a separation that is now refuted in geography and philosophy. While other areas of law such as patents, food and drug law, and land use policy have begun to acknowledge our changing understandings of human and nature, we have yet to re-examine the acts of god doctrine, which is …

Study Of Ψ(2s) Decays To Γpp, Π0pp And Η Pp And Search For Pp Threshold Enhancements, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki

Physics - All Scholarship

The decays of psi(2S) into gamma p bar{p}, pi^0 p bar{p} and eta p bar{p} have been studied with the CLEO-c detector using a sample of 24.5 million psi(2S) events obtained from e^+e^- annihilations at sqrt{s} = 3686 MeV. The data show evidence for the excitation of several N^* resonances in p pi^0 and p eta channels in pi^0 p bar{p} and eta p bar{p} decays, and f_2 states in gamma p bar{p} decay. Branching fractions for decays of psi(2S) to gamma p bar{p}, pi^0 p bar{p} and eta p bar{p} have been determined. No evidence for p bar{p} threshold …

Executive Committee - Agenda, 10/12/2010, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: October 12, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

October 12, 2010, Faculty Senate

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Scholastic Minutes 10/12/2010, Scholastic Committee

Scholastic Committee

No abstract provided.

Understanding Social Capital Development And Academic Attainment Of Mobile Students, Julie A. Gaddie

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The United Sates has a long history of searching for utopian possibilities of public school, amidst a steady stream of population mobility. Horace Mann proclaimed that schools would be able to assimilate the millions of immigrants arriving during the late 1700’s. He promised that schools could end poverty, crime and social injustice. Today, public schools continue to serve a revolving door of students and most agree there may be little that can be done to prevent student mobility amidst the complexities of a growing global economy, immigration and the increase in children living in poverty. The challenge for the public …

Study Of Psi(2s) Decays To Gamma P Bar{P}, Pi^0 P Bar{P} And Eta P Bar{P} And Search For P Bar{P} Threshold Enhancements, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, S. Blusk, T. Skwarnicki

Physics - All Scholarship

The decays of psi(2S) into gamma p bar{p}, pi^0 p bar{p} and eta p bar{p} have been studied with the CLEO-c detector using a sample of 24.5 million psi(2S) events obtained from e^+e^- annihilations at sqrt{s} = 3686 MeV. The data show evidence for the excitation of several N^* resonances in p pi^0 and p eta channels in pi^0 p bar{p} and eta p bar{p} decays, and f_2 states in gamma p bar{p} decay. Branching fractions for decays of psi(2S) to gamma p bar{p}, pi^0 p bar{p} and eta p bar{p} have been determined. No evidence for p bar{p} threshold …

Total Internal Reflection Holographic Microscope, Myung K. Kim

USF Patents

The present invention provides for a digital holographic microscope using a holographic interferometer and incorporating a TIR sample mount and microscopic imaging optics. The microscope uses phase shifting from frustrated internal reflection within a prism to measure nanometric distances. The invention also provides for a numerical reconstruction algorithm of an inclined surface of the object/prism.

Doping Dependence Of Electronic And Mechanical Properties Of Gase1−XTeX And Ga1−XInXSe From First Principles, Zs. Rak, S. D. Mahanti, K. C. Mandal, N. C. Fernelius

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Extended Green-Liouville Asymptotics And Vacuum Polarization For Lukewarm Black Holes, Cormac Breen, Adrian Ottewill

Articles

We consider a quantum field on a lukewarm black hole spacetime. We introduce a new uniform approximation to the radial equation, constructed using an extension of Green-Liouville asymptotics. We then use this new approximation to construct the renormalized vacuum polarization in the Hartle-Hawking vacuum. Previous calculations of the vacuum polarization rely on the WKB approximation to the solutions of the radial equation, however the nonuniformity of the WKB approximations obscures the results of these calculations near both horizons. The use of our new approximation eliminates these obscurities, enabling us to obtain explicitly finite and easily calculable values of the vacuum …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 62, October 11, 2010

Central Florida Future

UCF flunks Trojan's report card; Delicate dance; Student's project nets her $10,000; Creep with costumes.

Daily Eastern News: October 11, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Effectiveness Of Tennessee's Pre-Kindergarten Program, Second Annual Report, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Office of Research and Education Accountability

No abstract provided.

The Collegian (2010-10-11), Christine Cavazos

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 63, No. 8

Front Matter, Vol. 70 No. 3

Western North American Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (October 11, 2010), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on October 11, 2010.

Safety Analysis Report On The Hi-Star: Chapter 3: Thermal Evaluation, U.S. Government Agency

State & Federal Reports and Publications

In this chapter, compliance of the HI-STAR System thermal performance to I OCFR71 requirements is established for normal transport and hypothetical accident conditions of transport. The analysis considers passive rejection of decay heat from the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) to an environment under the most severe 1 OCFR71 mandated design basis ambient conditions.

A Maximum Pseudo-Likelihood Approach For Estimating Species Trees Under The Coalescent Model, Liang Liu, Lili Yu, Scott V. Edwards

Biostatistics: Faculty Publications

Background

Several phylogenetic approaches have been developed to estimate species trees from collections of gene trees. However, maximum likelihood approaches for estimating species trees under the coalescent model are limited. Although the likelihood of a species tree under the multispecies coalescent model has already been derived by Rannala and Yang, it can be shown that the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) of the species tree (topology, branch lengths, and population sizes) from gene trees under this formula does not exist. In this paper, we develop a pseudo-likelihood function of the species tree to obtain maximum pseudo-likelihood estimates (MPE) of species trees, …