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2009 Annual Report Of The Graduate School Of Engineering And Management, Air Force Institute Of Technology, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Graduate School Of Engineering And Management, Afit Mar 2010

2009 Annual Report Of The Graduate School Of Engineering And Management, Air Force Institute Of Technology, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Graduate School Of Engineering And Management, Afit

AFIT Documents

The Graduate School's Annual Report highlights research focus areas, new academic programs, faculty accomplishments and news, and provides top-level sponsor-funded research data and information.


Measuring Your Progress, Tom Jones Mar 2010

Measuring Your Progress, Tom Jones

Research Trends

Early-career scientists face a significant hurdle: establishing their credentials via journal publications. Knowing where to publish and tracking your progress compared with your peers can support your career at any level. Research Trends reviews the best bibliometric indicators of success.


Measuring Your Progress, Tom Jones Mar 2010

Measuring Your Progress, Tom Jones

Research Trends

Early-career scientists face a significant hurdle: establishing their credentials via journal publications. Knowing where to publish and tracking your progress compared with your peers can support your career at any level. Research Trends reviews the best bibliometric indicators of success.


Medical Education Digest, Vol. 12 No. 2 (March/April 2010), Nova Southeastern University Mar 2010

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 12 No. 2 (March/April 2010), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

No abstract provided.


After A Flood: Keeping Food Safe, Joan Hegerfeld Mar 2010

After A Flood: Keeping Food Safe, Joan Hegerfeld

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Storm- and flood-damaged foods may not be safe to eat. If you have even the slightest question about the safety of any item, dispose of it.


Flooding: Planning And Preparation, E. Kim Cassel, Donna Bittiker, Sharon Guthmiller Mar 2010

Flooding: Planning And Preparation, E. Kim Cassel, Donna Bittiker, Sharon Guthmiller

SDSU Extension Special Series

Floods are the most common natural disaster, but not all floods are alike. Regardless of the cause of flooding, disaster planning and preparation will reduce the impact of flooding and enhance response and recovery. There are some very simple steps an individual or family can take to plan and prepare for flooding.


Telepresence, Soundscapes And Technological Expectation: Putting The Observer Into The Equation, Gary Pettey, Cheryl C. Bracken, Bridget Rubenking, Michael Buncher Mar 2010

Telepresence, Soundscapes And Technological Expectation: Putting The Observer Into The Equation, Gary Pettey, Cheryl C. Bracken, Bridget Rubenking, Michael Buncher

Communication Faculty Publications

In an experiment exploring the impact of sound on sensations of telepresence, 126 participants watched a video clip using either headphones or speakers. The results illustrate that sound is an important factor in stimulating telepresence responses in audiences. Interactions between soundscape and screen size were also revealed. A traverse interaction between aural/visual congruency and soundscapes was evident. A second data set of 102 participants was collected to illuminate the effect of technological expectation that emerged in the first study. Expectations had been mentioned in other studies, and the data support the notion that people have an expectation of the technological …


Slow Spread Of The Aggressive Invader, Microstegium Vimineum (Japanese Stiltgrass), Emily S.J. Rauschert, David A. Mortensen, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Andrea N. Nord, Nora Peskin Mar 2010

Slow Spread Of The Aggressive Invader, Microstegium Vimineum (Japanese Stiltgrass), Emily S.J. Rauschert, David A. Mortensen, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Andrea N. Nord, Nora Peskin

Biological, Geological, and Environmental Faculty Publications

Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stiltgrass) is a non-native weed whose rapid invasion threatens native diversity and regeneration in forests. Using data from a 4 year experiment tracking new invasions in different habitats, we developed a spatial model of patch growth, using maximum likelihood techniques to estimate dispersal and population growth parameters. The patches expanded surprisingly slowly: in the final year, the majority of new seedlings were still within 1 m of the original patch. The influence of habitat was not as strong as anticipated, although patches created in roadside and wet meadow habitats tended to expand more rapidly and had greater …


Climate Change Comes To The Clean Water Act: Now What?, Robin Kundis Craig Mar 2010

Climate Change Comes To The Clean Water Act: Now What?, Robin Kundis Craig

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

In January 2009, the EPA agreed to respond to the Center for Biological Diversity’s (CBD’s) petition requesting it to modify its marine pH water quality criteria to reflect ocean acidification. Ocean acidification, however, is a by-product of increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thus, climate change has come to the Clean Water Act—and in May 2009, the CBD filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Washington to bring this point home. The question, of course, is what the Clean Water Act can actually contribute to efforts to deal with climate change. After reviewing the …


Actions Memo March 2010, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee Mar 2010

Actions Memo March 2010, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Action Memos

No abstract provided.


Changing Po2licy: The Elements For Improving Childhood Asthma Outcomes, Anne Rossier Markus, Meagan Lyon, Sara J. Rosenbaum Mar 2010

Changing Po2licy: The Elements For Improving Childhood Asthma Outcomes, Anne Rossier Markus, Meagan Lyon, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative

Childhood asthma is a serious and chronic health issue that affects one in seven U.S. children and their families, compromising their health and quality of life and placing a heavy financial burden on families as well as an enormous strain on the health care system. Treating, managing, and ultimately preventing and reducing the burden of asthma represents a critical test of the ability of the U.S. health system – health insurers, clinical care providers, and public health agencies – to work together. Our investigation found that, as a country, we already know enough to act and improve life for the …


Vegetation Characterization For The Lake Ontario Stopover Project, Erin E. Strobl Mar 2010

Vegetation Characterization For The Lake Ontario Stopover Project, Erin E. Strobl

Theses

Avian conservation is imperative because birds provide many beneficial ecosystem services. Bird mortality is highest during the migratory period due to habitat loss from anthropogenic land cover change. On the way to and from breeding grounds, migrants make many stopovers to refuel and rest for the next leg of their journey. The abundance, distribution, and quality of the stopover habitat are important for a successful migration. The southern shore of Lake Ontario in Western New York has received attention for conservation, because it provides critical stopover habitats for migrants. Performing vegetation and bird surveys, at specific stopover locations, provides useful …


Catalog Addendum Spring 2010, Kingsborough Community College Mar 2010

Catalog Addendum Spring 2010, Kingsborough Community College

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Center For Food Safety, Spring 2010, University Of Arkansas (System). Division Of Agriculture. Center For Food Safety Mar 2010

Center For Food Safety, Spring 2010, University Of Arkansas (System). Division Of Agriculture. Center For Food Safety

Center for Food Safety

No abstract provided.


Climbing Mount Mitigation: A Proposal For Legislative Suspension Of Climate Change "Mitigation Litigation", J. B. Ruhl Mar 2010

Climbing Mount Mitigation: A Proposal For Legislative Suspension Of Climate Change "Mitigation Litigation", J. B. Ruhl

Washington and Lee Journal of Energy, Climate, and the Environment

No abstract provided.


Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 46, March 1, 2010, Grand Valley State University Mar 2010

Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 46, March 1, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 10, 2010

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.


Town Of New Durham Stormwater Management & Erosion Control Project, Town Of Durham Mar 2010

Town Of New Durham Stormwater Management & Erosion Control Project, Town Of Durham

PREP Reports & Publications

Appledore Engineering worked with the New Durham Planning Board to develop a stormwater management and erosion control ordinance and to adopt complimentary improvements to the town’s site plan review and subdivision regulations.


Ada News - 03/01/2010, American Dental Association, Publishing Division Mar 2010

Ada News - 03/01/2010, 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.


A Climate Action Plan For Bucknell University, Wendy Chou, Dina El-Mogazi, Dennis Hawley Mar 2010

A Climate Action Plan For Bucknell University, Wendy Chou, Dina El-Mogazi, Dennis Hawley

Technical Reports

The accelerating pace of human-influenced climate change and our growing awareness of its negative public-health, environmental, and economic consequences compel decisive action. In recent years, many institutions of higher education have taken leadership roles to promote sustainability and climate neutrality at the campus level. In January 2008, Bucknell University became a signatory to the American Colleges and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). Under this agreement, Bucknell is required to prepare a comprehensive inventory of greenhouse gas emissions by May 2009, to update the inventory every other year thereafter, and to implement tangible emissions-reducing actions in the short-term (two years). The …


Spartan Daily March 1, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Mar 2010

Spartan Daily March 1, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 134, Issue 16


Addressing Relational Aggression: Assessing The Merits Of Coeducational And Gender-Specific Bullying Prevention Programs, Rena Dulberg Mar 2010

Addressing Relational Aggression: Assessing The Merits Of Coeducational And Gender-Specific Bullying Prevention Programs, Rena Dulberg

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Interviews with eight bullying prevention program directors from around the country reveal the extent to which research findings are reflected in bullying prevention programs currently in operation. Framed as a list of best practices for coeducational and gender-specific bullying prevention curricula, the purpose of the present thesis was to document the most positive contributions made by various approaches to bullying prevention programs to the overall field, and to highlight practices of programs that reflect insight into what is known about gender differences in bullying. Best practices included new approaches to empathy-building, service-learning, confidentiality, cyberbullying, positive reinforcement, reporting systems and youth-driven …


A Hidden Markov Model For Earthquake Declustering, Zhengxiao Wu Mar 2010

A Hidden Markov Model For Earthquake Declustering, Zhengxiao Wu

Research Collection School of Economics

The hidden Markov model (HMM) and related algorithms provide a powerful framework for statistical inference on partially observed stochastic processes. HMMs have been successfully implemented in many disciplines, though not as widely applied as they should be in earthquake modeling. In this article, a simple HMM earthquake occurrence model is proposed. Its performance in declustering is compared with the epidemic-type aftershock sequence model, using a data set of the central and western regions of Japan. The earthquake clusters and the single earthquakes separated using our model show some interesting geophysical differences. In particular, the log-linear Gutenberg-Richter frequency-magnitude law (G-R law) …


Wa Native Fish Strategy: Freshwater Fish Distribution Database And Website: Prepared For The Natural Resource Management (Nrm) Office – Nrm Project No. 063059, Roy Melville-Smith, Renae Larsen, Martin De Graaf, Craig Lawrence Mar 2010

Wa Native Fish Strategy: Freshwater Fish Distribution Database And Website: Prepared For The Natural Resource Management (Nrm) Office – Nrm Project No. 063059, Roy Melville-Smith, Renae Larsen, Martin De Graaf, Craig Lawrence

Fisheries Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Research Frontiers, Spring 2010, University Of Arkansas Fayetteville. Office Of University Relations Mar 2010

Research Frontiers, Spring 2010, University Of Arkansas Fayetteville. Office Of University Relations

Research Frontiers

No abstract provided.


Winter Injury In Alfalfa: Assessment And Management, Edward K. Twidwell, Kevin D. Kephart Mar 2010

Winter Injury In Alfalfa: Assessment And Management, Edward K. Twidwell, Kevin D. Kephart

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

Injury to alfalfa plants during the winter can cause serious stand losses and is a major problem in growing alfalfa in South Dakota. Stand hardiness is affected by climatic conditions, soil condi¬tions, and cultural practices.


March 1st 2010, Csusb Mar 2010

March 1st 2010, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.


Scholarworks Statistics - March 2010, Scholarworks Mar 2010

Scholarworks Statistics - March 2010, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of March 2010, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 3,661 full-text downloads.


Cooperation And Stability Through Periodic Impulse, Bo-Yu Zhang, Ross Cressman, Yi Tao Mar 2010

Cooperation And Stability Through Periodic Impulse, Bo-Yu Zhang, Ross Cressman, Yi Tao

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Basic games, where each individual chooses between two strategies, illustrate several issues that immediately emerge from the standard approach that applies strategic reasoning, based on rational decisions, to predict population behavior where no rationality is assumed. These include how mutual cooperation (which corresponds to the best outcome from the population perspective) can evolve when the only individually rational choice is to defect, illustrated by the Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD) game, and how individuals can randomize between two strategies when neither is individually rational, illustrated by the Battle of the Sexes (BS) game that models male-female conflict over parental investment in offspring. …


Shafer Court Connections (2010-03) Mar 2010

Shafer Court Connections (2010-03)

Shafer Court Connections, 1994-2010

For alumni of the Academic Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.


Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds, Volume 7, Issue 15, Wku Provost Mar 2010

Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds, Volume 7, Issue 15, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs to highlight the activities of faculty, staff and alumni.