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Numerical Modeling For In-Stream Hydrokinetic Resources Assessment, Paul Xavier Duvoy Dec 2010

Numerical Modeling For In-Stream Hydrokinetic Resources Assessment, Paul Xavier Duvoy

Engineering

"During recent years the viability of extracting river energy using hydrokinetic devices became a topic that brought in national attention due to higher fuel costs, and an increased demand of electric energy. A tool for hydrokinetic energy potential assessment in rivers, HYDROKAL, which stands for Hydrokinetic Calculator, was developed. This tool was generated in Fortran 90 programming language as an external module for the CCHE2D, an existing two-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical model developed by researchers at the National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Mississippi. Velocity outputs generated by the CCHE2D model are used by HYDROKAL to estimate instantaneous …

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Characterization And Fluid Flow Properties Of Frozen Rock Systems Of Umiat Oil Field, Alaska, Vasil Godabrelidze Dec 2010

Characterization And Fluid Flow Properties Of Frozen Rock Systems Of Umiat Oil Field, Alaska, Vasil Godabrelidze

Engineering

The Umiat field, located in northwestern Alaska between the Brooks Range and the Arctic Ocean, potentially contains the largest accumulation of oil in Naval Petroleum Reserve No.4. Most of the oil is found within the permafrost zone. The main oil-producing zones in the Umiat field are marine sandstones in the Grandstand Formation of the Cretaceous Nanushuk group. Although the temperatures are close to freezing, the oil in the Umiat field remains unfrozen due to its very high API gravity. However, this results in a very unique pore space containing frozen water and oil, posing a particular challenge to characterization and …

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"I Wonder When We'll Be In Civilization Again": Women, Alaska And The 1910 Seattle To Ophir Travel Letter Of Cinthia "Addie" Rieck, Lillian Anderson Misel Dec 2010

"I Wonder When We'll Be In Civilization Again": Women, Alaska And The 1910 Seattle To Ophir Travel Letter Of Cinthia "Addie" Rieck, Lillian Anderson Misel

Arctic and Northern Studies

Mainstream Alaskan history has largely ignored women's role in the development of the state during the early 20th century. Although mainly a male endeavor, the multiple Alaskan gold stampedes from 1899 to 1914 brought a migration of women, and they played a role in the development of the territory. The current literature of women in the north focuses primarily on the Canadian Klondike stampede of 1897-98 which saw women traveling to the gold fields for a variety of reasons, such as to support their husbands in their ventures, seek their own business opportunities, or just seek adventure. The same reasons …

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Systemic And Microcirculatory Effects Of Hboc-201: A Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier, Bjorn Song Dec 2010

Systemic And Microcirculatory Effects Of Hboc-201: A Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier, Bjorn Song

Theses and Dissertations

Top-loading This study compared the effects on oxygen (O2) transport of four fluids: 5.9% human serum albumin (HSA) a non-O2 carrying iso-oncotic solution (volume control);HBOC-201 (Hemopure, Biopure Corp., Cambridge, MA); MP50, HBOC-201 with a P50 of 18 mmHg; and lastly LP50, an HBOC-201 with P50 of 17 mmHg and higher viscosity (4 cP). It has been proposed that HBOC with a higher O2 affinity and a viscosity closer to that of whole blood will cause less vasoconstriction and thus a lower MAP than Hemopure (P50 = 40 mmHg and 2.2 cP). Intravital microscopic measurements were made on the spinotrapezius muscle …

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Scientists And Journalists: Framing The Interaction, Marie E. Gilbert Dec 2010

Scientists And Journalists: Framing The Interaction, Marie E. Gilbert

Communication

"Humans have sent fellow beings into space, created cyberspace, determined the likely origins of our universe, and identified the genetic origins of ourselves. As members of a variety of broader, general publics, each of us likely came to know about these scientific outcomes as the result of a journalist talking to a scientist, followed by the journalists' work reaching us through television, radio, a print medium, or the Web. Few members of the public are reported to understand much about science and scientists are portrayed as unable to communicate to the everyday person. The media, as the primary source of …

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New Innovation Center Director Dec 2010

New Innovation Center Director

News Releases

No abstract provided.

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The Use Of Picture Prompts To Generalize Play Skills And Parallel Play For Children With Autism, Cameron Groenwoud Dec 2010

The Use Of Picture Prompts To Generalize Play Skills And Parallel Play For Children With Autism, Cameron Groenwoud

Honors Projects

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Entropy In Two American Road Narratives, Sean Deskin Dec 2010

Entropy In Two American Road Narratives, Sean Deskin

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Tony Tanner's book City of Words analyzes American literature from 1950-1970; in the chapter entitled "Everything Running Down" the theme of entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, is explored and revealed to be a common motif within many works of American literature. Tanner's analysis does not specifically address the presence of entropy within the genre of the American road narrative; when considering his analysis presented in "Everything Running Down" with Kris Lackey's analysis of American road narratives presented in his book RoadFrames, the presence of entropy and how it is applied within the American road narrative becomes apparent. Although Jack …

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The Germans Of Roberts Cove, Louisiana: German Rice Cultivation And The Making Of A German-American Community In Acadia Parish, 1881-1917, Lydia Soileau Dec 2010

The Germans Of Roberts Cove, Louisiana: German Rice Cultivation And The Making Of A German-American Community In Acadia Parish, 1881-1917, Lydia Soileau

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Germans of Geilenkirchen-Hengesburg region of Germany were convinced by relative and friend, Father Peter Leonard Thevis, of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, to emigrate to the United States for a number of reasons: political, religious, and economic. After establishing themselves on land previously used for grazing cattle, the Germans soon discovered rice could easily be cultivated in large amounts. Along with their success as rice farmers in Roberts Cove, Louisiana, these Germans soon involved themselves in politics and engaged one another and the surrounding community in numerous court cases. These court cases, overlooked by previous historians, demonstrate that the …

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Comparison Of Power Flow Algorithms For Inclusion In On-Line Power Systems Operation Tools, Naveen Bokka Dec 2010

Comparison Of Power Flow Algorithms For Inclusion In On-Line Power Systems Operation Tools, Naveen Bokka

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this thesis is to develop a new, fast, adaptive load flow algorithm that "automatically alternates" numerical methods including Newton-Raphson method, Gauss-Seidel method and Gauss method for a load flow run to achieve less run time. Unlike the proposed method, the traditional load flow analysis uses only one numerical method at a time. This adaptive algorithm performs all the computation for finding the bus voltage angles and magnitudes, real and reactive powers for the given generation and load values, while keeping track of the proximity to convergence of a solution. This work focuses on finding the algorithm that …

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Comparative Analysis Of Wind, Solar And Landfill Gases As Alternative Sources Of Energy For Electricity Generation, Suruchi Verma Dec 2010

Comparative Analysis Of Wind, Solar And Landfill Gases As Alternative Sources Of Energy For Electricity Generation, Suruchi Verma

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The document reviews the current and projected electricity demand until the year 2030 along with the fuel mix. Several projections based on different agencies were studied in order to understand the trend of fuel mix projected to be used. Clearly, the fuel mix being used or projected is unsustainable. Depletion of fossil fuels, increasing demand and environmental impacts are some of the factors that emphasize the use of Alternative Sources of Electricity. Three of the upcoming Alternative Sources - Solar, Wind and Landfill Gases - are discussed and compared in the document. Based on the comparison, Landfill Gas projects seem …

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Estuarine Dynamics As A Function Of Barrier Island Transgression And Wetland Loss: Understanding The Transport And Exchange Processes, Jennifer Schindler Dec 2010

Estuarine Dynamics As A Function Of Barrier Island Transgression And Wetland Loss: Understanding The Transport And Exchange Processes, Jennifer Schindler

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Northern Gulf of Mexico and coastal Louisiana are experiencing accelerated relative sea level rise rates; therefore, the region is ideal for modeling the global affects of sea level rise (SLR) on estuarine dynamics in a transgressive barrier island setting. The field methods and numerical modeling in this study show that as barrier islands are converted to inner shoals, tidal exchange increases between the estuary and coastal ocean. If marshes are unable to accrete at a pace comparable to SLR, wetlands will deteriorate and the tidal exchange and tidal prism will further increase. Secondary to hurricanes, winter storms are a …

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Hello From Across The Past, Sidney Setzer Dec 2010

Hello From Across The Past, Sidney Setzer

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Hello From Across the Past is a collection of poems written either while I was enrolled at the University of New Orleans MFA program or before, in Knoxville.

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Water Quality Modeling Of Freshwater Diversions In The Barataria Basin, Jeevan Neupane Dec 2010

Water Quality Modeling Of Freshwater Diversions In The Barataria Basin, Jeevan Neupane

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A 1-D tidal, salinity and water quality model that analyzes the impacts of freshwater diversions with median and high flow on the water level, salinity and nutrient concentration of the Barataria Basin over a 2 period is presented here. The model predicts that the salinity of Lower Barataria decreases with the introduction of freshwater diversions. The model also predicts that nutrient concentration increases in Barataria Basin and decreases in Northern Gulf of Mexico with the introduction of diversions. The model shows the impact of freshwater diversions on water level except in the neighborhood of the diversion sites are small.

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A Framework Supporting Development Of Ontology-Based Web Applications, Shireesha Tankashala Dec 2010

A Framework Supporting Development Of Ontology-Based Web Applications, Shireesha Tankashala

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

We have developed a framework to support development of ontology based Web applications. This framework is composed of a tree-view browser, an attribute selector, the ontology persistence module, an ontology query module, and a utility class that allows the users, to plug-in their own customized functions. The framework supports SPARQL-DL query language. The purpose of this framework is to shield the complexity of ontology from the users and thereby ease the development of ontology based Web applications. Having high quality ontology and using this framework, the end-users can develop Web applications in many domains. For example, a professor can create …

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Development Of The Web-Based Admissions And Management System For Ielp, Luciano Ziegler Dec 2010

Development Of The Web-Based Admissions And Management System For Ielp, Luciano Ziegler

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The academic program The Intensive English Language Program (IELP) at the University of New Orleans (UNO) offers one of the most effective and diverse language programs in the United States. This thesis is to report the development of the Webbased database application that manages admissions, students learning progress, and course offering of this program. The system development followed a simplified Unified Process for Software Development (UP) using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) models such as the requirement catch model – use cases, the analysis model – activity diagrams, and the design model –communication diagrams. The new system has met and …

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University Of Nebraska At Omaha, December Commencement 2 0 1 0, University Of Nebraska At Omaha Dec 2010

University Of Nebraska At Omaha, December Commencement 2 0 1 0, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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Froeba Letter Re Use Of Mfr 1 To Gary Cohen, Mark Froeba Dec 2010

Froeba Letter Re Use Of Mfr 1 To Gary Cohen, Mark Froeba

Documents

This letter is addressed to Gary Cohen

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Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session December 17, 2010, Wmu Board Of Trustees Dec 2010

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session December 17, 2010, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Minutes of the WMU Board of Trustees December 17, 2010 meeting.

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Analysis Of A Queueing Model With Service Threshold, Kathryn Graf Dec 2010

Analysis Of A Queueing Model With Service Threshold, Kathryn Graf

Theses

We study a variation of the M/G/1 queueing model in which service time of customers is modified depending on the class to which the customers belong. Specifically, apart from the regular service time, we consider different service times for every customer who starts service after an idle and also for every (m+1)st customer. The model represents situations such as when the system requires a warm up time from a cold start (i.e.) after being idle for some time and also a system that is taken down at regular intervals perhaps for maintenance. Such systems come under the general class of …

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Implementation Of Separable & Steerable Gaussian Smoothers On An Fpga, Arjun Joginipelly Dec 2010

Implementation Of Separable & Steerable Gaussian Smoothers On An Fpga, Arjun Joginipelly

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Smoothing filters have been extensively used for noise removal and image restoration. Directional filters are widely used in computer vision and image processing tasks such as motion analysis, edge detection, line parameter estimation and texture analysis. It is practically impossible to tune the filters to all possible positions and orientations in real time due to huge computation requirement. The efficient way is to design a few basis filters, and express the output of a directional filter as a weighted sum of the basis filter outputs. Directional filters having these properties are called "Steerable Filters." This thesis work emphasis is on …

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Highly Sensitive And Selective Gas Sensors Based On Vertically Aligned Metal Oxide Nanowire Arrays, Jiajun Chen Dec 2010

Highly Sensitive And Selective Gas Sensors Based On Vertically Aligned Metal Oxide Nanowire Arrays, Jiajun Chen

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Mimicking the biological olfactory systems that consist of olfactory receptor arrays with large surface area and massively-diversified chemical reactivity, three dimensional (3D) metal oxide nanowire arrays were used as the active materials for gas detection. Metal oxide nanowire arrays share similar 3D structures as the array of mammal's olfactory receptors and the chemical reactivity of nanowire array can be modified by surface coatings. In this dissertation, two standalone gas sensors based on metal oxide nanowire arrays prepared by microfabrication and in-situ micromanipulation, respectively, have been demonstrated. The sensors based on WO3 nanowire arrays can detect 50 ppb NO2 with a …

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Implementation Of Directional Median Filtering Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Madhuri Gundam Dec 2010

Implementation Of Directional Median Filtering Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Madhuri Gundam

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Median filtering is a non-linear filtering technique which is effective in removing impulsive noise from data. In this thesis, directional median filtering has been implemented using cumulative histogram of samples in several directions. Different methods to implement directional median filtering have been proposed. The filtered images are smoothed along the direction of the filtering window. All implementations aimed to generate outputs in the least amount of time, while reducing the resource utilization on hardware. The implementation methods were designed for Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA devices but were also attempted on Spartan 3E. The proposed methods used less than 30% of …

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Software Renovation: An In-House Perspective With Case Studies, Brian Horton Dec 2010

Software Renovation: An In-House Perspective With Case Studies, Brian Horton

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Programs are not only a tool for the simplification or automation of everyday tasks; they also represent a significant time and money investment. A program's life may span years, or even decades, which creates certain risks for the stakeholders involved. To mitigate the risks associated with these legacy systems, software renovation can be undertaken. Software renovation can be described as a series of processes and/or tools used to modernize a legacy system, thereby preserving and maintaining the investment it represents while decreasing the risks associated with it. In this thesis, the focus is on renovation of software created by in-house …

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The Making Of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies For Public Space, Nels Abrams Dec 2010

The Making Of Audubon Park: Competing Ideologies For Public Space, Nels Abrams

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of Progressivism at the beginning of the twentieth century influenced many aspects of American society. One of those aspects was urban parks. In the latter half of the nineteenth century Frederick Law Olmsted led a nationwide implementation of "Victorian" parks. These parks featured broad expanses of turf, waterways, and trees. Olmsted and the other Victorian park leaders designed the parks to cultivate Victorian values of self-restraint and independence among the citizenry. With the rise of Progressivism the ideals of the middle class changed. Led by Theodore Roosevelt, millions of Americans embraced the "strenuous life" and its emphasis on …

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Albert Baldwin Wood, The Screw Pump, And The Modernization Of New Orleans, Nicole Romagossa Dec 2010

Albert Baldwin Wood, The Screw Pump, And The Modernization Of New Orleans, Nicole Romagossa

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Albert Baldwin Wood and his screw pumps modernized New Orleans by bringing flood-free streets and cleaner water to the city while providing the potential for growth by pumping swamp lands dry. While Wood was never part of the local Progressive movement, his work with the pumps fit with Progressive initiatives for modernization. At first, the screw pumps removed rain water from the streets. Then New Orleans expanded the drainage to include sewerage removal and water purification. The pumps successfully drained thousands of acres of land once considered uninhabitable swamp land. This additional land extended New Orleans city limits but also …

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Wider Than A Mile, Natalie Parker-Lawrence Dec 2010

Wider Than A Mile, Natalie Parker-Lawrence

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Effects Of Rhes On Opioid Analgesia, Franklin Lee Dec 2010

The Effects Of Rhes On Opioid Analgesia, Franklin Lee

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Rhes (Ras homolog enriched in striatum) has been identified as a novel monomeric G-protein involved in dopaminergic and other signaling in the striatum. Given the many effects of opioids that involve striatal circuitry, genetically engineered mice that are incapable of making Rhes (rhes-/-) and their control littermates (rhes+/+) were subjected to behavioral tests to determine if any differences existed in opioid analgesia, tolerance, withdrawal, reward, and locomotion. Rhes-/- mice showed an increased opioid mediated analgesia, along with an absence of tolerance and decrease in withdrawal when compared with rhes+/+ littermates. However, no significant changes were seen in opioid induced locomotor …

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Forensic Reconstruction Of Fragmented Variable Bitrate Mp3 Files, Abhilash Sajja Dec 2010

Forensic Reconstruction Of Fragmented Variable Bitrate Mp3 Files, Abhilash Sajja

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

File carving is a technique used to recover data from a digital device without the help of file system metadata. The current file carvers use techniques such as using a list of header and footer values and key word searching to retrieve the information specific to a file type. These techniques tend to fail when the files to be recovered are fragmented. Recovering the fragmented files is one of the primary challenges faced by file carving. In this research we focus on Variable Bit Rate (VBR) MP3 files. MP3 is one of the most widely used file formats for storing …

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Spiral Welded Pipe Piles For Structures In Southeastern Louisiana, Leeland Richard Dec 2010

Spiral Welded Pipe Piles For Structures In Southeastern Louisiana, Leeland Richard

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In an effort to obtain 100-year level hurricane protection for southeastern Louisiana, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has implemented design guidelines that both levees and structures shall be designed to. Historically, USACE has used concrete piles or steel H-piles as the foundations for these structures. Because of the magnitude of obtaining 100-year level hurricane protection, limited resources, and a condensed timeline, spiral welded pipe piles can be manufactured as an alternative to either the concrete piles or steel H-piles. This research will provide the necessary background for understanding pile foundations, will compare the behaviors of spiral welded pipe …

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