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Safeguarding The Security Of Public Water Supplies Using Early Warning Systems: A Brief Review, Jafrul Hasan, Stanley States, Rolf Deininger

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Linking Public Health And Water Utilities To Improve Emergency Response, R. J. Gelting, M. D. Miller

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Water Treatment And Equipment Decontamination Techniques, Kim R. Fox

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Responding To Threats And Incidents Of Intentional Drinking Water Contamination, Steven C. Allgeier, Matthew L. Magnuson

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Water Security Research And Policy: Epa’S Water Security Research And Technical Support Action Plan, Jonathan G. Herrmann, Grace M. Robiou

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 Stress Busters, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special finals week edition of the College Heights Herald.

• Final Exam Schedule
• Frasier, Aaron. Official Offers Tips to Avoid Stress During Finals – Counseling & Testing Center
• Alleyne, Zirconia. Tips to Successful Studying
• Honors College Graduates Class of 2010

Curricular Affairs Committee Minutes December 13, 2010, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee Reports and Appendices

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes, December 13, 2010, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Council on Teacher Education Report - Francine Johnson
• Scholarship Advisory Board Report - Chelise Elwood
• EPC Items - Larry Smith
• PRPC Items - Bob Parson
• ASUSU Common Hour - Vince Wickwar
• Code Compliance Committee Renewal - Vince Wickwar
• Tenure-Review Timetable - Ed Heath

Isomer-Dependent Adsorption And Release Of Cis- And Trans-Platin Anticancer Drugs By Mesopomus Silica Nanoparticles, Zhimin Tao, Youwei Xie, Jerry Goodisman, Tewodros Asefa

Chemistry - All Scholarship

We report on adsorption and release of the anticancer drugs cisplatin and transplatin from mesoporous silica nanomaterials, emphasizing the differences between cisplatin and its much less toxic isomer. Two types of particles, M.CM-41 and SBA-IS, were used, either as just synthesized or after calcination to remove the templates. The particles were characterized by TEM, nitrogen physisorption, and elemental analysis. The UV-vis spectra of cisplatin and transplatin were obtained and the intensities of several bands (205-210 nm, 210-220 nm, 220-235 nm, and 300-330 nm) were found proportional to drug concentrations, allowing their use for measuring drug concentration. To evaluate drug adsorption …

Healthcare Reform And Medical Data Security And Privacy, Patricia Mactaggart, Stephanie Fiore

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

U.S. health care delivery and administration have undergone transformations that create an expansive demand for health information technology. The concepts put forth in health care reform are reliant on an evolving health information technology infrastructure and the successes of both are dependent on consumer/patient "trust". Every action is interdependent. Each decision is a balance between ease of use, privacy and security concerns of consumers/patients, practicality, costs and political will. The goal is finding the best balance within an appropriate legal framework at the state and federal level so the pieces fit into one complete picture when implemented.

Walkable Neighborhoods Richer In Social Capital, Unh Study Finds, Beth Potier

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Inna Golod V. Bank Of Amer Corp

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Identifying The Quantum Correlations In Light-Harvesting Complexes, Kamil Brádler, Mark M. Wilde, Sai Vinjanampathy, Dmitry B. Uskov

Faculty Publications

One of the major efforts in the quantum biological program is to subject biological systems to standard tests or measures of quantumness. These tests and measures should elucidate whether nontrivial quantum effects may be present in biological systems. Two such measures of quantum correlations are the quantum discord and the relative entropy of entanglement. Here, we show that the relative entropy of entanglement admits a simple analytic form when dynamics and accessible degrees of freedom are restricted to a zero- and single-excitation subspace. We also simulate and calculate the amount of quantum discord that is present in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein …

Top Quark Mass Measurement In The Lepton+Jets Channel Using A Matrix Element Method And In Situ Jet Energy Calibration, T. Aaltonen, B. Álvarez González, S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, A. Annovi, J. Antos, G. Apollinari, J. A. Appel, A. Apresyan, T. Arisawa, A. Artikov, J. Asaadi, W. Ashmanskas, B. Auerbach, A. Aurisano, F. Azfar, W. Badgett, A. Barbaro-Galtieri, V. E. Barnes, B. A. Barnett, P. Barria, P. Bartos, M. Bauce, G. Bauer, F. Bedeschi, D. Beecher, S. Behari

Faculty Publications

A precision measurement of the top quark mass mt is obtained using a sample of tt̄ events from pp̄ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron with the CDF II detector. Selected events require an electron or muon, large missing transverse energy, and exactly four high-energy jets, at least one of which is tagged as coming from a b quark. A likelihood is calculated using a matrix element method with quasi-Monte Carlo integration taking into account finite detector resolution and jet mass effects. The event likelihood is a function of mt and a parameter ΔJES used to calibrate the jet energy scale …

Improved Search For A Higgs Boson Produced In Association With Z→L+L- In Pp̄ Collisions At √S=1.96tev, T. Aaltonen, B. Álvarez González, S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, A. Annovi, J. Antos, G. Apollinari, J. A. Appel, A. Apresyan, T. Arisawa, A. Artikov, J. Asaadi, W. Ashmanskas, B. Auerbach, A. Aurisano, F. Azfar, W. Badgett, A. Barbaro-Galtieri, V. E. Barnes, B. A. Barnett, P. Barria, P. Bartos, M. Bauce, G. Bauer, F. Bedeschi, D. Beecher, S. Behari

Faculty Publications

We search for the standard model Higgs boson produced with a Z boson in 4.1fb⊃-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron. In events consistent with the decay of the Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair and the Z boson to electrons or muons, we set 95% credibility level upper limits on the ZH production cross section multiplied by the H→bb̄ branching ratio. Improved analysis methods enhance signal sensitivity by 20% relative to previous searches. At a Higgs boson mass of 115GeV/c2 we set a limit of 5.9 times the standard model cross section. © …

December 13, 2010 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Web-Based Ide To Create Model And Controller Components For Mvc-Based Web Applications On Cakephp, Sugiharto Widjaja

Master's Projects

A Web-based IDE that allows users to easily manage Model and Controller components of a CakePHP web application was developed. With this IDE, users are able to manage the model and controller components without having to write very much PHP code. They are able to create new model components without having to worry about creating the database tables for the models as the IDE creates them automatically. The IDE offers a simple interface for users to edit the schema of their models. Users can add or delete data from their models without dealing with the SQL insert/delete statements. The IDE …

Hill, Elighu Eldrid, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Interviewee: Eldrid Hill

Interviewer: Dr. Mark Niason, Ricardo Soto-Lopez, Dana Driskell

Summarized by Sheina Ledesma

Eldrid Hill is a former lieutenant of the New York City Fire Department who has been a long time resident of both Harlem and the Bronx. He has also been deeply involved in local politics and urban planning and a member of Community Board 3 in the Bronx for several decades. Hill was born on July 12, 1928 in Harlem. His mother was from the Dutch side of the island of St. Martin while his father was from St. Kitts. His father was an alcoholic …

Making Business Process Reengineering (Bpr) Programmes Work: Case Of Kamal Steel Company, George S. Mwaluko

Business Management Review

It has been shown that improvement in sales revenue obtained through the implementation of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) programmes is ten times the improvement realised through the implementation of Total Quality Management programmes. However, the failure rate of BPR programmes has been shown to be high, about 70%. Most writers have confined themselves to identifying the causes of the failure of BPR programmes. The author argues that the high failure rate of BPR programmes is caused by the fact that the development of their implementation frameworks is not based on the causes of failure of BPR programmes. In this paper …

Determination Of Level Of Imports In The Construction Industry In Tanzania, Robert Suphian

Business Management Review

The construction industry has to be competitive and be able to undertake most of the construction projects in Tanzania and export its services and product according to the Tanzania construction policy. This is contrary to the fact that the industry is dominated by Foreign Service providers to the tune of approximately 70 percent in terms of market share. This study employed an econometric model estimation to answer the question of what determined import for construction services in Tanzania for the period 1985-2008. The Ordinary Least Square technique was adopted and applied for regression analysis using Stata 10 software. The findings …

Demand For Accountants In Botswana: Views Of Employers, Christian J. Mbekomize

Business Management Review

The objective of this study was to explore the problem of shortage of accountants in Botswana in order to establish which types of accountants are in short supply, identify the sector of the economy which has been most affected by the shortage and find out how this shortage could be curtailed. A survey of the views of employers of accountants revealed the vacancy rate of professional accountants in Botswana as 15% of the establishment, with that the ratio of local to expatriate accountants about 1:1. These findings do not support the findings by the Botswana Institute of Accountants in 2009, …

Supplemental Specifications (Section 500) Of The Standard Specifications For Road And Bridge Construction, March 1, 2006, Tennessee. Department Of Transportation.

TDOT Standard Specifications

No abstract provided.

Performance Analysis Of Arithmetic Operations In Homomorphic Encryption, Jibang Liu, Yung-Hsiang Lu, Cheng-Kok Koh

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Homomorphic encryption allows computation on encrypted data and may protect privacy in cloud computing. Is homomorphic encryption ready for deployment? This paper is an attempt to answer the question.

Monitoring Soil Quality To Assess The Sustainability Of Harvesting Corn Stover, Douglas L. Karlen, Gary E. Varvel, Jane M.F. Johnson, John M. Baker, Shannon L. Osborne, Jeff M. Novak, Paul R. Adler, Greg W. Roth, Stuart J. Birrell

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Harvesting feedstock for biofuel production must not degrade soil, water, or air resources. Our objective is to provide an overview of field research being conducted to quantify effects of harvesting corn (Zea mays L.) stover as a bioenergy feedstock. Coordinated fi eld studies are being conducted near Ames, IA; St. Paul and Morris, MN; Mead, NE; University Park, PA; Florence, SC; and Brookings, SD., as part of the USDA-ARS Renewable Energy Assessment Project (REAP). A baseline soil quality assessment was made using the Soil Management Assessment Framework (SMAF). Corn grain and residue yield for two diff erent stover harvest rates …

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (December 13, 2010), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on December 13, 2010.

Lanthorn, Vol. 45, No. 31, December 13, 2010, Grand Valley State University

Volume 45, July 8, 2010 - June 9, 2011

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

Dihomotopic Deadlock Detection Via Progress Shell Decomposition, David A. Cape, Stephen C. Jackson, Bruce M. Mcmillin

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

The classical problem of deadlock detection for concurrent programs has traditionally been accomplished by symbolic methods or by search of a state transition system. This work examines an approach that uses geometric semantics involving the topological notion of dihomotopy to partition the state space into components, followed by search of a reduced state space. Prior work partitioned the state-space inductively. in this work, a decomposition technique motivated by recursion coupled with a search guided by the decomposition is shown to effectively reduce the size of state transition systems. the reduced state space yields asymptotic improvement in overall runtime for verification. …

2010-12-13 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2010

No abstract provided.

Smokejumper Obituary: Vangundy, Steve (Redding 1998), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 12, 2010, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2010

No abstract provided.