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4-D Modeling Of Displacement Vector Fields For Improved Radiation Therapy, Elizabeth Zachariah

Theses and Dissertations

In radiation therapy, it is imperative to deliver high doses of radiation to the tumor while reducing radiation to the healthy tissue. Respiratory motion is the most significant source of errors during treatment. Therefore, it is essential to accurately model respiratory motion for precise and effective radiation delivery. Many approaches exist to account for respiratory motion, such as controlled breath hold and respiratory gating, and they have been relatively successful. They still present many drawbacks. Thus, research has been expanded to tumor tracking. This paper presents a spatio-temporal model for four dimensional CT reconstruction. The method begins with a set …

2010-12-10, Board Of Regents, Murray State University

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Navigation With Limited Prior Information Using Time Difference Of Arrival Measurements From Signals Of Opportunity, Christopher M. Rondeau

Theses and Dissertations

The Global Positioning System (GPS) provides world-wide availability to high-accuracy navigation and positioning information. However, the threats to GPS are increasing, and many limitations of GPS are being encountered. Simultaneously, systems previously considered as viable backups or supplements to GPS are being shut down. This creates the need for system alternatives. Navigation using signals of opportunity (SoOP) exploits any signal that is available in a given area, regardless of whether or not the original intent of the signal was for navigation. Common techniques to compute a position estimate using SoOP include received signal strength, angle of arrival, time of arrival, …

Moving Ground Target Tracking In Urban Terrain Using Air/Ground Vehicles, Timothy Mclain, Randal W. Beard, Mark Owen, Huili Yu

Faculty Publications

In this paper, we present a framework for tracking a moving target in urban environments using UAVs in cooperation with UGVs. The framework takes into account occlusions between the sensor and the target. The target state is modeled using the dynamic occupancy grid and the target motion model is built using a second-order Markov chain. Based on the target occupancy grid, we design the path planning algorithm to maneuver the UAV and the UGV to configurations where they can detect the target with high probability. Simulation results show the framework is successful in solving the target tracking problem in urban …

Early Life Dynamics In Tropical Western Atlantic And Caribbean Snappers (Lutjanidae) And Barracudas (Sphyraenidae), Evan K. D'Alessandro

Open Access Dissertations

Processes occurring during the early life of marine fishes encompassing the larval, settlement, and juvenile stages can have important impacts on recruitment and subsequent population dynamics. Yet these life stages remain poorly understood, especially in coral reef-associated species of commercial and recreational fisheries interest. Two years (2003-2004) of monthly sampling of 17 stations along a transect spanning the east-west axis of the Straits of Florida revealed consistent spatiotemporal patterns in larval abundance, growth, and mortality of several snapper and barracuda species. Much of the species-specific variability in these patterns tracked adult life history, and spatial (several snapper species) and temporal …

The Minutes Of The Marshall University Board Of Governors Meeting, December 9, 2010, Marshall University Board Of Governors

Board of Governors Minutes

No abstract provided.

Gsu View, 2010-12-09, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

The Advocate, December 9, 2010, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

Macalester Board Elects Two New Trustees, Macalester College

College Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Automatic Media Segmentation Within Ieee 1599–2008, Antonello D'Aguanno, Luca A. Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro

Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering Faculty Research

This paper deals with the automatic extraction of synchronization data from IEEE 1599-2008, an XML-based standard aiming at a comprehensive description of music. Within such format, audio tracks and video contents related to the same music piece can be referred to the occurrence of symbolic music events. In this way, digital objects are mutually synchronized, too. The goal is to show how timing information can be easily extracted from an IEEE 1599-2008 file, converted into a suitable format, and finally employed in a multimedia editing environment in order to produce an automatic segmentation of media objects.

Spartan Daily December 9, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 135, Issue 53

Daniel And Work, Theology Of Work Project, Kenneth Matthews

Theology of Work Project

1. Introduction to Daniel
2. Is Daniel a Model for Christians Today?
3. The Big Picture of the Book of Daniel
4. Introduction: In Exile at Babylon U. (Daniel 1)
5. Theme A: God will Overthrow Pagan Kingdoms and Replace Them with His Own Kingdom (Daniel 2)
6. Theme B: Sufferings, Yet Rewards, for Faithful Witnesses to God in the Meantime (Daniel 3)
7. Theme C: Humbling and Overthrow of the Pagan King (Daniel 4)
8. Theme C Revisited: Humbling and Overthrow of the Pagan King (Daniel 5)
9. Theme B Revisited: Sufferings, Yet Rewards, for Faithful Witnesses to God in the Meantime (Daniel 6)
10. Theme A Revisited: God …

Miller Family Papers (Mss 324), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 324. Collection consists of a physician's daybook kept by David Griffin Miller, Jr. in Butler County, Kentucky, 1937-1938, and some other material related to Miller's medical career. Also included are numerous photographs from the Miller and Hudson families and a memoir by David Griffin Miller III.

Technology: How To Stay Out Of Court, Erin Jozwiak, Heather Thomas, Jackie Pillow, George Taylor Ii

Parameters of Law in Student Affairs and Higher Education (CNS 670)

It is hard to believe that over a century ago business professionals, educators, high school and college students were writing letters with a pen and ink, making telephone calls on a land line phone, and physically making home visits to family and friends. In today’s society, texting has replaced phone calls, picture and video messaging has replaced face to face conversation, emails has replaced letter writing and social networking is changing the face of how electronic communication is viewed along and administered.

Electronic communication has led the way in this new millennium of communication and because technology is changing so …

Ua2/1 Board Of Regents Meeting Minutes, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

The Regents began by meeting quarterly in March, June, September and December with a special meeting to be called at graduation for the signing of diplomas. The basic agenda for meetings is:

1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Reading of Minutes
4. President's Report
5. Communications
6. Bills and Orders
7. Report of Standing Committees
8. Reports of Special Committees
9. Miscellaneous Business

The minutes are photocopies of originals and are arranged in chronological order. For every year there will be information regarding budgets, faculty and staff hired along with salaries, and changes in curriculum. Early minutes include lists of graduates.

Executive Committee meeting minutes have been …

Rehabilitate The Urban Context By Rehabilitating Individuals Through The Rehabilitation Of Buildings, Paloma Del Mar Riego

Architecture Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

The Carroll News- Vol. 87, No. 11, John Carroll University

The Carroll News

No abstract provided.

12-09-2010 Swosu Announces Fall Graduates, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2010

Approximately 310 students from Southwestern Oklahoma State University at Weatherford will complete requirements for either bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees after the current Fall 2010 semester.

Kenyon Collegian - December 9, 2010

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Preservation And Growth Strategies For The Randolph County Archives Of Oral History: Using The Oral History Evaluation Guidelines To Improve A Pre-Existing Program, Derek Allen Clements

Student Theses and Dissertations

Founded in 2006 in Pocahontas, Arkansas, the Randolph County of Oral History (RCAOH) sough to collect the stories of Randolph County's elderly residents in conjunction with the Pocahontas sesquicentennial celebration. After the formation of the Randolph County Heritage Museum (RCHM), the RCAOH was placed under its care. The success of programs and displays developed at the RCHM overshadowed the RCAOH. Forgotten, it was left virtually unattended. Attempting to salvage the program, Clements used the Oral History Association's Oral History and Evaluation Guidelines to analyze the condition of the RCAOH. Identifying a number of areas for improvement, plans were developed to …

Drop-In Concurrent Api Replacement For Exploration, Test, And Debug, Everett Allen Morse

Theses and Dissertations

Complex concurrent APIs are difficult to reason about annually due to the exponential growth in the number of feasible schedules. Testing against reference solutions of these APIs is equally difficult as reference solutions implement an unknown set of allowed behaviors, and programmers have no way to directly control schedules or API internals to expose or reproduce errors. The work in this paper mechanically generates a drop-in replacement for a concurrent API from a formal specification. The specification is a guarded command system with first-order logic that is compiled into a core calculus. The term rewriting system is connected to actual …

The Pan American (2010-12-09), Kristen Cabrera

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 67, No. 13

Developing Repository Collections — The Benefits Matter Most, Marianne A. Buehler

Library Faculty Presentations

Presentation Contents:
We have an IR-now what?
Open access mandates
Value proposition of mandates
ETD mandates
Timing can be everything
Campus content: Build relationships
Strategic repository collaborators
Engagement
Strategic repository partnerships

The Alestle - Vol. 63 No. 15 - 12/09/2010, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 63 No. 15

Évaluation De L’Implantation Des Conseils De Sécurité Par Les Usagers : Le Cas Du Guide De L’Utilisateur Relatif À La Sécurité Des Convoyeurs : Phase Exploratoire, Lise Desmarais, Laurent Giraud, Jennifer Bélanger, Julie Trépanier

Rapports de recherche scientifique

En 2003, l'IRSST et la CSST publiaient un document intitulé Sécurité des convoyeurs à courroie : généralités, protection contre les phénomènes dangereux : guide de l'utilisateur, pour favoriser la réduction du nombre d'accidents, souvent graves, reliés à l'utilisation de ces appareils dans plusieurs secteurs industriels. Tiré à 13 000 exemplaires, ce guide propose une série de mesures visant à sécuriser au maximum l'usage et l'entretien des convoyeurs. Afin d’avoir une meilleure compréhension du transfert de connaissances, les auteurs ont évalué le degré d'appropriation et d'application, par les milieux de travail, des conseils de prévention énoncés dans ce guide. Ils …

Republic Of Latvia: 2010 Article Iv Consultation Staff Report; Public Information Notice On The Executive Board Discussion; And Statement By The Executive Director For The Republic Of Latvia, International Monetary Fund (Imf)

Documents

No abstract provided.

Identifying Potential Applications For Lamina Emergent Mechanisms And Evaluating Their Suitability For Credit-Card-Sized Products, Nathan Bryce Albrechtsen

Theses and Dissertations

Lamina emergent mechanisms (LEMs) are a maturing technology that is prepared for commercial implementation into new products. LEMs are defined by three functional characteristics; they (1) are compliant, (2) are fabricated from planar materials, and (3) emerge from a flat initial state. Advantages, design challenges, and design tools are described for each of the functional characteristics. Opportunities for LEMs are discussed, namely disposable LEMs, novel arrays of LEMs, scaled LEMs, LEMs with surprising motion, shock absorbing LEMs, and deployable LEMs. Technology push product development processes were employed to select applications for LEMs. LEM technology was characterized. In a LEM workshop, …

Space Science Program: Spotlight Presentation To The Msu Board Of Regents, Robert J. Twiggs

Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection

A PowerPoint Presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "Space Science Program: Spotlight Presentation to the MSU Board of Regents" from December 9, 2010.

The Weather Forecast Fortoday In Space!Exploring Our Space Environment & Satellite Orbits, Robert J. Twiggs

Robert "Bob" Twiggs STEM Education Collection

A PowerPoint Presentation created by Professor Bob Twiggs titled "The Weather Forecast forToday in Space!Exploring our space environment & satellite orbits" from December 9, 2010.

Design Of A Near-Constant Force Spring For Orthopedic Implants, Christopher Hartman, Paul Rotarius

Honors Theses

The design and testing of a spring assembly for the attachment of an orthopedic implant is presented. The assembly is intended to supply a constant compressive force of approximately 800 lb. at the bone-implant interface, while exhibiting insensitivity to changes in the displacement of the clamping device. This near-constant force will aid in-growth of bone tissue at the implant surface. This constant compressive force was ultimately not attained due to the packaging dimensions and materials available. However, significant improvement was made upon the current design in use by lowering the spring constant around 800 lb.

The final assembly fits in …