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Usa V. Christian Dec 2010

Usa V. Christian

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands


Uab's Alys Stephens Center Presents Spencers Theatre Of Illusion, Shannon Thomason Dec 2010

Uab's Alys Stephens Center Presents Spencers Theatre Of Illusion, Shannon Thomason

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Uab's Alys Stephens Center Presents Spencers Theatre Of Illusion, Staff Dec 2010

Uab's Alys Stephens Center Presents Spencers Theatre Of Illusion, Staff

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No abstract provided.


Introduction To Stormwater Management, William F. Hunt Dec 2010

Introduction To Stormwater Management, William F. Hunt

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

No abstract provided.


Improving Urban Stormwater Quality: Applying Fundamental Principles, Allen P. Davis, Robert G. Traver, William F. Hunt Dec 2010

Improving Urban Stormwater Quality: Applying Fundamental Principles, Allen P. Davis, Robert G. Traver, William F. Hunt

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Urban stormwater runoff is a growing contributor to the impairment of surface waters. Nature-based technologies, including green roofs, vegetated swales, grassed filter strips, bioretention, and pervious pavements have been demonstrated to be effective in mitigating detrimental runoff characteristics. Lacking, however, has been a fundamental engineering analysis approach to these technologies. Current design guidance is based on empirical recommendations and most performance data are based on limited, localized observations. Flow balances, including infiltration, evapotranspiration and surface discharge, based on fundamental fluid dynamics principles can be employed through analysis to understand flow management. Water quality improvements will occur through a specific unit …


The Runoff Reduction Method, Joseph Battiata, Kelly Collins, David Hirschman, Greg Hoffmann Dec 2010

The Runoff Reduction Method, Joseph Battiata, Kelly Collins, David Hirschman, Greg Hoffmann

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

The Runoff Reduction Method (RRM) provides an innovative approach to crediting the total performance of stormwater best management practices (BMPs). Total BMP performance refers to the pollutant removal and runoff volume reduction capabilities. The RRM tracks the implementation of stormwater BMPs, including Low Impact Development (LID) strategies such as permeable pavement, rainwater harvesting, downspout disconnection, soil amendments, etc., and credits the appropriate runoff volume reduction, pollutant concentration reduction, or both towards compliance with stormwater quality and quantity requirements. By providing a mechanism to credit the volume reduction associated with these LID strategies the RRM also documents an allowable reduction of …


Wetlands And Ponds For Stormwater Treatment In Subtropical Australia: Their Effectiveness In Enhancing Biodiversity And Improving Water Quality?, Margaret Greenway Dec 2010

Wetlands And Ponds For Stormwater Treatment In Subtropical Australia: Their Effectiveness In Enhancing Biodiversity And Improving Water Quality?, Margaret Greenway

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Stormwater best management practice is aimed at reducing potential downstream impacts on aquatic ecosystem health. Sediment basins, wetlands and ponds are commonly used in subtropical Australia for water-quality improvement; they also have the potential to enhance aquatic biodiversity in urbanised catchments. Two retrofit field sites in Brisbane, Australia were monitored for water quality and ecosystem health. The Golden Pond "wetland system" treatment train consisted of a sediment basin and two wetlands. The Bridgewater Creek "pond system", consisted of a sediment basin and five ponds. Suspended solids were reduced during wet weather, but increased during dry weather due to resuspension by …


Past Issues Of The Journal Of Contemporary Water Research And Education Dec 2010

Past Issues Of The Journal Of Contemporary Water Research And Education

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

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Consistent Probabilities In Wheeler-Dewitt Quantum Cosmology, David A. Craig, Parampreet Singh Dec 2010

Consistent Probabilities In Wheeler-Dewitt Quantum Cosmology, David A. Craig, Parampreet Singh

Faculty Publications

We give an explicit, rigorous framework for calculating quantum probabilities in a model theory of quantum gravity. Specifically, we construct the decoherence functional for the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology with a free, massless, minimally coupled scalar field, thus providing a complete decoherent histories formulation for this quantum cosmological model. The decoherence functional is applied to study predictions concerning the model's Dirac (relational) observables; the behavior of semiclassical states and superpositions of such states; and to study the singular behavior of quantum Wheeler-DeWitt universes. Within this framework, rigorous formulas are given for calculating the corresponding probabilities from the …


Study On Algebras With Retractions And Planes Over A Dvr., Prosenjit Das Dr. Dec 2010

Study On Algebras With Retractions And Planes Over A Dvr., Prosenjit Das Dr.

Doctoral Theses

Aim:The main aim of this thesis is to study the following problems:1. For a Noetherian ring R, to find a set of minimal sufficient fibre conditions for an R-algebra with a retraction to R to be an A1-fibration over R.2. To investigate sufficient conditions for a factorial A1-form, with a retraction to the base ring, to be A1.3. To investigate whether planes of the form b(X, Y)Zn – a(X, Y) are co- ordinate planes in the polynomial ring in three variables X, Y and Z over a discrete valuation ring.The 1st problem will be discussed in Chapter 3 entitled Codimension- …


Minimum Description Length Measures Of Evidence For Enrichment, Zhenyu Yang, David R. Bickel Dec 2010

Minimum Description Length Measures Of Evidence For Enrichment, Zhenyu Yang, David R. Bickel

COBRA Preprint Series

In order to functionally interpret differentially expressed genes or other discovered features, researchers seek to detect enrichment in the form of overrepresentation of discovered features associated with a biological process. Most enrichment methods treat the p-value as the measure of evidence using a statistical test such as the binomial test, Fisher's exact test or the hypergeometric test. However, the p-value is not interpretable as a measure of evidence apart from adjustments in light of the sample size. As a measure of evidence supporting one hypothesis over the other, the Bayes factor (BF) overcomes this drawback of the p-value but lacks …


Stormwater Management For A Record Rainstorm At Chicago, Stanley A. Changnon Dec 2010

Stormwater Management For A Record Rainstorm At Chicago, Stanley A. Changnon

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

A record setting 24-hour rainstorm hit Chicago in September 2008. It created an opportunity to assess its impacts and to compare the storm water management with that used in other recent rainstorms. Flooding impacted all forms of transportation and thousands of homes and businesses, 10,000 homes had to be evacuated. One lesson learned is that this storm's magnitude was enhanced by urban and lake influences on the atmosphere that extended over the large suburban areas west of the city. This helped intensify the rainfall over a large area. A second lesson learned is when 6-hour and 24-hour rainfall amounts exceed …


Nesting Ecology Of The Mississippi And Swallow-Tailed Kite In White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas, Scott James Chiavacci Dec 2010

Nesting Ecology Of The Mississippi And Swallow-Tailed Kite In White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas, Scott James Chiavacci

Student Theses and Dissertations

The Swallow-tailed (Elanoides forficatus; STKI) and Mississippi kite (Ictinia mississippiensis; MIKI) both express relatively poor reproductive success in White River National Wildlife Refuge (WRNWR), east-central Arkansas. I studied the nesting ecology of both species in WRNWR to determine factors contributing to their low nest survival. I located 41 MIKI nests from 2008-2009 and documented 8 causes of nest failure. The overall estimated probability of nest survival was ~25%, but estimated daily nest survival varied between nest periods among and across years. I found no consistent predictors of nest survival among the variables I measured. Also, I determined snake excluder devices, …


Maintenance For Stormwater Treatment Practices, Andrew J. Erickson, John S. Gulliver, Joo-Hyon Kang, Peter T. Weiss, C. Bruce Wilson Dec 2010

Maintenance For Stormwater Treatment Practices, Andrew J. Erickson, John S. Gulliver, Joo-Hyon Kang, Peter T. Weiss, C. Bruce Wilson

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Maintenance is imperative to preserve performance and extend useable life of stormwater treatment practices. Increased attention to mass balance, numerical goals, total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), and antidegradation requirements has created the need for more emphasis on stormwater treatment practice maintenance in order to meet permitting and reporting requirements. The purpose of this paper is to advance short and long-term maintenance considerations so as to develop more realistic maintenance plans. To do so, a municipal public works survey was developed, distributed, and the results were analyzed. The results of the survey revealed that most (61 percent) cities and counties perform …


Macmillan Publishing Releases America And The British Imaginary In Turn-Of-The-Century Literature By Brook Miller, University Relations Dec 2010

Macmillan Publishing Releases America And The British Imaginary In Turn-Of-The-Century Literature By Brook Miller, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Miller's research and writing on varied British literary representations of America and Americans around the turn-of-the-century have received excellent reviews.


Morris Included In National Wildlife Federation’S 2010 Campus Sustainability Database, University Relations Dec 2010

Morris Included In National Wildlife Federation’S 2010 Campus Sustainability Database, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The online resource highlights United States campuses going “green” and teaching “green.”


Preliminary Analysis Of Thermally Induced Condensed Phase Electron Transfer Reactions Of Cadmium Chloride And Lead Chloride With Electropositive Metals, Vamshi Addaguduru Dec 2010

Preliminary Analysis Of Thermally Induced Condensed Phase Electron Transfer Reactions Of Cadmium Chloride And Lead Chloride With Electropositive Metals, Vamshi Addaguduru

Student Theses and Dissertations

The thermal stabilities and thermal decomposition for the metal halides, cadmium chloride and lead chloride with electropositive metals like Mn, Zn, Cr and Fe were studied at elevated temperatures using thermal analysis techniques, thermogravimetry and differential thermal analysis using TG/DTA apparatus. The reactions of cadmium chloride and lead chloride with electropositive metals were conducted in Cu pans and found that Zinc metal may show a reaction with both CdCl2 and PbCl2; Manganese may not react with CdCl2 and may react with PbCl2; iron may react with CdCl2 but not with PbCl2 and chromium may not react with both the metal …


The Physical And Psychological Stress Of Police Officers, Elizabeth Ann Gilbert Dec 2010

The Physical And Psychological Stress Of Police Officers, Elizabeth Ann Gilbert

Student Theses and Dissertations

The purposes of this study was to (1) determine health-related and job-related fitness scores of Jonesboro, AR polices officers and (2) determine self-reported psychological stress levels of these officers. The fitness tests included blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), vertical jump, Illinois agility test, one-repetition bench press maximum, curl-up test, push-up test, twelve-minute run and trunk flexion test. Psychological stress was evaluated using operational and organizational stress surveys that were designed for use with law enforcement personnel. The stress survey was completed by 44 officers and the fitness tests were completed by 36 officers. Mean scores, standard deviations, and frequency …


Demographics, Self-Efficacy, And Engagement Of First-Generation Students Enrolled In Online Community College Classes In Arkansas, James Christopher Boyett Dec 2010

Demographics, Self-Efficacy, And Engagement Of First-Generation Students Enrolled In Online Community College Classes In Arkansas, James Christopher Boyett

Student Theses and Dissertations

Students whose parents did not attend college, known as "first generation students," have been studied extensively. Meanwhile, many researchers have examined students taking online courses. However, little has been done to focus on the intersection of these two fields of research - first generation students who take online courses. This study of students enrolled in Arkansas community college online courses focused on the following research questions: (1) What percentage of community college general education online students are first generation (FG) students? (2) How does the demographic background of FG online students compare to non-first generation (NFG) online students? (3) How …


A Study Of Genetic Structuring For Southern California Populations Of The Polychaete Nereis Grubei Using Inter Simple Sequence Repeats, Jignesh Anantray Chandarana Dec 2010

A Study Of Genetic Structuring For Southern California Populations Of The Polychaete Nereis Grubei Using Inter Simple Sequence Repeats, Jignesh Anantray Chandarana

Student Theses and Dissertations

Members of the family Nereididae, including Nereis grubei, have a unique reproductive pattern among polychaetes- they reproduce a single time and possess a short larval period (4-5 days). This limits their potential to transmit their alleles to the next generation. Ocean currents also impact the magnitude and direction of gene flow. This study sampled 252 Nereis grubei from five coastal sites along southern California, two Channel Islands (Santa Cruz and Santa Catalina islands) and one central Mexico population using Inter Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSRs). Genetic diversity as measured by number of loci had a mean of 32, and expected heterozygosity …


University Of Minnesota Legislative Briefing To Be Videocast Live To The Morris Campus, University Relations Dec 2010

University Of Minnesota Legislative Briefing To Be Videocast Live To The Morris Campus, University Relations

Campus News Archive

President Bruininks will present the University’s legislative request.


Wyatt Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Ken Lewis Quotes, James F. Wyatt, Iii Dec 2010

Wyatt Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Ken Lewis Quotes, James F. Wyatt, Iii

Documents

No abstract provided.


Merrill Lynch Counsel Letter To The Fcic Re Merrill Cdos, Reginald J. Brown Dec 2010

Merrill Lynch Counsel Letter To The Fcic Re Merrill Cdos, Reginald J. Brown

Documents

No abstract provided.


Newsroom: Ap Cites Horwitz On Outgoing Ri Ag, Roger Williams University School Of Law Dec 2010

Newsroom: Ap Cites Horwitz On Outgoing Ri Ag, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Integration Of Education, Scholarship, And Service Through Stormwater Management, Andrea L. Welker, Bridget M. Wadzuk, Robert G. Traver Dec 2010

Integration Of Education, Scholarship, And Service Through Stormwater Management, Andrea L. Welker, Bridget M. Wadzuk, Robert G. Traver

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Education, scholarship, and service are the cornerstones of academia. This paper describes how the design, construction, and research of stormwater control measures on the campus of Villanova University has been used to integrate these three facets of academic life. To date, eleven stormwater control measures have been constructed on Villanova's campus. This paper will focus on how the authors have successfully used three of these stormwater control measures, a constructed stormwater wetland, a rain garden, and a porous asphalt/pervious concrete comparison study, to fulfil the university's commitments to education, scholarship, and service.


Watershed Retrofit And Management Evaluation For Urban Stormwater Management Systems In North Carolina, Kathy M. Debusk, William F. Hunt, Upton Hatch, Olha Sydorovych Dec 2010

Watershed Retrofit And Management Evaluation For Urban Stormwater Management Systems In North Carolina, Kathy M. Debusk, William F. Hunt, Upton Hatch, Olha Sydorovych

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

In response to water quality concerns in the Jordan Lake Reservoir and state and federal mandates, several cities in North Carolina are being required for the first time to reduce nutrient loads in stormwater from previously developed lands; that is, install retrofits. It is anticipated that similar requirements will become necessary for other urban areas in North Carolina. The goal of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of alternative approaches to stormwater management for existing developments within North Carolina cities. Geographic coverage of the study included a portion of the New Hope Creek watershed, located within the City of …


Armstrong To Develop Quality Enhancement Plan, Armstrong Atlantic State University Dec 2010

Armstrong To Develop Quality Enhancement Plan, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong News & Publications: Armstrong News Records (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Agenda For Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Meeting Wednesday, December 22, 2010, Phillip Angelides, Bill Thomas, Wendy Edelberg, Gary Cohen, Brooksley Born, Byron Stephen Georgiou, Bob Graham, Keith Hennessey, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Heather Murren, John W. Thompson, Peter J. Wallison Dec 2010

Agenda For Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report Meeting Wednesday, December 22, 2010, Phillip Angelides, Bill Thomas, Wendy Edelberg, Gary Cohen, Brooksley Born, Byron Stephen Georgiou, Bob Graham, Keith Hennessey, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Heather Murren, John W. Thompson, Peter J. Wallison

Documents

No abstract provided.


Ddasaccident719, Hd-Aid Dec 2010

Ddasaccident719, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On 22 December 2010 team arrived to the area on 06:30 and started operation on 07:00 working for 45 minutes and then 15 minutes break, the second round started on 08:00 for the same working and breaking period. The third round started on 09:00, [the Victim] worked in his clearance lane using metal detector and then stopped on 09:25 wanted to mark his clearance lane. He picked up marking material/equipment attempted to mark his clearance lane. On the way back he slipped out from his cleared lane to un-clear area, his right foot came on a mine and the accident …


The Impact Of An Aac Device, Using The Lamp Approach, Mary Hannah Pulliam Dec 2010

The Impact Of An Aac Device, Using The Lamp Approach, Mary Hannah Pulliam

Student Theses and Dissertations

This investigation examined both the initial and renewed impact of an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device, using the Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP) approach, on an individual with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A within subject research design was utilized and consisted of a multiple baseline across behavior design in combination with a multiple baseline across device research design.This investigation included one child with ASD, and utilized an observation checklist of video recordings (Appendix A) to assess the communication behaviors of the participant. The behaviors in question were communication acts per obligatory context per minute, the percent of total …