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Characterizing Cyclostationary Features Of Digital Modulated Signals With Empirical Measurements Using Spectral Correlation Function, Mujun Song Jun 2011

Characterizing Cyclostationary Features Of Digital Modulated Signals With Empirical Measurements Using Spectral Correlation Function, Mujun Song

Theses and Dissertations

Signal detection is widely used in many applications. Some examples include Cognitive Radio (CR) and military intelligence. CRs use signal detection to sense spectral occupancy. Without guaranteed signal detection, a CR cannot reliably perform its role. Similarly, signal detection is the first step for garnering an opponent's information. Wireless signal detection can be performed using many different techniques. Some of the most popular include matched filters, energy detectors (which use measurements such as the Power Spectral Density (PSD) of the signal), and Cyclostationary Feature Detectors (CFD). Among these techniques, CFD can be viewed as a compromise technique, in that it …

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Intimate Immensity, Henrik Søderstrøm Jun 2011

Intimate Immensity, Henrik Søderstrøm

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The small house that comprises my visual thesis, made of simple materials reclaimed from junk piles and old houses, was made as worship to the God who spoke the world into existence. This writing is a playful counterpart to my artwork. Water has an amazing ability to transpose itself fluidly across borders, from the atmosphere to the ground to the cells in your body. Its movement is defiant of divisions as it carries nutrients through layers of compost, from rotting biomass to new sprouts. My process of absorbing and using materials is inspired by this cycling. I am interested in …

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How Augmented Reality Can Empower Faculty, Inspire Students And Bring Ideas To Life In The Classroom, Craig Kapp Jun 2011

How Augmented Reality Can Empower Faculty, Inspire Students And Bring Ideas To Life In The Classroom, Craig Kapp

Emerging Learning Design Conference

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A Phenomenological Approach To An Aesthetic Theory Of Western Concert Dance, Lara Murphy Jun 2011

A Phenomenological Approach To An Aesthetic Theory Of Western Concert Dance, Lara Murphy

Open Access Theses

The goal of the paper is to develop a framework in which to ground the analysis of the aesthetics of Western concert dance, particularly contemporary concert dance, in order to help dancers, choreographers, critics, and the general dance audience understand and discuss dance from the perspective of a common intellectual ground. Examined are the relationship between epochs in concert dance and the corresponding aesthetic theories and the elements that differentiate and unify contemporary concert dance from other Western concert dance, including the unique spatiotemporal nature of dance and the simultaneous presentation of universal human-ness and individual truth via the kinesthetic …

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Using Lagrangian Coherent Structures To Study Coastal Water Quality, Laura Ann Fiorentino Jun 2011

Using Lagrangian Coherent Structures To Study Coastal Water Quality, Laura Ann Fiorentino

Open Access Theses

In order to understand water quality in the coastal ocean and its effects on human health, the necessity arises to locate the sources of contaminants and track their transport throughout the ocean. Dynamical systems methods are applied to the study of transport of enterococci as an indicator of microbial concentration in the vicinity of Hobie Beach, an urban, subtropical beach in Miami, FL that is used for recreation and bathing on a daily basis. Previous studies on water quality have shown that Hobie Beach has high microbial levels despite having no known point source. To investigate the cause of these …

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Career In The Marketplace: Is It Appropriate For A Christian?, Michael E. Cafferky Jun 2011

Career In The Marketplace: Is It Appropriate For A Christian?, Michael E. Cafferky

Faculty Works

All settings where productive and legitimate service can be provided are valued in the Bible so long as each endeavor is pursued in a manner that honors God.

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Family Affairs Newsletter 2011-06-15, Zack Paakkonen Jun 2011

Family Affairs Newsletter 2011-06-15, Zack Paakkonen

Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)

FAMILY AFFAIRS was a free, twice-a-month, social activities newsletter for the GLBTQI (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans/queer/intersex) community, sent out around the 1st and 15th of each month. It covered the State of Maine only. The list was begun and maintained for many years by Jean Vermette in Bangor, and later operated by Zack Paakkonen of Portland. Over the years it evolved from a social activities newsletter into a business directory, classified ad service, and community bulletin board.

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Psychostimulants As Cognitive Enhancers: The Prefrontal Cortex, Catecholamines And Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Craig Berridge, David M. Devilbiss Jun 2011

Psychostimulants As Cognitive Enhancers: The Prefrontal Cortex, Catecholamines And Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Craig Berridge, David M. Devilbiss

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

Psychostimulants exert behavioral-calming and cognition-enhancing actions in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Contrary to early views, extensive research demonstrates that these actions are not unique to ADHD. Specifically, when administered at low and clinically-relevant doses, psychostimulants improve a variety of behavioral and cognitive processes dependent on the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in subjects with and without ADHD. Despite the longstanding clinical use of these drugs, the neural mechanisms underlying their cognition-enhancing/therapeutic actions have only recently begun to be examined. At behaviorally-activating doses, psychostimulants produce large and widespread increases in extracellular levels of brain catecholamines. In contrast, cognition-enhancing doses …

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Diel Distribution And Movement Of Sound Scattering Layer In Kuroshio Waters, Northeastern Taiwan, Ming-An Lee, Ming-Hsiu Chao, Jinn-Shing Weng, Yang-Chi Lan, Hsueh-Jung Lu Jun 2011

Diel Distribution And Movement Of Sound Scattering Layer In Kuroshio Waters, Northeastern Taiwan, Ming-An Lee, Ming-Hsiu Chao, Jinn-Shing Weng, Yang-Chi Lan, Hsueh-Jung Lu

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

A 26-hr acoustic observation was carried out on board of the “Ocean Research II” in the Kuroshio waters at 123°09.027'E, 25°05.019'N from August 4 to 5, 2007. Acoustic volume scattering strengths (SVs) were collected by a scientific echo sounder (EK500, 38 kHz) and diel variations of sound scattering layer were analyzed. The maximum SV of surface scattering layers (SSL) around 20~80 m was observed after dawn, and mean SVs of SSL in nighttime was about -68 dB, 8 dB higher than that of daytime. Two deep scattering layers (DSL) were found in daytime at depth of 400~500 m and 600~700 …

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Freeman Fund Helps Dreams Come True For Local Students To Enter College, Office Of University Communications Jun 2011

Freeman Fund Helps Dreams Come True For Local Students To Enter College, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The dream of leaving high school and entering college came true for nine local students thanks to the Joseph B. Freeman Jr. Educational Fund. The Freeman Fund is a scholarship fund formed by area business leaders 20 years ago to provide financial assistance to high school students from Cleveland County schools. The fund is designed for students who qualify academically for college but whose unique situations might otherwise prevent them from attending.

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Family Affairs Newsletter Business Directory 2011-06-15, Zack Paakkonen Jun 2011

Family Affairs Newsletter Business Directory 2011-06-15, Zack Paakkonen

Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)

Family Affairs Newsletter Directory of GLBTQIA Businesses.

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June 15, 2011 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina Jun 2011

June 15, 2011 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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The Spinnaker [Vol. 33 No. 63], University Of North Florida Jun 2011

The Spinnaker [Vol. 33 No. 63], University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community. Date: June 15, 2011

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The Alestle - Vol. 63 No. 34 - 06/15/2011, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Jun 2011

The Alestle - Vol. 63 No. 34 - 06/15/2011, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 63 No. 34

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, June 15, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media Jun 2011

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, June 15, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

June

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Unorthodox Oral Expressions In English Dictionaries, Corpora, Textbooks, And English Language Instructional Materials, Khemlada Chittaladakorn Jun 2011

Unorthodox Oral Expressions In English Dictionaries, Corpora, Textbooks, And English Language Instructional Materials, Khemlada Chittaladakorn

Theses and Dissertations

The aim of this project is to provide useful data from published dictionaries, corpora, and instructional materials, as well as sample lessons, to promote the teaching of Unorthodox Oral Expressions (UOEs) to learners of English as a second/foreign language. In the first chapter, the author reviews relevant literature, explains what UOEs are, and discusses the importance of incorporating UOEs in EFL or ESL classrooms. In the second chapter, a linguistic categorization of UOEs is given. In the third chapter, the results are given of an examination of 10 different dictionaries. The purpose of this examination was to find which of …

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Measurement And Modeling Of Three Dimensional Target Strength Of Fish For Horizontal Scanning Sonar, Muhammad Kurnia, Kohji Iida, Tohru Mukai Jun 2011

Measurement And Modeling Of Three Dimensional Target Strength Of Fish For Horizontal Scanning Sonar, Muhammad Kurnia, Kohji Iida, Tohru Mukai

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

This paper discusses the three-dimensional target strength (3DTS) of fish for a horizontal scanning sonar. Experiments were conducted in a tank using a defrosted Japanese mackerel. Measurements were made by changing the horizontal incident angle of a 50 kHz acoustic beam and the pitch angle of a tethered fish. Following the experiment, morphological characteristics, including the swimbladder size and shape, were measured using soft X-ray and digitized. The theoretical 3DTS was estimated using the prolate spheroid model and compared with the measured 3DTS. Results showed that the TS strongly depended on the fish orientation. The maximum and minimum TS were …

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Spatial Estimation Of Euphausiid Biomass Along The Pacific Coast Of Eastern Hokkaido, Japan In Early Summer Of 2008, Naoki Tojo, Kenji Minami, Ryuichi Matsukura, Yohei Kawauchi, Tetsuichiro Funamoto, Masayuki Chimura, Akira Nishimura, Kazushi Miyashita Jun 2011

Spatial Estimation Of Euphausiid Biomass Along The Pacific Coast Of Eastern Hokkaido, Japan In Early Summer Of 2008, Naoki Tojo, Kenji Minami, Ryuichi Matsukura, Yohei Kawauchi, Tetsuichiro Funamoto, Masayuki Chimura, Akira Nishimura, Kazushi Miyashita

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

This study focused on euphausiid distribution and biomass estimation over the coastal shelf of the Pacific coast of Hokkaido Japan in early summer 2008. Acoustic data were obtained in both day (6:00-18:00) and night (18:00-6:00) using a quantitative echosounder (EK60, Simrad) with two frequencies (120 and 38 kHz). Echoes of euphausiids were specified based on the ΔMVBS, calculated with seasonal theoretical target strength of Euphausia pacifica. The best-fit kriging models were used to quantitatively interpolate euphausiid distribution. The detected euphausiid biomass reached 38,278 t (> 15 gWWm-2), suggesting abundant prey for large fishes over study area. On the other hand, …

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Writing About Literature In The Digital Age, Derrick Clements, Gideon Burton, Taylor Gilbert, Matthew Harrison Jun 2011

Writing About Literature In The Digital Age, Derrick Clements, Gideon Burton, Taylor Gilbert, Matthew Harrison

Student Works

Writing about Literature in the Digital Age is a collaborative effort by students at Brigham Young University who are pushing boundaries of traditional literary study to explore the benefits of digital tools in academic writing. This eBook is a case study of how electronic text formats and blogging can be effectively used to explore literary works, develop one's thinking publicly, and research socially. Students used literary works to read the emerging digital environment while simultaneously using new media to connect them with authentic issues and audiences beyond the classroom. As literacy and literature continue their rapid evolution, accounts like these …

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Preface, Kohji Iida, Ming-An Lee, Masahiko Furusawa Jun 2011

Preface, Kohji Iida, Ming-An Lee, Masahiko Furusawa

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

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Technology Evolution And Advances In Fisheries Acoustics, Dezhang Chu Jun 2011

Technology Evolution And Advances In Fisheries Acoustics, Dezhang Chu

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Application of sonar technology to fisheries acoustics has made significant advances over recent decades. The echosounder systems evolved from the simple analog single-beam and single-frequency systems to more sophisticated digital multi-beam and multi-frequency systems. In this paper, a brief review of major technological advances in fisheries acoustics is given, as well as examples of their applications.

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Echo Integration Near The Seabed, Masahiko Furusawa Jun 2011

Echo Integration Near The Seabed, Masahiko Furusawa

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The echo integration (EI) method has long been used for fish abundance estimations. The method is applicable to any type of fish distribution and the analysis is easy to perform by advanced software. For fish near the seabed, however, sometimes it is difficult to perform an analysis because of so-called dead zones. In this paper, the EI near the seabed is considered, reviewing past studies and introducing some new ideas such as an unsampled zone. For the consideration, close inspection of the EI theory is necessary and a section is devoted to the purpose. As an application of the EI …

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Effect Of Depth-Dependent Target Strength On Biomass Estimation Of Japanese Anchovy, Hiroto Murase, Atsushi Kawabata, Hiroshi Kubota, Masayasu Nakagami, Kazuo Amakasu, Koki Abe, Kazushi Miyashita, Yoshioki Oozeki Jun 2011

Effect Of Depth-Dependent Target Strength On Biomass Estimation Of Japanese Anchovy, Hiroto Murase, Atsushi Kawabata, Hiroshi Kubota, Masayasu Nakagami, Kazuo Amakasu, Koki Abe, Kazushi Miyashita, Yoshioki Oozeki

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Effect of the depth-dependent target strength (TS) on biomass estimation of Japanese ahcovy was examined by using following four TS models: (1) TS = 20logLt-71.9, (2) TS = 20logLt-72.5, (3) TS = 20logLt-(20/3)log(1+z/10)-67.6 and (4) TS = 20logLt-(20/3)log(1+z/10)-64.7, where Lt and z represent total length (cm) and depth (m), respectively. (1) and (2) have been used in conventional fisheries resources surveys; (3) and (4) take account of depth-dependent TS. Because (1)-(3) were based on in-situ measurement, pitch angles of individuals used in the models were not known. Pitch angle is assumed 0° (±10° std) in (4). Biomass estimated by (3) …

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Fish Acoustics: Physics-Based Modeling And Measurement, Davis Benjamin Reeder Jun 2011

Fish Acoustics: Physics-Based Modeling And Measurement, Davis Benjamin Reeder

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The U.S. Office of Naval Research has sponsored research in the area of marine organism acoustics for many years. The research program has included development of theoretical physics-based acoustic scattering models of single animals, high-resolution laboratory measurements of scattering by individual animals, and at-sea field experiments. The program has been focused on the backscattered signal, but has also included investigation of the forward-scattered signal. Downward-looking acoustic surveys using ship borne echosounders rely on the backscattered signal and provide non-invasive, non-destructive, rapid, high-resolution, large area survey capability compared to traditional net tows. Horizontally-oriented acoustic surveys provide the opportunity to investigate both …

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Vertical Distribution Of Walleye Pollock Juveniles Before And After The Period Of Transition For Feeding In Funka Bay, Hokkaido, Japan, Yohei Kawauchi, Osamu Shida, Hiroya Okumura, Naoki Tojo, Hiroki Yasuma, Kazushi Miyashita Jun 2011

Vertical Distribution Of Walleye Pollock Juveniles Before And After The Period Of Transition For Feeding In Funka Bay, Hokkaido, Japan, Yohei Kawauchi, Osamu Shida, Hiroya Okumura, Naoki Tojo, Hiroki Yasuma, Kazushi Miyashita

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

We examined the vertical distributions of walleye pollock Theragra chalcogramma juveniles for two size groups (smaller and larger than 30 mm) during the period of transition for feeding (PTF) and after this period in Funka Bay, Hokkaido, Japan. Samplings were conducted in May and June in 2006 and 2007, and water temperature and salinity were measured. The correlation between juvenile sizes and distributed depth was observed using net sampling. From this result, size groups were divided by depth. In addition, the distribution and abundance of juveniles were examined using acoustic data. In the PTF (May), juvenile size increased with increasing …

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In Situ And Ex Situ Target Strength Measurement Of Mesopelagic Lanternfish, Diaphus Theta (Family Myctophidae), Kouichi Sawada, Kazuhisa Uchikawa, Tomohiko Matsuura, Hiroya Sugisaki, Kazuo Amakasu, Koki Abe Jun 2011

In Situ And Ex Situ Target Strength Measurement Of Mesopelagic Lanternfish, Diaphus Theta (Family Myctophidae), Kouichi Sawada, Kazuhisa Uchikawa, Tomohiko Matsuura, Hiroya Sugisaki, Kazuo Amakasu, Koki Abe

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Acoustic target strengths (TS) of myctophid fish Diaphus theta were measured in situ at 70 kHz off the east coast of Hokkaido by tethering an acoustic-optical system (the Japanese Quantitative Echosounder and Stereo-video Camera System or J-QUESTχ) at a depth of 150 m from a research vessel. Fish length distributions were obtained from daytime hauls taken with a frame trawl after the TS measurement. Measured average TS () and a standard length (SL) in cm gave the empirical length - average TS relationship, = 20logSL70.6, assuming that the linear TS is proportional to the square of the SL. A laboratory …

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Analysis Of The Me70 Multibeam Echosounder Data In Echoview??Urrent Capability And Future Directions, Myounghee Kang Jun 2011

Analysis Of The Me70 Multibeam Echosounder Data In Echoview??Urrent Capability And Future Directions, Myounghee Kang

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

The general features of the multibeam echosounder (Simrad, ME70) are covered and trends in recent research on using the sonar systems are stated. Echoview's current capability for analyzing ME70 data is precisely described in two categories: split beam data analysis and multibeam data analysis. In particular, the visualization and analysis of school in three dimensions and school tracking are illustrated using fish school echoes observed in Bering Sea during the summer of 2008 and 2009. Future software developments in Echoview may include: high resolution bathymetric algorithms to detect reliable sea bottom, advanced school detection in three dimensions even for ambiguous …

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An Alignment Approach To Identify Fish With Encoding Hydroacoustic Signal To Acoustics Alphabet Squences, Shih-Yen Ku, Hsueh-Jung Lu, Chi-Ting Tseng, Ker-Chau Li, Long-Jin Wu Jun 2011

An Alignment Approach To Identify Fish With Encoding Hydroacoustic Signal To Acoustics Alphabet Squences, Shih-Yen Ku, Hsueh-Jung Lu, Chi-Ting Tseng, Ker-Chau Li, Long-Jin Wu

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

1D sequence homologous alignment tool, like FastA (FASTALL) [8] or BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) [1], has been widely used in bioinformatics field and perform elegant and fast searching for the sequences developed from the same kinds of species. In other word, it can classify through determining the homologous similarity which is not totally similar in sequences of protein sequences, structure or nucleotide sequences. An approach is proposed in this paper called AA-FAST (abbreviation for Acoustics Alphabet-FAST) which takes advantage of alignment tool and significant sequence encoding method. In this experiment, it could not only determine 4 fish species …

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Bori Practice Among Enslaved West Africans Of Ottoman Tunis: Unbelief (Kufr) Or Another Dimension Of The African Diaspora?, Ismael M. Montana Jun 2011

Bori Practice Among Enslaved West Africans Of Ottoman Tunis: Unbelief (Kufr) Or Another Dimension Of The African Diaspora?, Ismael M. Montana

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Building on Ahmad ibn Yusuf b. al-Qadi al-Timbuktawi's treatise entitled Hatk al-Sitr Amma Alayhi Sudani Tunis min al-Kufr (Piercing the Veil: Being an Account of the Infidel Religions of the Blacks of Tunis) this paper examines the implications of the Hausa non-Muslim Bori cult practice in Ottoman Tunis on enslaved West Africans' retentions of religious and family values from their original homelands. Specifically, the paper traces and analyses the evolution of Bori cult practice in the Tunisian milieu and places it in its proper historical and diasporic contexts. To this end, the paper goes beyond questions that are not central …

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June 15, 2011, The Daily Mississippian Jun 2011

June 15, 2011, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

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