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Requiem, Babette Babich

Working Papers

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Exploiting The Power Law Distribution Properties Of Satellite Fire Redaiative Power Retrials: A Method To Estimate Fire Radiative Energy And Biomass Burned From Sparse Satellite Observations, S. S. Kumar, David P. Roy, L. Boschetti, R. Kremens

GSCE Faculty Publications

Instantaneous estimates of the power released by fire (fire radiative power, FRP) are available with satellite active fire detection products. The temporal integral of FRP provides an estimate of the fire radiative energy (FRE) that is related linearly to the amount of biomass burned needed by the atmospheric emissions modeling community. The FRE, however, is sensitive to satellite temporal and spatial FRP undersampling due to infrequent satellite overpasses, cloud and smoke obscuration, and failure to detect cool and/or small fires. Satellite FRPs derived over individual burned areas and fires have been observed to exhibit power law distributions. This property is …

Re-Evaluating Vietnam’S Nghe-Tinh Soviets (1930-1931) Using A Historical Gis: Some Preliminary Observations, David W. Del Testa

Faculty Journal Articles

The Nghe-Tinh Soviets of 1930-1931, a rebellion against colonial authority in north-central and central colonial Vietnam, has received extensive analysis by a variety of commentators and scholars, both Vietnamese and not. Most scholars, Vietnam and internationally, settled on some view of immiseration combined with the presence of pro-communist organizers as the motive forces for the rebellion, but a few have favored questions of political dissatisfaction and local empowerment as underlying motivations for revolt. Until recently, examining the rebellion on a gross scale in order to test either theory has proven difficult, with a surfeit of information but no easy way …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 101 [102], No. 10 [9] (Oct. 7, 2011), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 101, but it is the 102nd volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

This issue was printed as 10, but it is the 9th issue in this volume. This was corrected in pencil.

Potential Impacts Of The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill On Large Pelagic Fishes, Sarah Frias-Torres, Charles R. Bostater

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Biogeographical analyses provide insights on how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted large pelagic fishes. We georeferenced historical ichthyoplankton surveys and published literature to map the spawning and larval areas of bluefin tuna, swordfish, blue marlin and whale shark sightings in the Gulf of Mexico with daily satellite-derived images detecting surface oil. The oil spill covered critical areas used by large pelagic fishes. Surface oil was detected in 100% of the northernmost whale shark sightings, in 32.8 % of the bluefin tuna spawning area and 38 % of the blue marlin larval area. No surface oil was detected in the …

Approaches To Open Data For Science In Spain, E Wulff-Barreiro

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

As observational data has attained new legal status, allowing their integration into open Internet systems, and experimental data continues to be assembled in common and free platforms, state of the art, easy to access data repositories have been designed in Spain. These repositories have removed many obstacles to re-utilization of GIS and other data. European legislation has also made advances in opening biodiversity data, including a European space in the Latin-American grid infrastructure. Open access biomedical repositories attract commercial attention while astronomical, meteorological, and oncological institutions promote data quality and access. This paper describes recent approaches to open access data …

Minutes Of Graduate College Curriculum Committee, October 7, 2011, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College Curriculum Committee.

Minutes - Graduate Curriculum Committee

Minutes of the committee that oversees the development of the curriculum of the University of Northern Iowa Graduate College.

Anchor Institutions-Connecting With Community For Innovation And Opportunity, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

On the surface, it would be hard to find institutions situated more differently than Syracuse University in upstate New York and the University of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. We are a private university in a post-industrial Rust Belt city. For nearly 60 years, residents have been leaving the city for the hilly lake country around us, ignoring both the city’s attractions and the drawbacks of commuting by car through 170 inches of snow a year. Even the SU campus, which sits on a hill close to downtown, was cut off from the city center by the construction of …

October 6, 2011, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Western News, Oct. 6, 2011 , Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: East Campus development partner named; Three executives named distinguished alumni; October service awards; On Campus with Denise Richards.

Daily Eastern News: October 06, 2011, Eastern Illinois University

October

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Faculty Senate Chronicle For October 6, 2011, Frank Bove

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

Minutes of the regular meeting of The University of Akron Faculty Senate on October 6, 2011

Obliged To Give: Remittances And The Maintenance Of Transnational Networks Between Somalis At Home And Abroad, Laura Hammond

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

Haweenku Wa Garab (Women Are A Force): Women And The Somali Nationalist Movement, 1943-1960, Safia Aidid

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

Debating Somali Identity In A British Tribunal: The Case Of The Bbc Somali Service, Abdi Ismail Samatar

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

Contributors

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

The Cord (October 5, 2011)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

October 5, 2011 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Race To The Top Leaves Children And Future Citizens Behind: The Devastating Effects Of Centralization, Standardization, And High Stakes Accountability, Joe Onosko

Democracy & Education

President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top (RTT) is a profoundly flawed educational reform plan that increases standardization, centralization, and test-based accountability in our nation’s schools. Following a brief summary of the interest groups supporting the plan, who is currently participating in this race, why so many states voluntarily submitted proposals, and what features of the plan that are most problematic, eight arguments are offered as to why RTT is highly detrimental to our nation.

Insight Into Volatile Behavior At Nyamuragira Volcano (D.R. Congo, Africa) Through Olivine-Hosted Melt Inclusions, Elisabet M. Head, Alison M. Shaw, Paul J. Wallace, Kenneth W. W. Sims, Simon A. Carn

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

[1] We present new olivine-hosted melt inclusion volatile (H20, C02, S, Cl, F) and major element data from five historic eruptions ofNyamuragira volcano (1912, 1938, 1948, 1986, 2006). Host-olivine Mg#'s range from 71 to 84, with the exception of the 1912 sample (Mg# = 90}.lnclusion compositions extend from alkali basalts to basanite-tephritcs. Our results indicate inclusion entrapment over depths ranging from 3 to 5 km, which agree with independent estimates of magma storage depths (3-7 km) based on geophysical methods. Melt compositions derived from the 1986 and 2006 Nyamuragira tephra samples best represent pre-eruptive volatile compositions because these samples contain …

2011 October 4, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes No. 3, October 4, 2011

Airborne Imaging Sensors For Environmental Monitoring & Surveillance In Support Of Oil Spills & Recovery Efforts, Charles R. Bostater, James W. Jones, Heather Frystacky, Gaelle Coppin, Florian Levaux, Xavier Neyt

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Collection of pushbroom sensor imagery from a mobile platform requires corrections using inertial measurement units (IMU's) and DGPS in order to create useable imagery for environmental monitoring and surveillance of shorelines in freshwater systems, coastal littoral zones and harbor areas. This paper describes a suite of imaging systems used during collection of hyperspectral imagery in northern Florida panhandle and Gulf of Mexico airborne missions to detect weathered oil in coastal littoral zones. Underlying concepts of pushbroom imagery, the needed corrections for directional changes using DGPS and corrections for platform yaw, pitch, and roll using IMU data is described as well …

Anthony V. Mannino Foundation: Comprehensive Marketing Strategy Report, Kequing Song, Benjamin Woelk, Scott Morabio, Tom Mathew, Zaw Myint Htoo

Theses

Founded in 2009, the Anthony V. Mannino Foundation Inc. (AVM) undertook the genuine mission; to offer support young adults 18-26 and their families while they are undergoing their cancer treatment process. The Marketing Concepts team has performed a thorough marketing analysis and has provided AVM a set of tools that enables them to immediately implement an effective and efficient marketing strategy.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 3, 2011), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Fall 2011, Experiencing Diplomacy In The Heart Of The Arab World, Raul Bernal

UNH International Educator Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Robert E. Kennedy Library Annual Publication 2011-2012, Robert E. Kennedy Library

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.

Flagship Funds At Hedge Fund Families, Melvyn Teo

Research Collection BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre

Motivated by the stellar performance of flagship funds such as the Renaissance Medallion fund, we ask whether hedge fund firms (e.g. Renaissance Technologies) have incentives to protect the performance of their flagship funds (e.g. Medallion). We find that the flagship fund tends to outperform other funds within the fund family. The fees and redemption terms of non-flagship funds at launch is correlated with the past performance of the flagship fund. Finally, flagship fund performance has a positive impact on net flows into the other funds within the same family.

Ub Law Forum Volume 24 Number 1 Fall 2011, University At Buffalo School Of Law

UB Law Forum

No abstract provided.

Transition And Tradition: With 15 New Tenure-Track Faculty Hired In The Past Four Years, Ub Law Propels A Proud Legacy Into A Promising Future, Ub Law Forum

UB Law Forum

No abstract provided.