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Enhancing Ground Based Telescope Performance With Image Processing, John C. Zingarelli

Theses and Dissertations

The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program designed to detect objects in space like Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and space debris in the Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) belt. Binary hypothesis tests (BHTs) have historically been used to facilitate the detection of new objects in space. In this dissertation, a multi-hypothesis test (MHT) detection strategy is introduced to improve the detection performance of the SST. In this context, the MHT determines if an unresolvable point source is in the center, corner or side of a pixel in contrast to a BHT, which only tests …

Dynamical Structure Of A Traditional Amazonian Social Network, Paul L. Hooper, Simon Dedeo, Ann E. Caldwell Hooper, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan

ESI Publications

Reciprocity is a vital feature of social networks, but relatively little is known about its temporal structure or the mechanisms underlying its persistence in real world behavior. In pursuit of these two questions, we study the stationary and dynamical signals of reciprocity in a network of manioc beer (Spanish: chicha; Tsimane’: shocdye’) drinking events in a Tsimane’ village in lowland Bolivia. At the stationary level, our analysis reveals that social exchange within the community is heterogeneously patterned according to kinship and spatial proximity. A positive relationship between the frequencies at which two families host each other, controlling for kinship and …

November 13, 2013, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: The Gun Control Debate -- Sacred Heart House Party Disrupts Bridgeport Neighborhood -- Class of 2017 Elections -- CISPA is Back -- Students Comment on SHU’s Active Life -- Change the Stations -- Editorials -- Jail N’ Bail Raises Money for Special Olympics

Spectrum, Volume 31, Issue 8, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: The Gun Control Debate -- Sacred Heart House Party Disrupts Bridgeport Neighborhood -- CISPA is Back -- Students Comment on SHU’s Active Life -- Change the Stations -- Editorials -- Jail N’ Bail Raises Money for Special Olympics

President Enrique Peã±A Nieto Grants Pardon To Teacher Wrongly Accused Of Killing Seven Police Officers In 2000, Carlos Navarro

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

Fated To Pretend?: Culture Crisis And The Fate Of The Individual, Rebecca Jade Ok

Dissertations and Theses

The question of this thesis is whether the individual can resolve the problem of culture crisis in her own case. Culture crisis is a historical moment in which our culture leads us to expect a world drastically different from the one in which we find ourselves. This thesis will focus on the experience of Generation Y in the fall-out of the 2008 Recession. It will be argued that we need a Wittgensteinian view of language in order to account for the phenomenon of culture crisis. It will be suggested that our individual has to be a Nietzschean individual in order …

A Unification Of Mediation And Interaction, Tyler J. Vanderweele

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

We show that the overall effect of an exposure on an outcome, in the presence of a mediator with which the exposure may interact, can be decomposed into four components: (i) the effect of the exposure in the absence of the mediator, (ii) the interactive effect when the mediator is left to what is would be in the absence of exposure, (iii) a mediated interaction and (iv) a pure mediated effect. These four components respectively correspond to the portion of the effect that is due to neither mediation nor interaction, to just interaction (but not mediation), to both mediation and …

Decentering Anthropocentrisms: A Functional Approach To Animal Minds, Matthew C. Altman

Between the Species

Anthropocentric biases manifest themselves in two different ways in research on animal cognition. Some researchers claim that only humans have the capacity for reasoning, beliefs, and interests; and others attribute mental concepts to nonhuman animals on the basis of behavioral evidence, and they conceive of animal cognition in more or less human terms. Both approaches overlook the fact that language-use deeply informs mental states, such that comparing human mental states to the mental states of nonlinguistic animals is misguided. In order to avoid both pitfalls -- assuming that animals have mental lives just like we do, or assuming that they …

Benchmarking An Optimal Pattern Of Pollution Trading: The Case Of Cub River, Utah, Arthur Caplan, Yuya Sasaki

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

This paper employs a recently developed, dynamic trading algorithm to establish a benchmark pattern of trade for a potential water quality trading (WQT) market in the Cub River sub-basin of Utah; a market that would ultimately include both point and nonpoint sources. The algorithm accounts for three complications that naturally arise in trading scenarios: (1) combinatorial matching of traders, (2) trader heterogeneity, and (3) discreteness in abatement technology. The algorithm establishes as detailed a reduced-cost benchmark as possible for the sub-basin by distinguishing a specific pattern of trade among would-be market participants. As such, the algorithm provides a benchmark against …

Artificial Intelligent Metallurgical Grain Detection, Adarsh Kesireddy

Mechanical Engineering Theses

In recent years, image processing has been applied to metallurgy but its applications were mainly confined to iron. This research instead focuses on recognizing phases present in steel. Phase recognition is very important because it aids in specifying the properties of steel specimens. This research is concentrated on recognizing Pearlite, Ferrite, Martensite and Cementite present in steel. A neural network was used to recognize these four phases. For a neural network to recognize any object it requires input values called features. This research introduces a combination of features which were not used before: texture based features of entropy, energy, contrast, …

President's Perspective (November 2013), John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

While it seems like just a few weeks ago since I wrote about the start of the fall semester, we are now hurtling toward the end of the semester.

The Legacy, November 12, 2013, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 22, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Crumbie, Trey. Fall to Fall Enrollment Drops for the First Time in 16 Years
• French, Jackson. Thompson Complex North Wing to Be Torn Down
• Crumbie, Trey. Former Employees Claim Age Discrimination – Terry Reagan, Raymond Elms
• Crumbie, Trey. Former Director of Admissions Takes New Position – Scott Gordon
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Kentucky Medical Care
• Affordable Care Act Gives Kentucky a Future, Affordable or Not
• Maule, Ian. Sweet Chariot – Red Bull Chariot Race
• Crumbie, Trey. Gary Ransdell Seeks New Funding Model for Public Universities
• Burton, Kristina. WKU …

Public Employees. Pension And Retiree Healthcare Benefits. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

Initiatives

Eliminates constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree healthcare benefits for current public employees, including teachers, nurses, and peace officers, for future work performed. Permits government employers to reduce employee benefits and increase employee contributions for future work if retirement plans are substantially underfunded or government employer declares fiscal emergency. Requires government employers whose pension or retiree healthcare plans are less than 80 percent funded to prepare a stabilization report specifying non-binding actions designed to achieve 100 percent funding within 15 years. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: …

Public Employees. Pension And Retiree Healthcare Benefits. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

Initiatives

Eliminates constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree healthcare benefits for current public employees, including teachers, nurses, and peace officers, for future work performed. Permits government employers to reduce employee benefits and increase employee contributions for future work if retirement plans are substantially underfunded or government employer declares fiscal emergency. Requires government employers whose pension or retiree healthcare plans are less than 80 percent funded to prepare a stabilization report specifying non-binding actions designed to achieve 100 percent funding within 15 years. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: …

Usa V. Frank Martines

2013 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

2013 November 13 - Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes, Undergraduate Curriculum Council, East Tennessee State University

Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

Assessment And Revision Of Clinical Pharmacy Practice Internet Websites, Krystal L. Edwards, Marissa C. Salvo, Kristina E. Ward, Russell T. Attridge, Katie Kiser, Nathan A. Pinner, Patrick J. Gallegos, Lori Lynn Kesteloot, Ann Hylton, P. Brandon Bookstaver

Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Background:

Health care professionals, trainees, and patients use the Internet extensively. Editable Web sites may contain inaccurate, incomplete, and/or outdated information that may mislead the public’s perception of the topic.

Objective:

To evaluate the editable, online descriptions of clinical pharmacy and pharmacist and attempt to improve their accuracy.

Methods:

The authors identified key areas within clinical pharmacy to evaluate for accuracy and appropriateness on the Internet. Current descriptions that were reviewed on public domain Web sites included: (1) clinical pharmacy and the clinical pharmacist, (2) pharmacy education, (3) clinical pharmacy and development and provision for reimbursement, (4) clinical pharmacists and …

Two Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials Of Fampridine-Sr For Treatment Of Spasticity In Chronic Spinal Cord Injury., D. D. Cardenas, J. F. Ditunno, V. Graziani, A. B. Mclain, D. P. Lammertse, P. J. Potter, M. S. Alexander, R. Cohen, A. R. Blight

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Faculty Papers

STUDY DESIGN: Two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of fampridine sustained-release tablets (fampridine-SR) 25 mg twice daily for moderate-to-severe spasticity in patients with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI).

SETTING: United States and Canada.

METHODS: Patients with incomplete chronic SCI were randomized to twice daily fampridine-SR 25 mg or placebo, with a 2-week single-blind placebo run-in, a 2-week titration, 12 weeks of stable dosing, 2 weeks of downward titration and 2 weeks of untreated follow-up. Co-primary end points were the change from baseline, averaged over the double-blind treatment period, for Ashworth score (bilateral knee flexors …

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, November 12, 2013, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

No abstract provided.

The Gazette November 12, 2013, Langston University

LU Gazette, 2010-2019

The student newspaper for Langston University

The Impacts Of Change In Governance On Faculty And Staff At Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study Of Ohsu, Dana L. Director

Dissertations and Theses

In the early 1990s, Oregon Health and Science University leadership examined the political and economic landscape and determined it needed a new operational model to survive and thrive. In 1995 OHSU separated from the state higher education system and became a public corporation, with goals of increased efficiency, customer-focus, ability to attract world-class researchers and physicians, and salaries commensurate with an urban academic health center.

This research examines the internal impacts when universities undergo significant change, using OHSU's governance change as a case study. Central is the question: what effect(s) did OHSU's decision to become a unique public corporation have …

Cable One V. Idaho State Tax Commission Clerk's Record Dckt. 41305

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

State V. Rocha Clerk's Record Dckt. 41535

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

State V. Saviers Respondent's Brief Dckt. 40503

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Senate Meeting 11/12/13 Vote Record Breakdown, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

No abstract provided.

The Bg News November 12, 2013, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 12, 2013. Volume 93-Issue 34.

Genseq: An Updated Nomenclature And Ranking For Genetic Sequences From Type And Non-Type Sources, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Melanie Warren, Lawrence M. Page, Carole C. Baldwin

Faculty Publications

An improved and expanded nomenclature for genetic sequences is introduced that corresponds with a ranking of the reliability of the taxonomic identification of the source specimens. This nomenclature is an advancement of the "Genetypes" naming system, which some have been reluctant to adopt because of the use of the "type" suffix in the terminology. In the new nomenclature, genetic sequences are labeled "genseq," followed by a reliability ranking (e.g., 1 if the sequence is from a primary type), followed by the name of the genes from which the sequences were derived (e.g., genseq-1 16S, COI). The numbered suffix provides an …

Microbes In Nature Are Limited By Carbon And Energy: The Starving-Survival Lifestyle In Soil And Consequences For Estimating Microbial Rates, John E. Hobbie, Erik A. Hobbie

Faculty Publications

Understanding microbial transformations in soils is important for predicting future carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling. This review questions some methods of assessing one key microbial process, the uptake of labile organic compounds. First, soil microbes have a starving-survival life style of dormancy, arrested activity, and low activity. Yet they are very abundant and remain poised to completely take up all substrates that become available. As a result, dilution assays with the addition of labeled substrates cannot be used. When labeled substrates are transformed into 14CO2, the first part of the biphasic release follows metabolic rules and is not affected by …