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Dean Logan's Blog: Making Her Mark In Intellectual Property, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law School Blogs

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Consumer Choice As The Best Way To Describe The Goals Of Competition Law, Robert H. Lande

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This article is both a short introduction to the Consumer Choice explanation for Competition Law or Antitrust Law, and also a short advocacy piece suggesting that Consumer Choice is the best way to articulate the goals of European Competition Law and United States Antitrust Law.

This article briefly:

1. defines the consumer choice approach to antitrust or competition law and shows how it differs from other approaches;
2. shows that the antitrust statutes and theories of violation embody a concern for optimal levels of consumer choice;
3. shows that the United States antitrust case law embodies a concern for optimal levels of consumer …

Multisensor Mems For Temperature, Relative Humidity, And High-G Shock Monitoring, Daniel Smith

Theses

The use of MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system) sensors in multiple applications of environmental monitoring help to fill the need of a small scale, low power monitoring and sensing applications. In this design, the use of single-die multiple MEMS sensors to monitor ambient temperature, relative humidity, and accelerative high-g shock were developed and tested. In addition to the sensors, signal conditioning circuits were developed for outputting the sensor data into a microcontroller to analyze and process the signals into useful information for human operators to analyze. The three sensors were fabricated using a bulk micro-machined process on 100mm silicon wafers developed in …

Planning Phase Of Population-Specific Healthy Lifestyle Program, Mary M. Moore

DNP and Student Works

Childhood overweight and obesity in the United States are significant health problems that have a negative impact on a child's physical and psychological well-being and that generate an extra financial burden for those affected due to health care costs. The current evidence-base for treatment of childhood overweight and obesity recommends a moderate- to high-intensity healthy lifestyle program of physical activity, healthy diet, and behavioral modification. The purpose of this descriptive, multi-method inquiry was to identify the perceived barriers to a healthy lifestyle for a population of elementary school students, ages 6 to 13 years, as the basis for the development …

Murray Ledger And Times, August 14, 2012, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Dynamical Reaction Pathways In Eley-Rideal Recombination Of Nitrogen From W(100), Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez, P. Larrégaray, C. Crespos, L. Martin-Gondre, J. Rubayo-Soneira, J. C. Rayez

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The scattering of atomic nitrogen over a N-pre-adsorbed W(100) surface is theoretically described in the case of normal incidence off a single adsorbate. Dynamical reaction mechanisms, in particular Eley-Rideal (ER) abstraction, are scrutinized in the 0.1-3.0 eV collision energy range and the influence of temperature on reactivity is considered between 300 and 1500 K. Dynamics simulations suggest that, though non-activated reaction pathways exist, the abstraction process exhibits a significant collision energy threshold (0.5 eV). Such a feature, which has not been reported so far in the literature, is the consequence of a repulsive interaction between the impinging and the pre-adsorbed …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

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• Faculty Brass Quintet and Percussion Ensemble Perform at Acclaimed National Convention
• Georgia Southern University Expands ‘Super-Critical Language’ Course Offerings

A Signal Processing Approach For Preprocessing And 3d Analysis Of Airborne Small-Footprint Full Waveform Lidar Data, Jiaying Wu

Theses

The extraction of structural object metrics from a next generation remote sensing modality, namely waveform light detection and ranging (LiDAR), has garnered increasing interest from the remote sensing research community. However, a number of challenges need to be addressed before structural or 3D vegetation modeling can be accomplished. These include proper processing of complex, often off-nadir waveform signals, extraction of relevant waveform parameters that relate to vegetation structure, and from a quantitative modeling perspective, 3D rendering of a vegetation object from LiDAR waveforms. Three corresponding, broad research objectives therefore were addressed in this dissertation. Firstly, the raw incoming LiDAR waveform …

Insights From India, Nora Tkac

Honors Theses

This thesis chronicles a twenty-one year old American college student's volunteer experience in India. Photographs and first-person narrative are used to illustrate the insights gained over the course of a month living with a Tibetan host family in northern India. Teaching English to Buddhist monks, volunteering general assistance at a daycare center, and exploring the city of Dharamsala are among the various experiences that shed light on the cultural and societal differences between two very different worlds, the developing and the developed. Photographs bookend each chapter to help illustrate scenes described in the prose and captions are paired with each …

Uab Therapists Help Children Walk Again - And Run, Skip And Hop, Alicia Rohan

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University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For August 14, 2012, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the August 14, 2012 Board of Regents Meeting

Staff Council Rewards And Recognition Committee Meeting, 8/14/2012, Unm Staff Council

UNM Staff Council

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Staff Council Executive Committee Meeting, 8/14/2012, Unm Staff Council

UNM Staff Council

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Open Access Initiatives: A Boon To Academic Libraries, Anupama N. Joshi, R M. Vatnal, Manjunath G. A

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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The article gives the meaning and definition of open access. It throws light on emergence and development of open access initiatives and various declarations in the world. The types of open access and their characters are given. The gradual increase of journals in DOAJ is shown. The impacts of OA are various facts of the academic community and the challenges for OA are dealt. The OA initiatives in India are listed.

Psychology Students Denny And Walters Each Win First Place In Research Expo, Jim Bakken

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Uab Gospel Choir To Release Civil Rights Collector's Edition As Fundraiser, Shannon Thomason

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Small Spacecraft Design For The Grail Mission, Stuart Spath

Small Satellite Conference

On September 10, 2011, two identical spacecraft were launched from the Kennedy Space Center Space Launch Complex-17B on their 4-month, low-energy trajectory to the moon. The primary objective of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission was to collect a global gravity map of the moon with a resolution approximately 1000 times better than existing knowledge. Lockheed Martin had the responsibility of designing, developing, assembling, testing, launching, and operating the twin spacecraft. With a dry mass of 200.6 kg each, these GRAIL spacecraft were among the lightest ever to be selected for a NASA Discovery-class mission. This paper discusses …

Cubesat Lessons Learned: Two Launch Failures Followed By One Mission Success (Subtitle: What Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong.), David Klumpar

Small Satellite Conference

Montana State University’s small satellite team just keeps on learning and keeps getting better through experiences gained and through careful attention paid to lessons learned. After all, that is a fundamental goal of experiential training. The Space Science and Engineering Laboratory at Montana State University engages university undergraduate students in the design, production, testing, and flight operations of spaceflight systems as a highly effective hands-on training methodology for the next generation of space researchers. Additionally the program seeks to demonstrate the utility of, and to advance the application of very small satellites for space research. Both through launch failures (two …

Tacsat-4 Early Flight Operations Including Lessons From Integration, Test, And Launch Processing, Tim Duffey, Mike Hurley, Bill Raynor, Trevor Specht, Ken Weldy, Eric Bradley, Chris Amend, Eric Rossland, Jim Barnds, Keith Akins, Steve Raunen, Bob Skalitzky, Steve Koss, Susie Lacava, Bob Baldauff, Doug Bentz, Jeff Johnson, Fred Hellrich, Matt Anderson

Small Satellite Conference

TacSat-4 is an experimental Ultra High Frequency (UHF) communications satellite that launched on a Minotaur IV+ from Kodiak, Alaska on September 27, 2011. The spacecraft and ground capabilities are briefly described for context. The integration, testing, launch processing, early flight operations, and initial end user results are then discussed. Unique approaches and lessons learned are highlighted. For example, the “launch powered off” approach used to test new Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) bus standards worked particularly well, and had several benefits during launch processing. The ORS Office is leading the Joint Military Utility Assessment of the TacSat-4 mission.

Validation Of Astrodynamic Formation Flying Models Against Space-Si Experiments With Prisma Satellites, Drago Matko, Tomaž Rodič, Sašo Blažič, Aleš Marsetič, Krištof Oštir, Gašper Mušič, Luka Teslić, Gregor Klančar, Marko Peljhan, David Zobavnik, Robin Larsson, Eric Clacey, Christian Svärd, Thomas Karlsson

Small Satellite Conference

In this paper several astrodynamical formation flying models are assessed against the experimental results derived from the SPACE-SI formation flying experiments performed in September 2011 with the OHB Sweden developed Prisma satellites Mango and Tango. In these formation flying experiments critical manoeuvres for three types of missions were investigated with respect to in-orbit performances. The experiments included parallel flying with in track displacement demonstrating high-resolution optical dual satellite imaging and radar interferometric constellation, circumvolution as well as encircling of the target demonstrating debris observation and parallel flying with the radial displacement demonstrating fractionated spacecraft and accurate pointing of the formation. …

Attitude Control On The Pico Satellite Solar Cell Testbed-2, Siegfried Janson, Brian Hardy, Andrew Chin, Daniel Rumsey, Daniel Ehrlich, David Hinkley

Small Satellite Conference

The Pico Satellite Solar Cell Testbed-2 (PSSCT-2) was a 5” x 5” x 10”, 3.7-kg mass nanosatellite ejected from the Space Shuttle Atlantis during the final STS-135 mission on July 20, 2011. PSSCT-2 had a three-axis attitude control system to enable firing of solid rockets for orbit raising, pointing of solar cells normal to the sun for on-orbit performance monitoring, and pointing of a GPS antenna in the anti-flight direction for radio-occultation measurements. Attitude determination and control hardware developed by the authors for this mission included two sun sensors, an Earth nadir sensor suite, three magnetic torque coils, and three …

The Canadian Advanced Nanospace Experiment 7 (Canx-7) Demonstration Mission: De-Orbiting Nano- And Microspacecraft, Barbara Shmuel, Jesse Hiemstra, Vincent Tarantini, Fiona Singarayar, Grant Bonin, Robert Zee

Small Satellite Conference

As the number of objects in Earth orbit grows, the international satellite community faces a growing problem associated with orbital debris and space collision avoidance. In September 2007, the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) recommended that satellites de-orbit within 25 years after the completion of their mission, or within 30 years of launch if they cannot be parked in less dense (“graveyard”) orbits. Governments around the world are introducing procedures to implement the recommendations of the IADC, and consequently, this requirement poses a significant programmatic risk for new space missions, especially those requiring rapid, responsive, short missions in low …

Development Of Multiple Parameter-Based Cost Model For Small Earth Observation Satellite, Jin Kang, Hongrae Kim, Young-Keun Chang

Small Satellite Conference

The satellite cost models developed based on total mass has been more widely used in the past, but many limitations often make them difficult to apply or achieve desired accuracy. In addition, the compounded errors of such models are further increased by the variety of the missions that these systems are designed to perform. For the new cost model presented in this paper, the scope of the proposed cost model has been limited to earth observation satellites. These systems are further divided into EO (electro-optical) and SAR (synthetic-aperture radar) satellites. The proposed model can be applied to satellites with masses …

Novasar – Bringing Radar Capability To The Disaster Monitoring Constellation, Philip Davies, Phil Whittaker, Rachel Bird, Luis Gomes, Ben Stern, Martin Sweeting, Martin Cohen, David Hall

Small Satellite Conference

Small satellites are playing an increasing role in addressing applications in Earth Observation for scientific, civil and military applications. With all optical systems, this leads to some obvious limitations to the time of day targets can be imaged, which geographic latitudes can be covered, and to a dependency on cloud cover. For some applications this limits the utility of space systems unless low-light and through-cloud imaging information can be obtained in a timely fashion by other cost-effective means. Typically, space based radar systems are significantly more complex, more expensive, and data is more difficult to utilise than equivalent optical systems. …

Gomx-1: A Nano-Satellite Mission To Demonstrate Improved Situational Awareness For Air Traffic Control, Lars Alminde, Johan Christiansen, Karl Kaas Laursen, Anders Midtgaard, Morten Bisgard, Morten Jensen, Bjarke Gosvig, Alex Birklykke, Peter Koch, Yannick Le Moullec

Small Satellite Conference

Since the launch of the first Cubesats in 2003 significant resources are now being invested worldwide in developing technologies and capabilities that allows nano-satellites to perform more meaningful missions in space. In November 2012 GomSpace will launch the GomX-1 nano-satellite, which features a payload capable of tracking from space trans-oceanic flights by reception of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) signal emitted by the aircraft. The future potential uses for space based ADS-B are many and range from the optimization of air space procedures based on statistical data from a few nano-satellites to an operational real-time system for operational air traffic …

Edsn: A Large Swarm Of Advanced Yet Very Affordable, Cots-Based Nanosats That Enable Multipoint Physics And Open Source Apps, Jim Cockrell, Richard Alena, David Mayer, Hugo Sanchez, Tom Luzod, Bruce Yost, D. Klumpar

Small Satellite Conference

The NASA Office of the Chief Technologist’s (OCT) Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSPT) has sponsored a 24-month, $11M project called Edison Demonstration of SmallSat Networks (EDSN). The goals of EDSN are to demonstrate a swarm of small, inexpensive satellites with novel on-orbit communications capabilities, and to demonstrate their suitability as a future platform for distributed Space Weather or other scientific measurements that require distributed, multipoint, time-synchronized measurements in low Earth orbit (LEO). EDSN will demonstrate the unique capabilities that a swarm of nanosatellites has to offer, both as a platform for distributed science data acquisition, and as a means of …

Nemo-Hd: High-Resolution Microsatellite For Earth Monitoring And Observation, F. Pranajaya, R. Zee, S. Grocott, T. Rodič, D. Matko, K. Oštir, M. Peljhan, A. Urbas, H. Fröhlich, S. Blažič, A. Marsetič

Small Satellite Conference

The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, in collaboration with the Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies (SPACE-SI), is developing a 40 kg microsatellite for earth monitoring and observation that is capable of resolving a Ground Sampling Distance (GSD) of 2.8 m from a design altitude of 600 km. NEMO-HD (Nanosatellite for Earth Monitoring and Observation - High Definition) is the second spacecraft that is based on SFL's high-performance NEMO bus and builds upon the heritage of SFL's flight-proven Generic Nanosatellite Bus (GNB). NEMO-HD will carry two optical instruments: a …

System F6: Progress To Date, Elwin Ong, Owen Brown, Major John Losinski

Small Satellite Conference

The System F6 program has made progress over the past year, most notably with the F6 Developer’s Kit (FDK). The FDK will provide open source and freely exportable standards and software from the physical wireless link layer through to the network protocol stack, including real-time resource-sharing middleware and a cluster flight application. The program is on track to complete integration, verification and validation of the FDK and begin development of the F6 Technology Package (F6TP). The F6TP will instantiate the FDK in modular, reliable, and affordable flight hardware platforms that can be readily integrated onto a wide variety of spacecraft. …

Nanosatellites For Earth Environmental Monitoring: The Micromas Project, William Blackwell, G. Allen, S. Conrad, C. Galbraith, R. Kingsbury, R. Leslie, P. Mckinley, I. Osaretin, W. Osborn, B. Reid, L. Retherford, M. Scarito, C. Semisch, M. Shield, M. Silver, D. Toher, R. Wezalis, K. Wright, Kerri Cahoy, David Miller, Anne Marinan, Sung Wook Paek, Eric Peters, Frank Hall Schmidt, Bruno Alvisio, Evan Wise, Rebecca Masterson, Danilo Franzim Miranda, Neal Erickson

Small Satellite Conference

The Micro-sized Microwave Atmospheric Satellite (MicroMAS) is a dual-spinning 3U CubeSat equipped with a passive microwave spectrometer that observes nine channels near the 118.75-GHz oxygen absorption line. The focus of this MicroMAS mission (hereafter, MicroMAS-1) is to observe convective thunderstorms, tropical cyclones, and hurricanes from a near-equatorial orbit. The MicroMAS-1 flight unit is currently being developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, and the MIT Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences for a 2014 launch to be provided by the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative program. As a low cost platform, MicroMAS offers the potential to deploy multiple …

International Scientific Micro-Satellite Risesat Based On Space Plug And Play Avionics, Toshinori Kuwahara, Kazuya Yoshida, Yuji Sakamoto, Yoshihiro Tomioka, Kazufumi Fukuda, Masahiro Fukuyama, Yoshihiko Shibuya

Small Satellite Conference

Tohoku University is now developing an international scientific micro-satellite named RISESAT (Rapid International Scientific Experiment Satellite), whose launch is planned to be in the end of 2013. RISESAT is a 50-kg class micro-satellite. The orbit is planned to be a sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of around 700km. RISESAT will carry 6 international scientific payloads developed by overseas partners, including a high-precision telescope with liquid crystal tunable filters with 5m GSD, as well as an optical communication terminal as technology demonstration. The total weight of payload instruments sums up to more than 10kg which is about 20 % of the …