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Balloonsat As A Platform For Deploying The Neutron Counter, Mark Becnel

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Magnetic Field Mapping In The Plasmoid Thruster Experiment (Ptx), Coby W. Mccolgin

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Libra The Airborne Launch-Pad, Lucas Schoukroun, Amandine Delahaye

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Current Sheet Structures From Ace And Messenger Observations, Lorin Arnold, Gang Li

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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The Case For An L1 Space Station For Stellar Missions, Wade Harlow

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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A Probabilistic Design Analysis Approach In Reducing The Overall Risk Of A Fusion Propulsion Spacecraft, Natalie Walker

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Pulsed Fusion And Radiation-Cooled Gaseous Core Fission Rocket Performance Comparisons For A Mars Roundtrip Mission, Miles Owen

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Student Launch Initiative: Boosted Dart Rocket, Charger Rocket Works

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Plasma Jet Magneto Inertial Fusion Thruster Concept, Richard Hatcher

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Space Economics And Infrastructure Needed To Support The Development Of An Interstellar Probe, Kevin Schillo

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Student Designed Solutions For In-Orbit Detection And Tracking Of Small Orbital Debris, Lisa Tunstill

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Beamed Energy For Ablative Propulsion In Near Earth Space, Grant Bergstue

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Design And Development Of An Advanced Thermonuclear Fusion Propulsion R&D Facility At Uahuntsville, Ross J. Cortez

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Assessing The Relationship Between Systems Engineering Mpts And Integrated Product Team Performance, Andrea Kerby

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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Electron Energy Distribution Control, Wade Harlow

Von Braun Symposium Student Posters

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The Santa Clara, 2024-10-11, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

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The Bridge Newsletter Winter 2011, Missouri University Of Science And Technology

The Bridge Newsletter

-Living intentionally: Meet the Oerthers
-Making a lasting impact
-Phytoforensics
-The simple things of life

The Comparison Of Gev, Log-Pearson Type 3 And Gumbel Distributions In The Upper Thames River Watershed Under Global Climate Models, Nick Millington, Samiran Das, Slobodan P. Simonovic

Water Resources Research Report

The increase in greenhouse gas emissions has had a severe impact on global temperature, and is affecting weather patterns worldwide. With this global climate change, precipitation levels are changing, and in many places are drastically increasing. The need to be able to accurately predict extreme precipitation events is imperative in designing for not only the safety of infrastructure, but also people’s lives. To predict these events, the use of historical data is necessary, along with statistical distributions that are used to fit the data.

In this study, historical data from the London International Airport station has been used, along with …

Methods Of Using Black Bear Parathyroid Hormone, Seth W. Donahue

Michigan Tech Patents

Black bear parathyroid hormone (PTH) and functional fragments thereof are provided. Also provided are methods of using black bear PTH and functional fragments for increasing cAMP in a bone-forming cell; reducing apoptosis in a boneforming cell; decreasing the ratio of expression levels of Bax protein to Bcl-2 protein in a bone-forming cell; increasing the expression level of one or more of a bone matrix protein, a transcriptional activator, or a transcriptional regulator in a bone-forming cell; enhancing bone mineral density, increasing bone mass, decreasing bone loss, or reducing the incidence of bone fractures, or any combination thereof, in a subject; …

Automated Polysomnographic Assessment For Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder, Joseph W. Burns, Ronald D. Chervin

Michigan Tech Patents

Methods and systems for diagnosing or assessing rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD). Muscle tone or activity variance during rapid eye movement (REM) and nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep intervals of a polysom- nogram are compared. A threshold based on the NREM data is used to identify a subj ect-specific threshold for abnormality in the REM variance. A metric that includes the percentage of REM variance exceeding the threshold relates to RBD.

Flight Physician - August, 2011, Civil Aviation Medical Association

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A sixteen page newsletter of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. The newsletter provided news about civil aviation medicine and information related to the organization.

An Integrated System Dynamics Model For Analyzing Behaviour Of The Social-Energy-Economic-Climatic System: User’S Manual, Mohammad Khaled Akhtar, Slobodan P. Simonovic, Jacob Wibe, Jim Macgee, Jim Davies

Water Resources Research Report

The User's Manual is planned to assist the user in (i) understanding the ANEMI model structure; and (ii) learning how to use the model for policy simulation. ANEMI model is a research product and is not developed as a commercial software. This manual contains a brief description of the main features of the Vensim system dynamics simulation software (Ventana, 2010), as well as integrated simulationoptimization procedure developed by incorporating MATLAB (MathWorks, 2007) functionalities with Vensim system dynamics simulation. With the help of Vensim and MATLAB software packages, the user can use, modify and/or run the ANEMI models provided with the …

An Integrated System Dynamics Model For Analyzing Behaviour Of The Social-Energy-Economic-Climatic System: Model Description, Mohammad Khaled Akhtar, Slobodan P. Simonovic, Jacob Wibe, Jim Macgee, Jim Davies

Water Resources Research Report

The feedback based integrated assessment model ANEMI represents the society-biosphereclimate- economy-energy system of the earth and biosphere. The development of ANEMI model is done using the system dynamics simulation approach that (a) allows understanding and modeling of complex global change and (b) assists in the investigation of possible policy options for mitigating, and/or adopting to global changing conditions, within an integrated assessment modeling framework. This report presents ANEMI model and its nine individual sectors: climate, carbon cycle, land-use, population, food production, hydrologic cycle, water demand, water quality, and energy-economy. Two versions of the model are developed and presented in the …

Blair Balden, Margaret Von Steinen

International Faculty Researchers

A visiting professorship at the University of Passau in Passau, Germany for Dr. Blair Balden, a WMU associate professor of aviation, provided an excellent opportunity to share ideas and information about teaching aviation law with professors from Germany and Austria.

Evolving Machine Morality Strategies Through Multiagent Simulations, David Burke

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

There is a general consensus among robotics researchers that the world of the future will be filled with autonomous and semi-autonomous machines. There is less of a consensus, though, on the best approach to instilling a sense of 'machine morality' in these systems so that they will be able to have effective interactions with humans in an increasingly complex world. In my talk, we take a brief look at some existing approaches to computational ethics, and then describe work we've undertaken creating multiagent simulations involving moral decision-making during strategic interactions. In these simulations, agents make choices about whether to cooperate …

Systems Ideas For The Scientific And Societal Imperatives Of The Coastal Ocean: Case Of The Bp Oil Gusher In The Gulf Of Mexico, Spring & Summer 2010, Christopher Mooers

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series

In recent decades, great progress has been made in advancing the scientific understanding of the coastal ocean (i.e., the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)) across a broad set of disciplines. Simultaneously, the societal use of the coastal ocean has skyrocketed through, for example, increased shipping & boating, sports & commercial fishing, and exploitation of non-living resources, such as, oil & gas extraction and sand & gravel mining. International law and national policy assign coastal nations the responsibility for stewardship (i.e., wise management) of their respective EEZs. The scope of the stewardship and applications can be summarized as (1) …

Wrist Pin Sensing System And Method, Daniel R. Kemppainen

Michigan Tech Patents

A method, and a system employing the method, for determining a position of a rotational part in a reciprocating machine. The system includes a quadrature encoder and an interrupter coupled to the rotational element. As the interrupter rotates with the wrist pin, the quadrature encoder generates some binary signals based on the rotation of the wrist pin. A digital-to-analog converter then converts the binary signals into a single analog signal. The system then wirelessly transmits the single analog signal for processing by other remote components.

2011 - The Sixteenth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars

Symposium of Student Scholars Program Books

The full program book from the Sixteenth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 26, 2011. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.

Wright State University Celebration Of Research, Scholarship And Creative Activities Book Of Abstracts Friday, April 8, 2011, Wright State University Office Of Undergraduate Research And Stemm Activities

Celebration of Undergraduate & Graduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Materials

The student abstract booklet is a compilation of abstracts from students' oral and poster presentations at Wright State University's second annual Celebration of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities on April 8, 2011.

Capture And Sequestration Of Carbon Dioxide In Flue Gases, Surendra Komar Kawatra, Timothy C. Eisele, John J. Simmons

Michigan Tech Patents

There is provided a process for the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide that would otherwise enter the atmosphere and contribute to global warming and other problems. C02 capture is accomplished by reacting carbon dioxide in flue gas with an alkali metal carbonate, or a metal oxide, particularly containing an alkaline earth metal or iron, to form a carbonate salt. A preferred carbonate for C02 capture is a dilute aqueous solution of additive-free (Na2C03). Other carbonates include (K2C03) or other metal ion that can produce both a carbonate and a bicarbonate salt. Examples of suitable metal oxides include several alkaline …