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Workshop On Drought-Related Issues In Fars Province, Iran: Critical Points And Resolutions, M. J. Nazemosadat, S. Amin, A. A. Kamgare-Haghighi, D. Khalili Oct 2000

Workshop On Drought-Related Issues In Fars Province, Iran: Critical Points And Resolutions, M. J. Nazemosadat, S. Amin, A. A. Kamgare-Haghighi, D. Khalili

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

As a result of the occurrence of overwhelming severe drought over most parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran, an educational/professional workshop on drought issues was held at the College of Agriculture, Shiraz University in Iran, October 18–19, 2000. The workshop was sponsored by the College of Agriculture, the office of Fars Provincial Government, the Agricultural Bank, and Shiraz Abfa Company. The workshop was mainly focused on the assessment of drought impacts and severity in Fars province, in the southern part of Iran.

The inauguration ceremony was attended by some of the parliament members (from Fars province), the Chancellor of …

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From The Director: Fall 2000, Donald A. Wilhite Oct 2000

From The Director: Fall 2000, Donald A. Wilhite

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

The NDMC hosted the first annual “Drought Monitor Forum” in November. Most of the readers of Drought Network News are probably aware of the Drought Monitor web site (http://enso.unl.edu/ monitor/index.html) and the products that are provided to users. (Mark Svoboda of the NDMC provided an overview of the Drought Monitor product in the Winter/Spring 2000 issue of Drought Network News.) This weekly product, jointly produced by the NDMC, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, has been widely accepted in the United States, and other countries are considering the adoption of a similar technique for mapping drought …

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Improving Drought Early Warning Systems In The Context Of Drought Preparedness And Mitigation, Donald A. Wilhite, M. V. K. Sivakumar, Deborah Wood Oct 2000

Improving Drought Early Warning Systems In The Context Of Drought Preparedness And Mitigation, Donald A. Wilhite, M. V. K. Sivakumar, Deborah Wood

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

Effective drought early warning systems are an integral part of efforts worldwide to improve drought preparedness. Timely and reliable data and information must be the cornerstone of effective drought policies and plans. In pursuit of the goal of improving the effectiveness of drought early warning systems, participants of the experts meeting were asked to address three fundamental questions:

1. What is your assessment of the current status of drought early warning systems?
2. What are the shortcomings, limitations, and needs for drought early warning systems?
3. How can drought early warning systems be improved to better support drought preparedness and …

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Using The Spi To Monitor The 1999-2000 Drought In Northeastern Argentina, Roberto Zanvettor, Andres Ravelo Oct 2000

Using The Spi To Monitor The 1999-2000 Drought In Northeastern Argentina, Roberto Zanvettor, Andres Ravelo

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

Drought risk is a major concern across many regions of Argentina because precipitation is extremely variable. One of these regions, the Pampas, is the main agricultural and livestock production area, extending over 60 million hectares. This region was recently surveyed to detect, monitor, and assess the occurrence of drought using a network of 27 meteorological stations and the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), developed by McKee et al. (1993). The SPI has various categories that define drought intensities. A period is considered humid when the SPI value is greater than +1 and a period is considered dry when the value of …

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Exterior Caustics Produced In Scattering Of A Diagonally Incident Plane Wave By A Circular Cylinder: Semiclassical Scattering Theory Analysis, James A. Lock, Charles L. Adler, Edward A. Hovenac Oct 2000

Exterior Caustics Produced In Scattering Of A Diagonally Incident Plane Wave By A Circular Cylinder: Semiclassical Scattering Theory Analysis, James A. Lock, Charles L. Adler, Edward A. Hovenac

Physics Faculty Publications

Rie use the semiclassical limit of electromagnetic wave scattering theory to determine the properties of the exterior caustics of a diagonally incident plane wave scattered by an infinitely long homogeneous dielectric circular cylinder in both the near zone and the far zone. The transmission caustic has an exterior/interior cusp transition as the tilt angle of the incident beam is increased, and each of the rainbow caustics has a far-zone rainbow/exterior cusp transition and an exterior/interior cusp transition as the incident beam tilt angle is increased. We experimentally observe and analyze both transitions of the first-order rainbow. We also compare the …

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Water Resources Review - Fall 2000 Vol 13 No 2, Annis Water Resources Institute Oct 2000

Water Resources Review - Fall 2000 Vol 13 No 2, Annis Water Resources Institute

AWRI Reviews

No abstract provided.

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Existence Of Many Positive Nonradial Solutions For A Superlinear Dirichlet Problem On Thin Annuli, Alfonso Castro, Marcel B. Finan Oct 2000

Existence Of Many Positive Nonradial Solutions For A Superlinear Dirichlet Problem On Thin Annuli, Alfonso Castro, Marcel B. Finan

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

We study the existence of many positive nonradial solutions of a superlinear Dirichlet problem in an annulus in RN. Our strategy consists of finding the minimizer of the energy functional restricted to the Nehrai manifold of a subspace of functions with symmetries. The minimizer is a global critical point and therefore is a desired solution. Then we show that the minimal energy solutions in different symmetric classes have mutually different energies. The same approach has been used to prove the existence of many sign-changing nonradial solutions (see [5]).

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The Phases Of 2d Ncos, Vatche Sahakian Oct 2000

The Phases Of 2d Ncos, Vatche Sahakian

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

We study the phases of the (1+1)-dimensional Non-Commutative Open String theory on a circle. We find that the length scale of non-commutativity increases at strong coupling, the coupling in turn being dressed by a power of D-string charge. The system is stringy at around this length scale, with dynamics involving an interplay between the open and wrapped closed strings sectors. Above this energy scale and at strong coupling, and below it at weak coupling, the system acquires a less stringy character. The near horizon geometry of the configuration exhibits several intriguing features, such as a flip in the dilaton field …

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Lyman-Α Imaging Of A Very Luminous Z = 2.3 Starburst Galaxy With Wfpc2, Nathan Roche, James D. Lowenthal, Bruce Woodgate Oct 2000

Lyman-Α Imaging Of A Very Luminous Z = 2.3 Starburst Galaxy With Wfpc2, Nathan Roche, James D. Lowenthal, Bruce Woodgate

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

We investigate the Lyα and UV continuum morphology of one of the most luminous known Lymana emitting galaxies (the 'Coup Fourré Galaxy'), associated with a z = 2.3 damped Lyα absorption system in the spectrum of the QSO PHL 957. The galaxy is observed with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 (HST WFPC2), through a narrow filter (F410M) corresponding to rest-frame Lyα for a total exposure time of 41.2 ks, plus shorter exposures in F555W and F814W. In all three passbands, the galaxy is resolved into a close (∼0.35 arcsec) pair of two components, CFgA and CFgB, both …

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Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 2, October 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Oct 2000

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 2, October 2000, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.

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Electron Beam And Optical Depth Profiling Of Quasibulk Gan, L. Chernyak, A. Osinsky, G. Nootz, A. Schulte, J. Jasinski, M. Benamara, Z. Liliental-Weber, David C. Look, Richard J. Molnar Oct 2000

Electron Beam And Optical Depth Profiling Of Quasibulk Gan, L. Chernyak, A. Osinsky, G. Nootz, A. Schulte, J. Jasinski, M. Benamara, Z. Liliental-Weber, David C. Look, Richard J. Molnar

Physics Faculty Publications

Electron beam and optical depth profiling of thick (5.5–64 μm) quasibulk n-type GaN samples, grown by hydride vapor-phase epitaxy, were carried out using electron beam induced current (EBIC), microphotoluminescence (PL), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The minority carrier diffusion length, L, was found to increase linearly from 0.25 μm, at a distance of about 5 μm from the GaN/sapphire interface, to 0.63 μm at the GaN surface, for a 36-μm-thick sample. The increase in L was accompanied by a corresponding increase in PL band-to-band radiative transition intensity as a function of distance from the GaN/sapphire interface. We attribute …

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Identification Of The Gamma(5) And Gamma(6) Free Excitons In Gan, D. C. Reynolds, David C. Look, B. Jogai, A. W. Saxler, Seong-Ju S. Park, J. Y. Hahn Oct 2000

Identification Of The Gamma(5) And Gamma(6) Free Excitons In Gan, D. C. Reynolds, David C. Look, B. Jogai, A. W. Saxler, Seong-Ju S. Park, J. Y. Hahn

Physics Faculty Publications

The Γ5 and Γ6 free excitons have been identified in GaN from emission measurements. Another emission peak is also observed which we believe to be the longitudinal free exciton. These measurements along with electrical measurements, which show the sample to have very high peak mobility, attest to the high quality of the sample.

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Rnase L-Independent Specific 28s Rrna Cleavage In Murine Coronavirus-Infected Cells, Sangeeta Banerjee, Sungwhan An, Aimin Zhou, Robert H. Silverman, Shinji Makino Oct 2000

Rnase L-Independent Specific 28s Rrna Cleavage In Murine Coronavirus-Infected Cells, Sangeeta Banerjee, Sungwhan An, Aimin Zhou, Robert H. Silverman, Shinji Makino

Chemistry Faculty Publications

We characterized a novel 28S rRNA cleavage in cells infected with the murine coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus (MHV). The 28S rRNA cleavage occurred as early as 4 h postinfection (p.i.) in MHV-infected DBT cells, with the appearance of subsequent cleavage products and a decrease in the amount of intact 28S rRNA with increasing times of infection; almost all of the intact 28S rRNA disappeared by 24 h p.i. In contrast, no specific 18S rRNA cleavage was detected in infected cells. MHV-induced 28S rRNA cleavage was detected in all MHV-susceptible cell lines and all MHV strains tested. MHV replication was required …

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Fall 2000, Nsu Oceanographic Center Oct 2000

Fall 2000, Nsu Oceanographic Center

Currents

No abstract provided.

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Experimental Goes Sounder Products For The Assessment Of Downburst Potential, Gary P. Ellrod, James P. Nelson Iii, Michael R. Witiw, Lynda Bottos, William P. Roeder Oct 2000

Experimental Goes Sounder Products For The Assessment Of Downburst Potential, Gary P. Ellrod, James P. Nelson Iii, Michael R. Witiw, Lynda Bottos, William P. Roeder

Aeronautics Faculty Publications

Several experimental products derived from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Sounder retrievals (vertical profiles of temperature and moisture) have been developed to assist weather forecasters in assessing the potential for convective downbursts. The product suite currently includes the wind index (WINDEX), a dry microburst index, and the maximum difference in equivalent potential temperature (θe) from the surface to 300 hPa. The products are displayed as color-coded boxes or numerical values, superimposed on GOES visible, infrared, or water vapor imagery, and are available hourly, day and night, via the Internet. After two full summers of evaluation, the products have been shown …

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Scwds Briefs: Volume 16, Number 3 (October 2000) Oct 2000

Scwds Briefs: Volume 16, Number 3 (October 2000)

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications


• SCWDS Director Dr. Victor F. Nettles retired November 30, 2000, after a 28-year career at SCWDS.
• Former Montana Senator Dr. John Melcher recently wrote an article for the United States Animal Health Association Newsletter on "Wildlife Authority."
• 20 foxhounds at a Duchess County, New York, hunt club died or were euthanatized due to infection with the protozoan parasite Leishmania spp. of the donovani complex. Leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease of humans and dogs caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania.
• Controlling CWD in Captive Elk
• Drug Use Protocol for Wildlife
• West Nile Virus …

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Water Current, Volume 32, No. 5, October 2000 Oct 2000

Water Current, Volume 32, No. 5, October 2000

Water Current Newsletter

NU Researchers Track Endangered and Threatened Sturgeon in Platte River
From the Director: Promises and Challenges of Embarking on New Journeys and Looking in New Directions
Meet the Faculty: F. Edwin (Ed) Harvey; Steven D. (Steve) Comfort
Eleventh Platte River Basin Ecosystem Symposium to be Held in Kearney February 27-28
Water Sciences Laboratory Completes Creighton Groundwater Study
Utility Deregulation Could Have Unforeseen Impacts on Water Resources and Ecosystems
Irrigation Well Data Available on the Internet
Jess Named Associate Director of NU Conservation and Survey Division
Festival of Color 2000
Water News Briefs
Great Plains Natural Resources Journal
CSREES Grant to …

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Side Collision Warning System For Transit Buses, Sue Mcneil, David Duggins, Christoph Mertz, Arne Suppe, Chuck Thorpe Oct 2000

Side Collision Warning System For Transit Buses, Sue Mcneil, David Duggins, Christoph Mertz, Arne Suppe, Chuck Thorpe

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Transit buses are involved in many more accidents than other vehicles. Collision warning systems (CWS) are therefore placed most efficiently on these buses. In our project, we investigate their operating environment and available technologies to develop performance specifications for such CWS. The paper discusses our findings of transit buses driving through very cluttered surroundings and being involved in many different types of accidents where currently available CWS no not work effectively. One of the focuses of our work is pedestrians around the bus and their detection.

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Dependence Among Spacings, Baha-Eldin Khaledi, Subhash C. Kochar Oct 2000

Dependence Among Spacings, Baha-Eldin Khaledi, Subhash C. Kochar

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this paper, we study the dependence properties of spacings. It is proved that if X1,..., Xn are exchangeable random variables which are TP2 in pairs and their joint density is log-convex in each argument, then the spacings are MTP2 dependent. Next, we consider the case of independent but nonhomogeneous exponential random variables. It is shown that in this case, in general, the spacings are not MTP2 dependent. However, in the case of a single outlier when all except one parameters are equal, the spacings are shown to be MTP2 dependent and, hence, …

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Classes Of Logic Programs Which Possess Unique Supported Models, Anthony K. Seda, Pascal Hitzler Oct 2000

Classes Of Logic Programs Which Possess Unique Supported Models, Anthony K. Seda, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Logic programming is concerned with the use of logic as a programming language. The main manifestation of this computing paradigm is in the various versions of Prolog which are now available, in which computation is viewed as deduction from sets of Horn clauses, although there is also growing interest in the related form known as answer set programming, see [10]. The reference [1] contains a good survey of the growth of logic programming over the last twenty-five years both as a stand-alone programming language and as a software component of large information systems. One advantage a logic program P has …

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Student Fact Book, Fall 2000, Twenty-Fourth Annual Edition, Wright State University, Office Of Student Information Systems, Wright State University Oct 2000

Student Fact Book, Fall 2000, Twenty-Fourth Annual Edition, Wright State University, Office Of Student Information Systems, Wright State University

Wright State University Student Fact Books

The student fact book has general demographic information on all students enrolled at Wright State University for Fall Quarter, 2000.

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Thermodynamics Of Water Superheated In The Microwave Oven, Ben H. Erné, Penny A. Snetsinger Oct 2000

Thermodynamics Of Water Superheated In The Microwave Oven, Ben H. Erné, Penny A. Snetsinger

Chemistry & Physics Faculty Publications

A simple visual demonstration is proposed that provokes thinking about the elementary thermodynamics of heating and boiling. Water is conveniently heated above its normal boiling point in a microwave oven in a glass microwave oven teapot. Water stops boiling soon after heating is interrupted, but subsequently added rough particles can still act as nucleation centers for a brief, spectacular burst of steam bubbles. The heat to make those steam bubbles obviously comes from the water itself, so that one can conclude that the boiling water was superheated, which is confirmed with a thermometer. Besides illustrating chemical thermodynamics, the demonstration also …

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The Cracker Patch Choice: An Analysis Of Post Hoc Security Techniques, Crispin Cowan, Heather Hinton, Calton Pu, Jonathan Walpole Oct 2000

The Cracker Patch Choice: An Analysis Of Post Hoc Security Techniques, Crispin Cowan, Heather Hinton, Calton Pu, Jonathan Walpole

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

It has long been known that security is easiest to achieve when it is designed in from the start. Unfortunately, it has also become evident that systems built with security as a priority are rarely selected for wide spread deployment, because most consumers choose features, convenience, and performance over security. Thus security officers are often denied the option of choosing a truly secure solution, and instead must choose among a variety of post hoc security adaptations. We classify security enhancing methods, and compare and contrast these methods in terms of their effectiveness vs. cost of deployment. Our analysis provides practitioners …

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หลักเกณฑ์ในการกำหนดมาตรฐานคุณภาพอากาศ, นพภาพร พานิช Oct 2000

หลักเกณฑ์ในการกำหนดมาตรฐานคุณภาพอากาศ, นพภาพร พานิช

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.

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การเก็บอากาศและการตรวจวิเคราะห์, นันทนา ชูฉัตร Oct 2000

การเก็บอากาศและการตรวจวิเคราะห์, นันทนา ชูฉัตร

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.

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วาระสุดท้ายของสารคลอโรฟลูออโรคาร์บอน (Cfcs) กับการทำลายโอโซนในชั้นบรรยากาศ, มานพ ติระรัตนสมโภช, ปิยวรรณ ปัญญาดี Oct 2000

วาระสุดท้ายของสารคลอโรฟลูออโรคาร์บอน (Cfcs) กับการทำลายโอโซนในชั้นบรรยากาศ, มานพ ติระรัตนสมโภช, ปิยวรรณ ปัญญาดี

Thai Environment

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สารกรดในบรรยากาศ มลพิษที่ไร้พรมแดน, ปทิตตา อินทร์ศร Oct 2000

สารกรดในบรรยากาศ มลพิษที่ไร้พรมแดน, ปทิตตา อินทร์ศร

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.

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Bend Elasticity Of Mixtures Of V-Shaped Molecules In Ordinary Nematogens, Mohammad Reza Dodge, Charles Rosenblatt, Rolfe G. Petschek Oct 2000

Bend Elasticity Of Mixtures Of V-Shaped Molecules In Ordinary Nematogens, Mohammad Reza Dodge, Charles Rosenblatt, Rolfe G. Petschek

Faculty Scholarship

Freedericksz measurements were performed on mixtures of a nematic mesogen and a V-shaped molecule. The bend elastic constant was found to decrease significantly with increasing concentration of the V-shaped molecule. The results are discussed theoretically, taking into account the detailed structure of the molecules.

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Sn/Ge(111) Surface Charge-Density-Wave Phase Transition, T. E. Kidd, T. Miller, M. Y. Chou, T.-C. Chiang Oct 2000

Sn/Ge(111) Surface Charge-Density-Wave Phase Transition, T. E. Kidd, T. Miller, M. Y. Chou, T.-C. Chiang

Faculty Work

Angle-resolved photoemission has been utilized to study the surface electronic structure of 1/3 monolayer of Sn of Ge(111) in both the room-temperature (√3 × √3)R30° phase and the low-temprature (3 × 3) charge-density-wave phase. The results reveal a gap opening around the (3 × 3) Brillouin zone boundary, suggesting a Peierls-like transition despite the well-documented lack of Fermi nesting. A highly sensitive electronic response to doping by intrinsic surface defects is the cause for the unusual behaior, and a detailed calculation illustrates the origin of the (3 × 3) symmetry.

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Evolution Of The Kangmar Dome, Southern Tibet: Structural, Petrologic, And Thermochronologic Constraints, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley R. Hacker, William S. Dinklage, Yu Wang, Phillip Gans, Andrew Calvert, Jinglin Wan, Wenji Chen, Ann E. Blythe, William Mcclelland Oct 2000

Evolution Of The Kangmar Dome, Southern Tibet: Structural, Petrologic, And Thermochronologic Constraints, Jeffrey Lee, Bradley R. Hacker, William S. Dinklage, Yu Wang, Phillip Gans, Andrew Calvert, Jinglin Wan, Wenji Chen, Ann E. Blythe, William Mcclelland

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

Structural, thermobarometric, and thermochronologic investigations of the Kangmar Dome, southern Tibet, suggest that both extensional and contractional deformational histories are preserved within the dome. The dome is cored by an orthogneiss which is mantled by staurolite + kyanite zone metasedimentary rocks; metamorphic grade dies out up section and is defined by a series of concentric kyanite-in, staurolite-in, garnet-in, and chloritoid-in isograds. Three major deformational events, two older penetrative events and a younger doming event, are preserved. The oldest event, D1, resulted in approximately E-W trending tight to isoclinal folds of bedding with an associated moderately to steeply north dipping axial …

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