Donald Norman's "The Invisible Computer" and Its Implications for Education.
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Frey, Joanne M.
In "The Invisible Computer," Donald Norman illustrates his theory of invisible computers turning into information appliances with examples of past inventions like the radio, automobile, and phonograph. Second generation computers have evolved as far as technology will allow. At the present time, the technology itself is the driving force…
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Cartwright, David E.
Dr. Norman Heaps died on June 26, 1986, in a hospital near his native town of Prescot, U.K., a suburb of Liverpool, after a long illness punctuated by bouts of painful medical treatment for lung cancer. He was the pioneer in Britain of the numerical modeling of tides and storm surges in shelf seas.He graduated at the University of Liverpool in 1949 with honors in mathematics with subsidiary physics and oceanography. Many years later the same university awarded him a doctorate on the basis of his published work. Norman's first 10 postgraduate years were spent as mathematician in the aircraft industry, but he never felt at home in the industrial world and sought a more academic career. While lecturing at the Royal College of Advanced Technology at Salford, Manchester (now the University of Salford), he struck a lasting friendship with Clifford Mortimer, FRS, then director of the Freshwater Biological Association laboratory at Lake Windermere, who first interested Heaps in the problem of computing the natural seiche oscillations of that lake. The use of electronic computers was still in its infancy, but Heaps saw that the equations of internal oscillations in such a lake could be solved numerically by methods that he had developed in the theory of wing structures. Heaps worked up a Master's thesis on this problem during his summer vacations, and he later worked with Mortimer at the University of Wisconsin on a more advanced scheme involving the coupled oscillations of Green Bay and Lake Michigan.
Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With:" Teaching "Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board"
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Middleton, Tiffany
2011-01-01
"The Problem We All Live With" is one of Norman Rockwell's most famous, and provocative, images. First printed in the January 14, 1964, issue of "Look" magazine, the image features an approximately six-year-old African American girl walking. She is wearing a white dress, white socks and white shoes. Her hair is parted in neat…
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Karter, M. Joshua
1994-01-01
Discusses some of the problems the author encountered in staging a production of Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" in Moscow. States that the area of largest concern was cultural variables, and whether a Russian audience would be able to understand some of the references. Concludes that, despite cultural differences, the audience was…
1982-01-01
R.ugustine Chairman iv OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301 27 January 1982 DEFENSE SCIENCIE BOARD Mr. Norman R. Augustine Chai rman...Institute of Technology Dr. Norman Hackerman President Rice University Dr. Richard L. Haley Assistant Deputy Science and Technology USA Material ...Biological and Medical Sciences 51.8 67.8 22% Materials 53.2 65.1 13% Chemistry 47.8 60.1 17% Math and Computer Sciences 44.2 53.6 12% Oceanography 43.2
1981-01-01
of a Complex System; 177 Albert L. Stevens and Allan Collins Introduction 177 Models 182 Conclusion 196 21. Complex Learning Processes 199 John R...have called schemata (Norman, Gentner, & Stevens , 1976), frames (Minsky, 1975), and scripts (Schank & Abelson, 1977). If these other authors are...York: McGraw-Hill. 1975. Norman, D. A.. Gcntner. D. R., & Stevens . A. L. Comments on learning schemata and memory representation. In D). K lahr (Ed
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Mackey, Katherine R. M.
2016-03-01
The Norman Rostoker Memorial Symposium brought together approximately 150 attendees to share their recent work and to reflect on the contributions of Norman Rostoker to the field of plasma physics and the advancement of fusion as a source of renewable clean energy. The field has changed considerably in a few short decades, with theoretical advances and technological innovations evolving in lock step. Over those same decades, our understanding of human induced climate change has also evolved; measurable changes in Earth's physical, chemical, and biological processes have already been observed, and these will likely intensify in the coming decades. Never before has the need for clean energy been more pronounced, or the need for transformative solutions more pressing. As scientists work with legislators, journalists, and the public to take actions to address the threat of climate change, there is much to be learned from the legacies of innovators like Norman Rostoker, who have tackled complex problems with scientific insight and determination even when the odds were stacked against them. I write this from the perspective on an Earth system scientist who studies photosynthesis and the biogeochemistry of the oceans, and my statements about plasma physics and Norman Rostoker are based on information I gathered from the colloquium and from many enjoyable conversations with his friends and colleagues.
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Mackey, Katherine R. M.
The Norman Rostoker Memorial Symposium brought together approximately 150 attendees to share their recent work and to reflect on the contributions of Norman Rostoker to the field of plasma physics and the advancement of fusion as a source of renewable clean energy. The field has changed considerably in a few short decades, with theoretical advances and technological innovations evolving in lock step. Over those same decades, our understanding of human induced climate change has also evolved; measurable changes in Earth’s physical, chemical, and biological processes have already been observed, and these will likely intensify in the coming decades. Never beforemore » has the need for clean energy been more pronounced, or the need for transformative solutions more pressing. As scientists work with legislators, journalists, and the public to take actions to address the threat of climate change, there is much to be learned from the legacies of innovators like Norman Rostoker, who have tackled complex problems with scientific insight and determination even when the odds were stacked against them. I write this from the perspective on an Earth system scientist who studies photosynthesis and the biogeochemistry of the oceans, and my statements about plasma physics and Norman Rostoker are based on information I gathered from the colloquium and from many enjoyable conversations with his friends and colleagues.« less
Members of the European NORMAN Network of Environmental Laboratories (www.norman-network.com) have many substance lists, including targets, suspects, surfactants, perfluorinated substances and regulated, partially confidential data sets of complex mixtures. The NORMAN Suspect Lis...
Norman Wells: the oil center of northwest territories
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Bone, R.M.; Mahnic, R.J.
In 1920, a drilling team funded by Imperial Oil discovered a petroleum deposit along the shore of the Mackenzie River north of the settlement of Fort Norman. This wilderness site later became the community of Norman Wells and its growth has been directly attributable to petroleum. The current expansion of production at Norman Wells is aimed at S. Canadian markets and a pipeline is being constructed from Norman Wells to existing pipelines in N. Alberta. As the focal point of this major resource expansion, the character, size, and functions of the community are changing. These changes are transforming Norman Wellsmore » into an important regional center. 20 references.« less
2005-07-01
policies in pervasive computing environments. In this context, the owner of information sources (e.g. user, sensor, application, or organization...work in decentralized trust management and semantic web technologies . Section 3 introduces an Information Disclosure Agent architecture for...Norman Sadeh July 2005 CMU-ISRI-05-113 School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
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..., NM 87004. Oklahoma: Cleveland (FEMA Docket No.: B- City of Norman (11- The Honorable Cindy S. 201 West Gray August 1, 2012 400046 1257). 06-4261P). Rosenthal, Mayor, City Street, Building A, of Norman, P.O. Box 370, Norman, OK 73069. Norman, OK 73070. Comanche (FEMA Docket No.: B- City of Lawton (11...
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... Fe, NM 87504. Oklahoma: Cleveland City of Norman (10-06- October 6, 2010; The Honorable Cindy S. September 29, 2010 400046 1004P). October 13, 2010; Rosenthal, Mayor, City The Norman of Norman, 201 West Gray Transcript. Street, Norman, OK 73069. Kay City of Ponca City March 14, 2011; The Honorable Homer...
New Horizons in Adult Education. Volumes 3-7. 1989-1993.
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New Horizons in Adult Education, 1993
1993-01-01
Volume 3 includes the following: "Comparison of Computer and Audio Teleconferencing" (Norman Coombs); "Intellectual Suppression" [book review] (Roger Boshier). Contents of volume 4 are as follows: "Straight Time and Standard Brand Adult Education" (John Ohliger); "Comparison of Folk High Schools in Denmark, and…
How the Air Force Should Stay Engaged in Computer Vision Technology Development
2007-04-01
present individuals. The survey 29 Paddy Comyn, "Sensing Forward to a Driverless Future," The Irish...34 Military Embedded Systems (2006). Comyn, Paddy. "Sensing Forward to a Driverless Future." The Irish Times 21 February 2007. Dakley, Norman C. The
Contributions to Clinical Neuropsychology.
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Benton, Arthur L., Ed.
Seven aspects of neuropsychology are discussed including modern trends in neuropsychology by Klaus Poeck, the behavioral effect s of commissural section by George Ettlinger and Colin B. Blakemore, neuropsychological studies of phantom limbs by Sidney Weinstein, and problems in the anatomical understanding of aphasias by Norman Geschwind. Also…
What Makes Some Problems Really Hard: Explorations in the Problem Space of Difficulty
1988-09-01
Springfield Av’enue. Urbanai IL 61801. Or. Donald -.J. Foes. Deporronsnt of Psychology, Unfifersity of T~., Austin. TX 78712 Dr. Johiw R. Froderiueen...8*t Beranek A Neaman 50 Moulton Street. Cambridge. MA 02136 Julie A. Gedsden. lifioniedon Technology. Applcation* Divislon, Admiralty Research...Department of Ed. Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Dr. Donald Norman. Institute lot Cognitive Science. Universi 01 Caliornia. La
The Future in Education: Problems, Possibilities and Promise.
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Kierstead, Fred D., Ed.; And Others
1981-01-01
The nine articles in this special issue discuss topics on the future of education, including educational priorities for the 1990's, teacher education, educational technology, and culture and synergy as tools for educational and social reconstruction. Journal available from University of Oklahoma, College of Education, 434 Hawthorn Street, Norman,…
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Davis, C. E.; Yeary, M. B.; Sluss, J. J., Jr.
2012-01-01
This paper discusses an all-encompassing approach to increase the number of students in engineering through innovative outreach, recruiting, and retention programs. Prior to adopting these programs, the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman, experienced a reduction in engineering enrollment…
An Experimental Comparison of an Intrinsically Programed Text and a Narrative Text.
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Senter, R. J.; And Others
The study compared three methods of instruction in binary and octal arithmetic, i.e., (1) Norman Crowder's branched programed text, "The Arithmetic of Computers," (2) another version of this text modified so that subjects could not see the instructional material while answering "branching" questions, and (3) a narrative text…
Chinese Opportunities in Career Education (Project CHOICE) 1988-89. OREA Evaluation Section Report.
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Berney, Tomi D.; Lin, Jan C.
Project CHOICE was designed to offer Chinese-speaking students of limited English proficiency (LEP) the opportunity to study business, technical, and computer subjects at Seward Park, and Washington Irving High Schools; subsequently, Norman Thomas High School was substituted for the latter school. Students received instruction in English as a…
Pipeline enhances Norman Wells potential
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Approval of an oil pipeline from halfway down Canada's MacKenzie River Valley at Norman Wells to N. Alberta has raised the potential for development of large reserves along with controversy over native claims. The project involves 2 closely related proposals. One, by Esso Resources, the exploration and production unit of Imperial Oil, will increase oil production from the Norman Wells field from 3000 bpd currently to 25,000 bpd. The other proposal, by Interprovincial Pipeline (N.W) Ltd., calls for construction of an underground pipeline to transport the additional production from Norman Wells to Alberta. The 560-mile, 12-in. pipeline will extend frommore » Norman Wells, which is 90 miles south of the Arctic Circle on the north shore of the Mackenzie River, south to the end of an existing line at Zama in N. Alberta. There will be 3 pumping stations en route. This work also discusses recovery, potential, drilling limitations, the processing plant, positive impact, and further development of the Norman Wells project.« less
Automated Structure Annotation and Curation for MassBank: Potential and Pitfalls
The European MassBank server (www.massbank.eu) was founded in 2012 by the NORMAN Network (www.norman-network.net) to provide open access to mass spectra of substances of environmental interest contributed by NORMAN members. The automated workflow RMassBank was developed as a part...
1988-12-09
company or a social welfare policy for a state. On this account, anyone dissatisfied with existing states of affairs and attempting to transform them into...Norman Cliff Dipartimento di Psicologia Department of Psychology Via della Pergola 48 Univ. of So. California 50121 Firenze Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061
1992-01-01
Norman .................................... University of California, San Diego, CA Dan R . Olsen, Jr ........................................ Brigham...Peter G. Poison .............................................. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO James R . Rhyne ................. IBM T J Watson...and artificial intelligence, among which are: * reasoning about concurrent systems, including program verification ( Barringer , 1985), operating
Climate change and Norman Daniels' theory of just health: an essay on basic needs.
Lacey, Joseph
2012-02-01
Norman Daniels, in applying Rawls' theory of justice to the issue of human health, ideally presupposes that society exists in a state of moderate scarcity. However, faced with problems like climate change, many societies find that their state of moderate scarcity is increasingly under threat. The first part of this essay aims to determine the consequences for Daniels' theory of just health when we incorporate into Rawls' understanding of justice the idea that the condition of moderate scarcity can fail. Most significantly, I argue for a generation-neutral principle of basic needs that is lexically prior to Rawls' familiar principles of justice. The second part of this paper aims to demonstrate how my reformulated version of Daniels' conception of just health can help to justify action on climate change and guide climate policy within liberal-egalitarian societies.
User Centered System Design: Papers for the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems.
1983-11-01
purpose of the United States Government. ONR REPORT830383 2e0 104 Unclagsified ’tCCU*ITY CLASSIFICATION OF THIS PAGE (Whom, Des enteredE) REPORT... con - mand languages versus menu-based systems, choices of names, and handheld computers versus work stations are examined briefly. UN.ATkrr SErXjftTyv...lsted above in alphabetical order their intentions during the session. An extract from one of We wish to thank Don Norman. Bob Glushko, and Jnathan
168. ARAIV Index of drawings prepared by Norman Engineering Company ...
168. ARA-IV Index of drawings prepared by Norman Engineering Company in preparation for construction of ARA-IV. Norman Engineering Company 961-area/ML-1index. Date: March 1961. Ineel index code no. 066-9999-90-613-102731. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
Unique, icy gathering system will serve Norman Wells
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Hale, D.
One of the more unique communities on the Mackenzie River is Norman Wells, ca 90 miles south of the Arctic Circle and 450 air miles south of the Beaufort Sea. For over 50 yr, Norman Wells has been a major supplier of petroleum products to the Mackenzie Valley. The most unique aspect of Norman Wells is that it is underlain by a large reservoir of oil. Fifty wells in the area produce over 3000 bbl of light crude daily, which is refined locally. Esso Resources Canada Ltd. now is developing the field and expanding production. New facilities will include 151more » new wells for producing oil and injecting water, 6 artificial islands in the 3-mile wide river to accommodate gathering points, and a new central processing facility. The crude oil to be produced will be transported by Interprovincial Pipeline (NW) Ltd. from Norman Wells to Zama, Alta.« less
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Clark, Gilbert; And Others
This collection of 10 papers focuses on art testing and Norman C. Meier's role in this area of study. The titles written by Gilbert Clark are: (1) "Early Inquiry, Research, and Testing of Children's Art Abilities"; (2) "Norman C. Meier: A Critique of His Tests and Research"; and (3) "Recent Inquiry and Testing of…
Airpower and the Battle of Khafji: Setting the Record Straight
1998-06-01
DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT A PUBLIC RELEASE , 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander of...the US Government, Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, or Air University. iii ABSTRACT General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander of...Commander Gen Norman Schwarzkopf directed Horner to shift the air campaign’s focus to the Iraqi Army— especially the Republican Guard. While some in the
Human-Computer Interaction in Tactical Operations: Designing for Effective Human-Computer Dialogue
1990-09-01
developing re-usable interface software. Furthermore, steps can be taken toward standardization, and the specifier may be able to take on an increased...The semantic level deals with the meaning of the dialogue to the user. The user has a "point of view" or a " mental model" which provides a context for...information may not occur. As shown in Figure 3-4, the user’s mental model is termed the USER MODEL (Norman and Draper, 1986, p. 47). The programmer’s
Norman, Laura M.; Shuster, Rudy M.; Parcher, Jean W.
2013-01-01
The management of shared resources in the United States–Mexican border region requires cooperation from the people of both countries to assess and understand their relation to the environment. Society is dependent on the long-term healthy functioning of ecosystems and their ability to supply food and raw materials. Likewise, resources and services obtained from nature could be used efficiently within the society. A more equitable distribution of costs and benefits related to goods and services can lead to fewer tensions and a higher quality of life for all the people in the Borderlands. Urban development, background contamination from mineral ore deposits, irrigation, sewage effluent, and even global climate change all have the potential to alter the stability of the fragile systems in the Borderlands (Brady and others, 2001, 2002; Norman, 2007, 2010; Gu and others, 2008; Norman, Gray, and others, 2008; Norman, Hirsch, and Ward, 2008; Norman, Callegary, and others, 2010; Norman, Huth, and others, 2010; Norman, Levick, and others, 2010; Norman, Tallent-Halsell, and others, 2010; Norman, Villarreal, and others 2012). Social efficiency means that because resources should be used where they are needed most, they should be distributed proportionally among human societies and individuals (Azar and others, 1996). Despite the critical role natural resources play in maintaining human and environmental health, current knowledge of the manner in which natural and human-caused forces interact to limit these resources—including their quality and quantity (such as through spatiotemporal changes in precipitation, evapotranspiration, pumping of groundwater, and release of contaminants)—is inadequate. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is trying to understand the relation between changing landscapes, changing demographics, and a changing climate in the Borderlands while the environmental, economic, and societal issues continue to be intertwined between the two nations.
The Structure of Processing Resource Demands in Monitoring Automatic Systems.
1981-01-01
Attempts at modelling the human failure detection process have continually focused on normative predictions of optimal operator behavior ( Smallwood ...Broadbent’s filter model (Broadbent, 1957), to Treisman’s attenuation model (Treisman, 1964), to Norman’s late selection model ( Norman , 1968), tife concept...survey and a model. Acta Psychologica, 1967, 27, 84-92. Moray, N. Mental workload: Its theory and measurement. New York: Plenum Press, 1979. Li 42 Norman
The Effects of Category Generalizations and Instance Similarity on Schema Abstraction.
1980-10-07
reading; musical ’a-ite: classical, jazz, rock, disco, folk, country; sport: volleyball, basketball. bowling, squash, racquetball, handball . The space...Psychology 1845 Elena Ave., Fourth Floor 33 Kirkland Street Redondo Beach , CA 90277 Cambridge, MA 02138 1 Dr. Donald A Norman Mr. Marlin Kroger Dept. of...So. California Department of Computer Science Behavioral Technology Labs Rutgers University 1845 S. Elena Ave. ew Brunswick, NJ 08903 Redondo Beach
Electrical geophysical study over the Norman Landfill, near Norman, Oklahoma
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Bisdorf, R.J.
In 1995 and 1996 the US Geological Survey made 40 Schlumberger dc electrical resistivity soundings at the Norman Landfill, near Norman, Oklahoma. Interpretation of the resistivity data indicates that high resistivities (>300 ohm-m) are related to dry sand, intermediate resistivities (45-300 ohm-m) are related to freshwater saturated sand, and low resistivities (<45 ohm-m) are related to fine-grained materials or materials saturated with the conductive fluids. Interpreted resistivity maps show a low resistivity anomaly that extends from under the landfill to just past a nearby slough. This anomaly corresponds to known areas of ground water contamination. A resistivity cross section, constructedmore » from interpreted Schlumberger soundings, shows that this low resistivity anomaly is about 5 m deep and up to 9 m thick.« less
Intense and Broadband THz Source using Laser-Induced Gas Plasma
2009-08-26
Subject: STTR PHASE I FINAL REPORT Author: Norman Laman , Thomas Tongue Date: 8/26/09 STTR Topic #: AF08-009 Submission Date: 8/26/09...Phase I Final Report Report Period: 11/1/2008 – 7/31/2009 Contract: FA9550-09-C-0059 CLIN#: 0001CC Prepared by Norman Laman , Thomas Tongue...c. THIS PAGE unclassified Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8-98) Prescribed by ANSI Std Z39-18 Subject: STTR PHASE I FINAL REPORT Author: Norman Laman
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Rodriguez, M.S.
A baseline study of phytoplankton production and nutrient dynamics was conducted on Lake Norman, NC, a 13000-ha, warm-monomictic reservoir, prior to the initiation of thermal inputs from an 1180-MW nuclear electric generation facility. The objective of the study was to identify the major physical, chemical and biological processes controlling nutrient dynamics in Lake Norman, with specific reference to the impact of phytoplankton production on the cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.
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Wiskel, B.J.; Wozniewski, A.
This paper reports on an oil production facility at Norman Wells, N.W.T. The production is centered around the Mackenzie River with oil being produced from wells located on natural and artificial islands as well as from wells located on the mainland. Pipelines have been installed beneath the river to route production from the islands back to the central processing plant on the mainland. Cathodic protection was required for the pipelines crossing the Mackenzie River to prevent external corrosion in an environmentally sensitive area. Several difficulties were encountered in preparing an optimum cathodic design due to the unique production scheme, permafrostmore » and logistical problems associated with the northern location. An innovative approach was therefore required for the design, installation and testing of the cathodic protection system. This paper describes evolution of the cathodic protection system from a conventional one to a system utilizing a close groundbed concept and unique current return path.« less
Smith, S. Jerrod; Christenson, Scott
2005-01-01
In 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviewed the arsenic drinking water standard for public water supplies. Considering the available research and statistics on the health effects of arsenic ingestion, the EPA reduced the Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for public drinking water from 50 micrograms per liter (?g/L) to 10 ?g/L (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2001a). As a result of the more stringent standard, the EPA estimates that about 3,000 public water providers across the United States must take action to meet the new standard before it becomes effective on January 23, 2006 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2001b). The City of Norman (City) is one of several Oklahoma municipalities affected by the new arsenic standard. About 20 percent of Norman?s water is supplied by wells completed in the Central Oklahoma (Garber-Wellington) aquifer; the rest is supplied by Lake Thunderbird (fig. 1) or purchased from Oklahoma City. The Norman well field is composed of 24 active wells, and water produced from about half of the wells will not be in compliance with the new MCL (figs. 2 and 3). Chemical treatment of water with elevated arsenic is possible, but it is generally cost prohibitive. Another costly solution is simply to abandon the high-arsenic wells and replace them with new wells in low-arsenic areas. In the next phase of well construction beginning in 2005, the City plans to construct as many as 30 new wells in northeast Norman (Bryan Mitchell, City of Norman, oral commun., 2005). The new wells will replace production lost to the new arsenic standard and add new production to keep pace with rapidly growing consumer demand. Well modification to exclude arsenic-bearing water from existing wells is a more cost-effective solution, but it requires a great deal of knowledge about local aquifer properties and individual well dynamics to decide which wells are good candidates for modification. With the goal of determining if well modification can be used to bring some of Norman?s high-arsenic wells into compliance with the new arsenic standard, the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) initiated a three-year research project in 2003 with participation from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Oklahoma State University, and the City of Norman. The primary objectives of the project are to: (1) determine where naturally occurring arsenic is entering wells by collecting water samples at different depths, (2) investigate the utility of new methods for collecting water-quality data in a pumping well, (3) better understand the stratigraphy and composition of aquifer rocks, (4) assess 10 wells for the possibility of arsenic remediation by well modification, and (5) evaluate the effectiveness of well modification in bringing marginal wells into compliance with the new arsenic MCL. The purpose of this report is to describe the occurrence of arsenic in ground water near Norman, Oklahoma, and available options for reducing arsenic concentrations in produced ground water.
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Chartock, Roselle Kline
2002-01-01
Describes some of Norman Rockwell's best known works, along with questions teachers can use to stimulate class discussions. Includes descriptions and discussion questions related to Rockwell's paintings of American people depicting freedom, tolerance, and patriotism. (PKP)
An Investigation of Mental Coding Mechanisms and Heuristics Used in Electronics Troubleshooting.
1980-04-01
that is, the particular program to be used for the decision making or problem solving exercise at hand. The relationships between LTM, the processor...stimulus input according to previously learned classifications. Norman continued by writing that the encoded information is the material which is stored...the manipulation of algebraic or other mathematical symbols according to the rules embodied in mathematical logic. Once these essentially content free
The Problem of Disobedience and the Intelligence Community
1990-06-01
focus on the technological and analytical aspects of the profession. Despite some highly successful but less-than- savory operations in the past,3 there... Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), p. 26. 23. Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar, Merchants of Treason...Waldo Emerson. New York: Modern Library, 1940. Bloom, Allan . The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1942. Carter, Jimmy
Report of Charrette : re-connect New London 2010.
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2011-03-01
"Members of Re-New London Council Board informally met with Dr. Norman Garrick in November 2009. A lively discussion regarding the : New London landscape in general and leverage points for revitalization ensued. Norman related his observations as he ...
Report of Charrette re-connect New London 2010.
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2011-03-01
Members of Re-New London Council Board informally met with Dr. Norman Garrick in November 2009. A lively discussion regarding the : New London landscape in general and leverage points for revitalization ensued. Norman related his observations as he e...
Blog Posts by the NCI Director Dr. Norman Sharpless
NCI Director Dr. Norman Sharpless writes posts regularly for NCI's Cancer Currents Blog that highlight his vision for NCI, meetings with and partnerships in the cancer community, and strategic and scientific initiatives to advance cancer research and care.
Computations for Truck Sliding with TRUCK 3.1 Code
1989-08-01
16 REFERENCES 1. L u. \\Villiam N.. Hobbs. Norman P. and Atkinson, Michael. TRUCK 3.1-An Improrcd Digital (’oiputtr Program for Calculating the Response...for Operations and Plans ATIN: Technical Libary Director of Chemical & Nuear Operations Dpartnt of the AIW Waskbington, DC 20310 1 Cocaeder US Ay...Lawrenoe Livermore Lab. ATIN: Code 2124, Tedhnical ATTN: Tech Info Dept L-3 Reports Libary P.O. Be 808 Monterey, CA 93940 Livermore, CA 94550 AFSC
MCNPX Cosmic Ray Shielding Calculations with the NORMAN Phantom Model
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James, Michael R.; Durkee, Joe W.; McKinney, Gregg; Singleterry Robert
2008-01-01
The United States is planning manned lunar and interplanetary missions in the coming years. Shielding from cosmic rays is a critical aspect of manned spaceflight. These ventures will present exposure issues involving the interplanetary Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) environment. GCRs are comprised primarily of protons (approx.84.5%) and alpha-particles (approx.14.7%), while the remainder is comprised of massive, highly energetic nuclei. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center (LaRC) has commissioned a joint study with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to investigate the interaction of the GCR environment with humans using high-fidelity, state-of-the-art computer simulations. The simulations involve shielding and dose calculations in order to assess radiation effects in various organs. The simulations are being conducted using high-resolution voxel-phantom models and the MCNPX[1] Monte Carlo radiation-transport code. Recent advances in MCNPX physics packages now enable simulated transport over 2200 types of ions of widely varying energies in large, intricate geometries. We report here initial results obtained using a GCR spectrum and a NORMAN[3] phantom.
Macmillan, N A; Creelman, C D
1996-06-01
Can accuracy and response bias in two-stimulus, two-response recognition or detection experiments be measured nonparametrically? Pollack and Norman (1964) answered this question affirmatively for sensitivity, Hodos (1970) for bias: Both proposed measures based on triangular areas in receiver-operating characteristic space. Their papers, and especially a paper by Grier (1971) that provided computing formulas for the measures, continue to be heavily cited in a wide range of content areas. In our sample of articles, most authors described triangle-based measures as making fewer assumptions than measures associated with detection theory. However, we show that statistics based on products or ratios of right triangle areas, including a recently proposed bias index and a not-yetproposed but apparently plausible sensitivity index, are consistent with a decision process based on logistic distributions. Even the Pollack and Norman measure, which is based on non-right triangles, is approximately logistic for low values of sensitivity. Simple geometric models for sensitivity and bias are not nonparametric, even if their implications are not acknowledged in the defining publications.
NCI Director Norman Sharpless’s ASCO 2018 Remarks
In this video, NCI Director Dr. Norman E. Sharpless discusses the future of cancer research at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago. Learn more about his focus on basic science, workforce development, big data, and clinical trials.
Foreword for Special Issue on Environmental Biophysics
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This special issue on Environmental Biophysics is presented in honor of Dr. John Norman. Over the past four decades, Dr. Norman has dedicated himself to building bridges between disparate scientific disciplines for a better understanding and prediction of biophysical interactions. The consummate i...
Norman Geschwind Lecture: Geschwind's Lesson.
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Duane, Drake D.
2002-01-01
This article reviews the contributions of Norman Geschwind on behavioral neurology. It discusses his novel associations between brain function/structure and behavior and findings from a recent study of 200 individuals with developmental disorders that indicate altered neuroanatomy in dyslexia may be accompanied by altered clinical neurophysiology.…
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New houses designed by Ideal Homes, with technical support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Program, save their homeowners money by applying the principles of "whole-building" design. The homes are in Norman, Oklahoma.
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Poole, L.; Anderson, R.
New houses designed by Ideal Homes, with technical support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Program, save their homeowners money by applying the principles of ''whole-building'' design. The homes are in Norman, Oklahoma.
The Effects of Student Narration in College Engineering Classes
2015-01-01
93(3), 223-231. 2004. 6. Norman, G., and Schmidt, H., “Effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning Curricula: Theory, Practice and Paper Darts ...conference papers . Dr. Richard Buckley is Lt Col in the U.S. Air Force and an Assistant Professor and Senior Military Faculty at the US Air Force...journal and conference papers . Dr. Dan Jensen is a Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy where he has been since 1997. He
NCI Director Norman Sharpless’s ASCO 2018 Remarks-The Power and Promise of Cancer Research
NCI Director Dr. Norman E. Sharpless discusses the future of cancer research at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago. Learn more about his focus on basic science, workforce development, big data, and clinical trials.
Why Photonic Systems for Space?
2006-08-01
AUG 2006 Conference Paper Postprint Oct 98 - Aug 00 WHY PHOTONIC SYSTEMS FOR SPACE? In-House 62204F LINK SN 01 Norman Bernstein, George Brost ...Invited Paper Why photonic systems for space? Norman P. Bernstein*, George A. Rrost. Michael J. Hayduk. James R. Hunter, James E. Nichter, Paul M
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“Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.” – Dr. Norman Borlaug This excerpt from Dr. Norman Borlaug’s Nobel Lecture at the...
Towards Forming a Primordial Protostar in a Cosmological AMR Simulation
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Turk, Matthew J.; Abel, Tom; O'Shea, Brian W.
2008-03-01
Modeling the formation of the first stars in the universe is a well-posed problem and ideally suited for computational investigation.We have conducted high-resolution numerical studies of the formation of primordial stars. Beginning with primordial initial conditions appropriate for a ΛCDM model, we used the Eulerian adaptive mesh refinement code (Enzo) to achieve unprecedented numerical resolution, resolving cosmological scales as well as sub-stellar scales simultaneously. Building on the work of Abel, Bryan and Norman (2002), we followed the evolution of the first collapsing cloud until molecular hydrogen is optically thick to cooling radiation. In addition, the calculations account for the process of collision-induced emission (CIE) and add approximations to the optical depth in both molecular hydrogen roto-vibrational cooling and CIE. Also considered are the effects of chemical heating/cooling from the formation/destruction of molecular hydrogen. We present the results of these simulations, showing the formation of a 10 Jupiter-mass protostellar core bounded by a strongly aspherical accretion shock. Accretion rates are found to be as high as one solar mass per year.
Astronaut Norman Thagard rests on middeck while other team is on duty
1985-05-03
Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, mission specialist for the "silver" team, rests on the middeck while the "gold" team is on duty in the science module. Don L. Lind, left, "gold" team member, meanwhile participates in autogenic feedback training (AFT), designed to help flight crewmembers overcome the effects of zero-gravity adaptation.
NCI Director Norman E. Sharpless on the Future of Cancer Research | Poster
Last week, Director Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless spoke with Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, regarding his six-month “listening tour,” a project he embarked on after being named the new director, as well as his vision for the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Astronaut Norman Thagard rests on middeck while other team is on duty
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1985-01-01
Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, mission specialist for the 'silver' team, rests on the middeck while the 'gold' team is on duty in the science module. Don L. Lind, left, 'gold' team member, meanwhile participates in autogenic feedback training (AFT), designed to help flight crewmembers overcome the effects of zero-gravity adaptation.
The Contradictions of Contemporary Culture: A Tribute to Norman Jay Levitt (1943-2009)
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Gross, Paul R.
2012-01-01
Norman Jay Levitt was the author's good friend, collaborator, and co-author. He was--above, before, and after politics--an honest inquirer. His socio-cultural views evolved continuously. Levitt, truth-seeker and liberal, was impatient with, and a devastating critic of, the political correctness and--even worse--the philosophic triviality that…
American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
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Johnson, Mark M.
2009-01-01
Norman Rockwell was the quintessential painter of American life. His images reflect the history of America as told through the eyes of this idealistic and patriotic artist who sought to show America at its best, and to present the lives, hopes and dreams of the average American in the middle-20th century. Few artists have produced so many images…
Fermilab History and Archives Project | Norman F. Ramsey
Fermilab History and Archives Project Fermilab History and Archives Project Fermilab History and Archives Project Home About the Archives History and Archives Online Request Contact Us History & ; Archives Project Fermilab History and Archives Project Norman F. Ramsey Back to History and Archives
A New NPGS Special Collection: Norman L. Taylor University of Kentucky Clover Collection
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Dr. Norman L. Taylor was a world renowned Professor and clover breeder in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Kentucky for 48 years. Following retirement in 2001, he continued working on clovers up until his death in 2010. Dr. Taylor’s entire career was devoted to enhancin...
77 FR 31871 - Land Acquisitions; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California
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2012-05-30
... THAT CERTAIN BOUNDARY LINE AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN NORMAN V. WHEELER, ET UX, AND EVERETT FANCHER, ET... PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN PATENT THEREOF FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO JEREMIAH GREEN ET AL, DATED... 3 AND PARCEL 8, AS SHOWN AND DESIGNATED ON PARCEL MAP NO. 2290 FOR NORMAN V. AND BARBARA L. WHEELER...
Better than Optimal by Taking a Limit?
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Betounes, David
2012-01-01
Designing an optimal Norman window is a standard calculus exercise. How much more difficult (or interesting) is its generalization to deploying multiple semicircles along the head (or along head and sill, or head and jambs)? What if we use shapes beside semi-circles? As the number of copies of the shape increases and the optimal Norman windows…
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Professor John M. Norman has played a key role in the development of many measurement devices currently used in the field of Environmental Biophysics, including the LAI-2000 for measuring leaf area index and plant canopy architecture and the LI-6000 Portable Photosynthesis System for measuring plant...
Norman C. Gysbers: Reflections on Three Decades as Editor of the "Journal of Career Development"
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Heppner, Mary J.; Wagner, Julie
2011-01-01
As many regular readers of the journal have noticed, the editorship of the "Journal of Career Development" has been passed from Norman C. Gysbers to Lisa Y. Flores. Unlike other journals whose editorships are more typically 3 to 6 years, Dr. Gysbers has guided the journal for almost three decades. Although Dr. Gysbers' life and enormous…
Interprovincial has completed the 540-mile Norman Wells line
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Rowland, L.O.
Interprovinial Pipe Line Ltd., has completed and is now operating the 540-mi., 12-in. crude trunkline from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, to Zama, Alberta. This is the largest and the only significant pipe line to be built north of the provincial boundaries. Construction was completed a month ahead of schedule and was comfortably under budget, through two winter seasons.
The City of Norman, Oklahoma, is one municipality affected by a change in the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Primary Drinking Water Regulation for arsenic. In 2006, the maximum contaminant level for arsenic in drinking-water was lowered from 50 to 10 micrograms per li...
Demonstration of Replicable Dimensions of Health Behaviors
1988-10-06
1977, 1979; Tapp & Goldenthal, 1982; Vickers & Hervig, 1984; McCarthy & Brown, 1985; Norman, 1985; Kannas , 1981; Steele & McBroom, 1972). While it is...health behaviors (Harris & Guten, 1979; Norman, 1985; Kannas , 1981; Tapp & Goldenthal, 1982). The replicability of the proposed dimensions of health...215-236. Harris, D.M. & Guten, S. (1979). Health-protective behavior: An exploratory study. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 20, 17-29. Kannas
Analysis of Defense Industry Consolidation Effects on Program Acquisition Costs
2007-12-01
overhead costs. Also in 1993, Norman R. Augustine, then CEO of Lockheed Martin, headed an effort involving other major defense industry executives...name programs, Lockheed Chairman Norman Augustine could only name one (Pearlstein, 14 July 1997). A GAO study looked into one method that...latest technology could, essential, resort to monopolistic practices of market and cost control. Kovacic and Smallwood , in an analysis of defense
Improving American Innovation,
1984-03-01
Why has Jap~m succeeded: western technology and the Japanese ethos. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. (NC 462 MO634 Norman , Colin...productivity growth. Review of Economics and Statistics 64:627-34, N~ovember 1982. Smith, G. W. and W. N. Smallwood . Preparing for breakthroughs: the rewards of...recommendations. Edited by Charles E. Larsen and WI. Novis Smith. Washington: American Chemical Society, 1980. Kobert, Norman . Agressivn management style
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Because geology professors cannot bring ore deposits from around the globe into their classrooms, the next best thing is to take their students to the deposits, according to David Norman, an associate professor of geochemistry at New Mexico Tech and Angus Moore of the Royal School of Mines. They organized a new exchange program between the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, N.M., and the Royal School of Mines in London, England. In May, 14 students from England toured deposits in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado; in the photograph, Norman (on the right) describes a rock from a New Mexico ore deposit to some of the visitors from England. In early June a contingency from New Mexico Tech began studying deposits in England, Spain, and Portugal. Norman and Moore say that the exchange program may be expanded next year.
Norman Wells oil line to be wintertime projects
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Hale, D.
Mobilization is underway for the first construction season on $1.3 billion (Canadian) Norman Wells oil pipeline between Norman Wells, N.W. Terr., and Zama, Alta. The 537-mile, 12-in. crude oil line is being built by Interprovincial Pipe Line Co., Ltd. Because of ground conditions in the Mackenzie River delta, where the pipeline will be installed, work must be done while the ground is frozen--essentially a 90-day period from Jan. through early April. Pipe for the line, all 12-in. nominal diameter, has wall thickness varying from 9.39 to 9.53 mm and is grade 5LX-52 with special notch toughness for Arctic use, achievedmore » with additives to the steel plus special refined rolling techniques. The pipe is coated with extruded polyethylene and then shipped by truck and railcar.« less
Radar aeroecology: exploring the movements of aerial fauna through radio-wave remote sensing
Chilson, Phillip B.; Bridge, Eli; Frick, Winifred F.; Chapman, Jason W.; Kelly, Jeffrey F.
2012-01-01
An international and interdisciplinary Radar Aeroecology Workshop was held at the National Weather Center on 5–6 March 2012 on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, OK, USA. The workshop brought together biologists, meteorologists, radar engineers and computer scientists from 22 institutions and four countries. A central motivation behind the Radar Aeroecology Workshop was to foster better communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration among a diverse spectrum of researchers, and promote a better understanding of the ecology of animals that move within and use the Earth's lower atmosphere (aerosphere). PMID:22628093
COMPETING IN THE SOCIAL BATTLESPACE: INFLUENCING THE THREE DOMAINS
2017-06-01
Legacy (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009), 33. 39 Norman Polmar and Kenneth J. Moore, Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S...and shot Brown six times in the back, killing him. Michael Brown would lay four hours on the pavement as additional police officers and...Cornell University Press. Polmar, Norman, and Kenneth J. Moore. Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines
2014-07-01
Telephone: 1300 333 362 Fax: (03) 9626 7999 © Commonwealth of Australia 2014 AR-016-028 July 2014 APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE... Pallant , 2007; Steiner & Norman, 2003). Validity is assessed using nomological network and its relationship to item construction using theoretical...alpha (Cronbach, 1951; De Vellis, 2003; Nunnally, 1978; Pallant , 2007; Streiner & Norman, 2003, 2008). Cronbach’s alpha builds on the utility of the
Recommendations for Improving FBI Joint Counterterrorism Operations
2012-03-13
Division (CTD), via an electronic database. Within the database, vacant positions post for a period of two weeks, which limits the time for a...in Comparative Politics at New York University. 30 Mueller, p.1 31 Cigar , Norman. Al-Qaida, The Tribes, and The Government: Lessons and Prospects...Reflections on US Intelligence. Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Intelligence. 1996. Cigar , Norman. Al-Qaida, The Tribes, and The Government
On looking into the Black Box: Prospects and Limits in the Search for Mental Models
1985-05-01
particularly in terms of the ways in which humans understand systems. Norman (19831 characterizes this understanding as messy, sloppy, incomplete, and...Kleinman, et al., 1971]). However, for tasks involving only monitoring [ Smallwood , 1967; Sheridan, 1970], especially when apparent discontinuities...18 Norman [1983] uses the word "conceptaalization" to characterize researchers’ models of humans’ mental models. This characterization serves to
Troubled Partnership. A History of U.S.-Japan Collaboration on the
1995-01-01
and intellectual contributions of Project AIR FORCE managers, particularly Michael Kennedy, Dennis Smallwood , Jeff Drezner, and Robert Roll. Cindy...June 14-20, 1993b. Lerner, Preston, "Stall Tactics," Air & Space, April/May 1991. Levin, Norman D., Japan’s Changing Defense Posture, Santa...Monica, Calif: RAND, N-2739-OSD, 1988. Levin, Norman D., Mark Lorell, and Arthur Alexander, The Wary Warriors: Future Directions in Japanese Security
Automated Motor Skills Training Optimized for Individual Differences.
1980-11-01
Several preliminary applications of adaptive training to I complex synthetic flight trainers have been attempted (Loses, I ,5 I Ellis, Norman , and Matheny...Association, San Francisco, 1976. Lowes, A. H., Ellis, N. C., Norman , D. A., and Matheny, W. 3. Improving piloting skills in turbulent air using a self...intercept observer. Orlando, Florida: Naval Training Equipment Center, NAVTRAEQUIPCEN 71-C-6219-1, 1973. Smallwood , R. D. A decision structure for
Immune Cells, if Rendered Insensitive to Transforming Growth Factorbeta, Can Cure Prostate Cancer
2007-02-01
Robert E. Meyer,2 Shilajit Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2 Borko Javonovic,3 Timothy Kuzel,4 Seong-Jin Kim,5 Luk Van Parijs,6 Norm Smith,1 Larry Wong,1 Norman M...Zhang,1 Ximing Yang,2,5 Shilajit D. Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2,5 Borko Javonovic,3,5 Robert Meryer,2 Seong-Jin Kim,7 Norman M. Greenberg,8 Timothy Kuzel
Developing the Iraqi Army: The Long Fight in the Long War
2008-01-01
9b415308525731400553c58?opendocument (accessed December 14, 2007). Denzin , Norman K., and Yvonna S. Lincoln . Handbook ofQualitative Research, Third...2 Ellen R. Girden, Evaluating Research Articles, Second Edition (California, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001), 23. 3 Norman K. Denzin and...Yvonna S. Lincoln , Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition (California, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2000), 444. 4 David C. Gompert
Light and dark matter in the universe
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This simulation follows the growth of density perturbations in both gas and dark matter components in a volume 1 billion light years on a side beginning shortly after the Big Bang and evolved to half the present age of the universe. It calculates the gravitational clumping of intergalactic gas and dark matter modeled using a computational grid of 64 billion cells and 64 billion dark matter particles. The simulation uses a computational grid of 4096^3 cells and took over 4,000,000 CPU hours to complete. Read more: http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2010/news100104.html. Credits: Science: Michael L. Norman, Robert Harkness, Pascal Paschos and Rick Wagner Visualization:more » Mark Herald, Joseph A. Insley, Eric C. Olson and Michael E. Papka« less
Stable-isotope ratios of hydrogen and oxygen in precipitation at Norman, Oklahoma, 1996-2008
Jaeschke, Jeanne B.; Scholl, Martha A.; Cozzarelli, Isabelle M.; Masoner, Jason R.; Christenson, Scott; Qi, Haiping
2011-01-01
Precipitation samples for measurement of stable-isotope ratios of hydrogen (delta2H) and oxygen (delta18O) were collected at the Norman Landfill Research Site in Norman, Oklahoma, from May 1996 to October 2008. Rainfall amounts also were measured at the site (U.S. Geological Survey gaging station 07229053) during the collection period. The delta2H of precipitation samples ranged from -121.9 to +8.3 per mil, and the delta18O of precipitation ranged from -16.96 to +0.50 per mil. The volume-weighted average values for delta2H and delta18O of precipitation over the 12-year measurement period were -31.13 per mil for delta2H and -5.57 per mil for delta18O. Average summer-season delta2H and delta18O values of precipitation usually were more positive (enriched in the heavier isotopes) than winter values.
Leak detectability of the Norman Wells pipeline by mass balance
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Liou, J.C.P.
Pipeline leak detection using software-based systems is becoming common practice. The detectability of such systems is measured by how small and how quickly a leak can be detected. Algorithms used and measurement uncertainties determine leak detectability. This paper addresses leak detectability using mass balance, establishes leak detectability for Norman Wells pipelines, and compares it with field leak test results. The pipeline is operated by the Interprovincial Pipe Line (IPL) Inc., of Edmonton, Canada. It is a 12.75-inch outside diameter steel pipe with variable wall thickness. The length of the pipe is approximately 550 miles (868.9 km). The pipeline transports lightmore » crude oil at a constant flow rate of about 250 m{sup 3}/hr. The crude oil can enter the pipeline at two locations. Besides the Norman Wells inlet, there is a side line near Zama terminal that can inject crude oil into the pipeline.« less
Richard Feynman and computation
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Hey, Tony
1999-04-01
The enormous contribution of Richard Feynman to modern physics is well known, both to teaching through his famous Feynman Lectures on Physics, and to research with his Feynman diagram approach to quantum field theory and his path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. Less well known perhaps is his long-standing interest in the physics of computation and this is the subject of this paper. Feynman lectured on computation at Caltech for most of the last decade of his life, first with John Hopfield and Carver Mead, and then with Gerry Sussman. The story of how these lectures came to be written up as the Feynman Lectures on Computation is briefly recounted. Feynman also discussed the fundamentals of computation with other legendary figures of the computer science and physics community such as Ed Fredkin, Rolf Landauer, Carver Mead, Marvin Minsky and John Wheeler. He was also instrumental in stimulating developments in both nanotechnology and quantum computing. During the 1980s Feynman re-visited long-standing interests both in parallel computing with Geoffrey Fox and Danny Hillis, and in reversible computation and quantum computing with Charles Bennett, Norman Margolus, Tom Toffoli and Wojciech Zurek. This paper records Feynman's links with the computational community and includes some reminiscences about his involvement with the fundamentals of computing.
The medical life of Henry Norman Bethune
Deslauriers, Jean; Goulet, Denis
2015-01-01
BACKGROUND: Henry Norman Bethune is one of the most exciting and incredible surgeons that Canada has ever produced. Indeed, he is often characterized as one of the world’s best-known surgeons. He was an innovator and his scientific contributions have stood the test of time. In Canada, he will forever be remembered as a social activist committed to the welfare of the poor and to the reform of the health care system. In the People’s Republic of China, he is idolized and remains the only foreigner to ever become a national hero. OBJECTIVE: To detail the numerous and significant achievements of Henry Norman Bethune in the field of thoracic surgery and as a social activist and describe his heroic war-time actions on the battlefields of both Spain and China. METHOD: Information was gathered through the reading of the numerous publications written about the life and work of Bethune, interviews with knowledgeable people from Canadian and Chinese universities, analysis of Bethune’s own publications, and extensive experience of one of the authors in China. RESULTS: In the social sense, Henry Norman Bethune had a difficult personality, but he was deeply caring about the plight of his patients, especially the poor. As a thoracic surgeon, he could be ingenious, thoughtful and effective but he could also be abrasive, restless and temperamental. His scientific contributions were sound and, at the time, gained worldwide attention. As an activist, he led a crusade to reform the Canadian health care system, demanding free health care for all. His outstanding work during the Spanish Civil War, where he organized the first ever mobile blood transfusion unit, and during the Sino-Japanese war, where he was totally committed to the welfare of both soldiers and civilian population, were deliberate acts of resistance against Fascist onslaught and enthusiasm for the Communist cause. CONCLUSIONS: Henry Norman Bethune was unconventional and a revolutionary, but he was brilliant. He will forever be remembered as an innovative thoracic surgeon and outstanding humanitarian.
2015-10-01
Populations: Contributing Factor in Prostate Cancer Disparities? PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Norman H Lee, Ph.D. CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: George Washington...Prostate Cancer Disparities? 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Norman H Lee, PhD; Bi-Dar Wang, PhD; Jacqueline Olender (PhD graduate...suppressor genes in prostate cancer disparities between African American (AA) and Caucasian American (CA) prostate cancer (PCa). In year 1 of this award
2002-06-01
gravity identified by General Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. Joint Forces Commander, were the seven elite Republican Guard divisions held in reserve along...Gulf War Air Power Survey Summary Report, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office [GPO], 1993), 12. 6General Norman Schwarzkopf and Peter Petre...author, 28 November 2000. 20William L. Smallwood , Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War, (Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1993), 123-24. 66 the
2005-07-01
Viruses and Cell Cycle Control, July 2004, University of Wisconsin, Madison (NCI Travel Award to attend ($750)). "* Norman G. Nagl, Jr., Xiaomei Wang...DNA Tumor Viruses and Cell Cycle Control, July 2002, University of Wisconsin, Madison "* Norman G. Nagl, Jr., Xiaomei Wang, Deborah Wilsker, Michael...Presented at the 2001 Meeting on Small DNA Tumor Viruses and Cell Cycle Control, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK (NCI Travel Award to attend the 2001
2010-01-01
analysis methodology called constant comparative analysis ( Lincoln and Guba, 1985; Denzin and Lincoln , 2000). First, two RAND researchers independently...and Yvonna S. Lincoln , “Introduction: The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research,” in Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln , eds...Management Services,” undated web page. As of June 3, 2010: http://www.coastandards.org/standards.php?navView=private§ion_id=114 Denzin , Norman K
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Seigler, D.S.
Eighteen papers originally presented as a symposium on Crop Resources at the 17th annual meeting of the Society for Economic Botany in Urbana, Illinois, June 13 to 17, 1976 comprise this book. The papers are: Potential Wealth in New Crops: Research and Development, L. H. Princen; Plant Introductions--A Source of New Crops, George A. White; Nonfood Uses for Commercial Vegetable Oil Crops, E. H. Pryde; New Industrial Potentials for Carbohydrates, F. H. Otey; The Current Importance of Plants as a Source of Drugs, Norman R. Farnsworth; Potentials for Development of Wild Plants as Row Crops for Use by Man, Arnoldmore » Krochmal and Connie Krochmal; Recent Evidence in Support of the Tropical Origin of New World Crops, C. Earle Smith, Jr.; Requirements for a Green Revolution, G. F. Sprague; How Green Can a Revolution Be, Jack R. Harlan; Increasing Cereal Yields: Evolution under Domestication, J. M. J. de Wet; Hevea Rubber: Past and Future, Ernest P. Imle; Horseradish--Problems and Research in Illinois, A. M. Rhodes; Dioscorea--The Pill Crop, Norman Applezweig; Plant Derivatives for Insect Control, Robert L. Metcalf; Evolutionary Dynamics of Sorghum Domestication, J. M. J. de Wet and Y. Shecter; The Origin and Future of Wheat, E. R. Sears; Current Thoughts on Origins, Present Status, and Future of Soybeans, T. Hymowitz and C. A. Newell; and The Origin of Corn--Studies of the Last Hundred Years, Garrison Wilkes. (MCW)« less
New Indo-Pacific species of the genus Teretia Norman, 1888 (Gastropoda: Raphitomidae).
Morassi, Mauro; Bonfitto, Antonio
2015-01-21
Four new species are assigned to the genus Teretia Norman, 1888 in the family Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875 and herein described: Teretia neocaledonica sp. nov., T. sysoevi sp. nov., T. tongaensis sp. nov. from the southeastern Pacific and Teretia tavianii sp. nov. from the Gulf of Aden. The new species represent the first Indo-Pacific record of a genus previously known in the recent molluscan fauna by only two species from the Atlantic Ocean-Mediterranean Sea and Southern Africa. A possible Tethyan origin for the genus Teretia is suggested.
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
dos Santos, Antonina; Calado, Ricardo; Bartilotti, Cátia; Narciso, Luís
2004-04-01
The complete larval development (eight zoeae and megalopa) of Periclimenes sagittifer (Norman, 1861) (Decapoda: Palaemonidae: Pontoniinae) from laboratory-reared material is described and illustrated. The morphology of the first larval stage is compared with previous larval descriptions of other species in the genus (P. agag, P. americanus, P. calmani, P. diversipes, P. grandis and P. pandionis). The importance of chemical settlement cues for late stage Periclimenes larvae is discussed.
[Norman Bethune (1890-1939), an involved doctor, icon of the blood transfusion history].
Gentili, M E
2016-05-01
Norman Bethune was born in 1890, in Gravenhurst (Ontario, Canada). Thereafter a strong surgical training, he implied in thoracic surgery and fight against tuberculosis. His political opinions led him to join the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. He played an important part in the development of blood transfusion on the battlefield. Then he joined China with communist troops and therein developed surgical units and accelerated training for health personal. He died of septicemia in 1939. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
2012-05-17
Study,” in Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln eds., The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research: 301-316 (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications...in Army History, Winter 2012, 8–29. Flyvbjerg, Bent. “Case Study,” in Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln eds., The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative...to work alongside career diplomat Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh.92 AMAG’s mission was to “advance reconstruction and secure recovery in Greece as soon
Expectable Earthquakes and their ground motions in the Van Norman Reservoirs Area
Wesson, R.L.; Page, R.A.; Boore, D.M.; Yerkes, R.F.
1974-01-01
The upper and lower Van Norman dams, in northwesternmost San Fernando Valley about 20 mi (32 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, were severely damaged during the 1971 San Fernando earthquake. An investigation of the geologic-seismologic setting of the Van Norman area indicates that an earthquake of at least M 7.7 may be expected in the Van Norman area. The expectable transitory effects in the Van Norman area of such an earthquake are as follows: peak horizontal acceleration of at least 1.15 g, peak velocity of displacement of 4.43 ft/sec (135 cm/sec), peak displacement of 2.3 ft (70 cm), and duration of shaking at accelerations greater than 0.05 g, 40 sec. A great earthquake (M 8+) on the San Andreas fault, 25 mi distant, also is expectable. Transitory effects in the Van Norman area from such an earthquake are estimated as follows: peak horizontal acceleration of 0.5 g, peak velocity of 1.97 ft/sec (60 cm/sec), displacement of 1.31 ft (40 cm), and duration of shaking at accelerations greater than 0.05 g, 80 sec. The permanent effects of the expectable local earthquake could include simultaneous fault movement at the lower damsite, the upper damsite, and the site proposed for a replacement dam halfway between the upper and lower dams. The maximum differential displacements due to such movements are estimated at 16.4 ft (5 m) at the lower damsite and about 9.6 ft (2.93 m) at the upper and proposed damsites. The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (M 6?) was accompanied by the most intense ground motions ever recorded instrumentally for a natural earthquake. At the lower Van Norman dam, horizontal accelerations exceeded 0.6 g, and shaking greater than 0.25 g lasted for about 13 see; at Pacoima dam, 6 mi (10 km) northeast of the lower dam, high-frequency peak horizontal accelerations of 1.25 g were recorded in two directions, and shaking greater than 0.25 g lasted for about 7 sec. Permanent effects of the earthquake include slope failures in the embankments of the upper and lower Van Norman dams, rupturing of the ground surface by faulting along parts of the zone of old faults that extends easterly through the reservoir area and across the northern part of the valley, folding or arching of the ground surface, and differential horizontal displacement of the terrane north and south of the fault zone. Although a zone of old faults extends through the reservoir area, the 1971 surface ruptures apparently did not; however, arching and horizontal displacements caused small relative displacements of the abutment areas of each of the three damsites. The 1971 arching coincided with preexisting topographic highs, and the surface ruptures coincided with eroded fault scarps and a buried ground-water impediment formed by pre-1971 faulting in young valley fill. This coincidence with evidence of past deformation indicates that the 1971 deformations were the result of a continuing geologic process that is expected to produce similar deformations during future events. The 1971 San Fernando earthquake probably was not the largest that has occurred in this area during the last approximately 200 years, as indicated by a buried fault like scarp about 200 years old that is higher than, and aligned with, 1971 fault scarps. In addition, the San Fernando zone of 1971 ruptures is part of a regional tectonic system that includes the San Andreas and associated faults; one of these, the White Wolf fault north of the San Andreas, is symmetrical in structural attitude with the San Fernando zone and ruptured the ground surface during the 1952 Kern County earthquake (M 7.7). Other large earthquakes associated with surface rupturing on faults of this system include the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake (M 8+) and possibly the 1852 Big Pine earthquake. Several other historic earthquakes in this general area are not known to be associated with surface ruptures, but were large enough to cause damage in the northern San Fernando Valley. The Van Norman rese
Geologic environment of the Van Norman Reservoirs area
Yerkes, R.F.; Bonilla, M.G.; Youd, T.L.; Sims, J.D.
1974-01-01
The upper and lower Van Norman dams, in northwesternmost San Fernando Valley about 20 mi (32 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, were severely damaged during the 1971 San Fernando earthquake. An investigation of the geologic-seismologic setting of the Van Norman area indicates that an earthquake of at least M 7.7 may be expected in the Van Norman area. The expectable transitory effects in the Van Norman area of such an earthquake are as follows: peak horizontal acceleration of at least 1.15 g, peak velocity of displacement of 4.43 ft/sec (135 cm/sec), peak displacement of 2.3 ft (70 cm), and duration of shaking at accelerations greater than 0.05 g, 40 sec. A great earthquake (M 8+) on the San Andreas fault, 25 mi distant, also is expectable. Transitory effects in the Van Norman area from such an earthquake are estimated as follows: peak horizontal acceleration of 0.5 g, peak velocity of 1.97 ft/sec (60 cm/sec), displacement of 1.31 ft (40 cm), and duration of shaking at accelerations greater than 0.05 g, 80 sec. The permanent effects of the expectable local earthquake could include simultaneous fault movement at the lower damsite, the upper damsite, and the site proposed for a replacement dam halfway between the upper and lower dams. The maximum differential displacements due to such movements are estimated at 16.4 ft (5 m) at the lower damsite and about 9.6 ft (2.93 m) at the upper and proposed damsites. The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (M 6?) was accompanied by the most intense ground motions ever recorded instrumentally for a natural earthquake. At the lower Van Norman dam, horizontal accelerations exceeded 0.6 g, and shaking greater than 0.25 g lasted for about 13 see; at Pacoima dam, 6 mi (10 km) northeast of the lower dam, high-frequency peak horizontal accelerations of 1.25 g were recorded in two directions, and shaking greater than 0.25 g lasted for about 7 sec. Permanent effects of the earthquake include slope failures in the embankments of the upper and lower Van Norman dams, rupturing of the ground surface by faulting along parts of the zone of old faults that extends easterly through the reservoir area and across the northern part of the valley, folding or arching of the ground surface, and differential horizontal displacement of the terrane north and south of the fault zone. Although a zone of old faults extends through the reservoir area, the 1971 surface ruptures apparently did not; however, arching and horizontal displacements caused small relative displacements of the abutment areas of each of the three damsites. The 1971 arching coincided with preexisting topographic highs, and the surface ruptures coincided with eroded fault scarps and a buried ground-water impediment formed by pre-1971 faulting in young valley fill. This coincidence with evidence of past deformation indicates that the 1971 deformations were the result of a continuing geologic process that is expected to produce similar deformations during future events. The 1971 San Fernando earthquake probably was not the largest that has occurred in this area during the last approximately 200 years, as indicated by a buried fault like scarp about 200 years old that is higher than, and aligned with, 1971 fault scarps. In addition, the San Fernando zone of 1971 ruptures is part of a regional tectonic system that includes the San Andreas and associated faults; one of these, the White Wolf fault north of the San Andreas, is symmetrical in structural attitude with the San Fernando zone and ruptured the ground surface during the 1952 Kern County earthquake (M 7.7). Other large earthquakes associated with surface rupturing on faults of this system include the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake (M 8+) and possibly the 1852 Big Pine earthquake. Several other historic earthquakes in this general area are not known to be associated with surface ruptures, but were large enough to cause damage in the northern San Fernando Valley. The Van Norman rese
Does ethical theory have a future in bioethics?
Beauchamp, Tom L
2004-01-01
Although there has long been a successful and stable marriage between philosophical ethical theory and bioethics, the marriage has become shaky as bioethics has become a more interdisciplinary and practical field. A practical price is paid for theoretical generality in philosophy. It is often unclear whether and, if so, how theory is to be brought to bear on dilemmatic problems, public policy, moral controversies, and moral conflict. Three clearly philosophical problems are used to see how philosophers are doing in handling practical problems: Cultural Relativity, and Moral Universality, Moral Justification, and Conceptual Analysis. In each case it is argued that philosophers need to develop theories and methods more closely attuned to practice. The work of philosophers such as Ruth Macklin, Norman Daniels, and Gerald Dworkin is examined. In the writings of each there is major methological gap between philosophical theory (or method) and practical conclusions. The future of philosophical ethics in interdisciplinary bioethics may turn on whether such gaps can be closed. If not, bioethics may justifiably conclude that philosophy is of little value.
Sachs, Benjamin
2010-01-01
Norman Daniels's new book, Just Health, brings together his decades of work on the problem of justice and health. It improves on earlier writings by discussing how we can meet health needs fairly when we cannot meet them all and by attending to the implications of the socioeconomic determinants of health. In this article I return to the core idea around which the entire theory is built: that the principle of equality of opportunity grounds a societal obligation to meet health needs. I point, first, that nowhere does Daniels say just what version of that principle he accepts. I then proceed to construct a principle on his behalf, based on a faithful reading of Just Health. Once we actually nail down the principle, I argue, we will find that there are two problems: it is implausible in itself, and it fails to ground a societal obligation to meet health needs. PMID:20634271
Microbial Degradation of Alkyl Carbazoles in Norman Wells Crude Oil
Fedorak, Phillip M.; Westlake, Donald W. S.
1984-01-01
Norman Wells crude oil was fractionated by sequential alumina and silicic acid column chromatography methods. The resulting nitrogen-rich fraction was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and showed 26 alkyl (C1 to C5) carbazoles to be the predominant compounds. An oil-degrading mixed bacterial culture was enriched on carbazole to enhance its ability to degrade nitrogen heterocycles. This culture was used to inoculate a series of flasks of mineral medium and Norman Wells crude oil. Residual oil was recovered from these cultures after incubation at 25°C for various times. The nitrogen-rich fraction was analyzed by capillary gas chromatography, using a nitrogen-specific detector. Most of the C1-, C2-, and C3- carbazoles and one of the C4-isomers were degraded within 8 days. No further degradation occurred when incubation was extended to 28 days. The general order of susceptibility of the isomers to biodegradation was C1 > C2 > C3 > C4. The carbazole-enriched culture was still able to degrade n-alkanes, isoprenoids, aromatic hydrocarbons, and sulfur heterocycles in the crude soil. PMID:16346524
An improved MCNP version of the NORMAN voxel phantom for dosimetry studies.
Ferrari, P; Gualdrini, G
2005-09-21
In recent years voxel phantoms have been developed on the basis of tomographic data of real individuals allowing new sets of conversion coefficients to be calculated for effective dose. Progress in radiation studies brought ICRP to revise its recommendations and a new report, already circulated in draft form, is expected to change the actual effective dose evaluation method. In the present paper the voxel phantom NORMAN developed at HPA, formerly NRPB, was employed with MCNP Monte Carlo code. A modified version of the phantom, NORMAN-05, was developed to take into account the new set of tissues and weighting factors proposed in the cited ICRP draft. Air kerma to organ equivalent dose and effective dose conversion coefficients for antero-posterior and postero-anterior parallel photon beam irradiations, from 20 keV to 10 MeV, have been calculated and compared with data obtained in other laboratories using different numerical phantoms. Obtained results are in good agreement with published data with some differences for the effective dose calculated employing the proposed new tissue weighting factors set in comparison with previous evaluations based on the ICRP 60 report.
A study of drop-off recycling in Norman, Oklahoma: Behavior of recyclers and nonrecyclers
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Sims, J.L.; Everett, J.W.
The reality of growing negative public opinion to new landfills prompted a newfound popularity for recycling programs as an alternative to traditional waste management in municipalities. The purpose of this research is to examine the behavioral and attitudinal differences between recyclers and nonrecyclers. These differences were tested statistically based on recycling behavior data gathered through two independent questionnaire surveys, one administered through utility bill statements, the other administered directly by the first author. Data were collected on: contact with the recycling organization, demographics, participation, convenience, incentives, ideological agreement, and assessment rationale. Seven hypotheses were tested, addressing most aspects of themore » Environmental Collective Action model (ECA), first proposed by the second author in 1994. The surveys were administered to City of Norman, Oklahoma residents. Norman operates several drop-off centers within the city limits. The results of the analysis indicate that individuals do make the decision to participate based on the principles outlined in the model of participation. All seven hypotheses are supported by the data in both surveys.« less
Rollovers during play: Complementary perspectives.
Smuts, Barbara; Bauer, Erika; Ward, Camille
2015-07-01
In this commentary, we compare and contrast Norman et al.s' findings on rollovers during dog play (Norman et al., 2015; the "target article") with our work on dog play fighting (Bauer and Smuts, 2007; Ward et al., 2008). We first review our major findings and then correct some errors in the target article's descriptions of our work. We then further explore the concept of "defensive" rollovers proposed in the target article. We conclude that a combination of the target article's approach and ours should inform future investigations of dog rollovers. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Leak detection by mass balance effective for Norman Wells line
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Liou, J.C.P.
Mass-balance calculations for leak detection have been shown as effective as a leading software system, in a comparison based on a major Canadian crude-oil pipeline. The calculations and NovaCorp`s Leakstop software each detected 4% (approximately) or greater leaks on Interprovincial Pipe Line (IPL) Inc.`s Norman Wells pipeline. Insufficient data exist to assess performances of the two methods for leaks smaller than 4%. Pipeline leak detection using such software-based systems are common. Their effectiveness is measured by how small and how quickly a leak can be detected. Algorithms used and measurement uncertainties determine leak detectability.
It’s cool to be part of the energy solution
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Madison, Alison L.
I think many of us grasp that our nation is facing a huge energy challenge, but I had yet to hear it articulated in such a compelling way as in some recently published testimony before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The messenger was Norman Augustine, retired chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He testified in his capacity as a member of the American Energy Innovation Council, an independent and informal group of seven of industry’s elite who have come together to lend a voice to the national discussion about a problem that affects us all;more » as he put it, the provision of energy.« less
Curtis, Jennifer A.; Whitney, John W.
2003-01-01
The Norman, Oklahoma, municipal landfill closed in 1985 after 63 years of operation, because it was identified as a point source of hazardous leachate composed of organic and inorganic compounds. The landfill is located on the floodplain of the Canadian River, a sand-bed river characterized by erodible channel boundaries and by large variation in mean monthly discharges. In 1986, floodwaters eroded riprap protection at the southern end of the landfill and penetrated the landfill's clay cap, thereby exposing the landfill contents. The impact of this moderate-magnitude flood event (Q12) was the catalyst to investigate erosion hazards at the Norman landfill. This geomorphic investigation analyzed floodplain geomorphology and historical channel changes, flood-frequency distributions, an erosion threshold, the geomorphic effectiveness of discharge events, and other factors that influence erosion hazards at the landfill site. The erosion hazard at the Norman landfill is a function of the location of the landfill with respect to the channel thalweg, erosional resistance of the channel margins, magnitude and duration of discrete discharge events, channel form and hydraulic geometry, and cumulative effects related to a series of discharge events. Based on current climatic conditions and historical channel changes, a minimum erosion threshold is set at bankfull discharge (Q = 572 m3/s). The annual probability of exceeding this threshold is 0.53. In addition, this analysis indicates that peak stream power is less informative than total energy expenditures when estimating the erosion potential or geomorphic effectiveness of discrete discharge events. On the Canadian River, long-duration, moderate-magnitude floods can have larger total energy expenditures than shorter-duration, high-magnitude floods and therefore represent the most serious erosion hazard to floodplain structures.
Leenheer, J.A.; Nanny, M.A.; McIntyre, C.
2003-01-01
13C NMR analyses of hydrophobic dissolved organic matter (DOM) fractions isolated from a landfill leachate contaminated groundwater near Norman, OK; the Colorado River aqueduct near Los Angeles, CA; Anaheim Lake, an infiltration basin for the Santa Ana River in Orange County, CA; and groundwater from the Tomago Sand Beds, near Sydney, Australia, found branched methyl groups and quaternary aliphatic carbon structures that are indicative of terpenoid hydrocarbon precursors. Significant amounts of lignin precursors, commonly postulated to be the major source of DOM, were found only in trace quantities by thermochemolysis/gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of the Norman Landfill and Tomago Sand Bed hydrophobic DOM fractions. Electrospray/tandem mass spectrometry of the Tomago Sand Bed hydrophobic acid DOM found an ion series differing by 14 daltons, which is indicative of aliphatic and aryl-aliphatic polycarboxylic acids. The product obtained from ozonation of the resin acid, abietic acid, gave a similar ion series. Terpenoid precursors of DOM are postulated to be derived from resin acid paper sizing agents in the Norman Landfill, algal and bacterial terpenoids in the Colorado River and Anaheim Lake, and terrestrial plant terpenoids in the Tomago Sand Beds.
Microbial degradation of alkyl carbazoles in Norman Wells crude oil
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Fedorak, P.M.; Westlake, D.W.S.
Norman Wells crude oil was fractionated by sequential alumina and silicic acid column chromatography methods. The resulting nitrogen-rich fraction was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and showed 26 alkyl (C/sub 1/ to C/sub 5/) carbazoles to be the predominant compounds. An oil-degrading mixed bacterial culture was enriched on carbazole to enhance its ability to degrade nitrogen heterocycles. This culture was used to inoculate a series of flasks of mineral medium and Norman Wells crude oil. Residual oil was recovered from these cultures after incubation at 25/sup 0/C for various times. The nitrogen-rich fraction was analyzed by capillary gas chromatography, usingmore » a nitrogen-specific detector. Most of the C/sub 1/-, C/sub 2/-, and C/sub 3/- carbazoles and one of the C/sub 4/-isomers were degraded within 8 days. No further degradation occurred when incubation was extended to 28 days. The general order of susceptibility of the isomers to biodegradation was C/sub 1/ > C/sub 2/ > C/sub 3/ > C/sub 4/. The carbazole-enriched culture was still able to degrade n-alkanes, isoprenoids, aromatic hydrocarbons, and sulfur heterocycles in the crude soil. 26 references.« less
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Galassi, Mark C.
Diorama is written as a collection of modules that can run in separate threads or in separate processes. This defines a clear interface between the modules and also allows concurrent processing of different parts of the pipeline. The pipeline is determined by a description in a scenario file[Norman and Tornga, 2012, Tornga and Norman, 2014]. The scenario manager parses the XML scenario and sets up the sequence of modules which will generate an event, propagate the signal to a set of sensors, and then run processing modules on the results provided by those sensor simulations. During a run a varietymore » of “observer” and “processor” modules can be invoked to do interim analysis of results. Observers do not modify the simulation results, while processors may affect the final result. At the end of a run results are collated and final reports are put out. A detailed description of the scenario file and how it puts together a simulation are given in [Tornga and Norman, 2014]. The processing pipeline and how to program it with the Diorama API is described in Tornga et al. [2015] and Tornga and Wakeford [2015]. In this report I describe the communications infrastructure that is used.« less
Leenheer, Jerry A; Nanny, Mark A; McIntyre, Cameron
2003-06-01
13C NMR analyses of hydrophobic dissolved organic matter (DOM) fractions isolated from a landfill leachate contaminated groundwater near Norman, OK; the Colorado River aqueduct near Los Angeles, CA; Anaheim Lake, an infiltration basin for the Santa Ana River in Orange County, CA; and groundwater from the Tomago Sand Beds, near Sydney, Australia, found branched methyl groups and quaternary aliphatic carbon structures that are indicative of terpenoid hydrocarbon precursors. Significant amounts of lignin precursors, commonly postulated to be the major source of DOM, were found only in trace quantities by thermochemolysis/gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of the Norman Landfill and Tomago Sand Bed hydrophobic DOM fractions. Electrospray/tandem mass spectrometry of the Tomago Sand Bed hydrophobic acid DOM found an ion series differing by 14 daltons, which is indicative of aliphatic and aryl-aliphatic polycarboxylic acids. The product obtained from ozonation of the resin acid, abietic acid, gave a similar ion series. Terpenoid precursors of DOM are postulated to be derived from resin acid paper sizing agents in the Norman Landfill, algal and bacterial terpenoids in the Colorado River and Anaheim Lake, and terrestrial plant terpenoids in the Tomago Sand Beds.
How doctors learn: the role of clinical problems across the medical school-to-practice continuum.
Slotnick, H B
1996-01-01
The author proposes a theory of how physicians learn that uses clinical problem solving as its central feature. His theory, which integrates insights from Maslow, Schön, Norman, and others, claims that physicians-in-training and practicing physicians learn largely by deriving insights from clinical experience. These insights allow the learner to solve future problems and thereby address the learner's basic human needs for security, affiliation, and self-esteem. Ensuring that students gain such insights means that the proper roles of the teacher are (1) to select problems for students to solve and offer guidance on how to solve them, and (2) to serve as a role model of how to reflect on the problem, its solution, and the solution's effectiveness. Three principles guide instruction within its framework for learning: (1) learners, whether physicians-in-training or practicing physicians, seek to solve problems they recognize they have; (2) learners want to be involved in their own learning; and (3) instruction must both be time-efficient and also demonstrate the range of ways in which students can apply what they learn. The author concludes by applying the theory to an aspect of undergraduate education and to the general process of continuing medical education.
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French, Troy
Le Norman Energy Company conducted research on field application of alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP) flooding as a part of the U.S. Department of Energy's plan to maximize the production of our domestic oil resources. In addition to having substantial technical merit, the process uses chemicals that are environmentally acceptable. Le Norman's field project is located in the Sho-Vel-Tum (OK) oil field, which was a major producer of crude oil in past years, but has since been extensively waterflooded. This reservoir in this portion of the field is typical of many shallow reservoirs in the Oklahoma-Kansas area and is a good demonstration sitemore » for that area. The pay zones are located approximately 700 ft. deep, and this project is the shallowest field test for ASP flooding.« less
Review-Esso Resources Canada Ltd. , Norman Wells expansion project drilling program
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Schaef, D.G.
Esso Resources Canada Limited has embarked on a project to increase production from its Norman Wells Oil field located 145 km south of the Arctic Circle, from 475 m/sup 3//D to 4000 m/sup 3//D of crude oil. This paper provides details on the development drilling portion of the project which is comprised of 150 wells to be drilled in 3 years utilizing 2 drilling rigs from July 1982 through September 1985. The majority of the wells will be directionally drilled from multiwell land pads and artificial islands to shallow reservoir targets underlying the Mackenzie River, a major river intersecting themore » field boundaries. Experience from the initial 27 wells completed is provided.« less
J. Norman Lockyer: The Early Years
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Frost, M. A.
2005-12-01
Joseph Norman Lockyer was born in 1836 in Rugby, where his father was a surgeon-apothecary and a leading member of the Literary and Scientific Institution. In the 1840s the family moved to Leicester, where his father became a manufacturer of matches. After his mother's death, he lived with an uncle and attended school in Kenilworth. His main interests then were classical and modern languages, which he taught in a Somerset school before going to Switzerland in 1856-57. On his return, the patronage of Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh helped him to become a clerk in the War Office. He developed an interest in astronomy that led to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, and to the editorship of the science journal Nature.
Sedimentary basin geochemistry and fluid/rock interactions workshop
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NONE
1991-12-31
Fundamental research related to organic geochemistry, fluid-rock interactions, and the processes by which fluids migrate through basins has long been a part of the U.S. Department of Energy Geosciences program. Objectives of this program were to emphasize those principles and processes which would be applicable to a wide range of problems associated with petroleum discovery, occurrence and extraction, waste disposal of all kinds, and environmental management. To gain a better understanding of the progress being made in understanding basinal fluids, their geochemistry and movement, and related research, and to enhance communication and interaction between principal investigators and DOE and othermore » Federal program managers interested in this topic, this workshop was organized by the School of Geology and Geophysics and held in Norman, Oklahoma in November, 1991.« less
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Goodman, Joseph W.
2000-07-01
The Wiley Classics Library consists of selected books that have become recognized classics in their respective fields. With these new unabridged and inexpensive editions, Wiley hopes to extend the life of these important works by making them available to future generations of mathematicians and scientists. Currently available in the Series: T. W. Anderson The Statistical Analysis of Time Series T. S. Arthanari & Yadolah Dodge Mathematical Programming in Statistics Emil Artin Geometric Algebra Norman T. J. Bailey The Elements of Stochastic Processes with Applications to the Natural Sciences Robert G. Bartle The Elements of Integration and Lebesgue Measure George E. P. Box & Norman R. Draper Evolutionary Operation: A Statistical Method for Process Improvement George E. P. Box & George C. Tiao Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis R. W. Carter Finite Groups of Lie Type: Conjugacy Classes and Complex Characters R. W. Carter Simple Groups of Lie Type William G. Cochran & Gertrude M. Cox Experimental Designs, Second Edition Richard Courant Differential and Integral Calculus, Volume I RIchard Courant Differential and Integral Calculus, Volume II Richard Courant & D. Hilbert Methods of Mathematical Physics, Volume I Richard Courant & D. Hilbert Methods of Mathematical Physics, Volume II D. R. Cox Planning of Experiments Harold S. M. Coxeter Introduction to Geometry, Second Edition Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Associative Algebras Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner Methods of Representation Theory with Applications to Finite Groups and Orders, Volume I Charles W. Curtis & Irving Reiner Methods of Representation Theory with Applications to Finite Groups and Orders, Volume II Cuthbert Daniel Fitting Equations to Data: Computer Analysis of Multifactor Data, Second Edition Bruno de Finetti Theory of Probability, Volume I Bruno de Finetti Theory of Probability, Volume 2 W. Edwards Deming Sample Design in Business Research
Hanczakowski, Maciej; Mazzoni, Giuliana
2013-05-01
Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) is the finding of impaired memory performance for information stored in long-term memory due to retrieval of a related set of information. This phenomenon is often assigned to operations of a specialized mechanism recruited to resolve interference during retrieval by deactivating competing memory representations. This inhibitory account is supported by, among others, findings showing that RIF occurs with independent cues not used during retrieval practice. However, these findings are not always consistent. Recently, Norman, Newman, and Detre (2007) have proposed a model that aims at resolving discrepancies concerning cue-independence of RIF. The model predicts that RIF should be present with independent cues when episodic associations are created between independent cues and their targets in the same episodic context that is later used to cue memory during retrieval practice. In the present study we aimed to test this prediction. We associated studied items with semantically unrelated words during the main study phase of the retrieval practice paradigm, and we tested memory with both cues used during retrieval practice (Experiment 2) and episodic associates serving as independent cues (Experiments 3a and 3b). Although RIF was present when the same cues were used during retrieval practice and a final test, contrary to the prediction formulated by Norman et al., RIF failed to emerge when episodic associates were employed as independent cues.
Clarifying the Dynamics of the General Circulation: Phillips's 1956 Experiment.
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Lewis, John M.
1998-01-01
In the mid-1950s, amid heated debate over the physical mechanisms that controlled the known features of the atmosphere's general circulation, Norman Phillips simulated hemispheric motion on the high-speed computer at the Institute for Advanced Study. A simple energetically consistent model was integrated for a simulated time of approximately 1 month. Analysis of the model results clarified the respective roles of the synoptic-scale eddies (cyclones-anticyclones) and mean meridional circulation in the maintenance of the upper-level westerlies and the surface wind regimes. Furthermore, the modeled cyclones clearly linked surface frontogenesis with the upper-level Charney-Eady wave. In addition to discussing the model results in light of the controversy and ferment that surrounded general circulation theory in the 1940s-1950s, an effort is made to follow Phillips's scientific path to the experiment.
Obituary: Norman Hodgson Baker, Jr., 1931-2005
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Helfand, David J.
2005-12-01
Norman H. Baker, a key contributor to the foundation of modern stellar pulsation theory and former editor of the "Astronomical Journal", died on 11 October 2005 in Watertown, New York near his beloved summer home in Natural Bridge. He succumbed to complications of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, a bone marrow lymphoma that he had successfully surmounted for twenty-two years. Norm, as he was known to all, was born 23 October 1931 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota to Norman Hodgson and Jeannette (née Lieber) Baker. He attended the University of Minnesota where he met the first of many lifelong astronomical friends, Bill Erickson. He received his BA in 1952. He went on to do his PhD, "Radiation from Particle Interactions which Create Current," at Cornell University under Phil Morrison. He then moved to a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institut für Physik und Astrophysik in München with the intent of pursuing his work in plasma physics with Ludwig Biermann and Arnulf Schlüter. However, Rudolf (Rudi) Kippenhan snatched him away to pursue what became his lifelong interest, stellar physics. This was the dawn of the era in which electronic computers were becoming practical for scientific calculations, and Norm immediately adopted this new tool. Indeed, he remained at the forefront of computing technology throughout his life: He was certainly the first member of the Astronomy Department at Columbia to buy a Mac, and was undoubtedly one of the few emeritus professors in the world known by all the administrative staff as the first person to turn to when stumped by a computer problem. Following his first paper with Kippenhan on stellar rotation, Norm turned his attention to stellar pulsations, a topic he would pursue throughout his career. His 1962 paper in "Zeitschrift für Astrophysik" on pulsational models of Cepheids (Baker and Kippenhan 1962, 54, 155) is a classic in the field. The first figure displays the three dimensional model of the atmospheric absorption coefficient as a function of log P and log T. Sophisticated three-dimensional computer images being many years in the future, it was contructed from a folded and bent sheet of grid paper which was subsequently photographed. Using extensive numerical analysis, the paper showed that stars in the δ Cephei region of the H-R diagram were ``pulsationally unstable due to the destabilizing effect of the He+ region.'' This paper, along with those of Zhevakin, Cox, and Christy, established our modern understanding of pulsational instability in horizontal branch stars. His second paper with Kippenhan the following year brought convection into the problem; this topic became another lifelong theme of Norm's research that he subsequently pursued with Douglas Gough. His most cited work, carried out a decade later with van Albada, was an attempt to understand the properties of horizontal branch stars. It synthesized for the first time stellar evolution theory and the insights gained from studies of stellar pulsations. Between 1961 and 1965, Norm held no fewer than five positions. After a year on the west coast at the Convair Science Research Lab in San Diego, he landed in the New York area to pursue pulsations, oscillating among the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Yale, and New York University. In 1965, he was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Columbia University by Lo Woltjer, and remained at Columbia until he retired in 2003. As a teacher, he was deeply appreciated by undergraduate and graduate students alike for lectures that were models of clarity, for his out-of-class assistance which was generous and unstinting, and for incorporating into his courses modern numerical techniques which served the students well throughout their careers. In 1975 when Woltjer returned to Europe, Norm took over the editorship of the "Astronomical Journal", a position he held (shared in the last few years with Leon Lucy) for a decade. His scrupulous integrity and forthright honesty served him, and the Society, well. Despite his scathing intolerance for administrative stupidity, he also managed to complete successfully a term as Chair of the Department of Astronomy. (This author, who currently holds the Chair and shares the intolerance, has yet to fathom the gracious equanimity Norm displayed.) His early interest in brewing beer during graduate school at Cornell (where he co-founded the Old Undershirt Brewing Company) was transformed in later life into an expertise in German wines. The precision that marked his research extended to every aspect of his private life. I had the distinct pleasure of subletting his apartment during my first year on the faculty at Columbia while he was on leave in Europe. We spent most of the year trying to imagine how we could ever restore it to the state of perfect organization in which we found it. Norm is survived by his wife and constant companion of thirty years, psychiatrist Doris Blum Nagel, by his sister Dr. Jean Trousdale, and brother Dr. Richard C. Baker, two nieces, three nephews, and by several generations of undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and colleagues who hold fond memories of his patience, kindness, humor, and quiet "joie de vivre".
Human Space Flight Plans Committee
2009-08-11
Norman Augustine, chair, listens to a speaker's presentation during the final meeting of the Human Space Flight Review Committee, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
STS-42 MS/PLC Norman E. Thagard adjusts Rack 10 FES equipment in IML-1 module
1992-01-30
STS042-05-006 (22-30 Jan 1992) --- Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, payload commander, performs the Fluids Experiment System (FES) in the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) science module. The FES is a NASA-developed facility that produces optical images of fluid flows during the processing of materials in space. The system's sophisticated optics consist of a laser to make holograms of samples and a video camera to record images of flows in and around samples. Thagard was joined by six fellow crewmembers for eight days of scientific research aboard Discovery in Earth-orbit. Most of their on-duty time was spent in this IML-1 science module, positioned in the cargo bay and attached via a tunnel to Discovery's airlock.
Utevsky, Andrei; Gordeev, Ilya
2015-07-01
A new fish leech Ceratobdella quadricornuta n. g., n. sp. (Hirudinida: Piscicolidae), a parasite of the Antarctic skate Raja georgiana Norman (Rajiformes: Rajidae) collected between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Island in the Scotia Sea, is described and compared with related genera. Ceratobdella quadricornuta is characterised by an uncommon appearance of its anterior sucker bearing four well-developed tentacles and a unique combination of features of the reproductive and digestive systems: crop and intestine equally developed, posterior crop caeca separated; accessory glands, conductive tissue and external copulatory area lacking; common part of ejaculatory ducts (common atrium) voluminous and muscular, male copulatory bursa short, small ovisacs opening into female copulatory bursa (vagina).
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Porcella, D.B.; Bowie, G.L.; Campbell, C.L.
The Ecosystem Assessment Model (EAM) of the Cooling Lake Assessment Methodology was applied to the extensive ecological field data collected at Lake Norman, North Carolina by Duke Power Company to evaluate its capability to simulate lake ecosystems and the ecological effects of steam electric power plants. The EAM provided simulations over a five-year verification period that behaved as expected based on a one-year calibration. Major state variables of interest to utilities and regulatory agencies are: temperature, dissolved oxygen, and fish community variables. In qualitative terms, temperature simulation was very accurate, dissolved oxygen simulation was accurate, and fish prediction was reasonablymore » accurate. The need for more accurate fisheries data collected at monthly intervals and non-destructive sampling techniques was identified.« less
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The Norman Poer Farm National Priorities List site is situated in Hancock County, Indiana. Offgrade solvents and paint resin materials were stored on-site in 263 fifty-five gallon drums. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency removed all the drums and the top six to eight inches of soil at the three drum storage areas in 1983. The Remedial Investigation (RI) conducted after the emergency removal did not show any contamination of the environment on-site or off-site. Based on the available information, the site is considered to be of no public health concern because of the absence of exposure to hazardous substances. Nomore » health study follow-up is indicated at this time.« less
Group portrait of Mir 18 crew members
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1994-01-01
This is a portrait of the Mir 18 crew members in civilian clothes. They are (left to right) Norman E. Thagard, astronaut; commander Vladimir N. Dezhurov, cosmonaut; and Gennadiy M. Strekalov, cosmonaut.
Group portrait of Mir 18 crew members
1994-05-27
This is a portrait of the Mir 18 crew members in civilian clothes. They are (left to right) Norman E. Thagard, astronaut; commander Vladimir N. Dezhurov, cosmonaut; and Gennadiy M. Strekalov, cosmonaut.
MOCVD grown InP-based materials and a LINK project involving TEM studies of non-planar and localized . M. Jones, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93 (2008) 123505. "Theoretical and experimental examination of the
Oxygen transport properties estimation by DSMC-CT simulations
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Bruno, Domenico; Frezzotti, Aldo; Ghiroldi, Gian Pietro
Coupling DSMC simulations with classical trajectories calculations is emerging as a powerful tool to improve predictive capabilities of computational rarefied gas dynamics. The considerable increase of computational effort outlined in the early application of the method (Koura,1997) can be compensated by running simulations on massively parallel computers. In particular, GPU acceleration has been found quite effective in reducing computing time (Ferrigni,2012; Norman et al.,2013) of DSMC-CT simulations. The aim of the present work is to study rarefied Oxygen flows by modeling binary collisions through an accurate potential energy surface, obtained by molecular beams scattering (Aquilanti, et al.,1999). The accuracy ofmore » the method is assessed by calculating molecular Oxygen shear viscosity and heat conductivity following three different DSMC-CT simulation methods. In the first one, transport properties are obtained from DSMC-CT simulations of spontaneous fluctuation of an equilibrium state (Bruno et al, Phys. Fluids, 23, 093104, 2011). In the second method, the collision trajectory calculation is incorporated in a Monte Carlo integration procedure to evaluate the Taxman’s expressions for the transport properties of polyatomic gases (Taxman,1959). In the third, non-equilibrium zero and one-dimensional rarefied gas dynamic simulations are adopted and the transport properties are computed from the non-equilibrium fluxes of momentum and energy. The three methods provide close values of the transport properties, their estimated statistical error not exceeding 3%. The experimental values are slightly underestimated, the percentage deviation being, again, few percent.« less
Antievolutionary Misconceptions
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Rosenfeld, Robert P.
1977-01-01
This article is essentially a rebuttal to Norman Macbeth's arguments against Darwinism. The author argues that one must identify the real weaknesses of evolutionary theory and not use the misconceptions put forth by Macbeth to make valid judgments. (MA)
Advancing Patient Care Through Focused Innovation
In this Cancer Currents post, NCI Director Dr. Norman Sharpless describes the key areas of opportunity he has identified that, with enhanced attention from NCI, he believes can accelerate progress in cancer research and care.
Combating terrorism : linking threats to strategies and resources testimony
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
2000-07-26
This is the statement of Norman J. Rabkin, Director, National Security Preparedness Issues, National Security and International Affairs division before the Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations, Committee on...
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Selected Publications by the NCI Director
Dr. Norman Sharpless's written work on cancer research appears in many leading scientific journals, as well as a variety of other publications. This page lists some of the articles published by Dr. Sharpless since becoming NCI director.
The Vocabulary of English Punctuation (Coming to Terms).
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Zuidema, Leah A.
1996-01-01
Discusses the vocabulary of English punctuation terms, largely unchanged since the Norman conquest in 1066. Discusses the meaning of the period, colon, comma, question mark, exclamation point, slash, parenthesis, brackets, asterisk, hyphen, and ampersand. (RS)
Human Space Flight Plans Committee
2009-08-12
Former astronaut Dr. Sally Ride, left, confers with Norman Augustine, chair, prior to the start of the final meeting of the Human Space Flight Review Committee, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
Human Space Flight Plans Committee
2009-12-07
Former astronaut Dr. Sally Ride, left, confers with Norman Augustine, chair, prior to the start of the final meeting of the Human Space Flight Review Committee, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
Albert Schweitzer on nuclear war and peace
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Jack, H.A.
1988-01-01
This paper contains all of Albert Schweitzer's known writings on the topic of nuclear war and disarmament. Included are speeches as well as correspondence with Norman Cousins, Albert Einstein, Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy and many others.
Funding and Institutional Options for Freight Infrastructure Improvements
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
2000-08-01
The Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies (IISTPS) at San Jose State University conducted this study to review the issues and implications involved in the investment of public funds in private freight infr...
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79. COVERED CONDUIT ACROSS ANTELOPE VALLEY WITH WIND FARM IN DISTANCE - Los Angeles Aqueduct, From Lee Vining Intake (Mammoth Lakes) to Van Norman Reservoir Complex (San Fernando Valley), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Incidence of Cancers of the Lower Stomach Increasing among Younger Americans
... by Disqus. blog comments powered by Disqus Featured Posts Advancing Patient Care Through Focused Innovation April 16, 2018, by Norman E. Sharpless, M.D. Study Tests Way to Lower Dose of Prostate Cancer Drug ...
Study Gives Good Odds on Nuclear Reactor Safety
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Russell, Cristine
1974-01-01
Summarized is data from a recent study on nuclear reactor safety completed by Norman C. Rasmussen and others. Non-nuclear events are about 10,000 times more likely to produce large accidents than nuclear plants. (RH)
Subsurface imaging of an abandoned solid waste landfill site in Norman, Oklahoma
Zume, J.T.; Tarhule, A.; Christenson, S.
2006-01-01
Leachate plume emanating from an old unlined municipal landfill site near the city of Norman, Oklahoma, is discharging into the underlying alluvial aquifer. Subsurface imaging techniques, electrical resistivity tomography and electrical conductivity (EC) logging, were used on the site to detect and map the position of the leachate plume. Anomalous EC zones, delineated with the two methods, correlated with the occurrence of the plume detected by water chemistry analyses from multilevel monitoring wells. Specific conductance, a potential indicator of leachate contamination, ranged from 1861 to 7710 ??S/cm in contaminated zones and from 465 to 2180 ??S/cm in uncontaminated ground water. Results are in agreement with those from earlier studies that the leachate plume emerges from the landfill along preferential pathways. Additionally, there are indications that the leading edge of the plume has migrated, at least, 200 m away from the landfill in the direction of ground water flow. ?? 2006 National Ground Water Association.
Quadratic time dependent Hamiltonians and separation of variables
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Anzaldo-Meneses, A.
2017-06-01
Time dependent quantum problems defined by quadratic Hamiltonians are solved using canonical transformations. The Green's function is obtained and a comparison with the classical Hamilton-Jacobi method leads to important geometrical insights like exterior differential systems, Monge cones and time dependent Gaussian metrics. The Wei-Norman approach is applied using unitary transformations defined in terms of generators of the associated Lie groups, here the semi-direct product of the Heisenberg group and the symplectic group. A new explicit relation for the unitary transformations is given in terms of a finite product of elementary transformations. The sequential application of adequate sets of unitary transformations leads naturally to a new separation of variables method for time dependent Hamiltonians, which is shown to be related to the Inönü-Wigner contraction of Lie groups. The new method allows also a better understanding of interacting particles or coupled modes and opens an alternative way to analyze topological phases in driven systems.
Temporal dynamics of biogeochemical processes at the Norman Landfill site
Arora, Bhavna; Mohanty, Binayak P.; McGuire, Jennifer T.; Cozzarelli, Isabelle M.
2013-01-01
The temporal variability observed in redox sensitive species in groundwater can be attributed to coupled hydrological, geochemical, and microbial processes. These controlling processes are typically nonstationary, and distributed across various time scales. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate biogeochemical data sets from a municipal landfill site to identify the dominant modes of variation and determine the physical controls that become significant at different time scales. Data on hydraulic head, specific conductance, δ2H, chloride, sulfate, nitrate, and nonvolatile dissolved organic carbon were collected between 1998 and 2000 at three wells at the Norman Landfill site in Norman, OK. Wavelet analysis on this geochemical data set indicates that variations in concentrations of reactive and conservative solutes are strongly coupled to hydrologic variability (water table elevation and precipitation) at 8 month scales, and to individual eco-hydrogeologic framework (such as seasonality of vegetation, surface-groundwater dynamics) at 16 month scales. Apart from hydrologic variations, temporal variability in sulfate concentrations can be associated with different sources (FeS cycling, recharge events) and sinks (uptake by vegetation) depending on the well location and proximity to the leachate plume. Results suggest that nitrate concentrations show multiscale behavior across temporal scales for different well locations, and dominant variability in dissolved organic carbon for a closed municipal landfill can be larger than 2 years due to its decomposition and changing content. A conceptual framework that explains the variability in chemical concentrations at different time scales as a function of hydrologic processes, site-specific interactions, and/or coupled biogeochemical effects is also presented.
Water chemistry near the closed Norman Landfill, Cleveland County, Oklahoma 1995
Schlottmann, Jamie L.
2001-01-01
The Norman Landfill was selected for study as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program in 1994. The landfill is located south of the City of Norman on alluvial deposits of the Canadian River. Type of waste deposited in the landfill from 1922 to 1973 was largely unrestricted and may include substances now recognized as hazardous. Dissolved and suspended substances leached from wastes in the closed and capped landfill are now in ground water extending toward the Canadian River as a plume of leachate. Water samples were collected from two stock wells, one domestic well, temporary drive-point wells, the Canadian River, and a small intermittent stream hydraulically downgradient of the capped landfill known as the slough. Most constituent concentrations were greater in ground water downgradient from the capped landfill than in background ground water and were greater in the slough than in the Canadian River. Concentrations of most constituents in the Canadian River, other than sulfate, manganese, and iron, were similar to concentrations in background ground water. Some constituents measured in ground-water for this investigation are potential indicators of leachate contamination. Potential indicators that could be used to differentiate leachate contaminated water from uncontaminated ground water of the alluvial aquifer include specific conductance, chloride, alkalinity, dissolved organic carbon, boron, and dD. Specific conductance and chloride were greater in water from wells downgradient of the landfill than water from background wells. Dissolved organic carbon and boron also were greater in the leachate contaminated ground water than in background ground water.
Commanding Coalitions: The Diplomat-at-Arms
2009-12-20
diplomacy also finds its way into negotiations amid modern 2 Finney, John D. and Alphonse F. La Porta...Norman F., On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, London, 1976; Topsfield, MA, 1984. Finney, John D. and Alphonse F. La Porta, “Integrating
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Maximizing the Prospects for Progress Against Cancer
The 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting featured numerous, potentially practice changing research findings, according to NCI Director Dr. Norman Sharpless. In this Cancer Currents post, Dr. Sharpless discusses the rapid pace of progress in cancer research.
Aviation safety : FAA and DOD response to similar safety concerns
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
2002-01-01
Report to the Honorable Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation, and the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense. : Safety of aircraft is a paramount concern in both civilian and military aviation. The Federal Aviation Administration...
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1994-01-01
Astronauts Norman E. Thagard and Bonnie J. Dunbar by the Mir Space Station simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1994-01-01
Astronaut Norman E. Thagard in a cosmonaut space suit in the Training Simulator Facility at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1994-01-01
Astronauts Norman E. Thagard and Bonnie J. Dunbar in cosmonaut space suits in the Training Simulator Facility at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russ
View of secondfloor Blue Lodge lobby from the southwest. Left ...
View of second-floor Blue Lodge lobby from the southwest. Left door leads to the hallway to Norman Hall. Central door opens to the Egyptian Hall inner vestibule. - Masonic Temple, 1 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Protecting Surface Transportation Systems and Patrons from Terrorist Activities
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
1997-11-01
This report documents the first phase of a continuing research effort carried out by the Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies (IISTPS) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Transportation. It comprises a ch...
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1994-01-01
Astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar in a cosmonaut space suit in the Training Simulator Facility at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Norman E. Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz sp
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1994-01-01
Astronauts Norman E. Thagard and Bonnie J. Dunbar in cosmonaut space suits by the Soyuz TM simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz
SURFACTANT FLUSH: HOW WELL DID IT WORK?
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission through a contract with Surbec-Art, Inc. of Norman Oklahoma has remediated TPH contamination at a gasoline spill at Golden, Oklahoma. Residual gasoline was removed from the subsurface using a flush of surfactant, followed by in situ bioremedia...
Analysis of Policy Issues Relating to Public Investment in Private Freight Infrastructure
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
1999-12-01
The Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies (IISTPS) at San Josi State University conducted this study to review the issues and implications involved in the investment of public funds in private freight infr...
67. FIRST AND SECOND AQUEDUCTS GOING UNDERGROUND PARALLEL TO DIRT ...
67. FIRST AND SECOND AQUEDUCTS GOING UNDERGROUND PARALLEL TO DIRT ROADS, MOJAVE DESERT LOOKING NORTH - Los Angeles Aqueduct, From Lee Vining Intake (Mammoth Lakes) to Van Norman Reservoir Complex (San Fernando Valley), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
Chapter 9 : getting ready for NextGen.
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
2008-01-01
George W. Bush became the forty-third president on January 20, : 2001. Five days later, former Member of Congress Norman Mineta : (D-CA) took the oath of office as the nations fourteenth Secretary : of Transportation. The lone Democrat in George W...
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Retooled Award Supports Budding Cancer Researchers
In this Cancer Currents post, NCI Director Dr. Norman Sharpless discusses how NCI is retooling a grant mechanism, called the MERIT R37 Award, to help early-stage investigators by extending the length of time they can receive funding under their first independent NIH grant.
The Constraint Method for Solid Finite Elements.
1980-09-30
9. ’Hierarchical Approximation in Finite Element Analysis", by I. Norman Katz, International Symposium on Innovative Numerical Analysis In Applied ... Engineering Science, Versailles, France, May 23-27, 1977. 10. "Efficient Generation of Hierarchal Finite Elamnts Through the Use of Precomputed Arrays
DOT Announces Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure Relying on GPS
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2002-03-07
U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today announced that the U.S. Department of : Transportation (DOT) will implement an action plan to maintain the adequacy of backup systems : for each area of operation in which the Global Positioning Sy...
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Daurelio, G.; Catalano, I. M.; Bassi, P.
2010-09-01
It is the oldest church in the city after the cathedral. It is among the purest examples of Romanesque. It was founded in 1074 and expenses for its construction helped the inhabitants of the agricultural hamlets of the Cirignano, Pacciano and Zappino. The church was dedicated to St. Adoeno Dado, bishop of Rouen, protector of Norman, because , according to tradition, the building also participated Norman soldiers. San Adoeno church has a façade at cusp with a truncated tympanum , crowned by an eagle. In the centre of the façade there is a rose ornament surrounded by four lions and a statue of St. Adoeno ( Figs. A to I ). On the outside walls of this Abbey many graffiti, produced by different coloured spray paints were found. After the usual photographical tests some Laser Paint Removal trials were executed to verify the damage threshold of the calcareous stony substrate as well as the possibility to ablate these paints by a Nd - YAG laser in Q-Switch mode. Even if all the classical four laser paint ablation techniques were employed some paints showed a great difficulty to be removed from the substrate. For these ones it was necessary to increase at maximum both the energy per pulse and the fluence value for obtaining some acceptable result but the substrate looked turned pale. It was decided to remove a small amount of these paints and subject to chemical analysis for determining whether they were acrylic based. At the same time it was investigated on the type of limestone substrate that appeared more porous and less hard on the surface than the common local limestone marble basin, that is, Trani or Bisceglie. So, on the light of these investigations, the possible solution for this hard laser ablation problem was carried out with an acceptable final result.
Norman Geschwind: influence on his career and comments on his course on the neurology of behavior.
Devinsky, Orrin
2009-08-01
Norman Geschwind (1926-1984) was a critical force in the emergence of behavioral neurology and neuropsychology as important disciplines in the 1960s and 1970s. Factors that influenced his early career are described, with extensive quotes from a document that Geschwind wrote in 1982, supplemented by interviews with his childhood friends, colleagues from his early career, and his daughter. He entered Harvard College as a math major, but became interested in psychology when he served in the Army infantry in World War II and observed soldiers who acted irrationally in combat. Returning to undergraduate studies, he was taught that knowledge of the brain would shed little light on behavior. His interest in behavioral neurology began with his medical student courses in physiology and neuroanatomy, where he first learned about epilepsy and aphasia. He then trained for 2 years at Queen Square, where his research focused on periodic paralysis, but was greatly influenced by the writings of Hughlings Jackson and Charles Bastian and the teachings of Sir Charles Symonds. Returning to Boston, Geschwind became Dr. Denny-Brown's Chief Resident at the Neurologic Unit of Boston City Hospital. Another unrecognized source of Norman Geschwind's intellectual legacy is the unpublished course he taught on The Neurology of Behavior at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s and 1980s. These lectures were an opportunity for Geschwind to formulate, share, and refine his ideas on behavioral neurology to an eclectic mixture of Boston academics, from linguists, philosophers, and anthropologists to physiologists and psychiatrists. From tape recordings of the Spring 1974 course, 10 lectures were transcribed. One of these slightly edited lectures, "Personality Changes in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy," is reproduced in this issue of Epilepsy & Behavior.
NCI Partners with VA, DoD for Cancer Research
Partnerships and collaborations are an important component of NCI’s success. In this Cancer Currents blog post, NCI Director Dr. Norman Sharpless describes three efforts made possible by a memorandum of agreement with three US military institutions: the APOLLO network, NAVIGATE, and BD-STEP.
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Britt, John F.
Traditionally, educational psychology has been a content-oriented course covering methodology, measurement, and learning theories. Recently, however, those in teacher education have been required to add a large clinical and field component to the course. An experiential taxonomy developed by Norman Steinaker and Robert Bell is flexible enough to…
Visual Temporal Filtering and Intermittent Visual Displays.
1986-08-08
suport Mud Kaplan, Associate Professor, 20% time and effort Michelangelo ROssetto, Research Associate, 20% time and m4pport Margo Greene, Research...reached and are described as follows. The variable raster rate display was designed and built by Michelangelo R0ssetto and Norman Milkman, Research
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Bennett, Ruth, Ed.; Goodwin, Norman
A booklet on traditional fishing practices of the Karuk Indians of northwestern California is presented in the formal, literary English speech of Norman Goodwin, a Karuk medicine man involved in preserving ancient tribal traditions. Empirical information and personal narratives are combined in descriptions of different kinds of nets, social rules…
Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Under Uncertainty: Models, Algorithms and Applications
2014-11-10
Make-to-Order (MTO) Production Planning using Bayesian Updating, International Journal of Production Economics (04 2014) Norman Keith Womer, Haitao...2013) Made-to-Order Production Scheduling using Bayesian Updating, Working Paper, under second-round review in International Journal of Production Economics . VI
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Langenbach, Michael, Comp.
Papers in this volume include: "Retirement Learning" (Adair); "Effect of Literacy on Personal Income" (Blunt); "Popular Discourse Concerning Women and AIDS" (Boshier); "John Steinbeck's Learning Project" (Brockett); "Faculty Careers of Professors of Adult Education" (Caffarella); "Racism in…
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2010-01-01
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Behavior, Expectations and Status
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Webster, Jr, Murray; Rashotte, Lisa Slattery
2010-01-01
We predict effects of behavior patterns and status on performance expectations and group inequality using an integrated theory developed by Fisek, Berger and Norman (1991). We next test those predictions using new experimental techniques we developed to control behavior patterns as independent variables. In a 10-condition experiment, predictions…
Revell, Kirsten M A; Stanton, Neville A
2016-11-01
Householders' behaviour with their home heating systems is a considerable contributor to domestic energy consumption. To create a design specification for the 'scaffolding' needed for sustainable behaviour with home heating controls, Norman's (1986) Gulf of Execution and Evaluation was applied to the home heating system. A Home Heating Design Model (DM) was produced with a home heating expert. Norman's (1986) 7 Stages of Activity were considered to derive a Compatible User Mental Model (CUMM) of a typical Heating System. Considerable variation in the concepts needed at each stage was found. Elements that could be derived from the DM supported stages relating to action specification, execution, perception and interpretation, but many are not communicated in the design of typical heating controls. Stages relating to goals, intentions and evaluation required concepts beyond the DM. A systems view that tackles design for sustainable behaviour from a variety of levels is needed. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Bell, Allan
1995-01-01
Reviews recent research on the use of language in the mass media, focusing on the work of Teun van Dijk, A. Bell, Roger Fowler, and Norman Fairclough, as well as research on broadcast interviews, talk shows, and advertising. An annotated bibliography discusses 16 important works in the field. (58 references) (MDM)
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Trotter, Andrew
1992-01-01
While Principal Norman Higgins was speaking at an out-of-town conference, his high school faculty voted to cancel final exams for seniors and hold a morale-raising picnic. Although some principals dole out site-based power only grudgingly, Higgins takes his coordinator role seriously and delegates loads of responsibility. This article details…
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Cohen, Andrew
1998-01-01
Discusses wood-flooring components for athletic facilities, what materials make up these floors, and how they affect a floor's performance once installed. The pros and cons of anchored versus floating systems are examined, including the issue of moisture resistance. Also discussed is the influence of Deutsches Institut fur Normans (DIN) standards…
NCI and the Cancer Community: Focus on Patients Through Innovative Research
At the 2018 AACR Annual Meeting , NCI Director Norman Sharpless describes the key focus areas where NCI can be particularly important to the cancer research enterprise on advancing progress and explains how addressing the challenges of the cancer research landscape requires innovative thinking.
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Kong, Shiu L., Ed.; Ray, Riten, Ed.
This monograph contains the speeches and resolutions of representatives of forty-one ethnocultural groups residing in Canada. Included are: (1) opening messages by Pierre Trudeau, Joe Clark, Edward Broadbent, and Alex Chumak; (2) a discussion by Norman Cafik on federalism, multicultural groups, and Canadian unity; (3) remarks on Canadian unity by…
Mailed Fist, Velvet Glove: Soviet Armed Forces as a Political Instrument
1979-09-30
the Nineteenth anJ Twentieth Party Congress, 1952-1956. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1959. Erickson, John. Soviet Military Power. Washington: United...York. Dunellen, 1971. B-19 Kintner, William R. and Harriet Fast Scott, ads. The Nuclear Revolution in Soviet Military Affairs. Norman: University of
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California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena.
This document presents a transcript of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration panel discussion held on July 2, 1976, in conjunction with the Viking Mission to Mars. The panel consisted of Norman Cousins, Ray Bradbury, Jacques Cousteau, James Michener, and Philip Morrison, and the principal topic was a philosophical discussion of the…
Reconsidering Constructivism in Qualitative Research
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Lee, Cheu-Jey George
2012-01-01
This article examines constructivism, a paradigm in qualitative research that has been propagated by Egon Guba, Yvonna Lincoln, and Norman Denzin. A distinction is made between whether the basic presuppositions of constructivism are credible compared to those of a competing paradigm and whether constructivism's beliefs are internally consistent.…
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Stuart, Reginald
2011-01-01
When Norman Francis arrived at Xavier University of Louisiana in 1948 as a first-generation college student fresh out of high school from the poor side of Lafayette, Louisiana, his drive, intelligence, discipline and winning personality quickly earned him election as freshman class president. It was the start of something big. Today, Dr. Francis…
How We Can Win the Long War: A New Interagency Approach to the GWOT
2009-04-01
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe states, “Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” 17...Case for Strengthening the Department of State” 1 16 Schwarzkopf, Norman, “Famous Military Quotes”, 1 17 Goethe , Johan Wolfgang Van, Famous
Decompositions of Multiattribute Utility Functions Based on Convex Dependence.
1982-03-01
School of Business, 200E, BEB Decision Research University of Texas at Austin 1201 Oak Street Austin, Texas 78712 Eugene, Oregon 97401 Professor Norman ...Stephen M. Robinson Dept. of Industrial Engineering Dr. Richard D. Smallwood Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison Applied Decision Analysis, Inc. 1513 University
Lie algebras and linear differential equations.
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Brockett, R. W.; Rahimi, A.
1972-01-01
Certain symmetry properties possessed by the solutions of linear differential equations are examined. For this purpose, some basic ideas from the theory of finite dimensional linear systems are used together with the work of Wei and Norman on the use of Lie algebraic methods in differential equation theory.
Scholl, Martha; Christenson, Scott; Cozzarelli, Isabelle; Ferree, Dale; Jaeshke, Jeanne
2005-01-01
Analyses of stable isotope profiles (d2H and d18O) in the saturated zone, combined with water-table fluctuations, gave a comprehensive picture of recharge processes in an alluvial aquifer riparian zone. At the Norman Landfill U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology research site in Norman, Oklahoma, recharge to the aquifer appears to drive biodegradation, contributing fresh supplies of electron acceptors for the attenuation of leachate compounds from the landfill. Quantifying recharge is a first step in studying this process in detail. Both chemical and physical methods were used to estimate recharge. Chemical methods included measuring the increase in recharge water in the saturated zone, as defined by isotopic signature, specific conductance or chloride measurements; and infiltration rate estimates using storm event isotopic signatures. Physical methods included measurement of water-table rise after individual rain events and on an approximately monthly time scale. Evapotranspiration rates were estimated using diurnal watertable fluctuations; outflux of water from the alluvial aquifer during the growing season had a large effect on net recharge at the site. Evaporation and methanogenesis gave unique isotopic signatures to different sources of water at the site, allowing the distinction of recharge using the offset of the isotopic signature from the local meteoric water line. The downward movement of water from large, isotopically depleted rain events in the saturated zone yielded recharge rate estimates (2.2 - 3.3 mm/day), and rates also were determined by observing changes in thickness of the layer of infiltrated recharge water at the top of the saturated zone (1.5 - 1.6 mm/day). Recharge measured over 2 years (1998-2000) in two locations at the site averaged 37 percent of rainfall, however, part of this water had only a short residence time in the aquifer. Isotopes showed recharge water entering the ground-water system in winter and spring, then being removed during the growing season by phreatophyte transpiration. Recharge timing was variable over the course of the study; July and August were the only months that had no recharge in both years. Recharge to the aquifer from the slough (wetland pond) was estimated at one location using the isotopic signature of water affected by evaporation. Recharge was correlated with the rainfall amount over the period of estimation, suggesting that recharge from the slough to the downgradient aquifer was an episodic process, corresponding to elevated water levels in the slough after large rain events.
Big data for big questions: it is time for data analysts to act
Moscato, Pablo
2015-01-01
Pablo Moscato speaks to Francesca Lake, Managing Editor Australian Research Council Future Fellow Prof. Pablo Moscato was born in 1964 in La Plata, Argentina. Obtaining his B.Sc. in Physics at University of La Plata, his PhD was defended at UNICAMP, Brazil. While at the California Institute of Technology Concurrent Computation Program he developed, in collaboration with Michael Norman, the first application of a methodology later called ‘memetic algorithms’, which is now widely used internationally. He is the founding co-director of the Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery and Information-based Medicine (CIBM) (2006–present) and the funding director of the Newcastle Bioinformatics Initiative (2002–2006) of The University of Newcastle (Australia). He is also Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre in Bioinformatics. He is one of Australia's most cited computer scientists. Over the past 7 years, he has introduced a unifying hallmark of cancer progression based on the changes of information theory quantifiers, and developed a novel mathematical model and an associated solution procedure based on combinatorial optimization techniques to identify drug combinations for cancer therapeutics. In addition, he has identified proteomic signatures to predict the clinical symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, among other ‘firsts’. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Future Science OA. PMID:28031895
Affirmative Communication as Health: The New Paradigm.
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Cooper, Thomas W.
A wide range of interesting observations of the past decade, which may now cast their shadow as the health communication paradigm of the forthcoming decade, can be clarified and correlated. One example of effective communication therapy was Norman Cousins's hospitalization with the crippling disease, "ankylosing spondylitis." Using large doses of…
RQ-2 Pioneer: The Flawed System that Redefined US Unmanned Aviation
2012-02-01
Periscope.com, “RQ-2 Pioneer,” http://www.militaryperiscope.com/weapons/aircraft/rpv- dron /w0004685.html 28 Ibid. 29 Jane’s Unmanned Aerial...Military Periscope.com, “RQ-2 Pioneer.” http://www.militaryperiscope.com/weapons/aircraft/rpv- dron /w0004685.html Polmar, Norman, The Naval
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Sutley, Jane
2004-01-01
Norman Rockwell's Triple Self-Portrait provided the perfect starting point for taking self-conscious teenagers on a personal journey into the intimidating world of introspective art. Asking students to find the three self-portraits in the Rockwell work was an easy way to draw them into painting. From the visual clues and objects meaningfully…
Gender-Role Orientation of Female Cadets at the United States Air Force Academy
1993-06-01
Becky"JJL •l, dhalr Professor Assistant Professor Counseling and Counseling and Counseling Psychology Counseling Psychology Debra C. Cobia Norman J... Cobia for their constructive criticism and support. Thanks are also due to Dr. Elizabeth Brazelton for he. assistance with the statistics and to Mary
STS-125 Entry flight controllers on console with Flight Director Norman Knight
2009-05-24
JSC2009-E-121510 (24 May 2009) --- Flight controllers in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center watch the big screens during the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125) at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
STS-125 Entry flight controllers on console with Flight Director Norman Knight
2009-05-24
JSC2009-E-121511 (24 May 2009) --- Flight controllers in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center watch the big screens during the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125) at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
STS-125 Entry flight controllers on console with Flight Director Norman Knight
2009-05-24
JSC2009-E-121512 (24 May 2009) --- Flight controllers in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center watch the big screens during the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125) at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
STS-125 Entry flight controllers on console with Flight Director Norman Knight
2009-05-24
JSC2009-E-121509 (24 May 2009) --- Flight controllers in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center watch the big screens during the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-125) at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Texturing Space-Times in the Australian Curriculum: Cross-Curriculum Priorities
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Peacock, David; Lingard, Robert; Sellar, Sam
2015-01-01
The Australian curriculum, as a policy imagining what learning should take place in schools, and what that learning should achieve, involves the imagining and rescaling of social relations amongst students, their schools, the nation-state and the globe. Following David Harvey's theorisations of space-time and Norman Fairclough's operationalisation…
77 FR 72885 - Meeting of the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure
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Testing a Neurocomputational Model of Recollection, Familiarity, and Source Recognition
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Elfman, Kane W.; Parks, Colleen M.; Yonelinas, Andrew P.
2008-01-01
The authors assess whether the complementary learning systems model of the medial temporal lobes (Norman & O'Reilly, 2003) is able to account for source recognition receiver operating characteristics (ROCs). The model assumes that recognition reflects the contribution of a hippocampally mediated recollection process and a cortically mediated…
123. ARAI Substation (ARA726) plan, elevation, security fence details, and ...
123. ARA-I Substation (ARA-726) plan, elevation, security fence details, and sections. Norman Engineering Company 961-area/SF-726-E-1. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0726-10-613-102778. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
Benchmarking for Higher Education.
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Jackson, Norman, Ed.; Lund, Helen, Ed.
The chapters in this collection explore the concept of benchmarking as it is being used and developed in higher education (HE). Case studies and reviews show how universities in the United Kingdom are using benchmarking to aid in self-regulation and self-improvement. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction to Benchmarking" (Norman Jackson…
Action Implications in Adult Basic Education Programs.
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Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus.
Eight articles on adult basic education are presented. The articles adapted from 1971 workshop presentations are: Action Implications for ABE Directors by Alan Knox; ABE Budget Development, by Donald G. Butcher; Competent ABE Instructors, by William D. Dowling; Interview Techniques and Training, by Norman Kagan; Reading: The Basic in Adult Basic…
Papers in Language Learning and Language Acquisition. AFinLA Yearbook 1980. No. 28.
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Sajavaara, Kari, Ed.; And Others
Papers include: (1) "Language Acquisitional Universals: L1, L2, Pidgins, and FLT" (Henning Wode); (2) "Language Acquisition, Language Learning and the School Curriculum" (Norman F. Davies); (3) "Language Teaching and Acquisition of Communication" (Kari Sajavaara, Jaakko Lehtonen); (4) "On the Distinction between…
DOT National Transportation Integrated Search
1997-12-01
This report documents the first phase of a continuing research effort carried out by the Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies (IISTPS) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Transportation. It comprises a ch...
Low Energy Building for High Energy People.
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American School and University, 1982
1982-01-01
The Huston Huffman Center at the University of Oklahoma's Norman campus has a jogging track as well as facilities for exercise and court games that are fully accessible to the handicapped. The building is set eight feet in the ground both to reduce its bulk and to conserve energy. (Author/MLF)
Before and After: An Exploration into Narrative.
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Clark, Kelly
2003-01-01
Describes a project about narrative in art that combines a study of art history with art reproductions. Explains that the students create before and after pictures on postcards for famous works of art. States that students were asked to choose an artist such as Norman Rockwell, Edward Gorey, or Jonathan Green. (CMK)
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Fryer, T. Bruce; Medley, Frank W., Jr.
Selected papers from the 1986 Southern Conference on Language Teaching on instruction for language proficiency are presented: "The Foreign Language Teacher: Confronting an Ever-Changing Profession" (Robert Di Donato); "Restructuring a Traditional Foreign Language Program for Oral Proficiency" (Filisha Camara-Norman, James…
2008-10-01
existential fear of one’s superpower rival. Nor was the Cold War the only arms race in history: naval rivalry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...Military Review, July-August 2006; Norman Solomon, “The Bogus Blurring of Terrorism and Insurgency in Iraq,” The Humanist , Vol. 66, No. 2, March-April
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Joan Herman; Robert Linn
2014-01-01
Researching. Synthesizing. Reasoning with evidence. The PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments are clearly setting their sights on complex thinking skills. Researchers Joan Herman and Robert Linn look at the new assessments to see how they stack up against Norman Webb's depth of knowledge framework as well as against current state tests. The…
A Celebration of Richard Feynman
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Feynman, Richard
In honor of the 2005 World Year of Physics, on the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, BSA sponsored this celebration. Actor Norman Parker reads from Feynman's bestselling books, and Ralph Leighton and Tom Rutishauser, who played bongos with Feynman, reminisce on what it was like to drum with him.
A Celebration of Richard Feynman
Feynman, Richard
2018-01-05
In honor of the 2005 World Year of Physics, on the birthday of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, BSA sponsored this celebration. Actor Norman Parker reads from Feynman's bestselling books, and Ralph Leighton and Tom Rutishauser, who played bongos with Feynman, reminisce on what it was like to drum with him.
United States Air Force Summary, Fifth Edition
1979-03-01
t911 COPPER BAUXITE UNITED STATES ZINC CBROIJJI. C!’ NICKEL SOURCE. CIA -HANDBOOK OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS, 19711 IINC it IANSINESE COBALT IRON().pueUI...Wilson, Charles (TX) Boggs, Lindy (Mrs. Hole)(LA) Benjomin, Adam Jr. (IN) Dicks, Norman D. (WAI McHugh "Mafhew F. (NY) Ginn, So (GA) lehman, Williom
A Commander’s Guide for Conducting Integration Operations in the San Antonio Military Health System
1999-02-01
Conducting Integration Operations 27 Denzin , Norman and Lincoln , Yvonna. (1994). Handbook of Qualitative Research. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks...the Defense. (1998). “Program Decision Memorandum.” August 18, 1998. Phillips, Donald. (1992). Lincoln on Leadership. Warner Books. New York. 1992
Towards Useful and Dangerous Theories
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Sikes, Pat
2006-01-01
Like Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, and many others, the author "wants a social science that is committed up front to issues of social justice, equity, non-violence, peace, and universal human rights" (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005). Educational research, as she and the three authors whose papers make up this symposium of…
Numerical Studies of Disordered Tight-Binding Hamiltonians
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Scalettar, R. T.
2007-06-01
These are notes used for a set of lectures delivered at the Vietri summer school on Condensed Matter Physics in Fall 2006. They concern the general problem of the interplay of interactions and disorder in two dimensional electronic systems, as realized in the specific context of Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the Anderson-Hubbard Hamiltonian. I wish to thank the organizers of this school for their hospitality during my visit, and their work in general in providing this educational opportunity for students over the years. It is a pleasure also to acknowledge the collaborators together with whom I have learned much of the physics and numerics presented in these notes: Zhaojun Bai, Andrew Baldwin, George Batrouni, Karim Bouadim, Wenbin Chen, Peter Denteneer, Fred Hébert, Norman Paris, Matt Schram, Nandini Trivedi, Martin Ulmke, Ichitaro Yamazaki and Gergely Zimanyi. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF-DMR-0312261 and NSF-ITR-0313390), and China Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Projects under contract 2005CB321700.
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Findlay, R. P.; Dimbylow, P. J.
2008-05-01
If an electromagnetic field is incident normally onto a perfectly conducting ground plane, the field is reflected back into the domain. This produces a standing wave above the ground plane. If a person is present within the domain, absorption of the field in the body may cause problems regarding compliance with electromagnetic guidelines. To investigate this, the whole-body averaged specific energy absorption rate (SAR), localised SAR and ankle currents in the voxel model NORMAN have been calculated for a variety of these exposures under grounded conditions. The results were normalised to the spatially averaged field, a technique used to determine a mean value for comparison with guidelines when the field varies along the height of the body. Additionally, the external field values required to produce basic restrictions for whole-body averaged SAR have been calculated. It was found that in all configurations studied, the ICNIRP reference levels and IEEE MPEs provided a conservative estimate of these restrictions.
Focus on the Budget: Rethinking Current Practice. State Policy and College Learning.
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Epper, Rhonda Martin, Ed.
The four papers presented here were chosen for presentation at the 1993 annual meeting of the State Higher Education Finance Officers. "A Clean Slate: Principles for Moving To a Value-Driven Higher Education Funding Model," by Brenda Norman Albright and Diane Suitt Gilleland, outlines principles for moving from an accounting-driven…
Genes, Environment, and Dyslexia: The 2005 Norman Geschwind Memorial Lecture
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Olson, Richard K.
2006-01-01
This article presents an overview of some methods and results from our continuing studies of genetic and environmental influences on dyslexia, and on individual differences across the normal range that have been conducted over the past 25 years in the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center (CLDRC) and in related projects. CLDRC…
Supporting Universal Prevention Programs: A Two-Phased Coaching Model
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Becker, Kimberly D.; Darney, Dana; Domitrovich, Celene; Keperling, Jennifer Pitchford; Ialongo, Nicholas S.
2013-01-01
Schools are adopting evidence-based programs designed to enhance students' emotional and behavioral competencies at increasing rates (Hemmeter et al. in "Early Child Res Q" 26:96-109, 2011). At the same time, teachers express the need for increased support surrounding implementation of these evidence-based programs (Carter and Van Norman in "Early…
Watson, Jean
2018-04-01
The only true standard of greatness of any civilization is our sense of social and moral responsibility in translating material wealth to human values and achieving our full potential as a caring society. -The Right Honorable Norman Kirk, Former Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Code-Switching and Vernacular Support: An Early Middle English Case Study
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Skaffari, Janne
2016-01-01
In the multilingual history of England, the period following the Norman Conquest in 1066 is a particularly intriguing phase, but its code-switching patterns have so far received little attention. The present article describes and analyses the multilingual practices evinced in London, British Library, MS Stowe 34, containing one instructional prose…
An Investigation of Environmental Factors that Influence Knowledge Transfer in the Air Force
2002-03-26
96 Future Research............................................................................................................ 97...operate its current weapons systems, but it must also fill research and development positions to create future weapons systems (Norman, 2000...has the potential to save an organization’s money while positioning it better to face future challenges; however, organizational culture is a strong
119. ARAI Shop and maintenance (ARA627) building sections and details ...
119. ARA-I Shop and maintenance (ARA-627) building sections and details of interior mesh partitions. Norman Engineering Company 961-area/SF-627-A-3. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0627-00-613-102761. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
117. ARAI Shop and maintenance (ARA627) building roof and floor ...
117. ARA-I Shop and maintenance (ARA-627) building roof and floor plan. Includes room finish and equipment schedule. Norman Engineering Company 961-area/SF-627-A-1. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0627-00-613-102759. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
112. ARAI Hot cell (ARA626) Building roof plan and details ...
112. ARA-I Hot cell (ARA-626) Building roof plan and details of roof ventilating equipment and parapet. Norman Engineering Company: 961-area/SF-626-A-2. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0626-00-613-102722. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
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Pascopella, Angela
2009-01-01
This article profiles Cathleen Norris, a Regents Professor in the department of Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas and co-creator of GoKnow Learning who encourages teachers to use cell phones in lessons. As a middle and high school math teacher for 14 years in the Norman (Oklahoma) School District and Dallas (Texas) Independent…
Growing Vegetables. People on the Farm.
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Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Office of Governmental and Public Affairs.
This booklet, one in a series about life on modern farms, describes farm operations and some activities in the lives of six vegetable farmers throughout the United States. The booklet visits the tomato growing of Carl Schneider and his partners and the lettuce growing farm of Norman Martella, both in California. It then includes brief accounts of…
Perspectives: Should Mandatory Voting Laws Be Implemented in the United States?
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Ornstein, Norman; Stoilov, Vassia
2011-01-01
Many countries around the world have compulsory voting laws. In the United States, where voter turnout tends to be lower than in other developed democracies, experts wonder whether voting laws would have a positive impact. In two distinct essays, voting and elections experts Norman Ornstein and Vassia Stoilov debate the implementation of…
An Analysis of Alternate Work Schedules in Selected Air Force Civil Engineering Squadrons.
1982-09-01
find out if job satisfaction increased after implementation of the four-day workweek for the dissatisfied workers. Hodge and Tellier studied the...D. Tellier . "Employee Reactions to the Four-Day Week," California Management Review, Fall 1975, pp. 25-30. 27. Hull, C. Hadlai, and Norman H. Nie
Practicing Politics: Female Political Scientists as Candidates for Elective Office
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Burrell, Barbara
2012-01-01
In 2007, University of Oklahoma political science professor Cindy Simon Rosenthal was elected mayor of Norman, Oklahoma, after having served as a member of its city council. Was her activity unique within the political science profession among female political scientists? Her election stimulated the curiosity of some of us in the…
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... added as parties to this venture. Also, adapt laser systems, LLC, Kansas City, MO; Advanced Processing Technologies (AVPRO), Norman, OK; Anglicotech LLC, Alpharetta, GA; Assembly Guidance Systems, Inc., Chelmsford... Technology Corporation (PTC), Waltham, MA; PDQ Precision Inc., National City, CA; Portal Dynamics, Inc...
Methods and Materials for Entrepreneurship Education, Phase I. Final Report.
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Evans, Rupert N.; And Others
A study was conducted to compare the personality characteristics of two types of entrepreneurs, the craft-type and the opportunistic-type, which were described by Norman R. Smith. The craft-type entrepreneur is mainly interested in self-employment and owns a small business while the opportunistic-type, although interested in self-employment,…
REMEDIATION OF GROUND WATER CONTAMINATED WITH LANDFILL LEACHATE USING PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS
The Norman Landfill is the field site for this project. It was reported that ground water toxicity at this site was due to ammonia, and napthalene was the only ASOC present at high concentrations. Thus, batch and column studies will be used to evaluate reactive materials with the...
Norman Ramsey and the Separated Oscillatory Fields Method
methods of investigation; in particular, he contributed many refinements of the molecular beam method for the study of atomic and molecular properties, he invented the separated oscillatory field method of atomic and molecular spectroscopy and it is the practical basis for the most precise atomic clocks
TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF DEHP IN THE MALE RAT
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TITLE: Transgenerational Effects of Di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate in the Male Rat. AUTHORS (ALL): Gray, Leon Earl1; Barlow, Norman J2; Furr, Johnathan R1; Brock, John 3; Silva, Manori J3; Barr, Dana B3; Ostby, Joseph S1
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Workforce Planning in the Intelligence Community: A Retrospective
2013-01-01
segments of this work. We also wish to thank Dwayne M. Butler and Nelson Lim from RAND and Robert B. Murrett of the Syracuse University Department of Public...Taylor, Richard Eisenman, William Fedorochko, Clifford M. Graf II, Mark Hoyer, Paul Bracken, Norman T. O’Meara, Jerry M. Sollinger, Judith Larson
Nostalgia and Educational History: An American Image
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Rousmaniere, Kate
2017-01-01
This essay examines the way in which nostalgia informs the 1953 painting of a school setting by the popular American artist Norman Rockwell. "The Girl with Black Eye", the cover image of the American popular magazine "The Saturday Evening Post" on 23 May 1953, draws on traditional American iconography of the disciplining of…
Using Authentic Resources in Teaching French. Teaching Languages, 4.
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Jones, Barry, Ed.
A collection of papers gives ideas for exploitation of resources easily available to the language teacher. Although the papers apply specifically to French instruction, the ideas may be of interest to all language teachers. "Realia in the Classroom" (Norman Hill) concerns the contribution to language instruction of such materials as containers,…
33 CFR 208.34 - Norman Dam and Lake Thunderbird, Little River, Okla.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR
2011-07-01
... amounts to 76,600 acre-feet. Whenever the reservoir level is within this elevation range the flood control... flood damage below the reservoir. In order to accomplish this purpose, flood control releases shall be... of bankfull on the Little River downstream of the reservoir. Controlling bankfull stages and...
33 CFR 208.34 - Norman Dam and Lake Thunderbird, Little River, Okla.
Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR
2010-07-01
... amounts to 76,600 acre-feet. Whenever the reservoir level is within this elevation range the flood control... flood damage below the reservoir. In order to accomplish this purpose, flood control releases shall be... of bankfull on the Little River downstream of the reservoir. Controlling bankfull stages and...
O*NET Final Technical Report. Volume I [and] Volume II [and] Volume III.
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Peterson, Norman G.; Mumford, Michael D.; Borman, Walter C.; Jeanneret, P. Richard; Fleishman, Edwin A.; Levin, Kerry Y.
This document contains the three volumes of the technical report for development of the prototype of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), which is intended to replace the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles.""General Introduction" (Norman G. Peterson) presents an overview of O*NET's purpose, content, and structure.…
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Lucena, J.; Schneider, J.
2008-01-01
In October 2007, Norman Borlaug wrote in "Science" magazine that "more than 200 science journals throughout the world will simultaneously publish papers on global poverty and human development--a collaborative effort to increase awareness, interest, and research about these important issues of our time". Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and…
Red River of the North Reconnaissance Report: Red Lake River.
1980-12-01
cuckoo flower, Jack-in-the-pulpit, dwarf bladderwort, smallwood orchid, and northern bur-reed. The rare plants growing in the dry plains and hills area... Norman , OK. I99 .4 j 99 Appendix A FLOODPLAIN DELINEATION i / * _ Appendix A FLOODPLAIN DELINEATION Prior to this study, no attempt was made to
1984-08-01
M.D. Smallwood , 1981: An evaluation of the spatial resolution of soil moisture information. NASA CR-166724, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD...Thesis, Dept of Meteor- ology, Univ. of Okla., Norman , 59 pp. Theis, S.W., 1979: Surface soil moisture estimation with the Electri- cally Scanning
STS-30 ATLANTIS, ORBITER VEHICLE (OV)-104 - OFFICIAL CREW PORTRAIT
1989-01-01
S89-28536 (March 1989) --- These five astronauts have been assigned to fly aboard Atlantis for the STS-30 mission. Astronaut David M. Walker, standing at left, is mission commander. Others are, left to right, Astronauts Ronald J. Grabe, pilot; Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee, all mission specialists.
Differences in evaporation between a floating pan and class a pan on land
Masoner, J.R.; Stannard, D.I.; Christenson, S.C.
2008-01-01
Research was conducted to develop a method for obtaining floating pan evaporation rates in a small (less than 10,000 m2) wetland, lagoon, or pond. Floating pan and land pan evaporation data were collected from March 1 to August 31, 2005, at a small natural wetland located in the alluvium of the Canadian River near Norman, Oklahoma, at the U.S. Geological Survey Norman Landfill Toxic Substances Hydrology Research Site. Floating pan evaporation rates were compared with evaporation rates from a nearby standard Class A evaporation pan on land. Floating pan evaporation rates were significantly less than land pan evaporation rates for the entire period and on a monthly basis. Results indicated that the use of a floating evaporation pan in a small free-water surface better simulates actual physical conditions on the water surface that control evaporation. Floating pan to land pan ratios were 0.82 for March, 0.87 for April, 0.85 for May, 0.85 for June, 0.79 for July, and 0.69 for August. ?? 2008 American Water Resources Association.
Arab-Norman Heritage: State of Knowledge and New Actions and Innovative Proposal
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Prescia, R.; Scianna, A.
2017-05-01
This paper wants to offers a perlustrative recognition on the 'state of the studies', concerning to the Arab-Norman architecture of Palermo, admissed by Unesco in 2015 and explain a research in progress which, starting from re-cognition of the peculiarities of the restoration work carried out on it, consisting of the identification of authentic material-constructive values and / or reconstruction, it orients itself to develop a concrete proposal of filing for a more conscious knowledge. She, moreover, wants contribute to real enhancement through the use of targeted communication strategies that use innovative means capable, on one hand, to attracting the greatest possible number of users, on the other hand, to plan further interventions of conservation coherent with the previous data. The product that you want to achieve is that of a Bank-data that allows the "networking" of monumental emergencies, that become the virtual itineraries waypoint, which can be implemented periodically and whose boards meet the cataloging needs and documentation but with reference at geo-referred systems, compatible with the conservation and management of heritage and with need of usability, real and virtual.
FDTD calculations of SAR for child voxel models in different postures between 10 MHz and 3 GHz.
Findlay, R P; Lee, A-K; Dimbylow, P J
2009-08-01
Calculations of specific energy absorption rate (SAR) have been performed on the rescaled NORMAN 7-y-old voxel model and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) child 7-y-old voxel model in the standing arms down, arms up and sitting postures. These calculations were for plane-wave exposure under isolated and grounded conditions between 10 MHz and 3 GHz. It was found that there was little difference at each resonant frequency between the whole-body averaged SAR values calculated for the NORMAN and ETRI 7-y-old models for each of the postures studied. However, when compared with the arms down posture, raising the arms increased the SAR by up to 25%. Electric field values required to produce the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers public basic restriction were calculated, and compared with reference levels for the different child models and postures. These showed that, under certain worst-case exposure conditions, the reference levels may not be conservative.
Hirata, Akimasa; Asano, Takayuki; Fujiwara, Osamu
2007-08-21
This study investigated the relationship between the specific absorption rate and temperature elevation in an anatomically-based model named NORMAN for exposure to radio-frequency far fields in the ICNIRP guidelines (1998 Health Phys. 74 494-522). The finite-difference time-domain method is used for analyzing the electromagnetic absorption and temperature elevation in NORMAN. In order to consider the variability of human thermoregulation, parameters for sweating are derived and incorporated into a conventional sweating formula. First, we investigated the effect of blood temperature variation modeling on body-core temperature. The computational results show that the modeling of blood temperature variation was the dominant factor influencing the body-core temperature. This is because the temperature in the inner tissues is elevated via the circulation of blood whose temperature was elevated due to EM absorption. Even at different frequencies, the body-core temperature elevation at an identical whole-body average specific absorption rate (SAR) was almost the same, suggesting the effectiveness of the whole-body average SAR as a measure in the ICNIRP guidelines. Next, we discussed the effect of sweating on the temperature elevation and thermal time constant of blood. The variability of temperature elevation caused by the sweating rate was found to be 30%. The blood temperature elevation at the basic restriction in the ICNIRP guidelines of 0.4 W kg(-1) is 0.25 degrees C even for a low sweating rate. The thermal time constant of blood temperature elevation was 23 min and 52 min for a man with a lower and a higher sweating rate, respectively, which is longer than the average time of the SAR in the ICNIRP guidelines. Thus, the whole-body average SAR required for blood temperature elevation of 1 degrees C was 4.5 W kg(-1) in the model of a human with the lower sweating coefficients for 60 min exposure. From a comparison of this value with the basic restriction in the ICNIRP guidelines of 0.4 W kg(-1), the safety factor was 11.
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Fromm, Michael; Bevilacqua, Richard; Servranckx, René; Rosen, James; Thayer, Jeffrey P.; Herman, Jay; Larko, David
2005-04-01
We report observations and analysis of a pyro-cumulonimbus event in the midst of a boreal forest fire blowup in Northwest Territories Canada, near Norman Wells, on 3-4 August 1998. We find that this blowup caused a five-fold increase in lower stratospheric aerosol burden, as well as multiple reports of anomalous enhancements of tropospheric gases and aerosols across Europe 1 week later. Our observations come from solar occultation satellites (POAM III and SAGE II), nadir imagers (GOES, AVHRR, SeaWiFS, DMSP), TOMS, lidar, and backscattersonde. First, we provide a detailed analysis of the 3 August eruption of extreme pyro-convection. This includes identifying the specific pyro-cumulonimbus cells that caused the lower stratospheric aerosol injection, and a meteorological analysis. Next, we characterize the altitude, composition, and opacity of the post-convection smoke plume on 4-7 August. Finally, the stratospheric impact of this injection is analyzed. Satellite images reveal two noteworthy pyro-cumulonimbus phenomena: (1) an active-convection cloud top containing enough smoke to visibly alter the reflectivity of the cloud anvil in the Upper Troposphere Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) and (2) a smoke plume, that endured for at least 2 hours, atop an anvil. The smoke pall deposited by the Norman Wells pyro-convection was a very large, optically dense, UTLS-level plume on 4 August that exhibited a mesoscale cyclonic circulation. An analysis of plume color/texture from SeaWiFS data, aerosol index, and brightness temperature establishes the extreme altitude and "pure" smoke composition of this unique plume. We show what we believe to be a first-ever measurement of strongly enhanced ozone in the lower stratosphere mingled with smoke layers. We conclude that two to four extreme pyro-thunderstorms near Norman Wells created a smoke injection of hemispheric scope that substantially increased stratospheric optical depth, transported aerosols 7 km above the tropopause (above ˜430 K potential temperature), and also perturbed lower stratospheric ozone.
Prieto, Ruth; Pascual, José M
2017-10-01
Norman McOmish Dott (1897-1973) developed surgical neurology in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was a scholar of worldwide renown. One of Dott's most notable contributions to neurosurgery was his understanding of hypothalamic physiology, mostly acquired through the comprehensive study of patients with lesions involving this region of the diencephalon, particularly craniopharyngiomas (CPs). Recognition of symptoms caused by hypothalamic disturbances allowed him to predict the accurate anatomical relationships between CPs and the hypothalamus, despite the rudimentary radiological methods available during the 1930s. His sophisticated knowledge permitted Dott to perform radical removals of CPs originating within the third ventricle floor with acceptable success. Between 1934 and 1937, he operated on 4 CP cases originating in the hypothalamus, achieving a satisfactory postoperative outcome in 3 of the 4 patients. Aware of the strong attachment of hypothalamic CPs to the infundibulo-tuberal area, Dott used a double transbasal and transventricular approach to these lesions, a strategy providing an optimal view and control of the tumor boundaries. The decisive mentorship of several legendary figures of physiology and neurosurgery greatly influenced Dott's surgical evolution. The experimental pituitary gland work he performed with Sir Edward Sharpey-Schäfer at the beginning of his career stirred Dott's curiosity about the issue of hypothalamus-pituitary relationships. As a result, he decided to move to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) in 1923, to train in neurosurgery and neuropathology under the guidance of the leaders in these fields, Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939) and Percival Sylvester Bailey (1892-1973). They inspired the young Dott and shared with him their clinical and pathological expertise, in addition to their surgical strategies for best approaching and removing these challenging tumors. In time, Dott would come to surpass his mentors. This paper aims to credit Norman M. Dott for his decisive, modern contributions to hypothalamic CP surgery.
Simulation of Flood Profiles for Catoma Creek near Montgomery, Alabama, 2008
Lee, K.G.; Hedgecock, T.S.
2008-01-01
A one-dimensional step-backwater model was used to simulate flooding conditions for Catoma Creek near Montgomery, Alabama. A peak flow of 50,000 cubic feet per second was computed by the U.S. Geological Survey for the March 1990 flood at the Norman Bridge Road gaging station. Using this estimated peak flow, flood-plain surveys with associated roughness coefficients, and surveyed high-water marks for the March 1990 flood, a flow model was calibrated to closely match the known event. The calibrated model then was used to simulate flooding for the 10-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year recurrence-interval floods. The 100-year flood stage for the Alabama River also was computed in the vicinity of the Catoma Creek confluence using observed high-water profiles from the 1979 and 1990 floods and gaging-station data. The results indicate that the 100-year flood profile for Catoma Creek within the 15-mile study reach is about 2.5 feet higher, on average, than the profile published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The maximum and minimum differences are 6.0 feet and 0.8 foot, respectively. All water-surface elevations computed for the 100-year flood are higher than those published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The 100-year flood stage computed for the Alabama River in the vicinity of the Catoma Creek confluence was about 4.5 feet lower than the elevation published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The results of this study provide the community with flood-profile information that can be used for flood-plain mitigation, future development, and safety plans for the city.
114. ARAI Hot cell (ARA626) Building details of fuel storage ...
114. ARA-I Hot cell (ARA-626) Building details of fuel storage pit in plan and section. Spaces shown for 20 elements. Norman Engineering Company: 961-area/SF-626-S-4. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0626-60-613-102752. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA
2009-09-17
Senate - 09/17/2009 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (All Actions) Tracker: This bill has the status Agreed to in SenateHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:
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Fermilab History and Archives Project Home About the Archives History and Archives Online Request Contact ; - The Early History of URA and Fermilab Fermilab Golden Book Collection main page Click on Image for Larger View The Early History of URA and Fermilab Viewpoint of a URA President (1966-1981) Norman F
Reclaiming the Vision: Past, Present, and Future Native Voices for the Eighth Generation.
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This book describes the "Returning the Gift" project, designed to create new opportunities for North American Native writers to share their work with Native youth, the overall Native community, and the general public. The project included a festival that brought together over 200 current and emerging Native American writers (Norman,…
26. Photocopy of 35 mm. color slide (City of New ...
26. Photocopy of 35 mm. color slide (City of New York Department of Ports, International Trade, and Commerce), May 1985, Norman Berger AERIAL VIEW NORTHEAST OF PIERS 95, 96, AND 97 - West 55th Street & West 56th Street Piers, Hudson River at West Fifty-fifth & West Fifty-sixth Streets, Manhattan, New York County, NY
121. ARAI Guard house (ARA628). Drawing shows north, south, east, ...
121. ARA-I Guard house (ARA-628). Drawing shows north, south, east, and west elevations, floor plan, counter details, and roof plan. Norman Engineering Corporation 961-area/SF-628-A-1. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 063-0628-00-613-102772. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
Dialogue, Language and Identity: Critical Issues for Networked Management Learning
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Ferreday, Debra; Hodgson, Vivien; Jones, Chris
2006-01-01
This paper draws on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Norman Fairclough to show how dialogue is central to the construction of identity in networked management learning. The paper is based on a case study of a networked management learning course in higher education and attempts to illustrate how participants negotiate issues of difference,…
Critical Discourse Analysis of Advertising: Implications for Language Teacher Education
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Turhan, Burcu; Okan, Zuhal
2017-01-01
Advertising is a prominent discourse type which is inevitably linked to a range of disciplines. This study examines the language of a non-product advertisement, not isolating it from its interaction with other texts that surrounds it. It is based on Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework in which there are three levels of…
Inflation Tests of the Echo 1 Satellite in Weeksville, N.C.
1958-08-13
Inflation Tests of the Echo 1 Satellite in Weeksville, N.C. 1958-L-03603 Image Langley engineers Edwin Kilgore (center), Norman Crabill (right) and an unidentified man take a peek inside the vast balloon during inflation tests. Page. 183 Space Flight Revolution NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo. NASA SP-4308.
Plan of the principal (second) floor of James H. Windrim ...
Plan of the principal (second) floor of James H. Windrim and George Summerss competition design for the New Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, 1867. The exterior wall outline of the architects Early Norman alternative design is shown overlaid across the left third of the drawing. - Masonic Temple, 1 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Advanced Architectures for Modern Weather/Multifunction Radars
2017-03-01
Advanced Architectures for Modern Weather /Multifunction Radars Caleb Fulton The University of Oklahoma Advanced Radar Research Center Norman...and all of them are addressing the need to lower cost while improving beamforming flexibility in future weather radar systems that will be tasked...with multiple non- weather functions. Keywords: Phased arrays, digital beamforming, multifunction radar. Introduction and Overview As the performance
Biographical Sketches from Interviews Conducted by Lourdes Ruiz, Teacher, Dulce Elementary School.
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Pono, Filomena P., Comp.
Eight biographical sketches of some Jicarilla Apache and Spanish American people who live and work in Dulce, New Mexico are given. These sketches contain brief descriptions of the lives of Jose Gabriel Abeyta, Cevero Caramillo, Chon LaBrier, Espeedie Garcia Ruiz, Raleigh Tafoya, Norman Tecube, Hubert Velarde, and Henry "Buster" L.…
The simultaneous effects of grazing and nutrient enrichment on macroalgal communities were experimentally investigated using plastic mesh enclosure/exclosure cages along a natural nutrient (DIN, SRP) gradient from the discharge of a tidal mangrove creek on the west side of Nor...
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Concl...
Aiming Higher. 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision.
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Bollier, David
This collection of real-life stories profiles chief executive officers, managers, and employees who view social challenges as opportunities to create new markets, build motivated work forces, and attract loyal customers. The companies profiled have been honored by The Business Enterprise Trust, founded by Norman Lear. The following profiles are…
75 FR 79084 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Vision
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....gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-785.pdf . FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Mary D. Gunnels, Director, Medical... are: Johnny Becerra John B. Ethridge Michael B. McClure Ross E. Burroughs Larry J. Folkerts Francis M. McMullin Lester W. Carter Paul W. Hunter Norman Mullins Christopher L. DePuy Ray P. Lenz David Triplett The...
Human Space Flight Plans Committee
2009-08-11
Members of the Human Space Flight Review Committee from left, Jeffrey Greason, Dr. Christopher Chyba, Dr. Leroy Chiao, Dr. Sally Ride, Norman Augustine (chair), Philip McAllister, Dr. Edward Crawley, Dr. Wanda Austin, and Bhodan Bejmuk review their notes prior to the start of a public meeting, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
Human Space Flight Plans Committee
2009-08-11
Members of the Human Space Flight Review Committee from left, Jeffrey Greason, Dr. Christopher Chyba, Dr. Leroy Chiao, Dr. Sally Ride, Norman Augustine (chair), Philip McAllister, Dr. Edward Crawley, Dr. Wanda Austin (not seen), and Bhodan Bejmuk review their notes prior to the start of a public meeting, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
Campbell's Rule for Estimating Entropy Changes
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Jensen, William B.
2004-01-01
Campbell's rule for estimating entropy changes is discussed in relation to an earlier article by Norman Craig, where it was proposed that the approximate value of the entropy of reaction was related to net moles of gas consumed or generated. It was seen that the average for Campbell's data set was lower than that for Craig's data set and…
Cavalcanti, Thaynã; Santos, George Garcia; Pinheiro, Ulisses
2014-07-03
We describe two new species: Aulospongus trirhabdostylus sp. nov. and Aulospongus mandela sp. nov. from Potiguar Basin (Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil). Both species were compared with their congeners and an identification key for the Atlantic species of Aulospongus is provided. The genus Aulospongus now contains 16 species.
Lockyer, Joseph Norman (1836-1920)
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Murdin, P.
2000-11-01
Civil servant, professor at the Solar Physics Observatory, Kensington (later moved to Cambridge), born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Attracted to astronomy by an observation of the annular solar eclipse of 1858, erected an observatory at his home in Hampstead, observed Mars. Lockyer showed spectroscopically that phenomena seen during a total eclipse (such as the prominences) could be seen in d...
77 FR 45815 - Indian Child Welfare Act; Designated Tribal Agents for Service of Notice
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[email protected] Native Village of Port Graham, Patrick Norman, Chief, P.O. Box 5510, Port Graham, AK 99603; Phone: (907) 284-2227; Fax: (907) 284-2222 Native Village of Port Heiden, Gerda Kosbruk, Tribal Administrator and Samantha Holm, Tribal Children Service Worker; 2200 James Street, Port Heiden, AK 99549; Phone...
77 FR 10604 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Vision
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... renewable two-year period. They are: William M. Arbogast (FL), Cris D. Bush (TN), John E. Cain (NM), Billy C.... Ferguson (VA), Randy M. Garcia (NM), John A. Graham (PA), Henry J. Gregoire, Jr. (MN), Jason L. Hoovan (UT.... Schneider (NM), James Vickery (KY), Norman J. Watson (NC), Lewis H. West, Jr. (MA), Billy R. Wilkey (TX...
User Centered System Design. Part II: Collected Papers from the UCSD HMI Project.
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California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla. Inst. for Cognitive Science.
This report is a collection of 11 recent papers by the Human-Machine Interaction Group at the University of California, San Diego. The following papers are included: (1) "Stages and Levels in Human-Machine Interaction," Donald A. Norman; (2) "The Nature of Expertise in UNIX," Stephen W. Draper; (3) "Users in the Real…
Comparing a Cognitive Model and Phototherapy in the Treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
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Krantz, Sandra
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is characterized by recurrent major depression or bipolar disorder that occurs annually, usually later in fall as the daylight hours decrease, and that alternates with euthymic or hypomanic moods in the spring and summer. Pioneering research by Dr. Norman Rosenthal and associates has found phototherapy to be…
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Gibbons, Pamela
1995-01-01
Describes a study that investigated individual differences in the construction of mental models of recursion in LOGO programming. The learning process was investigated from the perspective of Norman's mental models theory and employed diSessa's ontology regarding distributed, functional, and surrogate mental models, and the Luria model of brain…
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...]leos de Venezuela S.A., Royal Oyster Group, Soci[eacute]t[eacute] Anonyme Mon[eacute]gasque D... International, Petr[oacute]leos de Venezuela S.A., Royal Oyster Group, Speedy Ship, and Tanker Pacific...: Norman Galimba, Office of Terrorism Finance and Economic Sanctions Policy, Department of State, Telephone...
USING DNA MICROARRAYS TO CHARACTERIZE GENE EXPRESSION
IN TESTES OF FERTILE AND INFERTILE HUMANS AND MICE
John C. Rockett1, J. Christopher Luft1, J. Brian Garges1, M. Stacey Ricci2, Pasquale Patrizio2, Norman B. Hecht2 and David J. Dix1
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Hanczakowski, Maciej; Mazzoni, Giuliana
2013-01-01
Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) is the finding of impaired memory performance for information stored in long-term memory due to retrieval of a related set of information. This phenomenon is often assigned to operations of a specialized mechanism recruited to resolve interference during retrieval by deactivating competing memory representations.…
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..., the proposed action will replace a large number of piles; this work will likely result in water quality issues and an increase in noise. The Department of the Army will use the analysis in the EIS to... to Mr. Malcolm Charles, Directorate of Public Works, Attention: SDAT-CCA-MI (Charles), 410 Norman Ave...
Multi-Periodic Waves in Shallow Water
1992-09-01
models-the Kadomtsev - Petviashvili (KP) equation . The KP equation describes the evolu- tion of weakly nonlinear, weakly two-dimensional waves on water of...experimentally. The analytical model is a family of periodic solutions of the Kadomtsev -Petviashuili equation . The experiments demonstrate the accuracy... Petviashvili Equation (with Norman Schef- fner & Harvey Segur). Proceedings, Nonlinear Water Waves Workshop, University of Bristol. England, 1991. Resonant
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... across latitude 46°20'00” N, including those portions of the river in Wilkin, Clay, Norman, Polk... designated on-scene representative. (2) This safety zone is closed to all vessel traffic, except as may be... vessel. The Captain of the Port Duluth or his designated on-scene representative may be contacted via VHF...
Geography and Powerful Knowledge: A Contribution to the Debate
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Maude, Alaric
2018-01-01
This paper is a contribution to the debate on powerful knowledge in geography that began in a 2015 issue of IRGEE and was continued by Frances Slater and Norman Graves in 2016. It addresses some of the questions raised by Slater and Graves. First, it suggests an alternative way of describing and identifying powerful knowledge than the one in their…
"Miss, Did This Really Happen Here?" Exploring Big Overviews through Local Depth
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Foster, Rachel; Goudie, Kath
2015-01-01
Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie's search for a more rigorous and interesting way of teaching Year 7 the Norman Conquest was initially driven by a desire to incorporate local history in a more meaningful way in their Key Stage 3 schemes of work. This search culminated in a collaboration with an academic historian, Stephen Baxter. In this article they…
Human Cognition and Performance.
1985-05-01
implications. In D. LaBerge & S. J. Samuels (Eds.), Basic processes in reading: Perception and comprehesion. Hillsdale, NJ: Eribaum. Anderson, J. A...Also pub- lished individually as follows: Some observations on mental models, in D. Gentner and A. Stevens (Eds.), Mental models, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum...A. Stevens (Eds.), Mental Models. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaunm. Norman, D.A. (1983). Theories and models in cognitive psychology. In E. Douclkin (Ed
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Johnston, Rosemary Ross
2003-01-01
Seeks to extend current children's literature criticism into children's plays and children's theatre. Uses Norman Lindsay's "The Magic Pudding" as a prose introduction to an idea of a theatrical carnivalesque. Develops a theory of plays-as-the-performance-of-texts, relating this to the current debate on performance and performativity.…
110. ARAI support facilities. Index of drawings related to initial ...
110. ARA-I support facilities. Index of drawings related to initial construction of hot cell building ARA-626, shop and maintenance building ARA-627, and other buildings at ARA-I. Date: Circa January 1959. Norman Engineering Company. Ineel index code no. 068-9999-80-613-102703. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
116. ARAI Details of hot cell section of building ARA626. ...
116. ARA-I Details of hot cell section of building ARA-626. Shows manipulator openings in operating face of hot cell, start/stop buttons, and other details. Norman Engineering Company 961/area/SF-626-E-6. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0626-10-613-102731. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
111. ARAI Hot cell (ARA626) Building elevations of north, south, ...
111. ARA-I Hot cell (ARA-626) Building elevations of north, south, east, and west sides. Includes details of personnel decontamination area, dark room, and other features. Norman Engineering Company: 961-area/SF-626-A-3. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0626-00-613-102723. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
118. ARAI Shop and maintenance (ARA627) building elevations of north, ...
118. ARA-I Shop and maintenance (ARA-627) building elevations of north, south, east, and west sides and other details of door and window types. Norman Engineering Company 961-area/SF-627-A-2. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0627-00-613-102760. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
125. ARAI Contaminated waste storage tank (ARA729). Shows location of ...
125. ARA-I Contaminated waste storage tank (ARA-729). Shows location of tank on the ARA-I site, section views, connecting pipeline, and other details. Norman Engineering Company 961-area/SF-301-3. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0301-00-613-102711. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
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Austin, Kelly
2010-01-01
This study explores Norman Myers's concept of the "hamburger connection" as a form of ecologically unequal exchange, where more-developed nations are able to transfer the environmental costs of beef consumption to less-developed nations. I used ordinary least squares (OLS) regression to test whether deforestation in less-developed…
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... mastodon tooth fragment, 1 fossil, 20 mica, 7 quartz, and 1,126 non-cultural rocks. The burial lots from... Arkansas River drainage are also absent in the temporally subsequent Red River sites (such as a unique form... that the Tula encountered by DeSoto practiced an extreme form of cranial modification similar to that...
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Cooper, Kenneth J.
2011-01-01
This article profiles Dr. Norman Francis and describes how his longevity, strategic planning and vision as president of Xavier University bring academic and financial success. Higher education leaders say his 43 years at the Catholic HBCU in New Orleans is an increasingly rare example of the benefits possible from a lengthy presidency. It takes…
Sharpless Outlines His Plans for NCI During Spring Town Hall | Poster
At the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Spring Town Hall, new director Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, M.D., summarized his goals for NCI’s role in cancer research. The event, which was held at NCI Shady Grove and livestreamed to eight other major NCI locations, was Sharpless’ first town hall since his six-month “listening and learning tour” concluded.
Frederick National Laboratory Celebrates 40 Years | Poster
By Ashley DeVine, Staff Writer Forty years ago, what we now call the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research was born. Here are some highlights in the facility’s history. October 19, 1971 – President Richard Nixon announced that Fort Detrick would be converted from a biological warfare facility to a cancer research center (Covert, Norman M., Cutting Edge: A History
New Emerging Careers: Today, Tomorrow and in the 21st Century.
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Feingold, S. Norman; Atwater, Maxine H.
This book focuses on 10 of the most promising new technologies and the careers that they will foster, picking up where the 1983 book, "Emerging Careers" by Norman Feingold, left off. The book talks about the work that must be done in new ways as technological breakthroughs open new applications. By looking first at the technologies and their…
Theory of Non-First Norman Form Relational Databases
1986-01-01
741. [BR] Benn, W. and B. Radig, "Erweiterte Anfragen nach Relationenge- bilden in Form nichtnormlalisierter Relationen." In Datenbank - Systeme fur...Relationenmodells." In Datenbank -Systeme far Biro, Technik und Wissenschaft, A. Blaser, P. Pistor, Eds., Informatik-Fachberichte Nr. 94, Springer...Versionenbe- hafteter, Hierarchisch Strukturierter Tupel." In Datenbank -Systeme fur Biro, Technik und Wissenschaft, A. Blaser, P. Pistor, Eds
Structural Assessment of Knowledge and Skill
1992-08-01
Street San Diego, CA 92152-6800 Chicago, IL 60616 Dr. Menucha Birenbaum Educational Testing Serv. Library, Code 231 Dr. Lorraine 0. Eyde Princeton, NJ...University Dr. Norman Frederiksen Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road Department of Psychology Educational Testing Service Princeton, NJ 08541... Psychology Educational Testing Service Arlington, VA 22207 Carnegie-Mellon University Princeton, NJ 08541 5000 Forbes Avenue Dr. Delwyn Harnisch Pittsburgh
Customer-Driven Reliability Models for Multistate Coherent Systems
1992-01-01
AENCYUSEONLY(Leae bank)2. RPO- COVERED 1 11992DISSERTATION 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5. FUNDING NUMBERS Customer -Driven Reliability Models For Multistate Coherent...UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA GRADUATE COLLEGE CUSTOMER -DRIVEN RELIABILITY MODELS FOR MULTISTATE COHERENT SYSTEMS A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY...BOEDIGHEIMER I Norman, Oklahoma Distribution/ Av~ilability Codes 1992 A vil andior Dist Special CUSTOMER -DRIVEN RELIABILITY MODELS FOR MULTISTATE
Competition in Defense Acquisitions
2009-02-01
Murrel Coast and Elaina Smallwood , 2001a. Long-Run Costs and Performance Effects of Competitive Sourcing. Alexandria, VA: Center for Naval Analyses. 7...Research Service, Washington, D.C. 9. Davis, Norman C. 1996. An Information Based Revolution in Military Affairs. Strategic Review 24, no. 1: 43-53...Program Manager Workshop Briefing. Naval Inventory Control Point Office. 27. Kovacic, William E. & Dennis E. Smallwood . 1994. Competition
Local Area Network (LAN) Compatibility Issues
1991-09-01
September, 1991 Thesis Advisor: Dr. Norman Schneidewind Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited 92 303s246 Unclassified SECURITY ...CLASSIFICATION OF THIS PAGE REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Ia. REPORT SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 1 b. RESTRICTIVE MARKINGS unclassified 2a. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION...Work UiNt ACCeLUOn Number 11. TITLE (Include Security Classification) LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN) COMPATIBILITY ISSUES 12. PERSONAL AUTHOR(S) Rita V
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Fellner, Gene
2014-01-01
I contrast the lenses that Norman Mailer, Herbert Marcuse, and Karl Marx bring to their analyses of social life, exploring the contributions and limits of their respective approaches. I then propose what I call a "multilectical" theoretical lens that encompasses the strengths of all three and leans on the insights of post-Marxist…
1989-05-05
The STS-30 mission launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 4, 1989 at 2:46:59pm (EDT) carrying a crew of five. Aboard were Ronald J. Grabe, pilot; David M. Walker, commander; and mission specialists Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave, and Mark C. Lee. The primary payload for the mission was the Magellan/Venus Radar mapper spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS).
Breit, George N.; Tuttle, Michele L.W.; Cozzarelli, Isabelle M.; Christenson, Scott C.; Jaeschke, Jeanne B.; Fey, David L.; Berry, Cyrus J.
2005-01-01
Results of physical and chemical analyses of sediment and water collected near a closed municipal landfill at Norman, Oklahoma are presented in this report. Sediment analyses are from 40 samples obtained by freeze-shoe coring at 5 sites, and 14 shallow (depth <1.3 m) sediment samples. The sediment was analyzed to determine grain size, the abundance of extractable iron species and the abundances and isotopic compositions of forms of sulfur. Water samples included pore water from the freeze-shoe core, ground water, and surface water. Pore water from 23 intervals of the core was collected and analyzed for major and trace dissolved species. Thirteen ground-water samples obtained from wells within a few meters of the freeze-shoe core sites and one from the landfill were analyzed for major and trace elements as well as the sulfur and oxygen isotope composition of dissolved sulfate. Samples of surface water were collected at 10 sites along the Canadian River from New Mexico to central Oklahoma. These river-water samples were analyzed for major elements, trace elements, and the isotopic composition of dissolved sulfate.
Breit, George N.; Tuttle, Michele L.W.; Cozzarelli, Isabelle M.; Berry, Cyrus J.; Christenson, Scott C.; Jaeschke, Jeanne B.
2008-01-01
Analytical results on sediment and associated ground water from the Canadian River alluvium collected subsequent to those described in Breit and others (2005) are presented in this report. The data presented herein were collected primarily to evaluate the iron and sulfur species within the sediment at well sites IC 36, IC 54, and IC South located at the USGS Norman Landfill study site. Cored sediment and water samples were collected during October 2004 and April 2005. The 52 sediment samples collected by coring were analyzed to determine grain size, the abundance of extractable iron species, and the abundance of sulfur forms and their isotopic compositions. Ground water was collected from cluster wells that sampled ground water from 11 to 15 screened intervals at each of the three sites. The depth range of the wells overlapped the interval of cored sediment. Concentrations of major ions, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), ammonium, and iron are reported with pH, specific conductance, and the isotopic composition of the water for the 75 water samples analyzed. Dissolved sulfate in selected water samples was analyzed to determine its sulfur and oxygen isotope composition.
Norman Geschwind and the use of history in the (re)birth of behavioral neurology.
Kushner, Howard I
2015-01-01
When Norman Geschwind (1926-1984) attended medical school in the 1940s, his psychiatry professors taught as if behavior were unrelated to neuropathology. The focus of neurology remained the diagnosis and treatment of aphasias and epilepsies, while cognitive impairments and developmental disorders were classified as functional (psychological) disorders. Geschwind was troubled by the fact that many of the patients he saw with neurological deficits also presented with behavioral (developmental) disorders. Geschwind's generation also had been taught that aphasias resulted from global rather than localized or focal neurological lesions. These holists, including the prepsychoanalytic Sigmund Freud, targeted the work of aphasiologist Carl Wernicke as an exemplar of the flaws of the localizationist hypothesis. Reading Wernicke in the original, Geschwind discovered a complex and multilayered explanation for aphasias that implicated lesions located in association pathways that, when extensive, resulted in behavioral disorders. Geschwind also reread the works of the holists, discovering that, while their rhetoric rejected Wernicke, their explanations of aphasias actually reinforced Wernicke's hypothesis. Building on his reading of these historical documents and his clinical experiences, Geschwind urged the resurrection of Wernicke's disconnection syndromes that Geschwind labeled as Behavioral Neurology.
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Al-Aasm, I.S.; Azmy, K.K.
The Middle-Upper Devonian Kee Scarp reef complexes of Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada, are oil-producing, stromatoporoid-dominated carbonates. Episodic increases in the rate of sea level rise produced multiple cycles of reef growth that exhibit backstepping characteristics. These carbonates, composed of invariably altered limestones, have original interskeletal, intraskeletal, and intergranular porosity, mostly occluded by nonferroan, dull luminescent cements. Secondary porosity, represented by micropores of various types, developed during diagenesis by aggrading neomorphism and dissolution. The micropores represent the main reservoir porosity in the Kee Scarp limestone. Petrographic, chemical, and isotopic studies of Kee Scarp reef components reveal a complex diagenetic historymore » involving marine fluids modified by increasing water/rock interaction and burial. Neomorphic stabilization of skeletal components caused further depletion in {gamma}{sup 18}O but very little change in {gamma}{sup 13}C, an argument for modification of the original marine fluids with increasing burial. Variations in magnitude of water/rock interaction with depth, facies changes, and porosity modifications probably exerted some control on fractionation and distribution of stable isotopes and trace elements in reef components.« less
In Situ Rates of Sulfate Reduction in Response to Geochemical Perturbations
Kneeshaw, T.A.; McGuire, J.T.; Cozzarelli, I.M.; Smith, E.W.
2011-01-01
Rates of in situ microbial sulfate reduction in response to geochemical perturbations were determined using Native Organism Geochemical Experimentation Enclosures (NOGEEs), a new in situ technique developed to facilitate evaluation of controls on microbial reaction rates. NOGEEs function by first trapping a native microbial community in situ and then subjecting it to geochemical perturbations through the introduction of various test solutions. On three occasions, NOGEEs were used at the Norman Landfill research site in Norman, Oklahoma, to evaluate sulfate-reduction rates in wetland sediments impacted by landfill leachate. The initial experiment, in May 2007, consisted of five introductions of a sulfate test solution over 11 d. Each test stimulated sulfate reduction with rates increasing until an apparent maximum was achieved. Two subsequent experiments, conducted in October 2007 and February 2008, evaluated the effects of concentration on sulfate-reduction rates. Results from these experiments showed that faster sulfate-reduction rates were associated with increased sulfate concentrations. Understanding variability in sulfate-reduction rates in response to perturbations may be an important factor in predicting rates of natural attenuation and bioremediation of contaminants in systems not at biogeochemical equilibrium. Copyright ?? 2011 The Author(s). Journal compilation ?? 2011 National Ground Water Association.
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Habeck, Rochelle V., Ed.; And Others
This volume contains the following presentations: "An Overview of Policy Issues," by Donald Galvin; "Policies for the Employment of Disabled People,' by Norman Acton; "A Corporate Perspective," by Jane Belau; "The Future of Work for People with Disabilities--A View from Great Britain," by Paul Cornes; "A…
1983-06-07
siderably in the development of theories of representation in psychology and in artificial intelligence, most especially the requirements that a... developed representational systems based on these "larger" units. We will discuss three of them here: 0 A theory of schemata as developed by Rumelhart...and Ortony (1977) and extended by Rumelhart and Norman (1978) and Rumelhart (1981). A theory of scripts and plans developed by Schank and Abelson (1977
Opening Our Doors: Taking Public Library Service to Preschool and Day-Care Facilities.
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Harris, Sally
The Opening Our Doors Project of the Pioneer Library System of Norman, Oklahoma takes public library service to preschool and day care facilities by means of learning kits housed in tote bags. The sturdy, zippered tote bags are full of books, games, toys, learning folders, and so forth. There is a tote bag for each of 75 different topics. Topics…
Human Memory Limitations in Multi-Object Tracking.
1982-06-01
processing concepts of Norman (1968) and Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968), and from the " levels of processing " formulation of Craik and Lockhart ...distinct memory representations that result from different levels of processing . Craik and Lockhart (1972) have argued convincingly for a process -oriented...learning and motivation (Vol. 2). New York: Academic Press, 1968, pp. 89-105. Craik , F. I. M., & Lockhart , R. S. Levels of processing
Inflight views of the crew of STS-7
1983-06-25
S83-35770 (18?24 June 1983)--- Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, STS-7 mission specialist, is actually performing a medical experiment though his appearance resembles popular depictions of an invading alien. Thagard, a medical doctor, has been assigned a busy project of evaluating physiological reactions of astronauts in space travel. He is on the middeck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger. Photo credit: NASA
124. ARAI Reservoir (ARA727), later named water storage tank. Shows ...
124. ARA-I Reservoir (ARA-727), later named water storage tank. Shows plan of 100,000-gallon tank, elevation, image of "danger radiation hazard" sign, and other details. Norman Engineering Company 961-area/SF-727-S-1. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0727-60-613-102779. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
115. ARAI Details of hot cell section of building ARA626. ...
115. ARA-I Details of hot cell section of building ARA-626. Shows location of high density concrete, viewing windows, filters, monorail crane, bridge crane, and other details. Norman Engineering Company 961-area/SF-626-MS-1. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0626-40-613-102737. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction (TrIGR) Intervention
2017-10-01
AWARD NUMBER: W81XWH-15-1-0330 TITLE: Trauma- Informed Guilt Reduction (TrIGR) Intervention PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Sonya Norman, PhD CONTRACTING...Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions...searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing this collection of information . Send comments
Enzyme Amplified Detection of Microbial Cell Wall Components
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Wainwright, Norman R.
2004-01-01
This proposal is MBL's portion of NASA's Johnson Space Center's Astrobiology Center led by Principal Investigator, Dr. David McKay, entitled: 'Institute for the Study of Biomarkers in Astromaterials.' Dr. Norman Wainwright is the principal investigator at MBL and is responsible for developing methods to detect trace quantities of microbial cell wall chemicals using the enzyme amplification system of Limulus polyphemus and other related methods.
An Application of Singularity Analysis to a Heavy Precipitation Event
1993-01-01
difference in this plot. 61 NORMAN RADAR ELEVATION: 3.094 DATE 28 MAY 87 TIM 005342 GUT Cumin a 10 Tpam c CD low am am Io CID e0UC 100 "CC C d~Cc 100...element of fluid shaped like a sphere. Assuming the fluid is friction- less, no tangential stresses or forces are applied to its surface. The pressure
Continental Drilling to Explore Earth's Sedimentary, Paleobiological, and Biogeochemical Record
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Cohen, Andrew; Soreghan, Gerilyn
2013-07-01
A workshop to promote research using continental scientific drilling to explore the Earth's sedimentary, paleobiological, and biogeochemical record was held in Norman, Okla. The workshop, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), was intended to encourage U.S.-based scientists to take advantage of the exceptional capacity of unweathered, continuous sediment cores to serve as archives of the Earth's history.
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Grierson, Lawrence E. M.
2014-01-01
Much has been made in the recent medical education literature of the incorrect characterization of simulation along a continuum of low to high fidelity (Cook et al. "JAMA" 306(9): 978-988, 2011; Norman et al. "Med Educ" 46(7): 636-647, 2012; Teteris et al. "Adv Health Sci Educ" 17(1): 137-144, 2012). For the most…
STS-125 Flight Control Team in WFCR - Ascent/Entry with Flight Director Norman Knight
2009-05-21
JSC2009-E-121353 (21 May 2009) --- The members of the STS-125 Ascent and Entry flight control team pose for a group portrait in the space shuttle flight control room in the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Flight director Norm Knight (left) and astronaut Gregory H. Johnson, spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM), hold the STS-125 mission logo.
False-positive cryptococcal antigen latex agglutination caused by disinfectants and soaps.
Blevins, L B; Fenn, J; Segal, H; Newcomb-Gayman, P; Carroll, K C
1995-01-01
Five disinfectants or soaps were tested to determine if any could be responsible for false-positive results obtained with the Latex-Crypto Antigen Detection System kit (Immuno-Mycologics, Inc., Norman, Okla.). Three disinfectants or soaps (Derma soap, 7X, and Bacdown) produced false-positive agglutination after repeated washing of ring slides during testing of a known negative cerebrospinal fluid specimen. PMID:7650214
Measures of Situation Awareness: An Experimental Evaluation
1991-10-01
occurrence from non- occurrence of the target event, referred to as sensitivity (Macmillan and Creelman , 1990). Because sensitivity declines if pilots are...Pollack and Norman, 1964; see also Craig, 1979; Macmillan and Creelman , 1990). Finally, avoidance failures were measured simply as the number of times...Wesley. Macmillan, N. A., & Creelman , C. D. (1990). Response bias: Characteristics of detection theory, threshold theory, and "non- parametric" indexes
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Wanat, Stanley F., Ed.
This collection provides a number of perspectives on the central role that language plays in reading comprehension. Following an introduction by the editor, entitled "Attention and Individual Differences in Comprehension," the following papers are presented: (1) "The Line of Sight Approach," by Norman H. Mackworth; (2) "The Information Processing…
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Koivukangas, Olavi, Ed.
These proceedings of a 1982 symposium on Scandinavian emigration in Australia include presentations on three general topics: field work conducted in Australia and New Zealand in 1980-82; research progress; and Australian immigration policy. The presentors and their papers are: (1) Hans Norman, "The Emigration to America from the Nordic…
UNC Cancer Center Director to Lead NCI.
2017-08-01
President Donald Trump has selected Norman "Ned" Sharpless, MD, director of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, to lead the NCI. The news was met with widespread approval among cancer researchers, who view Sharpless as a strong communicator who can ably represent the needs of the cancer community in the face of proposed funding cuts. ©2017 American Association for Cancer Research.
1988-04-26
Five astronauts composed the STS-30 crew. Pictured (left to right) are Ronald J. Grabe, pilot; David M. Walker, commander; and mission specialists Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave, and Mark C. Lee. The STS-30 mission launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 4, 1989 at 2:46:59pm (EDT). The primary payload was the Magellan/Venus Radar mapper spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS).
STS-30 crewmembers pose for onboard portrait on OV-104's aft flight deck
1989-05-08
STS030-21-008 (4-8 May 1989) --- A traditional in-space crew portrait for STS-30 aboard the Atlantis. Astronaut Mary L. Cleave is in front. Others pictured, left to right, are astronauts Norman E. Thagard, Ronald J. Grabe, David M. Walker and Mark C. Lee. An automatic, pre-set 35mm camera using color negative film recorded the scene.
STS-30 Atlantis, OV-104, lifts off from KSC LC Pad 39B
1989-05-04
STS030-S-109 (4 May 1989) --- Moments after ignition, Space Shuttle Atlantis heads for a four-day mission in Earth-orbit with five astronaut crew members aboard. Onboard were astronauts David M. Walker, Ronald. J. Grabe, Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee. Launch occurred at 2:46:58 p.m. (EDT), May 4, 1989.
STS-30 Atlantis, OV-104, lifts off from KSC LC Pad 39B
1989-05-04
STS030-S-108 (4 May 1989) --- Backdropped against slight gray Florida skies, Space Shuttle Atlantis heads for a four-day mission in earth orbit with five astronaut crewmembers aboard. Onboard were astronauts David. M. Walker, Ronald J. Grabe, Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee. Launch occurred at 2:46:58 P.M. (EDT), May 4, 1989.
Danny Weber, a student experimenter, discusses experiment hardware for STS-7
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1983-01-01
Danny Weber, a student from Cornell University, discusses the hardware for an experiment he devised, with Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, STS-7 mission specialist. The experiment is entitled 'Effect of weightlessness on arthritis'. The cage and monitoring equipment shown are designed to use rats as the subjects for the study. Weber was attending Hunter College High School when he submitted the experiment.
GeoChip-based Analysis of Groundwater Microbial Diversity in Norman Landfill
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Lu, Zhenmei; He, Zhili; Parisi, Victoria
The Norman Landfill is a closed municipal solid waste landfill located on an alluvium associated with the Canadian River in Norman, Oklahoma. It has operated as a research site since 1994 because it is typical of many closed landfill sites across the U.S. Leachate from the unlined landfill forms a groundwater plume that extends downgradient approximately 250 m from the landfill toward the Canadian River. To investigate the impact of the landfill leachate on the diversity and functional structure of microbial communities, groundwater samples were taken from eight monitoring wells at a depth of 5m, and analyzed using a comprehensivemore » functional gene array covering about 50,000 genes involved in key microbial processes, such as biogeochemical cycling of C, N, P, and S, and bioremediation of organic contaminants and metals. Wells are located within a transect along a presumed flow path with different distances to the center of the leachate plume. Our analyses showed that microbial communities were obviously impacted by the leachate-component from the landfill. The number of genes detected and microbial diversity indices in the center (LF2B) and its closest (MLS35) wells were significantly less than those detected in other more downgradient wells, while no significant changes were observed in the relative abundance (i.e., percentage of each gene category) for most gene categories. However, the microbial community composition or structure of the landfill groundwater did not clearly show a significant correlation with the distance from well LF2B. Burkholderia sp. and Pseudomonas sp. were found to be the dominant microbial populations detected in all wells, while Bradyrhizobium sp. and Ralstonia sp. were dominant populations for seven wells except LF2B. In addition, Mantel test and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) indicate that pH, sulfate, ammonia nitrogen and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) have significant effects on the microbial community structure. The results suggest that the leachate from unlined landfills significantly impact the structures of groundwater microbial communities, and that more distal wells recover by natural attenuation.« less
Political non-speak. Gadfly: Norman Myers.
Myers, N
1992-01-01
Election years in Britain, the USA, France, and Italy have not granted the environment a high place on the political agenda even in the year of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The erosion of the natural resources base is not included as natural resource accounting in the computation of gross national product (GNP). In countries such as Germany, Australia, Indonesia, and Costa Rica, 50% of GNP growth annually is cancelled out by soil erosion, pollution, excessive logging, and other environmental degradation. The economic health of the country including recovery from recessions is related to environmental protection. The economic practices involve ecological deficit accounting. It has been suggested by Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute that an economical deflator is needed to gage economic progress. The ecological illiteracy of politicians prevents the American people from realizing the actual cost of ignoring the problems. Politicians fight against raising taxes on gasoline and ignore the cost of carbon dioxide emissions and destabilization of climate. Americans pay a 1/4 the price Europeans pay for gasoline. Energy conservation must be expanded from current levels. Improvements have been made since the first OPEC price hike in 1973; the economy saved $100 billion a year and improved efficiency and production. American conservation in line with European conservation would save $200 billion a year; matching Japanese conservation would generate a savings of $300 billion. This sum exceeds the Federal deficit or the Pentagon budget. It is enough to save 8 million children who die from preventable causes or provide $4.5 billion/year annually to the year 2000 for foreign aid for UN family planning programs. The savings compares favorable with the UNCED estimates of $125 billion/year for environmental protection in the South. The question is whether politicians really would be committing political suicide by listening less to oil and car lobbyists and listening more to those promoting long term interests and security.
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Swesty, F. Douglas; Myra, Eric S.
It is now generally agreed that multidimensional, multigroup, neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) is an indispensable element of any realistic model of stellar-core collapse, core-collapse supernovae, and proto-neutron star instabilities. We have developed a new, two-dimensional, multigroup algorithm that can model neutrino-RHD flows in core-collapse supernovae. Our algorithm uses an approach similar to the ZEUS family of algorithms, originally developed by Stone and Norman. However, this completely new implementation extends that previous work in three significant ways: first, we incorporate multispecies, multigroup RHD in a flux-limited-diffusion approximation. Our approach is capable of modeling pair-coupled neutrino-RHD, and includes effects of Pauli blocking inmore » the collision integrals. Blocking gives rise to nonlinearities in the discretized radiation-transport equations, which we evolve implicitly in time. We employ parallelized Newton-Krylov methods to obtain a solution of these nonlinear, implicit equations. Our second major extension to the ZEUS algorithm is the inclusion of an electron conservation equation that describes the evolution of electron-number density in the hydrodynamic flow. This permits calculating deleptonization of a stellar core. Our third extension modifies the hydrodynamics algorithm to accommodate realistic, complex equations of state, including those having nonconvex behavior. In this paper, we present a description of our complete algorithm, giving sufficient details to allow others to implement, reproduce, and extend our work. Finite-differencing details are presented in appendices. We also discuss implementation of this algorithm on state-of-the-art, parallel-computing architectures. Finally, we present results of verification tests that demonstrate the numerical accuracy of this algorithm on diverse hydrodynamic, gravitational, radiation-transport, and RHD sample problems. We believe our methods to be of general use in a variety of model settings where radiation transport or RHD is important. Extension of this work to three spatial dimensions is straightforward.« less
SSHAC Workshop 1 - November 15-18, 2010 | NGA East
(2:00-4:30) Methods for finite fault simulations 2:00-3:00 Methods considered: description of selected methods (2.Yuehua Zeng; Sim WG) 3:00-3:30 Discussion 3:30-3:45 Break 3:45-4:00 Discussion: Capture of representative methods 4:00-4:30 Summary of today's key issues (3.Norman Abrahamson) 4:30-5:00
Performance Envelopes and Optimal Appropriateness Measurement.
1984-12-01
20370 Dr. Hans Crombag University of Leyden Mr. Raymond E. Christal Education Research Center AFHRL/MOE Boerhaavelaan 2 Brooks AFB, TX 78235 2334 EN... Leyden The NETHERLANDS Dr. Norman Cliff Department of Psychology CTB/McGraw-Hill Library Univ. of So. California 2500 Garden Road University Park...Psychology Dr William Montague University of Western Australia NPRDC Code 13 Nedlands W.A. 6009 San Diego, CA 92152 AUSTRALIA Ms. Kathleen Moreno Dr
STS-30 crewmembers pose for informal portrait on JSC FB-SMS middeck
1988-11-15
S88-52187 (22 Nov 1988) --- Five astronauts pause from their training schedule to pose for a photograph. Pictured, left to right, are astronauts David M. Walker, mission commander; Mark C. Lee, Mary L. Cleave, Ronald J. Grabe and Norman E. Thagard. They are on the middeck section of the Shuttle mission simulator (fixed base) in the Johnson Space Center's mission simulation and training facility.
Information Processing Approaches to Cognitive Development
1988-07-01
Craik . F.I.M., & Lockhart , R.S. (1972). Levels of processing : A framework for memory research. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11...task at both levels of performance, then one would, in both cases, postulate systems that had the ability to process symbols at the microscopic level ...821760s and early 70s. (cf. Atkinson & Shiffrin. 1968: Craik & Lockhart . 1972: Norman, Rumelhart, & LNR, 1975). This architecture is comprised of several
Biometrics: Facing Up to Terrorism
2001-10-01
ment committee appointed by Secretary of Trans- portation Norman Y. Mineta to review airport security measures will recommend that facial recogni- tion...on the Role Facial Recognition Technology Can Play in Enhancing Airport Security .” Joseph Atick, the CEO of Visionics, testified before the government...system at a U.S. air- port. This deployment is believed to be the first-in-the-nation use of face-recognition technology for airport security . The sys
SHELFS: A Proactive Method for Managing Safety Issues
2001-01-01
grounded theory of human cognition: the cultural -historical theory , of Vygotsky , Luria and Leontev (for a review see Cole, 1996). Recently, several authors...with the other process components. We elaborated the model on the base of the cultural - historical approach (Cole, 1996) and their recent version known...as distributed cognition theory (Norman, 1993) and used the SHEL model as a conceptual framework for developing the method and the tools, Paper
Algorithms for Solvents and Spectral Factors of Matrix Polynomials
1981-01-01
spectral factors of matrix polynomials LEANG S. SHIEHt, YIH T. TSAYt and NORMAN P. COLEMANt A generalized Newton method , based on the contracted gradient...of a matrix poly- nomial, is derived for solving the right (left) solvents and spectral factors of matrix polynomials. Two methods of selecting initial...estimates for rapid convergence of the newly developed numerical method are proposed. Also, new algorithms for solving complete sets of the right
122. ARAI Pump House (ARA629). Drawing shows north, south, east, ...
122. ARA-I Pump House (ARA-629). Drawing shows north, south, east, and west elevations, floor plan, foundation plan, and other details. Note small enclosure at southwest corner of building to contain chlorination equipment. Norman Engineering Company 961-area/SF-629-A-1. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0629-00-613-102774. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
STS-30 crewmembers participate in fire fighting training at JSC
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1989-01-01
STS-30 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, crewmembers participate in fire fighting training at JSC's fire training pit across from the Gilruth Center Bldg 207. Crewmembers listen to hose and nozzle instructions given by fire / security staff member Robert Fife. Left to right Commander David M. Walker (holding hose nozzle), Mission Specialist (MS) Mark C. Lee, MS Mary L. Cleave, Pilot Ronald J. Grabe, and MS Norman E. Thagard.
Army Synthetic Validity Project Report of Phase 2 Results. Volume 2. Appendixes
1990-10-01
to Equipment & Food o Personal Hygine - Field & Garrison (4) o Kitchen Equipment - Garrison o Field Preparation of Foods & Equipment o Food, Field...Results: Volume II: Appendi i 12. PERSONAL AUTHOR(S) Wise, Lauress L. (AIR); Peterson, Norman G.; Houston, Janis (PDRI); Hoffman, R. Gene Campbell, John...o Handling KIA o Personal Hygiene & Preventive Medicine Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of participants that identified the task as
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France).
This document contains 15 papers from a conference on preparing youth for the 21st century that was organized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The following papers are included: "Giving Young People a Good Start: The Experience of OECD Countries" (Norman Bowers,…
Symposium on New Materials for Nonlinear Optics
1991-01-01
C. B. Aakeroy, N. Azoz, P. D. Calvert, M. Kadim, A. J. McCaffery, and K. R. Seddon 35 . Clathrasils: New Materials for Nonlinear Optical...of Quantum Confined Semiconductor Structures - D.S. Chemla 2: 35 Preparation and Characterization of Small Semiconductor Particulates - Norman Herron 3...presiding 2:00 Opening Remarks - John Sohn 2:05 Approaches for the Design of Materials for Nonlinear Optics - M. Lahav 2: 35 Control of Symmetry and Asymmetry
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Green, Patrice Tolbert
2012-01-01
African Americans have a long and very important history in the engineering fields. With a tradition that includes accomplished scientists such as George Washington Carver, Norman Buknor, and Mark Dean, African Americans have been very important to the development of new products, technology, inventions, and innovations (Gordon, 2008). The…
113. ARAI Hot cell (ARA626) Building wall sections and details ...
113. ARA-I Hot cell (ARA-626) Building wall sections and details of radio chemistry lab. Shows high-bay roof over hot cells and isolation rooms below grade storage pit for fuel elements. Norman Engineering Company: 961-area/SF-626-A-4. Date: January 1959. Ineel index code no. 068-0626-00-613-102724. - Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Army Reactors Experimental Area, Scoville, Butte County, ID
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Rhinehart, William C.; Beazley, Lea J.
This learning packet, one in a group of eight, was developed by the Duke Power State Park in North Carolina for Grades 4-6 to learn to identify macroinvertebrates found in Lake Norman. Loose-leaf pages are presented in nine sections that contain: (1) introductions to the North Carolina State Park System, the Duke Power State Park, the park's…
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Green, Diana M., Ed.
Institutional research that focuses on professional development is addressed in 35 papers from the 1982 meeting of the North East Association for Institutional Research. Titles and authors include the following: "Modeling College Student Adjustment and Retention for the Individual Institution" (Norman D. Aitken); "The Development Saga of an…
Fire Support Coordination Measures by the Numbers
1999-06-01
the enemy in defense; and Period Three (27 to 28 Feb), Coalition operations with the enemy withdrawing. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander-in...flying in Operation Desert Storm and participated in the Highway 8 attacks. 97 Scales, 290. 98 Ibid., 315. 99 William L. Smallwood , Warthog, Flying...General, USA. Certain Victory: The US Army in the Gulf War. Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Command and General Staff College Press, 1994. Smallwood , William L
A Signal Detection Model of Compound Decision Tasks
2006-12-01
strict isolation (for many examples of such models see Egan, 1975; Macmillan & Creelman , 1991). The result has been twofold: A rich corpus of decision...Macmillan & Creelman , 1991). It is important to point out that SDT models are primarily decision models. They specify the rules and procedures for how...Broadbent, 1958; Macmillan & Creelman , 1991; Nolte & Jaarsma, 1967; Swensson & Judy, 1981; Tanner & Norman, 1954). To better understand how these two
STS-30 crewmembers leave KSC O&C Bldg during launch preparations
1989-05-04
STS030-S-139 (4 May 1989) --- The five astronaut crewmembers of STS-30 leave the operations and checkout building en route to a transfer van that will take them to Pad 39B for a date with the Space Shuttle Atlantis. From front to back are Astronauts David M. Walker, Ronald J. Grabe, Norman E. Thagard, Mark C. Lee (aside) and Mary L. Cleave.
United States Air Force Summary, Eighth Edition
1982-01-01
Community•••,~••••• 85 80 80 41 65 84 100 82 99 96 USSR and Eastern Europe " ’ t ~, 35 o o 5 o 45 15 5 o o N... I v Bauxite Copper Nickel Lead Zinc...Boggs, Undy (LA) Benjamin, Adam Jr. (IN) Dicks, Norman D. (WA) McHugh , Matthew F. (NY) Ginn, Bo (GA) Lehman, William (FL) Hightower, Jock (TX) Sabo
Storm Prediction Center May 28, 2018 0100 UTC Day 1 Convective Outlook
services. Day 2 Outlook > May 28, 2018 0100 UTC Day 1 Convective Outlook Updated: Mon May 28 01:01:01 UTC 2018 (Print Version | 20180528 0100Z Day 1 shapefile | 20180528 0100Z Day 1 KML ) Probabilistic to . Forecast Discussion SPC AC 280101 Day 1 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0801 PM
Mineral resources of the Trinity River tributary area in Texas and Oklahoma
Weissenborn, A. E.
1946-01-01
In March 1945 Colonel George R. Goethels, Chief of the Civil Works Division of the Corps of Engineers, requested the Director of the Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior, to prepare a report on the mineral resource of the area that, according to economic studies made by the Corps of Engineers, would be affected by the canalization of the Trinity River to Fort Worth. As a consequence, the staff of the Geological Survey's Regional Office in Rolla, Mo., was assigned the task of preparing the desired information. A. E. Weissenborn, acting Regional Geologist, called on Major H. R. Norman, Division Engineer of the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, and discussed with him the purpose, scope, and form of the proposed report. Following this discussion, Dr. John T. Lonsdale, Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology of the University of Texas, at Mr. Weissenborn's request, agreed that the Bureau of Economic Geology should participate in the preparation of the report. My. Weissenborn also called on Robert H. Dott, Director of the Oklahoma State Geological Survey at Norman, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Geological Survey was unable to participate in writing the report, but was very helpful in supplying published and unpublished or out-of-print information on the mineral resources of Oklahoma.
Bandera, Eugenia; Conradi, Mercedes
2014-07-07
The present paper reviews the material of three species of Asterocheres Boeck 1859 deposited in four different Zoological European museums as part of the ongoing taxonomical revision of this genus. Asterocheres sarsi Bandera & Conradi 2009, the species described by Sars in 1915 as Ascomyzon latum (Brady 1880) and lately recognized as a distinct species by Bandera and Conradi in 2009 is fully described in this paper from material collected by Sars in Norway in 1915 and deposited in The Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo. Asterocheres complexus Stock, 1960 which has been sometimes confused with A. sarsi is redescribed from material collected by Stock in France in 1959 and deposited in the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam. Furthermore, a new species, previously misidentified as A. suberitis Gieisbrecht 1897, from the Norman`s collection of The Natural History Museum of London, is described as A. eugenioi, new species. These three species, A. complexus, A. eugenioi, and A. sarsi share the general appearance of body thanks to the pointed posterolateral angle of the epimeral area of somite bearing leg 3, sometimes slightly produced into backwardly directed processes, and somite bearing leg 4 largely concealed under somite bearing leg 3.
Health hazard evaluation report HETA 90-048-2253, Haute Nails, Norman, Oklahoma
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Almaguer, D.; Blade, L.M.
In response to a request from the owner/operator of the Haute Nails Salon, Norman, Oklahoma, an evaluation was undertaken of possible chemical exposures from the use of nail sculpturing products. Haute Nails was an artificial nail sculpturing and tanning salon employing two full time nail sculpturers and four part time receptionists. The company was located on the first floor of a two story brick building. Long term general area air sampling was conducted for volatile organic chemicals, formaldehyde, and methacrylates; personal breathing zone air sampling was conducted for methacrylates. Ethyl-methacrylate concentrations in long term samples ranged from 10.3 to 14.1more » mg/cu m. Breathing zone concentrations of ethyl-methacrylate were 128 mg/cu m for a 7 minute sample and 78.9 mg/cu m for a 14 minute sample during nail sculpturing. Carbon-dioxide measurements exceeded the recommended level of 1000 parts per million. The authors conclude that there were no overexposures to ethyl-methylacrylate during the evaluation. The heating and air conditioning system did not provide for the mechanical exchange of outside air and no exhaust fans were located in the area served by the system. The authors recommend that an outside air supply duct be added to the present system.« less
Frederick National Laboratory Celebrates 40 Years | Poster
By Ashley DeVine, Staff Writer Forty years ago, what we now call the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research was born. Here are some highlights in the facility’s history. October 19, 1971 – President Richard Nixon announced that Fort Detrick would be converted from a biological warfare facility to a cancer research center (Covert, Norman M., Cutting Edge: A History of Fort Detrick, Maryland, 1943–1993, pp. 85–87).
The Emergence of Operational Art in the Great Sioux War 1876-1877
2013-12-10
Schmitt (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946), 197. 58 Bourke , Vol. 1, 336-360. 25...feeling of hope, an atmosphere of futility and frustration set in when the column became too cumbersome to catch 78 Bourke , Vol. 1, 381. 79 “Letters...from the column and 81 Greene, Slim Buttes, 29. 82 Bourke , Vol. 2, 76; Gray, 219-220. See also Bourke , Vol. 2, 45. 83 Bourke , Vol. 2, 88-9
1992-08-01
OF DEXTROMETHORPHAN AND RELATED ANTITISSUE/ANTICONVULSANT DRUGS AND NOVEL ANALOGS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Norman G. Bowery, Ph.D., DSc CONTRACTING...Characteristics of Dextromethorphan and DAMD17-90-C-0124 Related Anti ti ssue/ Anticonvul sant Drugs and Novel 6. AUTHOR(S) Analogs 61102A...13. ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 words) Binding of dextromethorphan and its analogues to the dextromethorphan binding site and to the PCP and glycine binding
Degree of Consistent Training and the Development of Automatic Processing.
1980-02-09
processing as composed of two qualitatively different modes of processing ( LaBerge , 1973, 1975, 1976; Posner and Snyder, 1975; Norman, 1976; Shiffrin and...Psychology, 1971, 2, 229-237. LaBerge , D. Attention and the measurement of perceptual learning. Memory and Cognition, 1973, 1, 268-276. LaBerge , D...York: Academic Press, 1975. LaBerge , D. Perceptual learning and attention. In W. K. Estes (Ed.), Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes (Vol. 4
Background Material on Structural Reform of the Department of Defense
1986-03-01
R D Y , Oklahoma THOMAS M FUGLIETTA, Pennsylvania ROY LYSON , Maryland DENNIS M HERTEL, Michigan MARILYN LLOYD. Tennessee NORMAN SISISKY, V i r...of the several Serv- ices, of defense strategy, of the overall defense program, and of how business gets transacted in the Pentagon. They must de... managing the careers of those officers best qualified for joint duty. Ac- tions are already being addressed by the Joint Chiefs to properly manage
1982-05-21
2476 Prepared for: St. Paul District, Corps of Engineers St. Paul, Minnesota Prepared by: HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS, INC. 1702 Dyke Avenue...HISTORICAL STUDIES . . 9 3. ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING . . . . . . . . . 15 3.1 Geology . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.2 Soils . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.3 Climate...Historical and archaeological data from HASI’s company library in Grand Forks, North Dakota, also were used in preparing overviews and in analysis
Planning Australia’s Defense Forces
1990-03-01
Force Base, AL: 1980 , pp. 14-18. 3. Glen St J. Barkley, "New National Strategy Needed," Pacific Defence Reporter, August 1988, p. 14-17. 4. Fred...AL: 1980 , p. 14. 101. Peter Gerdes, "Australia: In Search of Identity," Swiss Review of World Affairs, March 1989, p. 16. 102. Norman Harper, A Great...Working Paper Number 271 (Canberra, ACT: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1980 ). 115 17. Far East and
2009-11-01
Service State Conservationist Mr. Ron L. Hillard 100 USDA, Suite 206 Stillwater OK 74074-2655 United States Fish and Wildlife Service Oklahoma Ecological ...been collected, we cannot say with certainty whether or not a given site harbors rare species or ecological communities. For this reason, if you are...Norman, Ok. 73019. For information on federally listed threatened or endangered species, contact the USFWS, Ecological Services, 9014 E. 21st
Integrating Civilian Agencies in Stability Operations
2009-01-01
Defense for Policy, COL Norman Cotton . At the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Readiness, Mr. Carl Rosengrant. At the U.S. Joint...rationale for pro- viding foreign aid was to help defeat Soviet-style communism by pro- moting economic development and political reforms that would...1990s, the U.S. government’s stated intent for allocating foreign aid was to achieve broad-based and sustainable economic growth, to pro- mote the
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia
1994-09-20
Astronaut Norman E. Thagard in a cosmonaut space suit in the Training Simulator Facility at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts to begin a three-month tour of duty on the Russian Mir Space Station. Thagard, along with his back-up, astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar, has been training in Russian since February 1994.
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia
1994-09-20
Astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar in a cosmonaut space suit in the Training Simulator Facility at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Norman E. Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts to begin a three-month tour of duty on the Russian Mir Space Station. Thagard, along with his back-up, astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar, has been training in Russian since February 1994.
1992-10-01
System Model for Water Quality Control by Jackson K. Brown ...................................... 119 Management Technique for Long-Term Flow... Modeling Activities for the ARCS Program by David C. Cowgill ...................................... 141 Toxicity and Chemistry Testing of Great Lakes...225 Combined Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Modeling of Lower Green Bay by David J. Mark, Barry W. Bunch, and Norman W. Scheffner
Cosmonauts and astronauts during medical operations training
1994-06-11
Astronaut Norman E. Thagard (right center), a guest researcher on Russia's Mir 18 mission, monitors a test of a subject (out of frame) in the Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP) device. Others pictured, left to right, are Todd Schlegel (seated) of the Medical Sciences Division at JSC, unidentified trainer, Linda Barrows of Krug; cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, mission commander; cosmonaut Gennadiy M. Strekalov, Thagard and cosmonaut Alexsandr F. Poleshchuk, Mir 18 reserve flight engineer.
The Command and Control of the Grand Armee: Napoleon as Organizational Designer
2009-06-01
AUTHOR(S) Norman L. Durham 5. FUNDING NUMBERS 7 . PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93943-5000...served as the framework for a highly effective command and control system. This command and control network allowed Napoleon to dominate a war with...within his organizational design was a vast information network that served as the framework for a highly effective command and control system. This
Airpower Journal Index, 1987-1996
1998-07-01
AirpowerJournal Airpower Research Institute Author Index Aldrich, Maj Richard W. "The International Legal Implications of Information Warfare," vol . 10...no . 3 (Fall 1996) : 99-110. Aldrich, Maj Richard W., and Maj Norman K. Thompson . "Verifying Chemical and Biological Weapons Treaties: Is the...Perspective," vol . 3, no . 4 (Winter 1989) : 10-33. Casebeer, 1st Lt William D. ; Col Richard Szafranski ; and Dr. James H. Toner. "Military Ethics," vol. 8
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Heck, Daniel J.; Weiss, Iris R.; Boyd, Sally E.; Howard, Michael N.; Supovitz, Jonathan A.
2003-01-01
This document represents the first of two volumes presented in "Study of the Impact of the Statewide Systemic Initiatives Program" (Norman L. Webb and Iris R. Weiss). In an effort to evaluate the impact of the Statewide Systemic Initiatives (SSIs) on student achievement and the lessons that could be learned from the National Science…
A Comparison of Variance-Controlled and Non-Controlled Principal Components
1990-03-01
corTmnoVucorng/ leveKI 1) red level C wfte5,*) ccavg(1). (leveKl).-lxusssn+2) wte(1.*XecounD(.2) wfte(,*Xccavg(i~jmlxuwss+2) wIte(1,*X*N9(D)j2u~wwt+2...Normcaly Testto, Iderkf Slglflcart Effects i Factorid Desigis" Jourd of L~~ echno~gk M-1U.174-178 (JUy 1989). Box, George E. P. and Norman R. Drcaper. E
1984-10-24
S84-43852 (November 1984) --- These seven men have been training for NASAs Spacelab 3/STS-51B mission scheduled for launch in late April 1985. On the front row are astronauts Robert F. Overmyer (left), commander; and Frederick D. Gregory, pilot. On the back row, left to right, are Don L. Lind, mission specialist; Taylor G. Wang, payload specialist; Norman E. Thagard and William E. Thornton, both mission specialists; and Lodewijk van den Berg, payload specialist.
1994-10-01
Human Brain PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Professor Norman G. Bowery CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: University of London Department of Pharmacology The School...Rat and Human Brain 12a. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT 12b. DISTRIBUTION CODE Approved for public release; distribution unlimited 13. ABSTRACT...DM ’bindinj was clearly not a marker for the degree of neuronal damage. At autoradiographic technique is als( being developed for examining the binding
2016-04-01
Processed AZ31 Magnesium Alloy Sheet by Laszlo J Kecskes, Vincent H Hammond, Michael Eichhorst, Norman Herzig, and Lothar Meyer...Angular Extrusion (ECAE)–Processed AZ31 Magnesium Alloy Sheet by Laszlo J Kecskes and Vincent H Hammond Weapons and Materials Research...successfully reduced into 1.5-mm-thick sheets . Two sets of plates, each with a different texture type, were evaluated. Microscopic examination of
STS-30 Atlantis, OV-104, glides toward a landing at EAFB, California
1989-05-08
STS030-S-126 (8 May 1989) --- The space shuttle Atlantis, as seen in a low angle view on its glide in from Earth orbit, heads toward a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Onboard were astronauts David M. Walker, STS-30 commander; Ronald J. Grabe, pilot; and astronauts Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee ? all mission specialists. Photo credit: NASA
STS-30 Atlantis, OV-104, glides toward a landing at EAFB, California
1989-05-08
STS030-S-127 (8 May 1989) --- The space shuttle Atlantis, as seen in a low angle view on its glide in from Earth orbit, heads toward a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Onboard were astronauts David M. Walker, STS-30 commander; Ronald J. Grabe, pilot; and astronauts Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee ? all mission specialists. Photo credit: NASA
1991-11-01
The STS-42 crew portrait includes from left to right: Stephen S. Oswald, pilot; Roberta L. Bondar, payload specialist 1; Norman E. Thagard, mission specialist 1; Ronald J. Grabe, commander; David C. Hilmers, mission specialist 2; Ulf D. Merbold, payload specialist 2; and William F. Readdy, mission specialist 3. Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on January 22, 1992 at 9:52:33 am (EST), the STS-42 served as the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 (ML-1 ) mission.
Assessment of computer-related health problems among post-graduate nursing students.
Khan, Shaheen Akhtar; Sharma, Veena
2013-01-01
The study was conducted to assess computer-related health problems among post-graduate nursing students and to develop a Self Instructional Module for prevention of computer-related health problems in a selected university situated in Delhi. A descriptive survey with co-relational design was adopted. A total of 97 samples were selected from different faculties of Jamia Hamdard by multi stage sampling with systematic random sampling technique. Among post-graduate students, majority of sample subjects had average compliance with computer-related ergonomics principles. As regards computer related health problems, majority of post graduate students had moderate computer-related health problems, Self Instructional Module developed for prevention of computer-related health problems was found to be acceptable by the post-graduate students.
How Big Science Came to Long Island: The Birth of Brookhaven Laboratory (429th Brookhaven Lecture)
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Crease, Robert P.
Robert P. Crease, historian for the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook University, will give two talks on the Laboratory's history on October 31 and December 12. Crease's October 31 talk, titled "How Big Science Came to Long Island: The Birth of Brookhaven Lab," will cover the founding of the Laboratory soon after World War II as a peacetime facility to construct and maintain basic research facilities, such as nuclear reactors and particle accelerators, that were too large for single institutions to build and operate. He will discuss the keymore » figures involved in starting the Laboratory, including Nobel laureates I.I. Rabi and Norman Ramsey, as well as Donald Dexter Van Slyke, one of the most renowned medical researchers in American history. Crease also will focus on the many problems that had to be overcome in creating the Laboratory and designing its first big machines, as well as the evolving relations of the Laboratory with the surrounding Long Island community and news media. Throughout his talk, Crease will tell fascinating stories about Brookhaven's scientists and their research.« less
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Farahbod, A. M.; Kao, H.; Cassidy, J. F.; Snyder, D. B.; Cairns, S.; Walker, D.
2015-12-01
Northeast British Columbia, specifically the Horn River Basin (HRB) and Montney Trend, are among the largest shale gas production regions in western Canada. In contrast, there has been no large-scale hydraulic fracturing (HF) operation in the Northwest Territories in the Norman Wells region of the central Mackenzie valley. In this study, we investigate the effect of injection pressure, operation duration and injected volume on the observed seismicity in the HRB and Norman Wells regions and compare our observations with the pre-HF records. In the HRB, we apply the single-station location and waveform correlation methods to establish a homogenous earthquake catalog (2006/12-2011/12). In the Northwest Territories, we combine data from a local seismograph network of 4 stations plus a dense array of 7 stations located from 1 km to 50 km from the operation wells to locate earthquakes (2013/09-2014/07). In the HRB, the initial effect of an increased injected volume is an increase in earthquake frequency but not magnitude. Local earthquakes gradually become larger in magnitude as the scale of HF in the region expands. While the injection pressure during HF operations has been regulated at a relatively constant level, the massive increase of injection volume in 2010 and 2011 coincides with a series of ML>3 events. Relatively large seismic moment release (>1014 N m) occurred only when the monthly injected volume exceeded ~150,000 m3. In addition, we observe variable time lags, from days to up to 4 months between intense HF and the occurrence of a significant local earthquake. On the other hand, in the Norman Wells region, two small-scale HF were performed in 2014 with a total injected volume of ~ 14000 m3. We observed an increase in the number of micro-earthquakes (M < 2.0) during the HF period without a clear change in the overall seismic pattern. From these two observations, we conclude that HF operations do not necessarily result in an increase in the occurrence rate of larger earthquakes. A clear change in background seismicity pattern towards more frequent occurrence and/or greater magnitudes occurred only when the monthly total injected volume became significantly higher. The hydrologic properties of the source formations and local geologic conditions might also play important roles in induced seismogenesis.
Aono, Masashi; Naruse, Makoto; Kim, Song-Ju; Wakabayashi, Masamitsu; Hori, Hirokazu; Ohtsu, Motoichi; Hara, Masahiko
2013-06-18
Biologically inspired computing devices and architectures are expected to overcome the limitations of conventional technologies in terms of solving computationally demanding problems, adapting to complex environments, reducing energy consumption, and so on. We previously demonstrated that a primitive single-celled amoeba (a plasmodial slime mold), which exhibits complex spatiotemporal oscillatory dynamics and sophisticated computing capabilities, can be used to search for a solution to a very hard combinatorial optimization problem. We successfully extracted the essential spatiotemporal dynamics by which the amoeba solves the problem. This amoeba-inspired computing paradigm can be implemented by various physical systems that exhibit suitable spatiotemporal dynamics resembling the amoeba's problem-solving process. In this Article, we demonstrate that photoexcitation transfer phenomena in certain quantum nanostructures mediated by optical near-field interactions generate the amoebalike spatiotemporal dynamics and can be used to solve the satisfiability problem (SAT), which is the problem of judging whether a given logical proposition (a Boolean formula) is self-consistent. SAT is related to diverse application problems in artificial intelligence, information security, and bioinformatics and is a crucially important nondeterministic polynomial time (NP)-complete problem, which is believed to become intractable for conventional digital computers when the problem size increases. We show that our amoeba-inspired computing paradigm dramatically outperforms a conventional stochastic search method. These results indicate the potential for developing highly versatile nanoarchitectonic computers that realize powerful solution searching with low energy consumption.
Employing U.S. Information Operations Against Hybrid Warfare Threats
2013-03-01
Article 51.24 Cyber warfare is unique in that vulnerabilities that a network target may have could be discovered by software developers who then... cyber warfare rather than physical combat, a future subject to air strikes or ground-forces raids would likely be a powerful deterrent. Some in the U.S...Manwaring, The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare, (Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2012), 126-129. 23 Arie J. Schaap, “ Cyber Warfare Operations
STS-30 crewmembers pose for informal portrait on JSC FB-SMS middeck
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1988-01-01
STS-30 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, crewmembers pause briefly from their training schedule to pose for informal portrait in JSC fixed base (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS). On FB-SMS middeck are (left to right) Commander David M. Walker, Mission Specialist (MS) Mark C. Lee, MS Mary L. Cleave, Pilot Ronald J. Grabe, and MS Norman E. Thagard. FB-SMS is located in JSC's Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5.
Core module of Mir space station
1995-06-28
NM18-302-038 (28 June 1995) --- Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, Mir-18 cosmonaut researcher, took this picture aboard Mir on the eve of the targeted arrival day of Atlantis. Thagard told a July 18 press conference audience in Houston that he worked to clean the area prior to the Mir-19 crew and the STS-71 crew arrival and that his showing of this slide represented the first time the crew would have seen the area "in this condition."
Future Warfare: Anthology Revised Edition
2001-06-01
film “ Saving Private Ryan ” are compelling and chilling. But the information age promises to make ground combat considerably less destructive that the...116 Saving Private Ryan , 80–81 Schwarzkopf, Norman, 242, 243–244 Science and technology, 191–202 Scipio, 44 Security beyond the year 2010, 128–131, 137... Private Ryan ” where the true horror of face-to-face ground combat is driven into the psyche of the movie goer. I am increasingly convinced, however
1982-04-01
structural components. 289 AFWtAL-TR-82-400 7 CONTRACTS INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS OF IMPACT DAMAGE NASI -15888 79 August 3 - 82 November 30 Project...THERMODYNAMICS TO COMPOSITE MATERIALS NASi -16301 80 August 18 - 82 January 03 Project Engineer: Dr. Norman J. Johnston Mail Stop 226 NASA Langley...that the system responds by the formation of dissipative rather than equi- librium structures or defects. GRAPHITE FIBER SURFACE TREATMENT NASI -15869
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Rodgers, Peter
2015-12-01
When Norman Lockyer, an astronomer and science writer with a day job as a clerk at the War Office in London, approached the publishing house Macmillan and Company in 1869 with a proposal for a new weekly journal about science, few could have predicted the outcome. The journal in question was Nature, and given its influence over the past 146 years, it is hard to believe that Melinda Baldwin's Making Nature is the first full-length book to be written about it.
1991-12-01
School of Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB OH, October 1988. 8. Billmeyer, Fred W., Jr. Textbook of Polymer Science...448-453 (April 1989). 10. Sheppard, Norman Fred , Jr. Dielectric Analysis of the Cure of Thermosetting Epoxy/Amine Systems. PhD Dissertation...Viscosity and Chemical Changes During Polymerization," American Chemical Society Symposium Series on Photophysics of Polymers, edited by C. E. Hoyle and J. M
STS-30 Atlantis, OV-104, crew eats preflight breakfast at KSC O and C Bldg
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1989-01-01
STS-30 crewmembers eat preflight breakfast at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Operations and Checkout (O and C) Building before boarding Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104. Sitting around table (left to right) are Mission Specialist (MS) Norman E. Thagard, Pilot Ronald J. Grabe, Commander David M. Walker, MS Mary L. Cleave, and MS Mark C. Lee. A cake decorated with the STS-30 mission insignia is in the center of the table.
Wartime vascular injuries in the pediatric population of Iraq and Afghanistan: 2002-2011
2014-01-01
United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX, USA c CSTARS, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA d Department of Surgery , San...Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234-6315, USA e Norman M. Rich Department of Surgery , Uniformed Services University of the Health...they are associated with significant morbidity and mortality [4,5]. In contrast to the manage - ment of adult vascular injuries, there is little
Reflections on the Conception, Birth, and Childhood of Numerical Weather Prediction
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Lorenz, Edward N.
2006-05-01
In recognition of the contributions of Norman Phillips and Joseph Smagorinsky to the field of numerical weather prediction (NWP), a symposium was held in 2003; this account is an amplification of a talk presented there. Ideas anticipating the advent of NWP, the first technically successful numerical weather forcast, and the subsequent progression of NWP to a mature discipline are described, with special emphasis on the work of Phillips and Smagorinsky and their mentor Jule Charney.
STS-71 astronauts training in Russia
1994-09-20
Astronauts Norman E. Thagard and Bonnie J. Dunbar in cosmonaut space suits in the Training Simulator Facility at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (Star City), near Moscow, Russia. In March 1995, astronaut Thagard is scheduled to be launched in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts to begin a three-month tour of duty on the Russian Mir Space Station. Thagard, along with his back-up, astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar, has been training in Russian since February 1994.
MAKING THE WEASELS WILD AGAIN: ENSURING FUTURE AIR DOMINANCE THROUGH EFFECTIVE SEAD TRAINING
2016-06-01
both multi-mission design series (MMDS) and joint SEAD training as well as improve the capabilities of its electronic warfare (EW) ranges in order...USAF units to train for multi-mission design series (MMDS) SEAD operations.14 MMDS training includes the use of multiple USAF airborne platforms...not provided SEAD aircrews with either the quantity or quality of training required to conduct effective operations.2 At that time , Major Jon Norman
A Framework for Corporate Implementation of Object-Oriented Software Development
1992-01-01
Research Methods in the Social Sciences (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981), 181. [2] Ibid., 182-183. [3] Ibid., 191. CHAPTER VI ANALYSIS and FINDINGS...Understanding, and Support- ing Champions of Technological Innovacions ." Organi- zational Dynamics 19 (Summer 1990): 40-55. Johnson, Ralph E., and Brian...November 1989, 87. Nachmias, David, and Chava Nachmias. Research Methods in the Social Sciences. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981. Norman, Ronald J
Improving Time-Sharing Performance by Enhancing Voluntary Control on Processing Resources.
1981-02-01
University, Eugene, Technical Report, Field SE, AD A070 548, June 1979, 1-35. Hirst, W., Spelke, E.S., Reaves, CC., Caharack, G. & Neisser , U . Dividing...Technology, Tech. Report AFOSR-80-1, February 1980. - 88 - Neisser , U . Cognition and reality. San Francisco, Freeman, 1976. Norman, D.A. & Bobrow...Psychological Review, 1977, 84, 127-190. Spelke, E.S., Hirst, W.C. G Neisser , U . Skills of divided attention. Cognition, 1976, 4, 215-230. Sperling, G
Models and Estimation Procedures for the Analysis of Subjects-by-Items Data Arrays.
1982-06-30
Conclusions and recommendations The usefulness of Tukey’s model for model-based psychological testing is probably greatest for analyses of responses which are...22314 National Institute of Education Attn: TC 1200 19th Street NW Washington, DC 20208 Dr. William Graham Testing Directorate 1 Dr. Lorraine D. Eyde ...Educational Testing Service 1 Dr. Norman Cliff Princeton, NJ 08450 Dept. of Psychology Univ. of So. California 1 Dr. Ina Bilodeau University Park
Operation Overlord and the Principles of War
2002-06-06
ring of steel began to close around the trapped Seventh Army (18:64). In a retrospective look at the command and control organization, it would be seen...Modern History. London: Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., 2001. 15. Norman, Albert, Ph.D. Operation Overlord Design and Reality. Harrisburg: The... Blue , the Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Astor, Gerald. June 6, 1944 The Voices of D-Day
1991-12-01
determined more by economic forces than by flood protection. Thus, if inadequate flood protection rendered development in portions of the American River flood...1978 Patwin. In: Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 8 California, Robert F. Heizer , volume editor. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. pp...Norman L. & Arlean H. Towne. 1978 Nisenan. In: Handbook of North American Indians: Volume 8 California, Robert F. Heizer , volume editor. Smithsonian
1992-01-22
Onboard Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-42) Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, payload commander, and Canadian payload specialist Roberta L. Bondar are busily engaged with experiments in the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) science module. Bondar reads a checklist near the Biorack while Thagard performs a VCR tape change-out. The two, along with four other NASA astronauts and a second IML-1 payload specialist spent more than eight days conducting experiments in Earth orbit. Part of the Space Acceleration Measurement System is in center foreground.
2006-07-01
Park,1 Robert E. Meyer,2 Shilajit Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2 Borko Javonovic,3 Timothy Kuzel,4 Seong-Jin Kim,5 Luk Van Parijs,6 Norm Smith,1 Larry Wong,1...cycle Qiang Zhang,1 Ximing Yang,2,5 Shilajit D. Kundu,1 Michael Pins,2,5 Borko Javonovic,3,5 Robert Meryer,2 Seong-Jin Kim,7 Norman M. Greenberg,8
The Narcotics Counterinsurgency Dilemma
2008-05-22
government. Following a ten year civil war in the 1950’s, referred to as La Violencia , the central government never re-established authority and control...www.monitor.upeace.org/Colombia.pdf 21 Norman Bailey, “La Violencia in Colombia,” Journal of Inter-American Studies 9, no. 4 (1967): 561. 22 Peter Chalk and Angel...reach required across all regions of the country along with the traditional familiarity . The use of mic grants and micro-loans to jump start small
Preimpoundment Water Quality of the Wild Rice River, Norman County, Minnesota.
1980-06-01
cell counts at Twin Valley for 1977 water year 25 14. Plot of total phosphorus related to phytoplankton cell counts at Twin Valley ; 30 15. Plot...of total nitrogen related to phytoplankton cell counts at Twin Valley 31 16. Bar graph of diversity indices of phytoplankton genera, 1976, 1977...statistically signifi- cant beyond the 0.02 level. There is no apparent relation of BOD to stream- flow or to suspended-sediment, phytoplankton , and bacteria
Baker, Nancy A; Aufman, Elyse L; Poole, Janet L
2012-01-01
We identified the extent of the need for interventions and assistive technology to prevent computer use problems in people with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and the accommodation strategies they use to alleviate such problems. Respondents were recruited through the Scleroderma Foundation. Twenty-seven people with SSc who used a computer and reported difficulty in working completed the Computer Problems Survey. All but 1 of the respondents reported one problem with at least one equipment type. The highest number of respondents reported problems with keyboards (88%) and chairs (85%). More than half reported discomfort in the past month associated with the chair, keyboard, and mouse. Respondents used a variety of accommodation strategies. Many respondents experienced problems and discomfort related to computer use. The characteristic symptoms of SSc may contribute to these problems. Occupational therapy interventions for computer use problems in clients with SSc need to be tested. Copyright © 2012 by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.
Use of a Computer Language in Teaching Dynamic Programming. Final Report.
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Trimble, C. J.; And Others
Most optimization problems of any degree of complexity must be solved using a computer. In the teaching of dynamic programing courses, it is often desirable to use a computer in problem solution. The solution process involves conceptual formulation and computational Solution. Generalized computer codes for dynamic programing problem solution…
Visual problems in young adults due to computer use.
Moschos, M M; Chatziralli, I P; Siasou, G; Papazisis, L
2012-04-01
Computer use can cause visual problems. The purpose of our study was to evaluate visual problems due to computer use in young adults. Participants in our study were 87 adults, 48 male and 39 female, mean aged 31.3 years old (SD 7.6). All the participants completed a questionnaire regarding visual problems detected after computer use. The mean daily use of computers was 3.2 hours (SD 2.7). 65.5 % of the participants complained for dry eye, mainly after more than 2.5 hours of computer use. 32 persons (36.8 %) had a foreign body sensation in their eyes, while 15 participants (17.2 %) complained for blurred vision which caused difficulties in driving, after 3.25 hours of continuous computer use. 10.3 % of the participants sought medical advice for their problem. There was a statistically significant correlation between the frequency of visual problems and the duration of computer use (p = 0.021). 79.3 % of the participants use artificial tears during or after long use of computers, so as not to feel any ocular discomfort. The main symptom after computer use in young adults was dry eye. All visual problems associated with the duration of computer use. Artificial tears play an important role in the treatment of ocular discomfort after computer use. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.
Andrews, William J.; Masoner, Jason R.; Rendon, Samuel H.; Smith, Kevin A.; Greer, James R.; Chatterton, Logan A.
2013-01-01
The City of Norman, Oklahoma, wanted to augment its water supplies to meet the needs of an increasing population. Among the city’s potential water sources are city wells that produce water that exceeds the 10 micrograms per liter primary drinking-water standard for arsenic. The City of Norman was interested in investigating low-cost means of using natural attenuation to remove arsenic from well water and augment the water supply of Lake Thunderbird, the primary water source for the city. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the City of Norman, conducted a preliminary investigation (pilot study) to determine if discharge of water from those wells into the Little River over a 12-day period would reduce arsenic concentrations through natural-attenuation processes. Water in the Little River flows into Lake Thunderbird, the principal water source for the city, so the discharged well water would improve the water balance of that reservoir. During this pilot study, 150–250 gallons per minute from each of six city wells were discharged to the Little River over a 12-day period. Water-quality samples were collected from the wells during discharge and from the river before, during, and after well discharges. Streambed-sediment samples were collected at nine sites in the river before and after the well-discharge period. Water discharge from the six wells added 0.3 kilogram per day of arsenic to the river at the nearest downstream streamflow-gaging station. Dissolved arsenic concentration in the Little River at the closest downstream sampling site from the wells increased from about 4 micrograms per liter to as much as 24 micrograms per liter. Base flow in the river increased by about 1.7 cubic feet per second at the nearest downstream streamflow-gaging station. Streamflow in the river was two-thirds of that expected from the amount of water discharged from the wells because of seepage to soils and evapotranspiration of well water along drainage ways to the river. Arsenic concentrations at the nearest downstream streamflow-gaging station were less than arsenic concentrations measured in many of the well-water samples during the well-pumping period. Arsenic concentrations, loads, and yields in the Little River generally decreased downstream from the closest streamflow-gaging station to the wells by 50 percent or more, indicating removal of about 0.25 kilogram or 0.53 pound per day of arsenic during base-flow conditions. Measured river-water arsenic concentrations near the confluence of the Little River with Lake Thunderbird were in compliance with the primary drinking-water standard. Arsenic concentrations measured at four downstream stations in the Little River also were less than established criteria set for protection of aquatic biota. After well discharges to the Little River were stopped, arsenic concentrations, loads, and yields in the river gradually decreased over 14 days to concentrations measured prior to the well-water discharges. Cumulative loads of arsenic discharged at the wells and the closest and farthest downstream streamflow-gaging stations indicated removal of about 2.5 kilograms of arsenic as well-water flowed to and down the river. Arsenic concentrations in streambed-sediment samples collected before and after the well-water discharges were not significantly different. Results of this pilot study indicate that using natural-attenuation processes to remove arsenic from water and supplement city water supplies may be a viable, relatively low-cost method for attenuating arsenic in well water and for augmenting the water supply of Lake Thunderbird.
A strategy for reducing turnaround time in design optimization using a distributed computer system
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Young, Katherine C.; Padula, Sharon L.; Rogers, James L.
1988-01-01
There is a need to explore methods for reducing lengthly computer turnaround or clock time associated with engineering design problems. Different strategies can be employed to reduce this turnaround time. One strategy is to run validated analysis software on a network of existing smaller computers so that portions of the computation can be done in parallel. This paper focuses on the implementation of this method using two types of problems. The first type is a traditional structural design optimization problem, which is characterized by a simple data flow and a complicated analysis. The second type of problem uses an existing computer program designed to study multilevel optimization techniques. This problem is characterized by complicated data flow and a simple analysis. The paper shows that distributed computing can be a viable means for reducing computational turnaround time for engineering design problems that lend themselves to decomposition. Parallel computing can be accomplished with a minimal cost in terms of hardware and software.
Integrating Computers into the Problem-Solving Process.
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Lowther, Deborah L.; Morrison, Gary R.
2003-01-01
Asserts that within the context of problem-based learning environments, professors can encourage students to use computers as problem-solving tools. The ten-step Integrating Technology for InQuiry (NteQ) model guides professors through the process of integrating computers into problem-based learning activities. (SWM)
A Cognitive Model for Problem Solving in Computer Science
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Parham, Jennifer R.
2009-01-01
According to industry representatives, computer science education needs to emphasize the processes involved in solving computing problems rather than their solutions. Most of the current assessment tools used by universities and computer science departments analyze student answers to problems rather than investigating the processes involved in…
Application of evolutionary computation in ECAD problems
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Lee, Dae-Hyun; Hwang, Seung H.
1998-10-01
Design of modern electronic system is a complicated task which demands the use of computer- aided design (CAD) tools. Since a lot of problems in ECAD are combinatorial optimization problems, evolutionary computations such as genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming have been widely employed to solve those problems. We have applied evolutionary computation techniques to solve ECAD problems such as technology mapping, microcode-bit optimization, data path ordering and peak power estimation, where their benefits are well observed. This paper presents experiences and discusses issues in those applications.
A Survey of the Command Information Function in U.S. Army Maneuver Battalions during the Gulf War.
1993-11-10
Sudman, Seymore and Norman M. Bradburn. Asking Questions. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982. Szilagyi , Andrew and Marc Wallace . Organizational Behavior and Performance. USA: Harper Collins, 1990. 110 ...3 to a level of no dissatisfaction that will allow subsequent motivators to be effective I .7 I I I (Szilagi and Wallace 102). I Command information...Prentice-Hall, 1964. Doyle, Joseph B. Frederick Wilhelm von Steuben and the American Revolution. New York: B. Franklin, 1970. Eberhard, Wallace B
2013-08-01
not eligible for CPT based on the state of research evidence, including those with: current uncontrolled psychotic or bipolar disorder ; substance...among trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder , and health outcomes. Adv Mind Body Med 2004, 20(1):18–29. 10. Kessler RC: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ...to an evidence-based psychotherapy for Posttraumatic stress disorder Shannon Wiltsey Stirman1, Norman Shields2, Josh Deloriea3, Meredith SH Landy3
The United States Air Force Summary, FY 1988/1989 (Amended). Fourteenth Edition
1988-05-15
UNClASSIFIEDI ,••o MARIANA ISLS ....••. 8 GUAM ..o ANDERSEI AFB o () II ,. BONIN ISLSo II • .... to t D ~, # # ()0KAOENA AB i ’or • o USAF MAJOR...Leath, Marvin (TX) McCurdy, Dave (OK) Foglietta, T. M. (PA) Dyson, Roy (MD) Hertel, Dennis M. (MI) Lloyd, Marilyn B. (TN) Sisisky, Norman (VA) Ray...1988) House Research and Development Subcommittee Democrats Price, Melvin (IL) Chmn. Aspin, Les (WI) Schroeder, Patricia (CO) McCurdy, Dave (OK) Hertel
STS-30 clean-suited crewmembers examine locker contents during bench review
1989-04-03
S89-30260 (31 March 1989) --- The five astronaut crewmembers for NASA's STS-30 mission conduct a bench review of the actual supplies they will be depending on for use aboard the Atlantis when they spend four days in space later in the spring. Left to right are Astronauts Mark C. Lee, mission specialist; Norman E. Thagard, mission specialist; David M. Walker, mission commander; and Mary L. Cleave, mission specialist. Ronald J. Grabe, pilot, is at far right.
Models for Multidimensional Tests and Hierarchically Structured Training Materials.
1985-05-01
NAVOP 01B7 Washington, DC 20370 Dr. Hans Crombag University of Leyden Mr. Raymond E. Christal Education Research Center AFHRL/MOE Boerhaavelaan 2 Brooks...AFB, TX 78235 2334 EN Leyden The NETHERLANDS Dr. Norman Cliff Department of Psychology CTB/McGraw-Hill Library Univ. of So. Californ.a 2500 Garden Road...Diego, CA 92152 A[USTRALIA Ms. Kathleen Moreno Dr. William L. Maloy (02) Navy Personnel R&D Center Chief of Naval Education Code 62 and Training San Diego
Survey of United States Army Physician Opinion: The Issue of Written ’Do Not Resuscitate’ Orders
1984-08-01
Westminister Press, 1975), p. 176-7. 71Cushing, p. 29. 72Alexander, p. 26. 73Kevin M. McIntyre, "Mediolegal Aspects of Decision Making in Resuscitation and Life...34Physicians Opinions Toward Legislation Defining Death and Withholding Life Support," Southern Medical Journal 74 (February 1981): 215-18. 82Norman K...Louis S. Let the Patient Decide. Philadelphia: The Westminister Press, 1978. Browning, Mary H. and Lewis, Edith P. comps. The Dying Patient: A Nursing
STS-30 clean-suited crewmembers examine locker contents during bench review
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1989-01-01
During a bench review, STS-30 crewmembers, wearing clean suits, examine configuration of middeck lockers packed with stowage bags and hygiene supplies. The bay will be used to contain objects not in use while in orbit. From left to right are Mission Specialist (MS) Mark C. Lee, MS Norman E. Thagard, Commander David M. Walker, MS Mary L. Cleave, and Pilot Ronald J. Grabe. Technicians and personnel filming bench review look on. Photo taken by JSC photographer Jack Jacob.
Dual Task Automatic and Controlled Processing in Visual Search: Can It Be Done without Cost?
1980-02-09
transmitted. The sequence of learning to read is similar ( LaBerge and Samuels, 1!i74). Motor skill acquisition also shows a complex buildup of . skill to...has received considerable interest in recent years ( LaBerge , 1973, 1975, 1976; Posner and Snyder, 1975; Norman, 1976; Shiffrin and Schneider, 1977... Laberge and Samuels (1974) report that for beginning readers to increase chunking, the demand for accuracy may have to be relaxed. In the present
Military Doctrine, and Maxims of Napoleon, A Bibliography of Periodical Articles.
1984-10-01
0041-770X. ....- S. . ..... -79 PART II - DOCTRINE -1. USA ANDERSON, NORMAN J. "A Statement of Doctrine," NCG, 47:10. November 1963. "Army 86...Process," MILRVW, 64:46-57, January 1984. KRAUSE, MICHAEL D..~ - "Arthur L. Wagner : Doctrine and Lessons from the Past," MILRVW, 58:53-9, November...June 1927. b. Democratic Republic of Germany (DDR). BELL, RAYMOND E. "Armor Development in the Weimar Republic," MILRVW, 47:12-7, March 1967. c
Analysis of Disaster Planning in Business and Industry
1993-04-01
Alternatives, 13 May 1991, 1. 13. Deegan , Joseph, and Jack Jolley. "Selling Crisis Management." Security Management Jun 1985, 50. 14. Atkin, Leslie, ed. "PG... Deegan , Joseph, and Jack Jolley. "Selling Crisis Management." Security Management Jun 1985, 50. 16. Carey, John. "Getting Business to Think About the...1985, 5. 22. Aronoff, Craig E., and John L. Ward. "Why Owners Don’t Plan." Nation’s Business Jun 1990, 59. 23. Phelps, Norman L. "Setting Up a Crisis
CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. Volume 19, Number 10
2006-10-01
301) 975-4553 E-mail: davydov@nist.gov Norman A. Sanford, Ph.D., is project leader of the optical materials metrology project at NIST in Boulder, CO...dimension tables that allow the level of granularity of the facts to be drilled into or rolled up along relevant vectors. For example, budget allotment...thermometers, safety valves, pressure gauges , or other modern technology. Boats drenched with Greek Fire burned – and sailors were unable to quench the fire
Interaction of Jet Fuel Hydrocarbon Components with Red Blood Cells and Hemoglobin
2014-06-24
Directorate (RHDJ), Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. The authors would like to thank Maj. Paul Eden, Nicole Schaeublin, Christin Grabinski, Dr. Jeff Gearhart...We would also like to thank LtCol. Norman Fox (Laboratory Flight Commander), Mrs. Nersa Loh (Supervisor, Transfusion Services), and Mr. Dan Fischer ...Approximately 7.8 mg of hemoglobin sample was concentrated into a total volume of 5 mL of Fischer PBS pH 7.5 buffer using an Amicon Centrifugal Filter Unit
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity.
In these hearings, the following witnesses presented testimony: Dr. Edward B. Fort, superintendent, Inkster Public Schools; Dr. Norman Drachler, former school superintendent, Detroit; Raymond Sreboth, superintendent, Benton Harbor Area Schools; Richard Ziehmer, superintendent, Covert Public Schools; Edward C. McKinney, superintendent, Baldwin…
Strekalov performing maintenance on Core module control panel
1995-07-01
NM18-302-025 (March-July 1995) --- Onboard Mir's base block module cosmonaut Gennadiy M. Strekalov, flight engineer, prepares to check the air quality control and the propulsion system of the station. Strekalov told reporters at a July 18 press conference in Houston that even though he tried not to awaken astronaut Norman E. Thagard, who was asleep nearby, he was unable to keep from disturbing the cosmonaut researcher. He went on to point out that Thagard was always very cooperative and tolerant of such interruptions.
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA
2009-07-29
Senate - 03/17/2010 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-476. (All Actions) Tracker: This bill has the status IntroducedHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:
1980-02-01
ADOAA82 342 OKLAHOMA UNIV NORMAN COLL OF EDUCATION F/B 5/9 TASK ANALYSIS SCHEMA BASED ON COGNITIVE STYLE AND SUPPLANFATION--ETC(U) FEB GO F B AUSBURN...separately- perceived fragments) 6. Tasks requiring use of a. Visual/haptic (pre- kinesthetic or tactile ference for kinesthetic stimuli stimuli; ability...to transform kinesthetic stimuli into visual images; ability to learn directly from tactile or kinesthet - ic impressions) b. Field independence/de
Evidence for high-efficiency laser-heated hohlraum performance at 527 nm.
Stevenson, R M; Oades, K; Thomas, B R; Schneider, M; Slark, G E; Suter, L J; Kauffman, R; Hinkel, D; Miller, M C
2005-02-11
A series of experiments conducted on the HELEN laser system [M. J. Norman, Appl. Opt.4120023497], into thermal x-ray generation from hohlraum targets using 527 nm (2omega) wavelength laser light, has shown that it is possible to exceed radiation temperatures previously thought limited by high levels of superthermal or hot electron production or stimulated backscatter. This Letter questions whether the assumptions traditionally applied to hohlraum design with respect to hot plasma filling and the use of 2omega light are too conservative.
Human Space Flight Plans Committee
2009-06-16
Norman Augustine, chair of the Human Space Flight Review Committee, listens to a comment from the audience during the first of several public meetings at different U.S. locations, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at the Carnegie Institution in Washington. The panel will examine ongoing and planned NASA development activities and potential alternatives in order to present options for advancing a safe, innovative, affordable and sustainable human space flight program following the space shuttle's retirement. The committee wil present its results by August 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
Human Space Flight Plans Committee
2009-06-16
Norman Augustine, chair of the Human Space Flight Review Committee, makes a point during the first of several public meetings at different U.S. locations, Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at the Carnegie Institution in Washington. The panel will examine ongoing and planned NASA development activities and potential alternatives in order to present options for advancing a safe, innovative, affordable and sustainable human space flight program following the space shuttle's retirement. The committee wil present its results by August 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
The Need for a Regional Security System Multinational Coast Guard Unit in the Eastern Caribbean
2012-06-08
the teaching staff of Staff Group 11 A (Mr Matt Bonnott, Dr Thomas Huber, LTC Andrew McIntyre) and Mr William Knight for officiating, my oral...assist me on this journey. Finally, to my wife Vonette, son Isaiah , daughter Makayla, my mother Muriel (this one is for you), and my friends (too...for the implementation of a new security risk management mechanism to enhance the security of the RSS sub-region. According to Thomas Norman in the
2011-10-01
effects since the drug is produced locally in the tumor and the pro drug concentration would be at a le- vel that would not affect cells in other tissues...Depletion Combination Therapy of Breast Cancer Designed for Effective Delivery to the Tumor Roger Harrison University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019 15...SEP 2010 - 14 SEP 2011Annual01-10-2011 Recombinant L-methioninase-annexin V and cytosine deaminase-annexin V fusion proteins have been produced in
Confirmational study: a positive-based thumb and finger sucking elimination program.
Green, Shari E
2010-11-01
This article emphasizes the critical need for information specifically regarding the topic of retained sucking behaviors. The study aimed to confirm results provided by Van Norman of 723 subjects in 1997. Parent surveys were collected on 441 subjects who received an orofacial myofunctional treatment program provided by one certified orofacial myologist. Results of this study do confirm that retained digit sucking behavior may be addressed successfully and expediently by a program based on positive behavior modification techniques.
2016-10-01
Malaria in U.S. Military Personnel PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Norman Waters CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: The Geneva Foundation Tacoma, WA 98402 REPORT...Vivax and Drug-Resistant Falciparum Malaria in U.S. Military Personnel 5b. GRANT NUMBER W81XWH-15-2-0034 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) Dr...compounds that inhibit growth at low to submicromolar concentrations Nearly 600 of our prioritized hit compounds have been tested against rodent malaria
Searching for Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in Intergalactic Absorption: The Expanding Universe
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This simulation follows the growth of density perturbations in both gas and dark matter components in a volume 1 billion light years on a side beginning shortly after the Big Bang and evolved to half the present age of the universe. Credits: Science: Michael L. Norman, Robert Harkness, Pascal Paschos, Rick Wagner, San Diego Supercomputer Center/University of California, San Diego Visualization: Mark Hereld, Joseph A. Insley, Michael E. Papka, Argonne National Laboratory; Eric C. Olson, University of Chicago
Liver Rapid Reference Set Application: Gary Norman-INOVA (2012) — EDRN Public Portal
We have developed a new and novel assay for the detection of Golgi protein 73 (GP73), also known as Golgi membrane protein 1 (Golm1) or Golgi phosphoprotein 2 (Golph2), in serum/plasma. The clinical question is to determine the clinical utility of gp73 antigen detection by the new assay for early hepatocullular carcinoma (HCC) diagnosis, for risk-assessment of patients at high risk for progression of their liver disease, and for prognosis.
Human Space Flight Plans Committee Report
2009-10-21
Chairman of the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee Norman Augustine, center, listens to reporters questions during a press conference where the committee released it's report on Thursday, Oct., 22, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington. The Obama Administration tasked the committee to do an independent review of planned U.S. human space flight activities with the goal of ensuring that the nation is on a vigorous and sustainable path to achieving its boldest aspirations in space. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Human Space Flight Plans Committee Report
2009-10-21
Chairman of the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee Norman Augustine answers a reporters question during a press conference where the committee released it's report on Thursday, Oct., 22, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington. The Obama Administration tasked the committee to do an independent review of planned U.S. human space flight activities with the goal of ensuring that the nation is on a vigorous and sustainable path to achieving its boldest aspirations in space. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
1980-01-01
1979. Principal Investigator: An Archaeological Investigation of the Proposed Lagoon Site, Dam Site Recreation Area, Coralville Lake, ! Iowa River, Iowa ...Proposed Lagoon Site, Coralville Lake, Iowa . Winter, 1979. I Analysis of Material from the Site Survey of Blue Earth City Park, Faribault County...t Site Recreation Area, Coralville Lake, Iowa . With Richard A. Strachan. For the Rock Island DsrFct, U. S. Acmy Corps of Engineers. With Richard A
What do Afghans Want from the Police? Views from Helmand Province
2012-01-01
AUTHOR(S) Norman, Catherine 5d PROJECT NUMBER R0148 5e. TASK NUMBER W053 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS...ES) Center for Naval Analyses 4825 Mark Center Drive Alexandria, VA 22311-1850 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER D0026181.A2 9... organizations are expected to trump local values. For instance, when a person joins a city police force, he or she is expected to sub- ordinate the
Advancing research and applications with lightning detection and mapping systems
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
MacGorman, Donald R.; Goodman, Steven J.
2011-11-01
Southern Thunder 2011 Workshop; Norman, Oklahoma, 11-14 July 2011 The Southern Thunder 2011 (ST11) Workshop was the fourth in a series intended to accelerate research and operational applications made possible by the expanding availability of ground-based and satellite systems that detect and map all types of lightning (in-cloud and cloud-to-ground). This community workshop, first held in 2004, brings together lightning data providers, algorithm developers, and operational users in government, academia, and industry.
STS-30 crew poses with NASA administrators in front of OV-104 on EAFB runway
1989-05-08
STS030-S-130 (8 May 1989) --- Astronaut crew members who manned the Space Shuttle Atlantis for just over four days pose with NASA officials following the safe landing of their spacecraft (which forms the backdrop for the picture). Left to right are Rear Admiral Richard H. Truly, acting NASA Administrator; astronauts David M. Walker, Mark C. Lee, Mary L. Cleave, Ronald J. Grabe and Norman E. Thagard; and Dale D. Myers, NASA Deputy Administrator.
1992-01-22
Onboard Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-42) the seven crewmembers pose for a traditional in-space portrait in the shirt-sleeve environment of the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) science module in the Shuttle's cargo bay. Pictured are (clockwise from top),Commander Ronald J. Grabe, payload commander Norman E. Thagard, payload specialist Roberta L. Bondar; mission specialists William F. Readdy and David C. Hilmers; pilot Stephen S. Oswald and payload specialist Ulf Merbold. The rotating chair, used often in biomedical tests on the eight-day flight, is in center frame.
STS-30 crew poses with NASA administrators in front of OV-104 on EAFB runway
1989-05-08
STS030-S-129 (8 May 1989) --- Astronaut crew members who manned the Space Shuttle Atlantis for just over four days pose with NASA officials following the safe landing of their spacecraft (which forms the backdrop for the picture). Left to right are Rear Admiral Richard H. Truly, acting NASA Administrator; astronauts David M. Walker, Mark C. Lee, Mary L. Cleave, Ronald J. Grabe and Norman E. Thagard; and Dale D. Myers, NASA Deputy Administrator.
STS-30 Atlantis, OV-104, landing approach to runway 22 at EAFB, California
1989-05-08
STS030-S-124 (8 May 1989) --- Its landing gear fully deployed, Space Shuttle Atlantis is lined up for its approach to Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. Minutes later, at 12:44:33 (PDT), the spacecraft's wheels had come to a complete stop, marking the successful conclusion for the four-day STS-30 mission. Onboard were astronauts David M. Walker, Ronald J. Grabe, Norman E. Thagard, Mary L. Cleave and Mark C. Lee.
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Armoni, Michal; Gal-Ezer, Judith
2005-01-01
When dealing with a complex problem, solving it by reduction to simpler problems, or problems for which the solution is already known, is a common method in mathematics and other scientific disciplines, as in computer science and, specifically, in the field of computability. However, when teaching computational models (as part of computability)…
Exact parallel algorithms for some members of the traveling salesman problem family
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Pekny, J.F.
1989-01-01
The traveling salesman problem and its many generalizations comprise one of the best known combinatorial optimization problem families. Most members of the family are NP-complete problems so that exact algorithms require an unpredictable and sometimes large computational effort. Parallel computers offer hope for providing the power required to meet these demands. A major barrier to applying parallel computers is the lack of parallel algorithms. The contributions presented in this thesis center around new exact parallel algorithms for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem (ATSP), prize collecting traveling salesman problem (PCTSP), and resource constrained traveling salesman problem (RCTSP). The RCTSP is amore » particularly difficult member of the family since finding a feasible solution is an NP-complete problem. An exact sequential algorithm is also presented for the directed hamiltonian cycle problem (DHCP). The DHCP algorithm is superior to current heuristic approaches and represents the first exact method applicable to large graphs. Computational results presented for each of the algorithms demonstrates the effectiveness of combining efficient algorithms with parallel computing methods. Performance statistics are reported for randomly generated ATSPs with 7,500 cities, PCTSPs with 200 cities, RCTSPs with 200 cities, DHCPs with 3,500 vertices, and assignment problems of size 10,000. Sequential results were collected on a Sun 4/260 engineering workstation, while parallel results were collected using a 14 and 100 processor BBN Butterfly Plus computer. The computational results represent the largest instances ever solved to optimality on any type of computer.« less
The fundamental stellar parameters of FGK stars in the SEEDS survey Norman, OK 73071, USA
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Rich, Evan A.; Wisniewski, John P.; McElwain, Michael W.; Hashimoto, Jun; Kudo, Tomoyuki; Kusakabe, Nobuhiko; Okamoto, Yoshiko K.; Abe, Lyu; Akiyama, Eiji; Brandner, Wolfgang; Brandt, Timothy D.; Cargile, Phillip; Carson, Joseph C.; Currie, Thayne M.; Egner, Sebastian; Feldt, Markus; Fukagawa, Misato; Goto, Miwa; Grady, Carol A.; Guyon, Olivier; Hayano, Yutaka; Hayashi, Masahiko; Hayashi, Saeko S.; Hebb, Leslie; Hełminiak, Krzysztof G.; Henning, Thomas; Hodapp, Klaus W.; Ishii, Miki; Iye, Masanori; Janson, Markus; Kandori, Ryo; Knapp, Gillian R.; Kuzuhara, Masayuki; Kwon, Jungmi; Matsuo, Taro; Mayama, Satoshi; Miyama, Shoken; Momose, Munetake; Morino, Jun-Ichi; Moro-Martin, Amaya; Nakagawa, Takao; Nishimura, Tetsuo; Oh, Daehyeon; Pyo, Tae-Soo; Schlieder, Joshua; Serabyn, Eugene; Sitko, Michael L.; Suenaga, Takuya; Suto, Hiroshi; Suzuki, Ryuji; Takahashi, Yasuhiro H.; Takami, Michihiro; Takato, Naruhisa; Terada, Hiroshi; Thalmann, Christian; Tomono, Daigo; Turner, Edwin L.; Watanabe, Makoto; Yamada, Toru; Takami, Hideki; Usuda, Tomonori; Tamura, Motohide
2017-12-01
Large exoplanet surveys have successfully detected thousands of exoplanets to-date. Utilizing these detections and non-detections to constrain our understanding of the formation and evolution of planetary systems also requires a detailed understanding of the basic properties of their host stars. We have determined the basic stellar properties of F, K and G stars in the Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) survey from Echelle spectra taken at the Apache Point Observatory's 3.5m telescope. Using ROBOSPECT to extract line equivalent widths and Temperature Gravity microtrubulent Velocity ITerations to calculate the fundamental parameters, we have computed Teff, log(g), vt, [Fe/H], chromospheric activity and the age for our sample. Our methodology was calibrated against previously published results for a portion of our sample. The distribution of [Fe/H] in our sample is consistent with that typical of the Solar neighbourhood. Additionally, we find the ages of most of our sample are <500 Myr, but note that we cannot determine robust ages from significantly older stars via chromospheric activity age indicators. The future meta-analysis of the frequency of wide stellar and sub-stellar companions imaged via the SEEDS survey will utilize our results to constrain the occurrence of detected comoving companions with the properties of their host stars.
Parallel computation with molecular-motor-propelled agents in nanofabricated networks.
Nicolau, Dan V; Lard, Mercy; Korten, Till; van Delft, Falco C M J M; Persson, Malin; Bengtsson, Elina; Månsson, Alf; Diez, Stefan; Linke, Heiner; Nicolau, Dan V
2016-03-08
The combinatorial nature of many important mathematical problems, including nondeterministic-polynomial-time (NP)-complete problems, places a severe limitation on the problem size that can be solved with conventional, sequentially operating electronic computers. There have been significant efforts in conceiving parallel-computation approaches in the past, for example: DNA computation, quantum computation, and microfluidics-based computation. However, these approaches have not proven, so far, to be scalable and practical from a fabrication and operational perspective. Here, we report the foundations of an alternative parallel-computation system in which a given combinatorial problem is encoded into a graphical, modular network that is embedded in a nanofabricated planar device. Exploring the network in a parallel fashion using a large number of independent, molecular-motor-propelled agents then solves the mathematical problem. This approach uses orders of magnitude less energy than conventional computers, thus addressing issues related to power consumption and heat dissipation. We provide a proof-of-concept demonstration of such a device by solving, in a parallel fashion, the small instance {2, 5, 9} of the subset sum problem, which is a benchmark NP-complete problem. Finally, we discuss the technical advances necessary to make our system scalable with presently available technology.
Exploring quantum computing application to satellite data assimilation
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Cheung, S.; Zhang, S. Q.
2015-12-01
This is an exploring work on potential application of quantum computing to a scientific data optimization problem. On classical computational platforms, the physical domain of a satellite data assimilation problem is represented by a discrete variable transform, and classical minimization algorithms are employed to find optimal solution of the analysis cost function. The computation becomes intensive and time-consuming when the problem involves large number of variables and data. The new quantum computer opens a very different approach both in conceptual programming and in hardware architecture for solving optimization problem. In order to explore if we can utilize the quantum computing machine architecture, we formulate a satellite data assimilation experimental case in the form of quadratic programming optimization problem. We find a transformation of the problem to map it into Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) framework. Binary Wavelet Transform (BWT) will be applied to the data assimilation variables for its invertible decomposition and all calculations in BWT are performed by Boolean operations. The transformed problem will be experimented as to solve for a solution of QUBO instances defined on Chimera graphs of the quantum computer.
Sleep problems and computer use during work and leisure: Cross-sectional study among 7800 adults.
Andersen, Lars Louis; Garde, Anne Helene
2015-01-01
Previous studies linked heavy computer use to disturbed sleep. This study investigates the association between computer use during work and leisure and sleep problems in working adults. From the 2010 round of the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study, currently employed wage earners on daytime schedule (N = 7883) replied to the Bergen insomnia scale and questions on weekly duration of computer use. Results showed that sleep problems for three or more days per week (average of six questions) were experienced by 14.9% of the respondents. Logistic regression analyses, controlled for gender, age, physical and psychosocial work factors, lifestyle, chronic disease and mental health showed that computer use during leisure for 30 or more hours per week (reference 0-10 hours per week) was associated with increased odds of sleep problems (OR 1.83 [95% CI 1.06-3.17]). Computer use during work and shorter duration of computer use during leisure were not associated with sleep problems. In conclusion, excessive computer use during leisure - but not work - is associated with sleep problems in adults working on daytime schedule.
Baker, Nancy A; Rubinstein, Elaine N; Rogers, Joan C
2012-09-01
Little is known about the problems experienced by and the accommodation strategies used by computer users with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or fibromyalgia (FM). This study (1) describes specific problems and accommodation strategies used by people with RA and FM during computer use; and (2) examines if there were significant differences in the problems and accommodation strategies between the different equipment items for each diagnosis. Subjects were recruited from the Arthritis Network Disease Registry. Respondents completed a self-report survey, the Computer Problems Survey. Data were analyzed descriptively (percentages; 95% confidence intervals). Differences in the number of problems and accommodation strategies were calculated using nonparametric tests (Friedman's test and Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test). Eighty-four percent of respondents reported at least one problem with at least one equipment item (RA = 81.5%; FM = 88.9%), with most respondents reporting problems with their chair. Respondents most commonly used timing accommodation strategies to cope with mouse and keyboard problems, personal accommodation strategies to cope with chair problems and environmental accommodation strategies to cope with monitor problems. The number of problems during computer use was substantial in our sample, and our respondents with RA and FM may not implement the most effective strategies to deal with their chair, keyboard, or mouse problems. This study suggests that workers with RA and FM might potentially benefit from education and interventions to assist with the development of accommodation strategies to reduce problems related to computer use.
The semantic system is involved in mathematical problem solving.
Zhou, Xinlin; Li, Mengyi; Li, Leinian; Zhang, Yiyun; Cui, Jiaxin; Liu, Jie; Chen, Chuansheng
2018-02-01
Numerous studies have shown that the brain regions around bilateral intraparietal cortex are critical for number processing and arithmetical computation. However, the neural circuits for more advanced mathematics such as mathematical problem solving (with little routine arithmetical computation) remain unclear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this study (N = 24 undergraduate students) compared neural bases of mathematical problem solving (i.e., number series completion, mathematical word problem solving, and geometric problem solving) and arithmetical computation. Direct subject- and item-wise comparisons revealed that mathematical problem solving typically had greater activation than arithmetical computation in all 7 regions of the semantic system (which was based on a meta-analysis of 120 functional neuroimaging studies on semantic processing). Arithmetical computation typically had greater activation in the supplementary motor area and left precentral gyrus. The results suggest that the semantic system in the brain supports mathematical problem solving. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Analytical Cost Metrics : Days of Future Past
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Prajapati, Nirmal; Rajopadhye, Sanjay; Djidjev, Hristo Nikolov
As we move towards the exascale era, the new architectures must be capable of running the massive computational problems efficiently. Scientists and researchers are continuously investing in tuning the performance of extreme-scale computational problems. These problems arise in almost all areas of computing, ranging from big data analytics, artificial intelligence, search, machine learning, virtual/augmented reality, computer vision, image/signal processing to computational science and bioinformatics. With Moore’s law driving the evolution of hardware platforms towards exascale, the dominant performance metric (time efficiency) has now expanded to also incorporate power/energy efficiency. Therefore the major challenge that we face in computing systems researchmore » is: “how to solve massive-scale computational problems in the most time/power/energy efficient manner?”« less
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Wessel, F. J.; Rahman, H. U.; Ney, P.; Valenzuela, J.; Beg, F.; McKee, E.; Darling, T.
2016-03-01
This paper is dedicated to Norman Rostoker, our (FJW and HUR) mentor and long-term collaborator, who will always be remembered for the incredible inspiration that he has provided us. Norman's illustrious career dealt with a broad range of fundamental-physics problems and we were fortunate to have worked with him on many important topics: intense-charged-particle beams, field-reversed configurations, and Z-pinches. Rostoker 's group at the University of CA, Irvine was well known for having implemented many refinements to the Z-pinch, that make it more stable, scalable, and efficient, including the development of: the gas-puff Z-pinch [1], which provides for the use of an expanded range of pinch-load materials; the gas-mixture Z-pinch [2], which enhances the pinch stability and increases its radiation efficiency; e-beam pre-ionization [3], which enhances the uniformity of the initial-breakdown process in a gas pinch; magnetic-flux-compression [4, 5], which allows for the amplification of an axial-magnetic field Bz; the Z-θ pinch [6], which predicts fusion in a pinch-on-fiber configuration; the Staged Z-pinch (SZP) [7], which allows for the amplification of the pinch self-magnetic field, Bθ , in addition to a Bz, and leads to a stable implosion and high-gain fusion [8, 9, 10]. This paper describes the physical basis for a magneto-inertial compression in a liner-on-target SZP [11]. Initially a high-atomic-number liner implodes under the action of the J →×B → , Lorentz Force. As the implosion becomes super Alfvénic, magnetosonic waves form, transporting current and magnetic field through the liner toward the interface of the low-atomic-number target. The target implosion remains subsonic with its surface bounded by a stable-shock front. Shock waves that pass into the target provide a source of target plasma pre-heat. At peak compression the assembly is compressed by liner inertia, with flux compression producing an intense-magnetic field near the target. Instability develops at the interface, as the plasma decelerates, which promotes the formation of target-hot spots. Early experiments provide evidence for the magneto-inertial implosion [8, 9, 10]. Studies underway are designed to verify these predictions on the National Terawatt Facility, Zebra Generator, located at the University of Nevada, Reno. Simulations for an unmagnetized, silver-plasma liner imploding onto a deuterium-tritium plasma target, driven by a 200 TW generator, predict fusion beyond break-even, with a 200 MJ yield in an ignited plasma, with an engineering gain factor of, G = Efusion/Estored˜20.
Students' Mathematics Word Problem-Solving Achievement in a Computer-Based Story
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Gunbas, N.
2015-01-01
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a computer-based story, which was designed in anchored instruction framework, on sixth-grade students' mathematics word problem-solving achievement. Problems were embedded in a story presented on a computer as computer story, and then compared with the paper-based version of the same story…
Relativistic theory of particles in a scattering flow III: photon transport.
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Achterberg, A.; Norman, C. A.
2018-06-01
We use the theory developed in Achterberg & Norman (2018a) and Achterberg & Norman (2018b) to calculate the stress due to photons that are scattered elastically by a relativistic flow. We show that the energy-momentum tensor of the radiation takes the form proposed by Eckart (1940). In particular we show that no terms associated with a bulk viscosity appear if one makes the diffusion approximation for radiation transport and treats the radiation as a separate fluid. We find only shear (dynamic) viscosity terms and heat flow terms in our expression for the energy-momentum tensor. This conclusion holds quite generally for different forms of scattering: Krook-type integral scattering, diffusive (Fokker-Planck) scattering and Thomson scattering. We also derive the transport equation in the diffusion approximation that shows the effects of the flow on the photon gas in the form of a combination of adiabatic heating and an irreversible heating term. We find no diffusive changes to the comoving number density and energy density of the scattered photons, in contrast with some published results in Radiation Hydrodynamics. It is demonstrated that these diffusive corrections to the number- and energy density of the photons are in fact higher-order terms that can (and should) be neglected in the diffusion approximation. Our approach eliminates these terms at the root of the expansion that yields the anisotropic terms in the phase-space density of particles and photons, the terms responsible for the photon viscosity.
Biogeochemical evolution of a landfill leachate plume, Norman, Oklahoma
Cozzarelli, Isabelle M.; Böhlke, John Karl; Masoner, Jason R.; Breit, George N.; Lorah, Michelle M.; Tuttle, Michele L.W.; Jaeschke, Jeanne B.
2011-01-01
Leachate from municipal landfills can create groundwater contaminant plumes that may last for decades to centuries. The fate of reactive contaminants in leachate-affected aquifers depends on the sustainability of biogeochemical processes affecting contaminant transport. Temporal variations in the configuration of redox zones downgradient from the Norman Landfill were studied for more than a decade. The leachate plume contained elevated concentrations of nonvolatile dissolved organic carbon (NVDOC) (up to 300 mg/L), methane (16 mg/L), ammonium (650 mg/L as N), iron (23 mg/L), chloride (1030 mg/L), and bicarbonate (4270 mg/L). Chemical and isotopic investigations along a 2D plume transect revealed consumption of solid and aqueous electron acceptors in the aquifer, depleting the natural attenuation capacity. Despite the relative recalcitrance of NVDOC to biodegradation, the center of the plume was depleted in sulfate, which reduces the long-term oxidation capacity of the leachate-affected aquifer. Ammonium and methane were attenuated in the aquifer relative to chloride by different processes: ammonium transport was retarded mainly by physical interaction with aquifer solids, whereas the methane plume was truncated largely by oxidation. Studies near plume boundaries revealed temporal variability in constituent concentrations related in part to hydrologic changes at various time scales. The upper boundary of the plume was a particularly active location where redox reactions responded to recharge events and seasonal water-table fluctuations. Accurately describing the biogeochemical processes that affect the transport of contaminants in this landfill-leachate-affected aquifer required understanding the aquifer's geologic and hydrodynamic framework.
Cespedes, Frank V; Galford, Robert M
2004-06-01
Norman Windom, the chairman of Tiverton Media, may not know much about the world of popular music, but he does fancy himself a careful planner and a superb judge of managerial talent. That's why he's been grooming COO Sean Kinnane, a Wharton-minted numbers man, to take over an important division, Aleph Records, and one day Tiverton itself. But Derek Solomon, Aleph's 68-year-old CEO and founder, remains a creative force and a father figure to the label's artists. What's more, he's touchy about anything that might slow down Aleph's responses to the market's ever-shifting preferences--or that might call into question his indispensability. Though Sean dutifully participates in Tiverton's broad-based and elaborate executive development plan, he senses that Aleph's future leadership structure is uncertain. As impatient as he is ambitious, he announces that he's leaving Tiverton for more suitable pastures. Several of his associates, also unsure about their fate within Aleph, are following him out the door. In one fell swoop, they've torn Norman's proud succession plan apart. What kind of plan should the board adopt going forward? Commenting on this fictional case study are Francis N. Bonsignore, a senior vice president at Marsh & McLennan; Michelle L. Buck, a clinical associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management; Jon Younger, who heads leadership development at National City Corporation, a financial holding company in Cleveland; and Thomas Leppert, the chairman and CEO of the Turner Corporation, a large construction company in Dallas.
The Role of the Goal in Solving Hard Computational Problems: Do People Really Optimize?
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Carruthers, Sarah; Stege, Ulrike; Masson, Michael E. J.
2018-01-01
The role that the mental, or internal, representation plays when people are solving hard computational problems has largely been overlooked to date, despite the reality that this internal representation drives problem solving. In this work we investigate how performance on versions of two hard computational problems differs based on what internal…
Domain identification in impedance computed tomography by spline collocation method
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Kojima, Fumio
1990-01-01
A method for estimating an unknown domain in elliptic boundary value problems is considered. The problem is formulated as an inverse problem of integral equations of the second kind. A computational method is developed using a splice collocation scheme. The results can be applied to the inverse problem of impedance computed tomography (ICT) for image reconstruction.
ERIC Educational Resources Information Center
Lower, Stephen K.
A brief overview of CHEMEX--a problem-solving, tutorial style computer-assisted instructional course--is provided and sample problems are offered. In CHEMEX, students receive problems in advance and attempt to solve them before moving through the computer program, which assists them in overcoming difficulties and serves as a review mechanism.…
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Palumbo, Debra L; Palumbo, David B.
1993-01-01
Computer-based problem-solving software exposure was compared to Lego TC LOGO instruction. Thirty fifth graders received either Lego LOGO instruction, which couples Lego building block activities with LOGO computer programming, or instruction with various problem-solving computer programs. Although both groups showed significant progress, the Lego…
Quantum computation with coherent spin states and the close Hadamard problem
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Adcock, Mark R. A.; Høyer, Peter; Sanders, Barry C.
2016-04-01
We study a model of quantum computation based on the continuously parameterized yet finite-dimensional Hilbert space of a spin system. We explore the computational powers of this model by analyzing a pilot problem we refer to as the close Hadamard problem. We prove that the close Hadamard problem can be solved in the spin system model with arbitrarily small error probability in a constant number of oracle queries. We conclude that this model of quantum computation is suitable for solving certain types of problems. The model is effective for problems where symmetries between the structure of the information associated with the problem and the structure of the unitary operators employed in the quantum algorithm can be exploited.
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
Razzaq, Zia; Prasad, Venkatesh; Darbhamulla, Siva Prasad; Bhati, Ravinder; Lin, Cai
1987-01-01
Parallel computing studies are presented for a variety of structural analysis problems. Included are the substructure planar analysis of rectangular panels with and without a hole, the static analysis of space mast, using NICE/SPAR and FORCE, and substructure analysis of plane rigid-jointed frames using FORCE. The computations are carried out on the Flex/32 MultiComputer using one to eighteen processors. The NICE/SPAR runstream samples are documented for the panel problem. For the substructure analysis of plane frames, a computer program is developed to demonstrate the effectiveness of a substructuring technique when FORCE is enforced. Ongoing research activities for an elasto-plastic stability analysis problem using FORCE, and stability analysis of the focus problem using NICE/SPAR are briefly summarized. Speedup curves for the panel, the mast, and the frame problems provide a basic understanding of the effectiveness of parallel computing procedures utilized or developed, within the domain of the parameters considered. Although the speedup curves obtained exhibit various levels of computational efficiency, they clearly demonstrate the excellent promise which parallel computing holds for the structural analysis problem. Source code is given for the elasto-plastic stability problem and the FORCE program.
Wang, Zhaocai; Ji, Zuwen; Wang, Xiaoming; Wu, Tunhua; Huang, Wei
2017-12-01
As a promising approach to solve the computationally intractable problem, the method based on DNA computing is an emerging research area including mathematics, computer science and molecular biology. The task scheduling problem, as a well-known NP-complete problem, arranges n jobs to m individuals and finds the minimum execution time of last finished individual. In this paper, we use a biologically inspired computational model and describe a new parallel algorithm to solve the task scheduling problem by basic DNA molecular operations. In turn, we skillfully design flexible length DNA strands to represent elements of the allocation matrix, take appropriate biological experiment operations and get solutions of the task scheduling problem in proper length range with less than O(n 2 ) time complexity. Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Insight and analysis problem solving in microbes to machines.
Clark, Kevin B
2015-11-01
A key feature for obtaining solutions to difficult problems, insight is oftentimes vaguely regarded as a special discontinuous intellectual process and/or a cognitive restructuring of problem representation or goal approach. However, this nearly century-old state of art devised by the Gestalt tradition to explain the non-analytical or non-trial-and-error, goal-seeking aptitude of primate mentality tends to neglect problem-solving capabilities of lower animal phyla, Kingdoms other than Animalia, and advancing smart computational technologies built from biological, artificial, and composite media. Attempting to provide an inclusive, precise definition of insight, two major criteria of insight, discontinuous processing and problem restructuring, are here reframed using terminology and statistical mechanical properties of computational complexity classes. Discontinuous processing becomes abrupt state transitions in algorithmic/heuristic outcomes or in types of algorithms/heuristics executed by agents using classical and/or quantum computational models. And problem restructuring becomes combinatorial reorganization of resources, problem-type substitution, and/or exchange of computational models. With insight bounded by computational complexity, humans, ciliated protozoa, and complex technological networks, for example, show insight when restructuring time requirements, combinatorial complexity, and problem type to solve polynomial and nondeterministic polynomial decision problems. Similar effects are expected from other problem types, supporting the idea that insight might be an epiphenomenon of analytical problem solving and consequently a larger information processing framework. Thus, this computational complexity definition of insight improves the power, external and internal validity, and reliability of operational parameters with which to classify, investigate, and produce the phenomenon for computational agents ranging from microbes to man-made devices. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Quantum Computing: Solving Complex Problems
DiVincenzo, David
2018-05-22
One of the motivating ideas of quantum computation was that there could be a new kind of machine that would solve hard problems in quantum mechanics. There has been significant progress towards the experimental realization of these machines (which I will review), but there are still many questions about how such a machine could solve computational problems of interest in quantum physics. New categorizations of the complexity of computational problems have now been invented to describe quantum simulation. The bad news is that some of these problems are believed to be intractable even on a quantum computer, falling into a quantum analog of the NP class. The good news is that there are many other new classifications of tractability that may apply to several situations of physical interest.
Hofstadter-Duke, Kristi L; Daly, Edward J
2015-03-01
This study investigated a method for conducting experimental analyses of academic responding. In the experimental analyses, academic responding (math computation), rather than problem behavior, was reinforced across conditions. Two separate experimental analyses (one with fluent math computation problems and one with non-fluent math computation problems) were conducted with three elementary school children using identical contingencies while math computation rate was measured. Results indicate that the experimental analysis with non-fluent problems produced undifferentiated responding across participants; however, differentiated responding was achieved for all participants in the experimental analysis with fluent problems. A subsequent comparison of the single-most effective condition from the experimental analyses replicated the findings with novel computation problems. Results are discussed in terms of the critical role of stimulus control in identifying controlling consequences for academic deficits, and recommendations for future research refining and extending experimental analysis to academic responding are made. © The Author(s) 2014.
Problems experienced by people with arthritis when using a computer.
Baker, Nancy A; Rogers, Joan C; Rubinstein, Elaine N; Allaire, Saralynn H; Wasko, Mary Chester
2009-05-15
To describe the prevalence of computer use problems experienced by a sample of people with arthritis, and to determine differences in the magnitude of these problems among people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA), and fibromyalgia (FM). Subjects were recruited from the Arthritis Network Disease Registry and asked to complete a survey, the Computer Problems Survey, which was developed for this study. Descriptive statistics were calculated for the total sample and the 3 diagnostic subgroups. Ordinal regressions were used to determine differences between the diagnostic subgroups with respect to each equipment item while controlling for confounding demographic variables. A total of 359 respondents completed a survey. Of the 315 respondents who reported using a computer, 84% reported a problem with computer use attributed to their underlying disorder, and approximately 77% reported some discomfort related to computer use. Equipment items most likely to account for problems and discomfort were the chair, keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Of the 3 subgroups, significantly more respondents with FM reported more severe discomfort, more problems, and greater limitations related to computer use than those with RA or OA for all 4 equipment items. Computer use is significantly affected by arthritis. This could limit the ability of a person with arthritis to participate in work and home activities. Further study is warranted to delineate disease-related limitations and develop interventions to reduce them.
Indirection and computer security.
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)
Berg, Michael J.
2011-09-01
The discipline of computer science is built on indirection. David Wheeler famously said, 'All problems in computer science can be solved by another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem'. We propose that every computer security vulnerability is yet another problem created by the indirections in system designs and that focusing on the indirections involved is a better way to design, evaluate, and compare security solutions. We are not proposing that indirection be avoided when solving problems, but that understanding the relationships between indirections and vulnerabilities is key to securing computer systems. Using this perspective, we analyzemore » common vulnerabilities that plague our computer systems, consider the effectiveness of currently available security solutions, and propose several new security solutions.« less
United States Air Force Statistical Digest, Fiscal Year 1992/1993 Estimate
1993-01-01
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1985-06-01
STUDY OF A BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR POWER CONDITIONER FOR A CRUISE MISSILE FIN CONTROL ACTUATOR CA. by Peter Norman MacMillan June 1985 Thesis Advisor: A...TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED A CSMP Commutation Model for Design Master’s Thesis Study of a Brushless DC Motor Power June, 1985 Conditioner for a...tactical missiles. A dynamic equivalent circuit model for the analysis of a small four pole brushless DC motor fed ty a transistorized power conditioner
The right to a decent minimum of health care.
Buchanan, Allen E
1984-01-01
Buchanan examines, and finds inadequate, several philosophical approaches to justifying and specifying the content of a universal right to a decent minimum of health care: utilitarian arguments, Rawlsian ideal contract arguments, and Norman Daniels' equality of opportunity argument. Also rejecting the libertarian hypothesis that there is no right to a decent minimum of care, he contends that the claim that society should guarantee certain health care services can be supported by a pluralistic approach encompassing special right-claims, harm prevention, prudential arguments emphasizing public health benefits, and beneficence.
STS-30 crewmembers train on JSC shuttle mission simulator (SMS) flight deck
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1988-01-01
Wearing headsets, Mission Specialist (MS) Mark C. Lee (left), MS Mary L. Cleave (center), and MS Norman E. Thagard pose on aft flight deck in JSC's fixed base (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS). In background, Commander David M. Walker and Pilot Ronald J. Grabe check data on forward flight deck CRT monitors. FB-SMS is located in JSC's Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5. Crewmembers are scheduled to fly aboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, in April 1989 for NASA mission STS-30.
STS-71 Mission Highlights Resources Tape
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
1997-01-01
The flight crew of the STS-71 Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis Commander Robert L. Gibson, Pilot Charles J. Precourt, Mission Specialists, Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Gregory J. Harbaugh, and Payload Specialists, Norman E. Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov, and Gennadiy Strekalov present an overview of their mission. It's primary objective is the first Mir docking with a space shuttle and crew transfer. Video footage includes the following: prelaunch and launch activities; the crew eating breakfast; shuttle launch; on orbit activities; rendezvous with Mir; Shuttle/Mir joint activities; undocking; and the shuttle landing.
In Brief: Web site for human spaceflight review committee
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Showstack, Randy
2009-06-01
As part of an independent review of human spaceflight plans and programs, NASA has established a Web site for the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee (http://hsfnasagov). The Web site provides the committee's charter, relevant documents, information about meetings and members, and ways to contact the committee. “The human spaceflight program belongs to everyone. Our committee would hope to benefit from the views of all who would care to contact us,” noted committee chairman Norman Augustine, retired chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
1983-05-24
S83-32571 (23 May 1983) --- Four-fifths of the STS-7 crew take a break from simulations in the Johnson Space Center?s Mission Simulation and Training Facility and pose for NASA photographer. Standing on the steps leading into the motion-based Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) are (left to right) astronauts Robert L. Crippen, John M. Fabian, Frederick H. Hauck and Sally K. Ride. Crippen is crew commander; Hauck, pilot; and Fabian and Ride are mission specialists, along with Norman E. Thagard (not involved in this phase of training and not pictured). Photo credit: NASA
1988-11-16
parts was less than for sole source acquired spare parts see, Alan E. Olsen ; James E. Cunningham; and Donald J. Wilkins, "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of...Washington, D.C. Logistc Management-Institute, MUTT- I 339 I Zusman, Morris; Asher, Norman; Wetzler, Elliot; Bennett, Debbie; Gustaves, Selmer ; Higgins...Acquisition." Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, 1984. Olsen , Alan E.; Cunningham, James E.; and Wilkins, Donald J. "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of
STS-42 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, lifts off from KSC LC Pad
1992-01-22
STS042-S-064 (22 Jan 1992) --- A horizontal image of liftoff of STS-42, with a crew of seven and the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) onboard. Crewmembers are astronauts Ronald J. Grabe, mission commander; Stephen S. Oswald, pilot; Norman E. Thagard, payload commander; David C. Hilmers and William F. Readdy, both mission specialists; and payload specialists Roberta L. Bondar of Canada and Ulf Merbold, representing the European Space Agency (ESA). Liftoff occurred at 9:52:33 a.m. (EST), Jan. 22, 1992.
Human Space Flight Plans Committee Report
2009-10-21
NASA Public Affairs Officer Doc Mirelson, left, and Chairman of the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee Norman Augustine, right, listen to reporters questions during a press conference where the committee released it's report on Thursday, Oct., 22, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington. The Obama Administration tasked the committee to do an independent review of planned U.S. human space flight activities with the goal of ensuring that the nation is on a vigorous and sustainable path to achieving its boldest aspirations in space. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
SpaceX CRS-12 "What's on Board?" Science Briefing
2017-08-13
Boy Scouts of America Troop 209 members Andrew Frank, left, Elliot Lee center, and team leader Norman McFarland speak to members of social media in the Kennedy Space Center’s Press Site auditorium. The briefing focused on research planned for launch to the International Space Station. The scientific materials and supplies will be aboard a Dragon spacecraft scheduled for launch from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A on Aug. 14 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the company's 12th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station.
Quinolinemethanol Antimalarials.
1974-12-01
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Shuttle Challenger landing on Runway 17 at Edwards at end of 51-B mission
1985-05-06
51B-S-071 (6 May 1985) --- The Space Shuttle Challenger lands on Runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base to complete a week in space for its seven-member crew and a variety of payload. The vehicle stopped at 9:12:05 a.m. (PDT), May 6, 1985. Onboard were astronauts Robert F. Overmyer, Frederick D. Gregory, Don L. Lind, Norman E. Thagard and William E. Thornton of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); and payload specialists Lodewijk van den Berg and Taylor G. Wang.
1985-09-16
Lima gave up their hope of instigating another coup and moved to the countryside. There they formed the Revolutionary Movement Alejandro de Leon...Mexico and then the Maya of southern Mexico. In 1524 Cortes’s lieutenant, Pedro de Alvarado, fought his way into what is now Guatemala, and by 1527 had...8217 ~ ~-. .- -• 17 Notes Norman Hammond, "Unearthing the Oldest Known Maya," National Geographic, July 1982, p. 128. Louis de la Haba, "Guatemala, Maya and Modern
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MID, RG 165; Fuller to MID, 10 Mar 37, 2657-S-144/130, MID, RG 165. 45Andres Baget Fornells, "Alas Rusas Sobre Espaina," Historia Y Vida 19 (224...34 Historia Y Vida 19 (224, 1986): 4-15. Canevari, Emilio. "Forecasts from the War in Spain: Lessons Based on Technical and Tactical Experience." Translated...Colonel Sumner Waite was a graduate of the French Ecole Superierure de Guerre, and Lieutenant Colonel Norman E. Fiske graduated from the Tor di Quinto