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Huffer Memorial Children's Center promotional video : an honors thesis (HONRS 499)
No full textHuffer Memorial Children's Center is a successful business located at 2000 N. Elgin St. in Muncie, Ind. In addition to running a child care center of its own, Huffer is one of 11 Child Care Resource and Referral agencies in Indiana. This part of Huffer helps parents, child care providers and community organizations in 10 counties to find and improve quality child care in their area. The video I produced is a promotional video which will help spread the word about Huffer's services and be a fundraising tool in Huffer's upcoming capital campaign. This Child Care Resource and Referral video has been packaged with a previously completed video about Huffer's own child care services to form an overall promotional DVD for Huffer.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
圓周上連續間隔總和的極值之分配
No full text碩士 根據Huffer (1988)和Huffer and Lin (1997, 2001)所提出的遞迴關係式，我們發展出幾個特殊的演算法來計算圓周上重疊連續間隔的線性組合之聯合機率分布。我們所提出的演算法可以應用來推算多重覆蓋與掃描統計量的機率。Based on the recursions in Huffer (1988) and Huffer and Lin (2001), and the marking algorithm in Huffer and Lin (1997), some specialized algorithms are developed.Our approach can evaluate the probabilities involving the joint distribution of overlapping sums of consecutive spacings on a circle. Application to the distribution of circular scan statistic and multiple coverage probabilities are discussed.1 Introduction 1
2 Recursions and Basic Properties 2
3 The Algorithm 5
4 Illustrative Example 8
5 Special Results 13
5.1 Explicit Expression for {A}1 ..............14
5.2 Explicit Expression for {A}2 ..............16
6 Concluding Remarks 17
References 18
Appendix 21學號: 601190266, 學年度: 10
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Approximating the distribution of the scan statistic using moments of the number of clumps
No full textLet X 1, X 2, …, Xn be randomly distributed points on the unit interval. Let Nx,x+d be the number of these points contained in the interval (x, x + d). The scan statistic Nd is defined as the maximum number of points in a window of length d; that is, Nd = sup x Nx,x+d. This statistic is used to test for the presence of nonrandom clustering. We say that m points form an m: d clump if these points are all contained in some interval of length d. Let Y denote the number of m: d clumps. In this article we show how to compute the lower-order moments of Y, and we use these moments to obtain approximations and bounds for the distribution of the scan statistic Nd. Our approximations are based on using the methods of moments technique to approximate the distribution of Y. We try two basic types of methods of moments approximations: one involving a simple Markov chain model and others using various different compound Poisson approximations. Our results compare favorably with other approximations and bounds in the literature. In particular, our approximations MC2 and CPG2, which use only the first two moments of Y, do quite well and should be generally useful. We calculate the moments of Y using recursions given by Huffer. We give explicit general formulas for the first two moments of Y and show how the computer programs of Lin may be used to calculate the third and fourth moments.補正完畢國外SC
Intern experience at CH���M Hill, Inc.: an internship report
No full textIncludes author's vita"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes bibliographical referencesA review of the author's internship experience with CH���M HILL, Inc.
during the period September 1975 through May 1976 is presented. During this nine month
internship the author worked as an Engineer II in the Industrial Processes discipline of this
large consulting engineering firm... The author's prime responsibility was as one of three
lead design engineers on the design of a large wastewater treatment facility for a pulp mill
in Hoquiam, Washington owned by ITT Rayonier Inc. The work generally consisted of the design
of individual treatment units and associated piping and pumping. The purpose of the project
was to provide wastewater treatment capabilities that would satisfy the effluent limitations
(standards) imposed upon the mill by the State of Washington Department of Ecology and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The author's assignment also entailed necessary
interaction with the project manager and other CH���M HILL design engineers and support staff
members, the client's representatives, and representatives of two other consulting engineering
firms working on the project. Thus, the internship position at CH���M HILL provided considerable
experience coordinating the author's work with the work of other engineers, guiding the design
and administrative efforts of a support staff, and interacting regularly with the client and
other consulting firms. This broad exposure to a variety of engineering and organizational
problems provided a valuable educational experience
Transition to turbulence in a qblique shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction at M=15
No full textDirect numerical simulations are carried out for different forcing techniques to trigger transition during the interaction between an oblique shock-wave and a laminar boundary-layer at M = 1.5. Three forcing methods are used: a) forcing of oblique unstable modes, whose shape and behaviour are determined by the local linear stability theory, b) broadband free-stream acoustic disturbances, and c) a cold plasma flow control device. While the oblique-mode breakdown is dominant for low-amplitude forcing, long streaky structures drive the transition process in a high-amplitude disturbance environment. LES are also performed on the experimental setup by the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM) from Novosibirsk State University with cold plasma actuation. As well as the disturbance type, the effect of Reynolds number and forcing amplitude will be investigated
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