Derivations and generating degrees in the ring of arithmetical ...

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Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,. 1409 W. ... lution ring, and determined a discrete valuation subring of the unitary ring of ...... Möbius categories as reduced standard division categories of combinatorial.

Development of interdisciplinary undergraduate railroad engineering course.

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2016-02-29

Professor James McKinney was a participant in the AREMA 2008 Railroad Engineering Education Symposium (REES) held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as the AREMA 2010 REES held at the Johnson County Community College/BNSF's Tr...

Proceedings of the ERDC-CERL Net Zero Energy (NZE) Installation and Deployed Bases Workshop Held in Colorado Springs, CO. on 3-4 Feb 2009

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2009-06-01

Dr. Alexander Zhivov, ERDC-CERL (Energy Conservation for NZE) • Bill Rose, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign (Building Enve- lope and...continuity of insulation, airtightness ensured at details. • durability primarily a function of rainwater drainage and maintenance • existing

Innovation - Vol 34 (2007)

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Summary of issues and decisions: Workshopon the politics of digital initiatives concerning africa, 4-5 August 2006, University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign · EMAIL FULL TEXT EMAIL FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. DK Easterbrook, 1-3 ...

Development of Laboratory Model Ecosystems as Early Warning Elements of Environmental Pollution

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1974-12-01

AD-AOll 851 DEVELOPMENT OF LABORATORY MODEL ECOSYSTEMS AS EARLY WARNING ELEMENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Robert L. Metcalf... ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Robert L. Metcalf, Ph. D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois INTRODUCTION Problems of environmental pollution with...house dust is unsafe to breathe (Ewing and Pearson, 1974). Most of the source of our concern about environmental pollution by trace substances relates

Numerical Analysis of Solids at Failure

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2011-08-20

vector fields, leading to singular distributions of the fluid contents (fluid accumulation and drainage along the failure surface) while the fluid...and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, September 29 2008. Final Report, FA9550-08-1-0410 19 6. “Finite Elements

Using Simple Environmental Variables to Estimate Biomass Disturbance

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2014-08-01

reserve—not simply on the level of a single com- munity. For example, to determine the best fire management plan for an individual drainage area, the...diversity of the entire drainage . ERDC/CERL TR-14-13 19 Additional considerations include the size, shape, placement, and timing of disturbances; the...management and vehicle disturbance. Masters of Science (MS) Thesis. Urbana , IL: University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign (UIUC), Agricultural and

The Library as Strategic Investment: Results of the Illinois Return on Investment Study

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Paula T. Kaufman

2008-11-01

Full Text Available University administrators are asking library directors to demonstrate their library's value to the institution in easily articulated quantitative terms that focus on outputs rather than on traditionally reported input measures. This paper reports on a study undertaken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that sought to measure the return on the university's investment in its library. The study sought to develop a quantitative measure that recognizes the library's value in supporting the university's strategic goals, using grant income generated by faculty using library materials. It also sought to confirm the benefits of using electronic resources and the resulting impact on productivity over a 10-year period. The results of this study, which is believed to be the first of its kind, represent only one piece of the answer to the challenge of representing the university's total return from its investment in its library.

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Summary of issues and decisions: Workshopon the politics of digital initiatives concerning africa, 4-5 August 2006, University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign. DK Easterbrook. Abstract. No Abstract. Innovation Vol.34 () 2007: pp. 1-3. Full Text: EMAIL FULL TEXT EMAIL FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD ...

Identifying the Learning Styles and Instructional Tool Preferences of Beginning Food Science and Human Nutrition Majors

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Bohn, D. M.; Rasmussen, C. N.; Schmidt, S. J.

2004-01-01

Learning styles vary among individuals, and understanding which instructional tools certain learning styles prefer can be utilized to enhance student learning. Students in the introductory Food Science and Human Nutrition course (FSHN 101), taught at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, were asked to complete Gregorc's Learning Style…

Measuring and Sustaining the Impact of Less Commonly Taught Language Collections in a Research Library

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Lenkart, Joe; Teper, Thomas H.; Thacker, Mara; Witt, Steven W.

2015-01-01

To evaluate the current state of resource sharing and cooperative collection development, this paper examines the relationship between less commonly taught language collections (LCTL) and ILL services. The study examined multiple years of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's resource-sharing data. This paper provides a historical…

Data Management Practices and Perspectives of Atmospheric Scientists and Engineering Faculty

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Wiley, Christie; Mischo, William H.

2016-01-01

This article analyzes 21 in-depth interviews of engineering and atmospheric science faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to determine faculty data management practices and needs within the context of their research activities. A detailed literature review of previous large-scale and institutional surveys and interviews…

Using Multimedia Learning Modules in a Hybrid-Online Course in Electricity and Magnetism

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Sadaghiani, Homeyra R.

2011-01-01

We have been piloting web-based multimedia learning modules (MLMs), developed by the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), as a "prelecture assignment" in several introductory physics courses at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. In this study, we report the results…

The Student/Library Computer Science Collaborative

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Hahn, Jim

2015-01-01

With funding from an Institute of Museum and Library Services demonstration grant, librarians of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign partnered with students in computer science courses to design and build student-centered mobile apps. The grant work called for demonstration of student collaboration…

Propagation of Regional Phases in the Basin and Range

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1990-02-02

complex miultiple rupture, Bull. Seusmol. Soc. Am., 57, 1017 W i23 K un.rT~I, "aind G. S. Stew art, Seismologica aspects of she Gutemala 1967...Fred K. Lamb Prof. William Menke University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory Department of Physics of Columbia

Integrating Assessment into Recurring Information Literacy Instruction: A Case Study from LIS Education

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Searing, Susan E.

2007-01-01

Information literacy instruction is integrated into the distance education program in library and information science (LEEP) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). This article describes the LEEP program and the library services provided to its students. Published research on LEEP and related topics in librarianship is reviewed.…

User-Oriented Project Accounting System.

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Hess, Larry G.; Alcorn, Lisa S.

1990-01-01

The project accounting system used by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Chemical Sciences exchanges financial data with the campus' central accounting system and allows integration of this information with user-entered data to produce an easily read, fully obligated project accounting statement for the budget and period…

Automated Interactive Storeroom Inventory System.

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Sapp, Albert L.; Hess, Larry G.

1989-01-01

The inventory system designed for six storerooms in three buildings at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's School of Chemical Sciences replaced an issue-slip and transactions record system with barcode technology. Data collection error reductions have been significant, making it easier to determine stock levels and plan purchases.…

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Materials Research Laboratory progress report for FY 1993 and research proposal for FY 1994

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Birnbaum, H.K.

1993-03-01

The materials research laboratory program is about 30% of total Materials Science and Engineering effort on the Univ. of Illinois campus. Coordinated efforts are being carried out in areas of structural ceramics, grain boundaries, field responsive polymeric and organic materials, molecular structure of solid-liquid interfaces and its relation to corrosion, and x-ray scattering science.

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Talking and Thinking about Qualitative Research

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Ellis, Carolyn; Bochner, Arthur; Denzin, Norman; Lincoln, Yvonna; Morse, Janice; Pelias, Ronald; Richardson, Laurel

2008-01-01

This script comes from an edited transcript of a session titled "Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research," which was part of the 2006 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 4-6, 2006. This special session featured scholars informally responding to questions about their…

Educational benefits of green chemistry

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Desmond, Serenity; Ray, Christian; Andino Martínez, José G.

2017-08-01

In this article, we present our current state of affairs in the "greening" of general chemistry laboratories, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We recognize the need to quantify our environmental mark and what we plan to do to continue to strive to make our work more sustainable and educational.

Microcomputer Applications in Local Assessment Systems.

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Harnisch, Delwyn L.; And Others

The capabilities and hardware requirements of four microcomputer software packages produced by the Office of Educational Testing, Research and Service at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are described. These programs are: (1) the Scan-Tron Forms Analysis Package Version 2.0, an interface between an IBM-compatible and a Scan-Tron…

Latest results and developments from the Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications

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Rizkallah, Rabel; Andruczyk, Daniel; Jeckell, Zachary Jon; Shone, Andrew John; Johnson, Daniel Scott; Allain, Jean Paul; Curreli, Davide; Ruzic, David N.; The Hidra Team

2017-10-01

The Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications (HIDRA) is a five-period, l = 2, m = 5, toroidal fusion device operated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). It has a major radius R0 = 0.72 m and minor radius a = 0.19 m. Initial heating is achieved with 2.45 GHz electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) at an on-axis magnetic field of B0 = 0.087 T which can go as high as B0 = 0.5 T. HIDRA will mainly be used as a classical stellarator, but can also run as a tokamak. This allows for both steady-state and transient regime operations. Experiments on HIDRA will primarily tackle the issue of plasma-material interactions (PMI) in fusion, and focus on developing innovative plasma facing component (PFC) technologies. Currently, research on flowing liquid lithium PFCs meant to be tested inside the machine in real-time operation, is being carried on. The first experiments run on HIDRA started in early 2016 in the low field region. Now, HIDRA is also capable of running in the high field zone, allowing for more interesting experiments and meaningful outcomes. Here, we present some of the initial results coming from the machine.

Overly Honest Data Repository Development

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Colleen Fallaw

2016-10-01

Full Text Available After a year of development, the library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has launched a repository, called the Illinois Data Bank (https://databank.illinois.edu/, to provide Illinois researchers with a free, self-serve publishing platform that centralizes, preserves, and provides persistent and reliable access to Illinois research data. This article presents a holistic view of development by discussing our overarching technical, policy, and interface strategies. By openly presenting our design decisions, the rationales behind those decisions, and associated challenges this paper aims to contribute to the library community's work to develop repository services that meet growing data preservation and sharing needs.

Data Sharing Interviews with Crop Sciences Faculty: Why They Share Data and How the Library Can Help

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Williams, Sarah C.

2013-01-01

This study was designed to generate a deeper understanding of data sharing by targeting faculty members who had already made data publicly available. During interviews, crop scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were asked why they decided to share data, why they chose a data sharing method (e. g., supplementary file,…

Life Lessons

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Stewart, Pearl

2011-01-01

In early 2010, Stig Lanesskog, associate dean for the MBA program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, challenged a group of his students to venture beyond classroom polemics and into the lives of people in need. Lanesskog took them to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, a culturally rich and economically devastated area with…

Mathematical Modeling of Flow Through Vegetated Regions

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2013-08-01

of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, 1996. [24] M.J. Dwyer, E.G. Patton, and R.H. Shaw. Turbulent kinetic energy budgets from a large-eddy simulation of...retardance in vegetated channels. Journal of the Irrigation and Drainage Division, ASCE, 96:351–357, 1970. [33] W.H. Graf and S.C. Ko. Tests on cylinders

Investigating the Possibility of Using TOEFL Scores for University ESL Decision-Making: Placement Trends and Effect of Time Lag

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Kokhan, Kateryna

2012-01-01

The English Placement Test (EPT) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is designed to provide an accurate placement (or exemption) of international students into the ESL writing and pronunciation classes. Over the last five years, UIUC has experienced an increase in the number of international students taking the EPT. Because of…

Health care costs matter: a review of nutrition economics – is there a role for nutritional support to reduce the cost of medical health care?

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Naberhuis,Jane K; Hunt,Vivienne; Bell,Jvawnna; Partridge,Jamie; Goates,Scott; Nuijten,Mark

2017-01-01

Jane K Naberhuis,1 Vivienne N Hunt,2 Jvawnna D Bell,3 Jamie S Partridge,3 Scott Goates,3 Mark JC Nuijten4 1Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; 2Abbott Nutrition, Research and Development, Singapore; 3Abbott Nutrition, Research and Development, Columbus, OH, USA; 4A2M (Ars Accessus Medica), Amsterdam, The Netherlands Background and aims: As policy-makers assess the value of money spent on health care, researc...

Project Final Report: HPC-Colony II

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Jones, Terry R [ORNL; Kale, Laxmikant V [University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Moreira, Jose [IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

2013-11-01

This report recounts the HPC Colony II Project which was a computer science effort funded by DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Research office. The project included researchers from ORNL, IBM, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The topic of the effort was adaptive system software for extreme scale parallel machines. A description of findings is included.

Health care costs matter: a review of nutrition economics – is there a role for nutritional support to reduce the cost of medical health care?

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Naberhuis JK; Hunt VN; Bell JD; Partridge JS; Goates S; Nuijten MJC

2017-01-01

Jane K Naberhuis,1 Vivienne N Hunt,2 Jvawnna D Bell,3 Jamie S Partridge,3 Scott Goates,3 Mark JC Nuijten4 1Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; 2Abbott Nutrition, Research and Development, Singapore; 3Abbott Nutrition, Research and Development, Columbus, OH, USA; 4A2M (Ars Accessus Medica), Amsterdam, The Netherlands Background and aims: As policy-makers assess the value of money spent on health care, research in the fie...

Hierarchical Theoretical Methods for Understanding and Predicting Anisotropic Thermal Transport Release in Rocket Propellant Formulations

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2016-12-08

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michael Ortiz, Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California...combustion • Formalism and constitutive theory used to describe reactants and their products that reflect the underlying material mechanics and physical...carried out for energetic materials to predict thermo- mechanical and transport properties, phase diagrams, and interfacial structure. Mesoscopic models

Formación del profesorado en educación musical en la Universidad de Illinois: Un estudio de caso

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2004-01-01

Full Text Available This paper reports case studies of music education students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Its pur-pose is to tell of the conditions, causes and ways in which some undergraduate students in music education build both musical and educational knowledge en route to becoming music teachers. My intention is to portray and discuss what these three students experienced during their junior spring semester. I will refer to the concept of music education that each of these three students had. I will interpret each view according to personal and academic characteristics that I found relevant to understand their thinking about music education. I will try to relate those characteristics with other data from the field pertinent to understanding such music education concepts. First I will present a brief introduction to the music education program, then each student’s perception. In the conclusion I will speak of similarities and disparities across cases.

Market-Smart Deconstruction and Material Recovery at Brownfield Sites: How to Identify and Reuse Existing Materials Found at Brownfield Sites

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2011-06-01

aggregate for fill or road base, construction entrance roads, drainage bed material, landfill cover material • Stone – road base, fill material, aggregate...Seminar 23, Research Project, 20 October 2006, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2006. Producer Price...Recyclable Drainage piping may have a modest scrap value. Catch Basins and Manholes, Concrete Recyclable Concrete drainage structures can be broken and

What Are We Really Afraid Of? The Practitioner View of the Terrorist Threat in the United States

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2005-03-01

like intelligence gathering and courier work • 80% single • Familiarity with home ground. Thus terrorists come from both rural and urban areas • 66...codes also help disaggregate intra- - 114 - state regions by identifying urban areas from suburban and rural . Finally, through geographic mapping...National Laboratory for Tourism and eCommerce (NLTEC), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2002. Self-Selection Biases in the Internet

Evidence-Based Marketing for Academic Librarians

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Yoo-Seong Song

2006-01-01

Objective - In developing marketing strategies for the Business & Economics Library (BEL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), a survey was designed to answer the following questions: - Should BEL develop marketing strategies differently for East Asian business students? - What services do graduate business students want to receive from BEL? - With whom should BEL partner to increase visibility at the College of Business? Marketing research techniques were used to g...

Potential Improvements for HEC-HMS Automated Parameter Estimation

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2006-08-01

and is now a graduate student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana /Champaign. Daniel...divided into 14 nested subwatersheds with a flow measuring flume constructed at each of the subwatershed outlets. The drainage areas above the...boundaries and stream network, and rain and stream gauge locations are shown in Figure 1. The first HEC-HMS model was applied to the 39.8-acre drainage

Teaching Data Science

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Brunner, Robert J.; Kim, Edward J.

2016-01-01

We describe an introductory data science course, entitled Introduction to Data Science, offered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The course introduced general programming concepts by using the Python programming language with an emphasis on data preparation, processing, and presentation. The course had no prerequisites, and students were not expected to have any programming experience. This introductory course was designed to cover a wide range of topics, from the nature of ...

Current options for the treatment of optic neuritis

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Pula JH

2012-07-01

Full Text Available John H Pula,1 Christopher J MacDonald21Division of Neuro-ophthalmology, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria; 2University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USAAbstract: Optic neuritis can be defined as typical (associated with multiple sclerosis, improving independent of steroid treatment, or atypical (not associated with multiple sclerosis, steroid-dependent improvement. Causes of atypical optic neuritis include connective tissue diseases (eg, lupus, vasculitis, sarcoidosis, or neuromyelitis optica. In this manuscript, updated treatment options for both typical and atypical optic neuritis are reviewed. Conventional treatments, such as corticosteroids, therapeutic plasma exchange, and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy are all discussed with commentary regarding evidence-based outcomes. Less commonly used treatments and novel purported therapies for optic neuritis are also reviewed. Special scenarios in the treatment of optic neuritis – pediatric optic neuritis, acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis, and optic neuritis occurring during pregnancy – are specifically examined.Keywords: optic neuritis, optic neuropathy, treatment, neuroophthalmology

Quantifying the Impact of Tropospheric Ozone on Crops Productivity at regional scale using JULES-crop

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Leung, F.

2016-12-01

Tropospheric ozone (O3) is the third most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas. It is causing significant crop production losses. Currently, O3 concentrations are projected to increase globally, which could have a significant impact on food security. The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator modified to include crops (JULES-crop) is used here to quantify the impacts of tropospheric O3 on crop production at the regional scale until 2100. We evaluate JULES-crop against the Soybean Free-Air-Concentration-Enrichment (SoyFACE) experiment in Illinois, USA. Experimental data from SoyFACE and various literature sources is used to calibrate the parameters for soybean and ozone damage parameters in soybean in JULES-crop. The calibrated model is then applied for a transient factorial set of JULES-crop simulations over 1960-2005. Simulated yield changes are attributed to individual environmental drivers, CO2, O3 and climate change, across regions and for different crops. A mixed scenario of RCP 2.6 and RCP 8.5 climatology and ozone are simulated to explore the implication of policy. The overall findings are that regions with high ozone concentration such as China and India suffer the most from ozone damage, soybean is more sensitive to O3 than other crops. JULES-crop predicts CO2 fertilisation would increase the productivity of vegetation. This effect, however, is masked by the negative impacts of tropospheric O3. Using data from FAO and JULES-crop estimated that ozone damage cost around 55.4 Billion USD per year on soybean. Irrigation improves the simulation of rice only, and it increases the relative ozone damage because drought can reduce the ozone from entering the plant stomata. RCP 8.5 scenario results in a high yield for all crops mainly due to the CO2 fertilisation effect. Mixed climate scenarios simulations suggest that RCP 8.5 CO2 concentration and RCP 2.6 O3 concentration result in the highest yield. Further works such as more crop FACE-O3 experiments and more Crop

HPC Colony II Consolidated Annual Report: July-2010 to June-2011

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Jones, Terry R [ORNL

2011-06-01

This report provides a brief progress synopsis of the HPC Colony II project for the period of July 2010 to June 2011. HPC Colony II is a 36-month project and this report covers project months 10 through 21. It includes a consolidated view of all partners (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, IBM, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) as well as detail for Oak Ridge. Highlights are noted and fund status data (burn rates) are provided.

Selection of pavement foundation geomaterials for the construction of a new runway

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Anochie-Boateng, Joseph

2011-07-01

Full Text Available specifications. A comprehensive laboratory testing study was recently conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to support an expansion project of an international airport in North Carolina. The project involved the construction of a hub... foundation materials. The granular base layers serve a variety of purposes including reducing the stress applied to the subgrade layer and providing drainage for the pavement. This paper presents the engineering properties of three granular materials for a...

Intrinsic Charge Transport in Organic Field-Effect Transistors

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Podzorov, Vitaly

2005-03-01

Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are essential components of modern electronics. Despite the rapid progress of organic electronics, understanding of fundamental aspects of the charge transport in organic devices is still lacking. Recently, the OFETs based on highly ordered organic crystals have been fabricated with innovative techniques that preserve the high quality of single-crystal organic surfaces. This technological progress facilitated the study of transport mechanisms in organic semiconductors [1-4]. It has been demonstrated that the intrinsic polaronic transport, not dominated by disorder, with a remarkably high mobility of ``holes'' μ = 20 cm^2/Vs can be achieved in these devices at room temperature [4]. The signatures of the intrinsic polaronic transport are the anisotropy of the carrier mobility and an increase of μ with cooling. These and other aspects of the charge transport in organic single-crystal FETs will be discussed. Co-authors are Etienne Menard, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Valery Kiryukhin, Rutgers University; John Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; Michael Gershenson, Rutgers University. [1] V. Podzorov et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 1739 (2003); ibid. 83, 3504 (2003). [2] V. C. Sundar et al., Science 303, 1644 (2004). [3] R. W. I. de Boer et al., Phys. Stat. Sol. (a) 201, 1302 (2004). [4] V. Podzorov et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 086602 (2004).

Understanding on-line community: the affordances of virtual space

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Karen Ruhleder

2002-01-01

Full Text Available Increasing numbers of on-line venues for learning are emerging as virtual communities become more accessible and commonplace. This paper looks at one particular virtual community, an on-line degree programme at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, which offers an M.S. in Library and Information Science (called LEEP. It draws on a framework presented by Mynatt, et al. (1998, which provides a lens for talking about on-line community as a set of affordances. This framework is applied to illustrate the interactions, artefacts, and expectations that shape this community.

An introduction to complex analysis and geometry

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D'Angelo, John P

2010-01-01

An Introduction to Complex Analysis and Geometry provides the reader with a deep appreciation of complex analysis and how this subject fits into mathematics. The book developed from courses given in the Campus Honors Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. These courses aimed to share with students the way many mathematics and physics problems magically simplify when viewed from the perspective of complex analysis. The book begins at an elementary level but also contains advanced material. The first four chapters provide an introduction to complex analysis with many elementary

Evaluating the potential impact of transmission constraints on the operation of a competitive electricity market in Illinois.

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Cirillo, R.; Thimmapuram, P.; Veselka, T.; Koritarov, V.; Conzelmann, G.; Macal, C.; Boyd, G.; North, M.; Overbye, T.; Cheng, X.; Decision and Information Sciences; Univ. of Illinois

2006-04-30

Despite the current adequacy of the generation and transmission system in Illinois, there is concern that the uncertainties of electricity restructuring warrant a more detailed analysis to determine if there might be pitfalls that have not been identified under current conditions. The problems experienced elsewhere in the country emphasize the need for an evaluation of how Illinois might fare under a restructured electricity market. The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) commissioned this study to be undertaken as a joint effort by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Argonne National Laboratory to evaluate the Illinois situation in the 2007 period when restructuring is scheduled to be fully implemented in the State. The purpose of this study is to make an initial determination if the transmission system in Illinois and the surrounding region would be able to support a competitive electricity market, would allow for effective competition to keep prices in check, and would allow for new market participants to effectively compete for market share. The study seeks to identify conditions that could reasonably be expected to occur that would enable a company to exercise market power in one or more portions of the State and thereby create undue pressure on the prices charged to customers and/or inhibit new market participants from entering the market. The term 'market power' has many different definitions, and there is no universal agreement on how to measure it. For the purposes of this study, the term is defined as the ability to raise prices and increase profitability by unilateral action. A more complete definition is provided later. With this definition, the central question of this analysis becomes: 'Can a company, acting on its own, raise electricity prices and increase its profits?' It should be noted that the intent of the study is not to predict whether or not such market power would be exercised by any company. Rather, it is

Ten Years toward Equity: Preliminary Results from a Follow-Up Case Study of Academic Computing Culture

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Tanya L. Crenshaw

2017-05-01

Full Text Available Just over 10 years ago, we conducted a culture study of the Computer Science Department at the flagship University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the top five computing departments in the country. The study found that while the department placed an emphasis on research, it did so in a way that, in conjunction with a lack of communication and transparency, devalued teaching and mentoring, and negatively impacted the professional development, education, and sense of belonging of the students. As one part of a multi-phase case study spanning over a decade, this manuscript presents preliminary findings from our latest work at the university. We detail early comparisons between data gathered at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 and our most recent pilot case study, a follow-up research project completed in 2016. Though we have not yet completed the full data collection, we find it worthwhile to reflect on the pilot case study data we have collected thus far. Our data reveals improvements in the perceptions of undergraduate teaching quality and undergraduate peer mentoring networks. However, we also found evidence of continuing feelings of isolation, incidents of bias, policy opacity, and uneven policy implementation that are areas of concern, particularly with respect to historically underrepresented groups. We discuss these preliminary follow-up findings, offer research and methodological reflections, and share next steps for applied research that aims to create positive cultural change in computing.

Jules Stein, MD: Ophthalmologist, Entertainment Magnate, and Advocate for Vision.

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Straatsma, Bradley R; Weeks, David F

2016-04-01

To report the lifetime activities and accomplishments of Jules Stein, MD. Retrospective review. Assessment of published and unpublished biographical material. Jules Stein combined his love of music and medicine with organizational skills to achieve successive careers as a musician, an ophthalmologist, an entertainment magnate, and an advocate for vision. To preserve vision, he founded Research to Prevent Blindness, founded the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, and led a multiyear campaign to establish the National Eye Institute. With successive careers and extraordinary achievements, Jules Stein created an enduring legacy of benefits to ophthalmology, vision research, and the prevention of blindness. Copyright © 2016 American Academy of Ophthalmology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

New Editors Appointed for Water Resources Research

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2009-03-01

Praveen Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), the newly appointed editor in chief of Water Resources Research (WRR), heads the new team of editors for the journal. The other editors are Tom Torgersen (University of Connecticut, Groton), who continues his editorship; Tissa Illangasekare (Colorado School of Mines, Golden); Graham Sander (Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK); and John Selker (Oregon State University, Corvallis). Hoshin Gupta (University of Arizona, Tucson) will join WRR at the end of 2009. The new editors will begin receiving submissions immediately. The incoming editorial board thanks outgoing editors Marc Parlange, Brian Berkowitz, Amilcare Porporato, and Scott Tyler, all of whom will assist during the transition.

Recovery Act: Understanding the Impact of CO₂ Injection on the Subsurface Microbial Community in an Illinois Basin CCS Reservoir: Integrated Student Training in Geoscience and Geomicrobiology

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Fouke, Bruce [Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL (United States)

2013-03-31

An integrated research and teaching program was developed to provide cross--disciplinary training opportunities in the emerging field of carbon capture and storage (CCS) for geobiology students attending the University of Illinois Urbana-­Champaign (UIUC). Students from across the UIUC campus participated, including those from the departments of Geology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Animal Sciences and the Institute for Genomic Biology. The project took advantage of the unique opportunity provided by the drilling and sampling of the large-­scale Phase III CCS demonstration Illinois Basin - Decatur Project (IBDP) in the central Illinois Basin at nearby Decatur, Illinois. The IBPD is under the direction of the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS, located on the UIUC campus) and the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC). The research component of this project focused on the subsurface sampling and identification of microbes inhabiting the subsurface Cambrian-­age Mt. Simon Sandstone. In addition to formation water collected from the injection and monitoring wells, sidewall rock cores were collected and analyzed to characterize the cements and diagenetic features of the host Mt. Simon Sandstone. This established a dynamic geobiological framework, as well as a comparative baseline, for future studies of how CO₂ injection might affect the deep microbial biosphere at other CCS sites. Three manuscripts have been prepared as a result of these activities, which are now being finalized for submission to top-­tier international peer-­reviewed research journals. The training component of this project was structured to ensure that a broad group of UIUC students, faculty and staff gained insight into CCS issues. An essential part of this training was that the UIUC faculty mentored and involved undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdocs and research scientists, at all stages of the project in order

Jules Horowitz Reactor, basic design

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Bergamaschi, Y.; Bouilloux, Y.; Chantoin, P.; Guigon, B.; Bravo, X.; Germain, C.; Rommens, M.; Tremodeux, P.

2003-01-01

Since the shutdown of the SILOE reactor in 1997, the OSIRIS reactor has ensured the needs regarding technological irradiation at CEA including those of its industrial partners and customers. The Jules Horowitz Reactor will replace it. It has the ambition to provide the necessary nuclear data and maintain a fission research capacity in Europe after 2010. This capacity should be service-oriented. It will be established in Cadarache. The Jules Horowitz reactor will also: - represent a significant step in term of performances and experimental capabilities, - be designed with a high flexibility, in order to satisfy the current demand from European industry, research and be able to accommodate future requirements, - reach a high level of safety, according to the best current practice. This paper will present the main functionalities and the design options resulting from the 'preliminary design' studies. (authors)

Jules Horowitz reactor, basic design

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Bergamaschi, Y.; Bouilloux, Y.; Chantoin, P.; Guigon, B.; Bravo, X.; Germain, C.; Rommens, M.; Tremodeux, P.

2002-01-01

Since the shutdown of the SILOE reactor in 1997, the OSIRIS reactor has ensured the needs regarding technological irradiation at CEA including those of its industrial partners and customers. The Jules Horowitz Reactor will replace it. It has the ambition to provide the necessary nuclear data and maintain a fission research capacity in Europe after 2010. This capacity should be service-oriented. It will be established in Cadarache. The Jules Horowitz reactor will also: represent a significant step in term of performances and experimental capabilities; be designed with a high flexibility, in order to satisfy the current demand from European industry, research and be able to accommodate future requirements; reach a high level of safety, according to the best current practice. This paper will present the main functionalities and the design options resulting from the 'preliminary design' studies. (author)

Individual Learner Differences In Web-based Learning Environments: From Cognitive, Affective and Social-cultural Perspectives

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Mustafa KOC

2005-10-01

Full Text Available Individual Learner DifferencesIn Web-based Learning Environments:From Cognitive, Affective and Social-cultural Perspectives Mustafa KOCPh.D Candidate Instructional TechnologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, IL - USA ABSTRACT Throughout the paper, the issues of individual differences in web-based learning, also known as online instruction, online training or distance education were examined and implications for designing distance education were discussed. Although the main purpose was to identify differences in learners’ characteristics such as cognitive, affective, physiological and social factors that affect learning in a web-enhanced environment, the questions of how the web could be used to reinforce learning, what kinds of development ideas, theories and models are currently being used to design and deliver online instruction, and finally what evidence for the effectiveness of using World Wide Web (WWW for learning and instruction has been reported, were also analyzed to extend theoretical and epistemogical understanding of web-based learning.

Interactive virtual laboratory for distance education in nuclear engineering

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Jain, P.; Stubbins, J.; Uddin, R.

2006-01-01

A real time, distance lab module is being developed and implemented in the Dept. of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This internet based system allows remote personnel to watch the experiments, acquire data, and interact with on-site personnel. The e-lab broadcasts not only the live scenes of laboratory and experiments, but also the real time data and plots being measured and displayed in graphical and other formats. Moreover, use of LabVIEW's remote front panel feature allows communications between the local lab and remote client so that, if permitted, remote client can control part or all of the experiment in real-time. (authors)

Knowledge base technology for CT-DIMS: Report 1. [CT-DIMS (Cutting Tool - Database and Information Management System)

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Kelley, E.E.

1993-05-01

This report discusses progress on the Cutting Tool-Database and Information Management System (CT-DIMS) project being conducted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under contract to the Department of Energy. This project was initiated in October 1991 by UIUC. The Knowledge-Based Engineering Systems Research Laboratory (KBESRL) at UIUC is developing knowledge base technology and prototype software for the presentation and manipulation of the cutting tool databases at Allied-Signal Inc., Kansas City Division (KCD). The graphical tool selection capability being developed for CT-DIMS in the Intelligent Design Environment for Engineering Automation (IDEEA) will provide a concurrent environment for simultaneous access to tool databases, tool standard libraries, and cutting tool knowledge.

In Memoriam: Jules Aarons (1921-2008): Space Weather Pioneer

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Mendillo, Michael

2009-05-01

Prior to the use of the phrase “space weather” to summarize all possible effects of solar-terrestrial physics upon technological systems, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) created and maintained active programs in the application aspects of space physics. The person arguably most associated with those efforts was Jules Aarons, who died on 21 November 2008 at age 87 at his home in Newton, Mass. Jules was a research professor of astronomy and space physics at Boston University from 1981 to 2005, but it was as a civilian scientist at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL) from 1946 to 1981 that Jules emerged as a true leader in studies of how the ionosphere can affect radio communications. He specialized in scintillations, those serious fluctuations of radio signal amplitudes and phases that cause dropouts in otherwise reliable communications links.

Evaluation of JULES-crop performance against site observations of irrigated maize from Mead, Nebraska

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Williams, Karina; Gornall, Jemma; Harper, Anna; Wiltshire, Andy; Hemming, Debbie; Quaife, Tristan; Arkebauer, Tim; Scoby, David

2016-01-01

The JULES-crop model (Osborne et al., 2015) is a parameterisation of crops within the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), which aims to simulate both the impact of weather and climate on crop productivity and the impact of crop-lands on weather and climate. In this evaluation paper, observations of maize at three FLUXNET sites in Nebraska (US-Ne1, US-Ne2, US-Ne3) are used to test model assumptions and make appropriate input parameter choices. JULES runs are performed for the irrigate...

Inter-comparison of Flux-Gradient and Relaxed Eddy Accumulation Methods for Measuring Ammonia Flux Above a Corn Canopy in Central Illinois, USA

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Nelson, A. J.; Koloutsou-Vakakis, S.; Rood, M. J.; Lichiheb, N.; Heuer, M.; Myles, L.

2017-12-01

Ammonia (NH3) is a precursor to fine particulate matter (PM) in the ambient atmosphere. Agricultural activities represent over 80% of anthropogenic emissions of NH3 in the United States. The use of nitrogen-based fertilizers contribute > 50% of total NH3 emissions in central Illinois. The U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board has called for improved methods to measure, model, and report atmospheric NH3 concentrations and emissions from agriculture. High uncertainties in the temporal and spatial distribution of NH3 emissions contribute to poor performance of air quality models in predicting ambient PM concentrations. This study reports and compares NH­3 flux measurements of differing temporal resolution obtained with two methods: relaxed eddy accumulation (REA) and flux-gradient (FG). REA and FG systems were operated concurrently above a corn canopy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) Energy Farm during the 2014 corn-growing season. The REA system operated during daytime, providing average fluxes over four-hour sampling intervals, where time resolution was limited by detection limit of denuders. The FG system employed a cavity ring-down spectrometer, and was operated continuously, reporting 30 min flux averages. A flux-footprint evaluation was used for quality control, resulting in 1,178 qualified FG measurements, 82 of which were coincident with REA measurements. Similar emission trends were observed with both systems, with peak NH3 emission observed one week after fertilization. For all coincident samples, mean NH3 flux was 205 ± 300 ng-N-m2s-1 and 110 ± 256 ng-N-m2s-1 as measured with REA and FG, respectively, where positive flux indicates emission. This is the first reported inter-comparison of REA and FG methods as used for quantifying NH3 fluxes from cropland. Preliminary analysis indicates the improved temporal resolution and continuous sampling enabled by FG allow for the identification of emission pulses

Would Jule Charney Have Cracked the Madden-Julian Oscillation?

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Emanuel, K.

2017-12-01

Jule Charney's approach to science often involved looking at old problems in new ways. One example was his theory of baroclinic instability, which followed on the heels of long-standing efforts to explain well-observed cyclones and anticyclones. He mastered the art of boiling a physical phenomenon down to its essence, throwing away many things that others had considered important while expressing that which he retained in the simplest possible way. To help honor Charney's legacy, I will review the history of another well-observed phenomenon - the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) - together with the many largely unsuccessful efforts to explain it, culminating finally in a satisfying explanation that Jule would have loved.

Publisher Correction: Western US volcanism due to intruding oceanic mantle driven by ancient Farallon slabs

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Zhou, Quan; Liu, Lijun; Hu, Jiashun

2018-05-01

In the version of this Article originally published, data points representing mafic eruptions were missing from Fig. 4b, the corrected version is shown below. Furthermore, the authors omitted to include the following acknowledgements to the provider of the computational resources: "This research is part of the Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (awards OCI-0725070 and ACI-1238993) and the state of Illinois. Blue Waters is a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications. This work is also part of the `PRAC Title 4-D Geodynamic Modeling With Data Assimilation: Origin Of Intra-Plate Volcanism In The Pacific Northwest' PRAC allocation support by the National Science Foundation (award number ACI 1516586). This work also used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant number ACI-1548562." Figure 4 and the Acknowledgements section have been updated in the online version of the Article.

Vibration based monitoring of stay cable force using wireless piezoelectric based strain sensor nodes

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Nguyen, Khac Duy; Kim, Jeong Tae

2012-01-01

This study presents a method to monitor cable force using wireless sensor nodes and piezoelectric sensors. The following approaches are carried out to achieve the objective. Firstly, the principle of piezoelectric materials (e.g., PZT) as strain sensors is reviewed. A cable force estimation method using dynamic features of cables measured by piezoelectric materials is presented. Secondly, the design of an automated cable force monitoring system using the data acquisition sensor node Imote2/SHM DAQ is described. The sensor node is originally developed by University of Illinois at Urbana champaign and is adopted in this study to monitor strain induced voltage from PZT sensors. The advantages of the system are cheap, and eligible for wireless communication and automated operation. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed monitoring system is evaluated on a lab scaled cable

Analyzing Archival Intelligence: A Collaboration Between Library Instruction and Archives

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Merinda Kaye Hensley

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Although recent archival scholarship promotes the use of primary sources for developing students’ analytical research skills, few studies focus on standards or protocols for teaching or assessing archival instruction. Librarians have designed and tested standards and learning assessment strategies for library instruction and archivists would do well to collaborate with and learn from their experience. This study examines lessons learned from one such collaboration between an instructional services librarian and archivist to evaluate and enhance archival instruction in the University Archives’ Student Life and Culture Archival Program (SLC Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. Based on evaluative data from a student survey and in-depth interviews, the authors offer strategies for meeting and exceeding learning outcomes for archival intelligence more successfully.

Jules Verne's Metaphor of the Iron Cage

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Ossewaarde, Marinus R.R.

2010-01-01

Max Weber's concept of the iron cage has become a byword in the scholarly world since the publication in 1930 of Talcott Parsons’ translation of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. What is less well-known is that Jules Verne had earlier used the iron cage metaphor in Twenty Thousand

JULES-crop: a parametrisation of crops in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator

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Osborne, T.; Gornall, J.; Hooker, J.; Williams, K.; Wiltshire, A.; Betts, R.; Wheeler, T.

2014-10-01

Studies of climate change impacts on the terrestrial biosphere have been completed without recognition of the integrated nature of the biosphere. Improved assessment of the impacts of climate change on food and water security requires the development and use of models not only representing each component but also their interactions. To meet this requirement the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) land surface model has been modified to include a generic parametrisation of annual crops. The new model, JULES-crop, is described and evaluation at global and site levels for the four globally important crops; wheat, soy bean, maize and rice is presented. JULES-crop demonstrates skill in simulating the inter-annual variations of yield for maize and soy bean at the global level, and for wheat for major spring wheat producing countries. The impact of the new parametrisation, compared to the standard configuration, on the simulation of surface heat fluxes is largely an alteration of the partitioning between latent and sensible heat fluxes during the later part of the growing season. Further evaluation at the site level shows the model captures the seasonality of leaf area index and canopy height better than in standard JULES. However, this does not lead to an improvement in the simulation of sensible and latent heat fluxes. The performance of JULES-crop from both an earth system and crop yield model perspective is encouraging however, more effort is needed to develop the parameterisation of the model for specific applications. Key future model developments identified include the specification of the yield gap to enable better representation of the spatial variability in yield.

Application of the Disruption Predictor Feature Developer to developing a machine-portable disruption predictor

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Parsons, Matthew; Tang, William; Feibush, Eliot

2016-10-01

Plasma disruptions pose a major threat to the operation of tokamaks which confine a large amount of stored energy. In order to effectively mitigate this damage it is necessary to predict an oncoming disruption with sufficient warning time to take mitigative action. Machine learning approaches to this problem have shown promise but require further developments to address (1) the need for machine-portable predictors and (2) the availability of multi-dimensional signal inputs. Here we demonstrate progress in these two areas by applying the Disruption Predictor Feature Developer to data from JET and NSTX, and discuss topics of focus for ongoing work in support of ITER. The author is also supported under the Fulbright U.S. Student Program as a graduate student in the department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Multi-site evaluation of the JULES land surface model using global and local data

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D. Slevin

2015-02-01

Full Text Available This study evaluates the ability of the JULES land surface model (LSM to simulate photosynthesis using local and global data sets at 12 FLUXNET sites. Model parameters include site-specific (local values for each flux tower site and the default parameters used in the Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model (HadGEM climate model. Firstly, gross primary productivity (GPP estimates from driving JULES with data derived from local site measurements were compared to observations from the FLUXNET network. When using local data, the model is biased with total annual GPP underestimated by 16% across all sites compared to observations. Secondly, GPP estimates from driving JULES with data derived from global parameter and atmospheric reanalysis (on scales of 100 km or so were compared to FLUXNET observations. It was found that model performance decreases further, with total annual GPP underestimated by 30% across all sites compared to observations. When JULES was driven using local parameters and global meteorological data, it was shown that global data could be used in place of FLUXNET data with a 7% reduction in total annual simulated GPP. Thirdly, the global meteorological data sets, WFDEI and PRINCETON, were compared to local data to find that the WFDEI data set more closely matches the local meteorological measurements (FLUXNET. Finally, the JULES phenology model was tested by comparing results from simulations using the default phenology model to those forced with the remote sensing product MODIS leaf area index (LAI. Forcing the model with daily satellite LAI results in only small improvements in predicted GPP at a small number of sites, compared to using the default phenology model.

Impacts of revised PFTs on JULES simulated carbon and moisture fluxes

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Harper, Anna; Cox, Peter; Sitch, Stephen; Mercado, Lina; Luke, Catherine; Jupp, Tim; Wiltshire, Andy; Jones, Chris; Friedlingstein, Pierre

2013-04-01

JULES is the land surface model in the Hadley Centre GCM, which is used for investigations of climate and climate change. We analyze the impacts on the simulated carbon and moisture fluxes of extending the PFTs in a manner consistent with observed leaf traits. The model currently represents global vegetation with five PFTs (needleleaf and broadleaf trees, C3 and C4 grasses, and shrubs). We add three new PFTs to delineate between deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs. Since the inception of JULES in the late 90's, a tremendous amount of new data linking leaf traits and potential photosynthesis is available. We use data from the TRY plant trait data base to revise the relationships between leaf area, leaf lifespan, leaf nitrogen content, and Vcmax. In addition, JULES now includes a canopy radiation scheme based on fractions of sunlit and shaded leaves at 10 levels in the canopy. This results in a vertical distribution of nitrogren and Vcmax through the canopy and enables multilayer scaling from leaf to canopy level photosynthesis. The scheme is more physically realistic than previous canopy radiation schemes, but remains to be evaluated outside of the Tropics. Within the constraints of observed values, we optimize new parameter values related to the canopy radiation and photosynthesis, using optimization software developed at the University of Exeter. Impacts on simulated GPP, respiration, and latent heat flux are examined. In particular, we are interested in a better understanding of carbon cycle dynamics in tropical forests. Using data from TRY, carbon fluxes are improved across all PFTs compared to observations from Fluxnet tower sites. We adopt a regional analysis to compare JULES fluxes in certain regions (e.g. tropical forests, and boreal and tropical shrub-dominated landscapes).

Integrated research training program of excellence in radiochemistry

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Lapi, Suzanne [Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)

2015-09-18

The overall goal of this “Integrated Research Training Program of Excellence in Radiochemistry” is to provide a rich and deep research experience in state-of-the-art radiochemistry and in the fundamentals of radioisotopic labeling and tracer methodology to develop researchers who are capable of meeting the challenges of designing and preparing radiotracers of broad applicability for monitoring and imaging diverse biological systems and environmental processes. This program was based in the Departments of Radiology and Radiation Oncology at Washington University Medical School and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and it was initially directed by Professor Michael J. Welch as Principal Investigator. After his passing in 2012, the program was led by Professor Suzanne E. Lapi. Programmatic content and participant progress was overseen by an Internal Advisory Committee of senior investigators consisting of the PIs, Professor Mach from the Department of Radiology at Washington University and Professor John A. Katzenellenbogen of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. A small External Advisory Committee to give overall program guidance was also constituted of experts in radiolabeled compounds and in their applications in environmental and plant science.

Alfred Jules Aver's induction and Marxian historical evolution: It's ...

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Alfred Jules Aver's induction and Marxian historical evolution: It's lessons for the current economic global crisis. ... Economic liberalism, political manipulation and gross capitalism have been given as the major causes of the present situation in the world economy. It is on this touchstone that we tried to examine the Marxian ...

Progress on the Development of the hPIC Particle-in-Cell Code

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Dart, Cameron; Hayes, Alyssa; Khaziev, Rinat; Marcinko, Stephen; Curreli, Davide; Laboratory of Computational Plasma Physics Team

2017-10-01

Advancements were made in the development of the kinetic-kinetic electrostatic Particle-in-Cell code, hPIC, designed for large-scale simulation of the Plasma-Material Interface. hPIC achieved a weak scaling efficiency of 87% using the Algebraic Multigrid Solver BoomerAMG from the PETSc library on more than 64,000 cores of the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The code successfully simulates two-stream instability and a volume of plasma over several square centimeters of surface extending out to the presheath in kinetic-kinetic mode. Results from a parametric study of the plasma sheath in strongly magnetized conditions will be presented, as well as a detailed analysis of the plasma sheath structure at grazing magnetic angles. The distribution function and its moments will be reported for plasma species in the simulation domain and at the material surface for plasma sheath simulations. Membership Pending.

A new MTR fuel for a new MTR reactor: UMo for the Jules Horowitz reactor

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Guigon, B.; Vacelet, H.; Dornbusch, D.

2000-01-01

Within some years, the Jules Horowitz Reactor will be the only working experimental reactor (material and fuel testing reactor) in France. It will have to provide facilities for a wide range of needs from activation analysis to power reactor fuel qualification. In this paper the main characteristics of the Jules Horowitz Reactor are presented. Safety criteria are explained. Finally, merits and disadvantages of UMo compared to the standard U 3 Si 2 fuel are discussed. (author)

Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing of a Burial from a Romano–Christian Cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: Preliminary Indications

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J. Eldon Molto

2017-10-01

Full Text Available The curse of ancient Egyptian DNA was lifted by a recent study which sequenced the mitochondrial genomes (mtGenome of 90 ancient Egyptians from the archaeological site of Abusir el-Meleq. Surprisingly, these ancient inhabitants were more closely related to those from the Near East than to contemporary Egyptians. It has been accepted that the timeless highway of the Nile River seeded Egypt with African genetic influence, well before pre-Dynastic times. Here we report on the successful recovery and analysis of the complete mtGenome from a burial recovered from a remote Romano–Christian cemetery, Kellis 2 (K2. K2 serviced the ancient municipality of Kellis, a village located in the Dakhleh Oasis in the southwest desert in Egypt. The data were obtained by high throughput sequencing (HTS performed independently at two ancient DNA facilities (Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Dover, DE, USA and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. These efforts produced concordant haplotypes representing a U1a1a haplogroup lineage. This result indicates that Near Eastern maternal influence previously identified at Abusir el-Meleq was also present further south, in ancient Kellis during the Romano–Christian period.

A new MTR fuel for a new MTR reactor: UMo for the Jules Horowitz reactor

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Guigon, B. [CEA Cadarache, Dir. de l' Energie Nucleaire DEN, Reacteur Jules Horowitz, 13 - Saint-Paul-lez-Durance (France); Vacelet, H. [Compagnie pour l' Etude et la Realisation de Combustibles Atomiques, CERCA, Etablissement de Romans, 26 (France); Dornbusch, D. [Technicatome, Service d' Architecture Generale, 13 - Aix-en-Provence (France)

2003-07-01

Within some years, the Jules Horowitz Reactor will be the only working experimental reactor (material and fuel testing reactor) in France. It will have to provide facilities for a wide range of needs: from activation analysis to power reactor fuel qualification. In this paper will be presented the main characteristics of the Jules Horowitz Reactor: its total power, neutron flux, fuel element... Safety criteria will be explained. Finally merits and disadvantages of UMo compared to the standard U{sub 3}Si{sub 2} fuel will be discussed. (authors)

Low-frequency Electronic Transport Noise in La2-xBaxCuO4 Nanowires

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Weis, Adam; Xin, Yizhou; van Harlingen, Dale

2013-03-01

In the pseudogap regime, high temperature superconductors often exhibit electronic structure, such as charge stripes. Charge stripes pinned to disorder have been predicted to contribute to low-frequency resistance fluctuations when sample dimensions are comparable to the size of stripe domains (Carlson, 2006). We are extending our previous studies of resistance fluctuations in YBa2Cu3O7-δ (Bonetti, 2004; Caplan, 2010) to thin films of La-based cuprates expected to have a more stable stripe phase, particularly in the regime near 1/8-filling. We present measurements of the low-frequency electronic transport in La2-xBaxCuO4 nanowires fabricated by pulsed laser deposition and lithographic techniques. We discuss temperature dependence of the power spectral density and its relevance to correlated electron phases above Tc. This research was supported by the DOE-DMS under grant DE-FG02-07ER46453, through the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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2008-01-01

Ecole de physique - Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire 24, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 1211 GENEVE 4 Tél: (022) 379 62 73 - Fax: (022) 379 69 92 Monday 21 April 2008 PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM at 17.00 – Grand auditoire Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation,state of play,prospects by Prof. A.J. Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I present the motivation for experiments which attempt to generate, and verify the existence of quantum superpositions of two or more states which are by some reasonable criterion "macroscopically" distinct, and show that various a priori objections to this program made in the literature are flawed. I review the extent to which such experiments currently exist in the areas of free-space molecular diffraction, magnetic biomolecules, quantum optics and Josephson devices, and sketch possible future lines of development of the program. Monday 28 April 2008 PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM at 17.00 – Stückelberg Auditorium Gr...

Application of the NCSA Habanero tool for collaboration on structural integrity assessments

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Bass, B.R.; Kruse, K.; Dodds, R.H. Jr.; Malik, S.N.M.

1998-11-01

The Habanero software was developed by the National Center for Superconducting Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as a framework for the collaborative sharing of Java applications. The Habanero tool performs distributed communication of single-user, computer software interactions to a multiuser collaborative environment. An investigation was conducted to evaluate the capabilities of the Habanero tool in providing an Internet-based collaborative framework for researchers located at different sites and operating on different workstations. These collaborative sessions focused on the sharing of test data and analysis results from materials engineering areas (i.e., fracture mechanics and structural integrity evaluations) related to reactor pressure vessel safety research sponsored by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This report defines collaborative-system requirements for engineering applications and provides an overview of collaborative systems within the project. The installation, application, and detailed evaluation of the performance of the Habanero collaborative tool are compared to those of another commercially available collaborative product. Recommendations are given for future work in collaborative communications

Research productivity in select psychology journals, 1986-2008.

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Mahoney, Kevin T; Buboltz, Walter C; Calvert, Barbara; Hoffmann, Rebecca

2010-01-01

Examination of research productivity has a long history in psychology. Journals across psychology have periodically published research-productivity studies. An analysis of institutional research productivity was conducted for 17 journals published by the American Psychological Association for the years 1986-2008. This analysis implemented two methodologies: one a replication and extension of G. S. Howard, D. A. Cole, and S. E. Maxwell's (1987) method, the other a new method designed to give credit to psychology departments rather than only overall institutions. A system of proportional credit assured all articles with multiple institutions received credit. Results show that for the 23-year period, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was ranked 1st, followed by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Overall, results showed both consistency and change across all journals examined. The authors explore the implications of these findings in the context of the current academic environment.

Transfer of Graphene Layers Grown on SiC Wafers to Other Substrates and Their Integration into Field Effect Transistors

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Unarunotai, Sakulsuk; Murata, Yuya; Chialvo, Cesar; Kim, Hoon-Sik; MacLaren, Scott; Mason, Nadya; Petrov, Ivan; Rogers, John

2010-03-01

An approach to produce graphene films by epitaxial growth on silicon carbide substrate is promising, but its current implementation requires the use of SiC as the device substrate. We present a simple method for transferring epitaxial sheets of graphene on SiC to other substrates. The graphene was grown on the (0001) face of 6H-SiC by thermal annealing in a hydrogen atmosphere. Transfer was accomplished using a peeling process with a bilayer film of Gold/polyimide, to yield graphene with square millimeters of coverage on the target substrate. Back gated field-effect transistors fabricated on oxidized silicon substrates with Cr/Au as source-drain electrodes exhibited ambipolar characteristics with hole mobilities of ˜100 cm^2/V-s, and negligible influence of resistance at the contacts. This work was supported by the U.S. DOE, under Award No. DE-FG02-07ER46471, through the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Exploring plasmonic nanoantenna arrays as a platform for biosensing

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Toussaint, Kimani C.

2017-08-01

In recent years, the PROBE Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has made significant developments in plasmonic nanoantenna technology by more closely exploring the rich parameter space associated with these structures including geometry and material composition, as well as the optical excitation conditions. Indeed, plasmonic nanoantennas are attractive for a variety of potential applications in nanotechnology, biology, and photonics due to their ability to tightly confine and strongly enhance optical fields. This talk will discuss our work with arrays of Au bowtie nanoantennas (BNAs) with an emphasis on how their field enhancement properties could be harnessed for particle manipulation and sensing. We also present our work with pillar-supported BNAs (p-BNAs) and discuss their potential for sensing applications, particularly when adapted for response in the near-IR. The talk will conclude with a brief discussion of some of the future work pursued by the PROBE lab, including adapting BNAs for lab-on-a-chip applications.

Reactor. Mind picture of the future Jules-Horowitz Reactor (RHJ)

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Eustache, S.

1999-01-01

This paper gives information about the future research reactor, named Reactor Jules-Horowitz (RJH). This irradiation reactor will be placed at industrialists disposal, for research concerning the competitiveness and the safety french electro-nuclear park. Principles and innovations are detailed. This reactor will respect the ALARA principle (as low as reasonably achievable). (A.L.B.)

La pobreza urbana en México

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Brambila, Carlos

2006-01-01

El propósito del capítulo es entender la naturaleza de la pobreza urbana en México. Un mejor entendimiento de la pobreza urbana permitirá analizar y discutir las implicaciones metodológicas de las diferencias entre los indicadores de la pobreza urbana y la rural.

De Jules et Jim au Vel’ d’Hiv

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Annie Oliver

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Dans son roman intitulé On ne peut plus dormir tranquille quand on a une fois ouvert les yeux, Robert Bober s’inspire de sa propre histoire et relate bon nombre de faits qui ont réellement eu lieu, à commencer par le tournage en 1961 du film de François Truffaut Jules et Jim. C’est à partir de ce film – et de nombreuses autres références cinématographiques, de Max Ophuls aux Marx Brothers – que le narrateur, d’origine juive polonaise, va retrouver l’histoire de sa famille mais aussi celle d’une ville, Paris, de la Commune de 1871 à la rafle du Vélodrome d’Hiver en 1942.In his novel On ne peut plus dormir tranquille quand on a une fois ouvert les yeux Robert Bober draws his inspiration from his own life and tells a good number of events which have really taken place. Starting with the shooting, in 1961, of François Truffaut Jules et Jim. From this movie, as well as from many other film references – from Max Ophuls to the Marx Brothers – the narrator of Jewish-Polish origin rediscovers the history of his own family together with that of Paris, from the 1971 Commune to the 1942 round-up of Jews in the Vélodrome d’Hiver.

The soils of Champaign are still alive. An assessment of socio-ecological co-evolution in viticulture using DPSIR framework.

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Nicolai, Annegret; Cluzeau, Daniel; Descotes, Arnaud; Georget, Cédric; Chaussod, Rémi; Nouaim-Chaussod, Rachida; Peres, Guénola; Guernion, Muriel; Cylly, Daniel; Rougé, Laurence; Garcia, Olivier; Panigai, Laurent; Moncomble, Dominique

2016-04-01

Conventional agricultural practices have lead to a loss of ecosystem services, such as soil fertility and soil integrity, water quality, and carbon storage. The importance of soil health to sustain agriculture in the future has raised sociological and political awareness. Wine growers in the Champaign have been the top one users of pesticides in France, and soils were declared by media "being dead" in the 1980ies. Using the DPSIR framework (Driving forces, Pressure, State, Impact, Response circle) we show the mechanism for the evolution of practices in viticulture between 1990 and 2010 in this region. The observed change from 90% to 33% conventional pesticide use is the result of the interaction between scientists and stakeholders via impact studies and technical advices, thereby modulating socio-economic driving forces. Until 1995, 100% of newly planted vineyard were subjected to fumigation by nematicides which represented the highest pressure in Champaign observed through the negative impact on Lombricidae biomass and diversity as well as on aging of vine. In response, a first warning message was published in 1993 in the Professional Technical Guide for Champaign's Viticulture followed by systematic yearly recommendation of alternative practices, such as 3 years of fallow before plantation. The increased fear of economic losses for vine farmers drove the nematicide treatment gradually down to 1% in 2010. The restoration of the soil's biological activities was observed progressively since 2000, associated to an improvement in ecosystem services. The assessment of Champaign's viticulture show, how studying and communicating indicators within a DPSIR framework at a regional scale allow for a directed evolution of management measures in socio-ecosystems.

Effects of Flood Control Works Failure in the Missouri River Basin

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2014-06-13

areas of the Mississippi River drainage basin. Widespread flooding began in mid-June and lasted through mid-September (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...al., Impact of New Madrid Seismic Zone Earthquakes on the Central USA, vol. 2 ( Urbana , IL: University of Illinois, 2009), A7-210. 60 What FCW...response planning. Urbana , IL: University of Illinois. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/8787 (accessed 14 March 2014). Creswell, John W

The work of Jules Horowitz. The great Cea actors

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Arnaudet, L.; Deloche, R.; Procope, L.

1999-01-01

Jules Horowitz contributed to the heart calculation of the first french reactor Zoe. He developed the first experimental reactors, invested himself in the reactors physics and helped with EDF to the realisation of the French electronuclear programme. His work is marked out the building of great research devices: The Laue-Langevin Institute (ILL), The European Source of Synchrotron radiation (ESRF), the great national heavy ions accelerator (GANIL) the superconductor tokamak TORE SUPRA) the Leon Brillouin Laboratory (LLB), the Frederic Joliot hospital service (SHFJ). (N.C.)

Constraining the JULES land-surface model for different land-use types using citizen-science generated hydrological data

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Chou, H. K.; Ochoa-Tocachi, B. F.; Buytaert, W.

2017-12-01

Community land surface models such as JULES are increasingly used for hydrological assessment because of their state-of-the-art representation of land-surface processes. However, a major weakness of JULES and other land surface models is the limited number of land surface parameterizations that is available. Therefore, this study explores the use of data from a network of catchments under homogeneous land-use to generate parameter "libraries" to extent the land surface parameterizations of JULES. The network (called iMHEA) is part of a grassroots initiative to characterise the hydrological response of different Andean ecosystems, and collects data on streamflow, precipitation, and several weather variables at a high temporal resolution. The tropical Andes are a useful case study because of the complexity of meteorological and geographical conditions combined with extremely heterogeneous land-use that result in a wide range of hydrological responses. We then calibrated JULES for each land-use represented in the iMHEA dataset. For the individual land-use types, the results show improved simulations of streamflow when using the calibrated parameters with respect to default values. In particular, the partitioning between surface and subsurface flows can be improved. But also, on a regional scale, hydrological modelling was greatly benefitted from constraining parameters using such distributed citizen-science generated streamflow data. This study demonstrates the modelling and prediction on regional hydrology by integrating citizen science and land surface model. In the context of hydrological study, the limitation of data scarcity could be solved indeed by using this framework. Improved predictions of such impacts could be leveraged by catchment managers to guide watershed interventions, to evaluate their effectiveness, and to minimize risks.

Numerical characterization of the edge transport conditions and limiter fluxes of the HIDRA stellarator

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Marcinko, Steven; Curreli, Davide

2018-02-01

The Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications (HIDRA) is a new device for education and Plasma-Material Interaction research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In advance of its first operational campaign, EMC3-EIRENE simulations have been run on the device. EMC3-EIRENE has been modified to calculate a per-plasma-cell relaxed Bohm-like diffusivity simultaneously with the electron temperature at each iteration. In our characterization, the electron temperature, diffusivity, heat fluxes, and particle fluxes have been obtained for varying power levels on a HIDRA magnetic grid, and scaling laws have been extracted, using constraints from previous experimental data taken when the device was operated in Germany (WEGA facility). Peak electron temperatures and heat fluxes were seen to follow a power-law dependence on the deposited radiofrequency (RF) power of type f (PR F)∝a PRF b , with typical exponents in the range of b ˜0.55 to 0.60. Higher magnetic fields have the tendency to linearize the heat flux dependence on the RF power, with exponents in the range of b ˜ 0.75. Particle fluxes are seen to saturate first, and then slightly decline for RF powers above 120 kW in the low-field case and 180 kW in the high-field case.

Superconducting proximity effect in MBE grown Nb-InAs junctions

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Kan, Carolyn; Xue, Chi; Law, Stephanie; Eckstein, James

2013-03-01

Several proposals for the realization of Majorana fermions rely on excellent quality proximity coupling between a superconductor and a high-mobility semiconductor. We examine the long-range proximity coupling between MBE-grown InAs and in situ grown superconducting overlayers by fabricating transport devices, and investigate the effect of substrate choice and growth conditions on the quality of the MBE InAs. GaAs is commonly available as a high quality insulating substrate. Overcoming its lattice mismatch with InAs using GaSb and AlSb layers results in locally smooth terraced surfaces, but global spiral dislocation structures also appear and have a negative impact on the InAs mobility. Growing InAs on homoepitaxial GaSb results in improved morphology and increases the mean free path. We compare the proximity effect in devices made both ways. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Division of Materials Sciences under Award No. DE-FG02 07ER46453, through the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

IMIRSEL: a secure music retrieval testing environment

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Downie, John S.

2004-10-01

The Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) research communities have long noted the need for formal evaluation mechanisms. Issues concerning the unavailability of freely-available music materials have greatly hindered the creation of standardized test collections with which these communities could scientifically assess the strengths and weaknesses of their various music retrieval techniques. The International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL) is being developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) specifically to overcome this hindrance to the scientific evaluation of MIR/MDL systems. Together with its subsidiary Human Use of Music Information Retrieval Systems (HUMIRS) project, IMIRSEL will allow MIR/MDL researchers access to the standardized large-scale collection of copyright-sensitive music materials and standardized test queries being housed at UIUC's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Virtual Research Labs (VRL), based upon NCSA's Data-to-Knowledge (D2K) tool set, are being developed through which MIR/MDL researchers will interact with the music materials under a "trusted code" security model.

NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Report 27: The technical communication practices of engineering and science students: Results of the phase 3 academic surveys

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Pinelli, Thomas E.; Barclay, Rebecca O.; Hecht, Laura M.; Kennedy, John M.

1994-01-01

This report describes similarities and differences between undergraduate and graduate engineering science students in the context of two general aspects of the educational experience. First, we explore the extent to which students differ regarding the factors that lead to the choice of becoming an engineer or a scientist, current satisfaction with that choice, and career-related goals and objectives. Second, we look at the technical communication practices, habits, and training of engineers and science (Physics) students. The reported data were obtained from a survey of students enrolled in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bowling Green State University, and Texas A&M University. The survey was undertaken as part of the NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Data are reported for the following categories: student demographics; skill importance, skill training, and skill helpfulness; collaborative writing; computer and information technology use and importance, use of electronic networks; use and importance of libraries and library services; use and importance of information sources and products; use of foreign technical reports; and foreign language (reading and speaking) skills.

The prospects for electron Bernstein wave heating of spherical tokamaks

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Cairns, R.A.; Lashmore-Davies, C.N.

2000-02-01

Electron Bernstein waves are analysed as possible candidates for heating spherical tokamaks. An inhomogeneous plane slab model of the plasma with a sheared magnetic field is used to calculate the linear conversion of the ordinary mode (O-mode) to the extraordinary mode (X-mode). A formula for the fraction of the incident O-mode energy which is converted to the X-mode at the O-mode cut-off is derived. This fraction is then able to propagate to the upper hybrid resonance where it is converted to the electron Bernstein mode. The damping of electron Bernstein waves at the fourth harmonic resonance, corresponding to a 60GHz source on the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak MAST [A C Darke et al Proc 16th Symposium on Fusion Energy, Champaign- Urbana, Illinois USA IEEE, 2 p1456 (1995)], is computed. This is shown to be so strongly absorbing that the electron Bernstein wave would be totally absorbed in the outer regions of the resonance. This feature implies that electron Bernstein wave current drive (on- or off-axis) could be very efficient. (author)

A critical assessment of the JULES land surface model hydrology for humid tropical environments

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Zulkafli, Z.; Buytaert, W.; Onof, C.; Lavado, W.; Guyot, J. L.

2013-03-01

Global land surface models (LSMs) such as the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) are originally developed to provide surface boundary conditions for climate models. They are increasingly used for hydrological simulation, for instance to simulate the impacts of land use changes and other perturbations on the water cycle. This study investigates how well such models represent the major hydrological fluxes at the relevant spatial and temporal scales - an important question for reliable model applications in poorly understood, data-scarce environments. The JULES-LSM is implemented in a 360 000 km2 humid tropical mountain basin of the Peruvian Andes-Amazon at 12-km grid resolution, forced with daily satellite and climate reanalysis data. The simulations are evaluated using conventional discharge-based evaluation methods, and by further comparing the magnitude and internal variability of the basin surface fluxes such as evapotranspiration, throughfall, and surface and subsurface runoff of the model with those observed in similar environments elsewhere. We find reasonably positive model efficiencies and high correlations between the simulated and observed streamflows, but high root-mean-square errors affecting the performance in smaller, upper sub-basins. We attribute this to errors in the water balance and JULES-LSM's inability to model baseflow. We also found a tendency to under-represent the high evapotranspiration rates of the region. We conclude that strategies to improve the representation of tropical systems to be (1) addressing errors in the forcing and (2) incorporating local wetland and regional floodplain in the subsurface representation.

Forma urbana tradicional e modernista:

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Dr. Arq. Antônio Tarcìsio da Luz Reis

2014-12-01

Full Text Available O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre algumas das implicações da forma urbana tradicional e da forma urbana modernista, para o uso e estética dos espaços ur banos, tais como a existência de conexões visuais e funcionais entre as edifca- ções e os espaços abertos públicos e o uso dado aos pavimentos térreos. Na "for ma urbana tradicional" as edifcações possuem portas frontais e janelas voltadas para as ruas públicas, enquanto na "forma urbana modernista" as edifcações ten dem a ter portas e janelas distantes das vias públicas e/ou voltadas para espaços abertos internos ao quarteirão, sem distinção entre portas e janelas frontais e pos teriores. Assim, exemplos de cidades em diferentes países são utilizados para as comparações e reflexões envolvendo estes aspectos. As principais consequências destas análises reforçam a necessidade de um melhor entendimento em relação às implicações da forma urbana para o uso e a estética dos espaços urbanos. Adi cionalmente, destaca–se a importância da existência de conexões visuais e fun cionais entre os térreos das edifcações e os espaços abertos públicos para a vi talidade, segurança e aparência dos espaços urbanos.

Águas urbanas Urban waters

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Carlos E. M. Tucci

2008-01-01

Full Text Available As águas urbanas geralmente incluem abastecimento de água e saneamento. Nessa perspectiva, saneamento envolve a coleta de tratamento de efluentes domésticos e industriais, não inclui drenagem urbana, gestão dos resíduos sólidos, porque ainda perdura uma visão desatualizada da gestão das águas urbanas da cidade. Águas urbanas envolvem componentes que permitem o desenvolvimento ambiental sustentável e utilizam os conceitos da gestão integrada dos recursos hídricos (GIRH, necessários para planejamento, implementação e manutenção da infra-estrutura da cidade. Nesse contexto, ficam denominados Gestão Integrada das Águas Urbanas. Neste artigo, analisam-se o desenvolvimento urbano e suas relações com as águas urbanas no Brasil. A gestão dos recursos hídricos no Brasil é realizada por bacias hidrográficas, e o domínio é federal ou estadual. Examinam-se as possibilidades de gestão da água na cidade e na bacia hidrográfica no contexto institucional brasileiro.Urban Waters systems generally include both water supply & sanitation facilities (WSS. Sanitation refers to domestic and industrial sewage collecting and treatment; it does not include urban stormwater or solid waste management systems. Urban water form components of a sustainable urban environment and the use of the integrated water resource management (IWRM concepts are needed for planning, implementation and maintenance of urban infrastructure. In urban environment, IWRM is referred to specifically as Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM. In this paper urban development and its relations with urban waters in Brazil are assessed. Management of Water Resources in Brazil is developed by basins and the administration is Federal or from the state. This article assess the alternatives of water management in the city and the basin in the Brazilian institutional environment.

Drenagem urbana: centro histórico de Leiria

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Martins, Wilson Antunes Xavier

2016-01-01

No que concerne ao funcionamento de um sistema de drenagem urbana a maior preocupação é o encaminhamento das águas provenientes de precipitações ocorrentes em áreas urbanas para pontos de descarga no meio recetor fora das zonas urbanas, o mais rápido possível. Os centros urbanos estão munidos de diversos tipos de ocupação do solo, conduzindo ao aumento da impermeabilização do solo, que em termos de drenagem urbana não é vantajoso porque reduz a capacidade de infiltração no solo, aumentando...

SHARP, a first step towards a full sized Jules Verne Launcher

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Bertolini, L.R.; Hunter, J.W. [Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States); Powell, J.R. [Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States); Tidman, D.A. [GT-Devices, Inc., Alexandria, VA (United States)

1993-05-01

A vital element for space exploration and utilization is the ability to affordably place large quantities of consumables and building material into low earth orbit. Calculations and supportive data indicate this can be done with a large hydrogen gas gun referred to as the Jules Verne Launcher (JVL). We present a design for the JVL based upon the concept of side injecting preheated hydrogen along a long barrel. This dramatically reduces the peak pressures in the launcher as well as the pressures and g-loads at the vehicle. The JVL has the promise of reducing payload delivery costs to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to below $500/kg. The Super High Altitude Research Project (SHARP) is a conventional two-stage hydrogen gas gun which is configured to launch 5 kg packages on suborbital trajectories. It is the first step towards the much larger Jules Verne system and will demonstrate several important features of the larger system. SHARP is currently in the middle of a series of tests aimed at its first milestone. This is to launch 5 kg at 4 km/sec horizontally. In its inclined configuration SHARP should launch vehicles to apogees in excess of 400 km and ranges in excess of 700 km.

Prosa, poesía y sentimientos en la obra de Jules Supervielle

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Gil-Cepeda Pérez, María de los Ángeles

1996-01-01

El artículo hace un repaso de la vida y obra de Jules Supervielle destacando la relación entre la poesía y la prosa, sus cuentos y la temática más significativa de su obra como son la muerte, la vida, las relaciones terrestres, el tiempo y el espacio, el más allá y la metamorfosis.

Testing the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) for flood forecasting

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Batelis, Stamatios-Christos; Rosolem, Rafael; Han, Dawei; Rahman, Mostaquimur

2017-04-01

Land Surface Models (LSM) are based on physics principles and simulate the exchanges of energy, water and biogeochemical cycles between the land surface and lower atmosphere. Such models are typically applied for climate studies or effects of land use changes but as the resolution of LSMs and supporting observations are continuously increasing, its representation of hydrological processes need to be addressed adequately. For example, changes in climate and land use can alter the hydrology of a region, for instance, by altering its flooding regime. LSMs can be a powerful tool because of their ability to spatially represent a region with much finer resolution. However, despite such advantages, its performance has not been extensively assessed for flood forecasting simply because its representation of typical hydrological processes, such as overland flow and river routing, are still either ignored or roughly represented. In this study, we initially test the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) as a flood forecast tool focusing on its river routing scheme. In particular, JULES river routing parameterization is based on the Rapid Flow Model (RFM) which relies on six prescribed parameters (two surface and two subsurface wave celerities, and two return flow fractions). Although this routing scheme is simple, the prescription of its six default parameters is still too generalized. Our aim is to understand the importance of each RFM parameter in a series of JULES simulations at a number of catchments in the UK for the 2006-2015 period. This is carried out, for instance, by making a number of assumptions of parameter behaviour (e.g., spatially uniform versus varying and/or temporally constant or time-varying parameters within each catchment). Hourly rainfall radar in combination with the CHESS (Climate, Hydrological and Ecological research Support System) meteorological daily data both at 1 km2 resolution are used. The evaluation of the model is based on hourly runoff

Vision Restoration with a Collagen Cross-linked Boston Keratoprosthesis Unit

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2017-09-01

Esen Akpek 4 W.K. Kellogg Eye Center Dr. Shahzad Mian 5 The Jules Stein Eye Institute Dr. Anthony Aldave 6 Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary Dr. Jose...Principal Investigator 1 Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary Dr. Joseph Ciolino 3 The Willmer Eye Institute Dr. Esen Akpek 4 W.K. Kellogg Eye Center Dr...Dr. Esen Akpek 4 W.K. Kellogg Eye Center Dr. Shahzad Mian 5 The Jules Stein Eye Institute Dr. Anthony Aldave 7 Cincinnati Eye Institute Dr. Edward

Report of Accomplishments under the Airport Improvement Program.

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1983-09-30

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The launching of the construction of the Jules Horowitz Reactor

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Anon.

2007-01-01

In March 2007 the French deputy minister of industry has officially launched the construction of the new research reactor called Jules Horowitz (RJH) on the Cea site of Cadarache. RJH, that is due to operate in 2014, will be used to study the aging process of irradiated materials in any type of reactors, the behaviour of new nuclear fuels irradiated in different configurations and scenarios, and to produce radionuclides for nuclear medicine and high-quality doped silicon for the electronics industry. The investment that reaches 500 million euros is dispatched between Cea (50%), EDF (20%), Areva (10%) and foreign contributors (20%). (A.C.)

Jules Verne : un processus d’écriture sous contraintes

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Scheinhardt, Philippe

2013-01-01

Devenu célèbre, Jules Verne reçoit souvent la visite de journalistes qui l’interrogent aussi bien sur sa vie que sur son œuvre. De ces entretiens, il ressort que l’écrivain respecte comme tant d’autres des rites de création : habitudes de documentation, méthode de genèse littéraire. Ces rites, en écho à la contrainte externe du programme encyclopédique des Voyages extraordinaires, remplissent la fonction de contraintes internes au service de l’acte créateur. Ils renseignent sur les diverses p...

Violencia urbana y criminalidad urbana en la ciudad de San José. Un estudio exploratorio.

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Guillermo Carvajal Alvarado; David Rivera

2011-01-01

La tendencia ascendente de la violencia urbana, estimada en un 4% alrededor del mundo en los decenios de 1980 y 1990, está provocando cambios importantes en el paisaje y en la vida diaria de la zonas urbanas. En muchas ciudades, el miedo a la violencia ha alejado a la población de los transportes, las calles y los espacios públicos. Las calles donde solían jugar los niños y congregarse los vecinos, y por las que paseaba la gente, se utilizan ahora mucho menos.

NIEHS/EPA CEHCs: Novel Methods to Assess Effects of Bisphenol A & Phthalates on Child Development - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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At this center, researchers study the effects of two endocrine disruptors that are commonly used in pesticides, plastics and many other products and are also found in vehicle exhaust: bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates.

Public Access to Library Automation. Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (17th, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980).

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Divilbiss, J. L., Ed.

Eight studies by experts in the field of information retrieval examine aspects of public use of such automated systems as online catalogs in libraries. Ward Shaw discusses "Design Principles for Public Access," outlining desirable characteristics of an information retrieval system. Allen Avner and H. George Friedman, Jr. treat problems…

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Alexei A Abrikosov, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA,. Vitaly L Ginzburg, P N Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia, and. Anthony J Leggett, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA. Chemistry - "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes" to. Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins University ...

Side by Side: What a Comparative Usability Study Told Us about a Web Site Redesign

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Dougan, Kirstin; Fulton, Camilla

2009-01-01

Library Web sites must compete against easy-to-use sites, such as Google Scholar, Google Books, and Wikipedia, for students' time and attention. Library Web sites must therefore be designed with aesthetics and user perceptions at the forefront. The Music and Performing Arts Library at Urbana-Champaign's Web site was overcrowded and in much need of…

Jules Cotard (1840-1889): his life and the unique syndrome which bears his name.

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Pearn, J; Gardner-Thorpe, C

2002-05-14

Dr. Jules Cotard (1840-1889) was a Parisian neurologist who first described the délire des négations. Cotard's syndrome or Cotard's delusion comprises any one of a series of delusions ranging from the fixed and unshakable belief that one has lost organs, blood, or body parts to believing that one has lost one's soul or is dead. In its most profound form, the delusion takes the form of a professed belief that one does not exist. Encountered primarily in psychoses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Cotard's syndrome has also been described in organic lesions of the nondominant temporoparietal cortex as well as in migraine. Cotard's delusion is the only self-certifiable syndrome of delusional psychosis. Jules Cotard, a Parisian neurologist and psychiatrist and former military surgeon, was one of the first to induce cerebral atrophy by the experimental embolization of cerebral arteries in animals and a pioneer in studies of the clinicopathologic correlates of cerebral atrophy secondary to perinatal and postnatal pathologic changes. He was the first to record that unilateral cerebral atrophy in infancy does not necessarily lead to aphasia and was also the pioneer of studies of altered conscious states in diabetic hyperglycemia.

KnowEnG: a knowledge engine for genomics.

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Sinha, Saurabh; Song, Jun; Weinshilboum, Richard; Jongeneel, Victor; Han, Jiawei

2015-11-01

We describe here the vision, motivations, and research plans of the National Institutes of Health Center for Excellence in Big Data Computing at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The Center is organized around the construction of "Knowledge Engine for Genomics" (KnowEnG), an E-science framework for genomics where biomedical scientists will have access to powerful methods of data mining, network mining, and machine learning to extract knowledge out of genomics data. The scientist will come to KnowEnG with their own data sets in the form of spreadsheets and ask KnowEnG to analyze those data sets in the light of a massive knowledge base of community data sets called the "Knowledge Network" that will be at the heart of the system. The Center is undertaking discovery projects aimed at testing the utility of KnowEnG for transforming big data to knowledge. These projects span a broad range of biological enquiry, from pharmacogenomics (in collaboration with Mayo Clinic) to transcriptomics of human behavior. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

BIRTH, GROWTH AND CHALLENGES OF "KINESMETRICS" IN THE USA

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Weimo Zhu

2010-12-01

Full Text Available The term "Kinesmetrics" was coined by Weimo Zhu in 1999 when he created a new doctoral program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, USA, with a focus to "develop and apply measurement theory, statistics and mathematical analysis to the field of Kinesiology." Since then, a number of Ph.D. scholars in Kinesmetrics have been trained at UIUC, which also regularly hosts visiting scholars from all over the world. In fall 2008, a new Kinesmetrics program was established at Middle Tennessee State University by Minsoo Kang, a UIUC Kinesmetrics Ph.D. graduate, and the International Forum of Kinesiometrics was held at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia, in 2009. Meanwhile, Kinesmetrics scholars/programs in the USA are experiencing many challenges, e.g., reduced faculty positions, limited funding resources, a variety of data characteristics and measurement issues due to the interdisciplinary nature of Kinesiology, etc. After a brief review of the historical background and foundation of Kinesmetrics, this paper focused on the current challenges faced by Kinesmetrics, as a subdiscipline within Kinesiology, and how these challenges can best be addressed. Future directions of Kinesmetrics were also outlined.

Dilemmas of talking about lifestyle changes among couples coping with a cardiac event.

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Goldsmith, Daena J; Lindholm, Kristin A; Bute, Jennifer J

2006-10-01

Persons who have experienced a myocardial infarction (MI) and/or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery may benefit from a low-fat diet, regular exercise, smoking cessation, and stress management. Yet many patients do not make these changes. A spouse or partner's attempts at support may facilitate or interfere with patient behavior change. The present study explores dilemmas that may arise when couples talk about lifestyle changes following one person's MI or CABG. In interviews carried out in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, and surrounding communities with 25 patients and 16 partners we found communicating support for lifestyle change may be interpreted as undesired control or criticism. The caring conveyed by talking may be viewed positively but can also threaten patient autonomy and entrap partners in unwanted expectations and obligations. Finally, lifestyle change conversations may reflect empowered patients collaborating with partners to take control of health but can also serve as potent reminders of loss. These multiple, potentially conflicting meanings give an account for why talking with a partner does not always facilitate patient lifestyle change. Understanding these dilemmas also suggests practical implications for helping patients and partners.

Troubleshooting Complex Equipment in the Military Services: Research and Prospects.

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1979-12-01

energy quantum . We need same of this ingenuity to support troubleshooter cognition. There is sone evidence that the ability to bring up vivid voluntary...of Illinois DEPT. OF PSYCHOLOGY Champaign, IL 61820 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER, CO 80309 Dr. Robert A. Levit Director, Behavioral Sciences 1 Dr

Loteamentos, expansão e estrutura urbana

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Décio Rigatti

2002-06-01

Full Text Available O rápido processo de urbanização que as cidades brasileiras apresentam, principalmente, a partir do final da década de 40, gera um crescimento acelerado da população urbana e produz nas cidades uma enorme demanda por terra urbanizada. O presente trabalho tem como objetivos centrais: analisar o parcelamento do solo urbano como modalidade de expansão de áreas urbanas; avaliar de que modo a incorporação de novas áreas, como urbanas, insere-se no tecido preexistente; examinar como os diversos parcelamentos do solo urbano estruturam o conjunto do tecido urbano, gerando diferentes níveis de acessibilidade geral; indicar medidas que o poder público municipal pode inserir como formas de controle e superação dos problemas apresentados presentemente. Como estudo de caso, discutiremos a formação e estruturação da cidade de Alvorada, localizada no limite leste de Porto Alegre, cidade que se originou da implantação de sucessivos loteamentos, ao invés da expansão de um núcleo urbano preexistente. O trabalho consiste, essencialmente, na reconstituição do processo de formação da estrutura urbana de Alvorada, a partir da inclusão sistemática de parcelamentos do solo ao longo do tempo e na avaliação da estrutura urbana resultante e suas relações com os potenciais de práticas sociais no espaço.

Illinois travel statistics, 2008

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2009-01-01

The 2008 Illinois Travel Statistics publication is assembled to provide detailed traffic : information to the different users of traffic data. While most users of traffic data at this level : of detail are within the Illinois Department of Transporta...

Illinois travel statistics, 2009

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2010-01-01

The 2009 Illinois Travel Statistics publication is assembled to provide detailed traffic : information to the different users of traffic data. While most users of traffic data at this level : of detail are within the Illinois Department of Transporta...

Illinois travel statistics, 2010

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The 2010 Illinois Travel Statistics publication is assembled to provide detailed traffic : information to the different users of traffic data. While most users of traffic data at this level : of detail are within the Illinois Department of Transporta...

How the Project Approach Challenges Young Children

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Burns, Marcia V.; Lewis, Alisha L.

2016-01-01

In this article, educators at University Primary School in Champaign, Illinois, share examples and understandings of the ways The Project Approach challenges young children to think critically about topics of importance in their world. Project investigations that provoke academic and social challenges for individuals and classroom communities of…

Changes in Accounting Education Include Increased Use of Writing Tasks.

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McCleary, Bill

1997-01-01

The future of accounting education has already arrived at the Department of Accountancy at the University of Illinois-Champaign, United States' top accounting school. "Project Discovery" is a 5-year-old program that incorporates many current trends in educational innovation, such as writing across the curriculum, collaborative learning,…

Jules Horowitz reactor (RJH): its design

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Dupuy, J.P.

2002-01-01

This article presents the design of the new irradiation facility (Jules Horowitz reactor) that is planned to be built on the Cadarache site of Cea. 2 principles have been followed. The first one is based on a physical separation between the systems and activities related to the reactor and the experiments from one hand and the other systems and means dedicated to the treatment of the experimental devices before and after irradiation on the other hand. This first principle implies to build 2 buildings: the reactor building and the nuclear auxiliaries building. Inside the reactor building activities from the reactor itself are separated from those dedicated to experimentation. In order to maximize the efficiency of such a reactor, an important number of simultaneous experiments is expected, which will generate an endless flux of incoming and out-going experiments and as a consequence an important handling work between the different work posts. The second principle aims at easing any handling work without breaking the rules of confinement. The different storing pools, the water pits that lead to the 5 hot cells and the reactor tank will communicate through a water-filled canal that will link the 2 buildings. (A.C.)

Petroleum and natural gas in Illinois

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1979-01-01

Presentations made at the 7th Annual Illinois Energy Conference are compiled and reported. Specific topics include: Illinois petroleum and natural gas supply; energy use patterns for Illinois and the nation; impacts of the National Energy Act on the natural gas industry; natural gas for North America; natural gas supply under the Natural Gas Policy; US access to international oil; deregulation and its impact on the US petroleum supply; the US Energy Policy; petroleum pricing and taxation policies in Illinois; the high cost of energy and its impact on the poor; impact of increased fuel prices on Illinois' industrial future; energy prices and inflation; opportunities for energy conservation in transportaton; overview of energy and synfuels from biomass and wastes; an inventory of energy potential from biomass in Illinois; problems and potential of alcohol from agriculture; liquid and gaseous fuels from coal; and alternatives to liquid and gaseous fuels.

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Urbana, IL 61801, USA. E-mail: chaubey2@illinois.edu; lanius2@illinois.edu; zaharesc@illinois.edu. MS received 19 August 2013; revised 17 October 2013. Abstract. We investigate the behavior of the sum of the irrational factor function over arithmetic progressions. We first establish a general asymptotic formula for such a.

In Jules Verne's Footsteps: Seismology in the source

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Ellsworth, Bill; Ito, Hisao; Malin, Peter; Abercrombie, Rachel

When Professor Otto Lidenbrock led his little band to the center of the Earth in Jules Verne's 1864 classic novel, the intrepid adventurers needed little more than practical 19th century clothes to provide them with comfort and protection. How different the science of earthquakes would be if conditions in the Earth were really so friendly to the would-be observer. Even the operation of seismic sensors at the relatively modest depth of 2-3 km, roughly the depth of the shallowest crustal earthquakes, requires careful precautions against the effects of unstable materials, temperature, pressure, and water for successful long-term observations to be made. Indeed, the handful of successful deep borehole experiments that have been conducted to date have depended on simple sensors with limited bandwidth and dynamic range, and have yielded data that were not ideally suited to investigating the details of the earthquake source.

MOBILIDADE URBANA E A POBREZA DA CIDADANIA

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Joseval Melo Santana

2014-12-01

Full Text Available O objetivo deste artigo é analisar mediante um debate crítico, dialético, histórico e bibliográfico a mobilidade urbana nas cidades brasileiras sob a égide da sua cidadania. As cidades não só nasceram em virtude da mobilidade humana, como também se mantêm por causa dela. Por sua vez, as cidades refletem e são refletidas pelas condições econômicas, sociais e culturais do seu povo, ou melhor, dos cidadãos (indivíduos em pleno gozo dos seus direitos civis e políticos e sujeitos as obrigações inerentes a sua condição. A mobilidade humana é, foi, e sempre será condição da própria existência e sobrevivência humana. Desde os tempos remotos, observa-se que a mobilidade humana segue pari passu com o desenvolvido tecnológico e o estágio social, cultural e econômico de cada povo. Pelo exposto, o estudo da mobilidade urbana não pode se restringir a uma análise sistêmica de domínio da engenharia de trânsito, uma vez que a mobilidade urbana tem raízes profundas na dimensão do próprio ser humano e do seu estado evolutivo. Muito além de um trânsito lento, marcado por longos engarrafamentos, a mobilidade urbana revela-se como um indicador, um “termômetro” do estado “civilizatório” ou da cidadania de um povo. É mister reconhecer que a mobilidade urbana afeta e é afetada de forma diferente nas diferentes culturas. Isso pode explicar, em parte, porque grandes cidades da Inglaterra, dos Estados Unidos, do Japão etc. tiveram êxito na minimização dos problemas do trânsito nas suas vias urbanas, enquanto no Brasil, mesmo diante de esforços pontuais dos gestores da administração pública, em particular dos órgãos de engenharia de trânsito, têm até o presente momento revelado resultados insatisfatórios, conforme pode ser observado pelos engarrafamentos que surgem ou tornam-se cada vez maiores. Assim, ao retratar as origens e desenvolvimento das cidades brasileiras com a sua cidadania busca-se, aqui

Illinois | Solar Research | NREL

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Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Public benefit projects may be eligible for low Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) defines competitive and noncompetitive customer classes in the IOU expedited process to 25 kW to allow more projects to benefit from the streamlined process and exempting them

75 FR 9276 - Harvard Illinois Bancorp, Inc., Harvard, Illinois; Approval of Conversion Application

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2010-03-01

... DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Office of Thrift Supervision [AC-35: OTS No. H-4649] Harvard Illinois Bancorp, Inc., Harvard, Illinois; Approval of Conversion Application Notice is hereby given that on February 12, 2010, the Office of Thrift Supervision approved the application of Harvard Savings Bank...

[Professor Jules Gavarret (1809-1890) and the application of mathematics and physics to medicine].

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Beyneix, A

2001-01-01

Professor Jules Gavarret has undertaken pretigious offices, has accumulated various titles and honours and has left an abundant bibliography about physics and chemistry of life phenomenon. To recount the career of one of the academics who were benefited the traditional medicine of the progress achieved in physical and mathematical sciences give us the opportunity of recalling one of the great Parisian personalities of 19th Century who had not been appreciated for too long.

Construção de indicadores de eficiência hídrica urbana: desafio para a gestão ambiental urbana

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Liza Maria Souza de Andrade

2007-12-01

sanitário, limpeza urbana, gestão de resíduos sólidos, uso do solo e legislação ambiental – que possam tangenciar os diferentes tipos de zoneamento de forma sistêmica por meio de um estudo dos princípios da gestão ecológica do ciclo da água e dos critérios ambientais adotados para a implantação de futuros Planos Diretores de Drenagem urbana – PDDUs para a construção de indicadores de sustentabilidade intra-urbana de eficiência hídrica. (esse período está bastante extenso e um pouco confuso. Vou pensar em algo para ele.

Bridge Programs in Illinois: Results of the 2010 Illinois Bridge Status Survey

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Taylor, J. L.; Harmon, T.

2010-01-01

This report provides a summary of major results of the Illinois Bridge Status Survey, administered online between April and June 2010. The purpose of the survey was to understand the extent to which bridge programs are being implemented in Illinois, as well as to build an online directory of bridge programs. Bridge programs are an emerging…

Jules Verne: de la odisea a la ciencia ficción

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Javier Rodriguez Pequeño

2018-01-01

El artículo pretende recordar el importante papel que jugó Jules Verne en la moderna literatura fantástica. Sus Viajes extraordinarios modernizan la odisea clásica y, gracias a la incorporación de la ciencia y a la importancia que concede a la verosimilitud dentro de lo fantástico, crea la ciencia ficción, al tiempo que crea una literatura fantástica basada no el terror, como era común en su época, sino en la fascinación. La utopía es un género muy antiguo pero no le sucede lo mismo a la dist...

CarbonSAFE Illinois - Macon County

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Whittaker, Steve [University of Illinois; Illinois State Geological Survey

2017-08-03

CarbonSAFE Illinois is a a Feasibility study to develop an established geologic storage complex in Macon County, Illinois, for commercial-scale storage of industrially sourced CO2. Feasibility activities are focused on the Mt. Simon Storage Complex; a step-out well will be drilled near existing storage sites (i.e., the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium’s Illinois Basin – Decatur Project and the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Project) to further establish commercial viability of this complex and to evaluate EOR potential in a co-located oil-field trend. The Archer Daniels Midland facility (ethanol plant), City Water, Light, and Power in Springfield, Illinois (coal-fired power station), and other regional industries are potential sources of anthropogenic CO2 for storage at this complex. Site feasibility will be evaluated through drilling results, static and dynamic modeling, and quantitative risk assessment. Both studies will entail stakeholder engagement, consideration of infrastructure requirements, existing policy, and business models. Project data will help calibrate the National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP) Toolkit to better understand the risks of commercial-scale carbon storage.

Violência Urbana e Sentimento de Insegurança

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Lourenço, Nelson

2012-01-01

Violência e insegurança urbanas são questões societais centrais ocupando, em todo o Mundo, um espaço significativo no quadro da preocupação dos indivíduos e da vivência democrática. A sua análise pressupõe uma leitura ampla das dinâmicas urbanas e dos processos de metropolização que caracterizam a modernidade tardia nas suas dimensões social, cultural, política e económica. Não esgotando o universo das criminalidades da sociedade actual, a violência e insegurança urbanas impõem a necess...

Coal and nuclear power: Illinois' energy future

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1982-01-01

This conference was sponsored by the Energy Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago; the US Department of Energy; the Illinois Energy Resources Commission; and the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources. The theme for the conference, Coal and Nuclear Power: Illinois' Energy Future, was based on two major observations: (1) Illinois has the largest reserves of bituminous coal of any state and is surpassed in total reserves only by North Dakota, and Montana; and (2) Illinois has made a heavy commitment to the use of nuclear power as a source of electrical power generation. Currently, nuclear power represents 30% of the electrical energy produced in the State. The primary objective of the 1982 conference was to review these two energy sources in view of the current energy policy of the Reagan Administration, and to examine the impact these policies have on the Midwest energy scene. The conference dealt with issues unique to Illinois as well as those facing the entire nation. A separate abstract was prepared for each of the 30 individual presentations

Jules Verne, la géogenèse des diamants et la revue Nature

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Bollinger , Jean-Claude

2015-01-01

International audience; Browsing through recent issues of the respected scientific journal Nature, the author has found a number of explicit references to Jules Verne’s famous novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth". For example, in a paper about the analysis of a solid inclusion within a diamond, diamond formation from a solution is mentioned. But this is in fact a main topic within another and lesser known novel, "The Southern Star". Then a discussion concerning diamond formation is pres...

LA SUSTENTABILIDAD URBANA EN LAS CIUDADES.

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Freddy Alexis Aponte Páez

2007-06-01

Full Text Available El desarrollo sustentable tiene como punto central lagente, en el sentido de que su principal objetivo es elmejoramiento de la calidad de vida del hombre, y estafundamentado en la conservación en el sentido de estarcondicionado por la necesidad de respetar la capacidadde la naturaleza para el suministro de recursos y serviciospara el mantenimiento de la vida.El desarrollo sustentable es una perspectiva amplia, conun enfoque antropocéntrico que integra las necesidadeshumanas y la problemática ambiental como elementosdentro de un mismo proyecto. De esta manera, el desarrollosustentable, por definición, busca promover laarmonía entre los seres humanos, y entre éstos y la naturaleza;para ello se basa en cuatro elementos: crecimientoeconómico, balance ambiental, equidad y responsabilidady eficiencia de las instituciones públicas.El concepto de sustentabilidad urbana es consideradocomo un estado de equilibrio entre las dimensiones social,económica y ambiental en el espacio de la ciudad.La discusión de sustentabilidad urbana incorpora el tipode interacción que se establece entre ciudad y región yque hace posible la vida urbana. Los estudios de metabolismourbano destacan tanto, los insumos de la regiónhacia la ciudad y los flujos de la ciudad hacia la región.

Analysis of Media Stereotypes of the Russian Image in Media Studies in the Student Audience (example: the screen versions of Jules Verne's Novel “Michael Strogoff”

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Alexander Fedorov

2014-09-01

Full Text Available As a result of the analysis students come to the conclusion that the screen adaptations of Jules Verne's novel ''Michael Strogoff'' create, though an oversimplified and adapted to western stereotypes of perception, but a positive image of Russia – as a stronghold of European values at the Asian frontiers, a country with a severe climate, boundless Siberian spacious areas, manly and patriotic warriors, a wise monarchy. At the same time, both Jules Verne's novel and its screen adaptations contain clear-cut western pragmatism – the confidence that if a man has a proper will he can rule his destiny.

The nuclear heating calculation scheme for material testing in the future Jules Horowitz Reactor

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Huot, N.; Aggery, A.; Blanchet, D.; Courcelle, A.; Czernecki, S.; Di-Salvo, J.; Doederlein, C.; Serviere, H.; Willermoz, G.

2004-01-01

An innovative nuclear heating calculation scheme for materials testing carried out in in the future Jules Horowitz reactor (JHR) is described. A heterogeneous gamma source calculation is first performed at assembly level using the deterministic code APOLLO2. This is followed by a Monte Carlo gamma transport calculation in the whole core using the TRIPOLI4 code. The calculated gamma sources at the assembly level are applied in the whole core simulation using a weighting based on power distribution obtained from the neutronic core calculation. (authors)

Walking impairment in patients with multiple sclerosis: exercise training as a treatment option

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Robert W Motl

2010-11-01

Full Text Available Robert W Motl1, Myla D Goldman2, Ralph HB Benedict31Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; 2Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, VA, USA; 3Department of Neurology, SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY, USAAbstract: Multiple sclerosis (MS is a chronic disease of the central nervous system that culminates in the progression of physical and cognitive disability over time. Walking impairment is a ubiquitous feature of MS and a sentinel characteristic of the later or advanced stages of the disease. This paper presents a conceptual rationale along with empirical evidence for exercise training as a rehabilitation approach for managing walking impairment and improving walking function in persons with MS. Conceptually, MS is associated with a decrease in physical activity, which, in turn, can result in deconditioning across multiple domains of physiological functioning. The resulting deconditioning feeds back and further drives physical inactivity until a threshold is reached that likely initiates the progression of walking impairment in MS. Empirically, physical activity and exercise training have been associated with beneficial effects on walking function in persons with MS. This is based on cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental research that included diversity in the breadth of measures of walking, persons with MS, and exercise/physical activity characteristics. Of particular importance, future researchers might consider examining the combinatory effects of exercise training plus pharmacological agents on walking mobility in MS. Collectively, exercise training and physical activity might hold significant potential for the management of progressive mobility disability in MS.Keywords: mobility, walking, exercise, physical activity, movement

Sistemas de gestión urbana regional

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Biere Arenas, Rolando Mauricio

2009-01-01

Este proyecto busca compartir prácticas exitosas y uso de tecnologías avanzadas en la gestión urbana regional, a través del intercambio y formación conjunta entre instituciones de España, México y Chile que desarrollan este tema. Este trabajo expone la síntesis de la propuesta denominada Sistemas de Gestión Urbana Regional, desarrollada en el marco de la Convocatoria 2009 de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo de Proyectos de Cooperación para Iberoamérica....

High power density superconducting rotating machines—development status and technology roadmap

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Haran, Kiruba S.; Kalsi, Swarn; Arndt, Tabea; Karmaker, Haran; Badcock, Rod; Buckley, Bob; Haugan, Timothy; Izumi, Mitsuru; Loder, David; Bray, James W.; Masson, Philippe; Stautner, Ernst Wolfgang

2017-12-01

Superconducting technology applications in electric machines have long been pursued due to their significant advantages of higher efficiency and power density over conventional technology. However, in spite of many successful technology demonstrations, commercial adoption has been slow, presumably because the threshold for value versus cost and technology risk has not yet been crossed. One likely path for disruptive superconducting technology in commercial products could be in applications where its advantages become key enablers for systems which are not practical with conventional technology. To help systems engineers assess the viability of such future solutions, we present a technology roadmap for superconducting machines. The timeline considered was ten years to attain a Technology Readiness Level of 6+, with systems demonstrated in a relevant environment. Future projections, by definition, are based on the judgment of specialists, and can be subjective. Attempts have been made to obtain input from a broad set of organizations for an inclusive opinion. This document was generated through a series of teleconferences and in-person meetings, including meetings at the 2015 IEEE PES General meeting in Denver, CO, the 2015 ECCE in Montreal, Canada, and a final workshop in April 2016 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign that brought together a broad group of technical experts spanning the industry, government and academia.

Implementation of highly parallel and large scale GW calculations within the OpenAtom software

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Ismail-Beigi, Sohrab

The need to describe electronic excitations with better accuracy than provided by band structures produced by Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been a long-term enterprise for the computational condensed matter and materials theory communities. In some cases, appropriate theoretical frameworks have existed for some time but have been difficult to apply widely due to computational cost. For example, the GW approximation incorporates a great deal of important non-local and dynamical electronic interaction effects but has been too computationally expensive for routine use in large materials simulations. OpenAtom is an open source massively parallel ab initiodensity functional software package based on plane waves and pseudopotentials (http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/OpenAtom/) that takes advantage of the Charm + + parallel framework. At present, it is developed via a three-way collaboration, funded by an NSF SI2-SSI grant (ACI-1339804), between Yale (Ismail-Beigi), IBM T. J. Watson (Glenn Martyna) and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (Laxmikant Kale). We will describe the project and our current approach towards implementing large scale GW calculations with OpenAtom. Potential applications of large scale parallel GW software for problems involving electronic excitations in semiconductor and/or metal oxide systems will be also be pointed out.

On the Development of Hydrogen Isotope Extraction Technologies for a Full LiMIT-Style PFC Liquid Lithium Loop

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Christenson, Michael; Szott, Matthew; Stemmley, Steven; Mettler, Jeremy; Wendeborn, John; Moynihan, Cody; Ahn, Chisung; Andruczyk, Daniel; Ruzic, David

2017-10-01

Lithium has proven over numerous studies to improve core confinement, allowing access to operational regimes previously unattainable when using solid, high-Z divertor and limiter modules in magnetic confinement devices. Lithium readily absorbs fuel species, and while this is advantageous, it is also detrimental with regards to tritium inventory and safety concerns. As such, extraction technologies for the recovery of hydrogenic isotopes captured by lithium require development and testing in the context of a larger lithium loop recycling system. Proposed reclamation technologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will take advantage of the thermophysical properties of the lithium-hydrogen-lithium hydride system as the driving force for recovery. Previous work done at UIUC indicates that hydrogen release from pure lithium hydride reaches a maximum of 7 x 1018 s-1 at 665 °C. While this recovery rate is appreciable, reactor-scale scenarios will require isotope recycling to happen on an even faster timescale. The ratio of isotope dissolution to hydride precipitate formation must therefore be determined, along with the energy needed to recoup trapped hydrogen isotopes. Extraction technologies for use with a LiMIT-style loop system will be discussed and results will be presented. DOE/ALPS DE-FG02-99ER54515.

The relationship between academic performance and recreation use among first-year medical students

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Alexander N. Slade

2015-03-01

Full Text Available Introduction: Self-care activities, including exercise, may be neglected by medical students in response to increasing academic demands. Low levels of exercise among medical students may have ripple effects on patient care and counseling. This study investigates the reciprocal role of recreation use and academic performance among first-year medical students. Methods: We combined retrospective administrative data from four cohorts of first-year medical students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2006 to 2010 (n=408. We estimated regression models to clarify the role of changes in recreation use before examinations on changes in academic performance, and vice versa. Results: The use of recreation facilities by first-year medical students was highly skewed. We found that changes in recreation use before an exam were positively associated with changes in exam performance, and vice versa. Students who make large decreases in their recreation use are likely to decrease their exam scores, rather than increase them. Discussion: Students who make decreases in their recreation, on average, are likely to decrease their exam scores. These findings suggest that medical students may be able to boost their achievement through wellness interventions, even if they are struggling with exams. We find no evidence that decreasing wellness activities will help improve exam performance.

Computational and theoretical modeling of pH and flow effects on the early-stage non-equilibrium self-assembly of optoelectronic peptides

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Mansbach, Rachael; Ferguson, Andrew

Self-assembling π-conjugated peptides are attractive candidates for the fabrication of bioelectronic materials possessing optoelectronic properties due to electron delocalization over the conjugated peptide groups. We present a computational and theoretical study of an experimentally-realized optoelectronic peptide that displays triggerable assembly in low pH to resolve the microscopic effects of flow and pH on the non-equilibrium morphology and kinetics of assembly. Using a combination of molecular dynamics simulations and hydrodynamic modeling, we quantify the time and length scales at which convective flows employed in directed assembly compete with microscopic diffusion to influence assembly. We also show that there is a critical pH below which aggregation proceeds irreversibly, and quantify the relationship between pH, charge density, and aggregate size. Our work provides new fundamental understanding of pH and flow of non-equilibrium π-conjugated peptide assembly, and lays the groundwork for the rational manipulation of environmental conditions and peptide chemistry to control assembly and the attendant emergent optoelectronic properties. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under Award # DE-SC0011847, and by the Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Evaluating multiple-choice exams in large introductory physics courses

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Gary Gladding

2006-07-01

Full Text Available The reliability and validity of professionally written multiple-choice exams have been extensively studied for exams such as the SAT, graduate record examination, and the force concept inventory. Much of the success of these multiple-choice exams is attributed to the careful construction of each question, as well as each response. In this study, the reliability and validity of scores from multiple-choice exams written for and administered in the large introductory physics courses at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign were investigated. The reliability of exam scores over the course of a semester results in approximately a 3% uncertainty in students’ total semester exam score. This semester test score uncertainty yields an uncertainty in the students’ assigned letter grade that is less than 1 / 3 of a letter grade. To study the validity of exam scores, a subset of students were ranked independently based on their multiple-choice score, graded explanations, and student interviews. The ranking of these students based on their multiple-choice score was found to be consistent with the ranking assigned by physics instructors based on the students’ written explanations ( r>0.94 at the 95% confidence level and oral interviews (r=0.94−0.09+0.06 .

Summary of my experiences as an undergraduate researcher in the U.S. and as a Fulbright Student Researcher at the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy in Poland

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Zelasko Susan

2016-05-01

Full Text Available Over the course of my undergraduate studies in Molecular and Cellular Biology and the experiences following my graduation, I became increasingly interested in research that can directly improve patient care. My research experiences in the U.S. include studying cytochrome P450 enzymes in Nanodiscs at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and examining immune evasion by acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Beyond work in the laboratory, I also participated in a year-long project to implement a water delivery system in Honduras, leading to my interest in infectious disease research. My interest in this field grew after learning about phage therapy, a way of treating antibiotic-resistant infections, during an honors virology seminar. Only a few research groups are dedicated to studying phage therapy, which includes the Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy (IIET in Poland. I was fortunate enough to receive a U.S. Fulbright research grant to study the immune response to phage therapy under the mentorship of Prof. hab. n. med. Andrzej Górski at the IIET. In this article, I will discuss my involvement at U.S. and European institutions, the insights I have gained, and how other students can similarly get involved in research.

Sharp and the Jules Verne Launcher

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Hunter, John; Cartland, Harry

1996-03-01

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has built the worlds largest hydrogen gas gun called SHARP, (Super High Altitude Research Project). Originally designed to launch 5 kg to a 450 km altitude, SHARP is configured horizontally at Site 300 in Tracy, California. SHARP is successfully delivering 5 kg scramjets at Mach 9 in aerophysics tests. Some of the results of the scramjet tests are enlightening and are presented insofar as they are relevant to future launches into space. Using a light gas gun to launch payloads into orbit has been analyzed. We look at LEO (Low Earth Orbit), GEO (Geosynchronous Earth Orbit), and LO (Lunar Orbit). We present a conceptual design for a large light gas gun called the Jules Verne Launcher (JVL). The JVL can deliver 3.3 metric tons to a 500 km low earth orbit. We anticipate one launch per day. We present the history of light gas guns, the SHARP design and performance, and the JVL design. Another section is devoted to the vehicle environment and resultant design. Lastly, we present a cost analysis. Our results indicated that the JVL will be able to deliver 1000 metric tons of payload to LEO yearly. The cost will be 5% of the best US rocket delivery cost. This technology will enable the next phase of man's exploration of space.

Survey of Urban Meteorological Data.

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1984-01-01

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Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for the simulation of a station blackout scenario in the Jules Horowitz Reactor

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Ghione, Alberto; Noel, Brigitte; Vinai, Paolo; Demazière, Christophe

2017-01-01

Highlights: • A station blackout scenario in the Jules Horowitz Reactor is analyzed using CATHARE. • Input and model uncertainties relevant to the transient, are considered. • A statistical methodology for the propagation of the uncertainties is applied. • No safety criteria are exceeded and sufficiently large safety margins are estimated. • The most influential uncertainties are determined with a sensitivity analysis. - Abstract: An uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for the simulation of a station blackout scenario in the Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) is presented. The JHR is a new material testing reactor under construction at CEA on the Cadarache site, France. The thermal-hydraulic system code CATHARE is applied to investigate the response of the reactor system to the scenario. The uncertainty and sensitivity study was based on a statistical methodology for code uncertainty propagation, and the ‘Uncertainty and Sensitivity’ platform URANIE was used. Accordingly, the input uncertainties relevant to the transient, were identified, quantified, and propagated to the code output. The results show that the safety criteria are not exceeded and sufficiently large safety margins exist. In addition, the most influential input uncertainties on the safety parameters were found by making use of a sensitivity analysis.

Coal and nuclear power: Illinois' energy future

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1982-01-01

This conference was sponsored by the Energy Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago; the US Department of Energy; the Illinois Energy Resources Commission; and the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources. The theme for the conference, Coal and Nuclear Power: Illinois' Energy Future, was based on two major observations: (1) Illinois has the largest reserves of bituminous coal of any state and is surpassed in total reserves only by North Dakota, and Montana; and (2) Illinois has made a heavy commitment to the use of nuclear power as a source of electrical power generation. Currently, nuclear power represents 30% of the electrical energy produced in the State. The primary objective of the 1982 conference was to review these two energy sources in view of the current energy policy of the Reagan Administration, and to examine the impact these policies have on the Midwest energy scene. The conference dealt with issues unique to Illinois as well as those facing the entire nation. A separate abstract was prepared for each of the 30 individual presentations.

MOBILIDADE URBANA E TRAFFIC CALMING

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Priscilla Alves

2014-09-01

Full Text Available O objetivo do presente trabalho é o de analisar e compreender, a partir de uma discussão teórica, o conceito e aplicação das medidas moderadoras de tráfego, conhecidas como traffic calming e sua relação com a mobilidade urbana sustentável. Buscou-se conhecer a aplicação da técnica no cenário mundial assim como algumas medidas adotadas no Brasil. Os procedimentos metodológicos aqui utilizados envolvem uma pesquisa exploratória, através da literatura atual e disponível, acerca dos temas mobilidade urbana sustentável e aplicação das medidas traffic calming. Conclui-se que as medidas de moderação atuam em conformidade com os princípios da mobilidade urbana sustentável na medida em que prioriza ações para redução do tráfego motorizado, e incentiva o uso e a segurança nos deslocamentos não motorizados. Contudo, a aplicação das técnicas sem estudos prévios e um planejamento estratégico não reduz os conflitos de mobilidade existentes nas localidades. No caso do Brasil para que se tenha sucesso com implantação da técnica é preciso uma análise mais abrangente, articulada e ser passível de aplicação de forma completa, assim como ocorre nos países desenvolvidos.

Drenagem urbana sustentável : análise do uso do retrofit

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Christofidis, Hugo do Vale

2013-01-01

A presente dissertação demonstrou que a drenagem urbana sustentável é uma componente importante na busca da sustentabilidade do ambiente urbano e que o Retrofit é uma ferramenta eficiente para alcançar esse objetivo. Para tanto foi apresentada uma metodologia de Retrofit de infraestrutura urbana que permite adaptar sistemas de drenagem urbana tradicionais em sistemas sustentáveis. Essa metodologia foi desenvolvida por uma organização não-governamental (ONG) americana e foram propostas algumas...

Transformación de la Estructura Urbana de la Ciudad de Toluca, Siglo XIX

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Georgina Alicia García Luna Villagrán

2014-12-01

Full Text Available La configuración urbana de las ciudades actuales, ha sido el resultado de distintos procesos históricos influyendo en la organización del territorio, elementos como las actividades económicas y la aplicación de reformas urbanas, así como los equipamientos, servicios y los recursos humanos y físicos han sido elementos que han intervenido en las áreas urbanas, al respecto el propósito del presente trabajo consiste en describir la transformación de la estructura urbana de la ciudad de Toluca a partir de la desamortización de bienes eclesiásticos, para identificar sus principales efectos en su traza urbana, en sus espacios públicos y en el crecimiento urbano de la ciudad. Por lo anterior se logró demostrar que la desamortización ocasionó algunos cambios en la forma de la ciudad actual después de haberse vendido las propiedades del clero ya que hubo otros hechos que también impactaron en la configuración urbana de Toluca.

Estado, mercado de tierra urbana e inundaciones en ciudades argentinas

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Nora Clichevsky

2006-01-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de una investigación sobre las relaciones que se establecen entre los mercados de tierra urbana y las inundaciones en ciudades argentinas, en el marco más amplio de la vulnerabilidad urbana. Se pretende despejar incógnitas acerca del papel jugado por el Estado como regulador del mercado en áreas urbanas con vulnerabilidad natural a la inundación y como constructor de defensas contra las inundaciones y acerca de los impactos que han tenido las inundaciones y las obras de defensa contra ellas sobre el mercado de tierra y, por lo tanto, sobre el acceso al suelo urbano por parte de los distintos sectores de la población.

Illinois Wind Workers Group

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David G. Loomis

2012-05-28

The Illinois Wind Working Group (IWWG) was founded in 2006 with about 15 members. It has grown to over 200 members today representing all aspects of the wind industry across the State of Illinois. In 2008, the IWWG developed a strategic plan to give direction to the group and its activities. The strategic plan identifies ways to address critical market barriers to the further penetration of wind. The key to addressing these market barriers is public education and outreach. Since Illinois has a restructured electricity market, utilities no longer have a strong control over the addition of new capacity within the state. Instead, market acceptance depends on willing landowners to lease land and willing county officials to site wind farms. Many times these groups are uninformed about the benefits of wind energy and unfamiliar with the process. Therefore, many of the project objectives focus on conferences, forum, databases and research that will allow these stakeholders to make well-educated decisions.

Incorporating JULES into NASA's Land Information System (LIS) and Investigations of Land-Atmosphere Coupling

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Santanello, Joseph

2011-01-01

NASA's Land Information System (LIS; lis.gsfc.nasa.gov) is a flexible land surface modeling and data assimilation framework developed over the past decade with the goal of integrating satellite- and ground-based observational data products and advanced land surface modeling techniques to produce optimal fields of land surface states and fluxes. LIS features a high performance and flexible design, and operates on an ensemble of land surface models for extension over user-specified regional or global domains. The extensible interfaces of LIS allow the incorporation of new domains, land surface models (LSMs), land surface parameters, meteorological inputs, data assimilation and optimization algorithms. In addition, LIS has also been demonstrated for parameter estimation and uncertainty estimation, and has been coupled to the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mesoscale model. A visiting fellowship is currently underway to implement JULES into LIS and to undertake some fundamental science on the feedbacks between the land surface and the atmosphere. An overview of the LIS system, features, and sample results will be presented in an effort to engage the community in the potential advantages of LIS-JULES for a range of applications. Ongoing efforts to develop a framework for diagnosing land-atmosphere coupling will also be presented using the suite of LSM and PBL schemes available in LIS and WRF along with observations from the U. S .. Southern Great Plains. This methodology provides a potential pathway to study factors controlling local land-atmosphere coupling (LoCo) using the LIS-WRF system, which will serve as a testbed for future experiments to evaluate coupling diagnostics within the community.

GESTÃO DA DRENAGEM URBANA NO BRASIL: DESAFIOS PARA A SUSTENTABILIDADE

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Vladimir Caramori Borges de Souza

2013-03-01

Full Text Available Os sistemas de drenagem urbana no Brasil ainda seguem um padrão baseado apenas em eficiência hidráulica de condutos, apesar de já haver um reconhecimento de que este tipo de abordagem não resolve os problemas no longo prazo; é apenas uma ação pontual e que age sobre os efeitos. Desta forma, os sistemas de drenagem continuam sendo concebidos, dimensionados e projetados para falhar. Apesar de haver grande avanço acadêmico no desenvolvimento de técnicas e abordagens mais integradoras, com foco na bacia hidrográfica e nos impactos da urbanização sobre os processos naturais, ainda não houve apropriação desse conhecimento na prática dos técnicos municipais e tomadores de decisão. Este artigo apresenta uma contextualização da drenagem urbana no Brasil, mostrando os avanços obtidos no conhecimento do problema e os desafios para avançar, também, na aplicação de novas técnicas e metodologias. Foram analisados trabalhos acadêmicos desenvolvidos nos principais centros brasileiros de pesquisa em drenagem urbana – com foco em modelagem de sistemas de drenagem e desenvolvimento de técnicas compensatórias em drenagem urbana –, os principais instrumentos da política urbana e o conhecimento prático de análise de alguns sistemas de drenagem em particular. Observa-se que as incertezas nos parâmetros utilizados em projeto e modelagem ainda são grandes e os manuais utilizados estão defasados, com ausência de metodologias e parâmetros simples para utilização das novas técnicas e abordagens de drenagem urbana e manejo de águas pluviais.

William Butcher, Jules Verne inédit, les manuscrits déchiffrés

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Merello, Ida

2016-01-01

Les textes de Jules Verne sont des palimpsestes. Ils le sont au sens figuré, nous le savions déjà. Mais ils le sont également au sens propre, comme le montre le bel ouvrage de William Butcher. Ce dernier s’est donné pour objectif d’analyser les manuscrits de Verne parvenus jusqu’à nous. La ressource semble inépuisable : des milliers et des milliers de pages autographes à déchiffrer, à défricher. William Butcher s’est plongé dans ce labeur avec enthousiasme et il en tire de nombreuses informat...

DISPERSIÓN URBANA Y OFERTA HÍDRICA EN EL EJE CAFETERO COLOMBIANO

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GONZÁLEZ JUAN LEONARDO

2012-11-01

Full Text Available Este artículo presenta una caracterización del estado de la oferta hídrica en el contexto de dispersión urbana, entendida como la propagación de una ciudad y de sus barrios hacia las zonas rurales periféricas, en el eje cafetero colombiano. Los autores consideran que el conocimiento sobre el uso del suelo en las áreas de dispersión urbana y en los entornos donde se localizan los ecosistemas que sustentan el abasto hídrico, así como la eficiencia técnico operacional de las empresas de servicios públicos que operan allí, son factores claves para entender de manera integral la oferta hídrica local y regional. El trabajo analiza el grado de urbanización y la magnitud espacial de la dispersión urbana en los municipios de Manizales, Pereira y Armenia. Luego, caracteriza el estado ecológico-social del uso del suelo en los ecosistemas andinos y subandinos que abastecen a los acueductos integrados a la dispersión urbana. Por último, plantea las condiciones técnicas y operacionales de los prestadores del servicio de acueducto involucrados en la dispersión urbana, resaltando sus fortalezas y debilidades. Cabe destacar que la oferta hídrica dada en la dispersión urbana del eje cafetero tiende a ser cada vez más frágil en la medida en que este fenómeno incrementa su área y su demanda.

Catálogo de los puentes proyectados por Jules Sagebien en la provincia de Matanzas.

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Luis R. González Arestuche; C. J. Rolo Pico; Rubén A. Delgado Rodríguez

2014-01-01

Esta investigación recopila en documento único, el mejor quehacer de uno de los principales forjadores de Matanzas como ciudad y del desarrollo industrial inicial, alcanzado en el siglo XIX, para la demarcación. El respeto hacia la conservación y el rescate del patrimonio construido en la actual provincia homónima, por sus altísimos valores: histórico, cultural y tecnológico, considera la necesidad del conocimiento ciudadano sobre la actividad del francés Jules Sagebien Tavernier. Desde el añ...

La Investigación urbana en América Latina

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Martha Schteingart

2000-01-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo se hace un balance de los caminos recorridos en el campo de la investigación urbana en la mayor parte de los países de América Latina, con el fin de establecer algunos criterios básicos para formular una agenda de investigación para el futuro próximo. El trabajo "basado en una serie de estudios realizados en el marco del proyecto internacional Iniciativa Global para la Investigación Urbana (GURI, por sus siglas en inglés y aplicados en tres subregiones" hace un recuento del inicio y evolución de la investigación urbana en cada subregión; desarrolla aspectos como las perspectivas teóricas de la investigación urbana, los temas investigados, las disciplinas involucradas y las estructuras institucionales de apoyo a la investigación, poniendo énfasis, además, en el análisis comparativo de las subregiones (México-Colombia y Centroamérica; Brasil y Venezuela; los países andinos y del Cono Sur y en la importancia de los aspectos político-institucionales en el desarrollo de la investigación.

Illinois highway materials sustainability efforts of 2015.

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2016-08-01

This report provides a summary of the sustainability efforts of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) in recycling : reclaimed materials in highway construction during calendar year 2015. This report meets the requirements of Illinois Publ...

Illinois highway materials sustainability efforts of 2014.

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2015-08-01

This report presents the 2014 sustainability efforts of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) in : recycling reclaimed materials in highway construction. This report meets the requirements of Illinois : Public Act 097-0314 by documenting I...

Illinois highway materials sustainability efforts of 2016.

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2017-07-04

This report provides a summary of the sustainability efforts of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) in recycling : reclaimed materials in highway construction during calendar year 2016. This report meets the requirements of Illinois Publ...

Illinois highway materials sustainability efforts of 2013.

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2014-08-01

This report presents the sustainability efforts of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) in : recycling and reclaiming materials for use in highway construction. This report meets the requirements of : Illinois Public Act 097-0314 by docum...

[Scientific contributions of Jules Hirsch regarding the physiopathogenesis of obesity].

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Zárate, Arturo; Manuel, Leticia

2016-01-01

Jules Hirsch was born in New York City and died at age 88 after a long illness. He was considered notorious leader in the study of human metabolism mainly in the area of lipids and obesity. His research at The Rockefeller University helps establish the mechanism of obesity and lipids metabolism. Hirsch joined Rockefeller´s faculty in 1954 and remained there for the rest of his career. Hirsch´s research helped to support the idea of dynamic interactions among diet, physical activity, general metabolism and obesity. At that time most scientific considered adipose tissue to be biologically inert such as a passive insulator in which the body reserved energy in the form of triglycerides. Hirsch had a natural characteristic of showing a nice smile and greeting for everyone he worked with at the university. Another important contribution was there relationship between diet and cardiovascular ailments as well as metabolism disturbance.

Continuous monitoring of sediment and nutrients in the Illinois River at Florence, Illinois, 2012-13

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Terrio, Paul J.; Straub, Timothy D.; Domanski, Marian M.; Siudyla, Nicholas A.

2015-01-01

The Illinois River is the largest river in Illinois and is the primary contributing watershed for nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loading to the upper Mississippi River from Illinois. In addition to streamflow, the following water-quality constituents were monitored at the Illinois River at Florence, Illinois (U.S. Geological Survey station number 05586300), during May 2012–October 2013: phosphate, nitrate, turbidity, temperature, specific conductance, pH, and dissolved oxygen. The objectives of this monitoring were to (1) determine performance capabilities of the in-situ instruments; (2) collect continuous data that would provide an improved understanding of constituent characteristics during normal, low-, and high-flow periods and during different climatic and land-use seasons; (3) evaluate the ability to use continuous turbidity as a surrogate constituent to determine suspended-sediment concentrations; and (4) evaluate the ability to develop a regression model for total phosphorus using phosphate, turbidity, and other measured parameters. Reliable data collection was achieved, following some initial periods of instrument and data-communication difficulties. The resulting regression models for suspended sediment had coefficient of determination (R2) values of about 0.9. Nitrate plus nitrite loads computed using continuous data were found to be approximately 8 percent larger than loads computed using traditional discrete-sampling based models. A regression model for total phosphorus was developed by using historic orthophosphate data (important during periods of low flow and low concentrations) and historic suspended-sediment data (important during periods of high flow and higher concentrations). The R2of the total phosphorus regression model using orthophosphorus and suspended sediment was 0.8. Data collection and refinement of the regression models is ongoing.

POSITIVISM, INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND URBANISM - UTOPIA AND REALITY IN THE JULES VERNE'S NOVEL "THE BEGUM'S FORTUNE"

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Daniel H. Valsecchi

2009-01-01

Full Text Available The aim of this article is to analyze negative consequences (social, political, psychological and so forth of utopian projects, which crippled society and people by negation of reality and at the same time oblige them to accept these plans. In order to do this we analyze characteristics of two constructions which are thoroughly depicted by Jules Verne: an Arms Fabric (Stahlstadt and a city which was mathematically built (France Ville. Furthermore there are reflections about positivism - i.e. the ground of these projects.

Recent advances in combinatorial biosynthesis for drug discovery

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Sun H

2015-02-01

Full Text Available Huihua Sun,1,* Zihe Liu,1,* Huimin Zhao,1,2 Ee Lui Ang1 1Metabolic Engineering Research Laboratory, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore; 2Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA *These authors contributed equally to this work Abstract: Because of extraordinary structural diversity and broad biological activities, natural products have played a significant role in drug discovery. These therapeutically important secondary metabolites are assembled and modified by dedicated biosynthetic pathways in their host living organisms. Traditionally, chemists have attempted to synthesize natural product analogs that are important sources of new drugs. However, the extraordinary structural complexity of natural products sometimes makes it challenging for traditional chemical synthesis, which usually involves multiple steps, harsh conditions, toxic organic solvents, and byproduct wastes. In contrast, combinatorial biosynthesis exploits substrate promiscuity and employs engineered enzymes and pathways to produce novel “unnatural” natural products, substantially expanding the structural diversity of natural products with potential pharmaceutical value. Thus, combinatorial biosynthesis provides an environmentally friendly way to produce natural product analogs. Efficient expression of the combinatorial biosynthetic pathway in genetically tractable heterologous hosts can increase the titer of the compound, eventually resulting in less expensive drugs. In this review, we will discuss three major strategies for combinatorial biosynthesis: 1 precursor-directed biosynthesis; 2 enzyme-level modification, which includes swapping of the entire domains, modules and subunits, site-specific mutagenesis, and directed evolution; 3 pathway-level recombination. Recent examples of combinatorial biosynthesis employing these

Lower education among low-income Brazilian adolescent females is associated with planned pregnancies

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2017-01-01

Full Text Available Alexandre Faisal-Cury,1 Karen M Tabb,2 Guilherme Niciunovas,3 Carrie Cunningham,4 Paulo R Menezes,1 Hsiang Huang4,5 1Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; 2School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; 3School of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; 4Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA; 5Department of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Psychopathology and Psychiatric Therapeutics (LIM-23, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Abstract: Adolescent pregnancy has social, economic, and educational consequences and is also linked to adverse perinatal outcomes. However, studies show a positive relationship between pregnancy and increased social status among low-income adolescents. This study aims to assess the association between planned pregnancy and years of schooling among low-income Brazilian adolescents. This is a secondary analysis of a cohort study conducted from May 2005 to March 2007 in public primary care clinics in São Paulo, Brazil. Participants (n=168 completed a detailed structured questionnaire. Logistic regression was used to examine the association between years of schooling and planned pregnancy. After adjusting for the covariates income, wealth score, crowding, age, marital status, and race, planned pregnancy was independently associated with lower years of education (odds ratio: 1.82; 95% confidence interval: 1.02–3.23. Although this finding may be related to these adolescents having less access to information and health services, another possible explanation is that they have a greater desire to have children during adolescence. Keywords: adolescent pregnancy, planned pregnancy, Brazil, low-income population, women

Assessing composition and structure of soft biphasic media from Kelvin-Voigt fractional derivative model parameters

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Zhang, Hongmei; Wang, Yue; Fatemi, Mostafa; Insana, Michael F.

2017-03-01

Kelvin-Voigt fractional derivative (KVFD) model parameters have been used to describe viscoelastic properties of soft tissues. However, translating model parameters into a concise set of intrinsic mechanical properties related to tissue composition and structure remains challenging. This paper begins by exploring these relationships using a biphasic emulsion materials with known composition. Mechanical properties are measured by analyzing data from two indentation techniques—ramp-stress relaxation and load-unload hysteresis tests. Material composition is predictably correlated with viscoelastic model parameters. Model parameters estimated from the tests reveal that elastic modulus E 0 closely approximates the shear modulus for pure gelatin. Fractional-order parameter α and time constant τ vary monotonically with the volume fraction of the material’s fluid component. α characterizes medium fluidity and the rate of energy dissipation, and τ is a viscous time constant. Numerical simulations suggest that the viscous coefficient η is proportional to the energy lost during quasi-static force-displacement cycles, E A . The slope of E A versus η is determined by α and the applied indentation ramp time T r. Experimental measurements from phantom and ex vivo liver data show close agreement with theoretical predictions of the η -{{E}A} relation. The relative error is less than 20% for emulsions 22% for liver. We find that KVFD model parameters form a concise features space for biphasic medium characterization that described time-varying mechanical properties. The experimental work was carried out at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Methodological development, including numerical simulation and all data analysis, were carried out at the school of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an JiaoTong University, 710049, China.

Fusion and its future in Illinois

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Baker, C.C.

1984-08-01

This report was prepared by the Illinois Fusion Power Task Force under the sponsorship of the Governor's Commission on Sciences and Technology. The report presents the findings and recommendations of the Task Force, an explanation of the basic concepts of fusion, a summary of national and international programs and a description of ongoing fusion activities in Illinois

Inventory of Rare of Endangered Vascular Plants Occurring in the Floodplain of the Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois, and St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the Floodplain of the Illinois River between Grafton, Illinois, and Chicago,

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1975-01-01

counties). ramily Cyperaceae Cyperus iria L. Illinois (Alexander). Family Ranunculaceae Ranunculus sardous Crantz. Illinois (Jackson, Union). Family ...adventive floodplain species is appended. P1 r 4 Sagittaria calycina Engelm. Arrowhead Family Alismataceae Status: Not rare nor endangered. This usually...spongia (Bosc) Steud. Frogbit Family Hydrocharitaceae Status: Rare (Illinois). This is a Coastal Plain species which ranges from Texas to Florida and

Le soluzioni di logistica urbana sono sostenibili? L'esempio di Cityporto

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Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu

2010-07-01

Full Text Available La logistica urbana è un campo di riflessione volto ad approfondire le soluzioni ottimali per la distribuzione delle merci in ambito urbano e i relativi obiettivi ambientali. Ad oggi, molte azioni sono state intraprese dalle pubbliche autorità senza tenere conto, tuttavia, degli impatti che i nuovi schemi organizzativi possono avere sull’ attuale organizzazione delle imprese. Il contributo incentra la riflessione sul caso studio relativo alla città di Padova, in Italia: il sistema di logistica urbana CityPorto. In particolare, se ne analizzano le caratteristiche dal punto di vista della sostenibilità del sistema proposto, sia in riferimento alla dimensione imprenditoriale che a quella collettiva, mettendo in relazione le peculiarità della logistica urbana e le più estese catene distributive, di scala globale, di cui le prime sono parte integrante.

Geografías urbanas en la era del neoliberalismo. Una conceptualización de la resistencia local a través de la participación y la ciudadanía urbana

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Michael Janoschka

2012-02-01

Full Text Available Las discusiones relacionadas con la (inseguridad urbana, su consiguiente traducción política en un gobierno de la seguridad y la edificación de elementos urbanísticos defensivos han experimentado un auge espectacular a nivel mundial. En este artículo se interpretan las transformaciones urbanas (defensivas, estimuladas por un discurso dominante que está centrado en el miedo y la inseguridad, como una expresión del capitalismo global y de la difusión de políticas neoliberales. A partir de un análisis de los impulsos de mercado originado por un neoliberalismo multicolor, encubierto y camaleónico, se plantea la cuestión de cómo la necesaria reconquista urbana y la resistencia local se puede pensar de forma conceptual. En este sentido, se dará un paso más allá de la disputa urbana acerca de la gentrificación y el redescubrimiento urbano exclusivista que se dirigen a atraer a las clases pudientes a los espacios céntricos reacomodados y segurizados. Se defiende la tesis de que, a nivel local, es urgente promover una re-apropiación urbana ‘desde abajo’ que implica a los ciudadanos. Por ello se discuten las posibilidades de pensar la participación como una práctica de ciudadanía urbana y activa que se funda en la idea de construir verdaderos espacios de ciudadanía.

Road Materials and Pavement Design Volume 17(1)

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De Beer, Morris

2016-03-01

Full Text Available Materials and Pavement Design Volume 17, 2016 - Issue 1 Editorial Board Page ebi | Published online: 03 Oct 2016  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680629.2016.1244475 Editors-in-Chief Hervé DI BENEDETTO - University of Lyon/ENTPE, Vaulx-en-Velin, France... Andrew Charles COLLOP - De Montfort University, Leicester, UK William G. BUTTLAR - University of Missouri, Urbana-Champaign, USA Editor-in-Chief at Large Jorge B. Sousa - Consulpav, Oeiras, Portugal Associate Editors Morris de Beer - CSIR Built...

Criminalidad-estructura urbana: Tijuana 2002

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José García Gómez

2009-01-01

Full Text Available La búsqueda de la relación entre algunos aspectos de la estructura urbana de la ciudad de Tijuana y el fenómeno de criminalidad durante el 2002, sirve de pretexto para, en primer término, establecer la pertinencia de abordar el análisis de la relación desarrollo urbano-criminalidad desde la perspectiva de la teoría de sistemas, particularmente desde el enfoque de ciudad como sistema planteada por Schmidt-Relenberg. También sirve para justificar el uso de una técnica econométrica (la regresión. Bajo ese enfoque y herramientas analíticas descritas se lleva a cabo el análisis tomando como variable de criminalidad a los robos con violencia y sin violencia y como variables de estructura física urbana a las características geométricas y los componentes principales en vialidades. La evaluación estadística arroja que de manera conjunta las dos variables de configuración física señaladas no explican la criminalidad, pero si lo hacen de manera individual.

My Scientific Journey: From an Agrarian Start to an Academic Setting.

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Bahr, Janice M

2017-02-08

This article is a combination of an autobiography and a review of outstanding research done by over 70 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scientists along with excellent collaborators during my over-40-year career as a professor of reproductive physiology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I have also shared thoughts on mentoring, how research has changed over the years, and the future of reproductive physiology. I provide the reader with a snapshot of the challenges faced by a woman eager to obtain a PhD under the guidance of renowned professors in the early 1970s and to be hired as the first woman, and the only permanent female faculty member, for more than 20 years on a faculty of 40 men. As a comparative reproductive physiologist, I describe the various animal models used because they were the best models to answer specific questions in reproduction. Also, my graduate students and postdoctoral fellows were given the freedom to identify their research topics, articulate hypotheses to be tested, and select appropriate animal models. This approach caused students to take ownership of their research, resulting in the development of independent and creative scientists and over 170 publications, excluding chapters in top-tier journals. Finally, I am so grateful for a truly rich life mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who have become my lifelong friends.

Implication of climate change on urban drainage systems of Chicago and Mainstream and DesPlaines (MS/DP) Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP)

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Luo, H.; Schmidt, A.; Garcia, M. H.; Oberg, N.

2016-12-01

The impact of changing climate patterns and rainfall extremes on sewer system and river basin has been brought to attention to the researchers worldwide. In 1972, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) adopted the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) to address combined sewer overflow (CSO) pollution and flooding problems in the Chicago land area. The hydrosystem laboratory in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed a series of numerical models accordingly to analyze the complex hydraulic behavior of the as-built TARP system. Due to the interconnected nature of City of Chicago sewer network and MS/DP TARP system, a tightly coupled hydrological and hydraulic model MetroFlow was developed to facilitate such analysis by integrating previous developed models. This study utilized MetroFlow to predict the hydrologic/hydraulic response of the system for a set of pre-determined design and historical storm events. Accordingly, combined sewer overflows (CSO) of Chicago combined sewer system and MS/DP TARP system were evaluated under current and future weather scenarios. The total CSOs from TARP system can be considered as urban point pollution source to the surrounding receiving bodies, hence the potential impact of climate change on CSO fluxes is essential reference to wastewater infrastructure design and operations of the hydraulic regulating structures under storm events to mitigate predicted risks.

Commercial applications for COIL

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Solomon, Wayne C.; Carroll, David L.; King, D. M.; Fockler, L. A.; Stromberg, D. S.; Sexauer, M.; Milmoe, A.; Sentman, Lee H.

2000-01-01

The chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) is a high power, fiber deliverable tool, which can be used for a number of different industrial applications. COIL is of particular interest because of its short fiber deliverable wavelength, high scaleable continuous wave power, and excellent material interaction properties. In past research the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign identified and decommissioning and decontamination (DD) of nuclear facilities as a primary focus for COIL technology. DD will be a major challenge in the coming decades. The use of a robotically driven fiber delivered cutting/ablation tool in contaminated areas promises to lower risks to workers for the DD mission. Further, the high cutting speed of COIL will significantly reduce the time required to cut contaminated equipment, reducing costs. The high power of COIL will permit the dismantling of thick stacks of piping and equipment as well as reactor vessels. COIL is very promising for the removal of material from contaminated surfaces, perhaps to depths thicker than an inch. Laser cutting and ablation minimizes dust and fumes, which reduces the required number of high efficiency particulate accumulator filters, thus reducing costly waste disposal. Other potential industrial applications for COIL are shipbuilding, automotive manufacturing, heavy machinery manufacturing, tasks requiring underwater cutting or welding, and there appear to be very promising applications for high powers lasers in the oil industry.

Rehabilitación urbana en Lisboa

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Lourés Seoane, María Luisa

2001-01-01

El artículo analiza la evolución reciente de las políticas de rehabilitacíón urbana en Lisboa desde una perspectiva sociológica. El texto aborda las transformaciones experimentadas por las áreas centrales de la ciudad en el contexto global del área metropolitana.

Illinois Occupational Skill Standards: Mechanical Drafting Cluster.

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This document, which is intended as a guide for work force preparation program providers, details the Illinois occupational skill standards for programs preparing students for employment in occupations in the mechanical drafting cluster. The document begins with a brief overview of the Illinois perspective on occupational skill standards and…

Illinois Occupational Skill Standards: Architectural Drafting Cluster.

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This document, which is intended as a guide for work force preparation program providers, details the Illinois occupational skill standards for programs preparing students for employment in occupations in the architectural drafting cluster. The document begins with a brief overview of the Illinois perspective on occupational skill standards and…

Contribution to the determination of the neutronic parameters uncertainties of a compact heterogeneous core: the material testing Jules Horowitz reactor; Contribution a l'etude des incertitudes des parametres neutroniques d'un coeur compact et heterogene: le reacteur d'irradiation Jules Horowitz

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Di Salvo, J

2002-07-01

The design studies of the future Material Testing Reactor Jules Horowitz require the development of an adapted neutronic calculation route. To guarantee good accuracy and save time cost, some approximations with deterministic modelling (APOLLO2 / CRONOS2) are needed. As no relevant integral experiments are yet available to ensure the accuracy of the calculation, the results need to be validated by a rigorous methodical approach, which is based on comparison against numerical benchmarks (Monte Carlo TRIPOLI4 code). In order to complete the validation results, sensitivity coefficients of main neutronic parameters to nuclear data are very useful to get an estimate of the final uncertainty on the calculation. Unfortunately, most of covariance information is missing in the recent evaluated files such as JEF-2.2. To generate missing covariance matrices, a method based on the comparison of different independent evaluations is used in this study. Special attention is paid to the determination of sensitivity coefficients, using perturbation methods and direct calculations. This study points out the importance of the non-diagonal elements of the covariance matrices as well as the neutron capture cross section uncertainty of the 27Al in the thermal range. In complement to uncertainty studies, it will be still necessary to obtain integral experimental validation of the Jules Horowitz Reactor neutronic parameters calculations. (author)

Defilade, Stationary Target and Moving Target Embankment, Low Water Crossing, and Course Road Designs for Soil Loss Prevention

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2006-11-01

Avenue Urbana , IL 61801-4797 Final report Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. Prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...allow validation of each structure’s effectiveness. Approach A research team consisting of members from the University of Illinois, Urbana ...and preferential drainage channel. Furthermore, dry weather conditions on unimproved ERDC/CERL TR-06-31 4 roads generate large volumes of airborne

Illinois reclaimed soil productivity: Restoration techniques

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Smout, G.

1998-01-01

Consolidation Coal Co. (Consol) has nearly 8,000 acres of high capability and prime farmland reclamation responsibility in Illinois. It has been involved in research in the area of restored soil productivity since 1976 with the University of Illinois and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Consol maintains an intensive program to demonstrate and test deep tillage equipment. The research and in-house demonstrations identified soil physical strength (compaction) as the main limiting factor to restoring a soil's productive capacity. There are two primary ways to address this issue, prevention and amelioration. The former was not an option for Consol because many acres were already reclaimed and the company had a major scraper fleet. Along with other operators in Illinois, Consol started an aggressive search for equipment and techniques that could loosen compacted soils. In 1987 Consol was the first to use the D.M.I.-Super Tiger deep soil plow, originally developed and manufactured by D.M.I., Inc. of Goodfield, Illinois. This plow is composed of a single parabolic, static shank with a 44-inch wide sweep weighing 1,200 pounds. It is capable of plowing 48 inches deep while leaving the top soil in place. A Caterpillar D9L tractor with 460 horsepower is used to pull the plow. In 1990 the decision was made to commit to this equipment as the best technology currently available. In 1994 Consol received a patent waiver from D.M.I. to build its own plow. The Consol built plow has been in use since the summer of 1995. To date, Consol has plowed over 3,900 acres with a D.M.I. plow

Developing and piloting an instrument to prioritize the worries of patients with acute myeloid leukemia

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2018-04-01

Full Text Available John FP Bridges,1 Allison H Oakes,1 Crystal A Reinhart,2 Ernest Voyard,3 Bernadette O’Donoghue3 1Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; 2Center for Prevention Research and Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA; 3The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Rye Brook, NY, USA Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML is a rapidly progressing blood cancer for which new treatments are needed. We sought to promote patient-focused drug development (PFDD for AML by developing and piloting an instrument to prioritize the worries of patients with AML.Patients and methods: An innovative community-centered approach was used to engage expert and community stakeholders in the development, pretesting, pilot testing, and dissemination of a novel best–worst scaling instrument. Patient worries were identified through individual interviews (n=15 and group calls. The instrument was developed through rigorous pretesting (n=13 and then piloted among patients and caregivers engaged in this study (n=25. Priorities were assessed using best–worst scores (spanning from +1 to -1 representing the relative number of times that items were endorsed as the most and the least worrying. All findings were presented at a PFDD meeting at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA that was attended by >80 stakeholders. Results: The final instrument included 13 worries spanning issues such as decision making, treatment delivery, physical impacts, and psychosocial effects. Patients and caregivers most prioritized worries about dying from their disease (best minus worst [BW] score=0.73, long-term side effects (BW=0.28, and time in hospital (BW=0.25.Conclusion: Community-centered approaches are valuable in designing and executing PFDD meetings and associated quantitative surveys to document the experience of patients. Expert and community stakeholders welcomed the opportunity to share

Style of Life and Student Personnel Policy in College Residence Halls

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White, Julie E.

1969-01-01

Doctoral dissertation, Dimensions of Conformity and Evasion in Residence Halls for University Women: A Sociological Analysis of Normative Behavior in a Large-Scale Social Organization, 1962, University of Illinois, Urbana.

76 FR 57022 - Coastal Zone Management Program: Illinois

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2011-09-15

... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration Coastal Zone Management Program: Illinois AGENCY: Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), National Oceanic and...: Illinois has submitted a coastal management program to NOAA for approval under the Coastal Zone Management...

A DoD/DESAT Phase I Final Report,

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1982-06-30

19-22, 1982 in Albuquerque, New Mexico: 1) Spatially Correlated Redistribution of Mn and Ge in Inl.x Gax As MBE layers, E. Silberg , T.Y. Chang, and...Urbana-Champaign. 2) Spatially correlated redistribution of Mn and Ge in InGaAs MBE layers in conjunction with E. Silberg , T.Y. Chang and E.A. Caridi at...AlGaAs MBE layers. 2) A group headed by Ors. T. Chang and E. Silberg of Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, have been involved in growing Mn and

PROCESO DE FORMACIÓN URBANA DE ORIHUELA (ALICANTE

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Gregorio Canales Martínez

1992-01-01

Full Text Available La evolución urbana de Orihuela ha venido marcada por un progresivo desplaza- miento desde su primitiva ubicación de carácter defensivo en el Monte San Miguel hasta ir ocupando las tierras ribereñas del río Segura, cuyo cauce ha definido hasta fechas muy cercanas su desarrollo urbano. El estudio determina los elementos y circunstancias que han condicionado el proceso de formación urbana desde el siglo XIV hasta nuestros días y sus tendencias expansivas, a través del análisis de la documentación histórica disponi- ble, tanto gráfica como bibliográfica, ofreciendo así una síntesis de la evolución histórica de la ciudad.

DA TRAGÉDIA URBANA À FARSA DO URBANISMO REFORMISTA: a fetichização dos planos diretores participativos

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CARLOS FREDERICO LAGO BURNETT

2007-01-01

Nos anos 80, como reação às desigualdades sócio-espaciais das cidades brasileiras, o projeto da Reforma Urbana logrou unificar, em torno de um movimento por política urbana igualitária e distributiva, intelectuais da Academia e entidades da organização popular. Parcialmente reconhecido pela Constituição Federal de 1988, o ideário da Reforma Urbana ficou subordinado ao planejamento urbano, pois o Plano Diretor foi declarado instrumento maior da política urbana municipal. Inic...

Demonstration of a Short Wavelength Chemical Laser

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Gole, James

1999-01-01

...)). Using this gain medium in a full vacuum cavity constructed following the design of the HF overtone system at the University of Illinois, Urbana, we have pursued and are continuing experiments...

Violencia urbana nuevos escenarios

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Fernando Carrión M.

2015-01-01

Full Text Available La crisis económica generaliza la inseguridad social y económica, contribuye a reducir los mecanismos de representación, a limitar los espacios de solución de los conflictos, a mercantilizar las relaciones sociales y a restringir las manifestaciones culturales de los ciudadanos. De allí que la restricción del origen y fuente de la ciudadanía lleve al incremento de la violencia urbana e inseguridad ciudadana, y a la reducción de la calidad de vida de la población.

“Letter to the King” By Jules Destry: from Separatism to Unitarism in Belgium

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Ella V. Ermakova

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Contradictions between the regions of Belgium - Wallonia and Flanders - have a long history associated with uneven political, economic and cultural development of the territories, which in 1830 became parts of an independent state, the Kingdom of Belgium. The "Letter to the King", written by eminent Belgian politician and writer, socialist Jules Destree (1863 - 1936 gg., is one of the most interesting sources on the history of Belgium of this period, It became a kind of manifesto of balance between the ideas of separatism and unitarianism. This article includes excerpts from the "Letter to the King", which were given for the first time in the author's Russian translation and conducted historical criticism of the source. The study is based on a set of scientific methods and approaches, including the principle of scientific objectivity and systematic approach, used in historical research. The main methods are problematic and historical-comparative analysis, classification and comparison of political and historical concepts. An external source of criticism included information about the place and the time of the creation of document, the biography of the author studies; internal critic source recreates the idea of the letter and the background of historical events. Prominent Belgian politician and writer, socialist Jules Destree (1863 - 1936, highly appreciated the personal qualities of King Albert I, appealed to his experience and political vision, describing all the problems Walloons faced in their opposition to the Flemish. Destree in his letter opposed the unequal development of the regions of Belgium and the protectionist policies of the central government in respect to the detriment of Flanders Wallonia. He summarized and formulated the factors that, in his opinion, interfere with the full development of his country. Destree pays great attention to linguistic differences, which were at the heart of conflicts between Walloons and Flemings, and

Finding the Balance to Combat a Hybrid Threat

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2013-05-23

supporting operation to conventional warfare. Mao Tse -tung stated that guerrilla warfare is one aspect of total war, because it cannot win a war by itself.15...of Military and Associated Terms, 147. 15Mao Tse -tung, On Guerrilla Warfare, trans. Samuel B. Griffith II (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois...to deny the Vietcong or the North Vietnamese sanctuary in neither Laos nor Cambodia. Summary In Afghanistan, insurgency has become more a

Evaluation of Lands for Recreational Snowmobile Use (Guidelines for Natural Resources Management and Land Use Compatibility).

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1981-05-01

Percy , E. C., "The Snowmobile: Friend or Foe?" Journal of Trauma, Vol 12, No. 5 (May 1972), pp 444-446. Price, V. J., "Snowmobiles, The Winter Revolution...Fort Dix, NJ Hasset, John J., Agronomy Department, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL Huber, Phil, Environmental Offices, Fort Benning, GA Jackson ...Outdoor Recreation Director, Fort McCoy, WI Houser, James, Forester, Fort McCoy, WI Hutchinson, Julian, Land Manager, Fort McCoy, WI Jackson , Gary

Illinois Directors' of Special Education Perceptions of Their Leadership Styles and Importance of the Illinois Standards for Director of Special Education

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Gunnell, James W.

2013-01-01

This research examined the relationship between Illinois Directors, of special education leadership styles and the importance of the Illinois mandated standards for Director of special education. It extends the current research in educational leadership by specifically exploring the relationship between the importance of special education…

Progress report of the French program, and basic design of the Jules Horowitz reactor

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Ballagny, A.

1998-01-01

Since the SILOE reactor was shutdown on December 23, 1997, France has been entirely depending on the OSIRIS reactor to conduct the material and fuel irradiation programmes necessary to the evolution of its nuclear power plants and to prepare the future by analysing further reactor designs which might originate in other strategies, namely in the fuel cycle field. The Jules Horowitz reactor, which operation scheduled to start in 2006, will last 50 years, must cover all irradiation needs including, as far as possible, those related to fast breeder reactor studies, more particularly since the SUPERPHENIX reactor shutdown was announced. RJH reactor studies therefore focus on the increase of flux levels and the search for the limit performance of U 3 Si 2 based MTR fuels. (author)

Mobilidade urbana para pessoas com deficiência no Brasil: um estudo em blogs

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Adriana Silva Barbosa

2016-01-01

Full Text Available A mobilidade urbana considera as condições de deslocamento das pessoas e bens pela cidade. O objetivo deste estudo é analisar como os blogs com a temática deficiência retratam a mobilidade urbana para pessoas com deficiência no Brasil. Para tanto, foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa e exploratória, na qual foram analisadas postagens de 15 blogs de pessoas com deficiência com o emprego da Grounded Theory. Reconhecer a mobilidade urbana como condição estratégica para a inclusão de pessoas com deficiência foi identificada como categoria central deste estudo, à qual se subordinam dezesseis subcategorias, organizadas em cinco eixos: necessidade de mudanças, sentimentos, efetivação da mudança, investimentos financeiros e consequências. Estes resultados mostram que a mobilidade urbana é considerada pelas pessoas com deficiência como estratégica para sua inclusão social e que os blogs evidenciam suas necessidades, reivindicações, reflexões, discussões e apontam soluções para os problemas que enfrentam em seu cotidiano.

Identidad y fronteras urbanas en Santiago de Chile

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Francisca Márquez

2003-12-01

Full Text Available Este articulo analiza a través de un ejercicio etnográfico los procesos de construcción identitaria de los habitantes de barrios pobres y medios de la ciudad de Santiago de Chile. Se plantea que las identidades que alli se construyen son expresión de los procesos de segregación urbana de la ciudad de Santiago y ellas dan cuenta del debilitamiento de un modelo urbano asentado en la heterogeneidad social, la noción de espacio público y valores como la ciudadanía política y la integración social. Paradojalmente, esta misma segregación urbana abre también paso a un imaginario y una práctica de vida comunitaria y tribal que refuerza y protege al nosotros de la peligrosidad de los otros.

Public education and enforcement research study : Macomb, Illinois : analysis

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2011-03-01

The Public Education and Enforcement Research Study (PEERS) was a collaborative effort between the Federal Railroad Administration, the Illinois Commerce Commission, and local communities in the State of Illinois. This project was designed to promote...

Main technical options of the Jules Horowitz reactor project to achieve high flux performances and high safety level

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Ballagny, A.; Bergamaschi, Y.; Bouilloux, Y.; Bravo, X.; Guigon, B.; Rommens, M.; Tremodeux, P.

2003-01-01

Since the shutdown of the SILOE reactor in 1997, the OSIRIS reactor has ensured the needs regarding technological irradiation at CEA including those of its industrial partners and customers. The Jules Horowitz Reactor will replace it and will offer a quite larger experimental field. It has the ambition to provide the necessary nuclear data and to maintain a fission research capability in Europe after 2010. The Jules Horowitz Reactor will represent a significant step in terms of performances and experimental capabilities. This paper will present the main design option resulting from the preliminary studies. The choice of the specific power around 600 kW/I for the reference core configuration is a key decision to ensure the required flux level. Consequently many choices have to be made regarding the materials used in the core and the fuel element design. These involve many specific qualifications including codes validation. The main safety options are based on: - A safety approach based upon the defence-in-depth principle. - A strategy of generic approaches to assess experimental risks in the facility. - Internal events analysis taking into account risks linked to reactor and experiments (e.g., radioactive source-term). - Systematic consideration of external hazards (e.g., earthquake, airplane crash) and internal hazards. - Design of containment to manage and mitigate a severe reactor accident (consideration of 'BORAX' accident, according to french safety practice for MTRs, beyond design basis reactivity insertion accident, involving core melting and core destruction phenomena). (authors)

Main technical options of the Jules Horowitz Reactor project to achieve high flux performances and high safety level

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Ballagny, A.; Bergamaschi, Y.; Bouilloux, Y.; Bravo, X.; Guigon, B.; Rommens, M.; Tremodeux, P.

2003-01-01

Since the shutdown of the SILOE reactor in 1997, the OSIRIS reactor has ensured the needs regarding technological irradiation at CEA including those of its industrial partners and customers. The Jules Horowitz Reactor will replace it and will offer a quite larger experimental field. It has the ambition to provide the necessary nuclear data and to maintain a fission research capability in Europe after 2010. The Jules Horowitz Reactor will represent a significant step in terms of performances and experimental capabilities. This paper will present the main design option resulting from the preliminary studies. The choice of the specific power around 600 KW/l for the reference core configuration is a key decision to ensure the required flux level. Consequently many choices have to be made regarding the materials used in the core and the fuel element design. These involve many specific qualifications including codes validation. The main safety options are based on: 1) A safety approach based upon the defence-in-depth principle. 2) A strategy of generic approaches to assess experimental risks in the facility. 3) Internal events analysis taking into account risks linked to reactor and experiments (eg., radioactive source-term). 4) Systematic consideration of external hazards (eg., earthquake, airplane crash) and internal hazards. 5) Design of containment to manage and mitigate a severe reactor accident (consideration of 'BORAX' accident, according to french safety practice for MTRs, beyond design basis reactivity insertion accident, involving core melting and core destruction phenomena). (author)

The Marketing Performance of Illinois and Kansas Wheat Farmers

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Dietz, Sarah N.; Aulerich, Nicole M.; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L.

2008-01-01

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982-2004. The results show that farmer benchmark prices for wheat in Illinois and Kansas fall in the middle-third of the price range about half to three-quarters of the time. Consistent with previous studies, this refutes the contention that Illinois and Kansas wheat farmers routinely market the bulk of their wheat crop in the bottom portion of the price range. Tests of the aver...

Illinois Occupational Skill Standards: In-Store Retailing Cluster.

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Illinois Occupational Skill Standards and Credentialing Council, Carbondale.

This document, which is intended to serve as a guide for work force preparation program providers, details the Illinois occupational skill standards for programs preparing students for employment in occupations in the in-store retailing cluster. The document begins with a brief overview of the Illinois perspective on occupational skill standards…

A paisagem urbana como produto do poder Urban landscape as a product of power

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João Henrique Bonametti

2010-11-01

Full Text Available A investigação histórica proposta neste trabalho é a relação entre poder e paisagem urbana, a partir daabordagem histórico-conceitual sobre estes temas. Conceituou-se poder e paisagem e suas ações na sociedade,caracterizando as relações políticas. Buscou-se a compreensão de poder formulada por MichaelFoucault e Hobbes como o receptáculo de acontecimentos, em que a soberania controla para exercero poder. Abordam-se questões da relação paisagem urbana e poder, enquanto estruturadores do espaçoda cidade e os significados e contribuições da arquitetura e urbanismo neste processo de produção dapaisagem urbana como produto do poder. A interpelação de soberania com o espaço e sua atuação napaisagem urbana no decorrer da história da humanidade estabeleceu com o entorno um elo de sobrevivência,contemplação da natureza e vida em sociedade.

La vulnerabilidad en el Área Urbana de Madrid. 1991-2001

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Iván Rodríguez Suárez

2013-04-01

Full Text Available ResumenEste artículo analiza la evolución de las áreas con población vulnerable y la segregación residencial del Área Urbana de Madrid (AUM entre los años 1991 y 2001. La investigación se realiza mediante el análisis de dos índices utilizados anteriormente en la medición de la desigualdad urbana y la segregación espacial (HERNÁNDEZ AJA, 2009: el índice de población analfabeta y sin estudios, y el índice de viviendas sin retrete o cuarto de aseo. En el periodo de estudio observado ambos índices experimentaron mejoras significativas en escalas de agregación espacial nacional, regional o de área urbana (INE, 2004. Sin embargo, en este trabajo se refleja que la distribución de estas mejoras a escalas municipales e inframunicipales no es homogénea: en este periodo se incrementaron los desequilibrios internos en el AUM y éstos responden a patrones espaciales diferenciados para los municipios de la corona metropolitana y el municipio central del AUM.Palabras claveVulnerabilidad urbana, segregación residencial, áreas metropolitanas, geografía urbana de la desigualdad, corona metropolitana.AbstractThis article analyzes the evolution of vulnerable areas and residential segregation in Madrid Urban Area (AUM between 1991 and 2001. Research is conducted by analyzing two indices previously used in measuring urban inequality and spatial segregation (HERNÁNDEZ AJA, 2009: the rate of illiterate and uneducated population, and the rate of households without toilet or shower room. In the study period observed both indices experienced significant improvements in spatial aggregation scales of national, regional or urban areas (INE, 2004. However, this paper shows that the distribution of these improvements to municipal and inframunicipal scales is not homogeneous: in this period increased internal imbalances in AUM and they respond to different spatial patterns for the municipalities of the metropolitan and AUM central municipality

Illinois perspective on low level radioactive waste disposal

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Etchison, D.

1984-01-01

Illinois is a big generator of low level radioactive waste. It has had extensive experience with controversial waste disposal and storage facilities. This experience makes it difficult for the public and political leaders in Illinois to support the establishment of new disposal facilities in the state. Yet, with extensive debates and discussions concerning the Low Level Waste Policy Act of 1980 and the proposed Midwest Compact, political leaders and the public are facing up to the fact that they must be responsible for the disposal of the low level radioactive waste generated in the state. The Governor and many political leaders from Illinois support the regional approach and believe it can be an innovative and progressive way for the state to deal with the range of low level waste management and disposal problems. A version of the Midwest Interstate Low Level Waste Compact has become Illinois law, but it has significant differences from the one adopted by five other states. Like other states in the midwest and northeast, Illinois is opposed to Congressional consent of the four pending compacts before the remaining two compacts, the northeast and midwest are sent to Washington and interregional agreements are negotiated between the sited and non-sited regions. A new national system must be established before access to existing commercial disposal becomes restricted

Jules Verne's Captain Nemo and French Revolutionary Gustave Flourens:A Hidden Character Model?

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Leonidas Kallivretakis

2005-01-01

Full Text Available This article treats the recent assumption made by Vernian specialist William Butcher that Jules Verne's most famous character, Captain Nemo, is based on the French revolutionary intellectual Gustave Flourens (1838-1871, son of the eminent physiologist J. P. M. Flourens. Gustave Flourens fought in the Cretan insurrection of 1866-1868, later participated in the republican opposition against Napoleon III's imperial regime, eventually became a friend of Karl Marx and was finally killed as a general of the Paris Commune. By comparing step-by-step Verne's inspiration and writing procedures with Flourens' unfolding activities and fame, it is concluded that there is little basis for such an assumption. The article includes also a brief account of the Cretan question in the nineteenth century and of the deep discord between Marx's and Flourens' respective analyses of the Eastern Question.

Viabilidad para la implementación de estrategias de renovación urbana en Costa Rica

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Dania Chavarría Núñez

2017-01-01

Full Text Available En los últimos años se han realizado en Costa Rica algunos esfuerzos para desarrollar normativa urbana que facilite la intervención dentro de las ciudades existentes, con el fin de revitalizar los centros urbanos y atraer nuevamente a la población que por diversas causas renunció a vivir en la ciudad. Las estrategias de Renovación Urbana han desempeñado un papel importante en las transformaciones socio-espaciales que han experimentado muchas ciudades del mundo, las cuales incorporan herramientas novedosas para intervenir dentro del entorno construido y contemplan una serie de instrumentos que permiten corregir las tendencias negativas que genera el modelo de ciudad dispersa, y a su vez devolver la funcionalidad y el atractivo a sectores estratégicos con el fin de construir un nuevo modelo de ciudad más sostenible e inclusiva. El presente artículo tiene como propósito analizar las posibilidades que existen en el país para implementar estrategias de renovación urbana, tomando como marco base la legislación urbana existente. Con el fin de evidenciar este supuesto se analiza la normativa vigente y se pone en evidencia como dicha legislación faculta a los municipios para ejercer competencias en la planificación urbana y el ordenamiento de su territorio. Se da un énfasis particular a la viabilidad para desarrollar e implementar estrategias de renovación urbana en la escala local, la cual se fundamenta en la Ley de Planificación urbana 4240 y se fortalece con los avances más recientes que se han dado en el país en materia de actualización normativa.

Financial Reporting Practices in Illinois Public Community Colleges.

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Skeadas, Gus J.

A study was conducted to determine how well Illinois' 38 community college districts satisfied the needs of board members, creditors, investors, and tax payers for financial information. A list of 38 financial reporting requirements was developed from the requirements of the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) and guidelines from the Audits of…

Piezoelectric and Electrostrictive Materials for Transducer Applications.

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1984-05-01

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The mass transportation problem in Illinois : a final report

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1959-06-01

Prepared by the State Mass Transportation Commission for the Honorable William G. Stratton, Governor of Illinois and the Honorable Members of the 71st General Assembly. The study contains the findings and recommendations of the Illinois State Mass Tr...

Distribuição de Aglomerados Subnormais na Rede Urbana e nas Grandes Regiões Brasileiras

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Vanessa Gapriotti Nadalin; Cleandro Krause; Vicente Correia Lima Neto

2014-01-01

A precariedade urbana e habitacional é heterogênea no Brasil, o que torna necessário fazer análises territoriais. Este trabalho analisa dados do Censo Demográfico 2010 relativos aos aglomerados subnormais (AS), buscando identificar comportamentos diferenciados nos municípios segundo uma rede urbana e sua inserção regional. Escolheu-se como classificação dos municípios brasileiros em rede urbana o estudo Regiões de Influência das Cidades 2007 (IBGE, 2008), ou REGIC, tendo sido encontradas quat...

Jules Horowitz Reactor: Organisation for the Preparation of the Commissioning Phase and Normal Operation

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Estrade, J.; Fabre, J. L.; Marcille, O. [French Alternative Energies end Atomic Energy Commission, Provence (France)

2013-07-01

The Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) is a new modern Material Testing Reactor (MTR) currently under construction at CEA Cadarache research centre in the south of France. It will be a major research facility in support to the development and the qualification of materials and fuels under irradiation with sizes and environment conditions relevant for nuclear power plants in order to optimise and demonstrate safe operations of existing power reactors as well as to support future reactors design. It will represent also an important research infrastructure for scientific studies dealing with material and fuel behaviour under irradiation. The JHR will contribute also to secure the production of radioisotope for medical application. This is a key public health stake. The construction of JHR which started in 2007 is going-on with target of commissioning by the end of 2017. The design of the reactor provides modern experimental capacity in support to R and D programs for the nuclear energy for the next 60 years. In parallel to the facility construction, the preparation of the future staff and of the organisation to operate the reactor safely, reliably and efficiently is an important issue. In this framework, many actions are in progress to elaborate: Ο the staffing and the organisational structure for the commissioning test phases and also for normal operation, Ο the documentation in support to the reactor operation (safety analysis report, general operating rules, procedures, instructions, ···), Ο the maintenance, in service and periodic test programs, Ο staff training programs by using dedicated facilities (simulator, ···) Ο commissioning test programs for ensuring that the layout of systems and subcomponents is completed in accordance with the design requirements, the specification performances and the safety criteria. These commissioning tests will also be helpful for transferring the knowledge on the installed systems to the operating group. This paper gives the

77 FR 76452 - Amended Geographical Territory for Champaign-Danville Grain Inspection Departments, Inc.; Amended...

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Contribution to the determination of the neutronic parameters uncertainties of a compact heterogeneous core: the material testing Jules Horowitz reactor; Contribution a l'etude des incertitudes des parametres neutroniques d'un coeur compact et heterogene: le reacteur d'irradiation Jules Horowitz

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Di Salvo, J

2002-07-01

The design studies of the future Material Testing Reactor Jules Horowitz require the development of an adapted neutronic calculation route. To guarantee good accuracy and save time cost, some approximations with deterministic modelling (APOLLO2 / CRONOS2) are needed. As no relevant integral experiments are yet available to ensure the accuracy of the calculation, the results need to be validated by a rigorous methodical approach, which is based on comparison against numerical benchmarks (Monte Carlo TRIPOLI4 code). In order to complete the validation results, sensitivity coefficients of main neutronic parameters to nuclear data are very useful to get an estimate of the final uncertainty on the calculation. Unfortunately, most of covariance information is missing in the recent evaluated files such as JEF-2.2. To generate missing covariance matrices, a method based on the comparison of different independent evaluations is used in this study. Special attention is paid to the determination of sensitivity coefficients, using perturbation methods and direct calculations. This study points out the importance of the non-diagonal elements of the covariance matrices as well as the neutron capture cross section uncertainty of the 27Al in the thermal range. In complement to uncertainty studies, it will be still necessary to obtain integral experimental validation of the Jules Horowitz Reactor neutronic parameters calculations. (author)

Fiscal Year 2006 Salary Report for the Illinois Public Community Colleges

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Illinois Community College Board, 2006

2006-01-01

Data about compensation received by employees in Illinois' 48 Illinois public community colleges are gathered by the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB). Data in the Fiscal Year 2006 Salary Report reflect the census date of October 1, 2005. Data are presented by peer groups with statewide totals. Most of the 25 tables in this report contain…

Jundiaí (SP: transformações recentes na paisagem urbana

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Adriana Fornari Del Monte Fanelli

2014-06-01

Full Text Available O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar aspectos condicionantes das transformações e as tipologias presentes na paisagem urbana de Jundiaí na região situada às margens das rodovias Dom Gabriel P. B. Couto e João Cereser, nas proximidades da serra do Japi. A partir da conceituação de Magnoli (1982 de espaços livres, e através da análise de informações de diversas naturezas, como legislações urbanísticas, fotos aéreas e visitas in loco, pode-se afirmar que Jundiaí, cidade-polo do Aglomerado Urbano de Jundiaí (AUJ, caracteriza-se pela presença de grandes áreas de preservação ambiental, como a serra do Japi, e áreas de conservação de mananciais, que impedem a expansão urbana para os vetores sul ou leste, favorecendo o crescimento da forma urbana no sentido noroeste e oeste. Devido à sua localização, num espaço intersticial entre as Regiões Metropolitanas de São Paulo, Campinas e o Aglomerado Urbano de Sorocaba (AUS, a cidade convive com diversas influências socioeconômicas e espaciais decorrentes do processo de metropolização típico da macrometrópole paulista. Assim, as áreas de preservação ambiental, as presenças de espaços livres não urbanizados de grandes proporções e a sinergia de Jundiaí com a rede de cidades dos Aglomerados Urbanos tornaram-se os principais agentes transformadores da paisagem urbana deste território.

Una geografía del crimen: patrones, tendencias y percepciones urbanas.

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Isabel Avendaño Flores

2011-01-01

En diciembre del 2000, en la Escuela de Geografía se presentaron públicamente dos documentos que se inscriben dentro en la Geografía Humana. Ambos conforman una unidad, se complementan y permiten repensar la ciudad de San José y su área de influencia: “Análisis espacial de la criminalidad urbana en el Área Metropolitana. Costa Rica. 1990-2000”, y “Percepción de la criminalidad urbana en el casco central de la ciudad de San José. Costa Rica. 2000”. Si en Costa Rica existiera la planificación t...

Contribution to the determination of the neutronic parameters uncertainties of a compact heterogeneous core: the material testing Jules Horowitz reactor

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Di Salvo, J.

2002-01-01

The design studies of the future Material Testing Reactor Jules Horowitz require the development of an adapted neutronic calculation route. To guarantee good accuracy and save time cost, some approximations with deterministic modelling (APOLLO2 / CRONOS2) are needed. As no relevant integral experiments are yet available to ensure the accuracy of the calculation, the results need to be validated by a rigorous methodical approach, which is based on comparison against numerical benchmarks (Monte Carlo TRIPOLI4 code). In order to complete the validation results, sensitivity coefficients of main neutronic parameters to nuclear data are very useful to get an estimate of the final uncertainty on the calculation. Unfortunately, most of covariance information is missing in the recent evaluated files such as JEF-2.2. To generate missing covariance matrices, a method based on the comparison of different independent evaluations is used in this study. Special attention is paid to the determination of sensitivity coefficients, using perturbation methods and direct calculations. This study points out the importance of the non-diagonal elements of the covariance matrices as well as the neutron capture cross section uncertainty of the 27Al in the thermal range. In complement to uncertainty studies, it will be still necessary to obtain integral experimental validation of the Jules Horowitz Reactor neutronic parameters calculations. (author)

Effect of the Smoke-Free Illinois Act on casino admissions and revenue.

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Tauras, John A; Chaloupka, Frank J; Moor, Gregg; Henderson, Patricia Nez; Leischow, Scott J

2018-01-19

As part of the Smoke-Free Illinois Act, smoking on the gambling floors of all commercial casinos in Illinois became prohibited. This study examined the effects of the Smoke-Free Illinois Act on casino admissions per-capita and real per-capita adjusted gross receipts using 18 years of data (10 years before and 8 years after the Illinois law went into effect). We employed a difference-in-difference regression technique using monthly data for the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri and control for numerous determinants expected to affect casino admissions and revenue. The Smoke-free Illinois Act was found not to be a statistically significant determinant of per-capita casino admissions and of real per-capita gross adjusted receipts in all the models we estimated. The estimates from this study clearly indicated that the Illinois law that banned smoking in casinos has had no significant negative economic consequences for casinos in terms of per-capita admissions or revenues. © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.

First conference on ground control problems in the Illinois Coal Basin: proceedings

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Chugh, Y. P.; Van Besien, A. [eds.

1980-06-01

The first conference on ground control problems in the Illinois Coal Basin was held at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois, August 22-24, 1979. Twenty-one papers from the proceedings have been entered individually into EDB; one had been entered previously from other sources. (LTN)

Reclamation of abandoned mined lands along th Upper Illinois Waterway using dredged material

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Van Luik, A; Harrison, W

1982-01-01

Sediments were sampled and characterized from 28 actual or proposed maintenance-dredging locations in the Upper Illinois Waterway, that is, the Calumet-Sag Channel, the Des Plaines River downstream of its confluence with the Calumet-Sag Channel, and the Illinois River from the confluence of the Kankakee and Des Plaines rivers to Havana, Illinois. Sufficient data on chemical constituents and physical sediments were obtained to allow the classification of these sediments by currently applicable criteria of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for the identification of hazardous, persistent, and potentially hazardous wastes. By these criteria, the potential dredged materials studied were not hazardous, persistent, or potentially hazardous; they are a suitable topsoil/ reclamation medium. A study of problem abandoned surface-mined land sites (problem lands are defined as being acidic and/or sparsely vegetated) along the Illinois River showed that three sites were particularly well suited to the needs of the Corps of Engineers (COE) for a dredged material disposal/reclamation site. Thes sites were a pair of municipally owned sites in Morris, Illinois, and a small corporately owned site east of Ottawa, Illinois, and adjacent to the Illinois River. Other sites were also ranked as to suitability for COE involvement in their reclamation. Reclamation disposal was found to be an economically competitive alternative to near-source confined disposal for Upper Illinois Waterway dredged material.

LOS ESTUDIOS DE POBREZA URBANA

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Rina De León Herrera

2007-08-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se intenta mostrar en forma sucinta la evolución de los estudios de pobreza urbana; se retoma para ello la producción escritural de investigadores que han hecho aportes valiosos sobre la temática en diferentes épocas y espacios geográficos. La información se ha organizado en dos unidades de análisis: la producción escritural en los países desarrollados y en los países en desarrollo.

William Butcher, Jules Verne inédit : les manuscrits déchiffrés, Lyon, ENS Éditions, coll. « Métamorphoses du livre », 2015, 490 p.

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Scheinhardt, Philippe

2016-01-01

C’est un travail de recherche conséquent sur le fonds manuscrit de Jules Verne que propose William Butcher. Ce chercheur anglophone s’intéresse depuis longtemps à la diffusion de cette œuvre qu’il a éditée et traduite. Le goût de la recherche, de la découverte s’affiche dans le titre Jules Verne inédit, avec une désignation de l’objet d’étude, qui ne concerne pas tant le manuscrit que son exégèse, puisqu’on nous invite avec le sous-titre Les manuscrits déchiffrés à l’interprétation des traces...

Impacto de la expansion urbana sobre la sustentabilidad ambiental del litoral de la bahia de huanchaco - peru

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Bocanegra García, Carlos Alfredo

2005-01-01

Se presenta resultados del “Impacto de la expansión urbana sobre la sustentabilidad ambiental del litoral de la Bahía de Huanchaco-Perú“; los cuales están referidos a mostrar los principales indicadores de deterioro ambiental generado por el crecimiento poblacional y la presión urbana. Los resultados evidencian crecimiento acelerado de la población humana principalmente urbana la que mayormente se instaló en el litoral en desmedro de las áreas adyacentes caracterizadas por condiciones precari...

Isla de calor y ocupación espacial urbana en San Juan, Argentina: análisis evolutivo

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Papparelli, Alberto; Kurbán, Alejandra; Cúnsulo, Mario

2013-01-01

En este articulo se presentan resultados finales de un proyecto de investigacion bianual (2009-2010), denominado Variación histórica y espacial de la isla de calor urbana en zona árida, financiado por la Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina. Su objetivo principal es determinar la progresiva modificacion de la isla de calor urbana en un periodo de quince anos (1995-2010) y la correlacion de esta con la ocupacion del area urbana del Gran San Juan (GSJ), localizada en la diagonal arida de...

New developments in resonant mixture self-shielding treatment with Apollo code and application to Jules Horowitz reactor core calculation

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Coste-Delclaux, M.; Aggery, A.; Huot, N.

2005-01-01

APOLLO2 is a modular multigroup transport code developed by Cea in Saclay. Until last year, the self-shielding module could only treat one resonant isotope mixed with moderator isotopes. Consequently, the resonant mixture self-shielding treatment was an iterative one. Each resonant isotope of the mixture was treated separately, the other resonant isotopes of the mixture being then considered as moderator isotopes, that is to say non-resonant isotopes. This treatment could be iterated. Last year, we have developed a new method that consists in treating the resonant mixture as a unique entity. A main feature of APOLLO2 self-shielding module is that some implemented models are very general and therefore very powerful and versatile. We can give, as examples, the use of probability tables in order to describe the microscopic cross-section fluctuations or the TR slowing-down model that can deal with any resonance shape. The self-shielding treatment of a resonant mixture was developed essentially thanks to these two models. The calculations of a simplified Jules Horowitz reactor using a Monte-Carlo code (TRIPOLI4) as a reference and APOLLO2 in its standard and improved versions, show that, as far as the effective multiplication factor is concerned, the mixture treatment does not bring an improvement, because the new treatment suppresses compensation between the reaction rate discrepancies. The discrepancy of 300 pcm that appears with the reference calculation is in accordance with the technical specifications of the Jules Horowitz reactor

RVA. 3-D Visualization and Analysis Software to Support Management of Oil and Gas Resources

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Keefer, Donald A. [Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL (United States); Shaffer, Eric G. [Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL (United States); Storsved, Brynne [Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL (United States); Vanmoer, Mark [Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL (United States); Angrave, Lawrence [Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL (United States); Damico, James R. [Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL (United States); Grigsby, Nathan [Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL (United States)

2015-12-01

A free software application, RVA, has been developed as a plugin to the US DOE-funded ParaView visualization package, to provide support in the visualization and analysis of complex reservoirs being managed using multi-fluid EOR techniques. RVA, for Reservoir Visualization and Analysis, was developed as an open-source plugin to the 64 bit Windows version of ParaView 3.14. RVA was developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with contributions from the Illinois State Geological Survey, Department of Computer Science and National Center for Supercomputing Applications. RVA was designed to utilize and enhance the state-of-the-art visualization capabilities within ParaView, readily allowing joint visualization of geologic framework and reservoir fluid simulation model results. Particular emphasis was placed on enabling visualization and analysis of simulation results highlighting multiple fluid phases, multiple properties for each fluid phase (including flow lines), multiple geologic models and multiple time steps. Additional advanced functionality was provided through the development of custom code to implement data mining capabilities. The built-in functionality of ParaView provides the capacity to process and visualize data sets ranging from small models on local desktop systems to extremely large models created and stored on remote supercomputers. The RVA plugin that we developed and the associated User Manual provide improved functionality through new software tools, and instruction in the use of ParaView-RVA, targeted to petroleum engineers and geologists in industry and research. The RVA web site (http://rva.cs.illinois.edu) provides an overview of functions, and the development web site (https://github.com/shaffer1/RVA) provides ready access to the source code, compiled binaries, user manual, and a suite of demonstration data sets. Key functionality has been included to support a range of reservoirs visualization and analysis needs, including

Illinois forest statistics, 1985.

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Jerold T. Hahn

1987-01-01

The third inventory of the timber resource of Illinois shows a 1% increase in commercial forest area and a 40% gain in growing-stock volume between 1962 and 1985. Presented are highlights and statistics on area, volume, growth, mortality, removals, utilization, and biomass.

Application of Component Scoring to a Complicated Cognitive Domain

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1985-05-15

Command (N-5) NAS Pensacola, FL 32508 Dr. John M. Eddins S..""*University of IllinoisDr. Hans Crombag 252 Engineering Research University of Leyden ...Laboratory Education Research Center 103 South Mathews Street Boerhaavelaan 2 Urbana, IL 61801 2334 EN Leyden The NETHERLANDS V.- University of Illinois...Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL 32508 Ms. Kathleen Moreno Navy Personnel R&D Center Dr. Gary Marco Code 62 Stop 31-E San Diego, CA 92152 Educational

Relations between Precipitation and Shallow Groundwater in Illinois.

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Changnon, Stanley A.; Huff, Floyd A.; Hsu, Chin-Fei

1988-12-01

The statistical relationships between monthly precipitation (P) and shallow groundwater levels (GW) in 20 wells scattered across Illinois with data for 1960-84 were defined using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) modeling. A lag of 1 month between P to GW was the strongest temporal relationship found across Illinois, followed by no (0) lag in the northern two-thirds of Illinois where mollisols predominate, and a lag of 2 months in the alfisols of southern Illinois. Spatial comparison of the 20 P-GW correlations with several physical conditions (aquifer types, soils, and physiography) revealed that the parent soil materials of outwash alluvium, glacial till, thick loess (2.1 m), and thin loess (>2.1) best defined regional relationships for drought assessment.Equations developed from ARTMA using 1960-79 data for each region were used to estimate GW levels during the 1980-81 drought, and estimates averaged between 25 to 45 cm of actual levels. These estimates are considered adequate to allow a useful assessment of drought onset, severity, and termination in other parts of the state. The techniques and equations should be transferrable to regions of comparable soils and climate.

Efficacy of Multimedia Learning Modules as Preparation for Lecture-Based Tutorials in Electromagnetism

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James Christopher Moore

2018-02-01

Full Text Available We have investigated the efficacy of on-line, multimedia learning modules (MLMs as preparation for in-class, lecture-based tutorials in electromagnetism in a physics course for natural science majors (biology and marine science. Specifically, we report the results of a multiple-group pre/post-test research design comparing two groups receiving different treatments with respect to activities preceding participation in Tutorials in Introductory Physics. The different pre-tutorial activities were as follows: (1 students were assigned reading from a traditional textbook, followed by a traditional lecture; and (2 students completed on-line MLMs developed by the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC, and commercially known as FlipItPhysics. The MLM treatment group earned significantly higher mid-term examination scores and larger gains in content knowledge as measured by the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM. Student attitudes towards “reformed” instruction in the form of active-engagement tutorials were also improved. Specifically, post-course surveys showed that MLM-group students believed class time was more effective and the instructor was more clear than reported by non-MLM students, even though there was no significant difference between groups with respect to in-class activities and the same instructor taught both groups. MLM activities can be a highly effective tool for some student populations, especially when student preparation and buy-in are important for realizing significant gains.

Laboratory Experiments on Meandering Meltwater Channels

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Fernandez, R.; Berens, J.; Parker, G.; Stark, C. P.

2017-12-01

Meandering channels of all scales and flowing over a wide variety of media have common planform patterns. Although the analogy in planform suggests there is a common underlying framework, the constitutive relations driving planform evolution through vertical incision/deposition and lateral migration differ from medium to medium. The driving processes in alluvial and mixed bedrock-alluvial meandering channels have been studied substantially over the last decades. However, this is not the case for meandering channels in other media such as ice or soluble rock. Here we present results from experiments conducted at the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on meltwater meandering channels. A rivulet is carved into an ice block and water is allowed to flow at a constant discharge. Planform evolution is analyzed with time lapse imaging and complemented with rubber molds of the channel once the experiment is over. These molds give us the full 3D structure of the meandering, including incisional overhang. Vertical incision rates are measured throughout the run by taking elevations along the channel, and these measurements are complemented with analysis from the molds. We show examples of meandering of intense amplitude with deep overhangs. Features resembling scroll bars document cyclically punctuated melting. We report on lateral migration rates, incision rates, sinuosity, channel depths, channel widths, reach averaged velocities, bend wavelengths and amplitudes and compare them to values reported in the literature for alluvial rivers.

Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) Final Technical Report - November 20, 2015

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Sanders, William H. [Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Sauer, Peter W. [Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Valdes, Alfonso [Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Scaglione, Anna [Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States); Smith, Sean W [Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States); Hauser, Carl [Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)

2015-11-20

The Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid project (TCIPG) was funded by DOE and DHS for a period of performance that ran from October 1, 2009 to August 31 2015. The partnership included the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (lead institution) and partner institutions Arizona State University (replacing original partner UC Davis when faculty moved), Dartmouth College, and Washington State University. TCIPG was a unique public-private partnership of government, academia, and industry that was formed to meet the challenge of keeping our power grid secure. TCIPG followed from the earlier NSF-funded TCIP project, which kicked off in 2005. At that time, awareness of cyber security and resiliency in grid systems (and in control systems in general) was low, and the term “smart grid” was not in wide use. The original partnership was formed from a team of academic researchers with a shared vision for the importance of research in this area, and a commitment to producing more impactful results through early involvement of industry. From the TCIPG standpoint, “industry” meant both utilities (investor-owned as well as cooperatives and municipals) and system vendors (who sell technology to the utility sector). Although TCIPG was a university-led initiative, we have from the start stressed real-world impact and partnership with industry. That has led to real-world adoption of TCIPG technologies within the industry, achieving practical benefits. This report summarizes the achievements of TCIPG over its period of performance.

Precio y manejo del agua urbana en México

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Gregorio Castro Rosales

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo propone evaluar el potencial del precio que pagan los usuarios como ins - trumento para el manejo de la demanda urbana de agua en México. Nuestros resulta - dos basados en un análisis de datos provenientes de cientos de organismos operadores de agua potable del país, revelan que la demanda de agua sí es sensible al precio, tal y como se ha señalado en otros estudios. No obstante, encontramos también que la demanda es aún mucho más sensible al efecto del crecimiento poblacional y económi - co. Por lo tanto, considerando la dinámica demográfica, urbana y económica del país, un aumento en el precio del agua en sí no podría contribuir significativamente a la estabilización de los requerimientos nacionales de extracción de agua para uso urbano. Además, nuestro análisis de los determinantes del precio del agua urbana revela que los organismos operadores pasan sistemáticamente el costo de sus ineficiencias técnicas y financieras a los usuarios, por lo que un aumento en el precio del agua tampoco podría contribuir al saneamiento de sus finanzas. Concluimos que para un manejo efectivo, eficiente y sustentable del uso urbano de agua, resulta imprescindible un cambio de fondo en la manera en que operan los sistemas urbanos de agua.

Development of the electron beam welding of the aluminium alloy 6061-T6 for the Jules Horowitz reactor

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Leblanc, Y.

2013-01-01

The aluminium alloy 6061-T6 has been selected for the construction of the Jules Horowitz's reactor vessel. This reactor vessel is pressurized and will be made through butt welding of ∼ 2 cm thick aluminium slabs. The electron beam welding process has been tested and qualified. It appears that this welding process allows: -) welding without pre-heating, -) vacuum welding, -) welding of 100% of the thickness in one passage, -) very low deforming welding process, -) very low density and very low volume of blow holes, -) weak ZAT (Thermal Affected Zones), and -) high reproducibility that permits automation. (A.C.)

El incremento de población urbana del Magreb

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Raquel Barras

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo analiza el proceso de transición demográfica en el Magreb, en particular la fuerte urbanización quehan sufrido tres países: Argelia, Marruecos y Túnez. La población urbana se ha incrementado en la región, dando lugar a múltiples oportunidades, pero también a numerosos desafíos. La aparición de importantes centros urbanos espontáneos entorno a las grandes ciudades como consecuencia del éxodo rural ponen de manifiesto la existencia de notables dificultades demográficas que condicionarán el futuro de los tres países analizados, en el ámbito económico, social y de seguridad. El incremento de la población urbana jugará un papel fundamental en la demanda de alimentos en estos Estados.

Illinois' Forests 2010

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Susan J. Crocker; Mark D. Nelson; Charles J. Barnett; Brett J. Butler; Grant M. Domke; Mark H. Hansen; Mark A. Hatfield; Tonya W. Lister; Dacia M. Meneguzzo; Ronald J. Piva; Barry T. Wilson; Christopher W. Woodall

2013-01-01

The second full annual inventory of Illinois' forests, completed in 2010, reports more than 4.8 million acres of forest land and 97 tree species. Forest land is dominated by oak/hickory and elm/ash/cottonwood forest-type groups, which occupy 93 percent of total forest land area. The volume of growing stock on timberland totals 7.2 billion cubic feet. The average...

Illinois' Forests 2005

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Susan J. Crocker; Gary J. Brand; Brett J. Butler; David E. Haugen; Dick C. Little; Dacia M. Meneguzzo; Charles H. Perry; Ronald J. Piva; Barry T. Wilson; Christopher W. Woodall

2009-01-01

The first full, annualized inventory of Illinois' forests reports more than 4.5 million acres of forest land with an average of 459 trees per acre. Forest land is dominated by oak/hickory forest types, which occupy 65 percent of total forest land area. Seventy-two percent of forest land consists of sawtimber, 20 percent contains poletimber, and 8 percent contains...

Illinois State Briefing Book for low-level radioactive waste management

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1980-11-01

The Illinois State Briefing Book is one of a series of state briefing books on low-level radioactive waste management practices. It has been prepared to assist state and federal agency officials in planning for safe low-level radioactive waste disposal. The report contains a profile of low-level radioactive waste generators in Illinois. The profile is the result of a survey of NRC licensees in Illinois. The briefing book also contains a comprehensive assessment of low-level radioactive waste management issues and concerns as defined by all major interested parties. The assessment was developed through personal communications with representatives of interested parties, and through a review of media sources. Lastly, the briefing book provides demographic and socioeconomic data and a discussion of relevant government agencies and activities, all of which may impact waste management practices in Illinois

THE WITCH: A VETO-EUROPEAN MEMORY THROUGH HISTORIAN JULES MICHELET

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Mónica Elivier Sánchez-González

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Reflections about the witch are presented as a challenge that goes through different dimensions. The first is the inaccessibility to a figure that modern societies closed down. However, the Witch encouraged the everyday life of pre-modern societies and peripherical spaces to the central modernity, but the witch still in these spaces. This paradox framing the following discussion. How could pose a witch access to medieval times, without transgressing its rapporteur and impose conditions on it current possibility? The proposal here arises is to work the text of nineteenth-century French historian Jules Michelet as a semantic, where resources of a pre- modern memory, which, to the extent that defines the witch, defines the society in which it is played are played. This paper is not concerned if the witch was real or not, whether or not it was true. Here he retraces his attributes as practices realized veteroeurpea otherness of society, in this case, the exclusion rested with women, the devil, evil. This work is not conclusive, its function is to present a way of looking at the witch, wondering from a specific theoretical corpus: the analysis of memory from systems theory Niklas Luhmann can be formulated.

75 FR 52963 - Illinois; Major Disaster and Related Determinations

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2010-08-30

... the damage in certain areas of the State of Illinois resulting from severe storms and flooding during... declaration of a major disaster for the State of Illinois (FEMA-1935-DR), dated August 19, 2010, and related... assistance is supplemental, any Federal funds provided under the Stafford Act for Hazard Mitigation and Other...

アメリカの地域コミュニティとキャリアデザイン風土（その2）米国シリコンバレーにみる地域創生 ―ジョイントベンチャーシリコンバレーと市民企業家―

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Silicon Valley is still producing a lot of start−ups which will be leading companies of their time. After the Leman’shock so called ”small hundred” (meaning electric vehicle venture companies) were started in one of which Toyota made an equity investment. Mark Zukckerburg of Facebook moved from Boston to Silicon Valley, Mike Andreessen, co−author of Mosaic (the first widely−used web browser) from Champaign, Illinois, Linus Torvalds, an open source innovator of Linux from Finland. They got tog...

Significant progress towards development of the low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in Illinois

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Klebe, M.; Henry, T.L.; Corpstein, P.

1996-01-01

Development of disposal sites for low-level radioactive waste is a complicated legal, regulatory and public sector process. Development of the low-level radioactive waste disposal facility to support generators in Illinois and Kentucky is well under way. Significant progress has been made to re-engineer the siting development process capitalizing on prior lessons learned and a recommitment from Illinois state leadership assuring the future success of the program. Comparisons of why this new process will succeed are the major focus of this paper. Specific changes in approach from the previous process including changes in the Illinois Management Act (Management Act), creation of the Illinois Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Task Group (Task Group), new roles for the Illinois State Geologic Survey and Illinois State Water Survey (Scientific Surveys) and the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety (IDNS), a new contractor reliance approach and increased confidence on the open-quote science close-quote are the major contrasts between the previous process and the new process currently underway

Characteristics of Illinois School Districts That Employ School Nurses

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Searing, Lisabeth M.; Guenette, Molly

2016-01-01

Research indicates that school nursing services are cost-effective, but the National Association of School Nurses estimates that 25% of schools do not have a school nurse (SN). The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of Illinois school districts that employed SNs. This was a secondary data analysis of Illinois School Report…

Radiation Transport Calculation of the UGXR Collimators for the Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR)

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Chento, Yelko; Hueso, César; Zamora, Imanol; Fabbri, Marco; Fuente, Cristina De La; Larringan, Asier

2017-09-01

Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR), a major infrastructure of European interest in the fission domain, will be built and operated in the framework of an international cooperation, including the development and qualification of materials and nuclear fuel used in nuclear industry. For this purpose UGXR Collimators, two multi slit gamma and X-ray collimation mechatronic systems, will be installed at the JHR pool and at the Irradiated Components Storage pool. Expected amounts of radiation produced by the spent fuel and X-ray accelerator implies diverse aspects need to be verified to ensure adequate radiological zoning and personnel radiation protection. A computational methodology was devised to validate the Collimators design by means of coupling different engineering codes. In summary, several assessments were performed by means of MCNP5v1.60 to fulfil all the radiological requirements in Nominal scenario (TEDE < 25µSv/h) and in Maintenance scenario (TEDE < 2mSv/h) among others, detailing the methodology, hypotheses and assumptions employed.

O Estatuto da Cidade e a democratização das políticas urbanas no Brasil

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Leonardo Avritzer

2012-11-01

Full Text Available O Brasil tem passado por um fortíssimo movimento de democratização do acesso a terra urbana e de regulamentação do uso da mesma. A origem destes processos está na organização do movimento pela reforma urbana nos anos 80 e sua atuação com êxito na Assembléia Nacional Constituinte. Neste artigo, iremos em primeiro lugar discutir a emergência e as principais características do movimento da reforma urbana no Brasil. Analisamos em detalhe como a relação entre as associações da sociedade civil e os atores políticos foi se modificando durante a luta pela reforma urbana no Brasil. Em segundo lugar, mostramos como a participação surgiu no campo das lutas pela reforma urbana e como ela gerou uma legislação participativa sobre o assunto ao longo do período da formulação da Constituição e no período imediatamente posterior. Em terceiro lugar, mostramos como o requisito de Planos Diretores Urbanos foi implementado nas cidades de São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre e Salvador.

Urban governance in Istanbul Governança urbana em Istambul

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Nil Uzun

2010-01-01

Full Text Available Urban governance has been an important issue since the 1980s, as have the effects of globalisation on urban policies. Although no consensus exists on a definition of governance, it is possible to state that it expresses a shift in the roles of formal government structure, and especially the change in the sharing of responsibilities between the public, private, voluntary, and household spheres. Turkey has also been experiencing the effects of globalisation, and there is an ongoing restructuring process within which government structures are moving toward governance. The goal of this paper is to present a critical evaluation of urban governance. This will be done with the focus on whether the concept of urban governance can explain the urban management model in countries on the periphery. The case of Istanbul is used as an example for this discussion.A governança urbana e os efeitos da globalização têm assumido uma importância crescente desde a década de 80 do século xx nas políticas urbanas. Embora não exista um consenso quanto à definição de governança, é possível afirmar que esta representa uma alteração nas estruturas formais de governo, e especialmente uma mudança na divisão de responsabilidades entre as esferas pública, privada, voluntária e doméstica. Os efeitos da globalização também se fizeram sentir na Turquia, onde se assiste a um processo de alteração das estruturas de governo no sentido das práticas de governança. Este texto pretende avaliar de forma crítica este processo, analisando se o conceito de governança urbana será capaz de explicar modelos de gestão urbana em países da periferia. O caso de Istambul será usado como exemplo para tal discussão.

Information Resources for Training: A Survey of Non-Military Sources

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1975-03-05

Instructional and Research Materials in Vocational at.’’ Technical Education BatteRe Memoria ] Institute Catalog of National Institute of...Reading and Communication Skills National Council of Teachers of English 1111 Kenyon Road Urbana , Illinois 61801 Subject coverage: Areas of reading

DIMENSIONES CULTURALES DE LA MOVILIDAD URBANA

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Carlos Lange Valdés

2011-01-01

Full Text Available La movilidad urbana, y particularmente aquella desarrollada de manera cotidiana por los habitantes de la ciudad, constituye una problemática de creciente y progresiva relevancia tanto para el funcionamiento del sistema urbano como para el desenvolvimiento de la vida social. Si bien ella ha sido objeto de reflexión desde tiempos pretéritos, es a partir de la consolidación del paradigma de la ciudad global y de su incesante expansión en redes y flujos que su trascendencia pone en cuestión la conformación misma de "lo urbano", generando nuevas interrogantes sobre sus tradicionales enfoques de comprensión. Lo anterior tiene particular importancia para las ciencias sociales, en la medida que éstas se enfrentan al desafío de ampliar su marco de comprensión respecto de sus dimensiones socioculturales que ella conlleva. Desde esta perspectiva, este trabajo establece tres planteamientos en relación al abordaje de la movilidad urbana desde las ciencias sociales. El primero busca dar cuenta de la relevancia que ésta posee como objeto de estudio. El segundo se orienta a delinear una perspectiva sociocultural de la misma. Por último, el tercer planteamiento presenta algunas interrogantes que podrían suponer líneas de investigación futuras en torno a su desarrollo.

Energy policy options for Illinois. Proceedings. [26 papers

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1977-01-01

Twenty-six papers presented at the Fifth Annual Oil Illinois Energy Conference are categorized into five sections, namely: An overview of U.S. and Illinois Energy Policy; Energy Policy; Conservation--Solar--Biomass and Solid Wastes; Energy Policy; Petroleum and Natural Gas; Energy Policy; Coal and Electric Utilities; and Economic and Consumer Concerns. One paper, A Perspective on Long-Range Nuclear Energy Options, by William O. Harms has previously appeared in EAPA 4: 1364. (MCW)

77 FR 2286 - Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Meeting

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2012-01-17

... DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 12717-002] Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Meeting a. Date and Time of Meeting: Thursday, January 26, 2012 from 11... Meeting: Commission staff will meet with Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC to discuss potentially moving...

Seguridad urbana y vulnerabilidad social en Ciudad Juárez. Un modelo desde la perspectiva de análisis espacial

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Sara Morales Cárdenas

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Partiendo del concepto de “seguridad urbana”, introducido por un-Habitat en 2007 dentro de la agenda de Ciudades seguras, el presente trabajo propone analizar a Ciudad Juárez, urbe considerada entre las más inseguras y violentas del país y del mundo. Se presenta el desarrollo de un índice de seguridad urbana (isu basado en un modelo multicriterio de análisis espacial que propone identificar y explicar cómo se manifiestan territorialmente las amenazas a la seguridad urbana y su relación con los índices de vulnerabilidad social asociada a la pobreza. La importancia de este análisis radica en la necesidad de articular los estudios estadísticos y los patrones de distribución de las amenazas a la seguridad urbana con los procesos de planificación urbana como instrumento preventivo que permita formular políticas para reducir la inseguridad urbana.

La sociología urbana francesa y la evolución de las políticas urbanas de los años 1960 a los años 1980: ¿porosidades,impermeabilidades o afinidades electivas?

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Grégory Busquet

2014-01-01

Full Text Available La sociología urbana francesa se desarrolló conjuntamente a las políticas urba- nas francesas desde los años 1960. Cuando estas políticas concebían el hecho urba- no en su carácter global, la sociología hacía lo mismo. Cuando a finales de los años 1970 la sociología se orienta de nuevo sobre la escala local, el urbanismo hace otro tanto. Esta doble evolución se realiza por una amalgama de actores que va de la «segunda izquierda» a los sociólogos marxistas, pasando por los movimientos sociales urbanos y por las ideas que estos transportan, como la relativamente nueva de participación o las más antiguas del carácter mixto del alojamiento (versus la segregación o del «espacialismo». De este modo, asistimos a una despolitización progresiva de la disciplina y más ampliamente de la cuestión urbana y de la cues- tión social, lo que denota un cambio en los usos sociales de la sociología urbana y en la relación de los sociólogos con el poder. Si las ideas que guían las políticas urbanas, la manera de ver y de entender las sociedades urbanas, permanecen igua- les, sólo varía la cuestión de la escala y la visión política se diluye.

Redes urbanas y sistema de ciudades de Alemania. Algunas precisiones cara al Siglo XXI

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José María Serrano Martínez

2000-01-01

Full Text Available El camino recorrido por Alemania ha sido el inverso al de otros países; aquí las ciudades han sido la base que ha permitido construir el país. Ello se advierte al estudiar la jerarquía urbana nacional y también en la propia organización singular de las redes urbanas regionales. Cada «Länder» ha conseguido un subsistema urbano bastante autónomo. Ahora bien, su elevada densidad de población —irregularmente distribuida—, y los apreciables desajustes socio-económicos territoriales, son aspectos que trasladan su influencia a la desigualdad territorial existente; eso acentúa la carencia de equilibrio de su malla urbana. Acaso el proceso de reunificación puede suponer un camino que introduzca apreciables cambios, tendentes hacia una mayor integración y equilibrio del conjunto del sistema urbano alemán.

ÍNDICE DE DIVERSIDAD BIOLÓGICA URBANA DE LA CIUDAD DE LA ANTIGUA GUATEMALA

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Jorge José García Polo

2016-08-01

Full Text Available La urbanización es un fenómeno global de tendencia creciente, cuyo pronóstico prevé, para el 2050, que aproximadamente el 70% de la población mundial será urbana. Las administraciones municipales deben de contemplar este componente para la planificación y desempeño ambiental de sus ciudades y áreas urbanas. Dada la importancia de esta tendencia,  el Convenio para la Diversidad Biológica (CDB ha planteado una nueva herramienta para estimar la diversidad biológica en ciudades: el Índice de Diversidad Biológica Urbana. En este proyecto se evaluó el índice para la ciudad de La Antigua Guatemala en su línea base y se aportan elementos para la planificación y gestión ambiental,  midiendose dieciocho indicadores de biodiversidad urbana. De un máximo de 72 puntos, el resultado para la ciudad de La Antigua Guatemala fue de 33 puntos. Los registros para la línea base de la biodiversidad son: 99 especies de aves, 148 especies de plantas vasculares, 46 especies de mariposas y 11 especies de murciélagos. Las recomendaciones para tener un mejor desempeño en el tema de diversidad biológica están relacionadas con la urgente necesidad que la ciudad, previo a la próxima evaluación del índice, elabore la estrategia local de diversidad biológica y su plan de acción (LBSAP – por sus siglas en inglés. Se recomienda, además,  planificar e implementar proyectos de gestión ambiental y continuar utilizando el índice de diversidad biológica urbana para el monitoreo y evaluación del desempeño ambiental de la ciudad a largo plazo.

Estatuto da cidade e juridificação da reforma urbana no Brasil

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Ana Paula Soares Carvalho

2012-01-01

O início da década passada foi marcado por um importante evento relacionado ao tratamento das questões urbanas no Brasil. Em dez de julho de 2001, foi promulgada a Lei Federal n 10.257, conhecida como Estatuto da Cidade, que regulamenta o capítulo da política urbana da Constituição de 1988. O Estatuto da Cidade provê suporte legal consistente para aquelas municipalidades comprometidas com o enfrentamento dos problemas sociais e urbanos que afetam diariamente as condições de vida dos habitante...

REFORMA URBANA, PLANEJAMENTO E CONTRADIÇÕES: A EXPERIÊNCIA DE GOIÂNIA.

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Valério, Andrea Helena

2012-01-01

Este trabalho analisa as origens e desdobramentos do Movimento Nacional pela Reforma Urbana relacionando-o ao processo de democratização do planejamento urbano no Brasil e sua influência no desenvolvimento da cidade de Goiânia, tendo em vista, que esse movimento surgiu durante a retomada da democracia no país e se constituiu como elemento fundamental para a inserção do Capitulo da Política Urbana na Constituição de 1988. Para encontrar pontos originários e recompor a trajetó...

Anatomía de la dispersión urbana en Barcelona

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Iván Muñiz

2013-01-01

Full Text Available No existe una definición comúnmente aceptada de dispersión urbana (urban sprawl, de modo que la investigación aplicada ha trabajado con diferentes indicadores que pretenden a su vez capturar los distintos significados con que se ha dotado al término. En este trabajo se mide cómo ha evolucionado la dispersión de la población y del empleo de la Región Metropolitana de Barcelona (RMB entre 1986 y 2001. Las dimensiones exploradas se dividen en dos grupos: i forma urbana (desconcentración, baja densidad y discontinuidad y ii estructura urbana. A diferencia de algunos trabajos donde el policentrismo y el crecimiento lineal se presentan como dos formas de dispersión, en nuestro caso contraponemos la idea de expansión urbana estructurada (lineal o policéntrica con la de expansión urbana desestructurada (amorfa, caótica o aleatoria, equiparando esta última con la cuarta dimensión de la dispersión. Los resultados obtenidos indican que la población y el empleo de la RMB se han descentralizado de forma desconcentrada y la densidad residencial se ha reducido. Sin embargo, la RMB no ha crecido de forma discontinua ni desestructurada, sino todo lo contrario.There is no commonly accepted definition of urban sprawl, and therefore applied research has worked with different indicators aiming to grasp the diverse meanings assigned to the term. This study measures how the dispersion of population and employment in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (BMR developed between 1986 and 2001. The dimensions that were investigated are divided into two groups. The first one involves dimensions of urban form (decentralization, low density and discontinuity, and the second, of urban structure. As opposed to some studies, where polycentrism and linear growth are presented as two forms of sprawl, in our case we contrast the idea of structured urban expansion (linear or poly-centric with de structured urban expansion (amorphous, chaotic or random, identifying

Residential Energy Efficiency Potential: Illinois

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Wilson, Eric J [National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

2017-11-02

Energy used by Illinois single-family homes that can be saved through cost-effective improvements. Prepared by Eric Wilson and Noel Merket, NREL, and Erin Boyd, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis.

O Estatuto da Cidade e a democratização das políticas urbanas no Brasil

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Avritzer, Leonardo

2013-01-01

O Brasil tem passado por um fortíssimo movimento de democratização do acesso a terra urbana e de regulamentação do uso da mesma. A origem destes processos está na organização do movimento pela reforma urbana nos anos 80 e sua atuação com êxito na Assembléia Nacional Constituinte. Neste artigo, iremos em primeiro lugar discutir a emergência e as principais características do movimento da reforma urbana no Brasil. Analisamos em detalhe como a relação entre as associações da sociedade civil e os...

75 FR 40816 - Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Meeting

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2010-07-14

... DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 12626-002; Project No. 12717-002] Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Meeting July 7, 2010. a. Date and Time of Meeting: Thursday, July 22, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. CDT. b. Place: Illinois Historic Preservation...

Formal Dismissal Procedures Under Illinois Teacher Tenure Laws. Revised Edition.

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Jenkins, Newell N.; And Others

This handbook, an updated and revised version of the 1975 original, contains the new statutory requirements, state board of education rules, and court decisions pertaining to teacher dismissal in Illinois. This handbook is designed to acquaint Illinois school administrators and school board members with the legal procedures necessary in dismissal…

Efectos de la entropía urbana en el coste energético del trasporte

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Francisco Bascuñán Walker

2011-05-01

Full Text Available El objetivo del trabajo presentado fue descubrir los efectos de la diversidad de uso de suelo o entropía urbana sobre el gasto energético del transporte. Se eligió como zona de estudio la ciudad de La Serena y se encuestó a un grupo representativo de familias con gastos energéticos y de estratos sociales diversos y se comparó con las zonas urbanas de diferentes grados de entropía. El estudio mostró que, indistintamente del nivel social, los habitantes de las zonas que mostraban niveles mayores de entropía gastaban menos energía en traslados a destinos urbanos que aquellos que vivían en zonas de menores entropías. Basados en los resultados del estudio se concluyó que para disminuir el gasto energético en trasporte de los habitantes de la ciudad se requería incrementar el nivel de entropía. La alternativa más eficiente estudiada fue contemplar en la planificación urbana, pequeños policentros de multiservicios (más de tres servicios diferentes que cubran una superficie de población urbana de 78 has aproximadamente.

Ecología Urbana: la Ciencia Interdisciplinaria del Planeta Ciudad

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Fabio Angeoletto

2015-01-01

Full Text Available La urbanización global y masiva de los territorios es el más importante fenómeno ecológico de la actualidad. Los estándares de crecimiento urbano son determinantes para la conservación de la diversidad biológica, y asimismo para el grado de calidad de vida de las poblaciones urbanas. Contrariamente a la percepción de los biólogos y de otros académicos, de las ciudades como ambientes estériles y opuestos a la naturaleza, el reciente desarrollo de la ecología urbana, ciencia necesariamente interdisciplinaria, nos demuestra que ciudades son ecosistemas heterotróficos que necesitan ser planeados para que sus impactos en la biosfera sean disminuidos, y que en paralelo su capacidad de sostener la biodiversidad sea incrementada.

Adaptive Incentive Controls for Stackelberg Games with Unknown Cost Functionals.

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1984-01-01

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Electric utilities in Illinois

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1978-01-01

Although the conference dealt specifically with concerns of the electric utilities in Illinois, the issues were dealt with in the national context as well. A separate abstract was prepared for each of the 5 sections of this proceeding. A total of 25 papers were presented. Section titles are: Forecasting, Planning and Siting, Reliability, Rates and Financing, and Future Developments.

Delincuencia urbana y victimización de las víctimas/Urban delinquency and victimization of victims

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Raúl Zaffaroni

2012-08-01

Full Text Available La población mundial tiende a concentrarse en ciudades y; por ende, la criminalidad también lo hace. El fenómeno de la delincuencia urbana es proyectado a la población a través de la comunicación masiva, que construye una realidad subjetiva, de la delincuencia urbana (proyección mediática del hecho. La respuesta política está condicionada por la proyección mediática y no al hecho mismo de la delincuencia urbana. Algunas víctimas producto de ese fenómeno, son manipuladas por los medios de comunicación, con fines políticos.

Violencia basada en género en zonas urbanas y urbano-marginales de Lima y Callao, 2007 - 2010

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Pedro Mascaro-Sánchez

2012-04-01

Full Text Available Objetivos: Determinar y comparar las características de la violencia en pobladores de zonas urbanas y urbano-marginales. Diseño: Estudio epidemiológico descriptivo. Institución: Escuela de Obstetricia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. Participantes: Mujeres de Lima y Callao. Intervenciones: Entre los años 2007 y 2010, se aplicó una entrevista estructurada a 3 971 mujeres de zonas urbanas y urbano-marginales de Lima y Callao. Se incluyó mujeres residentes de la zona, excluyéndose aquellas con problemas psicológicos evidentes y problemas del habla. Los datos fueron analizados con estadísticas descriptivas y con el estadístico chi cuadrado, significativo a un nivel p<0,05. Principales medidas de resultados: Violencia física. Resultados: De las entrevistadas, 39% tenía entre 20 y 24 años de edad. El 47% identificó violencia física, siendo similar en zonas urbanas y urbano-marginales. Los empujones y bofetadas fueron la forma más frecuente de violencia en ambas áreas. Con respecto al estudio de la violencia psicológica, fueron más frecuentes la utilización de gritos y celos por posesividad, también en ambas áreas. El gasto de la pareja sin la consulta fue ligeramente mayor para el área urbano marginal (49% que para el área urbana (42%. El intento de tener relaciones sexuales contra su voluntad fue el tipo de violencia más frecuente (37%, más en el área urbana (41% que en el área urbano marginal (34%. Conclusiones: Se evidenció episodios de violencia física, psicológica, económica y sexual similares para el área urbana y el área urbano-marginal, siendo la violencia sexual más frecuente en el área urbana.

Study of the uniform corrosion of an aluminium alloy used for the fuel cladding of the Jules Horowitz experimental reactor; Etude de la corrosion uniforme d'un alliage d'aluminium utilise comme gainage du combustible nucleaire du reacteur experimental Jules Horowitz

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Wintergerst, M. [CEA Saclay, Dept. des Materiaux pour le Nucleaire (DEN/DANS/DMN/SEMI), 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France)

2008-07-01

For the Jules Horowitz new material testing reactor, an aluminium base alloy, AlFeNi, will be used for the cladding of the fuel plates. Taking into account the thermal properties of the alloy and of its oxide, the corrosion of the fuel cans presents many problems. The aim of this thesis is to provide a growing kinetic of the oxide layer at the surface of the AlFeNi fuel can in order to predict the life time of fuel element. Thus the mechanism of degradation of the cladding will be describe in order to integrate the different parameters of the operating reactor. (A.L.B.)

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... and Western Railroad Company and Joppa & Eastern Railroad Company Dynegy Inc. (Dynegy), Illinois Power... Coffeen and Western Railroad Company (CWRC) and the Joppa & Eastern Railroad (JERR), both Class III rail...

A antropologia urbana e os desafios da metrópole

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José Guilherme Cantor Magnani

2003-04-01

Full Text Available O texto analisa a situação da disciplina antropologia urbana no campo das ciências sociais e sua contribuição para o estudo e a compreensão do fenômeno urbano, principalmente no caso das grandes metrópoles contemporâneas. O eixo da argumentação é o de que, para realizar essa tarefa, a antropologia urbana tem à sua disposição o método etnográfico, porém o desafio é aplicar essa abordagem sem cair na "tentação da aldeia", isto é, a de buscar na heterogênea realidade das grandes cidades as condições da aldeia - pequenos grupos, contextos limitados - supostamente identificadas com o enfoque etnográfico. Vários exemplos de pesquisas recentes sobre a cidade de São Paulo, realizados no Núcleo de Antropologia Urbana (NAU e no Departamento de Antropologia da USP são apresentados para mostrar as potencialidades da aplicação de conceitos, técnicas e métodos desenvolvidos na antropologia e, em particular, na antropologia urbana, para o estudo de formas de sociabilidade e práticas culturais na escala da metrópole.State of the art of urban anthropology as a subject in the field of social sciences and its contribution to the study and understanding of the urban phenomenon, mainly in the case of great contemporary metropolises. Urban anthropology has at its disposal the ethnographic method but the challenge is to apply this approach without falling into the ' village temptation', i.e., that of looking at the heterogeneous reality of the big cities for the village conditions - small groups, limited contexts - which are supposedly identified by the ethnographic approach. Various examples of recent researches on the city of São Paulo, undertaken in the Urban Anthropology Nucleus (NAU and in the Department of Anthropology of USP, are presented to show the potentiality of the application of concepts, techniques and methods developed in anthropology, and in particular, in urban anthropology, for the study of forms of sociability

Assembly Hall de la Universidad de Illinois, USA

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Harrison & Abramovitz, Arquitectos

1970-05-01

Full Text Available The Assembly Hall of Illinois University has been constructed with an original reinforced and prestressed concrete structure. It has a seating capacity for 15,565 spectators, in addition to space for press, radio and TV. staff, for the performers, and for invalid spectators who use wheeled chairs. The seating capacity can be further extended by providing 1,500 portable chairs. This hall can be adapted to many uses, and has suitable equipment and installations for assemblies, theatrical and musical performances, ice skating, sports competitions and circus shows. The provision of this magnificent hall has made it possible to organise at the University of Illinois many activities that were not practicable before.Con una original estructura realizada a base de hormigón armado y pretensado ha sido construido el «Assembly Hall», de la Universidad de Illinois, con capacidad para 15.565 espectadores sentados —además de los espacios reservados a los representantes de la prensa, radio y T.V., artistas y espectadores inválidos que acudan en carritos de ruedas—. Puede ser ampliada colocando unas 1.500 sillas portátiles. El edificio está destinado a múltiples usos y dispone de los equipos e instalaciones adecuadas para todo tipo de celebraciones: asambleas, representaciones teatrales y musicales; espectáculos de: circo, patinaje sobre hielo, competiciones deportivas, etc., y ha permitido organizar, en el seno de la Universidad de Illinois, una serie de actividades que antes resultaban imposibles.

Redes urbanas y sistema de ciudades de Alemania: Algunas precisiones cara al siglo XXI

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Serrano Martínez, José María

2000-01-01

El camino recorrido por Alemania ha sido el inverso al de otros países; aquí las ciudades han sido la base que ha permitido construir el país. Ello se advierte al estudiar la jerarquía urbana nacional y también en la propia organización singular de las redes urbanas regionales. Cada «Länder» ha conseguido un subsistema urbano bastante autónomo. Ahora bien, su elevada densidad de población irregularmente distribuida, y los apreciables desajustes socio-económicos territoriales, s...

2D Seismic Reflection Data across Central Illinois

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Smith, Valerie; Leetaru, Hannes

2014-09-30

In a continuing collaboration with the Midwest Geologic Sequestration Consortium (MGSC) on the Evaluation of the Carbon Sequestration Potential of the Cambro-Ordovician Strata of the Illinois and Michigan Basins project, Schlumberger Carbon Services and WesternGeco acquired two-dimensional (2D) seismic data in the Illinois Basin. This work included the design, acquisition and processing of approximately 125 miles of (2D) seismic reflection surveys running west to east in the central Illinois Basin. Schlumberger Carbon Services and WesternGeco oversaw the management of the field operations (including a pre-shoot planning, mobilization, acquisition and de-mobilization of the field personnel and equipment), procurement of the necessary permits to conduct the survey, post-shoot closure, processing of the raw data, and provided expert consultation as needed in the interpretation of the delivered product. Three 2D seismic lines were acquired across central Illinois during November and December 2010 and January 2011. Traversing the Illinois Basin, this 2D seismic survey was designed to image the stratigraphy of the Cambro-Ordovician sections and also to discern the basement topography. Prior to this survey, there were no regionally extensive 2D seismic data spanning this section of the Illinois Basin. Between the NW side of Morgan County and northwestern border of Douglas County, these seismic lines ran through very rural portions of the state. Starting in Morgan County, Line 101 was the longest at 93 miles in length and ended NE of Decatur, Illinois. Line 501 ran W-E from the Illinois Basin – Decatur Project (IBDP) site to northwestern Douglas County and was 25 miles in length. Line 601 was the shortest and ran N-S past the IBDP site and connected lines 101 and 501. All three lines are correlated to well logs at the IBDP site. Originally processed in 2011, the 2D seismic profiles exhibited a degradation of signal quality below ~400 millisecond (ms) which made

REESTRUTURAÇÃO URBANA E CRIAÇÃO DE NOVAS CENTRALIDADES: considerações sobre os Shopping Centers

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Lidiane Aparecida Alves

2011-04-01

Full Text Available O espaço urbano, entendido enquanto a condição, meio e produto das ações realizadas pela sociedade ao longo do tempo, apresenta-se em constante reestruturação, segundo as imposições do modo capitalista de produção, que passa por modificações, a fim de assegurar a reprodução do capital. Como resultado do processo de reestruturação produtiva tem-se reestruturação urbana, consubstanciada nas novas centralidades, a exemplo dos Shopping Centers. Essas novas centralidades criam novas dinâmicas econômicas e espaciais (redefinindo as funções em seu entorno e da área central. Diante da relevância dessa temática, através deste estudo busca tecer considerações sobre os Shopping Centers, vistos enquanto resultado das modificações no processo produtivo, cujos reflexos são diretamente sentidos na dinâmica urbana, no âmbito do processo de reestruturação urbana, a partir da criação de novas centralidades. Espera-se a partir das discussões realizadas, contribuir com os estudos de geografia urbana, especificamente com aqueles referentes ao processo de reestruturação urbana, e surgimento de novas centralidades.

USO DO SOLO E TEMPERATURA SUPERFICIAL EM ÁREA URBANA

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Ivan Júlio Apolônio Callejas

2011-01-01

Full Text Available Este estudio evalua la isla de calor de la area urbana y el relación espacio-temporal entre el uso del suelo y la temperatura superfi cial (Ts en lá ciudad de Várzea Grande, quien junto a Cuiabá (capital del estado forman uno de los conglomerados más grandes de la zona Centro-Oeste de Brasil, donde la urbanización ha sido intensa desde los años 60. Se utilizó imágenes multiespectrales de satélite Landsat-5 TM para preparar mapas del uso y ocupación del suelo y temperaturas de la superfi cie (Ts y se detectó la presencia de isla de calor de la superfi cie urbana en la ciudad de Várzea Grande. Los resultados muestran que los mayores valores medios de Ts se encuentran en los suelos expuestos (2.0°C y en las zonas urbanizadas (2.13°C. Sin embargo, no podemos decir que la isla de calor urbano es un fenómeno consolidado en la región. A fi n de reducir las Ts en zonas urbanas de la ciudad, se recomienda la revisión de las tasas de urbanización y las acciones de promoción destinadas a preservar la vegetación restante y desplegar nuevas zonas verdes en lugares estratégicos de la ciudad, y utilizar materiales alternativos que reducen el almacenamiento energía.

75 FR 64951 - Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; Illinois; Voluntary Nitrogen Oxides Controls

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...: I. What action is EPA taking? II. Did anyone comment on the proposed disapproval of the state's SIP... Illinois' 35 Illinois Administrative Code (IAC), part 217, subpart X (the Subpart X rule). II. Did anyone.... Together, these problems led us to propose disapproval of the Subpart X rule as a revision to the Illinois...

OS DOIS CIRCUITOS DA ECONOMIA URBANA EM JOÃO CÃMARAlRN, BRASIL

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Aldo Dantas

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Desde finales de 1980 la dinámica territorial de João Câmara entra en una nueva fase en la que los circuitos de la economía urbana son, cada vez más predominante de la suya organización espacial, especialmente en medida que avance el consumo intenso de todas las capas de la sociedad. Por lo tanto, el objetivo de este estudio es analisar la expansión de los dos circuitos de la economía urbana en la ciudad de João Câmara, com énfasis en la suya actual configuración espacial, así como los factores que vengan a influenciar esa expansión de la ciudad. Así, hemos echo una recogida de datos a partir de fuentes y procedimientos. En el paso con respecto a las fuentes, hemos echo una busca bibliográfica y de documentación sobre algunos temas relacionados en cuestión en las bibliotecas y en las instituiciones públicas y privadas. En lo que se refiere a los procedimientos, o a la producción de informaciones, hemos realizado entrevistas y cuestionarios con los principales actores sociales envolucrados en los dos circuitos de la economía urbana en la ciudad de João Câmara. Los resultados obtenidos hasta ahora indican que la economía urbana de João Câmara se ha expandido, com una mayor intensidad, a partir de su circuito inferior, especialmente com respecto a las pequeñas empresas y establecimientos de servicios que se hacen presentes en los diferentes subespacios de la ciudad.

Renovación urbana y gentrificación post-catástrofe en Concepción: el caso Aurora de Chile

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Christian Paulo Matus Madrid

2016-06-01

Full Text Available El estudio de caso de la Población Aurora de Chile evidencia la existencia de una estrategia de renovación urbana que promueve la gentrificación y que utiliza el desastre como una herramienta simbólica para justificar el desarrollo de operaciones urbanas que generan desplazamientos. A través de una metodología de revisión de instrumentos de planificación urbana, entrevistas a informantes clave y grupos de conversación con pobladores, se indagan las diferentes etapas del proceso de renovación urbana, que dan cuenta de los discursos y construcciones simbólicas sobre la ciudad y su desarrollo post catástrofe. Finalmente, se plantea la existencia de una estrategia de renovación urbana no explicitada en un proyecto de planificación, que utiliza el Terremoto como oportunidad para gatillar la aceleración de proyectos público-privados, que son impuestos a la comunidad, naturalizando la necesidad de que Aurora "sacrifique" su territorio por el bien común y desarrollo de la ciudad.

Conditional Wealth Neutrality as a School Finance Equity Criterion in Illinois.

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Schmink, David P.; And Others

This study looks at the relationship between district wealth and revenues available for education in Illinois using a "conditional" conception of wealth neutrality that holds constant the operational tax rate. Data used were demographic data of Illinois school districts. An analysis of beta weights suggested an undesirable relationship…

Hartmut Lichtenthaler: an authority on chloroplast structure and isoprenoid biochemistry.

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Sharkey, Thomas D; Govindjee

2016-05-01

We pay tribute to Hartmut Lichtenthaler for making important contributions to the field of photosynthesis research. He was recently recognized for ground-breaking discoveries in chloroplast structure and isoprenoid biochemistry by the Rebeiz Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR; http://vlpbp.org/ ), receiving a 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award for Photosynthesis. The ceremony, held in Champaign, Illinois, was attended by many prominent researchers in the photosynthesis field. We provide below a brief note on his education, and then describe some of the areas in which Hartmut Lichtenthaler has been a pioneer.

movilidades urbanas y experiencias del espacio público en la Bogotá contemporánea

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Óscar Iván Salazar Arenas

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Hasta hace poco, en la mayoría de trabajos sobre el espacio público había primado el análisis de los lugares, los peatones y la ciudadanía. Muchos de ellos habían descuidado e incluso satanizado los flujos de personas, objetos e información, así como el uso del automóvil, dentro de una concepción dual que privilegiaba el “humanismo cívico”. Esta reflexión hace parte de las recientes críticas a esas miradas y discute el concepto de experiencia urbana en su relación con una ecología urbana dinámica, móvil y transhumana. El argumento explora críticamente la metáfora de la tortuga y la liebre como herramienta interpretativa en el análisis cultural de las movilidades y su papel integrador en las prácticas cotidianas, la materialidad de la ciudad y la cultura urbana.

Crime Scene Intelligence. An Experiment in Forensic Entomology

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2006-11-01

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High Temperature Oxidation and Electrochemical Studies Related to Hot Corrosion.

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1987-12-01

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The National Energy Strategy: A balanced program?. Proceedings of the nineteenth annual Illinois energy conference

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1991-12-31

The Nineteenth Annual Illinois Energy Conference was held in Chicago, Illinois November 1991. It was organized by the Energy Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago with major support provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Energy, the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, and the Citizens Council on Energy Resources. The conference program was developed by a planning committee who drew upon Illinois energy and environmental specialists from the major sectors including energy industries, environmental organizations, research universities, utility companies, federal, state and local government agencies, and public interest groups. The members of the planning committee were brought together for a full-day session where they were asked to assess the political, economic, and social impacts of the proposed National Energy Strategy as it relates to Illinois and the Midwest region. Within this context, the planning committee identified several major issues including: (1) Is the proposed plan a balanced strategy; (2) What are the NES impacts on the transportation sector; (3) What are the opportunities for improved efficiency in the Electric Utility Sector; and (4) What is the role of advanced research and development.

75 FR 62516 - Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis and...

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... Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis and Soliciting Comments...: Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC. e. Name of Project: Dresden Island Project. f. Location: U.S. Army Corps... Zdunich, Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC, 801 Oakland Avenue, Joliet, IL 60435, (312) 320-1610. i. FERC...

Organizations Concerned with Early Care and Education in Illinois: A Sample

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2013-01-01

Several sectors and levels of organizations, agencies, and projects are involved in promoting and providing education, care, and intervention services for young children and their families in Illinois. State government entities involved in matters of early care and education include the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), the Department of…

Safe Driving in Illinois. A Manual to Accompany the Illinois Rules of the Road.

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Rice, Gail; Nowack, Linda

Designed to accompany and supplement the Illinois Rules of the Road manual, this book is intended to better prepare future drivers for the written test for the instruction permit or driver's license. It includes many pictures and shows and describes driving situations a driver will probably face when behind the wheel. Parts dealing with important…

Pixações sob a ótica da arqueologia urbana

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Rafael de Abreu Souza

2015-06-01

Full Text Available O texto tem como objetivo apresentar elementos para uma discussão sobre as pixações a partir de leituras da Arqueologia Urbana. Para tal, serão utilizadas pixações outrora pertencentes ao complexo fabril Cianê, situado na cidade de Sorocaba, São Paulo, conjunto edificado no final do século XIX, com utilização, enquanto fábrica têxtil, até os anos de 1970. Argumenta-se que os discursos que reafirmam o abandono do complexo fabril, após sua falência, passando por seu processo de tombamento e atual revitalização e restauro para abarcar um novo shopping no centro da cidade, pautam-se pelas relações de poder e patrimônio demasiado normativas e que segregam, ainda mais, grupos sociais cuja vivência coletiva se expressa a partir de práticas de ressignificação e reconstrução da paisagem urbana.

« Jules Crevaux, l’explorateur aux pieds nus ». Un mythe géographique amazonien

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Emmanuel Lézy

2008-12-01

Full Text Available Le rejet par Claude Lévi Strauss du personnage de l’explorateur organise son exploration de l’Amazonie autant que sa quête de l’Indien. Le scientifique, entre les deux, est situé dans une position équidistante entre la clairvoyance et l’aveuglement. Le « voyage » frappé de la même opprobre est présenté, de façon similaire comme un travestissement du nomadisme indigène. L’exploration des régions du totémisme ou de l’animisme est décrite comme une activité cérébrale, intellectuelle, passant par  l’identification des structures fondamentales de mythes chargés d’organiser la connaissance du monde et ne devant pas grand chose au nécessaire mouvement des pieds. Pourtant, en observant attentivement la polarité doublement négative des pieds d’un explorateur de l’Amazonie, Jules Crevaux, on découvre des structures communes au territoire parcouru et au mythe moderne qui confirment de façon paradoxale la pertinence des analyses de l’anthropologue.The rejection by Lévi Strauss of the explorer organise his own exploration of Amazonia as much as his quest for the Indian. The scientist, between those two characters, holds a medium position between blindness and foresight. The « voyage », stuck by the same despise, is presented as a caricature of indigenous nomadism. The exploration of the countries of totemism and animism is described as a mental, intelectual activity based on the identification of the fundamental structures of the myths organising the knowledge of the world which has nothing to do with the necessary movement of the feet. Nevertheless, the carefull observation of the feet of an amazonian explorer, Jules Crevaux (1847-1882, reveals structures which are common to the covered territory and to a modern mythology. This structures give an unexpected confirmation of the efficiency of the anthropologist’s analyses.

El Cementerio Central. Bogotá, la vida urbana y la muerte

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José Antonio Amaya

1998-01-01

Full Text Available Oscar Iván Calvo Isaza, El Cementerio Central. Bogotá, la vida urbana y la muerte. Santafé de Bogotá: Tercer Mundo Editores / Observatorio de Cultura Urbana, Colección Académica, 1998, 153 págs. El libro recoge lo sustancial de la monografía de grado, idénticamente intitulada, que el autor sustentó en este Departamento de Historia en junio del presente año para optar por el título de historiador, bajo la dirección del profesor Bernardo Tovar Zambrano. Como lo prescribe la crítica histórica, aquí se reseña el original universitario, tanto más cuanto que en este caso la monografia presenta un texto más amplio y más reciente.

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... Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions To Intervene and... No.: 12626-002. c. Date filed: March 31, 2009. d. Applicant: Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC. e... Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r). h. Applicant Contact: Damon Zdunich, Northern Illinois Hydropower...

Data Management Practices and Perspectives of Atmospheric Scientists and Engineering Faculty

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Christie Wiley

2016-12-01

Full Text Available This article analyzes 21 in-depth interviews of engineering and atmospheric science faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC to determine faculty data management practices and needs within the context of their research activities. A detailed literature review of previous large-scale and institutional surveys and interviews revealed that researchers have a broad awareness of data-sharing mandates of federal agencies and journal publishers and a growing acceptance, with some concerns, of the value of data-sharing. However, the disciplinary differences in data management needs are significant and represent a set of challenges for libraries in setting up consistent and successful services. In addition, faculty have not yet significantly changed their data management practices to conform with the mandates. The interviews focused on current research projects and funding sources, data types and format, the use of disciplinary and institutional repositories, data-sharing, their awareness of university library data management and preservation services, funding agency review panel experiences, and struggles or challenges with managing research data. In general, the interviews corroborated the trends identified in the literature. One clear observation from the interviews was that scientists and engineers take a holistic view of the research lifecycle and treat data as one of many elements in the scholarly communication workflow. Data generation, usage, storage, and sharing are an integrated aspect of a larger scholarly workflow, and are not necessarily treated as a separate entity. Acknowledging this will allow libraries to develop programs that better integrate data management support into scholarly communication instruction and training.

Assessing cultural validity in standardized tests in stem education

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Gassant, Lunes

This quantitative ex post facto study examined how race and gender, as elements of culture, influence the development of common misconceptions among STEM students. Primary data came from a standardized test: the Digital Logic Concept Inventory (DLCI) developed by Drs. Geoffrey L. Herman, Michael C. Louis, and Craig Zilles from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The sample consisted of a cohort of 82 STEM students recruited from three universities in Northern Louisiana. Microsoft Excel and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) were used for data computation. Two key concepts, several sub concepts, and 19 misconceptions were tested through 11 items in the DLCI. Statistical analyses based on both the Classical Test Theory (Spearman, 1904) and the Item Response Theory (Lord, 1952) yielded similar results: some misconceptions in the DLCI can reliably be predicted by the Race or the Gender of the test taker. The research is significant because it has shown that some misconceptions in a STEM discipline attracted students with similar ethnic backgrounds differently; thus, leading to the existence of some cultural bias in the standardized test. Therefore the study encourages further research in cultural validity in standardized tests. With culturally valid tests, it will be possible to increase the effectiveness of targeted teaching and learning strategies for STEM students from diverse ethnic backgrounds. To some extent, this dissertation has contributed to understanding, better, the gap between high enrollment rates and low graduation rates among African American students and also among other minority students in STEM disciplines.

A training program for scientific supercomputing users

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Hanson, F.; Moher, T.; Sabelli, N.; Solem, A.

1988-01-01

There is need for a mechanism to transfer supercomputing technology into the hands of scientists and engineers in such a way that they will acquire a foundation of knowledge that will permit integration of supercomputing as a tool in their research. Most computing center training emphasizes computer-specific information about how to use a particular computer system; most academic programs teach concepts to computer scientists. Only a few brief courses and new programs are designed for computational scientists. This paper describes an eleven-week training program aimed principally at graduate and postdoctoral students in computationally-intensive fields. The program is designed to balance the specificity of computing center courses, the abstractness of computer science courses, and the personal contact of traditional apprentice approaches. It is based on the experience of computer scientists and computational scientists, and consists of seminars and clinics given by many visiting and local faculty. It covers a variety of supercomputing concepts, issues, and practices related to architecture, operating systems, software design, numerical considerations, code optimization, graphics, communications, and networks. Its research component encourages understanding of scientific computing and supercomputer hardware issues. Flexibility in thinking about computing needs is emphasized by the use of several different supercomputer architectures, such as the Cray X/MP48 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IBM 3090 600E/VF at the Cornell National Supercomputer Facility, and Alliant FX/8 at the Advanced Computing Research Facility at Argonne National Laboratory. 11 refs., 6 tabs.

Update of distillers grains displacement ratios for corn ethanol life-cycle analysis.

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Arora, S.; Wu, M.; Wang, M.; Energy Systems

2011-02-01

Production of corn-based ethanol (either by wet milling or by dry milling) yields the following coproducts: distillers grains with solubles (DGS), corn gluten meal (CGM), corn gluten feed (CGF), and corn oil. Of these coproducts, all except corn oil can replace conventional animal feeds, such as corn, soybean meal, and urea. Displacement ratios of corn-ethanol coproducts including DGS, CGM, and CGF were last updated in 1998 at a workshop at Argonne National Laboratory on the basis of input from a group of experts on animal feeds, including Prof. Klopfenstein (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Prof. Berger (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mr. Madson (Rapheal Katzen International Associates, Inc.), and Prof. Trenkle (Iowa State University) (Wang 1999). Table 1 presents current dry milling coproduct displacement ratios being used in the GREET model. The current effort focuses on updating displacement ratios of dry milling corn-ethanol coproducts used in the animal feed industry. Because of the increased availability and use of these coproducts as animal feeds, more information is available on how these coproducts replace conventional animal feeds. To glean this information, it is also important to understand how industry selects feed. Because of the wide variety of available feeds, animal nutritionists use commercial software (such as Brill Formulation{trademark}) for feed formulation. The software recommends feed for the animal on the basis of the nutritional characteristics, availability, and price of various animal feeds, as well as on the nutritional requirements of the animal (Corn Refiners Association 2006). Therefore, feed formulation considers both the economic and the nutritional characteristics of feed products.

Implementation of a RPS Cyber Security Test-bed with Two PLCs

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Shin, Jinsoo; Heo, Gyunyoung; Son, Hanseong; An, Yongkyu; Rizwan, Uddin

2015-01-01

Our research team proposed the methodology to evaluate cyber security with Bayesian network (BN) as a cyber security evaluation model and help operator, licensee, licensor or regulator in granting evaluation priorities. The methodology allowed for overall evaluation of cyber security by considering architectural aspect of facility and management aspect of cyber security at the same time. In order to emphasize reality of this model by inserting true data, it is necessary to conduct a penetration test that pretends an actual cyber-attack. Through the collaboration with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which possesses the Tricon a safety programmable logic controller (PLC) used at nuclear power plants and develops a test-bed for nuclear power plant, a test-bed for reactor protection system (RPS) is being developed with the PLCs. Two PLCs are used to construct a simple test-bed for RPS, bi-stable processor (BP) and coincidence processor (CP). By using two PLCs, it is possible to examine cyber-attack against devices such as PLC, cyber-attack against communication between devices, and the effects of a PLC on the other PLC. Two PLCs were used to construct a test-bed for penetration test in this study. Advantages of using two or more PLCs instead of single PLC are as follows. 1) Results of cyber-attack reflecting characteristics among PLCs can be obtained. 2) Cyber-attack can be attempted using a method of attacking communication between PLCs. True data obtained can be applied to existing cyber security evaluation model to emphasize reality of the model

Implementation of a RPS Cyber Security Test-bed with Two PLCs

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Shin, Jinsoo; Heo, Gyunyoung [Kyung Hee Univ., Yongin (Korea, Republic of); Son, Hanseong [Joongbu Univ., Geumsan (Korea, Republic of); An, Yongkyu; Rizwan, Uddin [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (United States)

2015-10-15

Our research team proposed the methodology to evaluate cyber security with Bayesian network (BN) as a cyber security evaluation model and help operator, licensee, licensor or regulator in granting evaluation priorities. The methodology allowed for overall evaluation of cyber security by considering architectural aspect of facility and management aspect of cyber security at the same time. In order to emphasize reality of this model by inserting true data, it is necessary to conduct a penetration test that pretends an actual cyber-attack. Through the collaboration with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which possesses the Tricon a safety programmable logic controller (PLC) used at nuclear power plants and develops a test-bed for nuclear power plant, a test-bed for reactor protection system (RPS) is being developed with the PLCs. Two PLCs are used to construct a simple test-bed for RPS, bi-stable processor (BP) and coincidence processor (CP). By using two PLCs, it is possible to examine cyber-attack against devices such as PLC, cyber-attack against communication between devices, and the effects of a PLC on the other PLC. Two PLCs were used to construct a test-bed for penetration test in this study. Advantages of using two or more PLCs instead of single PLC are as follows. 1) Results of cyber-attack reflecting characteristics among PLCs can be obtained. 2) Cyber-attack can be attempted using a method of attacking communication between PLCs. True data obtained can be applied to existing cyber security evaluation model to emphasize reality of the model.

A Road Less Traveled: An Editorial Career

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Antonoyiannakis, Manolis

2008-03-01

It has been said that no life is completed the way one had planned for it, and mine is no exception to that rule so far. When I was graduating with a BSc I was convinced I'd be doing physics research for the rest of my life -- and when I was getting my PhD I was sure I'd be teaching high school physics and helping others learn for the foreseeable future. Yet, 9 years later, I am not doing either of these as a full time job, and I've changed my mind a couple more times as to what career path (and broader lifestyle) would work best for me. In the intervening years, I've learnt to embrace change as a tool for carving my own path, and to be wary of the certainties that can tie oneself to a ``safe'' but uninspiring future. I studied at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and at Royal Holloway University of London (BSc); also at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MSc) and at Imperial College London (PhD). After my PhD (and the national military service in Greece), I taught at high-school level for a couple of years in Crete, Greece. At the same time, I was science editor for Crete University Press, Greece's major university press. From there, I jumped onto the APS editorial boat: First to PRB (2003), then to PRL (2007), where I am now an Assistant Editor. I also have an adjunct research position at Columbia University.

Design and Evaluation of a Secure Virtual Power Plant.

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Johnson, Jay Tillay [Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

2017-09-01

For three years, Sandia National Laboratories, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign investigated a smart grid vision in which renewable-centric Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) provided ancillary services with interoperable distributed energy resources (DER). This team researched, designed, built, and evaluated real-time VPP designs incorporating DER forecasting, stochastic optimization, controls, and cyber security to construct a system capable of delivering reliable ancillary services, which have been traditionally provided by large power plants or other dedicated equipment. VPPs have become possible through an evolving landscape of state and national interconnection standards, which now require DER to include grid-support functionality and communications capabilities. This makes it possible for third party aggregators to provide a range of critical grid services such as voltage regulation, frequency regulation, and contingency reserves to grid operators. This paradigm (a) enables renewable energy, demand response, and energy storage to participate in grid operations and provide grid services, (b) improves grid reliability by providing additional operating reserves for utilities, independent system operators (ISOs), and regional transmission organization (RTOs), and (c) removes renewable energy high-penetration barriers by providing services with photovoltaics and wind resources that traditionally were the jobs of thermal generators. Therefore, it is believed VPP deployment will have far-reaching positive consequences for grid operations and may provide a robust pathway to high penetrations of renewables on US power systems. In this report, we design VPPs to provide a range of grid-support services and demonstrate one VPP which simultaneously provides bulk-system energy and ancillary reserves.

Paisagem, ecologia urbana e planejamento ambiental

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Barbosa, Valter Luís; Nascimento Júnior, Antônio Fernandes

2009-01-01

A chegada das grandes massas populacionais aos centros urbanos tem modificado a paisagem da cidade assustadoramente e de maneira agressiva vem se instalando em espaços vazios impróprios à moradia que fazem parte de reservas ecológicas e de matas ciliares nos mananciais. No planejamento urbano há diretrizes para o uso e ocupação do solo, todavia, a expansão urbana continua desordenada e irregular, ferindo os princípios básicos de uma sociedade sustentável. Logo, é imprescindível que o poder pú...

Serie Documentos Nº2 - Investigaciones en Antropología Urbana (U. Central de Chile

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Verónica Tapia Barría

2007-09-01

Full Text Available Una de las características principales del desarrollo de la investigación antropológica urbana en Chile es justamente el hecho de constituirse como un espacio en construcción, que obedece más bien a un conjunto de esfuerzos independientes que a la formulación de programas de investigación formales. Dichos esfuerzos son mayormente protagonizados por investigadores jóvenes, que desde sus particulares ópticas y objetos de interés han ido perfilando el carácter de lo que podríamos denominar antropología urbana chilena.

Dispersión urbana y oferta hídrica en el eje cafetero colombiano

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GONZÁLEZ, JUAN LEONARDO; GALEANO MORENO, JULIÁN; CAÑÓN BARRIGA, JULIO

2012-01-01

Este artículo presenta una caracterización del estado de la oferta hídrica en el contexto de dispersión urbana, entendida como la propagación de una ciudad y de sus barrios hacia las zonas rurales periféricas, en el eje cafetero colombiano. Los autores consideran que el conocimiento sobre el uso del suelo en las áreas de dispersión urbana y en los entornos donde se localizan los ecosistemas que sustentan el abasto hídrico, así como la eficiencia técnico operacional de las empresas de servicio...

Integrando la gestión del riesgo, planificación urbana y vivienda social: lecciones de El Salvador

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Christine Wamsler

2007-01-01

Full Text Available Más atención se está dando a la necesidad de integrar la gestión del riesgo en el trabajo de desarrollo para poder reducir así la vulnerabilidad de los pobres que viven en áreas urbanas. Usando El Salvador como estudio de caso, este artículo analiza el proceso de integración en dos sectores de desarrollo: planificación urbana y vivienda social. El objetivo es identificar de qué manera se puede superar la separación existente entre gestión del riesgo, planificación urbana y vivienda social. A partir del Huracán Mitch, y después de los terremotos del 2001, las organizaciones de vivienda social en El Salvador empezaron a abordar las causas subyacentes de la vulnerabilidad urbana. A pesar de experiencias positivas en la implementación de proyectos más integrales, la creación de marcos operativos, organizacionales, institucionales y legales adecuados aún se encuentran en etapa inicial. Lamentablemente, los fondos disponibles para la gestión del riesgo post-desastre llegaron a su fin, sin una asignación de recursos para la consolidación del proceso iniciado. El artículo propone un modelo para integrar la gestión del riesgo en la planificación urbana y en la vivienda social, de manera que dicho proceso sea más inclusivo y sostenible dentro del contexto de desarrollo.

The Two Edged Sword; Illinois' Risk Reduction Success Through Managed Retreat And Strong Regulations

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Osman, P.

2017-12-01

Illinois has the nation's largest inland system of rivers, lakes, and streams. Two thirds of the continental US and two Canadian provinces drain thru Illinois. Although a blessing, these waterways also result in frequent flooding. Historically, Illinois ranked among the top five states in the nation for flood losses. However, using a combination of strong floodplain regulations and proactive flood mitigation programs, Illinois now ranks near the bottom of flood loss states. Following the 1993 flood, the State of Illinois began an aggressive program to remove flood prone structures from the floodplain. Using a combination of state, federal, and local funds, towns like Valmeyer and Grafton have largely been relocated outside of the floodplain. Likewise, in dozens of communities across the state, thousands of structures have been have purchased to create open space in the floodplain. In addition, new structures in the floodplain must meet strict state and local floodplain construction standards. Major floods now routinely pass Illinois unnoticed. Many communities once ravaged by flooding now pass large floods unscathed. Due largely to climate change, flood losses in many areas are evolving. The majority of flood losses in Illinois now occur outside of the mapped floodplain. The State of Illinois has recently completed a detailed analysis of the state's urban flood exposure. Flood risk is changing and methods to address that risk must evolve accordingly. Accurate climate change data on major inland waterways and urban areas remain elusive. This presentation will highlight simple steps any state or community can take to reduce existing flood losses and be better prepared to address changing impacts due to climate change.

Integração de condicionantes de morfologia urbana no desenvolvimento de metodologia para planejamento energético urbano

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Karin Regina de Casas Castro Marins

Full Text Available O objetivo desse artigo é apresentar as características gerais de uma nova metodologia para planejamento energético urbano, detalhando os procedimentos para integração de condicionantes de morfologia urbana, que constitui a primeira etapa de aplicação metodológica. Esta abordagem é inovadora e focada na integração de estratégias e soluções em morfologia e mobilidade urbanas, edifícios, energia e meio ambiente para planejamento de áreas em desenvolvimento urbano, novas ou a serem requalificadas, na escala de distritos, bairros e unidades de vizinhança. A análise dos resultados da aplicação metodológica no caso da operação urbana Água Branca indicou que a ocupação urbana por edificações e as densidades construída e populacional necessitavam ser compatibilizadas com a área livre requerida ao adequado dimensionamento da seção viária, no que tange a aspectos de climatologia e de provimento de infraestrutura e demanda para mobilidade urbana. Esta era uma premissa para o aproveitamento da luz e da energia solar em edificações e para que o sistema de transporte urbano fosse mais funcional e energeticamente mais eficiente.

Study of the uniform corrosion of an aluminium alloy used for the fuel cladding of the Jules Horowitz experimental reactor

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Wintergerst, M.

2008-01-01

For the Jules Horowitz new material testing reactor, an aluminium base alloy, AlFeNi, will be used for the cladding of the fuel plates. Taking into account the thermal properties of the alloy and of its oxide, the corrosion of the fuel cans presents many problems. The aim of this thesis is to provide a growing kinetic of the oxide layer at the surface of the AlFeNi fuel can in order to predict the life time of fuel element. Thus the mechanism of degradation of the cladding will be describe in order to integrate the different parameters of the operating reactor. (A.L.B.)

Enhancing pavement performance prediction models for the Illinois Tollway System

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Laxmikanth Premkumar; William R. Vavrik

2016-01-01

Accurate pavement performance prediction represents an important role in prioritizing future maintenance and rehabilitation needs, and predicting future pavement condition in a pavement management system. The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (Tollway) with over 2000 lane miles of pavement utilizes the condition rating survey (CRS) methodology to rate pavement performance. Pavement performance models developed in the past for the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) are used by th...

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Residential Provisions of the 2015 IECC for Illinois

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Mendon, Vrushali V. [Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Zhao, Mingjie [Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Taylor, Zachary T. [Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Poehlman, Eric A. [Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

2016-02-15

The 2015 IECC provides cost-effective savings for residential buildings in Illinois. Moving to the 2015 IECC from the 2012 IECC base code is cost-effective for residential buildings in all climate zones in Illinois.

Illinois Walls in alternative market structures

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Schinkel, M.P.; Tuinstra, J.

2005-01-01

This note extends on our paper Illinois Walls: How Barring Indirect Purchaser Suits Facilitates Collusion (Schinkel, Tuinstra and Rüggeberg, 2005, henceforth STR). It presents analyses of two alternative, more competitive, market structures to conclude that when the conditions for existence of

A HIPÉRBOLE MERCANTIL DA EXPANSÃO URBANA E SUAS IMPLICAÇÕES AMBIENTAIS

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Lucas Barbosa e Souzaz

2015-01-01

Full Text Available El contexto formado por el avance de la frontera agrícola en Brasil, por el consecuente y franco proceso de urbanización del território, además de la reciente política federal del gobierno acerca del sector de habi - tación, ha conllevado las grandes ciudades del Estado de Tocantins a presentar una la expansión urbana a menudo exagerada. La ciudad de Porto Nacional, a su vez, es un ejemplo notorio de este fenómeno. Dicha expansión urbana se ha basado en un carácter comercial excesiva, lo que conlleva a la división de la tierra, a través de los parcelamientos, que supera claramente la demanda local por viviendas nuevas. La compra deliberada de suelo urbanizado toma la forma de una práctica especulativa, lo que conlleva a formación de vacíos urbanos. Los principales actores involucrados en la implementación de estas parcelaciones adoptan estratégias capaces de maximizar la extracción de renta de la tierra en detrimento de criterios técnicos del orden urbano y ambiental. Con la ayuda de las ideas derivadas de la Geografía Humana y Geografía Física, este artículo pretende dar a conocer los vínculos entre este modelo de expansión urbana y los impactos ambientales relacionados. Entonces, son problematizadas la actual y las posibles consecuencias negativas para la calidad ambiental urbana, tomando la ciudad de Porto Nacional como referencia empírica.

Construir la ciudad. Interface entre política urbana y finanzas públicas locales

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Mercedes Ferrer

2005-01-01

Full Text Available El objeto de este trabajo es identificar las fuentes de financiamiento de las políticas urbanas en la Alcaldía de Maracaibo y los cambios producidos en éstas durante el periodo 1989 al 2001. Para conocer la relación entre finanzas públicas y políticas urbanas se revisaron y contrastaron los Planes de Gestión Local con los Presupuestos Anuales y las Memorias y Cuenta y, se entrevistaron a funcionarios de las Direcciones de Planificación, Presupuesto y Rentas de la Alcaldía. Como resultado de la investigación realizada se identificaron dos cambios en el manejo de las finanzas locales - en la estructura de ingresos de la Alcaldía y en el mayor peso dado al financiamiento de las políticas urbanas - y, dos conclusiones básicas: la existencia de una política de inversión de las finanzas públicas locales que privilegia la construcción de la ciudad o ejecución de las políticas urbanas y, segundo, la búsqueda de nuevas fuentes de financiación tanto locales como nacionales e internacionales, para concretar dicha política. La estrategia implantada por los alcaldes durante el periodo analizado se apoya en una visión y praxis corporativa de la Alcaldía de Maracaibo dirigida a fortalecer una gestión visible, cuyo objetivo es impactar a corto plazo la calidad de vida de los ciudadanos para relegitimarse políticamente (marketing político, ampliar el espacio público y la gobernabilidad local.

Paisagismo e as centralidades urbanas

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Sérgio Marin de Oliveira

2005-06-01

Full Text Available Este texto sobre o Programa de Centralidades Urbanas (Centros de Bairros na cidade de São Paulo procura explicitar a importância que o projeto paisagístico teve em sua definição desde o início, destacando a relevância da questão ambiental em grandes centros urbanos. Não se tratou de projetar de modo reparador, complementar, ou ainda, de intervenções pontuais. O paisagismo, entendido em sua totalidade, foi mote e motor do programa. Sua coordenação (projetos, procedimentos burocráticos, acompanhamento e fiscalização das obras foi realizada pela Empresa Municipal de Urbanização (Emurb, com as secretarias municipais.

Avances en la agenda urbana : Santa Cruz de la Sierra

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F. Steinberg (Florian); M.L. Garnelo (Maria Luisa); Zwanenburg Maria Zwanenburg (M.)

2001-01-01

textabstractEste libro tiene como objetivo principal, presentar algunos trabajos del SINPA que contribuyeron y representan “Avances en la Gestión Urbana”. Estos artículos son fruto de la experiencia del proyecto SINPA como aporte a los cambios y procesos de fortalecimiento de la gestión urbana en el

Danger! Automation at Work; Report of the State of Illinois Commission on Automation and Technological Progress.

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Karp, William

The 74th Illinois General Assembly created the Illinois Commission on Automation and Technological Progress to study and analyze the economic and social effects of automation and other technological changes on industry, commerce, agriculture, education, manpower, and society in Illinois. Commission members visited industrial plants and business…

El diálogo de saberes en investigaciones de ecología urbana: narrativas locales, cotidianidad e interdisciplinariedad

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Dayana Ortiz

2017-11-01

Full Text Available El modelo de desarrollo económico global sobre el cual se sustentan las ciudades en la actualidad ha devenido en procesos metabólicos que impactan negativamente las condiciones de vida del ser humano en el entramado ecológico urbano. Con base en esta problemática, han emergido campos de investigación que intentan abordar los estudios urbanos desde enfoques que profundicen situaciones complejas, entre los cuales puede ubicarse la ecología urbana. Así, partiendo de algunos postulados de la ecología urbana desde el enfoque de “ecología de la ciudad”, en este trabajo se analiza la importancia de la incorporación del diálogo de saberes a partir de narrativas locales en investigaciones ecológicas urbanas desde miradas interdisciplinarias que integran la ecología tradicional, el urbanismo, la psicología social, la economía, la antropología, la geografía, la sociología y la historia. Para ello, se presentan algunas experiencias de Investigación Acción Participativa a escala local en comunidades de la ciudad de Caracas, Venezuela, desde las cuales se propone la incorporación de métodos interdisciplinarios en la ecología urbana. Este tipo de investigación constituye una aproximación importante a la dimensión fenomenológica de las experiencias cotidianas de vida urbana, la cual es preponderante para el estudio de las dinámicas ecológicas de los ecosistemas urbanos.

Love stories can be unpredictable: Jules et Jim in the vortex of life.

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Dercole, Fabio; Rinaldi, Sergio

2014-06-01

Love stories are dynamic processes that begin, develop, and often stay for a relatively long time in a stationary or fluctuating regime, before possibly fading. Although they are, undoubtedly, the most important dynamic process in our life, they have only recently been cast in the formal frame of dynamical systems theory. In particular, why it is so difficult to predict the evolution of sentimental relationships continues to be largely unexplained. A common reason for this is that love stories reflect the turbulence of the surrounding social environment. But we can also imagine that the interplay of the characters involved contributes to make the story unpredictable-that is, chaotic. In other words, we conjecture that sentimental chaos can have a relevant endogenous origin. To support this intriguing conjecture, we mimic a real and well-documented love story with a mathematical model in which the environment is kept constant, and show that the model is chaotic. The case we analyze is the triangle described in Jules et Jim, an autobiographic novel by Henri-Pierre Roché that became famous worldwide after the success of the homonymous film directed by François Truffaut.

Love stories can be unpredictable: Jules et Jim in the vortex of life

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Dercole, Fabio; Rinaldi, Sergio

2014-06-01

Love stories are dynamic processes that begin, develop, and often stay for a relatively long time in a stationary or fluctuating regime, before possibly fading. Although they are, undoubtedly, the most important dynamic process in our life, they have only recently been cast in the formal frame of dynamical systems theory. In particular, why it is so difficult to predict the evolution of sentimental relationships continues to be largely unexplained. A common reason for this is that love stories reflect the turbulence of the surrounding social environment. But we can also imagine that the interplay of the characters involved contributes to make the story unpredictable—that is, chaotic. In other words, we conjecture that sentimental chaos can have a relevant endogenous origin. To support this intriguing conjecture, we mimic a real and well-documented love story with a mathematical model in which the environment is kept constant, and show that the model is chaotic. The case we analyze is the triangle described in Jules et Jim, an autobiographic novel by Henri-Pierre Roché that became famous worldwide after the success of the homonymous film directed by François Truffaut.

The 'Reacteur Jules Horowitz': The preliminary design

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Ballagny, A.; Frachet, S.; Minguet, J.L.; Leydier, C.

1999-01-01

The 'Reactor Jules Horowitz' is a new research reactor project dedicated to materials and nuclear fuels testing, the location of which is foreseen at the CEA-Cadarache site, and the start-up in 2008. The launching of this project arises from a double finding: 1) the development of nuclear power plants aimed at satisfying the energy needs of the next century cannot be envisaged without the disposal of experimental reactors which are unrivalled for the validation of new concepts of nuclear fuels, materials, and components as well as for their qualification under irradiation. 2) the present park of experimental reactors is 30 to 40 years old and it is advisable to examine henceforth the necessity and the nature of a new reactor to take over and replace, at the beginning of next century, the reactors shut-down in the mean time or at the very end of their lives. Within this framework, the CEA has undertaken, in the last years, a reflection on the mid and long term irradiations needs, to determine the main features and performances of this new reactor. The concept of the reactor will have to fulfil the thermal neutron irradiation requirements as well as the fast neutron experimental needs, with a great potential versatility for any new irradiation programs. The selected reactor project, among several different concepts, is finally a light water open pool concept, with 100 MW thermal power. It could reach neutronic fluxes twice those of present French reactors, and allows many irradiations in the core and around the core, under high neutron fluxes. The reactor will satisfy the highest level of safety in full accordance with international safety recommendations and French safety approach for this kind of nuclear facility, thus giving an added safety margin keeping in mind the versatility of research reactors. The feasibility studies have been focused on the main items, and have permit to determine: the core and fuel designs, with added pressurisation; the different core

A Statewide Examiniation of Mental Health Courts in Illinois: Program Characteristics and Operations

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Arthur J. Lurigio

2015-07-01

Full Text Available This study represents the only broad-based, statewide evaluation of mental health courts (MHCs conducted to date.  Data were collected from 2010 to 2013 at each of the nine active MHC programs operating in Illinois at the start of the study. The purpose of the study was to compare and contrast the adjudicatory and supervisory models of each established Illinois MHC program by utilizing a variety of research methodologies. A four-year recidivism analysis of case-level data from three Illinois MHCs was also conducted. Illinois MHCs were largely characterized by the '10 essential elements of an MHC', such as voluntary participation, informed choice and hybrid team approaches to case manage clients. Results of the recidivism analysis suggest that MHCs compare favorably to other types of probation. Overall, findings revealed that Illinois MHCs are delivering services effectively and efficiently in a well-coordinated, client-centered team approach. Differences found among the MHCs are not evidence of significant variance from the model, and instead represent responsiveness to the unique culture of the court, the niche-filling character of the program, the expectations of the program stakeholders and the nature and extent of the local service environment.

Hazard Studies for Solid Propellant Rocket Motors (Etude des Risque pour les Moteurs-Fusees a Propergols Solides)

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1990-09-01

Combustion Through Granulated Propellant to Predict Transition to Detonation," University of Illinois, Urbana . IL, Final Report, October 19"/6-September...Vol). i, p. 258, 15 -1 9) July 1985 (Albuquerque, NM). F. A. Williams. ’Asymptotic Methods in Ignition Theory," Memoria del VII Congreso de Ia Academia

Ambientalismo, sustentabilidad urbana y desarrollo regional

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Erick Gómez Tagle López

2004-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo, el autor analiza, en el marco del crecimiento de las ciudades, del libre mercado, del empobrecimiento de los sectores rurales, de la degradación ecológica y de la pérdida de biodiversidad, el tema urgente del medio ambiente en la agenda mundial y su sustentabilidad urbana y regional. A lo largo de su trabajo, el autor obliga a repensar la globalización desde el espacio local, valorando que este proceso ha beneficiado a pocos países y empresas transnacionales quienes, haciendo uso del dinero y la tecnología, han acelerado la insustentabilidad socioambiental.

Arqueoastronomía y la traza urbana en Teotihuacan

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Salvador Galindo

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Al examinar la orientación de trazas urbanas a lo largo de México se puede observar una alineación particular al este de la dirección norte que coincide con la alineación de la antigua ciudad de Teotihuacan. Este trabajo recoge las distintas explicaciones surgidas sobre el origen de esta característica peculiar de Teotihuacan.

Influência de áreas verdes urbanas sobre a mirmecofauna

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Milene Andrade Estrada

Full Text Available O trabalho objetivou estudar a influência de características da arborização das áreas verdes urbanas sobre a mirmecofauna. A pesquisa foi conduzida no Município de Três Rios-RJ, em um parque urbano e em cinco praças públicas arborizadas. Foram obtidas a densidade de árvores, a densidade de espécies de árvores e a temperatura do ar. As formigas foram coletadas no solo e sobre o tronco de árvores, com iscas de sardinha. Foram coletadas 44 espécies de formigas, 26 espécies no solo e 37 espécies nas árvores. A densidade de espécies de árvores influenciou positivamente o número total de espécies de formigas e a diversidade de espécies coletadas nas árvores. Conclui-se que o aumento da densidade de espécies de árvores nas áreas verdes urbanas pode colaborar para a conservação da diversidade biológica.

The future Jules Horowitz material testing reactor: An opportunity for developing international collaborations on a major European irradiation infrastructure

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Parrat, D.; Bignan, G.; Maugard, B.; Gonnier, C.; Blandin, C.

2015-01-01

Development process of a fuel product or a nuclear material before using at an industrial scale in a power reactor ranges from characterization of the material itself under neutronic flux up to its qualification in accidental conditions. Irradiations in Material Testing Reactors (MTRs) are in practice the basis of the whole process, in complement of prediction capabilities gained by modelling. Dedicated experimental reactors play also an important complementary role for some specific integral tests (e.g. RIA tests). Irradiations of precursors in power reactors are often limited to products which present a slight design evolution compare to the standard product or are implemented for further tests when a statistical approach is useful for defining a safety criterion. However European MTR park status is characterized by ageing infrastructures, which could cause operational issues in coming years, either on technological or on safety point of views. Moreover some specific supplies related to the public demand could be strongly affected (e.g. radiopharmaceutical targets). To avoid a lack in irradiation capacity offer at European level, CEA launched the Jules Horowitz Material Testing Reactor (JHR) international program, in the frame of a Consortium gathering also EDF (FR), AREVA (FR), European Commission (EU), SCK.CEN (BE), VTT (FI), CIEMAT (SP), STUDSVIK (SE), UJV (CZ), NNL (UK), IAEC (IL), DAE (IN) and as associated partnership: JAEA (JP). Some institutions in this list are themselves the flagship of a national Consortium. Discussions for enlarging participation are on-going with other countries, as JHR Consortium is open to new member entrance until JHR completion. The Jules Horowitz Material Testing Reactor (JHR MTR) is under construction at CEA Cadarache in southern France and will be an important international User Facility for R&D in support to the nuclear industry, research centres, regulatory bodies and TSO, and academic institutions. It represents a unique

Guide for Migrants in the State of Illinois = Guia para Migrantes en el Estado de Illinois.

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Langemach, Sharon; Koepplinger, Jessica

Prepared for migrant farmworkers traveling in the State of Illinois, the booklet, written in English and Spanish, provides basic information on (1) employment conditions--requirements of crew leaders and employers, deductions from wages, and laws regulating child labor; (2) housing--conditions of the camp grounds and of living units; (3)…

A visão dos atores no sistema de drenagem urbana : uma análise crítica na gestão dos recursos humanos

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Talita Fávaro Noccetti

2008-01-01

Esta pesquisa trata da percepção sobre a preparação dos atores do sistema de drenagem urbana e sua atuação nos serviços públicos municipais. O estudo bibliográfico específico abordou a questão da drenagem urbana, dos recursos humanos e da formação e capacitação para atuação em sistemas públicos de drenagem urbana. O trabalho avaliou as Instituições de Ensino Superior em Engenharia e as Prefeituras Municipais sob a ótica da drenagem urbana, onde foram aplicados questionários com abordagem espe...

La tendencia ambiental urbana en ciudades intermedias. Una propuesta metodológica

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Pinzón Botero María Victoria

2011-11-01

Full Text Available Desde las últim as décadas, es evidente la preocupación m undial por los im pactos ambientales negativos que ponen en riesgo la sostenibilidad urbana y su calidad ambiental. Diferentes estudios exponen las variables más importantes para minim izar estos impactos ambientales, y en este sentido, este trabajo de investigación muestra cómo a partir de un diseño metodológico más sencillo con 27 variables am bientales estratégicas, es posible evaluar la tendencia am biental urbana de ciudades intermedias. Este grupo priorizado de variables trabajadas en el marco de una gestión compartida, orientará el desarrollo de la ciudad hacia una estructura territorial más sostenible, como reto para la planificación ambiental actual y con visión de futuro.

Indicadores del servicio de acueducto y aglomeración urbana en Colombia

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Pedro Ignacio Bernal

2014-02-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo revisa la relación entre la jerarquía territorial urbana y algunos indicadores de servicios públicos domiciliarios. Se estudian los informes anuales de la Superintendencia de Servicios, que no ofrecen una perspectiva espacial consistente. Sin embargo, con base en las evaluaciones integrales publicadas por esa entidad, se asignan ponderaciones y puntajes a algunos indicadores de prestación del servicio de acueducto, con el fin de analizar una muestra de 110 empresas. Los resultados muestran índices de servicio decrecientes en función de la posición en la jerarquía urbana (asociada con el número de suscriptores atendidos por las empresas. Estos resultados cuestionan la posición oficial que asevera que es la naturaleza jurídica de los prestadores la que determina los resultados.

INTERAÇÃO DAS VARIÁVEIS MICROCLIMÁTICAS E COBERTURA DO SOLO EM REGIÃO URBANA E LIMÍTROFE-URBANA NA CIDADE DE CUIABÁ/ MT

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Carolina de Rezende Maciel

2014-09-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho tem por objetivo geral analisar a interação das variáveis microclimáticas e cobertura do solo em região urbana e limítrofe-urbana na cidade de Cuiabá/ MT. Foram analisadas duas regiões com características distintas, durante os dois períodos climáticos característicos da região: quente-seco e quente-úmido. A Região 01 trata-se do campus da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso localizado em área central e a Região 02 trata-se do bairro Pedra 90 localizado no limite do perímetro urbano do município. Com base nos dados apresentados, a Região 02 apresentou temperaturas mais amenas e maior umidade diante de equivalente radiação solar. No entanto, a Região 02 apresenta valores semelhantes à Região 01 nos horários de maior incidência solar, apresentando baixa inércia térmica.

An Assessment of Geological Carbon Sequestration Options in the Illinois Basin

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Robert Finley

2005-09-30

The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC) has investigated the options for geological carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) sequestration in the 155,400-km{sup 2} (60,000-mi{sup 2}) Illinois Basin. Within the Basin, underlying most of Illinois, western Indiana, and western Kentucky, are relatively deeper and/or thinner coal resources, numerous mature oil fields, and deep salt-water-bearing reservoirs that are potentially capable of storing CO{sub 2}. The objective of this Assessment was to determine the technical and economic feasibility of using these geological sinks for long-term storage to avoid atmospheric release of CO{sub 2} from fossil fuel combustion and thereby avoid the potential for adverse climate change. The MGSC is a consortium of the geological surveys of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky joined by six private corporations, five professional business associations, one interstate compact, two university researchers, two Illinois state agencies, and two consultants. The purpose of the Consortium is to assess carbon capture, transportation, and storage processes and their costs and viability in the three-state Illinois Basin region. The Illinois State Geological Survey serves as Lead Technical Contractor for the Consortium. The Illinois Basin region has annual emissions from stationary anthropogenic sources exceeding 276 million metric tonnes (304 million tons) of CO{sub 2} (>70 million tonnes (77 million tons) carbon equivalent), primarily from coal-fired electric generation facilities, some of which burn almost 4.5 million tonnes (5 million tons) of coal per year. Assessing the options for capture, transportation, and storage of the CO{sub 2} emissions within the region has been a 12-task, 2-year process that has assessed 3,600 million tonnes (3,968 million tons) of storage capacity in coal seams, 140 to 440 million tonnes (154 to 485 million tons) of capacity in mature oil reservoirs, 7,800 million tonnes (8,598 million tons) of capacity in saline

Presentación al dossier de Historia Urbana

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Jairo Antonio Melo Flórez

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Presentamos la sexta edición de nuestra publicación, esta vez con el tema central enfocado en la Historia Urbana, temática que, como esperábamos, tuvo gran acogida por parte de investigadores en todos los niveles de formación y de varias instituciones académicas latinoamericanas. El resultado no podía ser otro ya que cientos de investigadores de todo el mundo se dedican a esta especialidad de la historia. El tema de la Ciudad adquiere cada vez mayor importancia, si se tiene en cuenta la gran cantidad de temáticas susceptibles de ser abordadas por este enfoque disciplinar y más aún cuando los problemas de las urbes a nivel global y sobre todo a nivel latinoamericano, están tan vigentes. Este número quiere ser un aporte, un grano de arena más que se suma a la inmensa producción académica referente a la historia urbana, esperando con ello generar conocimiento que aporte en alguna medida a la solución de los fenómenos adversos que afronta los habitantes de la ciudad actual, tales como: pobreza, marginalidad, segregación, errores de planificación y dificultades de acceso a la vivienda, por nombrar sólo algunos.

Real-time continuous nitrate monitoring in Illinois in 2013

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Warner, Kelly L.; Terrio, Paul J.; Straub, Timothy D.; Roseboom, Donald; Johnson, Gary P.

2013-01-01

Many sources contribute to the nitrogen found in surface water in Illinois. Illinois is located in the most productive agricultural area in the country, and nitrogen fertilizer is commonly used to maximize corn production in this area. Additionally, septic/wastewater systems, industrial emissions, and lawn fertilizer are common sources of nitrogen in urban areas of Illinois. In agricultural areas, the use of fertilizer has increased grain production to meet the needs of a growing population, but also has resulted in increases in nitrogen concentrations in many streams and aquifers (Dubrovsky and others, 2010). The urban sources can increase nitrogen concentrations, too. The Federal limit for nitrate nitrogen in water that is safe to drink is 10 milligrams per liter (mg/L) (http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/basicinformation/nitrate.cfm, accessed on May 24, 2013). In addition to the concern with nitrate nitrogen in drinking water, nitrogen, along with phosphorus, is an aquatic concern because it feeds the intensive growth of algae that are responsible for the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The largest nitrogen flux to the waters feeding the Gulf of Mexico is from Illinois (Alexander and others, 2008). Most studies of nitrogen in surface water and groundwater include samples for nitrate nitrogen collected weekly or monthly, but nitrate concentrations can change rapidly and these discrete samples may not capture rapid changes in nitrate concentrations that can affect human and aquatic health. Continuous monitoring for nitrate could inform scientists and water-resource managers of these changes and provide information on the transport of nitrate in surface water and groundwater.

HB 1347 and Its Relationship to Foodservice Outsourcing in Illinois Public Schools

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Brashear, Gary L.

2012-01-01

This study examined foodservice outsourcing in the State of Illinois. School administrators currently outsourcing foodservice were surveyed about their perceptions of HB1347 and its components. This study looked at HB1347 in Illinois, and its effects on outsourcing in school districts. Data for this study was collected from a survey sent to 100%…

Integral Manifold in System Design with Application to Flexible Link Robot Control

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1988-06-01

environment. I am very grateful to my advisor . Professor Kokotovic. whose insight and guidance in my research work led me to the beginning of my...MANIFOLD IN SVSTEM DESIGN WITH RPLICATION TT 2Z2 FLEXIBLE LINK ROBO (U) ILLINOIS UNIV AT URBANA DECISION AND CONTROL LAB H C TSENG JUN 98

LAS OSCILACIONES CLIMÁTICAS EN LA ATMOSFERA URBANA DE LA CIUDAD DE NATAL, BRASIL ATRAVÉS DE LAS SERIES LARGAS DE TEMPERATURAS DEL AIRE

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Malco Jeiel de Oliveira Alexandre

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Este estudio tiene como objetivo el análisis de la isla de calor urbana (ICU y de la isla de frescor urbana (IFU en la ciudad de Natal (Brasil, mediante la comparación de las series largas de temperatura del aire máximas y mínimas diarias en dos estaciones meteorológicas convencionales representativas una en la área urbana y la otra en el entorno, durante el quinquenio 1995-2010. Los resultados muestran la presencia de de oscilaciones térmicas a partir del contraste entre las temperaturas del área urbana y su entorno y la caracterización de las islas de calor y frescor urbano en la ciudad de Natal.

Desenho de paisagem urbana: as cidades médias do interior central paulista

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Paula da Cruz Landim

2002-12-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho focaliza a homogeneidade da paisagem urbana das cidades de porte médio do interior do estado de São Paulo do ponto de vista de seus determinantes paisagísticos. A origem socioeconômica das cidades determina, em um primeiro momento, sua configuração, a qual, esgotado o estímulo inicial, passa a incorporar as imagens formais das grandes cidades. Estas imagens estão claramente representadas de um modo específico na paisagem urbana dessas cidades, evidenciando os reflexos formais e funcionais das paisagens dos grandes centros, e na geração de valores estéticos e de uso do espaço relacionados aos aspectos formais e visuais que se fazem presentes em suas paisagens. A legislação que define os padrões de ocupação urbana, os quais por sua vez definem a configuração física da paisagem, trabalha basicamente o espaço físico-territorial, alienando-se dos demais componentes da problemática urbana, e, desta forma, as cidades se homogeneízam. Ou seja, gera um discurso urbanístico pobre e o que se faz é generalista. A paisagem da cidade média paulista é então homogênea como conseqüência desta forma de ocupação homogênea. Como contraposição à paisagem homogênea, algumas condições ambientais e paisagísticas locais, como a presença de um rio ou de uma topografia acidentada, servem de início como determinantes para projetos urbanísticos/paisagísticos diferenciados e característicos para cada cidade, mas no momento seguinte os elementos da" moda" entram na composição da paisagem, descaracterizando o padrão diferenciado inicial.

An improved thermal-hydraulic modeling of the Jules Horowitz Reactor using the CATHARE2 system code

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Pegonen, R., E-mail: pegonen@kth.se [KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken 21, SE-10691 Stockholm (Sweden); Bourdon, S.; Gonnier, C. [CEA, DEN, DER, SRJH, CEA Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance Cedex (France); Anglart, H. [KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken 21, SE-10691 Stockholm (Sweden)

2017-01-15

Highlights: • An improved thermal-hydraulic modeling of the JHR reactor is described. • Thermal-hydraulics of the JHR is analyzed during loss of flow accident. • The heat exchanger approach gives more realistic and less conservative results. - Abstract: The newest European high performance material testing reactor, the Jules Horowitz Reactor, will support current and future nuclear reactor designs. The reactor is under construction at the CEA Cadarache research center in southern France and is expected to achieve first criticality at the end of this decade. This paper presents an improved thermal-hydraulic modeling of the reactor using solely CATHARE2 system code. Up to now, the CATHARE2 code was simulating the full reactor with a simplified approach for the core and the boundary conditions were transferred into the three-dimensional FLICA4 core simulation. A new more realistic methodology is utilized to analyze the thermal-hydraulic simulation of the reactor during a loss of flow accident.

Evaluating Retirement Income Security for Illinois Public School Teachers. Public Pension Project Report

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Johnson, Richard W.; Southgate, Benjamin G.

2014-01-01

The financial problems afflicting the Illinois teacher pension plan have grabbed headlines. An equally important problem, though underappreciated, is that relatively few teachers benefit much from the plan. This report evaluates the pension benefits provided to Illinois public school teachers. The researchers project annual and lifetime pension…

Low-Cost Radon Reduction Pilot Study

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Rose, William B. [Partnership for Advanced Residential Retrofit, Champaign, IL (United States); Francisco, Paul W. [Partnership for Advanced Residential Retrofit, Champaign, IL (United States); Merrin, Zachary [Partnership for Advanced Residential Retrofit, Champaign, IL (United States)

2015-09-01

The aim of the research was to conduct a primary scoping study on the impact of air sealing between the foundation and the living space on radon transport reduction across the foundation-living space floor assembly. Fifteen homes in the Champaign, Illinois area participated in the study. These homes were instrumented for hourly continuous radon measurements and simultaneous temperature and humidity the foundation was improved. However, this improved isolation did not lead to significant reductions in radon concentration in the living space. Other factors such as outdoor temperature were shown to have an impact on radon concentration.

Estudio de los Efectos de la Morfología Urbana en la Actividad Física

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Olta Braçe

2016-07-01

Full Text Available Un gran número de estudios, realizados principalmente en países anglosajones y del norte de Europa, han evaluado las posibles correlaciones existentes entre morfología urbana y la actividad física ligada a los desplazamientos (caminar y bicicleta. Los resultados de dichos estudios han puesto de manifiesto como las áreas urbanas de baja densidad, con usos de suelo segregados, escasez de servicios en proximidad, escasez de transporte público y espacios públicos de baja calidad reducen las probabilidades de desplazamientos relacionados con la actividad física (caminar y bicicleta y aumentan la dependencia del vehículo privado. En este artículo se comprueba cómo estos resultados son coherentes con los obtenidos en un estudio realizado en un área de la Europa mediterránea concretamente en el municipio de Mairena del Aljarafe. Con ello es posible afirmar que en nuestro entorno existe también relación entre la morfología urbana, la actividad física y el uso de modos de transporte relacionados con la actividad física (caminar y bicicleta. Estos resultados deberían servir para que los planificadores y gestores territoriales y urbanísticos tomasen medidas encaminadas a evitar el aumento de áreas urbanas dispersas y el fomento de núcleos de centralidad. Estas medidas ayudarían a reducir la dependencia del vehículo privado y fomentarían los desplazamientos no motorizados, permitiendo mantener los tres pilares del desarrollo sostenible (ambiental, económico y social.

Indicadores de tercera generación para cuantificar la sustentabilidad urbana: ¿Avances o estancamiento?

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Silvia León A

2013-09-01

Full Text Available Las intrincadas relaciones que caracterizan el metabolismo de las zonas urbanas precisan ser visualizadas mediante fórmulas simplificadas, capaces de respaldar la toma de decisiones en favor de la sustentabilidad urbana. En el marco teórico ordenador de la Coevolución (Norgaard, 1984, y el cálculo del Análisis de Flujo de Materiales (AFM y de la Huella Ecológica Local (HEL para la Región Metropolitana de Santiago (Chile y la ciudad-región de Bogotá (Colombia, se muestra dicha dupla (AFM y HEL como indicadores de tercera generación - vinculantes, locales, sinérgicos y transversales- que incorporan simultáneamente diversas variables con amplias categorías y dimensiones, además de un alto grado de aporte (el 80% a la cuantificación de la sustentabilidad urbana. El posicionamiento de lo local, por medio de la huella ecológica local, también prevalece en el mejoramiento de los indicadores relativos a la sustentabilidad de una urbe específica, por encima de la estandarización de las metodologías basadas en comparaciones o rankings internacionales.

Computer Activities in Illinois Secondary Schools.

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Dennis, J. Richard; And Others

A brief, non-technical questionnaire was sent to 875 secondary school administrators (primarily principals) in the State of Illinois. Information was collected in four areas: (1) general school characteristics, (2) availability and use of computers, (3) perceived need for and qualifications of teachers of computer science, and (4) perceived need…

Hablando de ensanches y cicatrices urbanas

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Waldo Martínez Riquelme

2001-12-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo es de carácter analítico descriptivo y se basa en realidades urbanas que he podido apreciar a lo largo de veinticinco años de trabajo ligado al desarrollo urbano. En este caso en particular se trata de reflexiones en torno a los resultados de un fenómeno, como los ensanches de calles, que saltan a la vista y sobre los cuales vale la pena hacerse algunos cuestionamientos, de manera tal de motivar a la revisión de ciertas políticas o formas de enfrentar el problema, tanto por parte de la autoridad como de los ciudadanos todos.

Hacia una planificación urbana sistémica. Una experiencia universitaria de aprendizaje y aplicación de nuevos instrumentos técnicos en la planificación urbana tradicional Hacia una planificación urbana sistémica. Una experiencia universitaria de aprendizaje y aplicación de nuevos instrumentos técnicos en la planificación urbana tradicional

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Dora Guillén Tamayo de Arce

2008-12-01

Full Text Available In view that the relations of ecologic effects overflow the limits of the traditional academic training on planning, the methodological models used are not longer adequate to solve problems; then there is a need to significant changes in the professional training of future architects and planners.Systemic urban planning is called to play a more important role not only in city management but in its hinterland connection. Universities play an important role in providing an adequate training to this end. Thus, at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, National University of San Agustin, Arequipa, Perú, there is the course Urban Planning 1, where the students are being introduced to the systemic thought within the urban planning.The main objectives are to provide a conceptual basis towards a systemic planning and a sustainable urban design; to introduce the students in urban planning within a general concept of «Preventive Urban-environmental Planning», that is, urban planning with vision to the long run, based on landscaping plans, able to prevent and reduce the environmental impacts, that were able to articulate all results in a land use plan and have enough flexibility to undergo a permanent spatial analysis and allow planning oriented to sustainable development projects.Debido a que las relaciones de los efectos de carácter ecológico sobrepasan los límites de las especialidades tradicionales de la planificación, los modelos metodológicos actuales ya no son adecuados para solucionar problemas, requiriéndose cambios sustanciales en la formación profesional del futuro arquitecto y planificador.La planificación urbana sistémica tomará un papel cada vez más activo no solo en el ordenamiento de las ciudades sino sobre todo en la articulación adecuada de estas a su entorno. Las universidades juegan un rol importante en la capacitación adecuada para tal fin. En la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad Nacional de San

Jules Verne’s Science fiction and the Physics teaching: an analysis of “Twenty Thousand Leagues Underwater”

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Júlio César David Ferreira

2013-04-01

Full Text Available This article presents the results of a research on the literary work of Jules Verne in the context of the teaching of scientific concepts. In the book "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", taking Bakhtin as reference for analysis, we find a systematic and deliberate teaching concepts by Verne. We note a similarity between the situations described by the author and the statements of physical phenomena typical of high school textbooks, with some differences: the richness and complexity of the Verne's narrative, with plots that make highly contextualized the scientific concepts and that expand the possibilities for the reader's understanding. Accordingly, the approach of different genres allows the emergence of interdiscourses that reading can produce, or, in the context of Physics Education, we find in the Verne's literature various points of support for the understanding of scientific knowledge in this school discourse.

Modelo de avaliação do nível de sustentabilidade urbana: proposta para as cidades brasileiras

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Maria de Fátima Martins

2015-09-01

Full Text Available Os indicadores de sustentabilidade permitem captar características do ambiente urbano e revelar a (in sustentabilidade urbana, gerando informações que dão suporte às políticas públicas e ao processo de desenvolvimento. A partir dessa constatação, o objetivo do artigo é propor um modelo para análise da sustentabilidade urbana, construído a partir das matrizes de Acselrad (2009. Tal proposta é dividida em: uma abordagem conceitual, marco ordenador para avaliação da sustentabilidade do espaço urbano, no sentido de unificar o entendimento sobre a sustentabilidade pelos diversos públicos interessados; e uma abordagem operacional, que define as matrizes, as dimensões e os temas para análise da sustentabilidade, com seus respectivos critérios de análises, indicadores e parâmetros de operacionalização, que permitem o monitoramento da sustentabilidade das cidades, servindo como instrumento para orientação das políticas públicas urbanas. Em termos metodológicos, trata-se de um ensaio teórico baseado na literatura sobre sustentabilidade urbana, especialmente acerca das matrizes discursivas. A importância do trabalho refere-se ao fato de o modelo permitir a análise da sustentabilidade urbana, dadas as especificidades da problemática das cidades brasileiras. Em termos de contribuição, é importante por gerar subsídios para análises mais consistentes desses problemas e, por meio de indicadores urbanos e de critérios de análises, possibilitar uma orientação para o processo de desenvolvimento urbano e de monitoramento da sustentabilidade das cidades, oferecendo suporte às políticas públicas.

Entre ritmo e poesia: rap e literatura oral urbana

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Marcus Rogerio Salgado

2015-11-01

Full Text Available O objetivo do presente artigo é um estudo do rap enquanto manifestação de literatura oral urbana e forma de oralidade tecnológica. Para tanto, o artigo passará em revista as relações entre literatura e palavra falada/cantada, assim como as possibilidades de interface estética entre a literatura e a música que estão em questão quando tratamos do rap.

Comprehensive School Reform and Standardized Test Scores in Illinois Elementary and Middle Schools

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McEnroe, James D.

2010-01-01

The study examined the effects of the federally funded Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) program on student performance on mandated standardized tests. The study focused on the mathematics and reading scores of Illinois public elementary and middle and junior high school students. The federal CSR program provided Illinois schools with an annual…

77 FR 22497 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Small Container...

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2012-04-16

... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Small Container Exemption From VOC Coating Rules... Illinois Administrative Code (Ill. Adm. Code) by adding a ``small container exemption'' for pleasure craft... ``small container exemption'' for pleasure craft surface coating operations. EPA previously approved...

Geografías urbanas: representación e identidad en la literatura africana en español

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M’bare N’gom

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo estudia las representaciones de las geografías urbanas y sus problemáticas en la literatura africana de expresión castellana. Para tal efecto propone la representación de las realidades urbanas como espacios de experiencias de vida heterogéneas, ya sean culturales, políticas o de renegociación de identidad. Igualmente examina cómo esa geografía urbana se configura como espacio que se presta a la articulación de una multitud de discursos y reinterpretaciones de la realidad urbana y urbanística, que obligan en este caso al sujeto migrante africano a embarcarse en un proceso de reterritorialización desde la transterritorialidad del desplazamiento, como estrategia de supervivencia en ese espacio ajeno y dislocado que es la ciudad.This study explores the representations of urban geography and its problematic in African literature in Spanish. It intends to examinate the representation of urban realities as spaces of heterogeneous experiences, be they cultural, political, or renegociation of identity. Along those lines, this study will discuss how urban geography becomes a space that allows a multitude of negociations, as well as the articulation of a variety of discourses and reinterpretations of urban and urbanistic reality that oblige the African migrant subject, in this case, to engage in a process of reterritorialization from the transterritoriality of displacement, as a strategy for survival in an alien and dislocated space such as the City.

Franchise Agreements and Clean Energy: Issues in Illinois

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This project evaluates the impact on energy efficiency of municipal franchise agreements that supply electricity or gas service without a direct charge (unbilled energy) for certain municipal government facilities in Illinois.)

La "Carta a los maestros" de Jules Ferry (1883 y el laicismo escolar de la IIIª República francesa

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Juan Manuel FERNÁNDEZ SORIA

2010-03-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN: Partiendo del valor histórico —de lo que es una muestra su influencia en la política educativa de la Segunda República española— y de la proyección de su legado en nuestros días de la «Carta a los Maestros» (1883 del ministro francés de Instrucción Pública, Jules Ferry, este trabajo se acerca a la vida de su autor y a su política educativa para analizar luego con mayor profundidad los aspectos más sobresalientes del documento —que transcribimos en francés y castellano—, especialmente el laicismo escolar, como medio de establecer una escuela nacional y de fundación de la República, la defensa de la moral común y positiva, los modos y procedimientos —tanto directos como indirectos— de su enseñanza, así como el papel del maestro y del manual en la educación moral y cívica del futuro ciudadano. ABSTRACT: Starting with the historic value —of which it is an example its influence in the educational policy of the Second Republic— and with the influence that remains in our days, of the legate of the «Elementary Schoolteacher’s Letter», written by Jules Ferry, French minister of the Public Instruction, this piece of work approaches to its author’s life and to its educational policy in order to analyse later in greater detail the most relevant aspects of the document —which we reproduce in Spanish and French— specially the scholastic laicism as a way to establish a national school, and the foundation of the Republic, the defence of common and positive morality, the ways and procedures, both direct and indirect, of its teaching, and also the role of schoolteachers and the guide in the moral and civic education of the future citizens.

Potential miscanthus' adoption in Illinois: Information needs and preferred information channels

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Villamil, Maria B. [Department of Human and Community Development, Laboratory for Community and Economic Development, 222 Bevier Hall, 905 South Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 (United States); Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, AW-101 Turner Hall, 1102 South Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 (United States); Silvis, Anne Heinze [Department of Human and Community Development, Laboratory for Community and Economic Development, 222 Bevier Hall, 905 South Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 (United States); Bollero, German A. [Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, AW-101 Turner Hall, 1102 South Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 (United States)

2008-12-15

This study examined farmers' information needs and concerns and preferred information channels regarding the introduction of miscanthus in their current production systems in the state of Illinois, USA. Surveys and focus groups targeted farming populations from Northern, Central, and Southern regions of the state to evidence regional differences. A secondary objective was to identify potential adopters of miscanthus and to asses the level of awareness regarding miscanthus and the associated possibility of receiving carbon credits. Factor analysis, multivariate ANOVA, and categorical data analysis were the selected statistical tools. Only two out of 313 respondents knew about the existence of the crop before completing the survey. Thirty percent of the respondents were identified as potential adopters of miscanthus with the highest proportion of potential adopters found among farmers in the Northern Illinois region. There are clear differences among the information needs of farmers in each region in Illinois as well as in the preferred channels. Information campaigns aimed to increase awareness and education regarding the use of miscanthus as an energy crop in Illinois, should specifically address these regional information needs and channel them through preferred media. (author)

Illinois Occupational Skill Standards: Welding Cluster.

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Illinois Occupational Skill Standards and Credentialing Council, Carbondale.

These Illinois skill standards for the welding cluster are intended to serve as a guide to workforce preparation program providers as they define content for their programs and to employers as they establish the skills and standards necessary for job acquisition. They could also serve as a mechanism for communication among education, business,…

Substitutes for School Nurses in Illinois

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Vollinger, Linda Jeno; Bergren, Martha Dewey; Belmonte-Mann, Frances

2011-01-01

The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore utilization of nurse substitutes in the school setting in Illinois. The literature described personnel who staff the school health office in the absence of the school nurse and the barriers to obtaining nurse substitutes. There were no empirical studies conducted on school nurse substitutes in…

78 FR 23220 - Foreign-Trade Zone 22-Chicago, Illinois, Authorization of Production Activity, Abbott...

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2013-04-18

... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [B-91-2012] Foreign-Trade Zone 22--Chicago, Illinois, Authorization of Production Activity, Abbott Laboratories, Inc., AbbVie, Inc. (Pharmaceutical Production), North Chicago, Illinois, Area On December 14, 2012, Abbott Laboratories, Inc., and AbbVie, Inc...

ESTIMA, a tool for EST management in a multi-project environment.

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Kumar, Charu G; LeDuc, Richard; Gong, George; Roinishivili, Levan; Lewin, Harris A; Liu, Lei

2004-11-04

://titan.biotec.uiuc.edu/ESTIMA/. The entity-relationship (E-R) diagrams and the programs used to generate the Oracle database tables are also available. We have also provided detailed installation instructions and a tutorial at the same website. Presently the chromatograms, EST databases and their annotations have been made available for cattle and honeybee brain EST projects. Non-academic users need to contact the W.M. Keck Center for Functional and Comparative Genomics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, for licensing information.

Agricultura urbana sostenibilidad y medios de vida experiencias en Ciudad Bolívar, Altos de Cazucá y Ciudadela Sucre

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Cantor Marín, Kelly Marcela

2009-01-01

Motivada por vivencias en el sur de Bogotá y Soacha, en un contexto de precariedad y marginalidad, se investiga la agricultura urbana que realiza la población desplazada y vulnerable en estas zonas, analizando la incidencia de la agricultura urbana en la vida de estas personas y la sostenibilidad ambiental, económica, institucional y social de esta práctica en la ciudad.

Misplaying the Angles: A Closer Look at the Illinois Tuition Tax Credit Law.

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Pathak, Arohi; Wessely, Mike; Mincberg, Elliot

In 1999, Illinois enacted its tuition tax credit law, which offers tax credits to taxpayers whose own children are attending school, as opposed to tax credits to businesses and/or individuals who contribute to tuition scholarship programs. Recent data suggest that the Illinois tax credit program is benefiting middle- and upper-class families more…

75 FR 68607 - CenterPoint Energy-Illinois Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Baseline Filing

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2010-11-08

... DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. PR10-80-001] CenterPoint Energy--Illinois Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Baseline Filing November 1, 2010. Take notice that on October 28, 2010, CenterPoint Energy--Illinois Gas Transmission Company submitted a revised...

A QUESTÃO DA MOBILIDADE URBANA NAS METRÓPOLES BRASILEIRAS

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Valéria Pero

2015-12-01

Full Text Available RESUMO O tempo de deslocamento de casa ao trabalho tem se elevado substancialmente nas regiões metropolitanas brasileiras durante a última década. Esse fenômeno tem implicações fortes sobre o bem-estar dos indivíduos, porém as consequências desse problema não se distribuem uniformemente entre a população. O presente trabalho visa contribuir para o debate sobre a questão da mobilidade urbana nas metrópoles brasileiras analisando a evolução do tempo de deslocamento entre 1992 e 2013 e suas diferenças de acordo com características do trabalhador, como sexo, cor e renda per capita , e do posto de trabalho. Verifica-se que o aumento do tempo médio de deslocamento ocorreu a partir de 2003, caracterizando uma questão particularmente importante para as metrópoles brasileiras no terceiro milênio. Os trabalhadores com maiores tempos médios de deslocamento residem nas regiões metropolitanas do Rio de Janeiro e de São Paulo. Entretanto, as maiores taxas de crescimento ocorreram nas metrópoles do Pará, Salvador e Recife, sugerindo a necessidade de melhor direcionamento e planejamento de políticas públicas na mobilidade urbana. Considerando as diferenças socioeconômicas, destaca-se que os mais pobres e os mais ricos (extremos da distribuição de renda tendem a apresentar tempos de deslocamento menores do que os trabalhadores de famílias de renda média. Esse padrão se mantém ao longo do tempo, com aumento do tempo médio de deslocamento entre os mais pobres, mostrando uma face da desigualdade. Porém, o maior aumento ocorreu entre os mais ricos, colocando a questão da mobilidade urbana para além dos problemas de exclusão social.

How information resources are used by state agencies in risk assessment applications - Illinois

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Olson, C.S.

1990-12-31

The Environmental Protection Agency of the State of Illinois (Illinois EPA) has programs in water, air, and land pollution and water supplies paralleling those of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The organization is part of a tripartite arrangement in which the Pollution Control Board is the judicial arm, the Department of Energy and Natural Resources is the research arm, and the Illinois EPA is the enforcement arm. Other state agencies are also concerned with various aspects of the environment and may do risk assessments for chemicals. Although there are various risk assessment activities, both formal and informal, in our agency and in others, this paper will discuss only recent initiatives in water quality criteria.

CTR plasma engineering studies. Progress report, October 1, 1976--September 30, 1977

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Miley, G.H.

1977-01-01

Plasma engineering studies at the Fusion Studies Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana IL are described that deal with: fusion-product transport in plasmas and associated effects in tokamaks, neutral-beam injection and plasma build-up in mirrors, and studies of aspects of alternate confinement concepts including field-reversed mirrors, field-reversed pinches, and twin-beam mirrors

77 FR 65896 - Award of a Single-Source Replacement Grant to SOS Children's Villages Illinois in Chicago, IL

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2012-10-31

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Rendimento escolar de alunos da área rural em escola urbana School performance of rural area students in urban school

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Stella Maris Cortez Bacha

2006-12-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: analisar e comparar as notas dos boletins de alunos residentes na área rural e na área urbana, estando ambos estudando nas mesmas escolas urbanas. MÉTODOS: analisaram-se as notas do primeiro semestre de 2005 de 641 alunos do Ensino Fundamental das escolas públicas urbanas de Terenos, Mato Grosso do Sul (MS, sendo 81,1% residentes na área urbana e 18,9% na rural. Os alunos foram comparados segundo a sua performance nas disciplinas de Língua Portuguesa, Matemática, Ciências, Educação Física, Geografia, História e Educação Artística, considerando-se o local de residência (urbana e rural, turno de estudo (diurno ou noturno, tipo de escola (municipal ou estadual e gênero. RESULTADOS: não foram encontradas diferenças significativas nas performances dos alunos da primeira a quarta séries, em nenhuma disciplina. Da quinta a oitava séries encontraram-se performances ligeiramente melhores nos alunos que residem na área urbana, medido por meio do Teste t-Student. Contudo, ao se analisar conjuntamente todas as variáveis citadas acima, nenhuma delas foi preponderante na explicação da performance do aluno nas diversas disciplinas analisadas pela Regressão Linear Múltipla. CONCLUSÃO: no estudo realizado não foram encontradas diferenças significativas no rendimento escolar entre alunos da escola urbana e da rural, estando ambos estudando nas mesmas escolas urbanas.PURPOSE: to analyze and compare grades in bulletins of students who lived in rural area and in urban area, with both kinds studying in the same urban schools. METHODS: we analyzed the grades in the first semester of 2005 of 641 student in the basic education of the urban public schools of Terenos / MS, being 81.1% residents in urban area and 18.9% in rural area. The students were compared according to their performances in the discipline of Portuguese, Mathematics, Sciences, Physical Education, Geography, History and Artistic Education, considering the place of

Participation in a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Drive and "Before" and "After" Public Knowledge and Disposal Practices: Champaign County.

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Liebert, Roland J.

The extent to which households use, store, and dispose of hazardous materials has become a matter of increasing concern but has been rarely assessed. This report provides an assessment of the first household hazardous materials publicity campaign and collection event held in Illinois. The report describes survey results concerning the state of…

75 FR 55973 - Safety Zone; Illinois River, Mile 000.5 to 001.5

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2010-09-15

...-AA00 Safety Zone; Illinois River, Mile 000.5 to 001.5 AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. ACTION: Temporary final rule. SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is establishing a temporary safety zone for all waters of the Illinois River, Mile 000.5 to 001.5, extending the entire width of the river. This safety zone is needed to...

Elementos de la identidad social urbana del casco histórico de Maracaibo, desde la perspectiva de las entidades de gestión

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Raymundo Alberto Portillo Ríos

2014-01-01

Full Text Available La identidad social urbana hace alusión a aquellos elementos culturales, geográficos y sociales que posibilitan que una región se diferencie de otra, es memoria colectiva, labor compartida por toda la sociedad. El presente estudio busca distinguir los elementos que conforman la identidad social urbana del casco histórico de Maracaibo, desde la perspectiva de las entidades de gestión; la importancia de esta investigación descriptiva y aplicada, radica en los aportes que hace el estudio de la identidad al desarrollo de la colectividad, ya que reconociéndola, las ciudades potencian sus rasgos más característicos. Por los resultados obtenidos la identidad social urbana del casco histórico de Maracaibo, se distingue por el elemento religioso, histórico y patrimonial; ya que estos aspectos refuerzan la vivencia y la experiencia de la memoria urbana, compartida y transmitida de generación en generación.

Development of a potent invigorator of immune responses endowed with both preventive and therapeutic properties

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Talwar GP

2017-05-01

Full Text Available Gursaran P Talwar,1 Jagdish C Gupta,1 Abu S Mustafa,2 Hemanta K Kar,3 Kiran Katoch,4 Shreemanta K Parida,5 Prabhakara P Reddi,6 Niyaz Ahmed,7 Vikram Saini,8 Somesh Gupta9 1Talwar Research Foundation, New Delhi, India; 2Department of Microbiology, Kuwait University, Kuwait; 3Department of Dermatology, Paras Hospital, Gurgaon, 4National JALMA Institute of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India; 5German Centre of Infection, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany; 6Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, IL, USA; 7Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India; 8Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA; 9Department of Dermatology and Venereology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India Abstract: This article reviews briefly the making of an immunoprophylactic-cum-immunotherapeutic vaccine against leprosy. The vaccine is based on cultivable, heat-killed atypical mycobacteria, whose gene sequence is now known. It has been named Mycobacterium indicus pranii. It has received the approval of the Drug Controller General of India and the US Food and Drug Administration. Besides leprosy, M. indicus pranii has found utility in the treatment of category II (“difficult to treat” tuberculosis. It also heals ugly anogenital warts. It has preventive and therapeutic action against SP2/O myelomas. It is proving to be a potent adjuvant for enhancing antibody titers of a recombinant vaccine against human chorionic gonadotropin, with the potential of preventing pregnancy without derangement of ovulation and menstrual regularity in sexually active women. Keywords: leprosy, tuberculosis, anogenital warts, myeloma, adjuvant

Frederick Yi-Tung Cho (1939-2011) : His PhD days in Biophysics, the Photosynthesis Lab, and his patents in engineering physics.

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Govindjee; Munday, John C; Papageorgiou, George C

2017-06-01

We present here a Tribute to Frederick Yi-Tung Cho (1939-2011), an innovative and ingenious biophysicist and an entrepreneur. He was one of the 4 earliest PhD students [see: Cederstrand (1965)-Carl Nelson Cederstrand; coadvisor: Eugene Rabinowitch; Papageorgiou (1968)-George C. Papageorgiou (coauthor of this paper); and Munday (1968)-John C. Munday Jr. (also a coauthor of this paper)] of one of us (Govindjee) in Biophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) during the late 1960s (1963-1968). Fred was best known, in the photosynthesis circle for his pioneering work on low temperature (down to liquid helium temperature, 4 K) absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy of photosynthetic systems; he showed temperature independence of excitation energy transfer from (i) chlorophyll (Chl) b to Chl a and (ii) from Chl a 670 to Chl a 678; and temperature dependence of energy transfer from the phycobilins to Chl a and from Chl a 678 to its suggested trap. After doing research in biophysics of photosynthesis, Fred shifted to do research in solid-state physics/engineering in the Government Electronics Division (Group) of the Motorola Company, Scottsdale, Arizona, from where he published research papers in that area and had several patents granted. We focus mainly on his days at the UIUC in context of the laboratory in which he worked. We also list some of his papers and most of his patents in engineering physics. His friends and colleagues have correctly described him as an innovator and an ingenious scientist of the highest order. On the personal side, he was a very easy-going and amiable individual.

Executive function processes predict mobility outcomes in older adults.

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Gothe, Neha P; Fanning, Jason; Awick, Elizabeth; Chung, David; Wójcicki, Thomas R; Olson, Erin A; Mullen, Sean P; Voss, Michelle; Erickson, Kirk I; Kramer, Arthur F; McAuley, Edward

2014-02-01

To examine the relationship between performance on executive function measures and subsequent mobility outcomes in community-dwelling older adults. Randomized controlled clinical trial. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Community-dwelling older adults (N = 179; mean age 66.4). A 12-month exercise trial with two arms: an aerobic exercise group and a stretching and strengthening group. Established cognitive tests of executive function (flanker task, task switching, and a dual-task paradigm) and the Wisconsin card sort test. Mobility was assessed using the timed 8-foot up and go test and times to climb up and down a flight of stairs. Participants completed the cognitive tests at baseline and the mobility measures at baseline and after 12 months of the intervention. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to determine whether baseline executive function predicted postintervention functional performance after controlling for age, sex, education, cardiorespiratory fitness, and baseline mobility levels. Selective baseline executive function measurements, particularly performance on the flanker task (β = 0.15-0.17) and the Wisconsin card sort test (β = 0.11-0.16) consistently predicted mobility outcomes at 12 months. The estimates were in the expected direction, such that better baseline performance on the executive function measures predicted better performance on the timed mobility tests independent of intervention. Executive functions of inhibitory control, mental set shifting, and attentional flexibility were predictive of functional mobility. Given the literature associating mobility limitations with disability, morbidity, and mortality, these results are important for understanding the antecedents to poor mobility function that well-designed interventions to improve cognitive performance can attenuate. © 2014, Copyright the Authors Journal compilation © 2014, The American Geriatrics Society.

Exercise Mode Moderates the Relationship Between Mobility and Basal Ganglia Volume in Healthy Older Adults.

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Nagamatsu, Lindsay S; Weinstein, Andrea M; Erickson, Kirk I; Fanning, Jason; Awick, Elizabeth A; Kramer, Arthur F; McAuley, Edward

2016-01-01

To examine whether 12 months of aerobic training (AT) moderated the relationship between change in mobility and change in basal ganglia volume than balance and toning (BAT) exercises in older adults. Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Community-dwelling older adults (N=101; mean age 66.4). Twelve-month exercise trial with two groups: AT and BAT. Mobility was assessed using the Timed Up and Go test. Basal ganglia (putamen, caudate nucleus, pallidum) was segmented from T1-weighted magnetic resonance images using the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Software Library Integrated Registration and Segmentation Tool. Measurements were obtained at baseline and trial completion. Hierarchical multiple regression was conducted to examine whether exercise mode moderates the relationship between change in mobility and change in basal ganglia volume over 12 months. Age, sex, and education were included as covariates. Exercise significantly moderated the relationship between change in mobility and change in left putamen volume. Specifically, for the AT group, volume of the left putamen did not change, regardless of change in mobility. Similarly, in the BAT group, those who improved their mobility most over 12 months had no change in left putamen volume, although left putamen volume of those who declined in mobility levels decreased significantly. The primary finding that older adults who engaged in 12 months of BAT training and improved mobility exhibited maintenance of brain volume in an important region responsible for motor control provides compelling evidence that such exercises can contribute to the promotion of functional independence and healthy aging. © 2016, Copyright the Authors Journal compilation © 2016, The American Geriatrics Society.

Recent advancements in the hormonal stimulation of ovulation in swine

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Knox RV

2015-10-01

Full Text Available Robert V Knox Department of Animal Sciences, 360 Animal Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, IL, USA Abstract: Induction of ovulation for controlled breeding is available for use around the world, and conditions for practical application appear promising. Many of the hormones available, such as human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH and its analogs, as well as porcine luteinizing hormone (pLH, have been shown to be effective for advancing or synchronizing ovulation in gilts and weaned sows. Each of the hormones has unique attributes with respect to the physiology of its actions, how it is administered, its efficacy, and approval for use. The timing for induction of ovulation during the follicle phase is critical as follicle maturity changes over time, and the success of the response is determined by the stage of follicle development. Female fertility is also a primary factor affecting the success of ovulation induction and fixed time insemination protocols. Approximately 80%–90% of female pigs will develop mature follicles following weaning in sows and synchronization of estrus in gilts. However, those gilts and sows with follicles that are less developed and mature, or those that develop with abnormalities, will not respond to an ovulatory surge of LH. To address this problem, some protocols induce follicle development in all females, which can improve the overall reliability of the ovulation response. Control of ovulation is practical for use with fixed time artificial insemination and should prove highly advantageous for low-dose and single-service artificial insemination and for use with frozen-thawed and sex-sorted sperm. Keywords: artificial insemination, follicle, hormone, ovulation, swine

La città sotterranea e il suo ruolo nella mobilità urbana

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Giuseppe Mazzeo

2008-12-01

Full Text Available La città sotterranea è un elemento fondamentale nella struttura urbana. Soprattutto nelle grandi città essa assume connotazioni rilevanti nella pianificazione urbana in considerazione del fatto che rappresenta una risorsa e il suo impiego può incidere significativamente sull’efficienza del sistema urbano. Alcune città, a causa soprattutto della rigidità del clima, hanno progettato città sotterranee di grande complessità funzionale; esempi significativi sono Montreal, Toronto e altre città del Nord America. In Europa occidentale le realizzazioni associabili al concetto di città sotterranea sono più limitate e sono relative soprattutto alla realizzazione di infrastrutture per la mobilità urbana, come le reti metropolitane, i passanti ferroviari, i tunnel stradali e i parcheggi sotterranei. La funzione primaria di questi spazi è la riduzione e lo spostamento dalla superficie di quote di traffico e la trasformazione di ampie parti della città in aree verdi o in aree a maggiore qualità ambientale. In ogni modo è possibile sostenere che l’uso degli spazi sotterranei è ormai entrato a far parte della vita delle città moderne. L’articolo analizza alcuni dei fattori principali nella costruzione di questi spazi urbani; i costi e i benefici dell’uso di spazi sotterranei sono messi in relazione con gli aspetti psicologici e con la costruzione di modelli per la previsione dei percorsi degli utenti. La seconda parte dell’articolo mostra alcuni casi studio evidenziando le diverse necessità che hanno spinto e hanno guidato verso la scelta degli spazi sotterranei; una analisi più dettagliata è svolta sul caso di Montreal, che può essere considerato archetipo della citta sotterranea.

Dinámicas de ocupación urbana del Anillo Verde metropolitano, desde sus orígenes en el Plan General del Área Metropolitana de Madrid de 1963 hasta el Plan General de Ordenación Urbana de 1997

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Jiménez Garcinuño, Lourdes

2015-01-01

El Anillo Verde metropolitano, definido por el Plan General de Ordenación Urbana del Área Metropolitana de Madrid en 1963 siguiendo los modelos planteados por la cultura urbanística internacional, como armadura de la estructura urbana del AMM, espacio protagonista dentro del sistema de espacios libres, lugar de uso público destinado al recreo y contacto con la naturaleza de la población madrileña, se convierte en realidad en una reserva de suelo que va entrando en juego motivado por las alian...

Taxation of forest and associated land in Illinois.

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David C. Baumgartner; Ronald I. Beazley

1979-01-01

Analyzes the operation and impact of the property tax on forest and associated land in Illinois and evaluates the potential of adjustments in the tax as an incentive to better management of forest and associated land.

77 FR 31727 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Small Container...

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... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0073; FRL 9677-3] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Small Container Exemption From VOC Coating Rules...), direct final rule approving a revision to the Illinois SIP that added a ``small container exemption'' for...

Symposium on Using Mechanics to Discover New Materials. Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (45th) held in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois on 12-15 October 2008

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2008-12-21

University Antonio DeSimone, SISSA, Italy Background The recent years have seen numerous examples where mechanics, in conjunction with systematic...4. Raffaella Rizzoni, University of Ferrara 5. Liping Liu, University of Houston 6. L. Ben Freund, Brown University 7. William S. Klug... Ferrara Mattia Merlin Department of Engineering, University of Ferrara We investigate, both from an experimental and a theoretical point ofview

Further evaluation of wetland emission estimates from the JULES land surface model using SCIAMACHY and GOSAT atmospheric column methane measurements

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Hayman, Garry; Comyn-Platt, Edward; McNorton, Joey; Chipperfield, Martyn; Gedney, Nicola

2016-04-01

The atmospheric concentration of methane began rising again in 2007 after a period of near-zero growth [1,2], with the largest increases observed over polar northern latitudes and the Southern Hemisphere in 2007 and in the tropics since then. The observed inter-annual variability in atmospheric methane concentrations and the associated changes in growth rates have variously been attributed to changes in different methane sources and sinks [2,3]. Wetlands are generally accepted as being the largest, but least well quantified, single natural source of CH4, with global emission estimates ranging from 142-284 Tg yr-1 [3]. The modelling of wetlands and their associated emissions of CH4 has become the subject of much current interest [4]. We have previously used the HadGEM2 chemistry-climate model to evaluate the wetland emission estimates derived using the UK community land surface model (JULES, the Joint UK Land Earth Simulator) against atmospheric observations of methane, including SCIAMACHY total methane columns [5] up to 2007. We have undertaken a series of new HadGEM2 runs using new JULES emission estimates extended in time to the end of 2012, thereby allowing comparison with both SCIAMACHY and GOSAT atmospheric column methane measurements. We will describe the results of these runs and the implications for methane wetland emissions. References [1] Rigby, M., et al.: Renewed growth of atmospheric methane. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L22805, 2008; [2] Nisbet, E.G., et al.: Methane on the Rise-Again, Science 343, 493, 2014; [3] Kirschke, S., et al.,: Three decades of global methane sources and sinks, Nature Geosciences, 6, 813-823, 2013; [4] Melton, J. R., et al.: Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: conclusions from a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP), Biogeosciences, 10, 753-788, 2013; [5] Hayman, G.D., et al.: Comparison of the HadGEM2 climate-chemistry model against in situ and SCIAMACHY atmospheric methane data, Atmos. Chem

The 'Reacteur Jules Horowitz': a new experimental reactor project

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Frachet, S.; Ballagny, A.

1999-01-01

The Jules Horowitz Reactor (RJH) is a new research reactor project dedicated to materials and nuclear fuel testing, the location of which is foreseen at the CEA-CADARACHE site, and the start-up in 2006. The launching of this project originated from a double finding: The development of nuclear power plants aimed at satisfying the energy needs of the next century, cannot be envisaged without experimental reactors which are unrivaled for the validation of new concepts of nuclear fuels, materials, and components as well as for their qualification under irradiation. The existing experimental reactors are 30 to 40 years old and it is advisable to examine henceforth the necessity for and the nature of a new reactor to take over and replace, at the beginning of next century, the reactors shut-down in the mean time or at the very end of their lives. Within this framework, the CEA has undertaken, in the last years, a study on the mid and long term irradiation needs, to determine the main features and performances of this new reactor. The concept of the reactor will have to fulfill the thermal neutron irradiation requirements as well as the fast neutron experimental needs, with a great potential versatility for any new irradiation programs. The reactor project selected among several different concepts, is finally a light water pool concept, with 100 MW thermal power. It could reach neutronic fluxes twice those of present French reactors, and allows for many irradiations in and around the core, under high neutron fluxes. The reactor will satisfy the highest level of safety in full accordance with international safety recommendations and the French safety approach for this kind of nuclear facility, thus giving an added safety margin keeping in mind the versatility of research reactors. The feasibility studies have been focused on the following most important items: neutronic and thermalhydraulic studies on alternative core designs, with or without added pressurization

Subculturas e revitalização urbana: experiências recentes em Amsterdã, Berlim e São Paulo

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Merten Nefs

2005-01-01

Este trabalho discute a possibilidade de tratar as subculturas como instrumento de revitalização urbana. Uma análise da literatura nos dá a percepção do debate sobre as novas relações entre o governo e pequenos grupos subculturais na sociedade de hoje e introduz a terminologia de pioneiros urbanos, incubadoras e catalisadores. Estudos empíricos em Amsterdã, Berlim e São Paulo mostram as vantagens e desvantagens de suas implementações como instrumentos de revitalização urbana na prática....

Mathematics Placement at the University of Illinois

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Ahlgren Reddy, Alison; Harper, Marc

2013-01-01

Data from the ALEKS-based placement program at the University of Illinois is presented visually in several ways. The placement exam (an ALEKS assessment) contains precise item-specific information and the data show many interesting properties of the student populations of the placement courses, which include Precalculus, Calculus, and Business…

Practice Characteristics of Recent Illinois College of Optometry Graduates.

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Gailmard, Neil B.; And Others

1984-01-01

Demographic information regarding mode of practice, income and satisfaction level is provided for 1978-82 graduates of the Illinois College of Optometry. A practice management questionnaire is appended. (Author/MLW)

Enhancing pavement performance prediction models for the Illinois Tollway System

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Laxmikanth Premkumar

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Accurate pavement performance prediction represents an important role in prioritizing future maintenance and rehabilitation needs, and predicting future pavement condition in a pavement management system. The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (Tollway with over 2000 lane miles of pavement utilizes the condition rating survey (CRS methodology to rate pavement performance. Pavement performance models developed in the past for the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT are used by the Tollway to predict the future condition of its network. The model projects future CRS ratings based on pavement type, thickness, traffic, pavement age and current CRS rating. However, with time and inclusion of newer pavement types there was a need to calibrate the existing pavement performance models, as well as, develop models for newer pavement types.This study presents the results of calibrating the existing models, and developing new models for the various pavement types in the Illinois Tollway network. The predicted future condition of the pavements is used in estimating its remaining service life to failure, which is of immediate use in recommending future maintenance and rehabilitation requirements for the network. Keywords: Pavement performance models, Remaining life, Pavement management

O direito à cidade e as agendas urbanas internacionais: uma análise documental

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Elisabete Agrela de Andrade

Full Text Available Resumo Considerando as problemáticas sociais, econômicas e demográficas, viver na cidade implica condições inadequadas de moradia, exclusão social, iniquidades e outros agravos à população. Simultaneamente, a cidade também é cenário das produções culturais, sociais e afetivas. Cresceu, então, a necessidade de refletir sobre o direito à cidade e a relação com a promoção da saúde de seus habitantes. Para contribuir, agendas urbanas foram construídas pensando nesta ambiguidade da cidade. Objetiva-se analisar quatro destas agendas à luz do referencial da Promoção da Saúde. Foi realizada uma pesquisa documental de abordagem qualitativa de agendas urbanas propostas por organismos internacionais e adotadas em contexto brasileiro: Cidades Saudáveis, Cidades Sustentáveis, Cidades Inteligentes e Cidades Educadoras. Os resultados mostram que há empenho, em maior ou menor grau, por parte das agendas analisadas, em assumir a participação social, a intersetorialidade e o território como fundamentais no enfrentamento das exclusões e iniquidades, mas há falta de debates aprofundados sobre cada um destes conceitos. Conclui-se que as agendas urbanas podem ser importante aporte na consolidação do direito à cidade, desde que haja a compreensão crítica dos conceitos que as sustentam.

Fontes de financiamento para planos de mobilidade urbana: a sistematização das janelas de oportunidade de financiamento geridas pelo Ministério das Cidades

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Ruiz, Isadora

2015-01-01

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a sistematização das janelas de oportunidade de financiamento de elaboração e implementação dos Planos de Mobilidade Urbana, atualmente geridas pelo Ministério das Cidades. Para tanto, foi primeiramente realizado um diagnóstico da Mobilidade Urbana no Brasil, desenvolvido o conceito de Plano de Mobilidade Urbana, bem como identificadas as janelas de oportunidade de financiamento. Em seguida, o trabalho descreve em detalhes cada uma das janelas de oportuni...

Geologic characterization and carbon storage resource estimates for the knox group, Illinois Basin, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky

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Harris, David; Ellett, Kevin; Rupp, John; Leetaru, Hannes

2014-09-30

Research documented in this report includes (1) refinement and standardization of regional stratigraphy across the 3-state study area in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, (2) detailed core description and sedimentological interpretion of Knox cores from five wells in western Kentucky, and (3) a detailed calculation of carbon storage volumetrics for the Knox using three different methodologies. Seven regional cross sections document Knox formation distribution and thickness. Uniform stratigraphic nomenclature for all three states helps to resolve state-to-state differences that previously made it difficult to evaluate the Knox on a basin-wide scale. Correlations have also refined the interpretation of an important sandstone reservoir interval in southern Indiana and western Kentucky. This sandstone, a CO2 injection zone in the KGS 1 Blan well, is correlated with the New Richmond Sandstone of Illinois. This sandstone is over 350 ft (107 m) thick in parts of southern Indiana. It has excellent porosity and permeability at sufficient depths, and provides an additional sequestration target in the Knox. The New Richmond sandstone interval has higher predictability than vuggy and fractured carbonates, and will be easier to model and monitor CO2 movement after injection.

La reinvención de lo público en la videocultura urbana

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Néstor García Canclini

2002-01-01

Full Text Available ¿Se puede reconstruir lo público en una megalópolis donde lo privado invade todo, donde las reglas se reemplazan por el caos o por la simulación del control de quienes nos informan y vigilan? A partir de drásticos cambios producidos en la familia tradicional, la ciudad y el Estado-nación, se intenta replantear la definición de lo público en el nuevo tipo de experiencias urbanas establecidas por las megaciudades y los medios masivos de comunicación. Los medios electrónicos lo buscan construyendo imaginarios que articulan lo global y lo local así como en la visualidad publicitaria urbana, a través de la espectacularización de mercancías y servicios, incluidos aquellos a los que sólo acceden minorías. Esto lleva a evaluar en qué medida los medios cumplen una función pragmática o más bien una función simbólica y ritual.

ESPÉCIES DA FAUNA URBANA DE MARABÁ E PARAUAPEBAS: CONHECER PARA PRESERVAR

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André Santos Souza

2014-10-01

Full Text Available O crescimento acelerado das cidades fez com que a fauna silvestre migrasse das áreas de floresta e rios para conviver cada vez mais perto dos homens. Nas cidades de Marabá e Parauapebas, dois dos maiores centros urbanos do interior do Pará, alguns vertebrados podem ser observados na área urbana, convivendo com homens, carros, máquinas e concreto. Da compilação dos mais diversos estudos de fauna realizados nessas cidades e seus entornos, constam 297 espécies de vertebrados na área urbana de Marabá, das quais 87 foram visualizadas em trabalho de observação em campo; e 275 em Parauapebas, das quais 103 foram observadas em levantamento de campo. A pesquisa percorreu os quatro cantos de cada cidade, entre os meses de maio e setembro de 2013. Os resultados do estudo apontam para a necessidade premente de dar prosseguimento a levantamentos do gênero a fim de que as espécies sejam devidamente conhecidas, posto que algumas correm risco de desaparecimento.

Technology Professional Development and Instructional Technology Integration among Part-Time Faculty at Illinois Community Colleges

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Roohani, Behnam

2014-01-01

This study focused on exploring Illinois community college faculty development coordinators' perceptions about how they are implementing faculty technology professional development programs and providing technical support for part-time faculty in the Illinois community college systems. Also examined were part-time faculty perceptions of the degree…

77 FR 64445 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Greif Packaging, LLC...

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2012-10-22

... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R05-OAR-2012-0541; FRL 9733-5] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Greif Packaging, LLC Adjusted Standard AGENCY... Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP) an adjusted standard for the Greif Packaging, LLC facility located...

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2010-10-12

... Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application Ready for Environmental Analysis and Soliciting Comments...: Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC. e. Name of Project: Brandon Road Hydroelectric Project. f. Location: U.S... Hydropower, LLC, 801 Oakland Avenue, Joliet, IL 60435, (312) 320-1610. i. FERC Contact: Janet Hutzel, (202...

Polilinguismo nella scrittura murale urbana: Note sulla lingua spagnola

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ELena Landone

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Abstract – In this paper I focus on the polylinguistic and polycultural landscape of Milan on the theoretical basis of daily life studies, the sociolinguistics of globalization, and intercultural pragmatics. The relevance of this field is determined by the need for urban anthropology to semiotize the urban spaces as an interpretative bridge between the microsystem (the individual level and the macrosystem (the social level. More concretely, I investigate the presence of the Spanish language in the superdiversity of Milan and, methodologically, I collect ethnographically and interpret qualitatively a corpus of 700 daily life texts of various types of street writing. The results show the significant presence of Spanish in the urban landscape and a high level of hybridism which is, nevertheless, totally functional in communication. I also detect the emergence of linguistic, pragmatic and intercultural awareness in the writers. Finally, with some precautions, I confirm the scientific potential of the daily life documents to investigate complex urban dynamics.Resumen – El tema de este estudio es el panorama polilingüe y policultural de Milán y se plantea a partir de las bases teóricas de los everyday life studies, de la sociolingüistica de la globalización y de la pragmática intercultural. La relevancia del estudio descansa en la necesidad de la antropología urbana de elaborar una interpretación semiótica de los espacios urbanos, puesto que pueden constituir un puente interpretativo entre el microsistema (individuo y el macrosistema (sociedad. Concretamente, el objetivo es investigar el papel del idioma español en la supediversidad milanesa; la metodología es de etnografía urbana con la formación e interpretación cualitativa de un corpus fotográfico de setecientos textos cotidianos de escritura callejera (pintadas, avisos, grafiti, ecc.. Los datos relevan una presencia significativa del español en el landscape milanés, con un

Cooperação intergovernamental na política de mobilidade urbana: o caso do Consórcio Intermunicipal do ABC

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Eduardo Scorzoni Ré

2018-02-01

Full Text Available Resumo Este artigo apresenta as relações intergovernamentais coordenadas pelo Consórcio Intermunicipal do Grande ABC para a política de mobilidade da região do ABC paulista, identificando os papéis de atores governamentais e não estatais, particularmente o próprio consórcio, em seu desenvolvimento. A questão principal que procura responder é: como o Consórcio Intermunicipal articulou as forças para promover o desenvolvimento da política de mobilidade urbana na região? A pesquisa foi realizada através da análise das atas do Grupo de Trabalho Mobilidade Urbana e as atas das Assembleias de Prefeitos de 2010 a 2013. Além disso, os atores-chave na política de mobilidade urbana regional foram entrevistados. O artigo demonstra como as ações municipais iniciais – marcadas pelo desenvolvimento de projetos específicos e com pouca atenção “regional” – foram modificadas como consequência da institucionalização do Grupo de Trabalho Mobilidade Urbana. Tal conquista se deve à capacidade do Consórcio para promover ações de cooperação e regionalmente comuns, que levam em consideração as características institucionais de cada município. Além disso, o artigo mostra que o Consórcio tornou-se um articulador regional, ante os governos estadual e federal, o que foi crucial para a obtenção de recursos para vários projetos, especialmente os relativos à política de mobilidade urbana.

Herramientas para evaluar la sostenibilidad de las intervenciones urbanas en barrios

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Simón-Rojo, M.

2011-10-01

Full Text Available Integrating assessment tools in the decision making process of urban design may contribute to tackle the defining challenges of sustainability that our cities face. The research works on practical tools to compare alternatives taking into account sustainability criteria that incorporate quantitative as well as qualitative assessment. Effective assessment tools that take into account socioeconomic criteria are required to push forward integrated urban planning policies that can shape interventions at neighbourhood scale. This paper presents the conclusions after the review of assessment tools available in the European context. These tools are focussed mainly on delivering reports and guidelines, list of indicators and best practices; besides those reports, also some methodologies and specific technologies have been developed. Nevertheless there is a lack of practical, useful and open source tools to assess urban sustainability of urban small scale interventions.

El empleo en la planificación y en el diseño de intervenciones de mejora urbana, de herramientas que permitan comparar alternativas con criterios de sostenibilidad, contribuiría a afrontar algunos de los retos fundamentales a los que se enfrentan nuestras ciudades. Desde la Unión Europea se aboga por políticas urbanas integrales. Para lograrlas sería recomendable contar con herramientas de evaluación adecuadas, que incorporen los aspectos socioeconómicos y se puedan aplicar en la escala de barrio. El artículo presenta las conclusiones de la revisión de herramientas para evaluar la sostenibilidad urbana en el contexto europeo. Estas herramientas aportan sobre todo informes, guías, indicadores y buenas prácticas. En algún caso se han desarrollado metodologías y tecnologías específicas. A pesar de la gran cantidad de recursos públicos invertidos, sigue habiendo una carencia de herramientas prácticas, útiles y de código abierto que permitan evaluar la

A CONTRIBUIÇÃO DA ACADEMIA PARA MOBILIDADE URBANA SUSTENTÁVEL POR MEIO DO PROGRAMA DE EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA DA UFPR – CICLOVIDA

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Silvana Nakamori

2016-06-01

Full Text Available Congestionamentos, acidentes de trânsito e poluição são alguns problemas resultantes de uma cultura de mobilidade que prioriza o transporte individual por meio do automóvel e o resultado dessa prioridade é a deteriorização da qualidade de vida urbana. A fim de tentar reverter esse panorama surge na UFPR o Programa de Extensão Universitária Ciclovida, acreditando que a Academia tem a obrigação de estar na vanguarda das transformações que a sociedade necessita, pois através da pesquisa, ensino e extensão visa-se à formação de uma cultura de mobilidade urbana saudável e sustentável, pelo do uso da bicicleta como um dos meios de transporte. O objetivo deste artigo é demonstrar as contribuições da academia para a mobilidade urbana sustentável focando no Programa Ciclovida e a metodologia utilizada foi à pesquisa documental, sendo também uma pesquisa aplicada, qualitativa, exploratória, descritiva e bibliográfica. Dentre os resultados está à descrição do Programa e o Desafio Intermodal (anos de 2007 a 2013, demonstrando que a Academia pode sim contribuir com a mobilidade urbana. Palavras chaves: Mobilidade Urbana Sustentável. Extensão Universitária. Bicicleta.

75 FR 24937 - Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting...

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2010-05-06

... Illinois Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Motions To Intervene and... No.: 12717-002. c. Date filed: May 27, 2009. d. Applicant: Northern Illinois Hydropower, LLC. e. Name... Hydropower, LLC, 801 Oakland Avenue, Joliet, IL 60435, (312) 320-1610. i. FERC Contact: Dr. Nicholas Palso...

Building World-Market Competitors: Technology Transfer and the Illinois Community College System. 1990 Status Report.

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Bragg, Debra D.

In 1990, the Illinois Council of Public Community College Presidents (ICPCCP) commissioned a survey to document the current capacity and future potential of the Illinois Community College System (ICCS) to provide technology transfer assistance to the commercial marketplace and the public sector. An extensive questionnaire was developed and mailed…

Illinois Occupational Skill Standards: Accounting Services Cluster.

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These Illinois skill standards for the accounting services cluster are intended to serve as a guide to workforce preparation program providers as they define content for their programs and to employers as they establish the skills and standards necessary for job acquisition. They could also serve as a mechanism for communication among education,…

Emission and transmission tomography systems to be developed for the future needs of Jules Horowitz material testing reactor

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2009-08-01

The new 100 MW Jules Horowitz material testing reactor will be built in Cadarache, France. It will support, for instance, research on new types of innovative nuclear fuel. As a Finnish in-kind contribution, 3D emission and transmission tomography equipment will be delivered for both the reactor and the active component storage pool. The image reconstruction of activities inside the used nuclear fuel will be based on gamma spectrometry measurements. A new type of underwater digital X-ray linear detector array is under development for transmission imaging, based on GaAs and direct conversion of X-rays into an electrical signal. A shared collimator will be used for both emission and transmission measurements. Some preliminary design has been performed. For the current design, the expected gamma spectrometric response of a typical high-purity germanium detector has been simulated with MCNP for minimum and maximum source activities (specified by CEA) to be measured in future.

Subculturas e revitalização urbana: experiências recentes em Amsterdã, Berlim e São Paulo

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Merten Nefs

2005-12-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho discute a possibilidade de tratar as subculturas como instrumento de revitalização urbana. Uma análise da literatura nos dá a percepção do debate sobre as novas relações entre o governo e pequenos grupos subculturais na sociedade de hoje e introduz a terminologia de pioneiros urbanos, incubadoras e catalisadores. Estudos empíricos em Amsterdã, Berlim e São Paulo mostram as vantagens e desvantagens de suas implementações como instrumentos de revitalização urbana na prática.

Monitoring of green infrastructure at The Grove in Bloomington, Illinois

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Roseboom, Donald P.; Straub, Timothy D.

2013-01-01

The City of Bloomington, Illinois, restored Kickapoo Creek to a more natural state by incorporating green infrastructure—specifically flood-plain reconnection, riparian wetlands, meanders, and rock riffles—at a 90-acre park within The Grove residential development. A team of State and Federal agencies and contractors are collecting data to monitor the effectiveness of this stream restoration in improving water quality and stream habitat. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is collecting and analyzing water resources data; Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is collecting fish population data; Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) is collecting macroinvertebrates and riparian habitat data; and Prairie Engineers of Illinois, P.C., is collecting vegetation data. The data collection includes conditions upstream, within, and downstream of the development and restoration. The 480-acre development was designed by the Farnsworth Group to reduce peak stormwater flows by capturing runoff in the reconnected flood plains with shallow wetland basins. Also, an undersized park bridge was built at the downstream end of the park to pass the 20-percent annual exceedance probability flows (historically referred to as the 5-year flood), but detain larger floods. This design also helps limit sediment deposition from sediments transported in the drainage ditches in the upper 9,000 acres of agricultural row crops. Maintaining sediment-transport capacity minimizes sediment deposition in the restored stream segments, which reduces the loss of riparian and wetland-plant communities and instream habitat. Two additional goals of the restoration were to reduce nutrient loads and maintain water quality to support a diverse community of biotic species. Overall, 2 miles of previously managed agricultural-drainage ditches of Kickapoo Creek were restored, and the park landscape maximizes the enhancement of native riparian, wetland, and aquatic species for the park’s trail

Revisión epistemológica de nuevas tipologías urbanas para la identificación de mini ciudades en América Central

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Sabrine Acosta Schnell

2018-07-01

Full Text Available Las mini ciudades en Centroamérica son nuevas tipologías urbanas que se pueden identificar como proyectos de uso mixto con espacios residenciales, comerciales y de entretenimiento, de iniciativa privada. La novedad de esta tipología urbana sugiere un acercamiento desde la geografía urbana ya que no se han investigado previamente. Este es el objetivo principal de esta revisión epistemológica sobre los abordajes de tipologías urbanas como barrios cerrados, centros comerciales y parques temáticos para intentar caracterizar las mini ciudades centroamericanas. Esta revisión bibliográfica hace parte de una tesis doctoral que aborda la temática específicamente para el caso costarricense y guatemalteco. La revisión bibliográfica no pretendió ser exhaustiva ni profunda sino crítica y con carácter de diagnóstico. Se señalan seis líneas temáticas que incluyen: i las discusiones sobre el riesgo de simplificar la teoría de las tipologías urbanas a todo el continente americano; ii los análisis de las ciudades con un amplio recorte histórico, desde la antigüedad hasta las actuales tendencias; iii las búsquedas de la definición de ciudad; iv las investigaciones sobre los centros comerciales y parques temáticos que emulan ser mini ciudades; v abordajes de la reorganización del espacio urbano y su constante carácter dinámico; vi los faltantes (gaps en la teoría de la geografía urbana centroamericana, específicamente sobre las recientes mini ciudades. Se concluye reflexionando sobre la necesidad de aportar un análisis específico sobre las mini ciudades como nuevas tipologías urbanas en Centroamérica.

What we know now: the Evanston Illinois field lineups.

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Steblay, Nancy K

2011-02-01

A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit secured 100 eyewitness identification reports from Evanston, Illinois, one of three cities of the Illinois Pilot Program. The files provide empirical evidence regarding three methodological aspects of the Program's comparison of non-blind simultaneous to double-blind sequential lineups. (1) A-priori differences existed between lineup conditions. For example, the simultaneous non-blind lineup condition was more likely to involve witnesses who had already identified the suspect in a previous lineup or who knew the offender (non-stranger identifications), and this condition also entailed shorter delays between event and lineup. (2) Verbatim eyewitness comments were recorded more often in double-blind sequential than in non-blind simultaneous lineup reports (83% vs. 39%). (3) Effective lineup structure was used equally in the two lineup conditions.

Geothermal Retrofit of Illinois National Guard's State headquarters Building

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Lee, Mark

2015-04-27

The goal of this project was to assess the feasibility of utilizing mine water as a heat sink for a geothermal heat pump system to heat and cool the 74,000 sq. ft. Illinois National Guard State Headquarters’ building in Springfield Illinois. If successful, this type of system would be less expensive to install than a traditional closed loop geothermal (ground source) heat pump system by significantly reducing the size of the well field, thus shortening or eliminate the payback period compared to a conventional system. In the end, a conventional ground loop was used for the project.

Improving Alcohol/Drug Education in Illinois Schools.

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Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield.

This paper lists guidelines approved by the Illinois State Board of Education for improving alcohol and drug education in the schools. Statistics point out the seriousness of alcohol and drug abuse in terms of human costs to the victim, his/her family, and associates, and the economic costs of health care, accident losses, crime, social programs,…

Elder Abuse and Neglect: The Illinois Response.

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Illinois State Dept. on Aging, Springfield.

This document outlines the ideas of the Illinois Department of Aging on the implementation and management of the Elder Abuse and Neglect Intervention Program. These topics are addressed in order to provide a basis for discussion of key elements of the proposed program and serve as a guide in the development of rules, policies, and procedures for…

Direitos civis dos jovens e a insegurança urbana Youth civil rights and urban insecurity

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Augusto Caccia-Bava Junior

2007-05-01

Full Text Available Este ensaio parte do reconhecimento de uma conjuntura de crise institucional, para analisar o contexto da formação dos direitos civis dos jovens e suas fragilidades ,com vista a alcançar, por meio dessa reflexão, uma exposição dos aspectos da insegurança urbana presentes na sociedade brasileira. Palavras-chave: Crise institucional. Direitos civis dos jovens. Insegurança urbana. This essay starts with the recognition of a particular political institutional crisis as a base to analyze the development of the youth civil wrights and their gaps in order to reach an exposition of the characteristics of urban insecurity that takes place in Brazilian society. Keywords: Institutional crisis; Youth civil wrigths; Urban insecurity.

Notas metodológicas: por uma etnografia urbana dos quadrinhos

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Marina Cavalcante Vieira

2013-02-01

Full Text Available Como realizar uma etnografia urbana das cidades das histórias em quadrinhos e quais as potencialidades deste tipo de pesquisa? Este artigo tem como foco a discussão acerca do uso do método etnográfico para a análise de histórias em quadrinhos. As reflexões aqui expostas são atualizações do capítulo introdutório da pesquisa dissertativa Visões da Modernidade nas Histórias em Quadrinhos: Gotham e Metrópolis em finais de 1930 que teve como objetivo analisar as cidades do Super-Homem e Batman em seus contextos de criação. A questão metodológica mais imediata ao buscar uma análise etnográfica da representação urbana nos quadrinhos é a de como conceituar o objeto de estudo e o campo de pesquisa. A partir de um diálogo com outras abordagens não tradicionais – como a etnografia de arquivos históricos e a etnografia em espaços virtuais – é que se propõe o uso da etnografia para os quadrinhos. Este artigo demonstra a riqueza e potencial dos quadrinhos como objeto de pesquisa para as ciências sociais evidenciando novas possibilidades de abordagem metodológica.

Brincadeiras de rua, convivência urbana e ecologia dos saberes

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ÁLAMO PIMENTEL

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo es el resultado de un estudio sobre la contribución de los juegos de la calle en la creación de procesos de convivencia urbana y en la diversificación de prácticas y saberes inherentes a las culturas populares que atraviesan lo cotidiano de las ciudades brasileñas. El texto se desarrolla a partir del análisis de documentos basados en los informes presentados por estudiantes de pedagogía de una institución de enseñanza superior del estado de Bahía. Los informes descriptivos analizados son el resultado de un proyecto didáctico de observación desde el punto de vista de los niños sobre la convivencia urbana. La base teórica del trabajo se inspira en las epistemologías del Sul según la propuesta de Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2008, sobre todo en lo referido a la comprensión de las ecologías de los saberes. A partir de los cuadros sinópticos presentados a lo largo del texto se expone una visión panorámica de los juegos de la calle en diferentes barrios de Salvador y sus implicaciones en la sustentabilidad de las culturas populares en los escenarios urbanos contemporáneos.

Medicaid Contradictions: Adding, Subtracting, and Redeterminations in Illinois.

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Koetting, Michael

2016-04-01

States are required to conduct annual Medicaid redeterminations. How these redeterminations are undertaken is crucial to determining the nature of Medicaid coverage. There can be wide variations in the proportion of clients disenrolled, with potentially large numbers of people disenrolled each year. This case study of Illinois Medicaid shows how, as the Affordable Care Act added people, redeterminations were taking people off the rolls-about 25 percent of all Medicaid clients were disenrolled in one year. Many of these people were no longer eligible, but it appears that a larger number were in fact eligible but simply failed to comply with administrative requirements in a timely way. Balancing between the two imperatives of program integrity and continuity of care is a difficult act for Medicaid programs. The Illinois experience also illustrates impacts on information technology and outsourcing of eligibility functions, not to mention budget considerations. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press.

A evolução da urbanização e os processos de produção de inundações urbanas

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Valdevino José dos Santos Júnior

2013-11-01

Full Text Available O presente trabalho aborda o crescimento da urbanização que altera as características físicas e ambientais dos recursos hídricos acarretando em inundações urbanas. A pesquisa objetivou-se em conhecer a evolução da urbanização e como esse processo causa impactos sobre os sistemas de drenagem pluvial urbano. A metodologia baseia-se em um levantamento bibliográfico a fim de entender como a urbanização está relacionada aos processos de inundações urbanas. Conclui-se que a urbanização tem interferência direta na ocorrência de inundações em áreas urbanas, pois impermeabiliza o solo, altera o ciclo hidrológico aumentando a taxa de escoamento superficial e nota-se ainda a falta de instrumentos de planejamento e gestão de projetos e legislação específica que contemplem a drenagem pluvial urbana, o disciplinamento do uso e ocupação do solo, os resíduos sólidos e principalmente a educação ambiental

A evolução da urbanização e os processos de produção de inundações urbanas

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Valdevino José dos Santos Júnior

2014-10-01

Full Text Available O presente trabalho aborda o crescimento da urbanização que altera as características físicas e ambientais dos recursos hídricos acarretando em inundações urbanas. A pesquisa objetivou-se em conhecer a evolução da urbanização e como esse processo causa impactos sobre os sistemas de drenagem pluvial urbano. A metodologia baseia-se em um levantamento bibliográfico a fim de entender como a urbanização está relacionada aos processos de inundações urbanas. Conclui-se que a urbanização tem interferência direta na ocorrência de inundações em áreas urbanas, pois impermeabiliza o solo, altera o ciclo hidrológico aumentando a taxa de escoamento superficial e nota-se ainda a falta de instrumentos de planejamento e gestão de projetos e legislação específica que contemplem a drenagem pluvial urbana, o disciplinamento do uso e ocupação do solo, os resíduos sólidos e principalmente a educação ambiental

78 FR 23904 - Foreign-Trade Zone 114-Peoria, Illinois; Application for Subzone; Easton-Bell Sports, Inc...

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2013-04-23

... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [B-32-2013] Foreign-Trade Zone 114--Peoria, Illinois; Application for Subzone; Easton-Bell Sports, Inc.; Rantoul, Illinois An application has been..., grantee of FTZ 114, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the facility of Easton-Bell Sports, Inc...

A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Campus Violence Prevention Plans at Three Illinois Higher Education Institutions

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Brown, Wade R.

2013-01-01

The postsecondary acts of violence at Virginia Technical University (VT) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) forced Illinois legislators to approve the "Campus Security Enhancement Act" in 2008 (110 ILCS 12/20). The "Act" requires all private and public postsecondary education institutions to develop a Campus Violence…

Use of market research data by state chronic disease programs, Illinois, 2012-2014.

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Amerson, Nancy L; Arbise, Benjamin S; Kelly, Nora K; Traore, Elizabeth

2014-09-25

Market research data complement traditional epidemiologic data by allowing users to examine health behavior and patterns by census block or census tract. Market research data can identify products and behaviors that align or do not align with public health program goals. Illinois is a recipient of an award from the Directors of Health Promotion and Education to use industry market research data collected by The Nielsen Company for public health purposes. Illinois creates customized community profiles using market research data on tobacco use characteristics to describe the demographics, habits, and media preferences of smokers in certain locations. Local agencies use profiles to plan and target marketing initiatives, reach disparate groups within overall community populations, and restructure program objectives and policy initiatives. Local market research data provide detailed information on the characteristics of smokers, allowing Illinois communities to design public health programs without having to collect data on their own.

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Transportation Options in the Illinois Basin

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M. Rostam-Abadi; S. S. Chen; Y. Lu

2004-09-30

This report describes carbon dioxide (CO{sub 2}) capture options from large stationary emission sources in the Illinois Basin, primarily focusing on coal-fired utility power plants. The CO{sub 2} emissions data were collected for utility power plants and industrial facilities over most of Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky. Coal-fired power plants are by far the largest CO{sub 2} emission sources in the Illinois Basin. The data revealed that sources within the Illinois Basin emit about 276 million tonnes of CO2 annually from 122 utility power plants and industrial facilities. Industrial facilities include 48 emission sources and contribute about 10% of total emissions. A process analysis study was conducted to review the suitability of various CO{sub 2} capture technologies for large stationary sources. The advantages and disadvantages of each class of technology were investigated. Based on these analyses, a suitable CO{sub 2} capture technology was assigned to each type of emission source in the Illinois Basin. Techno-economic studies were then conducted to evaluate the energy and economic performances of three coal-based power generation plants with CO{sub 2} capture facilities. The three plants considered were (1) pulverized coal (PC) + post combustion chemical absorption (monoethanolamine, or MEA), (2) integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) + pre-combustion physical absorption (Selexol), and (3) oxygen-enriched coal combustion plants. A conventional PC power plant without CO2 capture was also investigated as a baseline plant for comparison. Gross capacities of 266, 533, and 1,054 MW were investigated at each power plant. The economic study considered the burning of both Illinois No. 6 coal and Powder River Basin (PRB) coal. The cost estimation included the cost for compressing the CO{sub 2} stream to pipeline pressure. A process simulation software, CHEMCAD, was employed to perform steady-state simulations of power generation systems

Women Superintendents in Illinois: Gender Barriers and Challenges

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VanTuyle, Vicki; Watkins, Sandra G.

2009-01-01

Women face unique challenges as superintendents. This study determined barriers women face as superintendents and elicited reasons why these women would consider leaving the superintendent's position. Thirty-nine PreK-12 women superintendents in Illinois participated in a web-based survey in January 2008. Survey items included information…

226Ra concentrations in some Illinois well waters

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Holtzman, R.B.; Gilkeson, R.H.

1982-01-01

226 Ra concentrations are reported for the waters from deep wells in 43 communities in Illinois. The concentrations range from 0.08 to 20.6 pCi/L. The effectiveness of additives (nitric acid or EDTA) in keeping the 226 Ra in solution in the samples is discussed

Illinois Occupational Skill Standards: HVAC/R Technician Cluster.

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Illinois Occupational Skill Standards and Credentialing Council, Carbondale.

This document, which is intended to serve as a guide for work force preparation program providers, details the Illinois occupational skill standards for programs preparing students for employment in jobs in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC/R) industry. Agency partners involved in this project include: the…

CityLog, verso nuove soluzioni per la distribuzione urbana delle merci

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Saverio Zuccotti

2010-07-01

Full Text Available La logistica urbana rappresenta oggi una delle principali sfide per una mobilità sostenibile. La distribuzione delle merci in città paga infatti in competitività quei problemi di cui è in parte responsabile: traffico, inquinamento, incidenti etc. Negli ultimi anni la sensibilità su questi aspetti di sostenibilità ambientale è cresciuta in maniera netta, e a livello europeo molta strada è stata fatta per predisporre le risposte più adeguate. Il progetto europeo CityLog, finanziato nell’ambito del Settimo Programma Quadro, vede oggi collaborare diciotto partner europei coordinati dal Centro Ricerche Fiat per migliorare la logistica urbana agendo lungo tre direttrici: •\tservizi telematici orientati alla logistica, per dare un contributo decisivo al miglioramento della pianificazione delle missioni utilizzando strumenti per il routing ottimizzato dei veicoli e il supporto informativo costante agli autisti dei veicoli; •\tsoluzioni a bordo veicolo, che rappresentano un fattore chiave per aumentare la flessibilità operativa di camion e furgoni; •\tunità di carico innovative, accuratamente progettate per essere utilizzate su veicoli diversi in missioni diverse. Ne deriva pertanto una famiglia di container compatti con un layout interno riconfigurabile così da poter essere utilizzati per scopi diversi.

Diligence in front-end processes is critical: an interview with Cheryl A. Harmon.

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Harmon, Cheryl A

2002-12-01

Cheryl Harmon's position reflects her organization's emphasis on an expanded role for the CFO. Harmon was hired recently to serve as CFO of Provena Covenant Medical Center, (PCMC) in Urbana, Illinois. Her mission as CFO is to help develop strategies to ensure that Provena Covenant maintains its financial stability. Harmon appreciates Povena Covenant's creative approaches to challenges faced by many healthcare organizations, such as workforce shortages.

A estética urbana no projeto de Saturnino de Brito (1887-1929

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Juliana Bandeira de Arruda

2006-12-01

Full Text Available O presente texto foi desenvolvido a partir do Projeto de Pesquisa do Mestrado no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Urbano (MDU/UFPE, 2006, e traz uma abordagem do pensamento estético-paisagístico de Saturnino de Brito, engenheiro reconhecido por suas obras sanitaristas e também considerado um dos primeiros urbanistas modernos a ter uma visão de cidade em sua totalidade e enquanto obra de arte. O objetivo principal é compreender a gênese do paisagismo no Brasil a partir das práticas de Saturnino de Brito pelas cidades brasileiras, por meio de uma caracterização da estética urbana implantada por Saturnino de Brito em suas obras de saneamento, melhoramentos e expansão nessas cidades. Discute-se também quais os princípios paisagísticos empregados em particular no Recife que direcionaram o Plano de Melhoramentos para a cidade e algumas das práticas políticas atuais. A pesquisa considerou os principais planos de saneamento, melhoramentos e expansão das cidades brasileiras, dentre eles: Vitória – ES (1896-1926, Santos – SP (1905-1910, Recife – PE (1909-1915, Pelotas – RS (1927-1929 e Natal (1935-1939. Neles, focalizando o principal elemento estruturador desses planos e, de sua paisagem: os canais de drenagem a céu aberto. Dessa forma, diante da constatação do crescente desenvolvimento das cidades, uma consciência das práticas urbanas relacionadas a história do lugar torna a discussão do tratamento da paisagem urbana primordial para a visão de uma cidade saudável e que respeite as raízes de sua formação.

77 FR 23622 - Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Leisure Properties LLC/D...

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2012-04-20

... Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Leisure Properties LLC/D/B/A Crownline Boats... approving into the Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP) an adjusted standard for Leisure Properties LLC..., known as the eight pound per hour (8 lb/ hr) rule, for volatile organic matter, for Leisure Properties...

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2012-04-20

... ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Part 52 [EPA-R05-OAR-2011-0944; FRL-9648-7] Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans; Illinois; Leisure Properties LLC/D/B/A Crownline Boats... proposing to approve into the Illinois State Implementation Plan (SIP) an adjusted standard for Leisure...

77 FR 8865 - Public Water System Supervision Program Approval for the State of Illinois; Tentative Approval

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2012-02-15

... Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule. Illinois is also applying its Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection... for Long-Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment and Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection By-product..., Ground Water and Drinking Water Branch (WG-15J), 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604. FOR...

Recuperación de la renta urbana: Una tarea ética pendiente

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Mario Torres

2006-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo pretende contribuir a la discusión y proposición sobre la necesidad de recuperar las rentas generadas por el proceso de desarrollo urbano. Contrapone la visión económica, tributaria y moral del mercado de suelo, con el propósito de fundamentar la necesidad de la recuperación de la renta urbana. A fin de situar la problemática, fundamenta la existencia de un mercado de suelo altamente complejo e imperfecto, que precisa urgentes regulaciones. Asociado a ello, los beneficios otorgados por las normas tributarias -dado un conjunto de franquicias-, que favorecen la acumulación de la renta urbana en manos de los dueños de la tierra, estimulando la especulación, contribuyendo a la exclusión y a la inequidad en el acceso a bienes y servicios urbanos. Finalmente, considerando la categoría ética del bien común, exhorta a legislar para restablecer la función social de la tierra, a fin de resolver el dilema ético pendiente en la construcción de la ciudad

ROCHA, Ana Luiza Carvalho; ECKERT, Cornelia. Antropologia da e na cidade: interpretações sobre as formas da vida urbana

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Dauster, Tania

2014-01-01

Antropologia da e na cidade: interpretações sobre as formas da vida urbana, das autoras Ana Luiza Rocha e Cornelia Eckert, expressa um percurso de investigação e uma linhagem que tem como fonte a antropologia urbana em inter-relações com a antropologia da imagem. O livro é um feixe de oito artigos anteriormente publicados em periódicos científicos, oriundos de estudos antropológicos e práticas etnográficas em cidades brasileiras, com foco privilegiado em Porto Alegre. Trata-se de uma obra ded...

La fiscalidad como espacio privilegiado de construcción político identitaria urbana: Burgos en la Baja Edad Media

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Guerrero Navarrete, Yolanda

2012-01-01

Tomando como referente la ciudad de Burgos, pero sin olvidar el resto de las ciudades castellanas, trataré de acercarme a la realidad de la fiscalidad de ámbito municipal como un escenario preferente de la construcción de modelos específicos de identidad política urbana en tres sentidos: en primer lugar, el que hace de la fiscalidad un elemento clave en el proceso de construcción de la identidad urbana participada, como demuestra el relevante papel de la fiscalidad en los orígenes, evolución ...

Surface-water-quality assessment of the upper Illinois River basin in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin; project description

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Mades, D.M.

1987-01-01

In 1986, the U.S. Geological Survey began a National Water-Quality Assessment program to (1) provide nationally consistent descriptions of the current status of water quality for a large, diverse, and geographically distributed part of the Nation's surface- and ground-water resources; (2) define, where possible, trends in water quality; and (3) identify and describe the relations of both status and trends in water quality to natural factors and the history of land use and land- and waste-management activities. The program is presently in a pilot phase that will test and modify, as necessary, concepts and approaches in preparation for possible full implementation of the program in the future. The upper Illinois River basin is one of four basins selected to test the concepts and approaches of the surface-water-quality element of the national program. The basin drains 10,949 square miles of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Three principal tributaries are the Kankakee and Des Plaines Rivers that join to form the Illinois River and the Fox River. Land use is predominantly agricultural; about 75 percent of the basin is cultivated primarily for production of corn and soybeans. About 13 percent of the basin is urban area, most of which is located in the Chicago metropolitan area. The population of the basin is about 7 million. About 6 million people live in the Des Plaines River basin. Many water-quality issues in the upper Illinois River basin are related to sediment, nutrients, potentially toxic inorganic and organic constituents, and to water-management practices. Occurrence of sediment and the chemical constituents in the rivers and lakes within the basin has the potential to adversely affect the water's suitability for aquatic life, recreation, or, through the consumption of fish, human health. The upper Illinois River basin project consists of five major activities. The first activity--analysis of existing information and preparation of a report that describes

77 FR 61595 - Northern Illinois Municipal Power; Notice of Filing

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2012-10-10

... Illinois Municipal Power filed its Revised and Superseding Proposed Revenue Requirement for reactive supply... Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is an ``eSubscription'' link on the web site that enables...

Aproximación a la silvicultura urbana en colombia

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Tovar-Corso, Germán

2013-01-01

Este artículo revisa los antecedentes y adelantos que en materia de Silvicultura Urbana se han realizado en Colombia en el pasado reciente y presenta un análisis de la situación actual del tema sustentado en los resultados obtenidos de la aplicación de una encuesta a las autoridades ambientales del país con el fin de aproximar un diagnóstico que tiene en cuenta aspectos de orden técnico, administrativo y jurídico con los cuales se realiza actualmente la gestión y el manejo del árbol en las ár...

Information systems to support low-level waste management: perspective from the State of Illinois

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Willaford, D.M.

1987-01-01

The Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety (IDNS) is required by state law to develop a comprehensive regulatory system for low-level radioactive waste (LLW) management. Reliable, extensive information about LLW in Illinois is needed to plan and implement such a regulatory program. IDNS annually surveys, by mail and follow-up phone calls, approximately 260 LLW generators in Illinois. This information is being supplemented by a more detailed characterization of waste streams. Additional information needed for IDNS's regulatory program includes data on components of a waste disposal facility (e.g., concrete performance), site and performance computer models for various kinds of sites and for alternative waste disposal facility designs. In the future, all states will need more information than has been historically the case, given the changes in management and disposal systems and the increased role of the states

Tipos de estrutura urbana e consumo de água, análise da morfologia urbana na Bacia Hidrográfica do Riacho Fundo

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Sotero, Marília Serena Porto

2014-01-01

Tipos de Estrutura Urbana (UST) são unidades espaciais mínimas que possuem certa homogeneidade no tipo de cobertura, uso e acesso a ecosserviços. Nesse trabalho o conceito de UST é aplicado a partir da classificação visual manual de fotografias aéreas e análises in situ. O objetivo do trabalho foi mapear classes UST na região intraurbana da Bacia Hidrográfica do Riacho Fundo, no Distrito Federal/Brasil, e analisar essa base comparando-a a variáveis socioeconômicas e dados de consumo de água. ...

Multi-modal trip planning system : Northeastern Illinois Regional Transportation Authority.

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2013-01-01

This report evaluates the Multi-Modal Trip Planner System (MMTPS) implemented by the Northeastern Illinois Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) against the specific functional objectives enumerated by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) in it...

DSMC Simulations of Irregular Source Geometries for Io's Pele Plume

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McDoniel, William; Goldstein, D. B.; Varghese, P. L.; Trafton, L. M.; Buchta, D. A.; Freund, J.; Kieffer, S. W.

2010-10-01

Volcanic plumes on Io represent a complex rarefied flow into a near-vacuum in the presence of gravity. A 3D rarefied gas dynamics method (DSMC) is used to investigate the gas dynamics of such plumes, with a focus on the effects of source geometry on far-field deposition patterns. These deposition patterns, such as the deposition ring's shape and orientation, as well as the presence and shape of ash deposits around the vent, are linked to the shape of the vent from which the plume material arises. We will present three-dimensional simulations for a variety of possible vent geometries for Pele based on observations of the volcano's caldera. One is a curved line source corresponding to a Galileo IR image of a particularly hot region in the volcano's caldera and the other is a large area source corresponding to the entire lava lake at the center of the plume. The curvature of the former is seen to be sufficient to produce the features seen in observations of Pele's deposition pattern, but the particular orientation of the source is found to be such that it cannot match the orientation of these features on Io's surface. The latter corrects the error in orientation while losing some of the structure, suggesting that the actual source may correspond well with part of the shore of the lava lake. In addition, we are collaborating with a group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to develop a hybrid method to link the continuum flow beneath Io's surface and very close to the vent to the more rarefied flow in the large volcanic plumes. This work was funded by NASA-PATM grant NNX08AE72G.

Study of atmospheric pollution scavenging. Sixteenth progress report

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Semonin, R.G.; Gatz, D.F.; Peden, M.E.; Stensland, G.J.

1978-07-01

The relative spatial variability of atmospheric deposition was studied for sampling networks of various areas in the U.S., Sweden, and the U.S.S.R. The data were derived from event, monthly, and yearly sample collection periods. The results indicate the relative variability for precipitation, chemical concentration of constituents, and the deposition increase in that order. A factor analysis approach to interpretation of the role of aerosol in altering rainfall is presented. The results indicate that either aerosol does not influence rainfall amount, or a critical chemical component of the aerosol was not included in the analysis. Careful analyses were carried out, comparing historical and current precipitation chemistry at Champaign-Urbana. The results show that the apparent high pH values of rainfall in 1954 were due to high values of calcium and magnesium and not due to low concentrations of sulfate and nitrogen species. New field efforts were initiated in 1978 in east-central Illinois to measure rain chemistry with improved precision over previous effort. The preliminary results from the first light rainshower show some puzzling relationships between the amount of rain and various chemical concentrations. The pH appears to be inversely related to rain volume, but other ionic species are not so easily identified with rain amount. The summer field experiment has, thus far, produced approximately 12 additional events which are in various stages of analysis. The study of the stability of ions in precipitation was continued and is the subject of additional proposed work. The results are very firm at this time, that either wet-only sampling must be carried out, or the sample must be preserved at 4/sup 0/C to retain the chemical integrity of the sample. It is recommended, however, that filtration of the sample be accomplished within 12 hours of the cessation of precipitation to ensure stability of the ionic composition.

Downstream lightening and upward heavying, sorting of sediments of uniform grain size but differing in density

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Viparelli, E.; Solari, L.; Hill, K. M.

2014-12-01

Downstream fining, i.e. the tendency for a gradual decrease in grain size in the downstream direction, has been observed and studied in alluvial rivers and in laboratory flumes. Laboratory experiments and field observations show that the vertical sorting pattern over a small Gilbert delta front is characterized by an upward fining profile, with preferential deposition of coarse particles in the lowermost part of the deposit. The present work is an attempt to answer the following questions. Are there analogous sorting patterns in mixtures of sediment particles having the same grain size but differing density? To investigate this, we performed experiments at the Hydrosystems Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During the experiments a Gilbert delta formed and migrated downstream allowing for the study of transport and sorting processes on the surface and within the deposit. The experimental results show 1) preferential deposition of heavy particles in the upstream part of the deposit associated with a pattern of "downstream lightening"; and 2) a vertical sorting pattern over the delta front characterized by a pattern of "upward heavying" with preferential deposition of light particles in the lowermost part of the deposit. The observed downstream lightening is analogous of the downstream fining with preferential deposition of heavy (coarse) particles in the upstream part of the deposit. The observed upward heavying was unexpected because, considering the particle mass alone, the heavy (coarse) particles should have been preferentially deposited in the lowermost part of the deposit. Further, the application of classical fractional bedload transport relations suggests that in the case of mixtures of particles of uniform size and different densities equal mobility is not approached. We hypothesize that granular physics mechanisms traditionally associated with sheared granular flows may be responsible for the observed upward heavying and for the

A fully dynamic magneto-rheological fluid damper model

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Jiang, Z; Christenson, R E

2012-01-01

Control devices can be used to dissipate the energy of a civil structure subjected to dynamic loading, thus reducing structural damage and preventing failure. Semiactive control devices have received significant attention in recent years. The magneto-rheological (MR) fluid damper is a promising type of semiactive device for civil structures due to its mechanical simplicity, inherent stability, high dynamic range, large temperature operating range, robust performance, and low power requirements. The MR damper is intrinsically nonlinear and rate-dependent, both as a function of the displacement across the MR damper and the command current being supplied to the MR damper. As such, to develop control algorithms that take maximum advantage of the unique features of the MR damper, accurate models must be developed to describe its behavior for both displacement and current. In this paper, a new MR damper model that includes a model of the pulse-width modulated (PWM) power amplifier providing current to the damper, a proposed model of the time varying inductance of the large-scale 200 kN MR dampers coils and surrounding MR fluid—a dynamic behavior that is not typically modeled—and a hyperbolic tangent model of the controllable force behavior of the MR damper is presented. Validation experimental tests are conducted with two 200 kN large-scale MR dampers located at the Smart Structures Technology Laboratory (SSTL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Lehigh University Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) facility. Comparison with experimental test results for both prescribed motion and current and real-time hybrid simulation of semiactive control of the MR damper shows that the proposed MR damper model can accurately predict the fully dynamic behavior of the large-scale 200 kN MR damper. (paper)

Design and construction of a 1-MJ DPF

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DelMedico, S.; Javedani, J.; Wimmer, R.

1994-01-01

A MJ-Class Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) facility, is being designed to develop the technology needed for plasma focus-type magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thrusters. The facility will be capable of studying various commercial applications of the plasma focus also, such as soft x-ray lithography. The facility will be located at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana campus. The ultimate objective is to demonstrate the feasibility and attractiveness of the plasma focus MPD concept for very high specific-impulse space propulsion. Studies include scaling experiments up to and including the 1-MJ level and experiments using a gas-injected plasma focus, such as required in the hard vacuum environment of space. The plasma focus thruster differs from the conventional MPD in that it is capable of generating additional thrust from fusion energy released during the pinch phase of the arc run-down. The proposed 1-MJ facility would enable studies of these concepts at a meaningful energy level. If the results are encouraging, as expected, a next step would be to construct a prototype thruster for further studies, including space qualifications. In addition to thruster studies, the MJ-class facility offers considerable flexibility for the study of a variety of scientific applications requiring an intense, pulsed, radiation source. Examples of such uses range from studies of radiation hardening of electronics to transmutation of radioactive wastes. Consequently, upon completion, it is planned to invite outside users to access the MJ-facility in the time that remains after mainline research. A key objective is to establish the DPF facility as a National User's Facility. To accomplish this, it is planned to establish an advisory committee for use of the facility next year and host a workshop for potential users

Model-based framework for multi-axial real-time hybrid simulation testing

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Fermandois, Gaston A.; Spencer, Billie F.

2017-10-01

Real-time hybrid simulation is an efficient and cost-effective dynamic testing technique for performance evaluation of structural systems subjected to earthquake loading with rate-dependent behavior. A loading assembly with multiple actuators is required to impose realistic boundary conditions on physical specimens. However, such a testing system is expected to exhibit significant dynamic coupling of the actuators and suffer from time lags that are associated with the dynamics of the servo-hydraulic system, as well as control-structure interaction (CSI). One approach to reducing experimental errors considers a multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) controller design, yielding accurate reference tracking and noise rejection. In this paper, a framework for multi-axial real-time hybrid simulation (maRTHS) testing is presented. The methodology employs a real-time feedback-feedforward controller for multiple actuators commanded in Cartesian coordinates. Kinematic transformations between actuator space and Cartesian space are derived for all six-degrees-offreedom of the moving platform. Then, a frequency domain identification technique is used to develop an accurate MIMO transfer function of the system. Further, a Cartesian-domain model-based feedforward-feedback controller is implemented for time lag compensation and to increase the robustness of the reference tracking for given model uncertainty. The framework is implemented using the 1/5th-scale Load and Boundary Condition Box (LBCB) located at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. To demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed methodology, a single-story frame subjected to earthquake loading is tested. One of the columns in the frame is represented physically in the laboratory as a cantilevered steel column. For realtime execution, the numerical substructure, kinematic transformations, and controllers are implemented on a digital signal processor. Results show excellent performance of the maRTHS framework when six

Data Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC)

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Marlino, M. R.; Mayernik, M. S.; Kelly, K.; Allard, S.; Tenopir, C.; Palmer, C.; Varvel, V. E., Jr.

2012-12-01

Digital data both enable and constrain scientific research. Scientists are enabled by digital data to develop new research methods, utilize new data sources, and investigate new topics, but they also face new data collection, management, and preservation burdens. The current data workforce consists primarily of scientists who receive little formal training in data management and data managers who are typically educated through on-the-job training. The Data Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC) program is investigating a new model for educating data professionals to contribute to scientific research. DCERC is a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The program is organized around a foundations course in data curation and provides field experiences in research and data centers for both master's and doctoral students. This presentation will outline the aims and the structure of the DCERC program and discuss results and lessons learned from the first set of summer internships in 2012. Four masters students participated and worked with both data mentors and science mentors, gaining first hand experiences in the issues, methods, and challenges of scientific data curation. They engaged in a diverse set of topics, including climate model metadata, observational data management workflows, and data cleaning, documentation, and ingest processes within a data archive. The students learned current data management practices and challenges while developing expertise and conducting research. They also made important contributions to NCAR data and science teams by evaluating data management workflows and processes, preparing data sets to be archived, and developing recommendations for particular data management activities. The master's student interns will return in summer of 2013

Los hitos y los retos del desarrollo sostenible en la planificación urbana

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2005-01-01

566 p El objetivo del estudio es analizar las iniciativas relacionadas con el desarrollo sostenible en la planificación urbana, fundamentando sus actuaciones claras y exactas para un lugar y contexto. Estas acciones deben ser vinculantes, lo que unicamente esposible a través de la planificación

Agricultura urbana agroecológica na perspectiva da promoção da saúde

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Silvana Maria Ribeiro

2015-06-01

Full Text Available A agricultura urbana tem sido tema de diversas pesquisas no contexto brasileiro e no mundo, principalmente no que diz respeito à geração de trabalho e renda. O presente artigo tem por objetivo sistematizar a experiência do projeto Colhendo Sustentabilidade: práticas comunitárias de segurança alimentar e agricultura urbana (PCS, realizado em Embu das Artes, região metropolitana de São Paulo, durante o período compreendido entre 2008 e 2011, analisando-o sob a ótica da Promoção da Saúde (PS. Foram sujeitos da pesquisa os participantes, os técnicos dos serviços públicos envolvidos e integrantes da equipe técnica do projeto. Os dados foram obtidos através da realização de três oficinas de sistematização, seguidas de outra em que os resultados foram apresentados aos participantes, e também por meio de entrevistas com informantes-chave. Os mesmos foram analisados à luz dos princípios e campos de ação da PS. As conclusões revelaram a agricultura urbana agroecológica (AUA como ferramenta promotora de saúde por contribuir com o fortalecimento do protagonismo individual e comunitário, empoderamento, criação de ambientes favoráveis à saúde, bem como seu potencial para a multiplicação de "saberes", pelos envolvidos, sobre temas relacionados à geração de renda, saúde e meio ambiente.

Teaching Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Groves, Michael J.; Klegerman, Melvin E.

1988-01-01

The Department of Pharmaceutics at the University of Illinois at Chicago has been carrying out research in pharmaceutical biotechnology that has allowed unique student involvement and promises further interdisciplinary research and instructional activities. (MSE)

ITER EDA newsletter. V. 4, no. 11

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1995-11-01

This issue of the ITER EDA (Engineering Design Activities) Newsletter contains a report on the Ninth Meeting of the ITER Management Advisory Committee held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on November 3, 1995; a report on the Seventh International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials held at Obninsk, Russia, 25-29 September, 1995; on the presentation of the ITER Project during a symposium on fusion energy held at Champaign, Illinois, USA, October 1-5, 1995; and on two meetings on ITER diagnostics, i.e., an international workshop on diagnostics for ITER held in Varenna, Italy, 28 August - 1 September, 1995; followed by the Third Diagnostics Expert Group Workshop held September 4-5 in the same location

Illinois Ratings of Teacher Effectiveness Manual. Grades 9-12.

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Blanchard, B. Everard

The Illinois Ratings of Teacher Effectiveness (IRTE) is an instrument for recording senior high school student perceptions of teacher performance in ten trait areas: teacher appearance, ability to explain, friendliness, grading fairness, discipline, outside classroom assignments, enjoyment of teaching, voice, mannerisms, and command of subject…

Agricultura urbana: un aporte a la rehabilitación integral

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Moran Alonso, Nerea

2010-01-01

El artículo repasa los antecedentes históricos de la agricultura urbana, práctica a la cual en determinados momentos han recurrido diferentes Administra - ciones. Estas prácticas son un ejemplo de cómo actuar en una situación de crisis y de la potencialidad social que tiene la producción de alimentos en un contexto urbano. En países del Sur, han adquirido importancia como estrategia de desarrollo e incluido programas liderados por organismos internacionales. Los huertos urbanos, un modo de in...

Approcci innovativi alla mobilità urbana: il caso di Istanbul

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Cecilia Scoppetta

2010-02-01

Full Text Available  L'attuale assetto dell'area metropolitana di Istanbul evidenzia con chiarezza il rapporto tra sistema della mobilità urbana ed espansione incontrollata del costruito. Gli strumenti di pianificazione utilizzati nel passato si sono rivelati inefficaci ed hanno prodotto una città in larga parte illegale che oggi appare ingovernabile. Tuttavia anche i nuovi strumenti del piano strategico e del progetto urbano sembrano mostrare i propri limiti. Una maggiore integrazione tra politiche urbane ancora troppo settoriali può contribuire alla definizione di approcci realmente innovativi.

The Jules Horowitz reactor: complementary safety evaluation in the light of the Fukushima 1 nuclear power station accident

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2011-01-01

This report proposes a complementary safety evaluation of the Jules Horowitz reactor in Cadarache (INB 172), one of the French basic nuclear installations (BNI, in French INB) in the light of the Fukushima accident. This evaluation takes the following risks into account: risks of flooding, earthquake, loss of power supply and loss of cooling, in addition to operational management of accident situations. It presents the main characteristics of the installation, identifies the risks of a cliff effect and the main structures and equipment, evaluates the seismic risk (installation sizing, installation conformity, margin evaluation), evaluates the flooding risk (installation sizing, installation conformity, margin evaluation), briefly examines other extreme natural phenomena (extreme meteorological conditions related to flooding, earthquake or flooding with a higher level than that for which the installation is designed). It analyzes the risk of a loss of power supply and of cooling (loss of external and internal electric sources, loss of the ultimate cooling system). It analyzes the management of severe accidents: crisis management organization, available intervention means, robustness of available means. It discusses the conditions of the use of subcontractors

Speech by Prime Minister Francois Fillon. Visit of the Jules Horowitz experimental reactor works on the Commissariat a l'Energie et aux Energies Alternatives site. Cadarache, May 3, 2010; Discours du Premier ministre Francois FILLON Cadarache, lundi 3 mai 2010. Visite du chantier du Reacteur experimental Jules Horowitz sur le site du Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives

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2010-07-01

In this speech, the French Prime Minister evokes the present context, the importance of strategic technologies, and the challenge of investing in these technologies within a context of reduction of public expenses. He comments the decision of his government to finance research and education activities in different domains, and more specifically in the energy sector with this fourth generation Jules Horowitz experimental reactor. He recalls that the nuclear sector has always been very important to the eyes of the successive French governments, and outlines how this reactor will contribute to reactor operational optimization, lifetime extension and safety, nuclear fuel development, etc.

Illinois' Forests, 2005: Statistics, Methods, and Quality Assurance

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Susan J. Crocker; Charles J. Barnett; Mark A. Hatfield

2013-01-01

The first full annual inventory of Illinois' forests was completed in 2005. This report contains 1) descriptive information on methods, statistics, and quality assurance of data collection, 2) a glossary of terms, 3) tables that summarize quality assurance, and 4) a core set of tabular estimates for a variety of forest resources. A detailed analysis of inventory...

No Child Left Behind: A Postmortem for Illinois

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Harman, Wm. Gregory; Boden, Camille; Karpenski, Jeremy; Muchowicz, Nicole

2016-01-01

In this study, the outcomes of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), as implemented in Illinois, are evaluated in terms of high school standards testing results between 2003-2013. NCLB was a policy dedicated to closing the gap in schooling outcomes nationally in the space of a decade. There have been few systematic examinations of its macro-level results…

Neuropsychological Component of Imagery Processing

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1991-01-25

and von Bonin, G. (1951). The Isocortex of Man. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Bauer, R. M., and Rubens, A. B. (1985). Agnosia . In K. M...Apperceptive agnosia : the specification and description of constructs. In Humphreys, G. W., and Riddoch, M. J. (1987a) (Eds.). Visual Object Processing: A...visual processing: agnosias , achromatopsia, Balint’s syndrome and related difficulties of orientation and construction. In M.-M. Mesulam (Ed

Neuropsychological Components of Object Identification

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1992-01-10

Man. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Bauer, R. M., and Rubens, A. B. (1985). Agnosia . In K. M. Heilman and E. Valenstein (Eds.), Clinical...J. (1987). Apperceptive agnosia : the specification and description of constructs. In Humphreys, G. W., and Riddoch, M. J. (1987a) (Eds.). Visual... agnosias , achromatopsia, Balint’s syndrome and related difficulties of orientation and construction. In M.-M. Mesulam (Ed.), Principles of Behavioral

Jules Horowitz reactor - Complementary safety assessment in the light of the Fukushima accident

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2011-01-01

This CSA (Complementary Safety Assessment) analyses the robustness of the Jules Horowitz reactor (RJH) to extreme situations such as those that led to the Fukushima accident and proposes a series of improvements. RJH is being built on the Cadarache CEA's site. Robustness is the ability for the facility to withstand events beyond the level for which the facility was designed. Robustness is linked to safety margins but also to the situations leading to a sudden deterioration of the accident sequence (cliff edge effect). Safety is not only a matter of design or of engineered systems, it is also a matter of organization. So issues like RJH's crisis organization, the organization of radiation protection, and work organization via subcontracting are also taken into consideration. This report is divided into 9 main chapters: 1) main features of the RJH facility, 2) identification of cliff edge risks and of equipment essential for safety, 3) earthquake risk, 4) flood risk, 5) risks due to other extreme natural disasters, 6) the loss of electrical power supplies and of cooling systems, 7) management of severe accidents, 8) subcontracting policy, 9) synthesis and list of improvements. This study shows a globally good robustness of the RJH for the considered risks. Nevertheless it can considered relevant to increase the robustness of the plant on a few points: -) to increase the seismic safety margins of some pieces of equipment, -) to increase the robustness of the internal electrical power supplies, -) to increase the fuel cooling capacity, and -) to improve the management of the post-accidental period. (A.C.)

Water-quality assessment of the lower Illinois River Basin; environmental setting

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Warner, Kelly L.

1998-01-01

The lower Illinois River Basin (LIRB) encompasses 18,000 square miles of central and western Illinois. Historical and recent information from Federal, State, and local agencies describing the physiography, population, land use, soils, climate, geology, streamflow, habitat, ground water, water use, and aquatic biology is summarized to describe the environmental setting of the LIRB. The LIRB is in the Till Plains Section of the Central Lowland physiographic province. The basin is characterized by flat topography, which is dissected by the Illinois River. The drainage pattern of the LIRB has been shaped by many bedrock and glacial geologic processes. Erosion prior to and during Pleistocene time created wide and deep bedrock valleys. The thickest deposits and most major aquifers are in buried bedrock valleys. The Wisconsinan glaciation, which bisects the northern half of the LIRB, affects the distribution and characteristics of glacial deposits in the basin. Agriculture is the largest land use and forested land is the second largest land use in the LIRB. The major urban areas are near Peoria, Springfield, Decatur, and Bloomington-Normal. Soil type and distribution affect the amount of soil erosion, which results in sedimentation of lakes and reservoirs in the basin. Rates of soil erosion of up to 2 percent per year of farmland soil have been measured. Many of the 300 reservoirs, lakes, and wetlands are disappearing because of sedimentation resulting from agriculture activities, levee building, and urbanization. Sedimentation and the destruction of habitat appreciably affect the ecosystem. The Illinois River is a large river-floodplain ecosystem where biological productivity is enhanced by annual flood pulses that advance and retreat over the flood plain and temporarily expand backwater and flood-plain lakes. Ground-water discharge to streams affects the flow and water quality of the streams. The water budget of several subbasins show variability in ground

Grounding Research in Reality: Fiscal Equity and K-12 Funding in Illinois. Policy Research: IERC 2008-3

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Mullin, Christopher M.; Brown, Kathleen Sullivan

2008-01-01

The purpose of this study was to replicate both The Education Trust's "The Funding Gap" and D. Verstegen and L. Driscoll's "The Illinois Dilemma" studies published in 2008 utilizing the actual allocations to districts resulting from the fiscal policy mechanism (funding formula) in Illinois for the 2004-2005 school year to…

Impacto da Conversão da Cobertura Natural em Pastagem e Área Urbana sobre Variáveis Biofísicas no Sul do Amazonas

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Vagner Marques Pavão

Full Text Available Resumo A substituição da cobertura natural por áreas de pastagem afeta o albedo superficial, que por sua vez influencia no saldo de radiação e na temperatura superficial. Assim, o objetivo desse trabalho foi avaliar os impactos do desmatamento sobre variáveis biofísicas no município de Apuí-AM, por imagens Landsat 5 TM (Thematic Mapper. As imagens utilizadas nesse estudo foram fornecidas pelo Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unidos (USGS. A imagem de 20/07/2010 foi processada por etapas intermediárias do SEBAL (Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land. O desmatamento no município de Apuí aumentou em 20% nos últimos 20 anos analisados. O NDVI da Floresta foi 20 e 43% maior que da pastagem e da área urbana, respectivamente. O albedo da superfície na pastagem e na área urbana foram 16% maiores que na área de Floresta e a temperatura de brilho da superfície na pastagem e na área urbana foram 16 e 10% maiores que na área de Floresta, respectivamente. O Rn na área de Floresta foi 8% e 6% maior que na área urbana e na pastagem, respectivamente. Portanto, a conversão da Floresta Amazônica modifica o balanço de radiação com maior disponibilidade de calor sensível da superfície nas áreas de pastagem e urbana.

Turismo, economía y planificación urbana: una relación compleja

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Manuel Ángel Santana Turégano

2007-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo pretende plantear la necesidad de llevar a cabo un enfoque más social de la actividad económica turística. Muchas de las actividades propiamente económicas del fenómeno turístico se ven influidas en gran medida por regulaciones no económicas como la planificación urbana. El análisis del caso de Maspalomas (Islas Canarias demuestra que lo que en la propia planificación urbana se concibe como “económico” puede variar, en función de cómo sea definido por los actores. Y que las distintas definiciones de “lo económico” favorecen a unos agentes y perjudican a otros. Por ello, se sugiere que el análisis de estos fenómenos “económicamente relevantes” y “económicamente condicionados” ha de ser incorporado al estudio de la actividad económica turística.

POLÍTICAS URBANAS PARA EL DESARROLLO Y LA INNOVACIÓN EN LAS CIUDADES INTERMEDIAS

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Henar Pascual Ruiz-Valdepeñas

2008-01-01

Full Text Available En los últimos años se asiste al fortalecimiento del papel de las ciudades intermedias al estimarsesu capacidad para lograr una mayor cohesión económica, social y territorial en Europa. Las políticas territoriales se orientan a reforzar sus ventajas competitivas y a potenciar la configuración y consolidación de redes de cooperación en las que las ciudades actúan como partes de un modelo policéntrico. La valoración de los impactos de los programas europeos en las ciudades y el análisis de las políticas y estrategias urbanas, ponen de relieve la naturaleza específica de los diversos niveles de intervención pública en el territorio y la multiplicidad de las interacciones que se generan entre ellos. En el nivel local de intervención, la planificación estratégica amplía el abanico de objetivos y actuaciones y aporta nuevos instrumentos que ponen el acento en el reforzamiento de los factores de competitividad urbana.

Riscos e vulnerabilidade socioambiental urbana: uma perspectiva a partir dos recursos hídricos

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Francisco Mendonça

2009-03-01

Full Text Available A intensificação da urbanização na ultima etapa da modernidade gerou inúmeros problemas relacionados à qualidade e condições de vida humana nas cidades. No âmbito dos países não desenvolvidos estes problemas tomam maior magnitude que nos desenvolvidos, gerando consideráveis desafios à gestão socioambiental das áreas urbanas. O problema da qualidade da água e da gestão dos recursos hídricos aparece como um dos mais graves da sociedade contemporânea, notadamente em países como o Brasil, cujos rios urbanos encontram- se altamente degradados em sua grande maioria. A associação entre os perigos, os riscos e a vulnerabilidade socioambiental, quando enfocados na perspectiva da interação entre os recursos hídricos e a sociedade urbana, torna-se muito importante, constituindo-se no enfoque central do presente texto. Nesse contexto, a questão da escassez de água no ambiente urbano brasileiro é abordada e a problemática é explorada.

Cidades sutis: dispersão urbana e da rede de saúde mental

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Luis Artur Costa

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Este artigo pretende problematizar o percurso genealógico que possibilita o atual arranjo entre a cidade de Porto Alegre e sua assistência em saúde mental. Inicia com a cidade e seu Hospital Psiquiátrico São Pedro, constituídos a partir de uma lógica disciplinar que buscava subjetivar corpos e gestos adequados para o trabalho industrial e aos padrões de convivência da civilidade urbana moderna. Vemos então o surgimento de movimentos anômalos a esta geometria, espasmos descentralizantes que vão esboroando as antigas centralidades e seus lócus antes fechados. Através da breve genealogia dos movimentos que tomaram tais espaços, operamos a problematização das transformações nesta cidade e nas atuais práticas de assistência à saúde mental: por um lado, as novas microssegmentações privadas no espaço urbano contemporâneo minando a centralidade urbana da cidade com a dispersão da convivência e, por outro, a atual reforma psiquiátrica, com a descentralização da assistência.

Achieving local support for a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in Illinois

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Kerr, T.A.; Seidler, P.E.

1989-01-01

This paper discusses how Illinois is progressing toward the goal of having a new low-level radioactive waste (LLW) disposal facility in operation by the federally mandated milestone of January 1, 1993. To accomplish this task, Illinois has adopted a voluntary siting process. The voluntary siting process will be successful by definition only if a high level of local support can be achieved and sustained. A strong public participation program in conjunction with a comprehensive information and education program is essential to fostering the necessary local support. Many other elements are also needed throughout this process. The Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety (IDNS) has found that making grants to local governments, awarding scholarships for area students, enacting a comprehensive system of legislation and regulations, explaining the site identification and characterization program, describing facility design features, practicing a strong policy of buying and hiring locally, maintaining good relationships with local news media and building trust through personal relationships have all greatly contributed to support for the LLW program in the potential host communities

The Illinois Community College Sustainability Network--A Successful Model

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Jacobson, Bert

2010-01-01

In 2008, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), Bureau of Energy and Recycling, funded a pilot project creating a network of Sustainability Centers. The pilot project demonstrated that networked campus sustainability centers are an efficient mechanism to reach consumers, business, and industry. All 48 community…

Measuring Success: David Conley's College Readiness Framework and the Illinois College and Career Readiness Act. In Brief

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Baber, Lorenzo D.; Castro, Erin L.; Bragg, Debra D.

2010-01-01

The purpose of this brief is to understand the Illinois College and Career Readiness (CCR) Act in light of David Conley's college readiness model. Although not mentioned specifically by the Illinois statute, evaluation results gathered by the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) show alignment between a number of programs…

Avaliação do desempenho hidráulico de um sistema de drenagem de águas pluviais urbanas

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José Anderson do Nascimento Batista

Full Text Available RESUMO A ausência de planejamento e da integração entre as entidades responsáveis pelo gerenciamento da infraestrutura urbana associada à ocupação inadequada do espaço da cidade ocasiona sobrecargas em determinados trechos da rede pluvial. O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de avaliar o desempenho hidráulico do sistema de drenagem de águas pluviais urbanas do Campus Universitário “Professor Zeferino Vaz”, de tal forma que sejam identificados quais trechos apresentam sobrecarga e eventualmente inundações locais. Normalmente, em áreas urbanas, os dados hidrológicos disponíveis restringem-se aos dados pluviométricos. Dessa forma, são necessários métodos de transformação de chuva-vazão para o cálculo das vazões afluentes à rede de drenagem. Após a determinação das vazões afluentes, foram avaliadas as condições hidráulicas de operação em regime permanente variado. Por meio de índices de desempenho hidráulico reportados na literatura, foram avaliados graus de sobrecarga em cada trecho da rede de drenagem urbana. Além disso, a elaboração da matriz da contribuição hidráulica da rede de drenagem possibilitou identificar as causas das sobrecargas em cada trecho. As avaliações das redes do campus realizadas com período de retorno de 5 anos mostraram que o campus possui pelo menos 12 pontos de alagamento. Nesse sentido, o índice de desempenho hidráulico e a matriz de contribuições poderão constituir um importante instrumento também para uma eventual reabilitação dessas redes.

Irradiation of fuels and materials in the Jules Horowitz reactor: The 6th European Union JHR co-ordination action (JHR-CA)

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Iracane, Daniel; Parrat, Daniel

2005-01-01

The Fermine thematic network in the 5th FP pointed out the need for a new MTR facility in Europe to answer the continuous need of irradiation capabilities for fission power reactors and fusion facilities and to face the ageing of present MTRs. The Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR) Project in Cadarache copes with this context, as an international service-oriented user-facility. In the field of nuclear fuels and materials irradiation experiments, a 6th FP co-ordination action, called JHR-CA, has started at the beginning of 2004 for 2 years. The main objective is to network existing expertise on development of a new generation of experimental devices, through definition of conceptual designs, instrumentation and related in-reactor services. This paper presents the outline of the JHR project, the organization of the JHR-CA programme, and a choice of irradiation device conceptual design results. (author)

HORUS3D/TH: thermal-hydraulic modelling of the Jules Horowitz reactor core with FLICA4

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Royer, E.; Gregoire, O.; Magnaud, J.P.; Roux, L.; Masson, X.

2007-01-01

Cea is planning to build a new pool type reactor as irradiation facility in Cadarache, France: the Jules Horowitz Reactor (JHR). For this purpose, a simulation program is carried out at Cea: HORUS3D, aimed at modeling neutronics, radio-protection and thermal-hydraulics. Advanced features of the thermal-hydraulics component of this simulation program (HORUS3D/TH) are presented in the paper. HORUS3D/TH is based on the FLICA4 thermalhydraulic code. Numerically the main features of HORUS3D/TH are unstructured mesh grids and non-conform mappings. From a phenomenological point of view, flows under study range from high velocity forced convection to natural convection regimes. Steady and transient regimes have been simulated. The validation of physical models used is an important part of HORUS3D project. For thermohydraulics, this validation relies on the SULTAN-RJH experimental facility and fine scale CFD simulations. We have shown in this paper that it is possible to calibrate the macroscopic heat exchange correlation in the forced convection regime and under very high heat fluxes thanks to low Reynolds fine scale calculations. We particularly underline how to cope with the difficulties due to the complex geometry (cylindrical fuel assemblies, made of curved plates) and very high pressure drops and heat fluxes

El territorio municipal: caminos, parcelaciones y poblamiento. El espacio público: gobierno municipal y sociedad urbana

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Arasa i Gil, Ferran

1999-01-01

Se trata de dos capítulos de la Historia de la ciudad de Valencia en los que se abordan cuestiones relacionadas con el paisaje rural como el poblamiento, los caminos y las parcelaciones; y con el gobierno local y la sociedad urbana.

La tierra urbana en el portafolio de las fortunas antioqueñas en la primera mitad del siglo XX

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Fernando Botero

1992-07-01

Full Text Available La tesis principal, motivo de debate abierto que se plantea con este ensayo, tiene que ver con el papel que la tierra urbana tuvo en el conjunto de las fortunas antioqueñas. A su vez, esta temática sirve como puente para conectar los negocios a la historia urbana y ayudar a iluminar el debate en torno a la acumulación de capital en Antioquia. De esta forma la polémica sirve como pretexto y telón de fondo para exponer algunas tesis alternativas y proponer una nueva ventana para leer nuestro pasado y recuperar la memoria perdida que constituye el gran potencial y la esperanza para construir nuestro futuro.

La investigación sobre el espacio público en Colombia: su importancia para la gestión urbana

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Andrea Milena Burbano

2014-10-01

Full Text Available En este artículo, se presenta una primera aproximación a un estado del arte del espacio público de Colombia. Con este fin, este trabajo analiza la producción de los grupos de investigación de varias universidades e instituciones, tanto públicas como privadas. Los estudios revisados se organizaron desde las perspectivas espaciales, sociales, históricas y educativas, y se analizaron a partir de su influencia en la gestión urbana. Por último, se propone continuar con el seguimiento del desarrollo de la investigación en el campo a fin de llenar el vacío entre la investigación y las decisiones urbanas.

Evaluación ambiental de la arquitectura urbana moderna en Cali: análisis multidimensional de la arquitectura de Borrero, Zamorano y Giovanelli

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Cruz Velásquez, Carolina

2013-01-01

Con este trabajo queremos poner en valor los criterios espaciales, formales, urbanos y ambientales que tuvo la arquitectura moderna tanto en la elaboración de los proyectos como en el proceso de construcción de ciudad, dando como resultado una unidad urbana. De esta manera contribuir al desmantelamiento de la idea errónea que versa sobre como la arquitectura moderna negó su entorno y sus condicionantes ambientales y urbanas, insertándose en el territorio como un objeto aislado....

ESTIMA, a tool for EST management in a multi-project environment

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Lewin Harris A

2004-11-01

an archived format from http://titan.biotec.uiuc.edu/ESTIMA/. The entity-relationship (E-R diagrams and the programs used to generate the Oracle database tables are also available. We have also provided detailed installation instructions and a tutorial at the same website. Presently the chromatograms, EST databases and their annotations have been made available for cattle and honeybee brain EST projects. Non-academic users need to contact the W.M. Keck Center for Functional and Comparative Genomics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, for licensing information.

Health care costs matter: a review of nutrition economics – is there a role for nutritional support to reduce the cost of medical health care?

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Naberhuis JK

2017-08-01

Full Text Available Jane K Naberhuis,1 Vivienne N Hunt,2 Jvawnna D Bell,3 Jamie S Partridge,3 Scott Goates,3 Mark JC Nuijten4 1Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA; 2Abbott Nutrition, Research and Development, Singapore; 3Abbott Nutrition, Research and Development, Columbus, OH, USA; 4A2M (Ars Accessus Medica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Background and aims: As policy-makers assess the value of money spent on health care, research in the field of health economics is expanding rapidly. This review covers a period of 10 years and seeks to characterize the publication of papers at the intersection of health economics and nutrition. Methods: Relevant publications on nutrition care were identified in the medical literature databases using predetermined search criteria. These included nutritional interventions linked to health economic terms with inclusion criteria requiring original research that included clinical outcomes and cost analyses, subjects’ ages ≥18 years, and publications in English between January 2004 and October 2014. Results: Of the 5,646 publications identified in first-round searches, 274 met the specified inclusion criteria. The number of publications linking nutrition to economic outcomes has increased markedly over the 10-year period, with a growing number of studies in both developed and developing countries. Most studies were undertaken in Europe (39% and the USA and Canada (28%. The most common study setting was hospital (62% followed by community/noninstitutional care (30%. Of all the studies, 12% involved the use of oral nutritional supplements, and 13% involved parenteral nutrition. The economic outcomes consistently measured were medical care costs (53% of the studies, hospital length of stay (48%, hospital readmission rates (9%, and mortality (25%. Conclusion: The number of publications focused on the economics of nutrition interventions has increased dramatically in recent years