Funded by grants from the National Science (DUE 0817461 and 0817498), the first cohort of engineering and engineering technology colleges gathered in the summer of 2010 to work with Purdue University and Alverno College faculty on curriculum development for student learning outcomes, including Engineer of 2020 attributes. The overarching goals of this panel are to (1) present the progress of th...

The Arctic and sub-Arctic environments have seen a rapid growth of shrub vegetation at the expense of the Arctic tundra in recent decades. In order to develop better tools to assess and understand this phenomenon, the sensitivity of multi-polarized SAR backscattering at C and X band to shrub density and height is studied under various conditions. RADARSAT-2 and TerraSAR-X images were acquired f...

We review the status of searches for Supersymmetry at the Tevatron Collider. After discussing the theoretical aspects relevant to the production and decay of supersymmetric particles at the Tevatron, we present the current results for Runs Ia and Ib as of the summer of 1997.

By means of an event study of stock market reactions to the announcement of the Olympic Games host cities, we find a significant and positive announcement effect of hosting the Summer Games, with a cumulative abnormal return of about 2% within a few days. We do not find any significant results for the Winter Games. Neither do we detect a significant impact when bidders lose the competition. Our...

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t is late Sunday afternoon in August. A child stands alone in the garden listening to the metallic sounds of insects, " reads Charles Burchfield's own description of The Insect Chorus. " They are all his world, so, to his mind, all things become saturated with their presence–crickets lurk in the depths of the grass, the shadows of the trees conceal fantastic creatures, and the boy looks with fe...

thousand. Four years later there were about two hundred camps in existence, and five thousand boys were in the field. The number has increased steadily and rapidly in the last five years. Five years ago about ten thousand boys received the benefit of outdoor life during the summer months. During the past season, 1907, there were between four and five hundred summer camps, and about twenty-five ...

Have come and gone Quintessential Remnants of summer Rambutans and durians Discarded peels Bustles with activity Lives of other kinds Wriggling and swimming Summer dreams Of warm humid nights Fanning away the creatures of nature That annoying bustle of wings Of lives that emerged from the discards Creatures of nature That fly in search of meals Meals of red Within the meal Enveloped In a protec...