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Teaching in the Collaborative Virtual Learning Environment of Second Life: Design Considerations For Virtual World Developers
(2012-02-14)
Educators are seeking ways to better engage their students including the use of collaborative virtual learning environments (CVLEs). Some virtual worlds can serve as CVLEs as the advent of Second Life has created particular ...
Dry Versus Wet Aging of Beef: Retail Cutting Yields and Palatability Evaluations of Steaks Using Alternative Cutting Styles
(2012-12-05)
Boneless ribeye rolls (n = 12) and boneless top sirloin butts (n = 12) were obtained from heavy weight carcasses (mean = 407.8 kg), assigned to one of two aging treatments (dry or wet) and aged for 35 days at a commercial ...
An Improved Lagrangian Relaxation Method for VLSI Combinational Circuit Optimization
(2012-02-14)
Gate sizing and threshold voltage (Vt) assignment are very popular and useful techniques in current very large scale integration (VLSI) design flow for timing and power optimization. Lagrangian relaxation (LR) is a common ...
Passive Flow Control Method for Mitigation of Unsteady Load Excursions on a Wind Turbine Blade
(2012-11-16)
Stochastic flow conditions, such as large unsteady wind gusts and coherent structures in turbulent winds, cause detrimental blade loadings to horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT). Such loadings lead to large blade root ...
Fish Assemblage and Food Web Structure in Whedos (Shallow Floodplain Habitats) of the Oueme River, West Africa
(2012-10-19)
In the Oueme River, a lowland river in Benin, Africa, artificial ponds constructed in the floodplain (whedos) are colonized during the high-water period by a presumably random sample of fishes from the river channel. As ...
Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Anion-pi Interactions Metallacyclic Architectures of First-Row Transition Metals and N-Heteroaromatic Ligands
(2012-07-16)
Research into anion-pi interactions has shifted from attempts to establish the legitimacy of the interaction to the incorporation of anion-pi interactions into supramolecular architectures. The research discussed in this ...
Fluid Migration During Ice/Rock Planetesimal Differentiation
(2012-12-12)
Much speculation on extraterrestrial life has focused on finding environments where water is present. Heating of smaller icy bodies may create and sustain a possible liquid layer below the surface. If liquid water was ...
Phylogeographic Patterns of Tylos (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in the Pacific Region Between Southern California and Central Mexico, and Mitochondrial Phylogeny of the Genus
(2012-08-17)
Isopods in the genus Tylos are distributed in tropical and subtropical sandy intertidal beaches throughout the world. These isopods have biological characteristics that are expected to severely restrict their long-distance ...
Effects of Water Content and Alumino-Silicate Sources on the Structure and Properties of Geopolymers
(2012-10-19)
Geopolymers (GPs) are a special class of inorganic polymers with unique properties. Their 3-D amorphous structure and properties are often attributed to SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratios. However; contradictory results reported in ...
Regulation of Branching by Phytochrome and Phytohormones
(2012-07-16)
Light is the fundamental source of energy and information throughout the plant life cycle. Light signals regulate plant architecture and branching, key processes that determine biomass production and grain yield. Low red ...