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  • Environmental Effects of Tidal Energy Development

    Creator:
    Polagye, Brian, Van Cleve, Brie, Copping, Andrea, and Kirkendall, Keith
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    This report summarizes the outcomes of a March 22-25, 2010, workshop in Seattle, Washington, on the environmental effects of tidal energy development. The workshop focused on building capabilities to evaluate the environmental effects of tidal energy from turbines placed in the water column throughout the United States. However, it did...
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    Technical Report
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    Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

  • An in-depth analysis of common software vulnerabilities and their solutions

    Creator:
    Van Dyke, Colin William
    Abstract:
    With the current security climate throughout the Internet, a large emphasis is being placed on protecting software systems from attack by a malicious entity. Most successful attacks against software are the result of lazy or misinformed developers and are easily prevented given the correct preparation and instruction. This document provides...
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    Masters Thesis
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    like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Nina Berry of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore

  • The Hanford Laboratories and the growth of environmental research in the Pacific Northwest, 1943 to 1965

    Creator:
    Ellis, D. Erik
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    The scientific endeavors that took place at Hanford Engineer Works, beginning in World War II and continuing thereafter, are often overlooked in the literature on the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Energy Commission, and in regional histories. To historians of science, Hanford is described as an industrial facility that illustrates the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    - dominated national laboratories of the Atomic Energy Commission. By the mid 1960s, with growing public

  • GIScience

    Creator:
    Wright, Dawn J.
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    GIScience (geographic information science) is a scholarly discipline that addresses fundamental issues surrounding the use of a variety of digital technologies to handle geographic information; namely, information about places, activities, and phenomena on and near the surface of the Earth that are stored in maps or images. GIScience includes the...
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    Part of Book
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    - Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), the Department of Homeland

  • A methodology for safeguards evaluation and its application to mixed oxide fuel fabrication

    Creator:
    Azarfar, Mohammad Ali
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    This study focuses on the development of a methodology to evaluate safeguardability of various processes in the nuclear fuel cycle. National and international implementation of safeguards systems has been investigated. It was concluded that proliferation is purely a political question that, hopefully, can be prevented by international norms and diplomacy;...
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    Dissertation
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    safeguardability of various processes in the nuclear fuel cycle. National and international implementation of

  • Towards Pactive (Passive + Active) Sensing for Security Applications

    Creator:
    Menon, Arya
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    Increasing threats of terrorism and contraband smuggling have led to a growing interest in millimeter wave/ THz security sensors. Recently, systems combining active and passive sensing into one unit have been proposed where the active mode provides information on range and reflectivity, and the passive mode complements the active by...
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    Dissertation
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    stand-off distances of a few meters would greatly enhance the ability of security sensors to classify

  • Forest Service National Forest System Perceptions of Law Enforcement and Investigations: Nationwide Study

    Creator:
    Chavez, Deborah J. and Tynon, Joanne F.
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    This is the fifth in a series of studies to evaluate perceptions of the roles, responsibilities, and issues entailed in the jobs of U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service law enforcement and investigations (LEI) personnel. An e-mail survey was administered to the 537 Forest Service forest supervisors and district rangers...
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    Article
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    Perceptions of Law Enforcement and Investigations: Nationwide Study United States Department of

  • Morality of biometrics

    Creator:
    Tao, Dany
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    "‘Biometrics is at the forefront in our agenda for homeland security,’ declared Asa Hutchinson, the Department of Homeland Security's undersecretary for border and transportation security, at the 2004 Biometric Consortium Conference” [11]. Flashy retinal scanning and voice activated computers were once considered technologies for science fiction movies and novels. Nowadays,...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    at the forefront in our agenda for homeland security,’ declared Asa Hutchinson, the Department of

  • Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

    Creator:
    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
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    L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
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    Dissertation
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    in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the

  • Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

    Creator:
    Schefke, Brian R.
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    Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Chair of Department of History Dean of O'rdthte School I understand that my thesis will become part of