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CERT\u27s Function in Campus Emergency Management
The University of Texas at Dallas founded its CERT in 2004, and the team has existed continuously since then. Currently, we are the oldest CERT in the UT system and one of the oldest campus CERTs in Texas. In this session, UTD’s Emergency Manager and CERT President/Trainer will discuss our history and our plans for the future. We will address starting a campus CERT, recruitment strategies, training and continuing education strategies, retention strategies, CERT’s role in the campus community and CERT’s function in campus Emergency Management
Astronomical random numbers for quantum foundations experiments
Photons from distant astronomical sources can be used as a classical source
of randomness to improve fundamental tests of quantum nonlocality,
wave-particle duality, and local realism through Bell's inequality and
delayed-choice quantum eraser tests inspired by Wheeler's cosmic-scale
Mach-Zehnder interferometer gedankenexperiment. Such sources of random numbers
may also be useful for information-theoretic applications such as key
distribution for quantum cryptography. Building on the design of an
"astronomical random-number generator" developed for the recent "cosmic Bell"
experiment [Handsteiner et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 060401 (2017)], in this
paper we report on the design and characterization of a device that, with
20-nanosecond latency, outputs a bit based on whether the wavelength of an
incoming photon is greater than or less than 700 nm. Using the one-meter
telescope at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Table Mountain Observatory, we
generated random bits from astronomical photons in both color channels from 50
stars of varying color and magnitude, and from 12 quasars with redshifts up to
. With stars, we achieved bit rates of Hz /
m, limited by saturation for our single-photon detectors, and with quasars
of magnitudes between 12.9 and 16, we achieved rates between and Hz /m. For bright quasars, the resulting bitstreams exhibit
sufficiently low amounts of statistical predictability as quantified by the
mutual information. In addition, a sufficiently high fraction of bits generated
are of true astronomical origin in order to address both the locality and
freedom-of-choice loopholes when used to set the measurement settings in a test
of the Bell-CHSH inequality.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures. References added and minor edits to match
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Water power plant for the University of Missouri
"A thesis presented for the degree of Bachelor of Science in civil engineering."Manuscript copy.Includes bibliographical references.Hydro-Electric Power Development is fast becoming one of the largest branches of engineering. Much attention is being paid to it in all good engineering schools. But it is impossible to get much out of the study unless a plant is available for experimental work for the students. Cornell University has such a plant for this use. The engineering of this plant, the water wheels, the electrical equipment, etc. were supplied by various large manufacturing companies at practically cost price. Now that the University of Missouri is giving special courses in hydraulic engineering, it is very essential that she have such a plant at her services. The object of this thesis is to investigate a project that will supply this need. wDigitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2011
Using food processing plant waste on fields (1990)
Food processors, such as dairy processing plants, are pretreating processing wastes to reduce waste loads discharged to municipal treatment plants. Many of these food processors have installed waste treatment facilities. These facilities may generate sludges that can benefit farmers when used as a liming material or as a nutrient additive to fields. Sludge or biomass from treatment at dairy plants contains microbial matter, water and some minerals. The microbial matter contains nitrogen and phosphorus, which are usable plant nutrients that can benefit agriculture instead of just being landfill waste. This guide, based on MU research, provides information on using the waste or lime stabilized biomass (LSB) from food processing plants for liming fields.New 7/90/7M
Odor identification in young and elderly African-Americans and Caucasians
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72304/1/j.1754-4505.1995.tb00501.x.pd
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