Alien Registration- Daigle, Frank P. (Rumford, Oxford County)

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Content Management System

The goal of my project was to develop a Content Management System for the CitrusTV website. This project was first brought to my attention in the Fall of 2009 by fellow Syracuse University student Alyssa Elias. As a Newhouse Broadcast Journalism major, Alyssa recognized a need to develop a site that better mirrored the CBS news video website after having interned there the summer entering Junior year. I was brought into the project because of my Information Technology minor, which allowed me to be familiar with the technical background necessary for the project. Additionally, my role involved maintaining communication between both Alyssa and the CitrusTV station in order to make sure what I was building was what they expected. Although the technical aspect of this project was not overly challenging, the issue of balancing the needs and restrictions of the CitrusTV station staff and Alyssa was both difficult and rewarding in the end. In general, both parties were easy to work with, but ensuring that all requirements were met was quite a major obstacle. Overall, the final Content Management System was completed, and although there were some difficulties along the way, it was both rewarding and enriching to complete the project

Is America Still Free?

If we take a moment and observe our current societal landscape, we may be intrigued by what we find. If we paint a broad brush over the 21st century, we are engaged in war in the Middle East, we have allowed our politicians to purchase their seats in office, and have overcome two large economic downturns. The economic issues are the collapse of Enron, the world’s largest energy supplier, and the housing market collapse of 2008. How many know what actually created the housing bubble? How many know about Enron? How many American Citizens understand how our current society is being run? This past fall, I was enrolled in Business in Society, a class that talks about how business has integrated into our society throughout history and the various roles it has played. Often there was conversation about our current societal landscape and how many people were ill-informed about our nation’s current affairs. It would seem difficult to understand why so many citizens are left in the dark given the extreme advances in technology over the past 20 years. Maybe social media and reality TV is to blame, which are much more attractive options compared to CNN or 60 Minutes. The one lesson that I learned from by business class is that capitalism and wealth rule this country. 1% of the population has acquired 99% of the Nation’s total wealth. This statistic was what created my honors project. This project was a joint venture between my Faculty mentor and I to delve into how our so called, “free country,” is having its future dictated by a handful of the largest companies in the world. When has wealth and power overtaken the need for ethics and integrity

BhaBAR: Big Halpha kinematical sample of BARred spiral galaxies - I. Fabry-Perot Observations of 21 galaxies

The Halpha gas kinematics of twenty-one representative barred spiral galaxies belonging to the BHaBAR sample is presented. The galaxies were observed with FaNTOmM, a Fabry-Perot integral-field spectrometer, on three different telescopes. The 3D data cubes were processed through a robust pipeline with the aim of providing the most homogeneous and accurate dataset possible useful for further analysis. The data cubes were spatially binned to a constant signal-to-noise ratio, typically around 7. Maps of the monochromatic Halpha emission line and of the velocity field were generated and the kinematical parameters were derived for the whole sample using tilted-ring models. The photometrical and kinematical parameters (position angle of the major axis, inclination, systemic velocity and kinematical centre) are in relative good agreement, except maybe for the later-type spirals.Comment: 34 pages, 25 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. To obtain a higher resolution version, go to ftp://ftp.astro.umontreal.ca/outgoing/olivier/bhabar.pdf or to http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/fantomm/bhabar

Alien Registration- Daigle, Joseph P J. (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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A Cryogenic Fluid System Simulation in Support of Integrated Systems Health Management

Simulations serve as important tools throughout the design and operation of engineering systems. In the context of sys-tems health management, simulations serve many uses. For one, the underlying physical models can be used by model-based health management tools to develop diagnostic and prognostic models. These simulations should incorporate both nominal and faulty behavior with the ability to inject various faults into the system. Such simulations can there-fore be used for operator training, for both nominal and faulty situations, as well as for developing and prototyping health management algorithms. In this paper, we describe a methodology for building such simulations. We discuss the design decisions and tools used to build a simulation of a cryogenic fluid test bed, and how it serves as a core technology for systems health management development and maturation

On the relevance of the Tremaine-Weinberg method applied to H-alpha velocity field.Pattern speeds determination in M100 (NGC 4321)

The relevance of the Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) method is tested to measure the bar, spiral and inner structure pattern speeds using a gaseous velocity field. The TW method is applied to various simulated barred galaxies in order to demonstrate its validity in seven different configurations, including star formation or/and dark matter halo. The reliability of the different physical processes involved and of the various observational parameters are also tested. The simulations show that the TW method could be applied to the gaseous velocity fields to get a good estimate of the bar pattern speed, under the condition that regions of shocks are avoided and measurements are confined to regions where the gaseous bar is well formed. We successfully apply the TW method to the \ha velocity field of the Virgo Cluster Galaxy M100 (NGC 4321) and derive pattern speeds of 55+/-5 km/s/kpc for the nuclear structure, 30+/-2 km/s/kpc for the bar and 20+/-1 km/s/kpc for the spiral pattern, in full agreement with published determinations using the same method or alternative ones.Comment: 29 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. To obtain a higher resolution version, visit to http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/fantomm/bhabar