The History of the Pace Law Library

The Pace University School of Law Library is a gateway to information. As an essential component of legal education, the Library collects and organizes information to support the curriculum and programs of the Pace University School of Law, makes effective use of all available resources to promote student and faculty scholarship, and teaches Pace University School of Law students, faculty, and staff how to retrieve, evaluate, and manage information in an efficient, professional, and ethical manner

The Ants of Burleigh County, North Dakota

Burleigh County is located in the south-central se c tion of the s tate of North Dakota. It l ie s within the Missouri Coteau Dis tr ict of the Glaciated Missouri S e c t ion , Great Plains Province, Interior Plains Physiographic Division of the United S ta te s . E co lo g ica lly , the county l ie s in the Mixed-gras s Prairie Association of the North American Gra s s lands Biome. The Temperate Deciduous Forest Biome is represented by the gallery forests along the Missouri River. The purpose of this study was to determine which ant sp e c ie s are found in this county, their relative abundance, distribution, nesting h a b i t s , and habitats . Specimens were co lle c ted from the ne s ts discovered during e x ten - sive travel and intensive observation over the county. Two hundred and ninety-two co lle c tions of ants were made in 1961 and 1962, and then identified. Maps were prepared showing the location of each n e s t. Distribution was correlated with e co lo g ica l and geological fe a tu r e s . Ecological observations indicated that the ant sp e c ie s could be grouped into three categor ies based upon adaptation to e co log ica l environments: (1) woodlands; (2) gras s lands ; and (3) both woodlands and g r a s s la n d s . One sp e c ie s , Formica sp. (morsei? ; identification not confirmed), was recorded for the second time in the United Sta te s and the first time in North Dakota. The co lle c tion of Camponotus caryae discolor is only the second recorded for North Dakota. Five other sp e c ie s colle cted r during this study, Formica cr iniventr is , Formica puberula, Formica dakotensis , Formica fo s sa c ep s , and Camponotus herculeanus , had previously been found rarely in North Dakota. The taxonomic l i s t of ants co lle c ted in Burleigh County comprises the following sp e c ie s : Myrmica amer icana, Myrmica brevinodis, Myrmica brevispino sa , Myrmica lobicornis f ra c t ico rn is , Myrmica monticola , Pogonomyrmex oc c identa lis , Crematogaster l in e o la ta , Monomorium minimum, Leptothorax canadensis , Dorymyrmex pyramicus , Tapinoma s e s s i l e , Camponotus he rculeanus , Camponotus noveborac e n s i s , Componotus pennsylvanicus , Camponotus caryae d is co lo r , Camponotus n e a r c t i cu s , Lasius c ryp t lcu s , Lasius neoniger , Lasius s i tk a e n s i s , Lasius f la v u s , Lasius subumbratus, Lasius umbratus, Acanthomyops c la v ig e r , Acanthomyops parvulus, Formica bradleyi, Formica n e o g ag a te s , Formica ob tu sopilo sa , Formica puberula, Formica rubicunda, Formica sanguinea subnuda, Formica cr iniventr is , Formica d a k o ten s is , Formica fo s s a c e p s , Formica haemorrhoidalis, Formica o b s cu r ip e s , Formica ob s cu r ivent r is , Formica oreas comptula, Formica morsei, Formica u lk e i , Formica cinerea lepida , Formica cinerea montana, Formica fu s c a , Formica neoc lara

An EPIIC Vision to Evolve Project Integration, Innovation, and Collaboration with Broad Impact for How NASA Executes Complex Projects

Evolving Project Integration, Innovation, and Collaboration (EPIIC) is a vision defined to transform the way projects manage information to support real-time decisions, capture best practices and lessons learned, perform assessments, and manage risk across a portfolio of projects. The foundational project management needs for data and information will be revolutionized through innovations on how we manage and access that data, implement configuration control, and certify compliance. The embedded intelligence of new interactive data interfaces integrate technical and programmatic data such that near real time analytics can be accomplished to more efficiently and accurately complete systems engineering and project management tasks. The system-wide data analytics that are integrated into customized data interfaces allows the growing team of engineers and managers required to develop and implement major NASA missions the ability to access authoritative source(s) of system information while greatly reducing the labor required to complete system assessments. This would allow, for example, much of what is accomplished in a scheduled design review to take place as needed, between any team members, at any time. An intelligent data interface that rigorously integrates systems engineering and project management information in near real time can provide substantially greater insight for systems engineers, project managers, and the large diverse teams required to complete a complex project. System engineers, programmatic personnel (those who focus on cost, schedule, and risk), the technical engineering disciplines, and project management can realize immediate benefit from the shared vision described herein. Implementation of the vision also enables significant improvements in the performance of the engineered system being developed

A near-field scanned microwave probe for spatially localized electrical metrology

We have developed a near-field scanned microwave probe with a sampling volume of approximately 10 micron in diameter, which is the smallest one achieved in near-field microwave microscopy. This volume is defined to confine close to 100 percent of the probe net sampling reactive energy, thus making the response virtually independent on the sample properties outside of this region. The probe is formed by a 4 GHz balanced stripline resonator with a few-micron tip size. It provides non-contact, non-invasive measurement and is uniquely suited for spatially localized electrical metrology applications, e.g. on semiconductor production wafers.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Appl. Phys. Let

Internal NASA Study: NASAs Protoflight Research Initiative

The NASA Protoflight Research Initiative is an internal NASA study conducted within the Office of the Chief Engineer to better understand the use of Protoflight within NASA. Extensive literature reviews and interviews with key NASA members with experience in both robotic and human spaceflight missions has resulted in three main conclusions and two observations. The first conclusion is that NASA's Protoflight method is not considered to be "prescriptive." The current policies and guidance allows each Program/Project to tailor the Protoflight approach to better meet their needs, goals and objectives. Second, Risk Management plays a key role in implementation of the Protoflight approach. Any deviations from full qualification will be based on the level of acceptable risk with guidance found in NPR 8705.4. Finally, over the past decade (2004 - 2014) only 6% of NASA's Protoflight missions and 6% of NASA's Full qualification missions experienced a publicly disclosed mission failure. In other words, the data indicates that the Protoflight approach, in and of it itself, does not increase the mission risk of in-flight failure. The first observation is that it would be beneficial to document the decision making process on the implementation and use of Protoflight. The second observation is that If a Project/Program chooses to use the Protoflight approach with relevant heritage, it is extremely important that the Program/Project Manager ensures that the current project's requirements falls within the heritage design, component, instrument and/or subsystem's requirements for both the planned and operational use, and that the documentation of the relevant heritage is comprehensive, sufficient and the decision well documented. To further benefit/inform this study, a recommendation to perform a deep dive into 30 missions with accessible data on their testing/verification methodology and decision process to research the differences between Protoflight and Full Qualification missions' Design Requirements and Verification & Validation (V&V) (without any impact or special request directly to the project)