Measurement of Particle Size and Distribution in a Suspension

The purpose of the present investigation was the determination of size of Glyptal in suspension

Default Judgment in Montana: The Costs of Inexcusable Neglect or the Death of Trial on the Merits?

Default Judgmen

Can tax policy change exploration levels? A case of Alaska oil legislation.

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2014.This thesis applies modern Autoregressive Distributed Lag modeling techniques to estimate the effects of oil tax policy in the case of the 2007 ACES legislation on exploratory drilling within Alaska. This analysis uses recently released public data to examine the period of 1986 to 2013 in quarterly intervals which includes all periods in which ACES was in place. While this subject has become a popular subject of debate within the state and industry, no similar statistical analysis has been conducted to date. According to the results, ACES had a significantly negative and lasting effect on exploration levels while it was in effect. The oil price and interest rate are also found to be important variables in characterizing exploration activity

Default Judgment in Montana: The Costs of Inexcusable Neglect or the Death of Trial on the Merits?

Default Judgmen

Integrating Earthquake Preparedness at IIT-Mandi

The goal of our project was to create a Resource for Emergency Planning (REP) for the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. We conducted an online survey and coordinated in-person interviews with family members, staff and security guards to gauge the level of awareness concerning seismic risk on campus. We evaluated the campus terrain with regard to earthquake vulnerability. Lastly, we met with officials in Mandi District to understand the government\u27s policies toward preparing communities for a quake. In completing these tasks, we identified gaps in preparedness on campus and were able to provide recommendations in the REP manual for the institute, including evacuation maps for residents to follow in the event of an earthquake

The Writing Center

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Recovering Intrinsic Images from a Single Image

We present an algorithm that uses multiple cues to recover shading and reflectance intrinsic images from a single image. Using both color information and a classifier trained to recognize gray-scale patterns, each image derivative is classified as being caused by shading or a change in the surface's reflectance. Generalized Belief Propagation is then used to propagate information from areas where the correct classification is clear to areas where it is ambiguous. We also show results on real images

Playing with Puffball: Simple Scale-Invariant Inflation for Use in Vision and Graphics

We describe how inflation, the act of mapping a 2D silhouette to a 3D region, can be applied in two disparate problems to offer insight and improvement: silhouette part segmentation and image-based material transfer. To demonstrate this, we introduce Puffball, a novel inflation technique, which achieves similar results to existing inflation approaches -- including smoothness, robustness, and scale and shift-invariance -- through an exceedingly simple and accessible formulation. The part segmentation algorithm avoids many of the pitfalls of previous approaches by finding part boundaries on a canonical 3-D shape rather than in the contour of the 2-D shape; the algorithm gives reliable and intuitive boundaries, even in cases where traditional approaches based on the 2D Minima Rule are misled. To demonstrate its effectiveness, we present data in which subjects prefer Puffball's segmentations to more traditional Minima Rule-based segmentations across several categories of silhouettes. The texture transfer algorithm utilizes Puffball's estimated shape information to produce visually pleasing and realistically synthesized surface textures with no explicit knowledge of either underlying shape.National Eye Institute (Special Training Grant