spring & summer 2012

Oilfield Review - Summer 2012

Summer 2012 Newsletter

Our initial research problem was to understand the prevalence and intensity of the water-borne fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in New Jersey amphibians. The objectives related to addressing this problem were twofold. The first objective was to correlate water and air temperature to the prevalence and intensity of Bd. Other studies in the field and in the lab have shown that Bd is sen...

Cmsc 754:spring 2012

Problem 1. As mentioned in class, the convex hull is a somewhat non-robust shape descriptor, since if there are any distant outlying points, they will tend to dominate the shape of the hull. A more robust method is based on the following iterative approach. Given a planar point set P in general position (see Fig. 1(a)), let H1 be the convex hull of P . Remove the vertices of H1 from P and compu...

BACHELOR THESIS Spring 2012

As consumers are getting better at avoiding the traditional marketing campaigns companies are using, it has become crucial for companies to differentiate their marketing. One way of doing this is to use guerrilla marketing, a marketing type more extreme, innovative and attention capturing than traditional marketing. The purpose of this thesis is to explore how the use of guerrilla marketing aff...

Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought.

The global terrestrial carbon sink offsets one-third of the world's fossil fuel emissions, but the strength of this sink is highly sensitive to large-scale extreme events. In 2012, the contiguous United States experienced exceptionally warm temperatures and the most severe drought since the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, resulting in substantial economic damage. It is crucial to understand the dyn...

ECHO-nbaslh-summer 2012.indd

The purpose of this study was to compare nasalance values in tracheoesophageal (TE) voice prosthesis and laryngeal speakers. Nasalance measures were obtained from 10 age-matched male TE speakers and 10 healthy male laryngeal speakers reading the Zoo Passage and Nasal Sentences. All TE speakers were rated as good to excellent in terms of speech proficiency and intelligibility. Nasalance scores w...