This report summarizes the entire research period. In this program, we performed experiments using a femtosecond mid-infrared pump-probe system implemented for QCL samples operating at 4.6 and 5.3 μm. We employed femtosecond time-resolved pump-probe measurements to probe the nature of the transport through the laser structure via the dynamics of the gain. The gain recovery was determined by the...

Donald M. Norris ([email protected]) is President of Strategic Initiatives, Inc., a management consulting firm in Herndon, Virginia. He is internationally recognized as an authority on transforming organizations for the Knowledge Age. He is co-author of Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century. Norris is working with a number of strategic alliances focusing on vi...

Because the judge, prosecutor and defense attorney agreed that 19 year old Melissa Norris was insane in April [19761 when she beat her 3-month-old son to death while trying to exorcise "Satan", she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and will not go to prison. [Because the judge later ruled] that Miss Norris now is sane, she also cannot be sent to a mental hospital. So she walked out oft...

1Department of Microbiology/Immunology and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH; 2Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; 3Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor; 4Department of Genetics and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, ...

Norris et al. (1994) report that the temporal structure of faint gamma ray bursts is longer than that of bright bursts, as expected for time dilation in the cosmological models of burst origin. I show that the observed trends can easily be produced by a burst luminosity function and thus may not result from cosmological effects. A cosmological signature may be present, but the tests Norris et a...

Since Norris and Ortega‟s (2000) seminal work on the effectiveness of second language instruction, there has been a proliferation of meta-analyses in the field of applied linguistics. Subsequent meta-analysts, however, have uncritically followed the methodological choices made by Norris and Ortega. This paper suggests a critical reevaluation of the methodological procedures underlying the Norri...

'Entailment' can be said in many ways. In the present paper, we sketch a linguistic theory which motivates taking 'A entails B' to mean 'commitment to A is, in part, commitment to B', and we present four formal systems designed to capture this concept. These four systems turn out (somewhat surprisingly) to be the strict implicational fragments of the modal logics K, T, K4, and $4 (see Hughes an...

David Owen (Owen D)1, Joseph Ferguson (Ferguson J)2, Benjamin Keaton (Keaton B)2, Rodney Hansen (Hansen R)2, Gregory Norris (Norris GH)3 and David Aguilar (Aguilar D)2 1Department of Bachelor of Integrated Studies, Weber State University, Ogden, UT 84408 2Department of Athletic Training and Nutrition, Weber State University, Ogden, UT 84408 3Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Con...