Title of Document: THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF THREE TECHNIQUES FOR ATTACHING SOLAR-POWERED GSM SATELLITE TRANSMITTERS ON SURF SCOTERS Kevin M. McBride, Master of Science, 2014 Directed By: Dr. Mary Ann Ottinger, Department of Animal Sciences Implanted satellite transmitters are used in seaducks to track migration routes, breeding, and wintering grounds. However, high mortality rates, handli...

The suitability of seven media for the enumeration of Listeria spp. was evaluated at 30 degrees C for 48 h. The media tested were (i) the original McBride Listeria agar formulation (with glycine); (ii) modified McBride agar containing glycine anhydride; (iii) LiCl-phenylethanol-moxalactam (LPM) agar; (iv) acriflavine-ceftazidime agar; (v) Rodriguez isolation agar (RISA); (vi) modified Vogel-Joh...

Thalidomide (a-[N-phthalmido]-glutarimide) was synthesized in 1954, in what was then West Germany, by Chemie Grünenthal under the brand name of Contergan and was subsequently licensed in 46 other countries worldwide, covering all continents. It is an odorless white crystalline compound with low solubility in water (McBride, ’77; Stirling et al., ’97). A number of pharmaceutical companies manufa...

This paper propose a new complex adaptive notch Þlter (ANF) structure based on the Steiglitz-McBride (SM) method. Recursive least square (RLS) algorithm is applied to the proposed ANF with optimized stepsize. Simulations show that RLS-SM ANF converges fast and requires less computational complexity than the conventional ANF using recursive prediction error (RPE) algorithm.

The purpose of system identification is to build mathematical models for dynamical systems from experimental data. With the current increase in complexity of engineering systems, an important challenge is to develop accurate and computationally efficient algorithms. For estimation of parametric models, the prediction error method (PEM) is a benchmark in the field. When the noise is Gaussian and...