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An Empirical Investigation of Critical Factors that Influence Data Warehouse Implementation Success in Higher Educational Institutions

Description: Data warehousing (DW) in the last decade has become the technology of choice for building data management infrastructures to provide organizations the decision-making capabilities needed to effectively carry out its activities. Despite its phenomenal growth and importance to organizations the rate of DW implementation success has been less than stellar. Many DW implementation projects fail due to technical or organizational reasons. There has been limited research on organizational factors and… more
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Date: May 2003
Creator: Mukherjee, Debasish
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Idaho National Laboratory Site Long-Term Stewardship Implementation Plan

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy has established long-term stewardship programs to protect human health and the environment at sites where residual contamination remains after site cleanup. At the Idaho National Laboratory Site, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERLA) long-term stewardship activities performed under the aegis of regulatory agreements, the Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order for the Idaho National Laboratory, and state and federal requ… more
Date: July 27, 2006
Creator: Olaveson, B. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Emissions Scenarios, Costs, and Implementation Considerations of REDD Programs

Description: Greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry sector are estimated to be 8.4 GtCO2-eq./year or about 17percent of the global emissions. We estimate that the cost forreducing deforestation is low in Africa and several times higher in Latin America and Southeast Asia. These cost estimates are sensitive to the uncertainties of how muchunsustainable high-revenue logging occurs, little understood transaction and program implementation costs, and barriers to implementation including governance issues. D… more
Date: April 11, 2011
Creator: Sathaye, Jayant; Andrasko, Ken & Chan, Peter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Designing PV Incentive Programs to Promote Performance: A Reviewof Current Practice in the U.S.

Description: In the U.S., the increasing financial support for customer-sited photovoltaic (PV) systems provided through publicly-funded incentive programs has heightened concerns about the long-term performance of these systems. Given the barriers that customers face to ensuring that their PV systems perform well, and the responsibility that PV incentive programs bear to ensure that public funds are prudently spent, these programs should, and often do, play a critical role in addressing PV system performan… more
Date: October 6, 2006
Creator: Barbose, Galen; Wiser, Ryan & Bolinger, Mark
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Unsymmetric ordering using a constrained Markowitz scheme

Description: We present a family of ordering algorithms that can be used as a preprocessing step prior to performing sparse LU factorization. The ordering algorithms simultaneously achieve the objectives of selecting numerically good pivots and preserving the sparsity. We describe the algorithmic properties and challenges in their implementation. By mixing the two objectives we show that we can reduce the amount of fill-in in the factors and reduce the number of numerical problems during factorization. On a… more
Date: January 18, 2005
Creator: Amestoy, Patrick R.; S., Xiaoye & Pralet, Stephane
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A 3D Contact Smoothing Method

Description: Smoothing of contact surfaces can be used to eliminate the chatter typically seen with node on facet contact and give a better representation of the actual contact surface. The latter affect is well demonstrated for problems with interference fits. In this work we present two methods for the smoothing of contact surfaces for 3D finite element contact. In the first method, we employ Gregory patches to smooth the faceted surface in a node on facet implementation. In the second method, we employ a… more
Date: May 2, 2002
Creator: Puso, M. A. & Laursen, T. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ANOMALY STRUCTURE OF SUPERGRAVITY AND ANOMALY CANCELLATION

Description: We display the full anomaly structure of supergravity, including new D-term contributions to the conformal anomaly. This expression has the super-Weyl and chiral U(1){sub K} transformation properties that are required for implementation of the Green-Schwarz mechanism for anomaly cancellation. We outline the procedure for full anomaly cancellation. Our results have implications for effective supergravity theories from the weakly coupled heterotic string theory.
Date: June 10, 2009
Creator: Butter, Daniel & Gaillard, Mary K.
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Numerical Predictions for the Demo Enclosure and Comparison to Experiment

Description: The ''demo enclosure'' is a small box meant to simulate the basic characteristics of an equipment enclosure, but without the complexity of an actual enclosure. Extensive experimental measurements have been made on the enclosure and are summarized in a companion report entitled ''Experimental Measurements of the Demo Enclosure''. In this report, we will summarize the associated numerical modeling of the enclosure's structural vibration and radiated sound field using finite and boundary element t… more
Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Fahnline, JB; Campbell, RL & Hambric, SA
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Implementation of MPICH on Top of MP{_}Lite

Description: The goal of this thesis is to develop a new Channel Interface device for the MPICH Implementation of the MPI (Message Passing Interface) standard using MP{_}Lite. MP{_}Lite is a lightweight message-passing library that is not a full MPI implementation, but offers high performance MPICH (Message Passing Interface CHameleon) is a full implementation of the MPI standard that has the p4 library as the underlying communication device for TCP/IP networks. By integrating MP{_}Lite as a Channel Interfa… more
Date: June 27, 2002
Creator: Selvarajan, Shoba
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions: Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Description: Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This paper provides some preliminary results on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
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Sensitivity study of reliable, high-throughput resolution metricsfor photoresists

Description: The resolution of chemically amplified resists is becoming an increasing concern, especially for lithography in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) regime. Large-scale screening and performance-based down-selection is currently underway to identify resist platforms that can support shrinking feature sizes. Resist screening efforts, however, are hampered by the absence of reliable resolution metrics that can objectively quantify resist resolution in a high-throughput fashion. Here we examine two high-… more
Date: July 30, 2007
Creator: Anderson, Christopher N. & Naulleau, Patrick P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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In-situ FPGA debug driven by on-board microcontroller

Description: Often we are faced with the situation that the behavior of a circuit changes in an unpredictable way when chassis cover is attached or the system is not easily accessible. For instance, in a deployed environment, such as space, hardware can malfunction in unpredictable ways. What can a designer do to ascertain the cause of the problem? Register interrogations only go so far, and sometimes the problem being debugged is register transactions themselves, or the problem lies in FPGA programming. Th… more
Date: January 1, 2009
Creator: Baker, Zachary Kent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Southern idaho Wildlife Mitigation Implementation 1999 Annual Report.

Description: This report is for the Southern Idaho Wildlife Mitigation Implementation project. This project, implemented by IDFG and SBT wildlife mitigation staff, is designed to protect, enhance and maintain wildlife habitats to mitigate construction losses for Palisades, Anderson Ranch, Black Canyon and Minidoka hydroelectric projects. Additional project information is available in the quarterly reports.
Date: April 1, 2000
Creator: Bottum, Edward & Mikkelsen, Anders
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Case for Including Transactions in OpenMP

Description: Transactional Memory (TM) has received significant attention recently as a mechanism to reduce the complexity of shared memory programming. We explore the potential of TM to improve OpenMP applications. We combine a software TM (STM) system to support transactions with an OpenMP implementation to start thread teams and provide task and loop-level parallelization. We apply this system to two application scenarios that reflect realistic TM use cases. Our results with this system demonstrate that … more
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Wong, M.; Bihari, B. L.; de Supinski, B. R.; Wu, P.; Michael, M.; Liu, Y. et al.
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Implementation of modal combination rules for response spectrum analysis using GEMINI

Description: One of the widely used methodologies for describing the behavior of a structural system subjected to seismic excitation is response spectrum modal dynamic analysis. Several modal combination rules are proposed in the literature to combine the responses of individual modes in a response spectrum dynamic analysis. In particular, these modal combination rules are used to estimate the representative maximum value of a particular response of interest for design purposes. Furthermore, these combinati… more
Date: June 1, 1999
Creator: Nukala, P K
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laying Second Eyes: A Qualitative Assessment of Pediatric Tele-Specialty Programs

Description: This study aimed to create a holistic understanding of the physician experience in relation to telemedicine. This study examined a Tele-NICU and a Tele-ER program at a large metropolitan pediatric specialty hospital with a Level IV NICU that provides telemedicine consults to 16 remote sites across Texas. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with physicians and nurses at remote hospitals, physicians who provide consultations from the pediatric specialty hospital, and managers of… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Deahl, Claire C
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Implementation of Strategies to Leverage Public and Private Resources for National Security Workforce Development

Description: This report documents implementation strategies to leverage public and private resources for the development of an adequate national security workforce as part of the National Security Preparedness Project (NSPP), being performed under a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) grant. There are numerous efforts across the United States to develop a properly skilled and trained national security workforce. Some of these efforts are the result of the leverag… more
Date: April 1, 2009
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Using SPARK as a Solver for Modelica

Description: Modelica is an object-oriented acausal modeling language that is well positioned to become a de-facto standard for expressing models of complex physical systems. To simulate a model expressed in Modelica, it needs to be translated into executable code. For generating run-time efficient code, such a translation needs to employ algebraic formula manipulations. As the SPARK solver has been shown to be competitive for generating such code but currently cannot be used with the Modelica language, we … more
Date: June 30, 2008
Creator: Wetter, Michael; Wetter, Michael; Haves, Philip; Moshier, Michael A. & Sowell, Edward F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary of Workshop: Barriers to Energy Efficient Residential Ventilation

Description: The objectives for this workshop were to bring together those with different viewpoints on the implementation of energy efficient ventilation in homes to share their perspectives. The primary benefit of the workshop is to allow the participants to get a broader understanding of the issues involved and thereby make themselves more able to achieve their own goals in this area. In order to achieve this objective each participant was asked to address four objectives from their point of view: (1) Dr… more
Date: January 10, 2008
Creator: Sherman, Max & Sherman, Max
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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