Development of a standardized vehicle identification number. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Intelligent transportation systems and intermodal freight transportation /

"Sponsoring/monitoring agency report number: DOT-FHWA-JPO-97-008"--Report documentation page.

The new metal worker pattern book; a complete course of instruction in the modern methods of developing and cutting the patterns for sheet metal work, giving the principles underlying practically every problem that is likely to come up in practice and explaining the selection and use of drawing tools and linear and geometrical drawing so clearly that one, who has had no previous knowledge of arithmetic or drawing, may understand these essentials and apply them in using the 253 problems in the development of patterns by the parallel line, conical or flaring, and triangulation systems.

Mode of access: Internet.

Children's piano pieces the whole world plays : a collection of more than one hundred and fifty tuneful piano pieces for juvenile players, including standard teaching and recreation pieces, and in addition a considerable number of new compositions /

Mode of access: Internet.

Investigation of inappropriate pollutant entries into storm drainage systems : a user's guide /

"Contract number 68-C9-0033 and Cooperative Agreement number CR-816862."

Skin friction, heat transfer, and pressure measurements on hypersonic inlet compression surfaces in the Mach number range 7.5 to 16.

Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc., Buffalo. Report no. AA-1948-Y-3

Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context : Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond /

After the electoral reform in 1994, Japan saw a gradual evolution from a multi-party system toward a two-party system over the course of five House of Representatives election cycles. In contrast, after Taiwan’s constitutional amendment in 2005, a two-party system emerged in the first post-reform legislative election in 2008. Critically, however, Taiwan’s president is directly elected while Japan’s prime minister is indirectly elected. The contributors conclude that the higher the payoffs of holding the executive office and the greater degree of cross-district coordination required to win it, the stronger the incentives for elites to form and stay in the major parties. In such a context, a country will move rapidly toward a two-party system. In Part II, the contributors apply this theoretical logic to other countries with mixed-member systems to demonstrate its generality. They find the effect of executive competition on legislative electoral rules in countries as disparate as Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand, Bolivia, and Russia. The findings presented in this book have important implications for political reform. Often, reformers are motivated by high hopes of solving some political problems and enhancing the quality of democracy. But, as this group of scholars demonstrates, electoral reform alone is not a panacea. Whether and to what extent it achieves the advocated goals depends not only on the specification of new electoral rules per se but also on the political context—and especially the constitutional framework—within which such rules are embedded.

Estimating the number of persons with records of arrest in the Illinois labor force /

"April 1982."

The union, number five : containing lessons for reading and spelling, with exercises in mental arithmetic, abbreviations, definitions, &c. : being the fifth of a series of spelling and reading books, in six numbers /

At head of title: Angell's union series.

Cobb's explanatory arithmetick, number two : containing the compound rules and all that is necessary of every other rule in arithmetic for practical purposes ... to which is annexed a practical system of book-keeping /

Mode of access: Internet.

Merchant ship automation study; final report. Contract number MA-2228, U.S. Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration, Washington.

v.1.Summary and recommendations.--v.2.Automatic ship control and communications systems.--v.3.Appendices to 262 R 0012.--v.3.Appendices to 262 R 0012.--v.4.automatic control of engineering functions.--v.5.Appendices to 262 R 0014.--v.6.Powerplants and auxiliaries for automated ships.--v.7.Economic aspects of automation.--v.8.Legal implications of automation.

The national evaluation of the Pilot Cities Program : a team approach to improving local criminal justice systems /

Issued November 1975.

Teaching College Writing in a High School Setting: The Impact of Concurrent Enrollment on Teacher Learning and Practice

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Configurations in 4-cycle systems

A 4-cycle system of order n, denoted by 4CS(n), exists if and only if nequivalent to1 (mod 8). There are four configurations which can be formed by two 4-cycles in a 4CS(n). Formulas connecting the number of occurrences of each such configuration in a 4CS(n) are given. The number of occurrences of each configuration is determined completely by the number d of occurrences of the configuration D consisting of two 4-cycles sharing a common diagonal. It is shown that for every nequivalent to1 (mod 8) there exists a 4CS(n) which avoids the configuration D, i.e. for which d=0. The exact upper bound for d in a 4CS(n) is also determined.

Geometric distortion in clinical MRI systems - Part I: evaluation using a 3D phantom

Recently, a 3D phantom that can provide a comprehensive and accurate measurement of the geometric distortion in MRI has been developed. Using this phantom, a full assessment of the geometric distortion in a number of clinical MRI systems (GE and Siemens) has been carried out and detailed results are presented in this paper. As expected, the main source of geometric distortion in modern superconducting MRI systems arises from the gradient field nonlinearity. Significantly large distortions with maximum absolute geometric errors ranged between 10 and 25 mm within a volume of 240 x 240 x 240 mm(3) were observed when imaging with the new generation of gradient systems that employs shorter coils. By comparison, the geometric distortion was much less in the older-generation gradient systems. With the vendor's correction method, the geometric distortion measured was significantly reduced but only within the plane in which these 2D correction methods were applied. Distortion along the axis normal to the plane was, as expected, virtually unchanged. Two-dimensional correction methods are a convenient approach and in principle they are the only methods that can be applied to correct geometric distortion in a single slice or in multiple noncontiguous slices. However, these methods only provide an incomplete solution to the problem and their value can be significantly reduced if the distortion along the normal of the correction plane is not small. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.