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Viadero discusses how Megan Barron, a self-described Army brat, unveil a new US Department of Defense-financed initiative aimed to ease the difficult adjustments that military children make as they move from school to school. Although the Pentagon maintains a school system that serves 100,000 of those children on military bases around the world, a larger proportion of military children--about 500,000--win up in regular public schools, where they are perpetually new kids on the proverbial block.

This digital document is an article from Education Week, most recently published by ProQuest Information and Learning on October 5, 2005. The length of the article is 934 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Schools Told to Help Mobile Military Children Feel at Home
Author: Debra Viadero
Publication:Education Week (Feature)
Date: October 5, 2005
Publisher: ProQuest Information and Learning
Volume: 25 Issue: 6 Page: 11

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This thesis presents a systematic study of high dynamic range (HDR) imaging that considers the entire imaging processing system, including properties of natural scenes, imaging sensors, image processing algorithms, image displays and image perception. We begin by studying the statistical properties of more than 70 captured HDR images of natural scenes using a customized acquisition device. The dynamic range of many of these recorded images is higher than 10000:1. However, if we exclude the one percent brightest pixels (usually created by specular reflections or light sources) and the one percent of the darkest pixels (usually created by dark shadows), the dynamic range of most images is reduced to less than 1000:1. In order to characterize the human visual system's response to HDR images, it was necessary to build a HDR display that is capable of displaying the whole range of these images. Inspired by the surface-illumination composition of HDR scenes, we built a display device that combined a DLP projector and a raw LCD panel to display image data with intensities ranging from 1 cd/m 2 to 10,000 cd/m2. The HDR device was used to study the effect that color, background luminance levels and surround luminance levels have upon human visual sensitivity to noise. The results show that noise is barely visible when the luminance noise contrast level (defined as the ratio of the standard deviation in luminance noise over the mean background luminance) is less than three percent. Based on these results, we showed that an ideal capture device with only photon-shot noise must be designed to capture at least a thousand photons per pixel (or 30 dB SNR) across the whole image to avoid visible noise. To encode the dynamic range of most natural images without visible noise, traditional single capture devices need a full well capacity of at least 106 while multiple capture devices need a much smaller full well capacity that is independent of scene dynamic range. We also used the perceptual noise threshold results to design a new multiple capture exposure scheme.

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Title: A system study of high dynamic range imaging
Author: Xiao, Feng
Advisor: Wandell, Brian A.
Degree: PhD (year: 2006)
School: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Publish Date: May 2006
ISBN: 0-542-43228-5


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In Nov 1967, the 173rd Airborne Brigade and the 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade slugged it out with four North Vietnamese Army regiments in the Central Highlands. Here, Dyhouse details the 33 days of violent, sustained combat in the unforgiving terrain of the Central Highlands during the Vietnam War.

This digital document is an article from VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine, most recently published by ProQuest Information and Learning on March 31, 2006. The length of the article is 2832 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dak To: '33 Days of Violent, Sustained Combat'
Author: Tim Dyhouse
Publication:VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine (Commentary)
Date: March 31, 2006
Publisher: ProQuest Information and Learning
Volume: 93 Issue: 6 Page: 32-34,36

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Thomason was reinlroduced to Marines in 1974 when, with its advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, the Corps produced the recruiting film, "Such As Regiments Hand Down Forever." It was nominated for an Academy Award. The words were eloquently penned by then-Captain Thomason in 1925, on Marines in World War I. What follows is a sample of that writing so that you may see more of his reputation as the "Kipling of the Corps":Clark highlights the story of Col John W. Thomason Jr, a combat veteran in most of the major battles of World War I and considered the "Kipling of the Corps". Thomason wrote exceedingly well, and he superbly illustrated numerous books, each of which was exceptionally well received.

This digital document is an article from Leatherneck, most recently published by ProQuest Information and Learning on August 31, 2006. The length of the article is 2851 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Col John W. Thomason Jr. The "kipling Of The Corps"
Author: R R Keene
Publication:Leatherneck (Feature)
Date: August 31, 2006
Publisher: ProQuest Information and Learning
Volume: 89 Issue: 8 Page: 26-29

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In today's market, with institutions and providers ranging from commercial banks to hedge funds competing for business, finding the right source can be as important as finding the right form of financing. It is critical to select a provider whose interests, culture and commitment align with the company's. Mezzanine capital can fit this critical need, especially for middle-market companies looking for strategic partnership and expertise, without a loss of ownership control. Mezzanine or subordinated debt is inherently a debt product, with a governing loan agreement and norms that govern the underlying security. The two types of mezzanine providers are sponsored mezzanine and sponsorless mezzanine.

This digital document is an article from Financial Executive, most recently published by ProQuest Information and Learning on December 31, 2005. The length of the article is 787 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Making Sense of Mezzanine Financing
Author: John Sinnenberg
Publication:Financial Executive (News)
Date: December 31, 2005
Publisher: ProQuest Information and Learning
Volume: 21 Issue: 10 Page: 19

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This dissertation examines how national-socialist Germany and communist Poland defined and classified nationality in an ethnically mixed borderland. Responding to the failure of Germanization and Polonization in the inter-war period, both states rejected the right of the individual to choose his or her national identity. In Germany, through the 'science' of race, nationality came to be based on racial/biological principles, not on cultural and linguistic ones. Minority nationality was perceived as a threat to the purity of the nation-state and was dealt with by ethnic cleansing. After the war, the Polish authorities continued this process, using the same national-socialist methods of nationality categorizing and ethnic cleansing. The question is, to what extent did they also implicitly adopt the national-socialist biological view of nationality? Although the communist authorities never openly acknowledged the role of national-socialist racial thought on postwar nationality policies, its influence is evident in the state's minority policies. The authorities based the 'verification' and 'rehabilitation' of the Silesians on the same individual examination by commissions of nationality experts that the Nazis used. This dissertation seeks to broaden the historiographical debate on 'ethnic cleansing,' seeing it not just as a policy of expelling a minority nationality, but as a process of classification that begins with determining who will not be expelled; a process that focuses on the categorization and construction of a national majority and how this leads to the creation of a national minority that then must be excluded from the body politic of the homogenized nation-state.

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Title: Between Germany and Poland: Ethnic-cleansing and politicization of ethnicity in Upper Silesia under national socialism and communism, 1939--1950
Author: Ehrlich, Adam
Advisor: Bucur, Maria
Degree: PhD (year: 2006)
School: INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Publish Date: May 2006
ISBN: 0-542-43642-6


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Empathy is a vital element in addressing complex end-of-life issues. However, empathy must not be viewed simply as another patient need to be met by caregivers Nonetheless patient advocacy and, more importantly, insisting on patient-centered care is everyone's responsibility and should never be considered optional. If CEOs truly believe that enhancing patient care should be the first priority in every conversation and in making every decision, it means having the right information and measurement systems to identifies opportunities for improvement and demonstrating continuously that the organization's market and patient care strategies are inextricably linked. Some of the steps that should be considered to facilitate genuine patient-centered care are the following: 1. Ensure that patients' medical records are readily and continually accessible to them. 2. Offer patients, family members and visitors an easily accessible system for reporting safety and risk concerns. 3. Insist that senior executives make regular patient rounds.

This digital document is an article from Healthcare Executive, most recently published by ProQuest Information and Learning on February 28, 2006. The length of the article is 1547 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Becoming MORE EFFECTIVE Patient Advocates: BEYOND EMPATHY
Author: Jeffrey D Selberg
Publication:Healthcare Executive (Feature)
Date: February 28, 2006
Publisher: ProQuest Information and Learning
Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Page: 22-24,26

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