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1.3.6.-v1-Multi-hop VANETs Simulation using VanetMobiSim/Ns-2 (Scenario A)
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Abstract: This video is part of CARLINK PROJECT simulation videos. It presents the performance of communications in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) using the IEEE 802.11b standard in the transmission of files.- Jamal Toutouh -
1.3.6.-v2-Multi-hop VANETs Simulation using VanetMobiSim/Ns-2 (Scenario B)
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Abstract: This video is part of CARLINK PROJECT simulation videos. It presents the performance of communications in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) using the IEEE 802.11b standard in the transmission of files.- Jamal Toutouh -
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs : The Dangers of Consumption
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Abstract: In 1927, responding to the seemingly overpowering claims of advertisers and mass marketers, engineer Frederick Schlink and economist Stuart Chase published Your Money's Worth , which argued for an "extension of the principle of buying goods according to impartial scientific tests rather than according ... More »
"1500 Doomed": People's Press Reports on the Gauley Bridge Disaster
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Abstract: The deadly lung disease silicosis is caused when miners, sandblasters, and foundry and tunnel workers inhale fine particles of silica dust--a mineral found in sand, quartz, and granite. In 1935, approximately 1,500 workers--largely African Americans who had come north to find work--were killed by exposure ... More »
1968 1978, Where Do We Go From Here?
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Abstract: David O. Ives discusses the origin of Say Brother on WGBH TelevisionSay Brother celebrates its tenth anniversary with a look at Boston and its African American community over the past decade -particularly changes in politics, social service agencies, employment rates, the educational system, and minority ... More »
2006 Computer Science Commencement Ceremony
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Abstract: The 2006 Computer Science Commencement Ceremony was held Sunday, May 21, 2006, at 2:00 pm in Zellerbach Auditorium. The Commencement address was delivered by Dr. Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, Inc.
2006 Technology Breakthrough Competition and Award Ceremony
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Abstract: In the Tradition of Innovation at Berkeley Engineering... The College of Engineering is hosting the 3rd Annual Technology Breakthrough Competition to recognize the University's technology and scientific research that could make the world a substantially better place. PROGRAM: Dean Richard Newton ... More »
360 degree Io moon animation
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Abstract: 360° Io moon animation. For more information see: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/
3D FractaL-Tree
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Abstract: This interactive L-system simulation produces visualizations of tree forms based on data from specimens in the field or laboratory.
586 Million Year Cycle in Geology Matches Galactic Super-Cluster Spacings
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Abstract: The longest geological cycle identified is described as about 600 million years in "Megacycles", the proceedings of a geological conference, Edited by G Williams. However Prof. S. Afanasiev of Moscow has determined the cycle very accurately to be 586.24 million years using his Nanocycles Method. It so ... More »
"80 Rounds in Our Pants Pockets": Orville Quick Remembers Pearl Harbor
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Abstract: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, stunned virtually everyone in the U.S. military: Japan's carrier-launched bombers found Pearl Harbor totally unprepared. In this 1991 interview, conducted by John Terreo for the Montana Historical Society, serviceman Orville Quick, who was assigned to build ... More »
9 Variations on a Dance Theme
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Abstract: A female dancer repeats a short dance theme nine times to a soundtrack of piano and flute. As she performs the theme, the dancer is shot from different angles to yield nine variations. The first variations are composed of longer shots that capture the body and movements of the dancer in full. These variations ... More »
9th Annual International Health Conference: War, Poverty and Population
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Abstract: The Relationship between Population Growth and Poverty Robert Engelman , Vice President for Programs, Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC. Numbers: Mind the Gap Theogene Rudasingwa ,, Former Rwandan Ambassador to the United States. The Return of the Population Factor Martha Campbell ... More »
A.B. Spellman comments on the pardon granted to President Richard Nixon
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Abstract: 'The Word' with commentary by professor and historian A.B. Spellman focuses on the pardon and immunity granted to President Richard M. Nixon, based on a plea of depression. Spellman compares this to the treatment given to African Americans facing time in jail.
"A Bill of Rights for the Indians": John Collier Envisions an Indian New Deal
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Abstract: John Collier's appointment as Commissioner of Indian Affairs by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 marked a radical reversal--in intention if not always in effect--in U.S. government policies toward American Indians that dated back to the 1887 Dawes Act. An idealistic social worker, Collier first encountered ... More »
"A Black Joke."
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Abstract: Free African Americans living in the North before the Civil War suffered enormous disadvantages and discriminations. Forced to sit in separate and inferior sections in theaters, public transit, and churches, free blacks were also barred from all but the most menial jobs and denied entrance to white trade ... More »
A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect
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Abstract: A "virtual field trip" up the White Oak River in southeastern North Carolina, with discussion of how local ecology changes along the way due to decreasing salinity.
"A Bold Stroke for Freedom."
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Abstract: On Christmas Eve, 1855, patrollers finally caught up with a group of teenaged slaves who had escaped by wagon from Loudon County, Virginia. But the posse was driven off when Ann Wood, leader of the group, brandished weapons and dared the pursuers to fire. The fugitives continued on to Philadelphia. Although ... More »
A Call to Arms: McNeill's Unshakable Faith in Labor's Future
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Abstract: As the 19th century drew to a close, labor activists were forced to confront the implications of a long string of defeats suffered by their movement in recent years. One of the most venerable of labor editors, George McNeill, writing in the official journal of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in ... More »
A Case of Black and White: White Women Protest the Hiring of Black "Wage-Slaves"
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Abstract: Before the Civil War, some enslaved African Americans labored in Southern textile mills, especially in the spinning and weaving rooms. But with the jump in the price of slaves in the 1850s, manufacturers decided that poor white farmers provided a cheaper labor force. After the Civil War, the textile ... More »
