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Proactive Management In Academic Libraries: Promoting Improved Communication And Inclusion Of Academic Librarians And Archivists In Cybersecurity Policy Creation, Paul J. Luft Dec 2020

Proactive Management In Academic Libraries: Promoting Improved Communication And Inclusion Of Academic Librarians And Archivists In Cybersecurity Policy Creation, Paul J. Luft

Theses and Dissertations

Although increasing cybersecurity threats continue in libraries, not many studies are available which examine surrounding cybersecurity policies. Even less has been done on specific types of libraries such as academic and archives. When it comes to academic libraries, cybersecurity policies take a top-down approach to managing and creating policies. The problem is that both academic libraries and archives are unique areas within a university setting. Some of the general policies do not always handle specific issues dealt with in an academic library or archives. This paper investigates if an actual gap or void in policy exists which could create issues …


In-Depth Analysis Of College Students’ Data Privacy Awareness, Vernon D. Andrews Dec 2020

In-Depth Analysis Of College Students’ Data Privacy Awareness, Vernon D. Andrews

Theses and Dissertations

While attending university, college students need to be aware of issues related to data privacy. Regardless of the age, gender, race, or education level of college students, every student can relate to the advancement of the internet within the last decades. The internet has completely transformed the way the world receives and stores messages. Positively, the internet allows messages to be sent across the globe within the fraction of a second and provides students with access to potentially unlimited information on a variety of subjects. On the downside, there are issues on the internet that can cause more harm than …


A Mathematical Development Of Minimal Surface Theory: From Soap Films To Black Holes, Timothy Pitts May 2020

A Mathematical Development Of Minimal Surface Theory: From Soap Films To Black Holes, Timothy Pitts

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Minimal surfaces are a special subset of surfaces that have gone through a long and extensive development and have also led to many fruitful findings in mathematics. Several periods that are key to the progression of the theory are coined as Golden Ages for the field’s development. Here, a historical and mathematical development of minimal surface theory is presented that spans from its inception in the late 18th century to the present day. Along with the development, there is an emphasis on showing connections of minimal surfaces to various natural phenomena that occur such as soap films, black holes, biological …


Recombinant Expression Of Preptin Analogs For Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis Of Residues 27-29, Tehgan N. Anguilm May 2020

Recombinant Expression Of Preptin Analogs For Alanine Scanning Mutagenesis Of Residues 27-29, Tehgan N. Anguilm

Theses and Dissertations

The novel peptide preptin consists of 34 amino acid residues corresponding to Asp69-Leu102 of proinsulin-like growth factor E-peptide. Preptin has been isolated from pancreatic beta cells, and it has been found to exhibit both metabolic and mitogenic activities. This makes preptin an attractive candidate to treat insulin-independent diabetes and osteoporosis. Alanine scanning mutagenesis was utilized to substitute an alanine for residues Trp27, Arg28, and Gln29 of preptin in order to ultimately study the structure-activity relationship of these residues to preptin’s metabolic activity.


Improving Energy-Efficiency Through Smart Data Placement In Hadoop Clusters, Ahmed Mostafa May 2020

Improving Energy-Efficiency Through Smart Data Placement In Hadoop Clusters, Ahmed Mostafa

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Hadoop, a pioneering open source framework, has revolutionized the big data world because of its ability to process vast amounts of unstructured and semi-structured data. This ability makes Hadoop the ‘go-to’ technology for many industries that generate big data, thus it also aids in being cost effective, unlike other legacy systems. Hadoop MapReduce is used in large scale data parallel applications to process massive amounts of data across a cluster and is used for scheduling, processing, and executing jobs. Basically, MapReduce is the right hand of Hadoop, as its library is needed to process these large data sets. In this …