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Executive Summary: A Comprehensive Report On Marijuana: Focus On The Paso Del Norte Region, Gabriel Frietze, Nora Hernandez, José O. Rivera

Departmental Papers (Pharmacy)

No abstract provided.

A Comprehensive Report On Marijuana: Focus On The Paso Del Norte Region, Gabriel Frietze, Nora Hernandez, José O. Rivera

Departmental Papers (Pharmacy)

The present executive summary highlights topics discussed within a comprehensive and extensive report on marijuana. This condensed summary discusses the chemical compounds within marijuana, the various methods of consuming marijuana, the therapeutic effects and health consequences associated with marijuana use, and repercussions that have emerged as a result of the legalization of marijuana in many states within the United States. Additionally, the impact of marijuana in communities within the Paso del Norte Region are discussed.

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The Prospector, December 4, 2018, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Graduation Issue

C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department Newsletter, Special Collections

UTEP Library

Electronic newsletter of the UTEP Special Collections Department.

2019 Calendar: Carrillo In Color, Special Collections Staff

Annual Calendars

Newly discovered images celebrating Mexican photographer Manuel Carrillo.

This calendar features newly discovered color images from Mexican photographer Manuel Carrillo (1906-1989), who is primarily known for his black-and-white photographs of traditional Mexico. These images from the Manuel Carrillo papers, MS288, are included in the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Library’s Carrillo in Color exhibit, which opened on October 19, 2018

Borderplex Business Barometer, Volume 2, Number 12, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Aaron Nazarian, Steven L. Fullerton, Sergio Olivas

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, November 27, 2018, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Winterfest in El Paso

Guide To Ms437 Ginther Family Papers, Armand J. Avila

Finding Aids

During the early 1900s – 1920s, the Ginther family was involved in the operation of various mines in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Some Ginther family members include: Aimee, Paul, Victor, Charles, George, and Henry. The Ginther brothers were born in Alsace-Lorraine. The Ginther family papers date 1897 – 1999, bulk 1913 – 1924. Types of documents include maps of mines, financial documents, personal correspondence in both English and Spanish, government documents, newspaper clippings, and various other items such as ore samples. These papers help document the Ginthers’ business dealings, mining operations, and personal lives during the early …

The Prospector, November 13, 2018, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: UTEP Promotes Diversity Through International Culture Week

Guide To Ms605 Anita Lee Blair Papers, Joseph Longo

Finding Aids

An educator, lecturer, political activist, and state legislator, Anita Lee Blair (1916-2011) advocated for safety and accident prevention, disability and women’s rights, and transparency and accessibility in government. The Anita Lee Blair papers date 1944-2011, bulk 1946-1953. Types of records include photographs, correspondence, clippings, publications, scrapbooks, books, and other printed materials. Arranged in three series (Biographical Information, Safety Lecturer Career, and Legislative and Political Career), these papers document Blair’s life and career as a Texas state legislator and as a freelance safety lecturer.

The Prospector, November 6, 2018, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: 45 Years: UTEP Women's Basketball

From Gig Economy To Gig Education, Olga Kosheleva, Julian Viera Jr., Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Modern economy has benefited from gig economy idea, where, instead of hiring permanent employees, a company assigns each task to the person who is the most efficient in performing this task. This way, each task is performed in the best possible way -- by a person who is the most suited for this job. Why not extend this idea to education? Every student deserves the best possible teacher in every topic. So why not have a teacher who is the best in town in explaining quadratic equations teach quadratic equations to all the students from the town? In this paper, …

Should School Feel Like A Family: Lessons From Business Controversy As Interpreted By Decision Making Theory, Olga Kosheleva, Julian Viera Jr., Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Traditional business theory promoted the ideal of business as a family: everyone should feel good about each other, all employees should feel good working together towards a joint goal. Recently, however, researchers claim that the well-promoted ideal is unattainable, it is a ruse causing everyone to overwork. Instead, these researchers propose a non-emotional collaboration of adults working temporarily on a joint project. In this paper, we show that this new trend is not just based on anecdotal evidence, it actually has a solid foundation in decision theory. So maybe we should apply this new trend to teaching too - and …

Towards Optimal Implementation Of Decentralized Currencies: How To Best Select Probabilities In An Ethereum-Type Proof-Of-Stake Protocol, Thach N. Nguyen, Christian Servin, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Nowadays, most financial transactions are based on a centralized system, when all the transaction records are stored in a central location. This centralization makes the financial system vulnerable to cyber-attacks. A natural way to make the financial system more robust and less vulnerable is to switch to decentralized currencies. Such a transition will also make financial system more transparent. Historically first currency of this type -- bitcoin -- use a large amount of electric energy to mine new coins and is, thus, not scalable to the level of financial system as a whole. A more realistic and less energy-consuming scheme …

Why Early Galaxies Were Pickle-Shaped: A Geometric Explanation, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

The vast majority of currently observed geometric shapes of celestial bodies can be explained by a simple symmetry idea: the initial distribution of matter is invariant with respect to shifts, rotations, and scaling, but this distribution is unstable, so we have spontaneous symmetry breaking. According to statistical physics, among all possible transitions, the most probable are the ones that retain the largest number of symmetries. This explains the currently observed shapes and -- on the qualitative level -- their relative frequency. According to this idea, the most probable first transition is into a planar (pancake) shape, then into …

Translating Discrete Estimates Into A Less Detailed Scale: An Optimal Approach, Thongchai Dumrongpokaphan, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In many practical situations, we use estimates that experts make on a 0-to-n scale. For example, to estimate the quality of a lecturer, we ask each student to evaluate this quality by selecting an integer from 0 to n. Each such estimate may be subjective; so, to increase the estimates' reliability, it is desirable to combine several estimates of the corresponding quality. Sometimes, different estimators use slightly different scales: e.g., one estimator uses a scale from 0 to n+1, and another estimator uses a scale from 0 to n. In such situations, it is desirable to translate these estimates to …

Detecting At-Risk Students: Empirical Results And Their Theoretical Explanation, Edgar Daniel Rodriguez Velasquez, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In teaching, it is very important to identify, as early as possible, students who may be at risk of failure. Traditionally, two natural criteria are used for this identification: poor grades in previous classes, and poor grades on the first assignments in the current class. Our empirical results show that these criteria do not always work: sometimes a student deemed at-risk by one of these criteria consistently succeeds, and sometimes a student who is not considered at-risk frequently fails. In this paper, we provide a theoretical explanation of our quantitative empirical results, and we use these results to provide recommendations …

Relativistic Effects Can Be Used To Achieve A Universal Square-Root (Or Even Faster) Computation Speedup, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In this paper, we show that special relativity phenomenon can be used to reduce computation time of any algorithm from T to square root of T. For this purpose, we keep computers where they are, but the whole civilization starts moving around the computer -- at an increasing speed, reaching speeds close to the speed of light. A similar square-root speedup can be achieved if we place ourselves near a growing black hole. Combining the two schemes can lead to an even faster speedup: from time T to the 4-th order root of T.

Secure Multi-Agent Quantum Communication: Towards The Most Efficient Scheme (A Pedagogical Remark), Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In many economic and financial applications, it is important to have secure communications. At present, communication security is provided mostly by RSA coding, but the emergent quantum computing can break this encoding, thus making it not secure. One way to make communications absolutely secure is to use quantum encryption. The existing schemes for quantum encryption are aimed at agent-to-agent communications; however, in practice, we often need secure multi-agent communications, where each of the agents has the ability to securely send messages to everyone else. In principle, we can repeat the agent-to-agent scheme for each pair of agents, but this requires …

Computing With Words -- When Results Do Not Depend On The Selection Of The Membership Function, Christopher W. Tovar, Carlos Cervantes, Mario Delgado, Stephanie Figueroa, Caleb Gillis, Daniel Gomez, Andres Llausas, Julio C. Lopez Molinar, Mariana Rogriguez, Alexander Wieczkowski, Francisco Zapata, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Often, we need to transform natural-language expert knowledge into computer-understandable numerical form. One of the most successful ways to do it is to use fuzzy logic and membership functions. The problem is that membership functions are subjective. It is therefore desirable to look for cases when the results do not depend on this subjective choice. In this paper, after describing a known example of such a situation, we list several other examples where the results do not depend on the subjective choice of a membership function.

Bhutan Landscape Anomaly: Possible Effect On Himalayan Economy (In View Of Optimal Description Of Elevation Profiles), Thach N. Nguyen, Laxman Bokati, Aaron A. Velasco, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Economies of countries located in seismic zones are strongly effected by this seismicity. If we underestimate the seismic activity, then a reasonably routine earthquake can severely damage the existing structures and thus, lead to huge economic losses. On the other hand, if we overestimate the seismic activity, we waste a lot of resources on unnecessarily fortifying all the buildings -- and this too harms the economies. From this viewpoint, it is desirable to have estimations of regional seismic activities which are as accurate as possible. Current predictions are mostly based on the standard geophysical understanding of earthquakes as being largely …

Borderplex Business Barometer, Volume 2, Number 11, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Omar Solís, Aaron Nazarian, Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

Symmetries Are Important, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

This short article explains why symmetries are important, and how they influenced many research projects in which I participated.

The Prospector, October 30, 2018, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Halloween Issue: Dia de los Muertos

Analyzing Small Industrial And Commercial User Demand For Electricity, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Allen R. Keighton

Departmental Papers (E & F)

This study employs duality theory to develop a theoretical model for small commercial and industrial (CIS) electricity usage. The CIS production function is posited such that output is a function of three variable inputs (electricity, natural gas, and labor) and one fixed input (capital). A profit function dual to this production function is specified using a normalized quadratic functional form. CIS profits are functionally dependent upon output price, an electricity input price, and natural gas and labor input prices for a fixed quantity of capital. The derived input-demand equation results from differentiating the profit function with respect to the price …

The Prospector, October 23, 2018, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Can the Miners Break the Chains?

Guide To Ms668 Utep Peace Corps Collection, Abbie Weiser

Finding Aids

At Texas Western College, the first cohort of Peace Corps volunteers trained for surveying, geology, and civil engineering-related projects in Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Texas Western professors Dr. Clyde Kelsey, Dr. William Strain, and Dr. W.H. Timmons were involved in training Peace Corps members. The Tanganyika Project group graduated from Peace Corps training on August 20, 1961. The Peace Corps credits the Texas Western College group as the first to complete its training. After graduation at Texas Western, Tanganyika Project Peace Corps members were sent to Puerto Rico for additional training. They also completed training once they were in Tanganyika.

The Prospector, October 16, 2018, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Rain or Shine Chalk the Block Continues On

Guide To Ms088 Junior League Of El Paso Collection, Ashley Herrera

Finding Aids

The Junior League of El Paso was founded in 1933 with the aim to train members for effective participation in the community through a program of education and volunteer service. The Junior League of El Paso collection dates 1955 – 1986. Types of records include yearbooks, newsletters, directories, and program books. These records document the Junior League of El Paso’s activities and membership.

The Prospector, October 9, 2018, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: UTEP Pharmacy Set to Close