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Kennesaw State University

2003

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Software Development Productivity And Cycle Time Reduction, Victor A. Clincy Dec 2003

Software Development Productivity And Cycle Time Reduction, Victor A. Clincy

Faculty and Research Publications

Increasing software developers' productivity and reducing the software development process' cycle time are key goals for organizations responsible for building software applications. This paper proposes four major areas impacting an organization's ability to increase developer productivity and reduce development cycle time. The four areas are (1) organizational structure and climate, (2) reward system, (3) software development process and (4) the use of software design and testing tools.

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An Is Capstone Project: The Mywick Property Management System, Martha Myers Oct 2003

An Is Capstone Project: The Mywick Property Management System, Martha Myers

Faculty and Research Publications

This paper describes a project suitable for use in an upper division course requiring the completion of analysis, design and implementation of a software system. It is especially useful for illustrating multiple cycles through the development process, as well as for integrating key concepts from a number of fundamental knowledge clusters in a typical undergraduate IS program of study. These knowledge clusters include database management, project management, programming principles, and system analysis and design. In the pilot class, students employed use case analysis as well as standard object-oriented techniques such as class diagrams and sequence diagrams. Students followed a modified …

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Complex Multiplication Symmetry Of Black Hole Attractors, Monika Lynker, Vipul Periwal, Rolf Schimmrigk Sep 2003

Complex Multiplication Symmetry Of Black Hole Attractors, Monika Lynker, Vipul Periwal, Rolf Schimmrigk

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We show how Moore’s observation, in the context of toroidal compactifications in type IIB string theory, concerning the complex multiplication structure of black hole attractor varieties, can be generalized to Calabi-Yau compactifications with finite fundamental groups. This generalization leads to an alternative general framework in terms of motives associated to a Calabi-Yau variety in which it is possible to address the arithmetic nature of the attractor varieties in a universal way via Deligne’s period conjecture.

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High Resolution, High Sensitivity Imaging Of The Galactic Center At 330 Mhz, Michael E. Nord, Crystal L. Brogan, Scott D. Hyman, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Namir E. Kassim, Ted N. Larosa, K. Anantharamaiah, Nebojsa Duric Sep 2003

High Resolution, High Sensitivity Imaging Of The Galactic Center At 330 Mhz, Michael E. Nord, Crystal L. Brogan, Scott D. Hyman, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Namir E. Kassim, Ted N. Larosa, K. Anantharamaiah, Nebojsa Duric

Faculty and Research Publications

We present results derived from a wide field, sub-arcminute resolution VLA image of the Galactic Center region at 330 MHz (λ = 90 cm). With a resolution of ∼7″ × 12″ and an rms noise of 1.6 mJy beam−1, this image represents a significant increase in resolution and sensitivity over the previously published VLA image at this frequency (eg. LaRosa et al. 2000). The improvement in sensitivity has significantly increased the census of small diameter sources in the region, resulted in the detection of two new Non-Thermal Filaments (NTFs) and 18 new NTF candidates, and resulted in …

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The Galactic Center Nonthermal Filaments: Recent Observations And Theory, Ted La Rosa, Michael E. Nord, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Steven N. Shore, Namir E. Kassim Sep 2003

The Galactic Center Nonthermal Filaments: Recent Observations And Theory, Ted La Rosa, Michael E. Nord, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Steven N. Shore, Namir E. Kassim

Faculty and Research Publications

The large-scale topology and strength of the Galactic Center magnetic field have been inferred from radio imaging of the nonthermal filaments (NTFs). These objects, which seem to be unique to the Galactic center, are defined by extreme aspect ratios and a high degree of polarization. Recent high resolution, wide-field VLA imaging of the GC at 90 cm has revealed new candidate NTFs with a wide range of orientations relative to the Galactic plane. We present follow up 6 cm polarization observations of 6 of these candidates and confirm 4 as new NTFs. Together the new 90 and 6 cm results …

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Mechanisms For The Origin Of Turbulence In Non-Star-Forming Clouds: The Translucent Cloud Mbm 40, Steven N. Shore, Loris Magnani, Ted La Rosa, Meredith N. Mccarthy Aug 2003

Mechanisms For The Origin Of Turbulence In Non-Star-Forming Clouds: The Translucent Cloud Mbm 40, Steven N. Shore, Loris Magnani, Ted La Rosa, Meredith N. Mccarthy

Faculty and Research Publications

We present a multiline, high spatial and velocity resolution CO, H I, and IRAS 100 μm study of the high-latitude, low-mass, non-star-forming, translucent molecular cloud MBM 40. The cloud mass is distributed into two ridges, or filaments, that form a hairpin structure. Velocity channel maps indicate a highly ordered flow in the molecular gas, with the northeastern part of the filament moving away from and the southwestern filament moving toward the observer relative to the mean cloud radial velocity. Significant changes in emissivity occur over 0.03 pc, indicating large transverse density gradients along the ridges. However, the velocity field appears …

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Enemy At The Gate: Threats To Information Security, Michael E. Whitman Aug 2003

Enemy At The Gate: Threats To Information Security, Michael E. Whitman

Faculty and Research Publications

A firm can build more effective security strategies by identifying and ranking the severity of potential threats to its IS efforts.

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Black Hole Attractor Varieties And Complex Multiplication, Monika Lynker, Vipul Periwal, Rolf Schimmrigk Jun 2003

Black Hole Attractor Varieties And Complex Multiplication, Monika Lynker, Vipul Periwal, Rolf Schimmrigk

Faculty and Research Publications

Black holes in string theory compactified on Calabi-Yau varieties a priori might be expected to have moduli dependent features. For example the entropy of the black hole might be expected to depend on the complex structure of the manifold. This would be inconsistent with known properties of black holes. Supersymmetric black holes appear to evade this inconsistency by having moduli fields that flow to fixed points in the moduli space that depend only on the charges of the black hole. Moore observed in the case of compactifications with elliptic curve factors that these fixed points are arithmetic, corresponding to curves …

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2003 - The Eighth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars Apr 2003

2003 - The Eighth Annual Symposium Of Student Scholars

Symposium of Student Scholars Program Books

The full program book from the Eighth Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 18, 2003. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.

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Aspects Of Conformal Field Theory From Calabi-Yau Arithmetic, Rolf Schimmrigk Jan 2003

Aspects Of Conformal Field Theory From Calabi-Yau Arithmetic, Rolf Schimmrigk

Faculty and Research Publications

This paper describes a framework in which techniques from arithmetic algebraic geometry are used to formulate a direct and intrinsic link between the geometry of Calabi-Yau manifolds and aspects of the underlying conformal field theory. As an application the algebraic number field determined by the fusion rules of the conformal field theory is derived from the number theoretic structure of the cohomological Hasse-Weil L-function determined by Artin's congruent zeta function of the algebraic variety. In this context a natural number theoretic characterization arises for the quantum dimensions in this geometrically determined algebraic number field.

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