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2003

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The Lakes And Streams Project: A Curriculum For Elementary And Middle Grades On A Local Environmental Issue, Linda Mae Alice Gregory Jan 2003

The Lakes And Streams Project: A Curriculum For Elementary And Middle Grades On A Local Environmental Issue, Linda Mae Alice Gregory

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This project covers the environmental issues of the proposed Lakes and Streams Project for the City of San Bernardino. The water history of San Bernardino, from the hot springs to the development of the current municipal water system, is also detailed. Two curriculum units teach students how to use environmental issue analysis skills. One focuses on the water history of San Bernardino and is aimed at grades three to five. The other immerses middle grade students directly into the Lakes and Streams issue.

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International Extension Programs Information System, Yu-Pin Chang Jan 2003

International Extension Programs Information System, Yu-Pin Chang

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No abstract provided.

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A Multi-Agent Architecture For Internet Distributed Computing System, Rodelyn Reyes Samson Jan 2003

A Multi-Agent Architecture For Internet Distributed Computing System, Rodelyn Reyes Samson

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This thesis presents the developed taxonomy of the agent-based distributed computing systems. Based on this taxonomy, a design, implementation, analysis and distribution protocol of a multi-agent architecture for internet-based distributed computing system was developed. A prototype of the designed architecture was implemented on Spider III using the IBM Aglets software development kit (ASDK 2.0) and the language Java.

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Telephone Directory Web Service, Hua Sun Jan 2003

Telephone Directory Web Service, Hua Sun

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This was a project to develop a Telephone Directory Web service (TDWS) to provide convenient and cost-effective access to public telephone directory data.

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The Mathematics Of Object Recognition In Machine And Human Vision, Sunyoung Kim Jan 2003

The Mathematics Of Object Recognition In Machine And Human Vision, Sunyoung Kim

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The purpose of this project was to see why projective geometry is related to the sort of sensors that machines and humans use for vision.

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The Euler Line In Non-Euclidean Geometry, Elena Strzheletska Jan 2003

The Euler Line In Non-Euclidean Geometry, Elena Strzheletska

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The main purpose of this thesis is to explore the conditions of the existence and properties of the Euler line of a triangle in the hyperbolic plane. Poincaré's conformal disk model and Hermitian matrices were used in the analysis.ʹ

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A Reinterpretation Of The Small Captorhinid Reptile Captorhinikos Parvus Olson As A New Genus, Reanalysis Of Its Cranial Anatomy, And A Phylogenetic Analysis Of The Basal Reptilian Family Captorhinidae, Gavan Mcbride Albright Jan 2003

A Reinterpretation Of The Small Captorhinid Reptile Captorhinikos Parvus Olson As A New Genus, Reanalysis Of Its Cranial Anatomy, And A Phylogenetic Analysis Of The Basal Reptilian Family Captorhinidae, Gavan Mcbride Albright

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The cranial anatomy of the basal captorhinid reptile Captorhinikos parvus (Reptilia, Captorhinidae), is reinterpreted here based on analysis of a group of new specimens recovered subsequent to its original diagnosis as well as further analysis of the original specimens utilized in E.C. Olson's original characterization of the species. Structural features inconsistent with the generic description suggest the redefinition of C. parvus as a new genus, Rhodotheratus parvus. Analyses of basal members and selected derived members support the characterization of Rhodotheratus as a distinct taxon.

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The Value Of Outdoor Education, Heriberto Garcia Jan 2003

The Value Of Outdoor Education, Heriberto Garcia

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The purpose of this project was to explore the benefits of how students who are exposed to outdoor activities can enhance their attention span, learning, and understanding of the content subjects.

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Wiki-Style Administration Of Online Course Content, Jianmin Wang Jan 2003

Wiki-Style Administration Of Online Course Content, Jianmin Wang

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A Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. This project created the program, "Wiki-Style Administration of Online Course Content" (WAOCC) which can be used as a teaching assistant board. Students can edit their works online and the instructor can review the work and correct it directly if necessary from the WAOCC.

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Unified Modeling Language Class Diagram Translator For The Online Design Pattern Library System, Kaiyan Li Jan 2003

Unified Modeling Language Class Diagram Translator For The Online Design Pattern Library System, Kaiyan Li

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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the successor to the wave of object-oriented analysis and design (OOA&D) methods that appeared in the late '80s and early '90s. The class diagram is one of the most useful diagrams in UML. The class diagram technique has become truly central within object-oriented methods.

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The Salton Sea Wetlands: A Guidebook Of Curriculum Based Lessons, Etta Margo Ligman-Mccormick Jan 2003

The Salton Sea Wetlands: A Guidebook Of Curriculum Based Lessons, Etta Margo Ligman-Mccormick

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Using Coachella Valley's Salton Sea ecosystem as a model, several multidisciplinary wetland activities for grades three to six were developed. A resource guide for educators is included.

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The Window Least Mean Square Error Algorithm, Anna Semenovna Degtyarena Jan 2003

The Window Least Mean Square Error Algorithm, Anna Semenovna Degtyarena

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In order to improve the performance of LMS (least mean square) algorithm by decreasing the amount of calculations this research proposes to make an update on each step only for those elements from the input data set, that fall within a small window W near the separating hyperplane surface. This work aims to describe in detail the results that can be achieved by using the proposed LMS with window learning algorithm in information systems that employ the methodology of neural network for the purposes of classification.

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Prescription Express System, Chia-Yu Tsai Jan 2003

Prescription Express System, Chia-Yu Tsai

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The Prescription Express System is a software program that was developed with express service of health care in mind. The purpose was to provide easy access for doctors to check on upcoming appointments with patients and send prescriptions via wireless network directly to the pharmacy to provide faster service.

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Ideals, Varieties, And Groebner Bases, Joyce Christine Ahlgren Jan 2003

Ideals, Varieties, And Groebner Bases, Joyce Christine Ahlgren

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The topics explored in this project present and interesting picture of close connections between algebra and geometry. Given a specific system of polynomial equations we show how to construct a Groebner basis using Buchbergers Algorithm. Gröbner bases have very nice properties, e.g. they do give a unique remainder in the division algorithm. We use these bases to solve systems of polynomial quations in several variables and to determine whether a function lies in the ideal.

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Taxonomy Of Synchronization And Barrier As A Basic Mechanism For Building Other Synchronization From It, Pauline Braginton Jan 2003

Taxonomy Of Synchronization And Barrier As A Basic Mechanism For Building Other Synchronization From It, Pauline Braginton

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A Distributed Shared Memory(DSM) system consists of several computers that share a memory area and has no global clock. Therefore, an ordering of events in the system is necessary. Synchronization is a mechanism for coordinating activities between processes, which are program instantiations in a system.

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The Embedding Of Complete Bipartite Graphs Onto Grids With A Minimum Grid Cutwidth, Mário Rocha Jan 2003

The Embedding Of Complete Bipartite Graphs Onto Grids With A Minimum Grid Cutwidth, Mário Rocha

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Algorithms will be domonstrated for how to embed complete bipartite graphs onto 2xn type grids, where the imimum grid cutwidth is attained.

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Entertainics, Jesus Mario Torres Garza Jan 2003

Entertainics, Jesus Mario Torres Garza

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Entertainics is a web-based software application used to gather information about DVD players from several web-sites on the internet. The purpose of this software is to help users search for DVD players in a faster and easier way, by avoiding the navigation on every web-site that contains this product.

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Hyperbolic Transformations On Cubics In H², Frank S. Marfai Jan 2003

Hyperbolic Transformations On Cubics In H², Frank S. Marfai

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The purpose of this thesis is to study the effects of hyperbolic transformations on the cubic that is determined by locus of centroids of the equilateral triangles in H² whose base coincides with the line y=0, and whose common vertex is at the origin. The derivation of the formulas within this work are based on the Poincaré disk model of H², where H² is understood to mean the hyperbolic plane. The thesis explores the properties of both the untransformed cubic (the original locus of centroids) and the transformed cubic (the original cubic taken under a linear fractional transformation).

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Littlebee: User's Online Interactive Design Of Baby's Wear, Yan Hai Jan 2003

Littlebee: User's Online Interactive Design Of Baby's Wear, Yan Hai

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The purpose of this project is to develop a web-based application called Littlebee that allows customers to do online design of babies' wear. The online designing options include combining appliques with clothing styles and changing fabric colors; it utilizes images pre-stored in the database.

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Website Developer: Web Application, Venkata Krishna Reddy Tummeti Jan 2003

Website Developer: Web Application, Venkata Krishna Reddy Tummeti

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The purpose of the project is to use Java Server Page (JSP) technology to create a web application that could be used by any person who has the basic knowledge of browsing through the Web. There are many programs on the market that aid users in creating web pages, but the process involved in creating web pages using the available software and hosting their website is fairly complex for general people.

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A Tabular Propositional Logic: And/Or Table Translator, Chen-Hsiu Lee Jan 2003

A Tabular Propositional Logic: And/Or Table Translator, Chen-Hsiu Lee

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The goal of this project is to design a tool to help users translate any logic statement into Disjunctive Normal Form and present the result as an AND/OR TABLE, which makes the logic relation easier to express by using a two-dimensional grid of values or expressions. This tool is implemented through a web-based and Java-based application. Thus, the user can utilize this tool via World Wide Web.

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Simulation Of Soil Water Movement Model (Swamm) Using The Spider Distributed System, Li Wang Jan 2003

Simulation Of Soil Water Movement Model (Swamm) Using The Spider Distributed System, Li Wang

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This project implements a real application on the Spider II, which is a simulation of Soil Water Movement Model. The main objectives of this project were to develop a parallel and distributed algorithm for the Soil Water Model; implement the Soil Water Movement Simulation model on the Spider II distributed system and to evaluate the performance of simulating the Soil Water Movement Model on Spider II.

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A Parallel Algorithm To Solve The Mathematical Problem "Double Coset Enumeration Of S₂₄ Over M₂₄", Elena Yavorska Harris Jan 2003

A Parallel Algorithm To Solve The Mathematical Problem "Double Coset Enumeration Of S₂₄ Over M₂₄", Elena Yavorska Harris

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This thesis presents and evaluates a new parallel algorithm that computes all single cosets in the double coset M₂₄ P M₂₄, where P is a permutation on n points of a certain cycle structure, and M₂₄ is the Mathieu group related to a Steiner system S(5, 8, 24) as its automorphism group. The purpose of this work is not to replace the existing algorithms, but rather to explore a possibility to extend calculations of single cosets beyond the limits encountered when using currently available methods.

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Web-Based E-Mail Client For Computer Science, Jichuan Wu Jan 2003

Web-Based E-Mail Client For Computer Science, Jichuan Wu

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The project is a web e-mail application to provide a web page interface for all CSCI faculty, staff and students to handle their e-mails. The application is written by JSP, Java Servlets, JavaScript and custom JSP tag libraries. Regular e-mail capabilities have been enhanced by the feature of allowing users to store and manage messages by day (store to daily folders, view in daily folders, append notes for that day).

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White Board, Getahun Alemu Jan 2003

White Board, Getahun Alemu

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This project designs and implements a tool to enhance the current means of availing coursework information in educational systems.

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