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

Theses Digitization Project

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.

Iowa Academy Of Science Membership Directory, 2003-2004, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

Editorial Board, Journal ... 4
Committees ... 6
Sections ... 14
ISTS Regional Directors ... 19
Awards of Merit ... 21
Excellence in Science Teaching Awards ... 22
Past Presidents ... 23
Membership Roster ... 24
Institutional Members ... 25
Corporate Sponsors ... 25

Iowa Academy Of Science 115th Annual Meeting [2003]: Advance Program, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contains information about the schedule and presentations for the 2003 annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science.

The Staging Transformation Approach To Mixing Initiative, Robert Capra, Michael Narayan, Saverio Perugini, Naren Ramakrishnan, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Mixed-initiative interaction is an important facet of many conversational interfaces, flexible planning architectures, intelligent tutoring systems, and interactive information retrieval systems. Software systems for mixed-initiative interaction must enable us to both operationalize the mixing of initiative (i.e., support the creation of practical dialogs) and to reason in real-time about how a flexible mode of interaction can be supported (e.g., from a meta-dialog standpoint). In this paper, we present the staging transformation approach to mixing initiative, where a dialog script captures the structure of the dialog and dialog control processes are realized through generous use of program transformation techniques (e.g., partial …

Patterns Of Curriculum Design, Doug Blank, Deepak Kumar

Computer Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

We present a perspective on the design of a curriculum for a new computer science program at a women s liberal arts college. The design incorporates lessons learned at the college in its successful implementation of other academic programs, incorporation of best practices in curriculum design at other colleges, results from studies performed on various computer science programs, and a significant number of our own ideas. Several observations and design decisions are presented as curriculum design patterns. The goal of making the design patterns explicit is to encourage a discussion on curriculum design that goes beyond the identification of core …

Mcnair Research Journal

Georgia Southern University McNair Scholars Journal (Archived)

Full issue of the Georgia Southern University McNair Journal presented by the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program at Georgia Southern University.

• Understanding Charter Schools: An Alternative Education Program for Students Quail T. Arnold; Dorothy A. Battle, PhD.
• The Reality of Aversive Racism Christina Clarke; Jerome Steffen PhD.
• Where Did the Water Go? An Experimental Look into the Light Path of a Mirage Lisa DeBeer; Mark Edwards, PhD.

• Minorities As The Majority: The Overrepresentation of African American Students in Special Education Penny Teachy-Gary; Rosemari Stallworth-Clark PhD.

• Wireless Sensor Tracking Network-TinyOS

• Perceptions of Rape

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Modeling Nonintersective Adjectives Using Operator Logics, Paul Bankston

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

Our topic is one that involves the interface between natural language and mathematical logic. First-order predicate language/logic does a good job approximating many parts of (English) speech, i.e., nouns, verbs and prepositions, but fails decidedly when it comes to, say, adjectives. In particular, it cannot account for the quite different ways in which the adjectives green and big modify a noun such as chair. In the former case, we can easily view a world in which the class of green chairs is the intersection of the class of green things with the class of chair-things. By contrast, the way …

Dbunifier: A Framework For Automated Unification Of Textual Data In Multiple Remote Data Sources, John S. Dembowski

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Over time, advances in database technology and utilization have resulted in a rapid increase in the number and types of data sources. Simultaneously, numerous methods of unifying these various data sources have emerged. Research has shown that a more comprehensive set of data attribute matches between multiple schemas can be detected by combining a number of the unification methodologies as opposed to using a single method. In this research project, a unification framework, dbUNiFier, has been proposed as an approach to allow for easy integration of both existing and future unification methods and data sources.

Census 2000 Demographic Profile Report Of The Older Adult Population In Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Lorain And Medina Counties, Mark Salling, Sharon Bliss, Mcnamara, Brian

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.

A Tribute To John M. Golden, Chief Ranger Unf Wildlife Sanctuary, Unf Wildlife Sanctuary

Faculty and Staff History Printed Materials

A tribute to John M. Golden, Chief Ranger at the UNF Wildlife Sanctuary.

Interactive Multimedia In The Teaching Of The Irish Language In Primary School : Design, Implementation And Development., Máire Lynch

Theses

This thesis focuses on interactive multimedia use specifically in the area of vocabulary acquisition in a second language. It addresses the language learning requirements of third class (nine year olds) language learners, in Primary school. The study is based on existing second language acquisition research, computer - assisted language learning and the design and development of educational multimedia and it delivers an interactive application based on them. The study is firmly rooted in the foundations of the Revised Curriculum for Irish Primary Schools most especially in the language teaching methods it recommends and its emphasis on the use of information …

A Memory-Based Approach To Cantonese Tone Recognition, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Michael Emonts

Faculty Publications

This paper introduces memory-based learning as a viable approach for Cantonese tone recognition. The memorybased learning algorithm employed here outperforms other documented current approaches for this problem, which is based on neural networks. Various numbers of tones and features are modeled to find the best method for feature selection and extraction. To further optimize this approach, experiments are performed to isolate the best feature weighting method, the best class voting weights method, and the best number of k-values to implement. Results and possible future work are discussed.

The Subclassing Anomaly In Compiler Evolution, Atanas Radenski

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Subclassing in collections of related classes may require re-implementation of otherwise valid classes just because they utilize outdated parent classes, a phenomenon that is referred to as the subclassing anomaly. The subclassing anomaly is a serious problem since it can void the benefits of code reuse altogether. This paper offers an analysis of the subclassing anomaly in an evolving object-oriented compiler. The paper also outlines a solution for the subclassing anomaly that is based on alternative code reuse mechanism, named class overriding.

Notes On Eryx, Omega, And Ata, Victor Fet

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

Observations on several Nabokov’s works (Pale Fire, Lolita) where geographic or zoological names provide sources for puns and hidden parallels.

A Multi-Platform Application Suite For Enhancing South Asian Language Pedagogy, Tao Bai, Christopher K. Chung, Konstantin Läufer, Daisy Rockwell, George K. Thiruvathukal

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This interdisciplinary project explores the potential for handheld/wireless (H/W) technology in the context of language education within and beyond the classroom. Specifically, we have designed and implemented a suite of multi-platform (desktop/laptop, handheld, and browser) applications to enhance the teaching of South Asian languages such as Hindi-Urdu. Such languages are very difficult to learn, let alone write, and H/W devices (with their handwriting/drawing capabilities) can play a significant role in overcoming the learning curve. The initial application suite includes a character/word tracer, a word splitter/joiner, a smart flashcard with audio, contextual augmented stories for reading comprehension, and a poetic metronome. …

Mcnair Research Journal

Georgia Southern University McNair Scholars Journal (Archived)

Full issue of the Georgia Southern University McNair Journal presented by the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program at Georgia Southern University.

• Fifty Years of Brown: An analysis of the impact of Brown on the educational system in Statesboro, Georgia Reece Anthony
• The Use of Natural Transformation in Actinobacillus pleuropnemoniae to Generate Confirmatory Mutants in a Stereotype 1 Strain Leandra D. Burwell
  
• Global outsourcing: A study of attitudes held by Georgia Southern Students Patricia Dugan
  
• A Comparison of Theweleit's Red Nurse/White Nurse Figures with the Jezebel/Mammy figures of African Slave Women in the Southern, Ante-Bellum Plantation System Aziza el-Shair
  
• The …

An Intelligent Early Warning System For Software Quality Improvement And Project Management, Xiaoqing Frank Liu, Gautam Kane, Monu Bambroo

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

One of the main reasons behind unfruitful software development projects is that it is often too late to correct the problems by the time they are detected. It clearly indicates the need for early warning about the potential risks. In this paper, we discuss an intelligent software early warning system based on fuzzy logic using an integrated set of software metrics. It helps to assess risks associated with being behind schedule, over budget, and poor quality in software development and maintenance from multiple perspectives. It handles incomplete, inaccurate, and imprecise information, and resolve conflicts in an uncertain environment in its …

Atomic And Electronic Structure Of Bulk Intermetallic And Heteroepitaxially Grown Surface Alloys, Orhan Kizilkaya

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

It has been well documented that the surfaces of solids may differ from their bulk counterpart. The symmetry that a bulk possesses is broken at the surface. Due to this broken symmetry in the reduced dimension of the surface, the energetic of the surface also differs from the bulk counterpart. Reconstruction, charge redistribution, and surface alloying are phenomena that minimize the surface free energy. Surface properties of scientifically and technologically important bimetallic systems are the main focus of this dissertation. Specifically, surfaces of bulk alloy or heteroepitaxially grown metal-on-metal systems have been investigated primarily with two indispensable surface techniques, scanning …

News From Cart, Michael A. Krol, Julia Stakhnevich

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

“Birdstrike” – What’S The Word? (Poster), Carla Dove

Bird Strike Committee-USA/Canada Joint Annual Meeting: 4th (2002)

The word(s) “bird strike”, “bird-strike”, or “birdstrike” has been used inconsistently throughout the literature for as long as birds have been colliding with aircraft. A recent search of peer-reviewed articles in the Zoological Record and Biological Abstracts dating back to 1969 resulted in 52 articles that pertained to bird-aircraft collisions. Of those, 67% used two words (bird strike); 22% used a hyphenated word (bird-strike); 5.5% used one word (birdstrike), and 5.5% actually used both two words and the hyphenated version in the same paper! A brief glance through the proceedings and abstracts of recent Bird Strike Committee Meetings also exemplifies …

Liberal Arts - Fall 2002, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

First fellowship recipients represent psychology, chemistry, English

Writing Mathematics-A Nut And A Bolt Of Style, Frank A. Farris

Mathematics and Computer Science

As editor of Mathematics Magazine, I see a lot of manuscripts. Some of them are written with a charming sense of style, but many of them leave me thinking that the author's only concern was to set out the mathematics clearly. This is a fine place to start, but the tradition of the Magazine is to offer things that people will enjoy reading, and this requires more than clarity. Let me explain an important step authors can take in order to make their work more attractive.

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2002, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters (1981-2015)

The John Muir NeWi pr FER UNlVEESnY OF THE PACIFIC, STOCKTON, CA V( ilume 12, Number 4. Fall 2002; John Muir and the Civil War by Millie Stanley 7- suppose you have heard that they have drafted up in Marquette County and will be anxious to hear who are drafted you may be glad you were not taken."l Annie Muir penned these words in November, 1862, to her brother John who was a student at Wisconsin State University in Madison. Two years before, when he was twenty-two years old, John had traveled from his farm home in Marquette County to …

Machine-Learned Contexts For Linguistic Operations In German Sentence Realization, Eric K. Ringger, Simon Corston-Oliver, Michael Gamon, Robert Moore

Faculty Publications

We show that it is possible to learn the contexts for linguistic operations which map a semantic representation to a surface syntactic tree in sentence realization with high accuracy. We cast the problem of learning the contexts for the linguistic operations as classification tasks, and apply straightforward machine learning techniques, such as decision tree learning. The training data consist of linguistic features extracted from syntactic and semantic representations produced by a linguistic analysis system. The target features are extracted from links to surface syntax trees. Our evidence consists of four examples from the German sentence realization system code-named Amalgam: case …

Special Section: On The Publication Of The 26th Issue Of The Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, Sandra Z. Keith

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Teaching As Though Students Mattered: A Biography Of Alvin White As Told To Sandra Keith, Alvin White, Sandra Z. Keith

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Creating Successful Calculus Writing Assignments, Kris H. Green

Mathematical and Computing Sciences Faculty/Staff Publications

I discuss three different writing assignments that I have used in my calculus courses. These assignments are introduced with a discussion of purpose and audience. Defining these qualities of an assignment will ensure that your writing assignments are more successful. The assignments discussed and explored here represent three different purposes: personal, informational and a blend of the two. The audiences for these assignments are diverse and force the students to incorporate particular modes of writing that demonstrate much of their thinking. Assessment of student learning as a result of these assignments is discussed. A fourth writing assignment is developed from …

Improving Speech Recognition Learning Through Lazy Training, Tony R. Martinez, Michael E. Rimer, D. Randall Wilson

Faculty Publications

Multi-layer backpropagation, like most learning algorithms that can create complex decision surfaces, is prone to overfitting. We present a novel approach, called lazy training, for reducing the overfit in multiple-layer networks. Lazy training consistently reduces generalization error of optimized neural networks by more than half on a large OCR dataset and on several real world problems from the UCI machine learning database repository. Here, lazy training is shown to be effective in a multi-layered adaptive learning system, reducing the error of an optimized backpropagation network in a speech recognition system by 50.0% on the TIDIGITS corpus.

A Bdi Agent Software Development Process, Jeffrey M. Einhorn

Theses and Dissertations

As computer software continues to grow increasingly complex with each passing year, researchers continue to try and develop means to simplify software development. In this thesis, we propose a BDI agent software development process as the next evolution in software development. The goal of this research is to develop a process, which can be used to enable the creation of agent-based systems.

This thesis strives to present a practical software development process, which is useful to today's software engineer, by building upon current agent research and proven software engineering practices. Our BDI agent software development process is a systematic process, …

The Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science April 19-20, 2002 [Program, 114th Meeting], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

Program Summary --- 1
General Session Speakers --- 4
Awards --- 7
Symposia Programs --- 8
Special Events --- 8
Poster Sessions --- 9
Section Programs/Special Sessions --- 9
Agricultural Sciences --- 9
Anthropology --- 10, 16
Bioterrorism Symposia --- 24
Botany --- 11
Cellular, Molecular & Microbiology --- 17
Chemical Education --- 24
Chemistry: Inorganic, Analytical & Physical --- 18
Chemistry: Organic & Biological --- 18
College Science Teaching --- 11, 19
Community College Biologists --- 20
Conservation --- 20
Earth Science Teaching --- 24
Elementary Science Teaching --- 24
Engineering --- 12
Environmental Science and Health --- …