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The Impact Of Property Flipping On Single Family Detached Home Prices, Wesley H. English Nov 2005

The Impact Of Property Flipping On Single Family Detached Home Prices, Wesley H. English

Business Administration Theses - Archive

In 2003 HUD ruled that flipped properties, which are defined as recently acquired properties that have been resold, often within days, and for a substantial profit, are ineligible for FHA insured mortgage financing. This research uses the HUD ruling as the basis for this study. Their ruling was based on the perception that property flipping had a negative effect on home prices among other things. The study uses hedonic modeling to empirically determine if houses that have previously flipped have any influence on value when compared to the non-flipped properties in the same market. Through a regression analysis, it is …

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Supramolecular Chemistry Of Nitrogen Dioxide, Yanlong Kang Nov 2005

Supramolecular Chemistry Of Nitrogen Dioxide, Yanlong Kang

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

Supramolecular chemistry has been defined as "chemistry beyond molecules", and involves investigating molecular systems held together reversibly by inter-molecular forces, not by covalent bonds. This dissertation discusses a supramolecular approach towards sensing, entrapment and utilization of NO2/N2O4 gases. Chapter 1 briefly discusses supramolecular chemistry and supramolecular chemistry of gases. In chapter 2, the interaction of NOx with metalloporphyrins is described. Specifically, ruthenium nitrosyl derivatives hold a special place in mimicking bio-relevant NO-metal interactions. A previously unnoticed reaction between NO2/N2O4 and a Ru(II) porphyrin is described. It causes disproportionation of N2O4 and leads to a stable nitrosyl nitrato complex. Our findings …

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A Simulation Tool Suite For The Modeling And Optimization Of Multiple Quantum Well Structures, Jeffery Wayne Allen Nov 2005

A Simulation Tool Suite For The Modeling And Optimization Of Multiple Quantum Well Structures, Jeffery Wayne Allen

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

This thesis aims to develop a suite of computational tools for design, analysis, and simulation of semiconductor multiple quantum well structures with a user-friendly GUI. The research project focuses on the electrical and optical aspects of user defined quantum well structures, and allows the user to vary design parameters to optimize the structure for different device applications and functionality. Specifically the thesis delves into the design and analysis of different quantum well structures as they relate to band gap engineering. Key features of this computational suite include relationship to electrical field, doping profiles and optical transitions. The quantum well structures …

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Optimization Of H.264 Baseline Decoder On Arm9tdmi Processor, Sandya B. Sheshadri Nov 2005

Optimization Of H.264 Baseline Decoder On Arm9tdmi Processor, Sandya B. Sheshadri

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

With the newly introduced features and advancements to the pre-existing features, the emerging H.264 video coding standard achieves significant improvements in coding performance over all existing standards, in a wide variety of applications. The coding-efficiency advantages of H.264, however, come at the expense of higher computational complexity. H.264 decoders can exhibit more than double the complexity of H.263 decoders. Furthermore, previous studies have shown that fractional-pixel motion-compensation interpolation and the loop filtering consume a significant amount of computational power in emerging H.264 decoders. Since these operations are part of the baseline profile of H.264, there is a need to evaluate …

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A Novel Game Theoretic Framework For Security In Wireless Sensor Networks, Afrand Agah Nov 2005

A Novel Game Theoretic Framework For Security In Wireless Sensor Networks, Afrand Agah

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Due to severe resource limitations and often lack of centralized infrastructure, providing security in wireless sensor networks is a great challenge. Misbehavior due to malicious or faulty nodes can significantly degrade the performance of such networks. Therefore, countermeasures against denial of service (DoS) attacks and node misbehavior are essential requirements. We argue that the conventional view of security based on cryptography techniques is not sufficient for securing wireless sensor networks. In this dissertation, we investigate a novel framework by proposing three approaches for security enforcement in such networks that range from prevention of DoS attacks to secure routing. Prevention of …

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An Analysis Of Classroom Environment And Child Outcomes Across Three Models Of Early Childhood Intervention, Marion Ruth Shiflett Nov 2005

An Analysis Of Classroom Environment And Child Outcomes Across Three Models Of Early Childhood Intervention, Marion Ruth Shiflett

Social Work Dissertations - Archive

This research study presents a comparative analysis to examine classroom environments and child developmental outcomes across three early intervention models that serve children living in low-income families. Two long standing early intervention programs, Head Start and state-mandated Prekindergarten, are used as comparison groups to compare classroom environment and child outcomes with a collaboration known as Ready Start, a combination program serving children with a half day of Prekindergarten and a half day of Head Start. The Ready Start program is designed to combine the strengths of both programs to best serve the needs of children from low-income families. The study …

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Teilhard De Chardin's View Of Diminishment And The Late Stories Of Flannery O'Connor, Steven Watkins Nov 2005

Teilhard De Chardin's View Of Diminishment And The Late Stories Of Flannery O'Connor, Steven Watkins

English Dissertations - Archive

ABSTRACT Scholars have used different approaches to study and interpret the work of Flannery O'Connor; those approaches have ranged from Feminism to New Criticism to religious (Christian and non-Christian) to psychological. These attempts to analyze and interpret her work have produced a diverse approach to understanding this intriguing author, who lived only to the age of thirty-nine because of lupus erthymatosus. The approach of this dissertation is that the presence of this disease in her life caused her to look for ways to resolve and adapt to the limitations of the disease. One prominent source for reflecting and resolving the …

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Region Of Interest (Roi) Based Rate Control For H.263 Compatible Video Conferecing, Lin Tong Nov 2005

Region Of Interest (Roi) Based Rate Control For H.263 Compatible Video Conferecing, Lin Tong

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

This dissertation presents a region of interest (ROI) based H.263 [10] [13] compatible video codec, which integrates the idea of object-based coding from MPEG-4 Visual [9] [15] into the traditional block-based H.263 codec. A face detection and tracking scheme with very low complexity is proposed to segment human face region from video conferencing sequences in real-time. For intra frames, the proposed detection method is a hybrid skin color and mosaic-rule based face detection and for inter frames the face tracking method uses motion vectors only. With the segmentation information, the ROI based codec and its associated rate control schemes are …

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Querying Microarray Databases, Zoe Alexandra Raja Nov 2005

Querying Microarray Databases, Zoe Alexandra Raja

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Microarray technology has rapidly taken a key position among bioinformatics research tools. After the completion of the Human Genome Project, microarray databases have become particularly important to the management and analysis of genomic data. These databases are ideal tools for many research areas involving gene expression patterns under different experimental conditions. This work attempts to assess the querying capabilities of current public microarray database implementations by evaluating their data management, query interfaces, and results presentation. We are not aware of any comparative study available to date that evaluates this important class of biological databases. We examine and evaluate how several …

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Repclass: Cluster And Grid Enabled Automatic Classification Of Transposable Elements Identified De Novo In Genome Sequences, Nirmal Ranganathan Nov 2005

Repclass: Cluster And Grid Enabled Automatic Classification Of Transposable Elements Identified De Novo In Genome Sequences, Nirmal Ranganathan

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

In the last few years many computer and laboratory improvements in the production and analysis of DNA sequences have made possible the complete sequencing of whole genomes. This provides us with a wealth of raw genomes that needs to be processed and annotated. 5% to 80% of eukaryotic genomes contain repetitive DNA consisting of transposable elements and tandem repeats which needs to be identified, classified and annotated in order to sequence and annotate the entire genome accurately. Existing tools allow us to identify and annotate transposable elements (TE) but no tool exists for their classification. This thesis work introduces REPCLASS …

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Application Of Graph-Based Data Mining To Biological Networks, Chang Hun You Nov 2005

Application Of Graph-Based Data Mining To Biological Networks, Chang Hun You

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

A huge amount of biological data has been generated by long-term research. It is time to start to focus on a system-level understanding of bio-systems. Biological networks are networks of biochemical reactions, containing various objects and their relationships. Understanding of biological networks is a starting point of systems biology. Multi-relational data mining finds the relational patterns in both the entity attributes and relations in the data. A widely used representation for relational data is a graph consisting of vertices and edges between these vertices. Graph-based data mining, as one approach of multi-relational data mining, finds relational patterns in a graph …

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Error-Resilient Image And Video Coding Over Lossy Networks, Yilong Liu Nov 2005

Error-Resilient Image And Video Coding Over Lossy Networks, Yilong Liu

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The rapid growth of the Internet and increasing bandwidth in the past decade has heightened the interest in robust transmission of image and video signals over error-prone links. Recent literatures highlight the multiple description (MD) coding as a promising approach to solve this problem. MD coding is a source coding technique that provides a graceful quality degradation in the presence of packet losses during transmission. Topics of interest to construct MD coders with high coding efficiency and robustness are studied in this thesis. First, to minimize the overall distortion of reconstructed image, an edge-adaptive estimation algorithm is employed, which can …

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Enhancements To The Sam-Grid Infrastructure, Bimal Balan Nov 2005

Enhancements To The Sam-Grid Infrastructure, Bimal Balan

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

SAM-Grid is a grid computing infrastructure for high energy physics (HEP) experiments in Fermilab. It is composed of data handling, job management and information management components. There are several challenges when the number of sites participating in the experiment increases. This thesis presents the enhancements made on the SAM-Grid infrastructure. This includes scalability and performance related enhancements. The enhancements mainly affect the batch adapter, monitoring and security layers. As a scalability aspect, Monitoring and Information services required changes to make it easier for monitoring large number of jobs. SAM-Grid is integrated with Sun Grid Engine (SGE) batch system. The batch …

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Adaptive Agent Communities For Providing Services In Dynamic Networks, Nayantara Mallesh Nov 2005

Adaptive Agent Communities For Providing Services In Dynamic Networks, Nayantara Mallesh

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

New network applications are being created everyday to accommodate diverse user needs. Delivering services to the user in a timely manner taking into account network conditions, resources allocated and network load is a challenge. Multiprotocol Label Switching attempts to overcome best-effort service by providing a method for routing traffic around network congestion, resource reservation and quality of service (QoS) capabilities. IntServ and DiffServ are two other QoS models in use today. IntServ provides per-flow guarantee of quality while DiffServ is based on aggregate service classes. Adaptive Network Service (ANS) is a community of adaptive, collaborating agents residing in the network …

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Multi-Dimensional Indexing For Xml Data, Do Youn Kim Nov 2005

Multi-Dimensional Indexing For Xml Data, Do Youn Kim

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is becoming a dominant standard for exchanging and retrieving data over the internet. As XML in data exchanging grows, various XML indexing techniques have been proposed for fast and efficient query processing. A survey of theses techniques [9] categorized them into sequence-based indexes, structural indexes, dimension-based indexes and keyword-based indexes based on their properties. In this thesis, we focus on the multi-dimensional XML indexing; more precisely, it can be categorized as a 2-dimension based indexing, which is used in this paper. We studied the properties of multi-dimensional XML indexing and created an implementation to evaluate …

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Adaptive, Multimodal, Application Independent User Interfaces For People With Disabilites Using Computers, Padmapriya Sambath Nov 2005

Adaptive, Multimodal, Application Independent User Interfaces For People With Disabilites Using Computers, Padmapriya Sambath

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The goal of this thesis is to create more adaptive and flexible user interfaces for people with disabilities and presenting information to everyone and on every device at any time. Delivering information at any time leads to situations such as a person walking with a mobile device having a small screen wanting to make a flight reservation. The intention of presenting information to everybody immediately raises the question of how much of the available information reach people with disabilities. We have suggested a content based user interface language that may be used by external services to interact with the user. …

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Eigenspace Model Based Error Concealment And Low Bit Rate Coding Of Face Sequences, Xuejun Hu Nov 2005

Eigenspace Model Based Error Concealment And Low Bit Rate Coding Of Face Sequences, Xuejun Hu

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The emerging multimedia applications address the increasing demand for novel video coding systems to provide higher compression ratio while maintaining the high quality of the reconstruction. This research makes an effort under such context to investigate the application of principal component analysis (PCA) in the video coding area, especially for error concealment and very low bit rate face coding. PCA is a well known optimal linear scheme for dimension reduction in data analysis. The central idea of PCA is to reduce the dimensionality of a data set while retaining as much as possible the variation in the data set. Since …

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Modeling And Feedback Control Of Mems Devices, Bruno Borovic Nov 2005

Modeling And Feedback Control Of Mems Devices, Bruno Borovic

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

As MEMS actuators reach maturity and emerge from the research lab into commercial applications, their increased reliability, speed, and performance accuracy is needed. MEMS are typically driven directly in an open-loop fashion by applying simple actuating signals. The requirements for better dynamical behavior, however, have resulted in the gradual introduction of improved actuation approaches, such as pre-shaped open-loop driving and closed-loop control. Unlike macro mechanical systems where the implementation of the feedback is relatively simple, it is quite problematic in the MEMS case. The presence of fast system dynamics, and physical area efficiency requirements have introduced additional challenges for feedback …

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Service Discovery By Automated Structural And Semantic Matching, Alan Walker Nov 2005

Service Discovery By Automated Structural And Semantic Matching, Alan Walker

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Pervasive computing systems need to locate and use services dynamically. Current models of service location and interaction rely on a fixed contract, or service description, located by name and/or a combination of keywords. This implies a priori agreement on the service description, leading to fragility and the inability for systems to interoperate unless they were built to match an existing standard. This thesis implements a technique for relaxing the fixed contract assumption, so that the nearest match amongst a set of services can be located. The system takes into account structural, data type and naming differences. The naming differences are …

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Optimization Of H.264 High Profile Decoder For Pentium 4 Processor, Tarun Bhatia Nov 2005

Optimization Of H.264 High Profile Decoder For Pentium 4 Processor, Tarun Bhatia

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

H.264 is an emerging video coding standard, which aims at compressing high-quality video content at low-bit rates. While the basic idea behind the encoding and decoding process still remains the same as in the previous standards, many new and innovative tools have been added to provide higher compression capabilities with high perceptual quality. These capabilities have also contributed to the increase in complexity of implementation of H.264 significantly compared to the previous generation of video coding standards. In this thesis, the performance analysis of the H.264 decoder for decoding of high profile high definition data is done for the Pentium …

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Supramolecular Nanostructures Based On Calixarenes, Heng Xu Nov 2005

Supramolecular Nanostructures Based On Calixarenes, Heng Xu

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

This dissertation describes a systematic approach towards the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of calixarene-based supramolecular nanostructures. Chapter 1 briefly overviews the field of supramolecular chemistry and highlights its horizons. Chapter 2 introduces a modular strategy towards synthesis of nanoscale receptor macromolecules--calix-peptide conjugates. This strategy combines the unique host-guest capabilities of calixarene chemistry with synthetically flexible peptide synthesis. A series of calixarene amino acids was prepared and further utilized to synthesize calixarene dipeptides. Through this approach, calixarene amino acids are now available to be incorporated into peptide networks and nanostructured biologically relevant materials. Chapter 3 demonstrates supramolecular applications of calixarene-peptide …

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Stock Options: To Expense Or Not To Expense. A Comparison Of Economic Determinants, Firm Payoffs, And Pay-Performance Sensitivity Of Executive Stock Option Compensation, Barbara Wood Nov 2005

Stock Options: To Expense Or Not To Expense. A Comparison Of Economic Determinants, Firm Payoffs, And Pay-Performance Sensitivity Of Executive Stock Option Compensation, Barbara Wood

Finance and Real Estate Dissertations - Archive

Until June 2005, firms had a choice in accounting for stock option compensation. The majority of firms elected to disclose option compensation expense in the footnotes of their financial statements. However, after the accounting scandals in the early 2000s, many firms moved from disclosing the expense to recognizing the expense as a charge against earnings. This research examines the reasons that firms would voluntarily elect to adopt option recognition prior to regulatory requirement. The decision to recognize option pay is examined with respect to efficient contracting, earnings management, and information signaling. Firms that elect to expense option pay do so …

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Integrated High Speed Intelligent Utility Tie Unit For Disbursed/Renewable Generation Facilities, Worakarn Wongsaichua Nov 2005

Integrated High Speed Intelligent Utility Tie Unit For Disbursed/Renewable Generation Facilities, Worakarn Wongsaichua

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

After experiencing the price hikes and rotating blackouts in California, the disbursed or distributed generation (DG) is considered as one of the most attractive alternatives for future utility industry. In addition to the conventional DG that uses fossil-fuel to generate power, the DG via renewable energy is of interest due to the environmental concern. Fuel cell and photovoltaic are the most promising technologies for the urban residential and small commercial users. For economic and reliability purposes, it is desirable for these facilities to be interconnected with the utility grid to perform peak shaving, demand reduction, and to serve as emergency …

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News You Can Use, University Of Texas At Arlington Library Nov 2005

News You Can Use, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

News You Can Use

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The Joy Of Jesus' Resurrection (Video File), Gary R. Habermas Oct 2005

The Joy Of Jesus' Resurrection (Video File), Gary R. Habermas

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (1973-2015)

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Cultivating Alliances With Other Helping Professionals: Interprofessional Training With The Curriculum, Dr. Jill D. Duba, Susan B. Paez Oct 2005

Cultivating Alliances With Other Helping Professionals: Interprofessional Training With The Curriculum, Dr. Jill D. Duba, Susan B. Paez

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

Counselor educations are called to provide some kind of interprofessional training so that students are better equipped at working with other helping professionals on various client cases. This article provides several other reasons why interprofessional training is relevant in counselor education. In addition, several interprofessional training strategies are addressed.

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The Evaluation Procedures Of Counselor Trainees: A Summary Of Literature, Dr. Jill D. Duba Oct 2005

The Evaluation Procedures Of Counselor Trainees: A Summary Of Literature, Dr. Jill D. Duba

Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications

This article presents a summary of the literature regarding the procedures used to evaluate counselor education students. Justification for evaluations and evaluation criteria including multicultural considerations are presented. In addition, a summary of evalution procedures being used in counselor education programs are addressed. Finally, areas of further research and implications for training and supervision are noted.

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Faculty Senate Degree Candidates, Fall 2005, Vol 36, P 1309-1438, Unm Faculty Senate Oct 2005

Faculty Senate Degree Candidates, Fall 2005, Vol 36, P 1309-1438, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

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News You Can Use, University Of Texas At Arlington Library Oct 2005

News You Can Use, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

News You Can Use

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Relationships Of Intercropped Maize, Stem Borer Damage To Maize Yield And Land-Use Efficiency In The Humid Forest Of Cameroon, A. Chabi-Olaye, C. Nolte, F. Schulthess, C. Borgemeister Oct 2005

Relationships Of Intercropped Maize, Stem Borer Damage To Maize Yield And Land-Use Efficiency In The Humid Forest Of Cameroon, A. Chabi-Olaye, C. Nolte, F. Schulthess, C. Borgemeister

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

Stem borers are the most important maize pests in the humid forest zone of Cameroon. Field trials were conducted in the long and short rainy seasons of 2002 and 2003 to assess the level of damage and yield reductions caused by stem borers in monocropped maize and in maize intercropped with non-host plants such as cassava, cowpea and soybean. The intercrops were planted in two spatial arrangements, i.e. alternating hills or alternating rows. All intercrops and the maize monocrop were grown with and without insecticide treatment for assessment of maize yield loss due to borer attacks. The land-use efficiency of …

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