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Spartan Daily, December 4, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Dec 2008

Spartan Daily, December 4, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 50


Chance Operations, Liena Vayzman Dec 2008

Chance Operations, Liena Vayzman

SWITCH

This article describes the multimedia exhibit and performance, “Chance Operations,” held in Fall 2008 at the Climate theater in San Francisco. The event featured 14 projects exploring the theme of chance.


Growth And Development Of Scholarly Literature: An Analysis Of Scopus, Mehmood Ul-Ajaz Wani, Sumeer Gul Nov 2008

Growth And Development Of Scholarly Literature: An Analysis Of Scopus, Mehmood Ul-Ajaz Wani, Sumeer Gul

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Researchers require access to a variety of information sources, in order to stay current with developments in their own and related fields, to work collaboratively with others, to critically evaluate and examine the work of others, and to contribute to teaching. This study is assesses the SCOPUS database bibliometrically to explore the growth of scholarly literature.


Temperature Dependence Investigation Of Dissipation Processes In Strongly Anisotropic High-Temperature Superconductors Of Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System Synthesized Using Solar Energy, J Chigvinadze, Juana Acrivos, S. Ashimov, D. Gulamova, T. Machaidze, D Uskenbaev Oct 2008

Temperature Dependence Investigation Of Dissipation Processes In Strongly Anisotropic High-Temperature Superconductors Of Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System Synthesized Using Solar Energy, J Chigvinadze, Juana Acrivos, S. Ashimov, D. Gulamova, T. Machaidze, D Uskenbaev

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

The investigation of temperature dependence of damping and period of vibrations of HTSC superconductive cylinder of Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O system suspended by a thin elastic thread and performing axial-torsional vibrations in a magnetic field at temperatures above the critical one for the main phase Tc=107 K were carried out. It was observed some "chaos" temperature region in the temperature interval 107-138 K, where it is seen separate ripples of dissipation and oscillation frequency. It is assumed that the "chaos" region could point to a possibility of existence of other magnetic and more high-temperature phases as single islands in a normal materials matrix.


Spartan Daily, October 28, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2008

Spartan Daily, October 28, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 33


Spartan Daily, October 23, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2008

Spartan Daily, October 23, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 31


Paying Teachers To Earn Advanced Degrees: Evidence On Student Performance In Georgia, Noel D. Campbell, Edward J. Lopez Oct 2008

Paying Teachers To Earn Advanced Degrees: Evidence On Student Performance In Georgia, Noel D. Campbell, Edward J. Lopez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Information Outlook, October 2008, Special Libraries Association Oct 2008

Information Outlook, October 2008, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2008

Volume 12, Issue 10


Word Sense Disambiguation In Biomedical Ontologies With Term Co-Occurrence Analysis And Document Clustering, Bill Andreopoulos, Dimitra Alexopoulou, Michael Schroeder Sep 2008

Word Sense Disambiguation In Biomedical Ontologies With Term Co-Occurrence Analysis And Document Clustering, Bill Andreopoulos, Dimitra Alexopoulou, Michael Schroeder

Faculty Publications, Computer Science

With more and more genomes being sequenced, a lot of effort is devoted to their annotation with terms from controlled vocabularies such as the GeneOntology. Manual annotation based on relevant literature is tedious, but automation of this process is difficult. One particularly challenging problem is word sense disambiguation. Terms such as |development| can refer to developmental biology or to the more general sense. Here, we present two approaches to address this problem by using term co-occurrences and document clustering. To evaluate our method we defined a corpus of 331 documents on development and developmental biology. Term co-occurrence analysis achieves an …


Spartan Daily, September 22, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Sep 2008

Spartan Daily, September 22, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 13


Spartan Daily, September 18, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Sep 2008

Spartan Daily, September 18, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 12


Applying Game Theory In Libraries: Review And Preview, Ying Zhong, Aaron Hegde Aug 2008

Applying Game Theory In Libraries: Review And Preview, Ying Zhong, Aaron Hegde

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paradigm of game theory and its application have aroused increasing interest among researchers in multidisciplinary settings. An information society involves more opportunities and uncertainties; therefore, game theory is expected more often than ever to provide insights into different types of issues of decision-making in economics, management, political science, psychology, and philosophy. A library and its administration, as an important market player in an information society, should have a better understanding about the nature of games and strategies as well. This article starts with a brief introduction to game theory, reviews selected literature, and emphasizes the application of game theory …


Effect Of Long-Range Hopping On Tc In A Two-Dimensional Hubbard-Holstein Model Of The Cuprates, Ehsan Khatami, A. Macridin, M. Jarrell Aug 2008

Effect Of Long-Range Hopping On Tc In A Two-Dimensional Hubbard-Holstein Model Of The Cuprates, Ehsan Khatami, A. Macridin, M. Jarrell

Faculty Publications

We study the effect of long-range hoppings on Tc for the two-dimensional (2D) Hubbard model with and without Holstein phonons using parameters evaluated from band-structure calculations for cuprates. Employing the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA) with a quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) cluster solver for a 4-site cluster, we observe that without phonons, the long-range hoppings, t′ and t′′, generally suppress Tc. We argue that this trend remains valid for larger clusters. In the presence of the Holstein phonons, a finite t′ enhances Tc in the under-doped region for the hole-doped system, consistent with local-density approximation (LDA) calculations and experiment. This is …


The Scientist, Fall 2008, San Jose State University, College Of Science Aug 2008

The Scientist, Fall 2008, San Jose State University, College Of Science

The Scientist (College of Science)

No abstract provided.


Unraveling Protein Networks With Power Graph Analysis, Loïc Royer, Matthias Reimann, Bill Andreopoulos, Michael Schroeder Jul 2008

Unraveling Protein Networks With Power Graph Analysis, Loïc Royer, Matthias Reimann, Bill Andreopoulos, Michael Schroeder

Faculty Publications, Computer Science

Networks play a crucial role in computational biology, yet their analysis and representation is still an open problem. Power Graph Analysis is a lossless transformation of biological networks into a compact, less redundant representation, exploiting the abundance of cliques and bicliques as elementary topological motifs. We demonstrate with five examples the advantages of Power Graph Analysis. Investigating protein-protein interaction networks, we show how the catalytic subunits of the casein kinase II complex are distinguishable from the regulatory subunits, how interaction profiles and sequence phylogeny of SH3 domains correlate, and how false positive interactions among high-throughput interactions are spotted. Additionally, we …


Engineering At San Jose State University, Summer 2008, San Jose State University, Charles W. Davidson College Of Engineering Jul 2008

Engineering At San Jose State University, Summer 2008, San Jose State University, Charles W. Davidson College Of Engineering

Engineering at San Jose State University

No abstract provided.


Information Outlook, July 2008, Special Libraries Association Jul 2008

Information Outlook, July 2008, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2008

Volume 12, Issue 7


Theoretical And Formal Continuity In James Tenney's Music, Brian Belet Jun 2008

Theoretical And Formal Continuity In James Tenney's Music, Brian Belet

Faculty Publications

James Tenney created much of his music and theoretical writing as an objective experimenter, observer and codifier. This article examines Tenney's traits of curiosity, experimentation and honest self-evaluation through a subset of his compositions from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Although quite diverse in many ways, these compositions share his mark of intense individuality, integrity and compositional rigor, which creates a macro-unity and formal continuity between works. Perhaps this is his ultimate ‘clang’ and conceptual ‘temporal gestalt-unit’. Each composition grows out of the need to address one or more specific formal questions: each work is indeed an experiment designed to …


Climate Change Education And The Ecological Footprint, Eugene C. Cordero, Anne Marie Todd, Diana Abellera Jun 2008

Climate Change Education And The Ecological Footprint, Eugene C. Cordero, Anne Marie Todd, Diana Abellera

Faculty Publications, Meteorology and Climate Science

Global warming has become one of the most important scientific, political, and social issues of our era. In designing an effective mitigation strategy, it is clear that public education must play an important role. This study looks at various components of climate change literacy within a cohort of university students and investigates the impact of action-oriented learning on student understanding. Results from questionnaires given to primarily nonscience students enrolled in weather and climate courses are used to examine student knowledge of climate change. In agreement with prior research, this study finds that signif icant student misconceptions exist regarding the causes …


Spartan Daily, May 13, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications May 2008

Spartan Daily, May 13, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 130, Issue 57


This Bridge Called Imagination: On Reading The Arab Image Foundation And Its Collection, Dore Bowen May 2008

This Bridge Called Imagination: On Reading The Arab Image Foundation And Its Collection, Dore Bowen

Faculty Publications

This essay examines the benefits and disadvantages of using imagination as a method of historical research in the archive. Employing Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of “image-consciousness” in The Psychology of Imagination, imagination is defined and explored as a form of perception based upon temporal absence or suspension. This method is then discussed in relation to the exhibition “Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women” (2006), curated by the author with artist Isabelle Massu. The installation was assembled with the cooperation of the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut and traveled from Marseille (2005-06) to San Francisco (2007). The author …


Life On The Edge: Morphological And Behavioral Adaptations For Survival On Wave-Swept Shores, Luke P. Miller May 2008

Life On The Edge: Morphological And Behavioral Adaptations For Survival On Wave-Swept Shores, Luke P. Miller

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

Wave-swept rocky shores serve as a home to a great diversity of organisms and are some of the most biologically productive habitats on earth. This burgeoning community exists in spite of the fact that the zone between the high and low tide marks can be one of the most physically harsh environments on earth. Large forces imposed by breaking waves and wide swings in temperature require the organisms living on rocky shores to adapt to a constantly changing environment or risk extirpation by physical forces. I have explored a number of hypothesized adaptations for survival on rocky shores and discuss …


W(H)Ither Fossils? Studying Morphological Character Evolution In The Age Of Molecular Sequences, Elizabeth J. Hermsen, Jonathan R. Hendricks Apr 2008

W(H)Ither Fossils? Studying Morphological Character Evolution In The Age Of Molecular Sequences, Elizabeth J. Hermsen, Jonathan R. Hendricks

Faculty Publications

A major challenge in the post-genomics era will be to integrate molecular sequence data from extant organisms with morphological data from fossil and extant taxa into a single, coherent picture of phylogenetic relationships; only then will these phylogenetic hypotheses be effectively applied to the study of morphological character evolution. At least two analytical approaches to solving this problem have been utilized: (1) simultaneous analysis of molecular sequence and morphological data with fossil taxa included as terminals in the analysis, and (2) the molecular scaffold approach, in which morphological data are analyzed over a molecular backbone (with constraints that force extant …


Spartan Daily, April 3, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Apr 2008

Spartan Daily, April 3, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 130, Issue 35


Selfish Wavelength Assignment In Multifiber Optical Networks, Evangelos Bampas, Aris Pagourtzis, George Pierrakos, Katerina Potika Apr 2008

Selfish Wavelength Assignment In Multifiber Optical Networks, Evangelos Bampas, Aris Pagourtzis, George Pierrakos, Katerina Potika

Faculty Publications, Computer Science

No abstract provided.


Information Outlook, April 2008, Special Libraries Association Apr 2008

Information Outlook, April 2008, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2008

Volume 12, Issue 4


Making E-Reference Books Findable, Mohan Ramaswamy, Tara Baillargeon, Charlene N. Simser Mar 2008

Making E-Reference Books Findable, Mohan Ramaswamy, Tara Baillargeon, Charlene N. Simser

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Internet has significantly changed the ways in which information is provided, particularly in libraries. Libraries are buying increasing numbers of electronic reference (e-Reference) materials which are buried in the catalog or on web pages, not to be easily found by the user. Unlike print reference books, e-Reference books are not found on libraries’ reference shelves and, therefore, are underused. Libraries face the dilemma of how to make e-Reference books more accessible to patrons. Kansas State University Libraries are addressing this challenge by using the powerful metadata behind OPAC records to create browsable e-Reference lists. These lists are also published …


Dialectic Schemes In Thesaurus Creation, Maziar Amirhosseini Feb 2008

Dialectic Schemes In Thesaurus Creation, Maziar Amirhosseini

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article looks at the logical relationships between the categories that have led to the development of the thesaurus, including the historical origins of thesaurus construction. The research uses the dialectical, logical relationships of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Each step in the dialectic of thesaurus creation includes subjective and objective thought as part of the thesis and antithesis, resolved by the more absolute thinking of the synthesis.


Spartan Daily, February 6, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Feb 2008

Spartan Daily, February 6, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 130, Issue 8


Engineering At San Jose State University, Winter 2008, San Jose State University, Charles W. Davidson College Of Engineering Jan 2008

Engineering At San Jose State University, Winter 2008, San Jose State University, Charles W. Davidson College Of Engineering

Engineering at San Jose State University

No abstract provided.