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Independent Educational Evaluations At District Expense Under The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, Perry A. Zirkel

The Journal of Law and Education

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Exploiting Matrix Symmetry To Improve Fpgaaccelerated Conjugate Gradient, Jason D. Bakos, Krishna K. Nagar

Faculty Publications

In this paper we describe a new approach for accelerating the Conjugate Gradient (CG) method using an FPGA co-processor. As in previous approaches, our co-processor performs a double-precision sparse matrix-vector multiplication. However, our implementation doubles the amount of computation per unit of input data by exploiting the symmetry of the input matrix and computing the upper and lower triangle of the input matrix in parallel. Using a Virtex-2 Pro 100 FPGA, we have achieved an observed computational throughput of 1155 MFLOPS.

Climate Change, Cultural Heritage & The Oceans: Rethinking Regulatory Approaches To Climate Change, Cinnamon P. Carlane

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

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Finding Common Ground On Shifting Sands: Coastal Zone Regulatory Bodies, Governance, And Program Effectiveness In South Carolina, Hollis Inabinet

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Interdisciplinary, Translational, And Community-Based Participatory Research: Finding A Common Language To Improve Cancer Research, James R. Hébert, Heather M. Brandt, Cheryl A. Armstead, Swann Arp Adams, Susan E. Steck

Faculty Publications

Preventing cancer, downstaging disease at diagnosis, and reducing mortality require that relevant research findings be translated across scientific disciplines and into clinical and public health practice. Interdisciplinary research focuses on using the languages of different scientific disciplines to share techniques and philosophical perspectives to enhance discovery and development of innovations; (i.e., from the “left end” of the research continuum). Community-based participatory research (CBPR), whose relevance often is relegated to the “right end” (i.e., delivery and dissemination) of the research continuum, represents an important means for understanding how many cancers are caused as well as for ensuring that basic science research …

Institutional Responses To Self-Injurious Behavior Among Inmates, Dana D. Dehart, Hayden P. Smith, Robert J. Kaminski

Faculty and Staff Publications

To date, little research has systematically investigated perceptions of mental health professionals regarding perceived motivations for self-injury among prison inmates. To help fill this gap, descriptive techniques were used to examine self-injurious behavior among inmates from the perspective of correctional mental health professionals. A quantitative survey was used to assess perceptions of mental health staff regarding etiology, motivations, and manifestations of self-injury. A qualitative interview component was used to explicate responses from the survey. Findings indicate that inmate cutting, scratching, opening old wounds, and inserting objects were the most commonly witnessed behaviors. There were indications that self-injury occurred regularly and …

The Effect Of Semantic Set Size On Word Learning By Preschool Children, Holly L. Storkel, Suzanne M. Adlof

Faculty Publications

Purpose - The purpose was to determine whether semantic set size, a measure of the number of semantic neighbors, influenced word learning, and whether the influence of semantic set size was broad, showing effects on multiple measures both during and after learning.

Method - Thirty-six preschool children were exposed to 10 nonobjects, varying in semantic set size, paired with 10 nonwords, controlling phonotactic probability and neighborhood density. Nonobject-nonword pairs were presented in a game format. Learning was measured in naming and referent identification tasks administered before, during, and 1 week after training.

Results - Results showed no differences in naming …

Adult And Child Semantic Neighbors Of The Kroll And Potter (1984) Nonobjects, Holly L. Storkel, Suzanne M. Adlof

Faculty Publications

Purpose - The purpose was to determine the number of semantic neighbors, namely semantic set size, for 88 nonobjects (J. F. Kroll & M. C. Potter, 1984) and determine how semantic set size related to other measures and age.

Method - Data were collected from 82 adults and 92 preschool children in a discrete association task. The nonobjects were presented via computer, and participants reported the first word that came to mind that was meaningfully related to the nonobject. Words reported by two or more participants were considered semantic neighbors. The strength of each neighbor was computed as the …

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, March 31, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, March 30, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Friday, March 27, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, March 26, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, March 25, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, March 24, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, March 23, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Friday, March 20, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, March 19, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, March 18, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, March 17, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, March 16, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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Macrospin Model To Explain The Absence Of Preswitching Oscillations In Magnetic Tunnel Junctions: Fieldlike Spin-Transfer Torque, Samir Garzon, Yaroslaw Bazaliy, Richard A. Webb, Mark Covington, Shehzaad Kaka, Thomas M. Crawford

Faculty Publications

We show that the absence of preswitching oscillations (“incubation delay”) in magnetic tunnel junctions can be explained within the macrospin model by a sizable fieldlike component of the spin-transfer torque. It is further suggested that measurements of the voltage dependence of tunnel junction switching time in the presence of external easy axis magnetic fields can be used to determine the magnitude and voltage dependence of the fieldlike torque.

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, March 6, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, March 5, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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A Public Privilege, Colin Miller

Faculty Publications

If a rule is only as good as its exceptions, and a reporter is only as good as her sources, then, according to a recent Supreme Court of Pennsylvania opinion, Pennsylvania's reporter's privilege is the best of privileges and the worst of privileges. In that opinion, the justices failed to carve a crime-fraud exception out of Pennsylvania's reporter's privilege - its "Shield Law" - despite having previously read a similar exception into every other evidentiary privilege. Ironically, this alleged act of judicial passivism transformed the Shield Law into both a shield and a sword and mischaracterized the purposes served by …

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, March 4, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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March 4, 2009 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, March 3, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, March 2, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

March

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Argument Structure Effects In Action Verb Naming In Static And Dynamic Conditions, Dirk B. Den Ouden, Steve Fix, Todd B. Parrish, Cynthia K. Thompson

Faculty Publications

Argument structure, as in the participant roles entailed within the lexical representation of verbs, affects verb processing. Recent neuroimaging studies show that when verbs are heard or read, the posterior temporoparietal region shows increased activation for verbs with greater versus lesser argument structure complexity, usually bilaterally. In addition, patients with agrammatic aphasia show verb production deficits, graded based on argument structure complexity. In the present study, we used fMRI to examine the neural correlates of verb production in overt action naming conditions. In addition, we tested the differential effects of naming when verbs were presented dynamically in video segments versus …

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, February 27, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

February

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