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A Miniature Spiral Diversity Antenna System With High Overall Gain Coverage And Low Sar, Abu T.M. Sayem, Sadia Khan, Mohammod Ali

Faculty Publications

A miniature spiral diversity antenna system operating at 1.85 GHz is proposed. Two 10 mm 6.25 mm antennas were placed at two corners of a printed circuit board at a height of 7 mm from the ground plane. Each antenna achieves nearly 7% bandwidth within 6 dB return loss. The mutual coupling between the two antennas is less than 10 dB. The proposed diversity antenna scheme exhibits high overall gain performance in all three principal planes compared to a single antenna solution. Computed specific absorption rate (SAR) data against a specific anthropomorphic mannequin (SaM) phantom and a hand model show …

Infusing Multicultural Competence In Supervision: Current Practices For Student Affairs, K. Sean Mcgreevey Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to observe, describe and analyze what practices supervisors of student affairs professionals utilized in aiding their staffs’ multicultural competence development. Pope, Reynolds and Muller (2004) defined multicultural competence for student affairs professionals as “a distinctive category of awareness, knowledge, and skills essential for efficacious student affairs work; this category may assist student affairs practitioners in creating diverse and inclusive campuses” (p. 9). In Mueller and Pope’s (2001) study, respondents who had “discussions with supervisors about multicultural issues” (p. 140) were more likely to exhibit multicultural competence. In the 2001 study, “results suggest that the …

Faculty Should Consider Peer Review As A Means Of Improving Students' Scientific Reasoning Skills, Briana Timmerman, Denise Strickland

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science

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Temperature Changes Resulting From A Gaalas Laser In The Decontamination Of A Failing Dental Implant, Adam B. Oppenheimer

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science

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Principals' Perceptions Of School Librarians, Donna M. Shannon

Faculty Publications

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Identifying Csfs In Risk Management Of Information Systems Outsourcing Projects In Iranian Commercial Banks, Abbas Asousheh, Ali Divandari, Amir Karami, Hamid Reza Yazdani

Faculty Publications

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Raman Spectroscopy Of Biological Molecules And Inorganic Compounds, Jasmine Gardner

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation describes the use of multiple Raman spectroscopic techniques for the detection and characterization of non-hazardous organic and inorganic compounds. The first two applications involve the use of Raman and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy to thoroughly analyze autoinducers (AI) produced by gram negative bacteria. The second set of applications involves the use of anti-Stokes Raman and resonance Raman spectroscopy to remotely detect inorganic compounds at distances of up to 12 meters away.

Chapters two and three describe the use of Raman spectroscopy for the characterization and discrimination of signaling molecules used in bacterial communication. Our initial work shows the …

United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods: Lessons Learned From Five Years Of Cases, Marcia J. Staff

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

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Global Distribution Of Atmospheric Phosphorus Sources, Concentrations And Deposition Rates, And Anthropogenic Impacts, Natalie Mahowald, Timothy D. Jickells, Alex R. Baker, Paulo Artaxo, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Gilles Bergametti, Tami C. Bond, Ying Chen, David D. Cohen, Barak Herut, Nilgun Kubilay, Remi Losno, Chao Luo, Willy Maenhaut, Kenneth A. Mcgee, Gregory S. Okin, Ronald L. Siefert, Seigen Tsukuda

Faculty Publications

[1] A worldwide compilation of atmospheric total phosphorus (TP) and phosphate (PO4) concentration and deposition flux observations are combined with transport model simulations to derive the global distribution of concentrations and deposition fluxes of TP and PO4. Our results suggest that mineral aerosols are the dominant source of TP on a global scale (82%), with primary biogenic particles (12%) and combustion sources (5%) important in nondusty regions. Globally averaged anthropogenic inputs are estimated to be ∼5 and 15% for TP and PO4, respectively, and may contribute as much as 50% to the deposition over the oligotrophic ocean where productivity may …

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, December 5, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, December 4, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, December 3, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

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December 3, 2008 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, December 2, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, December 1, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

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Music Librarian As Development Officer: Raising Funds For Special Collections, Ashlie K. Conway

Faculty and Staff Publications

Over the past ten years, advances in technology have led to increased productivity and efficiency in nearly every area of librarianship. As a result, many music libraries across the United States are either beginning a special collections program or are turning to these collections for digitization; as special collections often consist of older materials no longer under copyright, they become priorities for digitization, which also affords a critical preservation benefit. As these collections grow, so does the need for funding, which is essential to their proper archival storage and long-term preservation. A review of the literature finds that little research …

"An Almost Single Inference": Kant's Deduction Of The Categories Reconsidered, Konstantin Pollok

Faculty Publications

By taking into account some texts published between the first and the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason that have been neglected by most of those who have dealt with the deduction of the categories, I argue that the core of the deduction is to be identified as the 'almost single inference from the precisely determined definition of a judgment in general,' which Kant adumbrates in the Metaphysical Foundations in order to 'make up for the deficiency' of the A-deduction. Whereas the first step of the B-deduction is an attempt to show that the manifold of an intuition …

A Special-Purpose Architecture For Solving The Breakpoint Median Problem, Jason D. Bakos, Panormitis E. Elenis

Faculty Publications

In this paper, we describe the design for a co-processor for whole-genome phylogenetic reconstruction. Our current design performs a parallelized breakpoint median computation, which is an expensive component of the overall application. When implemented on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), our hardware breakpoint median achieves a maximum speedup of 1005times over software. When the coprocessor is used to accelerate the entire reconstruction procedure, we achieve a maximum application speedup of 417times. The results in this paper suggest that FPGA-based acceleration is a promising approach for computationally expensive phylogenetic problems, in spite of the fact that the involved algorithms are based …

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, November 25, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, November 24, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Friday, November 21, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, November 20, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, November 19, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, November 18, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, November 17, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Friday, November 14, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, November 13, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, November 12, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, November 11, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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The Daily Gamecock, Monday, November 10, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

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