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Web-Based Interactive Self-Evaluation System For Computer Science In Generic Tutorial System For The Sciences Project, Supachai Praritsantik

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this master project is to promote and facilitate the use of new web-based and Java-based technologies in the development of self-evaluation systems for computer science; in particular, analysis of sorting algorithms.

2002 University Employee Service Recognition Program, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

• 25 Year Club
• New Inductees
• Members
• Retirees
• Forty Years of Service
• Thirty-Five Years of Service
• Thirty Years of Service
• Twenty Years of Service
• Fifteen Years of Service
• Ten Years of Service

Atomization Energies And Enthalpies Of Formation Of The Snbin (N=1-3) Gaseous Molecules By Knudsen Cell Mass Spectrometry, Giovanni Meloni, Karl A. Gingerich

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The equilibria involving the gaseous species SnBi, SnBi2, and SnBi3 above the condensed system Bi–Sn contained in a graphite cell have been investigated by the Knudsen effusion technique combined with mass spectrometry. Third law enthalpies for the reactionsSnBin(g)=Sn(cond)+nBi(g), n=1–3, were evaluated. By combining the experimental reactionenthalpies with the appropriate thermodynamic data taken from literature, the following atomization energies, ΔaHo0, and enthalpies of formation,ΔfHo298.15, in kJ mol⁻¹, have been derived: SnBi, 191.1±12.0 and 317.5±12.0; SnBi2, 415.2±15.0 and 303.0±15.0; SnBi3, 603.4±18.0 and 323.0±18.0.

Coherent Integration Of 0.5 Ghz Spectral Holograms At 1536 Nm Using Dynamic Biphase Codes, Z Cole, Thomas Böttger, R Krishna Mohan, R Reibel, W R. Babbitt, R L. Cone, K D. Merkel

Physics and Astronomy

Spectral hole-burning-based optical processing devices are proposed for coherent integration of multiple high-bandwidth interference patterns in a spectral hole-burning medium. In this implementation, 0.5 GHz spectral holographic gratings are dynamically accumulated in Er3+:Y2SiO5" style="position: relative;" tabindex="0" id="MathJax-Element-1-Frame">Er3+:Y2SiO5 at 4.2 K using a 1536 nm laser frequency stabilized to a spectral hole, along with commercial off-the-shelf components. The processed data, representing time delays over 0.5–2.0 μs, were optically read out using a frequency-swept probe; this approach makes possible the use of low-bandwidth, large-dynamic-range detectors and digitizers and enables competitive processing for applications such as radar,lidar, and radio astronomy. Coherent integration …

Affirmative Action In College Admissions: Examining Labor Market Effects Of Four Alternative Policies, Bruce Wydick

Economics Faculty Publications

A rancorous debate continues to rage over the use of affirmative action policies in college admissions. This paper uses a simple signaling model to evaluate the labor market impacts of four types of affirmative action admissions policies. Race-based preferential policies and policies guaranteeing admission based on high school academic rank may induce discrimination in labor markets when there exists strong heterogeneity in socio-economic disadvantage within the under-represented minority group. Under such conditions, it may also be difficult to realize ethnic diversity with disadvantage-based preferential policies. The paper argues instead for affirmative action policies emphasizing intensive college preparation for targeted groups.

Foreword, Murray Smart Jr.

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Mathematics And Science Achievement Of Junior Secondary School Students In Australia, Susan Zammit, Alla Routitsky, Lisa Greenwood

TIMSS Australia Monograph Series

The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 1998 assessed the mathematics and science achievement of students in their second year at high school. Testing for the study was carried out in 38 countries in 1998–99.1 Extensive information was collected from students, teachers and school principals about the context of mathematics and science teaching and learning. Among the countries participating in TIMSS 1998, 26 countries, including Australia, also participated in TIMSS 1994. It was therefore possible to report on any significant changes between the two studies. Two reports, TIMSS 1999 International Mathematics Report and International Science Report were released in …

Liquid Crystals: Nature's Delicate Phase Of Matter, Peter J. Collings

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Fisheries Research Report No.131 - Pilchard (Sardinops Sagax) Nursery Areas And Recruitment Process Assessment Between Different Regions In Southern Western Australia, Daniel J. Gaughan, Graeme Baudains, Ronald W. Mitchell, Timothy I. Leary

Fisheries Research Reports

Pilchards have been the primary target of purse seine fisheries along the south and lower west coasts of WA for nearly 15 years. Western Australia’s pilchard population consists of separate west coast and south coast breeding stocks. The adult pilchards in the south coast stock can, in turn, be further divided into three separate assemblages. These adult assemblages correspond to the purse seine fisheries at Albany, Bremer Bay and Esperance. However, while the separateness of the adult assemblages is well established, the status of the juveniles within the context of these adult groups is not understood. For example, the habitats …

Supplier Selection And Assessment: Their Impact On Business Performance, Vijay R. Kannan, K. C. Tan

Management Faculty Publications

Increasingly, firms are allocating more resources to their core competencies and encouraging the outsourcing of non-core activities, which increases their reliance and dependence on suppliers. This increases the importance of effective supplier selection and assessment. Sparse evidence exists regarding the impact of supplier selection and assessment on a buying firm's business performance. This research describes an empirical study of the importance of supplier selection and assessment criteria of American manufacturing companies for items to be used in products already in production. Moreover, it identifies relationships between criteria and a buying firm's business performance. Results indicate that soft, non-quantifiable selection criteria, …

Detrending Time-Aggregated Data, David Aadland

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

This paper examines the combined influences of detrending and time aggregation on the measurement of business cycles. The approximate band-pass filter of Baxter and King (1999) performs relatively well in the sense that it retains the basic shape of disaggregate spectra and cospectra when applied to time-aggregated data and is straightforward to apply across sampling intervals. Simulation of a simple weekly RBC model confirms the theoretical results.

Bridgewater College Catalog, Session 2002-03, Bridgewater College

Bridgewater College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

A Supplemental Curriculum To Integrate Reading And Writing With First Grade Science Kits, Shauna Calandra Curtis

All Graduate Projects

This project provides a supplemental curriculum to assist teachers in integrating reading and writing with science kits for first grade students. Included is a review of research which discusses what thematic and integrative teaching encompasses, the value of thematic teaching, the development ofreading, writing, and language through thematic units, thematic centers, a rationale for using thematic content area teaching to English as a second language students in the acquisition of the English language, and the importance of science education. The handbook encompasses two main themes: weather and organisms.

Sobre Universos Y Teologías: Schleiermacher Y La Cuestión Cosmológica, Guillermo C. Hansen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Characterizing Logic Programming Semantics With Level Mappings, Pascal Hitzler, Matthias Wendt

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Declarative semantics in logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning are often defined via fixed points of semantic operators. While many relationships between different semantics known from the literature have been studied, a uniform treatment is still missing. In this paper, we provide uniform operator-free characterizations for some of the most important semantics, more precisely, for the stable, the well-founded, and the Fitting semantics, for the weakly-perfect model semantics, and for the least model semantics for negation-free programs.

Integration Of Naradabrokering And Audio/Video Conferencing As A Web Service, Hasan Bulut, Geoffrey C. Fox, Shrideep Pallickara, Ahmet Uyar, Wenjun Wu

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

Audio/Video Conferencing Systems need communication channels between their clients in order to transport RTP packets from one client to another. In this paper we investigate audio/video conferencing as a Web Service and the deployment of publish/subscribe systems in the context of audio/video conferencing systems. In this paper we use our research system NaradaBrokering, which supports both peer-to-peer and publish/subscribe paradigms, as a test bed to investigate these ideas. We also present results from our research system.

Building Decision Tree Classifier On Private Data, Wenliang Du, Zhijun Zhan

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship

This paper studies how to build a decision tree classifier under the following scenario: a database is vertically partitioned into two pieces, with one piece owned by Alice and the other piece owned by Bob. Alice and Bob want to build a decision tree classifier based on such a database, but due to the privacy constraints, neither of them wants to disclose their private pieces to the other party or to any third party. We present a protocol that allows Alice and Bob to conduct such a classifier building without having to compromise their privacy. Our protocol uses an untrusted …

Information-Theoretic Bounds On The Training And Testing Error Of Boosting, Sebastien M. Lahaie

Dartmouth College Undergraduate Theses

Boosting is a means of using weak learners as subroutines to produce a strong learner with markedly better accuracy. Recent results showing the connection between logistic regression and boosting provide the foundation for an information-theoretic analysis of boosting. We describe the analogy between boosting and gambling, which allows us to derive a new upper bound on training error. This upper bound explicitly describes the effect of noisy data on training error. We also use information-theoretic techniques to derive an alternative upper-bound on testing error which is independent of the size of the weak-learner space.

Familial Als-Associated Mutations Decrease The Thermal Stability Of Distinctly Metallated Species Of Human Copper/Zinc Superoxide Dismutase, Daryl K. Eggers, J. A. Rodriguez, J. S. Valentine, J. A. Roe, A. Tiwari, R. H. Brown, L. J. Hayward

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

We report the thermal stability of wild type (WT) and 14 different variants of human copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS). Multiple endothermic unfolding transitions were observed by differential scanning calorimetry for partially metallated SOD1 enzymes isolated from a baculovirus system. We correlated the metal ion contents of SOD1 variants with the occurrence of distinct melting transitions. Altered thermal stability upon reduction of copper with dithionite identified transitions resulting from the unfolding of copper-containing SOD1 species. We demonstrated that copper or zinc binding to a subset of “WT-like” FALS mutants (A4V, L38V, G41S, G72S, D76Y, …

Chemical Analysis By X-Ray Spectroscopy Near Phase Transitions In The Solid State, Juana Vivó Acrivos, L. Nguyen, T. Norman, C. T. Lin, W. Y. Liang, J. M. Honig, P Somasundaran

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

The methods discussed in this work show that the types of changes which may be observed, by precise XAS measurements of Absorbance A versus temperature, across a phase transition are: the changes in the relaxation time of the final states  due to fluctuations near a phase transition; the detection of the anomalous Bragg condition coupled to phonon modes XAS enhancement that identifies the temperature interval where the phonon modes are active, the symmetry changes which introduce new allowed transitions to finite states below an element edge, near Tc indicate what symmetry changes occur, and the method of XTDAFST0 = …

Decomposition Of Pascal’S Kernels Mod PS, Richard P. Kubelka

Faculty Publications

For a prime p we define Pascal's Kernel K(p,s) = [k(p,s)_ij]^∞_i,j=0 as the infinite matrix satisfying k(p,s)_ij = 1/p^x(^i+j_j) mod p if (^i+j_j) is divisible by p^s and k(p,s)_ij = 0 otherwise. While the individual entries of Pascal's Kernel can be computed using a formula of Kazandzidis that has been known for some time, our purpose here will be to use that formula …

Human-Robot Interaction: Final Report For Darpa/Nsf Study On Human-Robot Interaction, Erika Rogers, Robin R. Murphy

Computer Science and Software Engineering

No abstract provided.

Grants And Contracts Awarded In Fiscal Year 2002, Grants Development Office

Grants Development Office Reports

No abstract provided.

2002 Jackrabbit Volleyball, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Volleyball Media Guides (1988-2014)

Coaches/Administration [page] 2-4
Team Preview [page] 5
Player Profiles [page] 6-11
Postseason Review [page] 12-13
2001 Season Review [page] 14
Award Winners [page] 15
All-Americans [page] 16-17
NCC Information [page] 18-19
Record Book [page] 20-21
History/Letterwinners [page] 22
About SDSU [page] 23-24

2002-03 Jackrabbit Women's Basketball, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Women's Basketball Media Guides (1998-2014)

Roster/Team Information [page] 1
Coaching Staff / Administration [page] 2-4
Frost Arena [page] 5
Season Preview [page] 6
Player Profiles [page] 7-17
2001-02 Season Review [page] 18-21
North Central Conference [page] 22-23
Award Winners [page] 24
Single-Season, Career Leaders [page] 25-30
Letterwinners / History [page] 31
Year-by-Year Results [page] 32-34
About SDSU [page] 35-36

2002-03 South Dakota State University Wrestling, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Wrestling Media Guides (1997-2014)

Who, What and Where At SDSU [page] 1
Jackrabbit Roster [page] 2
2002-03 Outlook [page] 3
Jackrabbit Coaches [page] 4-5
Jackrabbit Profiles [page] 6-11
SDSU in the Postseason [page] 12
Jackrabbit Lettermen [page] 13
2001-02 Season Review [page] 14-15
All-Americans and National Champions [page] 16-17
Jackrabbit Records [page] 18
NCC Placewinners [page] 19
Year By Year Scores [page] 20-21
SDSU Record vs. Opponents [page] 22
Behind the Scenes [page] 23
About SDSU [page] 24

Integrating Technology Into Standards-Based Instruction For Second Grade English Language Learners, Catherine Levander Enbody

Theses Digitization Project

Rapid growth in the use of technology and the need for education reform resulted in the need for educators to integrate technology and standards-based instruction into their daily lessons. The growing number of students whose first language is not English requires a diverse set of teaching strategies and assessments to provide these students with optimal opportunities for achieving high standards.

The Effects Of Computer Assisted Language Learning And Specially Designed Academic Instruction In English On Second Language Acquisition, George Edward Williams

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two methods of instruction for second language acquisition. The first method used a computer based software program known as English Language Learning Instructional System (ELLIS). The second method used Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE).

Enhancing Communication Skills Through Family And Consumer Sciences, Ellen Derby Gordon

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Numerical Solution Of Markov Chains, Amr Lotfy Elsayad

Theses Digitization Project

This project deals with techniques to solve Markov Chains numerically.