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Biology Goes Digital: An Array Of 5,700 Spartan Fpgas Brings The Biowall To "Life", Christof Teuscher, Gianluca Tempesti Jan 2003

Biology Goes Digital: An Array Of 5,700 Spartan Fpgas Brings The Biowall To "Life", Christof Teuscher, Gianluca Tempesti

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

A unique, scientific research instrument and art piece, the BioWall models bio-inspired electronic tissues capable of evolution, selfrepair, self-replication – and learning. Much pure and applied scientific research has focused on replicating biological functions in digital hardware. Here, at the Logic Systems Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), we have utilized 5,700 Xilinx Spartan™ FPGAs, in multiple configurations, to build bio-inspired computing machines that exploit three essential biological models: • Phylogenesis – the history of the evolution of the species • Ontogenesis – the development of an individual as directed by his genetic code • …

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Qualification Of A Cmos Linear Image Sensor Lis-1024, Srinath Neelamegam Jan 2003

Qualification Of A Cmos Linear Image Sensor Lis-1024, Srinath Neelamegam

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The world of optoelectronics merges diverse fields, such as physics, optics, electronics, chemistry, and material science. It leads to more advanced and efficient applications by exploiting the properties of light, which is typically a more effective data and energy transfer medium than electron flow. A couple of well-known applications are the optical imagers and sensors used for cameras, scanners, and barcode readers. The two prominent image sensor types are Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors and Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs). While CMOS sensors have traditionally performed well in new applications, such as Personal Computer (PC) cameras (where CCDs were …

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Speech-Zilla Meets Trademark Kong?: How The Hollywood Circuit Got It Wrong In The Barbie Battle, Mattel, Inc. V. Mca Records, Inc., Steven Y. Reeves Jan 2003

Speech-Zilla Meets Trademark Kong?: How The Hollywood Circuit Got It Wrong In The Barbie Battle, Mattel, Inc. V. Mca Records, Inc., Steven Y. Reeves

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Toward Aligning The Law With Biology? The Federal Circuit's About Face In Enzo Biochem, Inc. V. Gen-Probe, Inc., John C. Stolpa Jan 2003

Toward Aligning The Law With Biology? The Federal Circuit's About Face In Enzo Biochem, Inc. V. Gen-Probe, Inc., John C. Stolpa

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Hatch-Waxman - Thoughtful Planning Or Just Piling On: A Consideration Of The Federal Trade Commission's Proposed Changes, Brian Urevig Jan 2003

Hatch-Waxman - Thoughtful Planning Or Just Piling On: A Consideration Of The Federal Trade Commission's Proposed Changes, Brian Urevig

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Guaranteed Jurisdiction: The Emerging Role Of Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(K)(2) In The Acquisition Of Personal Jurisdiction Of Foreign Nationals In Internet Intellectual Property Disputes, Jeffrey R. Armstrong Esq. Jan 2003

Guaranteed Jurisdiction: The Emerging Role Of Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(K)(2) In The Acquisition Of Personal Jurisdiction Of Foreign Nationals In Internet Intellectual Property Disputes, Jeffrey R. Armstrong Esq.

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Slouching Toward A Morass: The Case For Preserving Complete Carmack Preemption, George W. Wright Jan 2003

Slouching Toward A Morass: The Case For Preserving Complete Carmack Preemption, George W. Wright

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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Justifications For The Probation Sanction Among Residents Of Virginia--Cool Or Un-Cool?, Brian K. Payne, Randy R. Gainey, Ruth A. Triplett, Mona J. E. Danner Jan 2003

Justifications For The Probation Sanction Among Residents Of Virginia--Cool Or Un-Cool?, Brian K. Payne, Randy R. Gainey, Ruth A. Triplett, Mona J. E. Danner

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Perhaps as evidence of a growing cultural gap between our students and ourselves, one of the authors was recently amused when a student asked whether probation was a "cool" sanction. In this study, we begin an investigation into how cool the probation sanction is in the eyes of residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Specifically, we use data from a telephone survey of 840 registered voters to explore three questions. First, how often would they recommend the probation sanction in comparison to other sanctions? Second, how do they justify the sanction relative to justifications for other sanctions? Finally, are their …

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A Comparison Of Human Energy Fields Among Children, Youth, Adults, & Dahn Masters, Geoffrey K. Leigh, Karen A. Polonko, Catherine D. Leigh Jan 2003

A Comparison Of Human Energy Fields Among Children, Youth, Adults, & Dahn Masters, Geoffrey K. Leigh, Karen A. Polonko, Catherine D. Leigh

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

While concepts and investigations of human energy fields have been developed for centuries, there has been little systematic work comparing the fields of children, adolescents, and adults. In addition, general fields have had little comparison between average adults and those participating in an intense practice that may affect the field. Using the GDV machine, this research compared small groups of children, adolescents, average adults, and Dahn Hak Masters on measures of 20 basic aspects of the human energy fields, including the seven chakras. Differences were found in seven of the 13 field parameters as well as all seven measures of …

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Assimilation Versus Autonomy: Indigenous Education In Mexico, Gordon Lee Gent Jan 2003

Assimilation Versus Autonomy: Indigenous Education In Mexico, Gordon Lee Gent

Honors Theses

Indigenous education became prevalent in the ideology of the Mexican government after the Revolution on 1911. The leading school of thought about how to integrate Mexico’s indigenous population was led by anthropologists. Through indigenismo, the government adopted policies that would explore indigenous communities and promote them into the national identity. Bilingual education became one of the most important instruments of the movement under the direction of the Instituto Nacional Indigenista. I collected my data from a wealth of resources. One source of information the historical texts written on Mexican history. Anthropological texts also aided in the discussion of indigenous people …

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Strong Black Woman: An Examination Of Cultural Images Of Black Women, Tamika Renee Montgomery Jan 2003

Strong Black Woman: An Examination Of Cultural Images Of Black Women, Tamika Renee Montgomery

Honors Theses

Through literary works and life experiences and in an effort to dispel negative images, an unrealistic image of a strong black woman has been presented to society. As a black woman surrounded by black women who have attempted to personify this superwoman image, and more importantly as a black woman who has been encouraged to adopt this image, I have done research to discover if this woman truly exists. I have read a number of literary works that span over the entire twentieth century, examined cultural and psychological studies relevant to the black woman. I also did research on the …

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How The Song Goes: Southern Society Singing The Dual Lives Of Women, Amy R. Roebuck Jan 2003

How The Song Goes: Southern Society Singing The Dual Lives Of Women, Amy R. Roebuck

Honors Theses

This work explores the lives of black and white Southern women, focusing on their role in Southern society as mothers. It covers a variety of Southern literature from var>'ing time periods concerning women of different races and social classes. In each of the works, I have found that maternal characteristics bring women together with an opportunity to bridge gaps between the races, thus allowing motherhood the pov/er to blend cultures. This work is divided into three sections. The first section is an introduction into the lives of women as mothers. It explores the joys and pains of motherhood, and …

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Random Sampling Of An A/D Converter And Aliasing, Jessica Ruth Drewrey Jan 2003

Random Sampling Of An A/D Converter And Aliasing, Jessica Ruth Drewrey

Honors Theses

Uniformly sampling with an analog to digital (A/D) converter can lead to the phenomenon known as aliasing. Aliasing occurs when more than one frequency fits the sampled data points. These frequencies Include the true frequency plus the aliases. Obtaining data with a random time step can reduce this problem. When a signal Is sampled with a random time step, only the true frequency will fit all of the sampled data points. This project uses two random time sampling methods to demonstrate the utility of random time sampling. Both methods produce the expected results.

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Young Offenders And Juvenile Delinquency In Canada: A Look At The Canadian Juvenile Justice Act (2003), Cameron D.M. Brody Jan 2003

Young Offenders And Juvenile Delinquency In Canada: A Look At The Canadian Juvenile Justice Act (2003), Cameron D.M. Brody

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

This paper provides an evaluation and analysis of the laws in place to deal with juvenile delinquency in Canada. The primary focus of this paper is the Criminal Justice Act (Aprill, 2003) which is being introduced to replace the pre-existing Young Offenders Act. Canada's New Criminal Justice Act is the topic of this paper. The Act is to be implemented on April 1, 2003. Fundamentally, it is the old Young Offender Act revised and also includes new changes, revisions, and mandates. After having taken a fairly in-depth look at this new proposal, I will attempt to break it down and …

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Letters To The Editor Jan 2003

Letters To The Editor

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

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The Importance Of Male Staff As Role Models In Residential Childcare: Men Can Care!, Niall C. Mcelwee, David Parslow Jan 2003

The Importance Of Male Staff As Role Models In Residential Childcare: Men Can Care!, Niall C. Mcelwee, David Parslow

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

A 'crisis of masculinity' reached fever pitch in the British media in the mid 1990's when it was widely reported that female pupils were achieving better school results and outstripping their male counterparts in locating employment in the diminishing youth labour market (Mac an Ghaill, 1994; Connell, 1995). We had a more reserved debate in Ireland at that time but it is now gathering in momentum once again. This paper is written partly as a response to the two papers by Mark Smith (2003) and Mike Burns (2003) published in the last volume of the Relational Journal of Child and …

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Historical Perspectives (Apoptosis), James Curtin, Thomas Cotter Jan 2003

Historical Perspectives (Apoptosis), James Curtin, Thomas Cotter

Articles

Apoptosis is one of the most widely studied fields in biology and accounts for over 2% of all life science publications annually. It plays a fundamental role in development, and defects in the regulation of apoptosis are directly implicated in numerous well-known diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, tissue atrophy and auto-immune diseases. However, the field of apoptosis has humble beginnings and was neglected by biologists for much of its history. This chapter reviews the history of research in apoptosis and highlights key experiments that have contributed significantly to our current understanding of apoptosis. In addition, the topics covered in later …

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Unification Scale, Proton Decay, And Manifolds Of G2 Holonomy, Tamar Friedmann, Edward Witten Jan 2003

Unification Scale, Proton Decay, And Manifolds Of G2 Holonomy, Tamar Friedmann, Edward Witten

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

Models of particle physics based on manifolds of G2 holonomy are in most respects much more complicated than other string-derived models, but as we show here they do have one simplification: threshold corrections to grand unification are particularly simple. We compute these corrections, getting completely explicit results in some simple cases. We estimate the relation between Newton’s constant, the GUT scale, and the value of αGUT , and explore the implications for proton decay. In the case of proton decay, there is an interesting mechanism which (relative to four-dimensional SUSY GUT’s) enhances the gauge boson contribution to p → π …

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The Culture Of Compliance: The Final Triumph Of Form Over Substance In Sexual Harassment Law, Joanna L. Grossman Jan 2003

The Culture Of Compliance: The Final Triumph Of Form Over Substance In Sexual Harassment Law, Joanna L. Grossman

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Involuntary Treatment Of The Mentally Ill: Autonomy Is Asking The Wrong Question, Dora W. Klein Jan 2003

Involuntary Treatment Of The Mentally Ill: Autonomy Is Asking The Wrong Question, Dora W. Klein

Faculty Articles

When determining if involuntary treatment is appropriate, the proper question for courts to ask is not whether autonomy is preferable to involuntary treatment, but whether no treatment at all is preferable to involuntary treatment. When legislatures develop and courts apply statutes governing civil commitment, the interests at stake should be considered not at the abstract level of "freedom" or "autonomy," but rather at the concrete level of the consequences that are likely to result from providing or not providing involuntary treatment. Only by examining the particular interests that are likely to be affected can informed decisions be made about when …

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Erisa: A Co-Fiduciary Has No Right To Contribution And Indemnity, George Lee Flint Jr, Philip W. Moore Jr Jan 2003

Erisa: A Co-Fiduciary Has No Right To Contribution And Indemnity, George Lee Flint Jr, Philip W. Moore Jr

Faculty Articles

Because retirement plans involve large amounts of money, large numbers of people, and fiduciaries with conflicts of interests, Congress designed ERISA to differ from traditional trust law to meet these specific needs and important policy concerns. Before ERISA, fiduciaries and employers often manipulated lack of oversight and conflict of interests to the detriment of the beneficiaries. ERISA raised the standards owed by fiduciaries and established a policing system that required professional fiduciaries to monitor non-professional fiduciaries, thereby forcing non-professional fiduciaries to leave the field or seek expert advice. These provisions created co-fiduciary liability by imputing the liability of the co-fiduciary …

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Essential Components Of Psychosocial Care For Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients, Beverly Lee Laird Jan 2003

Essential Components Of Psychosocial Care For Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patients, Beverly Lee Laird

All ETDs from UAB

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women in the United States, and, today, there are approximately 1.7 million women living with breast cancer. Due to earlier detection and better treatments, the 5-year survival rate for breast cancer has increased dramatically in the past few decades. With better survival rates has come increased attention to other needs for cancer patients, including information and psychosocial support. Providing appropriate psychosocial care as an adjunct to standard medical treatment is expected to improve quality of life for cancer survivors, which is one of the three major 2015 goals for the American …

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Leadership Styles Of Select Inner -City Principals Who Administer Schools Categorized As Clear, Caution, Or Alert: Practices And Actions Of Nine School Leaders., Coradean Carson Bishop Jan 2003

Leadership Styles Of Select Inner -City Principals Who Administer Schools Categorized As Clear, Caution, Or Alert: Practices And Actions Of Nine School Leaders., Coradean Carson Bishop

All ETDs from UAB

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The Lifework Of D. W. Hewes: A Phenomenological Study Of Pedagogy., Catherine Alice Grubb Jan 2003

The Lifework Of D. W. Hewes: A Phenomenological Study Of Pedagogy., Catherine Alice Grubb

All ETDs from UAB

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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance And Optical Studies Of Chromium-Doped Cadmium-Gallium-Sulfur., Melinda Frances Byrd Johnson Jan 2003

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance And Optical Studies Of Chromium-Doped Cadmium-Gallium-Sulfur., Melinda Frances Byrd Johnson

All ETDs from UAB

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The Perceptions Of Mexican -Origin Mothers Regarding Early Childhood Education Programs., Celia Billescas Hilber Jan 2003

The Perceptions Of Mexican -Origin Mothers Regarding Early Childhood Education Programs., Celia Billescas Hilber

All ETDs from UAB

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The Role Of Syndecan-4 In Cell Adhesion., Ssang-Taek Lim Jan 2003

The Role Of Syndecan-4 In Cell Adhesion., Ssang-Taek Lim

All ETDs from UAB

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Hyperglycemia And Capacitative Calcium Entry In The Heart., Yi Pang Jan 2003

Hyperglycemia And Capacitative Calcium Entry In The Heart., Yi Pang

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

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Morphing Many Polygons Across A Change In Topology., Xiaqing Wu Jan 2003

Morphing Many Polygons Across A Change In Topology., Xiaqing Wu

All ETDs from UAB

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The Informed Consent Process And Its Effect On Minority Participation In Cancer -Related Research., Leah Raynell Alexander Jan 2003

The Informed Consent Process And Its Effect On Minority Participation In Cancer -Related Research., Leah Raynell Alexander

All ETDs from UAB

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