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2005 Summary Report On Institutional Effectiveness, Clemson University

Institutional Effectiveness Reports

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Rhythm Systems In The United States: Their Development And Frequency Of Use By Teachers, Students, And Authors; And Relation To Perceived Learning Preferences, Paul Charles Varley

Dissertations

One of the issues facing music educators is the way in which they teach students to read rhythms accurately. Using the current educational philosophy of differentiation, or teaching a student by appealing to their preferred learning style, as a backdrop, the researcher proposed that music educators tend to teach rhythms using a limited number of systems, thereby failing to utilize many of the available systems.

The researcher examined the published rhythm systems dating back to the early nineteenth century, surveyed band students in grades 7-12 concerning their preferences in learning rhythms and their learning styles, surveyed music teachers concerning their …

Searching Multi-Hierarchical Xml Documents: The Case Of Fragmentation, Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut E. Iacob, Srikanth Methuku

Computer Science and Software Engineering

To properly encode properties of textual documents using XML, multiple markup hierarchies must be used, often leading to conflicting markup in encodings. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines [1] recognize this problem and suggest a number of ways to incorporate multiple hierarchies in a single well-formed XML document. In this paper, we present a framework for processing XPath queries over multi-hierarchical XML documents represented using fragmentation, one of the TEI-suggested techniques. We define the semantics of XPath over DOM trees of fragmented XML, extend the path expression language to cover overlap in markup, and describe FragXPath, our implementation of the proposed …

The Clearance Of Protein-Bound Solutes By Hemofiltration And Hemodiafiltration, Timothy W. Meyer, Jason L. Walther, Maria Enrica Pagtalunan, Andres W. Martinez, Ali Torkamani, Patrick D. Fong, Natalie S. Recht, Channing R. Robertson, Thomas H. Hostetter

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Background. Hemofiltration in the form of continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH) is increasingly used to treat acute renal failure. Compared to hemodialysis, hemofiltration provides high clearances for large solutes but its effect on protein-bound solutes has been largely ignored.

Methods. Standard clinical systems were used to remove test solutes from a reservoir containing artificial plasma. Clearances of the protein-bound solutes phenol red (C_PR) and indican (C_IN) were compared to clearances of urea (C_UREA) during hemofiltration and hemodiafiltration. A mathematical model was developed to predict clearances from values for plasma flow Q_p, …

Cuoricino Status And Cuore Prospects, C. Brofferio, R. Ardito, C. Arnaboldi, D. R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone Iii, M. Balata, I. Bandac, M. Barucci, J. W. Beeman, F. Bellini, C. Bucci, S. Capelli, F. Capozzi, L. Carbone, S. Cebrian, C. Cosmelli, O. Cremonesi, R.J. Creswick, A. De Waard, M. Dolinski, H.A. Farach, F. Ferroni, E. Fiorini, G. Frossati, C. Gargiulo, E. Guardincerri, A. Giuliani, P. Gorla, T. D. Gutierrez, E.E. Haller, I. G. Irastorza, E. Longo, G. Maier, R. Maruyama, R. J. Mcdonald, S. Morganti, S. Nisi, E.B. Norman, A. Nucciotti, E. Olivieri, P. Ottonello, M. Pallavicini, V. Palmieri, E. Pasca, M. Pavan, M. Pedretti, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, B. Quiter, L. Risegari, C. Rosenfeld, S. Sangiorgio, M. Sisti, A. R. Smith, Toffanin, L. Torres, G. Ventura, N. Xu

Physics

CUORE is a proposed experiment, already partially funded, to search for 0ν-DBD of ¹³⁰Te using 988 TeO₂ bolometers. It aims at reaching a sensitivity on the effective neutrino mass of the order of few tens of meV. The crucial parameter on which this expectation is based is background. Different strategies are under development to reduce as much as possible its value, among which the comprehension of CUORICINO background, a single CUORE tower running since 2003, plays an important role. Present results already achieved and studies that are underway are here presented and discussed.

Integration Of Interactive Voice Response Unit And Outage Management System, Chaomei Jiang

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

This project provides a technical solution that integrates the Interactive Voice Response Unit (IVR) and the Outage Management System (OMS) for the Public Service Company. The IVR system is introduced because its automatic call logging functionality can process a large volume of phone calls from the customers reporting electrical service problems. This is a major improvement over the current Trouble Call Center (TCC) infrastructure that has a limited number of agents handling a relatively small number of customer calls. Because OMS can receive more calls, it then can predict the outage locations and causes more accurately, dispatch more repair crews …

Effects Of Information And Machine Learning Algorithms On Word Sense Disambiguation With Small Datasets, Gondy Leroy, Thomas C. Rindflesch

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Current approaches to word sense disambiguation use (and often combine) various machine learning techniques. Most refer to characteristics of the ambiguity and its surrounding words and are based on thousands of examples. Unfortunately, developing large training sets is burdensome, and in response to this challenge, we investigate the use of symbolic knowledge for small datasets. A naïve Bayes classifier was trained for 15 words with 100 examples for each. Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) semantic types assigned to concepts found in the sentence and relationships between these semantic types form the knowledge base. The most frequent sense of a word …

Chandra Hetgs Multiphase Spectroscopy Of The Young Magnetic O Star Theta(1) Orionis C, M. Gagné, M. E. Oksala, David H. Cohen, Stephanie Korinne Tonnesen , '03, A. Ud-Doula, S. P. Owocki, R. H.D. Townsend, J. J. Macfarlane

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We report on four Chandra grating observations of the oblique magnetic rotator theta(1) Ori C (O5.5 V), covering a wide range of viewing angles with respect to the star's 1060 G dipole magnetic field. We employ line-width and centroid analyses to study the dynamics of the X-ray - emitting plasma in the circumstellar environment, as well as line-ratio diagnostics to constrain the spatial location, and global spectral modeling to constrain the temperature distribution and abundances of the very hot plasma. We investigate these diagnostics as a function of viewing angle and analyze them in conjunction with new MHD simulations of …

A Five-Year Management Strategy For Recreational Fishing In The Pilbara/Kimberley. The Minister For Fisheries' Decisions In Response To The Final Report Of The Pilbara Kimberley Recreational Fishing Working Group, Jon Ford (Minister For Fisheries; The Kimberley, Pilbara And Gascoyne)

Fisheries Management Papers

The regional review for the Pilbara/Kimberley Region is now complete and I would like to thank all members of the review working group for their efforts in what has been a challenging task. I would also like to thank those members of the community who attended public meetings and made submissions on the draft discussion paper. After careful consideration of the Pilbara/Kimberley Recreational Fishing Working Group’s recommendations and the wide range of issues raised in submissions, I have made my decisions in respect to the future management arrangements for recreational fishing in Pilbara/Kimberley Region. I believe the new management arrangements, …

Management Of The Proposed South Coast Trawl Fishery. A Discussion Paper., Department Of Fisheries.

Fisheries Management Papers

In late 1987, the Minister approved a development plan for the South Coast Inshore Trawl Fishery (Fisheries Management Paper No. 13) and made a number of notices regulating trawling activities in the Recherche Archipelago. Fishing Boat Licences were subsequently ‘endorsed’ by reference to those notices. The development plan was declared to be for a period ending 31 December 1989, subject to extension for a further year if necessary. Despite the considerable interest in the fishery during 1986 to 1989, fishing results demonstrated that the economic returns were marginal and a number of operators withdrew from participation in the fishery (at …

Applying The Test Of Appurtenance Globally: A New Inventory Of Wide Margin States From Public Domain Data, Dave Monahan, Robert Van De Poll, Sara Cockburn

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

No abstract provided.

Spectroscopic Studies Of Inclusion Host-Guest Complexes Between Cyclophane Corrals And Polcyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Mark O'Brien

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Cyclophanes are macromolecules that are known to effectively bind with molecules to form host-guest complexes. Several cyclophane molecules, referred to as corrals (1-6) by their founders, have been synthesized. The characterization of these compounds and their complexes has been investigated using combined spectroscopic and theoretical methods. Hostguest interactions of cyclophane-anthracene (C-A), cyclophane-9-fluorenone (C-F) and cyclophane-pyrene (C-P) complex systems in dichloromethane are presented in this thesis. The stability constants, log Ka, for the C-A, C-F and C-P complexes are determined using absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. Heats of formation of corral 2 complexes were determined by measuring the complex association constants at …

Factors Affecting Distribution And Abundance Of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates In Autumnal Wetlands In Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, Usa, Jered Studinski

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Despite a recent surge of interest in temporary lentic systems, a strong theory linking the biota to its environment has not emerged. Data were collected from ten autumnal wetlands at Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, U.S.A., in an effort to elucidate the environmental variables (EV's) that affected both between- and within-pond macroinvertebrate distribution and abundance. Canonical correspondence analyses performed with between-pond data failed to find strong relationships between the macroinvertebrates and EV's. Additionally, the theory that hydroperiod would effect richness did not apply to these ponds. Within-pond canonical correspondence analyses, however, yielded strong relationships. Further testing using regression analysis and …

Lebesgue ▼-Measure And Riemann ▼-Integration, Heather Bjorum

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Throughout the study of dynamic equations on time-scales, one traditionally finds many theorems involving the ▲ case (i.e., ▲-derivatives, ▲-measure, ▲-integrability, etc.) with only a brief mention of the ▼case. This thesis is designed to give a greater understanding of ▼-measurability and Riemann ▼-integration, as well as to give a comparison between ▲ and ▼-measurability. Furthermore, a Mathematica program for finding the Riemann ▼-integral of a function on various time-scales is provided.

Synthesis And Characterization Of Polyaminopolycarboxylic Acid Analogs Of Edta And Their Transition Metal Complexes, Martha Watson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Polyaminopolycarboxylic acids have been studied for their ability to complex with various transition metal ions. Polyaminopolycarboxylic acids are of particular interest due to their ability to form multiple chelate rings with transition metal ions. Three analogs of EDTA have been successfully synthesized and characterized by i3C NMR: 1,3 PDTA (1,3-propylenediaminetetraacetic acid), 1,3-PDTP (1,3-propylenediaminetetrapropionic acid) and EDTP (ethylenediaminetetrapropionic acid). These ligands were then combined with copper (II), iron (III), cobalt (II) and nickel (II) to form complexes. The complexes formed were analyzed using UV-Vis, and the stability constants of the complexes were determined using potentiometry.

The Design And Implementation Of The Megacomm Media Center's Extranet, Kenneth J. Quigley

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The Purpose of this thesis is to document the project that designed, configured and implemented a network infrastructure that provided the capability to segment, current and future, non-MegaComm Media Center companies that need IT services from the MegaComm Media Center (MMC) and provided Business-to- Business connectivity. The MegaComm Media Center, located in Littleton, Colorado, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the MegaComm Corporation. The MMC provides unique services to the cable industry. In support of these services, the MMC hosts several tenants. Prior to this project the tenants had access to internal MMC networks. The MMC also has several vendors …

Creative Commons And The New Intermediaries, Michael W. Carroll

Working Paper Series

This symposium contribution examines the disintermediating and reintermediating roles played by Creative Commons licenses on the Internet. Creative Commons licenses act as a disintermediating force because they enable end-to-end transactions in copyrighted works. The licenses have reintermediating force by enabling new services and new online communities to form around content licensed under a Creative Commons license. Intermediaries focused on the copyright dimension have begun to appear online as search engines, archives, libraries, publishers, community organizers, and educators. Moreover, the growth of machine-readable copyright licenses and the new intermediaries that they enable is part of a larger movement toward a Semantic …

Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On Agricultural Land Use Suitability : Wheat, Dennis Van Gool, Luke Vernon

Resource management technical reports

This publication considers the impact of climate change on wheat crops. While a model was first used, it was only partially validated against real data, hence the model is now used as a decision support system that allows people with crop, land resource and climate knowledge to determine potential impacts of climate change on crop growth and production in Western Australia.

Wsu Research News, Fall 2005, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A sixteen page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

Analyses Of High Resolution Hyperspectral Imagery For Characterization Of Ponderosa Pine Woodlands, Cullen R. Robbins

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The Bessey Unit of the Nebraska National Forest is a planted ponderosa pine forest located in the Nebraska Sand Hills. Planted in the early 20th Century, it provides a unique opportunity to study the effects of ponderosa pine establishment on the surrounding grassland ecosystem and the effects of increasing pine density on the forest ecosystem. It has been hypothesized that there are key levels of canopy cover at which shifts in ecosystem function occur. The goal of this research was to use remotely sensed data to develop a reliable method for estimating canopy cover. More specifically, canopy cover was estimated …

Graduate Bulletin & Catalog | 2005-2006, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Vol. 29, No. 1 (August 2005). Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Faculty Senate Senate Membership, 2005-2006, Vol 34, P 7, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.

Ontology Learning As A Use-Case For Neural-Symbolic Integration, Pascal Hitzler, Sebastian Bader, Artur Garcez

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

We argue that the field of neural-symbolic integration is in need of identifying application scenarios for guiding further research. We furthermore argue that ontology learning - as occurring in the context of semantic technologies - provides such an application scenario with potential for success and high impact on neural-symbolic integration.

Measurements Of Secondary Organic Aerosol From Oxidation Of Cycloalkenes, Terpenes, And M-Xylene Using An Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer, Roya Bahreini, Melita D. Keywood, Nga L. Ng, Varuntida Varutbangkul, Song Gao, Richard C. Flagan, John H. Seinfeld, D. R. Worsnop, J. L. Jimenez

Chemistry and Physics Faculty Articles

The Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) was used to characterize physical and chemical properties of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formed during ozonolysis of cycloalkenes and biogenic hydrocarbons and photooxidation of m-xylene. Comparison of mass and volume distributions from the AMS and differential mobility analyzers yielded estimates of “effective” density of the SOA in the range of 0.64−1.45 g/cm³, depending on the particular system. Increased contribution of the fragment at m/z 44, CO₂⁺ ion fragment of oxygenated organics, and higher “Δ” values, based on ion series analysis of the mass spectra, in nucleation experiments …

The Effect Of Wal-Mart On The Economic Growth Of Nebraska Counties, Gibson Nene

Rural Initiative Program: Publications and Reports

Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in the world operating 3600 stores in the US and 1150 stores in other countries. With its highly automated distribution system, Wal-Mart has dominated the retail industry in the US becoming the largest employer and realizing higher sales than any other retail corporation in recent years. There are claims that the store has created benefits for consumers in the form of low prices, a wide assortment of products under one roof and employment opportunities and that communities have also benefited from Wal-Mart in the form of its involvement in charity and infrastructure.

Despite its market …

Shared Risk Link Group (Srlg)-Diverse Path Provisioning Under Hybrid Service Level Agreements In Wavelength-Routed Optical Mesh Networks, Lu Shen, Xi Yang, Byrav Ramamurthy

School of Computing: Faculty Publications

The static provisioning problem in wavelength-routed optical networks has been studied for many years. However, service providers are still facing the challenges arising from the special requirements for provisioning services at the optical layer. In this paper, we incorporate some realistic constraints into the static provisioning problem, and formulate it under different network resource availability conditions.We consider three classes of shared risk link group (SRLG)-diverse path protection schemes: dedicated, shared, and unprotected. We associate with each connection request a lightpath length constraint and a revenue value. When the network resources are not sufficient to accommodate all the connection requests, the …

Beryllium Enhancement As Evidence For Accretion In A Lithium-Rich F Dwarf, Johanna F. Ashwell, R D. Jeffries, Barry Smalley, C P. Deliyannis, Aaron Steinhauer, Jeremy R. King

Publications

The early F dwarf star ``J37'' in the open cluster NGC6633 shows an unusual pattern of photospheric abundances, including an order of magnitude enhancement of lithium and iron-peak elements, but an under-abundance of carbon. As a consequence of its thin convection zone these anomalies have been attributed to either radiative diffusion or the accretion of hydrogen-depleted material. By comparing high resolution VLT/UVES spectra of J37 (and other F stars in NGC 6633) with syntheses of the Be ii doublet region at 3131 Ang, we establish that J37 also has a Be abundance (A(Be)=3.0+/-0.5) that is at least ten times the …

Chlorella Virus-Encoded Deoxyuridine Triphosphatases Exhibit Different Temperature Optima, Yuanzheng Zhang, Hideaki Moriyama, Kohei Homma, James L. Van Etten

Hideaki Moriyama Publications

A putative deoxyuridine triphosphatase (dUTPase) gene from chlorella virus PBCV-1 was cloned, and the recombinant protein was expressed in Escherichia coli. The recombinant protein has dUTPase activity and requires Mg²⁺ for optimal activity, while it retains some activity in the presence of other divalent cations. Kinetic studies of the enzyme revealed a K_m of 11.7 μ M, a turnover k_cat of 6.8 s^-1, and a catalytic efficiency of k_cat/K_m = 5.8 x 10⁵ M^-1 s^-1. dUTPase genes were cloned and expressed from two other chlorella viruses …

From Intervals To Domains: Towards A General Description Of Validated Uncertainty, With Potential Applications To Geospatial And Meteorological Data, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, Scott A. Starks, Kavitha Tupelly, Gracaliz P. Dimuro, Antonio C. Da Costa Rocha, Karen Villaverde

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

When physical quantities xi are numbers, then the corresponding measurement accuracy can be usually represented in interval terms, and interval computations can be used to estimate the resulting uncertainty in y=f(x1,...,xn).

In some practical problems, we are interested in more complex structures such as functions, operators, etc. Examples: we may be interested in how the material strain depends on the applied stress, or in how a physical quantity such as temperature or velocity of sound depends on a 3-D point.

For many such structures, there are ways to represent uncertainty, but usually, for each new structure, we have to perform …

Graduate Catalog. 2005., University Of Mississippi. Graduate School

Catalogs

No abstract provided.