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Commencement Convocation Program, Lakeland Campus, December 15, 2006, University Of South Florida Dec 2006

Commencement Convocation Program, Lakeland Campus, December 15, 2006, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Senior - Justin Chantnicki; USF Lakeland Distinguished Service Award - John Ramil

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2006 Fall Engr333 Project Final Report, 2006 Fall Engr333 Dec 2006

2006 Fall Engr333 Project Final Report, 2006 Fall Engr333

ENGR 333

The objective of this project was to demonstrate Calvin’s interest in alternative energy. The development of a short-term plan to implement a demonstration wind turbine and a long-term plan to determine the feasibility of a larger turbine for the future demonstrates this interest. The class was divided into five teams: management, external relations, long-term technology, short-term technology, and campus infrastructure. While each team had its own objectives, everyone worked together to share information and accomplish the overall project goals. This management technique provided necessary structure and simulated an environment typically found in a career environment.

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Advancing The Methodology For Cyclopenta[C]Thiophene Sythesis: A Step Toward Anit-Leukemia Agents And Improved Semiconductiors, Riley Jones Dec 2006

Advancing The Methodology For Cyclopenta[C]Thiophene Sythesis: A Step Toward Anit-Leukemia Agents And Improved Semiconductiors, Riley Jones

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Metal n5-cyclopenta[c]thienyl complexes are of significant interest in both catalysis and materials chemistry. These relatives of the low-band-gap polymer polybenzo[2,3-c]thiophene show great promise as environmentally stable conductive polymers and as energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) due to their unique electronic properties. Recently, studies have shown that cyclopenta[c]thiophene molecules are effective as photodynamic anticancer agents which are particularly aggressive toward leukemia cells. The current method of synthesizing these compounds is lengthy, costly, and has a very low yield. Our group has developed a novel one-step method to produce precursors of these compounds. This procedure increases product yields, eliminates the use of toxic …

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Reporter - December 15th 2006, Rit Reporter Staff Dec 2006

Reporter - December 15th 2006, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

Greenvehicle Team; SEAL Club; RIT Forecast; SG Senate Update; NaNoWriMo; Quest For the Best Bathroom; Pick Of Destiny Review; At Your Leisure; Grade Infl ation; Does Your GPA Matter?; Word on the Street; Sports Desk; Sports Clubs Unfrozen; RIT Rings; Nuclear Proportions

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University Of Nebraska At Omaha, December Commencement 2006, University Of Nebraska At Omaha Dec 2006

University Of Nebraska At Omaha, December Commencement 2006, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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Education Policy Analysis Archives 14/33 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Dec 2006

Education Policy Analysis Archives 14/33 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Comparison of the enrollment percentages of magnet and non-magnet schools in a large urban school district / Emily Arcia.

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2006 Fall Commencement Program: Winona State University, Winona State University Dec 2006

2006 Fall Commencement Program: Winona State University, Winona State University

WSU Commencement Programs

This is the Winona State University Fall 2006 commencement program. Commencement was on Friday, Decmeber 15, 2006.

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Responses Of Pond-Breeding Amphibians To Wildfire: Short-Term Patterns In Occupancy And Colonization, Blake R. Hossack, Paul Stephen Corn Dec 2006

Responses Of Pond-Breeding Amphibians To Wildfire: Short-Term Patterns In Occupancy And Colonization, Blake R. Hossack, Paul Stephen Corn

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Wildland fires are expected to become more frequent and severe in many ecosystems, potentially posing a threat to many sensitive species. We evaluated the effects of a large, stand-replacement wildfire on three species of pond-breeding amphibians by estimating changes in occupancy of breeding sites during the three years before and after the fire burned 42 of 83 previously surveyed wetlands. Annual occupancy and colonization for each species was estimated using recently developed models that incorporate detection probabilities to provide unbiased parameter estimates. We did not find negative effects of the fire on the occupancy or colonization rates of the long-toed …

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Protecting Mobile Ad Hoc Networks From Spurious Cts Attacks 'Carrier Sensing Based Deferral Mechanism', Sreekanth Pagadala Dec 2006

Protecting Mobile Ad Hoc Networks From Spurious Cts Attacks 'Carrier Sensing Based Deferral Mechanism', Sreekanth Pagadala

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Request-To-Send (RTS)/Clear-To-Send (CTS) mechanism is used to combat Hidden/Exposed node problems in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The popular implementation of the RTS/CTS mechanism may lead to virtual blocking of the wireless medium. Problem arises if a malicious node randomly sends out a large number of spurious CTS frames in order to falsely block regular nodes in its neighborhood. Such an attack is termed as spurious CTS attack. In this thesis, we investigate the effects of such spurious CTS attacks and propose a solution to mitigate the problem. Our proposed solution, Carrier Sensing based Deferral (CSD) mechanism, asks nodes …

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Detecting Routing Misbehavior In Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Kejun Liu Dec 2006

Detecting Routing Misbehavior In Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Kejun Liu

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Routing misbehavior in MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) is studied in this thesis. In general, routing protocols for MANETs are designed based on the assumption that all par- ticipating nodes are fully cooperative. However, due to the open structure and scarcely available battery-based energy, node misbehaviors may exist. One such routing misbehavior is that some selfish nodes will participate in the route discovery and maintenance processes but refuse to forward data packets. Therefore, we propose the 2ACK scheme that serves as an add-on technique for routing schemes to detect routing misbehavior and to mitigate their adverse effect. The main idea …

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Development Of An Image Noise Estimation Method And A Sub-Imaging Based Wiener Method, Eric F. Smith Dec 2006

Development Of An Image Noise Estimation Method And A Sub-Imaging Based Wiener Method, Eric F. Smith

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This research consists of three parts. The first part is an investigation of several popular image restoration techniques. The techniques are used to restore 2-D image data, f(x, y), that has been blurred by a known point spread function (PSF), b(x, y) and corrupted by an unknown amount of noise, n(x, y). Several sample images are restored using all of the techniques. Of the methods investigated the one which produces the best restoration results was determined to be the Wiener deconvolution method. The determination of the best method is based on the quality of the restored image and the required …

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Clustering Of Leukemia Patients Via Gene Expression Data Analysis, Zhiyu Zhao Dec 2006

Clustering Of Leukemia Patients Via Gene Expression Data Analysis, Zhiyu Zhao

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis attempts to cluster some leukemia patients described by gene expression data, and discover the most discriminating a few genes that are responsible for the clustering. A combined approach of Principal Direction Divisive Partitioning and bisect K-means algorithms is applied to the clustering of the selected leukemia dataset, and both unsupervised and supervised methods are considered in order to get the optimal results. As shown by the experimental results and the predefined reference, the combination of PDDP and bisect K-means successfully clusters the leukemia patients, and efficiently discovers some significant genes that can serve as the discriminator of the …

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Adult Education, James Wyatt Dec 2006

Adult Education, James Wyatt

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Energy Efficient Cluster Head Selection In Fixed Wireless Sensor Networks, Irfanuddin Ahmed Dec 2006

Energy Efficient Cluster Head Selection In Fixed Wireless Sensor Networks, Irfanuddin Ahmed

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Energy is the main bottleneck for wireless sensor networks and it has dominating effects on network lifetime. Sensors have finite energy and during the process of sensing and transmitting data to the cluster head they lose energy. Sensors that are furthest away from the cluster head require more energy than the closer ones. These losses of energy cause sensors to die faster, lower coverage area and hence network death. In this paper we investigate techniques to maximize the network lifetime by selecting the most optimal cluster head. The proposed technique is in context of cluster-based wireless sensor networks, the others …

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Coping With Stress In Children, Tolonda Age Dec 2006

Coping With Stress In Children, Tolonda Age

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Unique stressors can prompt child adjustment difficulties. Coping strategies and emotion regulation that impact the adjustment of children in general and military family children were investigated. Eighty children, 36 with deployed parents, their parents and teachers participated. All experienced stress related to hurricane Katrina. Correlational analyses indicate that children with more hurricane-related losses or moves, use some coping strategies less often; hurricane-related child distress is related to lower maternal support; and parental hurricane-related distress is associated with high levels of child externalizing problems. When dealing with general stressors, some coping strategies were positively associated with child internalizing problems. Analyses indicate …

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Usability Studies With Virtual And Traditional Computer Aided Design Environments, Syed Adeel Ahmed Dec 2006

Usability Studies With Virtual And Traditional Computer Aided Design Environments, Syed Adeel Ahmed

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

For both the CAVETM and the adaptable technology possessed by the University of New Orleans, crystal eye glasses are used to produce a stereoscopic view, and an ascension flock of birds tracking system is employed for tracking of the user's head position and position of a wand in 3D space. It is argued that with these immersive technologies along the use of gestures and hand movements should provide a more natural interface with the immersive virtual environment. This allows a more rapid and efficient set of actions to recognize geometry, interaction with a spatial environment, the ability to find errors, …

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Some Novice Methods For Software Protection With Obfuscation, Saikrishna Aravalli Dec 2006

Some Novice Methods For Software Protection With Obfuscation, Saikrishna Aravalli

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Previously software is distributed to the users by using devices like CD.S and floppies and in the form of bytes. Due to the high usage of internet and in order to perform the tasks rapidly without wasting time on depending physical devices, software is supplied through internet in the form of source code itself. Since source code is available to the end users there is a possibility of changing the source code by malicious users in order to gain their personnel benefits which automatically leads to malfunctioning of the software. The method proposed in this thesis is based on the …

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Acoustic Seabed And Target Classification Using Fractional Fourier Transform And Time-Frequency Transform Techniques, Madalina Barbu Dec 2006

Acoustic Seabed And Target Classification Using Fractional Fourier Transform And Time-Frequency Transform Techniques, Madalina Barbu

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

An approach for processing sonar signals with the ultimate goal of ocean bottom sediment classification and underwater buried target classification is presented in this dissertation. Work reported for sediment classification is based on sonar data collected by one of the AN/AQS-20's sonars. Synthetic data, simulating data acquired by parametric sonar, is employed for target classification. The technique is based on the Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT), which is better suited for sonar applications because FrFT uses linear chirps as basis functions. In the first stage of the algorithm, FrFT requires finding the optimum order of the transform that can be estimated …

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Angle Resolved Photoemission Study Of Epitaxial Chromium Dioxide Films, Daniel Borst Dec 2006

Angle Resolved Photoemission Study Of Epitaxial Chromium Dioxide Films, Daniel Borst

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Chromium dioxide is predicted to be a half-metallic oxide. The electronic properties of the surface region of CrO2 have been studied by performing angle-resolved ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy (ARUPS) measurements on epitaxial CrO2 films. The CrO2 thin films were deposited on (100) and (110) – oriented TiO2 substrates by chemical vapor deposition. Previous measurements of the transport properties of devices made from epitaxial CrO2 films have shown very little spin polarization. Possible sources of this low yield are a surface Cr2O3 phase and/or surface contamination. The effects of sputtering the CrO2 films to remove the outer layer of Cr2O3 and any …

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Land Loss: Attachment, Place And Identity In Coastal Louisiana, David Burley Dec 2006

Land Loss: Attachment, Place And Identity In Coastal Louisiana, David Burley

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation explores how people frame environmental change. Specifically, this work explores the identity loss that residents of coastal Louisiana experience due to coastal land loss. I rely on 126 in-depth interviews of residents from communities in six coastal parishes (counties). Respondents convey the meanings they give to land loss through constructing a narrative of place. A phenomenological approach is employed that focuses on how stories are told and the subjective interpretations of societal members. First, Louisiana's coastal communities hold a significant attachment to place that in many cases has been developing for close to three centuries. For most residents, …

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Nanocrystalline Transition Metal Ferrites Synthesis, Characterization And Surface Functionalization, Daniela Caruntu Dec 2006

Nanocrystalline Transition Metal Ferrites Synthesis, Characterization And Surface Functionalization, Daniela Caruntu

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, a new synthetic methodology for the high yield synthesis of spineltype transition metal ferrite nanoparticles has been developed. This approach is based on the complexation of the first-row transition metal cations with diethylene glycol (DEG) followed by the hydrolysis of the resulting chelate iron alkoxide complexes in the presence of an alkaline hydroxide. Due to the passivation of their surfaces with DEG molecules, the as-prepared nanoparticles are stable against agglomeration and can be easily dispersed in polar protic solvents (water, alcohols, etc.). Alternatively, a postsynthesis passivation with carboxylate ions can render the iron oxide nanocrystals highly dispersible …

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An Analytic Image-Technology Inventory Of National Tourism Organizations (Ntos), Lung-Chiuan Chang Dec 2006

An Analytic Image-Technology Inventory Of National Tourism Organizations (Ntos), Lung-Chiuan Chang

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Internet is playing an increasingly crucial role in destination marketing and it is used as a major marketing tool among National Tourism Organizations (NTOs). Website design is influential for consumers' Website preference and destination selection. This study is to understand the application of image-based technology by the major National Tourism Organizations (NTOs) through the collection and comparison of static images and dynamic images presented in their official tourism Websites. Data collected from the sampling of the world's top 25 tourism destination nations reveals that all National Tourism Organizations (NTOs) use either static images or dynamic images for their Websites, …

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(Re)Building Cultural, Community, And Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina, Russo Celeste Del Dec 2006

(Re)Building Cultural, Community, And Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina, Russo Celeste Del

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Composition studies has become increasingly focused on the connection between place, identity, and the act of writing, maintaining, as theorist Nedra Reynolds states, that “where writing instruction takes place has everything to do with how” (20). Considering the social, political, and cultural contexts of a post-Katrina Southeastern Louisiana, administrators and instructors at the University of New Orleans must begin to question how our freshmen writing program can best serve our students as they enter into the future of a "new" New Orleans. Implementing a "localized pedagogy" into the freshmen composition classroom--that is, a community-based pedagogy that draws from local resources, …

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The Animal Lives Of People, Emily Dziuban Dec 2006

The Animal Lives Of People, Emily Dziuban

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Modern Foraminiferal Bio-Facies Within A Transgressive Saline Influenced Deltaic Headland, South-Central Louisiana, Chandra Dreher Dec 2006

Modern Foraminiferal Bio-Facies Within A Transgressive Saline Influenced Deltaic Headland, South-Central Louisiana, Chandra Dreher

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Incorporating improved preparation techniques, modern taxonomy, and quantitative analysis of environmental variables known to influence marsh foraminifers in other coastal regions refined marsh foraminiferal biofacies of the Mississippi delta region. Elevation, pore water salinity, total carbon, and mean grain size were compared with foraminiferal distributions in a transgressive marsh system of the lower Lafourche headland of the south-central delta plain. Cluster analysis aided definition of two biofacies, one from the marsh interior and one from the marsh edge. The marsh edge biofacies was further subdivided into levee crest and bayou margin biofacies. Correlation analysis suggested that seven of the 21 …

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The Mechanical Thermal And Microstructural Behaviors Of The Strip Silicates Reinforced Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites, Man Wai Ho Dec 2006

The Mechanical Thermal And Microstructural Behaviors Of The Strip Silicates Reinforced Epoxy-Based Nanocomposites, Man Wai Ho

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Ten different sets of epoxy samples with compositions from 0wt% to 8wt% nanoclay were prepared by mechanical stirring and then casting to mold dog-bone shape samples for tensile and other tests. A gradual trend of changes upon mechanical, thermal and microstructural behaviors were investigated. Introduction of strip silicates inside the epoxy matrix contributed to higher tensile strength, flexural strength and Vickers' hardness. From tensile tests, the ultimate tensile strength of samples from 0wt% to 8wt% nanoclay ranged from 42MPa to 46MPa. The epoxy samples with 1wt%, 4wt% to 6wt% nanoclay had a stepwise increase in the ultimate tensile strength of …

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The Chicano Mural Movement Of The Southwest: Populist Public Art And Chicano Political Activism, John Kenny Dec 2006

The Chicano Mural Movement Of The Southwest: Populist Public Art And Chicano Political Activism, John Kenny

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This work examines an art movement that was a direct outgrowth of a populist civil rights movement of the late 1960’s in the Southwest United States. This art, the Chicano Murals created as part of el Movimiento in San Diego, California was intended primarily as a didactic communication medium to reach into the barrios and marginalized neighborhoods for the primary purpose of carrying a resistance message to the semiliterate mestizo population within. Its secondary purpose was to bring a message from within these minority neighborhoods outward to the privileged elite, both Anglo and Hispanic, that within the confines of the …

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Optical Spectroscopy To Determine Intermediate Combustion Product Radicals In A Hydrocarbon Fueled Rocket Engine Exhaust Plume, Lester A. Langford Dec 2006

Optical Spectroscopy To Determine Intermediate Combustion Product Radicals In A Hydrocarbon Fueled Rocket Engine Exhaust Plume, Lester A. Langford

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

With the prospect of hydrocarbon-fueled rocket engines, such as Rocket Propellant 1 (RP-1) or methane (CH4) fueled engines being considered for use in future space flight systems, the contributions of intermediate or final combustion products resulting from these hydrocarbon fuels are of great interest. The effect of several diatomic molecular radicals, such as Carbon Monoxide, Molecular Carbon, Methylene Radical, Cyanide or Cyano Radical, Hydroxyl, and Nitric Oxide, needs to be identified and the effects of their band systems on the spectral region from 300 nm to 850 nm determined. This work shows the effect of different engine operating parameters, oxidizer-to-fuel …

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Fire & Flood: How The Lessons Of The Past Can Apply To The Present To Build The Future, Jared Munster Dec 2006

Fire & Flood: How The Lessons Of The Past Can Apply To The Present To Build The Future, Jared Munster

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

On August 29, 2005 the most destructive natural disaster to ever befall the United States made landfall initially near Buras, Louisiana and then ultimately near the mouth of the Pearl River. The associated storm surge caused New Orleans' protective levee system to fail, inundating the City with brackish floodwaters for weeks on end. This was not the first time the City of New Orleans was crippled by disaster. In 1788 and 1794, the city suffered two major fires; the first burning 856 buildings and the second 212. These were significant losses in a city that had a building stock of …

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Which Events Constitute Criteria A1 Of Ptsd? The Phenomenology Of Psychological Trauma In Youth, Leslie Katherine Taylor Dec 2006

Which Events Constitute Criteria A1 Of Ptsd? The Phenomenology Of Psychological Trauma In Youth, Leslie Katherine Taylor

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The aim of this study was to explore the phenomenology of psychological trauma in youth. It was hypothesized that events reported as traumatic could be classified into one of seventeen trauma categories, that levels of impairment in traumatized youth would be higher than levels of impairment in non-traumatized youth, and that traumatic events reported would be differentially related to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms and types of cognitive errors. Information regarding traumas and PTSD symptoms was collected through The Child PTSD Checklist from a sample of youth aged 6 to 17. A coding system was developed for classification of traumatic …

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