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Portrayal Of Mathematicians In Fictional Works, Daniel Dotson Dec 2006

Portrayal Of Mathematicians In Fictional Works, Daniel Dotson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Portrayal of Mathematicians in Fictional Works," Daniel Dotson explores how people with mathematical abilities -- including mathematicians, mathematics teachers, mathematically-inclined youths, cryptographers, and more -- are portrayed in novels, films, television programs, and a play. A summary table of the characters gives a short description of each of them, the title of the work in which they appeared, and the format of the work. Characters were analyzed to see if they possessed any of ten personality traits: obsessive, having major mental health problems, withdrawn, brave, timid, socially inept, arrogant, uses math to escape reality, out of touch, …


The Politics Of Recognition And Comparative Literature: New Works By Dale And Yu, Bol, Owen, And Peterson, Alexander C.Y. Huang Dec 2006

The Politics Of Recognition And Comparative Literature: New Works By Dale And Yu, Bol, Owen, And Peterson, Alexander C.Y. Huang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Mosquitos Associated With Equine West Nile Virus Cases In Southeastern Georgia, Calvin William Hancock Dec 2006

Mosquitos Associated With Equine West Nile Virus Cases In Southeastern Georgia, Calvin William Hancock

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Mosquito populations associated with equine and avian cases of West Nile Virus infections in five counties in southeastern Georgia were sampled in 2003 and 2004. More than 10,500 mosquitoes representing over 20 species were collected at 25 sites using light traps and vacuum aspirators. Of these, 8,500 mosquitoes were tested for the presence of West Nile Virus, Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus, and Saint Louis Encephalitis Virus in 411 separate pools of 1-50 mosquitoes. No virus positive mosquitoes were detected. Blood meals from 377 engorged specimens caught at these sites were identified as of mammalian, avian, or reptile/amphibian origin using serological …


Observation Of Fano Asymmetry In Raman Spectra Of Srtio3 And Cax Sr1-Xtio3 Perovskite Nanocubes, Sarbajit Banerjee, Dae In Kim, Richard D. Robinson, Irving P. Herman, Yuanbing Mao, Stanislaus S. Wong Dec 2006

Observation Of Fano Asymmetry In Raman Spectra Of Srtio3 And Cax Sr1-Xtio3 Perovskite Nanocubes, Sarbajit Banerjee, Dae In Kim, Richard D. Robinson, Irving P. Herman, Yuanbing Mao, Stanislaus S. Wong

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Chemistry)

Bulk SrTi O3 is cubic and not expected to exhibit any first-order Raman scattering. However, nanocubes of SrTi O3 with an edge length of 80±10 nm show strong first-order Raman scattering originating from the breaking of symmetry caused by frozen surface dipoles (local tetragonality) and the presence of nanoscopic polar domains (arising from incorporated impurities). Rapid polarization fluctuations within these nanoscopic ferroelectric regions interfere with a polar phonon, resulting in a Fano-like asymmetric line shape in these SrTi O3 nanocubes, as well as in Ca0.3 Sr0.7 Ti O3 nanocubes.


"You Don't Have To Be Ludwig Wittgenstein": How Llewellyn's Concept Of Agreement Should Change The Law Of Open-Quantity Contracts, Allen Blair Dec 2006

"You Don't Have To Be Ludwig Wittgenstein": How Llewellyn's Concept Of Agreement Should Change The Law Of Open-Quantity Contracts, Allen Blair

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Enemy Of Freedom: United States V. James J. Smith And The Assault On The Fourth Amendment, Kelly J. Smith Dec 2006

An Enemy Of Freedom: United States V. James J. Smith And The Assault On The Fourth Amendment, Kelly J. Smith

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Low Threshold Of Guilt: Interpreting California's Fetal Murder Statute In People V. Taylor, Monica Mendes Dec 2006

A Low Threshold Of Guilt: Interpreting California's Fetal Murder Statute In People V. Taylor, Monica Mendes

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


Body Dissatisfaction And Other Sociocultural Factors As Predictors Of Body Image Perceptions In Sorority And Non-Sorority Women, Kiley Elizabeth Winston Dec 2006

Body Dissatisfaction And Other Sociocultural Factors As Predictors Of Body Image Perceptions In Sorority And Non-Sorority Women, Kiley Elizabeth Winston

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore body dissatisfaction and other sociocultural factors as predictors of body image perceptions in college-aged sorority and non-sorority women. The Social Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ-3) (Thompson et al, 2004), the Body Dissatisfaction subscale of the Eating Disorders Inventory 3 (EDI-3) (Garner, 2004), the Body Image Assessment (BIA) (Williamson et. al., 1985), the Mother Influence Scale, Parent Involvement Scale and the Peer Influence Scale (Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, & Tantleff-Dunn, 1998) were used. The sample for this study included a total of 502 college age women N sorority = 322 and Nnon-sorority= 180. Data …


Generating Paraphrases With Greater Variation Using Syntactic Phrases, Rebecca Diane Madsen Dec 2006

Generating Paraphrases With Greater Variation Using Syntactic Phrases, Rebecca Diane Madsen

Theses and Dissertations

Given a sentence, a paraphrase generation system produces a sentence that says the same thing but usually in a different way. The paraphrase generation problem can be formulated in the machine translation paradigm; instead of translation of English to a foreign language, the system translates an English sentence (for example) to another English sentence. Quirk et al. (2004) demonstrated this approach to generate almost 90% acceptable paraphrases. However, most of the sentences had little variation from the original input sentence. Leveraging syntactic information, this thesis project presents an approach that successfully generated more varied paraphrase sentences than the approach of …


Biomolecular Tuning Of Electronic Transport Properties Of Carbon Nanotubes Via Antibody Functionalization, Kasif Teker, Dr. Eric Wickstrom, Balaji Panchapakesan Dec 2006

Biomolecular Tuning Of Electronic Transport Properties Of Carbon Nanotubes Via Antibody Functionalization, Kasif Teker, Dr. Eric Wickstrom, Balaji Panchapakesan

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are remarkable solidstate nanomaterials due to their unique electrical and mechanical properties. The electronic properties of nanotubes combined with biological molecules such as proteins could make miniature devices for biological sensing applications. In this paper, the noncovalent interaction of single-wall CNTs with antibodies is presented for its potential applications for detecting overexpressed cell surface receptors in breast cancer cells. The degree of binding of antibodies on CNTs was found to be more than 80% for an extended sampling area by confocal microscopy. The key to achieve such high degree of functionalization is due to the separation of …


Law Library Briefs, Roger Williams University School Of Law Library Dec 2006

Law Library Briefs, Roger Williams University School Of Law Library

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Journal Editors Dec 2006

Front Matter, Journal Editors

Journal of Space Law

Includes table of contents.


Foreword, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz Dec 2006

Foreword, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Call For Papers, Journal Editors Dec 2006

Call For Papers, Journal Editors

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Outer Space Activities And Intellectual Property Protection In Nigeria, Tare Brisibe Dec 2006

Outer Space Activities And Intellectual Property Protection In Nigeria, Tare Brisibe

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


How On Earth Terrestrial Laws Can Protect Geospatial Data, Julie D. Cromer Dec 2006

How On Earth Terrestrial Laws Can Protect Geospatial Data, Julie D. Cromer

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Copyright Claims For Meteosat And Landsat Images Under Court Challenge, Martha Mejía·Kaiser Dec 2006

Copyright Claims For Meteosat And Landsat Images Under Court Challenge, Martha Mejía·Kaiser

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Comment. Intellectual Property In Outer Space: International Law, National Jurisdiction, And Exclusive Rights In Geospatial Data And Databases, Lee Ann W. Lockridge Dec 2006

Comment. Intellectual Property In Outer Space: International Law, National Jurisdiction, And Exclusive Rights In Geospatial Data And Databases, Lee Ann W. Lockridge

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Of Gardens And Streets: A Differentiated Model Of Property In International And National Space Law, Kali N. Murray Dec 2006

Of Gardens And Streets: A Differentiated Model Of Property In International And National Space Law, Kali N. Murray

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Report Of The Iisl Space Law Colloquium In Fukuoka, Japan, October 2005, Tanja Masson-Zwaan Dec 2006

Report Of The Iisl Space Law Colloquium In Fukuoka, Japan, October 2005, Tanja Masson-Zwaan

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Symposium Transcript: Opening And Closing Statements; Practitioner's Panel. Intellectual Property Resources In And For Space: The Practitioner's Experience, Gary G. Borda, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, Pamela L. Meredith, Gary Myers Dec 2006

Symposium Transcript: Opening And Closing Statements; Practitioner's Panel. Intellectual Property Resources In And For Space: The Practitioner's Experience, Gary G. Borda, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, Pamela L. Meredith, Gary Myers

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Bibliography: Space Law And Relevant Publications, Macey L. Edmondson Dec 2006

Bibliography: Space Law And Relevant Publications, Macey L. Edmondson

Journal of Space Law

Includes errata and advertisements


Agreement Framework Agreement Between The Government Of The United States Of America And The Government Of The French Republic For Cooperative Activities In The Exploration And Use Of Outer Space For Peaceful Purposes, United States Dec 2006

Agreement Framework Agreement Between The Government Of The United States Of America And The Government Of The French Republic For Cooperative Activities In The Exploration And Use Of Outer Space For Peaceful Purposes, United States

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.


Molecular Systematics And Population Structure In The North American Endemic Fish Genus Cycleptus (Teleostei: Catostomidae), Michael Lee Bessert Dec 2006

Molecular Systematics And Population Structure In The North American Endemic Fish Genus Cycleptus (Teleostei: Catostomidae), Michael Lee Bessert

School of Biological Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The overarching theme of this research was to investigate hierarchical levels of relatedness in natural populations of the cycleptid fishes (blue suckers), a widespread genus in North America that is of conservation concern throughout. Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences revealed that the two described Cycleptus species, C. elongatus and C. meridionalis are not reciprocally monophyletic, yet do not share any haplotypes. Although lineage sorting is incomplete, Bayesian coalescent analyses indicate that the two groups diverged early in the Pleistocene and have been reproductively isolated since. Whether they should be synonymized as C.elongatus and recognized as subspecies is open for …


Cuore: An Experiment To Investigate For Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay By Cooling 750 Kg Of Teo2 Crystals At 10 Mk, J. Beeman, M. Dolinski, T.D. Gutierrez, E.E. Haller, R. Maruyama, A.R. Smith, N. Xu, A. Giuliani, M. Pedretti, S. Sangiorgio, M. Barucci, E. Olivieri, L. Risegari, G. Ventura, M Balata, C. Bucci, S. Nisi, E. Palmieri, A. De Waard, E.B. Norman, C. Arnaboldi, C. Brofferio, S. Capelli, F. Capozzi, L. Carbone, M. Clemenza, O Cremonesi, E. Fiorini, C Nones, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G Pessina, S Pirro, E Previtali, M. Sisti, L Torres, L Zanotti, R. Ardito, G. Maier, E. Guardincerri, P Ottonello, M Pallavicini, D.R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone Iii, I. Bandac, R.J. Creswick, H.A. Farach, C. Rosenfeld, S Cebrian, P. Gorla, Ig Irastorza, F Bellini, C Cosmelli, I Dafinei, M Diemoz, F Ferroni, C Gargiulo, E Longo, S Morganti Dec 2006

Cuore: An Experiment To Investigate For Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay By Cooling 750 Kg Of Teo2 Crystals At 10 Mk, J. Beeman, M. Dolinski, T.D. Gutierrez, E.E. Haller, R. Maruyama, A.R. Smith, N. Xu, A. Giuliani, M. Pedretti, S. Sangiorgio, M. Barucci, E. Olivieri, L. Risegari, G. Ventura, M Balata, C. Bucci, S. Nisi, E. Palmieri, A. De Waard, E.B. Norman, C. Arnaboldi, C. Brofferio, S. Capelli, F. Capozzi, L. Carbone, M. Clemenza, O Cremonesi, E. Fiorini, C Nones, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G Pessina, S Pirro, E Previtali, M. Sisti, L Torres, L Zanotti, R. Ardito, G. Maier, E. Guardincerri, P Ottonello, M Pallavicini, D.R. Artusa, F. T. Avignone Iii, I. Bandac, R.J. Creswick, H.A. Farach, C. Rosenfeld, S Cebrian, P. Gorla, Ig Irastorza, F Bellini, C Cosmelli, I Dafinei, M Diemoz, F Ferroni, C Gargiulo, E Longo, S Morganti

Physics

CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events) is an experiment proposed to infer the effective Majorana mass of the electron neutrino from measurements on neutrinoless double beta decay (0νDBD). The goal of CUORE is to achieve a background rate in the range 0.001 to 0.01 counts/keV/kg/y at the 0νDBD transition energy of 130Te (2528 keV). The proposed experiment, to be mounted in the underground Gran Sasso INFN National Laboratory, Italy, is realized by cooling about 1000 TeO2 bolometers, of 750 g each, at a temperature of 10mK. We will describe the experiment, to be cooled by an extremely …


A Dozen Danish Cartoons And The Wrath Of The Muslim World, Philip Cass Dec 2006

A Dozen Danish Cartoons And The Wrath Of The Muslim World, Philip Cass

All Works

© 2006, PACIFIC JOURNALISM REVIEW. All rights reserved. How do we understand the outrage in the Muslim world against the 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten? And can we move on from anger and misunderstanding? Is there room for dialogue?


El Periodismo Martiano Y Los Abolicionistas De Estados Unidos,” (José Martí And The U.S Abolition Movement), Anne Fountain Dec 2006

El Periodismo Martiano Y Los Abolicionistas De Estados Unidos,” (José Martí And The U.S Abolition Movement), Anne Fountain

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Information Outlook, December 2006, Special Libraries Association Dec 2006

Information Outlook, December 2006, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2006

Volume 10, Issue 12


Changes In Land Cover And Soil Conditions For The Yabelo District Of The Borana Plateau, 1973-2003, D. Layne Coppock, Sintayehu Mesele, Heluf Gebrekidan, Lemma Gizachew Dec 2006

Changes In Land Cover And Soil Conditions For The Yabelo District Of The Borana Plateau, 1973-2003, D. Layne Coppock, Sintayehu Mesele, Heluf Gebrekidan, Lemma Gizachew

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

It has been proposed that the Borana Plateau has markedly changed in terms of land cover and land use in recent decades, but no hard data have been available to critically assess this claim. In addition, systematic analysis of soil properties has been limited. Research was designed to measure changes in land cover/land use over 30 years in the 400-km2 Yabelo District of southern Ethiopia using three satellite images taken at an average interval of 15 years. Samples were also collected to assess variation in the physical and chemical properties of dominant soils. Results indicated that Yabelo District has indeed …


Getting To The Source: The Case Of Jacoba Felicie And The Impact Of The Portable Medieval Reader On The Canon Of Medieval Women's History, Monica H. Green Dec 2006

Getting To The Source: The Case Of Jacoba Felicie And The Impact Of The Portable Medieval Reader On The Canon Of Medieval Women's History, Monica H. Green

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.