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The Eukaryotic Leading And Lagging Strand Dna Polymerases Are Loaded Onto Primer-Ends Via Separate Mechanisms But Have Comparable Processivity In The Presence Of Pcna, Olga Chilkova, Peter Stenlund, Isabelle Isoz, Carrie M. Stith, Pawel Grabowski, Else-Britt Lundstrom, Peter M. Burgers, Erik Johansson Jan 2007

The Eukaryotic Leading And Lagging Strand Dna Polymerases Are Loaded Onto Primer-Ends Via Separate Mechanisms But Have Comparable Processivity In The Presence Of Pcna, Olga Chilkova, Peter Stenlund, Isabelle Isoz, Carrie M. Stith, Pawel Grabowski, Else-Britt Lundstrom, Peter M. Burgers, Erik Johansson

Open Access Publications

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Enginuity 2007, Kate Gleason College Of Engineering Jan 2007

Enginuity 2007, Kate Gleason College Of Engineering

RIT Digital Archives

Dean's corner (p.1)||Meet alum Raymond Malpocher (p.1)||First annual KGCOE hockey night (p.2)||KGCOE events at brick city homecoming (p.3)||Alumni offer valuable time and advice to students (p.4)||Three-story addition to the James E. Gleason building open for business! (p.5)||An evening with the dean (p.6)||A special thanks to Our ANBOD representatives (p.7)||Enginuity contributors (p.8)

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The Quaestor Quarterly January 2010, Institute Audit, Compliance & Advisement Jan 2007

The Quaestor Quarterly January 2010, Institute Audit, Compliance & Advisement

RIT Digital Archives

Please Sign Here (p.1)||Hot Topics (p.2)||Control of the Quarter (p.3)||My Two Cents (p.4)||Ask the Auditor (p.4)||Pop Quiz (p.4)

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Rit Finance Matters Jan 2007, Sponsored Programs Accounting Jan 2007

Rit Finance Matters Jan 2007, Sponsored Programs Accounting

RIT Digital Archives

This newsletter is published four times a year and will include regular features, process changes, sponsoring agency announcements, a calendar of upcoming events, and personal introductions to SPA staff.

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Phishing With A Poisoned Bait, Warren B. Chik Jan 2007

Phishing With A Poisoned Bait, Warren B. Chik

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article discusses the problem of dealing with electronic fraud and identity theft under the current Singapore criminal law.

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The Minister Is Lay: Social Organization In New Paradigm Christianity, Jayeel Cornelio Jan 2007

The Minister Is Lay: Social Organization In New Paradigm Christianity, Jayeel Cornelio

Development Studies Faculty Publications

Love seems to be in the air for many of the red-shirted members of Hope Filipino. On this particular Sunday afternoon, the church-owned Nexus Auditorium, located in a shopping center in Singapore’s prominent Orchard Road, conveys the vibrancy of Valentine’s season. Instead of a familiar Christian song, setting the mood for the inflowing audience is one of Kenny G’s romantic hits, a tangible indication that this is not ordinary church. The Sunday service, redesigned for evangelistic purposes, expects a greater number of non-Christian visitors as a result of the pre-Valentine Matthew Care Group. With friends meeting and ushers greeting at …

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Transborder Industrialization In The Framework Of Singapore's Regionalization Strategy: The Case Of Singapore's Gambit In Vietnam, Caroline Yeoh, Victor Sim, Wilfred Pow Ngee How Jan 2007

Transborder Industrialization In The Framework Of Singapore's Regionalization Strategy: The Case Of Singapore's Gambit In Vietnam, Caroline Yeoh, Victor Sim, Wilfred Pow Ngee How

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Infrastructure can be unreliable and administration subject to corruption in Asia’s rapidly emerging economies. This context presented Singapore with unique opportunities to export its expertise to locations where these attributes are less certain, through the provision of superior infrastructure, the ability to negotiate investment concessions and, where existing, through the links to influential business groups in the investment location. This strategic initiative is further premised on the perception that Singapore’s positive reputation with multinationals, as well as ‘guanxi’, or connections, with Asian business networks, will give the industrial-township projects a marketing advantage. Their progress is a litmus test of Singapore’s …

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Soil Suction And Behavior Of Chemically Treated Clays, Thomas M. Petry, Cheng Ping Jiang Jan 2007

Soil Suction And Behavior Of Chemically Treated Clays, Thomas M. Petry, Cheng Ping Jiang

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Expansive clay soils have caused significant damage throughout the world. Chemical stabilizing agents have been used to reduce the swell of expansive clay soils, but the effect of chemical treatment on the matric and osmotic suction of soils has not been investigated previously. Two subject soils were chosen to study soil suction and the behavior of chemically treated clay. One soil, with high swell potential, was from Irving, Texas. the other soil, with moderate swell potential, was from Slater, Missouri. Hydrated lime and KIS (a proprietary solution containing potash and ammonium lignosulfonate) were used as chemical stabilizers. Select physical and …

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Businessfinder: Harnessing Presence To Enable Live Yellow Pages For Small, Medium And Micro Mobile Businesses, D. Chakraborty, K. Dasgupta, S. Mittal, Archan Misra, C. Oberle, A. Gupta, E. Newmark Jan 2007

Businessfinder: Harnessing Presence To Enable Live Yellow Pages For Small, Medium And Micro Mobile Businesses, D. Chakraborty, K. Dasgupta, S. Mittal, Archan Misra, C. Oberle, A. Gupta, E. Newmark

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Applications leveraging network presence in next-generation cellular networks have so far focused on subscription queries, where "presence" information is extracted from specific devices and sent to entities who have subscribed to such presence information. In this article we present BusinessFinder, a service that leverages the underlying cellular presence substrate to provide efficient, on-demand, context-aware matching of customer requests to nomadic micro businesses as well as small and medium businesses having a mobile workforce. Presence, in the context of BusinessFinder, is not simply limited to phone location and device status, but also encompasses dynamic attributes of vendors (both "mobile" and "static"), …

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Searching And Tagging: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?, Qiaozhu Mei, Jing Jiang, Hang Su, Chengxiang Zhai Jan 2007

Searching And Tagging: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?, Qiaozhu Mei, Jing Jiang, Hang Su, Chengxiang Zhai

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper presents the duality hypothesis of search and tagging, two important behaviors of web users. The hypothesis states that if a user views a document D in the search results for query Q, the user would tend to assign document $D$ a tag identical to or similar to Q; similarly, if a user tags a document D with a tag T, the user would tend to view document D if it is in the search results obtained using T as a query. We formalize this hypothesis with a unified probabilistic model for search and tagging, and show that empirical …

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Wave Propagation On Power Cables With Special Regard To Metallic Screen Design, R. Papazyan, Per Pettersson, David Pommerenke Jan 2007

Wave Propagation On Power Cables With Special Regard To Metallic Screen Design, R. Papazyan, Per Pettersson, David Pommerenke

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The high frequency properties of coaxial power cables are modeled using time- and frequency-domain numerical simulations. This is required due to the complex helical structure of the outer metallic screen. The finite element (FEM) and finite difference time domain methods (FDTD) have been employed to study the effect of screen spiralization. It is established that this screen design causes a dependence of the cable high frequency characteristics on the surrounding medium. Analytical model based on modal analysis of wave propagation in coaxial cables confirms the numerical observations.

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Is There A Better Way? Alternative Methods Of Treaty-Based, Investor-State Dispute Resolution, Jeswald W. Salacuse Jan 2007

Is There A Better Way? Alternative Methods Of Treaty-Based, Investor-State Dispute Resolution, Jeswald W. Salacuse

Fordham International Law Journal

Two factors--the increase in international investment and the increase in international investment agreements--have together led to a growth in the number and severity of treaty-based disputes between host states and individual investors. An increasing number of such disputes are being settled through international arbitration. However, the large amounts of some resulting arbitration awards, the cost to host countries of the arbitral process, and the constraints imposed thereby on the ability of governments to regulate enterprises in their territories have raised questions as to whether means other than arbitration and litigation can be found to resolve treaty-based, investor-State disputes. In short, …

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We Will Still Live: Confronting Stigma And Discrimination Against Women Living With Hiv/Aids In Malawi, Chi Mgbako, Tracy E. Higgins, Jeanmarie Fenrich Jan 2007

We Will Still Live: Confronting Stigma And Discrimination Against Women Living With Hiv/Aids In Malawi, Chi Mgbako, Tracy E. Higgins, Jeanmarie Fenrich

Fordham International Law Journal

This report presents the findings of this research effort. Part I sets out Malawi's obligations under international and domestic law regarding the right of women living with HIV/AIDS to be free from discrimination and also explores non-binding international documents that provide guidance to governments in confronting discrimination against PLWHA. Part I then explores the ways in which lack of sexual autonomy, economic dependency, physical and sexual abuse, harmful traditional practices, commercial sex work, sexual exploitation of girls and young women, and conceptions of male sexuality increase women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Part II documents widespread community-level stigma against women …

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Women, Children, And Victims Of Massive Crimes: Legal Developments In Africa, Justice Richard J. Goldstone Jan 2007

Women, Children, And Victims Of Massive Crimes: Legal Developments In Africa, Justice Richard J. Goldstone

Fordham International Law Journal

This issue of the Fordham International Law Journal is devoted to African themes. The articles concentrate on the most vulnerable in Africa, namely children, women and the victims of massive crimes.

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Child Soldiers, Slavery And The Trafficking Of Children, Susan Tiefenbrun Jan 2007

Child Soldiers, Slavery And The Trafficking Of Children, Susan Tiefenbrun

Fordham International Law Journal

This article will examine the complex relationship of human trafficking, slavery, and child soldiering. Part I will examine the root causes of the development and expansion of the use of child-soldiers. Part II will examine the international and domestic laws and instruments that protect against the use of children as soldiers. Part III will examine some literary representations of the crime of child soldiering in order to raise the readers' awareness of the depths of this atrocity. Part IV will conclude by offering practical suggestions and economic solutions to make these legal instruments more effective. Children are humanity's most valuable …

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The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act: Using A "Shield" Statute As A "Sword" For Obtaining Federal Jurisdiction In Art And Antiquities Cases, Lauren Fielder Redman Jan 2007

The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act: Using A "Shield" Statute As A "Sword" For Obtaining Federal Jurisdiction In Art And Antiquities Cases, Lauren Fielder Redman

Fordham International Law Journal

The political winds are changing, and a more liberal United States government may very well be receptive to ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The nature and scope of international law are also changing. Individuals are sharing responsibility with states for grave breaches of international law, and globalization has resulted in a marked increase in international tribunals deciding disputes affecting individual interests. Despite these trends, Americans have been wary of the International Criminal Court. Federal courts principles borrowed from the legal process school can and should be implemented to govern relations between ICC and domestic …

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Seeking Justice For Victims In Darfur: The Darfur Legal Training Program, Genevieve A. Cox, Jerome C. Roth Jan 2007

Seeking Justice For Victims In Darfur: The Darfur Legal Training Program, Genevieve A. Cox, Jerome C. Roth

Fordham International Law Journal

With relatives displaced from their homes and a fiancée who was arbitrarily imprisoned and abused in Darfur, Hayat comes to her work with victims in the refugee camps with a personal stake. ... This commitment to human rights defense and victims' advocacy led Hanifa and eight of his Sudanese colleagues to the Darfur Legal Training Program (the "Program"), a first-of-its-kind seminar in June of 2007 led by the American Bar Association Litigation Section (the "Section"), with funding from the MacArthur Foundation. ... The Program brought these lawyers to London for a week to train with a faculty of American trial …

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U.S. - China Relations And Darfur, Chin-Hao Huang Jan 2007

U.S. - China Relations And Darfur, Chin-Hao Huang

Fordham International Law Journal

This Essay will begin by first assessing China's economic stakes in Sudan. While economic interests and priorities remain important, it does not sufficiently explain China's shifting position on Darfur. The Essay will then examine the critical factors shaping China's expanding role in Africa, more broadly, as an important context in understanding its evolving approach to Sudan and the Darfur crisis. It will then delve more deeply into Beijing's accommodating shifts on Darfur, illustrating and mapping out the subtleties exhibited in China's diplomatic and economic engagements with the United States on the Darfur question.

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Fifty Years Of European Integration: A Remarkable Achievement, Desmond Dinan Jan 2007

Fifty Years Of European Integration: A Remarkable Achievement, Desmond Dinan

Fordham International Law Journal

The following sections outline four main phases in the history of European integration. First, this Article examines the decisive contribution that European integration made in the immediate postwar years to solving the German question and achieving Franco-German rapprochement. Second, it looks at the steps taken in the mid-1950s to launch the broader European Economic Community (“EEC”). The next section explains the difficulties encountered in completing the single market, which were eventually overcome in the late 1980s. The mixed record of the EU, launched in 1993 following ratification of the Treaty on European Union ("Maastricht Treaty"), is then examined. The final …

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Improving Competition In European Energy Markets Through Effective Unbundling, Neelie Kroes Jan 2007

Improving Competition In European Energy Markets Through Effective Unbundling, Neelie Kroes

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article is structured as follows: first, it summarizes the European approach to developing integrated and well-functioning electricity and gas markets, giving an overview of the opening of energy markets through Community legislation and the development of the current unbundling regime. It puts the European approach in perspective, outlining experiences with unbundling in the United States. Secondly, the malfunctioning of European energy markets is analyzed, presenting the findings of the Sector Inquiry. It then explains how the problems identified can be addressed using instruments at the Commission's disposal, namely competition law enforcement and legislation. In this context, the main elements …

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The Evolution Of The Free Movement Of Capital, John A. Usher Jan 2007

The Evolution Of The Free Movement Of Capital, John A. Usher

Fordham International Law Journal

After considering the evolution and scope of the capital movement rules, this Article will examine two distinct themes: 1) the treatment of discriminatory taxation under the capital movement rules, looking in particular at whether there is a coherent approach to this issue across the Treaty “freedoms,” and 2) the reaction of the European Court to the extension of the capital movement rules to third countries.

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The Legal Representation Of The Singaporean Home And The Influence Of The Common Law, Hang Wu Tang Jan 2007

The Legal Representation Of The Singaporean Home And The Influence Of The Common Law, Hang Wu Tang

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The purpose of this article is to examine the principal laws that have a significant impact in shaping the meaning of the home in Singapore. This article makes two contributions to the pre-existing literature. First, the significant case law and statutes in Singapore affecting the concept of the home are collated and discussed. Second, in discussing these laws as a coherent whole, this article attempts to draw together the meaning of the home in the Singaporean context. The relevant laws are examined to determine whether the Western conception of “the home as a person's castle” is present in Singaporean law. …

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An Indirect Loss Estimation Methodology To Account For Regional Earthquake Damage To Highway Bridges, Chakkaphan Tirasirichai Jan 2007

An Indirect Loss Estimation Methodology To Account For Regional Earthquake Damage To Highway Bridges, Chakkaphan Tirasirichai

Doctoral Dissertations

"This study proposes an integrated framework to estimate the indirect economic loss due to damaged bridges within the highway system from an earthquake event. The framework is designed to be general and convenient to apply to other study regions. In this dissertation, a simulated earthquake scenario centered in St. Louis Missouri with a magnitude 7.0 was used as a case study. The research results have clearly shown that the indirect losses are significant when compared to the direct loss. Policymakers can apply this study framework and the results as a guide and decision tool for developing an appropriate preventive action …

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Faculty Senate Minutes 2006 - 2007, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Faculty Senate Jan 2007

Faculty Senate Minutes 2006 - 2007, Missouri University Of Science And Technology Faculty Senate

Minutes & Agendas

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Two Neural Network Based Decentralized Controller Designs For Large Scale Power Systems, Wenxin Liu, Jagannathan Sarangapani, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Donald C. Wunsch, Mariesa Crow, David A. Cartes Jan 2007

Two Neural Network Based Decentralized Controller Designs For Large Scale Power Systems, Wenxin Liu, Jagannathan Sarangapani, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Donald C. Wunsch, Mariesa Crow, David A. Cartes

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents two neural network (NN) based decentralized controller designs for large scale power systems' generators, one is for the excitation control and the other is for the steam valve control. Though the control signals are calculated using local signals only, the transient and overall system stabilities can be guaranteed. NNs are used to approximate the unknown and/or imprecise dynamics of the local power system and the interconnection terms, thus the requirements for exact system parameters are released. Simulation studies with a three machine power system demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller designs.

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Multiphoton Response Of Retinal Rod Photoreceptors, Vasilios Alexiades, Harihar Khanal Jan 2007

Multiphoton Response Of Retinal Rod Photoreceptors, Vasilios Alexiades, Harihar Khanal

Publications

Phototransduction is the process by which light is converted into an electrical response in retinal photoreceptors. Rod photoreceptors contain a stack of (about 1000) disc membranes packed with photopigment rhodopsin molecules, which absorb the photons. We present computational experiments which show the profound effect on the response of the distances (how many discs apart) photons happen to be absorbed at. This photon-distribution effect alone can account for much of the observed variability in response.

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A Comparison Of Techniques To Forecast Consumer Satisfaction For Vehicle Ride, Elizabeth A. Cudney, David Drain, Kenneth M. Ragsdell, Kioumars Paryani Jan 2007

A Comparison Of Techniques To Forecast Consumer Satisfaction For Vehicle Ride, Elizabeth A. Cudney, David Drain, Kenneth M. Ragsdell, Kioumars Paryani

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents a comparison of methods for the identification of a reduced set of useful variables using a multidimensional system. the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System and a standard statistical technique are used reduce the dimensionality of vehicle ride based on consumer satisfaction ratings. the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System and cluster analysis are applied to vehicle ride. the research considers 67 vehicle data sets for the 6 vehicle ride parameters. This paper applies the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System to forecast consumer satisfaction and provides a comparison of results with those obtained from a standard statistical approach to the problem. Copyright © 2007 SAE International.

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Identifying Useful Variables For Vehicle Braking Using The Adjoint Matrix Approach To The Mahalanobis-Taguchi System, Elizabeth A. Cudney, Kenneth M. Ragsdell, Kioumars Paryani Jan 2007

Identifying Useful Variables For Vehicle Braking Using The Adjoint Matrix Approach To The Mahalanobis-Taguchi System, Elizabeth A. Cudney, Kenneth M. Ragsdell, Kioumars Paryani

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The Mahalanobis Taguchi System (MTS) is a diagnosis and forecasting method for multivariate data. Mahalanobis distance (MD) is a measure based on correlations between the variables and different patterns that can be identified and analyzed with respect to a base or reference group. MTS is of interest because of its reported accuracy in forecasting small, correlated data sets. This is the type of data that is encountered with consumer vehicle ratings. MTS enables a reduction in dimensionality and the ability to develop a scale based on MD values. MTS identifies a set of useful variables from the complete data set …

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Ethnogenesis Of Metis, Cree And Chippewa In Twentieth Century Montana, Elizabeth Sperry Jan 2007

Ethnogenesis Of Metis, Cree And Chippewa In Twentieth Century Montana, Elizabeth Sperry

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This thesis examines the history of Montana’s Metis, Cree and Chippewa people as “landless Indians” in a twentieth century context. Landlessness among the Metis, Cree and Chippewa became a defining aspect of their identity by the twentieth century that distinguished them from both Indian and white people in the state. This paper discusses the historical processes by which the Metis, Cree and Chippewa became landless, and examines the unique aspects of their social and economic lives as landless Indian people. This paper concludes with an examination of the ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa, which was based upon patterns of …

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Examining The Variability In The Long Term Adjustment Of Child Sexual Abuse Victims, Heather Marie Ulrich Jan 2007

Examining The Variability In The Long Term Adjustment Of Child Sexual Abuse Victims, Heather Marie Ulrich

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Two meta-analyses (Rind, Tromovitch & Bauserman, 1998; Ulrich, Randolph, & Acheson, 2006) have suggested that the long held belief about the inevitable pervasive negative effects of child sexual abuse does not hold for college populations. The meta-analyses suggest that there is other factors in sexual abuse victims' lives that interact with their abuse experience to produce the sometimes-observed minimal long-term effects on psychological adjustment. This research attempted to examine a potential model for explaining the variability in the long-term effects of child sexual abuse by examining both moderator variables and abuse characteristics within the same population. The study examined three …

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