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Application Of Uml For Modeling Urban Traffic System Using Producer Consumer Theory To Generate Process Algebra Model, Manuj Darbari, Sanjay Medhavi, Abhay Kumar Srivastava Jan 2007

Application Of Uml For Modeling Urban Traffic System Using Producer Consumer Theory To Generate Process Algebra Model, Manuj Darbari, Sanjay Medhavi, Abhay Kumar Srivastava

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

UML is widely used as an industry standard for modeling any system. In this paper will be dealing with simple UML diagrams and show that low it can be transformed into process algebra models specially designated to model urban traffic systems. The model capture functionality at the level of mesoscopic as well as microscopic level and it is merged with process algebra’s producer consumer theory. The model is also formalized using Process algebra equations. This paper focuses on complex situational activity diagrams enhancing the expressivity by refining at the abstraction levels. Performance requirement is annotated by the UML profile for …

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Gardening Programs In Schools: A Proposed Solution To Reverse The Consequences Of The Current American Food Culture, Charlotte Grace Blessey Jan 2007

Gardening Programs In Schools: A Proposed Solution To Reverse The Consequences Of The Current American Food Culture, Charlotte Grace Blessey

Honors Theses

This thesis examines the problems with current food consumption and production practices, and proposes the implementation of school gardening programs as a possible remedy to these problems. Methods and procedures consisted of research on current publications, periodicals, internet sources and scholarly articles concerning these topics. It was found that current diet is a significant factor in widespread health problems facing populations today. This diet is intertwined with an environmentally destructive and vulnerable system of intensive industrial agriculture based on centralization, mass distribution, and standardization. School garden programs target children beginning at a young age and help to counter the culture …

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Soviet Language Policy In Uzbekistan: How The Role Of Russian Has Changed Through Soviet Times And Independence, Mary Catherine Boehmer Jan 2007

Soviet Language Policy In Uzbekistan: How The Role Of Russian Has Changed Through Soviet Times And Independence, Mary Catherine Boehmer

Honors Theses

This thesis examines the progression of Soviet language policy in Uzbekistan and its effects. It also examines how the perception of Russian has changed in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Uzbeks now view their own language as a direct result of language policy. I based my research on the research of others and the interview of a former Peace Corps volunteer who lived in both Tashkent and Andijon for a total period of two years. Through my investigation, I discovered how the Central Asian languages were formed on the basis of language, how Soviet leaders used both Russian and ethnic languages to …

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Dynamics Of Transcriptional Repression By Λ Cro Repressor In Vivo, Dustin Land Markle Jan 2007

Dynamics Of Transcriptional Repression By Λ Cro Repressor In Vivo, Dustin Land Markle

Honors Theses

Cro is a regulatory protein that participates in the life cycle switch of bacteriophage lambda (X). While wild-type Cro is produced as a single domain polypeptide monomer, two monomers must assemble to form a dimer before Cro can act as a functional transcriptional repressor. We suspect that dimerization of Cro monomers determines, in part, the dynamics of the activity of the protein in vivo. Rate and equilibrium constants for dimerization of several Cro variants have already been determined in vitro,, and dimerization of Cro monomers is slow relative to other similar proteins. This study is concerned with exploring the in …

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Securitizing Audit Failure Risk: An Alternative To Caps On Damages, Lawrence A. Cunningham Jan 2007

Securitizing Audit Failure Risk: An Alternative To Caps On Damages, Lawrence A. Cunningham

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

For several decades, policy analysts have debated whether to establish ex ante caps on damages that audit firms face for violating state or federal law in their audits of public companies. A common argument supporting caps is a claimed inability of audit firms to obtain requisite external liability insurance and need to resort to self-insurance programs. This Article evaluates this claim by assessing existing insurance resources and inquiring into potential additional insurance devices. The assessment suggests that, for auditors, self-insurance is better than external insurance so that the claim does not necessarily support damages caps. Even if the claim were …

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Telemedicine And The Commoditization Of Medical Services, Thomas R. Mclean Jan 2007

Telemedicine And The Commoditization Of Medical Services, Thomas R. Mclean

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

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What Does Justice Require For The Victims Of Katrina And September 11?, John G. Culhane Jan 2007

What Does Justice Require For The Victims Of Katrina And September 11?, John G. Culhane

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

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Trouble In Transition: The Experience Of Russian Privatization, Steven Reuter Jan 2007

Trouble In Transition: The Experience Of Russian Privatization, Steven Reuter

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

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The Effectiveness Of The Gri 2002 Guidelines In Fostering Comparability Between 3bl Reporting, Nick Andrews Jan 2007

The Effectiveness Of The Gri 2002 Guidelines In Fostering Comparability Between 3bl Reporting, Nick Andrews

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

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The Absence Of Financial Feminism, Blythe Leigh Keenum Jan 2007

The Absence Of Financial Feminism, Blythe Leigh Keenum

Honors Theses

This thesis describes alumni donor behaviors for University of Mississippi double-alumni married couples and analyzes those behaviors through the lens of gender. I used data from the University of Mississippi Foundation databases. A subsequent review of scholarly literature dealing with gender and philanthropy gave additional context for analyzing results. These analyses showed a considerable tendency for UM double-alumni households to favor males’ schools across multiple variables and the presence of household bargaining is strongly indicated.

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Life On Utila, Blake Savier Mogabgab Jan 2007

Life On Utila, Blake Savier Mogabgab

Honors Theses

Sentence fragment. As an English major and an amateur writer. I am told never to use one ot these, that I have not earned the right to use them yet. I don't know when ril earn that right, but I suppose it is too late now'. I hope this tells you a little about me. about w'hat I am doing. I would have never tried a stunt like that before, but things are different now. Last summer, the last one before graduating college, I set out to find a story: instead, the story found me. like God found Noah. It …

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Refusal-To-Deal Cases Of Ip Rights In The Aftermarket Of Us And Eu Law: Convergence Of Both Law Systems Through Speaking The Same Language Of Law And Economics, Haris Apostolopoulos Jan 2007

Refusal-To-Deal Cases Of Ip Rights In The Aftermarket Of Us And Eu Law: Convergence Of Both Law Systems Through Speaking The Same Language Of Law And Economics, Haris Apostolopoulos

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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Freedom Through Education: The Sunflower County Freedom Project, Susan Rebecca Morrison Jan 2007

Freedom Through Education: The Sunflower County Freedom Project, Susan Rebecca Morrison

Honors Theses

The United States intelligence community is an integral part of the security of our' nation. It has been continually growing and redesigning itself for the past 230 years to suit the needs of the people and of the nation. Inhibiting the American intelligence system, however, is the struggle for the U.S. to find a balance between the rights of the people and the security of the nation. This struggle has been at the basis of change in almost every instance of intelligence redesign. It is these changes that have become the study of this thesis. Major trends found in the …

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Bureaucratic Legalism, American Style: Private Bureaucratic Legalism And The Governance Of The Tort System, John Fabian Witt Jan 2007

Bureaucratic Legalism, American Style: Private Bureaucratic Legalism And The Governance Of The Tort System, John Fabian Witt

DePaul Law Review

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Poking Holes In The Fabric Of Tort: A Comment, Robert L. Rabin Jan 2007

Poking Holes In The Fabric Of Tort: A Comment, Robert L. Rabin

DePaul Law Review

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Regulating After The Fact, Samuel Issacharoff Jan 2007

Regulating After The Fact, Samuel Issacharoff

DePaul Law Review

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How An Instrumental View Of Law Corrodes The Rule Of Law, Brian Z. Tamanaha Jan 2007

How An Instrumental View Of Law Corrodes The Rule Of Law, Brian Z. Tamanaha

DePaul Law Review

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A Study Into The Protein/Protein Interactions Involved In Hiv-1 Capsid Assembly, Chanel Catherine Douglas Jan 2007

A Study Into The Protein/Protein Interactions Involved In Hiv-1 Capsid Assembly, Chanel Catherine Douglas

All ETDs from UAB

The aim of this work was to build an understanding of the protein/protein interactions involved in HIV-1 capsid assembly as it relates to the condensation of capsid within the virion. This was undertaken in an attempt to (i) understand how capsid subunits recognize and interact with each other, (ii) gain insight into the protein-protein interactions involved in the process, and (iii) determine if the protein-protein interactions involved in virus cap-sid assembly can be used as a target for viral inhibition. Within this dissertation you will find two approaches to this investigation. The first examines the role of electrostatics in the …

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Competition In Multistable Vision Is Attribute-Specific, Jon K. Grossmann Jan 2007

Competition In Multistable Vision Is Attribute-Specific, Jon K. Grossmann

All ETDs from UAB

Ambiguous figures are visual stimuli with multiple competing interpretations. The different possible interpretations are mutually exclusive, and perception fluctuates from one interpretation to the next over time. Natural scenes are inherently ambiguous as well. A pair of two-dimensional retinal images does not instantaneously provide sufficient information to deduce the full three-dimensional layout and identities of objects in the scene. We investigate how the visual system uses internally stored models of objects and scenes to interpret and understand visual information. Ambiguous figures provide an experimental microdomain in which to investigate this top-down process in vision. In one set of experiments, we …

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Fuzzy Systems Simulation: Models, Foundations, And Systems Development, Leonard J. Jowers Jan 2007

Fuzzy Systems Simulation: Models, Foundations, And Systems Development, Leonard J. Jowers

All ETDs from UAB

Simulations of modeled systems are e®ective tools for evaluating system attributes; fuzzy logic provides for simulation of systems with inherent uncertainties. This re- search to advance simulation of fuzzy systems involves several studies in a planned sequence. Continuous fuzzy system modeling activities constitute a ¯rst stage of re- search action, a natural °ow from earlier work on modeling discrete fuzzy systems; the notion of using crisp simulation to carry out fuzzy computations is at the heart of the work. This activity requires choosing tools and problems with which to demon- strate feasibility and broad applicability of the approach. Some fundamental …

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Synthesis And Control Of Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, And Bioactivity In Biphasic And Preferentially Oriented Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics, Hyunbin Kim Jan 2007

Synthesis And Control Of Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, And Bioactivity In Biphasic And Preferentially Oriented Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics, Hyunbin Kim

All ETDs from UAB

Calcium phosphate bioceramics are recognized as one of the most biocompatible materials and are widely used in systems for bone repair and regeneration. In this work, the pulsed laser deposition technique was chosen to produce calcium phosphate materials with different crystallographic texture and chemical composition for investigation of their structural, mechanical, as well as biological properties. Various calcium phosphate coatings were obtained on Ti6Al4V substrates using a KrF excimer laser (248 nm) with an energy density of 4−8 J/cm2 and substrate temperature of 625−730 °C. A method was developed that enables the deposition of highly textured hydroxyapatite by controlling the …

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Mcmv Induced Cerebellar Maldevelopment, Thadeus B. Koontz Jan 2007

Mcmv Induced Cerebellar Maldevelopment, Thadeus B. Koontz

All ETDs from UAB

Congenital Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection represents a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in infants and children. While most of the systemic damage incurred by the infant in the course of the infection resolves without permanent consequence, the pathological manifestations of infection in the central nervous system (CNS) are often permanent. Children born with congenital HCMV infection may exhibit hearing loss and cognitive impairment in various degrees. These neurological disabilities are correlated with pathological findings in various permutations including infection of the inner ear, ventricular calcifications, ventriculomegaly, microgyria, lissencephaly, and cerebellar hypoplasia. To develop a therapeutic or preventive strategy, HCMV …

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Titania Coated Hollow Glass Microspheres For Environmental Applications, Mark C. Koopman Jan 2007

Titania Coated Hollow Glass Microspheres For Environmental Applications, Mark C. Koopman

All ETDs from UAB

The potential applicability of titania coated hollow glass microspheres (HGMs) to the photocatalytic degradation of microbiological and organic chemical water pollutants could have dramatic positive effects on improving the quality of industrial wastewaters that empty into rivers and streams, as well as potential use in economically improving the quality of drinking water. Heterogeneous photocatalysis using titania has been extensively studied since the 1990’s because of its non-toxic nature, its high quantum yield of electrons and photo-holes, and its ability to use ambient solar radiation as a power source. Although titania embodies extraordinarily attractive properties for a range of environmental applications, …

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Joining Of Aluminum And Long Fiber Thermoplastic (Lft) Composites, Rahul R. Kulkarni Jan 2007

Joining Of Aluminum And Long Fiber Thermoplastic (Lft) Composites, Rahul R. Kulkarni

All ETDs from UAB

Metal/polymer joints are used in variety of areas: aerospace, automotive, prosthetic devices, electronic packaging, etc. The present study involves a tailcone, which is currently made of aluminum and a new design will involve a joint between aluminum and long fiber thermoplastic (LFT) composite. The new tailcones were processed by insert molding, also called as extrusion-compression molding. Finite element (FE) models were used to obtain a temperature profile during cooling of tailcone from processing and to estimate thermal stresses generated. Experimental verification of the temperature profile was obtained by IR thermography. It was observed that the LFT part of the tailcone …

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Numerical And Experimental Study Of Three Imaging Advancements In Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Longchuan Li Jan 2007

Numerical And Experimental Study Of Three Imaging Advancements In Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Longchuan Li

All ETDs from UAB

This study aimed at the numerical simulation of three imaging options in phase contrast magnetic resonance (PC-MR), developed jointly at University of Alabama at Birmingham and Allegheny Research Institute. The three methods were: 1) Fragmented Regional Interpolation Segmentation for K-space (FRISK); 2) Enhanced Temporal Resolution (ETR) technique; and 3) Self Reference (SR) PC-MR. The three methods were tested on various physiologic platforms and the data accuracy and acquisition time savings processed by these methods were directly compared to those processed by conventional (CON) PC-MR. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) data of: a) two-chamber orifice flow model simulating valvular regurgitation, b) a …

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A Model Transformation Approach To Automated Model Evolution, Yuehua Lin Jan 2007

A Model Transformation Approach To Automated Model Evolution, Yuehua Lin

All ETDs from UAB

It is well-known that the inherent complex nature of software systems adds to the challenges of software development. The most notable techniques for addressing the complexity of software development are based on the principles of abstraction, problem decomposition, separation of concerns and automation. As an emerging paradigm for developing complex software, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) realizes these principles by raising the specification of software to models, which are at a higher level of abstraction than source code. As models are elevated to first-class artifacts within the software development lifecycle, there is an increasing need for frequent model evolution to explore design …

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Primer Selection Of E. Coli Trna Lys,3 By Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1, Anna Mcculley Jan 2007

Primer Selection Of E. Coli Trna Lys,3 By Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1, Anna Mcculley

All ETDs from UAB

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV replication includes the notable process of reverse transcription, a conversion of RNA to DNA. Reverse transcription is initiated from a primer by a viral enzyme, reverse transcriptase. The primer, tRNALys,3, is selected from the cytoplasm of an infected cell, annealed via the 3’ terminal 18-nucleotides to the viral primer binding site (PBS), and used in a subsequent infection. The mechanism of primer selection has not been determined although numerous studies have been performed. This has been hampered by the challenge of tRNALys,3 manipulation in the cell and …

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Qospl: A Quality Of Service-Driven Software Product Line Engineering Framework For Design And Analysis Of Component-Based Distributed Real-Time And Embedded Systems, Shih-Hsi Liu Jan 2007

Qospl: A Quality Of Service-Driven Software Product Line Engineering Framework For Design And Analysis Of Component-Based Distributed Real-Time And Embedded Systems, Shih-Hsi Liu

All ETDs from UAB

Software complexity may be reduced and productivity may be increased by the synergy of Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Product Line En- gineering. The synergistic techniques decrease complexity by uplifting software ar- tifacts to a higher abstraction level, namely the component level, and de¯ning the interfaces, interactions, and contexts of such artifacts for composing software systems. Such synergistic techniques also facilitate productivity increase by promoting feature reusability, leveraging component replacement and o®ering selectivity among prod- uct variants. When applied to Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems, however, these technologies must ful¯ll such systems' time-critical missions and nu- merous functional and …

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Genetic And Epigenetic Modulation Of Telomerase Activity In Development And Disease, Sharla Marion Ostein Phipps Jan 2007

Genetic And Epigenetic Modulation Of Telomerase Activity In Development And Disease, Sharla Marion Ostein Phipps

All ETDs from UAB

The end replication problem of linear chromosomes leads to the erosion of telomeric DNA with each cell division. A mechanism to counteract telomeric attrition involves the activity of the specialized ribonucleoprotein telomerase. Expression of the catalytic subunit of telomerase, hTERT, is tightly regulated and this regulation is achieved through both genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Activators such as c- MYC and SP1 and repressors such as MAD1, Menin, and p53 mediate hTERT transcription. Epigenetic control mediated by DNA methylation and histone modifications such as methylation and acetylation can reversibly and potently regulate telomerase activity. Not only is there synergism between the …

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Enterprise Configuration Management In A Service-Oriented Architecture Environment Delivering It Services, Robert E. Raygan Jan 2007

Enterprise Configuration Management In A Service-Oriented Architecture Environment Delivering It Services, Robert E. Raygan

All ETDs from UAB

Information Technology (IT) is a collaboration environment for business and engineering. The past decade has seen a reduction in business understanding of engineering principles because of the lack of trained engineers working in IT, while businesses have become increasingly dependent upon new and complex technologies. These new technologies, often still evolving, are system-of-systems environments and present significant challenges to early implementers. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one such system-of-systems that pushes the discipline of Software Configuration Management (SCM) beyond traditionally defined bounds. Evolving standards associated with SOA and the nature of SOA contribute to these challenges of governance and management: loose …

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