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Encyclopedic History Of Utah State University, Robert Parson

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

From "A-day" to "Women's Athletics", this encyclopedic history of Utah State University by USU University Archivist Robert Parson covers people, buildings, programs, events, organizations, songs, school colors, traditions, and more.

Mathematical Aids Epidemic Model: Preferential Anti-Retroviral Therapy Distribution In Resource Constrained Countries, Nadia Abuelezam

HMC Senior Theses

HIV/AIDS is one of the largest health problems the world is currently facing. Even with anti-retroviral therapies (ART), many resource-constrained countries are unable to meet the treatment needs of their infected populations. ART-distribution methods need to be created that prevent the largest number of future HIV infections. We have developed a compartment model that tracks the spread of HIV in multiple two-sex populations over time in the presence of limited treatment. The model has been fit to represent the HIV epidemic in rural and urban areas in Uganda. With the model we examine the spread of HIV among urban and …

On Determining Paint By Numbers Puzzles With Nonunique Solutions, Ryan Mullen

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Paint by Numbers is a classic logic puzzle in which the squares of a p×n grid are to be colored in such a way as to display a picture. The decision on which squares to color is determined by sequences of numbers above each column and to the left of each row. The numbers describe how many consecutive squares are to be colored in that row or column, and multiple numbers represent multiple blocks of colored in squares (with at least one uncolored square in between blocks). Certain natural questions arise. For a given p × n grid, how many …

An A1 Function That Is Not In Lipα For Any Positive Α, Ryan Mullen

Mathematics Faculty Publications

Let A1 be the Banach algebra of all continuous functions on the torus whose Fourier coefficients are in 1, and let Lipα be the Banach algebra of all continuous function f on the torus such that ...

Leisure And Liberal Education: A Plea For Uselessness, John E. Jalbert

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

A liberal education informs a person in the proper use of leisure. Liberal education, as the word liberal suggests, is intimately connected with the idea of personal freedom.

The central role of the liberal or liberating arts is to free us, if only for short periods of time, from mundane affairs, from the need to subordinate our lives, wills, and intellects to external demands, from the need—whether real or merely felt—to place ourselves under the sway of the marketplace in order to make a living. After all, human excellence requires more than the material ends that are procured through labor, …

Blood Culture And The Problem Of Decadence, Jeffrey P. Cain

English Faculty Publications

This paper examines the commodification of hunting practices via the deterritorializing function of capitalism described by Deleuze and Guattari. It also studies counter trends-- predicted by or consistent with Deleuzean theory--that indicate a subtending authenticity displayed by certain hunting practices apparently resistant to commercial exploitation. "Blood culture" is my term for inauthentic hunting activity--a distinction drawn directly by Deleuze in his televised interviews with Claire Parnet. Aspects of "becoming-animal" and other transversal and cross-disciplinary flows of thought are also of course in play. As in some of my former work, I again argue for a Deleuzean cultural mechanics of the …

A Historical And Algorithmic Study Of Fux's Approach To Counterpoint, John Ewing

Theses & ETDs

In 1725 Johann Joseph Fux published the counterpoint guide Gradus ad Parnassum. Designed for the beginning composition student, it presents sixteenth-century polyphony taught by a fictional teacher meant to represent Palestrina. Twentieth-century scholarship demonstrated that Fux's guidelines contradict one another at times and that his examples are informed by practices not accounted for by the rules his text. Regardless, the work became the foremost text on counterpoint and is still in use today. A computer model of counterpoint practice based on Fux's notated examples shows that he was working with an implicit understanding of modern harmonic practice (namely keys and …

The Claremont Foodshed: A Historical Analysis, Allie Comet

Pomona Senior Theses

On the southeast corner of the Pomona College campus a small community farm and lush oasis is nestled in the suburban jungle of Claremont, California. ‘The Farm’ is a two-acre food forest that produces a wide variety of annual vegetable crops, fruits, and perennial herbs and berries in a landscape otherwise covered largely in asphalt and lawn.From my experiences on the Farm and in the classroom studying environmental analysis , I have developed a great interest in sustainable food and farming. The failures of the modern food system, destructive to the natural environment and inadequate in providing the world’s population …

Undergraduate Bulletin 2009-2010, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

College Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Adaptive Nonparametric Distribution-Free Procedures In Factorial Data Analysis, Richard Nzagong Ferim

Mathematics Dissertations - Archive

Many statisticians have questioned the basic assumptions about underlying models which might dominate the analysis of the data in many cases. The assumption of normality without much thought is of concern to a growing group of statisticians. If wrongly assumed, the assumption of normality can lead in serious flaws in the analysis of data. It therefore becomes important to consider distribution-free procedures that don't have to rely on the normality assumption. This is where the adaptive procedures come into play. When data is skewed or light tailed, these adaptive methods produce better results than the regular Wilcoxon and parametric methods. …

Atmospheric Soluble Dust Records From A Tibetan Ice Core: Possible Climate Proxies And Teleconnection With The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, B. Grigholm, P. A. Mayewski, S. Kang, Y. Zhang, Susan Kaspari, S. B. Sneed, Q. Zhang

Geological Sciences Faculty Scholarship

In autumn 2005, a joint expedition between the University of Maine and the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research recovered three ice cores from Guoqu Glacier (33°34′37.8″N, 91°10′35.3″E, 5720 m above sea level) on the northern side of Mt. Geladaindong, central Tibetan Plateau. Isotopes (δ¹⁸O), major soluble ions (Na⁺, K⁺, Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, Cl⁻, NO₃⁻, SO₄²⁻), and radionuclide (β‐activity) measurements from one of the cores revealed a 70‐year record (1935–2005). Statistical analysis of major ion time series suggests that atmospheric soluble …

The Hands Beneath The Blood, Kasey Bell

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

I love history. Always have, always will. And it’s true what they say: history really is written by the winners. Anyone who ends up on the losing side is always branded as evil by the winners. Some deserve it, and some don’t. Take the Germans in World War II. Now, I am in no way condoning the actions of the Nazi party, but the important thing to remember is that not everyone in Germany at the time was a Jew-hating, Hitler-loving fascist. In fact, most swore allegiance to the country, not the swastika. I started thinking about the following story …

Quality Instruction Creates Higher Student Learning, Kelly Jan Austin

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Many agree that science education is in need of reform, due to the fact that America is falling behind other industrialized nations in measures of science performance. In order to revolutionize the direction of this discipline is it up to the educators to implement changes in their classroom. It seems that our educational settings know what needs to be done in order to reach higher standards of achievement, however it is concerning that schools aren’t taking the steps necessary to reach these levels. In trying to enhance student learning, there are several methods in science education that are targeted at …

Quantifying Network Reliability Through Finding An Upper Bound For Graph Integrity Using Graph Coloring, Ian Burchett

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Integrity of a graph is defined as 𝐺 = 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑆⊆𝑉(𝐺){ 𝑆 + 𝑚 𝐺 − 𝑆 } , where G is a graph with vertex set V and m(G-S) denotes the order of the largest component of G - S. This provides an upper estimate of the integrity of the given graph. Using graph coloring, the color sequence of the graph can be generated, with the leading term being the largest component of the graph, the maximal independent set. The determination of the set is too time intensive to be feasible for moderate to large graphs, since there is no …

Reactions Of Cisplatin Analogs With Selenomethionine, Rebekkah Lively

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Cisplatin is a well-known anti-cancer drug that is effective, but also has some severe and unwanted side effects. Analogs of cisplatin were reacted with the nonstandard amino acid selenomethionine (SeMet), and the products were characterized by 1H and 195Pt NMR spectroscopy and HPLC. In previous studies, SeMet was found to react faster than methionine (Met) with a representative platinum complex (Pt(dien)Cl2), therefore SeMet is said to react faster kinetically. Thus, while only a subset of proteins have selenium-containing amino acids, platinum complexes could target them kinetically. Cisplatin analogs with two leaving groups have also been studied. Pt(Me4en)(NO3)2 (Me4en = N,N,N’,N’-tetramethylethylenediamine) …

Online Tutoring: Creation Of A Free Tutoring Service For Trigonometry Students, Stephanie A. Micallef

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

In this write-up, I discuss the process and results of creating an online tutoring service for college trigonometry students. The online tutoring service I created included emails, discussion board, and weekly live tutoring sessions. I discuss advantages, disadvantages, improvements, and implications of online tutoring tools and services for the high school classroom.

Modernism, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

This article examines the impact of modernism on philosophy and literature. It proposes two defining dimensions of modernist texts: their initial difficulty and their experimental departure from earlier conventions of thinking. It considers in some detail the practice of novelists Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, and William Faulkner with the aim of shedding light on central strategies and powers of modernism. It shows that the formal practices of my novelists enact a philosophic stance through their particular way of deploying materials.

Toric Surface Codes And Minkowski Length Of Polygons, Ivan Soprunov, Jenya Soprunova

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

In this paper we prove new lower bounds for the minimum distance of a toric surface code CP defined by a convex lattice polygon P⊂R2. The bounds involve a geometric invariant L(P), called the full Minkowski length of P. We also show how to compute L(P) in polynomial time in the number of lattice points in P.

Education And Transition To Work Among Youth In Tamil Nadu, International Institute For Population Sciences (Iips), Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The extent to which India will be able to successfully harness its demographic dividend depends significantly on the situation of its youth, notably on the levels of education and market-oriented skills they attain. Youth in Tamil Nadu have made considerable strides in terms of educational attainment, yet it is not clear whether they are prepared for the challenges they will face in a globalized world. For example, are opportunities available that enable them to complete secondary education, increasingly a prerequisite for participating in the labor market in the context of globalization. Are opportunities available that enable youth to overcome skill …

Algebraic Entropy For Abelian Groups, Dikran Dikranjan, Brendan Goldsmith, Luigi Salce, Paolo Zanardo

Articles

The theory of endomorphism rings of algebraic structures allows, in a natural way, a systematic approach based on the notion of entropy borrowed from dynamical systems. Here we study the algebraic entropy of the endomorphisms of Abelian groups, introduced in 1965 by Adler, Konheim and McAndrew. The so-called Addition Theorem is proved; this expresses the algebraic entropy of an endomorphism $ \phi$ of a torsion group as the sum of the algebraic entropies of the restriction to a $ \phi$-invariant subgroup and of the endomorphism induced on the quotient group. Particular attention is paid to endomorphisms with zero algebraic entropy …

Daemon Decay And Inflation, Emil Prodanov

Articles

In 1971, Hawking suggested [1] that there may be a very large number of gravitationally collapsed charged objects of very low masses, formed as a result of fluctuations in the early Universe. A mass of of these objects could be accumulated at the centre of a star like the Sun. The masses of these collapsed objects are from and above and their charges are up to ±30 electron units [1].

An Evaluation Of The Effects Of Alcohol Restrictions In Fitzroy Crossing Relating To Measurable Health And Social Outcomes, Community Perceptions And Alcohol Related Behaviours After A 12 Month Period, Stephen Kinnane, Fiona Farringdon, Lynette Henderson-Yates, Helen Parker

Sciences Papers and Journal Articles

On 27 September 2007, the Director of Liquor Licensing released his decision on restricting the sale of packaged liquor in Fitzroy Crossing. It was his finding that as of 2 October 2007; the following restriction would be in place for six months:

The sale of packaged liquor, exceeding a concentration of ethanol in liquor of 2.7 per cent at 20 degrees Celsius, is prohibited to any person, other than a lodger (as defined in Section 3 of the Act).

On 19 May 2008, the Director of Liquor Licensing extended the restriction indefinitely with an annual review to test its ongoing …

One-Pot Synthesis Of Anionic (Nitrogen) And Cationic (Sulfur) Codoped High-Temperature Stable, Visible Light Active, Anatase Photocatalysts, Suresh Pillai, Declan Mccormack, Steven Hinder, Pradeepan Periyat

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Kinematic Origin Of The Cosmological Redshift, Emory F. Bunn, David W. Hogg

Physics Faculty Publications

A common belief about big-bang cosmology is that the cosmological redshift cannot be properly viewed as a Doppler shift (that is, as evidence for a recession velocity), but must be viewed in terms of the stretching of space. We argue that, contrary to this view, the most natural interpretation of the redshift is as a Doppler shift, or rather as the accumulation of many infinitesimal Doppler shifts. The stretching-of-space interpretation obscures a central idea of relativity, namely that it is always valid to choose a coordinate system that is locally Minkowskian. We show that an observed frequency shift in any …

Assessing The New Criteria For Newborn Screening, Jeffrey R. Botkin

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

2009 Lynn University Men's Baseball Media Guide, Lynn University Athletics

Athletics Media Guides

The 2009 Lynn University Baseball Media Guide is a product of the Lynn University Sports Information Office.

The Wright Message, 2009, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Mathematics.

The Wright Message

Inside this issue:

-- Dear Department Alumni and Friends
-- 2009 - 2010 Tenure-Stream Faculty
-- Mathematics Education Program
-- Project and Grants
-- Summer Research for UNI Math Students
-- Student Competitions
-- The Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition
-- TEAM News
-- Alliance Program
-- Two Endowment Funds
-- Mathematics Contribution Form
-- Mathematics Scholarship Funds
-- Applause and Congratulations!
-- Math Walk Challenge

A Geochemical Paleoecological Analysis Of Miocene Mammalian Mega Fauna Of Fort Polk, Louisiana, Travis Lamar Atwood

LSU Master's Theses

Through a combination of vertebrate paleontology and geochemistry much can be discovered about the environments about the past. Fort Polk’s vertebrate fossil sites are important because they reflect a time when the Antarctic ice cap was just beginning to form during the middle Miocene cooling period just after the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (~15Ma). This study tested the hypothesis that Miocene seasonality will be preserved in the isotopic geochemistry of terrestrial vertebrate remains at central North American Gulf Coastal sites. Geochemistry was used to understand fossil diagenesis, faunal communities and paleoenvironments. Fort Polk, LA sites range in age from 13.5 …

Creating An Empirically Derived Community Resilience Index Of The Gulf Of Mexico Region, Ariele Nicole Baker

LSU Master's Theses

As coastal areas increase in populations there is an increasing need to determine what community characteristics are most resilient to coastal disasters. This research proposes two methods to quantify community resilience. The factor analysis method results in a weighted additive index model of six variables to derive community resilience. The index places every community in the Gulf of Mexico on a scale from 0-1. The most resilient counties in the Gulf of Mexico region were found to be Hillsborough, FL, Pinellas, FL, Sarasota, FL, Hernando, FL, Okaloosa, FL, Kenedy, TX, and Jefferson, LA with a resilience score of 1. The …

Segmented Field Electron Conformal Therapy With An Electron Multi-Leaf Collimator, John Gordon Eley

LSU Master's Theses

Purpose: The purpose of this work was to investigate the potential of a prototype electron multi-leaf collimator (eMLC) to deliver segmented-field electron conformal therapy (ECT) and to improve dose homogeneity to the planning target volume (PTV) by feathering the abutting edge of the higher energy electron fields. Methods: Software was developed to define the eMLC leaf positions that most closely fit a general field shape. Electron beams (6-20 MeV) using a prototype eMLC were commissioned for the pencil beam dose algorithm in the Pinnacle treatment planning system. A discrete (5-step) Gaussian edge spread function was used to match electron dose …