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Synthesis And Analytical Evaluation Of Folate Conjugates For Use In Cancer Cell Detection, Sneha Reddy Kuthuru

All Capstone Projects

Recent clinical studies have shown the importance of folate receptor in drug delivery system as they increase the potency and reduce toxicity of many cancer therapies. The folate receptor alpha ( FR-a) binds with high affinity for folic acid and serves for receptor mediated transport of folate into cells. Folate is necessary for DNA metabolism and thus it is speculated that rapidly dividing cancer cells have an increased requirement for folic acid. It is known that FR-a levels are elevated in specific malignant diseases (solid tumors, leukemia) and thus the FR receptor serves as useful targeting moiety for the diagnosis …

A Study Of Wireless Network Security, Ningwei Sun

All Capstone Projects

I intend to make a survey in wireless data security since wireless networks are very common, both for organizations and individuals. Many laptop computers have wireless cards pre-installed. The ability to enter a wireless network has great benefits. However, wireless networking has many security issues. Hackers have found wireless networks relatively easy to break into, and even use wireless technology to crack into wired network. As a result, it's very important that enterprises define effective wireless security policies that guard against unauthorized access to important resources.

My survey research may involve these following aspects: wireless network architecture, data security in …

October 2010, Lori Gwyn, Berva Pool, Delana Holt

SWOSU OSP

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Oct 1, 2010, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Project: Application Of Algebra Or Analysis, Eduardo C. Balreira

Information Literacy Resources for Curriculum Development

No abstract provided.

Creating A Cmu Sphinx Based Speech Recognition Book Cataloguing Software, Sekani Tembo

Senior Seminars

This paper describes the design, implementation, and overall process that went into building a book cataloguing software that takes speech input, converts it to an integral ISBN number, looks up the relevant information on Amazon.com, and records said information in a database. It emphasizes the novelty of combining the Sphinx4 open-source speech recognition library and the Amazon Web Services Application Programming Interface in what's called a mashup.

Sce 6938 Topics In Science Education, Barbara Spector

Service-Learning Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Measurement And Modeling Of Infrared Nonlinear Absorption Coefficients And Laser-Induced Damage Thresholds In Ge And Gasb, Torrey J. Wagner, Matthew J. Bohn, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., L. P. Gonzales, J. M. Murray, K. L. Schepler, S. Guha

Faculty Publications

Using a simultaneous fitting technique to extract nonlinear absorption coefficients from data at two pulse widths, we measure two-photon and free-carrier absorption coefficients for Ge and GaSb at 2.05 and 2.5 µm for the first time, to our knowledge. Results agreed well with published theory. Single-shot damage thresholds were also measured at 2.5 µm and agreed well with modeled thresholds using experimentally determined parameters including nonlinear absorption coefficients and temperature dependent linear absorption. The damage threshold for a single-layer Al₂O₃ anti-reflective coating on Ge was 55% or 35% lower than the uncoated threshold for picosecond or nanosecond …

Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2010, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

LSU Faculty Senate Publications

Message from the President: The collective jury of humankind is still deliberating President Franklin Roosevelt’s affirmation that there is nothing to fear but fear itself. Fear, after all, is something. There is plenty of it around the campus nowadays, most of it instigated by the prospect of budget cuts and job eliminations but some of it elicited by the endangerment of previous resources. Lurking in the corner of all but the most numb academic mind is the thought that commerce and its seductive appeal might undermine support and sympathy for the traditions of free inquiry that have animated universities for …

Los Arcos - Fall 2010, University Of Texas-Pan American

UTPA Archives - Los Arcos Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Pan American (2010-10-01), Kristen Cabrera

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

Vol. 67, No. 5

Orange & White - Fall 2010, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

UTB/TSC Archives - Orange & White Magazine

No abstract provided.

Utpa Commencement – Fall 2010, University Of Texas-Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

What Great Writers Can Teach Lawyers And Judges: Wisdom From Plato To Mark Twain To Stephen King (Part 1), Douglas E. Abrams

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Making A Place For Gifted Education: Learning From States That Maintain Gifted Education Programs Despite Academic And Economic Pressure, Amanda Vander Klay

Senior Honors Theses

As the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (2001), which includes expectations for Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), is constantly on the minds of state and local leaders, gifted programming has seen a decrease in the United States. In the difficult economy, limited resources are being funneled towards those students who need to increase their test scores to make AYP. This thesis will examine the model states of Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Arkansas that have managed to provide mandated and funded gifted programming while excelling in their AYP and managing the strains of tight state budgets.

Nmr-Based And Automated Docking Characterization Of Protein Structure, Dynamics, And Ligand Binding, Andrew Lawrence Olson

Dissertations (1934 -)

NMR-based methods used in conjunction with a technique called docking are used to characterize ligand binding to proteins. Standard NMR methods were used to study the backbone dynamics of substrate binding to phosphomevalonate kinase (PMK) and it was observed that ligand binding caused PMK to undergo large conformational changes. These changes were reflected by the appearance of many chemical shift changes upon binding of the natural substrates of PMK (both the binary and ternary complexes) in 1H-15N HSQC NMR titration experiments. The same process was used to characterize the effect ligand binding has on the many arginines in the active …

Mojave Applied Ecology Notes Fall 2010, Adria Decorte, Sharon Altman, Alex Suazo

Mojave Applied Ecology Notes

Adria DeCorte defense, Mojave desert inventory and monitoring mapping project, effect of burial depth on Brassica tournefortii seeds

Economic Analysis Of A Brackish Water Photovoltaic-Operated (Bwro-Pv) Desalination System, Ali Al-Karaghouli, Lawrence L. Kazmerski

Publications (E)

The photovoltaic (PV)-powered reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination system is considered one of the most promising technologies in producing fresh water from both brackish and sea water, especially for small systems located in remote areas. We analyze the economic viability of a small PV-operated RO system with a capacity of 5 m³/day used to desalinate brackish water of 4000 ppm total dissolve solids, which is proposed to be installed in a remote area of the Babylon governorate in the middle of Iraq; this area possesses excellent insolation throughout the year. Our analysis predicts very good economic and environmental benefits of …

Unlv Magazine, Tony Allen, Shane Bevell, Donna Mcaleer, Ched Whitney, Cate Weeks

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.

Hrc Enews — 2010 Fall, Megan K. Svarz

Publications (HRC)

This issue contains staff accomplishments and announcements, event listings, and a "new faces" listing for new staff, affiliates, and researchers.

Science And Technology Resources On The Internet: Selected Internet Resources On Digital Research Data Curation, Brian Westra, Marisa Ramirez, Susan Wells Parham, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino

Library Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Developing A Science Café Program For Your University Library, Jeanine Marie Scaramozzino, Catherine Trujillo

Library Scholarship

The Science Café is a national movement that attempts to foster community dialog and inquiry on scientific topics in informal venues such as coffee houses, bookstores, restaurants and bars. The California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Robert E. Kennedy Library staff have taken the Science Café model out of bars and cafes and into the university's library. They have created an outreach opportunity as the campus community comes together to share and discuss faculty research, student work, and outside speakers' knowledge. The Science Café programs encourage open, easy-to-understand conversation exploring scientific and interdisciplinary topics in an attempt to build …

Plankton Community Respiration And Productivity For The Louisiana Offshore Ecosystem, July 2007 Results, Brandon Michael Boyd

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Hauntology And The New Poetics Of Magick, Alan Clinton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Thank you very much to Karen Bennett, Larry Rinder, Sherry Goodman, and the rest of the staff at the Berkeley Art Museum for helping make this event happen, which is designed to introduce you to the issue of 2nd Avenue Poetry (2ndavepoetry.com). I recently edited an issue of poetry---not only a poetry issue but also full of multimedia including visual art, music, cinema, and numerous hybrids---whose theme I like to refer to as the "New Poetics of Magick."

Nonlocal Quantum Information In Bipartite Quantum Error Correction, Mark M. Wilde, David Fattal

Faculty Publications

We show how to convert an arbitrary stabilizer code into a bipartite quantum code. A bipartite quantum code is one that involves two senders and one receiver. The two senders exploit both nonlocal and local quantum resources to encode quantum information with local encoding circuits. They transmit their encoded quantum data to a single receiver who then decodes the transmitted quantum information. The nonlocal resources in a bipartite code are ebits and nonlocal information qubits, and the local resources are ancillas and local information qubits. The technique of bipartite quantum error correction is useful in both the quantum communication scenario …

Lsu Research Fall 2010, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

Research Magazine

LSU Research is published annually by the Office of Research & Economic Development, Louisiana State University.

A Supercongruence Motivated By The Legendre Family Of Elliptic Curves, Heng Huat Chan, Ling Long, V. V. Zudilin

Faculty Publications

A new supercongruence associated with a Gaussian hypergeometric series, as well as one of Mortenson's supercongruences, are established with new congruence relations and the Legendre transforms of certain sequences. © 2010 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.

Comparison Of Volumes Of Convex Bodies In Real, Complex, And Quaternionic Spaces, Boris Rubin

Faculty Publications

The classical Busemann-Petty problem (1956) asks, whether origin-symmetric convex bodies in Rn with smaller hyperplane central sections necessarily have smaller volumes. It is known, that the answer is affirmative if n≤4 and negative if n>4. The same question can be asked when volumes of hyperplane sections are replaced by other comparison functions having geometric meaning. We give unified analysis of this circle of problems in real, complex, and quaternionic n-dimensional spaces. All cases are treated simultaneously. In particular, we show that the Busemann-Petty problem in the quaternionic n-dimensional space has an affirmative answer if and only if n=2. The …

Program Transformations For Information Personalization, Saverio Perugini, Naren Ramakrishnan

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Personalization constitutes the mechanisms necessary to automatically customize information content, structure, and presentation to the end user to reduce information overload. Unlike traditional approaches to personalization, the central theme of our approach is to model a website as a program and conduct website transformation for personalization by program transformation (e.g., partial evaluation, program slicing). The goal of this paper is study personalization through a program transformation lens and develop a formal model, based on program transformations, for personalized interaction with hierarchical hypermedia. The specific research issues addressed involve identifying and developing program representations and transformations suitable for classes of hierarchical …

2010 Fall Nutshell, Morehead State University. Institutional Research & Analysis.

Office of Institutional Research & Analysis Publication Archive

Fall 2010 issue of the Nutshell.