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A Hybrid Bayesian Laplacian Approach For Generalized Linear Mixed Models, Marinela Capanu, Mithat Gonen, Colin B. Begg Sep 2011

A Hybrid Bayesian Laplacian Approach For Generalized Linear Mixed Models, Marinela Capanu, Mithat Gonen, Colin B. Begg

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Working Paper Series

The analytical intractability of generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) has generated a lot of research in the past two decades. Applied statisticians routinely face the frustrating prospect of widely disparate results produced by the methods that are currently implemented in commercially available software. This article is motivated by this frustration and develops guidance as well as new methods that are computationally efficient and statistically reliable. Two main classes of approximations have been developed: likelihood-based methods and Bayesian methods. Likelihood-based methods such as the penalized quasi-likelihood approach of Breslow and Clayton (1993) have been shown to produce biased estimates especially for …

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The Echo: September 16, 2011, Taylor University Sep 2011

The Echo: September 16, 2011, Taylor University

2011-2012 (Volume 99)

Steadfast renewal – Knockout event – Awards sweep across campus departments – Cookout restores community kitchen – Giving back when given the chance – The Bubble – Palestinians vying for independent statehood – World Voices – One Verse not one-hit wonder – Around the World In 30 Seconds – Fast food showdown: Hardee’s or Love’s? – Fall Festivals – Brotherhood found in Wengatz – Behind the acronym: Student Activities Council – Dear Ronnie – Trend of the Week – Quick Question – Rapid Responses – Social Media gone Taylor – Fact of the Week – Too much coverage? – Local …

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Integral Inequalities On Time Scales Via The Theory Of Isotonic Linear Functionals, Matloob Anwar, Rabia Bibi, Martin Bohner, Josip Pečarić Sep 2011

Integral Inequalities On Time Scales Via The Theory Of Isotonic Linear Functionals, Matloob Anwar, Rabia Bibi, Martin Bohner, Josip Pečarić

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We apply the theory of isotonic linear functionals to derive a series of known inequalities, extensions of known inequalities, and new inequalities in the theory of dynamic equations on time scales. © 2011 Matloob Anwar et al.

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Wii Remote-Based Collaborative Interfaces For Music, Adriano Baratè, Luca A. Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro Sep 2011

Wii Remote-Based Collaborative Interfaces For Music, Adriano Baratè, Luca A. Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro

Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering Faculty Research

Wii Remote is the main controller for Nintendo's Wii con- sole. Thanks to the use of accelerometer and optical sensor technology, it presents motion sensing capability, which implies gesture recognition and intuitive pointing. Such a controller is user-friendly, inexpensive and easily available, due to growing Wii console's popularity. These features make Wii Remote a good device to create and manipulate both music and audio in a home entertainment environment. In this paper, the most interesting characteristics of the controller will be reviewed. A case study will be presented, namely the creation of a virtual music instrument to be controlled in …

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Reporter - September 16th 2011, Rit Reporter Staff Sep 2011

Reporter - September 16th 2011, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

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A Study In Religious Worldview And Subjective Well-Being, Julian Affrime Sep 2011

A Study In Religious Worldview And Subjective Well-Being, Julian Affrime

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between religious worldview and multiple measures of subjective well-being, including: the Unconditional Self-Acceptance Questionnaire (Chamberlain & Haaga, 2001a), the Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire (Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005), the Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999), the Purpose in Life Test (Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1964), and the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, et al., 1985) among a sample of 272 college students. Participants were divided into six worldviews (Monotheism, Polytheism, Eastern Pantheism, Modern Humanism, Empiricism, and Naturalism) based on the factorial analysis computed by Spearman, the developer of the Personal Philosophical Belief Statements Scale (2006). …

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Distribution Of The American Milliped Genus Boraria Chamberlin, 1943: Introductions Of B. Stricta (Brölemann, 1896) In New York And B. Infesta (Chamberlin, 1918) In Connecticut; Indigenous Occurrence Of B. Profuga (Causey, 1955) In Louisiana (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)., Rowland M. Shelley, Chris T. Mcallister, Christopher M. Nagy, Mark E. Weckel, Roderick G. Christie, Paul Wilson, Allan Wilson Sep 2011

Distribution Of The American Milliped Genus Boraria Chamberlin, 1943: Introductions Of B. Stricta (Brölemann, 1896) In New York And B. Infesta (Chamberlin, 1918) In Connecticut; Indigenous Occurrence Of B. Profuga (Causey, 1955) In Louisiana (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)., Rowland M. Shelley, Chris T. Mcallister, Christopher M. Nagy, Mark E. Weckel, Roderick G. Christie, Paul Wilson, Allan Wilson

Insecta Mundi

The southern Appalachian millipeds Boraria stricta (Brölemann, 1896) and B. infesta (Chamberlin, 1918) (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae) have become established in Westchester Co., New York, and Hartford Co., Connecticut, respectively. Only three individuals are available for the latter, but B. stricta has established a reproducing population in southern New York state. This species is also recorded from Bland Co., Virginia, in the Ridge and Valley Physiographic Province. Boraria profuga (Causey, 1955) comprises two allopatric populations, one in Montgomery Co., Arkansas, and the other in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Distributional records and gonopod drawings are presented for these species plus B. deturkiana (Causey, …

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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Sept 16, 2011, A-State Faculty Senate Sep 2011

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Sept 16, 2011, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Risk Taking And Force Protection Sep 2011

Risk Taking And Force Protection

Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism Seminar Series

time: 2.30-4.30pm
room: Osgoode Hall – IKB 4034
speaker: David Luban (Georgetown)
respondent: Dan Priel (Osgoode)

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Predicting Flavonoid Ugt Regioselectivity, Rhydon Jackson, Debra Knisley, Cecilia Mcintosh, Phillip Pfeiffer Sep 2011

Predicting Flavonoid Ugt Regioselectivity, Rhydon Jackson, Debra Knisley, Cecilia Mcintosh, Phillip Pfeiffer

ETSU Faculty Works

Machine learning was applied to a challenging and biologically significant protein classification problem: the prediction of avonoid UGT acceptor regioselectivity from primary sequence. Novel indices characterizing graphical models of residues were proposed and found to be widely distributed among existing amino acid indices and to cluster residues appropriately. UGT subsequences biochemically linked to regioselectivity were modeled as sets of index sequences. Several learning techniques incorporating these UGT models were compared with classifications based on standard sequence alignment scores. These techniques included an application of time series distance functions to protein classification. Time series distances defined on the index sequences were …

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The Loss Of Neighborhood Secondary Schools: How The Distance A Student Lives From Their School Can Affect Their Academic Achievement, Gillian Armstrong Sep 2011

The Loss Of Neighborhood Secondary Schools: How The Distance A Student Lives From Their School Can Affect Their Academic Achievement, Gillian Armstrong

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the distance a student lives from their school influences their academic achievement. In detail, this study has correlated the distance in miles a student lives from his or her school with their grade point average at the end of their freshman and junior years. Data has been collected from 100 participants at two private high schools in southern New Jersey, Our Lady of Mercy Academy and Saint Augustine College Prepatory School. Both schools are grades ninth through twelfth. Both schools are Catholic schools but you do not have to be Catholic …

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Cucurbit[8]Uril Rotaxanes, Vijayakumar Ramalingam, Adam R. Urbach Sep 2011

Cucurbit[8]Uril Rotaxanes, Vijayakumar Ramalingam, Adam R. Urbach

Chemistry Faculty Research

The synthesis of [2]rotaxanes, each comprising a viologen core threaded through a cucurbit[8]uril (Q8, Figure 1) macrocycle and stoppered by tetraphenylmethane groups, and their binding to second guests as inclusion complexes in organic and aqueous media are described. Stoppering was observed to have little effect on binding. Chemical modification of the threaded guest was used to control solubility and binding characteristics, thus demonstrating a novel approach to making artificial receptors with readily modifiable properties.

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Design Of Control Release Drug Delivery System (Dds) For Imaging And Therapeutic Applications, Sweta Naik Sep 2011

Design Of Control Release Drug Delivery System (Dds) For Imaging And Therapeutic Applications, Sweta Naik

Theses and Dissertations

The main challenge in disease treatment is no more the discovery of new therapeutic drugs, but to provide targeted delivery of therapeutic drugs to specific sites without incurring systemic toxicity effects. An efficient way of reducing the toxicity is by encapsulating the drug with a biodegradable matrix that can provide controlled release of the drug along with local heating of the drug. Local heating can be obtained by incorporating magnetic iron oxide particles that heat upon exposure to AC electromagnetic fields. The magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles are also gaining much attention as MRI contrast agents. Thus it would be of …

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Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, Emma Eccles Jones College Of Education And Human Services, September 16, 2011 – Heath Science Emphasis Request, Utah State University Sep 2011

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, Emma Eccles Jones College Of Education And Human Services, September 16, 2011 – Heath Science Emphasis Request, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services has for many years offered a program in Health Education and Promotion (previously named Health Education Specialist) to prepare students to either work in public and private school systems as health teachers (School Health Education emphasis) or to work as health education specialists in public health departments, medical care settings, corporate wellness programs, and non-profit agencies (Community Health emphasis). In recent years students have expressed an interest in this degree who intend to pursue further study in a health or medical …

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Brownian Motion And Its Applications In Financial Mathematics, Vidyesh Vadhavkar Sep 2011

Brownian Motion And Its Applications In Financial Mathematics, Vidyesh Vadhavkar

Theses

Brownian Motion is one of the most useful tools in the arsenal of stochastic models. This phenomenon, named after the English botanist Robert Brown, was originally observed as the irregular motion exhibited by a small particle which is totally immersed in a liquid or gas. Since then it has been applied effectively in such areas as statistical goodness of fi t, analyzing stock price levels and quantum mechanics. In 1905, Albert Einstein first explained the phenomenon by assuming that such an immersed particle was continually being bombarded by the molecules in the surrounding medium. The mathematical theory of this important …

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September 16, 2011, The Daily Mississippian Sep 2011

September 16, 2011, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

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Characterization, Modeling, And Simulation Of Multiscale Directed-Assembly Systems, Ryan Molecke Sep 2011

Characterization, Modeling, And Simulation Of Multiscale Directed-Assembly Systems, Ryan Molecke

Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs

Nanoscience is a rapidly developing field at the nexus of all physical sciences which holds the potential for mankind to gain a new level of control of matter over matter and energy altogether. Directed-assembly is an emerging field within nanoscience in which non-equilibrium system dynamics are controlled to produce scalable, arbitrarily complex and interconnected multi-layered structures with custom chemical, biologically or environmentally-responsive, electronic, or optical properties. We construct mathematical models and interpret data from direct-assembly experiments via application and augmentation of classical and contemporary physics, biology, and chemistry methods. Crystal growth, protein pathway mapping, LASER tweezers optical trapping, and colloid …

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Scan Statistics For The Online Detection Of Locally Anomalous Subgraphs, Joshua Neil Sep 2011

Scan Statistics For The Online Detection Of Locally Anomalous Subgraphs, Joshua Neil

Mathematics & Statistics ETDs

Identifying anomalies in computer networks is a challenging and complex problem. Often, anomalies occur in extremely local areas of the network. Locality is complex in this setting, since we have an underlying graph structure. To identify local anomalies, we introduce a scan statistic for data extracted from the edges of a graph over time. In the computer network setting, the data on these edges are multivariate measures of the communications between two distinct machines, over time. We describe two shapes for capturing locality in the graph: the star and the k-path. While the star shape is not new to the …

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Implementation And Testing Of The First Prompt Search For Electromagnetic Counterparts To Gravitational Wave Transients, Duncan Brown, J. Abadie, Stefan Ballmer, Collin Capano, P. Couvares Sep 2011

Implementation And Testing Of The First Prompt Search For Electromagnetic Counterparts To Gravitational Wave Transients, Duncan Brown, J. Abadie, Stefan Ballmer, Collin Capano, P. Couvares

Physics - All Scholarship

Aims. A transient astrophysical event observed in both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) channels would yield rich scientific rewards. A first program initiating EM follow-ups to possible transient GW events has been developed and exercised by the LIGO and Virgo community in association with several partners. In this paper, we describe and evaluate the methods used to promptly identify and localize GW event candidates and to request images of targeted sky locations. Methods. During two observing periods (Dec 17 2009 to Jan 8 2010 and Sep 2 to Oct 20 2010), a low-latency analysis pipeline was used to identify …

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The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 2 Issue 2, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program Sep 2011

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 2 Issue 2, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.

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Design And Synthesis Of A Biotinylated Probe Of Cox-2 Inhibitor Nimesulide Analog Jcc76, Bo Zhong, Rati Lama, Kerri M. Smith, Yan Xu, Bin Su Sep 2011

Design And Synthesis Of A Biotinylated Probe Of Cox-2 Inhibitor Nimesulide Analog Jcc76, Bo Zhong, Rati Lama, Kerri M. Smith, Yan Xu, Bin Su

Chemistry Faculty Publications

JCC76 is a derivative of cyclooxygenase-2(COX-2) selective inhibitor nimesulide and exhibits potent anti-breast cancer activity. It selectively induces apoptosis of Her2 positive breast cancer cells. However, the specific molecular targets of JCC76 still remain unclear, which significantly withdraw the further drug development of JCC76. To identify the molecular targets of JCC76, a six carbon linker and biotin conjugated JCC76 probe was designed and synthesized. The anti-proliferation activity of the probe and its analogs was evaluated.

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September 15, 2011, James Madison University Sep 2011

September 15, 2011, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

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Exploring Non-Typical Memcache Architectures For Decreased Latency And Distributed Network Usage., Paul G. Talaga, Steve J. Chapin Sep 2011

Exploring Non-Typical Memcache Architectures For Decreased Latency And Distributed Network Usage., Paul G. Talaga, Steve J. Chapin

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Technical Reports

Memcache is a distributed in-memory data store designed to reduce database load for web applications by caching frequently used data across multiple machines. While memcache already offers excellent performance, we explore how data-locality can increase performance under certain environments and workloads.

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A New Framework For Network Disruption, Susan E. Martonosi, Doug Altner, Michael Ernst, Elizabeth Ferme, Kira Langsjoen, Danika Lindsay, Sean S. Plott '08, Andrew S. Ronan Sep 2011

A New Framework For Network Disruption, Susan E. Martonosi, Doug Altner, Michael Ernst, Elizabeth Ferme, Kira Langsjoen, Danika Lindsay, Sean S. Plott '08, Andrew S. Ronan

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

Traditional network disruption approaches focus on disconnecting or lengthening paths in the network. We present a new framework for network disruption that attempts to reroute flow through critical vertices via vertex deletion, under the assumption that this will render those vertices vulnerable to future attacks. We define the load on a critical vertex to be the number of paths in the network that must flow through the vertex. We present graph-theoretic and computational techniques to maximize this load, firstly by removing either a single vertex from the network, secondly by removing a subset of vertices.

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Leonards Establish Endowed Professorship In Math And Science, Macalester College Sep 2011

Leonards Establish Endowed Professorship In Math And Science, Macalester College

College Press Releases

No abstract provided.

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Operation Comics: Making Math Fun, Bruce Kessler Sep 2011

Operation Comics: Making Math Fun, Bruce Kessler

Mathematics Faculty Publications

This talk gives a background on the Operation Comics series, which integrates mathematics into a comic book storyline, as an example of how creativity is not exclusive to the traditional arts, like music and dance, but is a vital part of math, science, and engineering.

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The Montclarion, September 15, 2011, The Montclarion Sep 2011

The Montclarion, September 15, 2011, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

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A Proof Of Bell's Inequality In Quantum Mechanics Using Causal Interactions, James M. Robins, Tyler J. Vanderweele, Richard D. Gill Sep 2011

A Proof Of Bell's Inequality In Quantum Mechanics Using Causal Interactions, James M. Robins, Tyler J. Vanderweele, Richard D. Gill

COBRA Preprint Series

We give a simple proof of Bell's inequality in quantum mechanics which, in conjunction with experiments, demonstrates that the local hidden variables assumption is false. The proof sheds light on relationships between the notion of causal interaction and interference between particles.

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2011 Year One Self-Evaluation Report, The Office Of The Provost Sep 2011

2011 Year One Self-Evaluation Report, The Office Of The Provost

Accreditation Documents

No abstract provided.

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It's Happening At State: September 15, 2011 Sep 2011

It's Happening At State: September 15, 2011

It's Happening at State

Provides summary information of news and events of interest to the faculty and staff of NDSU.

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