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Evolving Nano-Scale Associative Memories With Memristors, Arpita Sinha Jan 2011

Evolving Nano-Scale Associative Memories With Memristors, Arpita Sinha

Dissertations and Theses

Associative Memories (AMs) are essential building blocks for brain-like intelligent computing with applications in artificial vision, speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Computations for such applications typically rely on spatial and temporal associations in the input patterns and need to be robust against noise and incomplete patterns. The conventional method for implementing AMs is through Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Improving the density of ANN based on conventional circuit elements poses a challenge as devices reach their physical scalability limits. Furthermore, stored information in AMs is vulnerable to destructive input signals. Novel nano-scale components, such as memristors, represent one solution to …

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Evolution Of Plant Nucleotide-Sugar Interconversion Enzymes, Yanbin Yin, Jinling Huang, Xiaogang Gu, Maor Bar-Peled, Ying Xu Jan 2011

Evolution Of Plant Nucleotide-Sugar Interconversion Enzymes, Yanbin Yin, Jinling Huang, Xiaogang Gu, Maor Bar-Peled, Ying Xu

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Nucleotide-diphospho-sugars (NDP-sugars) are the building blocks of diverse polysaccharides and glycoconjugates in all organisms. In plants, 11 families of NDP-sugar interconversion enzymes (NSEs) have been identified, each of which interconverts one NDP-sugar to another. While the functions of these enzyme families have been characterized in various plants, very little is known about their evolution and origin. Our phylogenetic analyses indicate that all the 11 plant NSE families are distantly related and most of them originated from different progenitor genes, which have already diverged in ancient prokaryotes. For instance, all NSE families are found in the lower land plant mosses and …

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Abundance And Stomach Content Analysis Of Threadfin Shad In Lake Mead, Nevada: Do Invasive Quagga Mussels Affect This Prey Species?, Eric Michael Loomis, Jon C. Sjoberg, Wai Hing Wong, Shawn Gerstenberger Jan 2011

Abundance And Stomach Content Analysis Of Threadfin Shad In Lake Mead, Nevada: Do Invasive Quagga Mussels Affect This Prey Species?, Eric Michael Loomis, Jon C. Sjoberg, Wai Hing Wong, Shawn Gerstenberger

Environmental & Global Health Faculty Research

Lake Mead, Nevada is the largest reservoir by volume in the United States, as well as a popular sport fishing destination. In January 2007, the invasive quagga mussel Dreissena rostriformis bugensis (Andrusov, 1897) was discovered in the reservoir and concerns began to arise about potential alterations to the aquatic environment. The Lake Mead sport fishery is reliant on the sustainability of prey species like the threadfin shad [Dorosoma petenense (Günther, 1867)]. This study examined 20-year trends in historic abundance of the threadfin shad, before, and shortly after, the discovery of quagga mussels in the system. Larval shad trawl data collected …

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A 50 Year Accomplishment In Marine Science: A History Of The Journal Published By The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Mark S. Peterson, Nancy J. Brown-Peterson, Sara E. Lecroy, Joyce M. Shaw, James S. Franks, Richard W. Heard Jan 2011

A 50 Year Accomplishment In Marine Science: A History Of The Journal Published By The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Mark S. Peterson, Nancy J. Brown-Peterson, Sara E. Lecroy, Joyce M. Shaw, James S. Franks, Richard W. Heard

Gulf and Caribbean Research

The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) has a 50 year history of annual publication of the peer-reviewed journal Gulf and Caribbean Research (GCR, 2000-present; formerly Gulf Research Reports (GRR) from 1961—1999). Other extant journals serving the region during this time include Contributions in Marine Science (since 1945), Proceedings of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (since 1948), Bulletin of Marine Science (since 1951), Revista de Biología Tropical (since 1953), and Caribbean Journal of Science (since 1961). In the early years of the GCR publication, papers were primarily concerned with research in Mississippi and the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM), and …

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Cumulative Clinical Experience From Over A Decade Of Use Of Levofloxacin In Community Acquired Pneumonia; Critical Appraisal And Role In Therapy, Ayman M. Noreddin, Walid F. Elkhatib, Kenji M. Cunnion, George G. Zhanel Jan 2011

Cumulative Clinical Experience From Over A Decade Of Use Of Levofloxacin In Community Acquired Pneumonia; Critical Appraisal And Role In Therapy, Ayman M. Noreddin, Walid F. Elkhatib, Kenji M. Cunnion, George G. Zhanel

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Levofloxacin is the synthetic L-isomer of the racemic fluoroquinolone, ofloxacin. It interferes with critical processes in the bacterial cell such as DNA replication, transcription, repair, and recombination by inhibiting bacterial topoisomerases. Levofloxacin has broad spectrum activity against several causative bacterial pathogens of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Oral levofloxacin is rapidly absorbed and is bioequivalent to the intravenous formulation such that patients can be conveniently transitioned between these formulations when moving from the inpatient to the outpatient setting. Furthermore, levofloxacin demonstrates excellent safety, and has good tissue penetration maintaining adequate concentrations at the site of infection. The efficacy and tolerability of …

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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder In Childhood Is Associated With Cognitive Test Profiles In The Geriatric Population But Not With Mild Cognitive Impairment Or Alzheimer's Disease, N. Ivanchak, Erin L. Abner, S. A. Carr, S. J. Freeman, A. Seybert, John Ranseen, Gregory A. Jicha Jan 2011

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder In Childhood Is Associated With Cognitive Test Profiles In The Geriatric Population But Not With Mild Cognitive Impairment Or Alzheimer's Disease, N. Ivanchak, Erin L. Abner, S. A. Carr, S. J. Freeman, A. Seybert, John Ranseen, Gregory A. Jicha

Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Faculty Publications

The frequency of ADHD in the aging population and its relationship to late-life cognitive decline has not been studied previously. To address this gap in our understanding, the Wender-Utah ADHD Rating scale (WURS) was administered to 310 geriatric subjects with cognitive status ranging from normal cognition to mild cognitive impairment to overt dementia. The frequency of WURS-positive ADHD in this sample was 4.4%. WURS scores were not related to cognitive diagnoses, but did show nonlinear associations with tasks requiring sustained attention. The frequency of ADHD appears stable across generations and does not appear to be associated with MCI or dementia …

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Risky Pregnancy: Liability, Blame, And Insurance In The Governance Of Prenatal Harm, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Dayna Nadine Scott Jan 2011

Risky Pregnancy: Liability, Blame, And Insurance In The Governance Of Prenatal Harm, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Dayna Nadine Scott

Articles & Book Chapters

Feminist theory has exposed the body of the pregnant woman as one that is continuously made into the object of analysis and regulation, and feminist scholars have sought to understand the evolving contestation over the boundary between the woman and the fetus: the life sometimes conceptualized as part of her and other times as carried with her. Together, they are "not-one-but-not-two". "Always marked by race, class and ability" as Johnson notes, "the pregnant body is sometimes celebrated, sometimes reviled", and, as we will argue, always judged.

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The Potential For Oysters, Crassostrea Virginica, To Develop Resistance To Dermo Disease In The Field: Evaluation Using A Gene-Based Population Dynamics Model, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klinck, Ximing Guo, Susan E. Ford Jan 2011

The Potential For Oysters, Crassostrea Virginica, To Develop Resistance To Dermo Disease In The Field: Evaluation Using A Gene-Based Population Dynamics Model, Eric N. Powell, John M. Klinck, Ximing Guo, Susan E. Ford

CCPO Publications

Today, populations of eastern oysters, Crassostrea virginica, are commonly limited by disease mortality. Resistance to MSX disease has developed in a number of cases, but the development of resistance to Dermo disease would appear to be limited, despite the high mortality rates and frequency of epizootics. Can aspects of the host's genetics or population dynamics limit the response to the disease despite the apparent opportunity afforded by alleles conferring disease resistance or tolerance? To answer this question, we use a gene-based population dynamics model, configured for C. virginica, to simulate the development of disease resistance using mortality as the agent …

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The Us Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics Program, Eileen E. Hofmann, John M. Klinck, Dan P. Costa, Kendra L. Daly, Joseph J. Torres Jan 2011

The Us Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics Program, Eileen E. Hofmann, John M. Klinck, Dan P. Costa, Kendra L. Daly, Joseph J. Torres

CCPO Publications

The article presents information on the U.S. Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics program (US SO GLOBEC). It was aimed at understanding the environmental and biological factors that contribute to enhanced Antarctic krill growth, reproduction, recruitment and survivorship, as well as the interactions between Antarctic krill and its predators and competitors. The highlights of US SO GLOBEC research are also discussed.

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Taking Stock Of The Assisted Migration Debate, Stepan Wood Jan 2011

Taking Stock Of The Assisted Migration Debate, Stepan Wood

Articles & Book Chapters

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Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Rachel Blau Duplessis Jan 2011

Feminism And Feminist Scholarship Today, Rachel Blau Duplessis

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

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New Age Fairy Tales: The Abject Female Hero In El Laberinto Del Fauno And La Rebelión De Los Conejos Mágicos, Patricia Lapolla Swier Jan 2011

New Age Fairy Tales: The Abject Female Hero In El Laberinto Del Fauno And La Rebelión De Los Conejos Mágicos, Patricia Lapolla Swier

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In totalitarian regimes, the Other is marginalized, prosecuted, and often eliminated from the national spectrum. While Spain is just beginning to confront the violations of the post-Civil War era, the nations of the Latin American Southern Cone have continued to struggle with the trauma and memory related to the violence perpetrated by the dictatorship. Through a psychoanalytic reading based on Julia Kristeva's theories of the abject and Joseph Campbell's investigations of myth within the hero's journey, I show how the young female heroes of El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) and La rebelión de los conejos mágicos (The Rabbits' Rebellion) …

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Grappling With Gender: Exploring Masculinity And Gender In The Bodies, Performances, And Emotions Of Scholastic Wrestlers, Phyllis L. Baker, Douglas R. Hotek Jan 2011

Grappling With Gender: Exploring Masculinity And Gender In The Bodies, Performances, And Emotions Of Scholastic Wrestlers, Phyllis L. Baker, Douglas R. Hotek

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

We contribute to the sociology of sport and gender literature with an ethnographic analysis of scholastic wrestling by observing the current climate of masculinity and gender. Our results suggest that it is necessary to understand men and sporting behavior within a broader framework of gender, not just masculinity, because the behavior of high school wrestlers fell along a gender continuum between an orthodox masculinity and femininity. Our exploration of the body, performance, and emotion practices of scholastic wrestlers gives credence to the current critiques of a hegemonic masculinity in men's sports. We show that gender is not dichotomous and that …

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The Dream Of Seaweed Farming Becomes Reality In Long Island Sound, Margaret (Peg) A. Van_Patten Ms. Jan 2011

The Dream Of Seaweed Farming Becomes Reality In Long Island Sound, Margaret (Peg) A. Van_Patten Ms.

Wrack Lines

Charles Yarish and collaborators have established a seaweed farm in Western Long Island Sound, off Bridgeport Connecticut via a research grant from Connecticut Sea Grant. Two species, Gracilaria tikvahiae and the kelp Saccharina latissima, are being grown as crops.

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Regional Science Reconsidered, Peter V. Schaeffer, Randall Jackson, James O. Bukenya Jan 2011

Regional Science Reconsidered, Peter V. Schaeffer, Randall Jackson, James O. Bukenya

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Members of a discipline share common research questions, values they use to address normative issues, and a set of research methods. Collectively, the features of a discipline that are common to all of its members constitute its core. Disciplines – and their specializations – can also be defined by their boundaries. However, in the case of regional science, the boundaries are fuzzy. Because regional science has been influenced by economics, geography, urban and regional planning, sociology, political science, public administration, and transportation engineering, it overlaps to a significant degree with these “parent disciplines” so that clear cut boundaries do not …

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Nest-Site Selection, Nocturnal Nest Desertion, And Productivity In A Common Tern (Sterna Hirundo) Colony At Detroit River, Michigan, Gregory J. Norwood Jan 2011

Nest-Site Selection, Nocturnal Nest Desertion, And Productivity In A Common Tern (Sterna Hirundo) Colony At Detroit River, Michigan, Gregory J. Norwood

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Common terns are declining in the Great Lakes region and represent a population relatively distinct from that of eastern North America. On an artificial site, I studied the substrate and vegetation preference and productivity of nesting terns at two scales: general habitat and nest-site. Terns nested later and less successfully in large river rock (13 to 25-cm diameter) compared to more diverse substrate and limestone (2.5-5.0 cm) when it was free of dead vegetation. Within a habitat, terns chose to nest where substrate was most diverse in rock size, soil, and non-vegetative debris. Percent standing cover did not affect hatching …

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Diet Of Three Mormoopid Bats (Mormoops Blainvillei, Pteronotus Quadridens, And Pteronotus Portoricensis ) On Puerto Rico, Ashley K. Rolfe Jan 2011

Diet Of Three Mormoopid Bats (Mormoops Blainvillei, Pteronotus Quadridens, And Pteronotus Portoricensis ) On Puerto Rico, Ashley K. Rolfe

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This study used visual analysis to determine the percent volume and percent frequency of orders of insects in the guano of the Antillean ghost-faced bat (Mormoops blainvillei), sooty mustached bat (Pteronotus quadridens), and Puerto Rican mustached bat (Pteronotus portoricensis). The most common orders for all three species were Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera, although the relative proportions of these orders differed among species. Variation in diet was primarily due to species, but season, habitat, and sex also affected the composition of insects in the feces. In addition, species-level identification of prey was achieved through molecular techniques …

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Section 1983 & The Age Of Innocence: The Supreme Court Carves A Procedural Loophole For Post-Conviction Dna Testing In Skinner V. Switzer, Gabriel A. Carrera Jan 2011

Section 1983 & The Age Of Innocence: The Supreme Court Carves A Procedural Loophole For Post-Conviction Dna Testing In Skinner V. Switzer, Gabriel A. Carrera

American University Law Review

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An Interview With Doctor Daniel Peters, Jin Packard Jan 2011

An Interview With Doctor Daniel Peters, Jin Packard

Quill & Scope

An up, close and personal interview with Dr. Daniel Peters, retired surgeon, and the current Assis-tant Professor of Cell Biology and Gross Anatomy at NYMC with appointments in both the Medical School and the School of Health Sciences and Practices.

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Medical Science And The Serials Crisis: Is Open Access A Viable Solution?, Jim Shen Jan 2011

Medical Science And The Serials Crisis: Is Open Access A Viable Solution?, Jim Shen

Quill & Scope

his work provides an overview on open access publishing.

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The Children Of Baby M, J. Herbie Difonzo, Ruth C. Stern Jan 2011

The Children Of Baby M, J. Herbie Difonzo, Ruth C. Stern

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Never the closest of bedfellows, law and technology mix uneasily within the realm of alternative reproductive practices. More than twenty years ago, the drama of Baby M provoked a fierce debate about the legal and biological contours of parenthood. In pondering the issue, the New Jersey Supreme Court attempted to erect a barrier between a natural mother’s right and what it saw as a dangerous and exploitive new mechanism for producing and marketing human life. Since that time, the practice of surrogacy and the use of alternative reproductive technologies have taken firm hold in our culture, creating families where, previously, …

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Mircorna Regulating Networks Analyzing Structural Changes In Time Series Data, Raymond Roberts Jan 2011

Mircorna Regulating Networks Analyzing Structural Changes In Time Series Data, Raymond Roberts

Theses & ETDs

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are ~22 nucleotide, non-coding, single-stranded RNA molecules. MicroRNAs are post-transcriptional regulators of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) that control translation through either translational repression or directing mRNA degradation. The expression patterns of microRNAs are of interest to biologists as these regulatory molecules have been found to be significant in a wide range of biological processes, including development, cell differentiation, and disease processes. One computational approach to examining this regulatory network is through the use of a directed graph model of microRNA to mRNA targeting. In this approach, a graph is constructed such that it is both directed and bipartite, limiting …

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Sarasota Oral History Project Old Stories New Media, Casey Schelhorn Jan 2011

Sarasota Oral History Project Old Stories New Media, Casey Schelhorn

Theses & ETDs

This thesis has two components: four oral histories and a written portion. Three of the four oral histories are part of the larger Sarasota Oral History Project, a collaborative project between NewCollege and SarasotaCounty. The oral histories take two forms: a complete transcription of the interviews and a 5-8 minute long audio slideshow. The written portion of the thesis provides a critical analysis of the Sarasota Oral History Project. The first section briefly outlines the history of oral history. In the second section I utilize this historiography to better understand where the Sarasota Oral History Project fits within this history, …

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Tacn And Jibing Toward Synthetic Models Of Oxalate Degrading Metalloenzymes, Erinn Brigham Jan 2011

Tacn And Jibing Toward Synthetic Models Of Oxalate Degrading Metalloenzymes, Erinn Brigham

Theses & ETDs

No abstract provided.

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Emerging M&S Application In Risk Management, C. Ariel Pinto, Andreas Tolk, Michael Mcshane Jan 2011

Emerging M&S Application In Risk Management, C. Ariel Pinto, Andreas Tolk, Michael Mcshane

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications

There has been compelling signs of the great potential of building further synergy with academics, researchers, and industry practitioners from the areas of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) managing risk events. This paper provides an introduction to risk management and how M&S has permeated the risk management process. The trend has been to harness the advantages of M&S tools and techniques in terms of efficiency and effectiveness in managing risks. However, the more important contribution of M&S may be in how it provides a way for specialists in various disciplines or industries interact to manage risks that require multi-disciplinary approach. This …

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Reward Probability And The Variability Of Foraging Behavior In Rats, W. David Stahlman, Aaron P. Blaisdell Jan 2011

Reward Probability And The Variability Of Foraging Behavior In Rats, W. David Stahlman, Aaron P. Blaisdell

Psychological Science Articles

The connection between reduced reinforcement probability and increased behavioral variability hasbeen well established in recent years (Gharib, Gade, & Roberts, 2004; Stahlman, Roberts, & Blaisdell, 2010). Researchers have hypothesized that this relationship is an adaptive one - it is beneficial for animals to increase behavioral variability in response to low likelihood of success,because this increase in variability potentially allows them to discover new behavioral options that are more highly rewarded. We conducted a study to investigate the relationship between behavioral variability and reward probability in an ecologically valid experimental task. We trained rats to search for hidden food in the …

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Efficient Replication Of Over 180 Genetic Associations With Self-Reported Medical Data, Joyce Y. Tung, Chuong B. Do, David A. Hinds, Amy K. Kiefer, J. Michael Macpherson, Arnab B. Chowdry, Uta Francke, Brian Naughton, Joanna Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, Nicholas Eriksson Jan 2011

Efficient Replication Of Over 180 Genetic Associations With Self-Reported Medical Data, Joyce Y. Tung, Chuong B. Do, David A. Hinds, Amy K. Kiefer, J. Michael Macpherson, Arnab B. Chowdry, Uta Francke, Brian Naughton, Joanna Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, Nicholas Eriksson

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

While the cost and speed of generating genomic data have come down dramatically in recent years, the slow pace of collecting medical data for large cohorts continues to hamper genetic research. Here we evaluate a novel online framework for obtaining large amounts of medical information from a recontactable cohort by assessing our ability to replicate genetic associations using these data. Using web-based questionnaires, we gathered self-reported data on 50 medical phenotypes from a generally unselected cohort of over 20,000 genotyped individuals. Of a list of genetic associations curated by NHGRI, we successfully replicated about 75% of the associations that we …

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Graduate Bulletin 2011-2012, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice Jan 2011

Graduate Bulletin 2011-2012, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

College Bulletins

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Concealing Danger: How The Regulation Of Cosmetics In The United States Puts Consumers At Risk, Rajiv Shah, Kelly E. Taylor Jan 2011

Concealing Danger: How The Regulation Of Cosmetics In The United States Puts Consumers At Risk, Rajiv Shah, Kelly E. Taylor

Fordham Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Florida Institute Of Technology Catalog 2012-2013, Florida Institute Of Technology Jan 2011

Florida Institute Of Technology Catalog 2012-2013, Florida Institute Of Technology

Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne and Jensen Beach Catalogs, 1967-2015

Academic catalog by Florida Institute of Technology for the 2012-2013 academic year.

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