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Building A Computer Program To Support Children, Parents, And Distraction During Healthcare Procedures, Kirsten Hanrahan, Ann Marie Mccarthy, Charmaine Kleiber, Kaan Ataman, W. Nick Street, M. Bridget Zimmerman, Annel L. Ersig Oct 2012

Building A Computer Program To Support Children, Parents, And Distraction During Healthcare Procedures, Kirsten Hanrahan, Ann Marie Mccarthy, Charmaine Kleiber, Kaan Ataman, W. Nick Street, M. Bridget Zimmerman, Annel L. Ersig

Business Faculty Articles and Research

This secondary data analysis used data mining methods to develop predictive models of child risk for distress during a healthcare procedure. Data used came from a study that predicted factors associated with children's responses to an intravenous catheter insertion while parents provided distraction coaching. From the 255 items used in the primary study, 44 predictive items were identified through automatic feature selection and used to build support vector machine regression models. Models were validated using multiple cross-validation tests and by comparing variables identified as explanatory in the traditional versus support vector machine regression. Rule-based approaches were applied to the model …

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The Association Of Elevated 2′,5′-Oligoadenylate-Dependent Rnase L With Lung Cancer Correlated With Deficient Enzymatic Activity And Decreased Capacity Of Rnase L Dimerization, Huijing Yin, Aimin Zhou, Yalei Dai Oct 2012

The Association Of Elevated 2′,5′-Oligoadenylate-Dependent Rnase L With Lung Cancer Correlated With Deficient Enzymatic Activity And Decreased Capacity Of Rnase L Dimerization, Huijing Yin, Aimin Zhou, Yalei Dai

Chemistry Faculty Publications

RNase L mediates critical cellular functions including antiviral, proapoptotic, antiproliferative and tumor suppressive activities. In this study, the expression and function of RNase L in lung cancer cells were examined. Interestingly we have found that the expression of RNase L in lung cancer cells was 3- and 9-fold higher in its mRNA and protein levels, but a significant decrease of its enzymatic activity when compared to that in corresponding normal lung cells. Further investigation revealed that 2-5A-induced dimerization of the RNase L protein, a necessary prerequisite for activation of RNase L, was inhibited, as a result of that RLI, a …

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Phylogenetic Relationships Of Kappaphycus And Eucheuma Cultivated In Indonesia, P. Eka Sunarwidhi, E.L. Phaik, J. Tan, H. Sunarpi Oct 2012

Phylogenetic Relationships Of Kappaphycus And Eucheuma Cultivated In Indonesia, P. Eka Sunarwidhi, E.L. Phaik, J. Tan, H. Sunarpi

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

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Production Of Z 0 Bosons In Elastic And Quasi-Elastic Ep Collisions At Hera, Margarita C. K. Mattingly Oct 2012

Production Of Z 0 Bosons In Elastic And Quasi-Elastic Ep Collisions At Hera, Margarita C. K. Mattingly

Faculty Publications

The production of Z0 bosons in the reaction ep -> eZ0p*, where p* stands for a proton or a low-mass nucleon resonance, has been studied in ep collisions at HERA using the ZEUS detector. The analysis is based on a data sample collected between 1996 and 2007, amounting to 496 pb-1 of integrated luminosity. The Z0 was measured in the hadronic decay mode. The elasticity of the events was ensured by a cut on eta_max < 3.0, where eta_max is the maximum pseudorapidity of energy deposits in the calorimeter defined with respect to the proton beam direction. A signal was observed at the Z0 mass. The cross section of the reaction ep -> eZ0p* was measured to be sigma(ep -> eZ0p*) = 0.13 +/- 0.06 (stat.) +/- 0.01 (syst.) pb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of …

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Combination And Qcd Analysis Of Charm Production Cross Section Measurements In Deep-Inelastic Ep Scattering At Hera, Margarita C. K. Mattingly, Zeus Collaboration, H1 Collaboration Oct 2012

Combination And Qcd Analysis Of Charm Production Cross Section Measurements In Deep-Inelastic Ep Scattering At Hera, Margarita C. K. Mattingly, Zeus Collaboration, H1 Collaboration

Faculty Publications

Measurements of open charm production cross sections in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA from the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations are combined. Reduced cross sections sigma_red^{c\bar{c}} for charm production are obtained in the kinematic range of photon virtuality 2.5

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Development Of A Token Economy At The Evaluation And Developmental Center Transitional Living Program, Nicole M. Fuscaldo Oct 2012

Development Of A Token Economy At The Evaluation And Developmental Center Transitional Living Program, Nicole M. Fuscaldo

Research Papers

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Fast Melt Cooled Superconducting Alloys: (Bi1.97pb0.03sr2can‐1cuno2n+4+Δ)2 N/N’ N<24 Intergrowth, J. Kmiec, Juana Acrivos, D. Gulamova, J. Chigvinadze Oct 2012

Fast Melt Cooled Superconducting Alloys: (Bi1.97pb0.03sr2can‐1cuno2n+4+Δ)2 N/N’ N<24 Intergrowth, J. Kmiec, Juana Acrivos, D. Gulamova, J. Chigvinadze

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

High temperature layer superconducting cuprate (HTLSC) alloys: (Bi1.97Pb0.03Sr2Can-1CunO2n+4+δ)2 called (2s:2:n-1:n) have been grown from n-oxide stoichiometric melts in concentrated sun flux, followed by rapid cooling SFQA technology that preserves the melt tiling after annealing at 845±5oC**. Synchrotron XRD at the DOE SLAC-SSRL near the Cu K-edge has identified the mixing of n ≠ n’ alloys as observed by many in thin films last century. An ideal D17 4h Space Group structure obtains {an, bn, cn} = {3.815 Å, an+ubn, 2dP(n+3)+ucn} where dP is a perovskite sandwich, (CuO2)1/2|_Ca|(CuO2)1/2, thickness, and un are the amplitudes of periodic lattice distortions, PLD also observed …

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Fact Book 2012, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis Oct 2012

Fact Book 2012, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Fact Book (1988-2019)

Fact Book 2012 for Illinois State University

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Enrollment Report, Fall 2012, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis Oct 2012

Enrollment Report, Fall 2012, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Enrollment Reports (2004-2019)

Enrollment Report for Fall 2012 for Illinois State University

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The Management Of Residential Solid Waste In Mombasa, Kenya, Yen Joe Tan Oct 2012

The Management Of Residential Solid Waste In Mombasa, Kenya, Yen Joe Tan

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Residential solid waste management refers to the managing of unwanted materials discarded by households so that these materials are either properly disposed of or reprocessed to reenter the production material stream. This issue is usually the responsibility of the municipal council; however in Kenya just like many other developing countries, this critical issue is often mismanaged, causing environmental pollution and exposing residents to health risks. Through one month of full-time archival research and field work, this study presents the current state of residential solid waste management in Mombasa, examines the roles played by various stakeholders involved in this area through …

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Identificación Y Análisis De Las Determinantes Sociales Que Mayormente Influyen El Uso Inseguro De Los Plaguicidas En El Valle De Azapa En La Región De Arica Y Parinacota, Emma Garrison Oct 2012

Identificación Y Análisis De Las Determinantes Sociales Que Mayormente Influyen El Uso Inseguro De Los Plaguicidas En El Valle De Azapa En La Región De Arica Y Parinacota, Emma Garrison

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

In recent history, agricultural expansion to satisfy ever growing populations has introduced new chemical agents that pose a great threat to human, animal, and environmental health. With growing prevalence every decade, agricultural pesticides are the cause for thousands of acute and chronic illnesses across the world. In Chile, more specifically in the region of Arica and Parinacota in the Azapa Valley, the recent, more thorough, documentation of pesticide intoxications has lead the issue to be recognized as a prominent public health concern of the agricultural region. This study focuses on the identification and analysis of the most prominent social factors …

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The Attitudes And Perceptions Of The Local People Towards The Durgun Hydropower Plant, Francis H. Clougherty Oct 2012

The Attitudes And Perceptions Of The Local People Towards The Durgun Hydropower Plant, Francis H. Clougherty

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Humans have been using the kinetic energy generated by waters movement in the hydrologic cycle for thousands of years. Since the late 19th century people have harnessed this energy source and utilized it as a means of generating electricity. The use of hydropower in many different ways can be found in countries all over the world, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Spain, Turkey, India, China and, of course Mongolia. However, in some developed countries including the United States and Sweden there is a growing movement of hydropower stations and dam …

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Learning Disabilities And Self-Esteem, Renee I. Pandy Oct 2012

Learning Disabilities And Self-Esteem, Renee I. Pandy

All Capstone Projects

Social acceptance is pivotal in a child's life but it is harder to obtain if one has a learning disability (LD). Individuals with learning disabilities experience being ostracized, ridiculed and labeled as dumb, subnormal and slow learners by their peers. ''Leaming disabilities" is a term that's used to describe different types of learning problems. A learning disability is not a disease. Children with learning disabilities are often stigmatized and associated with failure, which lowers their self-esteem. Academic problems a child with a learning disability may experience can be a constant source of frustration, especially in the areas of reading, math, …

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“I Didn’T Always Perceive Myself As A Science Person”: Examining Efficacy For Primary Science Teaching, Caroline F. Mansfield, Amanda Woods-Mcconney Oct 2012

“I Didn’T Always Perceive Myself As A Science Person”: Examining Efficacy For Primary Science Teaching, Caroline F. Mansfield, Amanda Woods-Mcconney

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Teacher efficacy has become an important field of research especially in subjects teachers may find challenging, such as science. This study investigates the sources of teachers’ efficacy for teaching science in primary schools in the context of authentic teaching situations with a view to better understanding sources of teachers’ efficacy beliefs. Twenty-four teachers participated in focus group interviews to enable in-depth exploration of the sources of efficacy for teaching science. Data was analysed using a content analysis approach guided by a conceptual framework for efficacy in science teaching. Findings show efficacy to be influenced by mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, physiological …

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An Evaluation Of The School-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention And Support Check In/Check Out Behavior Education Program, Barbara M. Zaegel Oct 2012

An Evaluation Of The School-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention And Support Check In/Check Out Behavior Education Program, Barbara M. Zaegel

Dissertations

One of the many concerns of parents, teachers, and school administration is the lack of student discipline and its effect on academic achievement. Many schools have adopted different models of prevention to support positive behaviors and increase academic achievement. For those schools that adopt and implement the School-wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Program (SWPBIS), there is a need for secondary and tertiary programs to support those students who do not respond positively to the universal framework. This study, which took place during the 2010-2011 school year, evaluated one secondary intervention, the Check In/Check Out (CICO) behavior education program at …

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Project Title : Mathematical Modeling Of Heat Shock Protein Synthesis Of Barley Aleurone Cells In Response To Temperature Changes, Hoa Nguyen, Mark Brodl Oct 2012

Project Title : Mathematical Modeling Of Heat Shock Protein Synthesis Of Barley Aleurone Cells In Response To Temperature Changes, Hoa Nguyen, Mark Brodl

Information Literacy Resources for Curriculum Development

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Coe Acclaim, Fall 2012, Issue 5, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Education. Oct 2012

Coe Acclaim, Fall 2012, Issue 5, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Education.

COE Acclaim

Inside This Issue:
--Memorial Honors All Educators
--Colleagues Attend Global Conference
--Students Celebrate Our Liberties
--Educational Leadership Hosts Visiting Scholars: Ibrahim Hakan Karats, Theophile Muhayimana
--Stone Recognized for Teaching Excellence
--Watson, Herring Travel to D.C.
--Dancers Perform at Oktoberfest
--Faculty Acclamations: Awards/Service, Presentations, Publications, Grants/Contracts Completed

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Decay Rates Of A Molecule In The Vicinity Of A Spherical Surface Of An Isotropic Magnetodielectric Material, H. Y. Chung, P.T. Leung, D. P. Tsai Oct 2012

Decay Rates Of A Molecule In The Vicinity Of A Spherical Surface Of An Isotropic Magnetodielectric Material, H. Y. Chung, P.T. Leung, D. P. Tsai

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

A comprehensive study is presented on the decay rates of excited molecules in the vicinity of a magnetodielectric material of spherical geometry via electrodynamic modeling. Both the models based on a driven-damped harmonic oscillator and on energy transfers will be applied so that the total decay rates can be rigorously decomposed into the radiative and the nonradiative rates. Clarifications of the equivalence of these two models for arbitrary geometry will be provided. Different possible orientations and locations of the molecule are studied with the molecule being placed near a spherical particle or a cavity. Among other results, TE modes are …

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Annealing Effect On Photovoltaic Performance Of Cdse Quantum-Dots-Sensitized Tio2 Nanorod Solar Cells, Yitan Li, Lin Wei, Ruizi Zhang, Yanxue Chen, Jun Jiao Oct 2012

Annealing Effect On Photovoltaic Performance Of Cdse Quantum-Dots-Sensitized Tio2 Nanorod Solar Cells, Yitan Li, Lin Wei, Ruizi Zhang, Yanxue Chen, Jun Jiao

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Large area rutile TiO₂ nanorod arrays were grown on F:SnO₂ (FTO) conductive glass using a hydrothermal method at low temperature. CdSe quantum dots (QDs) were deposited onto single-crystalline TiO₂ nanorod arrays by a chemical bath deposition (CBD) method to make a photoelectrode. The solar cell was assembled using a CdSe-TiO₂ nanostructure as the photoanode and polysulfide solution as the electrolyte. The annealing effect on optical and photovoltaic properties of CdSe quantum-dotssensitized TiO₂ nanorod solar cells was studied systematically. A significant change of the morphology and a regular red shift of band gap of CdSe nanoparticles were observed after annealing treatment. …

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Improving Yioop! User Search Data Usage, Tarun Pepira Ramaswamy Oct 2012

Improving Yioop! User Search Data Usage, Tarun Pepira Ramaswamy

Master's Projects

User data in the form of vįε̲ζβ ̀Άͪϳ̨ Κ̎β ̨ζΚ̤Ψς ̣͍ζ̤͟ ̡̤̕͘εβζ̨ Κ ̲̇̕ ̕π information about the user. This data can be utilized to provide some value-added service to the end user. Commercial search engines like Google, Bing have started taking advantage of these data and provide features like trending/popular searches, personalized search results, etc. This project aims to provide three user benefits using these user data. It provides a visualization tool of userϳ̨ navigation history across the web. This would help the users to better understand their search history. Secondly, it improves the search results in Yioop by …

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The Visualization Of Historical Structures And Data In A 3d Virtual City, Bryant Panyarachun Oct 2012

The Visualization Of Historical Structures And Data In A 3d Virtual City, Bryant Panyarachun

Master's Projects

Google Earth is a powerful tool that allows users to navigate through 3D representations of many cities and places all over the world. Google Earth has a huge collection of 3D models and it only continues to grow as users all over the world continue to contribute new models. As new buildings are built new models are also created. But what happens when a new building replaces another? The same thing that happens in reality also happens in Google Earth. Old models are replaced with new models. While Google Earth shows the most current data, many users would also benefit …

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Analysis Of Dpa And Dema Attacks, Cheuk Wong Oct 2012

Analysis Of Dpa And Dema Attacks, Cheuk Wong

Master's Projects

Side channel attacks (SCA) are attacks on the implementations of cryptographic algorithms or cryptography devices that do not employ full brute force attack or exploit the weaknesses of the algorithms themselves. There are mant types of side channel attacks, and they include timing, sound, power consumptions, electromag- netic (EM) radiations, and more. A statistical side channel attack technique that uses power consumption and EM readings was developed, and they are called Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and Differential Electromagnetic Analysis respectively. DPA takes the overall power consumption readings from the system of interest, and DEMA takes a localized EM readings from …

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Computational Modeling Of Protein Dynamics With Gromacs And Java, Miaoer Yu Oct 2012

Computational Modeling Of Protein Dynamics With Gromacs And Java, Miaoer Yu

Master's Projects

GROMACS is a widely used package in molecular dynamics simulations of biological molecules such as proteins, and nucleic acids, etc. However, it requires many steps to run such simulations from the terminal window. This could be a challenge for those with minimum amount of computer skills. Although GROMACS provides some tools to perform the standard analysis such as density calculation, atomic fluctuation calculation, it does not have tools to give us information on the specific areas such as rigidity that could predict the property of the molecules. In this project, I have developed a user friendly program to carry out …

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Simple Substitution Distance And Metamorphic Detection, Gayathri Shanmugam Oct 2012

Simple Substitution Distance And Metamorphic Detection, Gayathri Shanmugam

Master's Projects

To evade signature-based detection, metamorphic viruses transform their code before infecting a new system. Software similarity measures are potentially useful as a means of detecting metamorphic malware. We can compare a given file to a known sample of malware and compute their similarity—if they are sufficiently similar, we classify the file as malware of the same family. The goal of this project is to analyze an opcode-based software similarity measure inspired by simple substitution cipher cryptanalysis.

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Mapmyvta, Gaurav Sharma Oct 2012

Mapmyvta, Gaurav Sharma

Master's Projects

Transportation is a very important part of our day-to-day life. Generally, it includes use of public transportation services like those provided by Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) to Santa Clara County. VTA has reported total combined boarding of light rails and buses as more than a million on yearly basis. This fact clearly indicates the importance of public transportation in a society. Obviously trip planning and schedule matching are two very decisive factors to improve transit experiences. Information related to services makes it easy for users to plan their journey ahead. Still manual planning and information discovery is time consuming, tedious, …

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Algorithms For Predicting Secondary Structures Of Human Viruses, Hardik Shah Oct 2012

Algorithms For Predicting Secondary Structures Of Human Viruses, Hardik Shah

Master's Projects

The mechanism and role of RNA secondary structure elements in the replication and translation of human positive-strand RNA viruses remains poorly understood. These secondary structures are formed when a single RNA strand folds over and base pairs with itself, forming various types of loop structures. RNA strands fold into specific shapes. This unique shape for each nucleic acid chain is the most stable state it can adopt. The lower the energy, i.e., the fold with highest number of base pairs, the higher the stability of the structure. The Dynamic Programming technique, such as the one used in Nussinov- Jacobson algorithm, …

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Secure Media Streaming For Android, Jaie Patil Oct 2012

Secure Media Streaming For Android, Jaie Patil

Master's Projects

Digital media distribution systems must protect the confidentiality and integrity of content and ensure its authenticity, without introducing excessive overhead. Of- ten, it is desirable to sacrifice some degree of cryptographic security for improved performance. In this project, we have implemented a secure streaming server for the Android platform. We consider various encryption strategies for streaming video and analyze the tradeoff between security and efficiency.

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Masquerade Detection Based On Unix Commands, Amruta Mahajan Oct 2012

Masquerade Detection Based On Unix Commands, Amruta Mahajan

Master's Projects

In this paper, we consider the problem of masquerade detection based on a UNIX system. A masquerader is an intruder who tries to remain undetected by impersonating a legitimate user. Masquerade detection is a special case of the general intrusion detection problem. We have collected data from a large number of users. This data includes infor- mation on user commands and a variety of other aspects of user behavior that can be used to construct a profile of a given user. Hidden Markov models have been used to train user profiles, and the various attack strategies have been analyzed. The …

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Easier Debugging Of Multithreaded Software, Sampada Kathare Oct 2012

Easier Debugging Of Multithreaded Software, Sampada Kathare

Master's Projects

Software activation is a technique designed to avoid illegal use of a licensed software. This is achieved by having a legitimate user enter a software activation key to validate the purchase of the software. Generally, a software is a single-threaded program. From an attacker’s perspective, who does not wish to pay for this software, it is not hard to reverse engineer such a single threaded program and trace its path of execution. With tools such as OllyDbg, the attacker can look into the disassembled code of this software and find out where the verification logic is being performed and then …

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Extraction Of Semantics From Primitive Concepts, Chak Li Oct 2012

Extraction Of Semantics From Primitive Concepts, Chak Li

Master's Projects

bstract Due to the need to organize a vast amount of documents available in the Internet, the automated semantic extraction representing webpages has become a popular research topic in both industry and academia. The purpose of this project is to introduce a new method to process documents to extract the original contextual representations and yet to extend additional and connect similar representations based on the semantics underneath the extracted representations in an automatic fashion. Among the purposed steps, the core of this project is to tackle the difficulty to construct a mechanism in which machines can computationally understand the lexical …

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