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An Approach To Solve Job Shop Scheduling Problem, Shashidhar Reddy Karnati Oct 2012

An Approach To Solve Job Shop Scheduling Problem, Shashidhar Reddy Karnati

Master's Projects

“A biotechnology device manufacturer needs to devise effective scheduling algorithms for its testing devices. A device is a configuration of machines, each of which performs a specific task, such as washing, reading and cleaning. These devices are used to test human samples to diagnose diseases like cholera, malaria etc. Each test is a job, which is to be processed on these machines for a specific amount of time. Every job has its own pre defined sequence. These samples are to be processed simultaneously on machines owing to constraint that as soon as one machine completes processing a sample, it should …


Stealthy Plaintext, Naidele Katrumane Manjunath Oct 2012

Stealthy Plaintext, Naidele Katrumane Manjunath

Master's Projects

Correspondence through email has become a very significant way of communication at workplaces. Information of most kinds such as text, video and audio can be shared through email, the most common being text. With confidential data being easily sharable through this method most companies monitor the emails, thus invading the privacy of employees. To avoid secret information from being disclosed it can be encrypted. Encryption hides the data effectively but this makes the data look important and hence prone to attacks to decrypt the information. It also makes it obvious that there is secret information being transferred. The most effective …


An Evaluation Of The X10 Programming Language, Xiu Guo Oct 2012

An Evaluation Of The X10 Programming Language, Xiu Guo

Master's Projects

As predicted by Moore's law, the number of transistors on a chip has been doubled approximately every two years. As miraculous as it sounds, for many years, the extra transistors have massively benefited the whole computer industry, by using the extra transistors to increase CPU clock speed, thus boosting performance. However, due to heat wall and power constraints, the clock speed cannot be increased limitlessly. Hardware vendors now have to take another path other than increasing clock speed, which is to utilize the transistors to increase the number of processor cores on each chip. This hardware structural change presents inevitable …


Eigenvalue Analysis For Metamorphic Detection, Sayali Deshpande Oct 2012

Eigenvalue Analysis For Metamorphic Detection, Sayali Deshpande

Master's Projects

Metamorphic viruses change their structure on each infection while maintaining their function. Although many detection techniques have been proposed, practical and effective metamorphic detection remains a difficult challenge. In this project, we analyze a novel method for detecting metamorphic viruses. Our approach was inspired by a well-known facial recognition technique that is based on eigenvalue analysis. We compute eigenvectors using opcode sequences extracted from a set of known metamorphic viruses. These eigenvectors can then be used to score a given executable file, based on its extracted opcode sequence. We perform extensive testing to determine the effectiveness of this scoring technique …


Extending Yioop! Abilities To Search The Invisible Web, Tanmayee Potluri Oct 2012

Extending Yioop! Abilities To Search The Invisible Web, Tanmayee Potluri

Master's Projects

Yioop is an open source search engine written in PHP. Yioop can be used for personal crawls on predefined URLs or as any traditional search engine to crawl the entire Web. This project added to the Yioop search engine the ability to crawl and index various resources that could be considered a part of the Invisible Web. The invisible web refers to the information like database content, non-text files, JavaScript links, password restricted sites, URL shortening services etc. on the Web. Often, a user might want to crawl and index different kinds of data which are commonly not indexed by …


Javascript Game Engine For Mobile Using Html5, Nakul Vishwas Natu Oct 2012

Javascript Game Engine For Mobile Using Html5, Nakul Vishwas Natu

Master's Projects

The goal of this project was to develop an HTML5-based mobile JavaScript game engine. Developers can use this game engine to create platform independent mobile games. It provides support for sprite animation, physics, event handling, orientation handling, collision detection and entity management. HTML5 local storage was used to achieve game persistence. The games created using this game engine can be stored on the home screen of the device as a data URL. When the user launches the data URL, the game opens up in a browser and the entire process is similar to launching a native application. HTML5 has many …


Semantic Discovery Through Text Processing, Bieu Binh Do Oct 2012

Semantic Discovery Through Text Processing, Bieu Binh Do

Master's Projects

As the world embraces the digital era, unprecedented volumes of information are generated and consumed daily. It becomes difficult to comb through mountains of documents to locate search topics. With inherent ambiguity in human languages, conventional methods using straight text pattern match cannot resolve words having multiple meanings and often misinterpret user intent. There is a need to develop a system able to identify the target topic and return quality relevant links, ending the tedium of rummaging through piles of unrelated links that may get lost in the rubble. An example search of the words “sound investment” helps to illustrate …


Structural Entropy And Metamorphic Malware, Donabelle Baysa Oct 2012

Structural Entropy And Metamorphic Malware, Donabelle Baysa

Master's Projects

Metamorphic malware is capable of changing its internal structure without al- tering its functionality. A common signature is nonexistent in highly metamorphic malware. Consequently, such malware may remain undetected even under emulation and signature scanning combined. In this project, we use the concept of structural entropy to analyze variations in the complexity of data within a file. The process consists of two stages, namely, file segmentation and sequence comparison. In the file segmentation stage, we use entropy measurements and wavelet analysis to segment a file. The second stage measures the similarity of files by computing the edit distance between sequence …


Video In The Cloud Tcp Congestion Control Optimization For Cloud Computing, Rafael Alvarez-Horine Oct 2012

Video In The Cloud Tcp Congestion Control Optimization For Cloud Computing, Rafael Alvarez-Horine

Master's Projects

With the popularity of video streaming, a new type of media player has been created called the adaptive video player that adjusts video quality based on available network bandwidth. Merging this technology with cloud computing will change the online video landscape by allowing providers to dynamically create media servers that take advantage of all the benefits of cloud computing. This however is not a straightforward endeavor as unlike a traditional data center; a cloud-based infrastructure is subject to a greater amount of performance variability. While the adaptive video player is designed to cope with variability in general, a video server …


A Database-Driven Website Of Β-Thalassemia Mutations, Vanessa Gaeke Oct 2012

A Database-Driven Website Of Β-Thalassemia Mutations, Vanessa Gaeke

Master's Projects

β-thalassemia is a genetic disease caused by mutations of the hemoglobin gene β (HBB). Over two hundred β-thalassemia mutations are known to date. While the pathological consequence of each β-thalassemia mutation has been well documented, the effect of a mutation at the molecular level of its DNA sequence is usually not illustrated for beginners. This paper describes the cause of β-thalassemia and a database-driven website containing mutant HBB sequences altered by β-thalassemia mutations. β-thalassemia mutations and their relevant data are first collected from the HbVar Database of Pennsylvania State University and loaded into a PostgreSQL database. Wild type HBB sequences …


Algorithms For Solving The Reducts Problem In Rough Sets, Shuang Wang Oct 2012

Algorithms For Solving The Reducts Problem In Rough Sets, Shuang Wang

Master's Projects

This work deals with finding minimal reducts of decision table based on the rough sets theory. Its goal is to develop algorithms capable of finding such reducts. Two algorithms are presented in this report: the first based on Boolean reasoning function, the second based on Genetic Algorithm. Test results on real data are given and conclusions are made.


Hierarchical Clustering Using Level Sets, Francesco Indaco Oct 2012

Hierarchical Clustering Using Level Sets, Francesco Indaco

Master's Projects

Over the past several decades, clustering algorithms have earned their place as a go-to solution for database mining. This paper introduces a new concept which is used to develop a new recursive version of DBSCAN that can successfully perform hierarchical clustering, called Level- Set Clustering (LSC). A level-set is a subset of points of a data-set whose densities are greater than some threshold, ‘t’. By graphing the size of each level-set against its respective ‘t,’ indents are produced in the line graph which correspond to clusters in the data-set, as the points in a cluster have very similar densities. This …


Focus On Boise State University, Kathleen Tuck (Editor) Oct 2012

Focus On Boise State University, Kathleen Tuck (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

No abstract provided.


An Algorithm, Daisy Pitkin Oct 2012

An Algorithm, Daisy Pitkin

CutBank

No abstract provided.


Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2 Fall 2012, Grand Valley State University Oct 2012

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 2 Fall 2012, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.


Ultraconserved Elements Anchor Thousands Of Genetic Markers Spanning Multiple Evolutionary Timescales, Brant C. Faircloth, John E. Mccormack, Nicholas G. Crawford, Michael G. Harvey, Robb T. Brumfield, Travis C. Glenn Oct 2012

Ultraconserved Elements Anchor Thousands Of Genetic Markers Spanning Multiple Evolutionary Timescales, Brant C. Faircloth, John E. Mccormack, Nicholas G. Crawford, Michael G. Harvey, Robb T. Brumfield, Travis C. Glenn

Faculty Publications

Although massively parallel sequencing has facilitated large-scale DNA sequencing, comparisons among distantly related species rely upon small portions of the genome that are easily aligned. Methods are needed to efficiently obtain comparable DNA fragments prior to massively parallel sequencing, particularly for biologists working with non-model organisms. We introduce a new class of molecular marker, anchored by ultraconserved genomic elements (UCEs), that universally enable target enrichment and sequencing of thousands of orthologous loci across species separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Our analyses here focus on use of UCE markers in Amniota because UCEs and phylogenetic relationships are …


Utb/Tsc Student Handbook 2012-2013, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College Oct 2012

Utb/Tsc Student Handbook 2012-2013, University Of Texas At Brownsville, Texas Southmost College

Student Handbooks (UTB/UTPA)

No abstract provided.


Orange & White - Fall 2012, University Of Texas At Brownsville Oct 2012

Orange & White - Fall 2012, University Of Texas At Brownsville

UTB/TSC Archives - Orange & White Magazine

No abstract provided.


Utpa Commencement – Fall 2012, University Of Texas-Pan American Oct 2012

Utpa Commencement – Fall 2012, University Of Texas-Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Demographic And Genetic Consequences Of Small Population Size In Remnant Populations Of Arabis Georgiana Harper (Georgia Rockcress), Alicia M. Garcia Oct 2012

Demographic And Genetic Consequences Of Small Population Size In Remnant Populations Of Arabis Georgiana Harper (Georgia Rockcress), Alicia M. Garcia

Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this thesis is to provide a greater scientific understanding of the demographic and genetic consequences of small population size in remnant populations of Arabis georgiana Harper (Georgia Rockcress). Specifically, 1 ) traits associated with phenological progression, fitness and reproductive success were compared between naturally occurring "native" plants and plants grown ex situ and subsequently restored to one of the largest remaining populations of A. georgiana, and 2) a preliminary analysis of population genetic structure in remnant populations across the species' range was performed. In addition to updating census information on remnant populations of A. georgiana, chapter one …


Teacher, Mentor, Friend, Leader, Richard C. Reuben, Margaret L. Shaw Oct 2012

Teacher, Mentor, Friend, Leader, Richard C. Reuben, Margaret L. Shaw

Faculty Publications

It is a rare person who through his own thoughts and efforts can truly be said to have changed this country, and the world, for the better. Fewer still do it with humility and grace. Frank E. A. Sander is one such transformative figure, a man who for nearly 40 years has nurtured the field of dispute resolution that today is credited as being one of the most significant shifts in American law. Inspired by his ideas and efforts, the resolution of legal problems is faster, more humane, more effective, and less costly for those in the United States and …


Strain Rate And Orientation Dependencies Of The Strength Of Single Crystalline Copper Under Compression, Virginie Dupont, Timothy C. Germann Oct 2012

Strain Rate And Orientation Dependencies Of The Strength Of Single Crystalline Copper Under Compression, Virginie Dupont, Timothy C. Germann

Aerospace Engineering - Daytona Beach

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to model the compression under uniaxial strain of copper single crystals of different orientations at various temperatures and strain rates. Uniaxial strain is used because of the close resemblance of the resulting stress state with the one behind a shock front, while allowing a control of parameters such as strain rate and temperature to better understand the behavior under complex dynamic shock conditions. Our simulations show that for most orientations, the yield strength of the sample is increased with increasing strain rate. This yield strength is also dependent on the orientation of the sample, …


Rat Brain Pro-Oxidant Effects Of Peripherally Administered 5 Nm Ceria 30 Days After Exposure, Sarita S. Hardas, Rukhsana Sultana, Govind Warrier, Mo Dan, Rebecca L. Florence, Peng Wu, Eric A. Grulke, Michael T. Tseng, Jason M. Unrine, Uschi M. Graham, Robert A. Yokel, D. Allan Butterfield Oct 2012

Rat Brain Pro-Oxidant Effects Of Peripherally Administered 5 Nm Ceria 30 Days After Exposure, Sarita S. Hardas, Rukhsana Sultana, Govind Warrier, Mo Dan, Rebecca L. Florence, Peng Wu, Eric A. Grulke, Michael T. Tseng, Jason M. Unrine, Uschi M. Graham, Robert A. Yokel, D. Allan Butterfield

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The objective of this study was to determine the residual pro-or anti-oxidant effects in rat brain 30 days after systemic administration of a 5 nm citrate-stabilized ceria dispersion. A ∼4% aqueous ceria dispersion was iv-infused (0 or 85 mg/kg) into rats which were terminated 30 days later. Ceria concentration, localization, and chemical speciation in the brain was assessed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), light and electron microscopy (EM), and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), respectively. Pro- or anti-oxidant effects were evaluated by measuring levels of protein carbonyls (PC), 3-nitrotyrosine (3NT), and protein-bound-4-hydroxy-2-trans-nonenal (HNE) in the hippocampus, cortex, and …


Learning Outcomes For Library Student Workers, Jeanne M. Brown Oct 2012

Learning Outcomes For Library Student Workers, Jeanne M. Brown

Library Faculty Presentations

Our Dean of Libraries, Patty Iannuzzi has indicated that employment in the library can and should offer value to the student worker beyond convenience and flexible hours. In her words, "The libraries are well positioned to add value to our students' work experience in ways that can contribute to their academic success. As one of the largest employers of student workers on campus, we owe this to our students. As an organization, we want to clearly send a message that we care about them as students -- not just our employees." In Spring 2011, the Libraries partnered with Campus Life …


Hrc Enews -- Fall 2012, Megan M. Iudice Oct 2012

Hrc Enews -- Fall 2012, Megan M. Iudice

Publications (HRC)

HRC eNews is an electronic newsletter to keep individuals informed about developments at the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies, located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Classified Information: The Newsletter Of The Lloyd Sealy Library, Lloyd Sealy Library, Cuny John Jay College Of Criminal Justice Oct 2012

Classified Information: The Newsletter Of The Lloyd Sealy Library, Lloyd Sealy Library, Cuny John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

Classified Information was a publication that informed the College about Library services, personnel, upcoming events, new technologies, and available resources.


Search For Zγ Events With Large Missing Transverse Energy In Pp- Collisions At √S=1.96tev, David Hedin, D0 Collaboration Oct 2012

Search For Zγ Events With Large Missing Transverse Energy In Pp- Collisions At √S=1.96tev, David Hedin, D0 Collaboration

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

We present the first search for new phenomena in Zγ final states with large missing transverse energy using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.2 fb-1 collected with the D0 experiment in pp- collisions at √s=1.96TeV. This signature is predicted in gauge-mediated supersymmetry-breaking models, where the lightest neutralino χ-01 is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and is produced in pairs, possibly through decay from heavier supersymmetric particles. The χ- 01 can decay either to a Z boson or a photon and an associated gravitino that escapes detection. We exclude this model at the 95% C.L. for supersymmetry-breaking scales of Λ < 87 TeV.


Antennas For The Detection Of Radio Emission Pulses From Cosmic-Ray Induced Air Showers At The Pierre Auger Observatory, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, M. Ahlers, E. J. Ahn, I. F.M. Albuquerque, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, J. Allen, P. Allison, A. Almela, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. Alves Batista, M. Ambrosio, A. Aminaei, L. Anchordoqui, S. Andringa, T. Antičić, C. Aramo, E. Arganda, F. Arqueros, H. Asorey, P. Assis, J. Aublin, M. Ave, M. Avenier, G. Avila, A. M. Badescu, M. Balzer, K. B. Barber, A. F. Barbosa, R. Bardenet, S. L.C. Barroso Oct 2012

Antennas For The Detection Of Radio Emission Pulses From Cosmic-Ray Induced Air Showers At The Pierre Auger Observatory, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta, M. Ahlers, E. J. Ahn, I. F.M. Albuquerque, D. Allard, I. Allekotte, J. Allen, P. Allison, A. Almela, J. Alvarez Castillo, J. Alvarez-Muñiz, R. Alves Batista, M. Ambrosio, A. Aminaei, L. Anchordoqui, S. Andringa, T. Antičić, C. Aramo, E. Arganda, F. Arqueros, H. Asorey, P. Assis, J. Aublin, M. Ave, M. Avenier, G. Avila, A. M. Badescu, M. Balzer, K. B. Barber, A. F. Barbosa, R. Bardenet, S. L.C. Barroso

Faculty Publications

The Pierre Auger Observatory is exploring the potential of the radio detection technique to study extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) addresses both technological and scientific aspects of the radio technique. A first phase of AERA has been operating since September 2010 with detector stations observing radio signals at frequencies between 30 and 80 MHz. In this paper we present comparative studies to identify and optimize the antenna design for the final configuration of AERA consisting of 160 individual radio detector stations. The transient nature of the air shower signal requires …


Increasing Access For Economically Disadvantaged Students: The Nsf/Csem & S-Stem Programs At Louisiana State University, Zakiya S. Wilson, Sitharama S. Iyengar, Su Seng Pang, Isiah M. Warner, Candace A. Luces Oct 2012

Increasing Access For Economically Disadvantaged Students: The Nsf/Csem & S-Stem Programs At Louisiana State University, Zakiya S. Wilson, Sitharama S. Iyengar, Su Seng Pang, Isiah M. Warner, Candace A. Luces

Faculty Publications

Increasing college degree attainment for students from disadvantaged backgrounds is a prominent component of numerous state and federal legislation focused on higher education. In 1999, the National Science Foundation (NSF) instituted the "Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships" (CSEMS) program; this initiative was designed to provide greater access and support to academically talented students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Originally intended to provide financial support to lower income students, this NSF program also advocated that additional professional development and advising would be strategies to increase undergraduate persistence to graduation. This innovative program for economically disadvantaged students was extended in 2004 to …


Purity And Decomposition Theorems For Staggered Sheaves, Pramod N. Achar, David Treumann Oct 2012

Purity And Decomposition Theorems For Staggered Sheaves, Pramod N. Achar, David Treumann

Faculty Publications

Two major results in the theory of ℓ-adic mixed constructible sheaves are the purity theorem (every simple perverse sheaf is pure) and the decomposition theorem (every pure object in the derived category is a direct sum of shifts of simple perverse sheaves). In this paper, we prove analogues of these results for coherent sheaves. Specifically, we work with staggered sheaves, which form the heart of a certain t-structure on the derived category of equivariant coherent sheaves. We prove, under some reasonable hypotheses, that every simple staggered sheaf is pure, and that every pure complex of coherent sheaves is a direct …