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Development And Application Of An Integrated Parallel Platform On Short–Read Sequences Assembly | Development And Application Of An Integrated Parallel Platform On Short–Read Sequences Assembly, Fei He Dec 2016

Development And Application Of An Integrated Parallel Platform On Short–Read Sequences Assembly | Development And Application Of An Integrated Parallel Platform On Short–Read Sequences Assembly, Fei He

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Rapid and automated next generation sequencing (NGS) methods have emerged recently and significantly accelerated the research in biological and medical fields. The high-throughput NGS usually generates billions of shorter reads, which poses great bioinformatics challenges on extracting meaningful information from these massive data, one of which is de novo assembly. At the same time, the fast development of massive parallel processing (MPP) systems presents a substantial opportunity for processing larger datasets. Therefore, using supercomputer innovations on NGS research promises a good strategy; however, this application is not straightforward and requires new algorithms and parallel design for efficient implementations. In this …

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What’S Competence Got To Do With It? The Association Between Romantic Competence And Social Support Behaviors Among Emerging Adult Couples | What’S Competence Got To Do With It? The Association Between Romantic Competence And Social Support Behaviors Among Emerging Adult Couples, Vickie Bhatia Dec 2016

What’S Competence Got To Do With It? The Association Between Romantic Competence And Social Support Behaviors Among Emerging Adult Couples | What’S Competence Got To Do With It? The Association Between Romantic Competence And Social Support Behaviors Among Emerging Adult Couples, Vickie Bhatia

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Research has consistently demonstrated that romantic relationships during emerging adulthood are salient experiences that are important to identity development and set the stage for future intimate relationships. One area of emerging research is on romantic competence, or a set of skills an individual possesses that affect how he/she approaches and negotiates romantic relationships. Although research has begun to examine the association between romantic competence and self-reported relationship behaviors and outcomes, it has not objectively assessed behavioral indicators of competence nor has it examined how romantic competence skills are enacted during couple interactions. The main goal of this dissertation was to …

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Shifting Expectations: Medicine, Nature, And Disability In Pregnancy Texts, Laura Abbasi-Lemmon Dec 2016

Shifting Expectations: Medicine, Nature, And Disability In Pregnancy Texts, Laura Abbasi-Lemmon

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In this thesis, I consider the complex interactions between discourses of medicine, nature, and disability which determine what pregnant women can or cannot, or should or should not do to maintain an acceptable and “healthy†pregnancy that results in a desired, nondisabled child. In this thesis, I employ two interdisciplinary methods, critical discourse analysis and qualitative interviewing and ground my project in feminist disability studies and the concept of reproductive justice. I analyze interviews I conducted with five currently pregnant women from Long Island, New York and three pregnancy manuals, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Ina May’s Guide to …

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Towards A Critical Awareness Of Worldliness: A.H. Tanpınar’S Huzur, Mahmoud Darwish’S Memory For Forgetfulness, And Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway | Towards A Critical Awareness Of Worldliness: A.H. Tanpä±Nar’S Huzur, Mahmoud Darwish’S Memory For Forgetfulness, And Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Evren Akaltun Dec 2016

Towards A Critical Awareness Of Worldliness: A.H. Tanpınar’S Huzur, Mahmoud Darwish’S Memory For Forgetfulness, And Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway | Towards A Critical Awareness Of Worldliness: A.H. Tanpä±Nar’S Huzur, Mahmoud Darwish’S Memory For Forgetfulness, And Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Evren Akaltun

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation examines the ways in which Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s novel, Huzur (1949), Mahmoud Darwish’s prose-poem Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (1995), and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) manifest a cognitive landscape of crisis in discursive socio-cultural contexts that provide the reader with a critical awareness of worldliness. It argues that the crisis serves as an overarching theme and a structural and thematic principle in determining the conceptual frameworks of the critical thresholds that these works address. The three authors of my study surpass worldless thresholds designated by the crisis by moving through the idea of home, nation, culture, …

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The Graphic Memoir And The Cartoonist's Memory, Alice Claire Burrows Dec 2016

The Graphic Memoir And The Cartoonist's Memory, Alice Claire Burrows

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Graphic memoirs embrace the vibrancy and rich social and artistic history of comics, and the intimacy and imagination of autobiographies. Spanning from Justin Green’s 1972 Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary to Riad Sattouf’s 2014 The Arab of the Future, autobiographical comics capture the fragmented, subjective, and visual nature of memory. Reacting against the Comics Code, underground comics introduced the concept of portraying oneself in comics, a practice that achieved mainstream validation in 1992 when Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus. Drawing from classic comic strips like Richard Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and comic books like the …

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Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese ‘Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations | Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese €˜Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations, I-Te Rita Sung Dec 2016

Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese ‘Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations | Mediating Trans/Nationalism: Japanese €˜Jun’Ai’ (Pure-Love) In Popular Media Representations, I-Te Rita Sung

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the jun’ai (pure-love) genre has flourished in Japan, both in works of popular literature and in film. This phenomenon coincides with a time when the country is seen by the media as being characterized by soshitsukan (sense of loss). In jun’ai films, the heroine is often the object of loss. This theme of loss in jun’ai therefore resonates with the Japanese social context, but this connection has not yet been fully elucidated. In this dissertation, I seek to explain why Japanese women, who are arguably treated as “other†within Japan, embody a transnationalism …

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Multi-Source Image Integration Towards Solar Forecast, Zhenzhou Peng Dec 2016

Multi-Source Image Integration Towards Solar Forecast, Zhenzhou Peng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Accurate prediction of solar energy in short-term and mid-term horizons becomes increasingly important for harvesting solar energy and improving its viability in comparing with fossil fuels. Because clouds are the primary cause of large fluctuations in solar radiation, estimating cloud movements and correlating cloud activities and the variability of solar irradiance are the essential components in short-term or mid-term solar predictions and play a vital role in the subsequent mitigation in responding to potential solar power fluctuations. However cloud detecting and tracking is very challenging due to the volatility and complexity of clouds and expensive meteorological instruments or remote sensing …

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Investigating Interdomain Routing In The Wild, Ruwaifa Anwar Dec 2016

Investigating Interdomain Routing In The Wild, Ruwaifa Anwar

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Models of Internet routing are critical for studies of Internet security, reliability and evolution, which often rely on simulations of the Internet’s routing system. Accurate models are difficult to build and suffer from a dearth of ground truth data, as ISPs often treat their connectivity and routing policies as trade secrets. In this environment, researchers rely on a number of simplifying assumptions and models proposed over a decade ago, which are widely criticized for their inability to capture routing policies employed in practice. This thesis makes the following two contributions: â— Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies. First we put Internet topologies …

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Verification Of Probabilistic Branching Time Systems, Andrey Gorlin Dec 2016

Verification Of Probabilistic Branching Time Systems, Andrey Gorlin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis deals with verification of complex systems, which involve probabilistic choices. In total, we explore three interrelated problems. First, we explore probabilistic extensions of mu-calculus. GPL extends mu-calculus by having all the probabilistic choices made first; this keeps the model checking procedure decidable for any property. We extend GPL to a logic, XPL, which is undecidable, in general. We define a syntactic property of an XPL formula, separability, as a sufficient condition for model checking. Second, we can frame the problem of probabilistic model checking as query evaluation over probabilistic logic programs. We have developed an inference algorithm, PIP, …

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Measuring Internet Traffic Manipulation, Anke Li Dec 2016

Measuring Internet Traffic Manipulation, Anke Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Traffic differentiation---giving better or worse performance to certain classes of Internet traffic---is a well-known but poorly understood traffic management policy. There is active discussion on whether and how ISPs should be allowed to differentiate Internet traffic, but little data about current practices to inform this discussion. Previous work attempted to address this problem for fixed line networks, but at the time of the publication of our work, there was no solution that works in the more challenging mobile environment. In terms of censorship measurement, despite the high perceived value and increasing severity of online information controls, a data-driven understanding of …

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Using Locality To Tackle Modern Algorithmic Challenges, Samuel Mccauley Dec 2016

Using Locality To Tackle Modern Algorithmic Challenges, Samuel Mccauley

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

As computers become faster and more parallel, the number of computations a process executes is becoming too simplistic a predictor of performance. In many circumstances, modern algorithmic research can no longer rely on the assumption that each computation roughly corresponds to a set amount of time. For example, large-scale computers may spend far more time moving data around than performing computation, in which case minimizing data transfers is the best way to improve wall-clock performance. Similarly, manufacturing plants may need to focus on minimizing maintenance costs. While they must still guarantee good throughput, the maintenance costs are what most impact …

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To Fuse Or Not To Fuse? Analysis And Performance Characterization Of The Fuse User-Space File System Framework, Bharath Kumar Reddy Vangoor Dec 2016

To Fuse Or Not To Fuse? Analysis And Performance Characterization Of The Fuse User-Space File System Framework, Bharath Kumar Reddy Vangoor

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Traditionally, file systems were implemented as part of operating systems kernels, which provide a limited set of tools and facilities to a programmer. As complexity of file systems grew, many new file systems began being developed in user space. Low performance is considered the main disadvantage of user-space file systems but the extent of this problem has never been explored systematically. As a result, the topic of user-space file systems remains rather controversial: while some consider user-space file systems a ``toy'' not to be used in production, others develop full-fledged production file systems in user space. In this thesis we …

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Enhancing Operating Systems With Network Provenance Based Policies For Systematic Malware Defense, Wai Kit Sze Dec 2016

Enhancing Operating Systems With Network Provenance Based Policies For Systematic Malware Defense, Wai Kit Sze

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Todays OSes adopt users as the basic unit of trust. Every file and process owned by the same user has the same userid as the user. This design stems from the very first multi-user OS created, a time when computers were self-contained, and file contents were under the control of users. Today, users frequently download data and code from the Internet, without fully understanding their content or consequences. However, existing desktop OSes reuse the same old trust model and treat downloaded files as if users are fully responsible for them. This trust is exploited by today’s malware. In this dissertation, …

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Research News Newsletter, Winter 2016, Research News Newsletter, Stony Brook University. Dec 2016

Research News Newsletter, Winter 2016, Research News Newsletter, Stony Brook University.

Research News

Quarterly newsletter from the Office of the Vice President for Research

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A West Indian Jubilee In America: British Emancipation And The American Abolition Movement, Dexter Joey Gabriel Dec 2016

A West Indian Jubilee In America: British Emancipation And The American Abolition Movement, Dexter Joey Gabriel

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation, “A West Indian Jubilee in America: British Emancipation and the American Abolition Movement,†charts the impact of British Emancipation on American abolitionism and free African-American communities from the 1830s through the 1860s. On August 1,1834 the British Abolition Act freed by proclamation 800,000 slaves in the West Indies. In the coming decades, in print and in public rituals, the success of the former slaves in the British West Indies became a crucial focal point in the debate on American slavery. This debate took place in the flourishing American print culture that emerged in the 1830s: antislavery newspapers, tracts, …

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Cultural And Language Change Of Spanish Native Speakers Living In The Usa, Blanca E. Calderon Dec 2016

Cultural And Language Change Of Spanish Native Speakers Living In The Usa, Blanca E. Calderon

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Beginning with the reality that the participants in this study arrived to this country as children and were in their early stages of acquisition of their first language and culture, this paper seeks to find some of the factors that can influence the different language abilities for nine bilingual speakers. With a range of researches serving as a foundation, some of the factors that will be explored in this research are: age, education, profession, past and present language use, bilingual community factors, psychological reasons affecting attitude toward the Spanish language, cultural awareness and cultural identity. | 93 pages

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The Syntax Of Address, Poppy M. Slocum Dec 2016

The Syntax Of Address, Poppy M. Slocum

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation examines the role of the addressee in syntax, focusing on nominals that refer to addressees: vocatives (calls and addresses) and imperative subjects. Beginning with Moro (2003), generative analyses of vocatives have proposed that they are associated with functional projections at the left edge of or above CP. Such analyses are unable to account for the existence of mid­-sentential addresses. I propose that vocatives (specifically addresses) are merged into the specifier of a functional projection, AddrP, which is located in the topic field of the CP domain (specifically between the highest TopP and FocP). This position correctly reflects that …

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Natural Protective Features Along New York's Ocean Shoreline And Their Response To Extreme Events, Hanlu Huang Dec 2016

Natural Protective Features Along New York's Ocean Shoreline And Their Response To Extreme Events, Hanlu Huang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Features providing natural protection against erosion and flooding are defined in the laws of New York State to include dunes, bluffs, and beaches. In addition, structural hazard areas are defined to be stretches of the coast where the long-term recession rate is greater than one foot per year. LiDAR data was used to identify NPFs and examine shoreline recession rates at 750 transects along the south shore of eastern Long Island. Meaningful combinations of NPFs included dunes in front of bluffs, dunes formed on top of bluffs and multiple dunes. Single dunes were the NPFs along 27.1% of the shoreline; …

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Growth Of Errors And Uncertainties In Medium Range Ensemble Forecasts Of U.S. East Coast Cool Season Extratropical Cyclones, Minghua Zheng Dec 2016

Growth Of Errors And Uncertainties In Medium Range Ensemble Forecasts Of U.S. East Coast Cool Season Extratropical Cyclones, Minghua Zheng

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Cool-season extratropical cyclones near the U.S. East Coast often have significant impacts on the safety, health, environment and economy of this most densely populated region. For example, the “January 2015 blizzard†caused thousands of flights cancellations, travel bans enacted in five states, and two related deaths. Hence it is of vital importance to forecast these high-impact winter storm events as accurately as possible by numerical weather prediction (NWP), including in the medium-range (3-6 days). Ensemble forecasts are appealing to operational forecasters when forecasting such events because they can provide an envelope of likely solutions to serve user communities. However, it …

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Artifactual Evidence For The Role Of The Warp-Weighted Loom: The Transformation Of Textile Production In The Iron Age Levant, Thaddeus Nelson Nelson Dec 2016

Artifactual Evidence For The Role Of The Warp-Weighted Loom: The Transformation Of Textile Production In The Iron Age Levant, Thaddeus Nelson Nelson

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis presents a comparative study of textile tools and textile remains from the Iron Age II (c. 1000 – 500 BCE) Levant as a means to investigate textile production and procurement in international economies. Earlier studies interpret the increase in loom weights (components of warp-weighted looms) during the Iron Age II as evidence that weavers working with these looms were the predominant source of textiles in the Levant. Yet there is no consensus on the nature of the textiles woven on warp-weighted looms, which authors independently describe as fine trade commodities, tapestries for tribute payments, and coarse fabrics for …

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2016 December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University. Dec 2016

2016 December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for December of 2016.

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The History Problem: The Politics Of War Commemoration In East Asia, Hiro Saito Dec 2016

The History Problem: The Politics Of War Commemoration In East Asia, Hiro Saito

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Seventy years have passed since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, yet Japan remains embroiled in controversy with its neighbors over the war’s commemoration. Among the many points of contention between Japan, China, and South Korea are interpretations of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, apologies and compensation for foreign victims of Japanese aggression, prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, and the war’s portrayal in textbooks. Collectively, these controversies have come to be called the “history problem.” But why has the problem become so intractable? Can it ever be resolved, and if so, how? To answer these questions, the author …

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Social Media And Political Communication In The 2014 Elections To The European Parliament, Paul Nulty, Yannis Theocharis, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Olivier Parnet, Kenneth Benoit Dec 2016

Social Media And Political Communication In The 2014 Elections To The European Parliament, Paul Nulty, Yannis Theocharis, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Olivier Parnet, Kenneth Benoit

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Social media play an increasingly important part in the communication strategies of political campaigns by reflecting information about the policy preferences and opinions of political actors and their public followers. In addition, the content of the messages provides rich information about the political issues and the framing of those issues during elections, such as whether contested issues concern Europe or rather extend pre-existing national debates. In this study, we survey the European landscape of social media using tweets originating from and referring to political actors during the 2014 European Parliament election campaign. We describe the language and national distribution of …

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Committee Reports & Updates Dec 2016

Committee Reports & Updates

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Niso-Nasig Webinar: How Librarians Use, Implement And Can Support Researcher Identifiers, Sofia A. Slutskaya Dec 2016

Niso-Nasig Webinar: How Librarians Use, Implement And Can Support Researcher Identifiers, Sofia A. Slutskaya

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Nasig 32nd Annual Conference: Call For Proposals Extended, Steve Kelley, Violeta Ilik Dec 2016

Nasig 32nd Annual Conference: Call For Proposals Extended, Steve Kelley, Violeta Ilik

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Call For Volunteers, Steve Oberg Dec 2016

Call For Volunteers, Steve Oberg

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Group Empowerment Capacity And Capability In Associate Degree Schools Of Nursing In The United States, Christy Lee Savell Dec 2016

Group Empowerment Capacity And Capability In Associate Degree Schools Of Nursing In The United States, Christy Lee Savell

Dissertations

The purpose of conducting this research was to determine the perception of group empowerment capacity (EC) and group empowerment capability (E) among faculty and administrators in associate degree nursing programs (ADN) in the United States (U.S.), whether there was a significant difference in the scores of EC and E between the two groups and if there was a significant relationship between the mediating variables and EC. The study was conducted online with administrators and faculty of ADN programs throughout the United States (U.S.). Information letters with questionnaire links were sent to all members of the Organization of Associate Degree Nurses …

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Openline Newsletter, December 2016, Civil Service Council Dec 2016

Openline Newsletter, December 2016, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter for Civil Service employees, December 2016.

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Why Teens Today Wear The Brands They Wear And How This Is Affected By Reference Groups, Moriah Houser Dec 2016

Why Teens Today Wear The Brands They Wear And How This Is Affected By Reference Groups, Moriah Houser

Marketing Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper describes and reports the results of a study that examines how teenagers choose to purchase and wear different brands. I wanted to find out if they would be affected positively or negatively towards different brands when they were associated with their membership, aspirational, or dissociative reference groups as well as how a teenager decides what brands are relevant to them or convey what they want to convey about themselves. Through the exploration of friends, hobbies, advertising, social media, situational factors, parents, through interviews, along with the help of many scholarly articles, I was able to find out what …

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