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The Investigation Of Enoyl-Coa Hydratases In Cholesterol Metabolism Of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Jungwon Jang

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

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) in humans. TB is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. Mtb resides in the lipid- enriched environment of the host and metabolizes cholesterol as a carbon source using its own enzymes. Among the total 4000 genes of Mtb, 250 genes correlate to the enzymatic reactions of lipid utilization. The degradation of cholesterol side chain is characterized by three cycles of β-oxidation. Each of the β-oxidation cycles involves hydration of the dehydrogenated cholesterol intermediate substrate. Rv3538 and EchA19 are expected to function as an enoyl-CoA hydratase in the …

Meld Application On Refining Dock Results, Cong Liu

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

In order to bridge the computational gap between DOCK and MD-based methods, a pipeline was designed to combine external information derived from DOCK with replica exchange molecular dynamics using MELD, an algorithm recently developed by our lab. Our goal was to predict the lowest free energy binding pose within the DOCK ensemble, therefore enabling us to refine DOCK results in cases where the correct structure is incorrectly scored. Our method was tested on 8 such ‘scoring failures’ found in the DOCK database SB2012. Three protocols of extracting structural information from DOCK ensembles were designed and tested. Crystal-like poses were correctly …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Automatic Discovery Of Efficient Divide-&-Conquer Algorithms For Dynamic Programming Problems, Pramod Ganapathi

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

This dissertation is an excursion into computer-discovered algorithms and computer-aided algorithm design. In our vision of the not-so-distant future of computing, machines will take the responsibility of designing and implementing most, if not all, machine-specific highly efficient nontrivial algorithms with provable correctness and performance guarantees. Indeed, as the complexity of computing hardware grows and their basic architectures keep changing rapidly, manually redesigning and reimplementing key algorithms for high performance on every new architecture is quickly becoming an impossible task. Automation is needed. We design algorithms that can design other algorithms. Our focus is on auto-generating algorithms for solving dynamic programming …

Securing Web Applications, Riccardo Pelizzi

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

Over the past decade, web application vulnerabilities have become far more common than vulnerabilities in conventional applications. To mitigate them, we approach the problem from two extremes: one that requires no changes to existing applications but is limited to a few well-defined vulnerability classes, and the second that provides a comprehensive solution but requires a re-thinking of web applications. Our first approach mitigates specific vulnerabilities using policies that do not depend on the application logic, and thus require no developer involvement or effort. We target two of the most common high-profile vulnerabilities, namely, cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery …

Huntsman Alumni Magazine, Fall 2016, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business

Huntsman Business Magazine

Alumni magazine for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.

The Black Death In The Medieval World: How Art Reflected The Human Experience Through A Macabre Lens, Shirley M. Carrade

Senior Theses

In the fourteenth century a devastating pandemic disease known as the Black Death was responsible for the tragic death of millions of Europeans. The wide ranging consequences affected Europe’s culture, religion, and economic stability. These consequences can be seen most directly in the visual arts, notably with the prevalent motif of images of the dead interacting with humans. This interaction between the dead and the living can be found in the famous Triumph of Death, by Francisco Traini (ca. 1350) and the Dance of Death, by Bernt Notke (n.d.). These paintings are just a few of the many examples of …

Identity Entrepreneurs, Nancy Leong

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

In my previous article, Racial Capitalism, I examined the ways in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions derive value from non-white racial identity. This process of deriving value from identity results from intense social and legal preoccupation with diversity. And it results in the commodification of nonwhite racial identity, with negative implications for both individuals and society.

This Article builds on Racial Capitalism in three ways. First, as a foundation, it expands the concept of racial capitalism to identity categories more generally, explaining that individual in-group members and predominantly in-group institutions—usually individuals or institutions that are white, male, straight, …

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V. 87)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.

« Nous Avons Besoin D’Ouvrir Le Pays » : Le Développement Et Le Scénario Clef Du Point De Vue Chrétien Dans L’Espace Social Des Séries Télévisées De Kinshasa, Katrien Pype

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article offers a discussion of “development” rhetoric as expressed in and around television drama in Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Producers (artists and pastors of Awakening Churches; some individuals are both) contend that their work will transform society, will combat the social and political crisis and will contribute to the development of the nation. Pentecostal christians embrace the melodrama because these television serials emphasize the spiritual development of the individual. I argue that the fictive representation of witchcraft relates to the Pentecostal diagnosis of the crises, and that the narrative emplotment of the TV serials …

Parties Annexes

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.

Vision, Winter 2016

Vision

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

VisionFinding Aid

The Deaf Catholic, Winter 2016

ICDA The Deaf Catholic

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

ICDA The Deaf CatholicFinding Aid

What If Piketty Is Right? Real Economic Costs Of Rising Income Inequality, Thomas Gottschang

Economics Department Working Papers

Thomas Piketty's analysis of income and wealth distribution, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the most affluent, while lower and middle class real incomes have stagnated; he warns that this trend could have “potentially terrifying” results, possibly even violent revolution. This article presents evidence that growing inequality weakens the entire economy by eroding the purchasing power of the vast majority of the population and the education of the labor force, while increasing its vulnerability to future collapses of the financial markets. It agrees with Piketty's concern that the capitalist market …

A Case Study Demonstrating The Use Of Appreciative Inquiry In A Financial Coaching Program, Lucy M. Delgadillo, Lance Palmer, Joseph Goetz

Human Development and Family Studies Faculty Publications

This article presents a case study of Appreciative Inquiry applied to client work within the context of a solution-focused, financial coaching model. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a process –a generative process—wherein a client envisions, describes, and constructs a new meaning or reality through structured questions and answers, and then designs a way to get there (to their destiny). The origins, tenants, and applications of AI approach are described, followed by a real case study involving the utilization of this approach to facilitate a client’s overcoming of a specific, maladaptive money script. The article provides implications for financial practitioners and a …

The Transition Experiences Of International Graduate Students In Clark University School Of Professional Studies, Xuesong Huang, Mingyang Lian, Dang Trung, Jay Sheth, Yuwei Yang, Irina Klimenko

School of Professional Studies

In the last decade, the School of Professional Studies at Clark University has witnessed a sharp increase in international students. More and more international students in the millennial generation have entered the School of Professional Studies pursuing one of the two-year graduate programs: Master of Science in Professional Studies, Master of Science in Public Administration, and Master of Science in Information Technology. In the past, working adult student dominant the program. These students already had a career outside the classrooms before them came to study. The millennial international students have generated new adjustment problems. Some of the transition issues of …

Development Of Breast Tissue Phantoms For Enhanced Terahertz Imaging Utilizing Microdiamond And Nano-Onion Particles, Alec Walter

Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis presents the work performed to develop tissue phantoms and a contrast agent that will be used in future research of terahertz time-domain imaging of breast tumor margins. Since an excised breast tumor can contain healthy fibrous and fatty tissues along with invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), three phantom materials were developed. Solid phantom materials were made by using TX151 to solidify water in order to tune the refractive index and absorption coefficient of the fibrous tissue phantom and IDC phantom to the properties of freshly excised breast tissue. Various amounts of olive oil were added to the water prior …

Ros Regulation Of Axonal Mitochondrial Transport, Pin-Chao Liao

Open Access Dissertations

Mitochondria perform critical functions including aerobic ATP production and calcium (Ca2+) homeostasis, but are also a major source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. To maintain cellular function and survival in neurons, mitochondria are transported along axons, and accumulate in regions with high demand for their functions. Oxidative stress and abnormal mitochondrial axonal transport are associated with neurodegenerative disorders. However, we know little about the connection between these two. Using primaryDrosophila neuronal cell culture and the third instar larval nervous system as in vitro and in vivo models, respectively, we studied mitochondrial transport under oxidative stress conditions. In vitro …

Effective Social Media Use By Law Enforcement Agencies: A Case Study Approach To Quantifying And Improving Efficacy And Developing Agency Best Practices, David T. Snively

Master of Public Administration Practicums

In the wake of protests against law enforcement for an array of reasons, law enforcement officers and agencies have a responsibility to recognize and utilize the available mediums of communication with which they may best develop a connection to the communities they serve. Furthermore, law enforcement agencies must be informed that established, traditional methods of news dissemination – such as press conferences and printed articles – are now both ineffective and under-utilized, replaced in large part by social media live-time reports. For that reason, law enforcement agency executives must address both the responsibility to provide appropriately timed updates to critical …

Reactions Of Sandhill Cranes Approaching A Marked Transmission Power Line, Robert K. Murphy, James F. Dwyer, Elizabeth K. Mojica, Michelle M. Mcpherron, Richard E. Harness

United States Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District

Sandhill cranes Antigone canadensis, formerly Grus canadensis, are of widespread management focus, particularly where collisions with power lines are an important cause of mortality. Collision mitigation focuses on marking power lines to increase visibility, but collisions persist, perhaps because power line markers are not sufficiently visible in all conditions. Our objective was to compare reaction distances and reaction behaviors during daylight when power lines are presumably more visible, and during darkness when power lines are less visible. The power line we studied was fitted with glow-in-the-dark power line markers intended to increase nocturnal visibility. We found that during daylight, flocks …

R. L. Stevenson’S Samoan Gothic: Representing Late Nineteenth-Century Plantations, Carla Manfredi

Pacific Studies

Sāmoa’s plantation landscape haunts Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1892 text, A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. Stevenson represents the German-run plantations as sites of gothic terror, which are haunted by the ghosts of indentured laborers. In this essay, I examine Stevenson’s accounts of German plantation culture alongside corollary narratives from Sāmoa’s three commercial newspapers: the Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette (1877–81) the Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser (1888–96), and the Samoa Weekly Herald (1892–1900). By juxtaposing some of Stevenson’s primary texts and local newspaper coverage, I not only identify the divergent discourses that shaped …

Cgils Phase 2 Les Intercomparison Of Response Of Subtropical Marine Low Cloud Regimes To Co2 Quadrupling And A Cmip3 Composite Forcing Change, Peter N. Blossey, Christopher S. Bretherton, Anning Cheng, Satoshi Endo, Thijs Heus, Adrian P. Lock, Johan J. Van Der Dussen

Physics Faculty Publications

© 2016. The Authors. Phase 1 of the CGILS large-eddy simulation (LES) intercomparison is extended to understand if subtropical marine boundary-layer clouds respond to idealized climate perturbations consistently in six LES models. Here the responses to quadrupled carbon dioxide (“fast adjustment”) and to a composite climate perturbation representative of CMIP3 multimodel mean 2×CO2 near-equilibrium conditions are analyzed. As in Phase 1, the LES is run to equilibrium using specified steady summertime forcings representative of three locations in the Northeast Pacific Ocean in shallow well-mixed stratocumulus, decoupled stratocumulus, and shallow cumulus cloud regimes. The results are generally consistent with a single-LES …

Wrongfully Convicted In California: Are There Connections Between Exonerations, Prosecutorial And Police Procedures, And Justice Reforms, Justin Brooks, Zachary Brooks

Hofstra Law Review

The article discusses possible connections between judicial reform and police procedures in wrongfully convicted exonerations in the California judicial system. It presents statistics concerning wrongful convictions in California, the concept of misidentification in wrongful convictions, false confessions, and misleading DNA and forensic evidence.

Discovery Investigative Group (Dig) Report, December 2016, Erica Defrain, Rebecca A. Bernthal, Signe Boudreau, Mary K. Bolin, Joan Latta Konecky, Margaret Mering, Jennifer L. Thoegersen, Deeann Allison

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: White Papers

This report is a response to the following charge from project sponsor DeeAnn Allison: Develop a working definition of the purpose and scope for a discovery tool that includes a description of what it should accomplish. How will it help scholars connect with information? The charge included a request to answer seven questions:

1. What content should be included and why?

2. What functions or search capabilities should be included?

3. What social media enhancements should be included?

4. How can it be structured to help both novice and advanced researchers?

5. Can you identify a “perfect” tool? If not, …

Ironic Feminism: Rhetorical Critique In Satirical News, Kathy Elrick

All Dissertations

Ironic Feminism: Rhetorical Critique in Satirical News aims to offer another perspective and style toward feminist theories of public discourse through satire. This study develops a model of ironist feminism to approach limitations of hegemonic language for women and minorities in U.S. public discourse. The model is built upon irony as a mode of perspective, and as a function in language, to ferret out and address political norms in dominant language. In comedy and satire, irony subverts dominant language for a laugh; concepts of irony and its relation to comedy situate the study's focus on rhetorical contributions in joke telling. …

The Use Of Risk Assessment At Sentencing: Implications For Research And Policy, Steven L. Chanenson, Jordan M. Hyatt

Working Paper Series

At-sentencing risk assessments are predictions of an individual’s statistically likely future criminal conduct. These assessments can be derived from a number of methodologies ranging from unstructured clinical judgment to advanced statistical and actuarial processes. Some assessments consider only correlates of criminal recidivism, while others also take into account criminogenic needs. Assessments of this nature have long been used to classify defendants for treatment and supervision within prisons and on community supervision, but they have only relatively recently begun to be used – or considered for use – during the sentencing process. This shift in application has raised substantial practical and …

Multipoint Genome-Wide Linkage Scan For Nonword Repetition In A Multigenerational Family Further Supports Chromosome 13q As A Locus For Verbal Trait Disorders, D. T. Truong, L. D. Shriberg, S. D. Smith, K. L. Chapman, A. R. Scheer-Cohen, M. M.C. Demille, A. K. Adams, Alejandro Q. Nato Jr., E. M. Wijsman, J. D. Eicher, J. R. Gruen

Biochemistry and Microbiology

Verbal trait disorders encompass a wide range of conditions and are marked by deficits in five domains that impair a person’s ability to communicate: speech, language, reading, spelling, and writing. Nonword repetition is a robust endophenotype for verbal trait disorders that is sensitive to cognitive processes critical to verbal development, including auditory processing, phonological working memory, and motor planning and programming. In the present study, we present a six-generation extended pedigree with a history of verbal trait disorders. Using genome-wide multipoint variance component linkage analysis of nonword repetition, we identified a region spanning chromosome 13q14–q21 with LOD = 4.45 between …

Power System Distributed Dynamic State Prediction, Md Ashfaqur Rahman, Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy

Publications

The security of the power system can be enhanced with the prediction of the dynamic state variables. To increase the security, a distributed predictor is developed based on the Elman Recurrent Neural Network (ERNN) in this study. To develop a scalable distributed predictor, the whole network is divided in a number of ERNNs. They take the current and the previous actual states from its own and its neighbors to predict the near future values of the states. The concept is inspired from the Cellular Computational Network (CCN) framework. Each ERNN is a cell in the CCN framework. Through simulation, the …