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Cs/Bio 471/671: Algorithms For Bioinformatics, Michael L. Raymer, Dan E. Krane Oct 2004

Cs/Bio 471/671: Algorithms For Bioinformatics, Michael L. Raymer, Dan E. Krane

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Theory-oriented approach to the application of contemporary algorithms to bioinformatics. Graph theory, complexity theory, dynamic programming and optimization techniques are introduced in the context of application toward solving specific computational problems in molecular genetics.


Cs 205: Computer Literacy And Office Automation, Terri Bauer Oct 2004

Cs 205: Computer Literacy And Office Automation, Terri Bauer

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

To understand basic computer operations and the principal components of a computer and connected peripheral devices

To understand and examine current operating systems, software utilities, device drivers and
application software

To define and understand current storage technology and learn about logical file storage and
management

To become proficient in using:
-Windows XP
-Spreadsheet Applications
-Database Applications
-Presentation Graphics Applications
-To understand the basics of email


Cs 480/680: Comparative Languages, Michael T. Cox Oct 2004

Cs 480/680: Comparative Languages, Michael T. Cox

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

"Comparative Languages" is a graduate/undergraduate level introductory course in programming languages. We will cover several basic topics ranging from syntax (BNF) and semantics formalisms (attribute grammars), to data types, scope and extent, type checking, parameter passing methods, expression parsing and other fundamentals of programming languages and language development. The intent of the course is to provide a background in the concepts and constructs of languages, rather than simply providing just a survey of various computer languages. Nonetheless in this class, we will learn and program in three very different languages: Pascal (an imperative language), Java (an object-oriented language), and LISP …


Ceg 429/629: Internet Security, Prabhaker Mateti Oct 2004

Ceg 429/629: Internet Security, Prabhaker Mateti

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Introduction to security issues arising primarily from computer networks. Topics include node and service authentication, address spoofing, hijacking, SYN floods, smurfing, sniffing, routing tricks, and privacy of data en route. Buffer overruns and other exploitation of software development errors. Hardening of operating systems. Intrusion detection. Firewalls. Ethics.


Cs 415: Social Implications Of Computing, Leo Finkelstein Oct 2004

Cs 415: Social Implications Of Computing, Leo Finkelstein

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

CS 415 is a communication skills course using as its subject matter current salient issues associated with the social implications of computing. In addition to the course text, you will need to use certain reading materials in the library and elsewhere, and you will be responsible for using concepts and theories provided in class lectures and discussions.


The goal of this course is to blend social implications issues with common technical communication formats you'll need to be familiar with out in the "real world." To do this, the course is built around a research project on a social implications topic …


2004 (Fall), University Of Dayton. Department Of Mathematics Oct 2004

2004 (Fall), University Of Dayton. Department Of Mathematics

Colloquia

Abstracts of the talks given at the 2004 Fall Colloquium


บรรยายพิเศษ : ทะเลไทย : ทิศทางการอนุรักษ์ที่ยังสร้างไม่เสร็จ โดย คุณสุวิทย์ คุณกิตติ รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงทรัพยากร ธรรมชาติและสิ่งแวดล้อม Oct 2004

บรรยายพิเศษ : ทะเลไทย : ทิศทางการอนุรักษ์ที่ยังสร้างไม่เสร็จ โดย คุณสุวิทย์ คุณกิตติ รัฐมนตรีว่าการกระทรวงทรัพยากร ธรรมชาติและสิ่งแวดล้อม

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.


นาโนเทคโนโลยีในประเทศไทย, กองบรรณาธิการ Oct 2004

นาโนเทคโนโลยีในประเทศไทย, กองบรรณาธิการ

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.


ข่าว&กิจกรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม Oct 2004

ข่าว&กิจกรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.


นาโนเทคโนโลยี : มุมมองด้านสิ่งแวดล้อมและวงจรชีวิต, จันทรา ทองคำเภา Oct 2004

นาโนเทคโนโลยี : มุมมองด้านสิ่งแวดล้อมและวงจรชีวิต, จันทรา ทองคำเภา

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.


โทรศัพท์มือ...(ไม่)...ถือ, ทิพย์วรรณ แซ่มา Oct 2004

โทรศัพท์มือ...(ไม่)...ถือ, ทิพย์วรรณ แซ่มา

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.


Fta : เขตการค้าเสรี, สิริพร แก่นสียา Oct 2004

Fta : เขตการค้าเสรี, สิริพร แก่นสียา

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.


สร้างโลกสวย Oct 2004

สร้างโลกสวย

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.


Optically Thick Clumps – Not The Solution To The Wolf-Rayet Wind Momentum Problem?, J. Brown, J. Cassinelli, Q. Li, A. Kholtygin, Richard Ignace Oct 2004

Optically Thick Clumps – Not The Solution To The Wolf-Rayet Wind Momentum Problem?, J. Brown, J. Cassinelli, Q. Li, A. Kholtygin, Richard Ignace

ETSU Faculty Works

The hot star wind momentum problem eta = M-upsiloninfinity/(L/c) much greater than 1 is revisited, and it is shown that the conventional belief, that it can be solved by a combination of clumping of the wind and multiple scattering of photons, is not self-consistent for optically thick clumps. Clumping does reduce the mass loss rate. M, and hence the momentum supply, required to generate a specified radio emission measure epsilon, while multiple scattering increases the delivery of momentum from a specified stellar luminosity L. However, in the case of thick clumps, when combined the two effects act in opposition rather …


Deadline Analysis Of Interrupt-Driven Software, Dennis Brylow, Jens Palsberg Oct 2004

Deadline Analysis Of Interrupt-Driven Software, Dennis Brylow, Jens Palsberg

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

Real-time, reactive, and embedded systems are increasingly used throughout society (e.g., flight control, railway signaling, vehicle management, medical devices, and many others). For real-time, interrupt-driven software, timely interrupt handling is part of correctness. It is vital for software verification in such systems to check that all specified deadlines for interrupt handling are met. Such verification is a daunting task because of the large number of different possible interrupt arrival scenarios. For example, for a Z86-based microcontroller, there can be up to six interrupt sources and each interrupt can arrive during any clock cycle. Verification of such systems has traditionally relied …


Of Parts And Wholes: Self-Similarity And Synecdoche In Science, Culture And Literature, Dirk Vanderbeke Oct 2004

Of Parts And Wholes: Self-Similarity And Synecdoche In Science, Culture And Literature, Dirk Vanderbeke

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Editors' Introduction]

The discussion here centers on how self-similarity, or parts resembling a whole, has been a recurring aspect in the most diverse fields of human thinking from antiquity to the present. Primary examples are drawn from physics, biology, cybernetics, alchemy, philosophy, myth and, of course, language and literature. The author argues that self-similar patterns are one of the persistent ways in which the human mind structures its experience and knowledge of the world, and then examines some of the questions that arise when an almost ubiquitous concept, structure or linguistic and literary phenomenon resurfaces in a new guise in …


Earth News, V28, Fall 2004, Department Of Earth Science, University Of Northern Iowa. Oct 2004

Earth News, V28, Fall 2004, Department Of Earth Science, University Of Northern Iowa.

Earth News

Inside this issue:

--- Earth Science Staff Activities
--- Earth Science Majors
--- Student Internships
--- From Ocean to Ice: GSI 2004 Spring Field Trip Highlights
--- National Earth Science Week Quarry Open House
--- Sigma Gamma Epsilon - Gamma Sigma Chapter
--- Student Research Presentation
--- 2004-2005 Scholarship and Award Recipients
--- 2004 Earth Science Graduates
--- Earth Science Seminar Series
--- Gifts to the Department of Earth Science
--- Earth Science Alumni News


Reducing Nutrient Discharge From Agriculture Through The Implementation Of Bmps – How Far Can We Go?, David Weaver, Simon Neville, Robert Summers, Martin Clarke Oct 2004

Reducing Nutrient Discharge From Agriculture Through The Implementation Of Bmps – How Far Can We Go?, David Weaver, Simon Neville, Robert Summers, Martin Clarke

Conference papers and presentations

Algal blooms in south west Western Australia are a symptomatic response to excess nutrient input. Whilst a range of Best Management Practices (BMPs) are available to address the causes of nutrient pollution, most investment has been directed towards symptoms. In order to treat nutrient pollution causes effectively it is important to evaluate possible nutrient reductions and costs, and to determine whether accrued benefits can influence BMP adoption. Models were developed for catchments near Albany (south coast of Western Australia), and for the Peel-Harvey catchment (70 km south of Perth) to estimate costs and benefits of implementing conventional BMPs in scenarios …


สรุปผลการประชุมเชิงปฏิบัติการผู้ที่มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียในการ ทำแผนปฏิบัติการจัดการคุณภาพอากาศ กรุงเทพมหานคร, นพภาพร พานิช Oct 2004

สรุปผลการประชุมเชิงปฏิบัติการผู้ที่มีส่วนได้ส่วนเสียในการ ทำแผนปฏิบัติการจัดการคุณภาพอากาศ กรุงเทพมหานคร, นพภาพร พานิช

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.


Unlv Magazine, Holly Ivy De Vore, Nancy Syzdek, Patrice E.M. Hollrah, Douglas Unger, Eugene Moehring, Gillian Silver, John F. Gallagher, Lori Bachand, Gian Galassi, Hal Rothman, Mark Hoversten, Phil Hagen, Donna Mcaleer, Suzan Dibella Oct 2004

Unlv Magazine, Holly Ivy De Vore, Nancy Syzdek, Patrice E.M. Hollrah, Douglas Unger, Eugene Moehring, Gillian Silver, John F. Gallagher, Lori Bachand, Gian Galassi, Hal Rothman, Mark Hoversten, Phil Hagen, Donna Mcaleer, Suzan Dibella

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.


Sequential Interferometric Techniques For Measuring Independent Values Of The Refractive Index And Material Thickness Of Semiconductor Wafers, Glen D. Gillen, Shekhar Guha Oct 2004

Sequential Interferometric Techniques For Measuring Independent Values Of The Refractive Index And Material Thickness Of Semiconductor Wafers, Glen D. Gillen, Shekhar Guha

Physics

A technique is presented using both Michelson and Fabry-Perot interferometry to independently measure the refractive index and the material thickness of semiconductor wafers. The method does not require accurate prior knowledge of either quantity.


Experimental Evaluation Of Wireless Simulation Assumptions, David Kotz, Calvin Newport, Robert S. Gray, Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, Chip Elliot Oct 2004

Experimental Evaluation Of Wireless Simulation Assumptions, David Kotz, Calvin Newport, Robert S. Gray, Jason Liu, Yougu Yuan, Chip Elliot

Dartmouth Scholarship

All analytical and simulation research on ad hoc wireless networks must necessarily model radio propagation using simplifying assumptions. We provide a comprehensive review of six assumptions that are still part of many ad hoc network simulation studies, despite increasing awareness of the need to represent more realistic features, including hills, obstacles, link asymmetries, and unpredictable fading. We use an extensive set of measurements from a large outdoor routing experiment to demonstrate the weakness of these assumptions, and show how these assumptions cause simulation results to differ significantly from experimental results. We close with a series of recommendations for researchers, whether …


Lower Columbia River Aquatic Nonindigenous Species Survey 2001-2004, Mark Sytsma, Jeffery Cordell, John Chapman, Robyn Draheim Oct 2004

Lower Columbia River Aquatic Nonindigenous Species Survey 2001-2004, Mark Sytsma, Jeffery Cordell, John Chapman, Robyn Draheim

Center for Lakes and Reservoirs Publications and Presentations

Rates of aquatic nonindigenous species (ANS) introductions and their social, economic, and ecological impacts are increasing. Introductions of nonnative marine organisms have increased exponentially over the last two centuries and expenditures on outreach, control, and research exceed millions of dollars per species for several invaders of particular concern to the United States. These trends suggest that major changes are occurring in the freshwater, estuarine, and marine ecosystems of North America, but their magnitude is probably underestimated.


Environmental Sustainability And The Traditional Tibetan Home, Katherine Shrader Oct 2004

Environmental Sustainability And The Traditional Tibetan Home, Katherine Shrader

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

In Tibetan Buddhism, the srivatsa, or glorious endless knot, reminds one of the truth of reality. Six right-angled, intertwined strands flow endlessly together, each one connected to the other, each one giving form to the next. So flows reality. Looking past the illusion of isolation, the endless knot illustrates the interdependence and mutual cooperation that runs the world.

No event, no living being has the ability to stand by itself, completely unaffected and unaffecting. All phenomena are intertwined. Every human action, however big or small, impacts the world in some way. The endless knot unveils the truth of reality so …


Randomized Leader Election, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Y. Grama Oct 2004

Randomized Leader Election, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Y. Grama

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Distributed Uniform Sampling In Real- World Networks, Asad Awan, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Y. Grama Oct 2004

Distributed Uniform Sampling In Real- World Networks, Asad Awan, Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Y. Grama

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Fish Assemblage Stability Over Fifty Years In The Lake Pontchartrain Estuary; Comparisons Among Habitats Using Canonical Correspondence Analysis, Martin O'Connell, Robert Cashner, Christopher Schieble Oct 2004

Fish Assemblage Stability Over Fifty Years In The Lake Pontchartrain Estuary; Comparisons Among Habitats Using Canonical Correspondence Analysis, Martin O'Connell, Robert Cashner, Christopher Schieble

Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications

We assessed fish assemblage stability over the last half century in Lake Pontchartrain, an environmentally degraded oligohaline estuary in southeastern Louisiana. Because assemblage instability over time has been consistently associated with severe habitat degradation, we attempted to determine whether fish assemblages in demersal, nearshore, and pelagic habitats exhibited change that was unrelated to natural fluctuations in environmental variables (e.g., assemblage changes between wet and dry periods). Collection data from three gear types (trawl, beach seine, and gill nets) and monthly environmental data (salinity, temperature, and Secchi depth) were compared for four collecting periods: 1954 (dry period), 1978 (wet period), 1996–1998 …


Indexing And Matching Of Polyphonic Songs For Query-By-Singing System, Tat-Wan Leung, Chong-Wah Ngo Oct 2004

Indexing And Matching Of Polyphonic Songs For Query-By-Singing System, Tat-Wan Leung, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper investigates the issues in polyphonic popular song retrieval. The problems that we consider include singing voice extraction, melodic curve representation, and database indexing. Initially, polyphonic songs are decomposed into singing voices and instruments sounds in both time and frequency domains based on SVM and ICA. The extracted singing voices are represented as two melodic curves that model the statistical mean and neighborhood similarity of notes. To speed up the matching between songs and query, we further adopt proportional transportation distance to index the songs as vantage point trees. Encouraging results have been obtained through experiments.


Hydrologic Variations Within Created And Natural Wetlands In Southeastern Virginia, Aaron Dyer Despres Oct 2004

Hydrologic Variations Within Created And Natural Wetlands In Southeastern Virginia, Aaron Dyer Despres

OES Theses and Dissertations

The hydrology of wetlands, particularly how wetland soils collect, store, and redistribute water strongly affects how wetland systems function. In created wetlands, construction processes and materials influence the hydrology and consequently, the potential for successful reestablishment of target vegetation communities. During .2002- 2004, the Virginia Department of Transportation constructed large mitigation wetlands on two different Quaternary aged surfaces with very similar hydrogeomorphic conditions. The Sandy Bottom Nature Park site (SBNP) located in Hampton, VA and rests on the sandy loam Tabb Formation while the Charles City Wetland site (CCW) lies on the older and clay-rich Shirley Formation. This study documents …


Vector Operations In Superscalar Architectures, Nathan Daniel Flinn Oct 2004

Vector Operations In Superscalar Architectures, Nathan Daniel Flinn

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Vector calculations are very prevalent today. Though the vector-processing computer is quite an old concept, superscalar processors lack hardware support for vector operations. This thesis investigates whether an ordinary superscalar computer architecture can be designed to include hardware support for improved vector operations without drastically changing the existing superscalar design and behavior. A computer architecture design was created and implemented that included the vector multiply (dot product) operation. The design includes a Vector Operations Unit that captures incoming vector operations and generates the necessary set of machine instructions to complete the vector operation internally. It then delivers these instructions to …