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Determining The Success Of Ncaa Basketball Teams Through Team Characteristics, Raymond Witkos Apr 2010

Determining The Success Of Ncaa Basketball Teams Through Team Characteristics, Raymond Witkos

Honors Projects in Mathematics

Every year much of the nation becomes engulfed in the NCAA basketball postseason tournament more affectionately known as “March Madness.” The tournament has received the name because of the ability for any team to win a single game and advance to the next round. The purpose of this study is to determine whether concrete statistical measures can be used to predict the final outcome of the tournament. The data collected in the study include 13 independent variables ranging from the 2003-2004 season up until the current 2009-2010 season. Different tests were run in an attempt to achieve the most accurate …

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Predictive Modeling Of Alumni Donor Behavior, Lauren Prue Apr 2010

Predictive Modeling Of Alumni Donor Behavior, Lauren Prue

Honors Projects in Mathematics

In recent years, college and universities have relied increasingly upon the charitable contributions of its previous graduates; as the costs of tuition rise substantially, development offices are facing the challenge of creating annual fund campaigns that are minimally expensive while providing the maximum potential for return. This study addresses the available constituent database at one University in particular in an effort to identify what criteria are the strongest predictors of donor response at a small, private university located within New England. The analysis utilized predictive modeling and data-mining largely within the software program Rapid Insight to build several models in …

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Geochemical Analysis Of Cenozoic Fossil Conifers At High Latitudes: Implications For Molecular Preservation And Environmental Change, Caitlyn Witkowski Apr 2010

Geochemical Analysis Of Cenozoic Fossil Conifers At High Latitudes: Implications For Molecular Preservation And Environmental Change, Caitlyn Witkowski

Honors Projects in Science and Technology

Fossil materials record ancient life and their adapted environment. Arctic plant fossils are critical for our understanding of the Earth’s paleoenvironment when high latitudes were under ice-free conditions. All Arctic plant fossils in this research are conifers, plants conducive for morphological and molecular study because of their incredible genetic stability. Miocene (15 million year old) and Pliocene (5 million year old) conifer leaves were collected from Banks Island, Canada (Williams et al., 2008). Samples were analyzed and compared with Paleocene (60 million year old) and Eocene (45 million year old) samples from Axel Heiberg Island, Canada and with modern equivalent …

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Fun, Fun, Fun Till The Waters Take The Beaches Away, Briana Ellis Apr 2010

Fun, Fun, Fun Till The Waters Take The Beaches Away, Briana Ellis

Maria Dittman Library Research Competition: Student Award Winners

No abstract provided.

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Detection Of Outliers In Time Series Data, Samson Sifael Kiware Apr 2010

Detection Of Outliers In Time Series Data, Samson Sifael Kiware

Master's Theses (2009 -)

This thesis presents the detection of time series outliers. The data set used in this work is provided by the GasDay Project at Marquette University, which produces mathematical models to predict the consumption of natural gas for Local Distribution Companies (LDCs). Flow with no outliers is required to develop and train accurate models. GasDay is using statistical approaches motivated by normally distributed samples such as the 3 -sigma rule and the 5 -sigma rule to aid the experts in detecting outliers in residuals from the models. However, the Jarque-Bera statistical test shows that the residuals from the GasDay models are …

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Unlv Magazine, Cate Weeks, Tony Allen, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Brendan Buhler, Afsha Bawany, Erin O'Donnell Apr 2010

Unlv Magazine, Cate Weeks, Tony Allen, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Brendan Buhler, Afsha Bawany, Erin O'Donnell

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.

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The Development Of An Effective Water-Soluble Receptor For Pyrene Derivative Dyes, Ashley Longstreet Apr 2010

The Development Of An Effective Water-Soluble Receptor For Pyrene Derivative Dyes, Ashley Longstreet

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

A receptor with enhanced water solubility was synthesized from an existing receptor to be used as a pyranine fluorescence quencher in endovesiculation detection assays. The existing receptor consisted of a cyclen core with four protruding arms containing an aryl nitro group at each end. Its poor water solubility limited the accuracy and precision of the endovesiculation assay because the low concentration of receptor did not match the concentration of pyranine. To increase the water solubility, ethoxy groups were attached to the ends of each arm by first selectively reducing the nitro group to an amine with NaBHU4, H2, and a …

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Maximal Class Numbers Of Cm Number Fields, Ryan C. Daileda, Raju Krishnamoorthy, Anton Malyshev Apr 2010

Maximal Class Numbers Of Cm Number Fields, Ryan C. Daileda, Raju Krishnamoorthy, Anton Malyshev

Mathematics Faculty Research

Fix a totally real number field F of degree at least 2. Under the assumptions of the generalized Riemann hypothesis and Artin's conjecture on the entirety of Artin L-functions, we derive an upper bound (in terms of the discriminant) on the class number of any CM number field with maximal real subfield F. This bound is a refinement of a bound established by Duke in 2001. Under the same hypotheses, we go on to prove that there exist infinitely many CM-extensions of F whose class numbers essentially meet this improved bound and whose Galois groups are as large …

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Conformational Dynamics Of Single Pre-Mrna Molecules During In Vitro Splicing, J. Abelson, M. Blanco, M. A. Ditzler, F. Fuller, P. Aravamudhan, M. Wood, T. Villa, D. E. Ryan, J. A. Pleiss, Corina Maeder, C. Guthrie Apr 2010

Conformational Dynamics Of Single Pre-Mrna Molecules During In Vitro Splicing, J. Abelson, M. Blanco, M. A. Ditzler, F. Fuller, P. Aravamudhan, M. Wood, T. Villa, D. E. Ryan, J. A. Pleiss, Corina Maeder, C. Guthrie

Chemistry Faculty Research

The spliceosome is a complex small nuclear RNA (snRNA)-protein machine that removes introns from pre-mRNAs via two successive phosphoryl transfer reactions. The chemical steps are isoenergetic, yet splicing requires at least eight RNA-dependent ATPases responsible for substantial conformational rearrangements. To comprehensively monitor pre-mRNA conformational dynamics, we developed a strategy for single-molecule FRET (smFRET) that uses a small, efficiently spliced yeast pre-mRNA, Ubc4, in which donor and acceptor fluorophores are placed in the exons adjacent to the 5′ and 3′ splice sites. During splicing in vitro, we observed a multitude of generally reversible time-and ATP-dependent conformational transitions of individual pre-mRNAs. The …

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Daybook, Sydny Loughlin Apr 2010

Daybook, Sydny Loughlin

Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship

The daybook assignment in the Honors Composition class was a daily homework exercise students were required to do in order to expand their expression and writing skills. We could respond to any prompt of our choice or we could take it as an opportunity to explore a more poetic area of interest. Consisting of 50 total pieces, I decided to turn my Daybook assignment into a daily log of poetry.

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Seducing The Single Ticket Buyer: Converting Single Ticket Buyers To Subscribers At The Binghamton Philharmonic, Lauren F. Elicks Apr 2010

Seducing The Single Ticket Buyer: Converting Single Ticket Buyers To Subscribers At The Binghamton Philharmonic, Lauren F. Elicks

MPA Capstone Projects 2006 - 2015

Declining interests in classical music have left many performances based organizations scrambling to maintain subscriptions rates, ticket revenue and attendance. The Binghamton Philharmonic has a substantial single ticket buyer base which if converted to subscribers, would secure revenue and attendance to each season. This study explores the motivations and attendance levels of Binghamton Philharmonic single ticket buyer population. Using frequency distribution charts, cross-tabular analysis and independent samples t-tests, variables of motivation were compared to the single ticket and subscriber population.This project discusses the factors affecting single ticket buyer motivations for attendance, effective methods for encouraging greater attendance, and provides an …

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Head In Space : A Head-Tracking Based Binaural Spatialization System, Luca A. Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro Phd, Dario Pizzamiglio Apr 2010

Head In Space : A Head-Tracking Based Binaural Spatialization System, Luca A. Ludovico, Davide Andrea Mauro Phd, Dario Pizzamiglio

Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering Faculty Research

This paper discusses a system capable of detecting the position of the listener through a head-tracking system and rendering a 3D audio environment by binaural spatialization. Head tracking is performed through face recognition algorithms which use a standard webcam, and the result is presented over headphones, like in other typical binaural applications. With this system users can choose an audio file to play, provide a virtual position for the source in an euclidean space, and then listen to the sound as if it is coming from that position. If they move their head, the signal provided by the system changes …

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2010 (Spring), University Of Dayton. Department Of Mathematics Apr 2010

2010 (Spring), University Of Dayton. Department Of Mathematics

Colloquia

Abstracts of the talks given at the 2010 Spring Colloquium.

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2010 Annual Research Symposium Abstract Book, Trinity College Apr 2010

2010 Annual Research Symposium Abstract Book, Trinity College

Science Symposia Abstracts

2010 annual volume of abstracts for science research projects conducted by students at Trinity College.

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Bytes Of Π, Spring 2010, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Bridgewater State College Apr 2010

Bytes Of Π, Spring 2010, Department Of Mathematics And Computer Science, Bridgewater State College

Department of Mathematics Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Ceg 730-01: Distributed Computing Principles, Soon M. Chung Apr 2010

Ceg 730-01: Distributed Computing Principles, Soon M. Chung

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.

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Cs 415: Social Implications Of Computing, Leo Finkelstein Apr 2010

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 material in the library and elsewhere, and you will be responsible for using concepts and theories provided in class lectures and discussions.

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On Construction Of The Smallest One-Sided Confidence Interval For The Difference Of Two Proportions, Weizhen Wang Apr 2010

On Construction Of The Smallest One-Sided Confidence Interval For The Difference Of Two Proportions, Weizhen Wang

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

For my class of one-sided 1 - α confidence intervals with a certain monotonicity ordering on the random confidence limit, the smallest interval, in the sense of the set inclusion for the difference of two proportions of two independent binomial random variables, is constructed based on a direct analysis of coverage probability function. A special ordering on the confidence limit is developed and the corresponding smallest confidence interval is derived. This interval is then applied to identify the minimum effective dose (MED) for binary data in dose-response studies, and a multiple test procedure that controls the familywise error rate at …

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Identification Of Sea Turtle Leeches Using Dna Barcoding, Triet Minh Truong, Audrey E. Mcgowin Ph.D., Adrian M. Corbett Ph.D. Apr 2010

Identification Of Sea Turtle Leeches Using Dna Barcoding, Triet Minh Truong, Audrey E. Mcgowin Ph.D., Adrian M. Corbett Ph.D.

Chemistry Student Publications

Fibropapillomatosis (FP) is a panzootic plaguing all species of sea turtles with green turtles having the highest percentage of affliction. Although fibropapilloma-associated turtle herpes virus (FPTHV) has been identified as the causative agent of FP, the primary vector triggering this chronic tumor-forming disease is still unknown. Parasitic marine leeches (Ozobranchus spp.) could be a potential mechanical vector behind the emergence of this panzootic, although it is uncertain if it is species specific. Ozobranchus spp. are very small and difficult to distinguish anatomically, and until now, there have been few attempts to document them. DNA barcoding using mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase …

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Cs 142: Computer Programming - Ii, Michael Ondrasek Apr 2010

Cs 142: Computer Programming - Ii, Michael Ondrasek

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

The concepts introduced in CS 141 are developed in greater detail and depth with the Java programming language. Topics include object oriented programming, graphics, development, of user interfaces and handling runtime errors with an emphasis on program verification and testing. Students must register for both lecture and one laboratory section. 4 credit hours. Prerequisite: CS 141 (Computer Programming I) and MTH 127 (College Algebra) or equivalent.

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Cs 207: Advanced Office Productivity Ii, Amanda Hood Apr 2010

Cs 207: Advanced Office Productivity Ii, Amanda Hood

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This course covers post-advanced microcomputer applications including Microsoft Office Word 2007, Excel 2007, Access 2007, and PowerPoint 2007. Topics include: creating an online form, working with macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), working with a master document, and index and a table of contents, linking an Excel, creating a PivotTable List, advanced Access report and form techniques, and creating a multipage form, administering a database system, creating a self-running presentation containing shapes, templates, and clips.

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Cs 206: Computer Software Productivity Tools, John P. Herzog Apr 2010

Cs 206: Computer Software Productivity Tools, John P. Herzog

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Focus on learning MS Office software applications including advanced topics in spreadsheets, database and presentation graphics, using a case study approach where critical thinking and problem solving skills are required. Computer concepts are integrated throughout the course to provide an understanding of advanced computing, the latest technological advances and how they are used in industry. Ethics and issues encountered in business are discussed to challenge students on societal impact of technology.

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Cs 241-01: Computer Programming Ii, Travis E. Doom Apr 2010

Cs 241-01: Computer Programming Ii, Travis E. Doom

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

A continuation of CS240. The emphasis is on data abstraction and software engineering. Prerequisite: CS240.

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Cs 208-01: Computer Programming For Business I, David M. Hutchison Apr 2010

Cs 208-01: Computer Programming For Business I, David M. Hutchison

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

CS 208 is the first in a sequence of two programming classes required for MIS majors. This course will introduce students to the basic concepts of programming. Examples are from business applications and display graphics and emphasis is on problem solving with the computer as a tool.

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Cs 242: Computer Programming Iii, Thomas Wischgoll Apr 2010

Cs 242: Computer Programming Iii, Thomas Wischgoll

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.

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Cs 340: Programming Language Workshop In Python, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan Apr 2010

Cs 340: Programming Language Workshop In Python, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This course is designed as a self-study in Python. You are expected to learn the language and solve a set of programming problems assigned to you from Budd's text using Python available from http://www.python.org. There are no exams. We officially meet only once in the quarter. However, I will be available in the posted office hours for clarifications and discussions about the programming problems.

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Cs 271/Bio 371: Introduction To Bioinformatics, Michael L. Raymer, Dan E. Krane Apr 2010

Cs 271/Bio 371: Introduction To Bioinformatics, Michael L. Raymer, Dan E. Krane

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

The course web page will be the primary method for distributing important announcements, course material, class notes, etc. Please check the page often. Login to the campus WebCT system using your cats username and password. The URL is: http://wisdom.wright.edu

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Cs 400/600: Data Structures And Software Design, Guozhu Dong Apr 2010

Cs 400/600: Data Structures And Software Design, Guozhu Dong

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.

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Cs 466/666: Introduction To Formal Languages, Guozhu Dong Apr 2010

Cs 466/666: Introduction To Formal Languages, Guozhu Dong

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

CS 466/666 is an introduction to formal language and automata theory. In this course we will examine methods for defining syntax of languages and recognizing patterns: the syntax of languages can be defined using grammars and patterns accepted by finite state machines. Along with presenting the fundamentals of these tow topics, the course will develop and investigate the relationships between language definition and pattern recognition. The text will be the third edition of languages and Machines: An Introduction to the Theory of Computer Sciences, by Thomas Sudkamp.

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Cs 712: Advanced Topics In Artificial Intelligence: Inference Graphical Models, Shaojun Wang Apr 2010

Cs 712: Advanced Topics In Artificial Intelligence: Inference Graphical Models, Shaojun Wang

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

This course will cover the fundamentals of graphical probability models, focusing on the key representations, algorithms and theories that have facilitated much recent progress in artificial intelligence research.

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