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The United States and Russia in Syria and the Emergence of ISIS
No full textThe crisis in Syria led in Fall 2013 to the diplomatic intervention of two of the most powerful nations in the world, the United States and Russia, to address the problem. This article provides insight into why they entered the scene because Arabs could not resolve the problem among themselves. The Syrian Crisis has resulted in the realignment of foreign players, the preservation of the Assad government and in ISIS. Russia was willing to protect Syria as its political ally, The US condemned nuclear non-proliferation, protected its energy sources from the Arab region and chose at that time to avoid another Iraq-type war
Fabrication and Mathematical Modeling of SWCNT Scaffold DNA Spiral Nantenna
No full textDNA origami based spiral structure is synthesized to realize a nanoscale spiral antenna for biomedical applications. Single strand DNA (ssDNA) origami structures utilize self-assembly techniques and short ssDNA staples to develop the desired spiral structures. This poster will discuss the methods and protocol to develop DNA origami structure. We further present several approaches to make DNA conductive. We also present a mathematical model to calculate the conductivity of nanoscale antenna
The Oceans Compact & Global Governance
No full textIn Fall 2012 the United Nations Secretary-General called on the General Assembly to adopt an Oceans Compact to reverse the impact of overfishing, climate change and ocean acidification, increasing pollution, resource extraction, and loss of biodiversity. By December of that year, the initiative seemed to have failed to gain momentum, and was brought to an end in June 2013 by an appeal from the G-77 supported by the People’s Republic of China
QKD initiated by Authentication of EPR in 3 way channel
No full textQuantum key distribution (QKD) is one of the recent revolutions in cryptography field that was announced in first by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard in 1984. Here we create another QKD protocol that based on the three channel to communicate between two parties, and also ensures the connection is never established without providing the right identity in the first channel. Therefore, using the EPR pair in the first channel to approve the authentication in short time
Persuasive Media Information and Voting Behavior Demographics as Moderators of Online Effects
No full textThis study aims at determining if online information may affect, in a meaningful way, the voting decisions of media audience. Three regression models were built to establish the level to which online channels of communication can create a significant impact on the behavioral decisions of the audience responding to electoral campaigns. All three models are with moderated effect. The goal of this research is to examine how such demographics as age, income, and level of education are more likely to moderate the ways online persuasive media information is being consumed by target voters. By analyzing these moderated relationships the applicability of a communication theory, the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), which focuses on the way persuasive communication is consumed, is actually being tested in the context of electoral campaigns
Germination of Arabidopsis thaliana Aided by Bacterial Interaction
No full textHypothesis: Arabidopsis thaliana specimens germinated in isolated soil bacteria will exhibit positive growth characteristics and rates. Background: Arabidopsis thaliana is a small flowering plant in the family, Brassicaceae. The characteristic short lifecycle and other qualities make this model plant for scientific research.1 Nitrogen is very limited in a usable form for plants in most soils. The liberation of nitrogen from the environment is essential for the plants' survival. Nitrogen fixation is done by soil micro-organisms that break apart nitrogenous compounds into simple, assimilable forms of this essential nutrient. Introduction of soil microorganisms is in agricultural to ensure an ample supply of nitrogen containing compounds to improve crop yield. Four ecotypes: Kas-1 (India), Col-0 (USA), Rsch-4 (Russia), and Bs-5 (Switzerland) were used to test the resulting growth with respect to ecotype and origin. Biomass produced from measured using Kas-1 at varying temperatures. Four ecotypes allow for genetic variation to be considered when analyzing the collected results
Resident Alien
No full textThe theme of alienation is widespread in fiction and nonfiction alike, probably because it is so universally felt. Professor Roxie Ray’s wry and touching memoir Resident Alien recounts a brief period in the life of a young girl during her first year away at university, shining light on how interaction and difference create both individual personality and mass culture
Can a Park Statue Destabilize Northeast Asia’s Inter-State Relations?
No full textIn 1991, after fifty years of silence, the forced sexual enslavement of Korean women and girls at the hands of Japan’s Imperial Army during World War II emerged as an embarrassing blight upon Japan’s otherwise enviable profile as a political and economic miracle. The case against Japan’s alleged trafficking of women meandered through the courts of Japan and the United States. It also became an issue for United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay in August 2014. However, no satisfactory solution has been found. Beginning in 2005 efforts began in the United States to raise public awareness of the conditions that Korean women were subjected to at the hands of Japan. Strong resistance emerged in certain Japanese-American communities to the Korean and Korean-American accounting of events but especially from Japanese government officials who have visited the United States. Japan does not dispute that Korean women and girls served as Comfort Women; however, its disputes the methods of recruitment and the numbers of women indicated in the Korean narrative. We thus find two competing narratives, that of Japan and that of Korea, being disputed in the United States. In most places the Korean narrative has prevailed but in places such as Buena Vista, California and Queens, New York, it has not. This text argues that the “Comfort Women” controversy may undermine Korea-Japan-US relations in Northeast Asia. The President of Korea made it clear in December 2014 that relations with Japan will not improve without addressing this. This article speaks of ways to do indicating the need for an objective review of both narratives and, most likely, the articulation of an American narrative
The Impact of Big Data on the Management of Business Software Technology Projects
No full textMany factors can influence the ongoing management and execution of technology projects within the corporate business environment. Some of these elements are known a priori during the project planning phase. Others may require real-time data gathering and analysis during project execution. These real-time project data elements are often neglected, misclassified, or otherwise misinterpreted during the project execution phase increasing risk of delays, quality issues, and missed business outcomes. The purpose of this research is to discover and analyze the impact, role, and level of influence of various project related data on the ongoing management of technology projects. The goal is to provide a balance to the subjectivity currently used by project managers as they assess and report on their respective project execution progress
Does Breast Milk, Surface Bacteria from a Mother’s Nipple, and Prolonged Breast-Feeding Cause Infantile Dental Caries?
No full textThis thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if increases in childhood caries result from breast-feeding, breast milk, and bacteria that resides on the mothers’ nipple surface. This question was examined in light of the increase in caries observed by pediatric dentists worldwide. Methods: A literature review was conducted to examine the possible evidence for this phenomenon issue prior to conducting more extensive clinical research. Results: Overall, no evidence was formed to conclude that breast milk breast-feeding, and carious bacteria cause dental decay. Instead the lack of preventative care was established as the culprit in creating a hostile environment favoring bacterial colonization in excess of normal levels, causing a predisposition to caries development. Conclusion: Breast milk, saliva obstruction from breast feeding, and surface bacteria on the nipple does not cause caries in breast-feeding infants. Proper oral hygiene and other types of preventative care are necessary to reduce bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus and Streptococcus mutans, which are responsible for most carious lesions