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The Ethnomedical Practices of the Keetoowah traditional Cherokees: Current Clinical Implications University of Bridgeport Seed Grant Award
No full textKeetoowah Cherokee medicine has never been documented, and the Western Band of Cherokees (Tahlequah, OK) have kept the traditions of the Keetoowahs through the bloodline of Redbird Smith. Crosslin F. Smith is the grandson of Redbird, and a well respected and international educator and practitioner of traditional Keetoowah Cherokee Medicine. Dr. Noé has been practicing Cherokee Medicine under Elder Smith's tutelage for 25 years. In Elder Smith's practice (Vian, OK) he treats native peoples with plants, rituals and prayers for such diseases as cancer without any western medicine applications (many native peoples refusing any western medical care). This research project is to collect botanical specimen that are used by Elder Smith and from the sites he collects from in OK. The collection is housed at UBCNM's new Medicinal Plant Herbarium. The new Herbarium is housed on the 6th floor of the HSC building, room 608. The University of Bridgeport Seed Grant Award financed the herbarium equipment, botanical field equipment and one collection trip to Vian, OK in July 2011
3D Hand Pose Detection
No full textHand pose detection is one of the new important research fields, especially because of its applications in the field of human machine interaction. It benefits deaf and mute people, who cannot use voice recognition systems. The main target of this paper is to design an intelligent, autonomous system that can be used for hand pose detection. The input to the system is from Microsoft Kinect's sensor for depth and color images, and the output is the hand pose that optimally matches the hand in the input image
The Journal of Global Development and Peace Spring 2012
No full textThe Journal of Global Development and Peace for the spring of 2012. This issue contains articles by Dr. Al-Azdee on Picture with Paul Bremer: Example of Anti-Semitic Discourse in Post-Saddam Iraq, Seray Teleke on Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) towards Political and Economic Integration, Dr. Zhang on a Perspective on the American Strategic Shift in the Asia-Pacific Region, Yuan Cura Zhang on CHINLAMERICA: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future of Sino-Latin-American Relations, Katie Kilroy on Rule of Law in Senegal and the West African Economic and Monetary Union: Information Technology Initiatives, Stella Kim on Enhancing Regional Integration to Advance Stability in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Daulat Jha on Rewarding Good Behavior with Cash: The Basis, Experiences and Features of Conditional Cash Transfers, Kristine LeBlanc on Water Rights and the Potential for Conflict in the Nile River Basin, and Rebecca Witherington on HIV/AIDS and Disability: Why South Africa needs to realize the Millennium Development Goals
Why We Learn: What Can Ethology Tell Us About Educating Social Animals
No full textThe purpose of learning is a question as old as humankind. In "Why We Learn," Kathleen Engelmann explores the calculus of fitness, examining the current system of education and proposing new methods. Her approach involves using student teams to maximize our natural social tendencies, thus fostering the innate drive for education
Selective Manipulation of Nanoparticles in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) using Magnetotactic Bacteria
No full textMagnetotactic bacteria are a group of prokaryotic cells that orient and migrate along the geomagnetic field lines for their physiological functions and anaerobic/microaerophilic requirements. We report the use of magnetotaxis i.e. sensitivity towadrs megnetic field of Magnetospirillum magneticum as a functional component in very large scale integration (VLSI) design and fabrication. It is known that magnetotaxis arises out of a chain of magnetic nanoparticles within the bacterial cell that acts as a dipole. We propose a simple MATLAB based analysis and modeling of magnetic field acting on the chain of nanoparticles around a current carrying microwire. COMSOL was used to design the appropriate solenoid mesh containing the microwires.Our simulation results show that it is possible to manipulate the bacteria as "skilled workers" to transport select nanoparticles conducive to microchip fabrication. The use of magnetotactic bacteria may lead to the design of biomolecule based transformative integrated circuits well below the current feature size
Development of a STEM program for Teachers: A Collaboration between College of Education and College of Engineering
No full textThe School of Engineering and The School of Education currently collaborate on developing a new science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum for secondary science teachers. This interdisciplinary initiative is intended to improve the practices of STEM teachers, result in improved interest in STEM careers in K-12 schools, and develop a robust collaborative relationship between STEM departments and education departments. This initiative also plays an important role in the early development of a STEM program in the School of Education
The Cave
No full textDo people have a moral obligation to become vegetarians? If so, what kind of vegetarian diet is morally best and why? In "The Cave," Timothy Eves tells the story of his own food choices: how, after more than a year of careful reflection, he came to believe taht all animals are equal, and how this belief led him to become a vegetarian
The SOC Estimation of a Lead Acid Battery
No full textA poster discussing the state of change estimation of a lead acid batter
Dichotomy of Chinese Domestic and Overseas IPOs
No full textDue to regulatory constraints, many Chinese companies pursue overseas listings in HongKong and U.S. without being first listed in the domestic market. Some of them have, often after many years, eventually returned to the mainland by offering A-shares to domestic investors. This unique feature of cross-listed Chinese stocks provides a natural experiment field to test conventional IPO theories, which suggest less underpricing in homebound IPOs.Using a sample of Chinese IPOs made from 1990 to 2007, we find that substantial underpricing still prevails in homecoming IPOs by those already listed abroad, with an average first-day return of 96.38%. After control for firm size and potential selfselection bias, these IPOs do not differ on the first day of trading than purely domestic offerings. The hot short-run performance in their A-share debuts is in sharp contrast to what they experienced in their overseas listings: The mean first-day return is merely 5.75% for their ADRs and 11.55% for their Hong Kong IPOs
A New Model of the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks in Sea Water Communications
No full textIn this paper we present a new model for the lifetime of wireless sensor networks used for sea water communications. The new model for power communications takes into consideration parameters such as power consumption for the active mode, power consumption for the sleep mode, power consumption for the transient mode, transmission period, transient mode duration, sleep mode duration, and active mode duration. The power communications model is incorporated in the life time model of wireless sensor networks. The life time model takes into consideration several parameters such as the total number of sensors, network size, percentage of sink nodes, location of sensors, the mobility of sensors, power consumption when nodes move and the power consumption of communications. The new model for power consumption in communications shows more accurate results about the lifetime of the sensor network in comparison with previously published results