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Sigma Xi Research Exhibition

Registration & Submission Deadline

Monday, April 7, 2008 @ 11:00 PM

Exhibition Dates

April 29th & 30th, 2008
Claire T. Carney Library, first floor

Confirmed Exhibition Abstracts

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If you see an error on this page, contact Emmanuel Ojadi at jgolen@umassd.edu .


Departmental Groups

Biology Mechanical Engineering
Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center Material Science and Textiles
Chemistry English
Biochemistry Library
Physics Nursing
Mathematics Political Science
Computer Science Psychology
Electrical and Computer Engineering SMAST
Other

Biology

Rac1-dependent regulation of actin during polarity establishment in Silvetia compressa

Effects of PCB exposure on the reproductive potential of artificially matured male American eels

Molting of Mud Crab Megalopae in Response to Materials Used in Shellfish Aquaculture


Advanced Technolgy & Manufacturing Center

Comparison of bacteriocidal efficacy of electrochemically activated solutions with that of commercially available hypochlorite

Reactive Crystallization of Calcium Hydroxyapatite

Development of Autonomous Sensor Platform for Environmental Monitoring


Chemistry

GC Determination of Phthalate esters in river, rain and snow water

An accurate and non-destructive GC method for determination of cocaine on US paper currency

Protein Flexibility through Hydrogen Exchange

Phenolic Compounds with Potential Pest-deterrent Properties from Leaves of Early Black Cranberry Cultivar (Vaccinium macrocarpon)

Comparative analysis of selected phenolic compounds in human urines before and after consumption of Cranberry products by GC-MS-SIM

Simultaneous determination of saccharides and anthraquinones in Radix Polygoni Multiflori by GC-MS

Fractionation, analysis and antiproliferative activity of polyphenolic extracts from wild blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium)

Probing Mechanisms of the Formation of Yellow Vine Syndrome in Cranberry Plants

Development and Screening of RNA Aptamers for type A Botulinum Neurotoxin Light Chain by Using Surface Plasmon Resonance

Novel Highly Active Mn-containing Water-splitting Catalysts

Apoptotic and antiproliferative properties of cranberry extracts in colon and breast tumor cells

IMPROVING AMPLIFICATION, SEPARATION AND RECOVERY YIELD OF DNA FRAGMENTS FROM SELEX CYCLE

Microarray analysis of differentially regulated genes in human Neuroblastoma and Colon Carcinoma cell lines upon Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A (BoNT-A) Complex intoxication

Endopeptidase Activity of Deactivated Recombinant Bolutinum Neurotoxin Type A.

A Study of Nucleophilic Displacement Reactions in the Bicyclononenyl System

Structural Identification of Adducts from Interactions of Guanosine with Agrochemicals

Fluorescence anisotropy analysis of the botulinum neurotoxin type A Light Chain interaction with its substrate peptide

Structural determination of cell binding peptides at gold surfaces

Phage Display Based Discovery of Botulinum Neurotoxin Binding Peptides

Selective Entry of Deactivated Recombinant BoNT/A in Neuronal Cells to Demonstrate its Drug Delivery Potential

Probing the Secondary Structure of a Double Mutated Botulinum Neurotoxin

HPLC-Based Separation of Different Components of Botulinum Neurotoxin Complex


Physics

Big Bang or Big Bounce

Numerical solutions to lattice-refined models in loop quantum cosmology

The Rydberg Coulomb wave packets

Wind driven ocean circulation using “Weather in a Tank”

Water Use Sensitivity Analysis as it Applies to Cranberry Bogs in Southeastern Massachusetts


Mathematics

QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF LITERARY TEXTS

RBF-Gegenbauer Reconstruction Method for Discontinuous Solutions to PDEs

Population Dynamics with Variable Non-Chronlogically Based Aging

Relationship Between The Derivatives of The Mean and The Moments of The Distribution

Cell Autonomy for Generalized Geometric Growth Model

Level set methods for speech segmentation based on polynomial reconstructions


Computer Science

TCP Over Optical Burst Switching ((OBS))::To Split or Not To Split?

Energy-Efficient Target Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks

Performance Analysis of Dual-Homed Fault-Tolerant Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Impairment-Aware Manycast Algorithms Over Optical Burst-Switched Networks

Unfairness in TCP over Optical Burst-Switched Networks (OBS)

Performance Evaluation of Forward Segment Redundancy Mechanism in Optical Burst-Switched (OBS) Networks


Electrical and Computer Engineering

A General Filtering Approach for Sonar Receivers

Increased Time Warping for Bioacoustic Signal Classification

Information Theoretic Approach to the Design of Linear Arrays

Modeling and Analysis of Fatal and Non-Fatal Shocks in System Reliability Analysis:

Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering for Cylinders of Arbitrary Cross Section

Comparison of Decision Diagram Based Methods for Multi-State System Analysis

Hierarchical Reliability Analysis of Multi-State Phased-Mission Systems

Optimizing Sensor Position and Count in Layered Wireless Sensor Networks

Blind Source Separation

Characterization of Side-Scan Sonar Transducers

Investigation of Tangentially Poled Piezoelectric Ceramic Tubes with Striped Electrodes.


Mechanical Engineering

Enabling Partitioning of Function-Based Behavioral System Models

Fracture Toughness And Material Properties of Through-Thickness Reinforced Composites

A Behavior-Based Topological Navigation System for a Restroom Cleaning Robot using RFID-Tags

Role of trehalose and sucrose in optimization of buffers for Bovine Sperm desiccation preservation

Microfluidics Sensors

Development of Melt Electrospinning Device


Materials Technology & Science

The Formation and Performance of Auxetic Textiles

An active contour model for intravascular ultrasound image processing

Screening of Peptides Bound to Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A Using Phage Display

Direct Writing Technique for the Development of Tissues Scaffolds

Electro-static Fiber Web Formation


English


Library

LibQual+ 2007 Library Satisfaction Survey


Nursing


Political Science


Psychology

The Effect of Remote Response Technology on Attendance and Test Performance in Large Classes

The Effect of Working Memory on False memory

Perceptual Load and Event-Related Potential (ERP) Measures of Hemispheric Cooperation

Multiple Paths to Transfer in Insight Problem Solving


SMAST

Fall-Spawning and its Role in the Bay Scallop Population

VERTICAL PROJECTION OF VELOCITY, DENSITY AND TEMPERATURE USING VELOCITY-BASED FEATURE MODEL AND A LINEARIZED EQUATION OF STATE

ON THE SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY OF PLANKTON IN BUZZARDS BAY DURING 1990S

THE IMPACT OF NAO ON THE GULF OF MAINE TEMPERATURE AND SALINITY FIELDS DURING 1995-1998


Other


Biology

Rac1-dependent regulation of actin during polarity establishment in Silvetia compressa

Effects of PCB exposure on the reproductive potential of artificially matured male American eels

Molting of Mud Crab Megalopae in Response to Materials Used in Shellfish Aquaculture