Shoulder surfing is the process of stealing one’s personal information such as personal identification number or password by looking over the victim’s shoulder. Nowadays, a hacker can use a video camera to actively record a user entering the password . . .

Promoter sequences are the main regulatory elements of gene expression. The accurate prediction of promoters remains a challenge because the key DNA regulatory regions have variable structures, but their recognition by computer algorithms is fundament . . .

LEACH is a TDMA (Time-Division Multiple Access) based clustering MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol in wireless sensor networks. This protocol frequently forms clusters of nodes and selects one of the cluster members as the cluster head. The two-tie . . .

The world is getting advanced, and it becomes our responsibility to be on the same pace as the world. With the increase in the amount of data, it is becoming difficult to accommodate everything in our brain in a small span of time. Data Visualization . . .

During medical emergencies, patients are often shunted from hospital to hospital due to lack of ICU beds leading to loss of many lives. Also crucial time is lost calling up every individual blood bank trying to find blood of the required group in an e . . .

The use of Smartphones and its complementary technologies like wearable devices have gained immense momentum over the decade, which has led to their vast amount of use in various daily activities. On top of that, the new technologies plus their variou . . .

In software development, software teams receive bug reports that describe unintended performance of the software products frequently. When a new bug report is received, software developers usually need to recreate the bug, perform code reviews, and us . . .

This project carried out a systematic investigation to predict the final price of each home using machine learning techniques. Various machine learning techniques such as multiple linear regression (base model), random forest regression and polynomial . . .

An Annotation is a metadatum (comment, explanation) attached to a specific section of a document (text, image, video or other formats) after it has been created. Annotations have been used in several fields such as literature and education, software e . . .

A Learning Management System (LMS) is a core component of distance education over the Internet. Although a number of venders have released their LMS products, such as WebCT and Blackboard, the lack of interoperability with other related systems and co . . .

While providing an interface much like well known video games, virtual world systems provide exposure to common computing concepts such as 3D graphics and software development. Users are able to create virtual objects with scripted behaviors much in t . . .

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) represents a different way to do public-key cryptography and it offers certain advantages over the traditional cryptosystems. This thesis deals with the efficient algorithms for implementing the ECC and its applicatio . . .

This thesis addresses the problem of designing a temporal reasoning system that resolves conflicts among events. Events in this research are answers to a clinical depression assessment questionnaire. Analysis of questions and answers enables the syste . . .

The purpose of the thesis is to provide a methodology to characterize QoS for a given mix of web traffic (FrP, HTIP and UDP) and network topology. QoS will be defined by a graphic representation of seven performance characteristics. The eight characte . . .

Due to the mutation of HIV enzymes and their resistance against current drugs, drug companies are exploring ways to develop stronger mutant resistant drugs. Dimeric aryl diketo acids have proven to be effective inhibitors to the HIV strand transfer me . . .

Mobile health describes the use of portable electronic devices with software applications to provide health services and manage patient information. With almost 5 billion mobile phone users in the world, health care providers and researchers are reali . . .

Predicting and categorizing the functional site of protein has become an important task in the field of bioinformatics. With increasing number of protein structure available through genomic projects, it has been an understandable quest to find a predi . . .

Cyber Scavenger is a map-based application created for the CyberQUEST project that allows teachers to set learning goals for class trips before bringing students to the fieldtrip. The existing application is geared more towards a classroom based envir . . .

This paper describes a system that automatically tags unstructured medical records using the Naïve Bayes and Decision Tree algorithms for a variety of risk factors and patient medical history indicators. Additional natural language processing techniqu . . .

In general text-to-speech (TIS) is the creation of audible speech from computer readable text. The aim of this thesis is to present the research and work done to create a new synthesized female voice for a text-to-speech (TIS) system, as high quality . . .

A modem operating system uses device drivers to interact with computer peripherals and the external hardware components. When a host system that monitors and controls device hardware must meet strict timing requirements, then it and the device hardwar . . .

Selenoproteins are proteins that include the 21st amino acid, selenocysteine. Selenoproteins are vital to many forms of life. In their absence, disease and cancer have been shown to occur in humans. Selenocysteine is incorporated into a selenoprotein . . .

DeCEN is a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) system for helping English as a Second Language (ESL) students learn to determine the countability of English nouns. The countability of an English noun determines whether the noun needs number dis . . .

A watermark has to be recognized and cannot cause serious impact on the unwatermarked data. For example, hold an American twenty-dollar bill against the light, a watermark can be found and indicates that U.S. government made them. The concept of a wat . . .

Proteins are large biological molecules of long polymers of amino acid residues, typically containing thousands of atoms and consisting of a uniform repetitive backbone and variable side chains attached to each residue. They fold into complex 3D struc . . .

ItsLEADR is an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) designed to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) students and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, how to properly use English articles. ESL/EFL students have difficulty understanding some . . .

The genome of a haptophyte was sequenced using the next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. 18 billion base pairs high quality sequence data from NGS platform, HiSeq 2000, was assembled into scaffolds by using different tools including ABySS, Velv . . .

The goal of this project is to provide an open source solution for physical therapy with Kinect. In order to achieve that, we have designed and implemented a multi-layered application that will act as a portal for patients and therapists. This applica . . .

Augmented Reality (AR) is a view of a physical, real-world environment in real-time in which some elements are augmented by computer-generated object such as sound, video, graphics or plain text. Early stages of AR primarily used head-mounted display . . .

Lesson plans are essential in the DREAM project success. They are provided to help teachers to successfully implement the DREAM methodologies, also to include visual arts and theater activities in their lesson plans. The DREAM Lesson Plan application . . .

Game playing algorithms are commonly implemented in video games to control non-player characters (hereafter, “NPC’s,”) in order to provide a richer or more competitive game environment. However, directly programming opponent algorithms into the game c . . .

Parkinson’s Disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Diagnosis is made based on patient history and physical exam findings. Since speech is affected in up to 90% of Parkinson’s Disease patients, it has drawn interest as a targ . . .

In today’s markets, facial detection technologies are making great strides forward in accuracy and speed, continuously pushing the limitations of computerized vision and offering ever-increasing opportunities for automation and machine learning in wha . . .

Based on the Linked List Visualizer developed at California State University, San Marcos, we had built an interactive, adaptive tutor (LLV Tutor) to help students master the effects of individual C++ statements on a linked list, instead of demonstrati . . .

Methylation of cytosine in DNA is an epigenetic change associated with gene regulation. This paper presents a study of the effects of epigenetic modifications associated with DNA methylation on expression and regulation of bio-mineralization genes in . . .

Cyberscavenger is a map-based application created for the CyberQUEST project that allows teachers to set learning goals for the class before a field trip. Students then use Cyberscavenger to create a class report of the field trip based on the learnin . . .

With the rapid increase of information on the Internet, people are in desperate need to find a better way to access, filter, and organize content online. This project presents the concept, design, and implementation of the reading platform named Motif . . .

This project examines the effectiveness of applying machine learning techniques to the realm of college student success, specifically with the intent of discovering and identifying those student characteristics and factors that show the strongest pred . . .

Cloud computing has become one of the most revolutionary concepts of our time; as the world comes more connected, and more and more of our information is stored in the cloud instead of on local devices, the greater potential harm an intruder could cau . . .

Based on the Linked List Visualizer developed at California State University, San Marcos, we built an interactive, adaptive tutor to help students master the effects of individual C++ statements on a linked list, instead of demonstrating “large scale” . . .

Selenium plays an important biological role in the expression of the functions of proteins, such as reproduction, immune function and disease resistance. A selenoprotein includes an amino acid called selenocysteine (Sec) which is known as the 21st ami . . .

Students in data structure classes often have difficulties visualizing what each C++ statement does to a data structure they are creating. This is especially true of data structures with pointers. In this paper we present a system that helps students . . .

Abstract Emiliania huxleyi (Ehux) is a single-celled marine phytoplankton. It is a species of coccolithophore which plays a large role in the ecology and biogeochemistry of the world's oceans. The purpose of this research is to compare DNA methylation . . .

The main aim of this study was to comparatively study the presence and expressions of lipid metabolism proteins in E.huxleyi and three other Prymnesiophyceae species G.oceanica, I.galbana, and Chryosochomulina. The proteins related lipid metabolism of . . .

After dozens of years' growth, biologists found out the original web-based bioinformatics is inconvenient when they handle many web sites manually in order to perform a single task. So web service based bioinformatics is proposed afterwards. However, . . .

The Information Age has created an unprecedented demand for learning. In order to stay competitive in the workplace, workers find it necessary to continually reeducate themselves. The demand to learn and learn quickly is driven by a paradigm shift in . . .

Comparative genomics is a field of biological research in which the genomic sequences of different species are compared. Comparative genomics provides a powerful tool for studying evolutionary changes among organisms, helping to identify genes that ar . . .

An increasing number of LCMS (Learning Content management system) and LMS (Learning Management System) are becoming available resulting in XML becoming a more and more popular tool for all data exchange. IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. (IMS) deve . . .

Biomineralization is used by Coccolithophores to produce shells made of calcium carbonate that still allow photosynthetic activity to penetrate the shell because the shells are transparent. This project tried to build machine learning models for predi . . .

In the work, we present results produced from non-linear QSAR models developed and implemented using evolutionary computation and Random Forest Regression to study the effectiveness of dimeric Aryl β-Diketo Acids on HIV-1 Integrase inhibition. Dimeric . . .