A Pioneer’s Journey on the Oregon Trail

“The Oregon Trail was one of the most famous trails ever. It was a series of trails that were used by the first explorers and fur traders. It was the longest overland trail in North America. In the 1840s America and England agreed that Oregon would belong to the first country to settle...

The DELPHI detector

* Set of cylindrical detectors around the beam pipe o Beam pipe: beryllium and carbon fibre (11 cm in diameter) o e+e- collisions at the center * 3 functions: o Locate the particles o Measure their momentum / energy o Identify their...

Start building your career! – Career Development & Experiential Learning

Importance of Volunteering * Outlet for natural talents, road-test for a new career, or handy way to network. * Opportunity to develop new skills, expand horizons and help others * Helpful for those with little practical experience in their chosen field. www.mun.ca/cdel Career Development...

Analytic Philosophy – Introduction and a Brief History

* Analytic philosophy in the history of philosophy and the history of analytic philosophy * Areas of philosophy and central philosophical issues About this course Mechanics, requiements and expectations Syllabus * Office Founders 165c * Telephone (619) 260-2749 [USD]; (619)...

Software Development Tools 3 – More on Automated Testing and Continuous Integration

* Testing software continuously validates that o the software works and o meets the customer’s requirements * Automating the tests ensures that – testing will in fact be continuous * Without testing, a team is just guessing that its software meets those requirements. Tests and...

Introduction to ColdFusion

What is ColdFusion? * Formerly produced by Allaire Corporation (now Macromedia), the ColdFusion Web Application Server is a multi-platform Internet programming engine. * So what does this mean?

The Incredible Words of a Woman

* the determining issue in the majority of rape cases is based on socially prevalent myths about sexual assault and stereotypes of female and male sexuality. These myths in effect classify some women as ‘real’ or ‘deserving’ rape victims and others as ‘unrapeable’; some rapes as...

PhD Completion Project Phases I & II

Phase 1 – Project Partner * Role: Collect & report data as if Research Partner * College of Arts & Sciences o English o Chemistry o Clinical Psychology o Humanities o Mathematics o Neuroscience o Oceanography ...

Viruses Not Composed of Cells

Characteristics Obligate intracellular parasites Single type of nucleic acid Protein coat Envelope Can infect many hosts Determined by attachment to host cell cell wall, flagella/fimbriae Receptor sites, or plasma membrane in animal cells Nucleic acid-core Either DNA or RNA, not both Follows...

Sedna: A Native XML DBMS

Physical layer for supporting these aspects is required. The layer is primarily based on * Data structures * Memory management Sedna Overview * Full-featured database system (external and main memory management, query and update facilities, concurrency etc.) * Native XML database ...