The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina

About: The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina is a education organization based out in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Stars & Population. The organization has 526 authors who have published 1316 publications receiving 18940 citations.

Fault localization using execution traces

Abstract: This paper describes an approach to the automatic localization of program faults using execution traces. The traces are used to construct a directed graph that models the propagation of values during execution. Knowledge of which output values are incorrect is then used to narrow the region that must be examined by the person debugging the program. Algorithms to construct and analyze the graph have been designed and implemented.

An Examination of the CTONI Utilizing Gc-Gf Theory: A Comparison of the CTONI and WJ-III.

Abstract: The present investigation examined the validity of the Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (CTONI) with the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-III COG) by administering these instruments in counterbalanced order to 60 college students. Results indicated that the mean CTONI NIQ score was not significantly different from the mean WJ-III COG General Intellectual Ability (GIA) score. However, mean score differences were found between the CTONI NIQ and the WJ-III COG Verbal Ability, Thinking Ability, Comprehension-Knowledge, and Fluid Reasoning cluster scores. Although the correlations between the CTONI and the WJ-III COG cluster scores were generally of small magnitude, the CTONI Geometric Nonverbal IQ composite score demonstrated construct specificity, whereas the CTONI Pictorial Nonverbal IQ scale did not. The implications of the findings are discussed and practitioners are asked to use caution when using this instrument to assess the fluid reasoning abilities of college students. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Photoreceptor development in premetamorphic and metamorphic Xenopus laevis.

Abstract: Transgenic Xenopus laevis are commonly used to study gene expression in photoreceptors, but only red rods and red cones are known to exist in the pre-metamorphic stages commonly used in transgenic studies. Using RT-PCR, this study shows that violet cones develop in early pre-metamorphic stages (Stage 35) with the red rods and red cones. Green rod development began in Stage 53 with the onset of metamorphosis. Anat Rec, 2010. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Using Wiki Technology to Build a Faculty Publications Database

Abstract: This article describes the use of wiki technology to create a faculty publications database at a military college. The project was undertaken to organize and promote research productivity, especially among science faculty, as the author is the liaison to those departments. WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editing, searching, and navigation capabilities available in most wiki software packages are relatively simple to master compared to the complex processes used to create and publish searchable Web-based databases. The author explains the benefits and drawbacks of peer production, describes an annual event that honored recently published faculty and launched the wiki, gives examples of other library resources that may benefit from using such a format, and outlines future plans to migrate wiki content to an external host.

Multivariate analyses document host specificity, differences in the diatom metaphyton vs. epiphyton, and seasonality that structure the epiphytic diatom community

Abstract: Epiphytic diatom community structure associated with selected macroalgae collected from jetties at Galveston, Port Aransas, and Port Isabel, Texas was investigated using multivariate and community statistics. Redundancy analyses revealed community variation attributable to treatment (4% in Galveston, up to 8–12% at Port Isabel and Port Aransas), to host plant (6–9%) and to season (ca 14%). Shared effects between pairs of factors were between 1 and 2% or less, indicating factors tested acted independently and significantly to vary the diatom community structure over a two year period. A coastal salinity gradient explained 16% of the variation. Host specificity was documented and correlated with season. Treatment included a wash, tip and base preparation processed to analyze metaphyton and epiphyton separately and determine zonation on hosts and within the narrow intertidal (11–25 cm). Wash assemblages were statistically different and more diverse than attached assemblages during the fall/spring but were more alike in winter when hosts were senescent. It is recommended that future studies of epiphytic communities take advantage of rinsing or washing the host plant to capture this important and significant part of the diatom community associated with macroalgae. Variation between hosts was greater than variation among host replicates, in abundance rather than identity.