abraham ungar is professor in the department of mathematicsat north dakota state university.after gaining his b.sc. (1965) and m.sc. (1967) from the hebrew university inpure mathematics and ph.d. (1973) from tel-aviv universityin applied mathematics, he held apostdoctoral position at the university of toronto (1974).ungar moved from toronto to pretoria where he held the position of asenior rese...

abraham ungar is professor in the department of mathematics at north dakota state university. after gaining his b.sc. (1965) and m.sc. (1967) from the hebrew university in pure mathematics and ph.d. (1973) from tel-aviv university in applied mathematics, he held a postdoctoral position at the university of toronto (1974). ungar moved from toronto to pretoria where he held the position of a seni...

A Complex Transcription Network Controls the Early Stages of Biofilm Development by Escherichia coli† Birgit M. Prüß,* Christopher Besemann, Anne Denton, and Alan J. Wolfe Department of Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58105; Department of Computer Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58105; and Department of Mic...

CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 28, No. 1, FEBRUARY 2008 37 Tracy Solseng is a graduate student working on a master’s degree in food safety at North Dakota State University in Fargo. She is studying the plasmids associated with Enterobacter sakazakii. Heather Vinson is a microbiologist working in Penelope Gibbs’ laboratory at the Great Plains Institute of Food Safety at North Dakota State University in F...

1National Center for the Protection of the Financial Infrastructure, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042, U.S.A. 2Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, U.S.A. 3Computer Science Department, Gannon University, Erie, PA 16541, U.S.A. 4State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University...

Data sharing in large-scale Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) is challenging due to the excessive number of data sites, their autonomous nature, and the heterogeneity of their schema. Existing PDMS query applications have difficulty to simultaneously achieve high recall rate and scalability. In this chapter, we propose an ontology-based sharing framework to improve the quality of data sharing...

Trevor I. Smith, Warren M. Christensen, Donald B. Mountcastle, and John R. Thompson Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of STEAM Education, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey 08028, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA Maine Cent...

A. F. Kemper,1,2,* M. A. Sentef,3 B. Moritz,4,5 J. K. Freericks,6 and T. P. Devereaux4,7 1Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA 2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 3HISKP, University of Bonn, Nussallee 14-16, D-53115 Bonn, Germany 4Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC...

Dr. Larry Burd is the Director, North Dakota Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. He has worked in the fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) field since the mid-1980s and has published extensively in this area, most recently on the use of community screening for detecting FAS. He is also part of the...

Electronic Structure of Ligated CdSe Clusters: Dependence on DFT Methodology Victor V. Albert, Sergei A. Ivanov, Sergei Tretiak, and Svetlana V. Kilina* Theoretical Division and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58108, Uni...