Message from the Program Committee: Sincere Thanks to Our Community Sponsors
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March 27th, 2009 Message from the Program Committee: Welcome to the fifth annual meeting of the SC Upstate Research Symposium! The SC Upstate Research Symposium Series offers faculty and students the opportunity to showcase their current research, scholarly, and creative activities while interacting with other researchers and community leaders from throughout the Upstate. This year’s meeting features presentations and posters from faculty and students from USC Upstate, Converse College, Wofford College, Limestone College, Spartanburg Methodist College, Spartanburg Community College, Southern Wesleyan University, Lander University, Sherman College, and Presbyterian College. We would like to sincerely thank our community sponsors: Stäubli (our GOLD Sponsor), Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System (our SILVER Sponsor). Such support from prominent regional businesses and institutions is greatly appreciated and essential for the advancement of academic research in the Upstate. We would also like to thank the EPSCoR/IDeA RS state grant program. This year’s event will include keynote speeches by Mayor William Barnet III, Mayor of Spartanburg and Dr. Jay Moskowitz, President of Health Sciences South Carolina. Special invited guests include Mr. David Root of Converse Motors, who will present his company’s cutting edge Hydrogen Add-on Technology for automobiles during the Poster Session. If you have any questions or comments about this Symposium Series, or would like to receive an additional printed copy of the most recent Symposium Proceedings, please contact Dr. Sebastian van Delden, (864) 503-5292, [email protected]. More information can also be found on the Symposium website: http://www.uscupstate.edu/symposium. Once again, welcome! The Program Committee Sincere Thanks to our Community Sponsors: The Stäubli Corporation is the Gold Level Sponsor for the Fifth Annual SC Upstate Research Symposium. Stäubli is a mechatronics solution provider with three dedicated divisions: textile machinery, connectors, and robotics. With a workforce of over 3000, the company generates a yearly turnover surpassing 1 billion Swiss francs. Originally founded 1892 as a small workshop in Horgen / Zurich, today Stäubli is an international group with its head office in Pfäffikon, Switzerland. Visit http://www.staubli.com for more information. The Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System is the Silver Level Sponsor for the Fifth Annual SC Upstate Research Symposium. The Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System offers a unique combination of world-class facilities, caring and dedicated professionals, advanced technology, and specialized treatment options. “Spartanburg Regional is more than a hospital, we’re are a family of healthcare providers who live and work in the Upstate. We're here to care for you when you need medical attention, but we're also here to help keep you well. We're your healthcare system, and we're with you for life.” Visit http://www.srhs.com for more information. Sponsors: Stäubli, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, EPSCoR/IDeA RS grant. 1 Fifth Annual SC Upstate Research Symposium Table of Contents The Program Committee ............................................................................... 7 Keynote Speakers and Tutorial Presenters ................................................... 8 Symposium Schedule Overview .................................................................... 9 Breakout Session 1: Biology ........................................................................ 10 Session Chair: Neval Erturk, Converse College Comparative Histopathology of the Lungs and Urinary Bladder of Rana pipiens Infected with Parasitic Helminths.................................................... 10 Edna Steele, Stephanie Newton and Baye Williamson Converse College Ploidy Levels and Genome Sizes of Magnolia L. Species, Hybrids, and Cultivars .... 13 Kevin Parris, Spartanburg Community College; Thomas Ranney, N.C. State University W. Vance Baird and Halina Knap, Clemson University Messin' with Texas! The genus Isoetes (Isoetaceae) in the Lonestar State .............. 16 C. Matthew Hardman and Kerry Heafner Limestone College Using Spatial Assessment of Drift Fence Captures to Investigate Juvenile Dispersal of Ranid Frogs ......................................................................... 18 Chelsea Kross and Melissa Pilgrim USC Upstate Three Allotetraploid Segregates of Isoetes piedmontana (Pfeiffer) Reed ............... 21 Ricky Brannon, Miranda Dornis, Kristen Smith and Kerry Heafner Limestone College Breakout Session 2: Human and Civil Rights: Around the World............... 24 Session Chair: Jane Watkins, Limestone College Charles W. Chesnutt and Racial Caricatures in Post-Bellum, ............................... 24 Pre-Harlem America Peter Caster USC Upstate Child Trafficking - Borderline Slavery .................................................................. 30 Landis Bunch and Carolyn Hooker Spartanburg Community College Environmental Activism in the Middle East ...........................................................32 Joni Hammond and Lizabeth Zack USC Upstate Scars of Africa ..................................................................................................... 34 Robin Ivey and Carolyn Hooker Spartanburg Community College Child Soldiers in Burma....................................................................................... 36 Sam Karns and Carolyn Hooker Spartanburg Community College Breakout Session 3: Mathematics and Computer Science .......................... 38 Session Chair: Jerome Lewis, USC Upstate A Novel Robotic Approach to Contour Recovery using Structured Light ................ 38 Nicole Hodge, Robert Mahmoudishad, Mark Parrish, and Sebastian van Delden USC Upstate 2 Sponsors: Stäubli, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, EPSCoR/IDeA RS grant. March 27th, 2009 Multithreaded and Parallel Programming: Problems and the Environments and Tools to Handle Them ............................................................. 41 Edward Stokes and Wayne Smith Presbyterian College Mining Exceptions as Interesting Knowledge ....................................................... 44 Stephen St. Peter and Rick Chow USC Upstate Determinants of Information Technology Acceptance: A Review .......................... 48 of Technology Acceptance Model Bilquis Ferdousi Spartanburg Community College Mathematical Modeling of non-Newtonian Peristaltic Flows ................................. 52 Muhammad Hameed USC Upstate Poster Session ............................................................................................. 54 Investigation of the Role of Promoter Methylation and Histone Modification in the Down-regulation of the Colon Tumor Suppressor, DRA ...............................54 Derek Griffith and Jeannie Chapman USC Upstate An In-Depth Study of the Length of Hospital Stays with Regard to Procedures performed on Type II Diabetes Patients ................................................................56 Anneliese Schmidt and Wei Zhong USC Upstate Implementation of the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program in ......... 58 the Upstate Region of South Carolina Alexsis Ferguson and Melissa Pilgrim USC Upstate Size of Rank Tests for Location in Linear Models with Repeated Observations ....... 61 Daniel Hagerman and Bernard Omolo USC Upstate On the Properties and Applications of the Space of Linear Functions L(R) ............ 63 Michael Blackmon and Gamal Elnagar USC Upstate Action Rule Summaries ........................................................................................65 Cuong Hoang, Anna Novo and Angelina Tzacheva USC Upstate Transition to Preschool Programs for Young Children with Disabilities ................ 68 Delia Malone, Converse College Peggy Gallagher, Georgia State University The Effects of Linoleic Acid on Taste Preferences in Rats ....................................... 71 Harry Quedenfield and David Pittman Wofford College How Water-Replete Rats Respond to Different Tastes under the Influences of benzodiazepines .............................................................................. 74 Lindsey Richardson and David Pittman Wofford College How Water-Deprived Rats Respond to Different Tastes under the Influence of benzodiazepines ................................................................................ 77 Molly McGinnis and David Pittman Wofford College Sponsors: Stäubli, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, EPSCoR/IDeA RS grant. 3 Fifth Annual SC Upstate Research Symposium Older Husbands and Younger Wives: The January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature ................................................................. 80 Esther Godfrey USC Upstate Oil and Western Friendliness, The Cause for Russian Interference in Former Soviet-bloc Nations ................................................................................. 84 Seth Rubenstein and Trevor Rubenzer USC Upstate Efficient Estimation of Cox Model with Time-Dependent Coefficients with Missing Causes ............................................................................................. 87 Seunggeun Hyun, USC Upstate Yanging Sun, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Modernism's Egypt "And Other Disorders of a Revolutionary Character" ............. 90 Celena Kusch USC Upstate Southern Wesleyan University Strategic Human Resource Plan ........................... 93 Beverly Lowe, Felicia Thomas-Adams, Nicole Varnum and Lee Kizer Southern Wesleyan University