An Analysis of Differences in Approaches to Systems of Linear Equations Problems Given Multiple Choice Answers

This descriptive study focuses on the approaches college students (ages 20 -24) use when solving systems of linear equations problems that have multiple choice answers. Participants were from a midsize public university in the northeast. Four approaches were considered – three forwards approaches: 1) substitution, 2) elimination, and 3) graphing, and one backwards approach: plugging in the x and y values from each multiple choice option. Participants solved systems of linear equations problems and answered questions based on their methods in a structured clinical interview. Each participant also filled out a questionnaire. It was shown from the results of this study that the major of a student does not change the approach used to solve a problem by very much. Most students in the study chose to use substitution to solve the problems, usually because this was the method students remembered most and was deemed the “easiest” method by the students

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, Part 1

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, June 4 or 6, 1993, at his home in Westbrook, Maine. For the Islands and Bridges project. Lagasse talks about his memories of French Island in Old Town; nicknames; French and the French Island school; factory and mill work; Great Depression; dairy farming and milk as part of the daily diet; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; lumberyard on Hildreth Street; polio; Benoit Bouchard and Herbert Gray School; children\u27s and adult\u27s entertainment; grocery stores; Great Depression and WPA work; Old Town airport; Monday wash day; boxing matches; plumbing and the first bathtub on French Island; automobiles; Prohibition, homebrew, and bootleggers; shining shoes at the University of Maine; and WWII. Listen Part 1. mfc_na2770_c1498_01 Part 2. mfc_na2770_c1499_01 Part 3. mfc_na2770_c1499_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/1032/thumbnail.jp

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, Part 3

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, June 4 or 6, 1993, at his home in Westbrook, Maine. For the Islands and Bridges project. Lagasse talks about his memories of French Island in Old Town; nicknames; French and the French Island school; factory and mill work; Great Depression; dairy farming and milk as part of the daily diet; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; lumberyard on Hildreth Street; polio; Benoit Bouchard and Herbert Gray School; children\u27s and adult\u27s entertainment; grocery stores; Great Depression and WPA work; Old Town airport; Monday wash day; boxing matches; plumbing and the first bathtub on French Island; automobiles; Prohibition, homebrew, and bootleggers; shining shoes at the University of Maine; and WWII. Listen Part 1. mfc_na2770_c1498_01 Part 2. mfc_na2770_c1499_01 Part 3. mfc_na2770_c1499_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/1034/thumbnail.jp

Compound Effects of Clock and Voltage Based Power Side-Channel Countermeasures

The power side-channel attack, which allows an attacker to derive secret information from power traces, continues to be a major vulnerability in many critical systems. Numerous countermeasures have been proposed since its discovery as a serious vulnerability, including both hardware and software implementations. Each countermeasure has its own drawback, with some of the highly effective countermeasures incurring large overhead in area and power. In addition, many countermeasures are quite invasive to the design process, requiring modification of the design and therefore additional validation and testing to ensure its accuracy. Less invasive countermeasures that do not require directly modifying the system do exist but often offer less protection. This thesis analyzes two non-invasive countermeasures and examines ways to maximize the protection offered by them while incurring the least amount of overhead. These two countermeasures are called clock phase noise (CPN) and voltage noise (VN), and are placed on the same FPGA as an AES encryption module that we are trying to protect. We test these designs against a highly effective algorithm called correlation power analysis (CPA) and a preprocessing technique called the sliding window attack (SW). We found that the combined effects of the two countermeasures was greater than the impact of either countermeasure when used independently, and published a paper in the 2019 IEEE 30th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP) on our findings. We found that our best combined countermeasure protected about 76% of the maximum amount of traces that a well-known but invasive competitor, wave dynamic differential logic (WDDL), could with only about 41% of the area and 78% of the power. However, the sliding window attack significantly reduced the amount of protection our combined countermeasure could offer to only 11% of that offered by WDDL. Since then, we updated our methodology and made some adjustments to VN and CPN. Our CPN countermeasure greatly improved, and therefore so did our combined countermeasure, which on average protected up to about 90% of the maximum amount of traces that WDDL could with only about 43% of the area and about 60% of the power. This is remarkable because these results are after the sliding window attack, meaning that our post-proposal countermeasures protect almost as well as WDDL while requiring only about half of the resources

A Tale of Two Standards: An Exploration of US GAAP and IFRS

The research in this paper has two objectives. Beginning with an examination of the historical development of how financial reporting standards are set in the United States and around the world, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board will be studied. Setting financial reporting standards in the United States is currently a responsibility of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, while many countries abroad utilize International Financial Reporting Standards, maintained by the International Accounting Standards Board. After detailing the historical development of each of the two boards and the sets of standards they maintain, the paper continues with an analysis of some of the difficulties that could be faced by the United States if the transition proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to International Financial Reporting Standards takes place. General differences between the standards are examined along with the differences relating to the specific area of the treatment of long-term and intangible assets. The second objective of this research was to use the information obtained to develop a case study that was used in an intermediate accounting class at Bryant University. Student responses to the case and the corresponding survey are consistent with the idea that the differences between US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and International Financial Reporting Standards need to be studied to a much greater extent in the classroom in order to ensure that accounting students are prepared for such a transition upon entering the workforce

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, Part 2

Patrick “Leo” Lagasse, interviewed by Carol Nichols, June 4 or 6, 1993, at his home in Westbrook, Maine. For the Islands and Bridges project. Lagasse talks about his memories of French Island in Old Town; nicknames; French and the French Island school; factory and mill work; Great Depression; dairy farming and milk as part of the daily diet; cutting ice from the Penobscot River; lumberyard on Hildreth Street; polio; Benoit Bouchard and Herbert Gray School; children\u27s and adult\u27s entertainment; grocery stores; Great Depression and WPA work; Old Town airport; Monday wash day; boxing matches; plumbing and the first bathtub on French Island; automobiles; Prohibition, homebrew, and bootleggers; shining shoes at the University of Maine; and WWII. Listen Part 1. mfc_na2770_c1498_01 Part 2. mfc_na2770_c1499_01 Part 3. mfc_na2770_c1499_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf026/1033/thumbnail.jp

Alien Registration- Lebelle, Yvonne (Connor Twp, Aroostook County)

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Alien Registration- Guerrette, Germain (Saint Agatha, Aroostook County)

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Alien Registration- Lagasse, Josephine (Jay, Franklin County)

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