Multispectral data analysis Final report

Contour maps and prediction lines demonstrating existence of water depth information in multispectral dat

Guest satisfaction in a college food service setting

Satisfying the needs of college students in the dining halls have become more complex since is expected more by today\u27s society. In order to meet these demands, the food service director needs to be aware of what the students\u27 expectations are, while trying to keep within a budget and nutrition guidelines. Food service in colleges and universities play an important role as a part of the overall experience a student receive while attending school. This study explores the overall satisfaction of the students in one particular situation to evaluate whether or not the students feel that they are having their desires fulfilled. The students filled out a questionnaire designed specifically for their dining halls on the various aspects of the school\u27s food service. The analysis showed areas where satisfaction was being met and also where improvement could be made

Infant sudden death: a novel mutation responsible for impaired sodium channel function

In coordination with the New York City Medical Examiner's Office, we received the sequence of a mutated SCN5A gene that was found in a five-week-old girl who died in her sleep. SCN5A codes for the voltage-gated cardiac sodium channel alpha subunit (Nav1.5) and is responsible for the fast depolarization in phase zero of the cardiac action potential. The mutations that were present in the girl's SCN5A gene were a missense mutation, Q1832E, and a truncation mutation, R1944X. In order to gain an understanding of the conditions that led to the patient's death, we carried out a functional analysis on the mutant channels and measured how their properties differed from wild type Nav1.5 properties. For our functional analysis we carried out mutagenesis reactions to produce three experimental constructs in order to examine independent effects of Q1832E or R1944X, and to examine their interaction (mutant Nav1.5 that contains both Q1832E or R1944X; as was found in the genetic screen). These constructs were transfected into HEK 293 cells and studied using the patch clamp analysis using the whole cell configuration. Experiments were carried out to test the Nav1.5 current voltage relationships, the recovery from inactivation properties, and steady state inactivation properties. The data demonstrated that each of the three constructs resulted in a significantly reduced current density when compared to wild type Nav1.5 currents. The gating properties of the mutant channels were similar to those of wild type Nav1.5, though Nav1.5-R1944X did show a statistically significant slower recovery from inactivation than the wild type channel. Though more experimentation is needed to determine the mechanism behind the reduced current in the mutant channels, our data shows that each of the mutations is sufficient to produce a severely dysfunctional channel and this is likely the cause of the patient's death

Mindsets and Internationalization Success: An Exploratory Study of the British Retail Grocery Industry

Despite the growing pressures of internationalization, failures in international efforts are becoming increasingly widespread. Previous literature has developed external environmental and internal firm-specific explanations of international success, but has ignored the role of mindsets in understanding international failures. This gap is especially important because recent studies contend that the mindsets or the way top managers make sense of their global environment is central to international decision making and outcomes. We propose that mindsets are important in explaining international success. We compare the mindsets of two matched firms in the British retail grocery industry—one successful (Tesco) and another unsuccessful (Sainsbury)—from 1988 to 2003. Our results suggest systematic differences between the successful (Tesco) and the unsuccessful (Sainsbury) firm in two specific facets of mindsets—complexity and reactivity. These results, although exploratory, do highlight the importance of mindsets in the process of internationalization and raise interesting questions for future empirical examination

Catskill stories

I saw my old friend Moses in People magazine yesterday. He\u27s leading Quincy Parker through a mob of reporters. Parker is wearing jail clothes and handcuffs, but he looks like a Chivas Regal ad. If anyone looks like the criminal, it\u27s Moses, his disheveled attorney. Poor Moses. Almost sixteen years since I\u27ve seen him and he continues to resemble a disreputable stork, the way his skinny neck sticks out from his collar. Moses defends the notorious and the reprehensible. Child pornographers, mass murderers, dope-selling politician\u27s sons. Quincy Parker is the worst yet. Most people think Moses is in it for the publicity. Or the money. He\u27s not. He\u27s defending what he hates. It seems like some people need to encounter what they hate everyday of their lives