Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences articles from April 2003

Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences archives from April 2003

Editorial.(Editorial)
April 1, 2003... Another era in the history of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences has come to a close and a new era is dawning as John Boyle steps down as executive officer after 13 years and Charles Swann moves into that position. The title of executive...

Effects of simulated wintertime flooding to control erosion on selected chemical and microbial properties of agricultural soils in the Mississippi Delta.
April 1, 2003... Between late fall and early spring in the Mississippi Delta agricultural region (the floodplain between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers in the state of Mississippi, USA), agricultural fields are typically without plant cover, precipitation is...

The occurrence of fusarium merismoides var. chlamydosporale (tuberculariaceae) in Rankin County, Mississippi.
April 1, 2003... This report documents the first occurrence of the fungus Fusarium merismoides var. chlamydosporale (Tuberculariaceae; Ascomycota) in Mississippi. The presence of this fungus was first observed in a rural area of Rankin County, Mississippi...

First report of crazy top in Mississippi river delta corn (Zea Mays).
April 1, 2003... The causal fungus of downy mildew, Sclerophthora macrospora, also causes crazy top in corn (Zea mays). It is a distinctive disease of corn and can cause economic losses in localized areas (Smith and Renfro, 1999). Crazy top was reported...

President's column.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Thanks to the many people who participated in the 2003 MAS annual meeting in Hattiesburg this past February. We had a great time, with many good presentations, lots of exhibitors, old friends from across the state, and a dynamic Dogden...

Ex-executive officer's column.
April 1, 2003... It's true. After thirteen years as Executive Officer of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, I have stepped down to allow new blood to flow into this office. Dr. Charles Swann of the Mississippi Mineral Resources Institute at Ole Miss has been...

Agriculture and plant science. (Divisional Reports).
April 1, 2003... The division of Agriculture and Plant Science had eleven oral and eight poster papers. Graduate and undergraduate paper competition was the central part of the presentations to promote student participation. Nine papers were presented by the...

Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology. (Divisional Reports).
April 1, 2003... The Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology Division (CMDB) held its annual meeting from 13-14 February, 2003, during the MAS Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting in Hattiesburg. There were a total of 25 oral presentations spread out over the...

Chemistry and chemical engineering. (Divisional Reports).
April 1, 2003... There were 22 oral and 16 poster presentations at the 2003 meeting for a total of 38 presentations. The presentations were consistently good, with many graduate and undergraduate students participating. The sessions went smoothly and we stayed...

Health sciences. (Divisional Reports).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Health Sciences (HS) Division at Annual MAS meeting was a success. There were close to 50 outstanding peer-reviewed projects that were presented at the HS division. Attendance was considered the largest HS division gathering in the last...

History and philosophy of science. (Divisional Reports).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Division of History and Philosophy of Science met on February 14, 2003 during the 67th annual meeting of The Mississippi Academy of Science (MAS) held at the Lake Terrace Convention Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. There were nine...

Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. (Divisional Reports).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Division of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences met for a one-day session on Thursday February 13, 2003 as part of the 67th annual meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences. There were twelve oral and four poster presentations; regardless...

Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics. (Divisional Reports).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The 2003 annual meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences included the largest participation in the Division of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics in anyone's memory. The presentations included twenty-two speakers and two posters...

Psychology and Social Science. (Divisional Reports).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Division of Psychology and Social Science had a very successful meeting for 2003. In our second year as a combined division, we had a full day of excellent papers from undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. Our day...

Science Education. (Divisional Reports).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The most important information was the election of the new Vice chair for Science Education Division which was Dr. Shelia Brown, The University of Southern Mississippi. She is currently the Center for Oceans Sciences Education Excellence...

Zoology and Entomology. (Divisional Reports).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Zoology and Entomology Division met on the morning and afternoon of Friday, Feb 14, 2003. During this sixty-seventh annual meeting of MAS, twelve oral presentations were made, more than double the number for last year(five). and two poster...

The construction of plasimid vector encoding polypeptide for drug delivery to cancerous tissue. (Celluar, Molecular and Developmental Biology).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Soumo De, St. Andrews Episcopal Middle School, Ridgeland, MS 39157 Nonspecific action of chemotherapcutic drugs limit therapeutic effect in tumors. Other approaches such as surgery and radiotherapy also have limitations in treatment of...

Real-time monitoring of ring-opening bulk polymerizations of [euro]-caprolactone using ftir spectroscopy. (Chemistry and Chemical Engineering).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Eric McClendon *, Jamie Messman, and Robson Storey, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 The bulk polymerizations of [euro]-caprolactone (CL) were monitored via IR-spectroscopy. Each polymerization was conducted at...

A comparative review of life tec, progesa, and defense blood standardization system (DBSS) blood donor information systems (BDIS). (Health Science).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Johnathan Ware and Carolyn Beck *, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 Blood donor information systems are used by blood collection agencies to track donor and blood product information. Ideally, these systems should...

Interpolating large data sets using bernstein functions. (Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Wesley Hamilton Duffee-Braun *, Joshua Dove, and Joseph Kolibal, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 Bernstein functions represent an entirely new approach to functional approximation. These functions can be used to...

Fast bernstein function interpolation. (Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Joseph Kolibal, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 The process of using Bernstein functions to interpolate data relies on a deconvolution process in which the pre-image of the data to be constructed is generated. For...

Using interpolating bernstein functions for image processing. (Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Jianxiang Qiao *, Yang Ye, and Joseph Kolibal, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 Bernstein functions can be used to construct interpolants to data which are non-oscillatory, and provide a globally smooth...

Numerical solutions to stochastic PDEs. (Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Michael Eckhoff* and Joseph Kolibal, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406 The Galerkin method is re-examined for elliptic PDEs of the form Au = W, where W is white-noise forcing. Following the traditional weak...

Statistical processing of a database and computer diagnostics. (Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Oleg Efimochkin, Alcorn State University, Alcorn State, MS 39096 In the developed program I am using information contained in a database for the purposes of identifying the objects belonging to the certain class described by statistically...

ASP-based database driven online survey. (Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Alexander Alexandrov, Alcorn State University, Alcorn State, MS 39096 Statistical data is widely used in all kinds of businesses. There are many ways to gather it as well. This presentation explains how using ASP & Microsoft Access...