On Aperiodic Subtraction Games with Bounded Nim Sequence

Subtraction games are a class of impartial combinatorial games whose positions correspond to nonnegative integers and whose moves correspond to subtracting one of a fixed set of numbers from the current position. Though they are easy to define, sub- traction games have proven difficult to analyze. In particular, few general results about their Sprague-Grundy values are known. In this paper, we construct an example of a subtraction game whose sequence of Sprague-Grundy values is ternary and aperiodic, and we develop a theory that might lead to a generalization of our construction.Comment: 45 page

Older Americans and the Internet

Presents findings from a survey conducted in February and March 2004. Looks at the growth of Internet use by seniors since 2000, and how Baby Boomer Internet users will likely transform the wired senior stereotype

Health Information Online

Presents findings from a survey conducted in November 2004. Looks at the growth in Internet use for finding health information; the specific health topics that are most frequently searched; and trends that are likely to influence online health searching

Resource Reviews

Reviews of Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible, by James Vanderkam. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2012. 188 pp. $17.00; ISBN 0-8028-6679-0. Reviewed by Robert Burgess, Head, Acquisitions, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri. Jerusalem Testament Palestinian Christians Speak, 1988-2008, by Melanie A. May. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2010. 180 pp.$16.00; ISBN 0-8028-6485-7. Reviewed by Robert Burgess, Head, Acquisitions, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri. Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind, by Mark A. Noll. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2011. 180 pp. $16.99. ISBN 978-0-8028-6637-0. Reviewed by Jane Scott, Public Services Librarian, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon. Romans: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators. Translated and edited by J. Patout Burns Jr. and Father Constantine Newman. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. The Church Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012. 428 pp.$30.50; ISBN 978-0-8028-2575-9 (Hardcover). Reviewed by J. Craig Kubic, Director of Library Services, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri. Sunday School That Really Works: A Strategy for Connecting Congregations and Communities, by Steve R. Parr. Grand Rapids: Kregal, 2010. 218 pp. $11.10; ISBN 978-0-8254-3567-6 (Softcover). Reviewed by J. Craig Kubic, Director of Library Services, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri. Tasting Heaven on Earth: Worship in Sixth-Century Constantinople, by Walter D. Ray. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2012. 158 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6663-9. Reviewed by Rebecca Russo, Instruction Librarian, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California. Unlocking the Growth: You Will Be Amazed at Your Church’s Potential, by Michael Harvey. Grand Rapids: Monarch, 2012. 191 pp.$26.30; ISBN 978-0-8572-1198-9 (Softcover). Reviewed by J. Craig Kubic, Director of Library Services, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri. A Week in the Life of Corinth, by Ben Witherington III. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press Academic, 2012. 158 pp. $16.00; ISBN 978-0-8308-3962-9. Reviewed by Kathleen Kempa, Reference and Electronic Services Librarian, Steelman Library, Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida

Nicole Fox, Assistant Professor of Sociology, travels to the United Nations Headquarters, NYC

It is with deep gratitude that I wish to thank the Center for International Education for supporting my recent travel to the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York, to present at the 59thCommission for the Status of Women (CSW59). This was a particularly exciting meeting as it was the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Conference, where UN delegates prepared a Platform for Action that worked to achieve greater equality and opportunity for women globally

The Social Life of Health Information, 2011

Presents survey findings about trends in use of the Internet, including social networking sites, hospital and doctor review sites, and mobile apps to seek, share, or monitor health-related information among adults in general, patients, and caregivers

Creation of a Computational Pipeline to Extract Genes from Quantitative Trait Loci for Diabetes and Obesity

Type 2 Diabetes is a disease of relative insulin deficiency resulting from a combination of insulin resistance and decreased beta-cell function. Over the past several years, over 60 genes have been identified for Type 2 Diabetes in human genome-wide association studies (GWAS). It is important to understand the genetics involved with Type 2 diabetes in order to improve treatment and understand underlying molecular mechanisms. Heterogeneous stock (HS) rats are derived from 8 inbred founder strains and are powerful tools for genetic studies because they provide a basis for high resolution mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) in a relatively short time period. By measuring diabetic traits in 1090 HS male rats and genotyping 10K single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within these rats, Dr. Solberg Woods\u27 lab conducted genetic analysis to identify 85 QTL for diabetes and adiposity traits. To identify candidate genes within these QTL, we propose creation of a bioinformatics pipeline that combines general gene information, information from the rat genome database including disease portals and Variant Visualizer as well as the Attie Diabetes Expression Database. My project has involved writing code to pull data from these databases to determine which genes within each QTL are potential candidate genes. I have scripted the code to analyze genes within a single QTL or multiple QTL simultaneously. The resulting output is a single excel file for each QTL, listing all genes that are found in the disease portals, all genes that have a highly conserved non-synonymous variant change and all genes that are differentially expressed in the Attie database. The program also highlights genes that are found in all three categories. After creating the pipeline, I ran the program for 85 QTL identified in my laboratory. The program identified 63 high priority candidate genes for future follow-up. This work has helped my laboratory rapidly identify candidate genes for type 2 diabetes and obesity. In the future, the code can be modified to identify candidate genes within QTL for any complex trait