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Refining the IVBSS
Matthew Jackson, Dillan Funkhouser † , Mary Lynn Buonarosa †
UMTRI (University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute)
mcjacks08@earlham.edu
The IVBSS (Integrated Vehicle Based Safety Systems) is a crash warning system capable
of forward collision, lateral drift, lane-change merge, and curve speed warnings. Cars
equipped with this system as well as some audio and video recording equipment was given
to just over 100 subjects. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effect of the system
on the subjects driving, to determine the how frequently drivers performed secondary tasks
and if drivers tended to perform secondary tasks during low or high risk situations. The
video and audio data was sorted and coded in order to achieve these goals.
Refining the Annotations of Malaria Genomes
Emmalee Adelman, Alisha Harms, Janell Jensen, Chris Meserve, Martin
Tinkerhess, William Vincent, Xander Rowland, Alfred Simkin, Lindsey
Howlett,Gaya Hettiarachchi, Doug Armour, Caroline Hackett, David Courtney,
Doug Hardesty, and Peter L. Blair †
Biology Department
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana
blairpe@earlham.edu
Malaria remains a global scourge to human life and existence and is responsible for
up to 500 million cases and 3 million deaths annually. Therefore the need to establish
and design novel malaria drug and vaccine strategies is crucial yet remains challenged, in
part, due to the current status of malaria gene annotations. While the human malaria (P.
falciparum) genome deserves the majority of attention, the accuracy of the rodent model (P.
yoelii) genome is imperative for the traditional pipeline of drug/vaccine development and
validity studies. Our research utilizes published large-scale datasets, notably Expressed
Sequence Tags (ESTs), comparative genomics, and bioinformatic approaches to resolve
and correct the current P. yoelii gene annotations. To date our research group has examined
1585 genes, 20.2
URPC-4