The 2014 Research Science Institute



Example Papers

The following papers were selected as representative of the Research Science Institute from ~1995 to ~2006.

You should use these examples to get a feel for how to structure your paper, as well as how to efficiently and effectively use tables and graphics. Note: from 1995 to 1998, students used LaTeX and not LaTeX 2e (Now the default). Thus, a few items, especially at the beginning of the paper, are different.

From this web site, you can view pdf files of each paper. The LaTeX source is located in the /mit/rsi locker on Athena; a directory is provided with each paper.

Compendiums

2005
2004 MIT
2003
  • Several exemplary papers from RSI 1999:
  • Biology

    The Development of Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Simultaneous Fluorescence Imaging and Gene Delivery (2006)
    Author: Thilini Ariyawansa
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2006/submit/thilini/
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    Genetic Polymorphisms in Meningioma Formation and Progression (2005)
    Author: ZeNan Chang
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2005/submit/zenan
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    A Novel Function of Lactate Transporter MCT1 in Gastric Restitution (2005)
    Author: Lisa Marrone
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2005/submit/marrone
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    Synthesis of 3-amino-2-alkenoate (2004)
    Author: Albert Chen
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2004/submit/albertc/
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    Glucocorticoid regulation of cell survival in normal and cytokine-treated gastric chief cells (2004)
    Author: Jacob Sanders
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2004/submit/jacosand/
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    Neural Basis of Inhibition: A Study of Antisaccades Using fMRI and MEG (2003)
    Author: Bobby Xu
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2003/submit/bxu/
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    Quantitative Trait Loci Modulating Corpus Callosum Size in the Mouse Brain (2003)
    Author: Ning Zhou
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2003/submit/ningz/
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    The Effects of Natural Selection and Mutation on Inbreeding Effective Size (2003)
    Author: Can Cenik
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2003/submit/can/
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    A Novel Mislocalization System for Identification of the Spatially Instructive Mediators of Eukaryotic Chemotaxis (2002)
    Author: Jamie Rubin
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2002/submit/jamier/
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    A Comparison of Ganglioside Content and Distribution in Normal Murine Neural Tissue and Murine Neural Tumor Tissue (1999)
    Author: Sourav Sengupta
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/99/ssengupt
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    The boundaries of a DNA-binding domain as defined by proteolytic digestion (1997)
    Author: Marina Voulova
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/97/mvoulova
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    Design and Implementation of a Neural Network For the Evaluation of Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using the DSSP and Chou-Fasman Algorithms (1995)
    Author: Junger Tang OA
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/95/jungert
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    Chemistry

    The Monoreduction of Diketones and its Application towards the Total Synthesis of Kalmanol (2006)
    Author: Kenneth I. Brewer
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2006/submit/kennyb/
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    Synthetizing and Measuring Superconducting Sodium Cobalt Oxide (NaxCoO2) Crystals (2006)
    Author: Radoslaw Tomasz Chrapkiewicz
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2006/submit/radek/
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    Synthesis of a New Ligand -- N,N' - trans - bis - (tert - butyl) - 9,10 - dihydro - 9,10 - ethano - anthracene - 11,12 - dimethanamine (1999)
    Author: Woon Teck Yap
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/99/wyap
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    Developing a Protocol for Infrared Cryocrystallographic Analysis of Carbonmonoxymyoglobin (1998)
    Author: Dave Chokshi
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/98/dchokshi
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    Cognitive Science

    Visual Search: A Novel Psychophysics for Preattentive Vision (1999)
    Author: Elizabeth Williams
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/99/ekwillia
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    The Development of Children's Responses to Questions—a Comparison of English and French (1997)
    Author: Julia Einbond
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/97/jeinbond
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    Computer Science

    An Improved Quantum Algorithm for Searching an Ordered List (2003)
    Author: Brian Jacokes
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2003/submit/brianj/
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    Job Scheduling to Improve Running Time on a Set of Parallel Processors (2002)
    Author: Jared Bass
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2002/submit/jbass/
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    Anti-aliasing of Images Using Line Sampling (1999)
    Author: Rob Kotredes
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/99/rkotrede
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    Design and Implementation of a Neural Network For the Evaluation of Prote in Secondary Structure Prediction Using the DSSP and Chou-Fasman Algorithms (1995)
    Author: Junger Tang
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/95/jungert
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    Engineering

    Analysis of a High Temperature Supercritical Brayton Cycle for Space Exploration (2005)
    Author: Ian M. Rousseau
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2005/submit/ianr/
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    The Effectiveness of the Electro-Acoustical Simulator for Engineers (EASE) in Determining Room Acoustics (1995)
    Author: Douglas Brown
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/95/dbrown
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    Math

    A relationship between Hochschild cohomology and the Goldman bracket for compact oriented two-dimensional manifolds (2006)
    Author: Mitka Vaintrob
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2006/submit/mitkav/
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    On the Reducibility of Cyclotomic Polynomials over Finite Fields (2005)
    Author: Brett Harrison
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2005/submit/bretth
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    A Partial Characterization of Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games on Fields and Vector Spaces (2005)
    Author: Kim Scott
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2005/submit/kscott
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    On the solvability of p-adic diagonal equations (2004)
    Author: Antoni Rangachev
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2004/submit/toniran
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    On a Generalization of the Collatz Conjecture (2004)
    Author: John Lesieutre
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2004/submit/lesjohn
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    Zero-sum problems in finite groups (2003)
    Author: Vesselin Dimitrov
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2003/submit/vessel/
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    A Combinatorial Proof of Seymours Conjecture for Regular Oriented Graphs with Regular Outsets O'a and O''a (2002)
    Author: Lester Mackey
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2002/submit/mackey/
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    On Exact Covering Systems of the Integers and Partitionings of Z^n into Translates of Sub-lattices (1999)
    Author: Alexander Schwartz
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/99/aschwart
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    The Decomposition of Integers as the Sums of Squares in Quadratic Number Fields (1998)
    Author: Aaron Tievsky
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/98/atievsky
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    On the Structure of a Polynomial Quotient Ring Involving Symmetric Polynomials (1997)
    Author: Christopher Mihelich
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/97/cmihelic
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    Physics

    The Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence on Simulated Starlight in a Low-Pressure Telescope Environment (2004)
    Author: Renee Park
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2004/submit/renpark/
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    The Development of Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Simultaneous Fluorescence Imaging and Gene Delivery (2002)
    Author: Vera te Velde
    Files located in /mit/rsi/2002/submit/verat/
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    The Parent Stars of New Extrasolar Planet System Candidates (1998)
    Author: Ann Marie Cody
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/98/acody
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    The Measurement, Simulation, and Interpretation of the Lifetime of Cosmic Muon (1998)
    Author: Matt Thrasher
    Files located in /mit/rsi/examples/papers/98/mthrashe
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