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Gulf Of Mexico Processes, Jean Ellis, Brad Dean Dec 2011

Gulf Of Mexico Processes, Jean Ellis, Brad Dean

Jean Taylor Ellis

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Ontologies Of The Future And Interfaces For All: Archaeological Databases For The 21st Century, Angela Labrador Dec 2011

Ontologies Of The Future And Interfaces For All: Archaeological Databases For The 21st Century, Angela Labrador

Angela M Labrador

Archaeological database management systems serve the basic and important functions of ordering, archiving, and disseminating archaeological data. The increased availability of computers and data storage over the past two decades has enabled the exponential growth of archaeological databases and data models. Despite their importance and ubiquity, archaeological database systems are rarely the subject of theoretical analysis within the discipline due to their ‘‘black box’’ nature and the perceived objectivity of computerized systems. Inspired by H. Martin Wobst’s meditations on materiality and disciplinary ethics, in this paper I explore how archaeological database systems structure archaeological interpretation and disciplinary practice. In turn, …

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Vertebrate Taphonomy Of The Ischigualasto Formation, Carina Colombi, Raymond Rogers, Oscar Alcober Dec 2011

Vertebrate Taphonomy Of The Ischigualasto Formation, Carina Colombi, Raymond Rogers, Oscar Alcober

Raymond Rogers

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Lungfish Burrows From The Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Northwestern Madagascar, Madeline Marshall, Raymond Rogers Dec 2011

Lungfish Burrows From The Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Northwestern Madagascar, Madeline Marshall, Raymond Rogers

Raymond Rogers

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John Goodricke, Edward Pigott, And Their Work On Variable Stars, Linda French Dec 2011

John Goodricke, Edward Pigott, And Their Work On Variable Stars, Linda French

Linda French

John Goodricke and Edward Pigott, working in York, England, between 1781 and 1786, determined the periods of variation of eclipsing binaries such as b Persei (Algol) and b Lyrae and speculated that the eclipses of Algol might be caused by a “dark body,” perhaps even a planet. They also determined the periods of variation of the first two known Cepheid variables, the stars whose period-luminosity relation today enables astronomers to determine distances to distant galaxies. Goodricke holds special interest because he was completely deaf and because he died at the age of 21. The lives and work of these two …

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Introduction To Adobe Dreamweaver, Christy Allen Dec 2011

Introduction To Adobe Dreamweaver, Christy Allen

Christy Allen

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Implementation Of The Vortex Force Formalism In The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (Coawst) Modeling System For Inner Shelf And Surf Zone Applications., Nirnimesh Kumar, George Voulgaris, John Warner, Maitane Olabarietta Dec 2011

Implementation Of The Vortex Force Formalism In The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (Coawst) Modeling System For Inner Shelf And Surf Zone Applications., Nirnimesh Kumar, George Voulgaris, John Warner, Maitane Olabarietta

George Voulgaris

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A Historical Usage-Based Approach Supporting Scientific Service Reuse, Jia Zhang, John Alexandar, Wei Tan, Ian Foster, Ravi Madduri, Carole Goble Dec 2011

A Historical Usage-Based Approach Supporting Scientific Service Reuse, Jia Zhang, John Alexandar, Wei Tan, Ian Foster, Ravi Madduri, Carole Goble

Jia Zhang

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Synthesis Of Anion Binding Molecules: Potential Chemical Sensors, Ronald Brisbois, S. Larson, L. Erickson, H. Haley Dec 2011

Synthesis Of Anion Binding Molecules: Potential Chemical Sensors, Ronald Brisbois, S. Larson, L. Erickson, H. Haley

Ronald Brisbois

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Temporal And Spatial Variability Of Aeolian Sand Transport: Implications For Field Measurements, Jean Ellis, Douglas Sherman, Eugene Farrell, Bailiang Li Dec 2011

Temporal And Spatial Variability Of Aeolian Sand Transport: Implications For Field Measurements, Jean Ellis, Douglas Sherman, Eugene Farrell, Bailiang Li

Jean Taylor Ellis

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General Allee Effect In Two-Species Population Biology, Saber Elaydi Dec 2011

General Allee Effect In Two-Species Population Biology, Saber Elaydi

Saber Elaydi

The main objective of this work is to present a general framework for the notion of the strong Allee effect in population models, including competition, mutualistic, and predator-prey models. The study is restricted to the strong Allee effect caused by an interspecific interaction. The main feature of the strong Allee effect is that the extinction equilibrium is an attractor. We show how a "phase space core" of three or four equilibria is sufficient to describe the essential dynamics of the interaction between two species that are prone to the Allee effect. We will introduce the notion of semistability in planar …

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Pointwise Dimension, Entropy And Lyapunov Exponents For C1 Maps, Pengfei Zhang Dec 2011

Pointwise Dimension, Entropy And Lyapunov Exponents For C1 Maps, Pengfei Zhang

Pengfei Zhang

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Reconfiguration Of The Receiver System For Sodium Doppler Wind/Temperature Lidar, Vardan Semerjyan, Tao Yuan Dec 2011

Reconfiguration Of The Receiver System For Sodium Doppler Wind/Temperature Lidar, Vardan Semerjyan, Tao Yuan

Vardan Semerjyan

Sodium (Na) Faraday filters based spectrometer is a relatively new instrument to study sodium nightglow [Harrell et al., 2010] as well as atmospheric chemistry in the mesopause region. Successful spectrometer measurement demands highly accurate control of filter temperature. The ideal operation site for this Na spectrometer would be an isolated location with minimum nocturnal sky background. Thus, the remote and automatic control of the filter temperature is a requirement for such operation, whereas current temperature controllers can only be adjusted manually by the operator. The proposed approach is aimed not only to enhance the accuracy of the temperature control but …

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Angular-Dependences Of Giant In-Plane And Interlayer Magnetoresistances In Bi2te3 Bulk Single Crystals, Zengji Yue Dec 2011

Angular-Dependences Of Giant In-Plane And Interlayer Magnetoresistances In Bi2te3 Bulk Single Crystals, Zengji Yue

Zengji Yue

Angular-dependences of in-plane and interlayer magnetotransport properties in n-type Bi2Te3 bulk single crystals have been investigated over a broad range of temperatures and magnetic fields. Giant in-plane magnetoresistances (MR) of up to 500% and interlayer MR of up to 200% were observed, respectively. The observed MR exhibits quadratic field dependences in low fields and linear field dependences in high fields. The angular dependences of the MR represent strong anisotropy and twofold oscillations. The observed angle-dependent, giant MR might result from the strong coulomb scattering of electrons as well as impurity scattering in the bulk conduction bands of n-type Bi2Te3. The …

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Diffeomorphisms With Global Dominated Splittings Can Not Be Minimal, Pengfei Zhang Dec 2011

Diffeomorphisms With Global Dominated Splittings Can Not Be Minimal, Pengfei Zhang

Pengfei Zhang

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Computing Local Constants Of Cm Elliptic Curves, Sunil Chetty, Lung Li Dec 2011

Computing Local Constants Of Cm Elliptic Curves, Sunil Chetty, Lung Li

Sunil Chetty

Let E/k be an elliptic curve with CM by O. We determine a formula for (a generalization of) the arithmetic local constant of Mazur-Rubin at almost all primes of good reduction. We apply this formula to the CM curves defined over Q and are able to describe extensions F/Q over which the O-rank of E grows.

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Characterization And Properties Of $(R,S_\Sigma)$-Commutative Matrices, William F. Trench Dec 2011

Characterization And Properties Of $(R,S_\Sigma)$-Commutative Matrices, William F. Trench

William F. Trench

Let $R=P \diag(\gamma_{0}I_{m_{0}}, \gamma_{1}I_{m_{1}}, \dots, \gamma_{k-1}I_{m_{k-1}})P^{-1}\in\mathbb{C}^{m\times m}$ and $S_{\sigma}=Q\diag(\gamma_{\sigma(0)}I_{n_{0}},\gamma_{\sigma(1)}I_{n_{1}}, \dots,\gamma_{\sigma(k-1)}I_{n_{k-1}})Q^{-1}\in\mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$, where $m_{0}+m_{1}+\cdots +m_{k-1}=m$, $n_{0}+n_{1}+\cdots+n_{k-1}=n$, $\gamma_{0}$, $\gamma_{1}$, \dots, $\gamma_{k-1}$ are distinct complex numbers, and $\sigma :\mathbb{Z}_{k}\to\mathbb{Z}_{k}= \{0,1, \dots, k-1\}$. We say that $A\in\mathbb{C}^{m\times n}$ is $(R,S_{\sigma})$-commutative if $RA=AS_{\sigma}$. We characterize the class of $(R,S_{\sigma})$-commutative matrrices and extend results obtained previously for the case where $\gamma_{\ell}=e^{2\pi i\ell/k}$ and $\sigma(\ell)=\alpha\ell+\mu \pmod{k}$, $0 \le \ell \le k-1$, with $\alpha$, $\mu\in\mathbb{Z}_{k}$. Our results are independent of $\gamma_{0}$, $\gamma_{1}$, \dots, $\gamma_{k-1}$, so long as they are distinct; i.e., if $RA=AS_{\sigma}$ for some choice of $\gamma_{0}$, $\gamma_{1}$, \dots, $\gamma_{_{k-1}}$ (all distinct), then $RA=AS_{\sigma}$ for arbitrary of …

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Amyloid Fibril Formation By Bovine Milk Alpha(S2)-Casein Occurs Under Physiological Conditions Yet Is Prevented By Its Natural Counterpart, Alpha(S1)-Casein, David Thorn, Heath Ecroyd, M Sunde, Stephen Poon, John Carver Dec 2011

Amyloid Fibril Formation By Bovine Milk Alpha(S2)-Casein Occurs Under Physiological Conditions Yet Is Prevented By Its Natural Counterpart, Alpha(S1)-Casein, David Thorn, Heath Ecroyd, M Sunde, Stephen Poon, John Carver

Heath Ecroyd

The calcified proteinaceous deposits, or corpora amylacea, of bovine mammary tissue often comprise a network of amyloid fibrils, the origins of which have not been fully elucidated. Here, we demonstrate by transmission electron microscopy, dye binding assays, and X-ray fiber diffraction that bovine milk alpha(s2)-casein, a protein synthesized and secreted by mammary epithelial cells, readily forms fibrils in vitro. As a component of whole alpha(s)-casein, alpha(s2)-casein was separated from alpha(s1)-casein under nonreducing conditions via cation-exchange chromatography. Upon incubation at neutral pH and 37 degrees C, the spherical particles typical of alpha(s2)-casein rapidly converted to twisted, ribbon-like fibrils similar to 12 …

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Protective Interactions Of Dairy Peptides With Fibril Structures And Relevance To Alzheimer's Disease, Louise Bennett, Williams Roderick, Heath Ecroyd, Yanqin Liu, Sunanda Sudharmarajan, John Carver Dec 2011

Protective Interactions Of Dairy Peptides With Fibril Structures And Relevance To Alzheimer's Disease, Louise Bennett, Williams Roderick, Heath Ecroyd, Yanqin Liu, Sunanda Sudharmarajan, John Carver

Heath Ecroyd

Selected dairy caseins have been shown to have capacity for chaperone-like regulation of folding pathways of other caseins, specifically in preventing development of fibrillar aggregates of beta sheet structure. An assay based on fibril formation by reduced and carboxymethylated-kappa casein (RCM-kCn) was thus used to screen for anti-fibril activity among a selection of dairy protein hydrolysates, in order to discover peptides with possible anti-fibril, chaperone activity. From the selection of eight dairy hydrolysates based on different dairy protein fractions, two of the hydrolysates of whey protein exhibited superior anti-fibril bioactivity against RCM-kCn and amyloid beta (Aβ), the peptide associated with …

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Nort: Runtime Anomaly-Based Monitoring Of Malicious Behavior For Windows, Narcisa Andrea Milea, Siau-Cheng Khoo, David Lo, Cristi Pop Dec 2011

Nort: Runtime Anomaly-Based Monitoring Of Malicious Behavior For Windows, Narcisa Andrea Milea, Siau-Cheng Khoo, David Lo, Cristi Pop

David LO

Protecting running programs from exploits has been the focus of many host-based intrusion detection systems. To this end various formal methods have been developed that either require manual construction of attack signatures or modelling of normal program behavior to detect exploits. In terms of the ability to discover new attacks before the infection spreads, the former approach has been found to be lacking in flexibility. Consequently, in this paper, we present an anomaly monitoring system, NORT, that verifies on-the-fly whether running programs comply to their expected normal behavior. The model of normal behavior is based on a rich set of …

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Search-Based Fault Localization, Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, - Lucia, Hoong Chuin Lau Dec 2011

Search-Based Fault Localization, Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, - Lucia, Hoong Chuin Lau

David LO

Many spectrum-based fault localization measures have been proposed in the literature. However, no single fault localization measure completely outperforms others: a measure which is more accurate in localizing some bugs in some programs is less accurate in localizing other bugs in other programs. This paper proposes to compose existing spectrum-based fault localization measures into an improved measure. We model the composition of various measures as an optimization problem and present a search-based approach to explore the space of many possible compositions and output a heuristically near optimal composite measure. We employ two search-based strategies including genetic algorithm and simulated annealing …

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Towards More Accurate Retrieval Of Duplicate Bug Reports, Chengnian Sun, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Jing Jiang Dec 2011

Towards More Accurate Retrieval Of Duplicate Bug Reports, Chengnian Sun, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Jing Jiang

David LO

In a bug tracking system, different testers or users may submit multiple reports on the same bugs, referred to as duplicates, which may cost extra maintenance efforts in triaging and fixing bugs. In order to identify such duplicates accurately, in this paper we propose a retrieval function (REP) to measure the similarity between two bug reports. It fully utilizes the information available in a bug report including not only the similarity of textual content in summary and description fields, but also similarity of non-textual fields such as product, component, version, etc. For more accurate measurement of textual similarity, we extend …

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Bug Signature Minimization And Fusion, David Lo, Hong Cheng, Xiaoyin Wang Dec 2011

Bug Signature Minimization And Fusion, David Lo, Hong Cheng, Xiaoyin Wang

David LO

Debugging is a time-consuming activity. To help in debugging, many approaches have been proposed to pinpoint the location of errors given labeled failures and correct executions. While such approaches have been shown to be accurate, at times the location alone is not sufficient in helping programmers understand why the bug happens and how to fix it. Furthermore, a single location might not be powerful enough to discriminate failures from correct executions. To address the above challenges, there have been recent studies on extracting bug signatures which are composed of multiple locations appearing together in a particular order signifying an occurrence …

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Mining Top-K Large Structural Patterns In A Massive Network, Feida Zhu, Qiang Qu, David Lo, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu Dec 2011

Mining Top-K Large Structural Patterns In A Massive Network, Feida Zhu, Qiang Qu, David Lo, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu

David LO

With ever-growing popularity of social networks, web and bio-networks, mining large frequent patterns from a single huge network has become increasingly important. Yet the existing pattern mining methods cannot offer the efficiency desirable for large pattern discovery. We propose Spider- Mine, a novel algorithm to efficiently mine top-K largest frequent patterns from a single massive network with any user-specified probability of 1 − ϵ. Deviating from the existing edge-by-edge (i.e., incremental) pattern-growth framework, SpiderMine achieves its efficiency by unleashing the power of small patterns of a bounded diameter, which we call “spiders”. With the spider structure, our approach adopts a …

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Recommending People In Developers' Collaboration Network, Didi Surian, Nian Liu, David Lo, Hanghang Tong, Ee Peng Lim, Christos Faloutsos Dec 2011

Recommending People In Developers' Collaboration Network, Didi Surian, Nian Liu, David Lo, Hanghang Tong, Ee Peng Lim, Christos Faloutsos

David LO

Many software developments involve collaborations of developers across the globe. This is true for both open-source and closed-source development efforts. Developers collaborate on different projects of various types. As with any other teamwork endeavors, finding compatibility among members in a development team is helpful towards the realization of the team’s goal. Compatible members tend to share similar programming style and naming strategy, communicate well with one another, etc. However, finding the right person to work with is not an easy task. In this work, we extract information available from Sourceforge.Net, the largest database of open source software, and build developer …

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Towards Succinctness In Mining Scenario-Based Specifications, David Lo, Shahar Maoz Dec 2011

Towards Succinctness In Mining Scenario-Based Specifications, David Lo, Shahar Maoz

David LO

Specification mining methods are used to extract candidate specifications from system execution traces. A major challenge for specification mining is succinctness. That is, in addition to the soundness, completeness, and scalable performance of the specification mining method, one is interested in producing a succinct result, which conveys a lot of information about the system under investigation but uses a short, machine and human-readable representation. In this paper we address the succinctness challenge in the context of scenario-based specification mining, whose target formalism is live sequence charts (LSC), an expressive extension of classical sequence diagrams. We do this by adapting three …

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New Frontiers In Ocean Exploration: The 2011 E/V Nautilus Field Season, K. Bell, R. Ballard, D. Coleman, C. Roman, M. Brennan, T. Turanli, M. Duman, S. Carey, P. Nomikou, M. Marani, M. Rosi, J. Austin, M. Canals, J. Karson, L. Mayer, Y. Makovsky Dec 2011

New Frontiers In Ocean Exploration: The 2011 E/V Nautilus Field Season, K. Bell, R. Ballard, D. Coleman, C. Roman, M. Brennan, T. Turanli, M. Duman, S. Carey, P. Nomikou, M. Marani, M. Rosi, J. Austin, M. Canals, J. Karson, L. Mayer, Y. Makovsky

Christopher N. Roman

In the summer of 2011, the Exploration Vessel NAUTILUS is undertaking a four-month expedition to the Black, Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, and North Atlantic Ocean. The primary goal of the NAUTILUS is to create a focus of international leadership for the development and integration of leading-edge technologies, educational programs, field operations, and public outreach programs for ocean exploration, in partnership with NOAA, National Geographic Society, Office of Naval Research, and other sponsors. To do so, the program uses a complement of deep submergence vehicle systems and “telepresence” technologies to engage scientists, educators and the public, both at sea and ashore, …

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Investigating The Impact Of Restricted Irrigation Practices On Soil Moisture Variability And Distribution In A Dry Farmed Vineyard Site, Boise, Idaho, J. Duffin, David Wilkins, J. Guenther Dec 2011

Investigating The Impact Of Restricted Irrigation Practices On Soil Moisture Variability And Distribution In A Dry Farmed Vineyard Site, Boise, Idaho, J. Duffin, David Wilkins, J. Guenther

David E. Wilkins

Changing climate in semiarid regions may result in increased water stresses for agricultural production as timing and form of precipitation may result in diminished surface water for irrigation. To prepare for these changing conditions, studies are being conducted on the possibility of dry farmed agriculture as an alternative to irrigated production. This study specifically investigates the ability to grow productive wine grapes with limited or zero irrigation in the Boise Front Foothills, West Foothills TIC Vineyard, located in a climate zone receiving less than 300 mm of annual precipitation. Traditional vineyard performance factors such as planting densities, soil type, rootstock, …

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Sophomore Field Experiences As An Introduction To The Nature Of Geosciences: Data Collection And Analysis Using Dendrochronology, David Wilkins, M. Kunkel Dec 2011

Sophomore Field Experiences As An Introduction To The Nature Of Geosciences: Data Collection And Analysis Using Dendrochronology, David Wilkins, M. Kunkel

David E. Wilkins

Opportunities for field experiences are often presented as a primary reason that undergraduate students gravitate towards geosciences as a major field of study. What those students may not understand is that, for professional geoscientists, field experiences go beyond the freshman-level field trip, and students may overlook the processes of observation, data collection and analysis that are inherent to the science. The Department of Geosciences at Boise State has developed a set of sophomore field experience courses designed to "set the hook" into new majors and prepare them for field experiences in upper division coursework. These sophomore courses have been shown …

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High Resolution Sea Floor Bathymetry Using High Frequency Multibeam Sonar And Structured Light Laser Imaging, C. Roman, G. Inglis, C. Smart, I. Vaughn, S. Carey Dec 2011

High Resolution Sea Floor Bathymetry Using High Frequency Multibeam Sonar And Structured Light Laser Imaging, C. Roman, G. Inglis, C. Smart, I. Vaughn, S. Carey

Christopher N. Roman

Detailed bathymetric maps of the sea floor with centimeter level resolution can be produced by underwater vehicles using multibeam sonars and structured light laser imaging. Over spatial scales up to tens of thousands of square meters it is possible to produce maps gridded to sub centimeter levels. This level of accuracy demands detailed treatments of the sensor relative data, the vehicle navigation data and the vehicle to sensor position and rotational offsets. The presented results will show comparisons between these two sensor modalities. Data have a been collected during recent field programs to the Kolumbo volcanic crater and the Southern …

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