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Comt Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia Modeling, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, I. Irby, A. Bever, M. Scully Jul 2015

Comt Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia Modeling, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, I. Irby, A. Bever, M. Scully

Presentations

No abstract provided.


Foreland-Directedpropagation Of High-Grade Tectonism In The Deep Roots Of A Paleoproterozoic Collisionalorogen, Sw Montana, Usa, Cailey B. Condit, Kevin H. Mahan, Alexis K. Ault, Rebecca M. Flowers Jul 2015

Foreland-Directedpropagation Of High-Grade Tectonism In The Deep Roots Of A Paleoproterozoic Collisionalorogen, Sw Montana, Usa, Cailey B. Condit, Kevin H. Mahan, Alexis K. Ault, Rebecca M. Flowers

Geosciences Faculty Publications

The study of deeply exhumed ancient collisional belts offers important constraints on geologic processes and properties complementary to inaccessible portions of the crustal column in active orogens. The ca. 1.8−1.7 Ga Big Sky orogeny in southwest Montana is a major convergent belt associated with the Proterozoic amalgamation of Laurentia. New structural, petrologic, and geochronologic data from the Northern Madison Range, crossing the NE-SW trend of the belt, record key information about the internal dynamics of the orogen. At least two phases of Big Sky−related deformation are preserved, both nearly coeval with peak metamorphic conditions of ∼0.9−0.8 GPa and >700 °C. …


Pglr-Sas Data, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2015

Pglr-Sas Data, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

SAS data files for Practical Guide to Logistic Regression


R Code For Practical Guide To Logistic Regression, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2015

R Code For Practical Guide To Logistic Regression, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

R code for Practical Guide to Logistic Regression


Pglr-Stata Data Files, Joseph M. Hilbe Jul 2015

Pglr-Stata Data Files, Joseph M. Hilbe

Joseph M Hilbe

Stata data files for Practical Guide to Logistic Regression


Dump It Out! An Enquiry Into Consumers’ Everyday Fashion Discourses Through Handbag, Magnum Man Lok Lam, Elita Yee Nee Lam, Wing-Sun Liu Jul 2015

Dump It Out! An Enquiry Into Consumers’ Everyday Fashion Discourses Through Handbag, Magnum Man Lok Lam, Elita Yee Nee Lam, Wing-Sun Liu

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

Handbag is an iconic fashion accessory in our material culture. Following the tradition of representational thinking, this article introduces the handbag as an epistemic consumption object through which to investigate consumer experiences, practices and identity construction in relation to everyday lived discourses. The handbag research involves an examination of participants’ personal belongings inside their bags together with phenomenological interviews concerning the associated subjective experiences along with these material objects. We demonstrate how these material possessions become the subject of the research that facilitates multiple conversations between researchers and participants as to introspect, evaluate and interpret the significance of symbolic consumption …


Gpu Deconvolution Wow Result On 2048x2048x32 Plane Z-Series, George Mcnamara Jun 2015

Gpu Deconvolution Wow Result On 2048x2048x32 Plane Z-Series, George Mcnamara

George McNamara

GPU Deconvolution WOW result on 2048x2048x32 plane Z-series ... formerly bad academic code ("you get what you pay for") now impressive

Alternative title: "instant gratification quantitative deconvolution fluorescence microscopy".

http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/55/

Please see "74"

http://works.bepress.com/gmcnamara/74/

for 32-bit images from this project (bepress file size limitation prevented me from including them in this ZIP archive).

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Summary: Deconvolution microscopy has historically been painfully slow. The early vendors were:

- Scanalytics (Carrington and Fay), commercialized to try to sell expensive, specialized array processors made by CSPI (the CSPI box likely had less computing power than a first gen smartphone).

- Applied Precision (Sedat …


Panorama: Multi-Path Ssl Authentication Using Peer Network Perspectives, William P. Harris Jun 2015

Panorama: Multi-Path Ssl Authentication Using Peer Network Perspectives, William P. Harris

Computer Engineering

SSL currently uses certificates signed by Certificate Authorities (CAs) to authenticate connections. e.g. Google will pay a CA to sign a certificate for them, so that they can prove that they're not someone pretending to be Google. Unfortunately, this system has had multiple problems, and many believe that an alternative needs to be found.

One of the ideas for alternatives is using multiple "network perspectives" to authenticate a server. The idea behind this is that, though playing man-in-the-middle (MITM) with one connection is easy, it should be difficult for an adversary to do so with many connections, especially if they …


Selectivity Mechanism Of The Voltage-Gated Proton Channel, Hv1, Todor Dudev, Boris Musset, Deri Morgan, Susan M. Smith May 2015

Selectivity Mechanism Of The Voltage-Gated Proton Channel, Hv1, Todor Dudev, Boris Musset, Deri Morgan, Susan M. Smith

Faculty Articles

Abstract• Introduction• Results• Discussion• Methods• Additional Information• References• Acknowledgements• Author information• Supplementary information Voltage-gated proton channels, HV1, trigger bioluminescence in dinoflagellates, enable calcification in coccolithophores, and play multifarious roles in human health. Because the proton concentration is minuscule, exquisite selectivity for protons over other ions is critical to HV1 function. The selectivity of the open HV1 channel requires an aspartate near an arginine in the selectivity filter (SF), a narrow region that dictates proton selectivity, but the mechanism of proton selectivity is unknown. Here we use a reduced quantum model to elucidate how the Asp–Arg SF selects protons but excludes …


Factors Affecting Munitions Mobility Underwater, C. Friedrichs May 2015

Factors Affecting Munitions Mobility Underwater, C. Friedrichs

Presentations

No abstract provided.


Gravitational Waves: A New Window Into The Cosmos, Jeffrey S. Hazboun May 2015

Gravitational Waves: A New Window Into The Cosmos, Jeffrey S. Hazboun

Jeffrey Hazboun

No abstract provided.


Physical Properties And Behaviour Of Highly Bi-Substituted Magneto-Optic Garnets For Applications In Integrated Optics And Photonics, Mohammad Nur E Alam, Mikhail Vasiliev, Kamal Alameh, Viacheslav Kotov Apr 2015

Physical Properties And Behaviour Of Highly Bi-Substituted Magneto-Optic Garnets For Applications In Integrated Optics And Photonics, Mohammad Nur E Alam, Mikhail Vasiliev, Kamal Alameh, Viacheslav Kotov

Mikhail Vasiliev

Rare-earth and Bi-substituted iron garnet thin film materials exhibit strong potential for application in various fields of science and frontier optical technologies. Bi-substituted iron garnets possess extraordinary optical and MO properties and are still considered as the best MO functional materials for various emerging integrated optics and photonics applications. However, these MO garnet materials are rarely seen in practical photonics use due to their high optical losses in the visible spectral region. In this paper, we report on the physical properties and magneto-optic behaviour of high-performance RF sputtered highly bismuth-substituted iron garnet and garnet-oxide nanocomposite films of generic composition type …


Physical Properties And Behaviour Of Highly Bi-Substituted Magneto-Optic Garnets For Applications In Integrated Optics And Photonics, Mohammad Nur E Alam, Mikhail Vasiliev, Kamal Alameh, Viacheslav Kotov Apr 2015

Physical Properties And Behaviour Of Highly Bi-Substituted Magneto-Optic Garnets For Applications In Integrated Optics And Photonics, Mohammad Nur E Alam, Mikhail Vasiliev, Kamal Alameh, Viacheslav Kotov

Mikhail Vasiliev

Rare-earth and Bi-substituted iron garnet thin film materials exhibit strong potential for application in various fields of science and frontier optical technologies. Bi-substituted iron garnets possess extraordinary optical and MO properties and are still considered as the best MO functional materials for various emerging integrated optics and photonics applications. However, these MO garnet materials are rarely seen in practical photonics use due to their high optical losses in the visible spectral region. In this paper, we report on the physical properties and magneto-optic behaviour of high-performance RF sputtered highly bismuth-substituted iron garnet and garnet-oxide nanocomposite films of generic composition type …


Linking Hematite (Uth)/He Dating With The Microtextural Record Of Seismicity In The Wasatch Fault Damagezone, Utah, Usa, Alexis K. Ault, Peter W. Reiners, James P. Evans, Stuart N. Thomson Apr 2015

Linking Hematite (Uth)/He Dating With The Microtextural Record Of Seismicity In The Wasatch Fault Damagezone, Utah, Usa, Alexis K. Ault, Peter W. Reiners, James P. Evans, Stuart N. Thomson

Geosciences Faculty Publications

Techniques directly dating fault slip are few, limiting the ability to interpret the rock record of seismicity. Hematite is commonly found in fault zones, amenable to (U-Th)/He dating, and slip surface hematite may be reset by shear heating events and/or recrystallization. Glossy hematite-coated fault surfaces in the Wasatch fault footwall damage zone, Utah (USA), exhibit evidence of hematite cataclasis and preserve Pliocene hematite (U-Th)/He dates. Apatite (U-Th)/He and fission track data from the host gneiss indicate footwall unroofing through ∼2 km by ca. 4.5 Ma. Internally reproducible but disparate hematite (U-Th)/He dates 4.5 Ma and younger from isolated locations on …


The Estuarine Hypoxia Component Of The Coastal Ocean Modeling Testbed: Providing Environmental Intelligence To Decision-Makers In The Chesapeake Bay Region, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, L. Lanerolle, Carl T. Friedrichs, R. Hood Apr 2015

The Estuarine Hypoxia Component Of The Coastal Ocean Modeling Testbed: Providing Environmental Intelligence To Decision-Makers In The Chesapeake Bay Region, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, L. Lanerolle, Carl T. Friedrichs, R. Hood

Presentations

No abstract provided.


Alg Calculus Ii (Lecture Slides), Lake Ritter, Shangrong Deng Apr 2015

Alg Calculus Ii (Lecture Slides), Lake Ritter, Shangrong Deng

Mathematics Ancillary Materials

Authors' Description:

Upon completing this course students should be able to:

  1. Find derivatives and integrals of transcendental functions.
  2. Apply techniques to evaluate integrals.
  3. Use tests to determine series convergence.
  4. Determine Taylor series for common functions.
  5. Describe curves in parametric form and polar coordinates.

Important Note:

All are welcome to use and modify these slides for nonprofit educational activities. They are intended to be used with smart board/smart podium or touch screen technology and cannot serve as a primary text. They were produced with LaTeX and converted to .ppt.

The original Beamer slides are superior quality but require several additional figure …


Housatonic Organic Contaminants: Physical Data Archive, Michael M. Whitney Mar 2015

Housatonic Organic Contaminants: Physical Data Archive, Michael M. Whitney

Department of Marine Sciences

This archive includes physical data from a Connecticut Sea Grant Project on organic contaminants in the Housatonic River estuary and Long Island Sound. The data included are water: temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, and current velocities. Observations were collected in 2012 and 2013 from the R/V Weicker.


Non-Isomorphic Real Simple Lie Algebras Of The Same Complex Type And Character, Ian M. Anderson Feb 2015

Non-Isomorphic Real Simple Lie Algebras Of The Same Complex Type And Character, Ian M. Anderson

Tutorials on... in 1 hour or less

Complex simple Lie algebras are classified by their root types. The type of a real simple Lie algebra is the root type of the associated complex algebra. The character of a real simple Lie algebra is the signature of its Killing form.

For many root types, the character is sufficient to uniquely classify the corresponding real Lie algebras. However, one should not take this statement to be literally true – there are a few cases where the character does not suffice to distinguish all possible real forms.

In this worksheet we will show that the 2 real non-isomorphic Lie algebras …


What Controls Bed Erodibility In Muddy Estuaries? Insights From The York River, Virginia, C. T. Friedrichs, K. A. Fall, R. J. Diaz, P. Dickhut Feb 2015

What Controls Bed Erodibility In Muddy Estuaries? Insights From The York River, Virginia, C. T. Friedrichs, K. A. Fall, R. J. Diaz, P. Dickhut

Presentations

Appropriate parameterization of time-dependent erodibility of muddy seabeds is a significant barrier to improved understanding and accurate modeling of sediment dynamics in estuaries and other coastal regions. In an effort to better understand controls on muddy seabed erodibility, bed erodibility and associated bed sediment properties have been measured by our group on cores collected on dozens of cruises over the last decade in the York Estuary. We have also inferred time-varying erodibility indirectly in the York Estuary over several years by vertically integrating observations of tidally-varying suspended sediment concentration. This presentation synthesizes the results of these long-term observations in this …


Controls On Suspended Particle Properties And Water Clarity Along A Partially-Mixed Estuary, York River Estuary, Virginia, K. A. Fall, C. T. Friedrichs, G. M. Cartwright Feb 2015

Controls On Suspended Particle Properties And Water Clarity Along A Partially-Mixed Estuary, York River Estuary, Virginia, K. A. Fall, C. T. Friedrichs, G. M. Cartwright

Presentations

No abstract provided.


K-Theory And Pseudospectra For Topological Insulators [Dataset], Terry A. Loring Feb 2015

K-Theory And Pseudospectra For Topological Insulators [Dataset], Terry A. Loring

Math and Statistics Datasets

We derive formulas and algorithms for Kitaev's invariants in the periodic table for topological insulators and superconductors for finite disordered systems on lattices with boundaries. We find that K-theory arises as an obstruction to perturbing approximately compatible observables into compatible observables. We derive formulas in all symmetry classes up to dimension two, and in one symmetry class in dimension three, that can be computed with sparse matrix algorithms. We present algorithms in two symmetry classes in 2D and one in 3D and provide illustrative studies regarding how these algorithms can detect the scaling properties of phase transitions.


Controls On Bed Erodibility In The York River Estuary, C. T. Friedrichs, Grace M. Cartwright, R. J. Diaz, P. J. Dickhut Jan 2015

Controls On Bed Erodibility In The York River Estuary, C. T. Friedrichs, Grace M. Cartwright, R. J. Diaz, P. J. Dickhut

Presentations

No abstract provided.


Controls On Suspended Particle Properties And Water Clarity In The York River Estuary, Virginia, K. A. Fall, C. T. Friedrichs, G. M. Cartwright, D. G. Bowers Jan 2015

Controls On Suspended Particle Properties And Water Clarity In The York River Estuary, Virginia, K. A. Fall, C. T. Friedrichs, G. M. Cartwright, D. G. Bowers

Presentations

No abstract provided.


A Rank 7 Pfaffian System On A 15-Dimensional Manifold With F4 Symmetry Algebra, Ian M. Anderson Jan 2015

A Rank 7 Pfaffian System On A 15-Dimensional Manifold With F4 Symmetry Algebra, Ian M. Anderson

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Let I be a differential system on a manifold M. The infinitesimal symmetry algebra of I is the set of all vectors fields X on M such that preserve I. In this worksheet we present an example, due to E. Cartan of a rank 7 Pfaffian system on a 15-dimensional manifold whose infinitesimal symmetry algebra is the split real form of the exceptional Lie algebra f4 .


Cartan Involutions And Cartan Decompositions Of A Semi-Simple Lie Algebra, Ian M. Anderson Jan 2015

Cartan Involutions And Cartan Decompositions Of A Semi-Simple Lie Algebra, Ian M. Anderson

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In this worksheet we shall review the basic definitions and properties of Cartan involutions and Cartan decompositions and illustrate these using the DifferentialGeometry software package for Lie algebras.


Polynomials Occuring In Generating Function Identities For B-Ary Partitions, David Dakota Blair Jan 2015

Polynomials Occuring In Generating Function Identities For B-Ary Partitions, David Dakota Blair

Graduate Student Publications and Research

Let p_b(n) be the number of integer partitions of n whose parts are powers of b. For each m there is a generating function identity:

f_m(b,q)\sum_{n} p_b(n) q^n = (1-q)^m \sum_{n} p_b(b^m n q)q^n

where n ranges over all integer values. The proof of this identity appears in the doctoral thesis of the author. For more information see http://dakota.tensen.net/2015/rp/.

This dataset is a JSON object with keys m from 1 to 23 whose values are f_m(b,q).


Gis Data: City Of Newport News, Virginia Shoreline Management Model, Marcia Berman, Karinna Nunez, Sharon Killeen, Tamia Rudnicky, Julie G. Bradshaw, Karen Duhring, Kory Angstadt, Alexandra Procopi, David Weiss, Carl Hershner Jan 2015

Gis Data: City Of Newport News, Virginia Shoreline Management Model, Marcia Berman, Karinna Nunez, Sharon Killeen, Tamia Rudnicky, Julie G. Bradshaw, Karen Duhring, Kory Angstadt, Alexandra Procopi, David Weiss, Carl Hershner

Data

The Shoreline Management Model is a GIS spatial model that determines appropriate shoreline best management practices using available spatial data and decision tree logic. Available shoreline conditions used in the model include the presence or absence of tidal marshes, beaches, and forested riparian buffers, bank vegetation cover, bank height, wave exposure (fetch), nearshore water depth, and proximity of coastal development to the shoreline. The model output for shoreline best management practices is displayed in the locality Comprehensive Map Viewer. One GIS shapefile is developed that describes two arcs or lines representing practices in the upland area and practices at the …


Gis Data: York County, Virginia Shoreline Management Model, Marcia Berman, Karinna Nunez, Sharon Killeen, Tamia Rudnicky, Carl Hershner, Kory Angstadt, David Stanhope, David Weiss, Karen Duhring, Christine Tombleson Jan 2015

Gis Data: York County, Virginia Shoreline Management Model, Marcia Berman, Karinna Nunez, Sharon Killeen, Tamia Rudnicky, Carl Hershner, Kory Angstadt, David Stanhope, David Weiss, Karen Duhring, Christine Tombleson

Data

The Shoreline Management Model is a GIS spatial model that determines appropriate shoreline best management practices using available spatial data and decision tree logic. Available shoreline conditions used in the model include the presence or absence of tidal marshes, beaches, and forested riparian buffers, bank vegetation cover, bank height, wave exposure (fetch), nearshore water depth, and proximity of coastal development to the shoreline. The model output for shoreline best management practices is displayed in the locality Comprehensive Map Viewer. One GIS shapefile is developed that describes two arcs or lines representing practices in the upland area and practices at the …


Gis Data: Lancaster County, Virginia Shoreline Inventory Report, Marcia Berman, Karinna Nunez, Sharon Killeen, Tamia Rudnicky, Julie Bradshaw, Kory Angstadt, David Stanhope, Christine Tombleson, Karen Duhring, Alexander D. Renaud, Robert Isdell, Pamela Braff, David Weiss, Carl Hershner Jan 2015

Gis Data: Lancaster County, Virginia Shoreline Inventory Report, Marcia Berman, Karinna Nunez, Sharon Killeen, Tamia Rudnicky, Julie Bradshaw, Kory Angstadt, David Stanhope, Christine Tombleson, Karen Duhring, Alexander D. Renaud, Robert Isdell, Pamela Braff, David Weiss, Carl Hershner

Data

The data inventory developed for the Shoreline Inventory is based on a three tiered shoreline assessment approach. This assessment characterizes conditions that can be observed from a small boat navigating along the shoreline or by using observations made remotely at the desktop using high resolution imagery. The three tiered shoreline assessment approach divides the shorezone into three regions:

  • the immediate riparian zone, evaluated for land use

  • the bank, evaluated for height, cover and natural protection

  • the shoreline, describing the presence of shoreline structures for shore protection and recreational purposes.

The 2015 Inventory for Lancaster County was generated using on-screen, digitizing …


Gis Data: Stafford County, Virginia Shoreline Inventory Report, Marcia Berman, Karinna Nunez, Sharon Killeen, Tamia Rudnicky, Julie Bradshaw, Karen Duhring, David Stanhope, David Weiss, Carl Hershner Jan 2015

Gis Data: Stafford County, Virginia Shoreline Inventory Report, Marcia Berman, Karinna Nunez, Sharon Killeen, Tamia Rudnicky, Julie Bradshaw, Karen Duhring, David Stanhope, David Weiss, Carl Hershner

Data

The Shoreline Management Model is a GIS spatial model that determines appropriate shoreline best management practices using available spatial data and decision tree logic. Available shoreline conditions used in the model include the presence or absence of tidal marshes, beaches, and forested riparian buffers, bank vegetation cover, bank height, wave exposure (fetch), nearshore water depth, and proximity of coastal development to the shoreline. The model output for shoreline best management practices is displayed in the locality Comprehensive Map Viewer. One GIS shapefile is developed that describes two arcs or lines representing practices in the upland area and practices at the …