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Evolution Of Floral Zygomorphy In Androecium And Corolla In Solanaceae, Jingbo Zhang, Peter F. Stevens, Wenheng Zhang

Peter Stevens

Modified Error In Constitutive Equations (Mece) Approach For Ultrasound Elastography

Susanta Ghosh

No abstract provided.

Phylogenetic Patterns Of Rarity In A Regional Species Pool Of Tropical Woody Plants, M. Isabel Loza, Iván Jiménez, Peter M. Jørgensen, Gabriel Arellano, Manuel J. Macía, Vania W. Torrez, Robert E. Ricklefs

Robert Ricklefs

Who Needs Tablets? We Do, George K. Thiruvathukal

George K. Thiruvathukal

What role do tablets play increasingly in our daily lives? Is it possible that they could revolutionize the future of publishing and education?

Productivity In The Cognitive Overload Era, George K. Thiruvathukal

George K. Thiruvathukal

Could technologies that emphasize the concept of "we" rather than "me" help modern society overcome its information overload?

Computational Science, Demystified...The Future, Revealed...And Cise, 2013, George K. Thiruvathukal

George K. Thiruvathukal

What are some of the exciting avenues that computational science is exploring, and how can we best give a voice to such emerging ideas?

Towards Sustainable Digital Humanities Software, George K. Thiruvathukal, Shilpika Shilpika, Nicholas J. Hayward, Saulo Aguiar, Konstantin Läufer

George K. Thiruvathukal

Our work in software quality for digital humanities was borne of an effort to address sustainable practices in scientific software development, where the speaker (Thiruvathukal) co-authored a position paper on the case for software engineering in scientific software development as part of an all-encompassing strategy to create more sustainable scientific software (an example of a well-known scientific software package is LINPACK). In this position paper, we addressed how “progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of software at all levels". This progress depends on embracing the best traditional--and emergent--practices in software engineering, especially agile practices that …

Software Engineering For Science, Jeffrey C. Carver, Neil P. Chue Hong, George K. Thiruvathukal

George K. Thiruvathukal

Software Engineering for Science provides an in-depth collection of peer-reviewed chapters that describe experiences with applying software engineering practices to the development of scientific software. It provides a better understanding of how software engineering is and should be practiced, and which software engineering practices are effective for scientific software. The book starts with a detailed overview of the Scientific Software Lifecycle, and a general overview of the scientific software development process. It highlights key issues commonly arising during scientific software development, as well as solutions to these problems. The second part of the book provides examples of the use of …

Cloudy With A Chance Of Sunshine, Or The Future Of Magazine Publishing, George K. Thiruvathukal

George K. Thiruvathukal

EIC George K. Thiruvathukal describes how the cloud can revolutionize printing and how the publishing world in particular can benefit.

El Fin, George K. Thiruvathukal

George K. Thiruvathukal

EIC George K. Thiruvathukal says farewell in his final "from the editors" message.

Guest Editors' Introduction: Research On Equity And Sustained Participation In Engineering, Computing, And Technology, Tiffany Barnes, Jamie Payton, George K. Thiruvathukal, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Jeff Forbes

George K. Thiruvathukal

The guest editors introduce best papers on broadening participation in computing from the RESPECT'15 conference. The five articles presented here are part one of a two-part series representing research on broadening participation in computing at all levels of education: from K-12 schools through graduate school, with a focus on diversity with regard to gender, race, and ethnicity.

A Polyglot Approach To Bioinformatics Data Integration: A Phylogenetic Analysis Of Hiv-1, Steven Reisman, Thomas Hatzopoulous, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal, Catherine Putonti

George K. Thiruvathukal

As sequencing technologies continue to drop in price and increase in throughput, new challenges emerge for the management and accessibility of genomic sequence data. We have developed a pipeline for facilitating the storage, retrieval, and subsequent analysis of molecular data, integrating both sequence and metadata. Taking a polyglot approach involving multiple languages, libraries, and persistence mechanisms, sequence data can be aggregated from publicly available and local repositories. Data are exposed in the form of a RESTful web service, formatted for easy querying, and retrieved for downstream analyses. As a proof of concept, we have developed a resource for annotated HIV-1 …

Guest Editors' Introduction: Best Of Respect, Part 2, Tiffany Barnes, Jamie Payton, George K. Thiruvathukal, Jeff Forbes, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer

George K. Thiruvathukal

The guest editors introduce best papers on broadening participation in computing from the RESPECT'15 conference. The five articles presented here are part two of a two-part series representing research on broadening participation in computing. These articles study participation in intersectional ways, through the perceptions and experiences of African-American middle school girls, the sense of belonging in computing for LGBTQ students, the impact of a STEM scholarship and community development program for low-income and first-generation college students, a leadership development program, and how African-American women individually take leadership to enable their success in computing.

The Need For Research In Broadening Participation, Tiffany Barnes, George K. Thiruvathukal

George K. Thiruvathukal

Underrepresentation in computing is a global problem, marked by a disturbing lack of access to computing resources and education among people underrepresented by race, ethnicity, gender, income, disability, and sexual-orientation status. It is urgent that we address this divide between those with and without the knowledge to create computational artifacts or even basic functional literacy. Important alliances for broadening participation (BP) are catalyzing efforts to engage more people in computing, but they are not enough. We need solid research as well.

The Finney County, Kansas Community Assessment Process: Fact Book, Debra J. Bolton Phd, Shannon L. Dick M.S.

Dr. Debra Bolton

This multi-lingual/multi-cultural study was called, Community Assets Processt, by the groups that “commissioned” it: Finnup Foundation, Finney County K-State Research & Extension, Western Kansas Community Foundation, Finney County United Way, Finney County Health Department, United Methodist Community Health Center (UMMAM), Center for Children and Families, Garden City Recreation Commission, and the Garden City Cultural Relations Board, because we intend for this to be an ongoing discussion. An objective, for those promoting the study, was to connect foundation, state, and federal funding with activities or services that addressed the true needs of people living in Finney County. The group was looking …

Confinement In Nonlocal Interaction Equations, Jose A. Carrillo, M. Di Francesco, A. Figalli, Thomas Laurent, Dejan Slepcev

Thomas Laurent

We investigate some dynamical properties of nonlocal interaction equations. We consider sets of particles interacting pairwise via a potential W, as well as continuum descriptions of such systems. The typical potentials we consider are repulsive at short distances, but attractive at long distances. The main question we consider is whether an initially localized configuration remains localized for all times, regardless of the number of particles or their arrangement. In particular we find sufficient conditions on the potentialW for the above “confinement” property to hold. We use the framework of weak measure solutions developed in Carrillo et al. (2011) [2] to …

Consistency Of Cheeger And Ratio Graph Cuts, Nicolas Garcia Trillos, Dejan Slepcev, James Von Brecht, Thomas Laurent, Xavier Bresson

Thomas Laurent

This paper establishes the consistency of a family of graph-cut- based algorithms for clustering of data clouds. We consider point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. We investigate approaches to clustering based on minimizing objective functionals defined on proximity graphs of the given sample. Our focus is on functionals based on graph cuts like the Cheeger and ratio cuts. We show that minimizers of these cuts converge as the sample size increases to a minimizer of a corresponding continuum cut (which partitions the ground truth measure). Moreover, we obtain sharp conditions on how the connectivity radius can be …

Global-In-Time Weak Measure Solutions And Finite-Time Aggregation For Nonlocal Interaction Equations, Jose A. Carrillo, Marco Di Francesco, Alessio Figalli, Thomas Laurent, Dejan Slepcev

Thomas Laurent

In this paper we provide a well-posedness theory for weak measure solutions of the Cauchy problem for a family of nonlocal interaction equations. These equations are continuum models for interacting particle systems with attractive/repulsive pairwise interaction potentials. The main phenomenon of interest is that, even with smooth initial data, the solutions can concentrate mass in finite time. We develop an existence theory that enables one to go beyond the blow-up time in classical norms and allows for solutions to form atomic parts of the measure in finite time. The weak measure solutions are shown to be unique and exist globally …

Consistency Of Cheeger And Ratio Graph Cuts, Nicolás Garcia Trillos, Dejan Slepcev, James Von Brecht, Thomas Laurent, Xavier Bresson

Thomas Laurent

This paper establishes the consistency of a family of graph-cut-based algorithms for clustering of data clouds. We consider point clouds obtained as samples of a ground-truth measure. We investigate approaches to clustering based on minimizing objective functionals defined on proximity graphs of the given sample. Our focus is on functionals based on graph cuts like the Cheeger and ratio cuts. We show that minimizers of the these cuts converge as the sample size increases to a minimizer of a corresponding continuum cut (which partitions the ground truth measure). Moreover, we obtain sharp conditions on how the connectivity radius can be …

Spark-Induced Sparks As A Mechanism Of Intracellular Calcium Alternans In Cardiac Myocytes, Robert J. Rovetti, Xiaohua Cui, Alan Garfinkel, James N. Weiss, Zhilin Qu

Robert J. Rovetti

Rationale: Intracellular calcium (Ca) alternans has been widely studied in cardiac myocytes and tissue, yet the underlying mechanism remains controversial. Objective: In this study, we used computational modeling and simulation to study how randomly occurring Ca sparks interact collectively to result in whole-cell Ca alternans. Methods and Results: We developed a spatially-distributed intracellular Ca cycling model in which Ca release units (CRUs) are locally coupled by Ca diffusion throughout the myoplasm and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) network. Ca sparks occur randomly in the CRU network when periodically paced with a clamped voltage waveform, but Ca alternans develops as the pacing speeds …

From Enrollment To Employment: A Dacum Approach To Information Systems And Information Security And Assurance Curriculum Design, Leila Halawi, Wendi M. Kappers, Aaron Glassman

Wendi M. Kappers, PhD

Issues associated with information security are numerous and diverse. Since the majority of organizational actions rely greatly on information and communication technologies, Information Systems (IS) security is now a main concern for firms, governments, institutes, and society as a whole. As a result, a plethora of graduate programs have been created, covering nearly every aspect of IS security. The authors review the current state of the IS industry presented in the literature, and identify a panel of IS experts in which to explore current job skill needs using a “Developing a Curriculum,” DACUM, process to support curriculum design for two …

Combined And Synergistic Effects Of Climate Change And Urbanization On Water Quality In The Wolf Bay Watershed, Southern Alabama, Ruoyu Wang

Ruoyu Wang

Ryan Caylor, Ryan Caylor

Matthew E. Wise

Avery Hong, Avery Hong

Matthew E. Wise

Dynamical Typology Of Sea Surface Temperature (Sst) Fronts Based On Satellite Observations, Yackar Mauzole

Peter Cornillon

No abstract provided.

Application Of Polynomial Interpolation In The Chinese Remainder Problem, Tian-Xiao He, S. Macdonald, P. J.-S. Shiue

Tian-Xiao He

Statistical Contributions To Bioinformatics: Design, Modeling, Structure Learning, And Integration, Jeffrey S. Morris, Veera Baladandayuthapani

Jeffrey S. Morris

Potential State-Level Carbon Revenue Under The Clean Power Plan, Daniel H. Karney

Daniel H Karney

Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Polybrominated Biphenyls, Polychlorinated Dibenzo-P-Dioxins And Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans, Prasada Rao S. Kodavanti, Joseph A. Valdez, Jae-Ho Yang, Margarita Curras-Collazo, Bommanna Loganathan 8093044

Bommanna Loganathan

Asymmetric Charge Separation And Recombination In Symmetrically Functionalized Σ-Π Hybrid Oligosilanes, Jiawang Zhou

Jiawang Zhou

No abstract provided.