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Land Cover Types Of The Las Vegas Wash, Nevada, Seth A. Shanahan, Dave Silverman, Art Ehrenberg
Land Cover Types Of The Las Vegas Wash, Nevada, Seth A. Shanahan, Dave Silverman, Art Ehrenberg
Publications (WR)
Vegetation type, extent, continuity, and structure are some of the most important factors that determine wildlife diversity and distribution. Other contributing factors that shape wildlife communities include disturbance, competition, climate, and water availability. Because vegetation communities in the southwestern U.S. gradate sharply along zones of soil moisture, wildlife are often restricted to specific vegetation types. Along the Las Vegas Wash (Wash), Nevada, more than 250 wildlife species have been documented to occur in distinct wetland, riparian, and upland vegetation types. Recent studies have investigated the diversity and distribution of amphibians, birds, fishes, mammals, and reptiles (Shanahan 2005, 2005a, Van Dooremolen …
Aromatase And Cox In Breast Cancer: Enzyme Inhibitors And Beyond, Robert W. Brueggemeier, Bin Su, Yasuro Sugimoto, Edgar S. Diaz-Cruz, Danyetta D. Davis
Aromatase And Cox In Breast Cancer: Enzyme Inhibitors And Beyond, Robert W. Brueggemeier, Bin Su, Yasuro Sugimoto, Edgar S. Diaz-Cruz, Danyetta D. Davis
Chemistry Faculty Publications
Aromatase expression and enzyme activity in breast cancer patients is greater in or near the tumor tissue compared with the normal breast tissue. Complex regulation of aromatase expression in human tissues involves alternative promoter sites that provide tissue-specific control. Previous studies in our laboratories suggested a strong association between aromatase (CYP19) gene expression and the expression of cyclooxygenase (COX) genes. Additionally, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and COX selective inhibitors can suppress CYP19 gene expression and decrease aromatase activity. Our current hypothesis is that pharmacological regulation of aromatase and/or cyclooxygenases can act locally to decrease the biosynthesis of estrogen and may …
Any-World Access To Owl From Prolog, Tobias Matzner, Pascal Hitzler
Any-World Access To Owl From Prolog, Tobias Matzner, Pascal Hitzler
Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications
The W3C standard OWL provides a decidable language for representing ontologies. While its use is rapidly spreading, efforts are being made by researchers worldwide to augment OWL with additional expressive features or by interlacing it with other forms of knowledge representation, in order to make it applicable for even further purposes. In this paper, we integrate OWL with one of the most successful and most widely used forms of knowledge representation, namely Prolog, and present a hybrid approach which layers Prolog on top of OWL in such a way that the open-world semantics of OWL becomes directly accessible within the …
Dolce Ergo Sumo: On Foundational And Domain Models In Swinto (Smart Web Integrated Ontology), Daniel Oberle, Anupriya Ankolekar, Pascal Hitzler, Philipp Cimiano, Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel, Babak Mougouie, Stephan Baumann, Shankar Vembu, Massimo Romanelli, Paul Buitelaar, Ralf Engel, Daniel Sonntag, Norbert Reithinger, Berenike Loos, Hans-Peter Zorn, Vanessa Micelli, Robert Porzel, Christian Schmidt, Moritz Weiten, Felix Burkhardt, Jianshen Zhou
Dolce Ergo Sumo: On Foundational And Domain Models In Swinto (Smart Web Integrated Ontology), Daniel Oberle, Anupriya Ankolekar, Pascal Hitzler, Philipp Cimiano, Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel, Babak Mougouie, Stephan Baumann, Shankar Vembu, Massimo Romanelli, Paul Buitelaar, Ralf Engel, Daniel Sonntag, Norbert Reithinger, Berenike Loos, Hans-Peter Zorn, Vanessa Micelli, Robert Porzel, Christian Schmidt, Moritz Weiten, Felix Burkhardt, Jianshen Zhou
Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications
Increased availability of mobile computing, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), creates the potential for constant and intelligent access to up-to-date, integrated and detailed information from the Web, regardless of one's actual geographical position. Intelligent question-answering requires the representation of knowledge from various domains, such as the navigational and discourse context of the user, potential user questions, the information provided by Web services and so on, for example in the form of ontologies. Within the context of the SmartWeb project, we have developed a number of domain-specific ontologies that are relevant for mobile and intelligent user interfaces to open-domain question-answering …
Alien Crustacean Decapods From The Aegean Coast Of Turkey, M. Baki Yokes, S. Ünsal Karhan, Erdogan Okus, Ahsen Yüksek, Asli Aslan, I. Noyan Yilmaz, Nazli Demirel, Volkan Demir, Bella S. Galil
Alien Crustacean Decapods From The Aegean Coast Of Turkey, M. Baki Yokes, S. Ünsal Karhan, Erdogan Okus, Ahsen Yüksek, Asli Aslan, I. Noyan Yilmaz, Nazli Demirel, Volkan Demir, Bella S. Galil
Asli Aslan
Thirty of the 33 alien decapod crustacean species that have been reported off the Turkish Mediterranean coast are believed to have invaded the region via the Suez Canal, but only three of the species have been recorded along the Turkish Aegean coast. The marine biota of Gökova Bay, Datça Peninsula and Gulf of Fethiye, on the southern Aegean coast of Turkey, was studied by diving between 2002 and 2006. Of the eight Erythrean alien decapod species collected there, five constitute new records for the Aegean Sea and three are newly recorded from the Turkish coast of the Aegean Sea.
Video Stabilization And Enhancement, Hany Farid, Jeffrey B. Woodward
Video Stabilization And Enhancement, Hany Farid, Jeffrey B. Woodward
Computer Science Technical Reports
We describe a simple and computationally efficient approach for video stabilization and enhancement. By combining multiple low-quality video frames, it is possible to extract a high-quality still image. This technique is particularly helpful in identifying people, license plates, etc. from low-quality video surveillance cameras.
Magnetic Properties Of Variable-Sized Fe3o4 Nanoparticles Synthesized From Non-Aqueous Homogeneous Solutions Of Polyols, D. Caruntu, Gabriel Caruntu, Charles J. O'Connor
Magnetic Properties Of Variable-Sized Fe3o4 Nanoparticles Synthesized From Non-Aqueous Homogeneous Solutions Of Polyols, D. Caruntu, Gabriel Caruntu, Charles J. O'Connor
Chemistry Faculty Publications
The magnetic behaviour of well-dispersed monodisperse Fe3O4 nanoparticles with sizes varying between 6.6 and 17.8 nm prepared in a non-aqueous medium was investigated. The smaller nanocrystals exhibit superparamagnetism with the blocking temperatures increasing with the particle size, whereas the biggest particles are ferromagnetic at room temperature. The saturation magnetization values are slightly smaller than that of the bulk material, suggesting the existence of a disordered spin configuration on their surface. The thickness of the magnetically inert shell was estimated from the size variation of the magnetization at 1.9 Å. The dipole–dipole interactions between the particles were tuned by changing the …
Taunton River Watershed Day Announcement - September 15, 2007
Taunton River Watershed Day Announcement - September 15, 2007
Public Meetings
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Taunton River Watershed Day Agenda - September 15, 2007, Horsley Witten Group, Inc.
Taunton River Watershed Day Agenda - September 15, 2007, Horsley Witten Group, Inc.
Public Meetings
No abstract provided.
Near-Terminator Venus Ionosphere: How Chapman-Esque?, Jane L. Fox
Near-Terminator Venus Ionosphere: How Chapman-Esque?, Jane L. Fox
Physics Faculty Publications
We have modeled the near-terminator ionosphere of Venus for solar zenith angles χ between 60 and 85° in 5° increments, and from 86 to 90° in 1° increments. The most important neutral densities of the background thermospheres have been adopted from the VTS3 model of Hedin et al. (1983), which is based on densities from the Pioneer Venus (PV) Orbiter Neutral Mass Spectrometer (e.g., Niemann et al., 1980) that are normalized to the PV Orbiter Atmospheric Drag data (e.g., Keating et al., 1980). We compare the ion density profiles to those of a Chapman layer and to those obtained from …
Why Build A Customer Relationship Management Capability?, T. R. Coltman
Why Build A Customer Relationship Management Capability?, T. R. Coltman
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
The market enthusiasm generated around investment in CRM technology is in stark contrast to the naysaying by many academic and business commentators. This raises an important research question concerning the extent to which companies should continue to invest in building a CRM capability. Drawing on field interviews and a survey of senior executives, the results reveal that a superior CRM capability can create positional advantage and subsequent improved performance. Further, it is shown that to be most successful, CRM programs should focus on latent or unarticulated customer needs that underpin a proactive market orientation.
On The Pivot Structure For The Weighing Matrix W(12,11), C. Kravvaritis, M. Mitrouli, Jennifer Seberry
On The Pivot Structure For The Weighing Matrix W(12,11), C. Kravvaritis, M. Mitrouli, Jennifer Seberry
Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)
C. Koukouvinos, M. Mitrouli and Jennifer Seberry, in "Growth in Gaussian elimination for weighing matrices, W(n, n — 1)", Linear Algebra and its Appl., 306 (2000), 189-202, conjectured that the growth factor for Gaussian elimination of any completely pivoted weighing matrix of order n and weight n — 1 is n — 1 and that the first and last few pivots are (1, 2, 2, 3 or 4, ... , n — 1 or n — 1) for n > 14. In the present paper we concentrate our study on the growth problem for the weighing matrix W(12, 11) and we …
Examination Of Energy And Group Velocities In Positive And Negative Index Chiral Materials With And Without Dispersion, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee, Partha P. Banerjee
Examination Of Energy And Group Velocities In Positive And Negative Index Chiral Materials With And Without Dispersion, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee, Partha P. Banerjee
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications
Concepts of energy and group velocities, Poynting and propagation vectors are examined for both positive and negative index materials. Known definitions for these entities are explored in terms of the interplay of chirality and dispersion.
The Statistics Of Natural Shapes In Modern Coral Reef Landscapes, Samuel J. Purkis, Kevin E. Kohler, Bernhard Riegl, Steven O. Rohmann
The Statistics Of Natural Shapes In Modern Coral Reef Landscapes, Samuel J. Purkis, Kevin E. Kohler, Bernhard Riegl, Steven O. Rohmann
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Spatial heterogeneity is a fundamental characteristic of modern and ancient depositional settings, and the scaling of many carbonate environments has been shown to follow power function distributions. The difficulty in obtaining information on the horizontal persistence of sedimentary lithotopes at the basin scale has, however, hampered evaluation of this fact over larger geographic areas. In recent years, large‐scale maps of reef facies derived from remotely sensed data have become widely available, allowing for an analysis of reef‐scale map products from 26 sites spread through four reef provinces, covering >7000 km2 of shallow‐water habitat in the U.S. territorial Pacific. For …
Refuge Update – September/October 2007, Volume 4, Number 5
Refuge Update – September/October 2007, Volume 4, Number 5
RefugeUpdate (USFWS-NWRS)
Table of Contents:
Searching for Japanese MIAs in Alaska – page 3 Japanese and Americans look for burial sites on Attu Island in Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
The Job of a Lifetime – pages 6-7 Meet a 90-year old volunteer and a 31-year old tractor driver.
Crocs Come Back – page 27 American crocodiles are threatened but no longer endangered.
A Novel Empirical Free Energy Function That Explains And Predicts Protein–Protein Binding Affinities, Joseph Audie, Suzanne Scarlata
A Novel Empirical Free Energy Function That Explains And Predicts Protein–Protein Binding Affinities, Joseph Audie, Suzanne Scarlata
Chemistry & Physics Faculty Publications
A free energy function can be defined as a mathematical expression that relates macroscopic free energy changes to microscopic or molecular properties. Free energy functions can be used to explain and predict the affinity of a ligand for a protein and to score and discriminate between native and non-native binding modes. However, there is a natural tension between developing a function fast enough to solve the scoring problem but rigorous enough to explain and predict binding affinities. Here, we present a novel, physics-based free energy function that is computationally inexpensive, yet explanatory and predictive. The function results from a derivation …
Thermal Stability Of Nanostructurally Stabilized Zirconium Oxide, Fereydoon Namavar, Gonghua Wang, Chin Li Cheung, Renat F. Sabirianov, Xiao Cheng Zeng, Wai Ning Mei, Jaeil Bai, Joseph R. Brewer, Hani Haider, Kevin L. Garvin
Thermal Stability Of Nanostructurally Stabilized Zirconium Oxide, Fereydoon Namavar, Gonghua Wang, Chin Li Cheung, Renat F. Sabirianov, Xiao Cheng Zeng, Wai Ning Mei, Jaeil Bai, Joseph R. Brewer, Hani Haider, Kevin L. Garvin
Xiao Cheng Zeng Publications
Nanostructurally stabilized zirconium oxide (NSZ) hard transparent films were produced without chemical stabilizers by the ion beam assisted deposition technique (IBAD). A transmission electron microscopy study of the samples produced below 150 °C revealed that these films are composed of zirconium oxide (ZrO2) nanocrystallites of diameters 7.5 ± 2.3 nm. X-ray and selected-area electron diffraction studies suggested that the as-deposited films are consistent with cubic phase ZrO2. Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS) indicated the formation of stoichiometric ZrO2. The phase identity of these optically transparent NSZ films was in agreement with cubic ZrO2, …
X-Ray/Ultraviolet Observing Campaign Of The Markarian 279 Active Galactic Nucleus Outflow: A Close Look At The Absorbing/Emitting Gas With Chandra-Letgs, E. Costantini, Jelle S. Kaastra, Nahum Arav, Gerard A. Kriss, K. C. Steenbrugge, Jack R. Gabel, F. Verbunt, Ehud Behar, C. Martin Gaskell, Kirk T. Korista, Daniel Proga, Jessica Kim-Quijano, J. E. Scott, Elizabeth S. Klimek, C. H. Hedrick
X-Ray/Ultraviolet Observing Campaign Of The Markarian 279 Active Galactic Nucleus Outflow: A Close Look At The Absorbing/Emitting Gas With Chandra-Letgs, E. Costantini, Jelle S. Kaastra, Nahum Arav, Gerard A. Kriss, K. C. Steenbrugge, Jack R. Gabel, F. Verbunt, Ehud Behar, C. Martin Gaskell, Kirk T. Korista, Daniel Proga, Jessica Kim-Quijano, J. E. Scott, Elizabeth S. Klimek, C. H. Hedrick
C. Martin Gaskell Publications
We present a Chandra-LETGS observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 279. This observation was carried out simultaneously with HST-STIS and FUSE, in the context of a multi-wavelength study of this source. The Chandra pointings were spread over ten days for a total exposure time of ~360 ks. The maximal continuum flux variation is of the order of 30%. The spectrum of Mrk 279 shows evidence of broad emission features, especially at the wavelength of the OVII triplet. We quantitatively explore the possibility that this emission is produced in the broad line region (BLR). We modeled the broad UV …
Gas Feedback On Stellar Bar Evolution, Ingo Berentzen, Isaac Shlosman, Inma Martinez-Valpuesta, Clayton Heller
Gas Feedback On Stellar Bar Evolution, Ingo Berentzen, Isaac Shlosman, Inma Martinez-Valpuesta, Clayton Heller
Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications
We analyze evolution of live disk-halo systems with gas fractions, fgas ≤ 8% of the disk mass, for 5 Gyr. Specifically, we have addressed the issue of angular momentum (J) transfer from the gas to the stellar bar and its effect on the bar. We find that the bar weakening, reported in the literature, is not related to the gas, but is caused by the vertical buckling instability in the gas-poor disks and by a steep stellar heating by the central mass concentration (CMC) in the gas-rich disks. However, the gas has a profound effect on the …
Book Review: Moore On Mercury: The Planet And The Missions, T. D. Oswalt
Book Review: Moore On Mercury: The Planet And The Missions, T. D. Oswalt
Publications
This document is Dr. Oswalt’s review of Moore on Mercury : the Planet and the Missions by Patrick Moore. Springer, 2006 139p, 1846282578 $29.95, 9781846282577 $29.95
Evaluating Bag-Of-Visual-Words Representations In Scene Classification, Jun Yang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Chong-Wah Ngo
Evaluating Bag-Of-Visual-Words Representations In Scene Classification, Jun Yang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Chong-Wah Ngo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Based on keypoints extracted as salient image patches, an image can be described as a “bag of visual words” and this representation has been used in scene classification. The choice of dimension, selection, and weighting of visual words in this representation is crucial to the classification performance but has not been thoroughly studied in previous work. Given the analogy between this representation and the bag-of-words representation of text documents, we apply techniques used in text categorization, including term weighting, stop word removal, feature selection, to generate image representations that differ in the dimension, selection, and weighting of visual words. The …
The Development Of A Quantum Dot Solar Concentrator, Brenda Rowan
The Development Of A Quantum Dot Solar Concentrator, Brenda Rowan
Doctoral
The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of Quantum Dot Solar Concentrators (QDSCs). Quantum Dots offer the advantages of having broad absorption specr4a, tunable emission and improved stability. A range of Cadmium Selenide/|Zince Sulphide Quantum Dots were characterized in solution and composite form using time-resolved and steady state spectroscopie techniques and the stability of the composite samples was investigated over a 6 month period. A number of matrix materials were compared and the most suitable type for fabrication of QDSCs were identified. Techniques for fabrication and characterization of QDSCs were developed and a range of different QDSC …
Variable Neighbor Selection In Live Peer-To-Peer Multimedia Streaming Networks, Jagannath Ghoshal, Byrav Ramamurthy, Lisong Xu
Variable Neighbor Selection In Live Peer-To-Peer Multimedia Streaming Networks, Jagannath Ghoshal, Byrav Ramamurthy, Lisong Xu
CSE Technical Reports
Data-driven (or swarming based) streaming is one of the popular ways to distribute multimedia streaming traffic over live Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In data-driven streaming networks, each peer independently selects its neighbors based on gossip-style overlay construction and then exchanges streaming data with the neighbors using data scheduling. In a P2P network the major advantage is that each peer contributes its own resources to the network. As a result, there is an increase in the amount of overall resources of the network, such as bandwidth, storage space, and computing power. However such type of networks exhibit end user bandwidth heterogeneity. Consequently, …
Temporal Factors To Evaluate Trustworthiness Of Virtual Identities, Luca Longo, Pierpaolo Dondio, Stephen Barrett
Temporal Factors To Evaluate Trustworthiness Of Virtual Identities, Luca Longo, Pierpaolo Dondio, Stephen Barrett
Conference papers
In this paper we investigate how temporal factors (i.e. factors computed by considering only the time-distribution of interactions) can be used as an evidence of an entity’s trustworthiness. While reputation and direct experience are the two most widely used sources of trust in applications, we believe that new sources of evidence and new applications should be investigated [1]. Moreover, while these two classical techniques are based on evaluating the outcomes of interactions (direct or indirect), temporal factors are based on quantitative analysis, representing an alternative way of assessing trust. Our presumption is that, even with this limited information, temporal factors …
Toward Automating Ea Configuration: The Parent Selection Stage, Ekaterina Smorodkina, Daniel R. Tauritz
Toward Automating Ea Configuration: The Parent Selection Stage, Ekaterina Smorodkina, Daniel R. Tauritz
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
One of the obstacles to Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) fulfilling their promise as easy to use general-purpose problem solvers, is the difficulty of correctly configuring them for specific problems such as to obtain satisfactory performance. Having a mechanism for automatically configuring parameters and operators of every stage of the evolutionary life-cycle would give EAs a more widely spread popularity in the non-expert community. This paper investigates automatic configuration of one of the stages of the evolutionary life-cycle, the parent selection, via a new concept of semi-autonomous parent selection, where mate selection operators are encoded and evolved as in Genetic Programming. We …
Reliability Modeling For The Advanced Electric Power Grid, Ayman Z. Faza, Sahra Sedigh, Bruce M. Mcmillin
Reliability Modeling For The Advanced Electric Power Grid, Ayman Z. Faza, Sahra Sedigh, Bruce M. Mcmillin
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
The advanced electric power grid promises a self-healing infrastructure using distributed, coordinated, power electronics control. One promising power electronics device, the Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS), can modify power flow locally within a grid. Embedded computers within the FACTS devices, along with the links connecting them, form a communication and control network that can dynamically change the power grid to achieve higher dependability. The goal is to reroute power in the event of transmission line failure. Such a system, over a widespread area, is a cyber-physical system. The overall reliability of the grid is a function of the respective reliabilities …
Sa-Rest And (S)Mashups: Adding Semantics To Restful Services, Jonathan Lathem, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth
Sa-Rest And (S)Mashups: Adding Semantics To Restful Services, Jonathan Lathem, Karthik Gomadam, Amit P. Sheth
Kno.e.sis Publications
The evolution of the Web 2.0 phenomenon has led to the increased adoption of the RESTful services paradigm. RESTful services often take the form of RSS/Atom feeds and AJAX based light weight services. The XML based messaging paradigm of RESTful services has made it possible to compose various services together. Such compositions of RESTful services is widely referred to as Mashups. In this paper, we outline the limitations in current approaches to creating mashups. We address these limitations by proposing a framework called as SA-REST. SA-REST adds semantics to RESTful services. Our proposed framework builds upon the original ideas in …
The Programmable Web: Agile, Social, And Grassroots Computing, E. Michael Maximilien, Ajith Harshana Ranabahu
The Programmable Web: Agile, Social, And Grassroots Computing, E. Michael Maximilien, Ajith Harshana Ranabahu
Kno.e.sis Publications
Web services, the semantic Web, and Web 2.0 are three somewhat separate movements trying to make the Web a programmable substrate. While each has achieved some level of success on their own right, it is becoming apparent that the grassroots approach of the Web 2.0 is gaining greater success than the other two. In this paper we analyze each movement, briefly describing its main traits, and outlining its primary assumptions. We then frame the common problem of achieving a programmable Web within the context of distributed computing and software engineering and then attempt to show why Web 2.0 is closest …
Near-Terminator Venus Ionosphere: Evidence For A Dawn/Dusk Asymmetry In The Thermosphere, Jane L. Fox, W. T. Kasprzak
Near-Terminator Venus Ionosphere: Evidence For A Dawn/Dusk Asymmetry In The Thermosphere, Jane L. Fox, W. T. Kasprzak
Physics Faculty Publications
Recent models of the near-terminator ionosphere of Venus constructed using neutral density profiles from the VTS3 model of Hedin et al. (1983) have shown that altitudes of the electron density peaks are in agreement with those measured by Pioneer Venus (PV) Orbiter Radio Occultation (ORO) and other radio occultation profiles in the solar zenith angle (SZA) range 60 to 70°, where they are near 140 km (Fox, 2007). The model peaks in the 75–85° range, however, do not decrease in altitude to near 135 km, as do the PV ORO electron density peaks shown in the study of Cravens et …
Self-Assembled Biomimetic Antireflection Coatings, Nicholas C. Linn, Chih-Hung Sun, Peng Jiang, Bin Jiang
Self-Assembled Biomimetic Antireflection Coatings, Nicholas C. Linn, Chih-Hung Sun, Peng Jiang, Bin Jiang
Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
The authors report a simple self-assembly technique for fabricating antireflection coatings that mimic antireflective moth eyes. Wafer-scale, nonclose-packed colloidal crystals with remarkable large hexagonal domains are created by a spin-coating technology. The resulting polymer-embedded colloidal crystals exhibit highly ordered surface modulation and can be used directly as templates to cast poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) molds. Moth-eye antireflection coatings with adjustable reflectivity can then be molded against the PDMS master. The specular reflection of replicated nipple arrays matches the theoretical prediction using a thin-film multilayer model. These biomimetic films may find important technological application in optical coatings and solar cells.