Clinical Nutritional Study of Minimum Protein and Caloric Requirements for Man. Annual Report, Sep. 1965 - Sep. 1966

Minimum protein and caloric requirements for prolonged manned spaceflight and space station

Cloud Computing, Clickwrap Agreements, and Limitation on Liability Clauses: A Perfect Storm?

“To the cloud!” trumpets a commercial by Microsoft, whose aim is to herd customers, and their checkbooks, into the cloud computing fold. But Microsoft, and other cloud providers like Amazon and Google, might inadvertently be doing just the opposite. It is not for lack of security or even early adopter apprehension that potential customers might turn away. Nor is it a lack of fantastic, cost-saving applications of cloud technology. Rather, the problem is buried deep within these tech giants’ clickwrap agreements—the ones that customers rarely read and to which they invariably click “I Agree.” Hidden in these agreements are limitation on liability clauses, veritable safe harbors for cloud providers and submerged icebergs for the unwary cloud customer. Often, these clauses wholly abrogate a customer’s right to recover damages for his provider’s wrongful acts. In other words, a provider could purposefully delete its customers’ data or shut down its users’ websites, leaving the aggrieved customers with no cause of action and no right to recover. While limitation on liability clauses are not new to the contract law vernacular, their inclusion in cloud computing agreements is particularly troublesome. The amount of potential liability that customers may waive through a half-cocked click is as enormous as it is troubling. While courts have recently held that these clauses are enforceable in other Internet-related areas, courts should be wary of blindly applying precedent and enforcing these clauses in the cloud computing context

Integrated research program in space nutrition Semiannual report, 1 Feb. - 31 Jul. 1970

Nutrition and breeding behavior of pocket mouse for space nutrition applicatio

Measured and predicted shock shapes and aerodynamic coefficients for blunted cones at incidence in helium at Mach 20.3

Experimental values of shock shapes (alpha = 0 degrees and 10 degrees) and static aerodynamic coefficients (alpha = -4 degrees to 12 degrees) for sharp and spherically blunted cones having cone half-angles of 30, 45, 60, and 70 degrees and nose bluntness ratios of 0, 0.25, and 0.50 are presented. Shock shapes were also measured at 0 degree angle of attack by using a flat-faced cylinder (90 degree cone) and a hemispherically blunted cylinder (sphere). All tests were conducted in helium (gamma = 5/3) at a free-stream Mach number of 20.3 and a unit free-stream Reynolds number of 22,400,000 per meter. Comparisons between measured values and predicted values were made by using several numerical and simple engineering methods

Passive transfer of Mycoplasma bovis-specific antibodies in calves born to vaccinated dams

"December 2006"The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file.Includes bibliographical references.Thesis (M.S.) University of Missouri-Columbia 2006.Dissertations, Academic -- University of Missouri--Columbia -- Veterinary medicine and surgery.Mycoplasma bovis is a bacterial pathogen that has been shown to cause respiratory disease, mastitis, polyarthritis, keratoconjunctivitis, and other diseases in cattle worldwide. High costs associated with these diseases are attributed to treatment, culling, deaths, and purchase of replacement animals. Commercially available vaccinations are also available to producers and veterinarians to be used as an added preventative measure. This research, consisting of two studies, evaluated antibody responses in late gestation dairy cattle given a commercially available M. bovis vaccination. Serum, colostrum, and milk antibodies were compared between cows receiving the vaccine and those not receiving the vaccine. The second study evaluated serum antibody response in female calves born to cows from the first study. These calves received colostrum from the cows to which they were born. Serum antibody responses were measured before ingestion of colostrum, after ingestion of colostrum, and 30 days of age. Serum antibody responses against M. bovis in vaccinated cows were significantly greater than those of non-vaccinated cows at 3 weeks after first vaccination (P < 0.0001) and at calving (P = 0.047). Colostrum antibody response was also significantly higher in vaccinated cows than in non-vaccinated cows (P = 0.0106). However, there was no difference noted in the serum antibody responses between female calves born to vaccinated cows and those born to nonvaccinated cows (P = 0.7864)

Integrated research program in space nutrition Semiannual report, 1 Aug. 1969 - 31 Jan. 1970

Experiments in protein diets for space nutritio

AN EXAMINATION OF THE USE OF DIALOG CHARTS IN SPECIFYING CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF DIALOGS

The conceptual design of user interfaces focuses on the specification of the structure of the dialog, independent of any particular implementation approach. While there is common agreement with respect to the importance of this activity, adequate methods and tools to support it are generally unavailable. The Dialog Charts (DCs) yield high level dialog schemas that are abstract enough to support the conceptual design of dialog control structures. They combine dialog concepts with widely accepted design principles, in a uniform diagramming framework. Specifically, the DCs distinguish between the dialog parties, provide for hierarchical decomposition and enforce a structured control flow. A clear set of guiding principles for the conceptual design of dialogs has yet to emerge. In this paper we have elected to focus on the notions of descriptive power and usable power, as they apply to conceptual dialog modeling tools. The conceptual descriptive power of the DCs is informally examined by applying them in a varied set of examples and relating them to their lower level counterparts, namely implementation dialog models like augmented transition networks or context-free grammars. The usable power of the DCs has been examined empirically through a qualitative study of their actual use by system designers. The Dialog Chart models were found by dialog designers to be a useful conceptual design tool, which exhibit the essential attributes identified for conceptual models.Information Systems Working Papers Serie

DESIGNING CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF DIALOGS: A CASE FOR DIALOG CHARTS

The conceptual design of user interfaces focuses on the specification of the structure of the dialog, independent of any particular implementation approach. While there is common agreement with respect to the importance of this activity, adequate methods and tools to support it are generally unavailable. The Dialog Charts (DCs) presented in this paper address this problem -- they support the conceptual design of dialog control structures. The DCs combine visual modeling (i.e., diagraming) with widely accepted design principles and an explicit model of dialog structures. As no clear evaluation criteria exist in this evolving area of dialog design, the preliminary assessment of the DCs takes the form of contrasting them with representative alternative design tools based on Augmented Transition Networks or Backus-Naur Form grammars. The DCs overcome some of the problems that seem to limit the usefulness of comparable approaches. An empirical investigation of the usable power of the DCs is currently underway at New York University, and a summary of this research activity concludes the paper.Information Systems Working Papers Serie

A collection of lower thermospheric /100 to 300 km altitude/ chemical composition, temperature, and mass density data

Tabulated lower thermospheric chemical composition, temperature, and mass density dat