Letter about Israel trip

Letter from Ann Seidman about a recent week-long trip to Israel taken as part of the Clark-Rehovot program at Clark University

Googled Assertion

Recent work in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science (e.g., Clark and Chalmers 1998; Clark 2010a; Clark 2010b; Palermos 2014) can help to explain why certain kinds of assertions—made on the basis of information stored in our gadgets rather than in biological memory—are properly criticisable in light of misleading implicatures, while others are not

The Unsettled Nature of the Union

This article is a response to Bradford R. Clark, The Eleventh Amendment and the Nature of the Union, 123 Harv. L. Rev. 1817 (2010). In his article, The Eleventh Amendment and the Nature of the Union, Professor Bradford Clark offeres an explanation for the puzzling text of the Eleventh Amendment, which appears to preclude federal jurisdiction over suits against a state by citizens of other states but not by its own citizens. Professor Clark argues that the Amendment\u27s text made sense to the Founders because they did not envision any suits against the states arising under federal law. Thus, by clarifying that the states could not be sued under Article III\u27s diversity provisions, the Amendment\u27s framers were effectively precluding all suits against the states in federal court. In this response, the author notes that Professor Clark\u27s defense of the Eleventh Amendment\u27s text combines a narrow claim and a broad claim. the author finds Professor Clark\u27s narrow claim that the Founders understood that the federal obligations of the states would be enforceable in suits against state officials rather than the states themselves to be well supported. On the other hand, he is unconvinced by Professor Clark\u27s broader claim that the Founders understood that the federal government would lack the power to impose legal obligations on the states. He finds Professor Clark\u27s evidence for this claim to be equivocal, most of it being susceptible to a narrower reading. In his view, the Founders did not settle this particular aspect of the legislative power of the federal government

Three regularization models of the Navier-Stokes equations

We determine how the differences in the treatment of the subfilter-scale physics affect the properties of the flow for three closely related regularizations of Navier-Stokes. The consequences on the applicability of the regularizations as SGS models are also shown by examining their effects on superfilter-scale properties. Numerical solutions of the Clark-alpha model are compared to two previously employed regularizations, LANS-alpha and Leray-alpha (at Re ~ 3300, Taylor Re ~ 790) and to a DNS. We derive the Karman-Howarth equation for both the Clark-alpha and Leray-alpha models. We confirm one of two possible scalings resulting from this equation for Clark as well as its associated k^(-1) energy spectrum. At sub-filter scales, Clark-alpha possesses similar total dissipation and characteristic time to reach a statistical turbulent steady-state as Navier-Stokes, but exhibits greater intermittency. As a SGS model, Clark reproduces the energy spectrum and intermittency properties of the DNS. For the Leray model, increasing the filter width decreases the nonlinearity and the effective Re is substantially decreased. Even for the smallest value of alpha studied, Leray-alpha was inadequate as a SGS model. The LANS energy spectrum k^1, consistent with its so-called "rigid bodies," precludes a reproduction of the large-scale energy spectrum of the DNS at high Re while achieving a large reduction in resolution. However, that this same feature reduces its intermittency compared to Clark-alpha (which shares a similar Karman-Howarth equation). Clark is found to be the best approximation for reproducing the total dissipation rate and the energy spectrum at scales larger than alpha, whereas high-order intermittency properties for larger values of alpha are best reproduced by LANS-alpha.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figure

Report on a review of the funding for construction of the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center at Lewis and Clark State Park in Monona County for the period February 25, 1999 through December 31, 2008

Report on a review of the funding for construction of the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center at Lewis and Clark State Park in Monona County for the period February 25, 1999 through December 31, 200

CLARK: fast and accurate classification of metagenomic and genomic sequences using discriminative k-mers.

BackgroundThe problem of supervised DNA sequence classification arises in several fields of computational molecular biology. Although this problem has been extensively studied, it is still computationally challenging due to size of the datasets that modern sequencing technologies can produce.ResultsWe introduce CLARK a novel approach to classify metagenomic reads at the species or genus level with high accuracy and high speed. Extensive experimental results on various metagenomic samples show that the classification accuracy of CLARK is better or comparable to the best state-of-the-art tools and it is significantly faster than any of its competitors. In its fastest single-threaded mode CLARK classifies, with high accuracy, about 32 million metagenomic short reads per minute. CLARK can also classify BAC clones or transcripts to chromosome arms and centromeric regions.ConclusionsCLARK is a versatile, fast and accurate sequence classification method, especially useful for metagenomics and genomics applications. It is freely available at http://clark.cs.ucr.edu/

An Experiment in Scaling Impact: Assessing the Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot

This report presents an assessment of the Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot. It was commissioned by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, founder and lead investor of the grantmaking initiative.Starting in 2000, The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (Clark) adopted an investment approach to grantmaking that focused on providing growth capital to youth-serving organizations with demonstrated commitments to evaluation and measurable outcomes. For grantees, the strategy meant larger, longer-term, unrestricted investments, complemented by extensive access to consulting and technical assistance to strengthen their organizations.This approach helped Clark grantees across the portfolio increase the numbers of youth they served (for example, by 18 percent between 2005 and 2006) and achieve annual revenue gains (averaging 19 percent over the four years prior to the founding of GCAP). At the same time, the Foundation concluded that more capital would be required if its grantees and other promising youth-serving organizations were to realize their ultimate scale and sustainability potential

Volume 50 - April 1970

Volume 50 - April 1970. 45 pages including covers and advertisements. POETRY DUCLOS, STEPHEN A SUNDAY IN MARCH BURNET, JAMES AMPLE APPLE McINTYRE, ROBERT (printed by Nancy Clark) BELOVED KOUNTRY CHILDREN FROM JAMES L. McGUIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and SHAW JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, CHILDREN\u27S POETRY PARILLO, J.A. CRYSTAL FANTASY KELLY, ROBERT DUCK CLARK, ROY PETER ECOLOGY (to mother earth) MAAIA, WILLIAM GARBAGE MEN MERLUZZO, PAUL IMPROVISATION #34 TO SISERO MOCKAITIS, JOSEPH ON THE OCCASION OF THE HORSE PARTRIDGE, T.L. OUT OF ORDER GOODHUE, JIM RAMBLE MERLUZZO, PAUL URCHIN PAUL, MICHAEL WORK PROSE CHARPENTIER, ROBERT L. THE BOOK OF PEACE BISCONE, DEBBI INK STAINS UPON A SOGGY BLOTTER DiGIOVANNI, NICHOLAS MOBY DICK McDONALD, WAY SAINT CAROLINA ART CLARK, NANCY COVE