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Hearing the shape of a room
PMCID: PMC3725052The final published version of this article can be found here: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.130993211
Cosmic-Ray Rejection by Laplacian Edge Detection
Conventional algorithms for rejecting cosmic-rays in single CCD exposures
rely on the contrast between cosmic-rays and their surroundings, and may
produce erroneous results if the Point Spread Function (PSF) is smaller than
the largest cosmic-rays. This paper describes a robust algorithm for cosmic-ray
rejection, based on a variation of Laplacian edge detection. The algorithm
identifies cosmic-rays of arbitrary shapes and sizes by the sharpness of their
edges, and reliably discriminates between poorly sampled point sources and
cosmic-rays. Examples of its performance are given for spectroscopic and
imaging data, including HST WFPC2 images.Comment: Accepted for publication in the PASP (November 2001 issue). The
algorithm is implemented in the program L.A.Cosmic, which can be obtained
from http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~pgd/lacosmic
Towards a contextual approach to the placeâhomeless survival nexus: An exploratory case study of Los Angeles County
The characteristics of the immediate locale greatly affect the ability of homeless people to adapt to life on
the street and in shelters, with different types of places nurturing different circumstances for survival.
Current conceptualizations of the placeâsurvival nexus are too narrow, relying on small-scale, intensive
studies of particular places that are known to sustain homeless survival while ignoring more suburban
and exurban locales, as well as failing to set these places of survival within the larger socio-economic
spaces of the metropolitan area. Further, the literature is heavily qualitative, lacking any kind of ââbig pictureâ quantitative assessment of the nexus. In response, we contribute to the placeâsurvival nexus literature by developing a typology of space for homeless survival and then use interview data to examine the variation in survival strategies across three types of urban space in Los Angeles County. Our results speak to how our innovative and exploratory approach enabled a broader, more extensive and variegated understanding of placeâsurvival among homeless people than previous studie
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Neighborhoods of Refuge: Faculty -Student-Community Research on Homelessness Proposal
Matthew D. Marr\u27s proposal shares his effective community research project with FIU, Miami-Dade College, and Camillus House. Through GIS mapping and qualitative research (PhotoVoice and interviews), the project highlights the role of neighborhoods in addressing homelessness
Inheritance of Resistance to Six Races of Bunt, to Awns and Kernel Color in a Wheat Cross
Wheat is the most important cereal crop of the world, and one of the most serious diseases affecting it over much of its range is covered smut or bunt (57). The word bunt , according to Heald (48), is a contraction of an old English term, burnt ear , which fittingly describes the ravages of covered smut
Neighborhoods of Refuge: Faculty -Student-Community Research on Homelessness Slides
Matthew D. Marr\u27s slides for his project Neighborhoods of Refuge: Faculty -Student-Community Research on Homelessnes
Hidden Cues in Random Line Stereograms
Successful fusion of random-line stereograms with breaks in the vernier acuity range has been interpreted to suggest that the interpolation process underlying hyperacuity is parallel and preliminary to stereomatching. In this paper (a) we demonstrate with computer experiments that vernier cues are not needed to solve the stereomatching problem posed by these stereograms and (b) we provide psychophysical evidence that human stereopsis probably does not use vernier cues alone to achieve fusion of these random-line stereograms.MIT Artificial Intelligence Laborator
Analysis of the wind tunnel test of a tilt rotor power force model
Two series of wind tunnel tests were made to determine performance, stability and control, and rotor wake interaction on the airframe, using a one-tenth scale powered force model of a tilt rotor aircraft. Testing covered hover (IGE/OCE), helicopter, conversion, and airplane flight configurations. Forces and moments were recorded for the model from predetermined trim attitudes. Control positions were adjusted to trim flight (one-g lift, pitching moment and drag zero) within the uncorrected test data balance accuracy. Pitch and yaw sweeps were made about the trim attitudes with the control held at the trimmed settings to determine the static stability characteristics. Tail on, tail off, rotors on, and rotors off configurations were testes to determine the rotor wake effects on the empennage. Results are presented and discussed
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