883 research outputs found
Striking a Balance (SAB): Maintaining Seasonal Wetlands & Their Livelihood Contributions in Central Southern Africa
Bibliography of Sources on Denaâina and Cook Inlet Anthropology Through 2016
This version 4.3 will be the final version for this bibliography, a project that was begun in 1993 by Greg Dixon. We have intentionally excluded all potential references for the year 2017. This version is about 29 pages longer and has about 211 entries added since the previous version 3.1 of 2012. Aaron Leggett has added over fifty sources many being rare items from newpapers and magazines. Also many corrections and additions were made to entries in earlier versions.I wish to thank Kenaitze Indian Tribe and the âDenaâina Language Revitalization Projectâ for their support for several projects during 2017-2018, including this Vers. 4.3. Previous versions have had partial support from "Dena'ina Archiving, Training and Access" project (NSF-OPP 0326805, 2004) and from Lake Clark National Park. I thank Katherine Arndt of Alaska & Polar Regions at UAF for her careful proofreading
The Theory Behind TheoryMine
Abstract. We describe the technology behind the TheoryMine novelty gift company, which sells the rights to name novel mathematical theorems. A tower of four computer systems is used to generate recursive theories, then to speculate conjectures in those theories and then to prove these conjectures. All stages of the process are entirely automatic. The process guarantees large numbers of sound, novel theorems of some intrinsic merit.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland national report on IHP related activities, 22nd session of the IHP Intergovernmental Council, Paris, June 2016
Report on UK activities related to the UNESCO IHP (International Hydrological Programme) in the period June 2014 - May 2016. Compiled on behalf of the UK Committee for National and International Hydrology
Is there an association between anti-TNF monoclonal antibody therapy in rheumatoid arthritis and risk of malignancy and serious infection? Commentary on the meta-analysis by Bongartz et al
A recent meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials reported by Bongartz and coworkers raised concerns about an increased rate of malignancy and serious infection in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor monoclonal antibodies. This commentary discusses some of the methodological issues in their analysis and urges caution in interpreting the results
âThe Bugs Were a Bit Rubbishâ Critical Reflections on the Malawi 2016 Student Fieldcourse
The value of fieldwork as a means of delivering experiential teaching and learning is widely accepted across the geographical disciplines, and for many years Worcesterâs Geography programmes have been commended for their provision of a diversity of field experiences that enhance student learning. In December 2016, Geography piloted a two-week fieldcourse to Malawi for final year students undertaking GEOG3136 âEnvironment and Development in Sub-Saharan Africaâ. This has emerged from students requesting more international fieldwork opportunities, at a time when staff have significant collaborative research links with Malawi. The aim of the fieldcourse was to immerse students in experiential, research-led learning opportunities in a wide range of real sustainable development contexts. This SAP project sought to evaluate the learning impacts of the fieldcourse to identify lessons learned for future provision. Drawing on a series of individual and focus group conversations, and the written reflective journals of participants, the project revealed a range of âlife-changing learning experiencesâ for students. These were regarded as shaped through research-driven interactions and encounters with local people and NGOs in rural and urban contested spaces, as well as via experiencing the many logistical challenges of living and working in a developing country. Students also cited a much greater depth of understanding of the complex challenges facing sustainable development than would otherwise be achieved through classroom learning. Despite some significant challenges in developing and facilitating the fieldcourse, it has provided a unique and invaluable learning opportunity
Project LOCOST: Laser or Chemical Hybrid Orbital Space Transport
A potential mission in the late 1990s is the servicing of spacecraft assets located in GEO. The Geosynchronous Operations Support Center (GeoShack) will be supported by a space transfer vehicle based at the Space Station (SS). The vehicle will transport cargo between the SS and the GeoShack. A proposed unmanned, laser or chemical hybrid orbital space transfer vehicle (LOCOST) can be used to efficiently transfer cargo between the two orbits. A preliminary design shows that an unmanned, laser/chemical hybrid vehicle results in the fuel savings needed while still providing fast trip times. The LOCOST vehicle receives a 12 MW laser beam from one Earth orbiting, solar pumped, iodide Laser Power Station (LPS). Two Energy Relay Units (ERU) provide laser beam support during periods of line-of-sight blockage by the Earth. The baseline mission specifies a 13 day round trip transfer time. The ship's configuration consist of an optical train, one hydrogen laser engine, two chemical engines, a 18 m by 29 m box truss, a mission-flexible payload module, and propellant tanks. Overall vehicle dry mass is 8,000 kg. Outbound cargo mass is 20,000 kg, and inbound cargo mass is 6,000 kg. The baseline mission needs 93,000 kg of propellants to complete the scenario. Fully fueled, outbound mission mass is 121,000 kg. A regeneratively cooled, single plasma, laser engine design producing a maximum of 768 N of thrust is utilized along with two traditional chemical engines. The payload module is designed to hold 40,000 kg of cargo, though the baseline mission specifies less. A proposed design of a laser/chemical hybrid vehicle provides a trip time and propellant efficient means to transport cargo from the SS to a GeoShack. Its unique, hybrid propulsion system provides safety through redundancy, allows baseline missions to be efficiently executed, while still allowing for the possibility of larger cargo transfers
Best-First Rippling
Rippling is a form of rewriting that guides search by only performing steps that reduce the syntactic differences between formulae. Termination is normally ensured by a measure that is decreases with each rewrite step. Because of this restriction, rippling will fail to prove theorems about, for example, mutual recursion as steps that temporarily increase the differences are necessary. Best-first rippling is an extension to rippling where the restrictions have been recast as heuristic scores for use in best-first search. If nothing better is available, previously illegal steps can be considered, making best-first rippling more flexible than ordinary rippling. We have implemented best-first rippling in the IsaPlanner system together with a mechanism for caching proof-states that helps remove symmetries in the search space, and machinery to ensure termination based on term embeddings. Our experiments show that the implementation of best-first rippling is faster on average than IsaPlannerâs version of traditional depth-first rippling, and solves a range of problems where ordinary rippling fails
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