A compiler approach to scalable concurrent program design

The programmer's most powerful tool for controlling complexity in program design is abstraction. We seek to use abstraction in the design of concurrent programs, so as to separate design decisions concerned with decomposition, communication, synchronization, mapping, granularity, and load balancing. This paper describes programming and compiler techniques intended to facilitate this design strategy. The programming techniques are based on a core programming notation with two important properties: the ability to separate concurrent programming concerns, and extensibility with reusable programmer-defined abstractions. The compiler techniques are based on a simple transformation system together with a set of compilation transformations and portable run-time support. The transformation system allows programmer-defined abstractions to be defined as source-to-source transformations that convert abstractions into the core notation. The same transformation system is used to apply compilation transformations that incrementally transform the core notation toward an abstract concurrent machine. This machine can be implemented on a variety of concurrent architectures using simple run-time support. The transformation, compilation, and run-time system techniques have been implemented and are incorporated in a public-domain program development toolkit. This toolkit operates on a wide variety of networked workstations, multicomputers, and shared-memory multiprocessors. It includes a program transformer, concurrent compiler, syntax checker, debugger, performance analyzer, and execution animator. A variety of substantial applications have been developed using the toolkit, in areas such as climate modeling and fluid dynamics

Massa\u27s in de Cold Ground

Published by the Crown Music Company, compositions for piano, No. 14.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_special_edwardianscores/1040/thumbnail.jp

Relational Aggression in Romantic Relationships: How Do Honor-Endorsing Women Traverse Conflict with Their Partners?

Prior research on cultures of honor have shown that individuals are expected to defend their reputations at all costs, even to the point of physical violence. However, this research has almost exclusively demonstrated this phenomenon in honor-endorsing men, and have implicitly assumed that women are not partaking in aggressive behavior as a reputation defense strategy. Based on prior work indicating the importance of studying relationally-aggressive behaviors, in combination with the very small body of work researching the impact of honor endorsement on female behaviors, the current research intended to assess how honor endorsement may impact women’s relationally aggressive behavior. More specifically, I investigated this phenomenon in the context of romantic relationships, where honor endorsement has been shown to heighten levels of intimate partner violence, albeit exclusively in a physical form committed by men. I hypothesized that aggressive conflict resolution scripts may be an important factor which predisposes honor-endorsing women to partake in relational aggression in their relationships. Across three studies and 1,483 participants, I found that a link between honor endorsement and female’s romantic relational aggression was mediated by an aggressive conflict resolution style (Study 1); women show support for relationally aggressive behavior, believing that it is a positive way to resolve a conflict (Study 2 and Study 3); and support for such aggression does not depend on the presence of an explicit honor threat. These findings suggest that honor-endorsing women play a more active role in the aggression that takes place within the context of relationships, and negative conflict resolution scripts may predispose women to engage in maladaptive conflict behaviors that help perpetuate domestic violence shown to be frequent in cultures of honor

Suwanee River

Old Folks at Home. Published by The Columbian Conservatory of Music. This folk-song describes the longing for home, a sentiment which is inherent in every human breast. The person who is supposed to be singing the song has been carried to the North, away from the bonds of slavery, and while happy to be released from his old surroundings, still has a yearning for the old folks at home.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_special_edwardianscores/1060/thumbnail.jp

Association of Disease Location and Treatment With Survival in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma of the Eye and Ocular Adnexal Region.

Importance: Primary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the ocular region is rare, and the utility of surgery and radiation therapy remains unresolved. Objective: To explore the clinical characteristics and determine factors associated with overall survival in primary vitreoretinal lymphoma (PVRL) and ocular adnexal (OA)-uveal DLBCL. Design, Setting, and Participants: This retrospective analysis included 396 patients with ophthalmic DLBCL from January 1, 1973, through December 31, 2014, using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. The median follow-up was 39.0 months (interquartile range, 5.1-72.9 months). All patients diagnosed with primary DLBCL of the eye or retina (PVRL) or the eyelid, conjunctiva, choroid, ciliary body, lacrimal gland, or orbit (OA-uveal lymphoma) were included. Patients diagnosed at autopsy or with additional neoplastic disease were excluded. Main Outcomes and Measures: Patient demographic characteristics, disease location, treatment modalities, and overall survival. Results: Forty-seven patients with PVRL (24 women [51.1%] and 23 men [48.9%]) and 349 with OA-uveal DLBCL (192 women [55.0%] and 157 men [45.0%]) had a similar mean (SD) age at diagnosis (69.6 [12.3] vs 66.1 [17.7] years). No difference in the use of surgery or radiation therapy by location was found. For all PVRL and OA-uveal DLBCL, a Cox proportional hazards regression model affirmed that age older than 60 years was associated with increased risk for death (hazard ratio [HR], 2.7; 95% CI, 1.9-4.0; P \u3c .001). Gross total resection was associated with a decreased risk for death (HR, 0.5; 95% CI, 0.3-0.9; P = .04), whereas radiation therapy was not. The 5-year overall survival among patients with PVRL was 41.4% (SE, 8.6%); among those with OA-uveal DLBCL, 59.1% (SE, 2.8%; Mantel-Cox test, P = .007). Median overall survival was lower in PVRL (38.0 months; 95% CI, 14.2-61.8 months) than in OA-uveal DLBCL (96.0 months; 95% CI, 67.3-124.7 months; Mantel-Cox test, P = .007). In addition, median overall survival in ophthalmic-only disease was higher (84.0 months; 95% CI, 63.2-104.8 months) than that in primary DLBCL that occurred outside the central nervous system and ophthalmic regions (46.0 months; 95% CI, 44.4-47.6 months; Mantel-Cox test, P \u3c .001). Conclusions and Relevance: The 5-year survival in PVRL vs OA-uveal DLBCL differed by 17.7%, and overall survival was greater in ophthalmic DLBCL than in DLBCL located outside the central nervous system and ophthalmic regions. Younger age (≤60 years) and gross total resection were associated with increased survival

United States v. Kovel, 296 F.2d 918 (2d Cir. 1961)

United States v. Kove

Some studies of laser doppler anemometry in wet steam

This study concerns the use of counter based laser Doppler anemometry in a wet steam flow of variable wetness fraction. Velocity measurements across the flow were made under different steam conditions. Comparison was made with a theoretical profile based upon a simple flow analysis. A small radial turbocharger was used as a means of extracting enthalpy homogeneously from a dry superheated flow of steam using the compressor as a brake. The wetness fraction of the exhaust was estimated using measured values of the thermodynamic properties. A laser extinction method was used to determine the number concentration and mean radius of the water droplets acting as natural scatterers in the wet steam. A laser anemometer was designed which made use of the properties of a propagating gaussian beam to produce a small probe volume. This was required to reduce the number of water droplets likely to be present simultaneously in the measuring volume. Good Doppler signals were obtained and these have been presented for a range of wet steam conditions. A computer model was developed to predict the scattering of laser light through wet steam. Results have shown that this can be accurately modelled using a particle size distribution function. The program written to perform the simulation takes into account both single and multiple scattering events. The parameters used for the distribution function required a knowledge of the wetness fraction and so provided a useful means of checking the estimate based upon the thermodynamic measurements. It has been demonstrated that the ability to obtain Doppler signals from the wet steam can be predicted by computation of the signal-to-noise ratio for the medium. Good results were obtained for the wet steam conditions under investigation

Mechanochemical Investigation of a Glassy Epoxy-Amine Thermoset Subjected to Fatigue

Covalent bonds in organic molecules can be produced, altered, and broken through various sources of energy and processes. These include photochemical, thermochemical, chemical, and mechanochemical processes. Polymeric materials derive their physical properties from the time scale of motion, summation of intermolecular forces, and number of chain entanglements and crosslinks. Glassy thermoset polymers experience mechanical fatigue during dynamic stress loading and properties diminish with inevitable material failure at stress levels below the ultimate tensile strength (UTS). Damage modeling has been successful in predicting the number of cycles required to induce failure in a specimen due to stress. However, it does not directly provide an explanation of the origin of fatigue in polymers. It is hypothesized herein that mechanical failure at stress levels below the ultimate strength property is due to the accumulation of mechanically induced homolytic chain scission events throughout the glassy thermoset network. The goal of this research will be to quantify homolytic chain scission events with fatigue cycles with the ultimate goal of correlating mechanical property loss with degradation of covalent network structure. To accomplish this goal, stable free nitroxyl radicals were incorporated into an epoxy-amine matrix to detect homolytic chain scission resulting from fatigue. Chapter II discusses a successful synthesis and characterization of the nitroxyl radical molecule, a product of 4-hydroxy-2,2,5,5-tetramethylpiperdin-1-yl-oxyl (TEMPO) and isophorone diisocyanate designated as BT-IPDI. In Chapter III, the epoxy-amine reaction was determined to be unaffected by incorporation of up to 5 wt% of BT-IPDI. Although 50% UTS fatigue studies produced property degradation and fatigue failure as shown in Chapter IV, analysis of BT-IPDI through EPR did not detect homolytic chain scission. Chapter V reveals that mechano-radicals were produced from cryo-grinding the glassy epoxy-amine thermoset, and although the mechano-radicals reacted through recombination at elevated temperatures, the reaction between mechano-radicals and the BT-IPDI was not detected to occur within the glassy state. During mechanical testing, observations of unusual tensile yield behavior were coupled with production of atypical fracture surfaces. In Chapter VI, physical aging was used as an investigative tool to verify that viscous deformation (plastic flow) was required to produce the atypical fracture surfaces. Atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy of the fracture surface both revealed a tendril nodule morphology. It is our hypothesis that this morphology produces the unusual mechanical behavior. In Chapter VII, NIR, AFM, and SEM were used to measure the conversion and morphology of the epoxy-amine thermoset correlated with mechanical properties. The thermal cure profile of the epoxy-amine thermoset affects the size and formation of the nodular nanostructure. Eliminating vitrification during thermoset polymerization forms a more continuous phase, reduction in size of the nodules, and eliminates the capacity of the material to yield in plastic flow. Specific findings of this research reveal that morphology control through thermal cure design may indicate a route in which thermoplastic type failure mechanisms can be incorporated into glassy epoxy thermosets

The late glacial and post glacial history of the Vale of Pickering and northern Yorkshire Wolds

This thesis is an attempt to combine a number of different approaches as part of a wider attempt to re-interpret  the late Quaternary history of the Vale of Pickering and Northern Wolds in Yorkshire. This involved the critical  analysis of part evidence together with the collation and interpretation of data from a variety of sources, some  published, some unpublished but mostly from field work.The course of the research followed a number of different lines. The first of these was to study the sedimentary  data from glacial and pro-glacial deposits in the Vale of Pickering to assess their age and environment of deposition. The sediments were mapped in the field and analysed in the laboratory. A glacial outwash rather  than lake-beach origin was proved for an important group of these sediments. The sedimentary data from the  Vale of Pickering showed that ice had undoubtedly advanced further into the area than had been envisaged by  Kendall at the turn of the century. - this was supported independently by geomorphological evidence and more  sedimentary data from the northern Yorkshire Wolds escarpment. In the western end of the Vale, a thicker lobe  of ice than that supposed by Kendall seems to have advanced into the area from the Vale of York, but its furthest  limits cannot be shown from data available at the moment.On the Yorkshire Wolds an attempt was made to delineate the advance of the Late Quaternary ice, but  unfortunately the data was so poor that no firm limits could be drawn. Glacial outwash sediments were found at several scattered sites and compared with those found in the Vale, some similarity was proved, suggesting that  meltwater from late Quaternary glaciers had flowed across the Wolds and that ice from the Vale had overtopped  the Wolds scarp along much of its length. The soils were analysed and found to have a higher blown sand  content than suspected previously. The blown sand content increased towards the northwest, suggesting a  probable glacial outwash source.The dry valleys were studied and new light shed on the processes which may have contributed to their  formation. In addition evidence of periglacial evidence from the whole region was collected, described and  assessed. Finally it was found that the structural lines of disturbance which traverse the chalk of the northern  Wolds could easily be mapped from aerial photographs. These were mapped and included in the thesis as a small contribution to the solid geology of the area, even though they only impinge indirectly upon the main scope  of this study

Stumpf v. Fidelity Gas Co., 294 F.2d 866 (9th Cir. 1961)

Stumpf v. Fidelity Gas Co