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A Naturalist\u27s Guide to Ontario (book review)
A NATURALIST\u27S GUIDE TO ONTARIO. W. W. Judd and J. M. Speirs (eds.). Published for the Federation of Ontario Naturalists by University of Toronto Press. 210 pp., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. 1964. Price: cloth, 1.95
An Analysis of the Shore Beetle Communities of Some Channelized Streams in Northwest Ohio (Coleoptera)
The present shore beetle communities of some northwest Ohio streams channelized between 1937 and 1973 were studied. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were made to determine the effects of channelization on the community and the results are discussed. Ninety species, chiefly Carabidae, Heteroceridae and Staphylinidae, were collected; at least 20 not previously reported from Ohio. In addition, some species associations are noted
Research and Regions. a KWIC Indexed Bibliography
Computerized techniques applied to economics to produce bibliography of related materia
Oscillation Frequency Dependence of Non-Classical Rotation Inertia of Solid He
The non-classical rotational inertia fraction of the identical cylindrical
solid He below 300 mK is studied at 496 and 1173 Hz by a double resonance
torsional oscillator. Below 35 mK, the fraction is the same at sufficiently low
rim velocities. Above 35 mK, the fraction is greater for the higher than the
lower mode. The dissipation peak of the lower mode occurs at a temperature
4 mK lower than that of the higher mode. The drive dependence of the two
modes shows that the reduction of the fraction is characterized by critical
velocity, \textit{not} amplitude nor acceleration.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Modeling and control of flexible space platforms with articulated payloads
The first steps in developing a methodology for spacecraft control-structure interaction (CSI) optimization are identification and classification of anticipated missions, and the development of tractable mathematical models in each mission class. A mathematical model of a generic large flexible space platform (LFSP) with multiple independently pointed rigid payloads is considered. The objective is not to develop a general purpose numerical simulation, but rather to develop an analytically tractable mathematical model of such composite systems. The equations of motion for a single payload case are derived, and are linearized about zero steady-state. The resulting model is then extended to include multiple rigid payloads, yielding the desired analytical form. The mathematical models developed clearly show the internal inertial/elastic couplings, and are therefore suitable for analytical and numerical studies. A simple decentralized control law is proposed for fine pointing the payloads and LFSP attitude control, and simulation results are presented for an example problem. The decentralized controller is shown to be adequate for the example problem chosen, but does not, in general, guarantee stability. A centralized dissipative controller is then proposed, requiring a symmetric form of the composite system equations. Such a controller guarantees robust closed loop stability despite unmodeled elastic dynamics and parameter uncertainties
ContextVP: Fully Context-Aware Video Prediction
Video prediction models based on convolutional networks, recurrent networks,
and their combinations often result in blurry predictions. We identify an
important contributing factor for imprecise predictions that has not been
studied adequately in the literature: blind spots, i.e., lack of access to all
relevant past information for accurately predicting the future. To address this
issue, we introduce a fully context-aware architecture that captures the entire
available past context for each pixel using Parallel Multi-Dimensional LSTM
units and aggregates it using blending units. Our model outperforms a strong
baseline network of 20 recurrent convolutional layers and yields
state-of-the-art performance for next step prediction on three challenging
real-world video datasets: Human 3.6M, Caltech Pedestrian, and UCF-101.
Moreover, it does so with fewer parameters than several recently proposed
models, and does not rely on deep convolutional networks, multi-scale
architectures, separation of background and foreground modeling, motion flow
learning, or adversarial training. These results highlight that full awareness
of past context is of crucial importance for video prediction.Comment: 19 pages. ECCV 2018 oral presentation. Project webpage is at
https://wonmin-byeon.github.io/publication/2018-ecc
The Slowdown in Soviet Defense Expenditures: Comment
The reason for the apparently opposing results in Brada and Graves\u27 (1988) attempt to explain the reasons for the slowdown in USSR defense expenditures in the mid-1970s is that their analysis suffers from a serious serial correlation problem. The majority of the regressions display Durbin-Watson statistics that reject the null hypothesis of no autocorrelation. A reestimation of their results, after correcting for serial correlation, changes some of their major conclusions regarding the factors influencing Soviet defense spending. The corrected results indicate that no structural break occurred in the mid-1970s. These results suggest that there has been no change in Soviet military doctrine or in the Soviet leadership\u27s preferences in the 1970s. In reply, Brada and Graves argue that the evidence for the existence of serially correlated disturbances is much more tenuous than Chowdhury suggests and that the evidence is more consistent with the existence of a structural break and no serial correlation of disturbances
The Slowdown in Soviet Defense Expenditures: Comment
The reason for the apparently opposing results in Brada and Graves\u27 (1988) attempt to explain the reasons for the slowdown in USSR defense expenditures in the mid-1970s is that their analysis suffers from a serious serial correlation problem. The majority of the regressions display Durbin-Watson statistics that reject the null hypothesis of no autocorrelation. A reestimation of their results, after correcting for serial correlation, changes some of their major conclusions regarding the factors influencing Soviet defense spending. The corrected results indicate that no structural break occurred in the mid-1970s. These results suggest that there has been no change in Soviet military doctrine or in the Soviet leadership\u27s preferences in the 1970s. In reply, Brada and Graves argue that the evidence for the existence of serially correlated disturbances is much more tenuous than Chowdhury suggests and that the evidence is more consistent with the existence of a structural break and no serial correlation of disturbances
Venturing beyond the backyard: Growing the family business internationally
Report prepared for Family Business Australia (South Australian chapter
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