Spaceborne memory organization, an associative data acquisition system, phase II Final report, Apr. - Dec. 1966

Spaceborne memory organization, associative data acquisition system design, and data compression technique

The Effects of the Garrison Dam on the Community of Elbowoods

The purpose of this study is to describe and explain the social disorganization and community upheaval of Native Americans in Elbowoods created by the construction of the Garrison Dam. The construction of the Garrison Dam in 1954, by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, was devastating not only for Fort Berthold Indian Reservation but also for Elbowoods. Flooding of the thousands of acres caused the residences of Elbowoods to give up farmland, natural shelter for human and cattle, family structure, community gardens, and a way of life that existed for thousands of years. The data was collected by interviews, emphasizing qualitative analysis. Ten individuals who previously lived in the community of Elbowoods were the subjects for the interview. The questions consisted of personal experiences explaining how the dam changed the community and what affect the relocation had on individuals. Additional information came from newspapers, published reports, pictures, a video, and Congressional reports and hearings. The theories guiding the research were social disorganization and a concept known as community theory. Community theory has been used to explain the function and importance of the conceptualization that community life provides to its residence. The theory of social disorganization provides the perspective of the drastic change in lifestyle that the community of Elbowoods experienced. The data collected provides evidence to enhance that history and also serves as a voice to those who were not heard. It reveals the attempts to cope and adapt to a “loss of community” that others have experienced

Spaceborne memory organization, phase 1 Final report

Application of associative memories to data processing for future space vehicle

Spaceborne memory organization Interim report

Associative memory applications in unmanned space vehicle

Application of the comparison principle to analysis of nonlinear systems

A comparison principle based on a Kamke theorem and Lipschitz conditions is presented along with its possible applications and modifications. It is shown that the comparison lemma can be used in the study of such areas as classical stability theory, higher order trajectory derivatives, Liapunov functions, boundary value problems, approximate dynamic systems, linear and nonlinear systems, and bifurcation analysis

Periodical Cicadas Are Coming in May!

Millions of 17-cicadas will come out in southern Iowa in May 1963; 20,000 - 40,000 may emerge around a single tree. They won\u27t sting or bite humans and animals or do much damage, but they will make a lot of noise

The risks may be too high

The proposed revisions to the diagnosis of personality disorders in ICD‐11 move the diagnosis of personality disorders from the categorical to the dimensional. Although there may be a number of good reasons to consider changes in the manner in which we diagnose personality disorders, the method proposed here goes too far in the degree of changes that it proposes. It ignores the fact that at least for some of the personality disorders, there is data that supports them as distinct diagnostic entities separate from other axis I and axis II disorders. Eliminating the diagnostic categories that have been part of the established psychiatric nomenclature for the last 30 years threatens to undermine the significant research and clinical advances that have been made using categorical diagnoses. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/87112/1/pmh187.pd

Spontaneous Scalarization and Boson Stars

We study spontaneous scalarization in Scalar-Tensor boson stars. We find that scalarization does not occur in stars whose bosons have no self-interaction. We introduce a quartic self-interaction term into the boson Lagrangian and show that when this term is large, scalarization does occur. Strong self-interaction leads to a large value of the compactness (or sensitivity) of the boson star, a necessary condition for scalarization to occur, and we derive an analytical expression for computing the sensitivity of a boson star in Brans-Dicke theory from its mass and particle number. Next we comment on how one can use the sensitivity of a star in any Scalar-Tensor theory to determine how its mass changes when it undergoes gravitational evolution. Finally, in the Appendix, we derive the most general form of the boson wavefunction that minimises the energy of the star when the bosons carry a U(1) charge.Comment: 23 pages, 5 postscript figures. Typing errors corrected. Includes some new text that relates the paper to several previous results. Accepted for publication in PR