Sure Thing; Time Flies; Long Aog and Far Away: A Winter\u27s Tale

Three one-act plays, written and directed by John Carroll students, performed at John Carroll University February 20-23, 2003.https://collected.jcu.edu/plays/1131/thumbnail.jp

The Liar (April 14-16, 2016)

Program for The Liar (April 14-16, 2016). To view the photos from this production of The Liar, please click here

On the Impact of Optimal Modulation and FEC Overhead on Future Optical Networks

The potential of optimum selection of modulation and forward error correction (FEC) overhead (OH) in future transparent nonlinear optical mesh networks is studied from an information theory perspective. Different network topologies are studied as well as both ideal soft-decision (SD) and hard-decision (HD) FEC based on demap-and-decode (bit-wise) receivers. When compared to the de-facto QPSK with 7% OH, our results show large gains in network throughput. When compared to SD-FEC, HD-FEC is shown to cause network throughput losses of 12%, 15%, and 20% for a country, continental, and global network topology, respectively. Furthermore, it is shown that most of the theoretically possible gains can be achieved by using one modulation format and only two OHs. This is in contrast to the infinite number of OHs required in the ideal case. The obtained optimal OHs are between 5% and 80%, which highlights the potential advantage of using FEC with high OHs.Comment: Some minor typos were correcte

A night on the town; New York Actor;The Philadelphia

The Marinello One-acts performed two plays each featuring a large city, comprise the Night on the Town experience from the Marinello One acts in February of 2002.https://collected.jcu.edu/plays/1127/thumbnail.jp

Solution to a problem of Nirenberg concerning expanding maps

By constructing a map of a separable Hilbert space into itself that is continuous, expanding, nonsurjective, and equal to the identity on the unit ball we answer a problem stated by Louis Nirenberg

Lake Michigan Salmonid Stocking Costs in Wisconsin

The costs of stocking salmonids in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan are estimated for 1985. Estimation procedures and costs per stocked and captured fish are presented. Fingerlings of a species were found in most cases to cost more per captured fish than yearlings. However chinook salmon fingerlings were least expensive at an average cost of only $0.35 per captured fish. Most expensive were brook yearlings and fingerlings at$12.67 and $10.14 respectively. While a full policy evaluation awaits additional research on species specific benefits, three tentative conclusions can be drawn for the Wisconsin fishery. First, the role of brook trout in the fishery should be reviewed. Second, despite difficulties with lake trout rehabilitation, the role of lake trout in the sport fishery is encouraging and may justify continued stocking. Finally, increased stocking of the popular chinook salmon may be justified if the recent problems of low capture-per-release rates can be solved.restocking costs, benefit-cost methodology, sport fisheries, salmonids, Lake Michigan, Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Design Considerations for Low-Margin Elastic Optical Networks in the Nonlinear Regime

We demonstrate from a system design perspective, that nonlinearity can be exploited, to minimize the impact of system margins on the system performance, both for point-to-point links and elastic optical networks. A nonlinear interaction causes a 2 dB reduction in launch power to be reduced to <0.25 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) penalty and likewise, a 2 dB peak-peak (pk-pk) perturbation to the output power of an optical amplifier incurs <0.25 dB SNR penalty (for 5, 10 and 20 spans). Extending this to a gain ripple of 1 dB pk-pk with an internode spacing of 5x80 km, 10x80 km and 20x80 km the penalty is 0.4 dB, 1.5 dB and 5.1 dB, respectively, with pre-emphasis reducing this to 0.01 dB, 0.3 dB and 1.2 dB respectively. In elastic optical networks we consider the nonlinear relationship between SNR, margin and the fraction of capacity available. We consider scaling internode distances of a 9-node German scale network (DT9) such that the initial network diameter increases from 1,120 km to 6,720 km (six-fold scaling). We generate 1,000 different topologies based on the scaled DT9 node locations to quantify the impact of margin. For the unscaled DT9 network a 3 dB margin results in, on average, a 21% reduction in network throughput, however when the internode spacing is increased six-fold to a continental scale network, the network throughput is reduced by 40%, on average, for the same 3 dB margin.RJV acknowledges funding from EPSRC and BT through an iCASE studentship. SJS and DJI acknowledge funding through the EPSRC Programme Grant TRANSNET EP/R035342/1

Strategies for Managing Citizen Developers and No-Code Tools

No-code and low-code development tools promise faster development and productivity gains by circumventing the traditional IT bottleneck. These tools pose both opportunities and challenges, especially when used by citizen developers. Based on the no-code experiences of various organizations, we identify the strengths of these tools and the risks, as well as the misalignments between no-code-empowered citizen developers and corporate IT departments. We also provide recommended strategies for managing citizen developers and leveraging no-code tools to enhance organizational agility

Grid generation: A view from the trenches

This paper presents 'A view from the trenches' on CFD grid generation from a Pratt & Whitney perspective. We anticipate that other organizations have similar views. We focus on customer expectations and the consequent requirements. We enunciate a vision for grid generation, discuss issues that developers must recognize