593 research outputs found
Sue Arnn and Glen Jackson in a Joint Senior Recital
This is the program for the joint senior recital of pianist Sue Arnn and bass Glen Jackson. Pianist Crystal Waters accompanied Jackson\u27s performance. This recital took place on April 28, 1975, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center
Stay Awhile and Listen: User Interactions in a Crowdsourced Platform Offering Emotional Support
Internet and online-based social systems are rising as the dominant mode of
communication in society. However, the public or semi-private environment under
which most online communications operate under do not make them suitable
channels for speaking with others about personal or emotional problems. This
has led to the emergence of online platforms for emotional support offering
free, anonymous, and confidential conversations with live listeners. Yet very
little is known about the way these platforms are utilized, and if their
features and design foster strong user engagement. This paper explores the
utilization and the interaction features of hundreds of thousands of users on 7
Cups of Tea, a leading online platform offering online emotional support. It
dissects the level of activity of hundreds of thousands of users, the patterns
by which they engage in conversation with each other, and uses machine learning
methods to find factors promoting engagement. The study may be the first to
measure activities and interactions in a large-scale online social system that
fosters peer-to-peer emotional support
Movement of an Ice-Cored Rock Glacier, Tungsten, N.W.T., Canada, 1963-1980
In August 1963 Dr. H. Gabrielse, of the Geological Survey of Canada, established five lines of marked boulders on what is now believed to be a large ice-cored rock glacier near Tungsten, Northwest Territories. The boulders were aligned with survey targets located on the rock walls of the valley in which the rock glacier is located. The distances from the snout of the rock glacier to eight forest trees along its perimeter were measured and blazed into the trees. In July 1980, we visited the rock glacier and resurveyed the marked boulders and the rock glacier's snout in order to establish the rate and nature of movement of the rock glacier over the past 17 years
A method for matching crowd-sourced and authoritative geospatial data
A method for matching crowd-sourced and authoritative geospatial data is presented. A level of tolerance is defined as an input parameter as some difference in the geometry representation of a spatial object is to be expected. The method generates matches between spatial objects using location information and lexical information, such as names and types, and verifies consistency of matches using reasoning in qualitative spatial logic and description logic. We test the method by matching geospatial data from OpenStreetMap and the national mapping agencies of Great Britain and France. We also analyze how the level of tolerance affects the precision and recall of matching results for the same geographic area using 12 different levels of tolerance within a range of 1 to 80 meters. The generated matches show potential in helping enrich and update geospatial data
A method for matching crowd-sourced and authoritative geospatial data
A method for matching crowd-sourced and authoritative geospatial data is presented. A level of tolerance is defined as an input parameter as some difference in the geometry representation of a spatial object is to be expected. The method generates matches between spatial objects using location information and lexical information, such as names and types, and verifies consistency of matches using reasoning in qualitative spatial logic and description logic. We test the method by matching geospatial data from OpenStreetMap and the national mapping agencies of Great Britain and France. We also analyze how the level of tolerance affects the precision and recall of matching results for the same geographic area using 12 different levels of tolerance within a range of 1 to 80 meters. The generated matches show potential in helping enrich and update geospatial data
Pattern recognition in the nucleation kinetics of non-equilibrium self-assembly
Inspired by biology’s most sophisticated computer, the brain, neural networks constitute a profound reformulation of computational principles. Analogous high-dimensional, highly interconnected computational architectures also arise within information-processing molecular systems inside living cells, such as signal transduction cascades and genetic regulatory networks. Might collective modes analogous to neural computation be found more broadly in other physical and chemical processes, even those that ostensibly play non-information-processing roles? Here we examine nucleation during self-assembly of multicomponent structures, showing that high-dimensional patterns of concentrations can be discriminated and classified in a manner similar to neural network computation. Specifically, we design a set of 917 DNA tiles that can self-assemble in three alternative ways such that competitive nucleation depends sensitively on the extent of colocalization of high-concentration tiles within the three structures. The system was trained in silico to classify a set of 18 grayscale 30 × 30 pixel images into three categories. Experimentally, fluorescence and atomic force microscopy measurements during and after a 150 hour anneal established that all trained images were correctly classified, whereas a test set of image variations probed the robustness of the results. Although slow compared to previous biochemical neural networks, our approach is compact, robust and scalable. Our findings suggest that ubiquitous physical phenomena, such as nucleation, may hold powerful information-processing capabilities when they occur within high-dimensional multicomponent systems
Heat Transfer to Bodies in a High-speed Rarified-Gas Stream
Report presents the results of an investigation to determine the equilibrium temperature and heat-transfer coefficients for transverse cylinders in a high-speed stream of rarefied gas measured over a range of Knudsen numbers (ratio of molecular-mean-free path to cylinder diameter) from 0.025 to 11.8 and for Mach numbers from 2.0 to 3.3. The range of free-stream Reynolds numbers was from 0.28 to 203. The models tested were 0.0010-, 0.0050-, 0.030-, 0.051-, 0.080-, and 0.126-inch -diameter cylinders held normal to the stream
A Comparison of Theory and Experiment for High-speed Free-molecule Flow
A comparison is made of free-molecule-flow theory with the results of wind-tunnel tests performed to determine the drag and temperature-rise characteristics of a transverse circular cylinder. The measured values of the cylinder center-point temperature confirmed the salient point of the heat-transfer analysis which was the prediction that an insulated cylinder would attain a temperature higher than the stagnation temperature of the stream. Good agreement was obtained between the theoretical and the experimental values for the drag coefficient
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