Ming-Hui Lin, flute and Ayako Yoda, piano and harpsichord, April 25, 2015

This is the concert program of the Ming-Hui Lin, flute and Ayako Yoda, piano and harpsichord performance on Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 8:30 p.m., at the Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Sonata in C major for Flute and Basso Continuo, BWV 1033 by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata for Flute and Piano, No. 3 by Philippe Gaubert, Sonatina for Flute and Piano by Eldin Burton, Syrinx for Flute solo by Claude Debussy, and Introduction and Variations on "Trockne Blumen" in E minor for Flute and Piano, D802 by Franz Schubert. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Стратегії проповідницького дискурсу І. Галятовського: антропологічний аспект

How cells in developing organisms interpret the quantitative information contained in morphogen gradients is an open question. Here we address this question using a novel integrative approach that combines quantitative measurements of morphogen-induced gene expression at single-mRNA resolution with mathematical modelling of the induction process. We focus on the induction of Notch ligands by the LIN-3/EGF morphogen gradient during vulva induction in Caenorhabditis elegans. We show that LIN-3/EGF-induced Notch ligand expression is highly dynamic, exhibiting an abrupt transition from low to high expression. Similar transitions in Notch ligand expression are observed in two highly divergent wild C. elegans isolates. Mathematical modelling and experiments show that this transition is driven by a dynamic increase in the sensitivity of the induced cells to external LIN-3/EGF. Furthermore, this increase in sensitivity is independent of the presence of LIN-3/EGF. Our integrative approach might be useful to study induction by morphogen gradients in other systems

Soil and Water Conservation Planning: Policy Issues and Recommendations

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It discusses the degree of soil erosion in various watersheds based on classified descriptive parameters. It also proposes land use planning and allocation scheme.land management, watershed, soil erosion, soil conservation

Soil and Water Conservation Planning: Policy Issues and Recommendations

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It discusses the degree of soil erosion in various watersheds based on classified descriptive parameters. It also proposes land use planning and allocation scheme.land management, watershed, soil erosion, soil conservation

Silicon contact for area reduction of integrated circuits

Silicon contact for area reduction of integrated circuit

Multispectral Deep Neural Networks for Pedestrian Detection

Multispectral pedestrian detection is essential for around-the-clock applications, e.g., surveillance and autonomous driving. We deeply analyze Faster R-CNN for multispectral pedestrian detection task and then model it into a convolutional network (ConvNet) fusion problem. Further, we discover that ConvNet-based pedestrian detectors trained by color or thermal images separately provide complementary information in discriminating human instances. Thus there is a large potential to improve pedestrian detection by using color and thermal images in DNNs simultaneously. We carefully design four ConvNet fusion architectures that integrate two-branch ConvNets on different DNNs stages, all of which yield better performance compared with the baseline detector. Our experimental results on KAIST pedestrian benchmark show that the Halfway Fusion model that performs fusion on the middle-level convolutional features outperforms the baseline method by 11% and yields a missing rate 3.5% lower than the other proposed architectures.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, BMVC 2016 ora

The ωNN\omega NN couplings derived from QCD sum rules

The light cone QCD sum rules are derived for $\omega NN$ vector and tensor couplings simultaneously. The vacuum gluon field contribution is taken into account. Our results are $g_\omega =(18\pm 8), \kappa_\omega=(0.8\pm 0.4)$.Comment: To appear in Phys. Rev. C (Brief Report

Sharing vs. eminent domain

Controversy over the public taking of land through eminent domain intensified after the Supreme Court backed a 2000 New London taking. In contrast, an approach practiced abroad can help all stakeholders share in the benefits of economic development projects.Eminent domain