Exercises to increase auditory discrimination in retarded readers of grades four, five, and six.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

A highly optimized vectorized code for Monte Carlo simulations of SU(3) lattice gauge theories

New methods are introduced for improving the performance of the vectorized Monte Carlo SU(3) lattice gauge theory algorithm using the CDC CYBER 205. Structure, algorithm and programming considerations are discussed. The performance achieved for a 16(4) lattice on a 2-pipe system may be phrased in terms of the link update time or overall MFLOPS rates. For 32-bit arithmetic, it is 36.3 microsecond/link for 8 hits per iteration (40.9 microsecond for 10 hits) or 101.5 MFLOPS

Love and love of self in early modern French writing

This is a pre-print version of an article which was published in Seventeenth Century French Studies Volume 35, Number 1, July 2013 , pp. 80-97(18) and is available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/c17/2013/00000035/00000001/art00007

Transition-metal interactions in aluminum-rich intermetallics

The extension of the first-principles generalized pseudopotential theory (GPT) to transition-metal (TM) aluminides produces pair and many-body interactions that allow efficient calculations of total energies. In aluminum-rich systems treated at the pair-potential level, one practical limitation is a transition-metal over-binding that creates an unrealistic TM-TM attraction at short separations in the absence of balancing many-body contributions. Even with this limitation, the GPT pair potentials have been used effectively in total-energy calculations for Al-TM systems with TM atoms at separations greater than 4 AA. An additional potential term may be added for systems with shorter TM atom separations, formally folding repulsive contributions of the three- and higher-body interactions into the pair potentials, resulting in structure-dependent TM-TM potentials. Towards this end, we have performed numerical ab-initio total-energy calculations using VASP (Vienna Ab Initio Simulation Package) for an Al-Co-Ni compound in a particular quasicrystalline approximant structure. The results allow us to fit a short-ranged, many-body correction of the form a(r_0/r)^{b} to the GPT pair potentials for Co-Co, Co-Ni, and Ni-Ni interactions.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PR

Transport and Fate of Sediment on the Waipaoa River Continental Shelf: Implications for the Formation and Reworking of Flood Deposits

As part of a large interdisciplinary study, particulate fluxes in the Waipaoa River sedimentary system in New Zealand have been studied from the terrestrial headlands of the catchment to the oceanic basin over timescales spanning storm events, seasons, and the Holocene. Here, we complement prior efforts by evaluating the formation and reworking of riverine deposits during episodic flood and wave events, and considering their role in accumulation patterns created over longer timescales on the Waipaoa shelf. Using a numerical hydrodynamic and sediment transport model, sediment fluxes and deposition were analyzed from January 2010 through February 2011. A version of the three dimensional ROMS-CSTMS (Regional Ocean Modeling System – Community Sediment Transport Modeling System) was used to investigate the spatial and temporal variability of sediment fluxes on the Waipaoa shelf. The model could account for river input, waves, winds, larger-scale currents, tides, multiple sediment classes and a multi-layered seabed. Sediment sources to the water column included both the river plume and resuspension from the seabed. For model stability and to prevent the reflection of the river plume at the open boundary, the Waipaoa shelf model was nested within a larger-scale New Zealand ocean model. Model inputs were based on observations and model estimates, depending on availability

Monte Carlo Hamiltonian of lattice gauge theory

We discuss how the concept of the Monte Carlo Hamiltonian can be applied to lattice gauge theories.Comment: "Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory: Lattice and Beyond", Guangzhou, China 200