Biopax and Semantics

Biopax community is producing sets of data in RDF files, but most of them are not available through query interfaces. The publication of SPARQL endpoints is feasible with current sets of data, but the use of reasoning in these interfaces is unfeasible in many cases. The use of large scale reasoners is a need to take advantage of these data sets

Ellalou Dimmock, A Memorial Concert, October 2, 1995

This is the concert program of the Ellalou Dimmock, A Memorial Concert performance on Monday, October 2, 1995 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were "Dove Sei" from Rodelinda by George Frideric Handel, "Illustratevi, o cieli" by Claudio Montiverdi, Remembering Ellalou: A Friend's Reminiscence by Marjorie McDonald, If Music be the food of love by Henry Purcell, Le Colibri by Ernest Chausson, Eem Yerke by Kurken Alemshah, Mandoline, En Sourdine, and Green by Gabriel Faure, Remembering Ellalou: A Poem by Joanne Mouradjian, from Six Songs from Time and Eternity by Martha Alter, from Das Marienleben by Paul Hindemith, and Epilogue: Ständchen by Richard Strauss. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Boston University Women's Chorale and Concert Choir, October 16, 2004

This is the concert program of the Boston University Women's Chorale and Concert Choir performance on Sunday, October 16, 2004 at 8:00 p.m., at Marsh Chapel, 735 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Duet from Cantata No. 78, "Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten" by Johann Sebastian Bach, "Ave Maria" by Johannes Brahms, "Noël des Enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons" by Claude Debussy, "Ave Maria" by Zoltán Kodály, "Lament for Jannis Mantakas" by Theodore Antoniou, "World Music Suite" by Donald Patriquin, and "Jesu, meine Freunde," BWV 227 by J. S. Bach. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Times Arrow Ensemble, December 13, 2006

This is the concert program of the Times Arrow Ensemble performance on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 8:00 p.m, at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Hoquetus Petrus by Harrison Birtwistle, Trois Poemés de Stèphane Mallarmè by Maurice Ravel, Largo for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano by Charles Ives, Thème et Variations by Oliver Messiaen, Colloquy by Thea Musgrave, Composition for Three Voices by John Cage, and Six Short Inventions by John Cage. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Parents Weekend Concert, Boston University Choral Ensembles and Chamber Orchestra, Saturday, October 24, 1998

This is the concert program of the Parents Weekend Concert, Boston University Choral Ensembles and Chamber Orchestra performance on Saturday, October 24, 1998 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Four Ruckert Songs and Two Songs from The Youth's Magic Horn by Gustav Mahler, Overture to Coriolan, Op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Missa Brevis in D major by Benjamin Britten, Eucaristica and Nigra Sum by Pablo Casals, L'Invitation au voyage by John Corigliano, A Jubilant Song by Normal Dello Joio, Behold! I Build an House by Lukas Foss, and I Gondolieri, La Passegiata, and Toast pour le nouvel an by Gioachino Rossini. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Precision Top-Quark Mass Measurements at CDF

We present a precision measurement of the top-quark mass using the full sample of Tevatron $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV proton-antiproton collisions collected by the CDF II detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.7 $fb^{-1}$. Using a sample of $t\bar{t}$ candidate events decaying into the lepton+jets channel, we obtain distributions of the top-quark masses and the invariant mass of two jets from the $W$ boson decays from data. We then compare these distributions to templates derived from signal and background samples to extract the top-quark mass and the energy scale of the calorimeter jets with {\it in situ} calibration. The likelihood fit of the templates from signal and background events to the data yields the single most-precise measurement of the top-quark mass, \mtop = 172.85 \pm$0.71 (stat)$\pm$0.85 (syst) GeV/c^{2}.$Comment: submitted to Phys. Rev. Let

The chemical connection between 67P/C-G and IRAS 16293-2422

The chemical evolution of a star- and planet-forming system begins in the prestellar phase and proceeds across the subsequent evolutionary phases. The chemical trail from cores to protoplanetary disks to planetary embryos can be studied by comparing distant young protostars and comets in our Solar System. One particularly chemically rich system that is thought to be analogous to our own is the low-mass IRAS 16293-2422. ALMA-PILS observations have made the study of chemistry on the disk scales (< 100 AU) of this system possible. Under the assumption that comets are pristine tracers of the outer parts of the innate protosolar disk, it is possible to compare the composition of our infant Solar System to that of IRAS 16293-2422. The Rosetta mission has yielded a wealth of unique in situ measurements on comet 67P/C-G, making it the best probe to date. Herein, the initial comparisons in terms of the chemical composition and isotopic ratios are summarized. Much work is still to be carried out in the future as the analysis of both of these data sets is still ongoing.Comment: To appear in "Astrochemistry VII -- Through the Cosmos from Galaxies to Planets", proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 332, 2017, Puerto Varas, Chile. M. Cunningham, T. Millar and Y. Aikawa, eds. (6 pages

Top quark mass measurement using the template method at CDF

We present a measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets and dilepton channels of $t\bar{t}$ decays using the template method. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.6 fb$^{-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ collisions at Tevatron with $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV, collected with the CDF II detector. The measurement is performed by constructing templates of three kinematic variables in the lepton+jets and two kinematic variables in the dilepton channel. The variables are two reconstructed top quark masses from different jets-to-quarks combinations and the invariant mass of two jets from the $W$ decay in the lepton+jets channel, and a reconstructed top quark mass and $m_{T2}$, a variable related to the transverse mass in events with two missing particles, in the dilepton channel. The simultaneous fit of the templates from signal and background events in the lepton+jets and dilepton channels to the data yields a measured top quark mass of $M_{top} = 172.1 \pm 1.1(stat) \pm 0.9(syst).$Comment: submitted to Phys. Rev.