Narrative Policy Analysis

This review explores the book All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagons View on Climate Change, written by Micheal Klare, highlighting how the US national security offices are viewing and responding to the ominous looming threats posed by climate change

Fast parallel volume visualization on cuda technology

In the medical diagnosis and treatment planning, radiologists and surgeons rely heavily on the slices produced by medical imaging scanners. Unfortunately, most of these scanners can only produce two dimensional images because the machines that can produce three dimensional are very expensive. The two dimensional images from these devices are difficult to interpret because they only show cross-sectional views of the human structure. Consequently, such circumstances require highly qualified doctors to use their expertise in the interpretation of the possible location, size or shape of the abnormalities especially for large datasets of enormous amount of slices. Previously, the concept of reconstructing two dimensional images to three dimensional was introduced. However, such reconstruction model requires high performance computation, may either be time-consuming or costly. Furthermore, detecting the internal features of human anatomical structure, such as the imaging of the blood vessels, is still an open topic in the computer-aided diagnosis of disorders and pathologies. This study proposed, designed and implemented a visualization framework named SurLens with high performance computing using Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), augmenting the widely proven ray casting technique in terms of superior qualities of images but with slow speed. Considering the rapid development of technology in the medical community, our framework is implemented on Microsoft .NET environment for easy interoperability with other emerging revolutionary tools. The Visualization System was evaluated with brain datasets from the department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, United States, containing 109 datasets of MRA, T1-FLASH, T2-Weighted, DTI and T1-MPRAGE. Significantly, at a reasonably cheaper cost, SurLens Visualization System achieves immediate reconstruction and obvious mappings of the internal features of the human brain, reliable enough for instantaneously locate possible blockages in the brain blood vessels without any prior segmentation of the datasets

Ironía posmoderna: Michael Graves, 1934-2015

Nota necrológica sobre Micheal Graves (1934-2015

Burke, Micheal (1867 - )

This biographical summary was created by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1936 and 1939

Educator, Administrator, Innovator -- An Interview with Dr. Micheal Slattery

Transcript of interview with Dr. Micheal Slattery.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/ors/1251/thumbnail.jp

A Falsified Universe of Love and Desire, Review of Micheal Farmer\u27s Imagination and Idealism in John Updike\u27s Novels

Book Review of Micheal Farmer\u27s Imagination and Idealism in John Updike\u27s Novel

The Reaper\u27s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

Micheal Williams is a senior history major at Middle Georgia State University. Micheal has been a peer tutor in his department for two years, as well as serving as vice president of the History Student Organization for three semesters. He has presented his research at local, state, and national undergraduate conferences, and enjoys learning and sharing his interest in history with others. His research interests lie in the cultural and sociopolitical histories of Native Americans of the Southeast, both prehistoric and historic. He is currently looking forward to applying to graduate school

International Cooperation to Resolve International Pollution Problems

This article provides a non-technical overview of important results of the game theoretical literature on the formation and stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs) on transboundary pollution control. It starts out by sketching features of first and second best solutions to the problem of transboundary pollution. It then argues that most actual IEAs can be considered at best as third best solutions. Therefore, three questions are raised: 1) Why is there a difference between actual IEAs and first and second best solutions? 2) Which factors determine this difference? 3) Which measures can help to narrow this difference? This article attempts to answer these questions after giving an informal introduction to coalition models.International pollution, International environmental agreements, Treaty design, Coalition theory