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Merry Masquerade
The song, Merry Masquerade, was developed by the fifth-grade students of Martin Luther King Elementary School during the 2015 spring semester as part of the Americaās Civil War through Music sessions developed by Scott Schwartz and Marten Stromberg. This is the fourth year the students helped write a new song building on the knowledge that they have acquired through weekly history lessons and music performances by Scott and Marten, and copies of primary
source documents pulled from the Universityās Illinois History and Lincoln Collections. The studentsā song this year builds on some of the more unusual stories about the mad-capped adventures of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, Union
General George McClellan, and the many soldiers who fought during Americaās Civil War.Ope
Positive representations of finite groups in Riesz spaces
In this paper, which is part of a study of positive representations of
locally compact groups in Banach lattices, we initiate the theory of positive
representations of finite groups in Riesz spaces. If such a representation has
only the zero subspace and possibly the space itself as invariant principal
bands, then the space is Archimedean and finite dimensional. Various notions of
irreducibility of a positive representation are introduced and, for a finite
group acting positively in a space with sufficiently many projections, these
are shown to be equal. We describe the finite dimensional positive Archimedean
representations of a finite group and establish that, up to order equivalence,
these are order direct sums, with unique multiplicities, of the order
indecomposable positive representations naturally associated with transitive
-spaces. Character theory is shown to break down for positive
representations. Induction and systems of imprimitivity are introduced in an
ordered context, where the multiplicity formulation of Frobenius reciprocity
turns out not to hold.Comment: 23 pages. To appear in International Journal of Mathematic
Possible Optical Detection of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar CXOU J010043.1-721134
Archival Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 observations of
the Small Magellanic Cloud serendipitously reveal a possible counterpart to the
Anomalous X-ray Pulsar CXOU J010043.1-721134. The candidate is faint, but its
location and strange colours make it an interesting object. We estimate, that
the probability of such a detection being due to a non-physical source is less
than 1.5%. We have tried to confirm the identification with Gemini-South and
Magellan, but the conditions were insufficiently favourable. If confirmed, the
object will allow the first detailed studies of the optical and ultraviolet
emission of magnetars.Comment: 9 pages LaTeX, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
The tropospheric gas composition of Jupiter's north equatorial belt (NH3, PH3, CH3D, GeH4, H2O) and the Jovian D/H isotropic ratio
The gas composition of the troposphere of Jupiter in the clearest regions of the North Equatorial Belt (NEB) was derived from the Voyager 1 IRIS data. The infrared spectrum for this homogeneous cloud free region was modeled to infer altitude profiles for NH3, PH3, GeH4 and H2O. The Profiles for NH3 and PH3 were found to be depleted in the upper troposphere but otherwise in agreement with their solar values at the 1 bar level. The mole fraction for CH3D was determined to be 3.5(+1.0 or -1.3) x 10 to the minus 7th power. The GeH4 mole fraction of 7+ or -2 x 10 to the minus 10th power at the 2 to 3 bar level is a factor of 10 lower than the solar value. The H2O mole fraction is approximately 1 x 0.00001 at the 2.5 bar level and is increasing to approximately 3 x 0.00001 at 4 bars where it is a factor of 30 lower than solar. Using IRIS infrared values for the mole fractions of CH3D and CH4 a value of D/H = 3.6(+1.0 or -1.4)x 0.00001 is derived. Assuming this Jovian D/H ratio is representative of the protosolar nebula, and correcting for chemical galactic evolution, yields a value of 5.5 - 9.0 x 0.00001 for the primordial D/H ratio and an upper limit of 1.8 to 2.4 x 10 to the minus 31st power cu cm for the present day baryon density
Memoization Attacks and Copy Protection in Partitioned Applications
Application source code protection is a major concern for software architects today. Secure platforms have been proposed that protect the secrecy of application algorithms and enforce copy protection assurances. Unfortunately, these capabilities incur a sizeable performance overhead. Partitioning an application into secure and insecure regions can help diminish these overheads but invalidates guarantees of code secrecy and copy protection.This work examines one of the problems of partitioning an application into public and private regions, the ability of an adversary to recreate those private regions. To our knowledge, it is the first to analyze this problem when considering application operation as a whole. Looking at the fundamentals of the issue, we analyze one of the simplest attacks possible, a ``Memoization Attack.'' We implement an efficient Memoization Attack and discuss necessary techniques that limit storage and computation consumption. Experimentation reveals that certain classes of real-world applications are vulnerable to Memoization Attacks. To protect against such an attack, we propose a set of indicator tests that enable an application designer to identify susceptible application code regions
Perilaku Pemilih Menjelang Pilkada Serentak 2015 Di Kota Semarang
Indonesian political dynamics over the last 16 years since the Reformation movement initiated, the building shows the fragility of the Indonesian political experience. This can be seen how the level of community participation in the General Election in the Reformation era tend to decline until today. Election deemed not produce leaders who provide real change. This is exacerbated by the political system characterized transactional fraud. The purpose of this study was to look at the political behavior of society and give provisions regarding political education to the public ahead of the elections simultaneously in Semarang, especially in the Village Meteseh and Mangunharjo on December 2015. In this research use several theories: theory of rational choice and the theory of political participation
Nucleon Resonances and Quark Structure
A pedagogical review of the past 50 years of study of resonances, leading to
our understanding of the quark content of baryons and mesons. The level of this
review is intended for undergraduates or first-year graduate students. Topics
covered include: the quark structure of the proton as revealed through deep
inelastic scattering; structure functions and what they reveal about proton
structure; and prospects for further studies with new and upgraded facilities,
particularly a proposed electron-ion collider.Comment: 21 pages, 15 figure
Single and combined effects of Ī±vĪ²3- and Ī±5Ī²1-integrins on capillary tube formation in a human fibrinous matrix
The fibrinous exudate of a wound or tumor stroma facilitates angiogenesis. We studied the involvement of RGD-binding integrins during tube formation in human plasma-derived fibrin clots and human purified fibrin matrices. Capillary-like tube formation by human microvascular endothelial cells in a 3D plasma-derived fibrinous matrix was induced by FGF-2 and TNF-Ī± and depended largely on cell-bound u-PA and plasmin activities. While tube formation was minimally affected by the addition of either the Ī±vĪ²3-integrin inhibiting mAb LM609 or the Ī±5-integrin inhibiting mAb IIA1, the general RGD-antagonist echistatin completely inhibited this process. Remarkably, when Ī±vĪ²3- and Ī±5Ī²1-integrins were inhibited simultaneously, tube formation was reduced by 78%. It was accompanied by a 44% reduction of u-PA antigen accumulation and 41% less production of fibrin degradation products. Ī±vĪ²5-integrin-blocking antibodies further enhanced the inhibition by mAb LM609 and mAb IIA1 to 94%, but had no effect by themselves. Ī±v-specific cRGD only inhibited angiogenesis when Ī±5Ī²1-integrin was simultaneously blocked. Endostatin mimicked the effect of Ī±5Ī²1-integrin and inhibited tube formation only in the presence of LM609 or cRGD (73 and 80%, respectively). Comparable results were obtained when purified fibrin matrices were used instead of the plasma-derived fibrinous matrices. These data show that blocking of tube formation in a fibrinous exudate requires the simultaneous inhibition of Ī±vĪ²3- and Ī±5Ī²1-integrins. This may bear impact on attempts to influence angiogenesis in a fibrinous environment
Learning biophysically-motivated parameters for alpha helix prediction
Background: Our goal is to develop a state-of-the-art protein secondary structure predictor, with an intuitive and biophysically-motivated energy model. We treat structure prediction as an optimization problem, using parameterizable cost functions representing biological āpseudo-energies. ā Machine learning methods are applied to estimate the values of the parameters to correctly predict known protein structures. Results: Focusing on the prediction of alpha helices in proteins, we show that a model with 302 parameters can achieve a QĪ± value of 77.6 % and an SOVĪ± value of 73.4%. Such performance numbers are among the best for techniques that do not rely on external databases (such as multiple sequence alignments). Further, it is easier to extract biological significance from a model with so few parameters. Conclusions: The method presented shows promise for the prediction of protein secondary structure. Biophysically-motivated elementary free-energies can be learned using SVM techniques to construct an energy cost function whose predictive performance rivals state-of-the-art. This method is general and can be extended beyond the all-alpha case described here. 1 Backgroun
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