VERITAS Observations of Mgro J1908+06/Hess J1908+063

The unidentified TeV gamma-ray source MGRO J1908+06/HESS J1908+063 was observed with the VERITAS Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Array during October 2007 and May-June 2008. This extended source is located on the galactic plane at a galactic longitude of 40.45 degrees and has a hard TeV spectrum with an index of approximately 2.08. The Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray flux was measured by H.E.S.S. out to energies greater than 30 TeV which along with its unidentified nature makes it an interesting hard-spectrum extended source for study. We confirm the detection of VHE gamma-ray emission from this source using VERITAS.Comment: Submitted to Proceedings of "4th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy 2008

Sustainable Policy Design through Integrated Basin Models: Findings from the Rio Grande

In the Rio Grande Basin, water is over-appropriated, and demands for water grow while supplies are constrained by drought and climate change. The Basin is currently in its seventh year of drought, and reservoirs are at historically low levels. Agricultural and municipal river diversions have been sharply curtailed; low flows threaten endangered species. A central policy challenge is the design and implementation of plans that allocate the Basin\u27s water supplies efficiently, fairly, and sustainably. Such plans are complicated by the demands of existing water users, potential new users, three state governments, and two sovereign nations. These challenges are addressed by designing and developing an integrated basin-wide nonlinear programming model to optimize water allocations and use levels for the Basin. The model permits a quantitative testing and analysis of whether institutional adjustments can limit damages caused by drought. It identifies changes in water uses and allocations that result from those adjustments. Compared to existing rules governing the Basin\u27s water use, future drought damages could be reduced by one-fifth to one-third per year from intrastate and interstate water markets coupled with marginal cost pricing, respectively, that permit water transfers across jurisdictions. Results show hydrologic and economic tradeoffs among water uses, regions, and drought control programs

Digital pathology for the identification of prognostic biomarkers in head and neck cancer

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Columbia University Marching Song

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On the Laplacian

In various applied mathematics courses one appearance of the Laplacian operator is in the study of heat distributions

How Broadcasting vs. Narrowcasting on Social Media Affects Memories

How do audiences impact the memories shared on social media? We find that sharing experience on social media can ironically decrease memory of shared experience and sharing with a small group attenuates sharer’s memories to a greater extent than sharing with a large group. This advantage is due to outsourcing memories to identifiable audiences and is diminished by enhancing the perceived heterogeneity of large group or decreasing the identifiability of small group

Targeting the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway : A therapeutic strategy in COVID-19 patients

Funding This work was supported by Friends of ANCHOR pilot research award [grant number RS 2019 004, 2020-2021]Peer reviewedPostprin