Allergic Rhinitis: Treatment of a Seasonal problem

Allergic rhinitis affects up to 30% of the population yet there is evidence that it is under treated and misdiagnosed. Allergy symptoms closely mimic other common illnesses and most medication used to treat seasonal allergies is now available over the counter. This shift in therapy means that patients are now self-medicating with little knowledge of what they are actually treating. Therefore this project aims to clear common misconceptions that prevail in the general population of Vermont as well as provide some guidance on the types of medications used to treat seasonal allergies.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1074/thumbnail.jp

Towards an Efficient, Scalable Stream Query Operator Framework for Representing and Analyzing Continuous Fields

Advancements in sensor technology have made it less expensive to deploy massive numbers of sensors to observe continuous geographic phenomena at high sample rates and stream live sensor observations. This fact has raised new challenges since sensor streams have pushed the limits of traditional geo-sensor data management technology. Data Stream Engines (DSEs) provide facilities for near real-time processing of streams, however, algorithms supporting representing and analyzing Spatio-Temporal (ST) phenomena are limited. This dissertation investigates near real-time representation and analysis of continuous ST phenomena, observed by large numbers of mobile, asynchronously sampling sensors, using a DSE and proposes two novel stream query operator frameworks. First, the ST Interpolation Stream Query Operator Framework (STI-SQO framework) continuously transforms sensor streams into rasters using a novel set of stream query operators that perform ST-IDW interpolation. A key component of the STI-SQO framework is the 3D, main memory-based, ST Grid Index that enables high performance ST insertion and deletion of massive numbers of sensor observations through Isotropic Time Cell and Time Block-based partitioning. The ST Grid Index facilitates fast ST search for samples using ST shell-based neighborhood search templates, namely the Cylindrical Shell Template and Nested Shell Template. Furthermore, the framework contains the stream-based ST-IDW algorithms ST Shell and ST ak-Shell for high performance, parallel grid cell interpolation. Secondly, the proposed ST Predicate Stream Query Operator Framework (STP-SQO framework) efficiently evaluates value predicates over ST streams of ST continuous phenomena. The framework contains several stream-based predicate evaluation algorithms, including Region-Growing, Tile-based, and Phenomenon-Aware algorithms, that target predicate evaluation to regions with seed points and minimize the number of raster cells that are interpolated when evaluating value predicates. The performance of the proposed frameworks was assessed with regard to prediction accuracy of output results and runtime. The STI-SQO framework achieved a processing throughput of 250,000 observations in 2.5 s with a Normalized Root Mean Square Error under 0.19 using a 500×500 grid. The STP-SQO framework processed over 250,000 observations in under 0.25 s for predicate results covering less than 40% of the observation area, and the Scan Line Region Growing algorithm was consistently the fastest algorithm tested

Our Fathers\u27 God : American Centennial Hymn

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Breeding and genetics (1993)

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Mary’s Play: T. S. Eliot, Emily Hale, and The Family Reunion

A paper for the T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale panel (385 - T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale) that looks at Eliot's newly unsealed correspondence with Emily Hale, particularly during the year 1937, alongside the character of Mary in Eliot's 1939 play, The Family Reunion. The paper argues for the centrality of Mary to Eliot's ambitions for a new kind of drama and discusses why Eliot can't allow her to continue the trajectory he places her on at the end of the first act

研究発表 現代文学批評によって「文学史」を考えなおす

Why is the writing of literary history, defined as the critical justification of a priveleged canon, suddenly so popular in Japan while moribund elsewhere? The skepticism with which literary theorists, many in Japan included, regard the claims of literary history to objective truth, and the widespread disdain in which sentimental criticism is now held, seem to have had a minimal impact on the most prominent interpreters of Japanese literature both in Japan and abroad, who continue to arbitrate without irony degrees of literary "value. "Several explanations are conceivable, including the Japanese critical establishment\u27s general resistance to abstraction and its specific resistance to any theory which would minimize the role of literature\u27s Mandarin elite. Alternately, historical conditions in the West (the emergence of extra-canonical groups of writers, the twentieth-century reaction to the Cartesian or Kantian idea of the "subject") that have proved inhospitable to the writing of literary history may not exist, in just the same form, in Japan. After looking at one example of a recent and acclaimed history of modern Japanese literature, I propose that future histories might seek to avoid the "affective fallacy" by taking not interpretation but rather the reception of text as the principal object of their inquiry, and thereby dispensing with the highly speculative, and slippery, project of determining value

Reading Late Wyndham Lewis

Focused on the criticism of the later writings of Wyndham Lewis, this essay argues that Lewis’s response to the ruining of Enlightenment hopes and promises in the Great War resulted in impassioned polemics and fictions that interrogate the possibility of humanist resistance to the brutalities of modernity. Lewis continues to inspire unusually heated, combative critical exchanges, particularly regarding his notorious if fairly short-lived intellectual and political embrace of fascism. Defenses of Lewis’s late writing are easiest to make when one maintains some distance from the details of Lewis’s texts themselves. Focusing on the example of Jessica Burstein’s Cold Modernism and the kinds of reading enabled by her approach to Lewis’s work, this essay concludes with the suggestion that an “ahumanist,” “cold” Lewis may well be on the cusp of a new season of fruitful attention from the academy

Increase your calf crop by good management, pregnancy testing and breeding soundness examination of bulls (1993)

This article discusses proper nutrition and testing for optimum beef cattle reproduction.Reviewed October 2012 -- Extension website

Crossbreeding systems for small herds of beef cattle (1993)

Crossbreeding in commercial beef cattle production improves efficiency through heterosis and breed complementation. Heterosis or hybrid vigor is an advantage in performance of crossbreds compared to the average performance of the parental breeds. Heterosis is particularly strong for traits that are lowly heritable such as conception rate, preweaning livability of calves and preweaning growth.Reviewed December 1993 -- Extension website