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Multiple Imputation for Missing Network Data
In this thesis we developed, implemented, and evaluated multiple imputation algorithms for missing network data. The algorithms are able to handle cross-sectional, longitudinal,and multiplex network structures, as well as nodal attributes (coevolving behaviors). They were implemented for the two most important statistical network model families in the social sciences, that is, Exponential Random Graph Models and Stochastic Actor-oriented Models
New Deal Public Works in the Florida Panhandle, 1933-1940
The 1930s represented a time of profound change in the South as it did across the nation. An examination of New Deal agencies and their public works in the Florida Panhandle highlights the dynamic character of federal projects and their impact upon human and natural landscapes. Federal aid in the form of public works projects in the sixteen western panhandle counties created a visibly-new world for residents. 1 The construction of roads and towns in previously-raw coastal timberlands led to a transformation of place and the emergence of not only new commercial and recreational spaces, but the development of a military-industrial complex that remains in place today
Turing conditions for pattern forming systems on evolving manifolds
The study of pattern-forming instabilities in reaction-diffusion systems on
growing or otherwise time-dependent domains arises in a variety of settings,
including applications in developmental biology, spatial ecology, and
experimental chemistry. Analyzing such instabilities is complicated, as there
is a strong dependence of any spatially homogeneous base states on time, and
the resulting structure of the linearized perturbations used to determine the
onset of instability is inherently non-autonomous. We obtain general conditions
for the onset and structure of diffusion driven instabilities in
reaction-diffusion systems on domains which evolve in time, in terms of the
time-evolution of the Laplace-Beltrami spectrum for the domain and functions
which specify the domain evolution. Our results give sufficient conditions for
diffusive instabilities phrased in terms of differential inequalities which are
both versatile and straightforward to implement, despite the generality of the
studied problem. These conditions generalize a large number of results known in
the literature, such as the algebraic inequalities commonly used as a
sufficient criterion for the Turing instability on static domains, and
approximate asymptotic results valid for specific types of growth, or specific
domains. We demonstrate our general Turing conditions on a variety of domains
with different evolution laws, and in particular show how insight can be gained
even when the domain changes rapidly in time, or when the homogeneous state is
oscillatory, such as in the case of Turing-Hopf instabilities. Extensions to
higher-order spatial systems are also included as a way of demonstrating the
generality of the approach
Amplitude death criteria for coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau systems
Amplitude death, which occurs in a system when one or more macroscopic
wavefunctions collapse to zero, has been observed in mutually coupled
solid-state lasers, analog circuits, and thermoacoustic oscillators, to name a
few applications. While studies have considered amplitude death on oscillator
systems and in externally forced complex Ginzburg-Landau systems, a route to
amplitude death has not been studied in autonomous continuum systems. We derive
simple analytic conditions for the onset of amplitude death of one macroscopic
wavefunction in a system of two coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equations with
general nonlinear self- and cross-interaction terms. Our results give a more
general theoretical underpinning for recent amplitude death results reported in
the literature, and suggest an approach for tuning parameters in such systems
so that they either permit or prohibit amplitude death of a wavefunction
(depending on the application). Numerical simulation of the coupled complex
Ginzburg-Landau equations, for examples including cubic, cubic-quintic, and
saturable nonlinearities, is used to illustrate the analytical results.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Skylab Facilities and Operations
The purpose of this paper is to outline the essential objectives and elements of the Skylab Program and to describe the impact of the Program on the Kennedy Space Center. The operational test flows and the required facility modifications to support Skylab checkout and launch requirements will be highlighted
An Environmental History of the New Deal in Mississippi and Florida
Keywords: New Deal, Environmental History, United States South, Mississippi, Florida, Gulf Coast, TVA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, landscape, lumber industry, CCC, WPA, state parks. The 1930s represented a time of distinct and encompassing change in the United States South. In assessing the impact of New Deal agencies and public works, this dissertation examines three distinct southern areas-northeast Mississippi, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and the Florida Panhandle-highlighting the dynamic and fluid character of federal projects and their impact on landscapes human and natural. In the hilly Tennessee River valley of northeast Mississippi, the federally-funded incorporation of the Tennessee Valley Authority led to an immediate transformation of landscape and the opening of novel possibilities within a newly-anointed âregionâ for the area\u27s residents. Public works projects on the Mississippi Gulf Coast likewise reoriented the perspective of place by improving transportation networks and reinvigorating locally (and by the 1930s, globally) significant industries like lumber and seafood products. Federal aid in the fifteen western Florida Panhandle counties created a visibly new world for residents, as well. The construction of new roads and towns out of previously raw coastal timberlands led to a transformation of place and the emergence of not only new commercial and recreational spaces, but the development of a military-industrial complex that remains in place today. In addition to canvassing secondary historical works, primary sources utilized for this project include a wide range of regional newspapers and journals from Mississippi and Florida, federal and state agency reports, promotional material and publications, paper collections of New Deal officials, as well as oral histories and quantitative use of census data. Utilizing these previously neglected sources to demonstrate the malleability of post-Depression public works, this dissertation provides a nuanced historical understanding of the New Deal in the South
Bifurcations and dynamics emergent from lattice and continuum models of bioactive porous media
We study dynamics emergent from a two-dimensional reaction--diffusion process
modelled via a finite lattice dynamical system, as well as an analogous PDE
system, involving spatially nonlocal interactions. These models govern the
evolution of cells in a bioactive porous medium, with evolution of the local
cell density depending on a coupled quasi--static fluid flow problem. We
demonstrate differences emergent from the choice of a discrete lattice or a
continuum for the spatial domain of such a process. We find long--time
oscillations and steady states in cell density in both lattice and continuum
models, but that the continuum model only exhibits solutions with vertical
symmetry, independent of initial data, whereas the finite lattice admits
asymmetric oscillations and steady states arising from symmetry-breaking
bifurcations. We conjecture that it is the structure of the finite lattice
which allows for more complicated asymmetric dynamics. Our analysis suggests
that the origin of both types of oscillations is a nonlocal reaction-diffusion
mechanism mediated by quasi-static fluid flow.Comment: 30 pages, 21 figure
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