Cassin's Sparrow in Colorado

Sparrow 2011

SPARROW is a stochastic local search (SLS) solver for SAT formulae in CNF format [2]. It was named after the mascot of the German city of Ulm. SPARROW2011 is a variant of SPARROW that was developed for the 2011 SAT competition. The core SPARROW2011 algorithm is identical to SPARROW; it has been re-implemented in UBCSAT [9] and a mechanism has been added to automatically select optimized paramet...

Angry Sparrow

Instrumentalists rely on physical gestures such as plunking, bowing, hitting, and blowing air into their instruments in order to produce sound; among tremendous number of human gestures, the body movements employed by musical performers are limited. This compositional project began with the idea of extending the relationship between human gestures and sound by electronic means. From that germin...

[university of Colorado at Colorado Springs,colorado Springs, Colorado]

Not the Nice Sparrow

—We began our studies of House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) biparental care in the mid-1990s by applying the classic Margaret Morse Nice field technique of color-banding individuals. Over the ensuing summers, we slowly accumulated quantitative provisioning records for 100 broods, even as we commenced a series of experimental manipulations. Provisioning data showed parental fitness, as expressed ...

Mitochondrial function in sparrow pectoralis muscle.

Flying birds couple a high daily energy turnover with double-digit millimolar blood glucose concentrations and insulin resistance. Unlike mammalian muscle, flight muscle predominantly relies on lipid oxidation during locomotion at high fractions of aerobic capacity, and birds outlive mammals of similar body mass by a factor of three or more. Despite these intriguing functional differences, few ...