Master Sergeant Stickley

Sergeant X—A Study in Vocational Guidance

was purely a mental one, as he put it, "loss of memory" following upon gassing. He had been gassed during the fall of 1918 but had felt no evil effects until the middle of the following January. His story, as he told it, as he had gleaned it from former companions-inarms and the chaplain of his regiment, was that he had suddenly suffered an entire loss of memory. He had forgotten his name, his ...

Personality Characteristics of Successful Police Sergeant Candidates

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Master/Slave Speculative Parallelization (MSSP) is an execution paradigm for improving the execution rate of sequential programs by parallelizing them speculatively for execution on a multiprocessor. In MSSP, one processor—the master—executes an approximate version of the program to compute selected values that the full program’s execution is expected to compute. The master’s results are checke...

SERGEANT: A framework for building more flexible web agents by exploiting a search engine

With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web, there is growing interest in developing web agents that interact with online services to acquire information. However, finding the online services perfectly suited for a given task is not always feasible. First, the agents might not be given sufficient information to fill in the required input fields for querying an online service. Second, the online...

Sound production and spectral hearing sensitivity in the Hawaiian sergeant damselfish, Abudefduf abdominalis.

Sounds provide important signals for inter- and intraspecific communication in fishes, but few studies examine fish acoustic behavior in the context of coevolution of sound production and hearing ability within a species. This study characterizes the acoustic behavior in a reproductive population of the Hawaiian sergeant fish, Abudefduf abdominalis, and compares acoustic features to hearing abi...