OVERVIEW OF THE COASTAL TEXAS MEGA PROJECT

The Texas Twin Project.

Socioeconomic position, racial/ethnic minority status, and other characteristics of the macro-environment may be important moderators of genetic influence on a wide array of psychosocial outcomes. Designed to maximize representation of low socioeconomic status families and racial/ethnic minorities, the Texas Twin Project is an ongoing study of school-age twins (preschool through 12th grade) enr...

The Mega-Word Tagged-Corpus Project

Large corpora with part-of-speech tagging play a very important role in recent statisticsbased and example-based natural language processing systems. However, no such corpora have become widely available for Japanese so far. Because the Japanese language has no explicit word boundaries, it is impossible even to count words without a corpus that has at. least word segmentations. This paper descr...

The MEGA Advanced Compton Telescope Project

The goal of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope is to improve sensitivity at medium gamma-ray energies (0.4–50 MeV) by at least an order of magnitude over that of COMPTEL. This will be achieved with a new compact design that allows for a very wide field of view, permitting a sensitive all-sky survey and the monitoring of transient and variable sources. The key science objecti...

Development of a National Mega Research Project on the Integrated Watershed Management for Iran

Tracking Salinity Sources to Texas Streams: Examples from West Texas and the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain

Upper Colorado River (West Texas) and Petronila Creek (Texas Coastal Plain) salinities exceed state regulatory standards. For a recent study, airborne conductivity surveys located points of saline influx. Hydrochemical analyses defined salinity trends and potential sources. Both streams comprise Na-Cl hydrochemical facies and are near hydrocarbon production operations. Upper Colorado River sali...