The Viaduct at Fort Dodge, Iowa

Malarial Fevers and Influenza at Fort Tregear

nita to most people, and Fort Tregear, a new frontier outpost, some preliminary remarks may not seem out of place. (1) Situation.?Fort Tregear is built on the site of an old Kulii* village. It crowns one of the highest and steepest peaks of the Darjow Klang. The survey map of 1889 states the altitude of this mountain to be 5,377 feet, and the fort is on a peak about 250 feet, lower than the sum...

The Health of Loblolly Pine Stands at Fort Benning, Ga

Approximately two-thirds of the red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) (RCW) groups at Fort Benning, GA, depend on loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) stands for nesting or foraging. However, loblolly pine stands are suspected to decline. Forest managers want to replace loblolly pine with longleaf pine (P. palustris), but they must do this gradually to continuously supply RCW habitats. Knowledge o...

Implementing the SFX Link Server at the University of Iowa

Experiments in Questions and Relationships at the University of Iowa

Our general approach to question answering is one that attempts to front-load much of the evaluation of corpus semantics, allowing for a more search engine-like user experience. By shifting natural language parsing forward in the process, we can amortize this very expensive step against a number of downstream extraction processes that mine the text for named entities, relationships, etc. Redefi...

Boundaries, Motion and Automatic Search at The University of Iowa

Shot Boundary Detection Approaches: • UIowa05SB01 – by frame histogram similarity • UIowa05SB02 – by frame pixel distance similarity • UIowa05SB03 – by frame histogram * distance (product) • UIowa05SB04 – by frame HSB similarity • UIowa05SB05 – by frame pixel distance & HSB • UIowa05SB06 – by frame product & HSB Failure to remove error induced in last year’s results makes any conclusions proble...