A mixed hardulood stand composed of 33% oak (Quercus “pp.), 33% yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera L.), and 14% other spec ies, was clearcut in 1963. Twenty years lo ter a deueloping, even-aged stand of pedominantly sprout origin is domi?gated by yellow-poplar, black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.), red maple (Acer rubrum L.), and sweet birch (Betula lenta L.). The 0ak.s are a minor and de...

Ferrell and Hassey Dow summarize research on the domains of quality of life (QOL) most important to the adaptation of survivors, and offer insights about possible interventions to support and promote this adaptation. In addition, they note that the field is poised to make great progress in understanding the concerns and needs of survivors, due, in part, to the establishment of the Office of Can...

Using Goffman’s (1981) participation framework and Brown & Levinson’s (1987) politeness theory, this study examines stand-up comedy in the U.S. and Japan and demonstrates pervasive patterns of communication in comedy performance. In the U.S., stand-up acts are comprised of solo comedian’s narrative performance, while stand-up comic narrative in Japan is performed in the form of dialogue between...

Objects that we control and interact with are often unstable. Riding a bicycle, balancing a tray of food, maintaining the oscillations of a hula-hoop, and even standing upright are exemplary tasks that require the control of an unstable object. Although it is difficult to characterize the physics of complex object interactions, we are adept at learning and performing these tasks in everyday lif...

Classical bulges are centrally-concentrated, high surface density, three-dimensional stellar systems. Their high density could arise either because significant gaseous dissipation occurred during their formation, or could simply reflect formation at very high redshift (or some combination of these two, depending on the density). For illustration, equating the mean mass density within the lumino...

This paper describes a model-based reasoning approach to network monitoring that combines the strengths of object oriented design and rule-based inference. In this approach, the structure of the network equipment is implemented in an object model with diagnostically important relations ("partof", "standby", "depends-on") linking pieces of the equipment. Alarm processing is expressed in data dri...

objects. But if she does say that there are abstract past and future times, these times will have a different status than does the present time. Present, past, and future times all would exist on this view, yet only the present time would be exemplified or instantiated. Second, she can in some sense accept that there are past or future entities in that there now are individuals who did or will ...