The Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) occupies the sage brush habitats of Western North America. Large population declines in the last several decades have made it a candidate for possible listing under the Endangered Species Act. Listing was recently avoided in part because seventy local working groups are developing long-range management plans in conjunction with federal and loc...

The SAGE (Standards-Based Active Guideline Environment) project was formed to create a methodology and infrastructure required to demonstrate integration of decision-support technology for guideline-based care in commercial clinical information systems. This paper describes the development and innovative features of the SAGE Guideline Model and reports our experience encoding four guidelines. I...

I f the achievement of complete sequencing of the one-dimensional genetic codes of the human genome can be compared with man landing on the moon, the interpretation of genomic instruction in a four-dimensional biological context, such as during development and diseases, will prove to be a much more challenging and daunting task than that of getting man back from the moon to the earth. One of th...

This paper describes a new sampling-based heuristic for tree search named SAGE and presents an analysis of its performance on the problem of grammar induction. This last work has been inspired by the Abbadingo DFA learning competition [14] which took place between Mars and November 1997. SAGE ended up as one of the two winners in that competition. The second winning algorithm, rst proposed by R...

It has been 7 years since serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) and microarray hybridization techniques were simultaneously introduced to allow the screening of thousands of expressed genes. Both techniques have stood up to the test of time as evidenced by their widespread use, and both have been used for studying cardiovascular diseases. SAGE has been used more extensively to study cancer ...

iii Acknowledgments iv Chapter 1. A Hierarchy of Polyhedral Arrangements 1 1.1. Polyhedral Arrangements 1 1.2. Polyhedral Dissections 1 1.3. Polyhedral Complexes 5 1.4. Polyhedral Triangulations 8 1.5. A Hierarchy of Polyhedral Arrangements 9 Chapter 2. Computation on Polyhedral Arrangements 12 2.1. Bucket Method 12 2.2. Sage Code 13 2.3. Experiments 16 Chapter 3. Regular Triangulations 22 3.1....

The Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) method, described in 1995 by Velculescu et al ., represents a powerful means to compare gene expression between two mRNA populations. An improvement to SAGE that removes contaminating linker molecules, which compromise the efficiency of the method, has been developed. This modification utilises biotinylated PCR primers, which generate biotinylated l...

The purpose of our study was to identify microhabitat characteristics of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) nest site selection and survival to determine the quality of sage-grouse habitat in 5 regions of central and southwest Wyoming associated with Wyoming's Core Area Policy. Wyoming's Core Area Policy was enacted in 2008 to reduce human disturbance near the greatest densities of...

We have developed a patch implementing multivariate polynomials seen as a multi-base algebra. The patch is to be released into the software Sage and can already be found within the Sage-Combinat distribution. One can use our patch to define a polynomial in a set of indexed variables and expand it into a linear basis of the multivariate polynomials. So far, we have the Schubert polynomials, the ...

The study of discourse has become a major development in all disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences. Studies in Discourse will feature introductory books for the key domains and most relevant topics in this exciting new cross-discipline. The series aims to stimulate teaching and research on discourse in linguistics, literature, sociology, anthropology, psychology, communications ...