This paper describes RISO, an implementation of distributed belief network software. Distributed belief networks are a natural extension of ordinary belief networks in which the belief network is composed of subnetworks running on separate processors. In keeping with the distributed computational model, no single processor has information about the structure of the entire distributed belief net...

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is increasingly used to study a wide variety of complex Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) processes, such as water flow and turbulent mixing of contaminants in rivers and estuaries and wind flow and air pollution dispersion in urban areas. However, the accuracy and reliability of CFD modeling and the correct use of CFD results can easily be compromised. In 2...

Like a chocolate truffle, they can inspire delicious anticipation, or, with the dulling of the taste buds that comes from overindulgence, they may strongly turn us off. But in either case, unlike other words we daily throw at each other in our very verbal society, they are never just there. They key us, they prompt us, they require us to respond. To the non-Mormon, to someone who hasn’t heard t...

Incorporation of mathematics into biology curricula is critical to underscore for undergraduate students the relevance of mathematics to most fields of biology and the usefulness of developing quantitative process skills demanded inmodern biology. At our institution,we havemade significant changes to better integrate mathematics into the undergraduate biology curriculum. The curricular revision...

Two-and-a-half-year-olds normally fail standard falsebelief tasks. In the classic version, children have to say where a protagonist will look for an apple that, unbeknownst to her, was moved to a new location. Children under 4 generally predict that the protagonist will look for her apple in its current location, rather than where she left it. Setoh, Scott, and Baillargeon (1) argue that young ...