• Several international academic associations engaged in the study of technological innovation processes and innovation management have been consolidated: ALTEC (Asociación Latino-Iberoamericana de Gestión Tecnológica), IAMOT (The International Association for Management of Technology), ISPIM (The International Society for Professional Innovation Management), PICMET (Portland International Conf...

In the fluorescence detection of ultra high energy (& 10 eV) cosmic rays, the number of emitted fluorescence photons is assumed to be proportional to the energy deposited in air by shower particles. We have performed measurements of the fluorescence yield in atmospheric gases excited by electrons over energies ranging from keV to hundreds of MeV in several accelerators. We found that within the...

KASCADE-Grande is a multi detector setup for the investigation of extensive air showers in the 10 − 10 eV energy range. With the Grande array it is possible to reconstruct the shower core position, the arrival direction and the total number of charged particles in the shower. The Grande array measures in coincidence with the original KASCADE muon array consisting of 622 m shielded scintillators...

Kernel methods combined with large-margin learning algorithms such as SVMs have been used successfully to tackle a variety of learning tasks since their introduction in the early 90s. However, in the standard framework of these methods, the choice of an appropriate kernel is left to the user and a poor selection may lead to sub-optimal performance. Instead, sample points can be used to select a...

The increasing international trend in favour of market based economic development strategies has significantly affected the options available to central and local governments to influence the ways in which land is transformed from rural to urban use and developed for residential and other functions. Under these conditions, it is vital that government agencies increase their understanding of the...

1 AUTOMATING PARALLELIZATION OF REGULAR COMPUTATIONS FOR DISTRIBUTED-MEMORY MULTICOMPUTERS IN THE PARADIGM COMPILER Ernesto Su, Daniel J. Palermo, and Prithviraj Banerjee Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A. fernesto, palermo, [email protected] Abstract { Distributed-memory multicomputers such as the Intel i...

dent of the United St.ates, dances to raise funds for the organisation were held on his birthday, 30th January, in all parts of the country. An annual fund-raising appeal is conducted during the first weeks in January yearly called "The March of Dimes." Some seventy million individuals subscribe to this fund and in the current year the voluntary subscriptions totalled thirty million dollars. Du...