Recently, Dubickas and Smyth constructed and examined the metric Mahler measure and the metric näıve height on the multiplicative group of algebraic numbers. We give a non-Archimedean version of the metric Mahler measure, denoted M∞, and prove that M∞(α) = 1 if and only if α is a root of unity. We further show that M∞ defines a projective height on Q × /Tor(Q) as a vector space over Q. Finally,...

Beyond Pesticides’ comment (Docket # EPA-HQ-OPP-2010-0889-0384): Once again EPA is proposing to repeat missteps of the past by registering a pesticide known to be toxic to non-target organisms without all required data to ensure its safety. As already seen with the neonicotinoid, clothianidin, and the herbicide aminocyclopyrachlor (Imprelis®), conditional registration without relevant ecologica...

The QUEST model of question answering is a computational-cognitive model designed to describe a person’s mental narrative comprehension process, which predicts behavioral responses to openended questions about the narrative. The model is based around a QUEST knowledge structure, a directed graph that captures the story’s events and the causal and goal-oriented relationships between them. We pre...

Sight Quest is a location-based game for mobile camera devices that uses paper maps as game boards and is played in urban spaces. The players have to solve different quests requiring knowledge about geographic objects on the map as well as real and fictional attributes of these objects. The players move their mobile camera device like a magic lens over the map in order to make the attributes of...

Ben Shneiderman[1], Azriel Rosenfeld[2], Gary Marchionini[3], William G. Holliday[4], Glenn Ricart[5], Christos Faloutsos[6], and Judith P. Dick[7] University of Maryland, College Park [1] Professor of Computer Science [2] Research Professor and Director, Center for Automation Research [3] Associate Professor of Library and Information Services [4] Professor of Curriculum and Instruction [5] Di...

To increase the likelihood of successful implementation of interventions and promote dissemination across real-world settings, it is essential to evaluate outcomes related to dimensions other than Effectiveness alone. Glasgow and colleagues' RE-AIM framework specifies four additional types of outcomes that are important to decision-makers: Reach, Adoption, Implementation (including cost), and M...

Many value-added and content delivery services are being offered via service level agreements (SLAs). These services can be interconnected to form a service overlay network (SON) over the Internet. Service composition in SON has emerged as a cost-effective approach to quickly creating new services. Previous research has addressed the reliability, adaptability, and compatibility issues for compo...

Next Generation sequencing (NGS) applied to human papilloma viruses (HPV) can provide sensitive methods to investigate the molecular epidemiology of multiple type HPV infection. Currently a genotyping system with a comprehensive collection of updated HPV reference sequences and a capacity to handle NGS data sets is lacking. HPV-QUEST was developed as an automated and rapid HPV genotyping system...

There is a huge need for standardized analysis and statistical procedures in order to compare the complex immune repertoires of antigen receptors immunoglobulins (IG) and T cell receptors (TR) obtained by next generation sequencing (NGS). NGS technologies generate millions of nucleotide sequences and have led to the development of new tools. The IMGT/HighV-QUEST, available since 2010, is the fi...

Quest-V is a system we have been developing from the ground up, with objectives focusing on safety, predictability and efficiency. It is designed to work on emerging multicore processors with hardware virtualization support. Quest-V is implemented as a “distributed system on a chip” and comprises multiple sandbox kernels. Sandbox kernels are isolated from one another in separate regions of phys...