While we know that in principle quantum mechanics is needed for a comLecture 3 9/29/09 continued from N4 pletely correct theory of the microscopic behavior of materials, it is also well understood that classical mechanics is a very good approximation for many purposes. In particular, as long as we are not concerned with very low temperatures or high frequency vibrations, then classical mechanic...

generally, the evaluation and assessment critical condition of rill formation are useful for a better understanding of soil erosion processes. the inherence characteristics of soils, which have much dynamic variations on the hill-slopes and are affected by rill formation, are the soil critical shear stress and soil erodibility factors. this study aims to assess experimental rill incision thresh...

At time 0, start a time-continuous binary branching process, where particles give birth to a single particle independently (at a possibly time-dependent rate) and die independently (at a possibly time-dependent and age-dependent rate). A particular case is the classical birth–death process. Stop this process at time T > 0. It is known that the tree spanned by the N tips alive at time T of the t...

The seeds of modern clinical trials were unwittingly sown with the first use of randomization in a 1920s agricultural field experiment. The historical development of trials is briefly reviewed here, as are multifarious pressures and problems faced by those involved with clinical trials today. These challenges include recruitment difficulties, the emerging role of patient support groups, and leg...

Budding yeast cells irreversibly commit to a new division cycle at a regulatory transition called Start. This essential decision-making step involves the activation of the SBF/MBF transcription factors. SBF/MBF promote expression of the G1 cyclins encoded by CLN1 and CLN2. Cln1,2 can activate their own expression by inactivating the Whi5 repressor of SBF/MBF. The resulting transcriptional posit...

This paper describes the Intelius-NYU 2012 system for the KBP Cold Start task. The Cold Start task can be decomposed into two subtasks: slot filling and entity linking. For slot filling, we focus on the adaptation of the NYU 2011 regular slot filling system to the Cold Start task. For entity linking, we apply Intelius‘s commercial conflation engine to link person and organization entities with ...

When a new user registers to a recommender system service, the system does not know her taste and cannot propose meaningful suggestions (cold-start problem). This preliminary work attempts to mitigate the cold-start problem using the profile picture of the user as a sole information, following the intuition that a correspondence may exist between the pictures that people use to represent themse...

7 Submission date: November 13, 2009 8 Number of Tables and Figures: 6 9 Total Word Count: 7476 (including 250 words for each Figure/Table) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Mitchell K. Robinson (corresponding author) 23 University of Vermont 24 33 Colchester Avenue 25 Burlington, VT 05405 26 Phone: (716) 474-2964 27 Email: [email protected] 28 29 Karen M. Sentoff 30 University of ...