People believe that weather conditions influence their everyday work life, but to date, little is known about how weather affects individual productivity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we predict and find that bad weather increases individual productivity and that it does so by eliminating potential cognitive distractions resulting from good weather. When the weather is bad, individuals appe...

To enable computer designers to better evaluate the architectural needs of operating systems, we have developed Monster , a tool which combines hardware and software monitoring techniques to unobtrusively obtain system performance data. This report is split into two major parts. In Part I, we argue the need for OS performance evaluation tools, summarize previous hardware and software based moni...

In this article we prove that the full automorphism group of the baby-monster vertex operator superalgebra constructed by Höhn is isomorphic to 2×B, where B is the baby-monster sporadic finite simple group, and determine irreducible modules for the baby-monster vertex operator algebra. Our result has many corollaries. In particular, we can prove that the Z2-orbifold construction with respect to...

This article considers the challenge that an English legal history of the category monster poses for Foucault’s genealogy of the abnormal individual. While the idea of the monster is not confined to law it is contended that the inauguration of the monster category into English law and its subsequent development provides a useful vantage point from which to critique Foucault’s position. While la...

k-means++ is a seeding technique for the k-means method with an expected approximation ratio of O(log k), where k denotes the number of clusters. Examples are known on which the expected approximation ratio of k-means++ is Ω(log k), showing that the upper bound is asymptotically tight. However, it remained open whether k-means++ yields an O(1)-approximation with probability 1/poly(k) or even wi...

Even though I would not recommend this book to a scientist, layman, or library, the picture is not wholly black. Among the letters included is one from the then Mayor of the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the President of the National Academy of Sciences, enquiring as to whether a "strange orange eyed creature" and a "hairy nine foot monster" were possibly the result of recombinant DNA ex...

Heteropolar doublets of the hypotrichous ciliate Oxytricha fallax can encyst, as can monster cells containing multiple copies of at least part of the ciliature. The resulting cysts excyst as heteropolar doublets or monster cells, respectively. Transmission electron microscopy of resting cysts derived from monster cells and from singlets, however, indicates a complete loss of the ciliature - all...

Using the metaphor of monsters, an analysis is made of the different ways in which the scientific community responds to uncertainties that are hard to tame. A monster is understood as a phenomenon that at the same moment fits into two categories that were considered to be mutually excluding, such as knowledge versus ignorance, objective versus subjective, facts versus values, prediction versus ...

Summary: MONSTER is a server for predicting the local structure and function properties of protein sequences. MONSTER provides residue-wise annotation services, that include secondary structure, transmembrane-helix region, disorder region, protein-dna binding site, local structure alphabet, solvent accessibility surface area, and residue-wise contact order prediction. MONSTER uses sequence-deri...

Weather risk means that bad weather may disrupt the company's operations or cause property damage. Climate insurance is a form of financial protection against losses damages occur as result moderate, severe weather. Wind, snow, rain / thunderstorms, fog, and unacceptable temperatures are examples these conditions.it can be help farmers to recover their which happen from conditions. Farmers' wil...