for the liberal arts as well as research and technology, he spear-headed public-private partnerships to promote economic development. Dobelle also served as mayor of Pittsfield, Mass.; commissioner of environmental management and natural resources for Massachusetts; chief of protocol for the Carter White House; and U.S. assistant secretary of state with the rank of a m b a s s a d o r. He holds...

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Throughout their range, Yellow Perch Perca flavescens are an important ecological and economic component of many fisheries, but they often exhibit highly variable recruitment. Much research effort has been devoted to better understanding the mechanisms responsible for these erratic recruitment patterns, yet few studies have examined this process at the detail necessary to reveal complex interac...

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Massive amounts of biomedical literature are readily available online in many forms. Huge amounts of valuable knowledge and relationships are embedded in these resources and need to be properly extracted, discovered, and utilized. Recognizing and classifying biomedical entity names and terms are important steps for developing efficient knowledge/information extraction techniques from these repo...

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