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Partitioning Regular Polygons Into Circular Pieces Ii: Nonconvex Partitions, Mirela Damian, Joseph O'Rourke
Partitioning Regular Polygons Into Circular Pieces Ii: Nonconvex Partitions, Mirela Damian, Joseph O'Rourke
Computer Science: Faculty Publications
We explore optimal circular nonconvex partitions of regular k-gons. The circularity of a polygon is measured by its aspect ratio: the ratio of the radii of the smallest circumscribing circle to the largest inscribed disk. An optimal circular partition minimizes the maximum ratio over all pieces in the partition. We show that the equilateral triangle has an optimal 4-piece nonconvex partition, the square an optimal 13-piece nonconvex partition, and the pentagon has an optimal nonconvex partition with more than 20 thousand pieces. For hexagons and beyond, we provide a general algorithm that approaches optimality, but does not achieve it.
Uncovering The Inner Power Of Teachers' Lives: Towards A Learning Profession, Ora W.Y. Kwo, Sam M. Intrator
Uncovering The Inner Power Of Teachers' Lives: Towards A Learning Profession, Ora W.Y. Kwo, Sam M. Intrator
Education and Child Study: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Unconformities And Age Relationships, Tongue River And Older Members Of The Fort Union Formation (Paleocene), Western Williston Basin, U.S.A., Edward S. Belt, Joseph H. Hartman, John A. Diemer, Timothy J. Kroeger, Neil E. Tibert, H. Allen Curran
Unconformities And Age Relationships, Tongue River And Older Members Of The Fort Union Formation (Paleocene), Western Williston Basin, U.S.A., Edward S. Belt, Joseph H. Hartman, John A. Diemer, Timothy J. Kroeger, Neil E. Tibert, H. Allen Curran
Geosciences: Faculty Publications
An unconformable relationship is observed within the Paleocene Fort Union Formation in the western Williston Basin at the contact between the Tongue River Member and the underlying Lebo and Ludlow Members. Isotopic dates and pollen biozone data reported here are integrated with previously published data. A new correlation of these facies results in a revised history of localized depositional and tectonic events. One unconformity occurs at this lithological contact in the Pine Hills (PH), Terry Badlands (TB), and Ekalaka (E) areas west of the Cedar Creek anticline (CCA), and another unconformity occurs at the same lithological contact in the Little …
The Welfare Implications Of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity, John Bound, Julie Berry Cullen, Austin Nichols, Lucie Schmidt
The Welfare Implications Of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity, John Bound, Julie Berry Cullen, Austin Nichols, Lucie Schmidt
Economics: Faculty Publications
In order to evaluate whether workers are over- or under-insured through the Disability Insurance (DI) program, we develop a framework that allows us to simulate the benefits as well as the costs associated with marginal changes in payment generosity from a representative cross-sectional sample of the population. Under the assumption that individuals are reasonably risk averse, we find that the typical worker would value increased benefits somewhat above the average costs of providing them. However, whether the benefit increases tend to lower or raise utility when we average across all individuals in our sample is sensitive to assumptions that affect …
Population Recovery And Differential Heat Shock Protein Expression For The Corals Agaricia Agaricites And A. Tenuifolia In Belize, Martha L. Robbart, Paulette M. Peckol, Stylianos P. Scordilis, H. Allen Curran, Jocelyn Brown-Saracino
Population Recovery And Differential Heat Shock Protein Expression For The Corals Agaricia Agaricites And A. Tenuifolia In Belize, Martha L. Robbart, Paulette M. Peckol, Stylianos P. Scordilis, H. Allen Curran, Jocelyn Brown-Saracino
Geosciences: Faculty Publications
Over recent decades, coral reefs worldwide have experienced severe sea-surface temperature (SST) anomalies. Associated with an El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event of 1997-1998, nearly 100% mortality of the space-dominated coral Agaricia tenuifolia was reported at several shelf lagoonal sites of the Belize barrier reef system; a less abundant congener, A. agaricites, had lower mortality rates. We assessed A. agaricites and A. tenuifolia populations at coral reef ridges in the south-central sector of the Belize shelf lagoon and forereef sites to document recovery following the 1998 ENSO event and subsequent passage of Hurricane Mitch. To investigate the difference in heat …
Tandem Intramolecular Nicholas And Pauson-Khand Reactions For The Synthesis Of Tricyclic Oxygen-Containing Heterocycles, Miriam M. Quintal, Kristina D. Closser, Kevin M. Shea
Tandem Intramolecular Nicholas And Pauson-Khand Reactions For The Synthesis Of Tricyclic Oxygen-Containing Heterocycles, Miriam M. Quintal, Kristina D. Closser, Kevin M. Shea
Chemistry: Faculty Publications
Simple acyclic enynes can be easily converted into tricyclic ethers upon treatment with Co2(CO)8followed by Nicholas and Pauson−Khand reactions. Tricyclic [5,8,5]- and [5,7,5]-systems can be prepared in high overall yields in only seven synthetic steps.
Filarial Genomics, Steven A. Williams
Filarial Genomics, Steven A. Williams
Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
"To Move People From Apathy": A Multi-Perspective Approach To Ethics Across The Engineering Curriculum, Donna Riley, Glenn Ellis, Susannah Howe
"To Move People From Apathy": A Multi-Perspective Approach To Ethics Across The Engineering Curriculum, Donna Riley, Glenn Ellis, Susannah Howe
Engineering: Faculty Publications
A multi-perspective approach to ethics across the engineering curriculum at Picker Engineering Program at Smith college, to move people from apathy is discussed. The required courses in the Smith curriculum includes a design based introductory course, a final year course in mass and energy balances, and continuum mechanics. The first year course motivate a well-rounded engineering education and social education and social responsibility and introduce frameworks for ethical problems solving and case analysis. Elements that students as essential parts of an ethics curriculum included standards, responsibilities, decision making, analytical frameworks and multiple perspective.
Teaching High School Students To Teach Machines, Glenn W. Ellis, Baaba Andam
Teaching High School Students To Teach Machines, Glenn W. Ellis, Baaba Andam
Engineering: Faculty Publications
In this paper we present elements of a learner-centered AI curriculum for high school students that was field-tested in two private high schools. One of these elements is a unit in which students explore the possibilities of machine intelligence and consciousness through readings and hands-on activities. Also presented in the paper is a unit for teaching students about artificial neural networks (ANN) and their application. In this unit students learn to develop and train ANNs through small projects and activities that lead up to an independent research project. Examples of student projects are presented including the application of ANNs for …
Unfolding Smooth Prismatoids, Nadia Benbernou, Patricia Cahn, Joseph O'Rourke
Unfolding Smooth Prismatoids, Nadia Benbernou, Patricia Cahn, Joseph O'Rourke
Computer Science: Faculty Publications
We define a notion for unfolding smooth, ruled surfaces, and prove that every smooth prismatoid (the convex hull of two smooth curves lying in parallel planes), has a nonoverlapping “volcano unfolding.” These unfoldings keep the base intact, unfold the sides outward, splayed around the base, and attach the top to the tip of some side rib. Our result answers a question for smooth prismatoids whose analog for polyhedral prismatoids remains unsolved.
Simultaneous Measurement Of Middle-Ear Input Impedance And Forward/Reverse Transmission In Cat, Susan E. Voss, Christopher A. Shera
Simultaneous Measurement Of Middle-Ear Input Impedance And Forward/Reverse Transmission In Cat, Susan E. Voss, Christopher A. Shera
Engineering: Faculty Publications
Reported here is a technique for measuring forward and reverse middle-ear transmission that exploits distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) to drive the middle ear "in reverse" without opening the inner ear. The technique allows measurement of DPOAEs, middle-ear input impedance, and forward and reverse middle-ear transfer functions in the same animal. Intermodulation distortion in the cochlea generates a DPOAE at frequency 2f1-f 2 measurable in both ear-canal pressure and the velocity of the stapes. The forward transfer function is computed from stapes velocities and corresponding ear-canal pressures measured at the two primary frequencies; the reverse transfer function is computed from velocity …
Distinguishing Numbers For Graphs And Groups, Julianna Tymoczko
Distinguishing Numbers For Graphs And Groups, Julianna Tymoczko
Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications
A graph G is distinguished if its vertices are labelled by a map φ: V(G) → {1,2,..., k} so that no non-trivial graph automorphism preserves φ. The distinguishing number of G is the minimum number k necessary for φ to distinguish the graph. It measures the symmetry of the graph. We extend these definitions to an arbitrary group action of Γ on a set X. A labelling φ: X → {1, 2,..., k} is distinguishing if no element of Γ preserves Γ except those which fix each element of X. The distinguishing number of the group action on X is …
Meridians 5:1, Myriam J.A. Chancy
Meridians 5:1, Myriam J.A. Chancy
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
The time has come to offer my parting words as the editor of Meridians as I close the final issue of the journal under my supervision on a warm spring day in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts....
Improving The Boosted Correlogram, Nicholas Howe, Amanda Ricketson
Improving The Boosted Correlogram, Nicholas Howe, Amanda Ricketson
Computer Science: Faculty Publications
Introduced seven years ago, the correlogram is a simple statistical image descriptor that nevertheless performs strongly on image retrieval tasks. As a result it has found wide use as a component inside larger systems for content-based image and video retrieval. Yet few studies have examined potential variants of the correlogram or compared their performance to the original. This paper presents systematic experiments on the correlogram and several variants under different conditions, showing that the results may vary significantly depending on both the variant chosen and its mode of application. As expected, the experimental setup combining correlogram variants with boosting shows …
Inhomogeneous Fragmentation Of The Rolling Tachyon, Gary Felder, Lev Kofman
Inhomogeneous Fragmentation Of The Rolling Tachyon, Gary Felder, Lev Kofman
Physics: Faculty Publications
Dirac-Born-Infeld type effective actions reproduce many aspects of string theory classical tachyon dynamics of unstable Dp-branes. The inhomogeneous tachyon field rolling from the top of its potential forms topological defects of lower codimensions. In between them, as we show, the tachyon energy density fragments into a p-dimensional web-like high density network evolving with time. We present an analytic asymptotic series solution of the non-linear equations for the inhomogeneous tachyon and its stress energy. The generic solution for a tachyon field with a runaway potential in arbitrary dimensions is described by the free streaming of noninteracting massive particles whose initial velocities …
Gay And Committed, But Against 'Coupledness' Norm, Martha A. Ackelsberg, Judith Plaskow
Gay And Committed, But Against 'Coupledness' Norm, Martha A. Ackelsberg, Judith Plaskow
Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality: Faculty Publications
While wincing at the Republican Party's vehemence against gay marriage, one lesbian couple in Massachusetts explains why they are choosing not to marry. An intimate arrangement, they say, should not be tied to federal and financial benefits.
The Clustering Of Galaxies Around Three Z ∼ 3 Damped Lyα Absorbers, Nicolas Bouché, James D. Lowenthal
The Clustering Of Galaxies Around Three Z ∼ 3 Damped Lyα Absorbers, Nicolas Bouché, James D. Lowenthal
Astronomy: Faculty Publications
We present our results on the cross-correlation of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) around three damped Lyα absorbers (DLAs) at z ≃ 3 from deep [μ (sky) ≃ 27.6 mag arcsec ] UBVI KPNO 4 m/MOSAIC images. The large area of the MOSAIC images, 0.31 deg or ∼65 × 65 h Mpc comoving at redshift z = 3, allows us to probe the clustering of LBGs on scales up to 20 Mpc comoving. Our survey covers a total of 1 deg and contains ∼3000 LBGs with photometric redshifts between 2.8 and 3.5. Using the redshift likelihood distributions with m as a …
Going Slitless: Images Of Forbidden Line Emission Regions Of Classical T Tauri Stars Observed With The Hubble Space Telescope, Patrick Hartigan, Suzan Edwards, Rachel Pierson
Going Slitless: Images Of Forbidden Line Emission Regions Of Classical T Tauri Stars Observed With The Hubble Space Telescope, Patrick Hartigan, Suzan Edwards, Rachel Pierson
Astronomy: Faculty Publications
We have observed five classical T Tauri stars known to have strong forbidden-line emission with STIS in slitless mode on the Hubble Space Telescope. This technique makes it possible to image jets within a few tens of AU of their exciting sources, a region of great interest for models of accretion disks and jets. Slitless images generate emission-line images at all wavelengths, including those where no narrowband filters exist. Images of the forbidden-line regions around each object, constructed by subtracting the stellar continuum and combining observations taken at different orientations, show [O I] jets from CW Tau, HN Tau, …
Scoring Error Of Social Avoidance And Distress Scale And Its Psychometric Implications, Stefan G. Hofmann, Patricia Marten Dibartolo, Robert M. Holaway, Richard G. Heimberg
Scoring Error Of Social Avoidance And Distress Scale And Its Psychometric Implications, Stefan G. Hofmann, Patricia Marten Dibartolo, Robert M. Holaway, Richard G. Heimberg
Psychology: Faculty Publications
An error in the scoring instructions of the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SAD), one of the most popular instruments to measure social anxiety, is discussed.
Silhouette Lookup For Automatic Pose Tracking, Nicholas Howe
Silhouette Lookup For Automatic Pose Tracking, Nicholas Howe
Computer Science: Faculty Publications
Computers should be able to detect and track the articulated 3-D pose of a human being moving through a video sequence. Current tracking methods often prove slow and unreliable, and many must be initialized by a human operator before they can track a sequence. This paper introduces a simple yet effective algorithm for tracking articulated pose, based upon looking up observed silhouettes in a collection of known poses. The new algorithm runs quickly, can initialize itself without human intervention, and can automatically recover from critical tracking errors made while tracking previous frames in a video sequence.
Marine Anthropogenic Debris Surveys On Hanna Bay And East Beaches, San Salvador Island, Bahamas, 1998–2004, Virginia White, H. Allen Curran
Marine Anthropogenic Debris Surveys On Hanna Bay And East Beaches, San Salvador Island, Bahamas, 1998–2004, Virginia White, H. Allen Curran
Geosciences: Faculty Publications
Reprinted from: R.L. Davis & D. Gamble, eds., Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions, San Salvador, Gerace Research Center
Why We're Not Getting Married, Martha A. Ackelsberg, Judith Plaskow
Why We're Not Getting Married, Martha A. Ackelsberg, Judith Plaskow
Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Structure Of Optimal Partitions Of Orthogonal Polygons Into Fat Rectangles, Joseph O'Rourke, Geetika Tewari
The Structure Of Optimal Partitions Of Orthogonal Polygons Into Fat Rectangles, Joseph O'Rourke, Geetika Tewari
Computer Science: Faculty Publications
Motivated by a VLSI masking problem, we explore partitions of an orthogonal polygon of n vertices into isothetic rectangles that maximize the shortest rectangle side over all rectangles. Thus no rectangle is "thin"; all rectangles are "fat". We show that such partitions have a rich structure, more complex than what one might at first expect. For example, for partitions all "cuts" of which are anchored on the boundary, sometimes cuts are needed 1/2 or 1/3 of the distance between two polygon edges, but they are never needed at fractions with a larger denominator. Partitions using cuts without any restrictions seem …
Braneworld Dynamics With The Branecode, Martin Johannes, Gary Felder, Andrei V. Frolov, Marco Peloso, Lev Kofman
Braneworld Dynamics With The Branecode, Martin Johannes, Gary Felder, Andrei V. Frolov, Marco Peloso, Lev Kofman
Physics: Faculty Publications
We give a full nonlinear numerical treatment of time-dependent 5D braneworld geometry, which is determined self-consistently by potentials for the scalar field in the bulk and at two orbifold branes, supplemented by boundary conditions at the branes. We describe the BRANECODE, an algorithm which we designed to solve the dynamical equations numerically. We apply the BRANECODE to braneworld models and find several novel phenomena of the brane dynamics. Starting with static warped geometry with de Sitter branes, we find numerically that this configuration is often unstable due to a tachyonic mass of the radion during inflation. If the model admits …
The Great Escape: Phosphorylation Of Ena/Vasp By Pka Promotes Filopodial Formation, Timothy M. Gomez, Estuardo Robles
The Great Escape: Phosphorylation Of Ena/Vasp By Pka Promotes Filopodial Formation, Timothy M. Gomez, Estuardo Robles
Neuroscience: Faculty Publications
The Ena/VASP family of proteins consists of adaptor molecules that localize to subcellular sites of actin polymerization. The role of Ena/VASP proteins in the regulation of cell motility and axon outgrowth has been controversial. Recently, these proteins have been proposed to function as "anticapping" factors, which may have differential effects on filopodial versus lammelipodial actin-based protrusions. A study by Lebrand et al. in this issue of Neuron supports this model and identifies PKA as a key regulator of Ena/VASP function downstream of the chemoattractant Netrin.
Race, Class, And Sexual Harassment In The 1970s, Carrie N. Baker
Race, Class, And Sexual Harassment In The 1970s, Carrie N. Baker
Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality: Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Critical Dynamics Of Superconductors In The Charged Regime, Courtney Lannert, Smitha Vishveshwara, Matthew P.A. Fisher
Critical Dynamics Of Superconductors In The Charged Regime, Courtney Lannert, Smitha Vishveshwara, Matthew P.A. Fisher
Physics: Faculty Publications
The charged regime of the superconductor-metal transition was analyzed by applying a finite temperature critical dynamics. A transverse gage field coupling was applied to the superconducting order parameter. A new dynamic universality class characeterized by a finite fixed point ratio between the transport coefficients associated with the order parameter and gage fields was found by assuming relaxational dynamics for both the order parameter and gage fields within a renormalization group scheme. It was found that various features of the dynamic universality class of the charged superconductor appeared in measurable quantities.
Meridians 4:2, Myriam J.A. Chancy
Meridians 4:2, Myriam J.A. Chancy
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
We are living in an age when it is now more possible than it ever was to overcome barriers of language, culture, distance to communicate both to strangers and to loved ones. Information proliferates and is disseminated at light speed in a dizzying zigzag of advanced Internet and telecommunications. And yet, at the same time, the global community is perhaps more divided today than it ever was and those who suffer most are not surprisingly the poor and the dispossessed....
A Demonstration Of Phonons That Implements The Linear Theory, Dietrich Lüerßen, Nalini Easwar, Ayesha Malhotra, Libby Hutchins, Kim Schulze, Brandi Wilcox
A Demonstration Of Phonons That Implements The Linear Theory, Dietrich Lüerßen, Nalini Easwar, Ayesha Malhotra, Libby Hutchins, Kim Schulze, Brandi Wilcox
Physics: Faculty Publications
Beads on a vibrating wire are used to simulate the discrete structure of a solid-state material. The novel idea of the experiment is to use very small oscillation amplitudes of the wire to avoid nonlinearities in the interaction. We achieve a good signal-to-noise ratio using a lock-in technique. We find quantitative agreement between theory and experiment for not only a mono- and a diatomic chain, but also for the bare wire. The latter agreement is the crucial aspect that distinguishes our experiment from previous ones. This agreement assures that the fundamental assumption of the theory ~Hooke’s law! is satisfied. We …
On The Number Of Embeddings Of Minimally Rigid Graphs, Ciprian Borcea, Ileana Streinu
On The Number Of Embeddings Of Minimally Rigid Graphs, Ciprian Borcea, Ileana Streinu
Computer Science: Faculty Publications
Rigid frameworks in some Euclidean space are embedded graphs having a unique local realization (up to Euclidean motions) for the given edge lengths, although globally they may have several. We study the number of distinct planar embeddings of minimally rigid graphs with $n$ vertices. We show that, modulo planar rigid motions, this number is at most ${{2n-4}\choose {n-2}} \approx 4^n$. We also exhibit several families which realize lower bounds of the order of $2^n$, $2.21^n$ and $2.28^n$. For the upper bound we use techniques from complex algebraic geometry, based on the (projective) Cayley--Menger variety ${\it CM}^{2,n}(C)\subset P_{{{n}\choose {2}}-1}(C)$ over the …