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Considering The Non-Programming Geographer's Perspective When Designing Extracurricular Introductory Computer Programming Workshops, Thomas R Etherington

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Computer programming is becoming an increasingly important scientific skill, but geographers are not necessarily receiving this training as part of their formal education. While there are efforts to promote and support extracurricular introductory computer programming workshops, there remain questions about how best to deliver these workshops. Therefore, as part of a recent introductory programming extracurricular workshop I organized for non-programing geographers, I tried to understand more about their perceptions of computer programming. I identify that one of the most important aspects for geographers to learn to computer program is to have training that is domain specific to ensure that the …

Towards Harmonizing Property Measurement Standards, Abdullah Kara, Volkan Çağdaş, Ümit Işıkdağ, Bülent Onur Turan

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Area and volume values of buildings and building parts have been used in many applications including taxation, valuation and land use planning. Many countries maintain a national standard for representing the measurements of floor areas in buildings. The national standards generally use similar basis for measuring building floor areas, in fact, areas specified in national standards often have semantic differences. Therefore, a number of international standards have been developed for harmonizing floor area measurements; however, they also have differences. This study aims at harmonizing the floor areas defined in the international property measurement standards by revealing the semantic relations between …

Bridging Space, Time, And Semantics In Giscience, Margarita Kokla, Eric Guilbert, Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi

Journal of Spatial Information Science

No abstract provided.

Hyper-Local Geographically Weighted Regression: Extending Gwr Through Local Model Selection And Local Bandwidth Optimization, Alexis Comber, Yunqiang Wang, Yihe Lü, Xingchang Zhang, Paul Harris

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Geographically weighted regression (GWR) is an inherently exploratory technique for examining process non-stationarity in data relationships. This paper develops and applies a hyper-local GWR which extends such investigations further. The hyper-local GWR simultaneously optimizes both local model selection (which covariates to include in each local regression) and local kernel bandwidth specification (how much data should be included locally). These are evaluated using a measure of model fit. The hyper-local GWR approach evaluates different kernel bandwidths at each location and selects the most parsimonious local regression model. By allowing models and bandwidths to vary locally, this approach extends and refines the …

Georeferencing Places From Collective Human Descriptions Using Place Graphs, Hao Chen, Stephan Winter, Maria Vasardani

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Place descriptions in everyday communication or in online text provide a rich source of spatial knowledge about places. Such descriptions typically consist of references to places and spatial relationships between them. An important step to utilize such knowledge in information systems is georeferencing the referred places. Beside place name disambiguation, another challenge is that a significant proportion of place references in such descriptions are not official place names indexed by gazetteers, thus cannot be resolved easily. This paper presents a novel approach for georeferencing places from collective descriptions using place graphs, regardless of whether they are referred to by gazetteered …

Towards Place-Based Exploration Of Instagram: Using Co-Design To Develop An Interdisciplinary Geovisualization Prototype, Catherine Emma Jones, Daniele Guido, Marta Severo

Journal of Spatial Information Science

An abundance of geographic information is hidden within texts and multimedia objects that has the potential to enrich our knowledge about the relationship between people and places. One such example is the geographic information embedded within user-generated content collected and curated by the social media giants. Such geographic data can be encoded either explicitly as geotags or implicitly as geographical references expressed as texts that comprise part of a title or image caption. To use such data for knowledge building there is a need for new mapping interfaces. These interfaces should support both data integration and visualization, and geographical exploration …

Estimating The Sediment Flux And Budget For A Data Limited Rift Valley Lake In Ethiopia, Alemu O. Aga, Assefa M. Melesse

Department of Earth and Environment

Information on sediment concentration in rivers is important for the design and management of reservoirs. In this paper, river sediment flux and siltation rate of a rift valley lake basin (Lake Ziway, Ethiopia) was modeled using suspended sediment concentration (SSC) samples from four rivers and lake outlet stations. Both linear and non-linear least squares log–log regression methods were used to develop the model. The best-fit model was tested and evaluated qualitatively by time-series plots, quantitatively by using watershed model evaluation statistics, and validated by calculating the prediction error. Sediment yield (SY) of ungauged rivers were assessed by developing and using …

Investigations Into The Advancement Of Cryptotephra Geochemical Fingerprinting, Laura Hartman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of this work is to advance new sample preparation and analytical methods for ice core tephrochronology. When a volcanic source can be accurately identified using volcanic glass particle geochemistry, it may provide a robust time reference for the ice core’s timescale. The presence of an identifiable tephra layer may also suggest atmospheric pathways at the time of deposition, or assist in reconstructing volcanic forcing of climactic state for a specific event. One of the perpetual challenges in ice core based tephrochronological work is measuring the geochemical composition of ultra-fine particles (<10 >μm). Not only is it difficult …

System And Process Of Thermal Neutron Flux Producing By Means Of An Accelerator Base Electron Of 18 Mev, A. Didi, A. Dadouch, H. El Bekkour, O. Jai, F. Bouhal, M. Bencheikh

Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials

Neutrons are produced in accelerators by irradiating heavy targets with an electron or proton beam. Produced neutrons are of high energy. The purpose of our work is optimization the neutron flux by MCNP-6 code for production the thermal neutron flux using a moderator and for convertation the fast neutron flux into a thermal neutron flux. In this article, we are interested in a thermal neutron flux due it is useful for method of neutron activation analysis. In conventional sources, the moderator is usually a large volume of water or paraffin around the source. Initially, fast neutrons have energy above 1 …

Structure Study Of Al+Al2o3 Composite By Atomic Force Microscopy, D. S. Koleukh, A. S. Kaygorodov, S. V. Zayats, S. N. Paranin

Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials

The structure of a metal matrix composite based on aluminum containing 6, 17 and 24 wt % Al² O³ was studied by atomic force microscopy. The composite was prepared by the method of magneticpulse compaction from aluminum nanopowder obtained by the electric wire explosion method. The samples compacted at 400 ◦ C have more clearly expressed grain boundaries than those obtained at room temperature. The structure of a composite subjected to dynamic plastic deformation is studied.

Synthesis And Investigation Of Optical Properties Of Cdse Quantum Dots With High Quantum Luminescence Yield, A. Z. Kainarbay, T. N. Nurakhmetov, Z. M. Salikhodja, A. M. Zhunusbekov, D. K. Daurenbekov, B. Sadykova, B. Yussupbekova, K. Zhanylysov, A. Kainarbayeva, N. Adalbek, N. Shaken, A. Turmakhanbetova, K. N. Balabekov

Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials

In the present work, an attempt to obtain quantum dots with a high quantum luminescence yield has been made. For this purpose, the existing methods of synthesis have been studied; approbation of availability and reproducibility of the results and possibility of obtaining luminescent QD samples in the required spectral region has been made. The optical characteristics, the influence of the synthesis conditions, the possibility of using nanostructured materials for sensitization of solar cells have been studied.

Some Radiation Effects In Ii-Vi Quantum Dots, M. B. Sharibaev, Q. A. Ismailov

Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials

The effect of electron irradiation (E=0.6-1.8 MeV) on the optical characteristics (photoluminescence, PL) of CdTe/ZnTe structures with quantum dots, QDs, was investigated in the temperature range from 4.2 to 250 K. The data on the influence of irradiation on the temperature dependence of PL intensity, energy position and PL line width, W, from QDs were obtained. The narrowing of PL band and the blue shift of the QD peak position are explained by quenching of the low energy component connected with larger QDs. A slight decrease in PL intensity for both QDs and the buffer ZnTe layer as well as …

Influence Of Structural Defects In Silicon On Formation Of Photosensitive Heterostructures Mn4si7-Si-Mn4si7 And Mn4si7-Si-M, T. S. Kamilov, A. S. Rysbaev, V. V. Klechkovskaya, A. S. Orekhov, Sh. Kh. Dzhuraev, A. S. Kasymov

Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials

The paper considers the influence of a transition amorphous layer at the interface between the higher manganese silicide (HMS) Mn ₄ Si ₇ and silicon doped with manganese (Si ) on the photoelectric properties of heterostructures. The role of the initial structural defects in the near-surface layers of the single-crystal silicon on the penetration of manganese atoms into Si upon doping from the gas phase is shown.It has been established that at high temperatures (T>1050 ◦ C) Mn atoms deposited on the silicon surface group together (due to surface diffusion), forming droplets of liquid manganese, which dissolve the near-surface …

Development Of Thermal Sensors By Implantation Ions P+ And B+ In Different Sides Of Si(111), I. R. Bekpulatov, A. S. Rysbaev, Sh. Kh. Dzhuraev, A. S. Kasymov

Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials

In the method of high-phase ion implantation of P ⁺ and B ⁺ to different sides of monocrystal silicon we obtained p-i-n- structure, which has a high thermal sensitivity of 2.3 mV/K in a broad band temperature of (20 ÷ 550) K. We studied the distribution profile P and B atoms implanted in the Si gradually decreasing energy. The effect of the subsequent thermal and annealing IR profile on the distribution of the atoms and the characteristics of the temperature sensor was studied.

New Mocd2 Phase In Film Coatings Of Molybdenum-Cadmium System, Yu. Zh. Tuleushev, V. N. Volodin, Y. A. Zhakanbaev

Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials

Ion-plasma sputtering and code position of Mo and Cd ultrafine particles have been used for the first time to prepare solid solutions that are alloys with a concentration up to 57.3 at. % Cd in the film; this confirms the thermal-fluctuation and coalescence of small particles. When coatings are formed by molyb-denum and cadmium nanolayers less than 2 nm in the concentrations range of 60-66 at. % Cd, a new phase was found that was prepared directly in the course of film coating formation; it was identified as the MoCd₂ compound with a tetragonal face-centered lattice, with the parameters …

Different Methods Of Correcting The Readings Of The Dvgn-01 Albedo Neutron Dosimeter Placed Behind The Ibr-2m Protection, Yu. V. Mokrov, S. V. Morozova, G. N. Timoshenko, V. A. Krylov, O. B. Badunov, G. A. Seilkhanova

Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials

The paper presents the results of correction of readings of DVBN-01 albedo dosimeters behind IBR-2M protection, the Neutron Physics Laboratory of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, byvarious methods. The neutron spectra were measured at two points behind the IBR-2M protection in the experimental halls, and measurements were carried out with the spherical albedo system at these points. The correction coefficients for DVGN-01 were calculated from the measured spectra based on the data of the spherical albedo system. A good agreement of the coefficients calculated by different methods is shown, which indicates the reliability of the obtained values …

Analysis Of (11li+9be)-Reaction In The Framework Of The Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation, A. K. Azhibekov, K. A. Kuterbekov, V. V. Samarin

Eurasian Journal of Physics and Functional Materials

Neutron transfer and nucleus breakup cross sections in (¹¹Li + ⁹Be) -reaction are calculated at energy range up to 32 MeV/nucleon. The evolution of probability density of external weakly bound neutrons of 11Li and the probabilities of neutron transfer and nucleus breakup are determined based on a numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. Our calculation results are agree with the experiment.

Improved Measurement Of The Longitudinal Spin Transfer To Λ And Bar(Λ) Hyperons In Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions At Sqrt(S) = 200 Gev, James Drachenberg

Engineering and Physics

No abstract provided.

2003 - Salinas Valley Sediment Sources

Related Research and Documents

The Salinas River is listed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Water Act’s ‘303d list’ as being impaired due to ‘sedimentation/siltation.' A plan for management of the total maximum daily load of sediment is thus mandated. This plan was to include an assessment of sediment sources in the Salinas Watershed. The study provided the technical basis for this source analysis, to be used by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (CCRWQB) in the development of the Salinas Sediment TMDL.

Development Of Explicitly Correlated And Many-Body Diagrammatic Techniques For The Investigation Of Electron-Hole Correlation In Nanomaterials, Michael Gray Bayne

Dissertations - ALL

The focus of this work is to develop theoretical methods that will accurately describe electron-electron and electron-hole correlation in nanoparticles using many-body diagrammatic techniques. Diagrammatic representation is a more complex representation of quantum mechanics, however, it becomes a more advantageous representation in its application to this work due to its ease of use. Diagrammatic techniques are essential to the ve methods presented here as they prove to be pivotal in theoretical development as well as providing useful information in extracting and visualizing fundamental physics to make useful approximations to the methods. In the projected congruent transformed Hamiltonian method with partial …

Deconvolution Of Membrane Protein-Detergent Complex Interactions, Aaron Wolfe

Dissertations - ALL

Membrane proteins are important in many biological functions such as cell-cell recognition, transport, and signaling; yet the study of these proteins is stunted due to their excessive aggregation in aqueous solutions. Detergents have been extensively exploited to mitigate this aggregation, and accomplish this by protecting the hydrophobic exterior of the membrane protein with their hydrophobic tails, while the polar heads of the detergents interact with the surrounding aqueous environment. Although detergents are of fundamental importance in many membrane protein studies, their selection is primarily done by trial and error screening. In this thesis, I will describe a method to utilize …

Atom-Specific Activation In Co Oxidation, Simon Schreck, Elias Diesen, Jerry Larue, Hirohito Ogasawara, Kess Marks, Dennis Nordlund, Matthew Weston, Martin Beye, Filippo Cavalca, Fivos Perakis, Jonas Sellberg, André Eilert, Kyung Hwan Kim, Giacomo Coslovich, Ryan Coffee, Jacek Krzywinski, Alex Reid, Stefan Moeller, Alberto Lutman, Henrik Öström, Lars G. M. Pettersson, Anders Nilsson

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

We report on atom-specific activation of CO oxidation on Ru(0001) via resonant X-ray excitation. We show that resonant 1s core-level excitation of atomically adsorbed oxygen in the co-adsorbed phase of CO and oxygen directly drives CO oxidation. We separate this direct resonant channel from indirectly driven oxidation via X-ray induced substrate heating. Based on density functional theory calculations, we identify the valence-excited state created by the Auger decay as the driving electronic state for direct CO oxidation. We utilized the fresh-slice multi-pulse mode at the Linac Coherent Light Source that provided time-overlapped and 30 fs delayed pairs of soft …

Controls On Phosphorus Export From An Agricultural Watershed: Amsden Brook, Fort Fairfield, Maine Usa., Gregory J. Mcdonald

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the sources and mechanisms of phosphorus (P) mobilization during base flow within the Amsden Brook watershed, Fort Fairfield, Maine, USA. Amsden Brook is an agriculturally dominated watershed drained by a spring-fed and perennial first- to second-order stream. We characterized the P concentrations within the watershed to investigate connections between soils, stream sediment, surface water, and groundwater. Waters were monitored monthly during the 2017 snow-free period for temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, soluble reactive P (SRP), total P, strong acid anions, strong base cations, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), Al, Fe, and Mn. Phosphorus speciation within soils and sediment …

1995 - North Monterey County Hydrogeologic Study Volume I, Water Resource

Monterey County Water Resources Agency Engineering Reports

The purpose of the investigation was to develop a better understanding of the hydrogeologic setting in the North Monterey County (North County) area and to quantify the various components of water supply and demand. The investigation also focused on the institutional and planning issues associated with the resource limitations and suggests possible responses to these limitations. The investigation was intended to provide the Monterey County Water Resources Agency (MCWRA), as well as the Monterey County Departments of Planning, Building & Inspection and Division of Environmental Health, with data essential to developing a ground water management plan and to support modifications …

1996 - Monterey County Hydrogeologic Study, Volume Ii -- Critical Issues Report And Interim Management Plan, Final Report

Monterey County Water Resources Agency Engineering Reports

This document was a companion report to the North Monterey County Hydrogeologic Study, Volume I, dated October 1995. The document built from the technical understanding and problem identification developed in Volume I and focuses on key issues relative to developing a management plan for the water resources of the area. These included the interrelated policy, legal and financial issues that complicate the management of the resource. The purpose of the report was to provide an analysis of these issues towards the development of long-range management objectives.

Lozenge Tilings Of A Halved Hexagon With An Array Of Triangles Removed From The Boundary, Part Ii, Tri Lai

Department of Mathematics: Faculty Publications

Proctor's work on staircase plane partitions yields an exact enumeration of lozenge tilings of a halved hexagon on the triangular lattice. Rohatgi later ex- tended this tiling enumeration to a halved hexagon with a triangle cut o from the boundary. In his previous paper, the author proved a common generalization of Proctor's and Rohatgi's results by enumerating lozenge tilings of a halved hexagon in the case an array of an arbitrary number of triangles has been removed from a non-staircase side. In this paper we consider the other case when the array of tri- angles has been removed from the …

1998 - Salinas Valley Water (Preliminary Analysis Of) The Cause And Cost Of Seawater Intrusion

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

An analysis of the historical cause of seawater intrusion in the Pressure Area of Monterey County. An annual overdraft of groundwater resources near the coast coupled with a seasonal cycle of over pumping created a reversal in the groundwater gradient and associated cones of depression. "Marine intrusion has occurred in the 180-foot aquifer in recent years as a result of overdrafts." (Bulletin 52, 1946, p.27). The only overdrafts on groundwater in the Salinas Valley were in the East Side and Pressure Areas. "There was no shortage of groundwater in the remainder of the basin and no threat of deficiency under …

2000 - Geology Bibliography Of California, 1854–2000

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

The scope of this database is much broader in scope than the original list of consultant reports submitted to Monterey County governmental agencies and includes extensive references on regional geologic mapping, hydrogeology, economic geology, and research done in connection with the Parkfield Earthquake Prediction Experiment.

Major sources of information include:

• Monterey County Planning Department: a database of approximately 2,000 references within the

categories of geology, soil, water resources, and water quality.

• Monterey County Water Resources Agency.

• Monterey Peninsula Water Management District.

• The American Geological Institute’s GeoRef database.

• The U.S. Geological Survey’s National Geologic Map Database. …

Exploring Specificity And Stability Of A Molecularly Imprinted Polymer, Stephen Robert Shepherd

Theses - ALL

Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) have numerous practical applications, including integration with quartz crystal microbalances to make specific, stable, chemical sensors, but most published research literature does not provide details concerning the specificity or stability of such an imprinted polymer. A polymer made from polyacrylic acid monomers, templated with benzoic acid, was tested for specificity with solutions of benzoic acid, acetic acid, phenol, and terephthalic acid passed through samples of uniform size under vacuum filtration. Additionally, MIP samples were also stored for extended periods of time in varied microclimates and then tested for performance, and consequently, stability. Initial conclusions indicate that …

Remote Sensing Of Icebergs In Greenland's Fjords And Coastal Waters, Jessica Scheick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Increases in ocean water temperature are implicated in driving recent accelerated rates of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Icebergs provide a key tool for gaining insight into ice-ocean interactions and until recently have been relatively understudied. Here we develop several methods that exploit icebergs visible in optical satellite imagery to provide insight on the ice--ocean environment and explore how iceberg datasets can be used to examine the physics of iceberg decay and parent glacier properties. First, a semi-automated algorithm, which includes a machine learning-based cloud mask, is applied to six years (2000-2002 and 2013-2015) of the Landsat archive …