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Classification And Interpretation Of Selected Soil Data From A Tropical Region Of Bolivia, Noemi Sabillon

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

"Half of the uncultivated land of the world, or some 80 million hectars (ha), lies in the humid tropics, where the climatic environment offers a high potential for crop production. If only 2 per-cent of this area were put into cultivation with good management practices, enough food could be produced to feed the present population of Latin America" (Committee on Tropical Soils, National Academy of Sciences, 1972).

Computer Program Generation Of Extreme Value Distribution Data, Stephen (Wan-Tsing) Lei

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The application of the Monte Carlo method on the estimation in Gumbel extreme value distribution was studied. The Gumbel extreme value distribution is used to estimate the flood flow of specific return period for the design of flood mitigation project. This paper is a programming effort (1) to estimate the parameters of Gumbel distribution using the observed data and (2) to provide a random variate generating subroutine to generate random samples and order statistics of a Gumbel distribution random variable. The mean squared error is used to measure the accuracy of the estimation method. Finally, an example of the use …

Automatic Ordering Of Program Units For Execution, Ronald D. Williams

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

A program written in today's sequential programming languages must be written according to a rule which states that source instructions must be written in their exact order of execution. A better rule would be to let the programmer write the instructions in any order he wants- - then let a program figure out the proper order of execution. Such a system applies not only to individual instructions in a procedure or program, but to procedures in a program and to programs in a job stream.

This paper and its associated automatic ordering program introduce a method by which instructions can …