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Seasonal Population Patterns Of A New Scale Pest, Acanthococcus Lagerstroemiae Kuwana (Hemiptera: Sternorrhynca: Eriococcidae), Of Crapemyrtles Intexas, Louisiana, And Arkansas, Erfan Vafaie, Michael Merchant, Cai Xiaoya, John D. Hopkins, James A. Robbins, Yan Chen, Mengmeng Gu Mar 2020

Seasonal Population Patterns Of A New Scale Pest, Acanthococcus Lagerstroemiae Kuwana (Hemiptera: Sternorrhynca: Eriococcidae), Of Crapemyrtles Intexas, Louisiana, And Arkansas, Erfan Vafaie, Michael Merchant, Cai Xiaoya, John D. Hopkins, James A. Robbins, Yan Chen, Mengmeng Gu

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The crapemyrtle bark scale, Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae, is an invasive scale insect pest of crapemyrtles. Crawler populations were monitored using double-sided sticky tape on established crapemyrtle trees in Tyler (TX), Huntsville (TX), Dallas (TX), College Station (TX), Shreveport (LA), and Little Rock (AR) from 2015-2017 to determine crawler activity and determine if degree-day models could predict the first peak in crawler activity. Difference in crawler densities on upper and lower branches of trees was also determined by using double-sided sticky tapes. The first peak in crapemyrtle bark scale crawler activity was between March 26th and May 22nd across all locations and …

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Deep Density Estimation Via Invertible Block-Triangular Mapping, Keju Tang, Xiaoliang Wan, Qifeng Liao Mar 2020

Deep Density Estimation Via Invertible Block-Triangular Mapping, Keju Tang, Xiaoliang Wan, Qifeng Liao

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In this work, we develop an invertible transport map, called KRnet, for density estimation by coupling the Knothe–Rosenblatt (KR) rearrangement and the flow-based generative model, which generalizes the real-valued non-volume preserving (real NVP) model (arX-iv:1605.08803v3). The triangular structure of the KR rearrangement breaks the symmetry of the real NVP in terms of the exchange of information between dimensions, which not only accelerates the training process but also improves the accuracy significantly. We have also introduced several new layers into the generative model to improve both robustness and effectiveness, including a reformulated affine coupling layer, a rotation layer and a component-wise …

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Erratum: Detection Of Antibiotic Resistance Toxigenic Clostridium Difficile In Processed Retail Lettuce (Food Quality And Safety Doi: 10.1093/Fqsafe/Fyx032), Yi Han, Joan King, Marlene E. Janes Mar 2020

Erratum: Detection Of Antibiotic Resistance Toxigenic Clostridium Difficile In Processed Retail Lettuce (Food Quality And Safety Doi: 10.1093/Fqsafe/Fyx032), Yi Han, Joan King, Marlene E. Janes

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In the originally published version of this article the term 'Anonymous' was used incorrectly in a citation and in the associated reference. This has now been corrected to 'The Swedish CDAD Study Group' in the second paragraph and in the following reference: Anonymous.(1994). Treatment of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea and colitis with an oral preparation of teicoplanin; a dose finding study. The Swedish CDAD Study Group. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 26: 309-316. has been changed to The Swedish CDAD Study Group.(1994). Treatment of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea and colitis with an oral preparation of teicoplanin; a dose finding study. …

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Reflection Positivity On Spheres, Karl Hermann Neeb, Gestur Ólafsson Mar 2020

Reflection Positivity On Spheres, Karl Hermann Neeb, Gestur Ólafsson

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In this article we specialize a construction of a reflection positive Hilbert space due to Dimock and Jaffe–Ritter to the sphere Sn. We determine the resulting Osterwalder–Schrader Hilbert space, a construction that can be viewed as the step from euclidean to relativistic quantum field theory. We show that this process gives rise to an irreducible unitary spherical representation of the orthochronous Lorentz group Gc= O 1,n(R) ↑ and that the representations thus obtained are the irreducible unitary spherical representations of this group. A key tool is a certain complex domain Ξ , known as the crown of the hyperboloid, containing …

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North Atlantic Hurricane Winds In Warmer Than Normal Seas, Jill C. Trepanier Mar 2020

North Atlantic Hurricane Winds In Warmer Than Normal Seas, Jill C. Trepanier

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Tropical cyclones devastate coastlines around the world. The United States and surrounding areas experienced catastrophic extreme events in recent hurricane seasons. Understanding extreme hurricanes and how they change in a warming ocean environment is of the utmost importance. This study makes use of the historical, positive relationship between average summer sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and maximum hurricane wind speeds across the North Atlantic Basin from 1854-2018. Geographically weighted regression shows how the relationship between hurricane winds and SSTs varies across space. Each localized slope is used to increase historical wind speeds to represent winds in a three-degree Celsius warmer-than-average sea …

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Climatology And Spatiotemporal Analysis Of North Atlantic Rapidly Intensifying Hurricanes (1851-2017), Kathleen M. Benedetto, Jill C. Trepanier Mar 2020

Climatology And Spatiotemporal Analysis Of North Atlantic Rapidly Intensifying Hurricanes (1851-2017), Kathleen M. Benedetto, Jill C. Trepanier

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In recent decades, the scientific ability to project tropical cyclone (TC) intensities and tracks has improved. Hurricanes undergoing the process of rapid intensification (RI) have created new barriers in formulating predictions of TC paths and peak velocities. Current research suggests the warming climate may produce more intense TCs with a higher probability of undergoing RI during their life cycle. The increased likelihood of rapidly intensifying TCs necessitates the development of an RI climatology spanning the current North Atlantic record. A time series count analysis suggests a significant increasing trend of RI events in the Atlantic basin by 29.1% (17%-45%) from …

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Trend Analysis Of Multiple Extreme Hourly Precipitation Time Series In The Southeastern United States, Vincent M. Brown, Barry D. Keim, Alan W. Black Mar 2020

Trend Analysis Of Multiple Extreme Hourly Precipitation Time Series In The Southeastern United States, Vincent M. Brown, Barry D. Keim, Alan W. Black

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Annual trends in extreme hourly precipitation time series were examined at 50 first-order weather stations across the southeastern United States from 1960 to 2017. Results indicated that the magnitude of annual maximum 1-, 3-, 6-, 12-, and 18-h periods did not broadly change at the sites analyzed; however, the numerical value that defines a (station specific) 90th-percentile hourly accumulation significantly (p ≤ 0.05) increased at 36% (18/50) of the stations. No station had a significant decreasing trend in annual 90th-percentile hourly event magnitude. Stations in Texas observed the largest increase in annual 90th-percentile hourly event magnitude, where parameter estimates showed …

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Hydrogen Peroxide Triggers An Increase In Cell Surface Expression Of System XC− In Cultured Human Glioma Cells, Leah A. Chase, Mary Verheulen Kleyn, Natasha Schiller, Abby Goltz King, Guillermo Flores, Sasha Balcazar Engelsman, Christina Bowles, Sara Lang Smith, Anne E. Robinson, Jeffrey Rothstein Mar 2020

Hydrogen Peroxide Triggers An Increase In Cell Surface Expression Of System XC− In Cultured Human Glioma Cells, Leah A. Chase, Mary Verheulen Kleyn, Natasha Schiller, Abby Goltz King, Guillermo Flores, Sasha Balcazar Engelsman, Christina Bowles, Sara Lang Smith, Anne E. Robinson, Jeffrey Rothstein

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System xc− exchanges extracellular cystine for intracellular glutamate across the plasma membrane of many cell types. One of the physiological roles of System xc− is to provide cystine for synthesis of the antioxidant glutathione. Here we report that hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) triggers the translocation of System xc− to the plasma membrane within 10 min of the initial exposure. Specifically, we observed a three-fold increase in 35S-L-cystine uptake following a 10 min exposure to 0.3 mM H2O2. This effect was dose-dependent with an EC50 for …

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Social Adversity, Sleep Characteristics, And Elevated Blood Pressure Among Young Adult Black Females, Jewel Scott Phd, Rn, Fnp-C, Susan Silva, Leigh Ann Simmons Mar 2020

Social Adversity, Sleep Characteristics, And Elevated Blood Pressure Among Young Adult Black Females, Jewel Scott Phd, Rn, Fnp-C, Susan Silva, Leigh Ann Simmons

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Purpose: We examined whether sleep characteristics and adverse social exposures were associated with elevated blood pressure (BP) in young adult black women. Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis of existing data from 581 black females who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). Adverse social exposures included child abuse, discrimination, perceived stress, social isolation, and subjective social status. Self-reported sleep characteristics were measures of duration, latency, continuity, and snoring. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the influence of social exposures and sleep characteristics on BP. Results: Among the women (mean age=29.1 years), 32.4% had …

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Modeling Quality Of Urban Life Using A Geospatial Approach, Helena Merschdorf, Michael E. Hodgson, Thomas Blaschke Mar 2020

Modeling Quality Of Urban Life Using A Geospatial Approach, Helena Merschdorf, Michael E. Hodgson, Thomas Blaschke

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The rapid global urbanization of the past century poses several challenges for planners and policy makers. In particular, the conflation of social and urban issues must be understood to create sustainable and livable urban places. In this regard, it was our aim to model and understand the relationship between urban characteristics and peoples’ perceived quality of urban life (QoUL) using statistical analysis and geospatial modeling. We selected objective variables representing urban characteristics based on literature and used principal components analysis to develop uncorrelated components. These components served as the independent variables in a multiple linear regression analysis. The subjective, dependent …

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Pollen Placement On Petals, Kyle E. Harms Mar 2020

Pollen Placement On Petals, Kyle E. Harms

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Does The Age Of An It Executive Impact Adoption Levels Of Cloud Computing Services?, Marcus L. Smith Mar 2020

Does The Age Of An It Executive Impact Adoption Levels Of Cloud Computing Services?, Marcus L. Smith

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This author researched previously the personal decision factors considered by information technology (IT) executives when making the cloud computing services adoptionchoice. The conclusions in that work (Smith, Jr., 2016) supported four hypotheses, namely, (a) advancement, recognition and satisfaction from accomplishments, (b) top management support, (c) diminishment of personal image, and (d) a pattern of technology readiness have a positive influence on business intentions to adopt cloud computing services. Interestingly, a fifth hypothesis, diminishment of personal image, was found to have a negative influence on business intentions. The relationship between age of the survey respondents and adoption levels was highlighted in …

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Lidar Time-Series Analysis Of A Rapidly Transgressing Low-Lying Mainland Barrier (Caminada Headlands, Louisiana, Usa), Cody L. Johnson, Qin Chen, Celalettin E. Ozdemir Mar 2020

Lidar Time-Series Analysis Of A Rapidly Transgressing Low-Lying Mainland Barrier (Caminada Headlands, Louisiana, Usa), Cody L. Johnson, Qin Chen, Celalettin E. Ozdemir

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Coastal barriers are the first line of defense against storm surge and wind wave induced hazards. Their response to such events, therefore, require continual assessment. Airborne lidar surveying is a valuable remote sensing technique used to assess the dynamics of coastal dunes driven by the impacts of storms and the subsequent recovery processes. Different from previous research conducted on this topic, where pre- and post-storm surveys are employed to analyze the effects of isolated extreme events, this study makes use of a 15-year lidar survey time series of the Caminada-Moreau Headlands. The Caminada-Moreau Headlands, located in Louisiana, USA, on the …

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Synthesis Of Praseodymium-And Molybdenum- Sulfide Nanoparticles For Dye-Photodegradation And Near-Infrared Deep-Tissue Imaging, Ye Wu, Pengfei Ou, Jun Song, Ling Zhang, Yingcheng Lin, Pengfei Song, Jian Xu Mar 2020

Synthesis Of Praseodymium-And Molybdenum- Sulfide Nanoparticles For Dye-Photodegradation And Near-Infrared Deep-Tissue Imaging, Ye Wu, Pengfei Ou, Jun Song, Ling Zhang, Yingcheng Lin, Pengfei Song, Jian Xu

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Development of nanoparticles with multi-functionalities is of great importance. In this study, praseodymium sulfide (Pr2S3) and molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) nanoparticles were synthesized. The structural, morphological and optical properties of the as-obtained products were investigated by XRD, XPS, TEM, UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy, and photoluminescence spectroscopy. Pr2S3 is found to be used in selective photodegradation of fluorescein sodium salt. MoS2 can be utilized for selective photodegradation of rhodamine B. In the mixture of rhodamine B, fluorescein sodium salt and rhodamine 6 G, most of rhodamine B and part of fluorescein sodium salt are optically degraded by Pr2S3. In the mixture of rhodamine B, …

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20 Years Of Evolution From Cognitive To Intelligent Communications, Zhijin Qin, Xiangwei Zhou, Lin Zhang, Yue Gao, Ying Chang Liang, Geoffrey Ye Li Mar 2020

20 Years Of Evolution From Cognitive To Intelligent Communications, Zhijin Qin, Xiangwei Zhou, Lin Zhang, Yue Gao, Ying Chang Liang, Geoffrey Ye Li

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It has been 20 years since the concept of cognitive radio (CR) was proposed, which is an efficient approach to provide more access opportunities to connect massive wireless devices. To improve the spectrum efficiency, CR enables unlicensed usage of licensed spectrum resources. It has been regarded as the key enabler for intelligent communications. In this article, we will provide an overview on the intelligent communication in the past two decades to illustrate the revolution of its capability from cognition to artificial intelligence (AI). Particularly, this article starts from a comprehensive review of typical spectrum sensing and sharing, followed by the …

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Inhibition Deficits Are Modulated By Age And Cgg Repeat Length In Carriers Of The Fmr1 Premutation Allele Who Are Mothers Of Children With Fragile X Syndrome, Jessica Klusek, Jinkuk Hong, Audra Sterling, Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, Marsha R. Mailick Mar 2020

Inhibition Deficits Are Modulated By Age And Cgg Repeat Length In Carriers Of The Fmr1 Premutation Allele Who Are Mothers Of Children With Fragile X Syndrome, Jessica Klusek, Jinkuk Hong, Audra Sterling, Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, Marsha R. Mailick

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Individuals who carry a premutation (PM) allele on the FMR1 gene may experience executive limitations associated with their genetic status, including inhibition deficits. However, poor understanding of individualized risk factors has limited clinical management of this group, particularly in mothers who carry the PM allele who have children with fragile X syndrome (FXS). The present study examined CGG repeat length and age as factors that may account for variable expressivity of inhibition deficits. Participants were 134 carriers of the PM allele who were mothers of children with FXS. Inhibition skills were measured using both self-report and direct behavioral assessments. Increased …

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When Agencies Make Criminal Law, Brenner M. Fissell Mar 2020

When Agencies Make Criminal Law, Brenner M. Fissell

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The nondelegation doctrine prohibits a legislature from delegating its power to an administrative agency, yet it is famously underenforced—even when the delegation results in the creation of criminal offenses (so-called “administrative crimes”). While this practice appears to scandalize the hornbook presumption that legislatures alone define criminal offenses, it has long been ratified by the Supreme Court and has received little scholarly attention. The few commentators who have addressed administrative crimes highlight the intuition that criminal sanctions are uniquely severe and thus deserving of a more rigorous nondelegation analysis, but they stop there. They do not precisely link the severe aspects …

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Making Change Stick: A Case Study Of One High School’S Journey Towards Standards-Based Grading, Matt Townsley, Megan Knight Mar 2020

Making Change Stick: A Case Study Of One High School’S Journey Towards Standards-Based Grading, Matt Townsley, Megan Knight

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The purpose of this study was to explain the experiences of high school teachers and administrators in the midst of transitioning to standards-based grading practices. The researchers used a single case study methodology to investigate how teachers and administrators described their school’s implementation successes and challenges. Data triangulation occurred through analyzing semi-structured interviews, meeting agendas, handbooks, and relevant documents provided by study participants. Using Kotter’s eight steps for leading organizational change as a framework, we recommend school leaders blow off the cobwebs and get started, understand staff needs and provide teacher support, and be comfortable with being uncomfortable.

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Candidate Privacy, Rebecca Green Mar 2020

Candidate Privacy, Rebecca Green

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In the United States, we have long accepted that candidates for public office who have voluntarily stepped into the public eye sacrifice claims to privacy. This refrain is rooted deep within the American enterprise, emanating from the Framers' concept of the informed citizen as a bedrock of democracy. Voters must have full information about candidates to make their choices at the ballot box. Even as privacy rights for ordinary citizens have expanded, privacy theorists and courts continue to exempt candidates from privacy protections. This Article suggests that two disruptions warrant revisiting the privacy interests of candidates. The first is a …

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The Dutch Effect: Kuyper And Neo-Calvinism In Professor Cochran's Scholarship, David S. Caudill Mar 2020

The Dutch Effect: Kuyper And Neo-Calvinism In Professor Cochran's Scholarship, David S. Caudill

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One of the obvious influences on Bob Cochran’s scholarship is the Dutch Calvinist tradition, especially as represented in the writings by or about Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920). Even though Cochran was neither Dutch nor a member of a Reformed church, Cochran found inspiration and compelling insights (with respect to legal processes and institutions) in the Dutch Calvinist tradition. This interest reflected Cochran’s generous ecumenism and his well-known respect for religious diversity. Three prominent conceptions—the trilogy of sphere sovereignty, antithesis, and common grace—provide a guide to Cochran’s recourse to Kuyper and Calvinism in his scholarly writing. Following a brief explanation of the …

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Synthesizing General Electromagnetic Partially Coherent Sources From Random, Correlated Complex Screens, Milo W. Hyde Iv Mar 2020

Synthesizing General Electromagnetic Partially Coherent Sources From Random, Correlated Complex Screens, Milo W. Hyde Iv

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We present a method to generate any genuine electromagnetic partially coherent source (PCS) from correlated, stochastic complex screens. The method described here can be directly implemented on existing spatial-light-modulator-based vector beam generators and can be used in any application which utilizes electromagnetic PCSs. Our method is based on the genuine cross-spectral density matrix criterion. Applying that criterion, we show that stochastic vector field realizations (corresponding to a desired electromagnetic PCS) can be generated by passing correlated Gaussian random numbers through “filters” with space-variant transfer functions. We include step-by-step instructions on how to generate the electromagnetic PCS field realizations. As an …

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Applications Of Unmanned Aerial Systems (Uas): A Delphi Study Projecting Future Uas Missions And Relevant Challenges, Alberto Sigala, Brent T. Langhals Mar 2020

Applications Of Unmanned Aerial Systems (Uas): A Delphi Study Projecting Future Uas Missions And Relevant Challenges, Alberto Sigala, Brent T. Langhals

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Over recent decades, the world has experienced a growing demand for and reliance upon unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to perform a broad spectrum of applications to include military operations such as surveillance/reconnaissance and strike/attack. As UAS technology matures and capabilities expand, especially with respect to increased autonomy, acquisition professionals and operational decision makers must determine how best to incorporate advanced capabilities into existing and emerging mission areas. This research seeks to predict which autonomous UAS capabilities are most likely to emerge over the next 20 years as well as the key challenges for implementation for each capability. Employing the Delphi …

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Near-Infrared-Sensitive Photorefractive Sn2P2S6 Crystals Grown By The Bridgman Method, O. M. Shumelyuk, A. Y. Volkov, Y. Skrypka, Larry E. Halliburton, Nancy C. Giles, Christopher A. Lenyk, Sergey A. Basun, A. A. Grabar, Y. M. Vysochansky, S. G. Odoulov, D. R. Evans Mar 2020

Near-Infrared-Sensitive Photorefractive Sn2P2S6 Crystals Grown By The Bridgman Method, O. M. Shumelyuk, A. Y. Volkov, Y. Skrypka, Larry E. Halliburton, Nancy C. Giles, Christopher A. Lenyk, Sergey A. Basun, A. A. Grabar, Y. M. Vysochansky, S. G. Odoulov, D. R. Evans

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Ferroelectric tin hypothiodiphosphate (Sn2P2S6) crystals are well-known for their significant piezoelectric, electro-optic, and nonlinear optical properties. These crystals have usually been grown by a vapor transport technique. We report in this paper on the first study of photorefractive nonlinearity in Sn2P2S6 crystals grown by the Bridgman method. Pronounced photorefraction is observed in the near-infrared region of the spectrum even with no preliminary optical sensitizing.

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Algorithm Selection Framework For Cyber Attack Detection, Marc W. Chalé, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Jeffery D. Weir Mar 2020

Algorithm Selection Framework For Cyber Attack Detection, Marc W. Chalé, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Jeffery D. Weir

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The number of cyber threats against both wired and wireless computer systems and other components of the Internet of Things continues to increase annually. In this work, an algorithm selection framework is employed on the NSL-KDD data set and a novel paradigm of machine learning taxonomy is presented. The framework uses a combination of user input and meta-features to select the best algorithm to detect cyber attacks on a network. Performance is compared between a rule-of-thumb strategy and a meta-learning strategy. The framework removes the conjecture of the common trial-and-error algorithm selection method. The framework recommends five algorithms from the …

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Optimizing The Environmental And Economic Sustainability Of Remote Community Infrastructure, Jamie E. Filer, Justin D. Delorit, Andrew J. Hoisington, Steven J. Schuldt Mar 2020

Optimizing The Environmental And Economic Sustainability Of Remote Community Infrastructure, Jamie E. Filer, Justin D. Delorit, Andrew J. Hoisington, Steven J. Schuldt

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Remote communities such as rural villages, post-disaster housing camps, and military forward operating bases are often located in remote and hostile areas with limited or no access to established infrastructure grids. Operating these communities with conventional assets requires constant resupply, which yields a significant logistical burden, creates negative environmental impacts, and increases costs. For example, a 2000-member isolated village in northern Canada relying on diesel generators required 8.6 million USD of fuel per year and emitted 8500 tons of carbon dioxide. Remote community planners can mitigate these negative impacts by selecting sustainable technologies that minimize resource consumption and emissions. However, …

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Non-Linear Statistical Photocalibration Of Photodetectors Without Calibrated Light Sources, Stephen C. Cain Mar 2020

Non-Linear Statistical Photocalibration Of Photodetectors Without Calibrated Light Sources, Stephen C. Cain

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Calibration of CCD arrays is commonly conducted using dark frames. Non-absolute calibration techniques only measure the relative response of the detectors. For absolute calibration to be achieved, a second calibration is sometimes utilized by looking at sources with known radiances. A process like this can be used to calibrate photodetectors if a calibration source is available and sensor time can be spared to perform the operation. A previous attempt at creating a procedure for calibrating a photodetector using the underlying Poisson nature of the photodetection statistics relied on a linear model. This effort produced the statistically applied non-uniformity calibration algorithm, …

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Analysis Of An Energy Tuning Assembly For Simulating Nuclear Weapon Environments At The National Ignition Facility, Nicholas J. Quartemont, James E. Bevins, Rachel N. Slaybaugh, Lee A. Bernstein Mar 2020

Analysis Of An Energy Tuning Assembly For Simulating Nuclear Weapon Environments At The National Ignition Facility, Nicholas J. Quartemont, James E. Bevins, Rachel N. Slaybaugh, Lee A. Bernstein

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An energy tuning assembly ETA was developed to spectrally shape the National Ignition Facility NIF deuterium-tritium D-T fusion neutron source to a notional thermonuclear and prompt fission neutron spectrum TNPFNS to approximate a boosted nuclear device. The spectrally shaped neutron environment can be used to create realistic synthetic post-detonation weapon debris that contain spectrally accurate fission products across all mass chains to enhance U.S. technical nuclear forensics capabilities for nuclear weapon attribution and device reconstruction. This research performed nuclear data covariance analysis through stochastic sampling techniques to predict the performance of an ETA to create the objective TNPFNS, assess anticipated …

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Nuclear Data Covariance Analysis In Radiation-Transport Simulations Utilizing Scale Sampler And The Irdff Nuclear Data Library, Nicholas J. Quartemont, Abigail A. Bickley, James E. Bevins Mar 2020

Nuclear Data Covariance Analysis In Radiation-Transport Simulations Utilizing Scale Sampler And The Irdff Nuclear Data Library, Nicholas J. Quartemont, Abigail A. Bickley, James E. Bevins

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This article describes the nuclear data covariance analysis of an experimental design for a neutron energy-tuning assembly (ETA) created to shape a 14-MeV neutron point source to an objective spectrum. Underlying nuclear data uncertainties play a large role in the radiation transport and reaction rates for the range of responses to be expected from an experiment. The methodology leveraged the Standardized Computer Analysis for Licensing Evaluation (SCALE) Sampler module to determine the uncertainty in the neutron transport. The reaction uncertainty was perturbed with the International Reactor Dosimetry and Fusion File v.1.05 uncertainty, correlation matrix, and reaction cross section through multivariate …

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How Children Experience Grief, Natalie Dorland, S. Joseph Kidder Mar 2020

How Children Experience Grief, Natalie Dorland, S. Joseph Kidder

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Children grieve internally just as much as adults, and they are far less equipped to handle their emotions. Children desperately need pastors and church members to pay attention to them and minister to their needs in times of grief. How do we effectively do that, especially depending on their age group?

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Between The Ideal And The Real: We Often Struggle To Live God’S Kingdom Values, Gerald A. Klingbeil Mar 2020

Between The Ideal And The Real: We Often Struggle To Live God’S Kingdom Values, Gerald A. Klingbeil

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