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11/01/2004 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 11/01/2004. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Costs And Benefits Of Strategic Acquisition Of Limited Access Right-Of-Way At Freeway Interchange Areas, Kristine M. Williams, Huaguo Zhou, Larry Hagen

Transportation Planning, Policy, and Processes (TP3) Final Reports

The purpose of this research is to assess the cost effectiveness of purchasing additional limited access rightof- way at the time of construction in lieu of retrofitting interchange areas after functional failure. The findings indicate that the long term safety, operational, and fiscal benefits of purchasing additional limited access ROW at interchange areas, significantly exceed the initial up-front right-of-way costs. This is particularly true for new interchanges in areas where land has not yet been extensively subdivided and developed. Additional research is suggested to further refine and expand upon the results. Nonetheless, the magnitude of these results suggests that state …

A Tail-Recursive Machine With Stack Inspection, John Clements, Mathias Felleisen

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Security folklore holds that a security mechanism based on stack inspection is incompatible with a global tail call optimization policy; that an implementation of such a language must allocate memory for a source-code tail call, and a program that uses only tail calls (and no other memory allocating construct) may nevertheless exhaust the available memory. In this article, we prove this widely held belief wrong.We exhibit an abstract machine for a language with security stack inspection whose space consumption function is equivalent to that of the canonical tail call optimizing abstract machine. Our machine is surprisingly simple and suggests that …

Human Fetal, Cord Blood, And Adult Lymphocyte Progenitors Have Similar Potential For Generating B Cells With A Diverse Immunoglobulin Repertoire, Grant R. Kolar, Takafumi Yokota, Maria Isabel D. Rossi, Swapan K. Nath, J. Donald Capra

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Several characteristics of the immunoglobulin (Ig) repertoire in fetuses and adults set them apart from each other. Functionally, this translates into differences in the affinity and effectiveness of the humoral immune response between adults and the very young. At least 2 possibilities could explain these differences: (1) fetal and adult lymphocyte progenitors differ significantly in their potential to form a diverse repertoire, and (2) factors extrinsic to the immunoglobulin locus are more influential to the character of the repertoire. To address this, we used nonobese diabetic-severe combined immunodeficient- β2 microglobulin knockout (NOD/SCID/β2m ^-/-) mice reconstituted with human B-cell progenitors …

The Forum (Volume 34, Number 4), Valparaiso University School Of Law

Valparaiso Law School Forum

No abstract provided.

Application Of Genotypic And Phenotypic Analyses To Commercial Probiotic Strain Identity And Relatedness, P. S. M. Yeung, Christopher L. Kitts, Phillip S. Tong, M. E. Sanders

Biological Sciences

Aims: The objective of this study was to generate strain-specific genomic patterns of a bank of 67 commercial and reference probiotic strains, with a focus on probiotic lactobacilli.
Methods and Results: Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was used as the primary method for strain differentiation. This method was compared with carbohydrate fermentation analysis. To supplement visual comparison, PFGE patterns were analysed quantitatively by cluster analysis using unweighted pair group method with arithmetic averages. SmaI, NotI and XbaI were found to effectively generate clear and easy-to-interpret PFGE patterns of a range of probiotic strains. Some probiotic strains from different sources shared highly …

Sex Differences In Metabolic Rates In Field Crickets And Their Dipteran Parasitoids, Gita R. Kolluru, Mark A. Chappell, Marlene Zuk

Biological Sciences

Sex differences in metabolic rate (MR) can result from dimorphism in the performance of energetically demanding activities. Male crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) engage in costly calling and aggressive activity not performed by females. Consistent with this difference, we found higher maximal MR, factorial scope, and fat content in males than females. T. oceanicus song is also costly because it attracts the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea. Parasitized crickets had reduced maximal MR consistent with a metabolic cost to harboring larvae. This cost was greater for females, either because females invest more heavily into reproduction at the expense of metabolic …

Alteration Of The Food Web Along The Antarctic Peninsula In Response To A Regional Warming Trend, Mark A. Moline, Herve Claustre, Thomas K. Frazer, Oscar Schofield, Maria Vernet

Biological Sciences

In the nearshore coastal waters along the Antarctic Peninsula, a recurrent shift in phytoplankton community structure, from diatoms to cryptophytes, has been documented. The shift was observed in consecutive years (1991–1996) during the austral summer and was correlated in time and space with glacial melt-water runoff and reduced surface water salinities. Elevated temperatures along the Peninsula will increase the extent of coastal melt-water zones and the seasonal prevalence of cryptophytes. This is significant because a change from diatoms to cryptophytes represents a marked shift in the size distribution of the phytoplankton community, which will, in turn, impact the zooplankton assemblage. …

Application Of Genotypic And Phenotypic Analyses To Commerical Probiotic Strain Identity And Relatedness, P.S.M. Yeung, C. L. Kitts, R. Cano, P. Tong

Biological Sciences

Aims: The objective of this study was to generate strain-specific genomic patterns of a bank of 67 commercial and reference probiotic strains, with a focus on probiotic lactobacilli.

Methods and Results: Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was used as the primary method for strain differentiation. This method was compared with carbohydrate fermentation analysis. To supplement visual comparison, PFGE patterns were analysed quantitatively by cluster analysis using unweighted pair group method with arithmetic averages. SmaI, NotI and XbaI were found to effectively generate clear and easy-to-interpret PFGE patterns of a range of probiotic strains. Some probiotic strains from different sources …

Improvement Of Parameter Estimation For Non-Linear Hysteretic Systems With Slip By A Fast Bayesian Bootstrap Filter, S. J. Li, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Mohammad N. Noori

Office of the Dean (CENG) Scholarship

Modeling and identification of non-linear hysteretic systems are widely encountered in the structural dynamics field, especially for the hysteresis with slip. A model, called SL model, which can describe the pinching of most practical hysteresis loops perfectly was proposed by Baber and Noori (J. Eng. Mech. 111 (1985) 1010). A method of estimating the parameters of SL model on the basis of input–output data based on bootstrap filter was proposed by the writers. Bootstrap filter is a filtering method based on Bayesian state estimation and Monte Carlo method, which has the great advantage of being able to handle any functional …

Interoperability And The Need For Intelligent Software, Jens G. Pohl

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

In my introduction to this year’s conference I will address six questions that I believe come to the core of our conference theme of interoperability. Do we human beings resist change? Is it in fact a human problem and not a technical problem that we are dealing with? Can non-human intelligence exist? Do we even have a need for intelligent software? How did software, particularly intelligent software (i.e., if we accept that there is such a thing) evolve over the past several decades, and what is all this talk about a Semantic Web environment? And, finally, what does the …

Letter Banks Of The Capitals, Will Nediger

Word Ways

Recently, Darryl Francis found words from the letter banks of the chemical elements and the states of the US. I decided to letter-bank (to coin a verb) the names of the nations of the world, but I found that, on average, their capitals had shorter names that their countries. I used a Scrabble-based (North American vocabulary only) program similar to LeXpert to letter-bank the national capitals.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 37 Issue 4

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

Elementary Combinations, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In school and college, we learnt that chemical elements combine with each other to form new substances, compounds, in very well-defined ways, obeying certain scientific rules. For example, we learned that two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen combine to form a molecule of water, and that one atom of sulfur combines with four atoms of oxygen to form a sulphate radical with electrical charge -2. In chemistry these rules of combination were explained in terms of valence and bonds, and in physics the rules were explained in terms of rings of electrons and the numbers of electrons …

Mananagrams

Word Ways

I sorely miss Ed Conti's "Bananagrams" (May '98-May '03) and offer a weak echo and tribute, Mananagrams--anagrams to put [you] off till tomorrow. Instead of rhymes, they offer sentences in which one or two (2) words are replaced by anagrams. It's up to you to figure out which and what. Most are obvious to easy but some are not easy, so all the given in Answers and Solutions at the back of this issue.

"Demi Ran, Nan," Anna Rimed, Jim Puder

Word Ways

Although end-to-end-palindromic verse that is also rhyming and metrical was pioneered by J.A. Lindon and Howard Bergerson more than three decades ago, very long examples of the form have hitherto occurred only in a short story by George Marvill. Such compositions are not, however, infeasible in reality; the one that follows, in fact, is about twice as long as the longest such effort imagined by Marvill. More challenging than lengthiness in this verse is sensibility, which is courted here mainly at the quatrain level.

"Is Anal Retentive Hyphenated?": Self-Referential Humor, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

You know about self-referential statements. The classic examples are the Greek logical paradoxes. The Epimenides Paradox, in one variant, asserts: "This sentence is false." For millennia, philosophers have struggled to determine what such bafflers mean, if indeed they have any meaning at all.

Shakespeare And Psalm 46, Once More, Robert F. Fleissner

Word Ways

In the 1961 Dover reprint of C. C. Bombaugh's Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature, Martin Gardner comments in his Notes (pages 263).

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

More Purple Turtles (Part 2), Rex Gooch

Word Ways

I found more than one-half million Purple Turtles, introduced by Dan Tilque in the August 2004 Word Ways. UX produced the fewest substitutions (41), followed by EX (47). Some are interesting, e.g. ANTHEA/VNTHEA (th is a thorn, in a quotation from c.900), while others contain at least one common English word, e.g. AURA/QURQ (Jabal Qurq Sharaf in Syria), ARENA/ZRENZ (Ayn Zrenz in Tunisia) or AERAE/VERVE (as in Aerae Christi = AD).

More Purple Turtles (Part 1), Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Dan Tilque's The Purple Turtle in the August 2004 issue demonstrated that some of the simplest ideas are often the most appealing. There are 325 possible substitutions (not 375), and Dan listed 224 of these (not 277). Extending the search to include the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (oed), etc., and locations other than US place names, I managed to fill at the gaps.

Definitive Anagrams: G-I

Word Ways

Continued from the May and November 2003 Word Ways (03-91,279). Verbs are capitalized and punctuated as if sentences unless they also work as nouns etc.

Euler Path Words, Eric Iverson

Word Ways

The 26 capital letters of the alphabet can be topologically viewed as simple networks - collections of links joined by nodes. Nodes are classified by the number of links that meet there. A well-known theorem in graph theory states that a network contains as Euler Path (a path that traverses the network, once only along each link) if and only if it has at most two nodes with an odd number of links. (This theorem was once used by Euler to prove that one could not traverse the seven bridges of Konigsberg without repeating one or more of them.)

Super Heavyweights (Part 1), Rex Gooch

Word Ways

In "A Challenge Answered" in the May 1995 Word Ways. Darryl Francis responded to a challenge of Tom Pulliam to assign words to all the numbers from 1 upwards, using the letter sum of words (A=1, B=2, etc.). He reached 250, microminiaturisation, but missed 249. In "Extending Francis" in August 1995, the editor collated responses from various contributors to fill that gap, extending the unbroken run to 354. In the February 1997 Word Ways, I gave words matching numerical palidnromes, adding 3693, 373, 383, 393, 434, 454, 474, and 484. In the august 1998 Word Ways, I gave many dense …

Roman Ways, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Wordplay based on Roman Numeral Letters (RNLs) is not new to Word Ways. Here, however, I attempt an overview of the subject, as well as introducing a variety of new RNL wordplay. As a whole, RNL wordplay can be divided conveniently into two types: non-numerical and numerical.

Kickshaws, Dave Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Balanced Word Pairs, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Given the 26 letters in the alphabet, the midpoint lies between the 13th and 14th letters, M and N, Imagine a process which can take a word and each of its letters and transform the words into a different string of letters, such that the letter A is changed to a Z, the letter B is changed to a Y, a C to an X, and so on, with M being changed to an N. Here, the midpoint of the alphabet acts like the fulcrum of balance, with the original word and the transformed string of letters pivoted equally. As …

Letters Of The Presidents, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The 37 different surnames of US presidents can be compared with each other in many different ways. This paper looks at them in one, two, and three dimensions - along a line, on a plane, and in space, showing which ones are neighbors and which ones are outliers.

Baseball-O-Grams, Universagrams, J. Patrick Lewis

Word Ways

OH, C'MON, HAPPINESS IS A championship season

SHOESTRING CATCH gosh, I can stretch!

WORLD SERIES SEATS? seats were sold, sir

NO-HITTER then riot

Triplets, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell

Word Ways

TRIPLETS is a new puzzle-game we play with the help of our four good friends S A M TORCHE, ENOS TRIMBACH, NORWICH BUMSTEAD and INA CHOWBLY DUMPSTER. Readers may remember Norwich and Ina from our article "Magic Square Magic" in the May 2000 issue of Word Ways but Sam and Enos are recent acquaintances.