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Statistical Downscaling Of Climate Datasets With Deep Generative Model And Bayesian Inference, Guiye Li, Guofeng Cao

I-GUIDE Forum

Facing the challenges of global climate change, precise and high spatial resolution climate data are crucial and in pressing need for scientific research and analysis. However, most existing datasets are only available with very coarse spatial resolution and demand large-scale resolution enhancement. Meanwhile, climate datasets own much more intricate textures than natural images. Statistical downscaling or super-resolution (SR) with the deep-learning-based generative model might be a promising approach to address these challenges. It is worth noting that a learned Bayesian reconstruction with generative models (L-BRGM) method was proposed recently. The proposed Bayesian deep learning framework employs a single pre-trained generative …

Identifying Invasive Species Sightings From Geoai-Validated Social Media Posts, Nathan Fox, Derek Van Berkel

I-GUIDE Forum

The spread of invasive species requires scalable monitoring techniques to help guide management and conservation strategies. Here, we explore the potential of GeoAI for the rapid validation of invasive species sightings through social media data. We utilized the Flickr API to retrieve 23,000 images from posts that contained the names of 72 invasive species across various taxonomic categories within the contiguous USA. Then using BioCLIP, a computer vision model capable of identifying over 450,000 species, we assessed whether these posts genuinely contained the species that the user tagged. Results varied, with some species like the European Starling showing high match …

Remembering And Forgetting: National Identity Construction In Tolkien’S Middle-Earth, Sara Brown

Journal of Tolkien Research

The medieval period in Europe saw the development of vernacular literatures, grown out of oral tradition and classical mythology, in which epic poems were a means of preserving culture, sharing a moral code, and offering solace in times of hardship. These epic poems, usually transcribed or translated in monastic scriptoria, were passed down through generations and enabled the sharing of memory via storytelling. In many ways, this early literature, rooted as it was in both the religious and the secular aspects of life in this time, was as much a part of the identity of the various European peoples as …

Tolkien's 'Beloved' _Pearl_, Jane Beal Phd

Journal of Tolkien Research

Abstract: This essay explores Tolkien’s life-long engagement with the fourteenth-century, Middle English, dream vision poem called Pearl. It examines the inspiration he took from the poem through reading, reciting, copying, editing, translating, and teaching it to undergraduate students at the University of Leeds and Merton College, Oxford University. Milestones in Tolkien’s work on Pearl include his edition of it, produced with E.V. Gordon and Ida Gordon for Oxford University Press (1953), and a metrical translation of it that he worked on from 1920s onwards, which was published with Allen & Unwin in London and Random House in New York …

Tolkien’S _Beowulf_-Poet And His Dantean Tower, Michael David Elam

Journal of Tolkien Research

J.R.R. Tolkien’s tower metaphor in “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” shows significant affinities with views of the sea presented in Dante’s Purgatorio. These affinities combine with relevant similarities between Dante and Tolkien’s view of the Beowulf-poet to show an underlying preoccupation Tolkien has about the purgation of source material and the sanctification of authors. Ultimately in Tolkien’s perspective, the Beowulf-poet’s view from the top of his tower looks ahead to the hope of eternal life promised to the Chrisitan elect.

Tolkien And Laʒamon, Deidre Dawson

Journal of Tolkien Research

In this essay I argue that the Arthurian poem that had the greatest influence on The Lord of the Rings was Laʒamon’s Brut. In a Letter to editor Milton Waldman from 1951 Tolkien expressed his regret that England lacked a mythology and stories of its own that were “bound up with its tongue and soil, ” explaining that the Arthurian world was “associated with the soil of Britain but not with English,” and that “its ‘faerie’ is too lavish, and fantastical, incoherent and repetitive.” Perhaps to rectify these deficiencies in the Matter of Britain, Tolkien began writing his own …

Elwing And The Isle Of Seabirds: Tolkien's Towers And The Lais Of Marie De France, Kristine Larsen

Journal of Tolkien Research

During the late 1920s-1930s, J.R.R. Tolkien was engaged in writing numerous poetic lays, many of which he never completed. At the same time, he was engaging in a series of revisions of his grand mythology of Middle-earth, the tales which were posthumously published as The Silmarillion. As he was working on these various projects simultaneously or serially, we should not be surprised to see repeated themes, motifs, and tropes. I argue that among these are several of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) folktale types, especially 432, a version of the Woman Imprisoned in the Tower (Rapunzel) trope termed The …

“‘And Númenor Went Down Into The Sea’: Tolkien, Beowulf, And The Masochistic Jouissance Of Westernesse”, Christopher Vaccaro

Journal of Tolkien Research

In Tolkien, Enchantment and Loss, John Rosegrant avers that Tolkien wrote of the downfall and destruction of Númenor in order to release a personal emotional complex (John Rosegrant, Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss, 118-20). In this essay, I examine in greater detail the emotional power of this story and relate it to the psychological notion of primary masochism (Freud, Deleuze, Bersani) and the pleasures connected to the dissolution of the self. The Beowulf poem renders conspicuous the dependency of heroic Anglo-Saxon male subjectivity on experiences of masochistic desire and the Death Drive, the desire to be unburdened of great …

Tolkien, "The Battle Of Maldon," And "The Homecoming Of Beorhtnoth": Poetic Allusions And The Experience Of Time, Anna Smol

Journal of Tolkien Research

J.R.R. Tolkien’s alliterative verse play, “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’ s Son,” is his critical and creative response to the Old English poem “The Battle of Maldon.” Tracing his influence on “Maldon” criticism through his “Ofermod” essay, which posits a continuum of alliterative poems dealing with the nature of heroism, from Beowulf to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the discussion then turns to how Tolkien can claim a place in that tradition and how critics have applied his ideas about war and heroism to some of his other works, especially The Lord of the Rings. An analysis …

Introduction To The Special Issue On "J.R.R. Tolkien And Medieval Poets", Jane Beal Phd

Journal of Tolkien Research

This is an “Introduction” by Dr. Jane Beal to the Special Issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research on the theme of “J.R.R. Tolkien and Medieval Poets” in honor of Richard C. West.

It begins with an overview of previous scholarly work on the intersections of medieval poetry with Tolkien’s literary corpus. It explains the process of creating this special issue, which is a festschrift in West’s honor, and it gives an overview of the contents of each of the seven academic articles included in it by contributors Dr. Anna Smol, Dr. Christopher Vaccaro, Dr. Kristine Larsen, Dr. Deidre Dawson, …

Earl Mcmullins

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Izola B. Graham

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Hull Treatment Device, Morten Vejlgaard-Laursen, Gareth Michael Prowse

Defensive Publications Series

A hull treatment device includes a propulsion system for moving the hull treatment device relative to a hull, an emitter for emitting ultra-violet radiation, and a controller configured to control the emitter to irradiate a portion of the hull with the ultra-violet radiation.

Programmable Opportunistic Multicast/Unicast Arbitration, Na

Defensive Publications Series

Traffic management between unicast and multicast traffic in a network can be difficult to optimize because multicast traffic can easily flood the network and starve unicast traffic (and vice versa). This disclosure describes a programmable opportunistic arbiter that enables tuning of the arbitration policy between multicast and unicast traffic. The ratio of unicast to multicast traffic is optimized to find a suitable balance that satisfies the constraints of system requirements and results in an optimal performance. At one extreme, the arbiter can be programmed to convert all multicast packets to act like unicast packets, and, at the other extreme, the …

Cold Plate Surface That Adapts To Warpage Of Chip Surface, Na

Defensive Publications Series

Warpage of chip surface can negatively affect thermal performance by forcing a larger than optimal bond line thickness when matched up against a flat cold plate. The dynamic nature of the warpage of the chip surface at different operating temperatures poses a challenge. This disclosure describes a cold plate that includes a fin plate and fins that can dynamically adjust to the warpage of a chip surface. The cold plate is designed such that the warpage of the chip surface is matched by a corresponding adjustment of the geometry of the cold plate. This ensures a uniform thermal interface between …

Compression Of Large Language Model (Llm) Weights Via Tensor Decomposition, Na

Defensive Publications Series

The performance and throughput of machine learning (ML) models such as transformers, large language models (LLM), etc. is limited by the bandwidth of high-bandwidth memories (HBM). This disclosure describes tensor decomposition techniques that leverage the sparsity of tensors and optimize their quantization to reduce memory and bandwidth requirements during ML model operation. Low-rank matrices used in transformers are decomposed into n-dimensional vector sums. The design space and ML serving accuracy inform the hardware-software codesign and acceleration parameters. Advantageously, hardware-accelerated model training can be done when the model weights are in a compressed (tensor is in a rank-decomposed state), eliminating …

Thermal Management Solution For Multi Chip Packages, Na

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques for effective thermal management in multi chip packages. Per techniques of this disclosure, individual thermal assemblies are soldered or attached using other high reliability techniques to each chiplet in a multi chip package. Additional heat channeling features such as copper plunges are provided that can aid in the spreading or the rapid removal of heat from expected hot spots of the chiplets. Micro machined modular cold plates can be utilized as the heat sinks. The heat sinks (cooling structures) are designed based on the die size of the chiplets and are directly attached to these chiplets …

Digital Map Region Selection For Effective Location-Based Filtering And Insight, Manasa Babu

Defensive Publications Series

While digital maps support interaction via pinch and zoom operations, such operations expand the region based on a fixed radius and does not take into account factors like region boundaries, or region peculiarities such as presence/absence of points of interest in the region. Selecting a particular region near a point of interest and performing searches within the selected region is also difficult. This disclosure describes intuitive user interaction techniques that enable users to select regions of interest within digital maps corresponding to a location hierarchy based on geographical context and nuance. Specifically, an outward drag gesture from a point of …

Generating Images With Precise Local Image Feature By Fine-Tuning Image Generation Models Using Domain-Specific Embedding, Alan Yang, Ira Kemelmacher Shlizerman, Yingwei Li, Hao Peng

Defensive Publications Series

While image generation machine learning models are capable of generating images responsive to text and/or image prompts, it is difficult to precisely control local image features of the generated images. High-level features such as color, shape, etc. can be controlled via input prompts, but using a deeper, more precise text description often does not lead to output images that capture details of the text description. In domain-specific use cases, e.g., garment try-on, this limitation means that output images do not match the requested detail in a query. This disclosure describes techniques to generate images that match an input query such …

Dynamic Personalized Pricing, Na

Defensive Publications Series

Different customers may have different levels of interest and willingness to pay for an item for sale. Items for sale may be rare or limited edition or otherwise limited in quantity, may expire after a certain time, and may be differentiated along some dimensions. While dynamic pricing enables sellers to capture greater sales and buyers to get deals, such pricing is based demand and supply, such as surge pricing, time-sensitive pricing, etc. and is not personalized. This disclosure describes techniques that vary the price of an item based on a potential customer’s interest in the item. With user permission, user …

Proactive Prompting For Messaging Or Location Sharing Via Satellite Communication, Na

Defensive Publications Series

Due to its limited bandwidth and high cost per packet, satellite communication over mobile devices is used as a last resort for emergency communications when there is no cellular or Wi-Fi coverage. Currently, users need to predefine (preset) the contacts with whom they want emergency messages or location information to be shared. However, a user may not be aware of the requirement to predefine their emergency contacts or may forget to do so. A user that has not configured a preset emergency contact list may be unable to utilize the satellite communication facility to send out messages. This disclosure describes …

The Impact Student Engagement Has On Academic Achievement, Kara Weiland

Graduate Teacher Education

This paper reviewed how student engagement impacts academic achievement in a classroom setting. The concept of engagement is complex and includes the student’s focus, interest, and active involvement in their learning. The research examined fifteen peer-reviewed quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method studies. Three common themes were identified throughout the study's investigation. The first theme uncovered was the importance of the student-teacher relationship and its role in developing student engagement in a classroom setting. The next theme investigated was how the parents’ engagement influenced students' engagement in their learning, thus leading to academic achievement. The third theme found in the research examined …

Pursuing Curiosity And Asking Questions, Emily Metcalf

Videos/Slide Decks

A slide deck used in a WRT 120 class taught in a low-tech setting. The purpose of the lesson was to convey the importance of asking helpful questions and of researching one's own interests. This lesson took approximately 60 minutes in a 75 minute session and students left with several dozen questions that will, ideally, help them with crafting their seed texts and future essays.

Phosphorylation-Driven Epichaperome Assembly Is A Regulator Of Cellular Adaptability And Proliferation., Tanaya Roychowdhury, Seth W Mcnutt, Chiranjeevi Pasala, Hieu Nguyen, Daniel T Thornton, Sahil Sharma, Luke Botticelli, Chander S Digwal, Suhasini Joshi, Nan Yang, Palak Panchal, Souparna Chakrabarty, Sadik Bay, Vladimir Markov, Charlene Kwong, Jeanine Lisanti, Sun Young Chung, Stephen D Ginsberg, Pengrong Yan, Elisa De Stanchina, Adriana Corben, Shanu Modi, Mary Alpaugh, Giorgio Colombo, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Thomas A Neubert, Robert J Chalkley, Peter R Baker, Alma L Burlingame, Anna Rodina, Gabriela Chiosis, Feixia Chu

College of Science & Mathematics Departmental Research

The intricate network of protein-chaperone interactions is crucial for maintaining cellular function. Recent discoveries have unveiled the existence of specialized chaperone assemblies, known as epichaperomes, which serve as scaffolding platforms that orchestrate the reconfiguration of protein-protein interaction networks, thereby enhancing cellular adaptability and proliferation. This study explores the structural and regulatory aspects of epichaperomes, with a particular focus on the role of post-translational modifications (PTMs) in their formation and function. A key finding is the identification of specific PTMs on HSP90, particularly at residues Ser226 and Ser255 within an intrinsically disordered region, as critical determinants of epichaperome assembly. Our data …

Churches - African American (Sc 3736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3736. Racist parody of announcements purporting to be from an African American church, written in dialect and describing activities for Easter and other planned meetings. The typewritten text likely dates from the early 20th century and was found in the textbook of a Bowling Green, Kentucky student.

Pediatric Cardiac Xenotransplantation And Expanded Access: Ethical Considerations, Daniel J Hurst, Christopher Bobier, Anthony Merlocco, Luz A Padilla, Daniel Rodger, David Cleveland, John D Cleveland

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

Due to the current organ shortage waitlist, alternatives to allotransplantation are necessary. Xenotransplantation is currently being pursued as one such alternative in adults in need of kidney or heart transplantation. Cardiac xenotransplantation of genetically modified pig hearts has been conducted twice in adults under the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded access criteria. Because of the shortage of transplantable hearts for children as well as the lack of mechanical circulatory support in this population, pediatric researchers are exploring FDA expanded access in high-risk neonates and infants who lack alternative options for survival. The adult cardiac xenotransplantation experience with …

Undergraduate Data Literacy In Engineering: A Collaborative Approach, Amber Gruszeczka, Nicole Galloway

Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations

Data literacy is increasingly crucial to research across disciplines, and librarians are diversifying their skills to encourage students’ self-reliance when interacting with data. Two librarians discuss a collaboration across library departments to design instruction and materials to bring the fundamentals of data literacy to a freshman engineering course.

Spartan Daily, October 16, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 163, Issue 23

There's A Map For That: Showcasing Alternate Study Spaces During A Library Renovation, Kristen S. Shuyler, Emily D. Blake

Libraries

Before JMU's Carrier Library closed for renovation and expansion, the library's Communications & Outreach team created a new map to promote alternate study spaces in over 30 buildings across campus.

Commonwealth Times 2024-10-16

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.