Massachusetts Volunteers at Camp Thomas

Outbreak of Wilderness/Backcountry/Travelers’ Diarrhea at a Himalayan Base Camp at 4000 m/13,125 ft

Introduction: Wilderness or backcountry diarrhea is a type of travelers’ diarrhea commonly caused by Cryptosporidium and Giardia, which can survive freezing temperatures. Campsites pose additional risks worldwide, irrespective of developing or developed regions, due to inadequate hygiene. Methods: In a first of its kind, an outbreak of wilderness diarrhea...

The Camp at Umballa

Relativistic Thomas-fermi Model at Finite Temperatures

We briefly review the Thomas-Fermi statistical model of atoms in the classical non-relativistic formulation and in the generalised finite-nucleus relativistic formulation. We then discuss the classical generalisation of the model to finite temperatures in the non-relativistic approximation and present a new relativistic model at finite temperatures, investigating how to recover the existing the...

Macrofossils from a Late-Glacial Deposit at Cambridge, Massachusetts

Macrofossils were isolated from late-glacial sediments exposed in open section in a building excavation at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The lower portion of the profile contained leaves of three species of herbaceous plant species now generally found in arctic or alpine regions, and fragments of a water beetle belonging to a species that now occurs characteristically in regions of boreal forest. T...

Progress in Computer Vision at the University of Massachusetts 1

This report summarizes progress in image understanding research at the University of Massachusetts over the past year. Many of the individual efforts discussed in this paper are further developed in other papers in this proceedings. The summary is organized into several areas: 1. 3D Site Modeling from Aerial Views 2. Terrest Terrain Reconstruction System 3. Terrain Classification /Force Monitor...