Outstanding Iowa Storms

Outstanding paper prize 2008.

Outstanding Challenges in OLAP

The core challenges associated with enterprise OLAP are how to structure the database and how to build a decision support architecture that allows for complex analysis and qualification. The primary components of an OLAP system – the database and the analysis engine – must be capable of handling large amounts of data in varying structures. Warehouses will continue to grow and contain data that ...

Outstanding bile pigment problems.

In this review of the chemistry, biochemistry and chemical pathology of the bile pigments I am well aware that I shall ask many more questions than I am able to answer. It seems appropriate that the subject should be considered under the five headings: -Chemistry; Formation from Haem Proteins; Transport in the Blood; Conjugation and Transport to the Bile; and Changes in the Gut. I shall conclud...

Outstanding in the Field

Land acquisition and ownership is an important part of modern agriculture in North America. Given the unique nature of farmland as a good, this paper develops a multi-agent simulation of farmland auction markets in a Canadian context. The model is used to generate data on land transactions between farm agents to determine if a particular auction design or type is better suited to farmland trans...

Severe Local Storms

Knowledge of severe local storms has been increasing rapidly in recent years as a result of both observational studies and numerical modeling experiments. This paper reviews that knowledge as it relates to development of new applications for forecasting of severe local storms. Many of these new applications are based on physical understanding of processes taking place on the storm scale and thu...