Research on the systems side of Computer Science straddles the line between science and engineering. Both aspects are important, so neither side should be ignored in favor of the other. In my research, I have sought to discover the underlying nature of the mechanisms responsible for a given behavior. Using this understanding, I could create a simple model of the process whose underlying science...

Alpine grazing reduces blazing’ is a widely and strongly held view concerning the effects of livestock grazing on fuels, and therefore fire behaviour and impact, in Australia’s high country landscapes. As a test of this hypothesis, we examined the patterns of burning across the alpine (treeless) landscapes of the Bogong High Plains in Victoria, following the extensive fires of January 2003. Dat...

BACKGROUND Species movement responses to landscape structures have been studied using a variety of methods, but movement research is still in need of simple methods that help predicting and comparing movements across structurally different landscapes. We demonstrate how habitat-specific movement models can be used to disentangle causes of differentiated movement patterns in structurally differe...

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Zahra Jehan Iqbal, MD, Long Cao, MD, Karl Chiang, MD, Sundeep Adusumalli, MD, Farah Khalid, BA, Rajasekhar Nekkanti, MD From the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Heath Sciences and Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, Department of Cardiology, Division of Heath Sciences and Brody School of Medicine East Carolina University, Greenville, Nort...

In this report we discuss the design of cross-directional controllers which are guaranteed to be robustly stabilizing while incorporating a quadratic programme for steady state performance. The report is loosely based on the technical report of Akkermans (2003) who proposes using the multivariable circle criterion to guarantee closed-loop stability of cross-directional controllers in the presen...

BACKGROUND People with poor OHL have the highest level of oral diseases and the worst oral treatment results. The main aim of the present study was to investigate the degree of knowledge of the role of the dental hygienist in patients who go to a public dental facility for the first time. MATERIAL AND METHODS A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to the patients with the "face-to-f...

Critics of mass culture often identify 1950s-style status competition as one of the central forces driving consumerism. Thomas Frank has challenged this view, arguing that countercultural rebellion now provides the primary source of consumerism in our society, and that ‘cool’ has become its central ideological expression. This paper provides a rearticulation and defense of Frank’s thesis, first...

f(xj) = p(xj), j = 1, . . . , n. This is sometimes called Lagrange interpolation to distinguish it from Hermite interpolation, see below. For the basics, see Chapter 7 in Heath. As in Heath, we let Pn be the (function) space of polynomials of degree at most n. We let C([a, b]) denote the set of continuous functions on the interval [a, b]. Similarly, we let C([a, b]) be the n times continuously ...