Detection of faults is a continuing need in all manufacturing processes. This need is more pronounced in new manufacturing processes where continual product improvement is desired. In this paper, a systematic approach is developed for addressing this need. Contemporary experimental and surface analysis techniques provide a basis for incrementally diagnosing the fault mechanisms leading to surfa...

Sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) is an endemic problem in UN peacekeeping missions. It is not only a gross human rights violation, but also threatens to challenge the legitimacy of the peacekeeping mission, poses a health problem, and undermines the promotion of gender equality in host countries. We examine if the composition of peacekeeping forces along two dimensions—the proportion of wome...

The SIS community has made progress recently toward evaluating SLS systems that deal with dialogue, but there is still considerable work that needs to be done in this area. Our goal is to develop incremental ways to evaluate dialogue processing, not just going from Class D1 (dialogue pairs) to Class D2 (dialogue triples), but measuring aspects of dialogue processing other than length. We presen...

Spoken language systems (SLSs) for accessing information sources or services through the telephone network and the Internet are currently being trialed and deployed for a variety of tasks. Evaluating the usability of different interface designs requires a method for comparing performance of different versions of the SLS. Recently, Walker et al (1997) proposed PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue Sys...

The Scientific Leadership Scholars (SLS) Program is an NSF S-STEM sponsored scholarship for financially and academically eligible students in Computer Science, Environmental Resources Engineering and Mathematics at Humboldt State University. The scholarship has sponsored 57 students in these majors over the past 4 years. Of these students, 54% were underrepresented minorities and 70% were under...

Focusing on four-Higgs interactions, we analyse the robustness of tree-level-derived positivity bounds Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) operators under quantum corrections. Among other results, demonstrate that: (i) Even in simplest extensions Model, e.g. with one new scalar singlet or a neutral triplet, some are strictly violated; (ii) mixing dimension-eight renormalisation, which...