Kaua‘i Community College (Kaua‘i CC) is presently participating in an effort to develop a space industry in Hawai‘i. This effort includes future launches of University of Hawai‘i supported micro-class satellites from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands, Kaua‘i. Kaua‘i CC’s participation is represented by operation and maintenance of a ground station, located on campus, to suppor...

We show that certain divisors of Brill-Noether and Gieseker-Petri type span extremal rays of the effective cone in the moduli space of stable genus one curves with n ordered marked points. In particular, they are different from the infinitely many extremal rays found in [CC].

Although the term Big Data has become popular, there is no general consensus about what it really means. Often, many professional data analysts would imply the process of Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) for large datasets as the connotation of Big Data. A popular description of Big Data is based on three attributes of data: volume, velocity, and variety (or 3Vs). Nevertheless, it does...

to chloride ingress is one of the most common environmental attacks that lead to the deterioration of concrete structures. Corrosion-related damage to bridge deck overlays, parking garages, marine structures, and manufacturing plants results in millions of dollars spent annually on repairs. This durability problem has received widespread attention in recent years because of its frequent occurre...

The intensity-curvature term is the concept at the root foundation of this paper. The concept entails the multiplication between the value of the image pixel intensity and the value of the classic-curvature (CC(x, y)). The CC(x, y) is the sum of all of the second order partial derivatives of the model polynomial function fitted to the image pixel. The intensity-curvature term (ICT) before inter...

Diffusion anisotropy was investigated in the developing rat brain [postnatal day (P)6-29] with the use of ion-selective microelectrodes to measure the three-dimensional distribution of tetramethylammonium (TMA+) iontophoresed into the extracellular space (ECS). The diffusion parameters, ECS volume fraction alpha (alpha = ECS volume/total tissue volume), tortuosity lambda (lambda2 = apparent dif...