Fiber optic Bragg gratings packaged in long gage configurations are being used to measure static and dynamic strain in structures and structural models to monitor structural health and predict damage incurred from a seismic event. These long gage sensors are being used to experimentally verify analytical models of post-earthquake evaluation based on system identification analysis. This fiber op...

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In this article, we focus on the analysis of competitive gene set methods for detecting the statistical significance of pathways from gene expression data. Our main result is to demonstrate that some of the most frequently used gene set methods, GSEA, GSEArot and GAGE, are severely influenced by the filtering of the data in a way that such an analysis is no longer reconcilable with the principl...

During 2000-2001, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Ocean Modeling and Prediction Division of the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), constructed tidal gages at the East Pearl River at CSX Railroad near Claiborne, Mississippi, at the Rigolets at CSX Railroad near Rigolets, Louisiana, and at the Chef Menteur Pass at CSX Railroad at Chef Menteur, Louisiana, to co...

Professor Stuart H. Gage Remote Environmental Assessment Laboratory Michigan State University 1405 S. Harrison Road Manly Miles Bldg. Rm 101 East Lansing, Michigan 48823 Tel: 517-355-2135 Fax: 517-355-0186 Email: [email protected] Eric P. Kasten, Ph.D. Remote Environmental Assessment Laboratory Michigan State University 1405 S. Harrison Road Manly Miles Bldg. Rm 101 East Lansing, Michigan 48823 Tel...

We present an overview of the National Institute of Standards and Technology high temperature blackbodies, both in operation and in development, suitable for heat-flux sensor calibration. Typical results of calibrations using the transfer technique in the 25 mm Variable-Temperature Blackbody are presented to demonstrate the long-term repeatability of the calibration technique. A comparative stu...

L’étude sur la surveillance électorale en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), notamment, a mis exergue l’impact de cette pratique légitimité des institutions issues élections, d’une part, et, d’autre les réformes éventuellement envisagées. Pour ce qui est légitimité, elle noté que celle-ci un gage promotion l’Etat droit.