Understanding how information spreads throughout a population can help public health officials improve how they communicate with the public in emergency situations. In this project, I implement a fast, memory-efficient agent-based information diffusion model inspired by the Bass model. I compare my discrete-time simulation to a traditional differential-equation version of the Bass model. Finall...

Physical and biological properties of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) region may influence retention and survival of anadromous white perch (Morone americana) and striped bass larvae (Morone saxatilis). To evaluate this hypothesis we collected data in five cruises, three during May 1998 and two during May 1999, in upper Chesapeake Bay. Time series of freshwater discharge, w...

Wadeable streams in Mississippi do not garner the attention of most anglers or fishery managers; consequently, these streams hold an unmanaged recreational fishery. However, they can support quality sizes and abundances of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus), and sunfishes. We used the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Wadeable Stream Assessment ...

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Following Bass–Milnor–Serre, we prove that SLn(Z) has the congruence subgroup property for n ≥ 3. This was originally proved by Mennicke and Bass–Lazard–Serre. Let Γn = SLn(Z). The congruence subgroup problem for Γn (solved independently by Mennicke [Me] and Bass–Lazard–Serre [BLS]) seeks to classify all finite-index subgroups of Γn. For l ≥ 2, the level l principal congruence subgroup of Γn, d...

In the course of the WedelMusic project [15], we are currently implementing retrieval engines based on musical content automatically extracted from a musical score. By musical content, we mean not only main melodic motives, but also harmony, or tonality. In this paper, we first review previous research in the domain of harmonic analysis of tonal music. We then present a method for automated har...

A cost-effective b[combining low line]a[combining low line]ttery-powered s[combining low line]pectrophotometric s[combining low line]ystem (BASS) was developed for quantitative point-of-care (POC) analysis on a microfluidic chip. By using methylene blue as a model analyte, we first compared the performance of the BASS with a commercial spectrophotometric system, and further applied the BASS for...

This paper describes a robust method for estimating the fundamental frequency (F0) of melody and bass lines in monaural realworld musical audio signals containing sounds of various instruments. Most previous F0-estimation methods had great difficulty dealing with such complex audio signals because they were designed to deal with mixtures of only a few sounds. To make it possible to estimate the...

We consider the diffusion of new products in social networks, where consumers who adopt the product can later “recover” and stop influencing others to adopt the product. We show that the diffusion is not described by the SIR model, but rather by a novel model, the Bass-SIR model, which combines the Bass model for diffusion of new products with the SIR model for epidemics. The phase transition o...

In this paper, we compare two approaches for automatic classification of bass playing styles, one based on highlevel features and another one based on similarity measures between bass patterns. For both approaches, we compare two different strategies: classification of patterns as a whole and classification of all measures of a pattern with a subsequent accumulation of the classification result...