We present here mid-infrared images of seven sites of water maser emission thought to be associated with the hot molecular core (HMC) phase of massive star formation. Observations were obtained at the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility 3-m, the Gemini 8-m, and Keck II 10-m telescopes. We have detected mid-infrared sources at the locations of two HMC candidates, G11.94-0.62 and G45.07-0.13. We obs...

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a widely deployed method to sample from a given high-dimensional distribution in Statistics and Machine learning. HMC is known to run very efficiently in practice and its second-order variant was conjectured to run in d1/4 steps in 1988 [8]. Here we show that this conjecture is true when sampling from strongly log-concave target distributions that satisfy weak t...

Background.  To improve clinical and public health outcomes through early human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) detection, fourth-generation antigen/antibody immunoassay (4IA) and supplemental testing results must be returned rapidly. Methods.  We examined HIV testing data at Harborview Medical Center (HMC), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC),...

Bosch, Ricardo J., Pilar Rojo-Linares, Guadalupe Torrecillas-Casamayor, M. Carmen Iglesias-Cruz, Diego Rodrı́guez-Puyol, and Manuel Rodrı́guez-Puyol. Effects of parathyroid hormone-related protein on human mesangial cells in culture. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Endocrinol. Metab. 40): E990–E995, 1999.—Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and PTHrelated protein (PTHrP) produce similar biological effects through the...

Feedlot cattle performance data from 20 trials (n = 350 pen means; representing 3,365 steers) evaluating dietary inclusion of corn wet distillers grains plus solubles (WDGS) were summarized with two meta-analyses. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of WDGS inclusion level with dry-rolled corn (DRC) or a blend of DRC and high-moisture corn (HMC) for either calf-feds or yearl...

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is an efficient and effective means of sampling posterior distributions on Euclidean space, which has been extended to manifolds with boundary. However, some applications require an extension to more general spaces. For example, phylogenetic (evolutionary) trees are defined in terms of both a discrete graph and associated continuous parameters; although one can rep...

We present a variation on the hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm that improves the sampling of phase space. This new algorithm, called Shadow Hybrid Monte Carlo (SHMC), achieves a nearly linear scalability with system size rather than O(N5/4) of HMC. We tested both methods using vacuum and solvated biological molecules. Our results show that, for example, when sampling the conformational space ...

Title of dissertation: PERFORMANCE EXPLORATION OF THE HYBRID MEMORY CUBE Paul Rosenfeld, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Bruce Jacob Department of Electrical Engineering The Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) is an emerging main memory technology that leverages advances in 3D fabrication techniques to create a memory device with several DRAM dies stacked on top of a CMOS logic layer....

The objective of these two feeding trials was to determine the associative effects of feeding steam-flaked grain sorghum (SFGS) in combination with steam-flaked (SFC), dry-rolled (DRC), or high-moisture (HMC) corn on growth performance and carcass characteristics in feedlot cattle. In Trial 1, 200 yearling heifers were blocked by weight, allotted to 25 pens, and fed one of five finishing diets ...