Choanoflagellates are the closest living relative of animals (Alegado, 2014; King, 2015; King 2016; Rokas, 2008). This has been confirmed through multiple lines of phylogenetic analyses, comparative genomics, and similarities in cell biology (Alegado, 2014; King, 2001). Previous studies of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta suggest that bacteria may have played an important role in the ea...

The vision of cyberinfrastructure is to provide “the comprehensive infrastructure needed to capitalize on dramatic advances in information technology,” in support of science and engineering applications. The development of collaboration environments based on “science portals” plays an important role in achieving this cyberinfrastructure vision. While online, discipline-specific problem solving ...

This paper combines data grid and web services techniques with information mediation and online mapping approaches to outline a scalable infrastructure for ubiquitous mapping where heterogeneous spatial data can be discovered, accessed, queried, integrated and visualized as maps on both desktop and mobile devices. The grid services infrastructure elements we describe, are being developed within...

In this paper, we take the advantages of extended superquadrics to represent and recognize the entire set of 36 geons. Extended superquadrics are novel volumetric shape models that include superquadrics as a special case. An extended superquadric model can be deformed in any direction because it extends the exponents of the superquadric model from constants to functions of the latitude and long...

In this essay, we demonstrate that in addition to the Revised Standard Version and its revisions as part of linear emergence Tyndale–King James tradition 20th 21st centuries, there are also alternative retranslations King (KJV) 1611 literal or word-for-word translations, which emerge divergent branches. The American (ASV) (1901) emerged following branches, namely New Bible (NASB) revisions, Amp...