The potential to generate deterministic descriptions of the ocean’s surface at elevated sea states using both modern observational techniques and computationally intensive, nonlinear wave models now exists. Investments in research to successfully validate and improve these techniques and models will improve the planning and execution of at-sea naval operations and further our understanding of a...

In this paper, concepts are investigated for tuning material properties and component configurations in order to design structures with unique dynamic characteristics for mitigating blast loads while maintaining or reducing weight. The Dynamic Response Index (DRI) is employed as an occupant injury metric for determining the effectiveness of the each blast mitigation configuration that is consid...

We develop a new adaptive inversion procedure: Dataadaptive Resolution Inversion (DRI) method, which eliminates the need of selecting a parameterization prior to inversion. Instead, one performs a hierarchical search for the correct parameterization while solving a sequence of inverse problems with an increasing dimension of parameterization. A parsimonious approach to inverse problems usually ...

This paper describes how to automatically extract grounding features and segment a dialogue into discourse units, once the dialogue has been annotated with the DRI backwardand forward-looking tags. Such an approach eliminates the need for separate annotation of grounding, making dialogue annotation quicker and removing a possible source of error. A preliminary test of the mapping against a huma...

background:   the  role of nutrition  in the  progression  of multiple  sclerosis (ms) and  related  complications  such  as fatigue  has been  reported by several studies.  the  aim of this  study  is the  assessment of nutritional  status  and  its relationship with fatigue in multiple sclerosis patients. methods:  this  is  a  cross-sectional study, in which  101 relapsing-remitting ms patie...

The author wishes to thank Michael Erstling for very helpful computer assistance. Nick Webb of Data Resources (DRI) provided the needed data.

Abstract. Thermal–optical analysis (TOA) is a class of methods widely used for determining organic carbon (OC) and elemental (EC) in atmospheric aerosols collected on filters. Results from TOA vary not only with differences operating protocols the analysis, but also details instrumentation which given protocol carried out. Three models analyzers have been IMPROVE_A past decade within Chemical S...