1: Given the predictions of increased drought probabilities under various climate change scenarios, there have been numerous experimental field studies simulating drought using transparent roofs in different ecosystems and regions. Such roofs may, however, have unknown side effects, called artifacts, on the measured variables potentially confounding the experimental results. A roofed control al...

Narrative-centered learning environments introduce novel opportunities for supporting student problem solving and learning. By incorporating cognitive tools into plots and character roles, narrative-centered learning environments can promote self-regulated learning in a manner that is transparent to students. In order to adapt narrative plots to explicitly support effective cognitive tool-use, ...

Structural class characterizes the overall folding type of a protein or its domain. This paper develops an accurate method for in silico prediction of structural classes from low homology (twilight zone) protein sequences. The proposed LLSC-PRED method applies linear logistic regression classifier and a custom-designed, feature-based sequence representation to provide predictions. The main adva...

It is known that, theoretically, the Rees-Sciama effect may cause arbitrarily large additional redshifts in the cosmic microwave background radiation due to transparent expanding voids having sizes comparable with the size of horizon. Therefore, again theoretically, eventual huge voids existing immediately after the recombination may essentially change the predictions of the theory of big bang ...

acoustically transparent epoxy, nanocomposites for underwater sonar windows J. Adv. Mater. 41 [3] (2009) 5-17. 1 Carbon nanotube reinforced acoustically transparent epoxy nanocomposites for underwater sonar windows Wei Chen, Shankar Rajaram, Shad Thomas, Steven R. Nutt 1. Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, University of Southern CaliforniaVHE406, 3651 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90...

indium tin oxide (ito) thin films were deposited on glass substrates by rf sputtering using an ito ceramic target (in2o3-sno2, 90-10 wt. %). after deposition, samples were annealed at different temperatures in vacuum furnace. the post vacuum annealing effects on the structural, optical and electrical properties of ito films were investigated. polycrystalline ito films have been analyzed in wide...

in order to fabricate transparent tio2 nanotube dye-sensitized solar cells, anodically growth nanotube membranes are detached from ti substrate by a re-anodization method. the membranes are transferred on fto glass by two different methods. at the first one, 100mm ti-isopropoxide is used to make tio2 nanoparticles for adhering tio2 nanotube membranes to fto and in the second one a commercial ti...

This paper studies Predictive Prefetching on a Wide Area Network with two levels of caching. The WAN that we refer to is the GRNET academic network in Greece. We rely on log files collected at the network’s Transparent cache (primary caching point), located at GRNET’s edge connection to the Internet. Our prefetching model bases its predictions on popularity ranking of passed requests. We presen...

AutoDock Vina, a new program for molecular docking and virtual screening, is presented. AutoDock Vina achieves an approximately two orders of magnitude speed-up compared with the molecular docking software previously developed in our lab (AutoDock 4), while also significantly improving the accuracy of the binding mode predictions, judging by our tests on the training set used in AutoDock 4 deve...