This report summarizes the technical work of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division (MCSD) of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. Part I (Overview) provides a high-level overview of the Division's activities, including highlights of technical accomplishments during the previous year. Part II (Features) provides further details on eight particular projects of particular note ...

Although Alain Lascoux and I never collaborated on a mathematical paper, his ideas have been a constant influence on my students’, my collaborators’ and my work ever since the appearance of the first draft of his doctoral thesis [12] His systematic use of characteristic-zero representation theory to find the resolutions of ideals generated by the minors, of any order, of generic matrices, impel...

This exploratory study focuses on an important self-regulatory factor known as regulatory pride which is a potential determinant of entrepreneurial goal-setting and career choice. I report a mixed methods study of these phenomena using a sample of 30 founder-managers. The study integrates measures of regulatory pride derived from a survey questionnaire with qualitative data about entrepreneuria...

This chapter is designed to help you refine your first draft by guiding you in developing a coherent essay. Remember that a literature review should not be written as a series of connected summaries ( or annotations) of the literature you have read. Instead, it should have a clearly stated argument, and it should be developed in such a way that all of its elements work together to communicate a...

As the reader will quickly notice, this version is not complete, and even where text is in place it is occasionally closer to notes for a first draft than a proper first draft. My apologies for that. Still, much of the general sense of the argument is in place, and the reader can get a sense of what will be presented in the eventual Part IV from the introduction. Also, the present version of Pa...

SAMUDRA RepoRt No. 72 The marine fishery of the Kerala state in India is globally wellknown for its high productivity, species diversity, skilled fishers and also, importantly, for sustaining a vibrant small-scale fishery on its once-sandy beaches. Kerala’s fishery has been a trendsetter. It hosted the world’s first development project in 1952 when Norway, India and the United Nations (UN) came...

First, hypercharacterization will be distinguished from redundancy, pleonasm and reinforcement. A set of phenomena of hypercharacterization will be reviewed and classified. The leading questions are: •= What is the function of hypercharacterization? •= What is the role of hypercharacterization in the various components of the linguistic system, in particular in inflection and word-formation? Th...

Author Contributions Paul Sowden and Andrew Pringle wrote the first draft. Liane Gabora contributed critical review and additions to the manuscript. Paul Sowden produced the final version of the submitted manuscript. Paul Sowden and Liane Gabora produced the revised manuscript for publication following peer review.

This document was written based on “very first draft” of MPEG-7 PPD (document N1923), and on some of the discussions in Fribourg and in the AHG. However, it is a personal contribution. For time reasons, we did not include the modifications to N1923 presented by Ibrahim Sezan, which synchronize it to other input documents. Modifications vs. N1923 are indicated through the Word versioning mechani...