The AMBUR (Analyzing Moving Boundaries Using R) package for the R software environment provides a collection of functions for assisting with analyzing and visualizing historical shoreline change. The package allows import and export of geospatial data in ESRI shapefile format, which is compatible with most commercial and open-source GIS software. The ‘‘baseline and transect’’ method is the prim...

S. Mangin,1,2 T. Hauet,1,2 P. Fischer,3 D. H. Kim,4 J. B. Kortright,5 K. Chesnel,6 E. Arenholz,6 and Eric E. Fullerton7 1San Jose Research Center, Hitachi Global Storage Technology, San Jose, California 95120, USA 2Laboratoire de Physique des Matériaux, Nancy Université, Nancy, France F-54506 3Center for X-ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 4Depar...

Perpendicular recording—a new paradigm for high-density magnetic recording currently under intensive development— presents complex engineering challenges which require that design be assisted by computer simulation. However, simulating perpendicular recording is itself a challenge for several reasons; it requires a large simulation box that includes both write head and hard disk and must be tre...

In the area of legislative choice, social choice theorists have focused on the equilibrium properties of pure majority rule (PMR), operating according to the implicit belief that whatever is true about the PMR mechanism also applies to institutions based upon it. This view has encouraged the study of what seemed to be the general case, thereby avoiding the narrower study of special cases such a...

The Pairwise Meta-Rules (PMR) method proposed in [18] has been shown to improve the predictive performances of several metalearning algorithms for the algorithm ranking problem. Given m target objects (e.g., algorithms), the training complexity of the PMR method with respect to m is quadratic: ( m 2 ) = m × (m − 1)/2. This is usually not a problem when m is moderate, such as when ranking 20 dif...

The tunneling magnetoresistance and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in CoFeB(1.1-1.2 nm)/ MgO/CoFeB(1.2-1.7 nm) junctions were found to be very sensitively dependent on annealing time. During annealing at a given temperature, decay of magnetoresistance occurs much earlier compared to junctions with in-plane magnetic anisotropy. Through a rapid thermal annealing study, the decrease of magnetor...

Per-survivor iterative timing recovery was proposed by Kovintavewat, Barry, Erden, and Kurtas [1] to perform timing recovery, equalization, and errorcorrection decoding jointly. In this paper, we investigate the robustness of this scheme in the situation where the channel is dominated by media jitter noise. We apply the pattern-dependent noisepredictive (PDNP) technique to per-survivor iterativ...

or: Why do we see more owers in the distance? Abstract Almost all work on texture in the computer vision and graphics communities has modeled the texture as tangential, i.e. lying in the tangent plane to the surface. This is equivalent to thinking of the texture as a pattern painted on the surface. Three-dimensional textures, where the elements may point out of the surface , have largely been i...

Fungal growth inhibition on solid media has been historically measured and calculated based on the average of perpendicular diameter measurements of growth on fungicide amended media. We investigated the sensitivity of the calculated area (DA) and the measured area (MA) for assessing fungicide growth inhibition of the ascomycete, Phyllosticta citricarpa on solid media. Both the calculated, DA a...

Current-induced magnetization dynamics in Co/Cu/Co trilayer nanopillars (approximately 100 nm in diameter) have been studied experimentally at low temperatures for large applied fields perpendicular to the layers. At 4.2 K an abrupt and hysteretic increase in resistance is observed at high current densities for one polarity of the current, comparable to the giant magnetoresistance effect observ...