all buttons of that specific dialog box, and the fourth might refer to a specific button of that dialog box. Finally, the attribute might be a color of that button, or the font within the button. Resource settings are rarely referred to in such an exact manner for two reasons. First, the user usually wants to be able to change many resources at once, such as the font in all dialog boxes. Second...

To analyze computer systems or compare them to one another, measurements are taken as the program runs. This is called a performance trace, and it can involve large amounts of time series data. Currently, statistical tools are used for analysis but this approach loses information by ignoring the ordered nature of the data. We propose improving computer performance metrics by viewing the compute...

The scatter plot is a well-known method of visualizing pairs of two continuous variables. Scatter plots are intuitive and easy-to-use, but often have a high degree of overlap which may occlude a significant portion of the data. To analyze a dense non-uniform dataset, a recursive drill-down is required for detailed analysis. In this paper, we propose variable binned scatter plots to allow the vi...

A diverse set of direct experimental observations and theoretical considerations supports the existence of fluidity in cell membranes (1) . Several membrane-dependent functions of Escherichia coli have been shown to exhibit biphasic Arrhenius plots with transition temperatures that are determined by the degree and configuration of the unsaturation of fatty acids incorporated into the membrane p...

Environmental gradients are instrumental in shaping the distribution and local abundance of species because at the most fundamental level, an organism's performance is constrained by the environment it inhabits. In topographically complex landscapes, slope, aspect, and vegetative cover interact to affect solar exposure, creating temperature-moisture gradients and unique microclimates. The signi...

Multiple-quantile plots provide a powerful graphical method for comparing the distributions of two or more populations. This article develops a method of visualizing triple-quantile plots and their associated confidence tubes, thus extending the notion of a quantile-quantile (QQ) plot to three dimensions. More specifically, we consider three independent one-dimensional random samples with corre...