Analysis and Re-configuration of Decision Logic in Adaptive and Data-Intensive Processes (Short Paper)

The unusual title of this short paper and its accompanying tutorial is deliberate, because the intent is to investigate the effectiveness of low temperature microscopy and analysis as one of the more significant elements of the less interventionist procedures we can use to prepare, examine and analyse hydrated and organic materials in high energy beam instruments. The promises offered by all these procedures are well rehearsed and the litany of petitions and responses may be enunciated in the following mantra.Vitrified water can form the perfect embedding medium for bio-organic samples.Frozen samples provide an important, but not exclusive, milieu for the in situ sub-cellular analysis of the dissolved ions and electrolytes whose activities are central to living processes.The rapid conversion of liquids to solids provides a means of arresting dynamic processes and permits resolution of the time resolved interactions between water and suspended and dissolved materials.The low temperature environment necessary for cryomicroscopy and analysis, diminish, but alas do not prevent, the deleterious side effects of ionizing radiation.Sample contamination is virtually eliminated.

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The bounds of the distributed data-intensive computing systems

Pollack Periodica ◽

10.1556/pollack.2.2007.s.8 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 2 (Supplement 1) ◽

pp. 85-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Antal Buza

Keyword(s):

Distributed Data ◽

Data Intensive Computing ◽

Computing Systems ◽

Data Intensive

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Frontiers in Complex Dynamics

10.23943/princeton/9780691159294.001.0001 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Araceli Bonifant ◽

Misha Lyubich ◽

Scott Sutherland

Keyword(s):

Historical Perspective ◽

Complex Dynamics ◽

Short Paper ◽

Combinatorial Group Theory ◽

Entropy Theory ◽

Holomorphic Dynamics ◽

Eightieth Birthday ◽

Several Variables ◽

Fields Medal ◽

Combinatorial Group

John Milnor, best known for his work in differential topology, K-theory, and dynamical systems, is one of only three mathematicians to have won the Fields medal, the Abel prize, and the Wolf prize, and is the only one to have received all three of the Leroy P. Steele prizes. In honor of his eightieth birthday, this book gathers together surveys and papers inspired by Milnor's work, from distinguished experts examining not only holomorphic dynamics in one and several variables, but also differential geometry, entropy theory, and combinatorial group theory. The book contains the last paper written by William Thurston, as well as a short paper by John Milnor himself. Introductory sections put the papers in mathematical and historical perspective, color figures are included, and an index facilitates browsing.

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Social Attitudes and Empathy in the Weather Enterprise

10.31234/osf.io/43jbd ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew J. Bolton

Keyword(s):

Social Attitudes ◽

Short Paper

A short paper on social attitudes in the American weather enterprise, accepted for publication in the July 2018 newsletter of the National Weather Association.

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An Expert Ranked List of Pro-nature Conservation Behaviours for Public Use

10.31234/osf.io/bzmsv ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lea Barbett ◽

Edward Stupple ◽

Michael Sweet ◽

Miles Richardson

Keyword(s):

Nature Conservation ◽

General Population ◽

Mass Extinction ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Ecological Impact ◽

Human Action ◽

Short Paper ◽

The Public ◽

The Uk ◽

Ranked List

The planet is facing an anthropogenic mass extinction of wildlife, which will have a grave impact on the environment and humans. Widespread human action is needed to minimize the negative impact of humans on biodiversity and support the restoration of wildlife. In order to find effective ways to promote pro-nature conservation behaviours to the general population, there is a need to provide a list of behaviours which will have worthwhile ecological impact and are worth encouraging. In a novel collaboration between psychologists and ecologists, 70 experts from practical and academic conservation backgrounds were asked to review and rate 48 conservation related behaviours. According to their judgement, this short paper presents a ranked list of pro-nature conservation behaviours for the public in the UK and similar landscapes. This includes behaviours people can engage in in their homes, their gardens, on their land, and in their roles as citizens.

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CSO Modelling Considering Moving Storms and Tipping Bucket Gauge Failures

Water Practice & Technology ◽

10.2166/wpt.2007.024 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M. Hochedlinger ◽

W. Sprung ◽

H. Kainz ◽

K. König

Keyword(s):

Hydrological Models ◽

Rain Intensity ◽

Hydrodynamic Models ◽

Data Intensive ◽

Storm Flow ◽

Cell Velocity ◽

Combined Sewer ◽

Moving Direction ◽

The Difference

The simulation of combined sewer overflow volumes and loads is important for the assessment of the overflow and overflow load to the receiving water to predict the hydraulic or the pollution impact. Hydrodynamic models are very data-intensive and time-consuming for long-term quality modelling. Hence, for long-term modelling, hydrological models are used to predict the storm flow in a fast way. However, in most cases, a constant rain intensity is used as load for the simulation, but in practice even for small catchments rain occurs in rain cells, which are not constant over the whole catchment area. This paper presents the results of quality modelling considering moving storms depending on the rain cell velocity and its moving direction. Additionally, tipping bucket gauge failures and different corrections are also taken into account. The results evidence the importance of these considerations for precipitation due the effects on overflow load and show the difference up to 28% of corrected and uncorrected data and of moving rain cells instead of constant raining intensities.

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Enhancing the use of Object Based Contents Addressable Storage

Computing Trendz - The Journal of Emerging Trends in Information Technology ◽

10.21844/cttjetit.v6i1.6697 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Simab Hasan Rizvi

Keyword(s):

File System ◽

Application Performance ◽

Shared Storage ◽

Data Intensive ◽

Network Bandwidth ◽

Storage Performance ◽

Efficient Management ◽

Object Based ◽

Data Volume ◽

Potential Benefits

In Today's age of Tetra Scale computing, the application has become more data intensive than ever. The increased data volume from applications, in now tackling larger and larger problems, and has fuelled the need for efficient management of this data. In this paper, a technique called Content Addressable Storage or CAS, for managing large volume of data is evaluated. This evaluation focuses on the benefits and demerits of using CAS it focuses, i) improved application performance via lockless and lightweight synchronization ofaccess to shared storage data, ii) improved cache performance, iii) increase in storage capacity and, iv) increase network bandwidth. The presented design of a CAS-Based file store significantly improves the storage performance that provides lightweight lock less user defined consistency semantics. As a result, this file system shows a 28% increase in read bandwidth and 13% increase in write bandwidth, over a popular file system in common use. In this paper the potential benefits of using CAS for a virtual machine are estimated. The study also explains mobility application for active use and public deployment.

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