580 research outputs found
Morrill Hall
No full textOverall view, south end and facade facing Arts Quad; Morrill Hall was named after Sen. Justin Morrill of Vermont, author of the Land Grant Act of 1862. It was opened on October 7, 1868 and cost $70,111. The Second Empire French structure was divided into three sections to represent the three original functions of the building. The center section contained classrooms, a library, and a large auditorium, while the north section contained student residences arranged in suites and the south side professors' and the President's offices. An interesting historical note is that these three sections were not interconnected within the building itself until much later, so movement from section to section required going outside of the building. The building was originally named South University Building, and is made of bluestone quarried from the base of Libe Slope. Along with White Hall and McGraw Hall, it reveals the original plan to have the University face the valley and western slopes of Ithaca. Cyrus Kinne Porter (1828-January 30, 1910) was a prominent architect in Buffalo, New York. In 1865 Porter moved to Buffalo, entering into partnership with H. M. Wilcox as Wilcox & Porter. Source: Cornell University [website]; http://www.cornell.edu/ (accessed 4/21/2011
The development and application of pyrosequencing assays to determine antiviral susceptibility of Influenza A to neuraminidase inhibitors.
No full textInfluenza A can result in complicated disease and death in high risk individuals, and can be treated with the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir and zanamivir. During the 2007-2008 season a rise in oseltamivir resistance in H1N1 viruses was observed worldwide. This resistance was caused by a point mutation in the neuraminidase gene segment at position 274 causing an amino acid change from histidine to tyrosine. Other point mutations have also been observed conferring resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors in H1N1 and H3N2 viruses, such as D151, E119V, R292K and N294S. Assays for the detection of resistance to the neuraminidase inhibitors have been well documented, the most novel being pyrosequencing. The aim of this study was to optimise pyrosequencing assays for routine use in a diagnostic laboratory. Once optimisation and validation were achieved using reference strains of influenza A, clinical validation was performed on influenza A isolates collected during the 2008-2009 season. Optimisation and clinical validation of a SNP pyrosequencing assay for the detection of the H274Y mutation in H1N1pdm09 isolates was also performed on isolates collected during the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 seasons. Routine diagnostic assays were optimised for the H274Y mutation in pre 2009 H1N1 viruses and H1N1pdm09 viruses, and for the E119V mutation in H3N2 viruses. Only SQA assays were able to be optimised for the D151, R292K and N294S mutations in H3N2 viruses. Clinical validation showed that all seasonal H1N1 viruses isolated before April 2009 possessed the H274Y mutation at nearly 100%. The E119V mutation was detected in nearly 50% of H3N2 samples tested at varying levels from 1% to 31%. The D151, R292K and N294S mutations were not detected in any of the samples and the majority of the H1N1pdm09 samples contained a low level (1-10%) of H274Y mutation in the viral quasi-species
What did you do today?: discovering daily routines from large-scale mobile data
No full textWe present a framework built from two Hierarchical Bayesian topic models to discover human location-driven routines from mobile phones. The framework uses location-driven bag representations of people's daily activities obtained from celltower connections. Using 68 000+ hours of real-life human data from the Reality Mining dataset, we successfully discover various types of routines. The first studied model, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), automatically discovers characteristic routines for all individuals in the study, including "going to work at 10am", "leaving work at night", or "staying home for the entire evening". In contrast, the second methodology with the Author Topic model (ATM) finds routines characteristic of a selected groups of users, such as "being at home in the mornings and evenings while being out in the afternoon", and ranks users by their probability of conforming to certain daily routines.</p
Wilcox, Milton Charles (1853–1935)
No full textMilton C. Wilcox devoted more than fifty years to the Adventist cause, most of them as an author and editor of books and periodicals, most notably, Signs of the Times (1891-1913).https://research.avondale.edu.au/esda/1543/thumbnail.jp
A Polygraph-Assisted Psychological Assessment of Risk of Sexual Harm Posed by a Priest
No full text"This paper provides a case example of how the polygraph can assist in achieving enhanced
levels of disclosure when assessing a priest in relation to reported concerns
about sexual risk. In the present case, the polygraph is used in combination with other
tools employed to produce a comprehensive forensic psychological evaluation of a cleric
for safeguarding purposes ( Jack and Wilcox, 2018). Th e author considers that the
case study is a helpful medium for describing the utility of the polygraph as an adjunctive
tool in risk assessments (Wilcox and Buschman, 2011; Wilcox, Foss, and Donathy,
2005; Wilcox, O’Keefe, and Oliver, 2009)."(...
Discovering routines from large-scale human locations using probabilistic topic models
No full textIn this work, we discover the daily location-driven routines that are contained in a massive real-life human dataset collected by mobile phones. Our goal is the discovery and analysis of human routines that characterize both individual and group behaviors in terms of location patterns. We develop an unsupervised methodology based on two differing probabilistic topic models and apply them to the daily life of 97 mobile phone users over a 16-month period to achieve these goals. Topic models are probabilistic generative models for documents that identify the latent structure that underlies a set of words. Routines dominating the entire group's activities, identified with a methodology based on the Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic model, include “going to work late”, “going home early”, “working nonstop” and “having no reception (phone off)” at different times over varying time-intervals. We also detect routines which are characteristic of users, with a methodology based on the Author-Topic model. With the routines discovered, and the two methods of characterizing days and users, we can then perform various tasks. We use the routines discovered to determine behavioral patterns of users and groups of users. For example, we can find individuals that display specific daily routines, such as “going to work early” or “turning off the mobile (or having no reception) in the evenings”. We are also able to characterize daily patterns by determining the topic structure of days in addition to determining whether certain routines occur dominantly on weekends or weekdays. Furthermore, the routines discovered can be used to rank users or find subgroups of users who display certain routines. We can also characterize users based on their entropy. We compare our method to one based on clustering using K-means. Finally, we analyze an individual's routines over time to determine regions with high variations, which may correspond to specific events
Revolutionary Bodies: Dance and China's Socialist Legacy
No full textRevolutionary Bodies is the first English-language primary source–based history of concert dance in the People’s Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, Emily Wilcox analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China’s dance field. The digital edition of this title includes nineteen embedded videos of selected dance works discussed by the author
Re-conceptualizing the Bible Belt : Southern spirituality in the novels of James Wilcox.
No full textThe following paper is a discussion of religions themes in the novels of James Wilcox, a contemporary Southern author. Through closely examining four of Wilcox\u27s nine novels (along with excerpts from a few others), this project explores the ways in which Wilcox displays the postmodern state of contemporary Southern culture and its effects upon the religious climate of this region. Incorporating a number of literary and religious scholars, in addition to observing some of the ties between Wilcox and Flannery O\u27Connor, this thesis serves as both an introduction to an author who has not received a great deal of scholarly attention and an investigation of his notions of contemporary Southern Christianity and the ever-changing identity of the Bible Belt region
Assessment of Wilcox k - w turbulence model in regions of shock-wave turbulent boundary-layer interaction
No full textTurbulence models require constant research and development due to the nature of the models themselves. This thesis investigates the fidelity of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) based 2006 Wilcox k - w turbulence model. The commercial flow solver GASPex is utilized for simulations, along with MATLAB for grid generation and Tecplot for post-processing. Associated results obtained are subsequently compared to an experimental study done by CUBRC in 2014. In this study, CUBRC ran a series of supersonic flow experiments on multiple physical configurations. The data obtained from these experiments include surface pressure and surface heat transfer values in regions of shock-wave turbulent boundary-layer interaction (SBLI). The purpose of the study was to document this data for further blind code validation studies. This thesis focuses on the results obtained for the large cone flare configuration. Ten runs were completed on the large cone flare, where six of the ten runs were simulated for comparison. Corresponding Mach numbers for the experiment range from 5 to 8. A grid convergence study was done and documented to ensure solution independence of grid discretization. Computational results conclude that the Wilcox k - w model predicts surface pressure well for all cases. Average surface pressure is predicted reasonably upstream of SBLI and post-flare, and peak surface pressure is predicted within the experimental uncertainty. However, separation is found to be significantly over-predicted for most cases. The Wilcox k - w model is shown to predict surface heat transfer poorly throughout. In regions of SBLI, surface heat transfer is shown to be drastically over-predicted, especially peak magnitudes. Additionally, it can be seen that the Wilcox k - w model produces a large anomalous spike in surface heat transfer downstream of the cone-flare junction in all cases. This spike is shown to be directly correlated to a large spike in turbulent kinetic energy near the surface of the large cone, observed at the same location. Causes for this spike are currently unknown and have not been further investigated, however similar spikes have been seen in the computational results obtained for the hollow cylinder flare configuration. Future work encompasses further assessment of the Wilcox k - w model in similar flow regimes. Since over-prediction is a strong factor of error in regions of SBLI, modifications to the Wilcox k - w model are required for more accurate predictive capabilities. The anomalous spike that occurs in surface heat transfer also needs be fully investigated to determine possible causes and resolutions.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Robert A. Alvian
Statewide strategies to improve effectiveness in protecting and restoring Colorado's wetland resource: including the Rio Grande Headwaters Pilot Wetland Condition Assessment
No full textPrepared for: Colorado Parks and Wildlife Wetland Wildlfie Conservation Program; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8.In collaboration with Brian Sullivan, Grant Wilcox, and Chris Johnson, Colorado Parks and Wildlife.July 2011.Includes bibliographical references
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