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    Determining the cooling history of in situ lower oceanic crust - Atlantis Bank, SW Indian Ridge

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    Barbara E. John, David A. Foster, John M. Murphy, Michael J. Cheadle, A. Graham Baines, C. Mark Fanning, Peter Copelandhttp://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/503328/description#descriptio

    G2 & G1 plants species of SW Colorado

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    Presented at the 16th symposium held on September 27, 2019 in Grand Junction, Colorado.2019 G2 species of SW Colorado -- 2019 G1 species of SW Colorado

    Dependence of unsaturated chloride diffusion on the pore structure in cementitious materials

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    Conceptual analysis is performed to examine the effects of pore features on the water continuity in unsaturated porous systems. The roles of pore features in relative chloride diffusion coefficient (Drc) of mortar specimens at various degrees of water saturation (Sw) were studied based on mercury intrusion porosimetry and resistivity tests. It is found that the role of pore structure in the Drc-Sw relationship is a result of its effect on the water continuity. Porosity and tortuosity are not relevant to the Drc-Sw relationship. A finer pore size distribution or lower pore connectivity tends to result in a lower Drc. The pore size effect on the Drc is pronounced primarily at high Sw, while the Drc is dominated by the pore connectivity at low Sw. Cement mortar with a higher water-to-binder ratio shows larger chloride diffusion at high relative humidity levels but smaller chloride diffusion at low relative humidity levels.Accepted Author ManuscriptMaterials and Environmen

    Total Cost of Ownership for Application Replatform by Open-source SW

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    AbstractIn intra-company IT environment, the use of open-source software (OSS) should be expanded to reduce IT costs and to establish SW governance. This requires the migration of systems from the existing commercial SW to open-source SW, but the attempt of application replatform is prevented by the expenses for application reprogramming and data migration. This study proposes a methodology for TCO calculation of application replatform using open-source SW. In practice, a five-year TCO shows a cost reduction effect of 78% - 83%. This TCO could be further reduced if the application size is increased due to data accumulation and the company gets open-source SW capabilities internally. In addition, it is possible to directly apply an application developed from open-source SW to a virtualized infrastructure environment, which enables to operate in a hybrid cloud environment. This enables a scalable, efficient and flexible IT operation and a sustainable TCO reduction in the futur

    Review of previous meetings, Part 3: Montrose, SW Colorado, G2G3 species

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    Symposium held on September 28, 2012 in Canyon City, Colorado.Title from website.2008 Montrose: SW Colorado G2G3 species -- 2009 Loveland: NW & central Colorado G2G3 species

    The role of parietal cortex in the formation of color and motion based concepts

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    Imaging evidence shows that separate subdivisions of parietal cortex, in and around the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), are engaged when stimuli are grouped according to color and to motion (Zeki and Stutters, 2013). Since grouping is an essential step in the formation of concepts, we wanted to learn whether parietal cortex is also engaged in the formation of concepts according to these two attributes. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and choosing the recognition of concept-based color or motion stimuli as our paradigm, we found that there was strong concept-related activity in and around the IPS, a region whose homolog in the macaque monkey is known to receive direct but segregated anatomical inputs from V4 and V5. Parietal activity related to color concepts was juxtaposed but did not overlap with activity related to motion concepts, thus emphasizing the continuation of the segregation of color and motion into the conceptual system. Concurrent retinotopic mapping experiments showed that within the parietal cortex, concept-related activity increases within later stage IPS areas

    Masking within and across visual dimensions: Psychophysical evidence for perceptual segregation of color and motion

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    Visual masking can result from the interference of perceptual signals. According to the principle of functional specialization, interference should be greatest when signal and mask belong to the same visual attribute (e.g., color or motion) and least when they belong to different ones. We provide evidence to support this view and show that the time course of masking is visual attribute specific. First, we show that a color target is masked most effectively by color (homogeneous target-mask pair) and least effectively by motion (heterogeneous pair) and vice versa for a motion target. Second, we show that the time at which the mask is most effective depends strongly on the target-mask pairing. Heterogeneous masking is strongest when the mask is presented before the target (forward masking) but this is not true of homogeneous masking. This finding supports a delayed cross-feature interaction due to segregated processing sites. Third, lengthening the stimulus onset asynchrony between target and mask leads to a faster improvement in color than in motion detectability, lending support for a faster color processing system and consistent with reports of perceptual asynchrony in vision. In summary, we present three lines of psychophysical evidence, all of which support a segregated neural coding scheme for color and motion in the human brain

    Review of previous meetings, Part 3: SW Colorado G2, NW Colorado G2 species

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    Symposium held on September 23, 2016 in Boulder, Colorado.Title page states Golden, Colorado, should be Boulder, Colorado.Title from website.2008/2016 SW Colorado G2G3 species -- 2009/2014 NW & central Colorado G2G3 species

    Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening: the importance of length of observation period and lead time

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    PMCID: PMC3706885This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

    Change management of the SW projects in the small and medium business

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    The bachelor thesis focuses on SW projects, ways of their management and mainly change management in the small and medium business. This thesis is devided into two parts. Author deals with SW projects and most common mistakes during their development in the theory part. The main aim of this part is to refer to these mistakes the reader, who is interested in SW projects. Next, there is a comparision of the two famous methodics, which are well-known in the SW development. These are ITIL and RUP. Author will choose the one, which will be more acceptable for the Cleverdecision. At this time, Cleverdecision has no change management and every change during the SW development is managed by contracting condition. That is why author formulates the ways of change management in the practical part. This will be based on the chosen methodics from the theory part. This formulation is the main aim of this thesis. The contribution of the thesis is in the definition of the change management workflow and in the proposition of the templates for setting the change requests. These templates are sufficient for unification concepts and easier specification of the change requests. Insertion of the change management into the contract is part of the thesis as well
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