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Impact of 3-D Integration on Thermal Performance of RISC-V MemPool Multicore SOC
No full textThe work of Jun-Han Han and Mircea R. Stan was supported in part by the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP) Task 2780.003: Thermal and Power Management
Morton M. Smith important dates prepared November 1, 2002, Stan Smith (703) 289-1230
No full textChronology of Morton M. Smith's professional career, prepared by Stan Smith, from various sources. Also includes a list of the people Smith worked with, as well as a collection of anecdotes about Smith, as told by the people who knew him.Morton M. Smith
Important Dates
Prepared November 1, 2002
Stan Smith (703) 289-1230
1949 – Made a member of Louisiana Nu Chapter of Xi Sigma Pi (National
Forestry/Natural Resource Honor Society)
1949 – Made a member of Louisiana Chapter of Alpha Zeta (Professional Fraternity of
Agriculture)
1950 – B.S. (Forestry) from Louisiana State University
1951 – M.S. (Game Management) from Louisiana State University
1951 (July) to 1953 (July) – Assistant Waterfowl Study Leader, Louisiana Fisheries &
Wildlife Commission. Supervisor was Richard Yancey. Based in Ferriday, LA. Served
as assistant to Yancey on Waterfowl Research Project 17-R and 29-R under Pittman
Robertson Section. Work consisted of research and surveys of Louisiana waterfowl
populations. Duties required 200 hours flight time per year as an observer. Work
conducted statewide.
1953 (April 23) – Notification of Assignment Upon Entry into Active Military Service
(“Having accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve through
the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Program, you are being ordered into
active military service and assigned to 1912th Airways and Air Communication Service
Squadron, Olmstead Air Force Base, Pennsylvania.” /s/ Samuel E. Barger, Major, USAF,
Acting Air Adj Gen.).
1953 (July 3) – Entered Active Duty. Served as a personnel officer, primarily at Scott
Field, Illinois. Served as Squadron Personnel Officer and Adjutant for two years.
Responsible for all administrative phases of squadron operation, including records,
personnel assignments and squadron maintenance.
1954 (March 4) – Promoted to first lieutenant.
1955 (July) – Honorable discharge from USAF.
1955 (July) to 1957 (July) – Biologist II, Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries Commission.
Supervisor was John Newsom. Based in Alexandria, LA. Responsible for wildlife
management and development practices carried on in the Commission’s District III under
various Pittman Robertson projects. Also was responsible for fish and game work in
District III.
1957 (July) to 1962 (December) – Biologist II, Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries
Commission. Supervisor was Robert Murray (Research Supervisor). Returned to
research as a Waterfowl Study Leader. Responsible for all research under Pittman
Robertson Project W29R. Duties required travel statewide. One phase of work required
250 hours of flight time/year as an observer.
Late 1950’s – Conducted aerial surveys (along with fellow Louisiana biologist Clark
Hoffpauir) in the aftermath of Hurricane Audrey indicating a sudden population jump in
certain species wintering in Louisiana. (Source: Flyways: Pioneering Waterfowl
Management in North America, Arthur S. Hawkins, et al., Editors, U.S. Government
Printing Office, May 1984, page 448.)
Late 1950’s to Early 1960’s – Participated in annual workshops of technical committees
of the flyway councils to discuss agency contributions to waterfowl management
programs of the flyway. (Source: Flyways, at page 382, pictured attending meeting of
Mississippi Flyway waterfowl technicians held at Louisiana’s Rockefeller Refuge.)
Early 1960’s – Flew aerial transect surveys over inland and coastal marshes with other
state waterfowl biologists. (Source: Flyways, at page 446.)
1962 (January 4) – Career-Conditional Appointment as Wildlife Biologist
(Management/Airplane Pilot) for Bureau’s Division of Wildlife, Branch of Management
and Enforcement, Atlanta, Georgia (Pos. No. 4-3213-1).
1964 – Contributor, U.S. Department of the Interior’s Waterfowl Tomorrow (U.S.
Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1964); “Ducks in Dixie” with John L.
Sincock, and John J. Lynch (at page 99-106).
1967 – Attended meeting of management biologists at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
Center. (Source: Flyways, at picture at page 260, caption at page 261.)
~1968 (January) – Appointed Assistant Branch Chief, Division of Management and
Enforcement’s Branch of Management, and reassigned from Atlanta to Washington, D.C.
1968 (February) to 1969 (September) – Citation for Outstanding Performance for, among
other things, “field administration and supervision of summer waterfowl surveys and
banding program in the United States and Canada.”
1970 (April 13) – Special Achievement Award “for Superior Service” to the Bureau’s
Division of Management and Enforcement.
1971 (February) – Cited for a Quality Performance Award for “continuing high level
performance” with the Bureau’s Division of Management and Enforcement.
~mid-1970’s-1980’s – At Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, supervising Branch of
Surveys. (Source: Letter, dated March 9, 1990 from Thomas J. Dwyer, Chief, Office of
Migratory Bird Management, on the occasion of retirement.)1
1 I have not yet located Dad’s personnel files for the year ~1972-1990. They would probably provide more
details about specific work assignments than I have been able to provide here.
1990 (May 1) – Retirement. Retired as Assistant Director – [Refuges] & Wildlife, Office
of Migratory Bird Management, Washington, D.C. (Branch Chief, Surveys and
Operations)
Logged 7,000+ hours as a pilot for FWS. (Source: Interview with Mark Madison, FWS
Historian, conducted March 29, 1999.)
Worked with (among others):
Vern Stotts
Don Frickie
William Vogel
Patricia Holt
Keith A. Morehouse
Ken Gamble
Jim Bartonek
Jerry Serie
Skip Ladd
David E. Sharp
Harvey K. Nelson
David L. Hall
Gene Wood
Henry Reeves
John P. Rogers
George Brakhage
Dick Pospahala
Bob Blohm
Brad Bortner
Sean Kelly
Arthur Brazda
Dick Bauer
Jerome Stoudt
Arthur S. Hawkins
Jerry Pospichal
Douglas S. Benning
Bill Larned
Robert L. Jessen
K. Duane Norman
Fred Roetker
Vic Hamer
H. W. Heusmann
Matthew C. Perry
Leon Kirkland
Fairfax H. Settle
Bob Trost
John Tautin
Bruce Conant
Frank Bowers
Judy Bladen
Jim Bredy
Sam Carney
Liz Cummings
Dave Dolton
Mike Elkins
Greg Essinger
Fred Fiehrer
Ken Gamble
Paul Geissler
Jim Goldsberry
Mary Lou Hill
Larry Jahn
Kathy Klimkiewicz
Phil Koscheka
Fant Martin
Harvey Miller
Barbara Moore
Jim Nichols
Al Novara
Pete Poulous
Jim Price
Ron Reynolds
Bunny Siran
Bob Smith
Rollie Sparrowe
Tom Taylor
Roy Tomlinson
Dave Trauger
Jim Voelzer
Ken Williams
Dr. Fred Glover
Kahler Martinson
Ross Hanson
Dick Yancey
Jake Chamberlain
C. Lostetter
W. Crissey
J. Smith
G. Jensen
D. Purinton
D. Combs
K. Baer
Harry Hansen
A Weinrich
R. Mackay
K. Vermeer
K. Norman
E. Wellein
R. Buller
R. Slattery
P. Smith
R. Martinson
Don Smith
Maury Lundy
David Anderson
Anecdotes (Source: Morton M. Smith Retirement File, 1990)
• [Author not named]: “I really believe Mort’s favorite air-machine was the
DeHavilland ‘Speedster’ or Beaver. Seriously, when it came to multiple use or being
capable of handling many tasks, it was by far the best bush craft I ever flew. It had
one unredeeming feature however – it was slower than the second coming of the ‘Big
Man’ – in fact, it was the only aircraft I knew of that a tailwind wouldn’t help. I had
several affectionate adjectives for the machine and I used to relate to Mort about the
‘Speedster’s’ inability to develop much forward motion. I believe he took this
bitching with a grain of salt – until he drove it himself for awhile. Finally, after a
long summer, he called and said I was probably right; ‘it probably wouldn’t go much
over 100 miles per hour coming straight down.’”
• Vern Stotts: Some of his greatest thoughts and lessons for me were:
a. “I could hit these seaducks more often if they tasted better,” meant that with
practice one can rationalize anything.
b. When he said, “We can get this 206 off the water in less than 1 minute when
everyone is down to their high school weight,” it translated into don’t stuff rocks
in your personal kit to take home as souvenirs.
c. After a clapper rail hunting trip to the Eastern Short of Virginia, he remarked,
“We should shoot these critters only with a singleshot, 4-10 pistol fired with the
left hand after a cross-draw”, meaning that modern equipment can take away the
thrill of a full bag.
d. And, finally, after a perfect 2-point landing, he stressed that, “We can be happy
that we didn’t do it the other way around and land with our wheels down on the
water”, teaching me the hows, whys, whens, and beauty of a personal checklist.
• Bob Blohm: Of course, Mort, your red station wagon was legendary at the [Patuxent
Wildlife Research] center and how many Monday lunchtime discussions focused on
your weekend activities with your son to prepare the vehicle for the next week’s
drive. And, your love of doughnuts (particularly stale ones, at least 3-4 weeks old)
and old hunting clothes (the more holes and dangling threads, the better) is known far
and wide.
• Art Hawkins: After you joined the FWS Airforce it was fun getting together with
you, Don Smith, Maury Lundy and others to compare notes. You were unique among
most of the pilots listed above in that you were completely interchangeable between
ground and air duty. In fact, on days when you couldn’t fly, for one reason or
another, you joined the guys in the trenches, of your own free will. … One thing for
sure, I never worked with anyone I’ve enjoyed working with more, whether in the
Louisiana marshes or on the Canadian Prairies, whether at wing bees or Tech
meetings. Your cheerful attitude and dedication to duty made the job easier.
• John Tautin: I still recall my first months with FWS in 1974 and being assigned to a
duck banding station in Alberta. My first flight in FWS aircraft was when you flew
me from Saskatoon to Brooks to meet up with the banding crew. We (you) had to
make a tough landing in a crosswind on sod. It went well, and I still recall being
impressed and thinking that this pilot has the right stuff. I went on to learn that the
other pilots, our flyway biologists, were also fine biologists and good, safe pilots.
You deserve a lot of credit for that, having been in charge of that operation. Being in
charge as Branch Chief, Surveys and Operations, is how I most often think of you.
You have been one of the best managers I have seen, fair and honest with people,
managing to get the job done well with limited resources, and firm and decisive when
need be on issues and problems. I learned a lot from you that helps me now that I am
in charge of [the Bird Banding Laboratory]
Complete genome sequences of two T4-like Escherichia coli bacteriophages
No full textBacteriophages and their proteins have potential applications in biotechnology for the detection and control of bacterial diseases. Here, we describe the sequencing and genome annotations of two strictly virulent Escherichia coli bacteriophages that may be explored for biocontrol strategies and to expand the understanding of phage-host interactions.BN/Stan Brouns La
Public Opinion Barometer, 1998.11
No full textIn 1998-1999, the Public Opinion Barometer was renamed as “Human resources barometer”. This dataset was collected in November 1998.
Program Director: Gabriela Manta.
Fieldwork: MMT.
Board: Ionica Berevoiescu, Bogdan Juncu, Andra Lăzăroiu, Sebastian Lăzăroiu, Manuela Stănculescu, Dan Chiribucă, Mircea Comșa, Roxana Florescu, Narcisa Grigorescu.
Supervising board: Dumtru Sandu, Lazăr Vlăscenu, Traian Rotariu, Călin Anastasiu, Gheorghe Onuț, Aurora Dumitrescu, Dumitru Stan.
Press release was retrieved by Mircea Comșa in 2022.
Database was partly curated by Bogdan Voicu, in 2001.
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Datasets are provided in SPSS and Stata (13+) formats. For R, we recommend using package readstata13 in order to import the database.
Labels are provided for the moment only in Romanian language.
No weighting system is provided, for the mere reason that sample structure reflects correctly population structure, and there is no need for weighting (all weights should be equal to 1)
W R B executive summary
No full text"Alternative futures analysis is an environmental assessment approach for helping communities make decisions about land and water use. Its role is to provide a long-term, large-area perspective on the combined effects of the multiple policies and regulations affecting the quality of the environment and natural resources within a geographic area. The alternative futures process helps community members articulate and understand their different viewpoints, priorities, and goals. The product of the process is a suite of alternative 'visions' for the future expressed as maps of land use and land cover that reflect the likely outcomes of the options being advocated. Potential effects of these alternative futures are then evaluated for a wide array of ecological and socio-economic endpoints (i.e., things people care about). By capturing the essential elements of a complex debate in a fairly small number of alternative futures, and combining them with an objective evaluation of the consequences of each choice, this process can help groups move toward common understanding, and possible resolution and collective action. Here we summarize results from an alternative futures analysis conducted in the Willamette River Basin in western Oregon"--Page 1.conducted by the Pacific Northwest Ecosystem Research Consortium, consisting of scientists from EPA, Oregon State University, and the University of Oregon; Joan P. Baker, U.S. Environmental Research Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division; David Hulse, University of Oregon, Department of Landscape Architecture; Stan Gregory, Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife"EPA 600/R-02/045(a)"This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposesIncludes bibliographical reference (page 9)Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications CollectionText in Englis
Exploration of Charge Recycling DC-DC Conversion Using a Switched Capacitor Regulator
No full textThe increasing popularity of DVFS (dynamic voltage frequency scaling) schemes for portable low power applications demands highly efficient on-chip DC-DC converters. The primary aim of this work is to enable increased efficiency of on-chip DC-DC conversion for near-threshold operation of multicore chips. The idea is to supply nominal (high) off-chip voltage to the cores which are then “voltage-stacked” to generate the near-threshold (low) voltages based on Kirchhoff’s voltage law through charge recycling. However, the effectiveness of this implicit down-conversion is affected by the current imbalance among the cores. The paper presents a design methodology and optimization strategy for highly efficient charge recycling on-chip regulation using a push-pull switched capacitor (SC) circuit. A dual-boundary hysteretic feedback control circuit has been designed for stacked loads. A stacked-voltage domain with its self-regulation capability combined with a SC converter has shown average efficiency of 78%–93% for 2:1 down-conversion with ILoad (max) of 200 mA and workload imbalance varying from 0–100%
Physically-based compact thermal modeling—achieving parametrization and boundary condition independence
No full textThis paper presents an approach of compact thermal modeling — HotSpot, which is parameterized according to design geometrical dimensions and material physical properties. While most existing compact thermal modeling methods facilitate thermal analysis of existing package designs, the HotSpot modeling method is more suitable for the exploration of new designs at both the die level and the package level due to its physically-based parametrization characteristics. Although it may not be as “compact ” as other modeling approaches, HotSpot provides much more thermal information of the design, especially at the die level, with negligible computational overhead. We also show that the HotSpot achieves reasonable boundary condition independence (BCI) by comparing it with a DELPHI compact thermal model for a benchmark BGA chip under the same set of boundary conditions. 1
Dataset for Rainfall interception and redistribution by a common North American understory and pasture forb, Eupatorium capillifolium (Lam. dogfennel)
Get PDFRaw data for Figures 3, 5, and 6 of related article, Gordon, D. A. R., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Sellers, B. A., Sadeghi, S. M. M., and Van Stan II, J. T.: Rainfall interception and redistribution by a common North American understory and pasture forb, Eupatorium capillifolium (Lam. dogfennel), Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4587–4599, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4587-2020.
Figure 3 shows rain amounts [mm] for individual storms and relative overstory throughfall [P_T,o, % of rain]. Figure 5 shows data points for the regressions relating throughfall and stemflow to storm magnitude. Figure 6 shows the normalized stemflow yields and funneling ratios for individual plants, ranked by normalized stemflow yield
The Analysis of Property Transformation Process in Polish Agriculture in the Years 1990-2004
Get PDFThe objective of the study was the attempt of estimation of the State Farms (PGR) evaluation. After the investigations of dominant trends in public agriculture, the property transformations in Polish agriculture were analyzed in macroeconomic conditions with regard to a number of indicators described new-instituted agricultural enterprises. In the study author has taken into account the principal data relating to the scale of the property transformation, like number of public sector farms, area of agricultural land in public sector, area of lands which has been sold and rent by State.land ownership and tenure, property transformations, Land Economics/Use, Q15,
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