873 research outputs found
Key to the genera of the Cerambycidae of western North America
No full textJames R. LaBonte, Joshua B. Dunlap, Daniel R. Clark, Thomas E. Valente, Joshua J. Vlach, Oregon Department of Agriculture.Title from PDF cover (viewed on October 20, 2021).Covers OCLC #1277514227 and OCLC #1226522396.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
A Pleasant conceited Comedie : Wherein is shewed how a man may chuse a good Wife from a bad. /
No full textLabel pasted on front end-paper reads: ... How a man may choose a good wife from a bad. Date of the earliest known edition, c. 1602 Reproduced in facsimile [Tudor facsimile texts] 1912.A ms. note on t.-p. ascribes the play to Joshua Cooke. "Joshua" may or may not be a mistaken reading of Jo. (i. e. John) Cooke. cf. Pref., Tudor facsimile texts.Mode of access: Internet
A Computational Analysis of Heteroepitaxial Growth in BST 60/40 thin films
No full textThis work was produced while the author was an undergraduate student in the Summer Research Institute of the Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Degree Achievement Program at Rutgers University
Dressing up: Menswear in the Age of Social Media (2022): By Joshua Bluteau
No full text"What does men's fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men's fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk. Is it time to reassess notions of masculinity? How do we construct ourselves in the online world, and what are the dangers of doing so? From the ateliers of London to the digital landscape of Instagram, Dressing Up re-examines the ways men dress, and the ways men post.
Effect of changes in testing parameters on the cost-effectiveness of two pooled test methods to classify infection status of animals in a herd
No full textMonte Carlo simulation was used to determine optimal fecal pool sizes for identification of all Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP)-infected cows in a dairy herd. Two pooling protocols were compared: a halving protocol involving a single retest of negative pools followed by halving of positive pools and a simple protocol involving single retest of negative pools but no halving of positive pools. For both protocols, all component samples in positive pools were then tested individually. In the simulations, the distributions of number of tests required to classify all individuals in an infected herd were generated for various combinations of prevalence (0.01, 0.05 and 0.1), herd size (300, 1000 and 3000), pool size (5, 10, 20 and 50) and test sensitivity (0.5–0.9). Test specificity was fixed at 1.0 because fecal culture for MAP yields no or rare false-positive results. Optimal performance was determined primarily on the basis of a comparison of the distributions of numbers of tests needed to detect MAP-infected cows using the Mann–Whitney U test statistic. Optimal pool size was independent of both herd size and test characteristics, regardless of protocol. When sensitivity was the same for each pool size, pool sizes of 20 and 10 performed best for both protocols for prevalences of 0.01 and 0.1, respectively, while for prevalences of 0.05, pool sizes of 10 and 20 were optimal for the simple and halving protocols, respectively. When sensitivity decreased with increasing pool size, the results changed for prevalences of 0.05 and 0.1 with pool sizes of 50 being optimal especially at a prevalence of 0.1. Overall, the halving protocol was more cost effective than the simple protocol especially at higher prevalences. For detection of MAP using fecal culture, we recommend use of the halving protocol and pool sizes of 10 or 20 when the prevalence is suspected to range from 0.01 to 0.1 and there is no expected loss of sensitivity with increasing pool size. If loss in sensitivity is expected and the prevalence is thought to be between 0.05 and 0.1, the halving protocol and a pool size of 50 is recommended. Our findings are broadly applicable to other infectious diseases under comparable testing conditions.ID: S0167587710000085; M3: Article; Accession Number: S0167587710000085; Author: Locksley L. McV. Messam (a, b); Author: Joshua M. O’Brien (c); Author: Sharon K. Hietala (d); Author: Ian A. Gardner (e, ⁎); Affiliation: St. Georges University, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, P.O. Box 7, True Blue, St. Georges, Grenada, West Indies; Affiliation: St. Georges University, Office of the Dean, School of Veterinary Medicine, P.O. Box 7, True Blue, St. George's, Grenada, West Indies; Affiliation: Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA; Affiliation: California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System, Davis, CA 95616, USA; Affiliation: Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA; Keyword: Cost-effectiveness; Keyword: Pooled testing; Keyword: Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis; Keyword: Retesting; Number of Pages: 11; Language: English
Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters
No full text1.Introduction to this CollectionBy Joshua Tanenbaum2. Author and Editor BiosSection I – Introduction to the History and Theory of NVC for VWs3.Basics of Nonverbal Communication in the Physical WorldBy Joshua Tanenbaum, Michael Nixon, and Magy Seif El-Nasr4.Basics of Nonverbal Communication in Virtual WorldsBy Joshua Tanenbaum, Michael Nixon, and Magy Seif El-NasrSection II – Identity and Communication in Virtual Worlds5. Our Empathic Experience of Believable CharactersBy Leslie Bishko6.Virtual Gaze: The Communicative Energy Between Avatar FacesBy Jeffrey Ventrella7.Avatar Appearance as Prima Facie Non-Verbal CommunicationBy Jacquelyn Ford Mori8.TimeTraveller™: First Nations Nonverbal Communication in Second LifeBy Elizabeth LaPensée and Jason Edward LewisSection III – Virtual Performance and Theater9. Lessons from the Arts: What the Performing Arts Literature Can TeachUs About Creating Expressive Character MovementBy Michael Neff10. Theater as Virtual RealityBy Jim R. Parker11. Animation Principles and Laban Movement Analysis: Movement Frameworks for Creating Empathic Character PerformancesBy Leslie Bishko12. Loss of Agency as Expression in Avatar PerformanceBy Ben Unterman and Jeremy Owen TurnerSection IV – Animating and Puppeteering13. Empathy in virtual worlds: Making characters believablewith Laban Movement AnalysisBy Leslie Bishko14. Avatar Puppeteering: Direct Manipulation of Avatar Jointsfor Spontaneous Body LanguageBy Jeffrey Ventrella15. Automation of Avatar BehaviorBy Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson16.Synthesizing Virtual Character Behaviors fromInteractive Digital PuppetryBy Elena Erbiceanu, Daniel Mapes, and Charles E. HughesSection V –Studying Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds17. A Few Choice Animations: Nonverbal Communication Through Production and Consumption in Second LifeBy Jennifer Martin18.A Microsociological Perspective on Non-Verbal Communicative Strategies in MMORPGsBy David Kirschner and J. Patrick Williams19.The Uncanny Valley and Nonverbal Communication in Virtual CharactersBy Angela Tinwell, Mark Grimshaw, and Debbie Abdel-NabiSection VI – New Directions for NVC in VWs20.The Future of Avatar Expression: Body Language Evolves on the InternetBy Jeffrey Ventrella21.Challenges and Opportunities for the Ongoing Study of Nonverbal Communication in Virtual WorldsBy Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael NixonView Video FIgures, referenced in the text.</p
Disaggregated financial statement information in an unregulated environment
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-71).This paper examines whether disaggregated financial statement information during the late 1920's reduced information asymmetry. After controlling for firms endogenously selecting their level of disaggregation, I find that disaggregation reduced the information asymmetry between market participants and between the firm and outside investors. Disaggregators had lower bid-ask spreads and short sellers paid lower loan fees for borrowing disaggregators' stocks. In addition, disaggregators were more likely to raise capital in the following year. These results are consistent with firms using high-quality financial reporting to reduce information asymmetry even in the absence of regulation as a bonding mechanism.by Joshua David Anderson.Ph. D
Circulating and synovial antibody profiling of juvenile arthritis patients by nucleic acid programmable protein arrays.
No full textIntroduction Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by chronic joint inflammation of unknown cause in children. JIA is an autoimmune disease and small numbers of auto-antibodies have been reported in JIA patients. The identification of antibody markers could improve the existing clinical management of patients. Methods A pilot study was performed on the application of a high-throughput platform, nucleic acid programmable protein arrays (NAPPA), to assess the levels of antibodies present in the systemic circulation and synovial joint of a small cohort of juvenile arthritis patients. Plasma and synovial fluid from ten JIA patients was screened for antibodies against 768 proteins on NAPPA. Results Quantitative reproducibility of NAPPA was demonstrated with >0.95 intra- and inter- array correlations. A strong correlation was also observed for the levels of antibodies between plasma and synovial fluid across the study cohort (r=0.96). Differences in the levels of 18 antibodies were revealed between sample types across all patients. Patients were segregated into two clinical subtypes with distinct antibody signatures by unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis. Conclusions NAPPA provides a high-throughput quantitatively reproducible platform to screen for disease specific autoantibodies at the proteome level on a microscope slide. The strong correlation between the circulating antibody levels and those of the inflamed joint represents a novel finding and provides confidence to use plasma for discovery of autoantibodies in JIA, thus circumventing the challenges associated with joint aspiration. We expect that autoantibody profiling of JIA patients on NAPPA could yield antibody markers that can act as criteria to stratify patients, predict outcomes and understand disease etiology at the molecular level
Color composition
No full textRecent research has used crowd sourced corpora of language to learn grounded meanings that associate color descriptions with uncertain regions in hue-saturation-value color space. In this paper, we explore the degree to which the interpretation of syntactically- complex color terms can be predicted compositionally from their constituents. Using both Elastic Net Regressors and Random Forest Regressors, we build models to predict the composed colors present in both Lux and in the tail data that was unused during the learning of Lux. We evaluate the performance of the models by assessing the learned parameters against the Lux parameters. We additionally look at novel human-generated descriptions and build a system that names colors productively.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Joshua E. Gan
The Blackstone of Military Law: Colonel William Winthrop, 1831-1899
No full textColonel William Winthrop singularly was the most influential person in developing the military law of the United States. A half century ago, the Supreme Court tendered to Winthrop the title, The Blackstone of Military Law, meaning simply that his influence outshone all others. He has been cited over 20 times by the highest court and well over a 1,000 times by other federal courts, state courts, and legal texts. In this, he surpasses most other legal scholars, save Joseph Story, John Marshall, or Felix Frankfurter. But while biographies of each of these Supreme Court Justices have been written, there has been none to date on Winthrop. The Blackstone of Military Law: Colonel William Winthrop is the first biography on this important figure in military and legal history. Written in both a chronological and thematic format, author Joshua E. Kastenberg begins with Winthrop\u27s legal training, his involvement in abolitionism, his military experiences during the Civil War, and his long tenure as a judge advocate. This biography provides the necessary context to fully appreciate Winthrop\u27s work, its meaning, and its continued relevance.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facbookdisplay/1055/thumbnail.jp
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