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No full textUTSim2 validation
No full textThe Center for NDE (CNDE) at Iowa State University has a long history of developing physics models for NDE and packaging these models into simulation tools which make the modeling capabilities accessible to CNDEs industrial sponsors. Recent work at CNDE has led to the development of a new ultrasonic simulation package, UTSim2, which aims to continue this tradition of supporting industrial application of CNDE models. In order to meet this goal, UTSim2 has been designed as an extensible software package which can support previously-developed physics models as well as future models yet to be developed. Initial work has focused on the implementation of a Gauss-Hermite beam model, a paraxial approximation, which is implemented as part of the Thompson-Gray measurement model. This paper will present recent validation results and include comparisons against both previously-validated model output and newly-performed experiments.This proceeding may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This proceeding appeared in Grandin, Robert, and Tim Gray. "UTSim2 validation." AIP Conference Proceedings, 1806, no. 1 (2017): 150007, and may be found at DOI: 10.1063/1.4974731. Posted with permission.</p
Evaluating Citebase, an open access Web-based citation-ranked search and impact discovery service
No full textCitebase is a new citation-ranked search and impact discovery service that measures citations of scholarly research papers which are openly accessible on the Web, i.e. papers that are assessable continuously online. Other services, such as ResearchIndex, have emerged in recent years to offer citation indexing of Web research papers. In the first detailed user evaluation of an open access Web citation indexing service, Citebase has been evaluated by nearly 200 users from different backgrounds. The paper details the procedures used in the evaluation, and analyses the results of this study, which took place between June and October 2002. It was found that within the scope of its primary components, the search interface and services available from its rich bibliographic records, Citebase can be used simply and reliably for the purpose intended, and that it compares favourably with other bibliographic services. It is shown tasks can be accomplished efficiently with Citebase regardless of the background of the user. More data need to be collected and the process refined before it is as reliable for measuring citation impact of indexed papers. Better explanations and guidance are required for first-time users. Coverage is seen as a limiting factor, even though Citebase indexes over 200,000 papers from arXiv. Non-physicists were frustrated at the lack of papers from other sciences. The principle of citation searching of open access archives has thus been demonstrated and need not be restricted to current users. Since the evaluation, Citebase has become a featured service of the ArXiv physics eprint archives
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Putting the S-word back into Sustainability: Can we be more social?
No full textIn an era dominated by climate change debate and environmentalism
there is a real danger that the important ‘social’ pillar of sustainability
drops out of our vocabulary. This can happen at a variety of scales from
business level through to building and neighbourhood level regeneration
and development. Social sustainability should be at the heart of all
housing and mixed-use development but for a variety of reasons tends
to be frequently underplayed. The recent English city riots have brought
this point back sharply into focus. The relationships between people,
places and the local economy all matter and this is as true today as
it was in the late 19th century when Patrick Geddes, the great
pioneering town planner and ecologist, wrote of ‘place-work-folk’.
This paper, commissioned from Tim Dixon, explains what is meant by
social sustainability (and how it is linked to concepts such as social capital
and social cohesion); why the debate matters during a period when
‘localism’ is dominating political debate; and what is inhibiting its growth
and its measurement. The paper reviews best practice in post-occupancy
social sustainability metric systems, based on recent research undertaken
by the author on Dockside Green in Vancouver, and identifi es some of
the key operational issues in mainstreaming the concept within major
mixed-use projects. The paper concludes by offering a framework for the
key challenges faced in setting strategic corporate goals and objectives;
prioritising and selecting the most appropriate investments; and measuring
social sustainability performance by identifying the required data source
Gordon Bennett, 'Selected Writings', edited by Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh
No full textThe word ‘major’ is over-used in reviews, but Gordon Bennett’s Selected Writings should be a major event in Australian publishing. It compiles for the first time a rich selection of Bennett’s essays, letters and interviews in one volume, and makes a strong case that he is not only a major artist of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but one of the most accomplished artist-writers as well.No Full Tex
Acceptance conditions in automated negotiation
No full textIn every negotiation with a deadline, one of the negotiating parties has to accept an offer to avoid a break off. A break off is usually an undesirable outcome for both parties, therefore it is important that a negotiator employs a proficient mechanism to decide under which conditions to accept. When designing such conditions one is faced with the acceptance dilemma: accepting the current offer may be suboptimal, as better offers may still be presented. On the other hand, accepting too late may prevent an agreement from being reached, resulting in a break off with no gain for either party. Motivated by the challenges of bilateral negotiations between automated agents and by the results and insights of the automated negotiating agents competition (ANAC), we classify and compare state-of-the-art generic acceptance conditions. We focus on decoupled acceptance conditions, i.e. conditions that do not depend on the bidding strategy that is used. We performed extensive experiments to compare the performance of acceptance conditions in combination with a broad range of bidding strategies and negotiation domains. Furthermore we propose new acceptance conditions and we demonstrate that they outperform the other conditions that we study. In particular, it is shown that they outperform the standard acceptance condition of comparing the current offer with the offer the agent is ready to send out. We also provide insight in to why some conditions work better than others and investigate correlations between the properties of the negotiation environment and the efficacy of acceptance conditions.MediamaticsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Tim (1979)
No full textA love story with a challenge. Based on the novel by the best-selling author Colleen McCullogh (the Thorn Birds), TIM is an Australian film which tells the story of the relationship between a handsome, young man (Mel Gibson), and an attractive businesswoman in her mid-40's (Piper Laurie). Tim is mentally retarded, but thanks to his understanding and loving home life he is able to move through life almost with a child s gentleness and content. When her gardener injures his back, Mary, Tim s next door neighbor hires him to do yardwork. Their friendship develops, first as teacher-student, then, as a more intimate relationship surfaces, the question of marriage arises. The responsibility of this love creates a challenge to be considered carefully. TIM is notable not only for the tenderness that permeates the film, but for the appeal and persuasiveness of two-time Academy Award nominee, Piper Laurie (Carrie, The Hustler), and Mel Gibson, star of The Road Warrior, Gallipoli and Lethal Weapon. An unusual love story. [description taken from cassette box
Accepting Optimally in Automated Negotiation with Incomplete Information (abstract)
No full textIntelligent SystemsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Effective acceptance conditions in real-time automated negotiation
No full textIn every negotiation with a deadline, one of the negotiating parties must accept an offer to avoid a break off. As a break off is usually an undesirable outcome for both parties, it is important that a negotiator employs a proficient mechanism to decide under which conditions to accept. When designing such conditions, one is faced with the acceptance dilemma: accepting the current offer may be suboptimal, as better offers may still be presented before time runs out. On the other hand, accepting too late may prevent an agreement from being reached, resulting in a break off with no gain for either party. Motivated by the challenges of bilateral negotiations between automated agents and by the results and insights of the automated negotiating agents competition (ANAC), we classify and compare state-of-the-art generic acceptance conditions. We perform extensive experiments to compare the performance of various acceptance conditions in combination with a broad range of bidding strategies and negotiation scenarios. Furthermore we propose new acceptance conditions and we demonstrate that they outperform the other conditions. We also provide insight into why some conditions work better than others and investigate correlations between the properties of the negotiation scenario and the efficacy of acceptance condition
Detection of BCR-ABL mutations in patients with CML treated with imatinib is virtually always accompanied by clinical resistance, and mutations in the ATP phosphate-binding loop (P-loop) are associated with a poor prognosis
No full textAbstract not availableSusan Branford, Zbigniew Rudzki, Sonya Walsh, Ian Parkinson, Andrew Grigg, Jeff Szer, Kerry Taylor, Richard Herrmann, John F. Seymour, Chris Arthur, David Joske, Kevin Lynch, and Tim Hughe
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