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Phylogenetic and proximate mechanisms affect darter (Percidae: Etheostomatinae) community structure
(2015-05)
Understanding the relative influences of biotic and abiotic mechanisms responsible for generating patterns of community diversity remains a fundamental theme in ecology. Although studies have recovered patterns of community ...
Adaptive Distributed Source Coding Based on Bayesian Inference
(2015-08-14)
Distributed Source Coding (DSC) is an important topic for both in information theory and communication. DSC utilizes the correlations among the sources to compress data, and it has the advantages of being simple and easy ...
Performance, Analysis, and Interpretation in the Solo Double Bass Works of Johanna Magdalena Beyer and Vivian Fine
(2015-05-08)
Though musical works worthy of study and performance, Johanna Magdalena Beyer’s 1936 Movement for Double Bass and Piano and Vivian Fine’s 1964 Melos for solo double bass have been neglected by both performers and scholars. ...
Benchmarking and tuning
(2015-06-02)
Mining document, concept, and term associations for effective biomedical retrieval - Introducing MeSH-enhanced retrieval models
(2015)
Manually assigned subject terms, such as Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the health domain, describe the concepts or topics of a document. Existing information retrieval models do not take full advantage of such ...
BAYESIAN KERNEL METHODS FOR THE RISK ANALYSIS AND RESILIENCE MODELING OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS
(2015-08-14)
The protection of critical infrastructures has recently garnered attention with an emphasis on analyzing the risk and improving the resilience of such systems. With the abundance of data, risk managers should be able to ...
Quantitative Analysis of Social Media Sensitivity to Natural Disasters
(2015)
The use of social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter increased exponentially over the last years. They have become a major tool for people to communicate, and for news media to relay their content. In parallel ...
An Illustrated Introduction to the Infosphere (preprint)
(2015-05)
This introduction to Luciano Floridi’s philosophy of information (PI) provides a short overview of Floridi’s work and its reception by the library and information studies (LIS) community, brief definitions of some important ...
Psychodynamic Treatment of Excessive Virtual Reality Environment Use
(Clinical Case Studies, 2015-04-05)
This clinical case study explores the psychodynamic treatment possibilities of excessive Internet virtual reality environment use. The client discussed resides in the virtual world Second Life and experiences her relationships ...
Inhibition of Pediatric Glioblastoma Tumor Growth by the Anti-Cancer Agent OKN-007 in Orthotopic Mouse Xenografts
(PLos One, 2015-08-06)
Pediatric glioblastomas (pGBM), although rare, are one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in children, with tumors essentially refractory to existing treatments. Here, we describe the use of conventional and ...