The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements.

The Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium (http://www.geneontology.org) (GOC) continues to develop, maintain and use a set of structured, controlled vocabularies for the annotation of genes, gene products and sequences. The GO ontologies are expanding both in content and in structure. Several new relationship types have been introduced and used, along with existing relationships, to create links between and within the GO domains. These improve the representation of biology, facilitate querying, and allow GO developers to systematically check for and correct inconsistencies within the GO. Gene product annotation using GO continues to increase both in the number of total annotations and in species coverage. GO tools, such as OBO-Edit, an ontology-editing tool, and AmiGO, the GOC ontology browser, have seen major improvements in functionality, speed and ease of use.

The connectome viewer toolkit: an open source framework to manage, analyze, and visualize connectomes.

Advanced neuroinformatics tools are required for methods of connectome mapping, analysis, and visualization. The inherent multi-modality of connectome datasets poses new challenges for data organization, integration, and sharing. We have designed and implemented the Connectome Viewer Toolkit - a set of free and extensible open source neuroimaging tools written in Python. The key components of the toolkit are as follows: (1) The Connectome File Format is an XML-based container format to standardize multi-modal data integration and structured metadata annotation. (2) The Connectome File Format Library enables management and sharing of connectome files. (3) The Connectome Viewer is an integrated research and development environment for visualization and analysis of multi-modal connectome data. The Connectome Viewer's plugin architecture supports extensions with network analysis packages and an interactive scripting shell, to enable easy development and community contributions. Integration with tools from the scientific Python community allows the leveraging of numerous existing libraries for powerful connectome data mining, exploration, and comparison. We demonstrate the applicability of the Connectome Viewer Toolkit using Diffusion MRI datasets processed by the Connectome Mapper. The Connectome Viewer Toolkit is available from http://www.cmtk.org/

Vertical Clearance Restrictions on Primary Roads and Primary Road Extensions: Standard U.S. Measurements [Vertical Clearance Log], May 1, 2015

The Vertical Clearance Log is prepared for the purpose of providing vertical clearance restrictions by route on the primary road system. This report is used by the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Motor Carrier Services to route oversize vehicles around structures with vertical restrictions too low for the cargo height. The source of the data is the Geographic Information Management System (GIMS) that is managed by the Office of Research & Analytics in the Performance & Technology Division. The data is collected by inspection crews and through the use of LiDAR technology to reflect changes to structures on the primary road system. This log is produced annually.

Final Report: Senate File 505 Health Consumer Ombudsman Alliance December 2015

This report was prepared pursuant to Senate File 505, which tasks the Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman with convening a multiagency workgroup to gather information and provide recommendations for the establishment of a Health Consumer Ombudsman Alliance.

Senate File 2239 Section 30 AGENCY COLLABORATION AND REPORT

Section 30 of Senate File 2239 mandates “the Department on Aging, Department of Human Services, Department of Inspections and Appeals, Department of Public Health, and the Office of the Attorney General shall collaborate and provide written recommendations on strengthening Iowa’s elder abuse prevention, detection, and intervention efforts.

Remote File Access with Wireless Symbian Devices

Erilaisten langattomien päätelaitteiden kuten älypuhelimien ja kommunikaattoreiden määrän lisääntyessä myös kiinnostus liikkuville käyttäjille lisäarvoa tuottavia verkkopalveluita ja -sovelluksia kohtaan kasvaa. Työn tarkoituksena oli tutkia kuinka langattomat Symbianin käyttöjärjestelmää käyttävät laitteet voivat hyödyntää verkkotiedostoja. Työssä arvioitiin eri tiedostojenjakoprotokollien käytettävyyttä langattomissa verkoissa, määriteltiin etätiedostoyhteyden Symbian-alustalle tarjoavan ohjelmiston vaatimukset ja tehtiin alustava suunnitelma ohjelmiston toteuttamiseksi. Läpinäkyvä tiedostojen etäkäyttö vaatii tiedostojenjakoprotokollan toteuttamista sovelluksille yhteisen tiedostosaantimekanismin alle. Tiedostojen etäkäyttö voi perustua eri tiedostojenjakoprotokolliin kuten IP:n päällä toimiviin NFS:ään tai CIFS:ään. Langattomuuden aiheuttamat rajoitukset laitteissa ja tiedonsiirrossa saattavat vähentää sovellutuksen käytettävyyttä ja on huomioitava ohjelmistoa toteutettaessa. Symbian-alusta perustuu asiakas-palvelin arkkitehtuuriin, jossa asiakassovellukset käyttävät tiedostopalveluita yhteisen tiedostopalvelimen kautta. Etätiedostoyhteys on mahdollista toteuttaa liittämällä uusi kirjastomoduuli tiedostopalvelimeen. Protokollan toteuttavan moduulin on muunnettava protokollan viestit tiedostopalvelimelle sopiviksi huolehtien samalla muista samanaikaisista tiedostotapahtumista. Suunniteltu moduulin arkkitehtuuri mahdollistaa eri protokollavaihtoehtojen käyttämisen etätiedostoyhteyden toteuttamiseen.

Software methods for HTML files protection in local / corporate networks: review and implementation

Tässä luomistyössä on esitetty tutkimus informaation suojaamisen menetelmien osalta paikallisissa ja ryhmäkuntaisissa verkoissa. Tutkimukseen kuuluu nykyaikaisten kryptagraafisten järjestelmien, Internetin/Intranetin ohjelmointikeinojen ja pääsyoikeuksien jakelumenetelmien analyysi. Tutkimusten perusteella on laadittu ohjelmiston prototyyppi HTML-tiedostojen suojaamista varten. Ohjelmiston laatimisprosessi on sisältänyt vaatimusten, järjestelmän ja suojelukomponenttien suunnittelun ja protytyypin testauksen. Ohjelmiston realisoinnin jälkeen kirjoitettiin käyttöohjeet. Ohjelmiston prototyyppi suojaa informaatiota HTML-tiedoston koko käytön aikana ja eri yrityksissä voidaan käyttää sitä pienien laajennuksien jälkeen.

On Topological Solitons in The Faddeev-Skyrme Model and its Extensions

The topological solitons of two classical field theories, the Faddeev-Skyrme model and the Ginzburg-Landau model are studied numerically and analytically in this work. The aim is to gain information on the existence and properties of these topological solitons, their structure and behaviour under relaxation. First, the conditions and mechanisms leading to the possibility of topological solitons are explored from the field theoretical point of view. This leads one to consider continuous deformations of the solutions of the equations of motion. The results of algebraic topology necessary for the systematic treatment of such deformations are reviewed and methods of determining the homotopy classes of topological solitons are presented. The Faddeev-Skyrme and Ginzburg-Landau models are presented, some earlier results reviewed and the numerical methods used in this work are described. The topological solitons of the Faddeev-Skyrme model, Hopfions, are found to follow the same mechanisms of relaxation in three different domains with three different topological classifications. For two of the domains, the necessary but unusual topological classification is presented. Finite size topological solitons are not found in the Ginzburg-Landau model and a scaling argument is used to suggest that there are indeed none unless a certain modification to the model, due to R. S. Ward, is made. In that case, the Hopfions of the Faddeev-Skyrme model are seen to be present for some parameter values. A boundary in the parameter space separating the region where the Hopfions exist and the area where they do not exist is found and the behaviour of the Hopfion energy on this boundary is studied.

Nonlinear principal and canonical directions from continuous extensions of multidimensional scaling

A continuous random variable is expanded as a sum of a sequence of uncorrelated random variables. These variables are principal dimensions in continuous scaling on a distance function, as an extension of classic scaling on a distance matrix. For a particular distance, these dimensions are principal components. Then some properties are studied and an inequality is obtained. Diagonal expansions are considered from the same continuous scaling point of view, by means of the chi-square distance. The geometric dimension of a bivariate distribution is defined and illustrated with copulas. It is shown that the dimension can have the power of continuum.

Office File Formats – What’s to be Done?

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Inverting ionospheric D-region electron density pro-file from riometer measurement

The aim of this work is to invert the ionospheric electron density profile from Riometer (Relative Ionospheric opacity meter) measurement. The newly Riometer instrument KAIRA (Kilpisjärvi Atmospheric Imaging Receiver Array) is used to measure the cosmic HF radio noise absorption that taking place in the D-region ionosphere between 50 to 90 km. In order to invert the electron density profile synthetic data is used to feed the unknown parameter Neq using spline height method, which works by taking electron density profile at different altitude. Moreover, smoothing prior method also used to sample from the posterior distribution by truncating the prior covariance matrix. The smoothing profile approach makes the problem easier to find the posterior using MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) method.

Illustration - Unit no. 9 File no. 2-R1-H21.4

An illustration dated 10 November 1948 of Unit No. 9. The description reads "Sketch Showing Field Notes taken before unit dismantled Nov. 1948 - Runner and shaft were hanging from the thrust bearing when these measurements were taken. The thrust bearing was 3/32" thinner than a full size bearing."

Upper Semicontinuous Extensions of Binary Relations.

Suzumura shows that a binary relation has a weak order extension if and only if it is consistent. However, consistency is demonstrably not sufficient to extend an upper semi-continuous binary relation to an upper semicontinuous weak order. Jaffray proves that any asymmetric (or reflexive), transitive and upper semicontinuous binary relation has an upper semicontinuous strict (or weak) order extension. We provide sufficient conditions for existence of upper semicontinuous extensions of consistence rather than transitive relations. For asymmetric relations, consistency and upper semicontinuity suffice. For more general relations, we prove one theorem using a further consistency property and another with an additional continuity requirement.