St. John, USVI mission report, NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA/Biogeography Branch, July 6 - July 17, 2009

The intent of this field mission was to continue ongoing efforts: (1) to spatially characterize and monitor the distribution, abundance and size of reef fishes, and the abundance of macroinvertebrates (conch, Diatema, lobster) within and around the waters of the Virgin Islands National Park (VIIS) and newly established Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument (VICR), (2) to correlate this information to in-situ data collected on associated habitat parameters, (3) to use this information to establish the knowledge base necessary for enacting management decisions in a spatial setting and (4) to establish the efficacy of those management decisions. An additional focus this year, was to evaluate a new habitat data collection method for RHA sites (MSR and some Coral Bay sites). There are concerns that the cylinder habitat data are not reflective of the fish transect habitat. To address this, we collected habitat data at 5x4 m increments along the transect in addition to data collected using the cylinder method. We are currently assessing the potential differences between these methods and preliminary results indicate that the average difference of coral cover estimates between the two methods was 4.1% (range 0-11%) based on 16 sample sites. In addition, Erinn Muller, a Nancy Foster Fellowship recipient, collaborated with the Biogeography Branch to examine the spatial distribution of coral diseases, to provide baseline information on disease prevalence over varying spatial scales and to establish spatial distributions of coral diseases around St. John.

Temporal trends in reef fish assemblages inside Virgin Islands National Park and around St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, 1988-2006

This report is a result of long-term fish monitoring studies supported by the National Park Service (NPS) at the Virgin Islands National Park since 1988 and is now a joint NPS and NOAA collaboration. Reef fish monitoring data collected from 1988 to 2006 within Virgin Islands National Park (VINP) and adjacent reefs around St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) were analyzed to provide information on the status of reef fishes during the monitoring period. Monitoring projects were initiated by the National Park Service (NPS) in the 1980s to provide useful data for evaluation of resources and for development of a long-term monitoring program. Monthly monitoring was conducted at two reef sites (Yawzi Point and Cocoloba Cay) starting in November 1988 for 2.5 years to document the monthly/seasonal variability in reef fish assemblages. Hurricane Hugo (a powerful Category 4 storm) struck the USVI in September 1989 resulting in considerable damage to the reefs around St. John. Abundance of fishes was lower at both sites following the storm, however, a greater effect was observed at Yawzi Point, which experienced a more direct impact from the hurricane. The storm affected species differently, with some showing only small, short-term declines in abundance, and others, such as the numerically abundant blue chromis (Chromis cyanea), a planktivorous damselfish, exhibiting a larger and longer recovery period. This report provides: 1) an evaluation of sampling methods, sample size, and methods used during the sampling period, 2) an evaluation of the spatial and temporal variability in reef fish assemblages at selected reef sites inside and outside of VINP, and 3) an evaluation of trends over 17 years of monitoring at the four reference sites. Comparisons of methods were conducted to standardize assessments among years. Several methods were used to evaluate sample size requirements for reef fish monitoring and the results provided a statistically robust justification for sample allocation.

Mission report: a strategy to inventory, characterize, and monitor the marine region within and around the National Park and Monument boundaries of St. John, USVI, July 21- July 31, 2008

The intent of this field mission was to continue ongoing efforts: (1) to spatially characterize and monitor the distribution, abundance and size of both reef fishes and conch within and around the waters of the Virgin Islands National Park (VIIS) and newly established Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument (VICR), (2) to correlate this information to in-situ data collected on associated habitat parameters, (3) to use this information to establish the knowledge base necessary for enacting management decisions in a spatial setting and to establish the efficacy of those management decisions. This work is supported by the National Park Service and NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program’s Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring Project. The report highlights the successes of this mission.

Patterns of interaction in construction team meetingsξ

Sir John Egan’s 1998 report on the construction industry (Construction Task Force 1998) noted its confrontational and adversarial nature. Both the original report and its subsequent endorsement in Accelerating Change (Strategic Forum 2002) called for improved working relationships—so-called ‘integration’—within and between both design and construction aspects. In this paper, we report on our observations of on-site team meetings for a major UK project during its construction phase. We attended a series of team meetings and recorded the patterns of verbal interaction that took place within them. In reporting our findings, we have deliberately used a graphical method for presenting the results, in the expectation that this will make them more readily accessible to designers. Our diagrams of these interaction patterns have already proved to be intuitively and quickly understood, and have generated interest and discussion among both those we observed and others who have seen them. We noted that different patterns of communication occurred in different types of meetings. Specifically, in the problem-solving meeting, there was a richness of interaction that was largely missing from progress meetings and technical meetings. Team members expressed greater satisfaction with this problem-solving meeting where these enriched exchanges took place. By making comparisons between the different patterns, we are also able to explore functional roles and their interactions. From this and other published evidence, we conclude that good teamworking practices depend on a complex interplay of relations and dependencies embedded within the team.

低轮FOX分组密码的碰撞-积分攻击

FOX是最近推出的系列分组密码，它的设计思想基于可证安全的研究结果，且在各种平台上的性能优良．本文利用碰撞攻击和积分攻击相结合的技术分析FOX的安全性，结果显示碰撞-积分攻击比积分攻击有效，攻击对4轮FOX64的计算复杂度是2^45.4，对5轮FOX64的计算复杂度是2^109.4，对6轮FOX64的计算复杂度是2^173.4，对7轮FOX64的计算复杂度是2^237.4，且攻击所需数据量均为2^9；也就是说4轮FOX64／64、5轮FOX64／128、6轮FOX64／192和7轮FOX64／256对本文攻击是不免疫的．

并行最优路径算法及K优路径算法研究

最优路径问题是计算机科学、运筹学、工程设计等领域很多问题的基础。它的应用包括网络路由、电路设计、交通运输、机器人运动规划、事务调度中关键路径的计算以及VLSI设计等。同时，它也为很多最优化问题提供了解决框架，如背包问题、分子生物学中的序列比对、内接多边形的构造和长度受限的霍夫曼编码等都可以转化成最优路径问题进行求解。 求解网络中最优路径的方法可以分为两大类。一种是标号设定算法（label setting ,LS）,另一种是标号改变算法（label correcting ,LC）。由于网络路径算法的应用越来越强调动态性和及时性，使得高效求解最优路径问题变得越来越重要。在这里，我们利用一种高效的网络划分方法，实现了基于网络划分的LS/LC并行算法。实验结果表明，基于这种网络划分的并行算法对于求解最优路径有很好的加速比和扩展比。 在许多更加复杂的应用中，不仅要求计算出最优路径，而且要求给出前K优路径。K优路径是长期研究的泛化最优路径问题，即不但要求得到最优路径，还要得到次短、再次短等路径。 节点s到节点t的K优路径问题可以分为两大类：一类是求解K优非简单路径，即得到的路径可以包含环路；另一类是求解K优简单路径，即路径是简单通路，不包含环路。经过大量学者的研究，求解K优非简单路径相对容易。Fox 于1975年提出了复杂度为O(m+nlogn) 的求解K优非简单路径的算法，最近， Eppstein于1998年给出了一种优化的求解K优非简单路径的算法，时间复杂度达到了O(m+nlogn+k) ，基本上达到了理论下限。 在2000年对E 的算法进行并行化，时间复杂度为 。求解K优简单路径已被证明是更为具有挑战性，这个问题最先由Hofman和Pavley 在1957年进行开始研究，但几乎所有试图解决该问题的算法时间复杂度都达到指数时间。众所周知，Yen提出了一结果比较好的算法，利用现代的数据结构达到O(kn(n+nlogn)) 时间复杂度。John Hershberger于2007年给出了一个新的求K优路径的算法，该算法基于有效率的替代路径算法,相对于以前的替代路径算法，其加速比可达到O(n) 。在本文中，我们基于John Hershberger给出的K优路径算法，尝试给出其并行的方法，并在SMP的高性能计算机上进行了测试。 关键词 并行算法、最优路径、K优路径、网络划分

SIR: A Computer Program for Semantic Information Retrieval

SIR is a computer system, programmed in the LISP language, which accepts information and answers questions expressed in a restricted form of English. This system demonstrates what can reasonably be called an ability to "understand" semantic information. SIR's semantic and deductive ability is based on the construction of an internal model, which uses word associations and property lists, for the relational information normally conveyed in conversational statements. A format-matching procedure extracts semantic content from English sentences. If an input sentence is declarative, the system adds appropriate information to the model. If an input sentence is a question, the system searches the model until it either finds the answer or determines why it cannot find the answer. In all cases SIR reports its conclusions. The system has some capacity to recognize exceptions to general rules, resolve certain semantic ambiguities, and modify its model structure in order to save computer memory space. Judging from its conversational ability, SIR, is a first step toward intelligent man-machine communication. The author proposes a next step by describing how to construct a more general system which is less complex and yet more powerful than SIR. This proposed system contains a generalized version of the SIR model, a formal logical system called SIR1, and a computer program for testing the truth of SIR1 statements with respect to the generalized model by using partial proof procedures in the predicate calculus. The thesis also describes the formal properties of SIR1 and how they relate to the logical structure of SIR.

John Austin, H. L. A. Hart... Oh, And W. Jethro Brown!

Ireland, R. W., Cambrian Law Review, 34 pp.57-69 RAE2008

'You say a minority, sir, we say a nation': The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting (1960-62) and Wales.

Medhurst, J. (2004). 'You say a minority, sir, we say a nation': The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting (1960-62) and Wales. Welsh History Review. 22(2), pp.109-136. RAE2008

Bu fy mywyd yn un diliw o hapus: them?u yn Atgofion John Gwilym Jones

Morgan, M. (2004). Bu fy mywyd yn un diliw o hapus: them?u yn Atgofion John Gwilym Jones. Y Traethodydd. 159, pp.235-251.

?The Lord did give me a particular honour to make [me] a peacemaker? : Howel Harris, John Wesley and Methodist infighting, 1739-1750

Jones, David, '?The Lord did give me a particular honour to make [me] a peacemaker?: Howel Harris, John Wesley and Methodist infighting, 1739-1750', Bulletin of the John Rylands, University Library of Manchester (2003) 85(2-3) pp.73-88 RAE2008

The Deve­lop­ment of Leibniz’s Con­si­de­ra­tions in John Yench’s Pro­ject

The purpose of the article is to present John Yench’s a priori language as a continuation of Leibniz’s idea. Before I proceed to show the project of the Inter-Disciplinary International Reference Language, I would like to discuss the development of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s view on artificial languages. I will try to show the evolution of Leibniz’s universal language: from its ideal conception to a tool which formalizes the whole of human knowledge. Also, I will show Leibniz’s influence on further ideas of artificial language. I will compare his projects with Yench’s language – Idirl. An analysis of Idirl’s main assumptions will be useful to show the degree of continuation of Leibniz’s ideas in the a priori language of John Yench.

The Offstage of Democracy: The Problem of Social Dialogue in John Dewey’s and Walter Lippmann’s Writings

The aim of this article is to present and discuss John Dewey’s and Walter Lippmann’s views on the problem of communication in a democratic society, particularly their views on the question of a role of communication in forming social processes. First part of the paper outlines the framework of this problem and its meaning to the question of possibility of democracy. Part two is concerned with anthropological and socio-political considerations: I discuss the Deweyan and the Lippmannian understanding of individual, society, intelligence and democracy. In part three I examine in detail the problem of communication, with special attention given to the questions of the role of communication in forming social processes, the foundations and conditions of communication, the debaters, and a subject matter of a debate as well as the questions of who and what forms this debate and whether we can form it altogether.