一种自动生产线中单元划分的算法

为了提高自动化生产线的生产效率,降低系统的管理、调度和控制的复杂性,需要将系统划分成单元。本文在为此问题建模时提出了机器关联矩阵的新概念,给出了一种新的描述,并提出了一种有效的算法。这种算法的速度比先前的算法有明显的提高。

关于海洋机器人去耦

本文给出一开启式海洋机器人流体动力学模型、去耦方案选择、系统结构设计和仿真,供同行交流。

银山多金属矿床成矿流体稀土元素地球化学

对江西银山矿床规模不同的矿体、蚀变围岩及其原岩的稀土元素特征进行了对比研究。结果表明，成矿流体的稀土元素以轻稀土富集型，无Ce异常，强烈的Eu正异常而显著地区别于赋矿围岩。热液蚀变作用造成围岩的稀土总量升高12.1%～52.4%，轻重稀土比值降低，但紧邻矿体的稀土含量则低于原岩。导致围岩稀土总量升高有两个因素：（1）通过热液蚀变作用带入了稀土元素；（2）体系主元素（Si）质量迁移而造成稀土元素出现表观浓缩。其中以前者为主导因素。矿体的接触带及其紧邻处的蚀变围岩的REE含量

西南喀斯特流域碳酸盐岩的硫酸侵蚀与碳循环

流域化学侵蚀及其速率与流域生态和环境之间的关系是当前地表地球化学研究的重要前沿领域，其中碳酸盐岩的硫酸风化机制及其与区域碳循环的关系则是科学家们最为关注的科学问题。因此，近年通过研究西南喀斯特流域地表水地球化学对这一科学问题进行了研究，发现西南喀斯特地区河水一般含有较多的SO4^2-，从化学计量学、SO4^2-的占δ^34S和溶解无机碳（DIC）的δ^13C分析发现，硫循环中形成的硫酸广泛参与了流域碳酸盐矿物的溶解和流域侵蚀：西南喀斯特流域碳酸盐岩的侵蚀速率为97t／（km^2·a），消耗COz量为25t／（km^2·a）。对乌江流域河水硫酸盐离子的硫同位素研究结果认为：参与流域侵蚀的硫酸主要来自煤系地层硫化物和矿床硫化物的氧化及大气酸沉降，分别对河水SO4^2-的贡献为50％、27％和20．5％（其余2．5％的SO4^2-为硫酸盐蒸发岩的溶解）；硫酸风化碳酸盐岩向大气净释放CO2的总通量为8．2t／（km^2·a），依此计算西南喀斯特区域向大气释放CO2的通量为4．4×10^12g／a，相当于每年西南碳酸盐岩风化消耗CO2总通量的33％。将乌江流域的研究结果对我国大陆碳酸盐岩分布区域进行相应计算发现，硫酸风化碳酸盐矿物向大气释放的C02总通量为28×10^12g／a，相当于全球硅酸盐风化消耗CO2量的26％。硫酸参与流域侵蚀改变了区域碳循环，人为过程可以通过释放酸沉降、矿业活动和土地利用等形式加速流域侵蚀和影响流域元素的生物地球化学循环.

Caracterização climática da área de atuação da Associação Brasileira de Agronegócios de Ribeirão Preto (ABAG-RP).

2005

‘All the places we were not supposed to go’: a case study of formative class and gender habitus in adventure climbing

This paper explores the origins of meaning in adventurous activities. Specifically, the paper reports on a study of 10 adventure climbers in the Scottish mountaineering community. The study explores how formative experiences have influenced engagement in adventure climbing. Work has been done on the phenomenology of adventure and how individuals interpret and find meaning in the activity—this paper goes a step further and asks where do these dispositions come from? Using Bourdieu’s ideas of field, habitus and forms of capital to frame these experiences in the wider social environment, early experiences are identified that, for the subjects of this study, provide a framework for their later adoption of the ‘adventure habitus’. Among these influences are mainstream education, adventure education in particular, as well as broader formative experiences relating to factors such as gender and class. In addition, the study suggests that accounts differ between males and females in terms of their attitudes and dispositions towards adventure. This may relate to their respective experiences as well as expanding opportunities for both males and females. However, while the ‘adventure field’ provides a context where women can develop transformative identities, these are nearly always subject to male validation.

Memorial Services in honor of the late John B. Finch

Various memorial addresses.

How far to the nearest doctor? Stories of medical missions around the world, by Edward M. Dodd.

http://www.archive.org/details/howfartotheneare012020mbp

Metlakahtla Alaska church manuel [sic].

http://www.archive.org/details/metlakahtlaalask00duncrich

Peasant pioneers; an interpretation of the Slavic peoples in the United States, bx Kenneth D. Miller. Slavic design on cover by B. Mrazek.

http://www.archive.org/details/peasantpioneersa008724mbp

Ancient peoples at new tasks

http://www.archive.org/details/ancientpeoplesat00pricuoft

An Efficient User-Level Shared Memory Mechanism for Application-Specific Extensions

This paper focuses on an efficient user-level method for the deployment of application-specific extensions, using commodity operating systems and hardware. A sandboxing technique is described that supports multiple extensions within a shared virtual address space. Applications can register sandboxed code with the system, so that it may be executed in the context of any process. Such code may be used to implement generic routines and handlers for a class of applications, or system service extensions that complement the functionality of the core kernel. Using our approach, application-specific extensions can be written like conventional user-level code, utilizing libraries and system calls, with the advantage that they may be executed without the traditional costs of scheduling and context-switching between process-level protection domains. No special hardware support such as segmentation or tagged translation look-aside buffers (TLBs) is required. Instead, our ``user-level sandboxing'' mechanism requires only paged-based virtual memory support, given that sandboxed extensions are either written by a trusted source or are guaranteed to be memory-safe (e.g., using type-safe languages). Using a fast method of upcalls, we show how our mechanism provides significant performance improvements over traditional methods of invoking user-level services. As an application of our approach, we have implemented a user-level network subsystem that avoids data copying via the kernel and, in many cases, yields far greater network throughput than kernel-level approaches.

Discovering Frequent Poly-Regions in DNA Sequences

The problem of discovering frequent arrangements of regions of high occurrence of one or more items of a given alphabet in a sequence is studied, and two efficient approaches are proposed to solve it. The first approach is entropy-based and uses an existing recursive segmentation technique to split the input sequence into a set of homogeneous segments. The key idea of the second approach is to use a set of sliding windows over the sequence. Each sliding window keeps a set of statistics of a sequence segment that mainly includes the number of occurrences of each item in that segment. Combining these statistics efficiently yields the complete set of regions of high occurrence of the items of the given alphabet. After identifying these regions, the sequence is converted to a sequence of labeled intervals (each one corresponding to a region). An efficient algorithm for mining frequent arrangements of temporal intervals on a single sequence is applied on the converted sequence to discover frequently occurring arrangements of these regions. The proposed algorithms are tested on various DNA sequences producing results with significant biological meaning.

Dr. Richard Caulfield: antiquarian, scholar and academic librarian

The history of higher learning in Cork can be traced from its late eighteenth-century origins to its present standing within the extended confines of the Neo-Gothic architecture of University College, Cork. This institution, founded in 1845 was the successor and ultimate achievement of its forerunner, the Royal Cork Institution. The opening in 1849 of the college, then known as Queen's College, Cork, brought about a change in the role of the Royal Cork Institution as a centre of education. Its ambition of being the 'Munster College' was subsumed by the Queen's College even though it continued to function as a centre of learning up to the 1805. At this time its co-habitant, the School of Design, received a new wing under the benevolent patronage of William Crawford, and the Royal Cork Institution ceased to exist as the centre for cultural, technical and scientific learning it had set out to be. The building it occupied is today known as the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery.

Variability in north temperate dung beetle assemblages at different spatial and temporal scales

This study examined the spatial and temporal variability of dung beetle assemblages across a variety of scales e.g. from the between-pad scale (examining the effects of dung size and type) to larger spatial scales encompassing southern Ireland. Dung beetle assemblage structure as sampled by dung pad cohort samples and dung baited pitfall trapping were compared. Generally, the rank order of abundance of dung beetle species was significantly correlated between pitfall catches and cohort pad samples. Across different dung sizes, in both pitfall catches and cohort pad samples, the relative abundance of species was frequently significantly different, but the rank order of abundance of dung beetle was usually significantly correlated. Considerable variations in pitfall catches at temporal scales of a few days appeared to be closely related to weather conditions and rotational grazing. However, despite considerable variation in absolute abundances between consecutive days of sampling, assemblage structure typically remained very similar. The relationship between dung pad size and dung beetle colonisation was investigated. In field experiments in which pads of different sizes (0.25 L, 0.5 L, 1.0 L and 1.5 L) were artificially deposited, there was a positive relationship between pad size and both biomass and number of beetles colonising dung pads and pitfall traps. In addition, with one exception, the field experiments indicated a general positive relationship between dung pad size and biomass density (dung beetle biomass per unit dung volume). A laboratory experiment indicated that pat residence times of A. rufipes were significantly correlated with dung pad size. Investigation of naturally-deposited cow dung pads in the field also indicated that both larval numbers and densities were significantly correlated with dung pad size. These results were discussed in the context of theory related to aggregation and coexistence of species, and resource utilisation by organisms in ephemeral, patchy resources. The colonisation by dung beetles of dung types from native herbivores (sheep, horse and cow) was investigated in field experiments. There were significant differences between the dung types in the chemical parameters measured, and there were significant differences in abundances of dung beetles colonising the dung types. Sheep dung was typically the preferred dung type. Data from these field experiments, and from published literature, indicated that dung beetle species can display dung type preferences, in terms of comparisons of both absolute and relative abundances. In addition, data from laboratory experiments indicate that both Aphodius larval production and pat residence times tended to be higher in those dung types which were preferred by adult Aphodius in the colonisation experiments. Data from dung-baited pitfall trapping (from this and another study) at several sites (up to 180 km distant) and over a number of years (between 1991 and 1996) were used to investigate spatial and temporal variation in dung beetle assemblage structure and composition (Aphodius, Sphaeridium and Geotrupes) across a range of scales in southern Ireland. Species richness levels, species composition and rank order of abundances were very similar between the assemblages. The temporal variability between seasons within any year exceeded temporal variability between years. DCA ordinations indicated that there was a similar level of variability between assemblage structure from the between-field (~1km) to regional (~180 km) spatial scales, and between year (6 years) temporal scales. At the biogeographical spatial scale, analysis of data from the literature indicated that there was considerable variability at this scale, largely due to species turnover.