An investigation of the 28-year climatic record of the Pacific Northwest in Oregon and Washington reveals the natural seasons, subseasons, and singularities evident in
the record. So much emphasis is placed on the topography and temperature of each station site that the term topothermal is introduced and defended. Statistical analyses...
Cytokinesis separates replicated chromosomes and cytoplasm into two
daughter cells. In animal cells, this is achieved by the formation of a cleavage
furrow that bisects the mitotic (or meiotic) spindle. It is known that the mitotic
apparatus defines the cell cleavage plane. However, it is not clear how the mitotic...
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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF
G. Bradley Alsop for the
The Horseshoe Gulch area includes 16 square miles in the
Eastern Paleozoic Belt of the Klamath Mountains geologic province
north of Callahan, California. Fossiliferous Late Ordovician and
Silurian limestones and unfossiliferous greywackes, arkoses, shales,
mudstones, schists, and phyllites, and other terrigenous clastic
rocks are exposed in a broad fault zone...
An operator calculus for transforming assignment statements, loops, and choice constructs into equation-of-state expressions is shown to be powerful enough to synthetically execute a given computer program and its test data. A demonstration of the program is equivalent to applying an operator formalism to the equation-of-state in order to reduce...
Heuristics for static scheduling of task graphs using list scheduling techniques have continued to improve by adding real-world factors such as processor speed, network transmission speed, interconnection topology, and link contention considerations to the basic task graph model. Yet, the resulting schedules do not fully model program loops and branches,...
It is often necessary in communication systems to detect very
small signals that are buried in noise. One device used to accomplish
this is a lock-in amplifier. Initially the theory of operation is considered.
Then the circuit design of a low cost lock-in amplifier is
given. The amplifier, employing linear...
Most fishes exhibit differences in activity patterns from day to night, with a switch from
high to low activity at dusk and reverse at dawn. Marine reef fishes show similar behavior
among sites, despite dissimilar species assemblages, suggesting that common selection pressures
are leading to convergent behavior. Few studies to...