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51 Chandran, RaviEvolution of microstructure and phases in in-situ processed Ti-TiB composites containing high volume fractions of TiB whiskersA series of titanium composites, with varying volume fractions of titanium monoboride (TiB) whiskers, were made by mixing various proportions of titanium (Ti) and titanium diboride (TiB2) powders followed by hot pressing. The phases present were identified by x-ray diffraction.Morphology; diffraction; relative intensity1999
52 Brown, Francis HaroldThe evolution of neogene terrestrial ecosystems in EuropeThe Pliocene-Pleistocene chronology of hominid and other vertebrate evolution in East Africa is largely constrained by isotopic dating and regional intercorrelation of volcanic ash layers. Some eruptions were of sufficient magnitude or duration that their widespread tephra dispersal defines a serie...1999
53 Kuramkote, Ravindra; Carter, JohnExploring the value of supporting multiple DSM protocols in Hardware DSM ControllersThe performance of a hardware distributed shared memory (DSM) system is largely dependent on its architect's ability to reduce the number of remote memory misses that occur. Previous attempts to solve this problem have included measures such as supporting both the CC-NUMA and S-COMA architectures is...DSM; Controllers1999
54 Jones, Bryan W.; Jones, Christopher R.; Czajkowski, LauraFamilial advanced sleep-phase syndrome: a short-period circadian rhythmvariant in humansBiological circadian clocks oscillate with an approximately 24-hour period, are ubiquitous, and presumably confer a selective advantage by anticipating the transitions between day and night. The circadian rhythms of sleep, melatonin secretion and body core temperature are thought to be generated by ...Activity Cycles; Matched-Pair Analysis; Polysomnography1999
55 Clayton, Dale H.Feather-busting bacteriaI ONCE HAD A COLLEAGUE who delighted in the aphorism, which he proudly coined himself, "If it's too small to see with the naked eye, it ain't there." Sadly, this view may as well be true for ornithologists who study birds only through unaided eyes, binoculars, or spotting scopes. But birds can also ...Columba livia; Columbiformes; Ectoparasites; Bacteria; Plumage1999
56 Zhdanov, Michael S.Focusing geophysical inversion imagesA critical problem in inversion of geophysical data is developing a stable inverse problem solution that can simultaneously resolve complicated geological structures. The traditional way to obtain a stable solution is based on maximum smoothness criteria. This approach, however, provides smoothe...Focusing; Geophysical inversion images; Minimum gradient support functionals; MGS1999
57 Gopalakrishnan, GaneshFormalization and analysis of a solution to the PCI 2.1 bus transaction ordering problem: PVS filesThe following PVS files are being put on our technical reports server and are available through anonymous FTP. Look for file "pci_pvs_files.tag.gz" in the TR directory.Bus transaction; Ordering problem1999
58 Miller, Jan D.Free and emulsified oil removal by bubble accelerated flotation (BAF)Operational data from full-scale field applications and pilot tests using the Bubble Accelerated Flotation ( B A R system for the treatment of wastewater are presented. The compact BAF system based on the air-sparged hydrocyclone technology was designed to remove pollutants from industrial waste and...Bubble accelerated flotation; Air-sparged hydrocyclone; Flocculants; Oil-in-water emulsion1999
59 Furse, Cynthia M.Hands-on electromagnetics: microstrip circuit and antenna design laboratories at USUNew laboratories for microstrip circuit and antenna design have recently been developed at Utah State University. These laboratories are used to provide hands-on design, fabrication, and testing experience in two senior/graduate level design comes -- ECE 6130 Microwave Engineering and ECE 6170 Anten...Microstrip circuit design laboratories; Antenna design laboratories1999
60 Zhang, ChengqiangHardware-only stream prediction + cache prefetching + dynamic access orderingThe speed gap between processors and memory system is becoming the performance bottleneck for many applications, and computations with strided access patterns are among those that suffer most. The vectors used in such applications lack temporal and often spatial locality, and are usually too large t...Speed gap; Stream prediction; Cache prefetching; Dynamic access ordering1999
61 Warner, Homer R.The HELP Hospital Information System: Update 1998Biomedical Informatics1999
62 Truong, ThanhHigh level ab initio and density functional theory evaluation of combustion reaction energetics: NO2 and HONO elimination from dimethylnitramineDimethylnitramine (DMNA) is used as a model system for investigating accurate and efficient electronic structure methods for nitramines. Critical points on the potential energy surfaces of DMNA, CH3NCH3, CH3NCH2, NO2, HONO, and the transition state to HONO elimination were located through geometry o...Dimethylnitramine; DMNA; Nitramines; Combustion reaction energetics1999
63 Breaderson, Dean J.The I3Stick: an inexpensive, immersive, interaction deviceVirtual environments require interaction devices that are intuitive and ergonomic, yet capable of many input parameters. Many devices satisfying these requirements can be expensive, difficult to manipulate, and often require the integration of large software libraries with existing applications. We ...Virtual environments; I3Stick; Interaction devices1999
64 Baehr, Wolfgang; Thulin, CraigImmunolocalization and divergent roles of phosducin and phosducin-like protein in the retinaPURPOSE: These investigations were undertaken to compare and contrast the roles of phosducin and phosducin-like protein in the retina. METHODS: Phosducin and phosducin-like protein were compared in an in vitro assay measuring their inhibition of transducin binding to light-activated rhodopsin. The t...Antibody Specificity; Protein Binding; Rod Outer Segments1999
65 Truong, ThanhImportance of polarization in simulations of condensed phased energetic materialsAn embedded cluster model is used to estimate the molecular dipole moment of crystalline dimethylnitramine (DMNA). The electrostatic potential due to the crystal is included in the calculation via the SCREEP (surface charge representation of the electrostatic embedding potential) approach. The resul...Dimethylnitramine; DMNA; Embedded cluster model1999
66 Brunvand, Erik L.; Carter, JohnImpulse: building a smarter memory controllerImpulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through configurable physical address remapping. By remapping physical addresses, applications control how their data is ac...1999
67 Gondolo, PaoloIndirect detection of dark matter in km-size neutrino telescopesNeutrino telescopes of kilometer size are currently being planned. They will be two or three orders of magnitude larger than presently operating detectors, but they will have a much higher muon energy threshold. We discuss the trade-off between area and energy threshold for indirect detection of ne...Neutrino telescopes; Energy threshold; Neutralino annihilations; Supersymmetric models1999
68 Riloff, Ellen M.Information extraction as a stepping stone toward story understandingHistorically story understanding systems have depended on a great deal of handcrafted knowledge. Natural language understanding systems that use conceptual knowledge structures (Schank and Abelson 1977; Cullingford 1978; Wilensky 1978; Carbonell 1979; Lehnert 1981; Kolodner 1983) typically rely on ...Information extraction; Story understanding1999
69 Parker, Steven G.; Hansen, Charles D.; Shirley, Peter S.Interactive ray tracing for volume visualizationWe present a brute-force ray tracing system for interactive volume visualization, The system runs on a conventional (distributed) shared-memory multiprocessor machine. For each pixel we trace a ray through a volume to compute the color for that pixel. Although this method has high intrinsic computa...Ray tracing; Volume visualization; Isosurfaces; Maximum-intensity projection; Traversal optimizations1999
70 Johnson, Christopher R.; Parker, Steven G.; Hansen, Charles D.Interactive simulation and visualizationMost of us perform data analysis and visualization only after everything else is finished, which often means that we don't discover errors invalidating the results of our simulation until postprocessing. A better approach would be to improve the integration of simulation and visualization into the...Computational steering; Interactive simulation; Isosurfaces1999
71 Miller, Jan D.Internal reflection spectroscopy for FTIR analysis of carboxylate adsorption by semi-soluble salt mineralsFlotation chemists have long sought to unravel the mechanisms of carboxylate collector adsorption by semi-soluble salt minerals. In particular, the adsorption density of adsorbed carboxylates, adsorption kinetics, speciation (chemisorbed, physisorbed), orientation, and conformation are of interest....Carboxylate collector adsorption; Salt minerals; Internal reflection spectroscopy1999
72 Nicoll, KathleenInterpreting Martian paleoclimates from valley network morphologies: insights from terrestrial analogues in EgyptMorphogenetic classification of Martian landforms has provided a context for the inference of surface processes and paleoclimatic conditions on Mars [1][2][3][4][5][6]. The complexity of extensive valley network patterns (Figure 1) suggests that fluvial conditions formerly existed on Mars [7]; howe...1999
73 Zhang, LixinISIM: The simulator for the impulse adaptable memory systemThis document describes ISIM, the simulator for the Impulse Adaptable Memory System. Impulse adds two new features to a conventional memory system. First, it supports a configurable, extra level of address remapping at the memory controller. Second, it supports prefetching at the memory controller. ...ISIM; Impulse Adaptable Memory System; Memory systems1999
74 Hansen, Charles D.Isosurface extraction in time-varying fields using a temporal branch-on-need tree (T-BON)The Temporal Branch-on-Need Tree (T-BON) extends the threedimensional branch-on-need octree for time-varying isosurface extraction. At each time step, only those portions of the tree and data necessary to construct the current isosurface are read from disk. This algorithm can thus exploit the tempor...Isosurfaces; Time-dependent scalar field visualization; Octree; Multiresolution methods1999
75 Wight, Charles AlbertKinetic study of stabilizing effect of oxygen on thermal degradation of poly(methyl methacrylate)The thermal degradation of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) has been studied in both pure nitrogen and oxygen-containing atmospheres. The presence of oxygen increases the initial decomposition temperature by 70 °C. The stabilizing effect of oxygen may be explained by forming thermally stable radica...Poly(methyl methacrylate); PMMA; Thermal degradation; Isoconversional method1999
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