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2021-01-01

Benny, Bijin

The advent of the internet and the World Wide Web has made vast amounts of information accessible at our fingertips. It is said that an average person living in the modern society is exposed to as much information in a day as a person who lived 100 years ago would have seen in a whole year. But...

1980

Jenkerson, C. G., Hickman, M., Charlton, S. E. D.

Studies concentrating upon the epilithon were conducted in five tributary rivers flowing into the Athabasca River: the Muskeg, Steepbank, Hangingstone, MacKay, and Ells rivers. The species composition of the epilithic algae was determined during June to November 1978. Diatoms and blue-green...

2005

Wu, Gang, Lin, Guohui, You, Jia-Huai

Technical report TR05-05. A lookahead branch-and-bound algorithm is proposed for solving the Maximum Quartet Consistency Problem where the input is a complete set of quartets on the taxa and the goal is to construct a phylogeny which satisfies the maximum number of given quartets. Such a...

1990

Wujastyk, Dominik, Barker, Judith, Hooper, Katy

Preface: This document is intended to be helpful to Library Assistants and others who have tours of duty at the library’s Enquiry Desk. The manual attempts to combine simplicity with completeness, an admittedly foolhardy aim. It is a grass-roots document, in the sense that it is written ‘from...

2007

Wang, Tao, Basu, Anup

Technical report TR07-01. A method for quantitative measurement of gas volume changes in upper airway is presented in this paper. The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of a novel Cone Beam Computerized Tomography (CBCT) technique for quantitative measurement of gas volume in upper...

2005

Schmidt, Mark

Technical report TR05-14. The first section of this paper describes a method for correcting inter-slice intensity variations in MR images. The method does not rely on a tissue model or segmentation, and is not affected by the presence of abnormalities. The second section of this work extends...

1995

de Bruin, Arie, Plaat, Aske, Schaeffer, Jonathan, Pijls, Wim

Technical report TR95-15. This paper has three main contributions to our understanding of fixed-depth minimax search: (A) A new formulation for Stockman's SSS* algorithm, based on Alpha-Beta, is presented. It solves all the perceived drawbacks of SSS, finally transforming it into a practical...

2008-12-19

Schneider, Richard R.

This paper provides a framework for modeling the effects of climate change on key indicators of interest to regional land-use planning teams. The framework is based on input from a technical workshop held on October 16, 2008, as well as follow-up with technical experts and a review of the...

c1976

Grant, Leon Hadsley, MacGregor, James G. (James Grierson), 1934-

Structural engineering report SER 54 | SER-ID SER54

2023-01-01

Tara Milbrandt, Ondine Park

Loneliness is a compelling, complex, and multifaceted social issue of the times, which cannot be reduced to a personal trouble writ large. Loneliness is not one thing. There is a need for a broad and multidimensional social approach to loneliness—even broader than a public health approach—that...