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K. Beck 《Journal of mathematical biology》1984,19(1):63-77
An SIS epidemic transmitted by two similar strains of parasite acting on a host population of three genotypes which differ in their reaction to the disease is modelled and analyzed. Singular perturbation techniques are used to reduce the original system of nine differential equations to a coupled system of two equations describing the slowtime coevolution of gene frequency and parasite strain frequency.Karen Christine Beck died June 25, 1983 at home.Born February 8, 1952 in Madison, Wisconsin, She received a B.A. degree in 1974 from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1980 from the University of Iowa. Since that time she has been an instructor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Utah. She was to become an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, beginning Autumn, 1983. Dr. Beck's areas of specialization in mathematics were Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Biology. She published numerous research articles that resolved various problems in these areas. 相似文献
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Summary The construction and response of a novel biosensor for urea are described. This sensor utilizes a layer of jack bean meal immobilized at the surface of an ammonia gassensing probe. The resulting sensor is found to be a viable alternative to the enzyme-based sensor.Visiting from the Department of Chemistry, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio as a University of Iowa, Department of Chemistry 1983 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow. 相似文献
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Patricia Adair Gowaty 《Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)》1992,3(3):217-249
Evolutionary biology and feminism share a variety of philosophical and practical concerns. I have tried to describe how a
perspective from both evolutionary biology and feminism can accelerate the achievement of goals for both feminists and evolutionary
biologists. In an early section of this paper I discuss the importance of variation to the disciplines of evolutionary biology
and feminism. In the section entitled “Control of Female Reproduction” I demonstrate how insight provided by participation
in life as woman and also as a feminist suggests testable hypotheses about the evolution of social behavior—hypotheses that
are applicable to our investigations of the evolution of social behavior in nonhuman animals. In the section on “Deceit, Self-deception,
and Patriarchal Reversals” I have overtly conceded that evolutionary biology, a scientific discipline, also represents a human
cultural practice that, like other human cultural practices, may in parts and at times be characterized by deceit and self-deception.
In the section on “Femininity” I have indicated how questions cast and answered and hypotheses tested from an evolutionary
perspective can serve women and men struggling with sexist oppression.
Patricia Adair Gowaty studies the evolution of social behavior, particularly mating systems and sex allocation, primarily
in birds. She is most well-known for her long-term studies of eastern bluebirds, which began in 1977 and are on-going. She
was an undergraduate at H. Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University (1963–1967). In the late sixties and early seventies,
while employed at the Bronx Zoo (New York Zoological Society), she belonged to a feminist “consciousness-raising” group. She
started graduate school in 1974 at the University of Georgia and received her Ph.D. from Clemson University (1980). She had
a postdoctoral position at the University of Oklahoma (1982–1983) and a visiting faculty position at Cornell University through
the Visiting Professorships for Women NSF program (1983–1984) before returning to her bluebird study sites at Clemson in 1985.
She has supported herself and her research efforts throughout her academic career on a series of awards and grants. She is
currently (1990–1995) supported by a Research Scientist Development Award from The National Institute of Mental Health. 相似文献
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David C. Geary M. Catherine DeSoto Mary K. Hoard Melanie Skaggs Sheldon M. Lynne Cooper 《Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.)》2001,12(4):299-320
The relation between sex hormones and responses to partner infidelity was explored in two studies reported here. The first
confirmed the standard sex difference in relationship jealousy, that males (n=133) are relatively more distressed by a partner’s sexual infidelity and females (n=159) by a partner’s emotional infidelity. The study also revealed that females using hormone-based birth control (n=61) tended more toward sexual jealousy than did other females, and reported more intense affective responses to partner infidelity
(n=77). In study two, 47 females were assessed four times across one month. Patterns of response to partner infidelity did not
vary by week of menstrual cycle, but significant relations between salivary estradiol level and jealousy responses were obtained
during the time of rising and high fertility risk. The implications, at least for females, are that any evolved psychological,
affective, or behavioral dispositions regarding reproduction-related relationships are potentially moderated by estradiol,
and that the use of synthetic hormones may disrupt this relation.
David C. Geary is the Frederick A. Middlebush Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri at Columbia.
He has published nearly 100 articles and chapters across a wide range of topics, including cognitive and developmental psychology,
education, evolutionary biology, and medicine. His two books, Children’s Mathematical Development (1984) and Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences (1988), have been published by the American Psychological Association.
M. Catherine DeSoto recently completed her Ph.D. in psychological sciences at the University of Missouri at Columbia and is
currently assistant professor of psychobiology at the University of Northern Iowa. Her research primarily focuses on the interface
between biology and behavior, including the relation between sex hormones and personality disorders.
Mary K. Hoard is completing her Ph.D. studies in psychological sciences at the University of Missouri at Columbia and is currently
a research specialist in the Department of Psychological Sciences. Her research interests focus on children’s cognitive development,
as well as the relation between sleep and cognitive and psychological functioning.
Melanie Skaggs Sheldon is a graduate student in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri at
Columbia. Her research interests include social cooperation, sexual behavior, and personality, as understood from an evolutionary
perspective.
M. Lynne Cooper is a professor of psychological sciences and director of the training program in social psychology at the
University of Missouri at Columbia. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Personality and the author of more than 60 articles and chapters in the areas of personality and social psychology. Her primary research
efforts involve directing a longitudinal study of risky sexual behavior of adolescents and young adults. 相似文献
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An attacker’s connection can propagate quickly to different parts of a transparent All-Optical Network. Such attacks affect
the normal traffic and cause a quality of service degradation or outright service denial. Attack monitors can collect the
information of each link and each node to help diagnose the attacker’s exact location.
Quick detection and localization of an attack source helps avoid losing large amounts of data in an all-optical network. However,
to detect attack sources, it is not necessary to put monitors on all nodes. Since not every wavelength on every link is being
used all the time, we propose to use the idle wavelengths to setup diagnostic connections and obtain the necessary information
needed for diagnosis purposes. We show that placing a relatively small number of monitors at some key nodes in a network is
sufficient to achieve level of performance. However, the monitor placement policy, routing policy, and diagnosis method are
challenging problems.
We, in this paper, first develop a monitor placement policy, a test connection policy, and a routing policy based on our definition
of crosstalk attack and monitor node models. With these policies, we show that we can always detect and localize the malicious
connections as long as there is no more than one malicious connection on each wavelength in the whole network. After this,
we develop a scalable diagnosis method, which can localize the sources of the such malicious attacks in a fast manner.
Arun K. Somani is currently Jerry R. Junkins Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He earned
his MSEE and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1983 and 1985, respectively.
He worked as Scientific Officer for Govt. of India, New Delhi from 1974 to 1982. From 1985 to 1997, he was a faculty member
at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, where he was a Professor of EE and CSE from 1995 onwards. From 1997 to 2002,
he served as David C. Nicholas Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. Professor Somani’s
research interests are in the area of fault tolerant computing, computer communication and networks, wireless and optical
networking, computer architecture, and parallel computer systems.
Tao Wu received the B.S. and M.S.E.E. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology
of China, Sichuan, China, in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer and electrical engineering from
Iowa State University, Ames, in 2003.
He is currently a Software Engineer with Microsoft Corporation. His research interests are in the area of WDM-based optical
networking, network security, and image processing. 相似文献
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《Expert review of proteomics》2013,10(4):349-351
Baukje de Roos is a principal investigator at the University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health. She investigates mechanisms through which dietary fats and fatty acids, and also polyphenols, affect parameters involved in the development of heart disease in vivo. This is achieved not only by measuring their effect on conventional risk markers for heart disease but also by assessing their effect on new markers that are being developed through proteomic and mass spectrometry methods. She obtained her PhD in Human Nutrition at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, in January 2000, after which she was appointed as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Vascular Biochemistry, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline. In June 2001 she joined the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen. She is currently working for the University of Aberdeen, where her research is funded by the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Research and Analysis Directorate (RERAD). She is an active member of the European Nutrigenomics Organisation (NuGO), an EU-funded Network of Excellence, which merges the nutrigenomics activities of its 23 partners across Europe. 相似文献
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Etan Markowitz 《Biochemical genetics》1970,4(5):595-601
Three models of codon fixation variability are formulated. The first assumes that all codons have the same fixation rate. The second assumes that some codons are invariant and that all variable codons have the same fixation rate. The third assumes that some codons are invariant and that the variable codons comprise two classes, all members of each class having the same fixation rate. Maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters and tests of goodness-of-fit are given for each model.Paper number 1383 from the Laboratory of Genetics. Work performed in part at the University of Iowa, Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health and Department of Statistics, Iowa City, Iowa. Computing supported by the Graduate College, University of Iowa. 相似文献
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Ettinger RL 《Gerodontology》2012,29(2):e1252-e1260
doi: 10.1111/j.1741‐2358.2011.00471.x A 30‐year review of a geriatric dentistry teaching programme Objective: To review the development of the Geriatric Dental and Special Needs Education programme at the University of Iowa over the last 30 years. Background: The programme at Iowa evolved from a didactic elective programme taught by a single faculty person to a required didactic and clinical programme, which includes a Special Care Clinic in the dental school and a mobile unit with portable dental equipment which serves ten area nursing homes with comprehensive care. Materials and methods: Changes have been made in the programme over time based on formal and informal feedback from students and graduates, and we have also looked at the impact of the programme on dental services to our target population. Results: The factors influencing the curriculum development are identified and discussed. Conclusion: As no dental schools are the same, some general applications are suggested from the Iowa experience. 相似文献
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Distribution,abundance, and mortality of small littoral-zone fishes in Sparkling Lake,Wisconsin 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
John Lyons 《Environmental Biology of Fishes》1987,18(2):93-107
Synopsis During 1982 and 1983, seining, fyke netting, and SCUBA observation were used to determine the depth distribution, abundance, and mortality of small littoral-zone fishes (bluntnose minnows, shiners [primarily mimic shiners], yellow perch, logperch, johnny darters, Iowa darters, and mottled sculpins) in Sparkling Lake, a small moderately-productive lake in northern Wisconsin. During the summer cyprinids, darters, and mottled sculpins were most abundant in areas shallower than 1 m, while yellow perch were most abundant at depths of 2 to 4 m. Between August and October cyprinids and yellow perch moved to water 1 to 2 m deeper, while the depth distributions of darters and mottled sculpins generally remained unchanged. Large within- and between-year variations in abundances and mortality rates were evident for all species. In 1982, most of the mortality of cyprinids and darters occurred during a short period in late spring and early summer, with relatively little afterwards. In 1983, this pattern was reversed for cyprinids and Iowa darters, but not logperch and johnny darters. Between-year differences in abundance were greatest for young-of-the-year yellow perch; they were 400 times more numerous in 1983 than in 1982. Darters had their lowest mortality rates and highest reproductive success in 1983, while the opposite was true for cyprinids. This lack of synchrony between darters and cyprinids suggests that these two taxa responded differently to changes in environmental conditions in Sparkling Lake. Predation may have accounted for much of the variability in darter population parameters, but appeared to be a less important source of variation for cyprinid population parameters. 相似文献
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Transplant patients are at an increased risk of developing lymphoproliferative disorders (LPDs). To examine the role of cytology in diagnosing LPDs, the cytologic reports on all transplant patients seen at the University of Iowa from January 1983 to July 1988 were reviewed. Thirteen of 649 transplant patients developed LPD; 10 of those 13 patients had a total of 25 cytologic specimens obtained within two months of the diagnosis of LPD available for review. Ten specimens (four cerebrospinal fluids [CSFs], four effusions, one respiratory specimen and one liver aspirate) from six patients were positive for LPD. Immunophenotypic or immunogenotypic studies on cytologic specimens from four patients showed a clonal B-cell process. The cytologic features ranged from those of a plasmacytoid LPD to those of an immunoblastic or large-cell lymphoma. An additional seven specimens (five CSFs, one effusion and one liver aspirate) from four patients were suspicious for LPD, exhibiting rare atypical cells or cells with plasmacytoid features. Ten patients died with LPD within 12 months; three are alive. Cytologic specimens, especially body fluids, are frequently positive in LPD and may be useful diagnostically. Since the differential diagnosis includes reactive lymphocytosis, confirmatory immunophenotypic or immunogenotypic studies are recommended. 相似文献
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Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in common carp, Cyprinus carpio, from the Des Moines River, Iowa, were assessed for variability related to sampling location, sampling period, fish age, and fat content. Concentrations were highest at a location near the City of Des Moines; they were substantially lower in 1981 than in 1980. Age and fat content had little influence on PCB concentrations in carp. Overall concentrations were some of the lowest recorded in the United States and Canada in recent times.The Unit is jointly supported by Iowa State University, the Iowa State Conservation Commission, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.Journal Paper No. 10754 of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa. Project No. 2465. Financed by a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Army Corps of Engineers and made available through the Engineering Research Institute, Iowa State University. 相似文献
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An improved method for determining codon variability in a gene and its application to the rate of fixation of mutations in evolution 总被引:33,自引:0,他引:33
If one has the amino acid sequences of a set of homologous proteins as well as their phylogenetic relationships, one can easily determine the minimum number of mutations (nucleotide replacements) which must have been fixed in each codon since their common ancestor. It is found that for 29 species of cytochrome c the data fit the assumption that there is a group of approximately 32 invariant codons and that the remainder compose two Poisson-distributed groups of size 65 and 16 codons, the latter smaller group fixing mutations at about 3.2 times the rate of the larger. It is further found that the size of the invariant group increases as the range of species is narrowed. Extrapolation suggests that less than 10% of the codons in a given mammalian cytochrome c gene are capable of accepting a mutation. This is consistent with the view that at any one point in time only a very restricted number of positions can fix mutations but that as mutations are fixed the positions capable of accepting mutations also change so that examination of a wide range of species reveals a wide range of altered positions. We define this restricted group as the concomitantly variable codons. Given this restriction, the fixation rates for mutations in concomitantly variable codons in cytochrome c and fibrinopeptide A are not very different, a result which should be the case if most of these mutations are in fact selectively neutral as Kimura suggests.Paper number 1382 from the Laboratory of Genetics. Work performed in part at the University of Iowa, Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health and Department of Statistics, Iowa City, Iowa. Computing supported by the Graduate College, University of Iowa. 相似文献
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A flexible multi-dimensional QoS performance measure framework for distributed heterogeneous systems
Jong-Kook Kim Debra A. Hensgen Taylor Kidd Howard Jay Siegel David St. John Cynthia Irvine Tim Levin N. Wayne Porter Viktor K. Prasanna Richard F. Freund 《Cluster computing》2006,9(3):281-296
When users’ tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment (e.g., cluster of heterogeneous computers) are allocated
resources, the total demand placed on some system resources by the tasks, for a given interval of time, may exceed the availability
of those resources. In such a case, some tasks may receive degraded service or be dropped from the system. One part of a measure
to quantify the success of a resource management system (RMS) in such a distributed environment is the collective value of
the tasks completed during an interval of time, as perceived by the user, application, or policy maker. The Flexible Integrated
System Capability (FISC) measure presented here is a measure for quantifying this collective value. The FISC measure is a
flexible multi-dimensional measure such that any task attribute can be inserted and may include priorities, versions of a
task or data, deadlines, situational mode, security, application- and domain-specific QoS, and task dependencies. For an environment
where it is important to investigate how well data communication requests are satisfied, the data communication request satisfied
can be the basis of the FISC measure instead of tasks completed. The motivation behind the FISC measure is to determine the
performance of resource management schemes if tasks have multiple attributes that needs to be satisfied. The goal of this
measure is to compare the results of different resource management heuristics that are trying to achieve the same performance
objective but with different approaches.
This research was supported by the DARPA/ITO Quorum Program, by the DARPA/ISO BADD Program and the Office of Naval Research
under ONR grant number N00014-97-1-0804, by the DARPA/ITO AICE program under contract numbers DABT63-99-C-0010 and DABT63-99-C-0012,
and by the Colorado State University George T. Abell Endowment. Intel and Microsoft donated some of the equipment used in
this research.
Jong-Kook Kim is pursuing a Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University (expected in August
2004). Jong-Kook received his M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in May 2000. He received
his B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Korea University, Seoul, Korea in 1998. He has presented his work at several
international conferences and has been a reviewer for numerous conferences and journals. His research interests include heterogeneous
distributed computing, computer architecture, performance measure, resource management, evolutionary heuristics, and power-aware
computing. He is a student member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and ACM.
Debra Hensgen is a member of the Research and Evaluation Team at OpenTV in Mountain View, California. OpenTV produces middleware for set-top
boxes in support of interactive television. She received her Ph.D. in the area of Distributed Operating Systems from the University
of Kentucky. Prior to moving to private industry, as an Associate Professor in the systems area, she worked with students
and colleagues to design and develop tools and systems for resource management, network re-routing algorithms and systems
that preserve quality of service guarantees, and visualization tools for performance debugging of parallel and distributed
systems. She has published numerous papers concerning her contributions to the Concurra toolkit for automatically generating
safe, efficient concurrent code, the Graze parallel processing performance debugger, the SAAM path information base, and the
SmartNet and MSHN Resource Management Systems.
Taylor Kidd is currently a Software Architect for Vidiom Systems in Portland Oregon. His current work involves the writing of multi-company
industrial specifications and the architecting of software systems for the digital cable television industry. He has been
involved in the establishment of international specifications for digital interactive television in both Europe and in the
US. Prior to his current position, Dr. Kidd has been a researcher for the US Navy as well as an Associate Professor at the
Naval Postgraduate School. Dr Kidd received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1991 from the University of California,
San Diego.
H. J. Siegel was appointed the George T. Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado
State University (CSU) in August 2001, where he is also a Professor of Computer Science. In December 2002, he became the first
Director of the CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC). ISTeC is a university-wide organization for promoting,
facilitating, and enhancing CSU’s research, education, and outreach activities pertaining to the design and innovative application
of computer, communication, and information systems. From 1976 to 2001, he was a professor at Purdue University. He received
two BS degrees from MIT, and the MA, MSE, and PhD degrees from Princeton University. His research interests include parallel
and distributed computing, heterogeneous computing, robust computing systems, parallel algorithms, parallel machine interconnection
networks, and reconfigurable parallel computer systems. He has co-authored over 300 published papers on parallel and distributed
computing and communication, is an IEEE Fellow, is an ACM Fellow, was a Coeditor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed
Computing, and was on the Editorial Boards of both the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and the IEEE
Transactions on Computers. He was Program Chair/Co-Chair of three major international conferences, General Chair/Co-Chair
of four international conferences, and Chair/Co-Chair of five workshops. He has been an international keynote speaker and
tutorial lecturer, and has consulted for industry and government.
David St. John is Chief Information Officer for WeatherFlow, Inc., a weather services company specializing in coastal weather observations
and forecasts. He received a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He spent several years
as the head of staff on the Management System for Heterogeneous Networks project in the Computer Science Department of the
Naval Postgraduate School. His current relationship with cluster computing is as a user of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling
System (RAMS), a numerical weather model developed at Colorado State University. WeatherFlow runs RAMS operationally on a
Linux-based cluster.
Cynthia Irvine is a Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. She received her Ph.D. from
Case Western Reserve University and her B.A. in Physics from Rice University. She joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate
School in 1994. Previously she worked in industry on the development of high assurance secure systems. In 2001, Dr. Irvine
received the Naval Information Assurance Award. Dr. Irvine is the Director of the Center for Information Systems Security
Studies and Research at the Naval Postgraduate School. She has served on special panels for NSF, DARPA, and OSD. In the area
of computer security education Dr. Irvine has most recently served as the general chair of the Third World Conference on Information
Security Education and the Fifth Workshop on Education in Computer Security. She co-chaired the NSF workshop on Cyber-security
Workforce Needs Assessment and Educational Innovation and was a participant in the Computing Research Association/NSF sponsored
Grand Challenges in Information Assurance meeting. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Information Warfare
and has served as a reviewer and/or program committee member of a variety of security related conferences. She has written
over 100 papers and articles and has supervised the work of over 80 students. Professor Irvine is a member of the ACM, the
AAS, a life member of the ASP, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Timothy E. Levin is a Research Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has spent over 18 years working in the design, development,
evaluation, and verification of secure computer systems, including operating systems, databases and networks. His current
research interests include high assurance system design and analysis, development of models and methods for the dynamic selection
of QoS security attributes, and the application of formal methods to the development of secure computer systems.
Viktor K. Prasanna received his BS in Electronics Engineering from the Bangalore University and his MS from the School of Automation, Indian
Institute of Science. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983. Currently,
he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering as well as in the Department of Computer Science at the University
of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is also an associate member of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences (CAMS)
at USC. He served as the Division Director for the Computer Engineering Division during 1994–98. His research interests include
parallel and distributed systems, embedded systems, configurable architectures and high performance computing. Dr. Prasanna
has published extensively and consulted for industries in the above areas. He has served on the organizing committees of several
international meetings in VLSI computations, parallel computation, and high performance computing. He is the Steering Co-chair
of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium [merged IEEE International Parallel Processing Symposium
(IPPS) and the Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP)] and is the Steering Chair of the International Conference
on High Performance Computing(HiPC). He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
and the Proceedings of the IEEE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers. He was the founding Chair
of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Richard F. Freund is the originator of GridIQ’s network scheduling concepts that arose from mathematical and computing approaches he developed
for the Department of Defense in the early 1980’s. Dr. Freund has over twenty-five years experience in computational mathematics,
algorithm design, high performance computing, distributed computing, network planning, and heterogeneous scheduling. Since
1989, Dr. Freund has published over 45 journal articles in these fields. He has also been an editor of special editions of
IEEE Computer and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. In addition, he is a founder of the Heterogeneous Computing
Workshop, held annually in conjunction with the International Parallel Processing Symposium. Dr. Freund is the recipient of
many awards, which includes the prestigious Department of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1984 and the Lauritsen-Bennet
Award from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego, California. 相似文献
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The Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) owns the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (BMB). This is an international journal devoted to the interface of mathematics and biology. At the 2003 SMB annual meeting
in Dundee the Society asked the editor of the BMB to produce an analysis of impact factor, subject matter of papers, submission
rates etc. Other members of the society were interested in the handling times of articles and wanted comparisons with other
(appropriate) journals. In this article we present a brief history of the journal and report on how the journal impact factor
has grown substantially in the last few years. We also present an analysis of subject areas of published papers over the past
two years. We finally present data on times from receipt of paper to acceptance, acceptance to print (and to online publication)
and compare these data with some other journals.
This is an expanded version of a report published in the Society for Mathematical Biology Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 3, pp. 9–12, 2003.
These authors contributed equally. 相似文献
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Five SIRS epidemiological models for populations of varying size are considered. The incidences of infection are given by mass action terms involving the number of infectives and either the number of susceptibles or the fraction of the population which is susceptible. When the population dynamics are immigration and deaths, thresholds are found which determine whether the disease dies out or approaches an endemic equilibrium. When the population dynamics are unbalanced births and deaths proportional to the population size, thresholds are found which determine whether the disease dies out or remains endemic and whether the population declines to zero, remains finite or grows exponentially. In these models the persistence of the disease and disease-related deaths can reduce the asymptotic population size or change the asymptotic behavior from exponential growth to exponential decay or approach to an equilibrium population size.Research supported by Centers for Disease Control contract 200-87-0515. Support services provided at the University of Iowa Center for Advanced Studies 相似文献
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Mathematical Immunogenetics I argued for the development of mathematics as a language for immunogenetics. A three-fold factorization of a reaction matrix was seen to be the important form of a model of a first order immunogenetic system. In the present paper, results of the authors on determining this factorization are reworked from a physical perspective and presented in an algorithmic form that can be used to compute a labeling matrix from data. Computer programs to perform these computations are in preparation. 相似文献
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Understanding factors that influence the spread of wildlife diseases can assist in designing effective surveillance programs and appropriate management strategies. Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal prion disease of cervids, was detected in south-central Wisconsin in 2002 and over time has been identified increasingly farther west in the state leading to concerns about CWD spreading to Iowa. Our objective was to characterize genetic connectivity between white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations in eastern Iowa and western Wisconsin to assess the risk of CWD-infected deer dispersing to Iowa. We hypothesized that the Mississippi River, which separates the states, may restrict the movement of deer and thus disease. We genotyped hunter-harvested female deer collected from both states at 12 nuclear microsatellite loci (n = 249) and sequenced a portion of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region (n = 173). Microsatellite data indicated there was low genetic differentiation (ΦPT = 0.005) between states and weak spatial genetic structure across the study area as a whole. Verifying expectations that dispersal in deer is male-biased, maternally inherited mtDNA data showed stronger spatial structuring across the study area and greater genetic differentiation between the states (ΦPT = 0.052) such that clustering analysis grouped the majority of deer from Iowa and Wisconsin into separate clusters. The low level of genetic differentiation between deer in northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin, primarily the result of dispersing males who have greater CWD prevalence than females, indicates that the Mississippi River is unlikely to prohibit the westward spread of CWD, and underscores the importance of continued CWD surveillance in Iowa. © 2011 The Wildlife Society. 相似文献
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《Plains anthropologist》2013,58(81):183-219
AbstractDue to strong Indian opposition and ambiguous state laws, Iowa archaeologists have found it impossible to investigate aboriginal cemetery areas in recent years. The accidental discovery of an Archaic ossuary at a construction site on the grounds of the Lewis Central School in southwestern Iowa provided a turning point in Indian-archaeologist relations which ultimately led to a resolution of the problem through the enactment of new sections in the Iowa legal code. This article traces the history of events leading up to the discovery of the Lewis Central School site (13PW5), and provides substantive data concerning materials recovered from that site. This is done to demonstrate that a considerable amount of information is obtainable through such studies and to provide archaeologists and physical anthropologists with a frame of reference to evaluate the results obtained. The paper concludes with a presentation of additions and changes in the Iowa legal code and a discussior, of the effects the Iowa precedent may have on anthropologists, Indians, and state officials elsewhere. 相似文献
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《Journal of biological education》2012,46(1):41-45
The mathematics in school biology is investigated by means of an analysis of the questions in examination papers set over a period of time in biological subjects by the University of London Examinations Board. Throughout, the incidence of questions requiring mathematics changes but remains low, while the range of mathematics topics called upon remains both restricted and unchanging. However, the various biological examination subjects differ markedly with respect both to the changes in the incidence of such questions and to the range and frequency with which the topics are used. Certain difficulties associated with the mathematics of school biology are identified, and biology teachers are encouraged to discuss these with their colleagues who teach mathematics. 相似文献