The Web has exponentially increased the information sources available to both patrons and librarians. Although “current awareness” is rarely explicitly enumerated as a requirement in advertisements for librarian jobs, it ...

In radioactive source surveying protocols, a number of task-inherent features degrade the quality of collected gamma ray spectra, including: limited dwell times, a fluctuating background, a large distance to the source, ...

The technical report derives a kinematic model of fixed-wing aircraft that is based on constrained roll rate. This new kinematic model can be used for trajectory planning and optimization.

As millions of users flock to online social networks, sites such as Facebook and Twitter are becoming increasingly attractive targets for spam, phishing, and malware. The Koobface botnet in particular has honed its efforts ...

This paper offers a somatic genealogy of Kenneth Burke’s dramatism and its related cluster--symbolic action, attitude, identification--by tracing their development in relation to Sir Richard Paget’s theory of Gesture-Speech. ...

This qualitative study examines the writing and writing experiences of six bilingual (Spanish-English), immigrant university students. Immigrant students are a growing segment of university populations, but explicit/implicit ...

Top-down modulation is a powerful mechanism by which the brain can disambiguate signals arriving at the sensory periphery, and descending projections are believed to be an important anatomical substrate by which this ...

We look at appropriations in a number of contexts, and find that often they involve very simple ways of coordinating functionality that seems to be at odds with much of the approach of computer systems design that emphasizes ...