James R. Miller

Multivariate Visualization on Parametric Surfaces (2009)

James R. Miller

Attribute Blocks are the basis of a multivariate visualization scheme that has been shown to be effective for two-dimensional data sets such as those common in Geographical Information System (GIS)...

Feature Article The Immersive Visualization Probe for Exploring n- Dimensional Spaces (2008)

James R. Miller, Estela A. Gavosto

n-dimensional space, where n is larger than 3, naturally describes many interesting phenomena studied by scientists and mathematicians. Exploiting visualization to understand these systems ’...

Feature Article Attribute Blocks: Visualizing Multiple Continuously Defined Attributes (2008)

James R. Miller

Attribute blocks are a technique for visualizing continuously varying attributes across a region, letting you quickly locate patterns in large data sets. Attribute blocks can be displayed in a flat...

Intersection Curves (2008)

Quadric Surface, James R. Miller

Quadric surfaces occur frequently in the design of discrete piece parts in mechanical CAD/CAM. Solid modeling systems based on quadric surfaces must be able to represent intersection curves...

Robbie the Robot from “Forbidden Planet, ” HAL from “2001: A Space (2008)

Bonnie A. Nardi, James R. Miller, David J. Wright

Extracting semantics from everyday documents, intelligent agents, illustrated by Apple Data Detectors, infer high-level goals from simple user actions. We began our research on intelligent agents...

Modeling and Visualizing Uncertainty in a Global Water Balance Model (2008)

James R. Miller, Daniel C. Cliburn

Public policy makers and others wishing to understand the potential impact of our actions on the environment need a tool to simulate and visualize relevant processes. Present models and the data on...

Ovipositional periodicity of caged Anopheles gambiaeindividuals (2008)

Fritz, Megan L, Huang, Juan, Walker, Edward D, Bayoh, M Nabie, Vulule, John, Miller, James R

Abstract Background Anopheles gambiae s.s . Giles is a major malaria vector in Sub-Saharan Africa. Studies of the basic biology of this mosquito, including oviposition, provide a background for...

Season Drought Between (2007)

Western And Southeastern, Matthew J. Bunkers, James R. Miller, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Arthur T. Degaetano

The recent dry conditions over the northern Great Plains have caused much concern about rapidly changing climatic patterns. Regional climate records are of limited length, generally less than 100...

Tutorial Applications of Vector Geometry for Robustness and (2007)

James R. Miller

Vector geometric techniques represent and manipulate intrinsic relationships between objects independent of coordinate systems. Their applications and resulting computer code demonstrate their...

Landscape Ecology vol. 1 no. 2 pp 115-127 (1996) (2007)

Spb Academic Publishing, James R. Miller, Linda A. Joyce, Richard L. Knight, Rudy M. King

areas on public lands may serve as environmental baselines against which human-caused impacts on landscape structure can be measured. We examined landscape structure across a gradient of road...

Daily temperature profiles in and around Western Kenyan larval habitats of Anopheles gambiaeas related to egg mortality (2006)

Huang, Juan, Walker, Edward D, Vulule, John, Miller, James R

Abstract Background Anopheles gambiae eggs are more frequently found on soil around puddle habitats of the larvae, than on the water surface itself in Western Kenya. Thus, eggs can experience...

Laboratory tests of oviposition by the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, on dark soil as influenced by presence or absence of vegetation (2006)

Huang, Juan, Walker, Edward D, Otienoburu, Philip E, Amimo, Fred, Vulule, John, Miller, James R

Abstract Background Physical objects like vegetation can influence oviposition by mosquitoes on soil or water substrates. Anopheles gambiae s. l . is generally thought to utilize puddles over bare...

The National Shipbuilding Research Program. 1991 Ship Producton Symposium Proceedings: Paper No. IXB-1, The Eight-Hour Workday: An Unattainable Goal (2006)

Kaitz, Alan J., Miller, James R.

No industrial operator can be fully productive for an entire shift. Interference with the productive process occurs during the work day that is beyond the operator's control. Once the industrial...

Signal-Filter Design and System Performance for Polarimetric Radar (2005)

Altes, Richard A., Connelly, Stephen F., Miller, James R., Mehrotra, Kishan G., Liu, H.

Relatively simple expressions for the polarimetric scattering function of randomly oriented dipoles have yielded expressions for SIR in some simple but important cases, and these expressions have...

Spatial Extrapolation: The Science of Predicting Ecological Patterns and Processes (2004)

JAMES R. MILLER, MONICA G. TURNER, C. LISA DENT, EMILY H. STANLEY

Ecologists are often asked to contribute to solutions for broadscale problems. The extent of most ecological research is relatively limited, however, necessitating extrapolation to broader scales or...

Reassessment of the Role and Utility of Wind in Suppression of Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Host Finding: Stimulus Dilution Supported Over Flight Limitation (2003)

Eric J. Hoffmann, James R. Miller

In a Central Michigan wetland setting, with abundant Aedes vexans (Meigen), Anopheles walkeri (Theobald), and Coquillettidea perturbans (Walker), electric fan-generated wind strongly reduced mosquito...

Technical section The remote application controller (2003)

James R. Miller

Many modern design, visualization, and decision support systems involve interdisciplinary working groups. Common requirements to support the efforts of such groups include shared graphical displays...

Reduction of Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Attacks on a Human Subject by Combination of Wind and Vapor-Phase DEET Repellent (2002)

Eric J. Hoffmann, James R. Miller

In a Central Michigan wetland setting, air drawn through a DEET-impregnated screen using an electric fan and projected toward a human subject significantly reduced mosquito orientation by 74%,...

Exploratory Examination of Purge Techniques. (2002)

Saalberg,John J., Miller,James R., Friesz,Terry L., Keegan,Carol A.

The problem of overload in tactical information systems can be reduced by purging--freeing a tactical data base of useless, redundant, outdated, and incorrect information. Technological changes in...

Old Black Hills Ponderosa Pines Tell A Story (1999)

Old Black, Hills Ponderosa, Matthew Bunkers, L. Ronald Johnson, James R. Miller, Carolyn Hull Sieg

A single ponderosa pine tree found in the central Black Hills of South Dakota revealed its age of more than 700 years by its tree rings taken from coring in 1992. The purpose of this study was to...

Instruction Manual for WOX-8A Pressure Recording System, (1998)

Miller,James R., Olivito,Tony P.

The WOX-8A bridge and its associated systems is a pressure recording system capable of detecting and measuring incremental pressure fluctuations as low as 0.1 of an inch of water in the presence of a...

MX Siting Investigation. Geotechnical Evaluation Conterminous United States. Volume I. Coarse Screening. (1998)

Wilson,Kenneth L., Lynn,Robert J., Miller,James R., Scott,Steven L., Golden,Bruce L.

Coarse screening was designed to provide the technical basis to define reasonable alternative siting areas in which more detailed MX geotechnical and environmental screening studies can proceed. The...

Analysis of Siting Suitability, MX Land Mobile Missile System, Bureau of Land Management and Department of Defense Lands. (1998)

Wilson,Kenneth L., Miller,James R., LaViolette,John W., Christenson,Gary E.

Draft geotechnical report for evaluation and ranking of 68 Valleys in Land control by DOD and BLM in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Valley ranking is based on criteria of Depth to Rock, Depth to...

Intelligent Tutoring for Programming Tasks: Using Plan Analysis to Generate Better Hints. (1998)

Miller,James R., Kehler,Thomas P., Michaelis,Paul R., Murray,William R.

This project has dealt with tutorial systems for computer programming languages, particularly, systems in which a student is trying to write a computer program and can, upon request, receive hints...

A Perception of the Effectiveness of the Acquisition Logistics Algorithm in Measuring Program Status. (1998)

Miller, James R.

This thesis analyzed the perceptions that AFLC and AFSC logisticians have of the current algorithm used to assess the logistics status of acquisition programs. The study also determined the weights...

Using tangent balls to find plane sections of natural quadrics (1992)

James R. Miller, Ronald N. Goldman

Using solid geometry, we developed efficient and numerically robust algorithms to compute plane sections of the natural quadric surfaces common in modeling.

Using multivariate resultants to find the intersection of three quadric surfaces (1991)

Eng-wee Chionh, Ronald N. Goldman, James R. Miller

Macaulay’s concise but explicit expression for nmltivariate resultants has many potential applications in computer-aided geometric design. Here we describe its use in solid modeling for finding the...

An Ethnographic Study of Distributed Problem Solving in Spreadsheet Development (1990)

Bonnie A. Nardi, James R. Miller

In contrast to the common view of spreadsheets as “single-user ” programs, we have found that spreadsheets offer surprisingly strong support for cooperative development of a wide variety of...

Computer-aided fluid power design / (1986)

Miller, James R.

Project (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Technology.

On-line analysis for social scientists. (1966)

Miller, James R.

Research Program on the Management of Science and Technology.

A description of the upper deciduous premolars in five genera of the family Merycoidodontidae (1960)

Miller, James R.

This thesis is not available electronically or by photocopy. Please contact Archives and Special Collections at archives@amherst.edu for more information.

... Hydrocephalus. (1878)

Miller, James R.

Thesis--University of Pennsylvania, 1878.

Laboratory Confirmation of Generalized Vaccinia following Smallpox Vaccination

Kelly, Cassandra D., Egan, Christina, Davis, Stephen W., Samsonoff, William A., Musser, Kimberlee A., Drabkin, Peter, ...

The reinitiation of smallpox vaccination has renewed interest in implementing modern diagnostic methods to assess orthopoxvirus infection and adverse events following vaccination. We report here the...

The gene expression signatures of melanoma progression

Haqq, Christopher, Nosrati, Mehdi, Sudilovsky, Daniel, Crothers, Julia, Khodabakhsh, Daniel, Pulliam, Brian L., ...

Because of the paucity of available tissue, little information has previously been available regarding the gene expression profiles of primary melanomas. To understand the molecular basis of melanoma...

Laboratory Confirmation of Generalized Vaccinia following Smallpox Vaccination

Kelly, Cassandra D., Egan, Christina, Davis, Stephen W., Samsonoff, William A., Musser, Kimberlee A., Drabkin, Peter, ...

The reinitiation of smallpox vaccination has renewed interest in implementing modern diagnostic methods to assess orthopoxvirus infection and adverse events following vaccination. We report here the...

The gene expression signatures of melanoma progression

Haqq, Christopher, Nosrati, Mehdi, Sudilovsky, Daniel, Crothers, Julia, Khodabakhsh, Daniel, Pulliam, Brian L., ...

Because of the paucity of available tissue, little information has previously been available regarding the gene expression profiles of primary melanomas. To understand the molecular basis of melanoma...

A multi-marker assay to distinguish malignant melanomas from benign nevi

Kashani-Sabet, Mohammed, Rangel, Javier, Torabian, Sima, Nosrati, Mehdi, Simko, Jeff, Jablons, David M., ...

The histopathological diagnosis of melanoma can be challenging. No currently used molecular markers accurately distinguish between nevus and melanoma. Recent transcriptome analyses have shown the...