A Web-Based Resource Model for eScience: Object Reuse & Exchange (2008)
Lagoze, Carl, Van De Sompel, Herbert, Nelson, Michael, Warner, Simeon, Sanderson, Robert, Johnston, Pete
Work in the Open Archives Initiative - Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) focuses on an important aspect of infrastructure for eScience: the specification of the data model and a suite of...
SIGIR Forum, Fall 2003 (Vol 37 #2) Report on the Metadata Harvesting Workshop at JCDL 2003 (2008)
There were 11 participants including OAI service provider implementers, data provider implementers and researchers, from both the US and Europe. Most participants made short presentations to...
Michael Nelson, Edward N. Zalta
this paper we argue that Bennett's second claim is decidedly false
Massively parallel algorithms for private-cache chip multiprocessors. Under submission (2008)
Lars Arge, Michael T. Goodrich, Nodari Sitchinava, Michael Nelson
In this paper, we study massively parallel algorithms for private-cache chip multiprocessors (CMPs), focusing on methods for foundational problems that can scale to hundreds or even thousands of...
Fundamental parallel algorithms for privatecache chip multiprocessors (2008)
Lars Arge, Michael T. Goodrich, Nodari Sitchinava, Michael Nelson
In this paper, we study parallel algorithms for private-cache chip multiprocessors (CMPs), focusing on methods for foundational problems that can scale to hundreds or even thousands of cores. By...
Accessing NASA Technology with the World Wide Web (2007)
Michael Nelson, David J. Bianco
NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) began using the World Wide Web (WWW) in the summer of 1993, becoming the first NASA installation to provide a Center-wide home page. This coincided with a...
A Two-Dimensional Path Planning Algorithm (2007)
Richard Fox, Antonio Garcia Jr., Michael Nelson
Path planning is a necessary component of any autonomous vehicle. The task is one of finding a course that takes the vehicle from its current location to a destination avoiding obstacles that might...
A Two-Dimensional Path Planning Algorithm (2007)
Richard Fox, Antonio Garcia, Michael Nelson
Path planning is a necessary component of any autonomous vehicle. The task is one of finding a course that takes the vehicle from its current location to a destination avoiding obstacles that might...
Synchronized OAI Caches (2007)
Xiaoming Liu, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Rong Tang, Imran Padshah, George Roncaglia, ...
Laboratory and Old Dominion University to allow for the integration of technical reports. This is accomplished using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) and having...
Sorting in parallel external-memory multicores (2007)
Michael T. Goodrich, Michael Nelson, Nodari Sitchinava
Abstract. In this paper, we introduce a model for multicore architectures, which takes into explicit consideration the cache-oriented nature of inputs and outputs in modern CPUs. In addition, we...
Raghavan, V., Whitney, Scott E., Ebmeier, Ryan J., Padhye, Nisha V., Nelson, Michael, Viljoen, Hendrik J., ...
In this article, experimental and numerical analyses to investigate the thermal control of an innovative vortex tube based polymerase chain reaction (VT-PCR) thermocycler are described. VT-PCR is...
DNA Polymerase Chain Reaction: A Model of Error Frequencies and Extension Rates (2006)
Viljoen, Dr. Hedrik, Griep, Dr. Mark, Whitney, Dr. Scott, Nelson, Dr. Michael
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is one of the most important reactions in molecular biology. The detailed mechanistic studies of the polymerase chain reaction have revealed a complex sequence of...
Nelson, Michael, Mech, L. David
Some 30 y after wolves (Canis lupus) were implicated in decimating wintering white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in a 3000-km2 area of northeastern Minnesota, wintering deer still have not...
Viljoen, Steve, Griep, Mark A., Nelson, Michael, Viljoen, Hendrik J
The enzymatically catalyzed template-directed extension of ssDNA/primer complex is an impor-tant reaction of extraordinary complexity. The DNA polymerase does not merely facilitate the insertion of...
Ebmeier, Ryan J, Whitney, Scott E, Sarkar, Amitabha, Nelson, Michael, Padhye, Nisha, Gogos, George, ...
An innovative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) thermocycler capable of performing real-time optical detection is described below. This device utilizes the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube in a system to...
The EU's CAP, the Doha Round and Developing Countries (2004)
Halderman, Michael, Nelson, Michael
This study analyzes the political economy of European Union policy-making in regard to EU trade in beef and dairy with developing countries. The way the EU makes its agriculture and trade policies...
Tracking of White-Tailed Deer Migration by Global Positioning System (2004)
Nelson, Michael, Mech, L. David, Frame, Paul F.
We used global positioning system (GPS) radiocollars on female white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to document details of onsets of migrations, rates of travel, patterns of travel, durations...
PPAR{gamma} signaling exacerbates mammary gland tumor development (2004)
Saez, Enrique, Rosenfeld, John, Livolsi, Antonia, Olson, Peter, Lombardo, Eleuterio, Nelson, Michael, ...
Breast cancer cell lines that express the nuclear peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) can be prompted to undergo growth arrest and differentiation when treated with synthetic...
The Transformation of Governance : Public Administration for Twenty-First Century America (2002)
Kettl, Donald F., Nelson, Michael (pref.)
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Interface concepts for the Open Video Project (2001)
Gary Geisler, Gary Marchionini, Michael Nelson, Richard Spinks, Meng Yang
The Open Video Project is an on-going effort to develop an open source digital video collection that can be used by the information retrieval, digital library, and digital video research communities...
Interface Concepts for the Open Video Project (2001)
Gary Geisler Gary, Gary Marchionini, Michael Nelson, Richard Spinks, Meng Yang
The Open Video Project is an on-going effort to develop an open source digital video collection that can be used by the information retrieval, digital library, and digital video research communities...
Determining the Publication Impact of a Digital Library (2000)
s Approximate Number of Full Reports Subject Areas Ames Technical Reports Server (ATRS) NASA Ames Research Center 100 100 Aerospace Astronomy & Astrophysics NASA Astrophysics Data System 390,000...
Preserving the Pyramid of STI Using Buckets (1999)
The product of research projects is information. Through the life cycle of a project, information comes from many sources and takes many forms. Traditionally, this body of information is summarized...
Smart Objects, Dumb Archives - A User-Centric, Layered Digital Library Framework (1999)
Kurt Maly, Michael Nelson, Mohammad Zubair
Currently, there exist a large number of superb digital libraries, all of which are, unfortunately, vertically integrated and all presenting a monolithic interface to their users. Ideally, a user...
Structured Course Objects in a Digital Library (1999)
Kurt Maly, K. Maly, Xiaoming Liu, Mohammad Zubair, X. Liu, Michael Nelson, ...
We are developing an Undergraduate Digital Library Framework (UDLF) that will support creation/archiving of courses and reuse of existing course material to evolve courses. UDLF supports the...
Evolution of Scientific and Technical Information Distribution (1998)
Sandra Esler, Ra L. Esler, Michael Nelson
World Wide Web (WWW) and related information technologies are transforming the distribution of scientific and technical information (STI). We examine 11 recent, functioning digital libraries focusing...
A Multi-Discipline, Multi-Genre Digital Library for Research and Education (1998)
Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly, Stewart Shen
: We describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for educational and scientific and technical information (STI). NCSTRL+ is based on the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library...
Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly, Stewart Shen, Mohammad Zubair
We describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for scientific and technical information (STI). NCSTRL+ is based on the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL), a World...
Interoperable Heterogeneous Digital Libraries (1998)
Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair
We consider interoperability to be one of the most challenging problems currently facing digital libraries. There are two impediments to the goal of interoperable digital libraries: technical issues...
Buckets, Clusters and Dienst (1997)
Michael Nelson, Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Kurt Maly, Stewart Shen
In this paper we describe NCSTRL+, a unified, canonical digital library for scientific and technical information (STI). NCSTRL+ is based on the Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library...
Building Multi-Discipline, Multi-Format Digital Libraries Using Clusters And Buckets (1997)
Mohammad Zubair (member, Michael Nelson, Michael L. Nelson, N. T. Shen
BUILDING MULTI-DISCIPLINE, MULTI-FORMAT DIGITAL LIBRARIES USING CLUSTERS AND BUCKETS Michael L. Nelson Old Dominion University, 1997 Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Kurt Maly Dr. Stewart N. T....
TRSkit: A Simple Digital Library Toolkit (1997)
Michael Nelson, Michael L. Nelson, Sandra L. Esler, Sandra L. Esler
This paper introduces TRSkit, a simple and effective toolkit for building digital libraries on the World Wide Web. The toolkit was developed for the creation of the Langley Technical Report Server...
Building a Multi-Discipline Digital Library Through Extending the Dienst Protocol (1997)
Michael Nelson, Kurt Maly, Stewart Shen
cations of both its holdings and the holdings of other same protocol servers. The resulting digital library toolkit could then be propagated to multiple disciplines and the various instantiations...
Building a Multi-Discipline Digital Library Through Extending the Dienst Protocol (1997)
from multiple domains can register their existence with a meta-server. 3.0 Overview of Dienst The Dienst protocol is the foundation for the National Computer Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL)...
Lyceum: A Multi-Protocol Digital Library Gateway (1997)
Ming-Hokng Maa, Ming-hokng Maa, Sandra Esler, Sandra L. Esler, Michael Nelson, Michael L. Nelson
Lyceum is a prototype scalable query gateway that provides a logically central interface to multi-protocol and physically distributed, digital libraries of scientific and technical information....
The Widest Practicable Dissemination: The NASA Technical Report Server (1995)
Michael Nelson, Gretchen Gottlich, David Bianco, Robert L. Binkley, Yvonne D. Kellogg, Sharon S. Paulson, ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 established NASA and charged it to "provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning [...] its activities...
World Wide Web Implementation of the Langley Technical Report Server (1994)
David Bianco, Michael Nelson, Michael L. Nelson, Gretchen Gottlich, Gretchen L. Gottlich, Cern Conseil, ...
On January 14, 1993, NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) made approximately 130 formal, "unclassified, unlimited" technical reports available via the anonymous FTP Langley Technical Report...
The World Wide Web and Technology Transfer at NASA Langley Research Center (1994)
Service. As with LTRS, the emphasis of NTRS is ease of use and conceptual simplicity. When users access NTRS, keywords are entered in the dialog box. If they wish, they may also select which...
New restriction endonuclease CviRI cleaves DNA at TG/CA sequences (1994)
Jin, Aiwen, Zhang, Yanping, Xia, Yuannan, Traylor, Elbert, Nelson, Michael, Van Ettenl, James L.
A new type II restriction endonuclease, CviRI, was isolated from virus XZ-6E infected chlorella cells. CviRI is the first restriction endonuclease to recognize the sequence 5′-TGCA-3′ and cleaves...
McClelland, Michael, Nelson, Michael, Raschke, Eberhard
Restriction endonucleases have site-specific interactions with DNA that can often be inhibited by site-specific DNA methylation and other site-specific DNA modifications. However, such inhibition...
Intel NX to PVM3.2 Message Passing Conversion Library Version 2.0 (1993)
Trey Arthur, Michael Nelson, T. Arthur
NASA Langley Research Center has developed a library that allows Intel NX message passing codes to be executed under the more popular and widely supported Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) message...
Generic Support for Caching and Disconnected Operation (1993)
Michael Nelson, Yousef A. Khalidi
Current systems use caching to provide high performance and possibly support disconnected operation. However, current solutions are type specific. With the advent of modular distributed operating...
Message Passing Conversion Library Version 2.0 (1993)
Trey Arthur, Michael Nelson, T. Arthur, M. Nelson
NASA Langley Research Center has developed a library that allows Intel NX message passing codes to be executed under the more popular and widely supported Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) message...
Zhang, Yanping, Nelson, Michael, Van Etten, James L.
The chlorelia virus PBCV−1 contains an open reading frame, named P17−ORF4, which differs by eight amino acids from a DNA cytosine methyltransferase, M.CviJI, encoded by a different chlorelia...
Virtual Memory vs. The File System (1990)
This paper examines the behavior of mechanisms for providing variablesize file data caches. It presents the results of running virtual-memoryand file-intensive benchmarks on the Sprite operating...
Virtual Memory vs. The File System (1990)
This paper examines the behavior of mechanisms for providing variable-size file data caches. It presents the results of running virtual-memory- and file-intensive benchmarks on the Sprite operating...
Stomach Cancer and Food Storage (1989)
Coggon, David, Barker, David J. P., Cole, Richard B., Nelson, Michael
To examine the influence of food storage habits on the development of stomach cancer, we compared 95 patients and 190 controls selected from the general population. Information about food storage and...
KGB: a single buffer for all restriction endonucleases (1988)
McClelland, Michael, Hanish, John, Nelson, Michael, Patel, Yogesh
Restriction endonucleases for pulsed field mapping of bacterial genomes (1987)
McClelland, Michael, Jones, Robert, Patel, Yogesh, Nelson, Michael
Fundamental to many bacterial genome mapping strategies currently under development is the need to cleave the genome into a few large DNA fragments that can be resolved by pulsed field gel...
McClelland, Michael, Nelson, Michael, Cantor, Charles R.
The restriction modification methylase M.Mbo II has been purified using a sensitive oligonucleotide linker assay. The enzyme methylates the Mbo II recognition sequence GAAGA at adenine to produce...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 1984.
Alteration of apparent restriction endonuclease recognition specificities by DNA methylases (1984)
Nelson, Michael, Christ, Chantal, Schildkraut, Ira
An in vitro method of altering the apparent cleavage specificities of restriction endonucleases was developed using DNA modification methylases. This method was used to reduce the number of cleavage...
El Aprovechamiento de las Tierras Tropicales en América Latina / Michael Nelson. (1977)
Traducción de: The Development of Tropical Lands: PolicyIssues in Latin America
LA COLONIZACION EN LA CUENCA DEL PAPALOAPAN : UNA EVALUACION SOCIOECONOMICA (1970)
Ballesteros Porta, Juan, Nelson, Michael, Edel, Matthew
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Increased osteoblast adhesion on nanoparticulate crystalline hydroxyapatite functionalized with KRSR
Nelson, Michael, Balasundaram, Ganesan, Webster, Thomas J
The present in vitro study created nanometer crystalline hydroxyapatite (HA) and amorphous calcium phosphate for novel orthopedic applications. Specifically, nano-crystalline HA and amorphous calcium...
MICHAEL NELSON, MYWISH K. MAREDIA
This paper deals with conceptual and methodological issues arising in ex post environmental impact assessment of agricultural research. It presents a case study of approaches used (and not used) and...
EU Policy-Making: Reform of the CAP and EU Trade in Beef & Dairy with Developing Countries
Halderman, Michael, Nelson, Michael
The present study is part of the PPLPI effort to identify significant political and institutional factors and processes that currently hinder or prevent the poor in developing countries from taking...
SMRT repression of nuclear receptors controls the adipogenic set point and metabolic homeostasis
Nofsinger, Russell R., Li, Pingping, Hong, Suk-Hyun, Jonker, Johan W., Barish, Grant D., Ying, Hao, ...
The nuclear receptor corepressor, silencing mediator of retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors (SMRT), is recruited by a plethora of transcription factors to mediate lineage and signal-dependent...
Determinants of software piracy: economics, institutions, and technology
Software piracy, Corruption, Internet, Technology, Economic freedom, Political freedom, Legal institutions, Fractionalization, K4, O5, L8,