Mike Davis

Climate Change in a World of Slums (2009)

Davis, Mike

Mike Davis argues that the climate stability of the Halocene Age has reached a tipping point that will lead to radical changes in global weather patterns. He discusses various models for estimating...

Security and Authorization Issues in HL7 Electronic Health Records: A Semantic Web Services Based Approach ABSTRACT: (2008)

Richard S. Patterson, Jorge Cardoso, John A. Miller, Mike Davis

As Semantic Web services begin to emerge as the next evolution of the Service Oriented Architecture, it is become clear that authorization is going to be one of its biggest challenges. Not only are...

Dark Raptures (2008)

Mike Davis, David Reid, Kerwin Klein, Timothy J. Clark

at Berkeley in 1987 in order to promote interdisciplinary studies in the humanities. Endowed by

ARTICLE NO. EN976581 Enhancement by an Ampakine of Memory Encoding in Humans (2008)

Martin Ingvar, Jose Ambros-ingerson, Mike Davis, Richard Granger, Markus Kessler, Gary A. Rogers, ...

A centrally active drug that enhances AMPA receptormediated currents was tested for its effects on memory in humans. Evidence for a positive influence on encoding was obtained in four tests: (i)...

The High Performance Computing Challenge benchmark (2008)

Steven J. Plimpton, Ron Brightwell, Courtenay Vaughan, Keith Underwood, Mike Davis

The RandomAccess benchmark as defined by the High Performance Computing Challenge (HPCC) tests the speed at which a machine can update the elements of a table spread across global system memory, as...

The High Performance Computing Challenge benchmark (2008)

Steven J. Plimpton, Ron Brightwell, Courtenay Vaughan, Keith Underwood, Mike Davis

The RandomAccess benchmark as defined by the High Performance Computing Challenge (HPCC) tests the speed at which a machine can update the elements of a table spread across global system memory, as...

Nanoelectronic Adaptive Systems (2007)

José Fortes, Mike Davis, John Harris, Renato Figueiredo

The advent of nanoelectronics originates (1) challenges in how to configure or “teach ” self-assembled systems and (2) opportunities to integrate memory, digital and analog processing into...

Triumph of the Right? (2005)

Frank, Thomas, Davis, Mike

Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas, and Mike Davis, Department of History, UC Irvine, talked about the conservative culture in America. The accompanying audio files provide the...

Signal processing challenges in active queue management (2004)

Stephan Bohacek, Khushboo Shah, Gonzalo R. Arce, Mike Davis

In 1993, the publication of Sally Floyd’s and Van Jacobson’s seminal paper "Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance " [1] marked a new direction in networking...

Empirically Derived Survival Rates of a Native Mussel, Amblema plicata, in the Mississippi and Otter Tail Rivers, Minnesota (2001)

RICK A. HART, JAMES W. GRIER, ANDREW C. MILLER, MIKE DAVIS

We used a mark-recapture method to measure survival of a native unionid mussel, Amblema plicata, at sites with low, moderate and high zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) densities (mean values ± se...

Filtration and Excretion by Zebra Mussels: Implications for Water Quality Impacts in Lake Pepin, Upper Mississippi River. (1998)

James, William F., Barko, John W., Davis, Mike, Eakin, Harry L., Rogala, James T.

This technical note describes the impacts of filtration and soluble nutrient excretion by zebra mussels on water quality in Lake Pepin, Upper Mississippi River.

Resolution Performance Improvements in Staring Imaging Systems Using Micro-Scanning and a Reticulated, Selectable Fill Factor InSb FPA (1998)

Greiner, Mark E., Davis, Mike, Sanders, John G.

As staring focal plane array (FPA) detectors continue to mature, FPA based IR imaging systems are available in more compact packages that are lighter and consume less power than first or second...

Dark Raptures: Mike Davis' L.A. (1997)

Davis, Mike, Reid, David, Klein, Kerwin, Clark, T J

Mike Davis gives us an apocalyptic view of the filmic rendering of Los Angeles, informed by representations of race and viewed from cultural and literary standpoints. He points out how much of what...