The second annual creative talent awards program in psychology.

The program evaluates "dissertations of doctoral candidates on the basis of originality and creativity, indicative of the author's promise of an eminent contribution to the science of psychology." The winners were Karl E. Weick, who received $1000 and Michael I. Posner and David J. Reynolds, who received $500 each. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Parallel Programming and Performance Evaluation with the URSA Tool Family

This paper contributes to the solution of several open problems with parallel programming tools and their integration with performance evaluation environments. First, we propose interactive compilation scenarios instead of the usual black-box-oriented use of compiler tools. In such scenarios, information gathered by the compiler and the compiler's reasoning are presented to the user in meaningful ways and on-demand. Second, a tight integration of compilation and performance analysis tools is advocated. M any of the existing, advanced instruments for gathering performance results are being used in the presented environment and their results are combined in integrated views with compiler information and data from other tools. Initial instruments that assist users in data mining this information are presented and the need for much stronger facilities is explained. The URSA Family provides two tools addressing these issues. URSA MINOR supports a group of users at a specific site, such as a research or development project. URSA MAJOR complements this tool by making available the gathered results to the user community at large via the World-wide Web. This paper presents objectives, functionality, experience, and next development steps of the URSA tool family. Two case studies are presented that illustrate the use of the tools for developing and studying parallel applications and for evaluating parallelizing compilers.     

Effect of pH on distribution and adhesion of Staphylococcus aureus to glass

The adhesion of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 to glass at different pH values was investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and image analysis with the Mathlab^® program. The images obtained by SEM show that the adhesion behaviour of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 depends on the pH of the suspending medium. At highly acidic (pH 2, pH 3) and alkaline pH, the cells deposited in aggregate forms, while at pH 5 the aggregation phenomenon was absent. The quantitative adhesion (number of adhering cells to glass surface) showed that cells adhered strongly in the pH range 4 to 6 and weakly at highly acidic (pH 2, pH 3) and alkaline pH. Moreover, the surface properties of the cells were characterized by the microbial adhesion to solvents (MATS) method. A good correlation was obtained between physicochemical properties (hydrophobicity or electron donor electron acceptor character) of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 and the number of adhering cells to glass. These results show that the adhesion of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 to glass is controlled by both acid–base and hydrophobic interactions.     

NaraView: An Interactive 3D Visualization System for Parallelization of Programs

For effective use of parallelizing compilers, an interactive environment which allows users to find more parallelism is needed. As the first step towards building such an environment, we have developed a program visualization system named NaraView. In this paper, we describe two visualization methods in NaraView. One is Program Structure View which illustrates the hierarchical loop structure of a given program and suggests which parts of the program can be parallelized. Another is the Data Dependence View which visualizes each data dependence on every variable or array element which is accessed in a specific loop. By using these views, users can easily understand which part of the program can be parallelized further. We also show several examples to demonstrate the efficiency of these methods.     

Education and Training Board. Internships for doctoral training in clinical psychology approved by the American Psychological Association.

The list of 27 agencies "includes only independent agencies, that is, those agencies accepting interns from more than one university. Captive agencies, that is, those agencies in which practicum training is available only to students of a particular university, are not listed." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

用Pro/PROGRAM简化设计

对于形状大致相同的零件，用Pro／PROGRAM处理，更易于操作，可实现零件设计参数化，简化图形绘制过程。     

基于Pro/E4.0直齿圆柱齿轮的全参数化设计

全参数化设计是快速研究与开发同类产品的重要手段。以Pro/E4.0软件为平台,以直齿圆柱齿轮为研究对象,对其模型各参数之间的关系进行了分析,并利用方程式曲线、曲面拉伸、曲面合并、曲面实体化、曲面阵列和PROGRAM等命令,对直齿圆柱齿轮进行了全参数化设计。该全参数化设计的直齿圆柱齿轮通过PROGRAM命令修改其中的几个主要参数,能够快速得到相应参数的直齿圆柱齿轮,体现了全参数化设计快捷、方便的优点。