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University of California, Santa Cruz
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About: University of California, Santa Cruz is a education organization based out in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Galaxy & Population. The organization has 15541 authors who have published 44120 publications receiving 2759983 citations. The organization is also known as: UCSC & UC, Santa Cruz.
Topics: Galaxy, Population, Stars, Redshift, Star formation
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05 Nov 2003TL;DR: The traffic-adaptive medium access protocol (TRAMA) is introduced for energy-efficient collision-free channel access in wireless sensor networks and is shown to be fair and correct, in that no idle node is an intended receiver and no receiver suffers collisions.
Abstract: The traffic-adaptive medium access protocol (TRAMA) is introduced for energy-efficient collision-free channel access in wireless sensor networks. TRAMA reduces energy consumption by ensuring that unicast, multicast, and broadcast transmissions have no collisions, and by allowing nodes to switch to a low-power, idle state whenever they are not transmitting or receiving. TRAMA assumes that time is slotted and uses a distributed election scheme based on information about the traffic at each node to determine which node can transmit at a particular time slot. TRAMA avoids the assignment of time slots to nodes with no traffic to send, and also allows nodes to determine when they can become idle and not listen to the channel using traffic information. TRAMA is shown to be fair and correct, in that no idle node is an intended receiver and no receiver suffers collisions. The performance of TRAMA is evaluated through extensive simulations using both synthetic- as well as sensor-network scenarios. The results indicate that TRAMA outperforms contention-based protocols (e.g., CSMA, 802.11 and S-MAC) as well as scheduling-based protocols (e.g., NAMA) with significant energy savings.
1,287 citations
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San Jose State University1, Ames Research Center2, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network3, Harvard University4, University of California, Santa Cruz5, University of Florida6, Pennsylvania State University7, University of California, Berkeley8, Georgia State University9, California Institute of Technology10, Carnegie Institution for Science11, University of Copenhagen12, Aarhus University13, University of Texas at Austin14, Massachusetts Institute of Technology15, Search for extraterrestrial intelligence16, Lawrence Hall of Science17, University of Hertfordshire18, Villanova University19, Fermilab20, Princeton University21, San Diego State University22
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors verified nearly 5000 periodic transit-like signals against astrophysical and instrumental false positives yielding 1108 viable new transiting planet candidates, bringing the total count up to over 2300.
Abstract: New transiting planet candidates are identified in 16 months (2009 May-2010 September) of data from the Kepler spacecraft. Nearly 5000 periodic transit-like signals are vetted against astrophysical and instrumental false positives yielding 1108 viable new planet candidates, bringing the total count up to over 2300. Improved vetting metrics are employed, contributing to higher catalog reliability. Most notable is the noise-weighted robust averaging of multi-quarter photo-center offsets derived from difference image analysis that identifies likely background eclipsing binaries. Twenty-two months of photometry are used for the purpose of characterizing each of the candidates. Ephemerides (transit epoch, T_0, and orbital period, P) are tabulated as well as the products of light curve modeling: reduced radius (R_P/R_★), reduced semimajor axis (d/R_★), and impact parameter (b). The largest fractional increases are seen for the smallest planet candidates (201% for candidates smaller than 2 R_⊕ compared to 53% for candidates larger than 2 R_⊕) and those at longer orbital periods (124% for candidates outside of 50 day orbits versus 86% for candidates inside of 50 day orbits). The gains are larger than expected from increasing the observing window from 13 months (Quarters 1-5) to 16 months (Quarters 1-6) even in regions of parameter space where one would have expected the previous catalogs to be complete. Analyses of planet frequencies based on previous catalogs will be affected by such incompleteness. The fraction of all planet candidate host stars with multiple candidates has grown from 17% to 20%, and the paucity of short-period giant planets in multiple systems is still evident. The progression toward smaller planets at longer orbital periods with each new catalog release suggests that Earth-size planets in the habitable zone are forthcoming if, indeed, such planets are abundant.
1,271 citations
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TL;DR: This article sets out to summarize and clarify the current understanding in this field; explain the underpinnings of breakthroughs reported in the past decade; and provide a critical review of various concepts and experimental results related to nanostructured thermoelectrics.
Abstract: The field of thermoelectrics has progressed enormously and is now growing steadily because of recently demonstrated advances and strong global demand for cost-effective, pollution-free forms of energy conversion. Rapid growth and exciting innovative breakthroughs in the field over the last 10-15 years have occurred in large part due to a new fundamental focus on nanostructured materials. As a result of the greatly increased research activity in this field, a substantial amount of new data--especially related to materials--have been generated. Although this has led to stronger insight and understanding of thermoelectric principles, it has also resulted in misconceptions and misunderstanding about some fundamental issues. This article sets out to summarize and clarify the current understanding in this field; explain the underpinnings of breakthroughs reported in the past decade; and provide a critical review of various concepts and experimental results related to nanostructured thermoelectrics. We believe recent achievements in the field augur great possibilities for thermoelectric power generation and cooling, and discuss future paths forward that build on these exciting nanostructuring concepts.
1,268 citations
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TL;DR: It is shown that 84% of the 147 grassland plant species studied in 17 biodiversity experiments promoted ecosystem functioning at least once, and many species are needed to maintain multiple functions at multiple times and places in a changing world.
Abstract: Biodiversity is rapidly declining worldwide, and there is consensus that this can decrease ecosystem functioning and services. It remains unclear, though, whether few or many of the species in an ecosystem are needed to sustain the provisioning of ecosystem services. It has been hypothesized that most species would promote ecosystem services if many times, places, functions and environmental changes were considered; however, no previous study has considered all of these factors together. Here we show that 84% of the 147 grassland plant species studied in 17 biodiversity experiments promoted ecosystem functioning at least once. Different species promoted ecosystem functioning during different years, at different places, for different functions and under different environmental change scenarios. Furthermore, the species needed to provide one function during multiple years were not the same as those needed to provide multiple functions within one year. Our results indicate that even more species will be needed to maintain ecosystem functioning and services than previously suggested by studies that have either (1) considered only the number of species needed to promote one function under one set of environmental conditions, or (2) separately considered the importance of biodiversity for providing ecosystem functioning across multiple years, places, functions or environmental change scenarios. Therefore, although species may appear functionally redundant when one function is considered under one set of environmental conditions, many species are needed to maintain multiple functions at multiple times and places in a changing world.
1,268 citations
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1, Buck Institute for Research on Aging2, University of California, San Francisco3, Broad Institute4, Pompeu Fabra University5, University of California, Santa Cruz6, Brown University7, Washington University in St. Louis8, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center9, University of Southern California10, Sage Bionetworks11, BC Cancer Agency12, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies13, National Institutes of Health14
TL;DR: An integrative analysis using five genome-wide platforms and one proteomic platform on 3,527 specimens from 12 cancer types revealed a unified classification into 11 major subtypes, revealing several distinct cancer types found to converge into common subtypes.
1,259 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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David J. Schlegel | 193 | 600 | 193972 |
David R. Williams | 178 | 2034 | 138789 |
John R. Yates | 177 | 1036 | 129029 |
David Haussler | 172 | 488 | 224960 |
Evan E. Eichler | 170 | 567 | 150409 |
Anton M. Koekemoer | 168 | 1127 | 106796 |
Mark Gerstein | 168 | 751 | 149578 |
Alexander S. Szalay | 166 | 936 | 145745 |
Charles M. Lieber | 165 | 521 | 132811 |
Jorge E. Cortes | 163 | 2784 | 124154 |
M. Razzano | 155 | 515 | 106357 |
Lars Hernquist | 148 | 598 | 88554 |
Aaron Dominguez | 147 | 1968 | 113224 |
Taeghwan Hyeon | 139 | 563 | 75814 |
Garth D. Illingworth | 137 | 505 | 61793 |