Copyright (c) 2009 Utah State University All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu Recent documents in DigitalCommons@USU en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:52:47 PST 3600 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2738 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2738 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:41:22 PST W.E. Kaar http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2737 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2737 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:41:16 PST W.E. Kaar http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2736 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2736 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:41:11 PST T.W. Jurik http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2735 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2735 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:41:05 PST D.E. Jelinski http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2734 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2734 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:59 PST W.J. Jakubas http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2733 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/2733 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:21:34 PST Y.Z. 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Loomis http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/367 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/367 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:22:49 PST A habitat type classification for the coniferous forests of central and southern Utah includes the heirarchical taxonomic system of land classification that is based on potential natural vegetation of forest sites and uses data from more than 720 sample stands U.S. Forest Service http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/366 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/366 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:22:47 PST The Oak Creek Range Management Are was established in 1978 under the Intermountain Region's Range Validation program to provide information about the overall cost effectiveness of range improvement practices within Pinyon-Juniper ecosystems. U.S. Forest Service http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/365 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/365 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:22:46 PST A vegetation classification for the Aspen dominated forests of Utah ix based upon existing community structure and plant species composition . U.S. Forest Service http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/364 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/364 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:22:45 PST Germination of wildland seeds is often dependent on proper seed collection and storage. A systematic approach to germination testing will often pinpoint the type of dormancy of seeds in wildland species and lead to germination enhancement. U.S. Forest Service http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/363 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/govdocs/363 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:21:39 PST The unique geological formation known as Devils Tower annually draws nearly half a million visitors. Most visitors enjoy photographing the butte, hiking area trails, camping, picnicking, and wildlife viewing. A few thousand technical rock climbers annually travel from across the country and the world to scale the butte's nearly vertical cracks and columns. Devils Tower also is a sacred site to several American Indian peoples of the northern plains. Increasingly, American Indian groups travel to the monument to perform traditional cultural practices. Devils Tower is highly regarded as having significant values that make it worthy of inclusion to the National Register of Historic Places. Recreational climbing at Devils Tower has increased dramatically from 312 climbers in 1973 to over 6,000 per year since 1992. New route development in the last ten years has led to increasing numbers of bolts on the tower. Approximately 580 metal bolts are currently embedded in the rock. Devils Tower is world famous for its crack climbing, which depends primarily on removable protection placed by climbers in cracks. Activities performed by the numerous climbers on the tower during the spring through fall climbing season has affected nesting raptors, soil, vegetation, the integrity of the rock, the area's natural quiet, and the rock's physical appearance. American Indians have complained that the presence of climbers on the sacred butte and the placement of bolts in the rock has adversely impacted their traditional activities and seriously impaired the spiritual quality of the site. The preferred alternative and five other alternatives address the monument's objectives to: 1) preserve and protect the monument's natural and cultural resources for present and future generations, 2) manage recreational climbing on the tower, 3) increase visitor awareness of American Indian beliefs and traditional cultural practices at Devils Tower, and 4) provide the monument with a guide for managing climbing use that is consistent with National Park Service management policies and other management plans at Devils Tower National Monument. United States Department of the Interior http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/itls_facpub/19 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/itls_facpub/19 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:57:12 PST In this chapter, we motivate one potential type of future QA system that deals with questions more complex than simple factoid questions and which provides answers with their supporting context. Our approach is based on the issues we faced when developing and delivering a QA system to deal with real time questions in the domain of RLVs within the larger field of aerospace engineering. This particular domain, the actual users of the system, and the questions asked, all demanded a change in our question-answering strategy. First, the chapter will present background on the project that provided the context and a description of the system that was deployed. Next, the chapter analyzes the questions put to the system by the users and discusses the implications that this analysis and the user evaluation study had on our design of a QA system of the future. Anne Diekema http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/itls_facpub/18 http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/itls_facpub/18 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:44:40 PST This chapter reviews research and practice in cross-language information retrieval (CUR) that seeks to support the process of finding documents written in one natural language (e.g., English or Portuguese) with automated systems that can accept queries expressed in other languages. With the globalization of the economy and the continued internationalization of the Internet, CUR is becoming an increasingly important capability that facilitates the effective exchange of information. For retrospective retrieval, CUR allows users to state questions in their native language and then retrieve documents in any supported language. This can simplify searching by multilingual users and, if translation resources are limited, can allow searchers to allocate those resources to the most promising documents. In selective dissemination applications, CUR allows monolingual users to specify a profile using words from one language and then use that profile to identify promising documents in many languages. Adaptive filtering systems that seek to learn profiles automatically can use CUR to process training documents that may not be in the same language as the documents that later must be selected. Douglas W. Oard