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Watertable Fluctuations in a Sandy Ocean Beach

Fluctuations of the watertable level within a fine-grained beach were observed for 2 months in Fall 1996. The magnitude of fluctuations at diurnal and semi-diurnal frequencies decayed rapidly inland, but fluctuations at spring-neap frequencies remained significant nearly 100 m inland of the mean shoreline location. During two storms that coincided with spring tides, overtopping and ponding of water behind the berm resulted in increased watertable levels that persisted for several days. Beach erosion during the second storm resulted in landward displacement of the shoreline location, and subsequent watertable fluctuations also extended farther inland. Numerical solutions of the nonlinear Boussinesq equation, with the seaward boundary condition given by the observed shoreline location, agree well with the observations. The landward attenuation and phase shifting of tidal watertable fluctuations are predicted well, as is the location of the seepage face. Introduction Beach watertable levels are believed to affect swash zone fluid motions (e.g., Packwood, 1983) and sediment transport (e.g., Grant, 1948; Duncan, 1964; Eliot and Clarke, 1988). Tidal watertable fluctuations in shallow (relative to the wavelength of the fluctuations) aquifers are often modeled with the nonlinear Boussinesq equation where t is time, x is the cross-shore coordinate, r\ and D are, respectively, the deviation of the watertable elevation and the depth of the impermeable stratum relative to mean sea level, K is the hydraulic conductivity in the saturated beach, and N is the effective porosity. The observed asymmetry (the beach fills more rapidly than it drains) and Scripps Inst. Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA, 92093-0209, britt@coast.ucsd. edu EECS 2752, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-2752
Shadow removal for object tracking in complex outdoor scenes

Shadows occurring in outdoor scenes can have a significant impact on the content within captured images. In object tracking applications they can grossly extend the apparent shape of an object due to the reduction in illumination intensity within cast-shadows. They have typically been removed from images using observed properties such as shape, intensity, texture retention, and shadow direction. However, these methods often fail with grey or shadow-like objects on complex backgrounds that vary in colour or texture. We present a new nonlinear method of shadow removal for object tracking based on a surface’s response to sunlight and skylight. The method returns full-colour images, operates on complex scenes in outdoor environments, and requires only 2 images for calibration.
Exploring The Microarchitectural Behavior Of An Industrial Processor In The Presence Of Transient Faults

Soft errors are an ubiquitous, ever-increasing problem that will compromise future computing integrity at every echelon. Many architectures provide protection from these transient events for large arrays, such as register files and caches, but often, little is done to protect common latches from corruption, such as those used in configuration and in the pipeline. It is important that we identify the most vulnerable processor components at the latch level, so as to mitigate soft errors before they manifest in architectural state. This research evaluates the vulnerability of latches within an IBM PowerPC-based processor core. We simulate a VHDL model of the processor and use an RTX error injection methodology to inject bit-flips into the latch output nets at runtime. We then perform an analysis of the system’s behavior while executing various TST applications, paying particular attention to the floating point unit, and propose solutions to increase processor robustness.
A Novel Lithium Ion Battery Autonomous Strategy Improvement Based on SVM-DTC for Urban Electric Vehicle under Several Speeds Tests

Autonomous vehicle present a several problems in the modern commercialized electric vehicle (EV). One of the weakest points of electric vehicles is the battery system, vehicle autonomous depend on the battery state of charge (SOC). In this paper novel strategy of EV power electronics studies based on direct torque space vector modulation technique in the several speed variations . The basic idea of this work that the state SOC equal 70% and the developed model take into consideration the present state under several speed variations. The performances of the proposed strategy controller give a good torque control instead of the speed stability improvement. Moreover, the future industrial's vehicle must take into considerations the obtained results into design steps.
Reassessing international investment patterns: a revisitation of Lane and Milesi-Ferretti's evidence.

We show that recent methodological advances in econometric theory raise questions about the results obtained by Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (LMF) in relation to the determinants of international investment patterns (International Investment Patterns, The Review of Economics and Statistics 2008; 90(3): 538{549). We find that LMF's estimated equations are affected by heteroscedasticity (which can lead to inconsistent estimates in log-linearized models), and that the results depend on the pattern of heteroscedasticity assumed and on the estimation method applied. Thus, LMF's findings need to be reassessed. Moreover, we extend the dataset over time to estimate the panel version of the LMF's equations (over years 2001{2009). Our panel allows for the proper accounting of unobserved heterogeneity through country-pair fixed effects and improves the cross-section analysis reconciling empirical evidence with economic theory. Irrespective of the estimation method, we identify a clear diversification motive which drives international equity purchases.
Biology, distribution and geographic variation of loliginid squids (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) off southwestern Atlantic

The biology and ecology of southwestern Atlantic loliginid squids have been intensively researched in the last few decades, mostly off the Brazilian southern coast. However, information gathered by scientific research cruisers, either past or recent, is limited. Three species of loliginid squids – the warm-tempered Doryteuthissanpaulensis (Brakoniecki, 1984), plus the tropical D.pleii (Blainville, 1823) and Lolligunculabrevis (Blainville, 1823) – were sampled along 16 degrees of latitude on the southwestern Atlantic (22–38°S). The samples were obtained mostly from oceanographic surveys, but also included squids caught by commercial fisheries, and a few specimens from museum collections. Squid response to abiotic variables, morphological variation and circadian behaviour were surveyed in detail. Doryteuthissanpaulensis can be divided into at least six distinguishable geographical groups, which do not form a cline. In contrast, D.pleii can be divided into only two morphological groups that are very similar. Doryteuthis spp. were heterogeneously distributed on the shelf, whereas L.brevis was confined nearshore. Our data extended the southernmost distribution range of D.pleii by at least nine degrees of latitude, owing to specimens obtained at ~38°S (Mar del Plata, Argentina). Small, immature D.sanpaulensis were sampled inside the Patos Lagoon estuary (~32°S). The morphologically similar Doryteuthis spp. apparently avoid direct competition by concentrating at different depths, displaying different thermal preferences, and inverse circadian levels of activity. The information reported herein may be regarded as a “snapshot” of the ecology of sympatric squids in a marine environment that has not been deeply affected by climate change.
High-stability oxygen sensor based on amorphous zinc tin oxide thin film transistor

This research presents a sol-gel derived zinc tin oxide thin film transistor (TFT) as a high-stability oxygen sensor. Due to its high sensitivity, oxygen has been traditionally regarded as having a negative influence on the electrical characteristics of zinc-based TFTs; however, TFTs can also act as an oxygen sensor. After illumination with visible light in oxygen-rich ambient, a significant increase in drain current of nearly 104 times occurs with fixed gate and drain voltages. It is expected that an optimized method of illumination can help to reset the electrical characteristics or distinguish the on/off state of this reliable oxygen sensor.
Estimation of genetic parameters for body weight and feed efficiency traits in a broiler chicken population using genomic information.

In this study, data from an experimental broiler chicken population from Cobb-Vantress were obtained for analysis. A total of 1000 broilers were tested in a feed efficiency (FE) experiment. Genetic parameters of body weight (BW) and FE traits were estimated using genomic information. The heritability estimates of BW and FE traits for this line were found to be lower than those reported in other studies, which are estimated based on pedigree relations. The observed low estimates in this study might be due to pre-selection of the broilers for BW before the FE experiment, weak relationship between broilers in the data and use of only genomic information to enable estimation of genetic parameters since there was no available pedigree information for this population.
FIXED POINT PARAMETERS FOR MÖBIUS GROUPS

Let Γn (respectively, Γ∞) be a free group of rank n (respectively, a free group of countable infinite rank). We consider the space of algebraic representations of the group Γn (respectively, Γ∞) Hom(Γn; PGL(2; C)) (respectively, Hom(Γ∞; PGL(2; C))). Inside each of these spaces we consider a couple of open and dense subsets. These subsets contain non-discrete groups of Mobius transformations. We proceed to find complex analytic parameters for these spaces given by fixed points.
What effect does CEO power and governance have over acquisitions

We examine whether governance and CEO power matter for acquisitions. Acquisitions are frequently beneficial to the CEO of the acquiring firm, but can often be value-destructive to acquirer shareholders and other stakeholders such as employees. We find that corporate governance does not appear to influence whether a firm will become an acquirer after controlling for CEO power, but superior governance is associated with greater relatedness between the target and acquirer. We also find that the effect of CEO power on a firm’s acquisition activity varies according to the source of that power. Our results suggest that the relationships between governance, CEO power, and acquisition activity are complex.
Ice injected up to the Tropopause by Deep Convection: 1) in the Austral Convective Tropics

Abstract. The impact of deep convection on the water budget (water vapor and ice) from the tropical Upper Troposphere (UT, around 146 hPa) to the Tropopause Level (TL, around 100 hPa) is investigated. Ice water content (IWC) and water vapour (WV) measured in the UT and the TL by the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS, Version 4.2) are compared to the precipitation (Prec) measured by the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM, Version 007). The two datasets, gridded within 2° × 2° horizontal bins, have been analyzed during the austral convective season: December, January and February (DJF) from 2004 to 2017. MLS observations are performed at 01:30 and 13:30 Local Solar Time whilst the Prec dataset is constructed with a time resolution of 1 hour. The new contribution of this study is to provide a much more detailed picture of the diurnal variation of ice than is provided by the very limited (2 per day) MLS observations. Firstly, we show that IWC represents 70 and 50 % of the total water in the tropical UT and TL, respectively and that Prec is spatially highly correlated with IWC in the UT (Pearson linear coefficient R = 0.7). We propose a method using Prec as a proxy of deep convection bringing ice up into the TL, during the growing stage of the convection. We validate the method using ice measurements from the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) during the period DJF 2009–2010. Next, the diurnal amount of IWC injected into the UT and the TL by deep convection is calculated by the difference between the maximum and the minimum in the estimated diurnal cycle of IWC in these layers and over selected convective zones. Six tropical highly convective zones have been chosen: South America, South Africa, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and the Maritime Continent region, split into land (MariCont-L) and ocean (MariCont-O). IWC injection is found to be 2.73 and 0.41 mg m−3 over tropical land in the UT and TL, respectively, and 0.60 and 0.13 mg m−3 over tropical ocean in the UT and TL, respectively. The MariCont-L region has the greatest ice injection in both UT and TL (3.34 and 0.42–0.56 mg m−3, respectively). The MariCont-O region has less ice injection than MariCont-L (0.91 mg m−3 in the UT and 0.16–0.34 mg m−3 in TL), but has the highest diurnal minimum value of IWC in the TL (0.34–0.37 mg m−3) among all oceanic zones.
INVESTIGATION OF NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BY DATA FUSION

SUMMARY Motivation: The amount of published scientific literature is fast expanding its management and processing is become a burden task. Text Mining (TM) is acquiring a key role for bioinformatics; it seems one of more suitable approaches for heterogeneous data sources integration. Textual data has been recently used to support scientific hypotheses generation (Literature Based Discovery). In this work we have considered the screening of previous unknown molecular in a literature based discovery perspective. The identification of molecular species, that could interact among them, is the first step for in silico design of molecular interaction networks. In order to achieve this goal, we have need to extract the more standardized set of potentially interacting molecules. The published articles reflects the fragmentation biomedical researches, this situation could affect the reliability of the set. During the temporal evolution, new published papers can modify the knowledge about molecular interactions. The evaluation these changes on knowledge is important in a model development perspective. The screening of potentially interacting molecules could be considered equivalent to linguistic named entity recognition process. In this paper we have applied an ensemble of unsupervised learning machines to selection and extraction of named entities associated to potentially interacting molecules; the analysis has been focused on the changes emerged in PubMed repository during the period of time 1985–2000. Results: A set of PubMed queries has been analyzed; everyone of which was a molecular entity. Each corresponding set of PubMed abstracts has been separately retrieved and processed; the retrieval phase has limited to the period 1985–2000. Each set has been split into three chunks; each chunk represent a five year sub interval. This procedure allowed us to screen named entities, specific for each time interval, associated with potentially interacting molecules; The recognition of time invariant named entities is essential for subsequent molecular interaction screening. A data-fusion system, based on self-organization paradigm, seems to be able to evaluate the temporal modification in textual information. Our system has detected, in this preliminary analysis, several named entities that can be functionally related with the original query. Availability: http://biocomp.ge. ismac.cnr. it/
TOWARDS A PRE-PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR CASUAL ENGLISH ANNOTATED WITH LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL INFORMATION

We present a preliminary revision of a text processing system, CECS (Casual English Conversion System) the purpose of which is to normalize the casual, error-ridden English that is frequently a feature of new media such as Twitter, into regular English. CECS has two applications: as pre-processing on input for Machine Translation or Information Retrieval systems, and as a standalone system to aid non-native speakers’ reading comprehension of informal written English. The educational aspect of CECS is enhanced by the provision of manually compiled annotation on each word or phrase converted by the system. The system currently runs using a manually compiled database and a fairly straightforward text-to-text replacement method, but future plans include the implementation of a web mining algorithm for wider knowledge acquisition. Preliminary experiments produced positive results, suggesting that the basic concept and implementation of the system give it considerable potential as a pre-processing tool, and that the main task hereafter lies in the expansion of the database and addition of web mining and word-sense disambiguation automatic candidate selection algorithms.
An Examination of the First Years: Novice ESOL Teachers’ Experiences with Loneliness and Stress

The first years of work for new teachers can be particularly difficult; this is especially true for English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teachers (Brannan & Bleistein, 2012; Warford & Reeves, 2003). This study was designed to explore potential issues within this important group and specifically examined the relationship between loneliness and stress for novice ESOL teachers. Forty-seven novice ESOL teachers completed self-report measures assessing their levels of perceived stress and loneliness. The results revealed that loneliness significantly predicted perceived stress (β = .51, p < .001.). Furthermore, exploratory analyses indicated that marital status influenced loneliness ratings but not stress levels. These findings indicate that for novice teachers that often teach abroad, feelings of loneliness are an important issue to consider.
Alkalinity Ionic composition Weighted averaging Optima Temporal variability Tolerances Handling editor: Jasmine Saros

Information on the response of temporary depressional wetland diatoms to human-induced disturbances is a limited and important component for the development of temporary wetland biological assessments in human-modified landscapes. Establishing a reference condition of variation due to natural disturbances in depressional wetlands using diatoms is necessary for further investigations of anthropogenic impacts. We examined the temporal and spatial responses of epiphytic diatom communities to natural environmental disturbances within three least disturbed wetlands in the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Alkalinity, Na and Cl, water depth and total relative evapotranspiration (ETo) accounted for the highest proportion of temporal variation in composition of epiphytic diatoms, as revealed by canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). Alkalinity, Na, and Cl explained a much higher proportion of species variation, using partial CCA. A simple WA with inverse deshrinking produced reasonably robust models for Na (rboot 2 = 0.71), depth (rboot 2 = 0.64) and alkalinity (rboot 2 = 0.46), not for Cl and ETo. We determined species optima and tolerances for Na, depth and alkalinity which can facilitate identification of anthropogenic impacts based on changes of indicator taxa assemblages. Our study provides a basis for newly developed quantitative tools to be used in biomonitoring studies and evaluations of reference conditions for temporary wetland management.
Test de Actitud Prejuiciosa (TAP): Estudios de fiabilidad y evidencias de validez basadas en la estructura interna en autóctonos e inmigrantes

The framework of this research is the study of prejudice between autochthonous and immigrant people. Its aim is to conduct a study of the psychometric properties of a new measure of prejudice attitude for differ- ent groups (majority and minority groups), the Prejudice Attitude Test (PAT). The PAT is based on a conceptual design of attitude with three di- mensions: cognitive, emotional and conative. This work shows the results of reliability estimates and the study of validity evidences (internal struc- ture). Sample was formed by 1967 participants: there were 992 Spanish, 500 Romanian and 475 Ecuadorian people. The sample was selected in 12 municipalities with high rates of immigrant people in their census, chosen in four autonomous communities of Spain's Mediterranean zone. The PAT shows psychometric properties suitable for its use both in majority and in minority groups: an adequate reliability, a substantive internal structure that are consistent with the construct underlying the test.
The Effect of Selected Factors on the Growth Ability of Charolais Cattle

TOUSOVA RENATA, DUCHACEK JAROMIR, STADNIK LUDĚK, PTACEK MARTIN, BERAN JAN. 2014. The Eff ect of Selected Factors on the Growth Ability of Charolais Cattle. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 62(1): 255–260. The aim of this work was to analyze the growth abilities of bull and heifer calves (n = 190) of the Charolais breed calved in one herd from 2006 to 2011. The evaluation was carried out during the period of calf raising, focusing to the eff ects of sex, parity and the mating method on live birth weight (BLW) and the live weight at 120 (LW120), 210 (LW210) and 365 (LW365) days of life, as well as the average daily weight gain reached by the age of 120 (G120), 210 (G210), and 365 (G365) days. Statistical analysis was carried out with the use of the SAS 9.3 program. The eff ect of sex on the live weight and average daily weight gain was statistically signifi cant on the level of P 0.05). The eff ect of embryo transfer (ET) and other commonly used reproduction methods (insemination and natural mating, AI/PP) was evaluated as well as. The calves born a er embryo transfer showed a signifi cantly (P < 0.01) higher the live birth weight as well as weight at diff erent ages (BLW +5.85 kg, LW120 +18.15 kg, LW210 +22.94 kg and LW365 +35.43 kg), and G120 only (+100 g×day−1; P < 0.05). These results pointed the suitability of using the biotechnological reproduction methods, especially in relation to the total weight of the reared and fattened animals.
Lectins binding during alloxan-induced diabetes in rat soleus muscle

Membrane structural changes of soleus muscle of alloxan-diabetic rats were detected with a panel of six biotinylated lectins. Samples of muscles were obtained from normal and diabetic rats. The biotinylated lectins in staining were detected by avidin-peroxidase complex. Lectin stainning of soleus muscle cryostat sections from alloxan-diabetic rats were compared with similar cryostat sections from normal rats. All lectins were bounded to soleus muscle cell membranes of normal and diabetic rats except the Ulex europeus agglutinin I (UEA-I). UEA-I was not stained for cell membranes of soleus muscles of normal and diabetic rats. But intercellular areas of normal and diabetic soleus muscle were stained for UEA-I. Griffonia simplicifolia I (GS-I) lectin was bounded more strongly to cell membrane of diabetic rats than other lectins. Not only cell membranes but also cytoplasmic miyofibrills of diabetic muscle cells were stained by Griffonia simplicifolia (GS1) lectin. It was concluded that cell membranes of soleus muscle of diabetic rats were differently stained for lectins than those of normal rats. Our data can supplement on the use of lectins as probes for changes in carbohydrate-containing constituents of the alloxan-diabetic muscle cell membrane information obtained from normal and diabetic
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