ion is the removal of rain from surface runoff processes. In addition to infiltration, it includes surface depressional storage and vegetative interception, of which surface depressional storage is of greater importance. Initial abstraction is the surface depressional storage, vegetative interception and infiltration (Fs for the GAML model) prior to the start of runoff. Most of the total surfac...

The aims of this study were to assess the potential radioactive contamination of fodder in the case of accidental radionuclide fallout, and to analyse the relationship between interception and retention of radionuclides as a function of biomass and Leaf Area Index (LAI). The interception and the retention of wet deposited (134)Cs and (85)Sr in ley (a mixture of grass and clover) were measured a...

The aim of this study is to assess the interception and transfer to edible part of wet deposited 134Cs and 85Sr to spring oilseed rape and spring wheat and the dependency of the intercepted fraction on the development stage e.g. the total plant biomass. The radionuclides, 134Cs and 85Sr, were deposited at six different development stages using a rainfall simulator. The results showed that there...

Two seemingly contradictory theories attempt to explain how humans move to intercept an airborne ball. One theory posits that humans predict the ball trajectory to optimally plan future actions; the other claims that, instead of performing such complicated computations, humans employ heuristics to reactively choose appropriate actions based on immediate visual feedback. In this paper, we show t...

As HTTPS deployment grows, middlebox and antivirus products are increasingly intercepting TLS connections to retain visibility into network traffic. In this work, we present a comprehensive study on the prevalence and impact of HTTPS interception. First, we show that web servers can detect interception by identifying a mismatch between the HTTP User-Agent header and TLS client behavior. We char...

Rainfall interception losses from an agroforestry system in semi-arid Kenya comprising Grevillea robusta and maize were measured over a period of 33 months. These measurements showed that interception was slightly higher (10.2%) under trees with no maize understorey, than in the intercropped treatment (9.8%), and was directly related to the degree of tree canopy cover. Interception estimates us...

The interception of moving targets is a complex activity that involves a dynamic interplay of several perceptual and motor processes and therefore involves a rich interaction among several brain areas. Although the behavioral aspects of interception have been studied for the past three decades, it is only during the past decade that neural studies have been focused on this problem. In addition ...

This paper presents the problem of lateral interception by a Dubins car target that moves along an priori known trajectory. trajectory is given two coordinates planar location and one angle heading orientation, every them continuous function time. The optimal planning constructing minimum-time trajectories for in presence priory time-dependent wind vector field special case presented problem. U...

In this work we examine the problem of intercepting a moving target with a pursuer that only moves forwards at constant speed and whose radius of turn is bounded from below. We assume that the target is moving on a straight line at constant speed and that the target’s velocity is known to the pursuer with no measurement error. We analyze both the problem of minimum-time interception, as well as...