The ecohydrologic effects of urbanization that is dominated by forests clearing are not well understood in the southeastern United States. We utilized long-term monitoring data to quantify the annual water balance, stormflow characteristics, and seasonal flow patterns of an urbanized watershed (UR) (0Ð70 km2) and compared it to a fully forested watershed (FOR) (2Ð95 km2) in central North Caroli...

On the one hand any effective action of the QCD, involve, at least in principle, a tower of hadronic fields of all spins; on the other hand the front form of the field theory has emerged as an appropriate framework to investigate the high energy behaviour of many systems. Motivated by these simple considerations we present a systematic formalism which explicitly provides the front form fields a...

We present a formalism that extends the Majorana-construction to arbitrary spin (j, 0)⊕(0, j) representation spaces. For the example case of spin-1, a wave equation satisfied by the Majorana-like (1, 0) ⊕ (0, 1) spinors is constructed and its physical content explored. The (j, 0) ⊕ (0, j) Majorana-construct is found to possess an unusual classical and quantum field theoretic structure. Relevanc...

The exponential size of the search space of the resolution procedure necessitates the use of refined derivation systems, which restrict the search space. Given some fundamental refinements, further refined derivation systems can be developed by combining several fundamental refinements in a single derivation system. The manner in which combinations can be formed is necessarily restricted by the...

The behaviour of the magnetic field of a neutron star with a superconducting quark matter core is investigated in the framework of the GinzburgLandau theory. We take into account the simultaneous coupling of the diquark condensate field to the usual magnetic and to the gluomagnetic gauge fields. We solve the Ginzburg-Landau equations by properly taking into account the boundary conditions, in p...

In the presented system to person fall detection a body-worn accelerometer is used to indicate a potential fall and a ceiling-mounted depth sensor is utilized to authenticate fall alert. In order to expand the observation area the depth sensor has been mounted on a pan-tilt motorized head. If the person acceleration is above a preset threshold the system uses a lying pose detector as well as ex...

We study the problems of (approximately) representing a functional curve in 2-D by a set of curves with fewer peaks. Let f be an input nonnegative piecewise linear functional curve of size n. We consider the following problems. (1) Uphill-downhill pair representation (UDPR): Find two nonnegative piecewise linear curves, one nondecreasing and one nonincreasing, such that their sum approximately ...

A multimedia-based cognitive-behavioural intervention program improves attitudes and handling behaviours of stockpeople in livestock farming M.A.W. Ruis, G.J. Coleman, S. Waiblinger, I. Windschnurer, X. Boivin Wageningen UR Livestock Research, Lelystad, Netherlands, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, Institute of Animal Husbandry and Welfare, Vienna, Austria, INRA de Clermont-Ferrand-Theix,...

In Drosophila polytene chromosomes, most late-replicating regions remain underreplicated. A loss-of-function mutant of the suppressor of underreplication [Su(UR)] gene suppresses underreplication (UR), whereas extra copies of this gene enhance the level and number of regions showing UR. By combining DNA microarray analysis with manipulation of the number of Su(UR) gene copies, we achieved genom...

BACKGROUND Low-carbohydrate (LC) and high-fat, low-carbohydrate (HFLC) dietary preparations may enhance (18)F-FDG-PET-based imaging of small, inflamed structures near the heart by suppressing myocardial FDG signal. We compared myocardial (18)F-FDG uptake in patients randomized to LC, HFLC, and unrestricted (UR) preparations prior to (18)F-FDG-PET. METHODS AND RESULTS We randomized 63 outpatie...