The field of AI has changed significantly in the past couple of years and will likely continue to do so. Driven by a desire to expose our students to relevant and modern materials, we conducted two surveys, one of AI instructors and one of AI practitioners. The surveys were aimed at gathering information about the current state of the art of introducing AI as well as gathering input from practi...

SuRVEYS of psychiatric illness in the community are at present handicapped by the lack of valid and reliable methods of case-identification. The widely varying estimates of psychiatric prevalence made by different workers in this field (Lin and Standley, 1962) emphasize the urgent need for such techniques, which could be used both in field surveys and in the screening of general practice popula...

VISTA, the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, is a 4.1-metre wide-field survey telescope, equipped with a 1.65-degree field, (67-Mpixel) nearinfrared (NIR) camera, for performing extensive surveys of the southern skies with sensitivity matched to the needs of 8-metre-class telescopes. Over its first five years of operations, the majority of VISTA’s time will be used for six ES...

We compare the peculiar velocities of nearby SNe Ia with those predicted by the gravity fields of full sky galaxy catalogs. The method provides a powerful test of the gravitational instability paradigm and strong constraints on the density parameter β ≡ Ω/b. For 24 SNe Ia within 10,000 km s, we find the observed SNe Ia peculiar velocities are well modeled by the predictions derived from the 1.2...

The Quchan fault is located in Quchan - Shirvan area which is a part of Chenaran- Bojnourd plain in Kopeh-Dagh zone, NE Iran. The Quchan active fault with northwest – southeast trending is one of the most important strike-slip faults in the area which its activity led to the numerous historical and instrumental earthquakes. The Neo-tectonic activities of this fault are investigated by the drain...

In order to analyze the slope stability in open-pit mines, the structural parameters of rock mass such as persistence and spatial orientation of discontinuities are characterized through field surveys, which involve spending high costs and times as well as posing high risks of rock toppling and rock fall. In the present work, a new application of terrestrial digital photogrammetry is introduced...