A hot spot refers to numerous crime incidents clustered in a limited space-time range. The near-repeat phenomenon suggests that every victimization might form a contagion-like pattern nearby in terms of both space and time. In this article, the near-repeat phenomenon is used to analyze the risk levels around hot spots. Utilizing a recent burglary dataset in N (a large city located in southeaste...

The M26 hot spot of meiotic recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is the eukaryotic hot spot most thoroughly investigated at the nucleotide level. The minimum sequence required for M26 activity was previously determined to be 5'-ATGACGT-3'. Originally identified by a mutant allele, ade6-M26, the M26 heptamer sequence occurs in the wild-type S. pombe genome approximately 300 times, but it h...

The zigbee tree routing is wide used in several resource restricted devices and applications. Since it doesn’t need any routing table and route discovery overhead to send a packet to the destination. But the ZigBee tree routing has the elemental limitation that a packet follows the tree topology. Therefore, it cannot provide the optimum routing path. The shortcut tree routing protocol that prov...

Detailed multi-frequency VLA observations of the prominent southern radio galaxy Pictor A are described. The radio structure is found to comprise very dim, nearly circular lobes with an extraordinarily bright and compact hot spot located at the western extremity of the western lobe. A faint jet is observed to connect this hot spot with the radio nucleus. No counter-jet is seen. The eastern lobe...

We analyze the literature in order to clarify the concept of business model and to identify hotspots business models. Based in those models an in a set of interviews we produced a hotspot business infrastructure model. This model was used to analyze hot spot “industry”, what allowed the identification of several conclusions related to actors’ modus operandi.

LCA is an environmental management tool for assessing the comprehensive environmental impacts of products, processes and activities. Assessment is undertaken along the life cycle from extraction of raw materials, through processing, manufacturing, transportation, use and on to final disposal. This is illustrated by reference to a study of breadmaking wheat production where the relative environm...

One of the major factors that brings complexity to framework development is the identification of its hot spots, i.e., the framework parts that must be kept flexible as they are specific of individual systems. In this paper we show that pattern languages can be important sources for framework hot spots identification and, consequently, can be used for framework construction. We define the types...

Hot spot volcanism may originate from the deep mantle in regions exhibiting the Earth’s most pronounced lateral S-wave velocity gradients. These strong gradient regions display an improved geographic correlation over S-wave velocities to surface hot spot locations. For the lowest velocities or strongest gradients occupying 10% of the surface area of the core–mantle boundary (CMB), hot spots are...

We show that a plasmonic metamaterial can act as a far-field to near-field transformer that focuses a free-space beam of light into a subwavelength energy hot spot at a prescribed location with a spot size only a small fraction of the wavelength. The hot spot position on the metamaterial can be prescribed and moved at will from one metamolecule of the array to another in a "digital" fashion sim...