A system to obtahi the detailed temperature profiles from the ground surface to heights of 1500-2000 ni. has been This economical system employs modified radiosondes and less complex receiving equipment than used A simplified approach for obtaining heights by means of a modified baroswitch The temperature measuring system has performed successfully for two years with reljable developed. at stan...

During the evaluation of the continuous measurement signal of analytical instruments by a digital computer, the signal is sampled periodically, and the analytical information [1] is computed from this sequence of discrete values representing the signal by the procedure called data reduction [2]. For example, retention data, peak heights and/or peak areas are produced from the raw discretized si...

International relations urgently needs theoretical development that takes into the account the power of non-state actors, in particular business. The present paper aims to prepare the ground for such theoretical development by analyzing the political power of business along three dimensions: its instrumental, structural, and discursive power. The paper discusses the extent to which business' po...

We show the existence of canonical heights (normalized heights) of subvarieties for bounded sequences of morphisms and give some applications.

Empirically derived 1-m–resolution descriptions of (A) morning and (B) evening urban heat islands in Portland, Oregon, on August 25, 2014. Temperatures were recorded in 1-hour periods at 6 AM and 7 PM. In the morning, low-lying vegetation cover had the strongest effect on temperature; in the evening, temperatures were most strongly affected by variation in building heights. High-resolution data...

We extend the water retention model [C. L. Knecht et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045703 (2012)] to correlated random surfaces. We find that the retention capacity of discrete random landscapes is strongly affected by spatial correlations among the heights. This phenomenon is related to the emergence of power-law scaling in the lake volume distribution. We also solve the uncorrelated case exactly...

Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures Back Close Abstract The urban boundary layer (UBL), in comparison with " rural " homogeneous atmospheric boundary layers, is characterised by greatly enhanced mixing, resulting from both the large surface roughness and increased surface heating, and by horizontal heterogene-...

We examined the influence of backrest inclination and vergence demand on the posture and gaze angle that workers adopt to view visual targets placed in different vertical locations. In the study, 12 participants viewed a small video monitor placed in 7 locations around a 0.65-m radius arc (from 65 degrees below to 30 degrees above horizontal eye height). Trunk posture was manipulated by changin...

We study stochastic sandpile models with a height restriction in one and two dimensions. A site can topple if it has a height of two, as in Manna's model, but, in contrast to previously studied sandpiles, here the height (or number of particles per site), cannot exceed two. This yields a considerable simplification over the unrestricted case, in which the number of states per site is unbounded....