47 Advance detection and green extension schemes are widely applied in practice as a typical 48 solution to the safety issues associated with the intersection dilemma zone (DZ) problem. Most 49 existing detector configurations were either developed based on the traditional Type I DZ model 50 in which some critical contributing factors were assumed static, or based on generic Type II DZ. 51 A co...

The authors report a method for monitoring, control, and end-point detection of electroplating in nanostructures. The method is demonstrated on nickel plating into polymer molds, which is an important process in the fabrication of soft x-ray zone-plate diffractive optics. The lack of reproducibility presently limits the achievable nickel aspect ratio and, thus, reduces the zone-plate diffractio...

Microfluidic devices enable massive parallelization of sample manipulation and delivery, but a similarly parallelized and integrated optical detection system does not yet exist. Standard large numerical aperture wide field or scanning optical systems are not capable of the large field of view and detection sensitivity required to collect fluorescence from parallel arrays of microfluidic devices...

In a field experiment the effects of irrigation with saline drainage water (seasonal average of 4.5 dS/m) and non-saline water (0.55 dS/m) applied by two different water management strategies (cyclic or blended saline water with non-saline water in different ratios) and two different irrigation methods (drip or furrow) were studied on growth and productivity of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum M...

Detection of unintentional islanding is critical in microgrids order to guarantee personal safety and avoid equipment damage. Most detection techniques are based on monitoring detecting abnormalities magnitudes such as frequency, voltage, current power. However, normal operation, the utility grid has fluctuations voltage codes establish that local generators must remain connected if deviations ...

This paper presents an investigation of the impact of multi-generator power islands on the performance of the most-commonly used anti-islanding protection method, Rate of Change of Frequency (ROCOF). In particular, various generating technology mixes including Photovoltaic panels (PV), Doubly Fed Induction Generators (DFIGs) and Synchronous Generators (SG) are considered. The Non-Detection Zone...

This paper presents an evaluation study of the Multiresolution Spectral Analysis (MRS) method which provides a higher temporal accuracy in the upper spectral region and a better frequency resolution in the lower spectral range. We showcase the importance of this tool by attempting an automatic transition zone detection and an automatic silence/sonorant/non-sonorant classification. Our approach ...

This paper proposes a framework for structure-based feature extraction in basketball zonedefense strategies. Firstly, a graphical representation for key-frames extracted from zone-defense video clips is introduced, where each key-frame is expressed in terms of a zone-defense graph, representing the positions of defenders and the ball. Secondly, defense-lines are defined and extracted from zone-...

Detection of life on other planets requires identification of biosignatures, i.e., observable planetary properties that robustly indicate the presence of a biosphere. One of the most widely accepted biosignatures for an Earth-like planet is an atmosphere where oxygen is a major constituent. Here we show that lifeless habitable zone terrestrial planets around any star type may develop oxygen-dom...

Non-enzymatic posttranslational modifications of bovine serum albumin (BSA) by various oxo-compounds (glucose, ribose, glyoxal and glutardialdehyde) have been investigated using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE). Both of these methods used mass spectrometric (MS) detection. Three enzymes (trypsin, pepsin, proteinase K) were used to digest gly...