0009-2614/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2010.11.069 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (P. Yang). 1 Present address: University of Michigan, Ann Arbo Radial p–n junction solar cells have been predicted theoretically to have better efficiencies than their planar counterparts due to a decrease in the distance required to collect minority car...

In productivity and efficiency analysis, the technical efficiency of a production unit is measured through its distance to the efficient frontier of the production set. The most familiar non-parametric methods use Farrell-Debreu, Shephard, or hyperbolic radial measures. These approaches require that inputs and outputs be non-negative, which can be problematic when using financial data. Recently...

As part of a radial velocity survey of low Galactic latitude structures that we undertook with the 2dF spectrograph on the AAT, we present the radial velocities of more than 1400 Red Giant Branch and Red Clump stars towards the centre of the Canis Major dwarf galaxy. With a mean velocity of 69 ± 12 km s at a Heliocentric distance of 5.5 kpc and 114± 2 km s at 8.5 kpc, these stars present a pecu...

objective(s): the present study was conducted to examine whether the standardized uptake value (suv) may be affected by the spatial position of a lesion in the radial direction on positron emission tomography (pet) images, obtained via two methods based on time-of-flight (tof) reconstruction and point spread function (psf). methods: a cylinder phantom with the sphere (30mm diameter), located in...

BACKGROUND The posterior interosseous nerve (PIN) can be difficult to locate within the radial tunnel. The deep branch of the radial nerve (DBRN) enters the supinator muscle after passing under the arcade of Fröhse. It courses through the superficial portion of the supinator muscle to exit distally as the PIN. Anatomic landmarks could facilitate diagnosis and treatment of radial tunnel syndrome...

This paper proposes a Single Input Neuro-fuzzy Logic Controller based on Radial Basis Function Network (SI-NFRBFN) for non-linear systems. To obtain single input from multi inputs a Distance Method is suggested. Using this method all the uncertain inputs are simplified into a single input known as distance. With the help of this variable the control unit matrix introduced in Hybrid Neuro-fuzzy ...

We report results for the temperature profiles of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in the interior of a cylindrical sample of aspect ratio Γ≡D/L=0.50 (D and L are the diameter and height, respectively). Both in the classical and in the ultimate state of RBC we find that the temperature varies as A×ln(z/L)+B, where z is the distance from the bottom or top plate. In the classical state,...

We report on V I CCD photometry of two fields centered in the region of the open clusters NGC 6404 and NGC 6583 down to V = 22.0. These clusters have never been studied insofar, and we provide for the first time estimates of their fundamental parameters, namely, radial extent, age, distance and reddening. We find that NGC 6404 radius is 2.0 arcmin, as previously proposed, while NGC 6583 radius ...

The accuracy of the Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) interpolated using four different methods was compared in two small watersheds in the Ecuadorian Andes. The interpolation methods compared were Inverse Distance Weighted, radial basis functions, ordinary Kriging, and TOPOGRID. A qualitative comparison was made between the stream network modeled in Arc Hydro and the digitized stream network. Mo...

An analysis based on a comparison between observations and stellar models has been carried out to identify radial modes of oscillations in several multi-periodic δ Scuti stars of the Praesepe cluster (BU, BN, BW and BS Cnc). The assumption that all the stars considered have common parameters, such as metallicity, distance or age, is imposed as a constraint. Even so, there is a large number of p...