We are accustomed to the idea that while the boundary between two regions is likely to consist of arcs, the points that are in the boundary of three or more regions are intuitively expected to be isolated. In the United States, there is only one point that is in the boundary of four states. In dynamical systems, the boundaries are more complicated. Topologists discovered that it is possible to ...

Effectiveness in controlling mosquitoes in storm water catch basins in the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District (northeastern Cook County, Illinois) was determined for 3 formulations of methoprene-based larvicides (Altosid XR 150-day Briquets, Altosid 30-day Pellets, Altosid 30-day Granules) in 2017 using a pass/fail evaluation criterion, in which emergence of a single adult from pupae colle...

this study was based on the hypothesis that “ecotourism is an important instrument in sustainable rural development and ecologically-based landscape planning approaches which take the objectives of socio-economic development and nature conservation have an effective role in this issue”. for this purpose, the necessity of ecologically-based landscape planning approaches in the planning and imple...

Six storm-water best management practices BMPs for treating urban rainwater runoff were evaluated for cost and effectiveness in removing suspended sediments and total phosphorus. Construction and annual operating and maintenance O and M cost data were collected and analyzed for dry extended detention basins, wet basins, sand filters, constructed wetlands, bioretention filters, and infiltration ...

Identification of individual component from a natural mixture sample is having the utmost importance in the drug development industry. Generally, plant components or natural material on the earth use to present in a complex form and the individual components have been found to have specific beneficiary effect on specific disease. Such urgency to isolate the unit component or active ingredient i...

Separation-individuation is a developmental process through which individuals renegotiate self-other boundaries. Although this process is thought to be critically engaged in the first years of life, it is generally agreed that adolescence and young adulthood constitute a “second phase” wherein these issues are renegotiated in light of the developmental tasks common to this age period (Blos, 196...

This paper presents the graphical embeding of the rotational degree of freedom into the translational Configuration Space for planar assembly tasks. The resulting representation helps the visualization and understanding of motions in a simple and easy graphical way. The aim is the developing of motion planning algorithms in a two-dimensional parametrized space for planar assembly tasks (3 d.o.f...

Description The package contains functions for generating random clusters, generating random co-variance/correlation matrices,calculating a separation index (data and population version) for pairs of clusters or cluster distributions, and 1-D and 2-D projection plots to visualize clusters. The package also contains a function to generate random clusters based on factorial designs with factors s...

In this commentary on Anderson and Morzycki’s article ‘Degrees as kinds’, I raise some issues about the interchangeability of concrete (or Davidsonian) states (in the sense of Maienborn 2007) and tropes (particularized properties, according to Moltmann 2009), as well as the category of concrete states as such. I will also raise some issues for Anderson and Morzycki’s use of kinds of concrete st...

The ownership structures of firms are endogenous. This makes it difficult to produce w direct evidence on the Berle and Means Berle, A.A., Means, G.C., 1932. The Modern x Corporation and Private Property, New York. hypothesis that corporate governance becomes less efficient as the degree of separation of ownership and control increases. We address this issue by studying Austrian cooperative ban...