In order to simulate the long-term (months-years) median Escherichia coli distributions and variations in the tidal Scheldt River and Estuary, a dedicated module was developed for the Second-generation Louvain-la-Neuve Ice-ocean Model (SLIM, www.climate.be/slim). The resulting model (SLIM-EC2) presents two specific and new features compared to the older SLIM-EC model version. The first is that ...

The main goal of utility computing is to offer computing resources on demand. A fundamental issue relating to this paradigm is whether the supported execution environments in remote computing platforms fit the requirements of the users and their applications. Current approaches such as service-centric grid middleware fall short of being able to support execution environments which closely resem...

This paper presents a theoretical study of the discharge characteristics of slim holes compared to production wells. Assuming that (1) the boreholes feed from an all-liquid zone, and (2) the feedzone pressure and temperature are independent of borehole diameter, calculations have been carried out for a variety of borehole diameters. The wellhead pressurelflowrate relationships for the various b...

Slimness of a graph measures the local deviation of its metric from a tree metric. In a graph G = (V,E), a geodesic triangle △(x, y, z) with x, y, z ∈ V is the union P (x, y)∪P (x, z)∪P (y, z) of three shortest paths connecting these vertices. A geodesic triangle △(x, y, z) is called δ-slim if for any vertex u ∈ V on any side P (x, y) the distance from u to P (x, z)∪P (y, z) is at most δ, i.e. ...

Facial electromyography (EMG) was used to gauge emotional responding towards images of slim and overweight individuals, and findings were compared with data from a series of alternative measures including two implicit attitudinal procedures, the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and the Implicit Association Test (IAT), and explicit measures of anti-fat prejudice and discriminatory...

Over 100 years ago, George Bernard Shaw, speaking through his protagonists, weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and Undershaft’s daughter Salvation Army Major Barbara, explored the uneasy relationship that existed, and exists still, between ill-gotten gains and the public good. Now, a century later, a similar uneasy relationship exists. But this time it is not cannons versus religion, but to...

Miscible gas injection is one of the most effective enhanced oil recovery techniques and minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) is an important parameter in miscible gas injection processes. The accurate determination of this parameter is critical for an adequate design of injection equipment investment prospect. The purpose of this paper is to develop a new universal artificial neural network (U-A...

This short overview considers a prospect that claims to boost satiety are used to prescribe or sell materials to dieters that do not slow their daily rate of energy intake, thereby worsening their problems with body weight and even perhaps increasing the prevalence of obesity. Implying that a drug or a food contributes to weight control by providing extra satiety is a mistake in two ways. First...

An early, but at the time illuminating, piece of work on how to deal with a general, linearly coupled accelerator lattice is revisited. This work is based on the SLIM formalism developed in 1979-1981.

Mining small, useful, and high-quality sets of patterns has recently become an important topic in data mining. The standard approach is to first mine many candidates, and then to select a good subset. However, the pattern explosion generates such enormous amounts of candidates that by post-processing it is virtually impossible to analyse dense or large databases in any detail. We introduce Slim...