Observations and measurements indicate rain often has a major impact on snow slope stability. Measurements to investigate the effects of wetting of low density, alpine snow were made at Snoqualmie Pass, WA, USA. Results indicate that on first wetting, the densification rate can increase by three orders of magnitude. This initial burst of densification occurs independently of the gravitational l...

We describe recent observations and measurements realized with microstrip gas chambers (MSGCs) manufactured on boro-silicate glass coated with a thin layer of diamond-like carbon (DLC) having a surface resistivity around 4.1016Ω/❒. The role of the back-plane electrode configuration and potential in the detector performance has been studied. Even for this very high resistivity of the coatings, M...

In many geoscientific applications, multiple noisy observations of different origin need to be combined to improve the reconstruction of a common underlying quantity. This naturally leads to multi-parameter models for which adequate strategies are required to choose a set of ’good’ parameters. In this study, we present a fairly general method for choosing such a set of parameters, provided that...

P. Rapčan,1 J. Calsamiglia,2 R. Muñoz-Tapia,2 E. Bagan,2,3,4 and V. Bužek1,5 1Research Center for Quantum Information, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 11 Bratislava, Slovak Republic 2Fı́sica Teòrica: Informació i Fenòmens Quàntics, Edifici Cn, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain 3Department of Physics, Hunter College o...

[1] Wetlands and surface waters are recognized to play important roles in climate, hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles, and availability of water resources. Until now, quantitative, global time series of spatial and temporal dynamics of inundation have been unavailable. This study presents the first global estimate of monthly inundated areas for 1993–2000. The data set is derived from a multis...

We investigated the physical and thermal properties of 65 Cybele, one of the largest main-belt asteroids. Based on published and recently obtained thermal infrared observations, including ISO measurements, we derived through thermophysical modelling (TPM) a size of 302×290×232 km (± 4%) and an geometric visible albedo of 0.050±0.005. Our model of a regolith covered surface with low thermal iner...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper investigates image processing and pattern recognition techniques to estimate atmospheric visibility based on the visual content of images from off-the-shelf cameras. We propose a prediction model that first relates image contrast measured through standard image processing techniques to atmospheric transmission. This is then related to the most common measure of ...

ABNORMAL bleeding has been recognized as a presenting symptom in multiple myeloma (Wintrobe, 1961) though less frequently encountered than pain, tumours, deformity, pathological fractures and neuralgic or neurological symptoms. Bernard, Inceman, Zara and Christol (1952) comment that haemorrhage is found more frequently as a secondary or terminal feature than as a presenting symptom, but concede...

Consider the problem of maximizing the revenue from selling a number of goods to a single buyer. We show that, unlike the case of one good, when the buyer’s values for the goods increase the seller’s maximal revenue may well decrease. Next, through simple and transparent examples, we clarify the need for and the use of randomization when maximizing revenue in the multiple-good versus the one-go...

This paper presents observations on fantasy as it participates in the formation ofmultiple personality disorder. It,focuses on the function of restitution in the fantasy life of children during the development of the disorder. It is proposed that one pathway to the development of multiple personality disorder utilizes repressed early childhood fantasies of mastery over trauma and that these ear...