Groundwater contamination from Sr is an environmental challenge posed to present and former nuclear weapons related sites. Traditional methods of extracting groundwater samples and performing laboratory analyses are expensive, time-consuming and induce significant disposal challenges. The authors present here a prototype counter capable of measuring Sr groundwater concentrations in-situ at or b...

People are motivated to understand each other's psychological states as well as each other's personality traits. As a consequence, the more traditional study of accuracy in trait inference can be complemented by, and potentially benefit from, the insights provided by the more recent study of empathic accuracy. Findings in this area suggest that future research should devote more attention to (a...

1 Data Preprocessing 1.1 XML parsing The official datasets are XML format so we have to parse them before indexing. We choose Lucene as our tool for indexing and searching ,we select the Jakarta-commons-Digester (the following we referred to as digester) to parse the xml documents. The xml document is processed by the Digester to be a java object and then we can get the fields that we would use...

We present the time variability characteristics of Cygnus X-1 in its two spectral states. The observations were carried out using the Pointed Proportional Counters (PPC) onboard the IndianX-rayAstronomyExperiment (IXAE). The details of the instrument characteristics, the observation strategy, and the backgroundmodelingmethods are described. In the soft state ofCygX-1,we confirm the general tren...

The resistance of HCl solution without supporting electrolyte at a microelectrode was evaluated by the ac impedance technique of which the dc-potential was in the diffusion-controlled domain for the reduction of the hydrogen ion. The hydrogen ion is reduced to hydrogen gas. The Cl takes the same concentration profile as the hydrogen ion in order to keep electric neutrality. Then, no ion is pres...

Human capital is of paramount importance in the ICT industry. This paper analyses one of the elements which underlies effective management of human assets: performance assessment. This analysis uses the development of a common standard based on the tasks and processes outlined in People CMM, the standard in human resource management designed by the Software Engineering Institute. This framework...

A growing literature documents cyclical movements in mortality and health. We examine this pattern more closely and attempt to identify the mechanisms behind it. Specifically, we distinguish between mechanisms that rely on fluctuations in own employment or time use and those involving factors that are external to the individual. Our investigation suggests that changes in individuals’ own behavi...

Human capital is of paramount importance in the ICT industry. This paper analyses one of the elements which underlies effective management of human assets: performance assessment. This analysis uses the development of a common standard based on the tasks and processes outlined in People CMM, the standard in human resource management designed by the Software Engineering Institute. This framework...

Analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involves selecting variables from a large set of variables, an issue common to science. The sample could contain people affected by a disease (cases) and people that are not affected by the disease (controls), though other designs are possible and the approach below applies to non-human samples. The ultimate aim of a GWAS is to identify suscept...