Time series measurements from an array of temperature miniloggers in a line at constant depth along the sloping boundary of a lake are used to describe the `internal surf zone' where internal waves interact with the sloping boundary. More small positive temperature time derivatives are recorded than negative, but there are more large negative values than positive, giving the overall distributio...

In this paper we report a computational study of the structural and vibrational properties of the Mg-end members forsterite, wadsleyite and ringwoodite of Mg2SiO4, and akimotoite, majorite and the perovskite phase of MgSiO3. Our calculations have been carried out in the framework of Density Functional Theory (DFT) using a plane wave basis set and the Projector-augmented Wave (PAW) method to acc...

We show that the distance between a finite filling slope and a reducible filling slope on the boundary of a hyperbolic knot manifold is at most one. Let M be a knot manifold, i.e. a connected, compact, orientable 3-manifold whose boundary is a torus. A knot manifold is said to be hyperbolic if its interior admits a complete hyperbolic metric of finite volume. Let M(α) denote the manifold obtain...

A series of small-scale tests was undertaken to verify if granular anchors could be used as a slope stabilisation technique. The nature of the material used and the resulting loading configuration are described here. The work confirms that the inclusion of anchors within a slope mass, irrespective of their number or orientation, significantly enhances the capacity and ductility of the failure m...

The Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation is well known as an approximation model for small amplitude and long waves in different physical contexts, but wave breaking phenomena related to short wavelengths are not captured in. In this work we consider a class of nonlocal dispersive wave equations which also incorporate physics of short wavelength scales. The model is identified by a renormalization ...

Photometry of the Galactic bulge, collected during the OGLE-II microlensing search, indicates high and non-uniform interstellar extinction toward the observed fields. We use the mean I-band magnitude and V −I color of red clump stars as a tracer of interstellar extinction toward four small regions of the Galactic bulge with highly variable reddening. Similar test is performed for the most redde...

this paper points out the frequency dependence on the polarimetric radar scattering behavior of the ocean surface in the frequency range 1-18 GHz (Lto Ku-band). We treat this problem with a unifying scattering model named Small Slope Approximation (SSA) to evaluate the Normalized Radar Cross Section (NRCS). The calculations were made by assuming the surface-height spectrum of Elfouhaily et al f...

In 90nm technology and beyond, process variations should be considered such that the design will be robust with respect to process variations. Focus error and exposure dose variations are the two most important lithography process variations. In a simple approximation, the critical dimension (CD) is about linearly related to the exposure dose variation, while it is quadratically related to the ...

In this paper, the modeling of boundary conditions for an imperfectly clamped circular plate is discussed. This model is derived under the assumption that there is some variation in both the boundary displacement and slope when the plate oscillates. To account for this oscillation, boundary moment terms, involving parameters to be estimated through t-to-data techniques, are included in the mode...