Spruce (Picea abies Karst.) samples were irradiated using an ultraviolet light emitter mercury vapour lamp. The examined specimen surfaces contained earlywood or latewood to determine the photodegradation properties of these two tissue types. generated chemical changes monitored by diffuse reflectance Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy. difference spectrum method was used present absorpt...

The underwater gamma-ray spectrometer KATERINA was calibrated in a special tank and then demonstrated the Southern Caspian Sea to determine radioactivity levels seawater as well sediment. simulated marine efficiency of situ detection system validated analyzing high energetic (1764 keV 214Bi 2614 208Tl) peaks using their known activity concentration determined from low energy emissions. analysis...

**Financial support from Rice University, National Institutes of Health (R01 GM-114609-01), National Science Foundation (CAREER:SusChEM CHE-1455335), the Robert A. Welch Foundation (Grant C-1764), ACS-PRF (Grant 51707-DNI1) and Amgen (2014 Young Investigators’ Award for LK) are greatly appreciated. D.H.E. thanks BYU and the Fulton Supercomputing Lab. X-Ray cry stallographic data was obtained at...

We describe a method for object recognition with 2D image queries to be identified from among a set of 3D models with known pose. The main target application is face recognition. The 3D models consist of both shape and color texture information, and the 2D queries are color camera images. The kernel of the method consists of a lookup table that associates 3D surface normals with expected image ...

This essay analyzes how the Benedictine monk Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (1676–1764), one of most popular Spanish natural philosophers in Europe and America, discussed amorous attraction. In an attempt to reconcile Catholic dogma with empirical knowledge, explained origin love as result wave-like interactions between sensual stimulus, imagination, nerve fibers, heart. His physiological model conside...