Klaus van Benthem,1 Guolong Tan,2 Roger H. French,2,3 Linda K. DeNoyer,4 Rudolf Podgornik,5,6 and V. Adrian Parsegian6 1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, One Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6031, USA 2Materials Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, 3231 Walnut St,. Philadelphia, Pennyslvania 19104, USA 3DuPont Company, Central Research, E356-384, Experimental Station, Wilm...

earthquake location process has an important role in any seismological applications including seismic tomography etc. the relationship between the travel-time of seismic phases and earthquake hypocenter (latitude, longitude, depth) and origin-time is non-linear and many different linearized methods have been implemented in recent years to linearize the relationship. the principal underlying lin...

The dryline is a prominent feature of the northern Australian environment. Recently, Arnup and Reeder (2007) constructed a low-level climatology of the northern Australian dryline from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s operational Limited Area Prediction System (LAPS) (Puri et al. 1998) forecasts and automatic weather station (AWS) observations. They suggested that the dryline develops as ...

The MIT Space Systems Laboratory has developed the Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) facility for the testing of formation flight and autonomous docking algorithms inside the International Space Station (ISS), in NASA’s reduced gravity aircraft and in a 1-g laboratory environment. To provide SPHERES with reliable and accurate position, velocity, at...

This paper discusses examples, p a r t i c u l a r l y hypo the t i ca ls , t he i r use and generat ion, in legal reasoning. It examines the use of sequences of hypo the t i ca ls .

Naturally, deformed rocks commonly contain crack arrays (joints) forming patterns with systematic relationships to the large-scale deformation. Kinematically, joints can be mode-1, -2 or -3 or combinations of these, but there is no overarching theory for the development of the patterns. We develop a model motivated by dislocation pattern formation in metals. The problem is formulated in one dim...

We extend the mechanism for noise-induced phase transitions proposed by Ibañes et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 020601 (2001)] to pattern formation phenomena. In contrast with known mechanisms for pure noise-induced pattern formation, this mechanism is not driven by a short-time instability amplified by collective effects. The phenomenon is analyzed by means of a modulated mean field approximation ...

Soils and forests in the boreal region of the Northern Hemisphere are recognised as having a large capacity for storing air-borne Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), such as the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Following reductions of primary emissions of various legacy POPs, there is an increasing interest and debate about the relative importance of secondary re-emissions on the atmospheric...

The INFN NEMO-OνDE (Ocean Noise Detection Experiment) station, deployed on the seafloor at 2000 m depth 25 km offshore Catania (Sicily, Italy) in year 2005, was designed to continuously transmit broad-band acoustic data through optical cables to the INFN lab located in the port of Catania. It was operational until November 2006, when it was replaced by other experimental equipment. During the o...

Based on the methods of product life cycle assessment, it is proposed to assess environmental friendliness chemical plant. The LCA method represents very systematic approach assessing impact production, carried out as a whole over its from extraction and processing raw materials use individual components. It used systematically each stage production environment. Life inventory analysis includes...